17/07/2011

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:00:26. > :00:28.Hello. Good evening. The former Chief Executive of News

:00:28. > :00:30.International, Rebekah Brooks, has been arrested on suspicion of

:00:30. > :00:34.involvement in phone hacking and bribing police officers for

:00:34. > :00:43.information. Mrs Brooks, who resigned on Friday, was arrested at

:00:43. > :00:49.lunch time after going to a London police station by appointment. With

:00:49. > :00:52.the latest, here's our business editor Robert Peston. His Rory

:00:52. > :00:55.McIlroy roar. The most powerful woman in

:00:55. > :01:00.newspapers, Rebekah Brooks, quit from Rupert Murdoch's News

:01:00. > :01:08.International on Friday, today arrested on suspicion of phone

:01:08. > :01:12.hacking and corruption. She started to face barrage of criticism eight

:01:12. > :01:16.months ago when there were allegation the News of the World

:01:16. > :01:18.had hacked the phone of Milly Dowler. Here's the lawyer for the

:01:18. > :01:24.Dowler family. The arrest is so important. It's

:01:24. > :01:27.the first time we have seen someone at a real management-directer level

:01:27. > :01:31.that there are no holds barred. This is now going to be a full

:01:31. > :01:35.investigation going to the very top of the company. Mrs Brooks is the

:01:35. > :01:38.10th person to have been arrested in relation to allegations that the

:01:38. > :01:44.News of the World instigated phone hacking and bribery of the police.

:01:44. > :01:47.On July the 8th, Clive Goodman, the paper's former Royal editor, was

:01:47. > :01:51.arrested on suspicion of making illegal payments to the police. The

:01:51. > :01:56.same day, Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World and

:01:56. > :02:00.until January David Cameron's Director of Communications at

:02:00. > :02:05.Number Ten Downing Street was arrested on suspicion of phone

:02:05. > :02:09.hacking and corruption. Neil Wallis, who went on to be a PR advisor to

:02:09. > :02:14.the police, was arrested, then today came the arrest of Rebekah

:02:14. > :02:19.Brooks. She had a strikingly close relationship with Rupert Murdoch,

:02:20. > :02:27.the chairman and owner of the media empire that owns News International.

:02:27. > :02:31.He said protecting her was his priority. James McAvoy, Rupert

:02:31. > :02:35.Murdoch and Mrs Brooks are all supposed to give evidence to the

:02:35. > :02:39.Culture, Media and Sport Committee. Now that she has been arrested, she

:02:39. > :02:42.may be constrained on what she can say. The concern is this is a

:02:42. > :02:46.little bit veen. It might mean Rebekah Brooks and the Murdochs are

:02:46. > :02:50.unable to avoid questioning Tuesday in committee. I don't think that'll

:02:51. > :02:55.wash. I don't think it will work. Few in the media were as friendly

:02:55. > :02:59.as Mrs Brooks - the most powerful in the land. They may be a bit

:02:59. > :03:03.relieved if she can't give very public evidence to MPs Tuesday. As

:03:03. > :03:08.for Rupert and James Murdoch, for them she was something of a human

:03:08. > :03:10.shield. With her arrest and in spite of her claim she knew nothing

:03:10. > :03:13.of the systematic alleged malpractices at the News of the

:03:13. > :03:21.World, the pressure on them to explain precisely what they knew

:03:21. > :03:24.and when will only intensify. There's growing pressure on the

:03:24. > :03:26.Metropolitan Police over its handling of the hacking inquiry.

:03:26. > :03:29.Tomorrow the Home Secretary, Theresa May, will make a statement

:03:29. > :03:32.about the relationship between the Met and a public relations company

:03:32. > :03:41.run by a former News of the World journalist, Neil Wallis. He has

:03:41. > :03:46.been arrested in connection with phone hacking. The pressure is on

:03:46. > :03:49.the man at the top, Sir Paul Stevenson, more questions over his

:03:49. > :03:53.judgment. It's his links to the criminal suspect Neil Wallis which

:03:54. > :03:57.drew him into the scandal. This time last year, the former News of

:03:57. > :04:02.the World executive was working for Sir Paul and the Met Police. Three

:04:02. > :04:06.days ago they arrested him. The two men both have a link to Champneys

:04:06. > :04:11.Health Spa. Neil Wallis has been doing PR for them. Earlier this

:04:11. > :04:16.year Sir Paul stayed here for five weeks courtesy of the boss, who is

:04:16. > :04:20.a family friend, while recuperating from surgery. The Met paid for his

:04:21. > :04:23.physiotherapy. Scotland Yard says he did not know then about the

:04:23. > :04:27.Wallis collection and has declared the stay. But concern now about how

:04:27. > :04:32.the public is viewing all of this... I think when the public starts

:04:32. > :04:35.losing faith in the police, it's altogether much more sear you, and

:04:35. > :04:38.we really are in some trouble. That's why I think it's very

:04:38. > :04:44.important that the Commissioner should answer the questions which

:04:44. > :04:47.have been put to him. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has already

:04:47. > :04:51.demanded a explanation as to Neil Wallis's role at the Meet. She's

:04:51. > :04:56.said to still have some concerns. Tomorrow she'll make a statement in

:04:56. > :05:01.the Commons. Let's get the thoughts now of our

:05:01. > :05:03.business editor Robert Peston. Where on earth do today's

:05:03. > :05:07.developments leave News International? I have been utterly

:05:07. > :05:10.immersed in this story now for a fortnight. One of the things that

:05:10. > :05:15.has been very, very clear to me has been how important it has been for

:05:15. > :05:21.News International and also for Rupert Murdoch personally - the de

:05:21. > :05:24.facto founder of this extraordinary media empie, News Corporation, that

:05:24. > :05:29.owns News International, to protect Rebekah Brooks. The whole thrust of

:05:29. > :05:33.their strategy has been to say that what went wrong at the News of the

:05:33. > :05:37.World was confined to executives close to the News of the World and

:05:37. > :05:41.to those working directly for the News of the World, but senior

:05:41. > :05:44.people, like Mrs Brooks, much higher up the chain, the Chief

:05:44. > :05:49.Executive of News International - the whole thrust of what they have

:05:49. > :05:55.been trying to do was prove that she was ignorant of all of that.

:05:55. > :05:58.Now, today's arrest completely blows up that strategy. And it's

:05:58. > :06:03.therefore terribly, terribly damaging both to News International

:06:03. > :06:08.and to Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch because if her

:06:08. > :06:12.defence of saying she knew nothing about it, nonetheless, led to her

:06:13. > :06:17.arrest, there have got to be concerns that perhaps the Murdochs,

:06:17. > :06:19.who themselves say they knew nothing about what was going on -

:06:19. > :06:24.that there will be really difficult further questions for them to

:06:24. > :06:32.answer. Robert, thank you for now, Robert Peston.

:06:32. > :06:34.Now the rest of the news: The Defence Select Committee of MPs has

:06:34. > :06:37.strongly criticised the British military deployment to Afghanistan

:06:37. > :06:40.five years ago, saying that too few troops were sent and they didn't

:06:40. > :06:43.have the right equipment. Their report came as political and

:06:43. > :06:51.military leaders met in the central province of Bamiyan as it became

:06:51. > :06:55.the first to be handed over to Afghan police by NATO troops.

:06:55. > :06:58.Northern Ireland's dare thairs won the 140th Open Championship at

:06:58. > :07:02.Royal St Georges despite strong wind and rain. Clarke held on to

:07:02. > :07:06.his overnight lead to win by three shots and lift the Claret Jug -

:07:06. > :07:12.Darren Clarke. Tim Franks reports from Sandwich. This was Darren

:07:12. > :07:19.Clarke's 20th attempt to win the Open. Swirling around him on the

:07:19. > :07:29.Kent coast was a surge of goodwill. A rescued par on first was followed

:07:29. > :07:30.

:07:30. > :07:35.two. But behind the big fellow from Northern Ireland was a bear from

:07:35. > :07:42.America. Phil Mickelson was on the rampage - three birdies, and then

:07:42. > :07:50.this for eagle on the seventh. Half an hour later, it was Darren

:07:50. > :07:55.Clarke's turn. Same green, same result. The sun was shining on the

:07:55. > :07:59.leader, if not on everyone else. As the chasing pack lost their teeth,

:07:59. > :08:07.Darren Clarke's win was just like his figure, comfortable.