:00:11. > :00:14.The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland gives up his �1.4 million
:00:14. > :00:18.bonus. Sir Philip Hampton's decision puts new pressure on the
:00:18. > :00:22.company's Chief Executive to follow suit.
:00:22. > :00:28.Four Sun journalists and a serving police officer are arrested over
:00:28. > :00:31.allegations of illegal payments to police.
:00:31. > :00:39.There's new evidence that supporters of Libya's former leader
:00:39. > :00:49.are being subjected to torture. In sport: A shock for Manchester
:00:49. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:05.United as Liverpool knock them out Good evening. The chairman of Royal
:01:05. > :01:08.Bank of Scotland has given up a bonus amounting to �1.4 million in
:01:08. > :01:12.shares which he was due to receive this year. The BBC has been told
:01:12. > :01:19.that he decided it would not be appropriate to receive the award
:01:19. > :01:23.and took the decision before the controversy over the bonus of more
:01:23. > :01:29.than �900,000 awarded to the company's Chief Executive, Stephen
:01:29. > :01:35.Hester. At Royal Bank of Scotland it has
:01:35. > :01:39.been 24 hours of different messages about rewards for bankers. First,
:01:39. > :01:45.Stephen Hester, RBS's Chief Executive, was awarded a bonus
:01:45. > :01:51.worth just over �960,000, sparking a massive political row. And then
:01:51. > :01:56.today, the BBC has learned that Mr Hester's boss, chairman of Royal
:01:56. > :02:01.Bank of Scotland, has asked the remuneration committee not to award
:02:01. > :02:06.him RBS shares worth �1.4 million to which he is entitled. What does
:02:06. > :02:10.the biggest shareholder in RBS, the Government, make of this contrast?
:02:10. > :02:16.Does the Prime Minister think Mr Hester should follow Sir Philip's
:02:16. > :02:21.example and refuse his bonus or give it away? That is his decision.
:02:21. > :02:25.My decision is to make sure the team at RBS get on with the job of
:02:25. > :02:30.turning the bank round. We have made our views very clear about the
:02:30. > :02:33.bonus. Sir Philip's decision not to take the extra �1.4 million is
:02:33. > :02:38.consistent with his views that bankers in general are overpaid
:02:38. > :02:42.which he told me about last year. In what sense do you think bankers'
:02:42. > :02:48.pay is out of kilter from commonsense? This explosive growth
:02:48. > :02:51.in financial services meant that thousands of people are
:02:51. > :02:56.extraordinarily highly paid. The most peculiar thing about it, if
:02:56. > :03:01.you look at the last ten years of massive increase in pay, is that
:03:01. > :03:07.the performance for shareholders has been disastrous. The Chancellor
:03:07. > :03:15.today said he wouldn't block Mr Hester's bonus at the bank's annual
:03:15. > :03:19.meeting. Now we know that the chairman of RBS thinks it is
:03:19. > :03:22.inappropriate to get a �1 million bonus. The only people who seem to
:03:22. > :03:25.think it is appropriate are the Chancellor and the Prime Minister.
:03:25. > :03:29.They have another chance to listen to the public. They can block this
:03:29. > :03:34.bonus at the shareholder meeting in April and that is what they should
:03:34. > :03:39.do. Ministers would dearly love it if Mr Hester was on the same pay as
:03:39. > :03:42.them. That wasn't the basis on which he took the job of rescuing
:03:42. > :03:47.RBS three years ago and, as the Prime Minister said today,
:03:47. > :03:53.replacing him now could be much more expensive than paying his �1
:03:53. > :03:56.million bonus. Detectives investigating suspected
:03:56. > :04:03.payments to police for information have arrested five people, four of
:04:03. > :04:09.them are believed to be journalists or former journalists at The Sun
:04:09. > :04:13.newspaper. A serving police officer was also arrested.
:04:14. > :04:18.Senior tabloid journalists are arrested in the investigation into
:04:19. > :04:23.alleged corruption between police and the media. Chris Pharo is the
:04:23. > :04:29.current head of news, Mike Sullivan is its crime editor, also arrested
:04:29. > :04:32.Graham Dudman, a former managing editor, and the former Sun Deputy
:04:32. > :04:37.Editor, Fergus Shanahan. The final man arrested has not been
:04:37. > :04:41.identified but he is a serving officer at the Metropolitan Police
:04:41. > :04:45.Territorial Policing Command. This is a significant development and it
:04:45. > :04:50.began here at News International. The company has itself been
:04:50. > :04:54.investigating what it called today "unacceptable news gathering
:04:54. > :04:59.practices". It gave the police the information that led to the arrests.
:04:59. > :05:02.The police have searched two addresses in Essex and one here in
:05:02. > :05:06.North London. All those arrested have been questioned in connection
:05:06. > :05:11.with allegations of corruption and misconduct in public office. The
:05:11. > :05:19.focus of this investigation that journalists paid police officers
:05:19. > :05:24.for information. In 2003, the then editor of The Sun, Rebekah Brooks,
:05:24. > :05:27.was asked by MPs if that had ever happened. We have paid the police
:05:27. > :05:31.for nrgs in the past. She was arrested last year, but so far
:05:31. > :05:36.there have been no charges. The journalists are being questioned.
:05:36. > :05:40.Despite that, it is a big step forward for the Met's Operation
:05:40. > :05:47.Elveden which is running alongside operation wheating, the
:05:47. > :05:51.investigation into phone hacking. Why is it significant? A, the
:05:51. > :05:58.people arrested are significant, B, they are from the Sun, C, they have
:05:58. > :06:01.been around for a long time. This afternoon, News International e-
:06:01. > :06:05.mailed its staff admitting to them that the arrests were "very
:06:05. > :06:10.difficult news" but that the company is confronting its past
:06:10. > :06:14.mistakes and making fundamental changes about how we operate. News
:06:14. > :06:19.International regards that as essential for its future business
:06:19. > :06:23.as the uncertainty of this saga continues.
:06:23. > :06:27.The Arab League has announced that it is suspending its observer
:06:27. > :06:30.mission in Syria blaming an escalation of violence against
:06:30. > :06:34.civilians. Opponents of President Bashar al-Assad say more than 60
:06:34. > :06:37.people have been killed today by government forces. New efforts are
:06:38. > :06:43.under way at the United Nations to draw up a resolution to end the
:06:43. > :06:49.crisis. Jon Leyne has been following the
:06:49. > :06:52.developments. What is behind the timing of this announcement? Well,
:06:53. > :06:57.the immediate reason obviously is that dramatic spike in violence.
:06:57. > :07:01.More than 200 people killed in Syria over the last four days, the
:07:01. > :07:04.Syrian government attacking opposition strongholds, but also
:07:04. > :07:09.the opposition Free Syria Army are becoming more active. You have to
:07:09. > :07:13.see this within a wider political context. Obviously, this new
:07:13. > :07:17.violence brings into question the whole purpose of this monitoring
:07:17. > :07:23.mission. It doesn't seem to be succeeding. We are seeing those
:07:23. > :07:25.efforts at the United Nations to now draw the UN in, to pass a UN
:07:25. > :07:29.Security Council Resolution condemning Syria and calling on
:07:29. > :07:33.President Assad to hand power on to a deputy. This is bound to increase
:07:33. > :07:37.the pressure on the members of the Security Council as the delegation
:07:37. > :07:40.goes from the Arab League tomorrow to New York. It is bound to
:07:40. > :07:44.increase the pressure on the Security Council to step in,
:07:44. > :07:48.particularly increasing the pressure on Russia, the one big
:07:48. > :07:52.hold-out country. So this is going to be a big escalation in the
:07:52. > :07:56.political dynamics of this. We could see a very important week
:07:56. > :08:00.ahead at the United Nations in New York.
:08:00. > :08:06.The Ministry of Defence have tonight named a soldier killed in
:08:06. > :08:09.Afghanistan yesterday. Lance Corporal Gajbahadur Gurung of 1st
:08:09. > :08:14.Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was shot while on foot patrol in
:08:14. > :08:19.the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.
:08:19. > :08:22.The Prime Minister has signed a long-term partnership agreement
:08:22. > :08:26.with Hamid Karzai. The agreement focuses on continuing co-operation
:08:26. > :08:32.after the withdrawal of NATO-led troops from Afghanistan and
:08:32. > :08:35.includes a commitment by Britain to continue providing aid and build a
:08:35. > :08:39.new Military Academy for Afghan officers.
:08:39. > :08:42.H there is new evidence that supporters of Libya's former leader,
:08:42. > :08:49.Colonel Gaddafi, are being tortured while in detention. Prisoners have
:08:49. > :08:52.told the BBC that they have been subjected to whippings, beatings
:08:52. > :08:57.and electrocution. Earlier this week, Medecins Sans Frontiers
:08:57. > :09:03.suspended the work at one prison in the city of Misrata because "of an
:09:03. > :09:07.alarming rise in the use of torture".
:09:08. > :09:12.Behind the facade of a new flag lurks the violent legacy of the old
:09:12. > :09:16.regime. These men asked us not to reveal their identities. They told
:09:16. > :09:20.of prolonged beatings and whippings, some were subjected to electric
:09:20. > :09:24.shocks. TRANSLATION: I was taken for
:09:24. > :09:28.questioning at a site used by the National Army. My leg was in a
:09:28. > :09:34.state when they took me away. As they interrogated me, they kept on
:09:34. > :09:37.beating me on my leg and so it got more swollen. None of the alleged
:09:37. > :09:41.abuse occurred at the prison itself, we were told, but the people
:09:41. > :09:45.running the detention centre said they were aware that some prisoners
:09:45. > :09:50.were being taken away to be tortured and were powerless to stop
:09:50. > :09:55.it. Medecins Sans Frontiers say that some of the patients that they
:09:55. > :10:00.treated here for injuries sustained under torture were subsequently
:10:00. > :10:05.taken away only to be tortured again. Now, some of the prisoners
:10:05. > :10:11.we have spoken to here say that they believe that torture was
:10:11. > :10:15.taking place at the National Army headquarters in Misrata. The
:10:15. > :10:19.response from the head of Misrata's Military Council was one of
:10:19. > :10:22.complete denial. He said his accusers had their own hidden
:10:22. > :10:28.agenda. TRANSLATION: I think that the
:10:28. > :10:33.people working under the guise of human rights organisations are
:10:33. > :10:37.Gaddafi's fifth column. There may have been a few cases of former
:10:37. > :10:42.rebels taking revenge, but that doesn't mean orders have come from
:10:42. > :10:46.my office to torture prisoners. United Nations estimates that 8,500
:10:46. > :10:50.men are being held in detention centres across the country accused
:10:50. > :10:54.of being Gaddafi supporters. Many are controlled by local militias,
:10:54. > :10:58.groups of former rebel fighters accountable to no-one but
:10:58. > :11:02.themselves. Libya's fledgling government is struggling to assert
:11:02. > :11:08.its authority, but as one of the prisoners observed, he who has the
:11:08. > :11:12.gun has the power. Now, with news of all of today's
:11:12. > :11:17.sport, here is Sally. Liverpool have knocked Manchester
:11:17. > :11:21.United out of the FA Cup beating them 2-1 at Anfield. The match was
:11:21. > :11:26.the first between the two since Luis Suarez was banned for racial
:11:26. > :11:30.abuse aimed at United defender Patrice Evra. Chelsea beat QPR 1-0
:11:30. > :11:34.as John Terry made his first return to Loftus Road since being charged
:11:34. > :11:40.with racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.
:11:40. > :11:45.He wasn't playing, but he was impossible to ignore. Scarves,
:11:45. > :11:49.shirts, you could buy a Luis Suarez mask - a reminder of what happened
:11:49. > :11:54.last time. Luis Suarez is still suspended but looked on as the
:11:54. > :11:58.opponent he was found to have racially abused back in October,
:11:58. > :12:04.Patrice Evra, returned to Anfield and a hostile reception. The two
:12:04. > :12:12.managers had pleaded for passion rather than poison, but Patrice
:12:12. > :12:18.Evra's every touch was booed. The match was fiery. Daniel Agger
:12:18. > :12:26.heading Liverpool in front. United responded in style. Park's incisive
:12:26. > :12:31.finish - 1-1 at the break. A replayed seemed to beckon, but Dirk
:12:31. > :12:35.Kuyt struck with three minutes left and Liverpool were through. Police
:12:35. > :12:38.praised the behaviour of most fans, but detectives who deal with
:12:38. > :12:42.racism-related offences have released an image of a man they
:12:42. > :12:45.wish to speak to in connection with an alleged incident. This fixture
:12:45. > :12:51.has been a headache for the authorities and it wasn't the only
:12:51. > :12:55.one on a day when the conduct of both fans and players came under
:12:55. > :13:02.scrutiny. At Queens Park Rangers there were tightened security as
:13:02. > :13:07.Chelsea returned for the first time since John Terry was charged with
:13:07. > :13:13.racially abusing Anton Ferdinand. Both played and the FA agreed to
:13:13. > :13:19.scrap the pre-match handshakes. The game seemed overshadowed, a penalty
:13:19. > :13:26.for Chelsea and that was it. Both during and after the match, Terry
:13:26. > :13:31.was booed by QPR fans. An uncomfortable end to an
:13:31. > :13:36.uncomfortable day for football. Brighton have produced one of the
:13:36. > :13:42.shocks of the fourth round so far, knocking Newcastle United out of
:13:42. > :13:49.the competition. An own goal from Mike Williamson was enough to
:13:49. > :13:59.secure them a 1-0 win. There is a replay for Blackpool and
:13:59. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :14:06.Sheffield Wednesday. In the other In Scotland, it is League Cup
:14:06. > :14:16.semifinal weekend and Kilmarnock are the first side through to the
:14:16. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:38.England's cricketers have suffered their first Test series defeat
:14:38. > :14:47.since becoming the world's number one team last summer. Pakistan beat
:14:47. > :14:52.them by 72 runs in Abu Dhabi. In truth, there was little mystery
:14:52. > :15:02.to this victory. Pakistan knew how to embarrass England - spin. Hafeez
:15:02. > :15:03.
:15:03. > :15:08.got rid of Cook. Ian Bell seemed bemused by the Pakistan attack.
:15:08. > :15:13.Pietersen's contribution - he lasted eight balls, lbw to Rehman's
:15:13. > :15:23.left arm spin. There was true panic now. Morgan powerless. A second
:15:23. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:32.ball duck. England 37-4. Their victory target of 145 may well as
:15:32. > :15:37.been 1,000. Anderson was last out. Pakistan have just humbled the
:15:37. > :15:42.world's best team - again. Tentative, fearful, all the things
:15:42. > :15:47.England weren't in 2011 so far they have been in 2012. Coming to the
:15:47. > :15:52.UAE was new territory for English cricket. Right now, this feels like