:00:21. > :00:24.Good afternoon. The Director General of the BBC George Entwistle
:00:24. > :00:26.has said that a Newsnight report which led an un-named senior
:00:26. > :00:34.Conservative politician being wrongly implicated in a child abuse
:00:34. > :00:37.scandal on the internet should not have been broadcast. The BBC Trust
:00:37. > :00:40.said it was a deeply troubling episode and that it expects the
:00:40. > :00:50.Director General to get to the bottom of the matter with the
:00:50. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:59.utmost urgency. A new crisis for Newsnight. Tonight
:00:59. > :01:03.this programme apologises. A key allegation in a report about child
:01:03. > :01:07.abuse was wrong. The victim said he was mistaken.
:01:07. > :01:11.The BBC apology last night on Newsnight. Under fire already for
:01:11. > :01:16.not showing an investigation into child abuse by Jimmy Savile, it has
:01:16. > :01:22.now had to apologise for an investigation it did broadcast.
:01:22. > :01:27.Stephen mission, a former resident of an care home in Wales, claimed
:01:27. > :01:34.he had been assaulted for a buyer a politician on the Thatcher era and
:01:34. > :01:38.he thought it was Lord McAlpine. Many on the engine that named him.
:01:38. > :01:43.The director-general said the programme should have checked.
:01:43. > :01:47.was our responsibility to make sure that any misrepresentation ended up
:01:47. > :01:51.on television. We did not manage to do that and we take the blame for
:01:52. > :01:57.that, no question about it. He said he had not known about the
:01:57. > :02:00.Newsnight broadcast in advance but other senior executives had. It is
:02:00. > :02:05.difficult to understand how, as the director-general described it this
:02:05. > :02:10.morning, it got through the whole editorial process all the way to
:02:10. > :02:15.news board level, which means that senior eyes were looking at this.
:02:15. > :02:18.It does seem quite strange that this piece of journalism got air.
:02:18. > :02:22.As this morning's headlines show, the BBC is now facing more
:02:22. > :02:25.questions, not just about its journalism but about the way the
:02:25. > :02:28.organisation is run. Talks in Brussels on the European
:02:28. > :02:31.Union's budget have broken down. Negotiators for EU governments and
:02:31. > :02:39.the European Parliament failed to agree a request for extra money to
:02:39. > :02:41.fill a funding gap for this year. The director of the Central
:02:41. > :02:45.Intelligence Agency David Petraeus has resigned after admitting to an
:02:45. > :02:48.extra-marital affair. He had been in charge of the CIA for just over
:02:48. > :02:54.a year following a military career in which he was credited with
:02:54. > :02:57.successes in both Iraq and Afghanistan. A new vaccination
:02:57. > :02:59.programme is to be introduced across the UK to protect babies
:02:59. > :03:03.against rotavirus, a a highly contagious vomiting and diarrhoea