:00:09. > :00:15.Carter will Keith O'Brien, who last week resigned as Britain's most
:00:15. > :00:19.senior Catholic cleric, has admitted sexual misconduct. He had
:00:19. > :00:23.denied inappropriate behaviour, but now he apologises and asks for
:00:23. > :00:27.forgiveness. The Queen is in hospital with
:00:27. > :00:31.gastroenteritis, as a precautionary measure.
:00:31. > :00:34.More British assistance for rebels in Syria, the Foreign Secretary
:00:34. > :00:38.will not rule out providing arms in the future.
:00:38. > :00:43.Health workers' leaders urge that new NHS rules be rewritten because
:00:43. > :00:49.of fears that too many activities will be private -- privatised.
:00:49. > :00:59.And, but also of Great Britain in the final day of competition at the
:00:59. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:11.European Indoor Athletics Good evening.
:01:11. > :01:16.Cardinal Keith O'Brien, until a week ago, the most senior Roman
:01:16. > :01:21.Catholic cleric in Britain, admitted his sexual conduct had
:01:21. > :01:26.fallen below the standards expected of him. Three priests and a former
:01:26. > :01:30.priest have claimed he was guilty of inappropriate behaviour. He has
:01:30. > :01:34.apologised and asked for forgiveness.
:01:34. > :01:38.After a week in which their cotton or resigned and then remained under
:01:38. > :01:43.siege behind closed doors, Scottish Catholics received the news with
:01:43. > :01:48.sadness rather than shock. Cardinal O'Brien had in his own words
:01:48. > :01:52.contested rather than flatly denied the allegations of improper
:01:52. > :01:57.behaviour against him made by priests and seminarians in his care.
:01:57. > :02:07.In his statement, he said it had been the anonymous and non-specific
:02:07. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:24.nature of the allegations that led Devoid of detail, the state may
:02:24. > :02:30.grazes almost as many questions as it answers, but it seems to imply,
:02:30. > :02:34.whatever wrong to ring he is admitting it, it may have extended
:02:34. > :02:38.beyond the 1980s. Whatever else it tells us, his statement sits
:02:38. > :02:43.uneasily with his years of outspoken denunciation of
:02:43. > :02:52.homosexual relationships. I have to point out that he has been such a
:02:52. > :02:57.vociferous critic of homosexuals, of gay adoption, he has been very
:02:57. > :03:01.outspoken against same-sex marriage, and one of the priests involved
:03:01. > :03:06.said to me tonight, after he had resigned, he felt sad for the
:03:06. > :03:12.cardinal, but he also felt sad for the people over the years that he
:03:12. > :03:18.had harmed. We have become more aware... But some Catholics insist
:03:18. > :03:22.his failings are a rarity, among the church's thousands of priests.
:03:22. > :03:29.We have high standards in the church. Priest take a promise of
:03:29. > :03:33.celibacy. Sometimes, they break it, and that is not very good. We
:03:34. > :03:38.understand we are all week. congregation in Edinburgh heard the
:03:38. > :03:46.car that will's statement read out this evening at, and some remained
:03:46. > :03:51.fiercely loyal. Nobody can believe it is true. He is going to talk for
:03:51. > :03:56.himself eventually, and we will find out it is not true. He will
:03:56. > :04:00.now face an inquiry, without any allegations of illegal behaviour,
:04:00. > :04:05.it is expected to be an internal investigation. It will be carried
:04:06. > :04:10.out by the Vatican and a new Pope, rather than the Church of Scotland,
:04:10. > :04:14.and any punishment would be imposed from Rome. He said today she did
:04:14. > :04:24.spend the rest of his life in retirement. Circumstances of that
:04:24. > :04:26.
:04:26. > :04:32.retirement will be up to the This comes at a very bad time for
:04:32. > :04:36.the Catholic Church. The timing could not be worse, because in 10
:04:36. > :04:41.hours, the cardinals will gather to start the conversation about who
:04:41. > :04:46.should succeed at Pope Benedict. We now know that, had these
:04:46. > :04:50.allegations not been made public, had they stayed secret, and they
:04:50. > :04:55.were known to the church before Pope Benedict resigned, he would be
:04:55. > :04:59.here among them, taking part in the process to elect the next Pope. I
:04:59. > :05:04.have had conversations about Cardinal O'Brien with several
:05:04. > :05:11.priests and clerics, and you sense an unwillingness to believe these
:05:11. > :05:15.allegations against a mad who of many admire and like. -- man. One
:05:15. > :05:21.person said, could this be a Liberal vendetta against a man who
:05:21. > :05:26.has stirred up for the teach-ins against homosexuality? That defence
:05:26. > :05:34.is no longer available, these allegations are coming from inside
:05:34. > :05:38.his own diocese. This is a home- baked cake. The cardinals gather
:05:38. > :05:42.tomorrow, knowing that if this had stayed closed within the Church,
:05:42. > :05:47.Cardinal O'Brien would be here with them, and that is what will be hard
:05:47. > :05:50.to defend. The Queen has been admitted to
:05:50. > :05:55.hospital in London as a precautionary measure, to be
:05:55. > :05:59.assessed for gastroenteritis. She is expected to remain there under
:05:59. > :06:05.observation for two days. All of her engagements for this week,
:06:05. > :06:09.including a trip to Rome, will either be cancelled or postponed.
:06:09. > :06:14.She was admitted to the King Edward VII hospital because the
:06:14. > :06:17.gastroenteritis has not cleared up after two days. Her admission is
:06:17. > :06:25.described as a precautionary measure to allow doctors to make a
:06:25. > :06:29.more detailed assessment. The Queen is in good spirits, according to a
:06:29. > :06:33.spokeswoman. She presented a long- service medal to a member of staff
:06:33. > :06:38.at Windsor this morning before being driven to the hospital. She
:06:38. > :06:43.is expected to remain in hospital for perhaps two days. It means all
:06:43. > :06:48.of her engagements for the coming week, including a visit to Rome,
:06:48. > :06:52.are being cancelled. Doctors say gastroenteritis can be debilitating
:06:52. > :06:56.and patients need time to recover. The big danger is getting
:06:56. > :07:02.dehydrated, you are much more likely to be dehydrated if you are
:07:02. > :07:07.under six months, possibly under a year, and if you get to be much
:07:07. > :07:13.older, and she may be in remarkable health, but she is 86. It is 10
:07:13. > :07:17.years since she was last admitted to hospital. Then, she had keyhole
:07:17. > :07:22.surgery to her knees. Generally, her health continues to be
:07:22. > :07:28.extremely good. A programme during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations
:07:28. > :07:31.was piggy -- busy, and it was fulfilled without any problems.
:07:31. > :07:35.Although her husband was hospitalised with a bladder
:07:35. > :07:40.infection. But for the Queen, neither age nor ill health have
:07:40. > :07:44.ever been a major concern, and there is nothing to suggest that
:07:44. > :07:49.this is anything more than an unpleasant stomach bug from which
:07:49. > :07:54.she will make a full recovery. There will not be regular bulletins,
:07:54. > :07:58.the hospital never issues them, the Palace is unlikely to. The Queen
:07:58. > :08:07.will hate this kind of fuss being made. The important thing to stress
:08:07. > :08:12.is that there is no sense of alarm about the turn of events.
:08:12. > :08:16.Rebels in Syria will get more assistance from the UK, the Foreign
:08:16. > :08:19.Secretary has told us. He said details would be announced to
:08:19. > :08:25.Parliament this week. He said Britain could not full-out
:08:25. > :08:35.providing arms to the rebels in the future. Bashar Al-Assad has accused
:08:35. > :08:38.the UK of bullying and naivety over its policy towards his country
:08:38. > :08:43.first. The shelling and shooting continues,
:08:43. > :08:49.tearing apart a country in which the United Nations believes 70,000
:08:49. > :08:53.people have died since the uprising began almost two years ago. But the
:08:53. > :08:57.President has accused the British Government of trying to militarised
:08:57. > :09:03.the conflict in these remarks to the Sunday Times today. This
:09:03. > :09:06.Government is acting in a naive, confused and unrealistic manner.
:09:06. > :09:11.William Hague described that as one of the most additional interviews
:09:11. > :09:15.given by any national leader in the modern times. This is a man
:09:15. > :09:18.presiding over a slaughter. The message to him is, we in Britain
:09:18. > :09:23.are the people sending food and shelter and blankets to help people
:09:23. > :09:27.driven from their homes and families in his name. We are the
:09:27. > :09:33.people sending medical supplies to try to look after people injured
:09:33. > :09:36.and abused by the soldiers working for this man. At a conference in
:09:37. > :09:42.Rome on Thursday, the Foreign Secretary spent time talking
:09:42. > :09:45.tactics on Syria with his American counterpart, John Kerry. T United
:09:46. > :09:53.States announced an extra $60 million of funding for the
:09:53. > :09:58.opposition. William Hague said that, faced with the extreme humanitarian
:09:58. > :10:01.distress of the Syrian civilians, Britain could not sit it out, and
:10:01. > :10:07.although Almond the rebels is not yet policy, he made it clear he
:10:07. > :10:09.would not rule it out in future. The group that represents more than
:10:09. > :10:15.200,000 health workers in the UK has written to the government to
:10:15. > :10:19.express concern about privatisation in the NHS in England. The Academy
:10:19. > :10:23.of Medical Royal Colleges is demanding that the new rules on
:10:23. > :10:28.which NHS activities in England should face competition from
:10:28. > :10:32.private firms and charities be rewritten.
:10:32. > :10:38.Once again, the government's changes to the NHS in England are
:10:38. > :10:44.at the centre of a row. This time, over the competition for NHS
:10:44. > :10:49.services from the private sector and charities. Private companies
:10:49. > :10:53.such as Virgin are already providing care to NHS patients.
:10:53. > :10:57.Services like this GP clinic in Birmingham. And, and the last
:10:57. > :11:02.couple of years, other community- based care has been put out to
:11:02. > :11:06.tender, things like hearing tests and physio services. Now,
:11:06. > :11:09.regulations on how the NHS will have to work from April have
:11:09. > :11:13.preferred it doctors, they say the government is looking to increase
:11:13. > :11:17.competition, despite assurances given when the Bill was passed.
:11:17. > :11:27.They point out that new groups are being told they can only give work
:11:27. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:36.to the NHS without competition if Doctors would be obliged to attend
:11:36. > :11:42.a complex services to the private sector that would then possibly
:11:42. > :11:48.disrupt those services. We want joined-up services, they need a
:11:48. > :11:52.kind of service, and we are keen that should not be like producing a
:11:52. > :11:57.mobile phone. The Prime Minister had to intervene to get the changes
:11:57. > :12:00.through Parliament. But in his authority behind the help build and
:12:01. > :12:06.promising there would be no competition and less it meant
:12:06. > :12:09.patients would be benefited. Ministers said that has not changed.
:12:10. > :12:14.Commissioners, doctors and nurses who plan and purchase services,
:12:14. > :12:19.will not be forced to put services out to tender if they think that
:12:19. > :12:23.that is not in the interests of their patients. It is entirely up
:12:23. > :12:29.to them to use competition when they think that that is appropriate.
:12:29. > :12:32.And not to use it when it is not. Nobody is going to force them.
:12:32. > :12:36.Labour has said it will try to force a parliamentary debate and
:12:36. > :12:40.vote on the regulations. The government does not have to allow
:12:40. > :12:47.either, but with weeks to go until the new system comes into force
:12:47. > :12:53.legally, it faces another row over what it will make for patients.
:12:53. > :12:59.At least 45 people have been killed in a car-bomb attack in Pakistan's
:12:59. > :13:03.biggest city Karachi. More than 100 others were wounded when two bombs
:13:03. > :13:07.exploded in a Shia Muslim area of the city.
:13:07. > :13:11.The veteran adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes says there is no reason for
:13:11. > :13:16.him to stop going on further expeditions. That is after being
:13:16. > :13:20.forced to abandon his latest of polar trip because of frostbite. At
:13:20. > :13:30.68, he had been training to walk across Antarctica in winter,
:13:30. > :13:34.
:13:34. > :13:37.How do you feel? Not happy. Ranulph Fiennes announcing that
:13:37. > :13:44.frostbite was forcing him to abandon his latest expedition
:13:44. > :13:48.across Antarctica in the dead of winter. He left his five colleagues
:13:48. > :13:57.behind and flew to Cape Town, where he told the of the moment it all
:13:57. > :14:01.went wrong. His left hand suddenly going number. It is like what could
:14:01. > :14:10.-- it is like wood, I knew it would be trouble. You knew it would be
:14:10. > :14:13.over? I knew from the past that the situation had unexpectedly and
:14:13. > :14:20.frustratingly reached a situation where the hand was not going to be
:14:20. > :14:26.any good at -40, let alone -80. What do you do? Do you accept the
:14:26. > :14:29.fact? The accident happened when he was on a ski track like this. He
:14:30. > :14:33.suspects the possible onset of diabetes might explain why a hand
:14:33. > :14:39.already damaged years ago by frostbite was injured again so
:14:39. > :14:45.quickly. It is a huge blow. But he says he still has a key charity
:14:45. > :14:48.fund-raising role. I will not be on the sidelines, I will be in the
:14:48. > :14:54.middle of the spider's web, making sure that everything goes as well
:14:54. > :14:57.as it can. Do you worry that your body or your sponsors or a
:14:57. > :15:03.combination of going to say, that is it, that is your last
:15:03. > :15:08.expedition? I cannot see this being my last as. There is no reason why
:15:08. > :15:16.it should be. Future expeditions will have to be in an area where my
:15:16. > :15:22.left hand does not get in the way. Packing for London, not knowing if
:15:22. > :15:32.his damaged hand will ever work again. An extraordinary, gruelling
:15:32. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:42.And now the sports news. There was a lot riding on the North London
:15:42. > :15:44.derby. Match Of The Day has highlights of
:15:44. > :15:49.the only match in the Premier League today straight after the
:15:49. > :15:52.news. But I have the result coming up. Tottenham beat Arsenal 2-1 at
:15:52. > :15:55.White Hart Lane to move back up to third in the table. Gareth Bale and
:15:55. > :15:58.Aaron Lennon scored Spurs' goals in the first half. Per Mertesacker
:15:58. > :16:02.headed in for Arsenal but their defeat leaves them seven points
:16:02. > :16:12.adrift of Spurs. Scottish Cup highlights are coming up on
:16:12. > :16:14.Sportscene for viewers in Scotland. Dundee United and Hibernian have
:16:14. > :16:17.joined Celtic and Falkirk in the semi-finals. Gary Mackay-Steven
:16:17. > :16:19.scored Dundee United's winner against Dundee. Leigh Griffiths
:16:19. > :16:25.scored a hat-trick for Hibernian as they beat Kilmarnock. The semi-
:16:25. > :16:33.final draw is tomorrow. Great Britain have finished third in the
:16:33. > :16:38.medal table at the European Indoor Athletics Championships. Perri
:16:38. > :16:42.Shakes-Drayton won took gold medals. She was one of the poster girls at
:16:42. > :16:46.the London Olympics, growing up close to the Olympic Park. She
:16:46. > :16:50.might look back to this as the springboard for her career. Two
:16:50. > :16:58.gold medals, anchoring the relay team after earlier claiming her
:16:58. > :17:08.first individual title also in the 400 metres. Perri Shakes-Drayton
:17:08. > :17:08.
:17:08. > :17:13.wins in a super time. I cannot be complacent. I wanted to stay out of
:17:13. > :17:23.trouble and be at the front and maintain it. I am now champion!
:17:23. > :17:28.There was a battling bronze medal de Mukhtar Mohammed. Nigel Irvine
:17:28. > :17:33.had to get past the Russian on the final bend of his 400 metres. He
:17:33. > :17:39.took the silver but the Russian protested, only to be disqualified
:17:39. > :17:43.himself. He also took part in the final event, the win looked clear
:17:43. > :17:49.cut as Richard Strachan brought the baton home. Only to find out they
:17:49. > :17:54.had been disqualified. Did Richard Buck step off the track? Was he
:17:54. > :18:00.pushed? The appeal was successful. They signed off with their fourth
:18:00. > :18:05.gold medal. Saracens are at the top of the