:00:12. > :00:17.allegations about the extent of a US surveillance programme goes public.
:00:17. > :00:20.Amid concerns about a transatlantic network of data, former CIA
:00:20. > :00:26.employee, Edward Snowden, says he fears for the privacy of law abiding
:00:26. > :00:32.people. You don't have to have done anything wrong. You simply have to
:00:32. > :00:36.eventually fall under suspicion by somebody, even from a wrong call.
:00:36. > :00:41.The Government denies GCHQ has been using the data to circumvent the
:00:41. > :00:47.law. A statement is due in Parliament tomorrow. The idea that
:00:47. > :00:51.in GCHQ people are sitting, working how to circumvent a UK law with
:00:51. > :00:56.another agency is fanciful. It is nonsense. We will assess what this
:00:56. > :01:00.means for intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic. Also
:01:00. > :01:04.tonight - after a second fire at an Islamic site in London, the
:01:04. > :01:09.Metropolitan Police boosts its uniformed presence at high-risk
:01:09. > :01:19.locations. The acclaimed writer Banks dies two months after
:01:19. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:33.revealing he was losing his battle French Open and a place in the
:01:33. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:50.Good evening. The whistle-blower behind allegations that data
:01:50. > :01:54.gathered in the US has been used to spy on British citizens has come
:01:54. > :01:58.forward tonight, saying he believes monitoring powers are a grave threat
:01:58. > :02:01.to civil liberties. The identity of Edward Snowden, who used to work for
:02:02. > :02:06.the CIA has been revealed in collaboration with The Guardian
:02:06. > :02:10.newspaper. Earlier, the Government dismissed allegations that the
:02:10. > :02:16.surveillance of organisation, GCHQ, has been breaking UK law as
:02:16. > :02:23.nonsense. Revelations about a top-secret US
:02:24. > :02:27.spy programme have drawn not just America's eavesdroppers - the nags
:02:27. > :02:32.national National Security Agency into controversy but also their
:02:32. > :02:34.British counterparts. At issue is whether GCHQ used the American
:02:34. > :02:38.programme to collect information it should not have done. That was
:02:38. > :02:44.denied today by the Foreign Secretary. To me, as somebody who
:02:44. > :02:51.knows GCHQ well and I authorise operations most days of the week by
:02:52. > :02:56.GCHQ, so I know how they work. The idea that in GCHQ, people are
:02:56. > :03:00.sitting, working how to circumvent the UK law is fanciful. It is
:03:00. > :03:04.nonsense. I can give people that assurance. Leaked documents and
:03:04. > :03:09.information from US officials suggest that the Prism spy programme
:03:09. > :03:15.has been used to gather information on non-US citizens. It is said to be
:03:15. > :03:19.able to directly access personal data, like e-mails and photos held
:03:19. > :03:23.by companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft. Those firms
:03:23. > :03:27.say they only comply with requests made under existing law. The Foreign
:03:27. > :03:31.Secretary will be making a statement to Parliament tomorrow about the
:03:31. > :03:37.programme. What worries some MPs is the idea it might have been used by
:03:37. > :03:41.the Americans to spy on brons and that British intelligence might have
:03:41. > :03:45.had intelligence to that information, getting around the
:03:45. > :03:49.legal restrictions and what it is supposed to do. Tonight the
:03:49. > :03:54.29-year-old behind the leaks, now in Hong Kong, unmasked himself in a
:03:54. > :03:59.video on The Guardian website. targets the communications of
:03:59. > :04:03.everyone. It ingests them by default. It filters them and
:04:03. > :04:08.analyses them and measures and stores them for periods of time,
:04:08. > :04:13.simply because that is the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way
:04:13. > :04:19.to achieve these ends. Edward Snowden, who worked at a contract at
:04:19. > :04:24.the NSA, said he was outraged by what he saw and wanted to open up
:04:24. > :04:28.the issues to public debate. He says he knows the consequences for him
:04:28. > :04:34.will be serious. You cannot come up against these intelligence agencies
:04:34. > :04:42.and be free from risk, because they are such powerful adversaries.
:04:42. > :04:46.Nobody can. All Governments dislike talking about who they spy on and
:04:46. > :04:49.how. In this case the actions of Edward Snowden will force not only
:04:49. > :04:55.his own Government, but that of Britain to answer new questions
:04:55. > :04:59.about their spy's work. How much difference do you think it will make
:04:59. > :05:03.now we have a face and a name to the whistle-blower? These revelations
:05:03. > :05:08.sent shock waves in the last few days through the most secret part of
:05:08. > :05:12.our states. Now we have the emotional impact of having someone
:05:12. > :05:18.explain why he did it. Privacy is his primary concern. It is
:05:18. > :05:22.interesting though, he has placed himself in Hong Kong - a part of the
:05:22. > :05:26.republic of China, which knows a thing or two about surveillance of
:05:26. > :05:30.the internet. How people will react to his story will be different. Some
:05:30. > :05:34.will share his concern about this huge scale of surveillance. Others
:05:34. > :05:38.will say this is what is needed to prevent terrorist attacks and worry
:05:38. > :05:42.that his revelations might compromise that ability. Certainly,
:05:42. > :05:46.it has shown a light. It will increase public debate, including
:05:46. > :05:50.here in the UK, when we hear from the Foreign Secretary tomorrow about
:05:50. > :05:55.what GCHQ has been up to and whether it has been within the law.
:05:55. > :05:58.Thank you. The Metropolitan Police
:05:58. > :06:03.Commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, has increased the uniformed presence
:06:03. > :06:08.at Islamic sites across London, saying a fire at a Muslim boarding
:06:08. > :06:14.school and an earlier blaze at a Somali centre are being treated as
:06:14. > :06:19.suspicion. It is more than two weeks after the death of Drummer Lee Rigby
:06:19. > :06:23.in Woolwich. Let's join our correspondent, who is
:06:23. > :06:27.at New Scotland Yard. This is a significant announcement
:06:27. > :06:31.by the head of the UK's largest police force. It shows concern at
:06:31. > :06:35.the highest levels about the backlash from the murder of Drummer
:06:35. > :06:42.Lee Rigby. And the deployment of police officers to high-risk
:06:42. > :06:46.locations suggest they expect more may follow.
:06:46. > :06:51.The Darul Uloom School in Chislehurst, south-east London. A
:06:51. > :06:56.fire here on Saturday night prompted the evacuation of 130 pupils and
:06:56. > :07:06.staff. Police are treating it as suspicious. The parents should rest
:07:06. > :07:11.assure that these students are safe and have been well looked after.
:07:11. > :07:21.A department was set alight by intruders. Tonight, the head of the
:07:21. > :07:33.
:07:33. > :07:38.Metropolitan Police, Sir Bernard The Met has announced it is posting
:07:38. > :07:41.uniformed officers at targets considered most at risk. Police are
:07:41. > :07:45.guard selective Islamic sites around the clock. At the school in
:07:45. > :07:53.Chislehurst, two pupils were treated for the effects of snok inhalation.
:07:53. > :07:55.People in the area have appealed for calm. It does worry you. I would
:07:55. > :07:59.hope this being on the news and happening will hopefully show a lot
:07:59. > :08:02.of people that, you know, this cannot go on and something needs to
:08:02. > :08:07.be done to stop it. I was not surprised because of everything that
:08:07. > :08:13.has gone around. There are lots of stories around. I didn't think it
:08:13. > :08:18.would come to here because it is an affluent area. Since Lee Rigby was
:08:18. > :08:22.murdered a fortnight ago there have been a string of similar incidents.
:08:22. > :08:29.His family say they don't want his death to be used for political
:08:29. > :08:35.purposes. A fire in Muswell Hill is being
:08:35. > :08:38.investigated. The signature of the far right English Defence League was
:08:38. > :08:44.spray painted on the wall of the centre before the blaze. A spokesman
:08:44. > :08:49.for the EDL said it did not approve of any religious buildings being
:08:49. > :08:55.attacked. Before that a smoke bomb was allegedly thrown through the
:08:55. > :08:58.window of a mosque in Essex. A man has been charged. In Grimsby two
:08:58. > :09:05.people were charged in connection with another attack on a mosque.
:09:05. > :09:10.Tonight, police urged all communities totion violence.
:09:10. > :09:16.-- to shun violence. An MP rejects allegations that he used his
:09:16. > :09:21.position to help a private company influence Parliament. Undercover
:09:21. > :09:25.journalists secretly filmed Tim Yeo. They accuse him of coaching a top
:09:25. > :09:31.executive before his committee appearance. Our political
:09:31. > :09:35.correspondent reports. An unsuspecting parliamentarian,
:09:35. > :09:39.undercover reporters and a secret recording. Much was familiar about
:09:39. > :09:42.the latest lobbying allegations. The Sunday Times said Tim Yeo coached a
:09:42. > :09:46.witness due to appear before his own Select Committee. The witness worked
:09:46. > :09:56.for a company in which the MP had a publicly declared financial
:09:56. > :09:59.
:09:59. > :10:02.interest. Are you able to ask him suggest he coached the witness. The
:10:02. > :10:06.pair had spoken briefly five days before the committee appearance, he
:10:06. > :10:10.said and he declared his business connection and accused himself from
:10:10. > :10:16.questioning on the day. He choose not to make his case in person
:10:16. > :10:26.today. Tim Yeo agreed to do a live interview with us here on the Sunday
:10:26. > :10:32.
:10:32. > :10:36.Politics, but within the last hour, All this follows separate claims
:10:36. > :10:41.against Patrick Mercer, who has science resigned from the party and
:10:41. > :10:44.three Lords. The Community Secretary rejected suggestions the lobbying
:10:44. > :10:50.revelations were damaging relations between politicians and the press.
:10:50. > :10:54.They are just doing a job. That is all they are doing. If you are
:10:54. > :10:58.obeying the rules you have nothing to fear. Even before he entered
:10:58. > :11:03.Downing Street, David Cameron predicted lobbying would be the next
:11:03. > :11:07.big scandal to hit Parliament. He has promised a new law by the end of
:11:07. > :11:14.July. The bigger question is whether a register will now be enough to
:11:14. > :11:17.reassure the public after so many damage damaging paper headlines.
:11:17. > :11:21.Prayers have been said in South Africa today for Nelson Mandela, who
:11:21. > :11:26.remains in hospital, being treated for a reoccurring lung infection.
:11:26. > :11:36.The former President is 94. His doctors have called his condition,
:11:36. > :11:40."Serious, but stable." Once again, South Africans are
:11:40. > :11:44.praying for Nelson Mandela. Here at a church service near his old home
:11:44. > :11:49.in Soweto. This country seems torn between a
:11:49. > :11:54.desire to see the 94-year-old fight on and a more solemn recognition
:11:54. > :11:58.that his health is clearly fading. You just feel sorry for someone that
:11:58. > :12:03.old because he's going through a lot of pain. He has been loved by
:12:03. > :12:07.everybody, so we all wish him a speedy recovery, that he recovers
:12:07. > :12:11.well and gets out of pain. I don't believe that South Africa will
:12:11. > :12:16.change if Mandela is gone, because now it is difficult now. It is very
:12:16. > :12:21.difficult. It is very difficult. Nelson Mandela is battling a lung
:12:21. > :12:25.infection. He was admitted to hospital early yesterday morning -
:12:25. > :12:28.his third time this year. As far as we know, his condition is stable,
:12:28. > :12:32.but serious. Nelson Mandela's family have made it
:12:32. > :12:36.very clear they want to protect the privacy and dignity of an
:12:36. > :12:42.increasingly frail man. As a result, it is not being confirmed which
:12:42. > :12:46.hospital he is being treated at here in Petoria. Still, close relatives
:12:46. > :12:52.have been seen at one private hospital today. No obvious sense of
:12:52. > :12:57.a bedside vigil. The lack of any medical update is not reassuring. In
:12:57. > :13:02.a Johannesburg museum Mandela's life is part of history.
:13:02. > :13:06.His legacy will live forever. I hope he goes in peace and he knows that
:13:06. > :13:14.he has fundamentally made the world a better place. For now, a nation
:13:14. > :13:20.waits for news. The best-selling novelist Iain Banks
:13:20. > :13:28.has died at the age of 59, two months after revealing he had
:13:28. > :13:38.terminal cancer of the gallbladder. His books include the Wasp Factory,
:13:38. > :13:41.
:13:41. > :13:47.He was a prolific writer. It was for this book that Iain Banks was best
:13:47. > :13:52.known - dark, disturbing and disquieting - the Wasp Factory was
:13:52. > :13:57.also funny. Last month he gave one of his final interviews to the BBC.
:13:57. > :14:01.The things that I love and things I tend to read most are science
:14:01. > :14:09.fiction and main-stream literature. Those are what I love to write as
:14:09. > :14:16.well. It 's been a privilege to get away with it for an entire career.
:14:16. > :14:24.His novel the Crow Road which opens with the memorable line, "It was the
:14:24. > :14:29.day my grandmother exploded," was put on television. You never knew
:14:30. > :14:35.what you would get - would it be a family saga, a bizarre book about a
:14:35. > :14:38.young kid growing up in Scotland, would it be science fiction? You
:14:39. > :14:43.never knew. Picking up one of his books was and is a thrilling
:14:43. > :14:49.experience. In April Iain Banks announced on his website that he was
:14:49. > :14:58.officially very poorly. What he thought was backache was terminal
:14:58. > :15:04.cancer. His last book, The Quarry, will be on sale later this week.
:15:04. > :15:09.Publication was brought forward from October. It is a cunning plan of the
:15:09. > :15:14.mind, I pretend I have cancer - I am fine and dandy - that way I will
:15:14. > :15:21.sell more books out of sympathy. If only that were true! Iain Banks, who
:15:21. > :15:25.has died at the age of 59. Rafael Nadal made tennis history
:15:25. > :15:31.today, becoming the first man to win the same Grand Slam tournament eight
:15:31. > :15:36.times. Despite spending mosts of the last year from injury he took the
:15:36. > :15:40.French Open tiltle with a straight sets victory -- title with a
:15:40. > :15:45.straights set victory over David Ferrer.
:15:45. > :15:50.For Rafael Nadal to make history he would have to over overcome David
:15:50. > :15:54.Ferrer - a big underdog, who rose to the challenge. The problem for him
:15:54. > :15:59.though was the quality of his opponent and while Ferrer had not
:15:59. > :16:07.lost a single set in the tournament, that duly changed as Nadal made
:16:07. > :16:11.speedy work of Ferrer in front of a speedy guest. Then a much more
:16:11. > :16:16.serious distraction - a protestor with a flare came on court and was
:16:16. > :16:21.quickly thrown off it. Nadal, while a little shaken still
:16:21. > :16:27.won 6-2 and then broke straight away at the start of the third.
:16:27. > :16:33.And he would hold that to serve for the title and needed only one match
:16:33. > :16:40.point. The king reigned supreme, history is his and no-one can deny
:16:40. > :16:44.on this surface he is number one. Finally, it has been an
:16:44. > :16:48.extraordinary weekend in Londonderry, the UK's City of
:16:48. > :16:52.Culture has hosted a 30-hour festival, created by Frank Cottrell
:16:52. > :16:58.Boyce. It was his first major project since collaborating with
:16:58. > :17:01.Danny Boyle on last year's opening Olympic ceremony w the intention of
:17:01. > :17:11.telling the world a different story about the once troubled city of
:17:11. > :17:14.
:17:15. > :17:19.A mysterious flotilla, shrouded in incense makes its way up the river.
:17:19. > :17:29.On board is the patron saint of Derry, returning to the city for the
:17:29. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:34.first time since he left for the Isle of Iona, 1500 years ago.
:17:34. > :17:39.It is, thinks the man behind the event, an ancient story, which still
:17:39. > :17:46.resonates today. It has all the elements. It has revenge, a monster,
:17:46. > :17:56.incredible beauty. He was responsible for the book of kales. A
:17:56. > :18:05.
:18:05. > :18:10.called the Peace Bridge, was opened two years ago. It connects the two
:18:10. > :18:14.sides of the city It has transformed the city. You open a door and you
:18:14. > :18:18.discover a brand new room in your house. It is that good. People are
:18:18. > :18:24.discovering the other part of Derry. People who would not have walked
:18:24. > :18:29.because it was difficult and because there was a political thing - people
:18:29. > :18:32.are walking over here and they are discovering a new part of the city.
:18:32. > :18:41.Around 1,000 volunteers took part in the people's parade, which was part
:18:41. > :18:46.of the 30-hour extrave ganz sa. might not be as big and expensive as
:18:46. > :18:54.last year's Olympic ceremony, but it shares the participation of
:18:54. > :19:00.community celebration, of story telling and a sense of humour.
:19:00. > :19:05.The officials talk about the financial legacy as the City of
:19:05. > :19:09.Culture. As the Loch Ness Monster made its way up the river, those