:00:28. > :00:31.intelligence analyst, Edward Snowden, has been charged with
:00:31. > :00:34.espionage and theft by prosecutors in the United States. He fled to
:00:34. > :00:38.Hong Kong last month and leaked details of secret surveillance
:00:38. > :00:42.programmes. The latest documents published today by the Guardian
:00:42. > :00:46.newspaper suggest the British intelligence agency, GCHQ, is
:00:46. > :00:51.collecting data on hundreds of millions of e-mails and phone calls
:00:51. > :00:55.every day. Gordon Corera has the details.
:00:55. > :00:59.America this morning woke to news that one of its former spies had
:00:59. > :01:09.been charged with spying. Here are a few of the stories we'll be looking
:01:09. > :01:13.at... Edward Snowden who leaked documents
:01:13. > :01:16.is a fugitive... The former US intelligence contractor fled to Hong
:01:16. > :01:22.Kong and he still is thought to be in hiding there. The US is moving to
:01:22. > :01:26.extradite him on charges under its espionage act of stealing Government
:01:26. > :01:30.secrets and communicating them with an unauthorised person.
:01:30. > :01:36.The latest allegations based on Snowden's documents come in today's
:01:36. > :01:40.Guardian newspaper. It's claimed that Britain's intelligence agency,
:01:40. > :01:45.GCHQ, is mounting a huge surveillance operation, tapping 200
:01:45. > :01:51.of the fiber-optic cables that carry global communications.
:01:51. > :01:56.The paper claims GCHQ every day can gather details of millions of phone
:01:56. > :02:00.calls, e-mails and web visits, it can then hold it for 30 days to sift
:02:00. > :02:03.through it looking for anything related to national security. The
:02:03. > :02:06.Government insists this is lawful, as a warrant is still required to
:02:06. > :02:09.actually read the stored communications of any British
:02:09. > :02:14.citizen. They'll use the most modern
:02:14. > :02:18.technology in order to do that. The crucial question is not how much
:02:18. > :02:24.data could they theoretically collect, but what can they get
:02:24. > :02:28.access to? Is it an intrusion of the provety to have person? An official
:02:28. > :02:33.said the information gathered played a part in recent terrorist arrests,
:02:33. > :02:37.including some linked to the 2012 London Olympics, as well as breaking
:02:37. > :02:42.up Child Exploitation networks. But that's not prevented questions being
:02:42. > :02:45.raised. It's been suggested to me that if they collect so much of our
:02:45. > :02:50.private information, that they don't look at it, we shouldn't feel
:02:50. > :02:54.intruded on. That is the equivalent of going into everybody's home at
:02:54. > :02:59.night, scooping up all their private papers into bin liners and
:02:59. > :03:07.stockpiling them for 30 days and saying, "don't worry, I didn't read
:03:07. > :03:10.the stuff". GCHQ says the work is lawful. The documents leaked raise
:03:10. > :03:17.questions about the work, costs and benefits and what the public should
:03:17. > :03:20.know. Western and Arab countries opposed
:03:20. > :03:25.to President Bashar Assad, have issued a statement agreeing to give
:03:25. > :03:28.urgent support to rebels fighting his regime in Syria. Ministers from
:03:28. > :03:31.11 countries, including the UK and US, were meeting in Qatar and
:03:31. > :03:35.pledged to provide equipment to opposition forces, although no
:03:35. > :03:39.details were given of any new commitments. The move comes after a
:03:39. > :03:43.number of military setbacks for the rebels with reports of more fighting
:03:43. > :03:47.around the capital, Damascus, as government forces attack their
:03:47. > :03:51.positions. Joining us now from Doha is our
:03:51. > :03:54.correspondent, Aleem Maqbool. There's going to be so-called urgent
:03:54. > :04:00.support coming from some Western countries from the rebels. How
:04:01. > :04:03.significant a move is this? Well, on the face of it, Clive, it
:04:03. > :04:07.does sound like a very strong statement and the Secretary of
:04:07. > :04:11.State, John Kerry, said there was an imbalance on the ground in Syria. He
:04:11. > :04:16.said that certainly, Bashar Assad's forces had the upper hand and he
:04:16. > :04:22.said everyone around the table today was going to do whatever they were
:04:22. > :04:25.comfortable with in supporting the opposition. But what does that m? In
:04:25. > :04:29.In terms of America, President Obama said he'll provide arms to the
:04:29. > :04:33.rebels, to the opposition, but he said he'll take time in providing
:04:33. > :04:37.what arms there 'll be and in terms of Britain, we bumped into William
:04:37. > :04:43.Hague there, at the meeting, and after being so bullish in the past,
:04:43. > :04:46.he still says there's no change in policy, there Beale no arms as yet
:04:46. > :04:50.provided to the rebels but they'll provide more humanitarian
:04:50. > :04:55.assistance. There were others around the table who have been providing
:04:55. > :04:59.arms for a very long time to the rebels, including Qatar where we are
:04:59. > :05:02.standing now. They've been accused of making this a holy war by
:05:02. > :05:07.supplying arms to Jihad militants but they are the ones shaping this
:05:08. > :05:11.conflict. But all the time, Sir yaps who've seen over 90,000 people die,
:05:11. > :05:15.they don't have faith now in the international community in bringing
:05:15. > :05:21.about peace and they'll have been disappointed if they were expecting
:05:21. > :05:25.decisive action today. Aleem Maqbool, many thanks.
:05:25. > :05:28.Nearly 600 people are known to have died in flash floods in northern
:05:28. > :05:32.India. Rescuers are trying to reach tens of thousands more cut off by
:05:32. > :05:35.the rising waters in what the Government has described as a
:05:35. > :05:39.national crisis. The early monsoon rains in India this year are
:05:39. > :05:43.believed to be the heaviest in six decades.
:05:43. > :05:46.The Labour Leader, Ed Miliband, has warned his party can't promise to
:05:46. > :05:49.reverse the coalition's public spending cuts if it wins the next
:05:49. > :05:54.general election. He said the hard reality of the nation's economic
:05:54. > :05:58.situation had to be faced. Ian Watson has more.
:05:58. > :06:03.We are campaigning for a new economy that delivers decent jobs and
:06:03. > :06:06.greener growth... The Trade Unionists and left-wing activists at
:06:06. > :06:10.the anti-cuts conference in Central London today had an uncompromising
:06:10. > :06:17.message for the coalition Government. That's why we are here
:06:17. > :06:21.to say enough is enough. We are going to fight back.
:06:21. > :06:25.But some of the fine rhetoric could also be aimed at the opposition.
:06:25. > :06:29.Because, at a meeting of senior Labour figures in Birmingham today,
:06:29. > :06:34.Ed Milibanded saided he'd accept some of the Government's spending
:06:34. > :06:40.cut if he came to power. A starting point in 2015-16 will be that we
:06:40. > :06:46.won't be able to reverse the cuts in current day-to-day spending unless
:06:46. > :06:50.we find the money from savings elsewhere or from extra revenue.
:06:50. > :06:53.Labour will still borrow or raise taxes to invest in longer term
:06:53. > :06:57.projects, such as housing. Ed Miliband says his Government would
:06:57. > :07:02.take a different direction to the Conservatives, but he might need
:07:02. > :07:05.that hard hat when he next meets some of his traditional supporters.
:07:05. > :07:09.He's just putting another edge to Cameron's austerity measures and
:07:09. > :07:13.saying he's going to do the same thing. If he carries on with these
:07:13. > :07:17.policies, many people in the union branch might not be wanting to vote
:07:17. > :07:21.for him. He'll undermine his own vote. Ed Miliband knows he won't
:07:21. > :07:24.please many people here at an anti-cuts conference, but he says
:07:24. > :07:28.the Next Labour Government must exercise financial discipline to
:07:28. > :07:32.bring the deficit down. But he knows his party isn't trusted enough with
:07:32. > :07:36.the economy, so he has to convince undecided voters that he can take
:07:36. > :07:41.tough decisions. Our party leader, Nick Clegg.
:07:41. > :07:45.Lib Dem leader was telling his activists to expect a strict limit
:07:45. > :07:49.to spending pledges at the next election. The desire to offer big
:07:49. > :07:55.spending commitments will be as strong as it ever has been. But we
:07:55. > :07:58.will resist the temptation to talk big and end up delivering small.
:07:58. > :08:03.The Chancellor said he'd lift the burden of debt for the next
:08:03. > :08:07.generation by balancing the books by 2015. That now won't happen. The
:08:07. > :08:10.Conservatives say Labour will be too weak to rein in spending but all the
:08:10. > :08:17.mainstream parties know the choice of the next election is not whether
:08:17. > :08:21.to make cuts but how. A ferry carrying 400 people struck a
:08:21. > :08:26.dock in Essex. It happened as the Sirena Seaways vessel was berthing
:08:26. > :08:31.at Harwich. Essex Fire and Rescue Service says no-one was trapped or
:08:31. > :08:35.injured, but the vessel has been holed below the water level.
:08:35. > :08:40.The British and Irish Lions have beaten Australia in dramatic fashion
:08:40. > :08:44.to take a 1-0 lead in the three test series. The Wallabies could have won
:08:44. > :08:51.the game in the last minute but missed a penalty. Dan Roan reports
:08:51. > :08:54.from Brisbane. Even for one of sport's most
:08:54. > :08:59.cherished traditions, this felt special. It's 16 years since they
:08:59. > :09:04.last seen their team win a series. Now, as Brisbane's responsibility
:09:04. > :09:09.fell to the pride of Lions, amid a raucous atmosphere, this was about
:09:09. > :09:19.to live up to the hype. Australia hadn't played a match all year, but
:09:19. > :09:19.
:09:19. > :09:26.they seized the initiative. A try that will go down in legend,
:09:26. > :09:30.North's blistering surge to the line underlining his status as the most
:09:30. > :09:34.potent attacking weapon. Australia have their own world-class winger.
:09:34. > :09:40.The hosts were back in the game thanks to the second try from the
:09:40. > :09:45.same person on the night. When Cuthbert powered over, the
:09:45. > :09:49.Lions looked on course for victory. Despite the disruption of losing
:09:49. > :09:54.four to injury, Australia clawed their way back to within two points.
:09:54. > :10:00.And then with this pulsating contest on a knife edge, Beale had the
:10:00. > :10:08.chance to win it. He slipped and the last kick of the game was a scuffed
:10:08. > :10:12.one. The Lions clung on and now lead the series. It was incredibly tense
:10:12. > :10:16.and the Lions rode their luck but they have the chance to claim their