:00:06. > :00:11.Edward Snowden is charged with espionage and theft by US
:00:11. > :00:16.prosecutors. Washington demands his urgent extradition from Hong Kong,
:00:16. > :00:19.as more leaked documents are published.
:00:19. > :00:29.Western and Arab nations promise weapons for Syria's opposition at a
:00:29. > :00:36.
:00:36. > :00:46.meeting in Qatar. And it's first blood to the Lions, as Australia are
:00:46. > :00:54.
:00:55. > :00:58.beaten in a dramatic finale to the strongly urging the authorities in
:00:58. > :01:00.Hong Kong to act soon on a request to extradite the former intelligence
:01:01. > :01:07.analyst Edward Snowden, who faces charges of espionage and theft by
:01:07. > :01:11.prosecutors in the United States. He fled to Hong Kong last month and
:01:11. > :01:14.leaked details of secret surveillance programmes. Washington
:01:14. > :01:17.says if Hong Kong doesn't act soon, it could complicate bilateral
:01:17. > :01:19.relations. The latest documents published today by the Guardian
:01:19. > :01:21.newspaper, suggest the British intelligence agency GCHQ, is
:01:21. > :01:31.collecting data on hundreds of millions of e-mails and phone calls
:01:31. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:36.every day. Gordon Corera has the details.
:01:36. > :01:41.America this morning woke to news that one of its former spies had
:01:42. > :01:45.been charged with spying. Edward Snowden who leaked secrets about our
:01:45. > :01:49.Government's surveillance programmes is officially a fugitive. The former
:01:49. > :01:54.US intelligence contractor had fled to Hong Kong and he is still thought
:01:54. > :01:58.to be in hiding there. The US is now moving to extradite him on charges
:01:58. > :02:04.under its espionage act of steeling Government secrets and communicating
:02:04. > :02:08.them with an unauthorised person -- stealing. Without commenting on any
:02:08. > :02:11.individual Government's application, if another jurisdiction has issued
:02:11. > :02:17.an extradition request, the Hong Kong Government will consider it
:02:17. > :02:21.with reference to our current laws. The latest allegations based on
:02:21. > :02:26.Snowden's documents come in today's Guardian newspaper. It's claimed
:02:26. > :02:32.that Britain's intelligence agency, GCHQ is mounting a huge surveillance
:02:32. > :02:37.operation, tapping 200 of the fibre optic cables that carry global
:02:37. > :02:41.communications. The paper claims GCHQ every day can gather up details
:02:41. > :02:46.of millions of phone calls, e-mails and website visits. It can then hold
:02:46. > :02:49.this for up to 30 days to sift through it all looking for anything
:02:49. > :02:54.related to national security. But the Government insists this is
:02:54. > :02:57.lawful as a warrant is still required to actually read the stored
:02:57. > :03:02.communications of any British citizen. They use the most modern
:03:02. > :03:08.technology in order to do that. The crucial question is not how much
:03:08. > :03:12.data could they collect, but what can they get access to? Is it an
:03:12. > :03:16.intrusion on the citizen? Government official today said the
:03:16. > :03:20.information gathered had played a part in recent terrorist arrests,
:03:20. > :03:25.including some linked to the 2012 London Olympics, as well as in
:03:25. > :03:29.breaking up child exploitation networks. But that's not prevented
:03:29. > :03:33.questions being raised. It's been suggested to me that if they collect
:03:33. > :03:38.so much of our private information that they don't look at it, we
:03:38. > :03:41.shouldn't feel intruded on. That is the equivalent of going into
:03:41. > :03:45.everybody's home at night, scooping up their private papers into bin
:03:45. > :03:50.liners and stockpiling them for 30 days and saying don't worry, I
:03:50. > :03:53.didn't read the stuff. GCHQ says its work is lawful and authorised by
:03:53. > :03:57.Ministers. But the documents leaked by Edward Snowden are raising
:03:57. > :04:03.questions about the sheer scale of its work, its costs and benefits.
:04:03. > :04:08.And what the public should know. Joining me from Washington is our
:04:09. > :04:12.correspondent Jonny Dymond. Strong words tonight for Hong Kong
:04:12. > :04:16.from the White House in America's attempt to prosecute Mr Snowden.
:04:16. > :04:20.They are strong words and there is a reason for that, the White House
:04:20. > :04:26.wants Edward Snowden back on US soil so it can prosecute him and they're
:04:26. > :04:29.angry and embarrassed by this massive leak of information and in
:04:29. > :04:33.Congress they're spitting. There is talk of treason charges and that's
:04:33. > :04:37.why we have heard from an official that if Hong Kong doesn't act
:04:37. > :04:40.swiftly it could complicate the relationship between them and the
:04:40. > :04:43.US, that's diplomatic speak for a nasty row indeed. The problem for
:04:44. > :04:49.the US is that extradition proceedings do not move quickly and
:04:49. > :04:53.there's precedent in the Hong Kong - in Hong Kong for them taking years
:04:53. > :04:56.and years if Edward Snowden is found there and if he chooses to appeal
:04:56. > :05:02.against it. Looming over all of this is probably the most important
:05:02. > :05:07.relationship in the world today, the US-China relationship which is
:05:07. > :05:11.bedevilled by US suspicions that China is engaging in a massive cyber
:05:11. > :05:15.espionage operation against US Government and US private industry.
:05:15. > :05:19.So you have Edward Snowden, this massive leak of information, China
:05:19. > :05:24.which is Hong Kong's master in the end, and an already tense
:05:24. > :05:34.relationship. Edward Snowden is a flashpoint in an already difficult
:05:34. > :05:36.
:05:36. > :05:39.relationship between the US and China. Thank you.
:05:39. > :05:41.A decision to supply arms to Syrian rebels fighting to depose President
:05:41. > :05:44.Bashar al-Assad has moved a step closer tonight. Foreign ministers
:05:44. > :05:47.meeting in Qatar including William Hague and the US Secretary of State
:05:47. > :05:50.John Kerry, have agreed to provide urgent support to opposition forces.
:05:50. > :05:53.The Qatari Prime Minster says providing arms may be the only means
:05:53. > :05:59.of achieving peace. From Doha, here's Aleem Maqbool. This report
:05:59. > :06:06.contains some flash photography. The rebels in Syria are still
:06:06. > :06:11.fighting hard, despite recent setbacks. This footage is said to
:06:11. > :06:15.show them attacking a military vehicle. They say they have new
:06:15. > :06:21.weapons, but need much more if they're not to be crushed by Assad's
:06:21. > :06:25.forces. 11 friends of Syria came together today to issue what sounded
:06:25. > :06:31.like strong statements. Saying they had agreed on providing urgent
:06:31. > :06:35.support for the Syrian rebels. But what does that amount to? To p great
:06:35. > :06:39.greater assistance of one kind or other, each nation making its own
:06:39. > :06:45.decision as to what it is comfortable doing, but all
:06:45. > :06:49.committing, all of them committing to do more to be able to help the
:06:49. > :06:53.Syrian opposition. The details just aren't clear. Recently Washington
:06:53. > :06:59.promised arms but hasn't said what type and that it needs more time to
:06:59. > :07:02.decide when to send them. While the UK has been bullish in recent weeks,
:07:02. > :07:06.David Cameron faces strong opposition to sending weapons from
:07:06. > :07:13.his own MPs and still hasn't made a decision. If you are in the middle
:07:13. > :07:17.of a conflict and on the receiving end of chemical weapons, of missiles
:07:17. > :07:20.and bombs, of every kind of the sort of butchery of the Assad regime,
:07:20. > :07:25.it's not surprising at all people would be disillusioned with almost
:07:25. > :07:28.everything in the world. The only worse thing, though, than these
:07:28. > :07:32.meetings happening, would be these meetings not happening. Another
:07:32. > :07:37.diplomatic meeting in another world capital has come to an end and yet
:07:37. > :07:41.the killing goes on unabated. Over 90,000 people have already been
:07:41. > :07:51.killed and yet the international community still searches for
:07:51. > :07:54.consensus on how to bring about an end to the bloodshed.
:07:54. > :07:57.Nearly 600 people are now known to have died in flash floods in
:07:57. > :08:01.northern India. Rescuers are trying to reach tens of thousands more who
:08:01. > :08:03.are cut off by the rising waters, in what the government has described as
:08:04. > :08:07.a national crisis. The early monsoon rains in India this year are
:08:07. > :08:10.believed to be the heaviest in six decades.
:08:10. > :08:13.The Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned that his party cannot promise
:08:13. > :08:16.to reverse the coalition's public spending cuts, if it wins the next
:08:16. > :08:20.general election. He said the hard reality of the nation's economic
:08:20. > :08:25.situation had to be faced. The Conservatives said Labour could not
:08:25. > :08:30.be trusted to stick to its promises on tax and spending. Iain Watson
:08:30. > :08:36.reports. Ed Miliband says the coalition has
:08:36. > :08:38.been cutting too far and too fast but today he made clear to Labour
:08:38. > :08:44.activists that he would now accept some of Government's spending limits
:08:44. > :08:48.if he comes to power. We won't be able to reverse the cuts, in current
:08:48. > :08:52.day-to-day spending, unless we final-- the money from savings --
:08:52. > :08:56.find the money from savings elsewhere or extra revenue. Labour
:08:56. > :09:00.would still borrow or raise taxes to invest in longer term projects such
:09:00. > :09:04.as housing. And Ed Miliband says the Government would take a different
:09:04. > :09:09.direction to the Conservatives but he might need that hard hat when he
:09:09. > :09:13.next meets some of his traditional supporters. Enough is enough. We are
:09:13. > :09:16.going to fight back. At this conference of trade unionists and
:09:16. > :09:21.left-wing activists there was disappointment that the Labour
:09:21. > :09:26.leader wasn't promising to reverse coalition cuts. It's just putting
:09:26. > :09:30.another edge to Cameron's austerity measures and saying it's going to do
:09:30. > :09:33.the same thing. If he carries on with these policies me and people in
:09:33. > :09:37.my union branch won't be wanting to vote for him, he will be undermining
:09:37. > :09:41.his own vote. Ed Miliband knows he won't be able to please many of the
:09:41. > :09:44.people here at an anti-cuts conference when he says the next
:09:45. > :09:48.Labour Government must exercise financial discipline to bring the
:09:48. > :09:52.deficit down but he knows his party isn't trusted enough with the
:09:52. > :09:56.economy so he has to convince undecided voters that he can take
:09:56. > :09:59.tough decisions. The Chancellor will set out his spending plans for the
:09:59. > :10:03.future on Wednesday. The Conservatives say that Labour would
:10:04. > :10:07.be too weak to rein in the deficit and that the coalition has taken a
:10:07. > :10:10.more grown-up aprech to the problems the cup has -- approach to the
:10:10. > :10:13.problems the country has been facing. With Labour accepting some
:10:13. > :10:23.of the spending limits all the parties know that the choice at the
:10:23. > :10:25.
:10:25. > :10:28.next election won't be whether to cut, but how?
:10:28. > :10:30.Brazil's President has promised to respond to the concerns of the
:10:30. > :10:32.protesters, who've staged demonstrations around the country
:10:32. > :10:35.over the past two weeks. In a televised speech Dilma Rousseff
:10:35. > :10:37.promised to be tougher on corruption and backed the right to peaceful
:10:37. > :10:40.protest, but sharply condemned violence, vandalism. Alastair
:10:40. > :10:48.Leithead reports. The demonstrations which have struck
:10:48. > :10:51.Brazil for more than a week now show little sign of abating. Overnight in
:10:51. > :10:56.Sao Paulo the airport was blocked for a while. People are still taking
:10:57. > :11:01.to the streets. The President appeared on prime time TV in an
:11:01. > :11:05.attempt to stop the momentum. She promised to spend all the country's
:11:05. > :11:10.new oil profits on education and to bring in foreign doctors to improve
:11:10. > :11:14.the health system. People have the right to criticise or demand a
:11:14. > :11:19.better quality of life with passion but they have to do it peacefully.
:11:19. > :11:23.We cannot accept a violent minority destroying public property. Freedom
:11:23. > :11:29.of speech is presumably important to a President who was once imprisoned
:11:29. > :11:34.and tortured under Brazil's former dictatorship. She's trying to calm
:11:34. > :11:41.down the people. Because of the violence and everything that is
:11:41. > :11:45.happening now. I don't know who the head of the movement is, so I don't
:11:45. > :11:50.know what they're thinking and we have no direction because of this.
:11:50. > :11:56.We need a leader. That's been obvious at some of the
:11:56. > :12:01.demonstrations. People fighting amongst themselves. Tunists they're
:12:01. > :12:05.shouting, accusing political factions of trying to take advantage
:12:05. > :12:10.of the crowds -- opportunists. need a leadership to find the way
:12:10. > :12:16.out of the streets, otherwise we could degenerate into more violence
:12:16. > :12:19.and riot rioting and disengagement of people in those movements.
:12:20. > :12:24.Protests are breaking out all over Brazil, some large, some small, some
:12:24. > :12:27.peaceful, others violent. They're being organised locally or by social
:12:27. > :12:31.networks. This emerging mass movement certainly has some
:12:32. > :12:41.momentum. The President has made her move and must now wait on high alert
:12:42. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:50.to see how the people react. Now all the sport.
:12:50. > :12:52.The British and Irish Lions have a 1-0 lead in the series with
:12:52. > :12:56.Australia after a dramatic victory in Brisbane. The Wallabies could
:12:56. > :12:59.have won the game in the last minute, but missed a penalty as the
:12:59. > :13:04.tourists clung on to win by 23-21. Our chief sports correspondent Dan
:13:04. > :13:07.Roan was there. Even for one of sport's most
:13:07. > :13:12.cherished traditions, this felt special. It's 16 years since they
:13:12. > :13:20.had last seen their team win a series and now as Brisbane bristled,
:13:20. > :13:25.responsibility fell to this latest pride of Lions, amid a raukous
:13:25. > :13:31.atmosphere, this was about to live up to the hype. Australia now seized
:13:31. > :13:41.the initiative. But then came a try that will go
:13:41. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:49.down in Lions's leg end. -- legend. Australia, however, have their own
:13:49. > :13:55.world-class winger. The hosts back in the game, thanks to a second try
:13:55. > :13:59.of the night. Australia were also missing their kicks, however. When
:13:59. > :14:02.Cuthbert powered over the Lions looked on course for victory.
:14:02. > :14:08.Despite the disruption of losing four backs to injury, Australia
:14:08. > :14:12.somehow clawed their way back to within two points. And then with
:14:12. > :14:18.this pulsating contest on a knife-edge, Beale had a chance to
:14:18. > :14:24.win it. He slipped, however, and the last kick of the game was a scuffed
:14:24. > :14:27.one. The Lions had clung on and now lead the series. One of the worst
:14:27. > :14:30.minutes of my life, I thought it was going to be over, to be honest.
:14:31. > :14:35.Delighted with the win. A great start, but we celebrated for a bit
:14:35. > :14:39.and after a while we realised we had to pick it up again next week and
:14:39. > :14:43.it's only half the job done. It was tense and the Lions had to ride
:14:43. > :14:47.their luck but they have the chance to claim their first series victory
:14:47. > :14:56.since 1997 next weekend in Melbourne. They'll almost certainly
:14:56. > :14:59.have to raise their game to do so. There was also high drama for
:14:59. > :15:02.Scotland, who scored a try in the last minute to beat Italy by 30-29
:15:02. > :15:05.in Pretoria. The hooter had already sounded when Alexander Strockosh
:15:05. > :15:08.found space, and touched down to bring them to within a point of the
:15:08. > :15:16.Italians. And then captain Gregg Laidlaw converted to give Scotland
:15:16. > :15:19.victory in the final match of their South African tour.
:15:19. > :15:22.Double Olympic Champion Mo Farah was back competing for Britain today for
:15:22. > :15:26.the first time since his triumph at London 2012. And once again he put
:15:26. > :15:28.on a show for his fans, powering away in the final lap to Win the
:15:28. > :15:38.5,000 metres with ease, at the European Team Championships in
:15:38. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:43.Gateshead. Britain are currently third in the standings.
:15:43. > :15:46.A Danish driver has died after crashing in the Le Mon 24 hours race
:15:46. > :15:49.in France. 34-year-old Allan Simonsen spun off in his Aston
:15:49. > :15:52.Martin just 10 minutes into the race. It was the 7th time he had
:15:52. > :15:54.taken part in the event. Aston Martin say they'll continue at Le
:15:54. > :15:57.Mon at the request of Simonsen's family.
:15:57. > :15:59.The final day of Royal Ascot was overshadowed by the death of the
:15:59. > :16:02.Hardwicke Stakes winner Thomas Chippendale. The colt, trained by
:16:02. > :16:06.Lady Cecil, collapsed after the race and was pronounced dead soon after.
:16:06. > :16:08.The feature race of the day was the Diamond Jubilee stakes, which was
:16:08. > :16:11.won by Lethal Force. The four-year-old, ridden by Adam Kirby,
:16:11. > :16:20.blew away the field, beating the favourite and 2011 winner Society