:00:10. > :00:14.was ordered to spy on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence.
:00:14. > :00:20.Months after their son was killed, the officer says he was asked to
:00:20. > :00:24.trawl for evidence to discredit the Lawrence family. Along the lines of
:00:24. > :00:30.the family are political activist 's, somebody in the family was
:00:30. > :00:33.involved in demonstrations, drug dealers, anything. Nelson Mandela,
:00:33. > :00:39.the former South African president, is in a critical condition in
:00:39. > :00:43.hospital tonight. The US intelligence agent Edward
:00:43. > :00:47.Snowden fly to Moscow to escape US extradition. Tonight he is seeking
:00:47. > :00:57.asylum in Ecuador. And India has beaten England by five
:00:57. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.runs to win the Champions Trophy at police officer has said he spent
:01:15. > :01:20.four years spying on the family of the murdered teenager Stephen
:01:20. > :01:24.Lawrence. An investigation by the Guardian and Channel 4's Dispatchers
:01:24. > :01:27.suggest that the Metropolitan Police was attempting to discredit the
:01:27. > :01:31.family in the years following his death. The officer Peter Francis
:01:31. > :01:38.says that his activities should have been disclosed to William
:01:38. > :01:43.MacPherson, who conducted the inquiry into the teenager's murder.
:01:43. > :01:46.1993. Stephen Lawrence had been dead for just a few months. In the face
:01:46. > :01:51.of a botched police investigation, his family were campaigning to find
:01:51. > :01:58.his killers. Around them, protest groups were rallying to their cause.
:01:58. > :02:00.In the mid-Stothert all, a former police officer now claims he
:02:00. > :02:06.covertly infiltrated the wider antiracism campaign centred on the
:02:06. > :02:12.family. He is Peter Francis. His cover name was Peter Black. He says
:02:12. > :02:19.his rematch was to look for dirt. They wanted any intelligence that
:02:19. > :02:22.could have smeared the campaign, yes. There is this general remit.
:02:22. > :02:29.Had I come through my circles, come up with something along the lines of
:02:29. > :02:32.the family being political activists, someone in the family was
:02:32. > :02:37.involved in demonstrations, drug dealers, anything. What they would
:02:37. > :02:43.have done with the intelligence, I can't say. But that is the re-met.
:02:43. > :02:47.Not just for them, that is always our remit. He said he was undercover
:02:47. > :02:53.because the police were worried the reaction to Stephen's death could
:02:53. > :02:56.result in something like this, the 1992 LA riots, following the beating
:02:56. > :03:01.of Rodney King. The undercover officer claims to have tipped off
:03:01. > :03:04.his handlers that Dwayne Brooks, the friend in whose arms Stephen died,
:03:04. > :03:10.was involved in violence during this protest against the British National
:03:10. > :03:15.Party. The charges were later dropped. He also informed on those
:03:15. > :03:19.visiting the Lawrence family. Overall, the operation was a
:03:19. > :03:24.failure. I was not successful in finding a thing really concrete. It
:03:24. > :03:30.was just a bit of hearsay, tittle tattle. Stephen's family have lived
:03:30. > :03:34.through a public inquiry, two Old Bailey trials and claims of police
:03:35. > :03:39.corruption. This was his mother's reaction to the latest revelations.
:03:39. > :03:43.Quite shocked that back in that time, during our time of grieving
:03:43. > :03:49.for our son, that there was somebody sitting somewhere, calculating,
:03:49. > :03:55.infiltrating into our family. Out of all the things I found out over the
:03:55. > :03:58.years, this has certainly topped it. The public inquiry, chaired by Sir
:03:58. > :04:04.William MacPherson, through a spotlight on the gang at the centre
:04:04. > :04:06.of the police inquiry, but not the role of covert police officers.
:04:06. > :04:11.Peter Francis now says the controversial special demonstration
:04:11. > :04:16.squad, for which he worked, should have come clean them.
:04:16. > :04:20.Tom Symons is with me now. What are The Met police saying about this?
:04:20. > :04:24.They have released a statement, and they have refused to confirm or deny
:04:24. > :04:27.whether the claims are true. They say two interesting things.
:04:27. > :04:32.Firstly, they share the concern of the Lawrence family. Secondly, this
:04:32. > :04:35.quote. At some point, it will fall upon this generation of police
:04:35. > :04:40.leaders to account for the activities of our predecessors. They
:04:40. > :04:44.are not taking a straight line. They say there could be some concerns, I
:04:44. > :04:48.think you can read into those statements. There is no doubt that
:04:48. > :04:51.Peter Francis's work is well regarded by The Met police. I have
:04:51. > :04:54.seen a commendation that said he had outstanding initiative and
:04:54. > :04:59.investigative skills. It is clear they were very pleased with what he
:04:59. > :05:01.was doing. This is the latest in a line of allegations about undercover
:05:01. > :05:06.police officers, that they had relationships with targets, that
:05:06. > :05:13.they were using the names of dead children. On Friday, a Guardian
:05:13. > :05:19.investigation at one of them had co-written the McLibel leaflets, the
:05:19. > :05:22.ones that led to that trial of McDonald's against
:05:23. > :05:29.environmentalist. There is an investigation into the actions of
:05:29. > :05:32.these covert police officers under way.
:05:32. > :05:36.Within the last hour, the South African government has had the
:05:36. > :05:39.condition of the former president else in Mandela has become critical.
:05:39. > :05:43.The 94-year-old former leader has been in hospital in Pretoria for
:05:43. > :05:48.more than two weeks, where he is being treated for a recurrent lung
:05:48. > :05:56.infection. Andrew Harding is in Johannesburg. Presumably they do not
:05:57. > :06:04.use a word like critical likely? the last fortnight they have been
:06:04. > :06:09.describing his condition as serious. President Zuma went to see Nelson
:06:09. > :06:13.Mandela. In a brief statement, he said that his condition had
:06:13. > :06:18.deteriorated in the past 24 hours. That he was now in a critical
:06:18. > :06:23.condition. No other information. But it is worth remembering that this is
:06:23. > :06:27.a country and presidency that has been keen to put a positive spin, if
:06:27. > :06:32.you like, Nelson Mandela's state of health. Earlier this week, they were
:06:32. > :06:36.talking about how his condition was improving. The fact they are using a
:06:36. > :06:40.word like critical is going to send real alarm around the country.
:06:40. > :06:44.your sense that the public are satisfied by the way the authorities
:06:44. > :06:49.are providing information about his condition? It is a tricky one. I
:06:49. > :06:53.think there is a thirst for more. There is also an understanding that
:06:53. > :06:58.the family and presidency are keen to protect Nelson Mandela's privacy
:06:58. > :07:02.and his dignity. We had a leak yesterday, reported by an American
:07:02. > :07:06.network and picked up widely here, confirming that Nelson Mandela had a
:07:06. > :07:09.breakdown in his ambulance, it had broken down en route to hospital two
:07:09. > :07:14.weeks ago. He had to change ambulances. Information like that,
:07:14. > :07:20.people do want to know. Generally, I think they are prepared to accept
:07:20. > :07:24.and wait for the official line. The former US intelligence analyst
:07:24. > :07:28.Edward Snowden, who is facing spying charges for revealing details of a
:07:28. > :07:32.secret surveillance programme, is spending the night at an airport in
:07:32. > :07:35.Moscow after flying there from Hong Kong. He is said to be planning to
:07:35. > :07:43.travel to Ecuador tomorrow to seek asylum. The US says he should not be
:07:43. > :07:47.allowed to travel further overseas. The plane believed to be carrying
:07:47. > :07:53.Edward Snowden, touching down in Moscow. He is on the run. But where
:07:53. > :07:57.will he end up, and will the US be able to reach him? The media were
:07:57. > :08:02.camped inside the arrivals hall. But there was no sign of the 30-year-old
:08:02. > :08:05.American, with reports he had been whisked away in an embassy car. Only
:08:05. > :08:10.yesterday the US seemed confident they would be able to extradite him
:08:10. > :08:12.from Hong Kong, on charges of espionage. Today, the Hong Kong
:08:12. > :08:17.authorities claimed that the paperwork had not been in order,
:08:17. > :08:23.meaning he was free to travel. His boss today made clear why the US
:08:23. > :08:29.wants him so much. What he has revealed has caused irreversible and
:08:29. > :08:33.significant damage to our country and to our allies. So, what is
:08:33. > :08:36.Edward Snowden accused of doing? From Hong Kong he leaked documents
:08:36. > :08:41.revealing that American intelligence was collecting data about US phone
:08:41. > :08:47.calls, that Britain's GCHQ was tapping cables carrying global
:08:47. > :08:50.communications and that the US had been hacking into Chinese computers.
:08:50. > :08:54.If he believes he did something good, he should get on the plane,
:08:54. > :08:59.come back and face the consequences of his actions. Edward Snowden's
:08:59. > :09:04.journey began when he was working at a US intelligence contractor in
:09:04. > :09:07.Hawaii, before he fled to Hong Kong, part of China. Tonight, he is still
:09:07. > :09:11.in Moscow. But he is not thought to have permission to stay. The
:09:11. > :09:18.expectation is that tomorrow he will get on a plane to Latin America. The
:09:18. > :09:23.exact route he will take is unclear. The WikiLeaks organisation, founded
:09:23. > :09:27.by Julian Assange, which also made its name revealing American secrets,
:09:27. > :09:31.says it has been helping Edward Snowden plan his next move. Julian
:09:31. > :09:36.Assange has been camped here, at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, for
:09:36. > :09:41.more than a year, trying to avoid being put on trial. The news that
:09:41. > :09:44.his WikiLeaks organisation is now helping Edward Snowden raises the
:09:44. > :09:50.possibility that Ecuador could be a final destination for the fugitive
:09:50. > :09:53.American. Tonight, Ecuador confirmed he had applied for asylum. But the
:09:53. > :10:00.US government made clear that wherever he goes it will continue to
:10:00. > :10:03.pursue him. In a moment we will speak to our
:10:03. > :10:10.correspondent Paul Adams, in Washington. First, Daniel Sandford
:10:10. > :10:17.is at Washington airport. Where is Edward Snowden now? We believe he is
:10:17. > :10:21.in a transit hotel, at the back of the terminal, here at Sheremetyevo
:10:21. > :10:25.Airport. That is where he will spend the night. That is where we first
:10:25. > :10:31.got the clue that Ecuador might be his final destination. About 30
:10:32. > :10:36.metres to my left, the Ecuadorian ambassador to Moscow turned up in a
:10:36. > :10:40.car with the Ecuadorian flag flying. Asked by reporters what he was here
:10:40. > :10:43.to do, you said he was here to seek Edward Snowden. It was not one after
:10:43. > :10:48.that that we heard that Edward Snowden have sought asylum in
:10:48. > :10:53.Ecuador. We think that Edward Snowden have a reservation on a
:10:53. > :10:58.flight out of here to Cuba, in the early afternoon. The itinerary then
:10:58. > :11:01.goes on from Havana, in Cuba, to Caracas in Venezuela. This engine
:11:01. > :11:05.is, although we do not see the itinerary beyond Venezuela, the
:11:05. > :11:11.assumption is that he will fly from Venezuela to Ecuador. Those plans
:11:11. > :11:15.could change. That looks like it is his way out of here. These are
:11:15. > :11:19.stepping stones across the globe. Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, all
:11:19. > :11:23.countries where he can be fairly sure he is not going to be arrested.
:11:23. > :11:32.Countries that have helped him to escape the net that was closing
:11:32. > :11:39.around him in Hong Kong. All, we have heard how many countries are
:11:39. > :11:42.involved. What, if anything, can the authorities do? It's a difficult
:11:42. > :11:46.situation for the United States. The Justice Department says it is going
:11:46. > :11:50.to pursue all law enforcement cooperation with any country where
:11:50. > :11:55.he might show up. They say they want to talk to the authorities in Hong
:11:55. > :11:59.Kong. They believe their extradition request was a sound one. It seems
:11:59. > :12:04.like the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities may not have wanted to
:12:04. > :12:07.play ball, possibly because of those allegations of hacking against
:12:07. > :12:13.Chinese Telecom and occasions networks. Part of the whole
:12:13. > :12:16.diplomatic wreckage left by this affair. Politicians of both major
:12:16. > :12:21.parties are outraged. They smell a rat in the involvement of both
:12:21. > :12:28.Beijing and Moscow. They do not think that Russia or China are
:12:28. > :12:32.innocent bystanders. As for the options for the United States, if Mr
:12:32. > :12:35.Snowden arrives in Ecuador, that is not a country friendly to the United
:12:35. > :12:39.States, not one that will give Edward Snowden up willingly. That
:12:39. > :12:42.will not stop the United States trying. They believe that Edward
:12:42. > :12:48.Snowden and the secrets he still carries represent a security threat
:12:48. > :12:56.to this country. Negotiations over the next round of
:12:56. > :13:02.spending cuts are finally under... Over. The BBC has learned that the
:13:02. > :13:06.last minister to settle was the Business Secretary Vince Cable. What
:13:06. > :13:09.do you understand has been agreed? The wrangling over where the axe
:13:09. > :13:14.should fall has been going on for weeks. It was Vince Cable that was
:13:14. > :13:18.last to reach an agreement. His argument was that he was the
:13:18. > :13:22.Minister for growth, responsible for science, universities and skills. He
:13:22. > :13:25.held out until the last minute. He has been rewarded with a cut a
:13:25. > :13:30.little bit less than some government departments, I am told it is just
:13:30. > :13:33.under 8%. Others have had to do with 10%. In case those are numbers that
:13:33. > :13:36.are battling, that will mean that between the last election and the
:13:36. > :13:41.next one, many government departments will cut by around a
:13:41. > :13:45.third. We learned another thing today, whoever is our next
:13:45. > :13:49.Chancellor, George Osborne or Ed Balls, they are coming for pensioner
:13:49. > :13:53.benefits. Not current pensioners, but the likes of you and me. We will
:13:53. > :13:56.end up having to work for longer and we are likely to get less in the way
:13:56. > :14:00.of benefits because both Ed Balls and George Osborne have said they
:14:00. > :14:06.are not sure they can afford it. Islamic militants wearing police
:14:06. > :14:10.uniforms have shot dead at least nine foreign tourists is in a remote
:14:10. > :14:14.mountainous area of north Pakistan. The victims, who were climbers,
:14:14. > :14:16.included American and Chinese nationals. The Pakistan Taliban and
:14:16. > :14:19.a Sunni militant group say they carried out the attack.
:14:20. > :14:25.Cricket, and India have beaten England to win the Champions Trophy
:14:25. > :14:28.by five runs. Rain reduced the match to just 20 overs per side. There was
:14:28. > :14:35.no shortage of excitement as the game came down to the very last
:14:35. > :14:38.ball. The spirit of India is portable.
:14:38. > :14:48.Plenty on display in Birmingham. If only the Indian weather was as easy
:14:48. > :14:51.to transport. There was a newsflash at 10am. England won the toss and
:14:52. > :14:56.will be bowling. Queue hours of frustration and precipitation. You
:14:56. > :15:03.would be forgiven for giving up. Finally, between the showers, there
:15:03. > :15:08.were a brace of cricket. A six was squeezed in while the covers were.
:15:08. > :15:13.With the match slashed to 20 overs a side, India tried to hurry. Ravi
:15:13. > :15:17.Bopara took six in and over. Now England were desperate for the
:15:17. > :15:21.clouds to stay away. Virat Kohli landed some big lows to help India
:15:21. > :15:27.recover. 129 was the total. It could have been better for England, it
:15:27. > :15:32.could have been worse. In response, England slumped to 46-4. Ian Bell's
:15:32. > :15:40.dismissal was odd. But in the air or out of the crease? The TV umpire saw
:15:40. > :15:44.enough to decide he was stumped. They needed Ravi Bopara. When he was
:15:44. > :15:53.hitting sixes, they were right on track. Then they lost: Margo, Morgan
:15:53. > :15:59.and Bo Bharata. It left Tredwell facing the last ball. It must have
:15:59. > :16:09.felt like a home match. A bit like the one they won in different
:16:09. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:18.preparations for Wimbledon ahead of his match against Benjamin Becker
:16:18. > :16:21.and tomorrow. The Briton has been trying to play down his chances, but
:16:21. > :16:27.that hasn't stopped hundreds of people queueing for tickets to see
:16:27. > :16:33.him in action. So, we'll practice finally make
:16:33. > :16:38.perfect? Andy Murray, training at Wimbledon and bracing himself for
:16:38. > :16:45.that perennial question. Could this be his year? 12 months ago, it all
:16:45. > :16:50.ended in tears. I am going to try this, and it's not going to be
:16:50. > :16:53.easy... His defeat in the final two Roger Federer left a nation reaching
:16:54. > :16:59.for its hankies. The heartache has been replaced with a more
:16:59. > :17:02.philosophical approach. I cannot guarantee I will win Wimbledon. I am
:17:02. > :17:09.doing everything I can to give myself the best possible chance. I
:17:09. > :17:15.will work as hard as I can. As long as they give 110% on the court, that
:17:15. > :17:20.is the best I can do. When I have started to accept those types of
:17:20. > :17:23.things, I have started to play better tennis. He will play his
:17:23. > :17:28.first match on Centre Court tomorrow against Benjamin Becker, the world
:17:28. > :17:33.number 25. He might be doing his best to play down the pressure, but
:17:33. > :17:37.he knows that hopes and expectations have never been higher. Already, the
:17:37. > :17:41.nearby park resembles a campsite, with hundreds of fans queueing for
:17:41. > :17:45.tickets. After his success at the Olympics and the US open, British
:17:45. > :17:48.belief is in bountiful supply. think he has a very good chance of
:17:48. > :17:55.winning this year. I know everybody is likely to say that, but this
:17:55. > :17:59.year, he probably has. The monkey is off his back with the Olympic thing.
:17:59. > :18:07.He plays beautifully on grass. He loves it, having won the Olympics.
:18:07. > :18:12.This year he looks phenomenal. summer, that year is ultimately
:18:12. > :18:22.turned to triumph on Centre Court. If Andy Murray can repeat the
:18:22. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:28.Olympic form, even greater glory Andy Murray, after the news.
:18:28. > :18:32.The main news tonight: A former undercover police officer says he
:18:32. > :18:36.has spent years spying on the family of the murdered teenager Stephen