:00:00. > :00:12.Every politician dreams of being greeted by crowds, but not like
:00:13. > :00:15.this. In Sri Lanka, the Prime Minister's motorcade gets mobbed by
:00:16. > :00:20.protestors holding up pictures of the disappeared. What does Cameron's
:00:21. > :00:23.response tell us about foreign policy priorities now?
:00:24. > :00:28.We ask the British diplomat who resigned over the Iraq War.
:00:29. > :00:33.Labour and the Tories were trying to delete their digital histories.
:00:34. > :00:38.Imagine what you would be missing out on if we had done the same. For
:00:39. > :00:42.once both parties seem to be gazing into the same crystal ball.
:00:43. > :00:44.Do we really want to lose our digital memories?
:00:45. > :00:47.Five London cyclists die in just over a week. Has the capital really
:00:48. > :00:49.got less safe? Newsnight returns to the very first cycle lane to find
:00:50. > :01:01.out. Good evening.
:01:02. > :01:04.We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies only to
:01:05. > :01:08.mangle the Palmerstone quote a little, national interests. So what
:01:09. > :01:11.should we make of the sight of our Prime Minister, mobbed by relatives
:01:12. > :01:15.of dead Tamils missing in Sri Lanka's civil war? The image has
:01:16. > :01:19.been a powerful boost to those who say the trip should never have
:01:20. > :01:23.happened. That Sri Lanka's abysmal human rights record should have made
:01:24. > :01:26.him stay away. Downing Street reports a robust exchange of views
:01:27. > :01:29.with the president there. But what can the visit tell us about David
:01:30. > :01:31.Cameron's current priorities in foreign policy and his balance
:01:32. > :01:36.between pragmatism and ideology? Mark Urban explains. The Prime
:01:37. > :01:39.Minister's trip to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka was an attempt to
:01:40. > :01:44.acknowledge the suffering of the island's Tamil minority while
:01:45. > :01:48.keeping an awkward diary date at the Commonwealth Summit. What all of
:01:49. > :01:53.this shows is, you know, after this terrible war ended, what we ne from
:01:54. > :01:57.the Sri Lankan Government is more generosity, in victory, bring the
:01:58. > :02:03.country togethers by making sure people have proper rights. Here we
:02:04. > :02:07.are in a village of refugees inside their own country. They have been
:02:08. > :02:10.here for 20 years now or more. They have had children here. Some of
:02:11. > :02:15.their children have had children. They want to go home and I think
:02:16. > :02:20.that is a very powerful message. But for this Prime Minister, the
:02:21. > :02:25.main business of this trip is business. His focus takes in the
:02:26. > :02:31.world's two great trading posts, India and China with Sri Lanka
:02:32. > :02:38.hanging like a limp hammock in between. If there is a simple way to
:02:39. > :02:42.categorise the Cameron foreign policy. When I became Prime
:02:43. > :02:46.Minister, I said to the Foreign Office, those embassies you have
:02:47. > :02:52.got, turn them into show rooms for our cars, and department stores for
:02:53. > :02:56.our fashion. Yes, you are diplomats and as William said, you are the
:02:57. > :03:00.best diplomats on the globe. But you also need to be our country's sales
:03:01. > :03:04.force. APPLAUSE
:03:05. > :03:08.But, of course, all manner of things can get in the way of a one themed
:03:09. > :03:15.foreign policy. In Sri Lanka the elephant outside the room is Human
:03:16. > :03:22.Rights. The Government was right to decide to attend, but it is not that
:03:23. > :03:26.we think that the Government is condoning the appalling behaviour by
:03:27. > :03:29.the Sri Lankan Government, but it is an opportunity to convey what we
:03:30. > :03:33.actually feel about what has been going on there to the Sri Lankan
:03:34. > :03:37.Government and therefore, they were right to go.
:03:38. > :03:43.And the Human Rights issue has proven problematic with China too. A
:03:44. > :03:48.decision to meet the Dalai Lama caused the Chinese to shut the
:03:49. > :03:52.British out for months. Now hot on the heels of George Osborne's visit,
:03:53. > :03:56.the Prime Minister will travel to China in a fortnight. I see China as
:03:57. > :04:01.a great opportunity, nots a threat. We want to sell more to China, but
:04:02. > :04:05.with he want more Chinese investment in Britain.
:04:06. > :04:09.Mr Cameron isn't the first PM whose foreign travels revealed a policy
:04:10. > :04:15.journey. Intervention in Libya brought a claim for backing
:04:16. > :04:20.democracy and thwarting oppression. But that warm glow was short-lived.
:04:21. > :04:24.The Libyan situation has deteriorated and his calls for
:04:25. > :04:31.military strikes on Syria were rebuffed by Parliament and by
:04:32. > :04:36.squelcing that military option, Mr Cameron has sent Mr Cameron back to
:04:37. > :04:38.the battle for exports. If we boycotted every country where we
:04:39. > :04:42.were concerned about Human Rights, we wouldn't be doing much trade with
:04:43. > :04:46.them at all. Look at China, Saudi Arabia, two big markets for our
:04:47. > :04:52.goods and we import a lot from those countries and if we didn't engage
:04:53. > :04:56.with them, then our commercial activity would be diminished.
:04:57. > :05:01.The Prime Minister's motorcade to today's summit was intercepted by
:05:02. > :05:05.protesters holding pictures of disappeared relatives. Even here
:05:06. > :05:12.though, calculations are being made in terms of cash as well as sorrow.
:05:13. > :05:19.Critics of Mr Cameron's attendance claiming that others led by China,
:05:20. > :05:28.have already driven on to seize Sri Lanka's best trading opportunities.
:05:29. > :05:31.Joining me now from New York is Carne Ross, a British diplomat who
:05:32. > :05:34.resigned in 2004 after giving secret evidence on how the British
:05:35. > :05:37.Government had exaggerated the case for invading Iraq. He now runs a
:05:38. > :05:39.diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat. Thank you for
:05:40. > :05:45.your time this evening. Let's start at the beginning. Was David Cameron
:05:46. > :05:47.right to go to Sri Lanka? Personally, I don't feel he was
:05:48. > :05:53.right. The scale of Human Rights abuses and atrocities in Sri Lanka
:05:54. > :05:58.are huge and I think the fact that the Commonwealth Summit is taking
:05:59. > :06:02.place in Sri Lanka and that the regime will be the chair of the
:06:03. > :06:06.Commonwealth for the next couple of years is a travesty and an
:06:07. > :06:09.embarrassment for the Commonwealth and I don't think Britain should
:06:10. > :06:13.have endorsed it. It is hard to argue this was a trade
:06:14. > :06:17.mission particularly when you hear about the robust conversations that
:06:18. > :06:21.have been reported by Downing Street? I don't think it was a trade
:06:22. > :06:24.mission. I think it was driven by some British desire that, you know,
:06:25. > :06:28.we need to keep the Commonwealth together. We need to keep it
:06:29. > :06:31.relevant and if the UK were to boycott it, that would be a big deal
:06:32. > :06:35.indeed and would put a question mark over the future of the Commonwealth,
:06:36. > :06:38.but I think there should be a question mark over the future of the
:06:39. > :06:42.Commonwealth. What is the point of it? If it is not about Human Rights
:06:43. > :06:46.and democracy. Indeed, the Commonwealth in 1991 said that that
:06:47. > :06:52.was the point of the Commonwealth so one can accuse the Commonwealth
:06:53. > :06:58.itself of great hip possibling crassy? -- hypocrisy. By staying
:06:59. > :07:02.away and not entertaining dialogue with countries that you don't like,
:07:03. > :07:07.you are not helping Human Rights at all, you are just making them into
:07:08. > :07:11.enemies? That's always the argument here and that was the argument over
:07:12. > :07:17.South Africa and apartheid and South Africa gave a convincing answer to
:07:18. > :07:20.that when apartheid ended, the ANC leaders, the supporters of a
:07:21. > :07:24.democratic South Africa said that the isolation of South Africa was
:07:25. > :07:28.tremendously important in encouraging them and in pressurising
:07:29. > :07:33.the minority white regime to give up. So I think that argument has
:07:34. > :07:38.been answered in that case and it is never true anyway, I mean these
:07:39. > :07:39.governments have engage in sort of constructive engagement allegedly
:07:40. > :07:43.over Human Rights, that's not their constructive engagement allegedly
:07:44. > :07:46.real motive, their real motive is other things like trade, security
:07:47. > :07:48.co-operation or whatever, it is a lie they are engaged in it for Human
:07:49. > :07:53.Rights. Well, that's interesting. You talk
:07:54. > :07:57.about trade as if it might be a dirty word and we heard the clips
:07:58. > :08:01.from David Cameron years ago, saying your embassies should be show rooms
:08:02. > :08:06.for our cars, diplomats should be our country's sales force. Do you
:08:07. > :08:10.find that encouraging or repellent? Well, I am rather unusual. I think
:08:11. > :08:14.that Governments should be about minimising suffering, the relief of
:08:15. > :08:17.human suffering at home and broad and the human -- abroad and the
:08:18. > :08:22.human suffering in Sri Lanka has been enormous ha that -- and that
:08:23. > :08:25.should have been the priority in this case and I don't think trade is
:08:26. > :08:30.the most important thing in foreign policy. I think the welfare of the
:08:31. > :08:34.British people and indeed the welfare of others because in the
:08:35. > :08:39.long run the support of Human Rights and democracy pays off in both
:08:40. > :08:43.security and chick terms. -- economic terms.
:08:44. > :08:49.So you would be staying away from China. You would be saying, "We will
:08:50. > :08:57.leave that to others." No, I don't think you say that. This was a
:08:58. > :09:00.symbolic event and it is grotesque that the regime should be in charge
:09:01. > :09:04.of it and that was in itself something that needed to be regarded
:09:05. > :09:11.in it's own right and a decision taken about engagement with chIn DNA
:09:12. > :09:14.is -- China is a different matter, but where Human Rights and the
:09:15. > :09:18.promotion of democracy should take priority.
:09:19. > :09:22.Let me ask you if you see a cohesion to the foreign policy over the last
:09:23. > :09:26.three years? Clearly, you have worked for Tony Blair and left
:09:27. > :09:30.because you disliked what he did. When you look at David Cameron now,
:09:31. > :09:36.whether it is a policy over Europe, over Libya, over what he tried to
:09:37. > :09:40.do, but didn't do in Syria, does it make sense? Well, I don't think the
:09:41. > :09:43.Government foreign policy made sense for a long time including the
:09:44. > :09:46.previous Government. These governments talk about the promotion
:09:47. > :09:51.of Human Rights and the Labour Government talked about unethical
:09:52. > :09:55.foreign policy sometime ago and both have been inconsistent in the
:09:56. > :09:59.pursuit of these things and very reactive. British foreign policy has
:10:00. > :10:03.lost its way in terms of what it is about, what we stand for, I feel it
:10:04. > :10:08.should be about a system of values which are promoted even in these
:10:09. > :10:13.difficult cases. Coherence and consistency comes from being guided
:10:14. > :10:16.by consistent principles, not case by case.
:10:17. > :10:21.I started with the quote about national interests and Robin Cook
:10:22. > :10:27.talked about an ethical dimension to foreign policy. A lot of people
:10:28. > :10:32.listen and say you are being naive? Well, I helped write that speech for
:10:33. > :10:36.Robin Cook. I was his speech writer in those days and it is a
:10:37. > :10:42.disappointment to me that Government failed against its own standards in
:10:43. > :10:46.ill legally invading another country on a pack of lies. I think that, you
:10:47. > :10:50.know, you need to set standards for yourself. You need to declare your
:10:51. > :10:54.own values and stick to them and the most difficult cases are the ones
:10:55. > :10:58.where it matters the most slaouk Sri Lanka or indeed, Bahrain where
:10:59. > :11:01.Britain has pursued an ulterior set of interests namely as economic and
:11:02. > :11:06.security interests over and above the Human Rights of the people in
:11:07. > :11:11.Bahrain and I think that's wrong. Thank you very much indeed. Thank
:11:12. > :11:16.you for joining us. Thank you. Coming up: I am not an alcoholic. I
:11:17. > :11:22.have drank alcohol in excess. I am not apologising. I apologise.
:11:23. > :11:25.If George Orwell coined the notion of a non-person in his despotic
:11:26. > :11:29.1984, it fell to the Tories this week to create a new negative, the
:11:30. > :11:32.non-speech as it began to delete a decade of old files. They were
:11:33. > :11:36.trying to make their website more accessible. This evening, after
:11:37. > :11:42.public outcry, they reversed some of that decision. David Grossman, a man
:11:43. > :11:45.with an elefantine memory and some outtakes from the 1990s to match,
:11:46. > :11:52.asks what happens when we rely too much on digital storage?
:11:53. > :11:58.If you don't think politicians have an image problem, try putting these
:11:59. > :12:02.incomplete sentences into a search engine!
:12:03. > :12:10.The suggestions are based on what others have searched for. And they
:12:11. > :12:14.are not exactly flattering. Managing their online brand is a big part of
:12:15. > :12:21.modern politics because so many people get their information here.
:12:22. > :12:24.In the early 90s, if I wanted to chec out what a politician had
:12:25. > :12:29.previously said, I would have come to the BBC's political archive where
:12:30. > :12:35.the speeches are in files, colour coded. For example, here 1992,
:12:36. > :12:42.Conservative speeches on the top, one from John Major no doubt a
:12:43. > :12:49.humdinger and in the mid-1990s, young fresh faced political
:12:50. > :12:52.reporters began to talk about politicians harnessing the power of
:12:53. > :12:59.information technology. Both would harness the power of information
:13:00. > :13:04.technology. Quite! The speeches then went online. We thought forever.
:13:05. > :13:10.When in opposition, David Cameron said this innen net memory would put
:13:11. > :13:15.power in the hands of voters. It is the right word to use because by
:13:16. > :13:21.making more information, more available to more people, you are
:13:22. > :13:26.giving them more power. The power to get the best deal. The power to
:13:27. > :13:31.learn which you were speaking about in opening this conference. And
:13:32. > :13:36.above all, the power to hold to account those who in the past might
:13:37. > :13:41.of had a monopoly of power, whether in Government or big business or the
:13:42. > :13:45.traditional media. But try to search for that speech on the Conservative
:13:46. > :13:52.website and it is not there. The earliest one we would find was from
:13:53. > :13:55.January in year. Mark Ballard is the Computer Weekly reporter that broke
:13:56. > :14:00.this story that the archive has gone and the Conservatives have used what
:14:01. > :14:04.is called a robot exclusion to keep the material of search results and
:14:05. > :14:11.independent archives. It is rather to open Government. You know, it is
:14:12. > :14:15.quite concerning because it shows how fragile this historic record is
:14:16. > :14:21.on the internet that someone can put something in the public domain, it
:14:22. > :14:24.is public information, it is important public information and
:14:25. > :14:28.still relevant and still current and although it can still be in places,
:14:29. > :14:34.there are individual speeches that if you scratch around long enough,
:14:35. > :14:39.you might find one. You can find some of them, not all of them. But
:14:40. > :14:42.it takes hours. Labour's archive goes back further to 2010 when Ed
:14:43. > :14:46.Miliband became leader, however, because he and other Labour
:14:47. > :14:51.frontbenchers were ministers before that, you can find their speeches in
:14:52. > :14:58.the UK's National Archives. The Lib Dem archive goes back further to
:14:59. > :15:01.when Nick Clegg became leader to 200 7, clearing out the past is very
:15:02. > :15:07.important. Your own website, if you control that and if you have access
:15:08. > :15:11.to your own server you can delete information or you can make it so it
:15:12. > :15:17.is not visible by a search which happened with some of them. For
:15:18. > :15:22.third party websites, it is a more exhaustive process. The third party
:15:23. > :15:24.websites blog forums and conversations, but not in your
:15:25. > :15:29.control. It is a comprehensive strategy that you have to follow and
:15:30. > :15:32.go through in order to reduce the exposure of those particular
:15:33. > :15:36.websites. It appears though the Conservatives had something of a
:15:37. > :15:40.change of heart. The robot exclusions have been called off and
:15:41. > :15:46.tonight, what seems to be a full record of Conservative speeches have
:15:47. > :15:51.reappeared on the San Francisco internet archive website, including
:15:52. > :15:55.that 2006 speech on the power of the internet!
:15:56. > :16:03.Deaths in nine days. Just tonight came reports of one more. London's
:16:04. > :16:08.cycling community has started a revolt. Boris Johnson is under
:16:09. > :16:10.pressure to improve road safety. Lord Adonis has called for an
:16:11. > :16:13.independent review of cycling safety. Is London's cycle network
:16:14. > :16:16.safe? How do the numbers of accidents and injuries this year
:16:17. > :16:23.actually compare. Zoe Conway returned to London's first ever
:16:24. > :16:28.cycle route on the A4. Well, I declare this cycling track open.
:16:29. > :16:39.This is the Transport Minister in 1934 opening Britain's mirs bike
:16:40. > :16:43.path alongside the A40 in London. Of course, you will struggle to find
:16:44. > :16:49.cycle lanes anywhere that wide in Britain now.
:16:50. > :16:52.80 years on and the A40 is the busiest route out of north-west
:16:53. > :16:56.London. There is a bike path, but it is on the pavement behind me. The
:16:57. > :17:01.debate sparked by the deaths of so many cyclists in such a short space
:17:02. > :17:09.of time shows we are still wrestling with how to safely accommodate
:17:10. > :17:13.cyclists. On Wednesday, 1,000 cyclists held a vigil in protest at
:17:14. > :17:18.a roundabout in East London. Three cyclists have been killed here in
:17:19. > :17:23.the past two years. Redesigning the junction is a priority for
:17:24. > :17:27.campaigners, but for many, our cycling problems go way beyond the
:17:28. > :17:31.design of individual locations. The problem is that we still think that
:17:32. > :17:37.motoring is the only way of getting around and the reality is that in
:17:38. > :17:41.London, for example, car ownership is falling. Cycling is increasing.
:17:42. > :17:45.So we can continue to design for more cycles which is a more
:17:46. > :17:50.efficient use of the road space and for public transport rather than
:17:51. > :17:55.trying to pack as many cars as we can into roads like these.
:17:56. > :18:00.So how safe are Britain's bike riders? Well, measured in terms of
:18:01. > :18:05.deaths per 100 million kilometres travelled, we are less safe than the
:18:06. > :18:10.Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. But we are safer than America.
:18:11. > :18:13.Despite the recent deaths, Transport for London says the city's roads
:18:14. > :18:18.have got safer because the number being killed has gone down, whilst
:18:19. > :18:22.the number of cyclists has increased dramatically, what worries
:18:23. > :18:26.campaigners is the cycling demographic is narrow. We still find
:18:27. > :18:32.that the people who are taking up cycling are male. They are affluent
:18:33. > :18:35.and tend to be people who are relatively healthy, non disabled,
:18:36. > :18:39.relatively able to cope with the way the roads are in this country. The
:18:40. > :18:45.people who aren't taking up cycling so much tend to be older people,
:18:46. > :18:49.children, disabled people, women and people from ethnic minority groups.
:18:50. > :18:54.People who surveys show are more likely to value being away from
:18:55. > :18:58.motor traffic and who feel intimidated by the current road
:18:59. > :19:06.situation. When the road first opened, cycling
:19:07. > :19:13.groups were furious about it. The bike path experience is a grim
:19:14. > :19:16.one for many cyclist. They feel they are fighting for not just road
:19:17. > :19:21.space, but their reputation. Boris Johnson said this week that some
:19:22. > :19:25.cyclists are taking rash decisions and endangering their lives, but
:19:26. > :19:30.didn't lay blame with any of the recent victims. Cyclists should
:19:31. > :19:33.approach the first stop line. Advanced green signals for cyclists
:19:34. > :19:38.is one way Transport for London are trying to make it easier to keep
:19:39. > :19:44.cyclist apart from cars. Other vehicles will get a separate green
:19:45. > :19:48.light... Critics say the reforms won't necessarily work. They say
:19:49. > :19:53.nothing less than remodelling the roads will protect cyclists. You can
:19:54. > :19:59.see changes in some of the better designs that Transport for London is
:20:00. > :20:03.proposing. For example, a bus stop by-pass which means that cyclists
:20:04. > :20:10.don't have to overtake buses and move into general streams of
:20:11. > :20:14.traffic. A bus-stop by-pass means that cyclists can go inside the bus
:20:15. > :20:29.and not mix with the traffic. This is common in the Netherlands.
:20:30. > :20:35.There maybe many good reasons to get on your bike, even if startling the
:20:36. > :20:41.cops isn't one of them, but even cycling's biggest supporters can see
:20:42. > :20:44.why many are deterred. Joining me now, Mark Ames, editor of
:20:45. > :20:48.Ibikelondon, safety campaigner and Jonathan Cole co-owner of the cycle
:20:49. > :20:52.shop, Velorution. Gentlemen, thank you to for coming in this evening. I
:20:53. > :20:56.wonder if Mark you can explain what you think has happened? This
:20:57. > :21:02.terrible spate of accidents in the last week or so. We have had a
:21:03. > :21:07.critical density of indents over the past week or so, but they are not
:21:08. > :21:11.that unusual. Nearly all of the cycling fatalities in London involve
:21:12. > :21:14.particularly large vehicles and particularly dangerous junctions.
:21:15. > :21:19.This is a known thing. But unfortunately, we don't seem to
:21:20. > :21:24.being in anything about it. That Bow Junction which has seen three
:21:25. > :21:31.cyclists killed in two years. Are things changing there now? Or not?
:21:32. > :21:35.No. Bow junction is part of cycling's super highway two. Five
:21:36. > :21:39.people have died on that route altogether in two years. There is a
:21:40. > :21:45.problem with the actual design of the road. Encouraging people to ride
:21:46. > :21:50.on some of London's busiest roads waut creating safe space for cycling
:21:51. > :21:54.there is irresponsible by Transport for London and they need to act.
:21:55. > :21:57.Do you think, because we have had a spate of politicians coming in with
:21:58. > :22:04.thoughts. Is a cycling summit the answer? Is what Boris Johnson is
:22:05. > :22:08.saying the right thing or, I mean, do you want to get the cyclists
:22:09. > :22:12.right away from the cars? Or do you think there is a place for them? Of
:22:13. > :22:16.course, there is a place for sharing the road and all road users in
:22:17. > :22:21.London should look out for each other, but on the busiest roads, we
:22:22. > :22:26.don't need to reinvent the wheel, we need to look across to the
:22:27. > :22:30.Netherlands and Denmark and to learn from the best. They have been it
:22:31. > :22:35.successfully for years. It is all safe. Jonathan, the density that
:22:36. > :22:40.Mark was talking about, I guess is visible when you are selling stuff,
:22:41. > :22:44.right? Do you see... We see a big shift into what we call sit up and
:22:45. > :22:49.beg bikes, where you can look around, you are not moving as fast
:22:50. > :22:54.and you have more awareness. I think, I think the mayor's office
:22:55. > :22:56.are doing a fantastic job on the infrastructure in London, but it
:22:57. > :23:02.will never happen overnight. One death is too many. The sit up and
:23:03. > :23:07.beg bike makes cycling safer because your head isn't down? You are not
:23:08. > :23:12.down. You are not powering on. Is that what you recommend people buy
:23:13. > :23:16.in London? Do you step into the conversation? Absolutely. We really
:23:17. > :23:22.specialise in the boutique bike builders from around Europe that
:23:23. > :23:27.make 500 to 2,000 bikes a year out of love. They like the bikes on the
:23:28. > :23:36.walls around here. The video you were showing of the 1930s, they make
:23:37. > :23:39.bikes which, they launched a new bike that looks like a bike from the
:23:40. > :23:44.1930s and people love it and they are buying them in good quantities
:23:45. > :23:48.from us. And when people come in and they are buying, you know, the
:23:49. > :23:53.racing bike, the fast bike, something that's lighter. Does that
:23:54. > :23:59.worry you? Do you actually redirect them? There are two types of
:24:00. > :24:03.cyclists. You have the guys who are in the sporty groups, they go out on
:24:04. > :24:07.the weekends and they go out with their friends and long rides and
:24:08. > :24:11.there are the people who are doing the commute to work and riding a
:24:12. > :24:15.bike around London is fantastic, if you are in the centre of London you
:24:16. > :24:20.can go through the parks and you can go down the canals and from one part
:24:21. > :24:24.of London to another without seeing traffic because of the quiet routes.
:24:25. > :24:31.The problem comes as, you know, as Mark says, you get on to a big main
:24:32. > :24:35.road with an HGV vehicle beside you and a bus and it is scary. There is
:24:36. > :24:40.no doubt about it and that has to be a separation. Are you ever going to,
:24:41. > :24:47.you are not going to keep HGVs ot of London... I propose, why not? If you
:24:48. > :24:51.look at Paris, they have many more cyclists in their city centre than
:24:52. > :24:55.we have in London and yet, in 2012, they they had no cyclists killed and
:24:56. > :25:00.that's because they have what is called a lorry control scheme. They
:25:01. > :25:03.make sure that Heavy Goods Vehicles can't access the city centre at peak
:25:04. > :25:06.times, when children are cycling to school. In London, we have a
:25:07. > :25:09.night-time ban which means that all the lorries come roaring out of
:25:10. > :25:13.their goods yards, just in time for the morning rush hour. It is
:25:14. > :25:16.madness. It is something if you wanted to, the mayor could change
:25:17. > :25:22.tonight. Do you think the tipping point has not yet come? We are not
:25:23. > :25:25.at a stage yet, yes, car ownership may have gone down, but we are not
:25:26. > :25:30.at a stage yet, where more people are choosing to cycle? Well, in
:25:31. > :25:34.London perhaps we have, you know, there are so many journeys on
:25:35. > :25:39.bicycles in Central London. If we were to give up riding tomorrow,
:25:40. > :25:45.London's cyclists would fill 300 Tube trains and over 6,000
:25:46. > :25:53.double-decker buses and if we got in a car, we would form a tail back
:25:54. > :25:58.several kilometres long. Thank you very much indeed.
:25:59. > :26:03.It's one week since the Philippines was hit by one of the largest storms
:26:04. > :26:06.ever recorded and yet people in some of the worst hit areas have received
:26:07. > :26:09.little or no help. The government's response to this national calamity
:26:10. > :26:13.has been bitterly criticised by the country's media. An editorial in one
:26:14. > :26:16.Manila newspaper spoke of chaos and despair. Another questioned whether
:26:17. > :26:20.President Benigno Aquino was up to the job. An American aircraft
:26:21. > :26:24.carrier has arrived to help with the relief effort. Britain has sent a
:26:25. > :26:31.warship to distribute supplies. But the ongoing aid effort isn't only
:26:32. > :26:37.land based. It is also happening above the clouds.
:26:38. > :26:44.These before and after images from satellites show how whole towns were
:26:45. > :26:47.destroyed, but with over 7,000 islands, and about half the
:26:48. > :26:53.population living in rural areas, the photographs can also be used for
:26:54. > :26:58.another purpose. Using five of the highest resolution sat fights in the
:26:59. > :27:03.world -- satellites in the world, this website asks users to identify
:27:04. > :27:11.damaged roads, and buildings. It is the kind of visual analysis that
:27:12. > :27:16.humans find easy, but it is harder for computers. When you come to the
:27:17. > :27:20.website today, you will see a small image of the affected region in the
:27:21. > :27:24.Philippines and you are asked to contribute information about what
:27:25. > :27:28.you see. Now, we don't trust only one person, so we are looking for
:27:29. > :27:33.consensus from multiple people making the same observation. This
:27:34. > :27:38.allows us to create a map of the cre under, showing just the affected
:27:39. > :27:42.features. So destroyed buildings, destroyed roads, bridges, large
:27:43. > :27:46.commercial facilities. This data is conveyed to people on the ground.
:27:47. > :27:51.People who can make use of the data get access to this. The satellites
:27:52. > :27:55.are run by a commercial company, but during natural disasters, they
:27:56. > :27:59.release the tag data for free to support the aid effort. To give us a
:28:00. > :28:03.sense of scale, we have had thousands of people contribute
:28:04. > :28:07.hundreds of thousands of views on to the imagery. We are talking about
:28:08. > :28:11.hundreds of thousands of eyeballs helping to analyse the destruction
:28:12. > :28:16.in the Philippines and enabling first responders. We are seeing a
:28:17. > :28:19.global community of people coming together to contribute to the
:28:20. > :28:29.relief. So far, the typhoon challenge had
:28:30. > :28:35.90,000 views and 60,000 tags. Tomorrow's front pages.
:28:36. > :28:39.There is a picture of Prince Charles and the President of Sri Lanka in
:28:40. > :28:43.the Times, but their story is that the Prime Minister says Britain
:28:44. > :28:50.should keep cutting carbon emissions. He says a swipe at the
:28:51. > :28:53.sceptics there. In The Daily Mail, pick a GP where you like. This is
:28:54. > :28:58.the news that patients will be able to register at any doctor's surgery
:28:59. > :29:03.they like from next October. They can register near work or school,
:29:04. > :29:07.how and when, surgery hours, please them or help them. The great leap
:29:08. > :29:12.forward is the line in the Independent which has a little
:29:13. > :29:16.Chinese toddler with his dad as championship that, of course,
:29:17. > :29:21.decides that it is going to relax its one child policy.
:29:22. > :29:26.In the Daily Telegraph, hospitals fear the winter crisis is here
:29:27. > :29:33.early. Stay strong, a US envoy tells Britain.
:29:34. > :29:37.That's all for tonight. A poll from YouGov this week found
:29:38. > :29:40.that more people think a politician who fiddles their expenses should
:29:41. > :29:43.resign than one who smokes crack cocaine. Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, is
:29:44. > :29:46.currently road testing the proposition on his voters. If you've
:29:47. > :29:51.missed his progress, here's the pass notes version.
:29:52. > :29:56.Do not use crack co Ian nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. Yes, I have
:29:57. > :30:02.smoked crack cocaine. I have nothing left to hide. I can assure you I am
:30:03. > :30:08.not an alcoholic. I have drank alcohol in excess. So if you are
:30:09. > :30:19.offended, I am not apologising. I apologise. (BLEEP) I never said in
:30:20. > :30:20.my life to her. I would never do that. I am happily married. I have