17/06/2013 BBC News at One

World leaders meet in Northern Ireland for a summit to discuss the

global economy: but Syria's expected to dominate talks.

Divisions exist on a US plan to give military aid to the rebels,

but David Cameron says all sides want peace. What we do need to do

is bring about this peace conference and this transition so

that people in Syria can have a government that represents them

rather than a government that's trying to butcher them. I'm Jane

Hill at the golf resort where the leaders are beginning to arrive.

The talks get under way shortly amid very tight security.

Also this lunch time: The broadcaster Stuart Hall is in court,

awaiting sentencing after admitting indecent assaults on 13 girls.

The moors murderer, Ian Brady, argues for the right to be allowed

to starve himself to death. The banking bail-out with no

taxpayers' money - the Co-op tries to fill a �1.5 billion hole in its

balance sheet. And everything's coming up roses -

Justin Rose wins the US Open, the first Englishman since Tony Jacklin

in 1970. Later on BBC London: The capital's exploding pavements - we

have a special report on the danger beneath your feet.

And stranded for more than an hour- and-a-half - the passengers cut

Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm.

World leaders are gathering in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit,

which starts later this afternoon. They're due to talk about the

global economy, but the main focus is likely to be the civil war in

Syria and whether to give military aid to the opposition there, a plan

backed by America but condemned by Russia. Earlier, President Obama

and his wife Michelle arrived in Belfast, en route to the summit

just outside Enniskillen. He said the achievements of the peace

process were a blueprint that could be followed around the world. Jane

Hill is at the summit now. Hello. Yes, in the last hour or so,

we have seen a succession of helicopters land in the grounds

behind me here at this golf resort as those world leaders begin to

arrive. Talks proper get under way in the next couple of hours in the

building there behind me, and earlier today, though, as you

mentioned, we saw a rapturous reception for President Barack

Obama and an even more enthusiastic one for his wife, the First Lady,

as they spoke in Belfast on what is actually their first official visit

to Northern Ireland. This report from our diplomatic correspondent

Bridget Kendall. Breath-taking scenery, as long as the sun stays

out, and a venue well protected from intruders. After months of

preparation, all is set here as the G8 summit leaders start to arrive.

Among Earl early arrivals, President Obama, a key player if

David Cameron is to make progress on his triple-summit themes of tax,

transparency and trade. I know the scepticism there is around the

country about leaders meeting, a lot of words - will things happen?

If we sign trade deals and start trade negotiations here at this

meeting in Northern Ireland, that'll cut prices and mean a wider

range of goods in shops here in the United Kingdom and jobs here in the

United Kingdom. And there's one prize the Prime Minister can claim

is already in the bag - this afternoon, he, President Barack

Obama and other leaders are to launch ambitious new EU trade

negotiations aimed at turbo charging their sluggish economies.

Tackling tax dodging and opening up the books of secretive companies

are aims shared by many G8 campaigners. As usual, the lobbying

has come from all sides - on land and by water too. These protesters

worry is that high hopes of change will come undone when some G8

leaders start to defend their national interests and dig in their

heels. But overshadowing all of that, disagreements with Russia

about Syria - already aired in London yesterday. Here at the G8,

Mr Putin could find himself distinctly isolated now the US is

talking about arming the rebels and Britain isn't far behind.

debate about arms is the debate about how do you try to make sure a

democratic, respectable opposition is not exterminated because we can

only get a political solution if it's not possible for the

opposition to be destroyed. Whatever the facade, behind the

choreographed waves and smiles, you can be sure discussions will be

heated - and not just on Syria. Getting all G8 leaders to move in

the same direction is never easy, and the danger is, under the

scrutiny of the world, they could end up looking dangerously adrift.

We know David Cameron wanted to talk about tax evasion, the global

economy. We know Syria is rapidly overtaking those issues. What

chance of consensus on that issue? On Syria, I think very little. We

had a foretaste from president Putin when he met David Cameron in

Downing Street yesterday, and it's going to be the focus of attention,

particularly at the working dinner this evening. Perhaps that perhaps

the crucial meeting is when there is a one-to-one meeting between

President Obama and President Putin. It will be the first time they have

had a chance to talk face to face about where they are on Syria since

President Obama said last week that a red line had been crossed and

chemical weapons used, and therefore, the US was thinking

about how to give more direct aid to the rebels. We heard Mr Putin

yesterday casting aPersians on the idea of arming rebels who he said

could include people who were even cannibalising their opponents - he

was referring to one internet video, but he could find himself isolated

around this g g table. It's not just the Americans, the British and

the French who have been so emphatic about the need to do more

about the rebels. The Canadian Prime Minister who will be here

today, before he arrived, talked about Mr Putin backing thugs in

Syria, so I think it will be a pretty heated and make acrimonious

discussion. All right, thank you for now. Bridget Kendall in

Enniskillen and the summit formally opens mid-afternoon today. The

first working session is actually about global trade and the economy,

but the working dinner tonight is about Foreign Affairs, and rest

assured, that'll absolutely be dominated by that issue of Syria,

so there will be full coverage of all the debates here at the G8

summit throughout the day on the BBC News Channel. For now, from

Lough Erne, back to you. Jane, thank you.

A deal to rescue the Co-op Bank has been reached without the need for

taxpayers money. It will plug a �1.5 billion gap in its finances by

converting loans into shares. As part of the agreement, the bank

will be listed on the stock exchange. Our chief economics

Correspondent Hugh Pym reports. The Cooperative Bank is part of a

improvement dating back to the mid 19th century, a conservative

institution advertising itself as a safe haven for customers. What's

the difference between the Cooperative Bank and the other

major banks? Is it that we have 24- hour telephone banking? But now

it's needed a rescue deal to secure its future. The troubles stem from

the takeover of the Britannia Building Society in 2009 and a

basket of problem loans that came with it. This morning the boss

assured customers the deal will provide peace of mind. There is a

time to look back and understand what went wrong but that's not now.

What the new management team and I have done in the last six weeks is

to present a very strong, stable plan with good growth potential out

of the Cooperative Bank. significance of today's

announcement is this is the first British bank to be bailed out since

the financial crisis first engulfed the City in 2007 which hasn't

involved Government money. Instead of taxpayers taking a hit, it's

investors, the so-called bond holders. The bank is raising money

to shore up its finances. �1 billion will come from bombeds,

converting them to less generous terms. 7,000 retail investors will

be among those affected, though 6,000 have less than �1,000

invested. Bond holders in this institution will be disappointed.

They're not getting what they signed up for, which was a very

heavy rate of interest. Instead they're being given shares. Those

have a prospect of being profitable in the future if this institution

recovers. But some are asking why until as recently as April why more

than 600 Lloyds branches were set to be sold to the bank. What was

the Treasury doing? What was Lloyds doing using the Co-op as the

vehicle for the biggest piece of banking strategy the Government

had? The Lloyds deal fell through, and within days the spotlight was

firmly on the Co-op's finances. A new management team was moved in.

The result is today's rescue package. The broadcaster Stuart

Hall has been sentenced to 15 months after admitting indecent

assaults against 13 girls, the youngest of whom was nine years old.

The court heard he initially told police that his victims were all

lying as part of a vendetta. Last month he admitted the offences.

Let's cross straight to our correspondent Ed Thomas who joins

us now. Ed? Yes, you're right. Stuart Hall called his victims

liars. He said there was a vendetta against him, but the truth was that

for over three decades, he was abusinging you girls. His youngest

victim was just nine years of age. At court, his barrister asked for

mercy, but he was jailed for 15 months, as Judith Moritz explains.

Stuart Hall walked into court knowing he may be leaving in a

prison van. He's admitted the sexual abuse of 13 girls, the

youngest of whom was nine. The broadcaster has previously said he

knows his disgrace is complete. In the 1970s, Stuart Hall was the face

of the hugely popular game show It's a Knockout, but over two

decades between 1968 and '86 he presented a very different persona

to some of the young girls who came into contact with him. It was very

much a front, this affable personality. He played it for its

worth, but of course, beneath it was the true Hall, a man who had no

respect for other human beings. Otherwise, he would never have gone

on and abused trust in such a terrible way. In December, Stuart

Hall was arrested at his home in Cheshire. He appeared in front of

magistrates and denied the charges in the fullest possible terms.

allegations are pernicious and callous and cruel and, above all,

spurious. I'm not guilty, and I shall be defending the accusations.

But Hall pleaded guilty at a later hearing. In recent years, Stuart

Hall has been a football reporter for BBC Radio Five Live. The BBC

has said it's appalled by his disgraceful actions and would like

to express sympathy to his victims, some of whom have been in court

today to see the former star being sentenced. My colleague Judith

Moritz reporting there. Stuart Hall was told he had a brazen attitude

towards his victims. It was said that he had an eccentric, distinct

reporting style, but the judge also said he had a darker side to him,

and because of that darker side, he'll spend the next 15 months in

jail. Ed, thank you, Ed Thomas from

Preston court. Labour is promising to give state schools in England

more freedom over what they teach if it wins the next election. Only

academies and free schools can do that at the moment. The party had

previously warned that too many academies would devalue the concept.

Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins has the details. It started

with him, hoping to wave farewell to the weakest schools. Tony

Blair's new academies enjoyed new powers like changing their

curriculum and freedom from council control. The coalition Government

didn't undo those plans. Instead, it pushed for more schools to

become academies, including the strongest, and now Labour wants to

give all England's state schools some of those academy powers

without having to take on formal academy status. Where a school

freedom promotes higher standards, we will extend those freedoms to

all schools, so if a freedom that is currently afforded to an academy

is serving to drive up standards that freedom should be available to

all state-funded schools. Those freedoms would include the power to

change their curriculum. Labour will not close the new free schools

that can be set up by parents and will let parents and teachers set

up new schools under a different scheme, and teachers who don't have

teaching qualifications would have to get them or leave the profession.

If Labour Ministers were walking in and out of this department after

the general election, they wouldn't be busy unpicking the coalition's

expansion of the academies programme, something Labour once

opposed. They would make a change, though, to a key element of Tony

Blair's original academies plan. Part of the big Blair idea was that

councils wouldn't control academies, but now Labour wants local

authorities to be able to issue early warning notices to any state

school that's underperforming, whether they're an academy or not.

Unions, at odds with the current Government, like the sound of that.

We believe that local authorities ought to have a role in - on behalf

of the community in making sure that all the schools in their area

are run effectively... Tories say Labour's plans are confused and

voters will decide who they think can best raise standards most

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Buckingham Palace said that the Duke of Edinburgh, who turned 92, while

in hospital, was in good spirits. Our Royal Correspondent is outside

of the London Clinic now. After ten days in hospital,

certainly the longest hospital stay, he left this morning. How did he

look? Well, judge for yourself. The consensus of those here was that he

looked filet. Coming down the steps, walking without difficulty. Into a

vehicle and off to Windsor where he is to rejoin the Queen. Shoo is

there, w they have the order of the garter service, but the tube rar is

under strict instructions for a two-month period of rest. Whether he

abides by that, we will have to wait to see. What we don't know is what

necessitated the exploratory surgery surgery, but one doctor involved in

the treatment was a specialist in the Pancras and the liver. I suspect

that Palace will say no more about the episode, but the tube rar, after

11 nights in hospital, back with the Queen at Windsor.

Thank you very much. A system is needed to relieve the

pressure on emergency care in England, according to a review by

NHS England. It found that parts are often confused about where to go for

help. The current system is said to be unsustainable and unaffordable.

A&Es have been very stretched over the past six months.

Hospitals say that things are now getting better, but NHS leaders

believe that the problems are deep-seated.

A big review has begun looking at all of the services in England which

help people who suddenly become ill. Patients and staff are being asked

for views on how the system can improve.

Urgent or unplanned medical care results in 100 million calls or

visits to the health service a year. A visit to A&E is thought to cost

the NHS �68. The report says that services like walk-in centres do

exist but are often confusing for patients.

The public's changed it is a right now society. People are not prepared

to wait until Monday to see their doctor. Perhaps the biggest changes

is in what medicine can do. That is more specialised. We can get

fantastic results for people, provided that they get to the right

place at the right time for the right skills.

The NHS believes that a quarter of patients who go to A&E could be

treated elsewhere. Stopping too people from going to

hospital, could mean doctors and nurses work working better together.

So patients have guaranteed access to healthcare staff. A final report

on what needs to change is due in the autumn.

The top story: Tensions over how to end the

critical war in Syria is set to dominate the G8 summit in Northern

Ireland that starts this afternoon. Still to come: An English rose.

Justin Rose becomes the first Englishman to win the us open since

1970. On BBC London: A council in East

London fails to stop betting shops opening in their area.

And you have mail. The pen pals whose letters have been crossing the

In the 1960s, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five

children, bur whying three victims on Saddleworth Moor. The body of the

fifth victim sh Keith Bennett was never found. For more than a decade,

Ian Brady has been on a hunger strike in Ashworth Hospital.

Today he is saying that he is sane, therefore he should be transferred

to an ordinary prison, where in his view he could not are force-fed.

Let's join Danny Savage from Manchester. Well, for the first time

in decades, Ian Brady was seen in public today. He is held at Ashworth

Hospital some 40 miles away, but the proceeding there were linked to us

here in Manchester. As they introduced the tribunal and panned

the camera around the room, we got a glimpse of Ian Brady wearing

sunglasses with a feeding tube. Sitting next to his legal team. A

man in his 70s, exchanging notes and listening to proceedings.

Ian Brady is seriously child killer who for 47 years has been behind

bars. Few people have attracted such loathing as the man known as one of

the moors murderers. Myra Hindley died in 2002. Ian Brady has been on

a hunger strike and force-fed. The doctor here has met Ian Brady

several times. He heats the hospital. That he does

not like anybody there. That he will not have a good word said about

anybody there. Since 198 #5shgs Ian Brady has been

held here in Ashworth Hospital. It is a high security hospital. He was

diagnosed as a psychopath. He is sectioned under the Mental Health

Act. It is this status he is challenging. He believes if he wins

the appeal he can be transferred to prison to have more control over how

he dies. The illiages of the police looking for the bodies of Ian Brady

and Myra Hindley's victims is as shocking now as it was nearly 50

years ago. The police found the body of John

Kilbryde. John's family feel that Ian Brady

has no rights to be appealing to the authorities.

Why should he have the right for a hearing? He should be left where he

Ian Brady's mental health true bunl is expected to lastate days, during

which he may give evidence about why he wants a transfer to be allowed to

die in prison. The hearing is to decide whether he is suffering from

schizophrenia and a personality disorder, but what the inquiry will

not look at is anything to do with his past crimes or the location of

Keith Bennett's body, one of the victims never found, but there was a

quote that stuck out about his state of mind at the moment. Ian Brady

says that the crimes are petty compared to the actions of

politicians and soldiers in war. This tribunal continues this

afternoon. The husband of Nigella Lawson,

Charles Saatchi, described photographs of him with his hands

around her neck as horrific but saying it was a playful tiff. The

photographs appear to show #4i78 being restrained by him as they sit

together on the terrace in London. These pictures emerged over the

weekend, what do they show? They were published by a newspaper. Many

others are publishing them today. They were taken on Sunday a week

ago. So eight days ago. They show the couple on the terrace of the

restaurant in Mayfair dining where they go often. In one image you can

see that Nigella Lawson is sitting opposite her husband. He has his

hand on her throat. There are several other images, one of which

shows him with both hands around her neck, another where he seems to be

tweaking her nose and she is grimacing, but in several

photographs, the couple holding hands. Then she gets up and leaves.

She is apparently tearful but again reports say that before she left she

kissed him on the cheek. Now he is columnist for the evening standard

newspaper. This afternoon he has spoken to the newspaper to give his

account of the episode. He says that the couple had a row. That he held

his wife's neck while emphasising his point. They were arguing about

the family. He says that the pictures are horrific but give a

more drastic and violent impression of what took place. He said that his

wife's tears were that they both hate arguing, not that she had been

hurt. The police say that they are going to try to establish the facts

of what happened. No allegations has been made. We have not heard comment

from Nigella Lawson herself. Justin Rose has become the first

Englishman to win the US Open since Tony Jacklin in 1970. After his

final putt, the 32-year-old looked to the sky with tears in his eyes.

He said he was thinking of his late father. He won it on Father's Day.

Justin Rose is based in the United States these days but they are proud

them here. There was a time in the mid-90s, when Rose won an amateur

tournament, he was just 14. Few golfers have displayed their talent

so clearly, so early, yet the road to a major tournament has not been

straightforward for Justin Rose. There is a famous saying about

keeping your head while those around you lose theirs, that is Justin Rose

p Pennsylvania. The course was too much for many it became the test it

was shows supposed to be. There was one over for the

tournament, the finger to the sky in recognition of his late father and

greatest influence. Then Rose had to wait. Only when Phil Mickelson

failed to chip on the last was the title confirmed, but even in

victory, there was composed perspective.

I had been thinking about my dad for a couple of days. It was not lost on

me that fact that this is Father's Day. I wanted the chance to honour

him. It was a fitting moment for me, the skies had parted and the rain

stopped, it was something that I needed to do to say thank you to

him. Justin Rose has been in the golfing

spotlight since this moment, at 14. He turned professional but the

career stalled but he had to come to death -- come to terms with the

death of his father while still a young man.

Justin Rose has known lows and now this high.

After this cut, to get to where he is now, it was a matter of time. It

has proven to be the case. He has the Major, I think he will go on to

win a couple more. Everyone has known about Justin

Rose's temperament and talent, all he lacked was the major trophy. All

of that has changed. Many fwofling experts, including Tony Jacklin

himself, reckon that the path is clear for Justin Rose to win four or

five majors. Rose is entering the peak of his

game. The next Major is in Scotland. The members here are looking forward

to seeing Justin Rose popping in for a bit of practise.

Now it is time for the weather with Nina Ridge with a lot of sun by the

Nina Ridge with a lot of sun by the Well, not sun but some warmth. In

northern France there are temperatures close to 30 Celsius. A

lot of warmth is heading our way over the next couple of days.

Some uncertainty as to how far north it will get and the exact

temperature but the possibility of the high 20s by the middle of the

week. A lot of humid air tied in and thunder stoms. We have had some

sharp showers. Those showers clearing to the north-west of

England and the Midlands. The showers on the coasts for the rest

of the afternoon, one or two on the heavy side.

Temperatures up to 20 Celsius. Across East Anglia, a little cloudy

around the coast. Brightness inland. For the Midlands in the afternoon,

generally dry with brightness. The north-west of England, the

temperatures in the low 20s. A little mist for the north-east. One

or two showers for Scotland, but there will be sunshine. For Northern

Ireland a little on the cloudy side. Brighter further east. Into Wales,

the rest of the afternoon is looking dry with brightness to the north.

Cloudier in the south. Through the night there is lull in the showers,

but a risk of some showers persisting over the south-west

corner. Many areas to the north should be

try with clear spells. A fairly mild night with temperatures in double

figures, about 11 Celsius to 14 Celsius. Tomorrow morning the

showers in the south look like they are going to move to the north. As

they do so, that is what is allowing the temperatures to climb. That will

give us sunshine and the mid-20s. Feeling humid as well. To the north

a little fresher with sunny spells, brightness and temperatures of 19

Celsius to 20 Celsius. Ascot is starting on Tuesday.

Generally dry. A rvk of one or two showers, warming up over the next

few days. Wednesday looks like it could be a day with the risk of

temperatures being in the high 20s but the thunder storms could come

with it. A little drier and brighter in the north. The temperatures

certainly climbing in the next certainly climbing in the next

couple of days. Now let's bring a reminder of the

two main stories: World leaders are meeting in Northern Ireland for a

summit to discuss the global economy, but tensions over how to

end the Civil War in Syria are expected to dominate the talks.

While on air, Stuart Hall has been sentenced to 15 months in prison