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World, Andy Coulson, is found guilty of phone hacking. Coulson, who later | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
became David Cameron's director of communications, is convicted of | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
conspireing to intercept voicemails between 2,000 and 2006. The former | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
News of the World executive Rebekah Brooks is cleared of all charges by | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
the jury at the Old Bailey. We will have the latest from the court and | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
from Westminster. US Secretary of State, John Kerry, | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
arrives in northern Iraq for talks with Kurdish leaders. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
One in five hospital Trusts may be covering up mistakes on patient | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
safety. Journalists gather around the world | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
to protest against the seven-year jail terms given to three Al-Jazerra | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
journalists in Egypt. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
visit a prison in Belfast alongside Northern Ireland's two most senior | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
politicians, both of whom served time there during the Troubles. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
On BBC London: Growing up at risk, the Londoners failed by families and | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
social services. And getting on your bike. | :01:12. | :01:35. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The former Downing | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
Street director of communications, Andy Coulson, has been found guilty | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
of conspireing to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
World. Rebekah Brooks has been cleared by the yir at the Old | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
Bailey. Phone hacking trial heard 130 days of evidence about | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
allegations relating to hacking dating back 15 years. Our home | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is outside the court for us. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
This has been an eight-month high stakes trial. At stake, the | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
reputation and liberty of two of Britain's most prominent people, and | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
some of those around them. This morning Rebekah Brooks stood in the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
dock and heard not guilty four times, not guilty to phone hacking, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
to agreeing illegal payments and being involved in an alleged | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
cover-up. Andy Coulson was found guilty of phone hacking. A verdict | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
which shows that at the News of the World in his time the hacking | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
conspiracy went right to the top, to the editor's desk, to him. | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
This used to be a powerhouse of tabloid journalism. But this place, | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
once the News of the World's newsroom, was where the seeds of a | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
scandal were sown. It ended the newspaper careers of the industry's | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
golden couple, this trial revealed they were a couple. It led to dawn | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
raids, the arrests of journalists, the editors questioned in | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
parliament. If a rogue reporter decides to behave in that fashion, I | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
am not sure there's a lot more I could have done. Even the boss was | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
caught up in it. I would just like to say one sentence, this is the | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
most humble day of my life. Now a jury's decided investigators, | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
most humble day of my life. Now a jury's decided reporters, and | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
ineditor who went on to advise a Prime Minister, all broke the law in | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
the phone hacking conspiracy. The scandal ignited when it was | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
revealed missing schoolgirl Millie Dowler's phone was hacked and those | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
of her family. When a News of the World photographer captured her | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
parents privately tracing their daughter's last steps along this | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
road, they asked themselves a question familiar to many hacking | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
victims - how did the paper know? How on earth did they know? We were | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
doing that walk on that day, it just felt like such an intrusion into a | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
really, really private grief moment. However, Milly Dowler wasn't the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
only murder victim targeted by the hackers. Phone hacking started in | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the 1990s and had nothing to do with hacking computers. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Journalists realised very few people changed the pin codes for their | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
voicemail. Please enter your pin followed by the hash key... They | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
guessed codes and listened in. To personal secrets of the Royals, the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
famous, the powerful and many who were none of these. In 2006 police | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
raided this office in south London and inside they found a massive haul | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
of evidence, indicating phone hacking on an industrial scale | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
because this is the former office of Glenn Mulcaire. He was very | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
organised. He set out his strategy on white boards. At the height of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
the conspiracy hundreds of hacking calls a month were being made from | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
this office or News of the World phones. Sometimes Mulcaire taught | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
reporters how to do it. editor became a turning point in | :05:19. | :05:54. | |
this trial. In 2004 David Blunkett was one of the targets. He was | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
having an affair. A chief reporter was pushed for the News of the World | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
to run the story after all he had proof, the politician's voicemails. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Andy Coulson confronted MrBlunkett who recorded the meeting. | :06:08. | :06:30. | |
But Andy Coulson couldn't reveal his illegal source of information, this | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
dark art had to remain in the shadows. This is not about | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
vindictiveness or vengeance, it's not about hype about the media. This | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
is about criminality, it's about breach of privacy and it's about | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
obtaining justice and I hope now that that's been obtained. So who at | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
the News of the World knew about the hacking conspiracy? Well, some | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
reporters have told us they didn't. Bethany Usher was on the road as the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
paper's north of England reporter before the pressure got to her and | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
she became a journalism lecturer. She says senior staff would demand | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
the personal phone numbers of those she had interviewed. I wasn't in a | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
position to question what they were asking. I would never have said, why | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
do you want this number? I would just give them the number they had | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
asked me for. Do you suspect it might have been to use it for phone | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
hacking? I wonder that and that makes me angry because there were | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
people who I interviewed who didn't interview with me because they | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
trusted in me and the idea that they would have hacked their phone | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
disgusts me. The trial was always about who knew what and now we know | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
how deep the roots of illegal journalism went at the News of the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
World. The hackers, including investigator Glenn Mulcaire here, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
weren't working in secret. They weren't rogue reporters. The paper's | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
middle managers, the desk editors knew it was going on. As did Andy | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
Coulson. Even while editor of the paper. But the jury's concluded the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
conspiracy was hidden from Rebekah Brooks, who was on holiday at the | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
time when Milly Dowler's phone was hacked. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Their former headquarters is currently being knocked down | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
following a move in 2011. News International's changed its name but | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
even after this trial News UK as it's now known still faces a | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
corporate investigation into what went on behind these walls. | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
News UK has released a brief statement saying that we have made | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
changes in the way we do business, as for Rebekah Brooks, she left | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
court a while ago. The judge had told her not to say anything to the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
large group of reporters here. He said, you will have enough to | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
celebrate as it is. But, the jury is still here, still considering | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
verdicts in two different sets of charges relating to alleged illegal | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
payments to public officials for the supply of Royal phone books, | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
confidential information from the Palace. Their considerations go on | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
and we will wait here at court to bring you that when the verdicts | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
come. Thank you very much. | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
We can be joined now by Nick Robinson at Westminster. The Prime | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Minister's former director of communications found guilty by a | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
jury at the Old Bailey, where does this leave David Cameron? It leaves | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
him facing questions about his judgment. It leaves him facing | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
demands for an apology. It leaves him having to ensure that he meets | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
up to his own words, the words that he issued in the House of Commons | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
three years ago, in which he promised an apology. This is what | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
David Cameron said back in the summer of 2011, I have an | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
old-fashioned view, he said, about innocent until proven guilty. But if | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
it turns out I have been lied to, that would be the moment for a | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
profound apology, in that event I can tell you I will not fall short. | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
He was speaking then after Andy Coulson was forced out of Downing | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Street as director of communications, but when he was | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
still insisting that he had not known about phone hacking at the | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
News of the World. I expect that David Cameron will make that | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
apology, he will make it soon. What will be interesting to see is | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
exactly what form of words he uses to explain why, against advice, from | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
colleagues, from his coalition partners, from newspapers that were | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
investigating what happened at the News of the World, he went on and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
appointed Andy Coulson, not just as advisor in opposition, but also to a | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
publicly funded job at the heart of Downing Street where he had access | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
to secret and confidential information. Thank you very much. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
The Sunni militant group ISIS say they have finally taken control | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
of Iraq's biggest oil refinery at Baiji, north of Baghdad. | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
It's been under siege for ten days, and the militants were repulsed | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
However, the Iraqi government have denied their claims. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
This morning US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in northern Iraq | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
His visit comes as the UN said 1,000 people have died in Iraq in the last | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
The Iraqi Government still claims to have control of the oil refinery. | :11:21. | :11:42. | |
Even these videos taken and released by the Government confirm that it's | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
been the site of heavy fighting. They've been targeting ISIS | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
fighters. Satellite imagery from the air taken over the past few days and | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
pictures from the ground appear to confirm there are - the refiner's | :11:57. | :12:08. | |
been under siege. Others report the refinery is now in | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
the hands of ISIS. The US Secretary of State describes | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
the crisis facing Iraq as a moment of great urgency. Today, John Kerry | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
was in Irbil for talks with the President. A man already hinted the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
fighting might spur his region's independence. What America wants is | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
for the country to unite to meet the threat posed by ISIS. We believe, I | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
believe, President Obama believes very deeply, that a united Iraq is a | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
stronger Iraq, and it is very, very important for that unity to be shown | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
now to deal with the internal political crisis as well as the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
security crisis. But it's the security threat more | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
than the politics that's a focus of Iraq's leaders. The Kurdish militia | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
are taking the fight to ISIS. On his earlier visit here to Baghdad John | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Kerry did say the US would continue to supply weapons to the Iraqi army. | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
But he did not promise American air strikes. And without that air | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
support it's difficult to see how the Iraqi military will halt the | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
ISIS advance. A million more working people should | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
be paid the living wage by 2020, The Archbishop of York, John | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
Sentamu, who chaired the Living Wage Commission, said it was a national | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
scandal that people should be He said the Government should lead | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
the way by increasing But his report stopped short | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
of saying it should be made law. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
reports. A man of the cloth entered the | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
debate on pay today, the Archbishop of York said millions of people in | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Britain are not paid enough to live on. | :14:01. | :14:01. | |
of York said millions of people in Britain are not paid enough to He | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
told me it was a fact that should cause the Government and businesses | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
to wake up and act. The cost of living is rising, the minimum wage | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
can't quite meet that cost of prices. Why should 5. 2 million of | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
us fellow citizens work hard and still live in poverty? To the | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
present it's 6. 31 an hour, it will rise to ?6. 50 in October. The | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
living wage, based on the cost of living, is 7. ?7.65 an hour. | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
In London, it is almost ?9. Many small businesses, like this | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
brewery in east London, say they're happy to be a living wage employer. | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
We have taken a calculated gamble that we feel it would be worth us in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
the end, there's no doubt about it that obviously it does increase your | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
staff costs, but we hope that in the long-term some of those increased | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
costs will be offset by savings elsewhere. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Lower staff turnover and higher productivity could also help firms. | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
The Archbishop has sparked a debate today, saying that low pay for | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
millions of people was a national scandal. Some businesses may be | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
concerned that with consumer confidence low, now is not the time | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
to be increasing wages rapidly that could lead to an increase in prices. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
The living ways that McQuade was imposed, that would cause a severe | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
problem for a lot of members. Retail hospitality and care home, because | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
they are at the lower end having to pay national minimum wage. It could | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
also lead to job losses, a point the Living Wage Commission says it | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
understands. Kamal joins me now. There is pressure on the | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Government. The archbishop told me this morning he has written to the | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
three big political leaders, asking them to respond to his report, which | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
says that in the public sector at least, no one should be paid beneath | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
the living wage and many more businesses should voluntarily sign | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
up. The government is trying to use the minimum wage and saying that | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
should increase above the rate of inflation. Ed Miliband has said that | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
his party is looking at naming and shaming businesses, and the same | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
those who do not pay the living wage should be put on a former register. | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
We will await the response to these letters that will come back to | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Archbishop sentiment and see what the parties will do. | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
One in five hospital trusts in England may be covering up mistakes | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
which threaten patient safety, according to government figures. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
Ministers want to improve transparency about hospital care, | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
and are today launching a website where patients can view | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
the performance of individual hospitals on issues such as staffing | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
levels and infection rates. Here's Sophie Hutchinson. | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
Just how safe is hospital care? That is a difficult question to answer, | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
according to the Government. Today it published figures as part of new | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
measures to tackle safety, which suggests some NHS trusts may be | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
covering up mistakes. 29 did not report the expected number of | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
medical errors. The review said it may be a sign of a poor safety | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
culture. Today, the Health Secretary was summoned to the Commons to | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
explain the latest initiatives. These measures announced today will | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
shine a light on pork aerosol lessons can be learned, action can | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
be taken and harm to patients prevented. We will support front | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
line staff to help the best health care system in the world lays a | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
trail on issues of safety, transparency and compassionate care. | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
He talks about his new target to save 6000 lives in three years. Can | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
he explain how that will be achieved when people are now waiting longer | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
to start treatment for cancer? When NHS waiting lists have hit a | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
six-year high? And when ambulance response times are getting longer? | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
The figures are published on a new website accessed through NHS | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
Choices. Patients will also be able to see data on infection control and | :18:38. | :18:45. | |
cleanliness. It is nowhere near as consistent as it should be. We | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
warmly welcome this new initiative to be open and transparent. At least | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
if we know trusts are not complying, something can be done. We need the | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
money, the staff and encouragement to back-up the transparency. | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Successive governments are published data on hospital safety. Today's new | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
safety website is the latest bid by ministers to prove they will not | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
tolerate dangerous medical mistakes. Our health editor is in central | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
London. You have just been to a briefing with ministers. What more | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
did you learn? That website that Sophie was referring to in her | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
piece, part of NHS Choices, is going live just about now. We did not get | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
the chance to test it. We have been told what it has. Basically all | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
patients in England will be able to take a look at their local hospital | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
and see how they rate on issues like being open and honest, infection | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
rates, cleanliness etc. On staffing levels, we will not get that for | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
another six months. Another interesting point which came out was | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
that Sir Robert Francis, who led two enquiries into the mid Staffordshire | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
scandal, is going to carry yet another review into the issue of | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
whistle-blowing. How open is the NHS in England? He says he has been | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
hearing that there is a culture of fear in the NHS in England, so he | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
still feels he has got work to do. Here's Sophie Hutchinson. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: The former editor of the News of the | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
World, Andy Coulson, is found guilty of phone hacking. Rebekah Brooks is | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
cleared of all charges. I am like that Wimbledon where Heather Watson | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and another British Murray are in action later. | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Later on BBC London, | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
the faulty electrics endangering people?s lives in the capital. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
And the Serpentine?s latest temporary pavilion is revealed. | :20:49. | :21:01. | |
The Queen has been visiting a notorious Belfast prison, | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
accompanied by Northern Ireland's First Minister | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
and Deputy Minister, who were both held there during the Troubles. | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
The Crumlin Road Gaol - which was built in the mid-19th century - | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
is now a tourist attraction. The Queen also visited the set | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
of one of television's most popular fantasy shows, Game of Thrones. | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
Nicholas Witchell is in Belfast. And much more relaxed this royal | :21:22. | :21:35. | |
visit has been compared to many previous royal visits. The Queen is | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
really getting a chance to see at pretty close quarters just how much | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
has changed here. She has been shown a city breaking free from the dark | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
moments of its past. Her convoy came up the Crumlin Road to a place which | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
was once synonymous with Northern Ireland's troubles. This was once | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
Her Majesty's prison Crumlin Road. Today we -- the atmosphere was one | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
of welcome. Not so many years ago this was a forbidding place were | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
rival prisoners would riot, and were leading figures from the | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
paramilitary groups were incarcerated. The prison is now a | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
museum. Showing the Queen around were two former inmates, on the | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
left, Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, held at | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
the prison for a month in 1976 on a charge of IRA membership, later | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
dropped. On the right, unionist First Minister Peter Robinson, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
detained at the prison several times in the 1980s for protest against the | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Anglo-Irish peace agreement. Last night Martin McGuinness had an | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
unprecedented 15 minute private audience with the Queen. I think for | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
me, meeting Queen Elizabeth, it is an opportunity to show respect to | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
the unionist community who live here. And to see these engagements | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
as important acts of reconciliation. But Northern Ireland has not just | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
seen political reconciliation. It has witnessed economic regeneration. | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
Here is an example of it. The American drama, Game Of Thrones, is | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
said to be the biggest TV production in Europe and it is made in Northern | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Ireland. The Queen was shown some of the sets in what was once part of | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
the huge Belfast shipyard Harland and Wolff. Then the something which | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
could not have been done a few years ago. A stroll through one of the | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
indoor markets in the city centre, close to what was once a strongly | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Republican area. Many sensitivities remain. But somehow those labels do | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
not seem as important and in more. The Queen is now here at Belfast | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
City Hall where she will make a short speech. I would imagine the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
theme of reconciliation will feature. | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
Nicholas Witchell is in Belfast. The parents of Peter Greste, one of | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
three Al Jazeera journalists jailed for seven years in Egypt, say | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
they're devastated by the verdict. Yesterday, he and two colleagues - | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed - were found guilty of supporting | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a charge they all deny. | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
Protests against their sentencing have been held, with staff from the | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
BBC and other news organisations observing a one-minute silence. | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
Emily Buchanan has more. Expressing outrage in silence. | :24:20. | :24:32. | |
Outside New Broadcasting House, journalists from the BBC and other | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
news organisations united in protest. There is a big issue of | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
principle here and that is the reason why the BBC, which has a | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
stake in the freedom of expression and the freedom of journalists to do | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
their job, must stand up when something like this happens. People | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
are being intimidated and preventing from reporting. That's my prevented. | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Many of the journalists identify closely with the jailed men. Some | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
know them personally. Others feel they could be in the same | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
predicament, imprisoned just for trying to cover both sides of | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Egypt's bitter political background. -- battle ground. The team comprised | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste. His family are still reeling from the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
verdict. I know Peter is being very, very strong. Sorry... I am... This | :25:24. | :25:39. | |
will be a hard time for him but I know that he will get through it. | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
This man, our son Peter, is an award-winning journalist. He is not | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
a criminal. He is not a criminal. Even after the international | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
outcry, the Egyptian president is refusing to intervene. | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
TRANSLATION: I called the justice minister and told him in one | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
sentence that I would not interfere in judicial matters because the | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
judicial -- the judiciary is independent and solid. So hopes for | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
a presidential pardon dashed. The journalists now face at least seven | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
years in prison by their legal teams scramble to launch an appeal. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
-- while their legal teams. Emily Buchanan has more. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
British hopes turn to Heather Watson on day two at Wimbledon. | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
Seven-time champion Roger Federer and world number one Rafael Nadal | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
are also in action. But before play started on | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
Centre Court, former British number One Elena Baltacha was remembered. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
Katherine Downes is at Wimbledon for us. | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
If yesterday was all about Andy Murray and seeing him over that | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
first hurdle at Wimbledon, today is about another Murray, Samantha | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Berman no relation. She is playing Maria Sharapova on Court number one. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
An ideal couple of days for British fans. First, a defending champion, | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
now an underdog. One step closer, now with a day to relax. Andy Murray | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
looking laid-back at practice today after yesterday's win. Other Brits | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
fell at the first hurdle, apart from one, Naomi Brodie, who won. With no | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
funding from the LTA, it is a welcome paycheque. Some weeks have | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
been absolutely ridiculous. You are check, prize money each week, | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
catching things here and there. It has all been completely worth it. | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
Today Heather Watson will try and join her in the second round. Six | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
days since the biggest win of her career at Eastbourne against Flavia | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
Pennetta. Her heroics there will need to be matched, then doubled | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
here by Sam Murray, as the game -- there is the game of a lifetime in | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
store for her against Maria Sharapova, who looks back to her | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
dangerous breast. For Miss Murray, there is only one thing for it. For | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
this young girl, what would I tell her? Swing from your hips, baby, and | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
pray they going. You will not get any easy balls. Maria Sharapova does | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
not give you a minute. Before the action, a moment of reflection as | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
Wimbledon remembered Elena Baltacha. The former British number one died | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
of liver cancer earlier this year at the age of 30. A renowned fighter on | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
the court, an inspiration to those who go out to do battle today. Elena | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
Baltacha only retired last year. It is only fitting that the stars of | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
Centre Court today are two of the biggest names in the women's game, | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
including Serena Williams. Now the weather. There is some sunshine out | :28:57. | :29:07. | |
there. Beautiful scenes like this for many. There are some showers. | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
Some of them heavy and possibly thundery. The best of the weather | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
today reserved for the south-west and for Wales. The weakening weather | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
front introducing more cloud and, over the last couple of hours, sharp | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
and thundery downpours. Particularly across eastern England. Some of | :29:26. | :29:36. | |
these showers really quite hefty. They will continue to drift further | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
south. Some improvement late in the afternoon. If you dodge the showers, | :29:41. | :29:52. | |
it will feel quite one. Some decent spells of sunshine. Any showers on | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
the Cornish coast will be light and isolated. We will pick up a little | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
more sunshine across parts of Wales. A pleasant afternoon in store. | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
Feeling quite warm. For Northern Ireland, a little bit fresher. | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
Isolated showers, a little more cloud. The best of the sunshine in | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
Scotland, to the north-east, head of that weather front. A legacy of | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
cloud and some showers. I'm sure the organisers of Wimbledon would be | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
happy with this forecast in the next few days. A good deal of dry | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
weather. Plenty of play. There is the risk through the latter started | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
-- stages of the day-to-day of a few showers cropping up at Wimbledon. | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
They may interrupt play for a short period. That is the story through | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
the night. A quiet night. Some clear skies into the far north-east. For | :30:42. | :30:51. | |
the far north-east, we could see temperatures into low single | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
figures. A chilly start to Wednesday. Some decent sunny spells. | :30:55. | :31:04. | |
Showery outbreaks of rain gathering to Northern Ireland. It will feel | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
just that little bit fresher than in recent days, certainly into the far | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
North. The low pressure is making its presence felt towards the end of | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
the week. It is taking its time but it is likely to bring some showery | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
outbreaks of rain into England and Wales by the end of the week. Just | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
in time for Glastonbury. Slightly drier but again still looking | :31:28. | :31:28. | |
fresher. for us. | :31:29. | :31:35. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
Andy Coulson has been found guilty of phone hacking. The Prime Minister | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
has apologised for appointing him to be his communications director. I | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson. I did so on | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
the basis of undertakings I was given by him about phone hacking, | :31:55. | :32:01. | |
and that turned out not to be the case. I always said if they turned | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
out to be wrong I would make a full and frank apology, and I do that | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
today. I am extremely sorry I employed him. It was the wrong | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
decision and I am very clear on that. You can hear more on that | :32:13. | :32:16. | |
statement on the BBC News Channel. of our top story this lunchtime: | :32:17. | :32:18. | |
That's all from | :32:19. | :32:19. |