02/07/2014 BBC News at One

A ticking timebomb - calls for global action to tackle the growing

Thousands of people die every year from infections that can?t

We are in danger of going back to the dark ages of medicine and seeing

infections that were treatable, not be treatable.

We'll be getting all the latest from our medical correspondent.

The former Home Secretary Lord Brittan says he

was given documents about paedophile activity in the 1980s

Clashes in Jerusalem after a Palestinian teenager is found

dead, the day after the funerals of three murdered Israelis.

House prices hit a new high, rising by nearly 12% on average in the year

And limbering up for a place in the semi-finals - defending champion

Andy Murray takes on number 11 seed Grigor Dimitrov at Wimbledon.

The High Court rejects a case against the company that

And why Battersea Power Station's famous chimneys are to be

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

The Prime Minister is warning of the dangers of not acting urgently

25,000 people are estimated to die in Europe every year from infections

which are resistant to antibiotics. Now the Prime Minister is warning of

the dangers of not acting urgently to tackle a growing threat. But drug

company say there is little incentive to produce new

antibiotics. This is a race against evolution,

the means by which bacteria constantly find ways

to resist antibiotics. 25,000 people die

in Europe each year from antibiotic David Cameron said if governments

and drug firms fail to act, that We are in danger

of going back to the dark ages of medicine, to see infections that

were treatable not be treatable. And we would see many thousands

of people, potentially, Kelly from Kent did nearly died as a

result of a drug resistant urinary infection. Her family were called to

her bedside at hospital, and told she might not make it through the

night. I was scared. Really scared, and felt lucky that I was still

there, but it made me worry because every night, I was like I going to

make it? I had hallucinations. The concern for the industry is that any

new powerful antibiotics would be so precious that they would be kept in

reserve and barely used, so there is little profit.

We've spent something like $1 billion over the last 10 or

12 years on antibiotic research, trying to make new medicines.

If, at the other end of that, the answer is, "Thank you very

much, we're not going to use it", that's not a great incentive.

Researchers at University College London are trying a novel approach,

trying to weaken bacteria so that they can be killed more easily. They

are also worried about a world without antibiotics. We use

antibiotics not only to treat patients with infections, we use

them to provide protection during major operations at as hip

replacements, and we use them to provide protection to patients

undergoing cancer tumour therapy during this vulnerable period. If we

lose the EU to use antibiotics, we will have to abandon these

approaches. Prime Minister has asked an economist to lead a review which

would try to find new ways to encourage drug development, and

ensure that we have new weapons in the constant war against microbes.

And Fergus is with me. Listening to that, people might wonder why an

economist leads this? Indeed. What we have got here is a market

failure. 1987 was the last time a new class of antibiotics came on

stream, the golden age of antibiotics is over. Something has

to be done to put that right. It is not just pharmaceutical companies,

but universities are also pulled out of research into infectious disease.

People thought it was a problem had been dealt with. The problem that

Jim O'Neill, the Economist, will look at, is how they can change

things, put in levers to encourage the pharmaceutical industry to make

the huge investment, things like pricing agreements and removing

bureaucracy to try and kick start this. But it will need to be done on

a global level. We have in hearing about resistance to antibiotics for

some time, so is the sense that the dangers really are as great as we

are talking about? Yes, I think they are, and the Prime Minister was

echoing what his Chief Medical Officer has said time and time

again. David Cameron discussed this briefly with the G7 last month. And

Chancellor Merkel and President Obama were effusive dig. It is

likely that the proposals from this will be discussed at a meeting of

world leaders next year. The former

Home Secretary Leon Brittan has confirmed that he was given a

dossier alleging paedophile activity The Conservative peer has come

under pressure to reveal what In a statement, Lord Brittan said he

asked Home Office officials to "look carefully" at the papers he'd

been given, but said the issue Let's speak to our chief political

correspondent Norman Smith. Just explain more about what Lord

Brittan has been saying? This morning, more key pieces of this

jigsaw of allegations involving historic claims of child sexual

abuse, the activities of the paedophile information exchange and

allegations of an establishment cover-up have fallen into place. The

Leon Britton, in a statement, has confirmed that a dossier was

prepared by the former Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens, alleging claims

of child sexual abuse by prominent individuals. He handed it in to the

Home Office. The Leon Britton confirmed that as Home Secretary, he

met with Sir Geoffrey and he saw and read the allegations, and then

handed them on to officials. This matters, because up to now, Sir Leon

has said he cannot recall whether he had been passed that dossier. We now

know firstly that the dossier existed, and secondly that it was

handed in to him personally. Thirdly, it was passed on to his

officials. What we do not know is what happened next. And do we know

whether dossier is now? Bluntly, we know that the dossier appears to

have been lost. I say that because the Home Office have issued a

statement this morning, pointing to an interim report they conducted

last year, which has copies of the material have not been retained.

That was news to Sir Leon Brittan, who then put out a subsequent

statement saying he was not even aware that had been a Home Office

investigation. This matters because it is all part of the backdrop to

these allegations, the insinuation of some high-level establishment

cover-up. We have had demands from one of the leading campaigners for

this dossier to be published. Now I am told the dossier was apparently

lost, because it was on paper and there is no record of it. But the

likelihood is that that will simply fuelled the allegations and

suspicions of some sort of cover-up. Norman, thank you for now.

There are fears that a Palestinian teenager has been kidnapped and

murdered in revenge for the killing of three abducted Israeli youths.

The partly-burned body of the 17-year-old boy was found in a wood

Clashes with police have broken out in that part of the city.

Our correspondent Yolande Knell is in Jereusalem.

There is a real mood of unease in East Jerusalem, and plenty of action

still going on behind me. This is the Arab part of the city, where

people came up this morning, finding out about Aluko teenager who had

disappeared from outside his family -- a local teenager who had

disappeared from outside his family's store. It is thought he was

abducted and killed. It was in this woodland beauty spot that the body

was found. Israeli police think he was a young Palestinian who had been

abducted, and say this may have been a revenge attack. It is believed he

was aged 17. And in East Jerusalem, there has already been an angry

response. Palestinians began ripping up shop fronts for ammunition. With

heavily armed security forces trying to drive them back. Snatch squads

were deployed to make arrests. Minister Netanyahu has instructed

the police to conduct this investigation expeditiously, to get

to the truth of the matter as soon as is. He has also called upon

everyone to not take the law into their own hands and not to interfere

in the police investigation. There have been lots of clashes between

young Palestinians and Israeli special forces police on these

streets in the past few hours. The Palestinians were throwing stones

and the police as bonding by firing tear gas and rubber bullets. There

have also been attempts to destroy these shelters for the Israeli

tramline that runs along the road. Yesterday, it was a sombre mood at

the funeral for three Israeli teenagers who were found dead in the

West Bank earlier in the week. But that quickly gave way to calls from

right-wing Israelis for retribution. The government says it holds the

Palestinian militant group Hamas responsible, and that it will pay.

Hamas has not said it was behind attacks. Now, tensions are rising

again, with concerns that this could lead to a new cycle of violence.

The Israeli police are still in Vesta gating what happened, -- they

are still investigating, but the mother of the Palestinian teenager

has told the BBC that if it is confirmed that her son is the one

who was killed, she once the Israeli government's response to be as eerie

as as it was the those three Israeli teenagers -- she once their response

to be as serious as it was for the three Israeli teenagers who were

killed. UK house prices have risen

above their peak of 2007 after they climbed 1% in June, and

were up 11.8% from a year earlier. The figures, from the Nationwide,

show the average value of a UK property is now almost ?189,000,

though in London, it has topped Our economics correspondent

Simon Jack reports. According to the UK's second-biggest

lender, house prices accelerated again in June, and once again, there

were massive regional differences. If we look at price rises since last

year, the lowest rise was in Scotland, which saw 5.4% growth. In

the south-west, prices rose 9.8%, but that was overshadowed by a

whopping 25.8% rise in London. It is definitely the case that the gap

between London and the rest of the UK has never been wider. If you look

outside London, prices are half what they are in the capital. So what?

Does it matter that house prices in London are double the national

average? The Bank of England said an overheated housing market was the

number one threat to the UK economy, and a 26% rise sounds white hot full

of so are things getting dangerous? Even before these figures came out,

the Bank of England was concerned enough big mortgages relative to

incomes. I think the bank of even have been keen to emphasise that

they are not targeting house prices per se. They are worried about

levels of household debt. They have to formulate policy for the country

as a whole, and only an ice later part of the country, London, is

showing rapid house price growth -- an isolated part of the country. So

where do we go from here? The number of mortgages being approved has been

falling over the last few months. There was some evidence that even

London buyers are beginning to balk at high prices. We have noticed more

properties coming on the market. Prices are softer. Not so much

confidence about taking offers forward. Less interest, fewer

offers. As a result, there is more balance between supply and demand

and we have seen for some time. Would-be buyers and the Bank of

England will hope that that anecdotal evidence shows up in the

numbers in the months to come. The former French president,

Nicolas Sarkozy, has been placed under formal investigation,

and appeared in court in Paris last He's the first former head

of state in France to be held Our Paris correspondent

Hugh Schofield sent this report. A grim faced and exhausted Nicolas

Sarkozy, at two in the morning after 15 hours of cross-examination. He

has been placed under formal investigation, criminal charges of

influence peddling and corruption are looming ever closer. The former

president spent the morning at his Paris home, considering his next

move. He had been preparing a political comeback later this year,

but those plans are now severely compromised. Everything we know

about Nicolas Sarkozy suggest that he will not take this setback lying

down. He has fought off criminal proceedings before and is no doubt

determined to do it again. Ever since he left office in 2012,

Nicolas Sarkozy has been dogged by a series of investigations. His

supporters have said all along that it is a deliberate campaign of

harassment. TRANSLATION: Every time Nicolas Sarkozy makes a public

appearance, every time you talk about his return to politics or give

him a chance to speak publicly, a case is brought against him. But

speaking today, the Prime Minister said talk of a left-wing plot

against Mr Sarkozy was ridiculous. TRANSLATION: I am not going to

discuss a political plot. It is unacceptable. Judges carry out their

work independently and we should not interfere. Nicolas Sarkozy is no

stranger to struggle, but this latest blow with test him severely.

If he is to make his comeback, he needs to prepare for a long and

bitter fight. The top story this lunchtime: A

ticking time bomb calls for global action to tackle the growing threat

of resistance to antibiotics. And coming up, after the upsets of

yesterday, all eyes are on Andy Murray and his quarterfinal against

the gifted Grigor Dimitrov. On BBC London: A history lesson in

the trenches. How RAF Northolt is helping teach schoolchildren about

World War I. From Space Invaders to sci-fi film

effects. We take a look at the Barbican's new digital media

exhibition. As councils are being forced to

tighten their belts, for the first time one local authority says it

will have to find volunteers to help look after its parks and green

spaces. Bristol City Council says it needs to reduce the parks budget by

20% so it needs help with grass cutting, litter picking and other

maintenance work on the city's 5500 acres of green space. Jon Kay

reports from Bristol. So once you have finished your own garden, how

about giving these guys a hand? In Bristol, they are hoping to use

volunteers to tackle parks, verges and cemeteries, as the council cuts

its budget. Would you have time to mow the lawn? Not with a little one

and one at school. No! The council says that it will still look after

its green spaces but it cannot afford to do as much as it has in

the past. To mow this grass, you are talking two football pitches. John

already runs a group of volunteers that this park, mainly pensioners

who keep things nice and tidy. But he says asking them to do hard

labour is out of the question. It just wouldn't happen. It just

wouldn't happen. People haven't got the time or, as I say, the

equipment. The council says it is about engaging with the community as

well as saving money. But they admit there are issues about volunteers

using chainsaws and lawn mowers on public land. Health and safety is a

not we are still trying to crack and hopefully we will get there soon. We

have been hitting that for some years now. Marianne says it is time

for public spaces to be prioritised. She recently fell into

an open grave because the grass in this cemetery was so high she could

not see where she was going. The next thing I knew, I was flat down

on my knees. She says councils should be doing the work themselves

and not relying on the public. It is why we pay our council tax, to keep

cemeteries looking good and keeping roadsides tidy. But with council

budgets under pressure, the Local Government Association says we can

expect more authorities to follow Bristol's lead.

Jon Kay in Bristol. Britain's biggest police force has

been criticised by an employment tribunal for telling staff to delete

internal findings of discrimination. The allegation emerged after a

hearing that ruled that a black female firearms officer had been

directly discriminated against because of her race and gender.

Scotland Yard says it will review the findings. Clive Coleman is with

me now. This is quite extraordinary. This is a damning finding for a

police force that was dubbed institutionally racist in 1999 by

the Macpherson inquiry. Carol Howard is a 35-year-old woman. She was a

police officer and she worked for the Diplomatic Protection Group as

unarmed officer, one of just two black women within that group of

700. -- armed officer. A page of her in uniform was used to promote

diversity within the Met Police. But she was targeted by an acting

inspector who accused her of tampering with sickness records and

a variety of other things. She raised a grievance at work which was

investigated, and a finding was amazed that she had been

discriminated against on the basis of sex and race. -- are finding was

made. Then that report was amended. The key findings were taken out of

the report. She took the case to the tribunal and it was only because the

solicitors pushed and pushed that the original report with the

findings in it was put before them, and they could see the Met Police

had amended it to protect their position at the tribunal. The

tribunal was very critical of what they said was a policy of amending

and deleting findings of discrimination in these internal

grievance procedures. The Metropolitan Police have disputed

that this was a policy but that is how the tribunal described it. They

have said they will look carefully at the findings and act on any key

learnings. Thank you. The father of two men who

have -- one of the three men from Cardiff who have become jihadists in

Syria said he is prepared to die for the cause. I feel Muthanna says he

has no plans to return. -- Aseel Muthana. The interview was believed

to have been with the youngest of the three men, 17-year-old Aseel

Muthana. We asked him why he left the UK to join ISIS and if he plans

to return home. He said that jihad is obligatory and he had no plans to

return home. Do you have any regrets about leaving UK and how far you

willing to go for your cause? His response is, no. I can say I am

willing to die. So no apparent regrets from the teenager who said

he had come across many other Britons in Syria. To him, killing

people is just a religious duty, which I think is completely shocking

and frightening, to be honest. How can he take the life of a human

being? Muslim or non-Muslim? He went to join his brother Nasser Muthana

and Reyaad Khan, who appeared in a video recently promoting ISIS

propaganda. We discovered that they also appear to have been using

social media, in which they describe brutal killings by ISIS. A friend of

Reyaad Khan's family says his mother will be devastated. She is shocked

and as soon as she sees that, she will be even more shocked and it

will be heartbreaking for her as a mother. The men's families in

Cardiff have renewed their calls for them to come home to face justice.

Just to tell you, if you are in Wales come you can see Tim Rogers's

full report about Islamic extremism in Cardiff on BBC One tonight at

10:35pm. If you are anywhere else in the country, it will be available on

the iPlayer. The Queen has been meeting staff and

volunteers who are preparing for the Commonwealth Games. As excitement

around the competition builds in Glasgow, the Queen and the Duke of

Edinburgh were given a behind-the-scenes look at the venues

in the city where the velodrome is hoping to see a lot of medals for

the home nations. Add another exciting day in prospect

at SW19. Andy Murray takes on Grigor Dimitrov for a place in the

semifinals, he hopes, and that Australian teenager who knocked out

the world number one Rafael Nadal yesterday is back in action as well.

Katherine Downes has all of that from Wimbledon.

Hello. Yesterday the tournament was blown wide open. Maria Sharapova out

of the women's and Rafael Nadal beaten by a teenager from Australia.

Whether or not that helps Andy Murray's prospects is hard to say

because the youngsters causing the upsets looked dangerous and ready

for more. Today Andy Murray is taking on one of the more talented

ones. On Centre Court, even the lines are infused with British hoax.

Now it is time to focus on what is at stake in a race for a trophy that

could be anyone's. It all starts here. At least six of those guys

could win the tournament. It will be exciting tennis fighting for the

biggest prize. Two champions fell here. Nick Kyrgios outplayed the

great Rafael Nadal. Just 19, and here thanks to a wild card entry, he

could not quite believe what he had done. I am just a young kid. Never

did I think I would make the quarterfinals of Wimbledon in my

first appearance. I am sure some of you have 19-year-old kids. Also

gone, Maria Sharapova ten years since she won the title. Angelique

Kerber put paid to her hopes of a happy anniversary. She may stick

around to see this man, her boyfriend Grigor Dimitrov, who plays

Andy Murray today. Judging from pictures that Grigor Dimitrov has

posted online recently, he and Andy Murray enjoy each other's company on

tour, but any friendship will be set aside this afternoon. This could be

the match to finally stretch the Wimbledon champion. Andy Murray has

to be a little arrogant and he doesn't like to do that. He has to

B, this is my house, and he doesn't like to do that, but this is the

kind of persona he have to take on. I think he can do it. Don't get me

wrong. But shot be shot on grass, Dimitrov might be better than him

but Andy Murray has the experience. Some say Dimitrov has yet to mature

into a genuine Grand Slam contender but last month he won Queens, the

tournament Andy Murray was supposed to win. Today he is quite capable of

another victory that on paper should go to the defending champion. They

are just locking up and after that match on Santa court there is an all

Swiss match between Stanislas Wawrinka and Roger Federer, so a

great match for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge watching from the royal

box. Thank you. When tickets went on sale

for the first of Monty Python's reunion shows, they sold out in 44

seconds. Last night they took to the stage at the O2 Arena in London for

the first of ten performances but did the expectation live up to the

hype? Tim Muffet was there. The Holy Grail for any Monty Python fan.

Tickets not just for a comedy gig but a milestone in popular culture.

I have wanted to see Monty Python live since I was ten years old. To

me it is like the Beatles reuniting. Extraordinary comic talents. Who

would have thought 40 years ago we would be sitting here doing Monty

Python? Performing together in the UK for the first time in four

decades, they have promised classics with a twist. New material,

alongside the very familiar. # Always walk on the bright side of

life! Nine more dates at the O2 have been

added. But has to wait to see them live once more been worth it? A bit

of me thought that I would see septuagenarian men at the O2 to pay

their bills, but you can see the love inspired by their material. I

don't think I'll ever see a performance as good as theirs ever.

Fantastic. I was at the Hollywood bowl show 30 years ago and as great

as it was back then. Something completely different? Maybe not, but

for Monty Python fans, a night to savour. Nudge, nudge, say no more!

Tim Muffet, BBC News. Time for the weather. Hello. Nice

and warm out there for many of us with sunshine and especially across

the South of the country but not completely dry because in western

Scotland and Northern Ireland, the cloud has been thickening into the

afternoon. This clear band of cloud is upsetting the weather in the

North West of the country and it is the beginning of an unsettled spell

heading our way over the next few days. For the time being, still some

sunshine and warmth to talk about. We will get to that for tomorrow in

a second but this is the here and now, so we can see rain in Scotland

nudging into Northern Ireland. To the South of that, in northern

England and Wales, skies will turn hazy through the course of the day.

It will stay dry and the best weather will be across the South and

Southeast and into East Anglia, with temperatures up to 24 and maybe 25.

Tonight the cloud and rain sinks further South and by Thursday

morning there is not much rain around, just some cloud and a few

spots. Tomorrow and Atlantic breeze will bring fresh conditions to a

number of areas. For most of us it will not be hot but cloudy with some

sunny spells and some rain. The warm weather will be squeezed into the

southern and southeastern portion of the country. In London we could get

the hottest day of the year with high temperatures of 27 or 28, and

as for Wimbledon, it will stay warm and sunny all day. You will be

roasting if you are heading there. On Friday, the weather is going

downhill a little bit. Well, a fair bit across the West of the country.

That means the warmth is still with us on Friday across the East and the

South East. This will be the warm spot for most of us. Yellow

colouring indicates pressure conditions and then this is the

weekend. How low can you go? Right over our neighbourhood, meaning

plenty of showers on the way. This is the morning on Saturday. You can

see where the rain is by the morning and then by the afternoon it pushes

into the North Sea, good riddance. Then we get a slightly better

afternoon but no guarantee how good. Sunday should be breezy, fresh

with sunshine and showers, so quite mixed. Thank you. That is all