:00:09. > :00:12.The Prime Minister promises a public inquiry into the phone
:00:12. > :00:17.hacking scandal now engulfing the News of the World. Relatives of
:00:17. > :00:20.those who died in London's July 7th bombings emerge as the latest
:00:20. > :00:26.victims whose phones may have been hacked.
:00:27. > :00:34.It's a violation, isn't it? I still don't know what I think about it.
:00:34. > :00:37.Other than I am really angry. Rupert Murdoch breaks his silence,
:00:37. > :00:41.calling the allegations deplorable and unacceptable.
:00:41. > :00:44.Andy Coulson is back in the spotlight amid claims he authorised
:00:44. > :00:46.payments to police when he was News of the World editor, prompting
:00:46. > :00:54.questions about the Prime Minister's judgment.
:00:54. > :00:59.He's got to accept that he made a catastrophic error of judgment by
:00:59. > :01:03.bringing Andy Coulson into the heart of his Downing Street machine.
:01:03. > :01:07.I take full responsibility for everyone I employ, for everyone I
:01:07. > :01:13.appoint and I take responsibility for everything my Government does.
:01:13. > :01:16.What this Government is doing is making sure that - and I feel so
:01:16. > :01:19.appalled by what has happened, murder victims, terrorist victims
:01:19. > :01:23.who have had their phones hacked is quite disgraceful.
:01:23. > :01:27.And the price of phone hacking as public anger grows, more big
:01:27. > :01:31.companies likes Halifax and Virgin Holidays abandon plans to advertise
:01:31. > :01:35.in the paper. Also tonight: Another surge in the cost of food pushes up
:01:35. > :01:38.prices in the shops at the fastest rate for more than two and a half
:01:38. > :01:41.years. A small ray of hope in a difficult
:01:41. > :01:46.jobs market as the private sector has created more than half a
:01:47. > :01:51.million jobs in the last year. And the orphans of Somalia, the
:01:51. > :01:56.children who have travelled miles to find food.
:01:56. > :02:00.I will be here later on the BBC News channel with Sportsday,
:02:00. > :02:10.including the latest from Trent Bridge as England try to keep the
:02:10. > :02:21.
:02:21. > :02:25.one-day series alive against Sri Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:02:25. > :02:28.News at Six. The Prime Minister has promised a public inquiry into the
:02:28. > :02:32.phone hacking scandal engulfing the News of the World, though he says
:02:32. > :02:35.it won't begin the police investigation is complete. Tonight,
:02:35. > :02:40.as it emerge that had relatives of victims of the London bombings may
:02:40. > :02:42.also have had their phones hacked into, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman
:02:42. > :02:47.of News Corporation, said the allegations against his newspaper
:02:47. > :02:51.were deplorable and unacceptable Nick Robinson reports on the latest
:02:51. > :02:54.developments. Yes, there was worse to come,
:02:54. > :02:57.joining the list of those warned that their phones may have been
:02:58. > :03:06.hacked on behalf of the News of the World, the families of those whose
:03:06. > :03:11.loved ones were blown apart on 7/7. My mind went back to 2005 and the
:03:11. > :03:17.real emotional turmoil and state that we were in and that somebody
:03:17. > :03:22.was listening to that, it's a violation, isn't it? I still don't
:03:22. > :03:27.know what I think about it, other than I am alangry. Also on the list
:03:28. > :03:31.of possible targets the parents of Holly and Jessica, who died at
:03:31. > :03:36.Soham and of course, Milly Dowler, whose parents were given false hope
:03:36. > :03:40.that she was still alive when her voice messages were deleted after
:03:40. > :03:43.her phone was allegedly hacked by a private investigator.
:03:43. > :03:49.Last night, the Prime Minister returned from Afghanistan to learn
:03:49. > :03:53.of the brewing storm. This morning, he worked out his answer for the
:03:53. > :03:57.question he knew would be coming. Given the gravity of what has
:03:57. > :04:01.occurred will the Prime Minister support the calls for a full
:04:01. > :04:05.independent public inquiry to take place as soon as practical into the
:04:05. > :04:11.culture and practices of British newspapers?
:04:11. > :04:15.Let me be very clear, yes, we do need to have an inquiry, possibly
:04:15. > :04:19.inquiries, into what has happened. Let us be clear, we are no longer
:04:19. > :04:22.talking here about politicians and celebrities, we are talking about
:04:22. > :04:26.murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, having their
:04:26. > :04:31.phones hacked into. It's absolutely disgusting. What happened in the
:04:31. > :04:34.newsroom of the News of the World is already being investigated by 50
:04:34. > :04:37.police officers. Now there are to be inquiries into why the police
:04:37. > :04:43.took so long to take this seriously and the much wider question of what
:04:43. > :04:47.is wrong with the British media. Rupert Murdoch's competitors have
:04:47. > :04:51.been complaining about him for years, but no politician with a
:04:51. > :04:56.prospect of power dared to do it. After all, he didn't just control
:04:56. > :05:01.the News of the World, but The Sun, The Times and the Sunday Times, but
:05:01. > :05:06.today felt like a day when all that might be about to change.
:05:06. > :05:09.At the helm of Rupert Murdoch's empire is Rebekah Brooks, editor of
:05:09. > :05:12.the News of the World at the time of the alleged hacking of Milly
:05:12. > :05:16.Dowler and the so ham families. Today, company executives say they
:05:16. > :05:22.knew who had sanctioned that. There were even suggestions that she was
:05:22. > :05:26.away at the time. Her successor as editor was Andy Coulson, who went
:05:26. > :05:29.on to David Cameron's director of communications. Last night News
:05:29. > :05:34.International said that e-mails it had given to the police allegedly
:05:34. > :05:38.showed that he sanctioned tens of thousands of pounds of payments to
:05:38. > :05:42.police officers. At Question Time the Labour leader called on the
:05:42. > :05:47.Prime Minister to join him in calling for Brooks to quit. David
:05:47. > :05:53.Cameron refused. Next he was asked about his former righthand man.
:05:53. > :06:00.the public is to have confidence in him, he's got to accept that he
:06:00. > :06:04.made a catastrophic error of judgment by bringing Andy Coulson
:06:04. > :06:07.into the heart of his Downing Street machine. I take full
:06:07. > :06:11.responsibility for everyone I employ, for everyone I appoint and
:06:11. > :06:16.I take responsibility for everything my Government does. What
:06:16. > :06:20.this Government is doing is making sure that the fact the public and I
:06:20. > :06:23.feel so appalled by what has has happened, murder victims, terrorist
:06:23. > :06:27.victims who have had their phones hacked is quite disgraceful, that's
:06:27. > :06:31.why it's important there is a full police investigation with all the
:06:31. > :06:35.powers that they need. This all began with the imprisonment four
:06:35. > :06:39.years ago of the News of the World Royal editor, Clive Goodman,
:06:39. > :06:44.imprisoned too, this man, the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
:06:44. > :06:48.I made a statement yesterday and due to legal constraints,
:06:48. > :06:53.unfortunately, at this stage I can make no more comment at the moment.
:06:53. > :06:57.It is his notes of private phone numbers that have fuelled this saga,
:06:57. > :07:01.that and the mounting anger of MPs who allege that the police simply
:07:01. > :07:05.did not want to investigate what he had done. I think a lot of lies
:07:06. > :07:10.have been told to a lot of people and when police officers tell lies
:07:10. > :07:13.or at least half truths to Ministers of the Crown and then
:07:13. > :07:17.parliament ends up being misled, I think that is a major
:07:18. > :07:20.constitutional issue for us to face. Tonight, Rupert Murdoch issued a
:07:20. > :07:24.statement describing what had happened as deplorable and
:07:24. > :07:28.unacceptable, stating that our company must fully and proactively
:07:28. > :07:31.co-operate with the police before adding, that would happen under
:07:31. > :07:38.Rebekah Brooks' leadership. Murdoch's enemies have long claimed
:07:38. > :07:45.that whoever is in power he is the real puppet master. Tonight, he,
:07:45. > :07:50.they, no one knows how this extraordinary drama will end.
:07:50. > :07:52.As the scandal grows, so too does the number of allegations. Tonight,
:07:52. > :07:56.the Prime Minister's former communications director, Andy
:07:56. > :07:59.Coulson, is back in the spotlight. It's alleged that during his time
:07:59. > :08:04.as editor of the News of the World he authorised large payments to
:08:04. > :08:07.police in return for information. Our home affairs correspondent Tom
:08:07. > :08:12.Symonds reports on the police and the newspaper.
:08:12. > :08:15.In a tabloid newsroom police contacts are gold dust but now the
:08:15. > :08:20.relationship between Britain's biggest newspaper and Britain's
:08:20. > :08:22.largest police force are under intense scrutiny. Last month, the
:08:22. > :08:32.paper's owners handed over documents suggesting money was paid
:08:32. > :08:41.
:08:41. > :08:44.by journalists for information. Did it happen? The question's been
:08:44. > :08:48.asked before. The one element of whether you paid police for
:08:48. > :08:52.information? We have paid the police for information in the past.
:08:52. > :08:55.Former editor Rebekah Brooks, followed by a caveat from her
:08:55. > :08:59.successor. We operate within the code and the law and if there is a
:08:59. > :09:04.clear public interest, the same holds for private detectives, for
:09:04. > :09:08.whatever you want to talk about. It's illegal for police officers...
:09:08. > :09:12.As I said, within the law. December, Andy Coulson faced the
:09:12. > :09:22.same question in court, at a trial involving a member of the Scottish
:09:22. > :09:26.
:09:26. > :09:32.Is it possible for journalists to pay police and stay within the law?
:09:32. > :09:39.It's been illegal certainly since the law was passed by parliament in
:09:39. > :09:42.1901, it's corrupt. It's bribery. The Met, which has already searched
:09:42. > :09:45.journalists homes over phone hacking, now has a new inquiry into
:09:45. > :09:49.these allegations. The latest documents handed to police appear
:09:49. > :09:53.to show Andy Coulson authorised payments, but for what?
:09:53. > :09:57.Journalists meet police officers all the time, quite legitimately.
:09:57. > :10:00.Often in cafes and bars around Scotland Yard. One well placed
:10:00. > :10:04.source has told us that efforts began about ten years ago to
:10:04. > :10:08.investigate the more serious leaking of information for money.
:10:08. > :10:12.But there was little ap appetite to go after the newspapers, there was
:10:12. > :10:16.some opposition within the police and few convictions. This former
:10:16. > :10:20.officer believes for a few there has always been a temptation for
:10:20. > :10:23.corrupt relationships. Perhaps a crime reporter might want
:10:23. > :10:27.information about a suspect, about a victim, about a significant
:10:27. > :10:29.witness, information that the detective would only have but it
:10:29. > :10:34.might have some some commercial worth when he sells it to a
:10:34. > :10:38.reporter. At Scotland Yard yard the number of officers working on this
:10:38. > :10:42.affair has reached 50, their inquiry inquiry currently has no
:10:42. > :10:46.obvious end. So what impact will the phone
:10:46. > :10:49.hacking scandal have on News News Corporation? Today, several more
:10:49. > :10:53.big companies, including the Halifax, Virgin Holidays and
:10:53. > :10:57.Butlins decided not to place adverts in the News of the World
:10:57. > :11:00.this weekend in response to public anger. Robert Peston assesses the
:11:00. > :11:05.impact on Rupert Murdoch's business. This report contains some flash
:11:05. > :11:08.photography. Vauxhall, Ford, and other big
:11:08. > :11:12.companies with with with with big brands, they've said they don't
:11:12. > :11:16.want to advertise in the News of the World this weekend. Because
:11:16. > :11:21.they don't want to be associated with the shocking revelations about
:11:21. > :11:25.how the newspaper obtained stories. For News International, owner of
:11:25. > :11:30.the News of the World, a reputational crisis looks like it
:11:30. > :11:33.could become a financial problem. This is a crisis for News of the
:11:33. > :11:36.World. Advertisers are at this very moment deciding whether they're
:11:36. > :11:40.going to appear in the News of the World this Sunday. I don't think
:11:40. > :11:45.all will pull out, but if it's not effectively dealt with this weekend,
:11:45. > :11:48.I think it could grow. But surely this is a small problem for Rupert
:11:48. > :11:53.Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation, which in turn owns
:11:53. > :11:59.News International? After all, with global revenues of his empire are
:11:59. > :12:04.more than �20 billion. The worry for him is containian from what he
:12:04. > :12:08.described as the deplorable alleged wrongdoing to his other operations
:12:08. > :12:12.and big ambitions, including a planned takeover of British Sky
:12:12. > :12:15.broadcasting. The public will not accept the idea that with this
:12:15. > :12:20.scandal engulfing the News of the World and News International that
:12:20. > :12:24.the Government should in the coming days, in the coming days, be making
:12:24. > :12:28.a decision outside of the normal processes for them to take control
:12:28. > :12:32.of one of the biggest media organisations in the country.
:12:32. > :12:36.Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation wants to buy the 61% of British Sky
:12:36. > :12:42.broadcasting it doesn't already known. My sources tell me that B
:12:42. > :12:48.Sky B's board had taken the view that news corporation would have to
:12:48. > :12:52.pay around �9.6 billion for these shares.
:12:52. > :12:55.The regulator has a duty to be satisfied that the holder of the
:12:55. > :13:01.licence is fit and proper, there's a risk that the takeover could be
:13:01. > :13:04.blocked or unScram pwepled. So, B Sky B's directors may insist that
:13:04. > :13:08.News Corporation pay even more to compensate for the risk that the
:13:08. > :13:12.deal may never happen. It provides an incentive for Mr
:13:12. > :13:15.Murdoch and News Corporation to delay the takeover pending greater
:13:15. > :13:19.clarity on whether they'll be seen by the regulator as suitable owners
:13:19. > :13:24.of Sky in the light of what ever further shocking disclosures are
:13:24. > :13:27.made about how the News of the World obtained its stories.
:13:27. > :13:32.Robert is here now. The revelations keep on coming and you are left
:13:32. > :13:36.wondering how much worse this could get. Well, as you say, we have had
:13:36. > :13:41.the most astonishing disclosures, shocking some people would say, but
:13:41. > :13:45.interestingly, talking to News International executives, they
:13:45. > :13:50.expect worse to come. That's for two reasons, one is because their
:13:50. > :13:56.investigations have revealed to them that the newsroom of the News
:13:56. > :14:03.of the World, between 2003 and 2006, was in their words, totally out of
:14:03. > :14:08.control, that there was a culture at the top of that organisation
:14:08. > :14:11.that basically anything goes when it came to landing the big story.
:14:11. > :14:15.Now, News International's executives say they have no control
:14:15. > :14:18.over what now comes out because much of the evidence is in the
:14:18. > :14:21.possession of the police. It is these files they object obtained
:14:21. > :14:25.from the offices of Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator hired by
:14:25. > :14:31.the News of the World, they've been sitting on these files since 2006,
:14:31. > :14:35.only now it appears the police are going through all those pages and
:14:35. > :14:41.informing the alleged victims of the News of the World's behaviour
:14:41. > :14:43.and guess what, when the victims get told the news it normally gets
:14:43. > :14:47.communicated to the rest of us and for News International that news
:14:47. > :14:55.has been shocking and may well turn out to be even more shocking.
:14:55. > :14:59.David Cameron has given more details about the withdrawal of
:14:59. > :15:04.British troops to Afghanistan, following a two-day visit to Kabul
:15:04. > :15:08.and Helmand earlier this week. He says 500 British troops will
:15:08. > :15:11.finished their combat role by the end a 2012, reducing numbers to
:15:11. > :15:15.9000. Eight former police officers have
:15:15. > :15:18.gone on trial accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in
:15:18. > :15:23.the investigation into the murder of prostitute Lynette White, 20,
:15:23. > :15:27.found stabbed to death in Cardiff in 1988. Three men were wrongly
:15:27. > :15:30.convicted of the murder before later being freed. The accused or
:15:30. > :15:34.deny the charges. There has been more evidence of the
:15:34. > :15:37.big squeeze on household budgets today as the latest figures showed
:15:37. > :15:42.that shop prices have risen at their highest rate for two-and-a-
:15:42. > :15:48.half years. Another surge in food prices is largely to blame, as
:15:48. > :15:51.Jeremy Cooke reports. Leicester market, where food
:15:51. > :15:56.shopping is now an exercise in bargain-hunting. Across the country,
:15:57. > :16:00.food inflation is biting into weekly incomes. Latest figures show
:16:00. > :16:06.that while general inflation runs at 2.9%, the price of food is
:16:06. > :16:13.coming up by 5.7%, year-on-year. But for convenience foods it is
:16:13. > :16:17.even worse, a rise of 7.2%. I am continuously learning to shop more
:16:17. > :16:22.leisurely -- cleverly, and if more people did that we would keep the
:16:22. > :16:26.prices down more. Using the markets a lot more lately, the price of the
:16:26. > :16:30.supermarket has gone through the roof, a weekly shop is more than it
:16:30. > :16:35.was. The price we pay for our food goes well beyond the question of
:16:35. > :16:38.local supply and demand. The economics of all of this are hugely
:16:38. > :16:43.complicated and are conducted on a global scale.
:16:43. > :16:47.For example wheat, the most basic food, is an international commodity,
:16:47. > :16:52.whether grown in the wheat belt of America or the vast Ukrainian
:16:52. > :16:56.planes, the price is the same. All of this is beyond control of the
:16:56. > :17:01.politicians in Westminster. There are big countries like Russia who
:17:01. > :17:06.can hold on to a large chunk of the grey market, but outside of those
:17:06. > :17:11.few controlling influences it is an open market place. We are
:17:11. > :17:15.powerless? Yes. But the supermarkets say they are doing
:17:15. > :17:21.their best to keep prices down. The chief executive of Waitrose says
:17:21. > :17:25.food inflation is just 3%. Some analysts remain sceptical. Food
:17:25. > :17:29.inflation at the moment is running at around 5%, but if you take the
:17:29. > :17:33.impact of the deals the supermarkets are offering, the
:17:33. > :17:38.price customers are paying at the tail is closer to 4% higher than
:17:38. > :17:41.one year ago. For most of us it is not about macro-economics, it is
:17:41. > :17:51.about the daily or weekly shop and the fact that food is getting
:17:51. > :17:55.harder and harder to afford. Our top story tonight: A public
:17:55. > :17:58.inquiry promised into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the
:17:58. > :18:02.world's as Rupert Murdoch calls the allegations deplorable and
:18:02. > :18:07.unacceptable. The plight of the children caught
:18:07. > :18:11.in the drought in the Horn of Africa.
:18:11. > :18:15.Later on the BBC News Channel, cutting the cost of calling, why
:18:15. > :18:25.roaming charges in Europe could be scrapped altogether. And house
:18:25. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:33.prices rise, but the Halifax warns It is a small ray of hope in a
:18:33. > :18:37.difficult jobs market. And engineering business in South
:18:37. > :18:40.Yorkshire officially opened a new high-tech factory today, creating
:18:40. > :18:44.50 jobs. It is just the latest example of private sector job
:18:44. > :18:48.growth, where more than half a million jobs have been created over
:18:48. > :18:53.the last year. But as he put reports, that figure covers a wide
:18:53. > :18:57.range of positions -- but as Hugh Pym reports.
:18:57. > :19:01.Three walkers, three very different stories.
:19:01. > :19:05.-- three workers. He has been taken on as an apprentice at an
:19:05. > :19:09.engineering business in Rotherham, before which he was made redundant
:19:09. > :19:14.when his previous employer could not afford his training. Losing a
:19:14. > :19:20.job is like losing a limb, you end up sat in the house, writing CVs
:19:20. > :19:25.and getting nowhere. His employer is firing on all cylinders. It
:19:25. > :19:30.makes large steel components and is growing fast on the back of
:19:30. > :19:35.overseas orders, so it is taking on new workers. We have invested
:19:35. > :19:40.heavily in people, the facility and equipment, our plan is to try to
:19:40. > :19:44.double sales in the next five years. This used to be a warehouse and
:19:44. > :19:48.distribution centre for a major retailer, but not any more. It is a
:19:48. > :19:54.sign of the Times as a manufacturer has moved into this huge space,
:19:54. > :19:57.leaving room for future expansion and, in doing so, creating jobs.
:19:57. > :20:02.Jobs for experienced workers like Michael. He was out of work for
:20:02. > :20:07.seven months on the opportunity was just what he needed. Had you begin
:20:07. > :20:11.to fear that may be a job like this would not come along? Very much so.
:20:11. > :20:16.I am 55, there are not many positions available, particularly
:20:16. > :20:20.for people of my age group. don't need to go far from that
:20:20. > :20:24.expanding business to find another side of the job story, insecurity
:20:24. > :20:29.and shattered dreams. There are more than a million people working
:20:29. > :20:33.part-time because they can't get a full-time job. Emma is one of them.
:20:33. > :20:36.Three years after graduating she lives at home with her parents in
:20:36. > :20:43.Sheffield and works part-time in a shop. It is not what she expected
:20:43. > :20:46.when she got a degree. Why didn't I do an apprenticeship? I wonder that
:20:46. > :20:52.sometimes, they were around when I was 16, but you were encouraged to
:20:52. > :20:56.do a degree and you always believe your teachers. I took their advice
:20:56. > :21:00.and went to university, but there are so many of us. Technically they
:21:00. > :21:03.are all in work, but dig beneath the surface and you find the jobs
:21:03. > :21:08.market is complex and does not always deliver what workers hope
:21:08. > :21:10.for. An appeal will be launched on
:21:10. > :21:14.Friday by the Disasters Emergency Committee to raise money to help
:21:14. > :21:18.the millions being affected by a severe drought in the Horn of
:21:18. > :21:23.Africa. Parts of Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia have been
:21:23. > :21:26.officially declared a crisis own. More than 300,000 people in
:21:26. > :21:32.desperate need of food and water are staying at the Dadaab refugee
:21:32. > :21:37.camp in Kenya, the largest camp of its kind in the world. Ben Brown is
:21:37. > :21:42.there. For those people fleeing from
:21:42. > :21:45.drought and civil war in Somalia, this desolate camp is their new
:21:45. > :21:50.home. It could soon be filled with about half a million, and the death
:21:50. > :21:56.rate among young infants here has trebled in recent months. There is
:21:56. > :21:59.a growing problem with the number of children here all alone.
:21:59. > :22:04.Among the refugees at this camp there are hundreds of lost children
:22:05. > :22:09.and orphans. Some were separated from their families on the long
:22:09. > :22:15.walk from Somalia. Others, like Abdi Salam and his sister Aisha, no
:22:15. > :22:21.longer have parents. Their father died in Somalia's civil war, then
:22:21. > :22:27.last month their mother was killed as well. TRANSLATION: It is better
:22:27. > :22:32.here, back in Somalia there was war. We have no relic -- relatives there
:22:32. > :22:35.so we fled here. We now have a foster mother to look after us.
:22:35. > :22:40.the camp hospital, these children have parents but precious little
:22:40. > :22:44.else. Drought and war mean their bodies have been horribly weakened
:22:44. > :22:47.by malnutrition, and by the time they reach this clinic, it can be
:22:47. > :22:51.too late. The doctors here are working
:22:51. > :22:55.frantically to save as many lives as they can, but too often they
:22:55. > :23:01.have to register the names of their patients here in this, the
:23:01. > :23:10.desperate. Inside, the names of the children who have died are recently
:23:10. > :23:14.registered by date. On Sunday, -- on some days, two or three children
:23:14. > :23:18.he will lose their fight for life. The causes of deaths are registered
:23:18. > :23:24.as a variety of illness and disease, but the cause is always the same
:23:24. > :23:28.thing, chronic malnutrition. Matinay Abdilulu is one year old
:23:28. > :23:34.and so frail that, like many of the children here, he is causing
:23:34. > :23:39.doctors serious concern. TRANSLATION: We need food, water,
:23:39. > :23:48.medicine, shelter and everything else that a human being needs. We
:23:48. > :23:52.are never going back to Somalia. Hospital staff told me if they are
:23:52. > :23:56.under resourced and overstressed and need the world do help. A
:23:56. > :24:01.donkey drawn car is the makeshift ambulance to bring fresh casualties
:24:01. > :24:05.to the clinic. It is not only children but the elderly who are
:24:05. > :24:11.vulnerable to malnutrition. This worst drought for 60 years is
:24:11. > :24:14.killing young and old alike. If it may sound strange, but aid
:24:14. > :24:20.workers hearsay the people here are comparatively well off, at least
:24:20. > :24:23.they have basic supplies of food, water and medicine. Be on the camp
:24:23. > :24:29.there is something like nine or 10 million people affected by the
:24:29. > :24:32.drought, many of them have not had any help at all -- beyond this camp.
:24:32. > :24:37.A massive dust storm has swept through the American state of
:24:37. > :24:41.Arizona. Flights were delayed and motorists struggled with poor
:24:41. > :24:46.visibility as strong winds tore down trees and power cables. Radar
:24:46. > :24:49.data showed that the towering dust reached heights of 10,000 feet.
:24:50. > :24:54.The the people of Pyeongchang in South Korea have been celebrating
:24:54. > :24:59.after their city was chosen to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, beating
:24:59. > :25:02.Munich in Germany and Annecy in south-eastern France. They will be
:25:03. > :25:05.the first city in Asia outside Japan to launch -- host the Winter
:25:05. > :25:10.Games. Back to our main story, the phone
:25:10. > :25:14.hacking scandal engulfing the News of the World. Nick Robinson is in
:25:14. > :25:18.Westminster and you have to wonder where it can go next. You have to
:25:18. > :25:22.wonder but you can't possibly know. The tier most powerful man in the
:25:22. > :25:26.land, you might argue, the Prime Minister and Rupert Murdoch, the
:25:26. > :25:30.great owner of most of the media, they are used to controlling events
:25:30. > :25:33.but they are not in control of these. David Cameron has launched a
:25:33. > :25:38.couple of inquiries but can't tell us what they are about, who will
:25:38. > :25:42.lead them or when. At the back of his mind must be a real fear that
:25:42. > :25:47.the appointment made years ago of Andy Coulson as director of
:25:47. > :25:50.communications may still cause real damage. Rupert Murdoch decided
:25:50. > :25:54.today to back his Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks in the face of
:25:54. > :25:59.criticism from politicians, advertisers and readers. He can't
:25:59. > :26:01.know what will happen next. The leader of the opposition Ed
:26:01. > :26:06.Miliband took an extraordinary gamble - brave leadership, some
:26:06. > :26:11.would say, others would say it was foolhardy - to actually stand up to
:26:11. > :26:15.the Murdoch empire in that way. Nobody one week ago would have
:26:15. > :26:18.predicted where we are tonight, let alone four years ago when the first
:26:18. > :26:22.individual was imprisoned over the phone hacking affair. There is no
:26:22. > :26:32.knowing where it goes, in truth, just a sense that nothing will be
:26:32. > :26:38.Thank you. And now a look at the weather: The Scottish Open starts
:26:38. > :26:43.tomorrow, it is a good thing they are not playing at St Andrews. It
:26:43. > :26:48.was an absolute deluge today. It has been pouring with rain all day
:26:48. > :26:52.across the spics way that Scotland, particularly eastern areas, where
:26:52. > :26:56.we have seen over an inch of rain, prompting a flood warnings. Heavy
:26:56. > :27:01.storms across the UK and more definite storms in Wales and the
:27:01. > :27:06.West Country, accompanied by particularly squally winds. Showers
:27:06. > :27:11.sweeping in from the south-west, a fairly wild night and heavy rain on
:27:11. > :27:14.your window panes. Overnight tonight in many places apart from
:27:14. > :27:19.the far north of Scotland, where it will stay mostly dry. It will not
:27:19. > :27:23.be cold, but still heavy rain to come across Eastern Scotland, the
:27:23. > :27:29.persistent stuff should fade away but a whole raft of stuff elsewhere
:27:29. > :27:34.in the UK. The downpours tomorrow will become
:27:34. > :27:39.aligned into discrete zones, some places will see many showers but
:27:39. > :27:44.others will get some sunshine. Temperatures will stick -- struggle
:27:44. > :27:48.to pick up in the morning, it is in the mid- teens at 8 o'clock and it
:27:48. > :27:52.will not get higher than that in some places. Further north, the
:27:52. > :27:56.winds will be a lighter, for example across Northern Ireland,
:27:56. > :28:01.but that will mean that the lively storms could last quite a while. A
:28:02. > :28:07.pretty lively day, weather-wise. If we go through the day, the showers
:28:07. > :28:13.keep on going, was under is a risk virtually anywhere, with pale mixed
:28:13. > :28:17.in -- the Sunday is a risk. When the showers come a long,
:28:17. > :28:20.temperatures will fall by several temperatures will fall by several
:28:20. > :28:24.degrees. More heavy, squally showers on Friday, a hint of
:28:24. > :28:28.southern and western areas turning dry on Saturday.
:28:28. > :28:32.The main news: The Prime Minister promises a public inquiry into the
:28:32. > :28:34.News of the World phone hacking scandal as Rupert Murdoch calls the