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Britain's best selling newspaper first published 168 years ago will | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
print its last edition this Sunday. The surprise decision came after | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
more big companies pulled advertising from the paper as | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
public shock intensified. Today, detectives revealed they've | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
identified 4,000 people who may have been targeted by the tabloid. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
And the Met Police promise to take action against corrupt police | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
officers who took money from the paper. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
If proved, I will be determined to do what we should do and put them | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
in front of the criminal courts. will be asking what this dramatic | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
decision means for Rupert Murdoch and his media empire. Also tonight: | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
Guilty of trafficking. The first conviction for smuggling victims | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
out of the UK. Countdown to the end of an era as | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
the last US space shuttle prepares to blast off. Coming of age, after | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
seven books and eight films, the final Harry Potter premieres in | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
London. It's like a girlfriend that you have been going out with for | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
ten years and you have to go your separate ways but you will be left | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
with amazing memories. Coming up: Manchester try to prise Nasri away, | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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they've tabled an offer of almost Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
News at Six. After days of intense pressure and growing public anger | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
over the phone hacking scandal, the News of the World, the country's | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
biggest selling newspaper, has announced that this Sunday's | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
edition will be its last. The News International chairman, James | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Murdoch, broke the news to shocked staff at the paper this afternoon | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
and said wrong-doers had turned a good newsroom bad. With tonight's | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
first report, our business editor Robert Peston looks at the paper's | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
demise. For years it's been perhaps the | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
most famous Sunday newspaper in Britain, but the 168-year-old News | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
of the World is being shut because recently it became more famous, | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
notorious even, for the wrong reasons. This afternoon the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
chairman of News International, James Murdoch, the son of Rupert | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Murdoch, announced that this Sunday's edition will be the last | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
and all revenues from that edition will go to good causes. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
It's the revelations that its journalism went thoroughly bad that | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
mean it is will no longer be rolling off the presses. The | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
alleged hacking of the phones of the murdered schoolgirl Milly | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Dowler and the phone of a parent of one of the Soham victims. And the | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
invasion of privacy of the families of British soldiers killed in | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
action. These are why the News of the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Worlds had no future. It's a huge surprise. I was speaking to | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
journalists on the newspaper this afternoon about an hour before it | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
happened and they were feeling obviously disgruntled. This 80- | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
year-old, Rupert Murdoch, pursued by skwrfrpbist -- journalists | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
earlier today... I am in the making any comment. Bought the News of the | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
World in 1969 and for years it was a money-spinner so it's closure | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
represents a huge humiliation. What prospects for the News of the | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
World's counterstaff? They're being invited to apply for other jobs | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
within a media empire that also owns the Times, the sun Times and | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
The Sun, in fact some believe the News of the World may be reborn | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
within days as perhaps The Sun on Sunday. It's a typical management | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
stunt of Mr Murdoch. In this case nobody in the senior management | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
clearly involved in these matters, Rebekah Brooks a clear example, | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
none of those go but the poor workers at the News of the World | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
are going and there's no doubt it will become the Sunday Sun and I | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
think the kind of culture that's driven all these kind of | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
circumstances is as much evidence of the same editors were at the Sun | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
as the News of the World. What I am interested in is not closing down | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
newspapers, I am interested in those who were responsible being | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
brought to justice and those who had responsibility for the running | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
of that newspaper taking their responsibility and I don't think | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
those two things have happened today. The News of the World's | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
continued existence provided ammunition to those campaigning | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
against the attempt by the News of the World's parent company News | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Corporation to buy full control of BSkyB and that prize, BSkyB, which | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
is enormous compared with the News of the World is another clue to why | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the Murdoches have been ruthless in killing off a newspaper that was | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
for years their golden goose. Robert Peston is here now. An | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
extraordinary development and one that's all kind of implications. | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
That's right. The News of the World was a central bit of British | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
popular culture for as far back as more or less anybody alive can | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
remember. For its name to go is remarkable and one should be under | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
no illusion about what a difficult decision this will have been for | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Rupert Murdoch. For years as I said in that film, this was a golden | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
goose for him. He bought it in 1969, to an extent his entire global | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
empire was built on revenues of the News of the World and The Sun | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
newspaper. Now, plainly it does not make sense for him to have no | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
newspaper at all on a Sunday. There are lots of readers loyal to the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
News of the World, advertisers that were giving him useful revenue. It | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
seems inconceivable that they will not launch a new tabloid newspaper | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
pretty quickly, probably The Sun on Sunday, it probably has to be The | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
Sun on Sunday. Who knows how viable a business that will be. One has to | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
remember there's been a huge shift in the newspaper market in recent | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
years in a sense Saturdays have become more important. The Sun has | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
become relatively more important. The idea that somehow this is a | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
sort of devastating to the business should not be overstated. In terms | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
of cultural life a massive event. The surprise announcement came | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
after the Metropolitan Police said they had identified 4,000 possible | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
victims and hundreds more have now contacted Scotland Yard saying they | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
too may have been targeted. With the latest on the investigation, | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. This | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
report contains some flash photography. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
This extraordinary affair may have spelt the end for Britain's biggest | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
newspaper, but the repercussions of its existence will continue. The | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
police, with the Met Commissioner facing questions, the military, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
today shocked by new allegations, and of course, hundreds of people | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
who may be victims of its practices. The police are struggling to cope | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
with calls from people worried their privacy has been breached. On | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
top of that, Britain's most senior policeman now has a second inquiry | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
into whether News of the World documents proved journalists bribed | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
his officers for stories. allegations coming from the News of | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
the World, which were given us to on 20th June, are quite shocking, | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
that a small number of police officers may have engaged in such | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
corrupt practice and that's what it is, if proved, it's corrupt | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
practice and I will be determined to do what we should do and that's | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
put them in front of the criminal courts. The former News of the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
World editor, Andy Coulson, told a court last year as a witness he | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
knew nothing about it. The reaction from campaigning Labour MP Tom | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Watson... Two days ago News International briefed the press | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
that they handed over documents to the Metropolitan Police which | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
showed Andy Coulson had authorised payments to police officers for | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
information. Either Andy Coulson or News International did not tell the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
truth. Discovering the truth could take months and involve delving | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
into the deep history of relationships between this force | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
and that newspaper. Today, Britain's military families became | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
the latest group to erupt in anger against alleged phone hacking. It's | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
been claimed in the press that some of those recently bereaved had | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
their voicemails intercepted, unusually, no family has yet come | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
forward to say police have warned them they might be victims. But | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
even the allegation was enough to force the Royal British Legion to | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
pull out of its fundraising with the News of the World. We felt that | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
given the seriousness of the allegations and the level of | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
support that we are providing for the families that we felt that | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
until these allegations have been investigated that we ought to | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
suspend working with News International. Police are | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
investigating the case of James Phillipson killed in Afghanistan, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
according to his father e-mail messages he received after his | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
death had been read, he suspects by hackers. Wrong-doers need to be | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
called to account for what they've done. And to suffer whatever | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
punishment is appropriate. I am sure that will happen, it's going | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
to take time. He's likely to be right. Criminal investigations, | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
public inquiries, the scrutiny of what went on at this newspaper | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
could continue for years. Let's go live to our political editor Nick | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Robinson at Westminster. Number 10 says there was no political | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
pressure to do this but closing the newspaper was a very swift and | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
dramatic dramatic decision. It was and they insist they knew nothing | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
about it in advance and was surprised as anyone. In a way, it | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
doesn't make David Cameron's problem with this story any easier | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
at all. His problem is this: Ed Miliband is able, as he's already | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
been doing, to say say this isn't good enough. The woman should go. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Someone should give, rather than something, in other words. The | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
chief executive of News International, the woman who was | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
editor of the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, ought to give up | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
her job. David Cameron has not matched that and it's difficult for | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
him to do so, he is a friend of Rebekah Brooks, they live close to | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
each other in west Oxfordshire. So, the Prime Minister finds himself | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
associated with the past of the News International, not least, of | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
course, because he hired Andy Coulson, the former editor of the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
paper as director of communications, and also responsible for the future, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
because still hanging over all of this is the decision about whether | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
Rupert Murdoch's company should take over the whole of British Sky | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Broadcasting. That is a decision for Ministers and the sense | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
everyone has really is that Rupert Murdoch is getting rid of the | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
tphaoups in order to - News of the World in order to protect the | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
bigger revenues from taking over BSkyB. This is not a comfortable | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
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evening in Downing Street. They are wondering what they should do next. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
The rest of the news now. A man has become the first person ever | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
convicted of trafficking women out of Britain. Anthony Harrison has | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
been sentenced to 20 years after imprisoning two teenage Nigerian | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
girls at his home in east London before attempting to traffic them | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
to Spain and Greece as prostitutes. Jon Brain reports. | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Anthony Harrison was a man who lived a double life. A caretaker | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
for his local council, who was also a key player in a sophisticated | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
network of people traffickers. A network that used fear and magic | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
rituals to ter rice its victims -- ter rice its victims. This was | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Harrison recorded on CCTV at a money exchange. The blurred figure | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
with him is a 16-year-old girl smuggled into the UK from Nigeria. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
The plan, to traffic her to the continent for a life of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
prostitution. TRANSLATION: | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
I had to promise I would do prostitution to pay the money. I | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
had to promise I am not going to speak to anyone about what really | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
happened to me. They said I am going to die, I believed it. | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
other girl obeyed because in Nigeria they had undergone a juju | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
magic ritual similar to this one shown to the jury. They believed | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
they were being controlled by evil forces. | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
They took them to a juju practitioner, a juju priest, to go | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
through a ceremony to instill terror into them and so it meant | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
that when the young women were here in this country they still felt | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
that the power of that curse could still reach them. Harrison kept his | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
victims prisoner here at his home in east London. Two fright bed -- | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
frightened girls from small Nigeriaen villages with no previous | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
experience of the outside world but the plan was to move them on as | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
quickly as possible. Detectives say they've never come | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
across a case quite like it. have two young girls that were | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
trafficked into the UK and trafficked out, which is very | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
unusual from our experience. I think if you add to that the juju | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
element where they've been convinced they're going to die and | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
really brainwashed around the juju it's unusual for us. Tonight, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Harrison is beginning a 20-year jail sentence. His victims have | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
been allowed to stay in Britain to try and rebuild their lives. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
The Bank of England has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
0.5%. But in the eurozone rates are going up. The European Central Bank | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
has announced an increase of 0.25%. It now stands at 1.5%. The increase | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
is controversial at a time when a strong recovery is needed in debt- | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
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They've managed to perform transplant surgery without using a | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
donor organ. Instead, the team replaced a windpipe with the | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
world's first synthetic organ. Here is our medical correspondent. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
This is how the world's first synthetic organ was made, dipping a | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
glass mould into a liquid pollinor, set to create an exact copy of the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
patient's windpipe. It was created in these labs in London and then | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
flown to Sweden. Once in Stockholm the windpipe was bathed in a | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
solution of stem cells taken from the patient's bone marrow. After | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
just two days the millions of tiny holes in its surface were seeded by | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
cells, a synthetic body part had become the patient's own. | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
And here it is in the operating theatre being cut to size moments | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
before being transplanted. The ability to create a 3-D synthetic | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
organ is a significant moment in this field of surgery. This | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
technique does not rely at all on a human donation. You can have it | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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immediately. There's no delay and, most important, you still do not | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
need any profession. The patient knows without the transplant he | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
would have died. His voice is still recovering. The difference is | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
between living and not living. what next? | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Just look at this. It's a one metre long synthetic artery made in this | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
machine in London in just 20 minutes. It's one of many body | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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parts the scientists say they can We can make hard fibres, a bigger | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
diameter for the heart. And we are moving it to other parts of the | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
body as well. There are limits. This cannot be used to create | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
complex organs like the heart, liver or kidney. But scientists | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
hope this points the way to more transplants without the weight for | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
a donor. Our top story tonight: An | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
extraordinary moment in British journalism as the News of the World | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
announces it is shutting down, victim of its own phone hacking | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
scandal. The end of an era for Harry Potter, | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
as the final instalment premieres in London this evening. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
Later on the BBC News Channel, two- speed Europe. UK interest rates | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
stay on hold again but eurozone rates rise. BSkyB shares take | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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another hit in the wake of the Half a million people are expected | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
to gather along Florida's coast tomorrow to watch the space shuttle | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Atlantis lift off for the last time. It is the final fight for the | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
shuttle programme that began 30 years ago in America. The | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
astronauts will blast off from the Kennedy Space Centre tomorrow | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
afternoon, weather permitting. Our correspondent is there for us now. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Thank you. It is the Florida rainy season, so it is very hot and | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
stormy, not ideal weather for launching a space shuttle. It is so | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
murky that you can probably hardly see it a few miles away over my | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
shoulder on the horizon. There is an extraordinary atmosphere, great | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
pride at what the shuttles have achieved and sadness about the two | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
that were lost. And all of this amount the tension of a countdown. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
Atlantis, on the launch pad. The last of its kind, poised for the | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
final mission. It has taken weeks of effort to get to this moment. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
The space shuttles have been flying for 30 years and now this Lord will | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
mark the end for while of America's ability to send people into orbit. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
It is bound to be an emotional time for these senior engineers. Will | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
you feel sad? I absolutely have shed tears at each of the landings | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
of the last two. I will do the same when this one lands. We have just | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
put so much into this programme as a nation. There will be tears of | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
pride and joy. This massive building is where they have been | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
assembling the space shuttles and before them, the Apollo rockets | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
that took men to the moon. But the shuttle's just won't be remembered | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
in the same way. Their job was to deliver people at cargo into orbit | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
and they have had real successes. The Hubble telescope was moved up | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
on a shuttle and later repaired. The result, these spectacular | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
images of the most distant reaches of the universe. The shuttle has | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
also built the International Space Station, an orbiting Laboratory now | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
the size of a football field. But there has been a heavy cost. In | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
1986, the Challenger exploded. All seven people on board were killed, | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
including a teacher invited along to show how safe space travel was. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
And then in 2003, the Columbia broke up, another seven people were | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
killed. A disastrous record for an aircraft that was meant to make | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
reaching orbit routine. Real a, these events are quite remarkable. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
They have come with tremendous cost, but anything of this kind of value | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
comes with tremendous cost. I think the greater the value, often the | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
greater the cost. And for now, all eyes are on the images from space | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
of the storms over Florida. Conditions do not look good. Dark | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
clouds over the launch pad, lift of may be delayed. Even space-age | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
technology can be humbled by the weather. They are now hoping for a | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
break in the cloud. The launches scheduled for just before 4:30pm | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
your time tomorrow afternoon. Thank you. There has been strong | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
criticism today of the police and adult social services over the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
death of a man whose headless body was found in a lake in Bedfordshire | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
two years ago. He had been tortured and exploited for his benefit money. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
Six people were jailed over his murder. Three years of abuse and | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
brutality, Michael Gilbert was as vulnerable as a child. Not able to | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
defend himself against tormentors, he was capped as a slave, beaten | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
for entertainment and hunted down when he tried to escape. He died | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
aged 26 from his injuries, murdered by the whole -- household that had | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
taken in vain as a vulnerable teenager. It was four months before | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
his dismembered body was found at the bottom of a lake. Nobody had | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
reported him missing. His disappearance went and then -- went | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
unnoticed. He had been scared to report the violence to the police. | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has found failings by | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
those that should have supported Michael Gilbert as a child from a | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
difficult home, ending up in care. They found that the support they | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
received in residential care was severely wanting. There was no | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
sustained interest in his welfare after he left. And that is only | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
options for the future became sad, bad or mad. With the benefit of | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
hindsight it might have been clear that Michael was an adult at risk. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
At the time these events were happening, it might not always have | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
been clear. With no support network, according to the review, he became | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
a victim of the extravagant cruelty of the family that took him in. He | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
died in what was their home, and while the three people convicted of | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
his murder are now in prison, the findings today raise questions | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
about whether his killing could have been prevented. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Finally, it has become the biggest film franchise of all time. Tonight, | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
at fans of the boy wizard will be saying a fond farewell. The final | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
instalment of Harry Potter premieres in London receiving and | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
it is the end of an era after seven books and eight films. -- this | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
evening. Thousands of fans have gathered in Trafalgar Square, many | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
camping for days to glimpse the stars. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
The premiere is being held in Trafalgar Square and it is | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
overflowing with people all hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars. | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
Speaking of stars, in his only UK TV interview, I spoke to Daniel | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
Radcliffe ahead of the premier of one of cinema's best-known film | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
series. They have been gathering here for days. Fans from afar. Fans | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
in full dress. Fans with face paint, frantic to feel part of the final | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
chapter of the saga. You have been with us from the start and you will | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
be with us for ever and ever. I have so many feelings inside me. I | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
am so happy to be here, to meet the actors. But it is ending, too. I | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
have been following it all my life. They are not the only ones for whom | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
today is emotional. Daniel Radcliffe was only 11 when he | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
started the magical journey that has taken up half his life. A | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
journey that is now over. It is like a girlfriend that you have had | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
for 10 years, and then you go your separate ways that you will be left | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
with so many amazing memories. It is a sad thing. Few stories have | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
made the impact that Harry Potter has. The books are credited with | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
getting a generation excited about reading again, improving children's | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
literacy. Making the movies in the UK was a huge factor in sustaining | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
the British film industry's skill base. And as a result, Hollywood | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
studios are committed to producing more big-budget films in Britain. | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
The film's now not so young star is currently acting in a Broadway | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
musical as he tries to shake of his child star mantle. That will not be | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
harmed by an admission that his decade-long transformation from shy | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
unknown into one of the world's most recognisable faces has | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
sometimes been accompanied by problems with alcohol. He said that | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
never affected filming and was not due to the pressure of work. | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
Basically, the version that can appear on Twitter of the last few | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
years was that I drank, my drinking led me to become unhappy, now I | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
have stopped and I am much happier. The cast arrived to a massive | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
welcome from fans tonight. For them and millions like them, the film | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
series has been almost as much a part of their life as it has been | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
for the stars. Harry Potter is the most successful film franchise of | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
all time, bigger than James Bond or Star Wars. The studio behind the | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
series will also be bidding a sad farewell to their magical money- | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
Thank you. How is the weather? It is dry in London for the moment. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Yes, at the moment, but nothing magical about the weather. There | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
have been some heavy showers and some thunder and lightning. A | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
subtle change this weekend. I think the balance will tip and more of us | :26:00. | :26:10. | |
will see more blue skies. It gets very wet and windy across southern | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
parts of England. The rain will sweep into Wales, knocking on the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
door of Northern Ireland later on. Try a further East, but showers | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
always possible. -- drier. Heavy rain edging into County Down. Heavy | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
rain through parts of Wales and gusty winds. Cool at 8 o'clock in | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the morning. The worst of the overnight rain will have cleared | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
across South West England but heavy showers rattling in on that breeze, | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
with just some fleeting brightness. In London there will be some nasty | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
wet weather for your early morning commute. East of that, it will be | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
dry and bright in East Anglia, but generally a lot of cloud and heavy | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
rain pushing in two parts of northern England fairly promptly. | :27:01. | :27:10. | |
Scotland's not doing too badly. The Scottish Open will start and then | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
we will see some action. This has owned a long northern England will | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
see some disruptive showers. -- this area along more than England. | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
It will be cooler, maybe up to 21 degrees in the South East. At the | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
weekend, a slow improvement. There will still be some showers around | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
on Sunday buck the trend will be for fewer showers, especially in | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
the South. Thank you. | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
An extraordinary moment tonight as the News of the World is too close, | :27:48. | :27:56. | |
victim of its own phone Hacking's - - phone hacking scandal. What does | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
this mean for Murdoch and his empire? They hope this will improve | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
things for there but I am not sure if it will make the difference they | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
would like. The big prize they are after is full control of BSkyB, but | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
there are many critics of that deal. Today we learn that 100,000 people | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
have petitioned the Culture Secretary to try to block that deal. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
James Murdoch, at Rupert Murdoch, they will hope that in closing down | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
the News of the World they have glanced the boil, show they are | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
prepared to take dramatic action against a business that went | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
seriously wrong, in their words. But in the extraordinary state then | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
James Murdoch made today, he admitted that under their ownership | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
for years, not only was the business controlled but they did | :28:41. | :28:50. |