:00:09. > :00:12.The Royal Family is drawn into the News Of The World phone hacking
:00:13. > :00:15.scandal. The BBC learns of internal emails suggesting the paper tried
:00:15. > :00:25.to buy their confidential phone numbers from a royal protection
:00:25. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:29.officer. If, as is alleged, somebody has taken money to
:00:29. > :00:33.disclose telephone numbers not only of the Royal Family but the people
:00:33. > :00:36.who work with them and for them and for their friends, it is an
:00:36. > :00:38.appalling breach of security. allegations that the former Prime
:00:38. > :00:41.Minister, Gordon Brown, was targetted by two other News
:00:41. > :00:47.International papers. As pressure mounts, Rupert Murdoch's bid to
:00:47. > :00:52.takeover the satellite broadcaster, BSkyB is referred to the regulators.
:00:52. > :00:58.I am now going to refer this to the Competition Commission with
:00:58. > :01:03.immediate effect, and will be writing to them this afternoon.
:01:03. > :01:05.Speaker, on BSkyB, this Government is in complete disarray. Also on
:01:05. > :01:07.tonight's programme: One of the country's biggest care home
:01:08. > :01:12.operators is closing down, but thousands of residents are assured
:01:12. > :01:21.new landlords will be found. The humanitarian emergency in East
:01:21. > :01:26.Africa - the UN asks Kenya to open up this unused camp to refugees. We
:01:26. > :01:30.are live in Tahrir Square, where the Egyptian revolution is at a
:01:30. > :01:40.crossroads. Protesters keep up the pressure, saying their uprising is
:01:40. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:05.Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. The News Of The World
:02:05. > :02:07.phone hacking scandal has widened dramatically, with new evidence
:02:07. > :02:12.suggesting that senior royals, including the Queen, and former
:02:12. > :02:15.Prime Minister Gordon Brown, were targeted. The BBC has learnt of
:02:15. > :02:25.emails which reveal the paper tried to pay a royal protection officer
:02:25. > :02:30.for confidential phone numbers of the Royal Family. It's also been
:02:30. > :02:33.alleged that other News International papers targeted
:02:33. > :02:35.Gordon Brown. Brown. This afternoon, following the latest allegations,
:02:35. > :02:37.the Government intervened and referred Rupert Murdoch's bid for
:02:37. > :02:39.overall control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB to the
:02:39. > :02:45.Competition Commission. Our business editor, Robert Peston, has
:02:45. > :02:50.the latest. The head of state, the Royal Family, her and her
:02:50. > :02:53.protection is the duty of the royal protection branch. The integrity of
:02:53. > :02:59.those officers must sure I will be beyond doubt, but this morning I
:02:59. > :03:05.learned that e-mails uncovered by News International uncovered as
:03:05. > :03:08.long ago as 2007 but kept secret alleged that royal protection
:03:08. > :03:12.officers were paid for private information about the Royal Family.
:03:12. > :03:15.It emerged that the phones of Prince Charles and the Duchess of
:03:15. > :03:20.Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall may have been hacked.
:03:20. > :03:24.Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced Royal Editor, was
:03:24. > :03:28.requesting cash from the newspaper's editor Andy Coulson to
:03:28. > :03:32.buy a confidential directory called the Green Book of the Royal
:03:32. > :03:36.Family's landline telephones numbers and all the numbers of the
:03:36. > :03:40.household staff. The e-mail implys that the police officer in the
:03:40. > :03:42.royal protection branch had stolen the directory and wanted �1,000 for
:03:42. > :03:47.the directory and wanted �1,000 for it. We don't know the full facts
:03:47. > :03:50.but if as is alleged somebody has taken money to disclose telephone
:03:50. > :03:54.numbers not only of the Royal Family but people who work with
:03:54. > :03:58.them and for them and their friends, it is an appalling breach of
:03:58. > :04:02.security. These latest disclosures about systemic wrongdoing at the
:04:02. > :04:07.News Of The World couldn't have come at a worse time for News
:04:07. > :04:11.Corporation, because it is trying to buy all of one of the most
:04:11. > :04:15.important media businesses in the UK, BSkyB. Although Rupert Murdoch
:04:15. > :04:21.is credited as the founder of sky scirks News Corporation owns just
:04:21. > :04:25.39% of it. The reason he wants 100% is because BSkyB is a growing
:04:25. > :04:29.business, generating huge amounts of cash. This year's profits are
:04:29. > :04:33.expected to be close to �1 billion. Whereas revenues of his famous
:04:33. > :04:40.newspapers, those left after the closure of the News Of The World,
:04:40. > :04:45.are under pressure. For the past year Mr Murdoch has been arguing
:04:45. > :04:52.his take-over should be allowed to go through without a lengthy
:04:52. > :04:56.investigation by the Competition Commission. This afternoon, in a
:04:56. > :05:01.dramatic volte-face, Mr Murdoch withdrew the undertakings, in
:05:01. > :05:04.effect asking for the deal to go to the Competition Commission, because
:05:04. > :05:08.the delay in the take-over is better for them than the
:05:08. > :05:13.alternative of abandoning it. result of News Corporation's
:05:13. > :05:16.announcement this afternoon, I am now going to refer this to the
:05:17. > :05:20.Competition Commission with immediate effect and will be
:05:20. > :05:24.writing to them this afternoon. the Leader of the Opposition didn't
:05:24. > :05:29.want the hear from Mr Hunt. Prime Minister was wrong not to
:05:29. > :05:34.come to the House of Commons today. As on every occasion during this
:05:34. > :05:38.crisis, he has failed to show the necessary leadership the country
:05:38. > :05:42.expects. Here's what the Prime Minister said out of earshot of Mr
:05:42. > :05:46.Miliband. All I would say is this. If I was running that company right
:05:46. > :05:49.now, with all of the problems and the difficulties and the mess
:05:49. > :05:53.frankly that there is, I think they should be focused on clearing those
:05:53. > :05:57.up rather than on the next corporate move. Earlier in the day
:05:57. > :06:02.the Deputy Prime Minister met the family of the murdered schoolgirl
:06:02. > :06:07.Dowler doubt. It was the disclosure that her phone had been hacked by
:06:07. > :06:13.News Of The World that it's so much damage to the reputation of Mr
:06:13. > :06:18.Murdoch's company. That's when I remembered the bit about picking up
:06:19. > :06:23.the voicemail. Did it give you the hope that maybe something... Yes,
:06:23. > :06:27.it did. For Rupert Murdoch a week has been an eternity in business
:06:28. > :06:32.and why a long delay in the BSkyB bid is now for him perhaps the best
:06:32. > :06:35.he can hope for. The BBC has learnt that two other
:06:35. > :06:37.News International papers allegedly targeted the former Prime Minister,
:06:37. > :06:40.Gordon Brown. Documents and a telephone recording suggest illegal
:06:40. > :06:44.attempts were made by the Sunday Times to obtain his private
:06:44. > :06:47.financial and property details while he was Chancellor. The Brown
:06:47. > :06:51.family are also worried that The Sun newspaper may have tried to get
:06:51. > :06:54.hold of medical records relating to their son, Fraser. This report by
:06:54. > :07:03.our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, contains some flash
:07:03. > :07:07.photography. The allegations relate to the period before Gordon Brown
:07:07. > :07:11.became Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor, The Guardian of the
:07:11. > :07:15.nation's finances. In 1992 he bought a flat in this block in
:07:15. > :07:20.Westminster. Eight years later the Sunday Times ran this story,
:07:20. > :07:24.suggesting it was purchased for a knockdown price. Now the BBC's
:07:24. > :07:34.received this tape of a phone call to a law firm which appears to
:07:34. > :07:47.
:07:47. > :07:54.reveal how the information was Mr Beardall, the man interestinged
:07:54. > :07:59.in the flat, was Barry Beardall, who was adept at getting
:07:59. > :08:04.information in for the newspapers. He claimed -- it is claimed he
:08:04. > :08:11.worked for Sunday Times. Somebody called Abbey National in Bradford
:08:11. > :08:15.six times pretending to be Gordon Brown. Letters obtained by the BBC
:08:15. > :08:18.show the Abbey wrote to Gordon Brown raising concerns that someone
:08:18. > :08:22.was masquerading as him. A letter was drafted to Sunday Times,
:08:22. > :08:27.setting out detailed concerns, though the Abbey send it couldn't
:08:27. > :08:31.prove the paper was involved. All this goes beyond the original phone
:08:31. > :08:36.hacking allegations to another of the dark arts of journalism - so-
:08:36. > :08:39.called blagging. It works like this. A newspaper pays someone to ring up
:08:39. > :08:42.perhaps a Medical Center or a bank and get the person who answers the
:08:42. > :08:47.phone to give out private information. Being a blagger
:08:48. > :08:52.require as steady nerve and a degree of acting ability. Obtaining
:08:52. > :08:58.personal data, personal information about another person from a company
:08:58. > :09:02.that controls that data, that has that data, that is quite clearly a
:09:02. > :09:06.criminal offence. What is unclear is the extent to which a journalist
:09:06. > :09:09.can say I have a defence to that, because I'm doing this, I'm
:09:09. > :09:14.obtaining that information in the public interest. One of the most
:09:14. > :09:21.disturbing incidents for the Browns surrounded their son Fraser, here
:09:21. > :09:26.in the arms of his fear in 2006. A Sun article revealed he had cystic
:09:26. > :09:36.fibrosis. The Browns are understood to be worried that information was
:09:36. > :09:41.
:09:41. > :09:43.They were told Mr Brown's details were in the notebooks of
:09:43. > :09:48.investigator Glenn Mulcaire. News International says it is
:09:48. > :09:53.investigating the allegations. James Landale is at Westminster.
:09:53. > :09:57.James, we've had more revelations today and this decision to send the
:09:57. > :10:01.BSkyB take-over bid back to the regulators. Where does it leave the
:10:02. > :10:06.Government? Is it off the hook? don't think it is off the hook but
:10:06. > :10:09.it's got itself more breathing space today. The referral to the
:10:09. > :10:14.Competition Commission creates an automatic six month-plus breathing
:10:14. > :10:18.space. In the Government sitting on its hands looking at consultations
:10:18. > :10:21.but a formal pause whereby any decision is taken out of its hands.
:10:21. > :10:24.The Government has tried to give itself political space. The Prime
:10:24. > :10:27.Minister said if he was Rupert Murdoch he was concentrate on
:10:27. > :10:31.clearing up the mess of News International, not the next
:10:31. > :10:34.corporate move. The Deputy Prime Minister saying more explicitly
:10:34. > :10:37.that Rupert Murdoch should just drop the bid. The Government this
:10:37. > :10:42.afternoon in the House of Commons came under the most extraordinary
:10:42. > :10:45.political pressure. Above all the Labour leader, Ed Miliband,
:10:45. > :10:49.questioning David Cameron's account of how he came to employ Andy
:10:49. > :10:53.Coulson, the former editor of News Of The World, as his head of
:10:53. > :10:58.communications. Mr Miliband said it beggars belief that Mr Cameron's
:10:58. > :11:01.officials did not pass on warnings agent Andy Coulson to the Prime
:11:01. > :11:04.Minister. He added this, issue goes to the heart of the Prime
:11:04. > :11:09.Minister's integrity, which is parliamentary integrity for saying,
:11:09. > :11:13.I don't believe you. The Conservatives said Labour had done
:11:13. > :11:17.nothing about this in their years in office. But tonight it is Labour
:11:17. > :11:21.MPs in the Commons who've got their tails up.
:11:21. > :11:24.In other news: The Government is trying to reassure more than 30,000
:11:24. > :11:27.care home residents after the news that one of the country's biggest
:11:27. > :11:30.care operators is closing down. Southern Cross owns more than 750
:11:31. > :11:33.residential homes. It says it hopes to transfer all of them to new
:11:33. > :11:41.landlords. The Department of Health says no-one will be made homeless.
:11:41. > :11:44.Here's our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt. 31,000
:11:45. > :11:51.elderly and vulnerable people rely on Southern Cross for their care
:11:51. > :11:55.and security. Its multi-million pound losss have led to months of
:11:55. > :12:00.uncertainty about the future of the homes it runs in the UK. But today
:12:00. > :12:04.it announced it is handing them back to the landlords who own them.
:12:04. > :12:08.Brian's wife Doreen is in one of the homes. She has Alzheimer's. He
:12:08. > :12:13.wants to know what today's announcement will mean for
:12:13. > :12:18.individual residents. He is worried that some homes will close.
:12:18. > :12:24.trauma if they had to move could have fatal consequences. It could
:12:24. > :12:27.hasten their deaths. They are very unwell people. So, what will
:12:27. > :12:32.today's announcement mean in practice for Southern Cross care
:12:32. > :12:36.homes? The company runs 752 homes. They are owned by 80 landlords. A
:12:36. > :12:41.few of the larger landlords already operate care homes, so they are
:12:41. > :12:45.expected to take over the running of about 250 Southern Cross homes.
:12:45. > :12:51.But that leaves just over 5 00 where decisions need to be made
:12:51. > :12:56.about their future. The company insists there will be continuity of
:12:56. > :13:00.care. Our obligation and our responsibility is to ensure that
:13:00. > :13:05.every single member of staff has a safeguarded job going forward in
:13:05. > :13:10.the care home, that every resident is well cared for. We will ensure
:13:10. > :13:12.ta the process of transitioning homes to new operators very well
:13:12. > :13:17.organised. Most people in care homes are funded by local
:13:17. > :13:22.authorities. They now want to see what in means on a home by home
:13:22. > :13:26.basis. Peter Hay has been representing the authorities during
:13:26. > :13:31.negotiations with Southern Cross. This has been and remains an
:13:31. > :13:36.anxious time for residents and relatives. Today really starts to
:13:36. > :13:40.build a position where we'll have a clear idea of a timeline for
:13:40. > :13:49.residents and relatives about knowing what the proposals are at
:13:49. > :13:52.their care home. He insists that few homes will close but unions say
:13:52. > :13:56.there is too much uncertainty to know. Our concern is that the
:13:56. > :13:59.decision made by the landlords could mean out of the frying pan
:13:59. > :14:02.and into the fire. There is very little-known about many of the
:14:02. > :14:07.landlords. A number of them already have financial difficulties.
:14:07. > :14:10.Government promises no-one will be left homeless or without care. Even
:14:10. > :14:20.so, residents still want certainty about what will happen to their
:14:20. > :14:20.
:14:20. > :14:23.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, said the change didn't mean the
:14:23. > :14:28.overall threat had gone away and that a terrorist attack remains a
:14:28. > :14:34.strong possibility. There are five levels of threat, a raging from low
:14:34. > :14:40.- meaning an attack is unlikely - to critical, - meaning one is
:14:40. > :14:44.likely. An overloaded tourist boat sank on the Volga River in Russia.
:14:44. > :14:48.More than 120 people are feared dead and dozens of children are
:14:48. > :14:52.still missing, since the boat capsized on Sunday. Tomorrow will
:14:52. > :14:55.be a day of mourning across Russia for the victims. There's been a
:14:55. > :15:01.huge response from the British public to the drought in East
:15:01. > :15:06.Africa, with �9 million donated in the last 48 hours. The UN says it's
:15:06. > :15:09.a humanitarian emergency and it is urging Kenya to open up a refugee
:15:10. > :15:13.camp completed last year but never used. The Kenyan government fears
:15:13. > :15:18.the facilities might discourage refugees from returning home. At
:15:18. > :15:26.the moment, more than 350,000 people are sheltering in the nearby
:15:26. > :15:31.Dadaab Ref -- refugee camp. And still they come, the weary and
:15:31. > :15:37.hungry. More than 1000 people turn up at the refugee camp every day.
:15:37. > :15:41.Some having walked for weeks. This woman's story is tragic yet
:15:41. > :15:47.depressingly familiar. The drought in Somalia drove her here but her
:15:47. > :15:52.husband was too ill to travel. He told me, save yourself, save our
:15:52. > :15:56.children, don't stay around here to die. Some in her village were
:15:56. > :16:03.already dead. But too many refugees are now converging on this camp.
:16:03. > :16:08.Built to hold 90,000 people, almost 400,000 have now called at home.
:16:08. > :16:12.And yet a short drive away another refugee camps it's empty. The local
:16:12. > :16:17.authority allowed the UN to build this place last year. There's
:16:17. > :16:21.enough water on tap for 80,000 people. But the government in
:16:21. > :16:26.Nairobi, fearing refugees might not want to return home, stopped
:16:26. > :16:30.construction and shut the place. Meanwhile, at the Dadaab camp, the
:16:30. > :16:40.woman has collected her sleeping bags, pots and pans and her little
:16:40. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:43.food. When she will see her husband again, no one knows. Our top story
:16:43. > :16:48.- new evidence suggests that the personal details of senior royals
:16:48. > :16:54.were sold to the News of the World by a royal protection officer.
:16:55. > :16:59.Coming up... You can stick your Tory cats. Thousands of council
:16:59. > :17:05.workers in Southampton have until tonight to accept a pay cut or face
:17:05. > :17:09.redundancy. News Corp share price slides. Fresh allegations come to
:17:09. > :17:19.light about wrongdoing at its papers. And the euro debt crisis
:17:19. > :17:21.
:17:21. > :17:25.spreads. There are now fears over It's now six months since the Arab
:17:25. > :17:30.spring exploded across North Africa and the Middle East. The toppling
:17:30. > :17:33.of Tunisia's President in January triggered a spring of uprisings.
:17:33. > :17:37.But now many who took part are asking whether they've got the
:17:37. > :17:44.change they wanted. We'll be hearing from them this week. We've
:17:44. > :17:48.been gauging the mood in Cairo's famous Tahrir Square.
:17:48. > :17:53.Good evening. This patch of hot, dusty land in the middle of Cairo
:17:53. > :17:58.has come to symbolise the hopes and dreams of people, not just here in
:17:58. > :18:01.this city but right across the region. In the last few days the
:18:01. > :18:09.placards, slogans and protesters, they are back in their thousands,
:18:09. > :18:13.because many believe their uprising is in the protest of being betrayed.
:18:13. > :18:18.These people have been shouting the loudest. But what about those who
:18:18. > :18:23.don't come to Tahrir Square? Those people who are just trying to earn
:18:23. > :18:29.an honest day's living - what do they think about this revolution?
:18:29. > :18:36.We travelled on a commuter bus across town to find out. Hot, dusty
:18:36. > :18:42.and crowded. Life up for Cairo's 8 million people has always been
:18:42. > :18:47.hectic. Now add to that political uncertainty. The daily commute has
:18:47. > :18:51.become a daily debate. There is one man who ought to know what people
:18:51. > :18:57.are talking about and thinking about, it's the bus conductor. I'm
:18:57. > :19:01.going to see if we can talk to him. Five or six months ago, did you
:19:01. > :19:08.even hear the word democracy on this bus?
:19:08. > :19:15.TRANSLATION: It was all hush hush. Nobody wanted to talk about those
:19:15. > :19:21.things. The state had eyes and ears everywhere, he said. Many people
:19:21. > :19:31.look at a police officer and they link you to the old regime. Do you
:19:31. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:38.think that is fair? He says they were just doing their job. All
:19:38. > :19:42.change at one of Cairo's many markets. The uprising has affected
:19:42. > :19:52.the economy - prices are soaring and the new minimum wage is not
:19:52. > :19:53.
:19:53. > :19:59.keeping pace. The local cellars say takings are down. Nothing is
:19:59. > :20:05.happening, he says, the market is empty and there's no work. My day,
:20:05. > :20:09.and I joined the regulars at the nearby coffee house. The
:20:09. > :20:19.conversation went from sport to politics. Many fear the revolution
:20:19. > :20:25.
:20:25. > :20:32.is being subverted, that fundamental change is slipping away.
:20:32. > :20:36.The regime has gone now. No. Time to head back into town. I was left
:20:36. > :20:43.feeling that ordinary Egyptians were losing patience. That change
:20:43. > :20:49.will come slowly, says Fatma. hope all the problem will be solved.
:20:49. > :20:57.So it's tough now but you hope it's going to get better? Insha Allah,
:20:57. > :21:01.we hope for the best. The burned- out shell of the former party
:21:01. > :21:07.headquarters towers over Tahrir Square. The Old and New Order. The
:21:07. > :21:11.battle between them is still not over. That is why many people here,
:21:11. > :21:15.even in Tahrir Square, are talking about their revolution being at a
:21:15. > :21:22.crossroads. It's beginning to dawn on these thousands of protesters
:21:22. > :21:25.that getting rid of Mubarak all those months of a -- ago may have
:21:25. > :21:30.been the easy part. Rebuilding a new Egypt, that's turning out to be
:21:30. > :21:33.a much bigger challenge than any of them imagined. I will have more at
:21:33. > :21:39.Ten when Jeremy Bowen will be reporting from Tunisia, which is
:21:39. > :21:45.the country where this great Arab uprising actually began. For now,
:21:45. > :21:48.back to the studio. Here, David Cameron has been outlining the
:21:48. > :21:52.Government's plans to reform public sector services, including those
:21:52. > :21:54.provided by local councils. The Prime Minister says he wants the
:21:54. > :21:58.public sector opened up to competitions from business,
:21:58. > :22:04.charities and the voluntary sector, and that his plans were driven by a
:22:04. > :22:07.determination to get things done. We want to see democracy on a
:22:07. > :22:11.properly local scale. You on the people you know, the people you
:22:11. > :22:15.waved to on your way to work, they are going to have genuine control
:22:15. > :22:20.over the things that matter to you. Improvements to your streets,
:22:20. > :22:23.Rhodes, local parks. Meanwhile, thousands of council workers in
:22:23. > :22:27.Southampton have until tonight to accept a pay cut or face redundancy.
:22:27. > :22:31.The council wants them to sign new employment contract, saying that
:22:31. > :22:34.will save on the number of redundancies it will make. But the
:22:34. > :22:39.unite union claims the council could be planning to sack up to a
:22:39. > :22:43.quarter of its workforce anyway. Seven weeks into an increasingly
:22:43. > :22:50.bitter dispute, they can be no ignoring the impact it is having on
:22:50. > :22:55.daily life here. You can stick your Tory cats! Council staff have been
:22:55. > :22:59.given until tonight to sign new contracts accepting pay cuts, which
:22:59. > :23:04.their employers claim will save a 400 jobs and protect services. Most
:23:04. > :23:07.are expected to sign but remain concerned at reports that wider and
:23:07. > :23:12.deeper cuts are yet to come. It's not just for us, it's got up and
:23:12. > :23:16.down the country. If we don't make a stand now, it makes us look weak
:23:16. > :23:19.and makes all the other councils look weak. And at the policy
:23:19. > :23:23.adopted by SAT Pontins conservative controlled council has been growing
:23:23. > :23:29.since the proposal to cut pay was approved earlier this year.
:23:29. > :23:33.those in favour. Against. Today's escalation of strike action has hit
:23:33. > :23:37.virtually every department and could disrupt operations at the
:23:37. > :23:40.city's docks. But the council leader maintains that the �25
:23:40. > :23:43.million reduction in Southampton's but it leaves him with no option.
:23:43. > :23:47.think that people can see that people in work on slightly less
:23:47. > :23:52.money is better than people being on the dole queue looking for a job.
:23:52. > :23:56.Not only that, but those people who provide valuable services can
:23:56. > :23:59.continue to provide valuable services to the taxpayer. Unions
:23:59. > :24:03.and councillors are only too aware that others are taking a keen
:24:03. > :24:06.interest in this dispute. Shropshire County Council, facing
:24:06. > :24:12.�76 million worth of savings, has already followed Southampton's lead
:24:12. > :24:17.- a strategy which may tempt yet more hard-pressed local authorities.
:24:17. > :24:19.The moment two classic US fighter planes collided during an air
:24:19. > :24:24.display in Cambridgeshire has been caught on video. One of the planes
:24:24. > :24:27.plummeted to the ground after their wings touched, forcing the pilot to
:24:27. > :24:31.parachute to safety. The pilot of the other plane managed to land
:24:31. > :24:36.safely. No one was injured at the accident at an airshow near Duxford
:24:36. > :24:39.at the weekend. More on our main news. The BBC learn today that the
:24:39. > :24:42.News of the World e-mails suggest that the paper tried to buy the
:24:42. > :24:46.confidential telephone numbers of senior royals from a royal
:24:46. > :24:49.protection officer. There are also allegations that the former Prime
:24:49. > :24:52.Minister, Gordon Brown, was targeted by two other News
:24:52. > :24:58.International papers. Rupert Murdoch's bid to take over BSkyB
:24:58. > :25:02.has now been referred to the regulators. With me is our business
:25:02. > :25:06.editor, Robert Peston. The allegations continue. Where does
:25:06. > :25:10.this leave News International? understand the full significance of
:25:10. > :25:13.these events today, one has to go back a week. A week ago, Rupert
:25:13. > :25:19.Murdoch was confident that within days he would get approval from
:25:19. > :25:23.Jeremy Hunt brought his cherished desire to own all of British Sky
:25:23. > :25:28.Broadcasting. And that 100 % of the UK's biggest broadcaster would be
:25:28. > :25:32.his within a matter of a few short months. Then we have that shocking
:25:32. > :25:37.disclosure that the News of the World had hacked into the mobile
:25:37. > :25:41.phone of the dead schoolgirl, Milly Dowler. And then we had Gorry
:25:41. > :25:44.revelation after Corey revelation about other malpractices at the
:25:44. > :25:48.News of the World, culminating today in the disclosure that he
:25:48. > :25:53.tried to buy confidential information about the Royal Family
:25:53. > :25:58.from a police officer whose job it was to protect the Royal Family. So
:25:58. > :26:01.what does Rupert Murdoch do today? He volunteers that the bid should
:26:01. > :26:05.be referred to the Competition Commission, which means there will
:26:05. > :26:10.be a delay of at least six months two years before the take up a can
:26:10. > :26:13.happen. That is precisely what he'd been fighting against for the past
:26:13. > :26:19.year. What does it tell you? It tells you quite what Dire Straits
:26:19. > :26:23.he is in. For him, a delay in the takeover means there is still a
:26:23. > :26:26.chance - maybe not a big chance -- he will get his dream of owning all
:26:26. > :26:30.of BSkyB, but that is better than doing what many politicians wanted
:26:30. > :26:40.him to do, which was to abandon that takeover altogether. What a
:26:40. > :26:49.difference for Rupert Murdoch just Before we and the programme, let's
:26:49. > :26:52.Most of us are having a delightful end to the day. But there are some
:26:52. > :26:56.notable exceptions. A few sharp showers knocking about. Just to the
:26:56. > :27:01.north of Glasgow are some heavy and thundery ones. They are lying down
:27:01. > :27:06.into parts of north-east England as well. One of two patches of Mr and
:27:06. > :27:10.low cloud through the night as temperatures he's down. We will
:27:10. > :27:17.stay in double figures for the most part. Tomorrow will stay fine and
:27:17. > :27:24.dry in many places. Again, there will be some local variations. In
:27:24. > :27:27.south-east England you can see what is knocking on the door. As we get
:27:27. > :27:31.into the middle of the afternoon across north east England, here we
:27:31. > :27:35.will stay largely fine and dry with some good spells of sunshine.
:27:35. > :27:38.Although there will be a few showers across Scotland, they won't
:27:38. > :27:43.be with the intensity and as widespread as we've seen recently.
:27:43. > :27:47.There's a good chance for Scotland and Northern Ireland to dodge the
:27:47. > :27:51.showers and stay dry. For Wales, particularly southern areas, some
:27:51. > :27:54.heavy showers getting going through the afternoon with the band and
:27:55. > :28:00.lightning. You could see some torrential downpours. Just a few
:28:00. > :28:04.miles away it stays entirely dry. Moving towards the south-east, more
:28:04. > :28:08.generally cloudy and rain pushing up from France. Uncertainty about
:28:08. > :28:14.how far north-west it gets. We could see quite a bit of rain into
:28:14. > :28:18.Essex as well through tomorrow night and Wednesday. Most of us
:28:18. > :28:26.will have another fine day on Wednesday. Broken cloud, sunshine
:28:26. > :28:31.and a few showers. Beyond that, it stays largely fine through Thursday
:28:31. > :28:39.but it looks as if things go downhill as we approach the weekend,