04/11/2011 BBC News at Six

G20 leaders leave Cannes with some agreement to boost finances, but no

detail on how to save the eurozone. There are strong words about how

the leaders will not allow Europe to fail.

TRANSLATION: We will fight to defend Europe and the euro. It's

not speculation. We will have the last word on this issue.

Realism too about the limits of what has been achieved and how much

remains to be done. We took some positive steps forward today, to

tealing the instability in the world -- dealing the instability in

the world economy. I will not pretend all the problems in the

eurozone have been fixed. They haven't. In Greece, protestors

gathered ahead of a crucial vote of confidence in the Government later

this evening. Also on tonight's programme: How officials have lost

track of a population of asylum seekers the size of Cambridge.

Today, 25 years ago, when one of football's most revered managers

made his debut at Manchester United. Coming up in Sportsday: We preview

the weekend's football, as Newcastle look to continue their

Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News. It was billed as the meeting

for world leaders to save the euro. As the various G20 leaders leave

Cannes after two days of negotiations, have they done it?

There was some agreement, but no detail or precise numbers. A

decision was taken to boost the resources of the International

Monetary Fund. By exactly how much has been deferred until next year.

Meanwhile, in Greece, which has dominated the G20 meeting there

were protests outside Parliament, ahead of a vote of confidence in

the Prime Minister, George It was not meant to be like this

and doesn't France's President Sarkozy know it? The summit he

chaired has not done what he wanted and it has not done what they

wanted. The Prime Minister and President Obama said there were six

weeks to save the euro. The six weeks are up and the euro is

certainly not saved. The British mutters about the Germans not

stumping up the cash and the Chinese who could don't see why

they should. The French President is not one to give up easily. He

insists the struggle goes on. TRANSLATION: We will fight to

defend Europe and the euro. It's not any amount of speculation or

anyone you like who will have the last word on this issue. Europe is

the best construction for the service of peace in the world.

All here in Cannes have been forced to watch and wait and worry about

events in Athens. Greece has been told, in effect, there's to be no

new deal, no choice but to stay in or get out. No point in a

referendum. No wonder they are calling it "the Greek tragedy."

Silvio Berlusconi could soon be waving goodbye to power, as his

country's finances are in chaos. He has been forced to accept that the

IMF will now look at Italy's books. He has turned down their offer of

cash. What this summit did not agree is who would pay what into

Europe's bail out fund, or who would pay too much to the IMF, the

International Monetary Fund, to ensure no other country can go the

way of Greece. For those outside the eurozone,

it's all rather frustrating and all rather puzzleing. I think I'm not

sure if it was Sarkozy, Merkel or Barroso, they joked with me that I

had a crash course on European politics over the past several days.

Crash course maybe an unfortunate choice of words. David Cameron is

warning that every day this crisis goes on is bad for the British

economy. But he claimed the G20 had made important workman like

progress. Isn't it starker than you are saying, there's no deal on the

eurozone and no deal on IMF financing? All the details have yet

to be done. The problem is not there is not a deal. The problem is

not all of the detail, all of the specifics, all the action has been

put in place. What they cannot do is string this out endlessly with

another round of conversations, discussions and negotiations. The

world can't wait. President Sarkozy hoped for so much

from his summit in Cannes. When it comes to the eurozone the word

still is. The G20 will boost the

international fund if needed. No numbers were forthcoming. The IMF

will monitor the reforms. Stephanie Flanders has been

speaking to the head of the IMF. End of summit, time to reflect on

whether the world's safer now than it was a few days ago, before all

the drama kicked off. This summit started with France and Germany

telling Greece it could not hold the eurozone to ransom. To many

here it felt like the eurozone was doing the same to the global

economy, asking the G20 to contribute to a fire wall that the

Europeans could not build for themselves. The answer, this

afternoon, came back, "No." Or at least, "Not yet." I asked the IMF's

managing director whether she was disappointed.

For the moment I have sufficient resources to face requests. If

there was a crisis, if there was escalating demands, then the

members of the IMF, present in the room today, said we'll put what it

takes to make sure you can continue to play the system. People on the

French side and other countries were saying we will see numbers in

that communique, we will see an increase. Is it not the case that

the rest of the world said, "No, this is Europe's job. We are not

coughing up any more money?" Everybody understands it is

Europe's job. The Europeans sitting at the table heard it. They said it,

it was their yob to face the crisis. Italy has -- Job to face the crisis.

Italy has asked. I am coming to Italy. I might be coming to Italy,

actually. I am invited. See! We will go

quarter terly. We will checked what Italy has promised it is delivering.

If it is not delivering I will say so. The problem for Italy was the

cost of borrowing was rising in the markets. It has leapt today on

hearing this news. It doesn't seem to be going well so far. Let's see

how things pan out. If you look at the way markets assess risks, it

east very bizarre. Two taboos have been broken. Europe's leaders have

formally drawn a link between Italy and the IMF and openly contemplated

the idea of a country leaving the euro. Now they have to hope they

have not tempted fate. Crowds of protestors gathered

outside the Parliament building in Athens ahead of a vote of

confidence in the Greek Government tonight. The Finance Ministry has

confirmed the planned referendum on the eurozone rescue package has

been abandoned. The question remains as to whether the vote will

throw the country into fresh chaos. Our Europe correspondent is in

Athens. Greek Members of Parliament have

been arriving this evening for a confidence vote that's too close to

call. Some Rebel MPs have indicated they may now back their leader,

even if he survives he is weakened. The country faces continuing

political uncertainty. This is the man at the eye of the

storm, Greece's Prime Minister caused panic when he suggested a

referendum on the latest debt bail out package for the country.

Many here feared a "no" vote might mean Greece having to leave the

euro and few want that. What the situation will be after leaving the

euro. I think it would be much worse than now.

If you leave the euro? If we leave the euro. I think that we will be

totally alone. Without the help of Europe, the things that will be

very difficult for Greece. Already though Europe is losing

confidence in Greece's ability to deal with its debt problem. This is

very much the epicentre of the global financial uncertainty at the

moment. Until the politicians in this

building can work out exactly who is going to run Greece, Europe

stands very little chance of being able to contain its debt crisis.

Already the political turbulence here is affecting other vulnerable

economies, especially Italy. In the cafes here, you find little

belief that the current politicians can get them out of this mess.

You never know. Maybe things need to get so dark before a great

leader comes around and makes a big change. Once again, tonight, there

is a demonstration. Anger outside the Parliament, and indeed.

-- inside. Even from members of the Prime Minister's own party.

We have been asked to vote in favour of a Government that

everyone knows has lost the trust of the people of grost and --

Greece and the international community. The next few hours will

determine much. The future of Greece's Prime Minister, the future

of his country and to a large extent the future of Europe.

We can speak now to our Europe editor who is in Athens. Whatever

the result of this vote of confidence in the Government

tonight the future for Greece is likely to remain unstable.

Absolutely, Fiona. Whatever the outcome there will be instability

here. If George Papandreou wins tonight, then people will be saying,

well how long will he stay in power? Can he decide to continue in

office? If he loses there'll be elections. Of course that brings

with it its own instability. There is a wider issue to all of this.

That is six weeks ago I remember being told that Europe had a

limited period of time, up until the G20 in order to come up with a

comprehensive package to sort out the eurozone. It has made a start,

but no more than that. If you look at the G20 there was one big

question which needed answering, needed details. If a big country

like Italy got into difficulty where was the rescue fund. Where

was the fire power that would ensure it did not bring down the

rest of the global economy? That central question as to how to help

out the big economies in the eurozone, after all these meetings,

still remains to be answered. Thank you.

The owner of British Airways, International Airlines Group is set

to buy BMI. The sale has been agreed in principal by BMI's owners,

Lufthansa, but will have to be cleared by regulators. The airline

which employs 3,500 people lost �130 million in the first nine

months of this year. Detectives investigating allegation that the

reporters made illegal payments to police have arrested a News

International employee. Jamie Pyatt is understood to be the first Sun

journalist to have been held in connection with either of Scotland

Yard's inquiries into inappropriate payments or phone hacking.

Immigration officials are being accused of losing track of more

than 100,000 asylum seekers. A report says the UK Border Agency

has no idea of where the warrants of 120,000 people. The Government

insists it is making progress on sorting out what was, it claims a

chaotic system. Cambridge, population roughly

124,000. That about sums up the size of

Britain's immigration backlog. That is the number of failed asylum

seekers and immigration applicants the system has lost track of. Their

cases effectively shelved. We want to know where these applicants are,

why they cannot be found and why they are now in cyberspace?

dates back to Labour's time in Government. Five years ago the

number of outstanding asylum cases was 479,000. In the following years

just over one-third were given leave to stay in Britain, so thoi

were removed from the -- so they were removed from the backlog. The

rest, well the files included out of date or duplicated applications.

A fair chunk of the cases still have not been resolved. Around

98,000 in total. They have been transferred to a controlled archive.

As today's report describes it, a dumping ground for people the

immigration system cannot find. Also added to the archive, 26,000

people who have mainly overstayed their visa. A grand total of

124,000 - the population of Cambridge. This builder has first-

hand experience of the asylum system. He applied, because as a

Kurdish Iraqi, he claimed his life was at risk at home, or at least

was, because he came here 12 years ago. He still has not had a

decision. For 13 years of my life I could have built a country by my

own. If I stayed anywhere, any part of the world. You get letters

saying you could be deported? Your file is still on the shelf

somewhere?. Probably about five centimetres of dust on the files.

In the past the Home Affairs Select Committee has said so many rejected

applicants have been allowed to stay, it amounted to an amnesty.

The Government rejects that description. Ministers say Labour

left the system in a mess and the coalition has since nearly doubled

the number of failed seekers let to The driver of this train was told

today he could have done nothing to avoid this crash. Somehow 108

people escaped these carriages with their lives. Paul Fly lives by the

line. When you step back from it and think that the train stopped in

almost its own length from 95 miles an hour and there was one person

killed. Whilst that a tragedy, it is hugely better than you would

have expected from probably older rolling stock. The nine carriages

were left broken and scattered along and over an embankment.

Investigations found that a badly maintained said of points caused

the train to derail. The engineer responsible for inspecting this

stretch of track at the time told the crone they are he had forgotten

to do so and that his team were understaffed and under pressure.

And that very same engineer had e- mailed his boss as year before the

crash to describe the inspection regime along here as a shambles.

84-year-old Margaret Masson died that night because of the poor

condition of the track. Her family are still angry that the line

wasn't checked and patrolled properly. There've been changes

implemented by Network Rail in relation to the length of patrol

and the time period under which that patrol can be taken. That is

indicative of the practices that were in place prior to this

incidents were, to put it mildly, inadequate. Network Rail has poll

genetically modified but the rail regulator says there may now be

criminal proceedings for health and safety offences.

Our top story tonight. World leaders pledge more money to

support the world's struggling economies, but there's limited

progress on solving the eurozone crisis.

Coming up: It's life on Mars, but not as we know it. Why did these

astronauts spend nearly 18 months In Sportsday, we look back as Sir

Alex Ferguson celebrates his quarter century in charge of

The jury in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray,

has gone out to consider its verdict. Dr Murray denies the

involuntary manslaughter of the singer at his home by administering

a powerful tranquilliser drug two years ago. Alistair Leithhead

reports. For six weeks America has followed every step of this trial.

Each day the Jackson family were in court to see the man accused of

killing Michael. Conrad Murray presented as unethical, the man who

broke the trust between doctor and patient, out of greed.

Michael Jackson was shown rehearsing for a demanding run of

concerts in London. Hours later he was dead. He had become dependent

on the drug Propofol to sleep, a powerful anaesthetic normally used

in hospitals. Experts explained how it should never be given at home

without monitoring equipment. Dr Murray provided it and was paid

�100,000 a month. He was out of the room when Michael Jackson stopped

breathing, and didn't call emergency services for 20 minutes.

I Michael Jackson trusted Conrad Murray, but Conrad Murray corrupted

that relationship and for that Michael Jackson paid with his life.

The defence claimed Michael Jackson had injected himself with a drug

that killed him. What they are really asking you to do is to

convict Dr Murray for the actions of Michael Jackson. If you're going

to hold Dr Murray responsible, don't do it because it's Michael

Jackson. This is not a reality show. It's reality. The jury started

their deliberations just a few hours ago. They'll have to decide

not just whether Conrad Murray was negligent or unethical in the way

he treated his patient but whether his actions directly led to the

death of Michael Jackson. The Scottish Conservative Party has

a new leader this evening. She's a former BBC journalist, Ruth

Davidson, who was only elected to the Scottish Parliament in May this

year. Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh for us this evening. This report

has flash photography. They are a party whose membership and share of

the vote is shrinking. They have one MP at Westminster and the last

election at Holyrood saw their ranks deplete there had too. So the

party's faithful have been voting for a new leader in Scotland. One

of the candidates arguing they needed a new name and more distance

from the Conservative Party at Westminster. I have pleasure in

declaring Ruth Davidson... But in the end they voted to stick with

the status quo. A political party is not a leader. A political party

is its membership. I want to bring our members at all levels much

closer together in our party going forward, and to take our party

forwards in unity. VOICEOVER: Britain's new Prime

Minister... More than half a century ago Anthony Eden's MPs were

the force in British politics. But they were wiped out, losing all

their seats in Scotland. Since then they've struggled and some

observers wonder if their new leader will be able to reverse the

decline. It is an astonishing rise for someone who only became an MSP

a year ago. She clearly has support at a grass roots level. What she

lacks is really a winning strategy for the party. What she propose in

this essence is her a fresh face leading the party and trying a bit

harder at the next election. there are big challenges ahead.

Uniting the party in Scotland after this heated leadership campaign and

fighting the SNP in a referendum on independence.

Now, it's been a dream of mankind for generations, to set foot on

other planets in our solar system. Well, the reality of a manned

mission to Mars came perhaps one small step closer today when six

men emerged after 18 months' confinement in a metal box in a

Moscow suburb. Their mission: to simulate the effects of a long-term

space flight on the human mind and body. Daniel Sandford reports. It

was the door that had not been opened for 520 days. Behind them

five men who for 16 months had only each other for. They started to

emerge. They had been on one of the strangest space missions in recent

years - a voyage to nowhere but simulating a journey to Mars.

really, really great to see you all again, rather overwhelming. On the

Mars 500 mission we've achieved on Earth the longest space voyage ever,

so that human kind can one day greet a new dawn on the surface of

a distant but reachable planet. idea was to test whether the men

could endure the stress and boredom of a long space voyage. Their minds

and bodies were checked continuously. They kept themselves

amused at Christmas for example, but scientists insist this was a

serious experiment. The most exciting moment for the men during

their 17-month-long mission was stepping out here on to this pile

of sand, a simulation of a walk on the surface of Mars. But the

experiment had major shortcomings. There was no weightlessness, no

space radiation and the men were never in any real danger. So far

man has only been to the Moon. It took three days to cover 220,000

miles. Just getting to Mars will take at least 250 day, it is a

minimum of 35 million miles. But astronauts say it is within reach.

If we make a real big effort starting today, I think we can do

it in ten or 15 years. More realistically it is more in the

order of 25 years. For decades Mars has been a distant dream for those

interested in human space flight. Today it came just a little bit

closer. He's one of the most revered, and

feared, managers in British football, and this weekend Sir Alex

Ferguson clocks up 25 years in charge of Manchester United. After

an inglorious start, a 2-0 defeat at Oxford in 1986, he's gone on to

win the European Cup twice and a host of domestic silverware. Andy

Swiss reports of the first quarter century of Sir Alex's reign at Old

Trafford. November 1986, a time when this was number one, Margaret

Thatcher had just opened the M25, and a struggling football team

chose a new boss. REPORTER: How are you looking forward to your first

game? I'm excited. Much has changed but he hasn't. For a quarter of a

century he and mued have -- and Manchester United have been

inseperable. You don't think it is going to half. It is a fairy-tale

to last so long, and I appreciate that. Can I ask how much longer you

would like to continue for? I will continue as long ooze I feel

healthy enough to do it. In the fickle world of football, 125 years

at one club is pretty mind-boggling. On average a manager gets the sack

after just a year-and-a-half in England. In fact the other Premier

League clubs have been through 235 managers since Sir Alex began here.

That's some staying power. But it wasn't easy at first. Sir Alex had

to wait seven years for a league time. Neatly his Captain then is

his opposing manager tomorrow. is without question the best

manager that there's ever been. I think to play for him you have to

have and be a certain type. If you can't stand up to him, then he

knows that you are not strong enough to play for Manchester

United. Sir Alex's famous discipline has been key. His

rollickings nicknamed the hairdryer treatment. No star was safe. David

Beckham left after Sir Alex accidentally kicked a boot into his

face. No hard feelings though. Being in awe of a manager like him,

wanting to play under him, he gave me the chance to play for my dream

club. It's been some journey for Sir Alex Ferguson, from bright

young thing to elder statesman, proof to wing never goes out of

fashion. fashion.

Now the weather with John Hammond. It should be fine for Manchester

United's game tomorrow. But not the case for all of us. We have heavy

downpours in the Midlands and parts of Wales. They are heading in the

direction of north-west England. If you are on the roads for the likes

of Liverpool, Manchester, over the next few hours, a lot of surface

water and spray. The rain will journey northwards up into the

nuclear north-east of England, maybe south-east Scotland, before

it fades into the North Sea. Elsewhere a lot of dry weather

overnight. Misty, fog patches, mild in the southern half of the UK. A

nip in air for Northern Ireland and Scotland, a touch of frost in rural

areas. Tomorrow we lose one air of rain in eastern Scotland. Another

air of rain develops in south-east England and East Anglia. It is

westward extent is uncertain. It might fringe into the Midlands. But

most of the UK will have a delightful day, particularly

Northern Ireland, Scotland, north- western England and Wales and the

far south-west. Temperatures not as high, the wind from the north. A

west-east split tomorrow. The precise location of this dividing

line is ep open to doubt that. General theme of dry and chilly

weather for Bonfire Night, dampness hanging on in eastern England. A

touch of frost across many parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland tomorrow

night, and north-western parts of England and Wales. The lion's share

of the sunshine on Sunday, a sparkling day after that chilly

start. The cloud hangs on in eastern England. Rather drab, maybe

the odd spot of rain. Not feeling as mild. For most of us not a bad