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The full scale of the hacking scandal revealed by a new inquiry | :00:03. | :00:07. | |
into press standards. Dozens of journalists involved, hundreds of | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
voicemails intercepted - and the News of the World may not have been | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
alone The judge in charge of the inquiry will ask whether | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
journalists can be left to set their own standards. More and more | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
information is coming out to show that after a period there was what | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
we might call of Wild West behaviour in which they more-or- | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
less thought they could get away with virtually anything. The judge | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
in charge will ask whether journalists can set their own | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
standards. Also on tonight's programme: | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Two men charged with the killing of Stephen Lawrence. The teenager was | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
stabbed to death 18 years ago - the court was told there'll be new | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
scientific evidence. Security at the Olympic Games - the | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Government says ground to air missiles could be deployed. | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Cable thieves are putting lives at risk on Britain's railways - calls | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
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for new laws to deal with rogue In sport, John Terry says it is his | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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duty to face up to claims he Good evening, welcome to the BBC | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
News at Six. It's only day one of the new | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
inquiry into press standards and already it's revealed the scale of | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
the hacking scandal at the News of the World and, possibly, other | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
papers. It's emerged that 28 journalists may have been involved | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
and hundreds of voicemails intercepted. The inquiry, chaired | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
by Lord Justice Leveson, will be looking at whether the press can be | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
left to set its own standards. Today he warned editors against | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
targeting witnesses at the inquiry. Nick Higham has spent the day at | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
It was the scandal that began with the News of the World, Britain's | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
biggest selling newspaper and one of its brashest. The revelation | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
that the paper had hacked into a murdered schoolgirl -- schoolgirl's | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
voice Mel's prompted outrage, its closure and the Leveson Inquiry. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
The parents of Madeleine McCann, politicians like Lord Prescott and | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Tessa Jowell, along with celebrities like JK Rowling, Hugh | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
Grant and Sienna Miller all alleged victims of newspaper intrusion, | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
among more than 50 core participants who will give evidence. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Today in the measured tones of an appeal court judge, Lord Justice | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
Leveson issued a warning to newspapers. Concern has been | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
expressed that those who speak out might be targeted by the press as a | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
result. I have absolutely no wish to stifle freedom of speech, and | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
expression, but if it appears that those concerns are made out, | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
without objective justification, it might be appropriate to draw the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
conclusion that these vital rights are being abused. Today the inquiry | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
heard just how much phone hacking had been done by this man, Glen | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Mulcaire. Originally said to have been working for a single rogue | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
reporter. In his notebooks, police found the names of staff at the | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
News of the World and the sun and even the Daily Mirror, though the | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Mirror today denied any involvement. In all, 28 people at News | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
International were involved. One use of the World journalist alone | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
it made over 1,400 requests for information. More and more | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
information is coming out to show that for a period at one newspaper | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
at least, there was what we might call a Wild West behaviour in which | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
they more or less thought they could get away with virtually | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
anything. Lord Leveson's inquiry is in two parts. The first is looking | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
at the general culture of the press, its relations with the police and | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
politicians, had and whether the present system of regulation is | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
broken and if so how it should be fixed. The second is into the | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
illegal activities by newspapers which started this. That can't | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
begin until the police have finished their investigations, | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
which won't be for many months. The inquiry admitted it is putting the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
cart before the horse. The inquiry continues tomorrow. It will begin | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
hearing evidence from witnesses who say they were victims of press | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
intrusion next week. We can talk to our home affairs | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
correspondent, June Kelly, who's at the Royal Courts of Justice. Quite | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
a lot emerging already. What is the significance of what has emerged? | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
It has always been claimed that phone hacking at the News of the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
World was taking place on an industrial scale and today one | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
lawyer said there was at the very least a thriving cottage industry. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
The key revelation today is this news that the names of 28 News | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
International employees were found in the notebooks of private | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
investigator Glen Mulcaire. Other key elements, and I know we all | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
think we have heard a lot about phone hacking, but other key | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
elements. His suggestion that Glen Mulcaire might have worked for | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
other newspapers, notably the Sun, part of the newt -- Murdoch empire, | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
and the Daily Mirror. But the Mirror are tonight saying they have | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
no knowledge of Glenn Mulcare ever being used by them. John Yates, the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Assistant Commissioner at the Met, resigned. News emerging about him. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
He was one of two senior officers who resigned because of the phone | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
hacking affair. He was being investigated by the Independent | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Police Complaints Commission and that was over his role in | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
forwarding a CV inside Scotland Yard. That was the CV of the | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
daughter of a former editor of the News of the World, Neil Wallis. He | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
himself went on to work for Scotland Yard and he was arrested | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
in this latest phone hacking investigation. Today the IPCC said | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
it found no evidence of misconduct which would justify a disciplinary | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
proceedings against John Yates. Mr Yates said he was pleased with the | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
outcome. He said he had always acted with complete integrity and | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
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it was a matter of great Rivett -- regret. Thing gee macro. -- thank | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
you. Europe faces its biggest crisis | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
since the Second World War according to Angela Merkel, the | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
German Chancellor. Matthew Price reports from Brussels on the fear | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
that the problem will continue to grow and spread throughout the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
continent. His report contains flash photography. | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
They have changed the guard in Italy and Greece, out with Silvio | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
and George, in with the grey men. In Rome today, Mario Monti, the new | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
prime minister, was being hailed as the man to save Italy and by | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
extension the euro. He is an Economist, a respected university | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
President. He knows how Europe works, he was a commissioner for a | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
decade, and he is a staunch defender of the euro. Today one of | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
his former students gave this assessment. Given the present | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
emergency, he is playing end important role and he will be the | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
right man at the right time. At least for a little while. Financial | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
markets also seemed relieved. But for how long? In Brussels, Mario | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Monti's appointment has been broadly welcomed. He is seen as a | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
can-do man. During his time at the commission here, he was known as | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Super Mario, and yet in the coming -- becoming prime minister, the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
fundamentals in Italy have not changed. They still have record | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
debt and interest repayments on the money they have borrowed. In Greece, | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
there's a new leader on the block. Lucas Papademos is also referred to | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
as a technocrat, in economic expert thought to be an influence by | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
public pressure. And yet in the Greek parliament today, it was | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
clear that may not be possible. The opposition hinted at political | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
problems to come. It could derail Greece's next slice of bail out | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
funding. The important point is the euro is still in crisis. Listen to | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
Germany's Angela Merkel. TRANSLATION: Europe is in the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
middle of what may be its toughest hours since World War to you. We | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
mustn't be discouraged by that. We must succeed in getting Europe out | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
of this crisis, stronger than when it went in. But she knows the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
problem now is trust. Or lack of it. Germany is the only Euro country | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
investors see as truly safe. Italy and Greece may have changed the | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
guard, but they and others remain Today Lynn News survey of business | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
here in Britain warned we face a slow and painful loss of jobs. The | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
that firms were put him off decisions on hiring staff. -- | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
putting off. Carole Walker looks at what is expected to be difficult | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
figures on growth and youth unemployment. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
It was all smiles as David Cameron took his Dutch counterpart to see | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Birmingham's new high-tech library, but to date came a new warning that | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
companies worried about the economic turmoil are not taking on | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
enough workers to make up for the jobs lost from the public sector. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
The prime minister said the government is doing its bit. We are | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
rolling up our sleeves and doing everything we can to promote growth | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
and jobs. We have the enterprise zones, including the one in | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Birmingham, we have cut corporation tax, we are investing in | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
apprenticeships, we are focusing on capital spending, including roads | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
and stations and things that can help boost the economy. That has to | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
be the plan to keep... He looming in David Cameron's in-tray of the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Bank of England's forecasts of growth and inflation, with almost | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
one million young people already out of work there are new | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
unemployment figures and there is the eurozone crisis. These are | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
difficult times for companies like this. It makes specialist coatings | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
for the car industry in the West Midlands. It is a prime example of | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
a company doing well, but is uncertain whether to risk expanding. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
We are hoping to extend our factory and we have planning permission, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
but it is very difficult to justify going ahead with that because of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the economic situation. government is keen to highlight a | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
flurry of initiatives to help young people get the skills and jobs they | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
need, but while the prime minister says it is the crisis in the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
eurozone which is hampering our recovery, Labour says it is up to | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
his government to do more. On a visit to a science park in | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Hertfordshire, Ed Miliband says the government is not doing enough to | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
boost growth. The problem is that under this government, businesses | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
have no confidence about the future. The government urgently needs to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
get a plan for growth and jobs, which will put young people back to | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
work, and get our economy moving again. David Cameron wants to speed | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
up building projects like a new library he saw today, but he is | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
stressing the UK must stick to the plan to cut the deficit if it is to | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
avoid the problems facing some countries in the eurozone. | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
With me now is Stephanie Flanders. To what extent are owl problems | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
down to what is going in -- going on in Europe? We will never know | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
what would have happened without the eurozone crisis and we will | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
never know what would have happened if the Government hadn't decided to | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
cut borrowing more quickly than the previous government plan. But if | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
you are looking at the numbers and the timing of the slowdown in our | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
recovery, it is hard to see a big direct impact of the eurozone | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
crisis. The eurozone economies as a group have growing three times | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
faster than us over the last year and yet they are even closer to the | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
crisis than we are. Our exports until August had been growing very | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
strongly. You can't see it in the numbers, but they don't tell you | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
about the indirect impact on confidence, people worrying about | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
the European and global recovery. And they can't tell you about the | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
future. We are now seeing a sharp slowdown in the European recovery - | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
- economy, we will get confirmation of that tomorrow. Our economy will | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
be greatly affected even if the situation in Greece, Italy and | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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Spain stabilises and I am not sure it will. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Four teenagers have been convicted of murdering a 15-year-old boy near | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
his school in south London. Zac Olumegbon was stabbed to death in | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
July last year. The Old Bailey found a fifth teenager guilty of | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
his manslaughter. Gemma Hayter's death could have | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
been prevented or predicted, according to serious case review | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
into the torture and murder of the vulnerable disabled woman. Her body | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
was found on a disused railway line in August last year. Five people | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
who the 27-year-old had considered friends were convicted of her death | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
and jailed in July. Two men, Gary Dobson and David | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
Norris, have appeared in court charged with the murder of Stephen | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Lawrence 18 years after the black teenager's death. The 18-year-old | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
A-level student was stabbed twice by white youths in south-east | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
London on 22 April 1993. The court heard that new scientific evidence | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
will be central to the proceedings in the Old Bailey, from where Tom | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
Symonds joins us now. The killing of Stephen Lawrence is | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of recent times, but finally | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
today 24 potential jurors were chosen to hear this case. They will | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
hear new scientific evidence and will have to decide if it can be | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
regarded as safe. The judge also said to them that whatever had | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
happened in the past was now irrelevant. This case starts with a | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
clean slate. The Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he died. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
He was stabbed while waiting for a bus late one night in south London. | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
For his mother it was a loss made so much worse by the fact that no | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
one has ever been convicted of the killing. His father Neville also | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
came to see this trial begin. The two accused men, David Norris on | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
the left, 35, Gary Dobson, 36 ft up both deny murder. This is a case | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
with the tortuous history. Stephen died on 22nd April, 1993. There | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
were a court hearings in the mid- 90s and an inquest in 1997. Such | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
was the concern about the case that a full public inquiry was held in | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
1998. Addressing the 24 potential jurors, the judge, Mr Justice | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Treacy, said the case has aroused strong feelings in people. | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Accusations, he said, have been made as to who was responsible for | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
the killing and the competence of the police investigation. But the | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
two accused heard that new scientific evidence would now be | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
centre stage. They question the way certain exhibits were handled. So | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
the trial went just focus on the events here that night, but also in | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
the years that followed and on Stephen himself. He didn't see any | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
danger in any way. He wanted to be an architect. All his studies were | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
focused that way. He was an athlete, he loved sport, he loved music and | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
clothes. Just like any other young man. The jurors who will consider | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
who killed Stephen Lawrence have been told to expect the trial that | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
will stretch into next year. This case is extremely sensitive. The | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
judge spent some time telling the jurors to only concentrate on what | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
they hear in the court room and the media to be very careful about what | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
they report. A lot of the history of this case we can't even report | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
tonight. But you can be sure we will keep you up-to-date about the | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
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developments from the court in the Our main headline - the full scale | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
of the hacking scandal is being revealed by a new inquiry. And | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
coming up... The space shuttle may have been decommissioned, but | :16:45. | :16:55. | |
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Russia has resumed its manned space The theft of metal cable from power | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
stations and railway lines is costing hundreds of millions of | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
pounds a year and could put lives at risk. Tomorrow, MPs debate | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
giving greater powers to regulate the scrap metal industry. Councils | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
across the UK are also calling for change. Ed Thomas reports on the | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
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huge surge in the theft of metals such as copper, lead and bronze. 24 | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
hours with British Transport Police. This is the front line in the fight | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
against metal theft. It took just minutes for the first call of the | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
night to come in. We can see how much cable has been taken from this | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
location. You can see the various colours here. This patrol is about | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
taking on a growing problem. After terrorism, this is our number one | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
priority. We need to get a grip on it because a lot of people are | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
suffering as a consequence of this. It is down to the rising cost of | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
metals, mixed with the ease of selling stolen metals to scrapyards. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
These are copper plates and copper cable, all from North West | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Electricity. It should not be sold to or bought by any dealer. But as | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
the law stands, I could walk into any scrapyard, give a false name or | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
address, handed over and get cash in return. This crime is putting | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
people's lives in danger. In this street in Castleford, thieves | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
caused a gas leak after stealing copper cable. Luckily, all the | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
homes had been evacuated. Six people have been killed steel. It | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
is costing the UK economy more than �700 million every year. Police are | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
now carrying out spot checks and working with scrap dealers. But | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
here, they say it is the system that needs to change. The way to | :19:09. | :19:17. | |
deal with the problem is to make it cashless. It would give greater | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
traceability. The same calls are being heard from energy companies, | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
with nearly two incidents every day at sub-stations. We were within | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
minutes of losing the whole of Wigan, because of metal theft. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Businesses could not operate, Internet down, traffic lights out, | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
just think of the chaos. But change could come soon. MPs will be | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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Ground-to-air missiles could be used to protect the skies of London | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
from attack during the Olympics next year. The Defence Secretary, | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Philip Hammond, says they would be deployed if they were deemed | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
operationally necessary. All necessary measures to ensure | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
the security and safety of the London Olympic Games will be taken, | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
including - if the advice of the military is that it is required - | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
appropriate ground-to-air defences. With me now is our sports editor, | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
David Bond. It sounds like warfare... The Olympics are a | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
massive security challenge. What Philip Hammond was saying might | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
sound alarmist, but it is not unusual. We saw the same thing in | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
Beijing in 2008, and in Athens in 2004. London has its dreadful | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
experience with terrorism, the 7/7 bombings happened the day after | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
London won its Olympic bid. So, the authorities are saying they will do | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
whatever it takes. Who will pay for all of this? The one sticking point | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
at the moment is over the number of security personnel to be used | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
around the venues during the games. Following test events in the summer, | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
it became clear at that the numbers which were being used were way. So | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
it is expected that the numbers will more than double. Funds will | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
be found from the surplus in the Olympic budget. But I think this | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
issue will continue to come up as Jordan's King Abdullah has called | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
for Syrian President Bashar al- Assad to step down in the interests | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
of his country. His comments, in an exclusive BBC interview, follow a | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
defiant speech by the Syrian Foreign Minister after the | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
announcement of Syria's suspension from the Arab League because of its | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
violent suppression of anti- government protests. The UN | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
estimate that more than 3,500 people have been killed in the | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
:21:49. | :21:52. | ||
uprising, which began in March. Jon Leyne reports. As the violence in | :21:52. | :22:00. | |
Syria continues, the world is losing patience. These images | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
appear to show more brutal attacks on opposition protesters in the | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
city of Homs. Yet more evidence that Syrian tanks have not yet been | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
pulled back from the streets, as the government promised to do. So | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
now, there is growing pressure on President Assad himself. In an | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
interview with the BBC, King Abdullah of Jordan became the first | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
Arab leader to encourage him to step down. He would step down, but | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
he would also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Syrian life. Syria's response has been an almost theatrical act of | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
defiance. Huge numbers of Syrians were encouraged onto the streets | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
over the weekend to support the government and to protest against | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
the Arab League's decision to suspend Syria. Angry mobs attacked | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the embassies of Qatar, a Saudi Arabia and Turkey, countries which | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
have taken a very tough line against Syria. It has just led | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
Syria into more isolation than ever before. In the European Union, | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Britain and other countries voted for new sanctions against Damascus. | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
It is very good that the Arab League are taking a leading role on | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
this crisis. It is very important in the European Union that we can | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
do do -- consider additional measures to put pressure on | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
President as that. There is evidence that sanctions are | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
continuing to bite. However, these queues for gas maybe the result of | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
the government trying to starve out opposition supporters. This evening, | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
the Arab League in Cairo are discussing how to co-ordinate their | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
fight against the Syrian government. They are proposing sending a | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
mission to monitor the situation inside Syria. It will be seen as a | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
last test of the Syrian Government's good faith. But it has | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
been suggested that the Arab government leaders are already | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
:24:14. | :24:14. | ||
looking beyond President Assad's Russia has resumed its manned space | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
flights, with the launch of a Soyuz rocket with two Russians and an | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
American on board. The launch had been postponed for two months after | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
a similar rocket carrying cargo crashed shortly after take-off in | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
August. The three astronauts are going to replace the crew of the | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
International Space Station. Daniel Sandford sent this report from | :24:29. | :24:39. | |
:24:39. | :24:44. | ||
Moscow. Generating huge thrust from its four booster engines, the | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
rocket blasts off this morning, on board, two Russian cosmonauts and | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
an American astronaut, heading for the International Space Station, on | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
what is currently the only route into orbit. The launch had been | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
delayed for two months because of safety fears, but they said they | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
were not concerned. A lot of difficult and diligent work was | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
done to verify that everything was good. I'm not nervous about it. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
This was why he might have been worried, an almost identical rocket, | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
carrying cargo, crashed back to Earth in August, leading to all | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
manned launches being put on hold. Having fired the imagination of a | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
generation, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
troubled is that since the retirement of the space shuttle in | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
July, there was no other way of getting people into space. But NASA | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
insists that the Russian built and operated Soyuz was not rushed back | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
into operation. Every flight his whisky, there's things we just do | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
not know about. In this case, we worked with the Russians, and we | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
has confidence that they had resolved the problems. Amazingly, | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
the rocket on which everyone is now relying, the Soyuz, dates back to | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
the 1960s. The Americans do not expect their next man vehicle to be | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
ready for five years. Now, almost by accident, Russia finds itself | :26:25. | :26:34. | |
once again leading the world in manned space flight. Back down to | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
manned space flight. Back down to earth now, with the weather. We | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
will have a look from Space first of all. The view from up there | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
looks very different to yesterday. Yesterday, in the sunshine, | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
temperatures jumped up to 18 degrees. Today, however, under the | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
:27:01. | :27:02. | ||
cloud, temperatures are just about 9. Some places in the west have had | :27:02. | :27:11. | |
some sunshine today. But for many, tonight will be a damp autumn night. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
Tomorrow, we will start off with more of the same. But I'm | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
optimistic that it will be turning brighter as we go through the day. | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
This will be especially so in the west. As a result, temperatures | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
should be allowed a bit higher than today. Where it stays cloudy, we | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
will struggle to get much about nine or 10. Today, northern parts | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
of Northern Ireland saw some sunshine. And it will be similar | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
tomorrow. And again, like today, western Scotland should get some | :27:51. | :27:59. | |
sunshine tomorrow. In the east, the cloud making all the difference to | :27:59. | :28:09. | |
:28:09. | :28:10. | ||
the temperatures. East Anglia and the south-east of England could be | :28:10. | :28:19. | |
a bit brighter again on Wednesday. A little bit of rain creeping in to | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
the south-west of England later on. It has been a very mild start to | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
It has been a very mild start to November. For more information, log | :28:26. | :28:34. |