22/11/2011 BBC News at Six

Egypt's uprising reborn as tens of thousands take to the streets of

Cairo. $$$WHITE The activists say it's a

fight for the future of Egypt - they fear the military are turning

back the clock. They're bringing in more and more

casualties by the hour. The crowds are growing in the square, the

biggest we have seen yet. $$$WHITE As the protesters bury the

dead from three days of violence - the military announces key

concessions to end the crisis. Also tonight:

Britain's oldest tour operator in financial trouble - Thomas Cook

goes cap in hand to the banks. The comedian Steve Coogan reveals

how the press searched his bins and tried to trick elderly relatives.

Beating the big C - people are living six times longer with many

cancers, but a shocking lack of progress for others.

And famous for his music - but should the Sex Pistols' Johnny

Rotten really be remembered for his Good evening. Welcome to the BBC

News at 6.00pm. Nine months after they toppled one of the Arab

world's most powerful dictators, Egyptian pro-democracy activists

are pouring onto the streets in bigger and bigger numbers. They

accuse the generals who are running the country of trying to delay a

democratic transition. Tonight in Cairo's Tahrir Square thousands of

protesters heard the head of the ruling military council make a

series of concessions to try to bring the crisis to an end. Our

Middle East correspondent Jon Leyne has the latest on a revolution

reborn. His report contains some distressing images.

They're carrying high the dead. In the Square, they're celebrating the

revolution not so long ago. Today was the biggest demonstration so

far in what they're already calling the second revolution. As built up,

on the edge of the square, relentless confrontation continued,

Egyptians furious with the country - the police firing round after

round of tear gas and gunshots. The motorcyclists are bringing in

more and more casualties by the hour. The crowds are growing in the

square, the biggest we have seen yet, and the military leaders in

Egypt have no new ideas. At the field hospital, I met Ahmed,

a 37-year-old doctor. He is bitterly disappointed to find

himself back on medical duty at Tahrir Square just as he was in the

uprising nine months ago. I thought everything is beautiful and our

country is headed for democracy and everything would be fine. I never

expected Tahrir Square would stay all of this time without change. I

didn't see any new things. Everything is the same. We have the

same - almost the same regime. I lose hope now, and I am actually

very, very disappointed. Finally silence, the Prime Minister emerged

to make a desperate appeal. "I beg you, I beg you, put your country

first," he said "Please, go back home and let things calm down." And

then the commander himself, Field Marshal Tantawe, head of the

military council that rules Egypt, made a rare television broadcast.

He insisted the military do not want to hold on to power.

Parliamentary elections will go ahead next week as planned and

presidential elections by the middle of next year. The military,

he said, only had the interests of the Egyptian people at heart.

So driven by the huge demonstrations, late in the day

finally started making concessions, but will it be enough? These

protesters want an end to military rule right now, and there is no

sign they're about to go away. Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen

is in Cairo's Tahrir Square for us now. Jeremy, we've just heard the

Field Marshal. Has he done enough, do you think? Judging by the crowds

here, I'd say probably not. The thing is that behind me, the blue

lights have been moving back and forth through the crowd. Those are

ambulances ferrying wounded back and forth from the hospital, taking

them from the line of places where they're having clashes with

Interior Ministry police. News even though Tantawe only spoke in the

last half hour or so ago, the fact is news here does travel very fast,

and I think had it been something they really wanted to react to

positively, they would have. Instead, there are tens of

thousands of people in this square carrying on really as if nothing

different has happened. They say that plenty of people have said

here to me today they want to stay here until military rule ends. The

thing is, the military does not want to give up power. It's pulled

a lot of strings behind the screens since 1952. They control 40% of the

economy. There is a lot for them at stake, and it's not something they

want to give in lightly. This is not the end of it, I would say.

Jeremy, thank you. The political uncertainty in the

Middle East has had a hand in the troubles of the travel company

Thomas Cook. Its bookings are down as customers for holidays in Egypt

and Tunisia have stayed away. Now its share price has plummeted, and

it's being forced to negotiate new loans from the banks. This report

from Simon Gompertz. For Thomas Cook just haven't been

happening. News from Egypt, Tunisia, Thailand and elsewhere has been

worrying. Street battles, the Arab Spring and floods have put people

off. Owen and his fiancee Sussane from South Wales have booked a

�5,000 honeymoon in Mexico, despite knowing that all holidays from tour

operators are protected with financial guarantees, they're still

concerned. They were just the first company we thought we could rely on,

a national institution when you want to book a holiday, generally

they're one of the first companies you look at, so never - we never

thought they'd be in any financial difficulties. Thomas Cook's

holidays have been making a splash for more than a century and a half.

It was the first to take people on holiday by air. Now the second

biggest operator after Thompson, it sells 22 million holidays a year

across Europe, employs 31,000 staff, half in the UK, and runs 1,350

travel shops, but going into a lean winter, the company's weighed down

by �900 million of debts. Banks granted �100 million of extra

funding last month. Now it's asking for more. Investors should have

confidence in Thomas Cook. We're negotiating with our banks. The

banks have always been very supportive to, and I am very

confident that they will give us the extra cushion that we need.

Thomas Cook is expected to close 200 of its shops. It's getting rid

of planes and selling hotels - all measures which will worry its staff,

but which are designed to help turn the business around. There are high

hopes that Thomas Cook's banks will ride to the rescue, but the travel

industry is watching anxious any The jury in the trial of the two

men accused of murdering Stephen Lawrence 18 years ago has heard

from police about how they gathered evidence. The case could rest on

whether this evidence was contaminated later in the process.

Gary Dobson and David Norris deny murder. I mention this issue of

possible contamination. That's going to be the key. What did the

court hear, Tom? George, as you say, the prosecution is arguing the case

here that blood samples and hair and clothing fibres were on the

defendant's clothes - Stephen's fibres and samples - because they

were there when he was killed. The defence says that happened because

of contamination. We heard police officers today being questioned

about how they gathered the evidence, in particular, one line

of questioning about a room at Eltham Police station which was

used to store both sets of clothes, from Stephen and the two defendants,

in the same room, but we heard they were not stored at the same time.

Stephen's clothes were there before the defendant's clothes. We also

heard Detective Constable Robert Crane describing how he took

Stephen Lawrence's black jacket from its evidence bag, put it on

the floor and took this picture during the process of gathering

evidence. There was a question about whether there could have been

contamination then when the bag was opened. He said that the white

sheets you can see there was actually gathered up and kept

itself as evidence. He suggested that couldn't have happened. Also

evidence about whether detectives who visited the Lawrence's also

visited the homes of the defendants and whether there could have been

contamination there. We'll hear from more forensic scientists

tomorrow. John, thank you.

A British soldier killed in Afghanistan on Sunday has been

named as Private Thomas Lake from the 1st Battalion The Princess of

Wales's Royal Regiment. The 29- year-old from Watford was on foot

patrol in the Nahr-e-Saraj area of Helmand when an improvised

explosive device detonated. Today his mother said, "He died doing

something he loved and believed in". The inquiry into press standards

has been hearing how unscrupulous reporters has affected the lives of

families and celebrities alike. Today Steve Coogan described how

journalists searched through his bins for information. Earlier, the

Watson family told the Leveson Inquiry why they blame a newspaper

for their suicide back in 199 2: it's 20 years now since their world

fell apart. First their daughter Diane was stabbed to death by a

fellow pupan and her family were traduced by news reports - such was

the upset 15-year-old son Alan committed suicide. Margaret Watson

urged the media to consider much more carefully to consider the

consequences of what is published tion's died, their reputation

shouldn't die with them. They shouldn't be besmirched at the

world of some sick journalist because that's what they are, sick.

Then there was the story she was a business advisor to Elle McPherson.

But when stories about Elle McPherson first appeared in the

papers, she accused Mary Ellen Field of leaking them. She said,

you have done 11 things. I said, tell me what the 11 things are. But

she wouldn't. I said, you can't tell me I have done something, then

not tell me what I have done. She said, "I am not allowed to tell

you." In fact it was the News of the World phone hacking team who

had been targeting Elle McPherson for stories, but by the time that

merged, she had been sent for psychiast Rick treatment and made

redundant. Compared to that, the complaints of

celebrities may seem rather less significant. The comic actor Steve

Coogan said he'd lost counts of the kiss-and-tell stories and tabloid

stings. He said one involved the former editor of the News of the

World, Andy Coulson, who later became advisor to the Prime

Minister. There was a girl in Andy Coulson's office who was going to

speak to me on the phone - the phone call would be recorded, and

she would try to entice me into talking about intimate details of

her and my life. On a different story, he said Mr Coulson himself

had got in touch. My manager received a phone call from Andy

Coulson saying that they'd recorded the whole phone call and they were

going to put everything in the newspaper. One other thing that's

exorcising them, the outspoken way the News of the World responded to

claims by actor Hugh Grant. Lord Leveson said the press needed to be

careful about attacking witnesses giving evidence in good faith.

Excessive pay for top executives is "corrosive" to the economy

according to a year-long independent inquiry. The High Pay

Commission says "stratospheric" pay rises at the top have lead to a

dramatic earnings gap between the highest paid and average workers.

But should companies be stopped from paying what they want to their

executives? Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.

They're our biggest companyest workers feeling the squeeze do

something about soaring high pay? An independent body has spent the

last year looking at the pay gap between those at the very else no

longer sustainable. Last yearry was just under earnings of a foot Chief

Executive was �3.74 million. That's If we don't check this huge bonanza,

within years we'll be back to Victorian levels of inequality. If

that's what we want as a society, fair enough. I would suggest most

don't want to end up there. Part of the problem is pay packages and

modern board rooms have become increasingly complex. Today's

report says these deals should be radically simplified and much more

transparent. It also calls for workers to sit on remuneration

committees and for a national body to monitor high pay. Business

leaders say they realise the need to be responsible, but... We've got

to recognise if we want great people to come and work in the UK,

given it's a global talent pool, we've got to be prepared to pay

thetives can get elsewhere in the world. But in Newcastle today,

vinced.Er in works long hours. My mum works long hours.

We slug ourselves out. We're working 70, 80 hours a week for

peanuts. The Business Secretary is already looking at changes, but

ultimately it's up to company share what's fair, and no-one seems time

Clashes in Egypt as pro-democracy campaigners take to the streets.

But signs of concessions from the military.

Coming up: How to get Britain's economy moving. What manufacturers

want from the Chancellor. Later on the news channel: Shares

in Thomas Cook take a tumble after the travel firm announces that it

needs more help from banks. And how the high pay of UK executives is

A major cancer charity says people with the disease now live nearly

six times longer than they did 40 years ago. Researchers have been

tracking patients in England and Wales. Fergus Walsh is here. This

really does sound like progress? is, for many cancers. These figures

show at the time it takes until half of those diagnosed have died.

40 years ago, the median survival for all cancers was just one year.

It has risen to nearly six years. Macmillan Cancer Support says that

it is information that patients need. All health care professionals

felt that most patients would not want statistics. But when we asked

them, we found that the majority of them would want the statistics. So

I think we need to be much more systematic and much more in terms

of sharing information with people. For some cancers, the improvement

has been remarkable. Survival of colon cancer has leapt from seven

months up to 10 years, a 17 fold increase. Breast cancer has risen

from 5.5 years to well above 10 years. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has

risen from one year to 10 years. That is the cancer which Dena

Hutchings was diagnosed with nearly five years ago, after she found a

lump. Regular check-ups are now all she requires. But she well

remembers being told she had cancer. Relief, that at last I knew what

was the matter with me. I knew it could get treated. I didn't feel

nervous or scared. I just knew that whatever treatment I had to have, I

just had to have it to save my life. But McMillan says there has been a

woeful lack of progress for some types of disease. Median survival

for pancreatic cancer has risen from just nine to 12 weeks. It is

the same with brain cancer. Survival has risen from 13 to 28

weeks. Lung cancer, from 11 to 20 weeks. These cancers are often

diagnosed late and their symptoms can be vague. Adrian Antwis would

like more research into hard to treat cancers. His lung cancer was

picked up when it was already advanced. There is no treatment

that can help. It is still sinking in now, to be honest. When I first

found out about it, they said it would be months and not here is. A

mansion finding out that you've got months, it is hard to get your head

around. -- imagine finding out you've got months.

However, many people have permanent side-effects from their treatment,

and this poses a huge challenge to the health service.

Health officials in South Wales have confirmed that two babies have

died after contracting a rare form of E.coli. Both cases are under

investigation as a hospital in Swansea. Collette Hume is at the

headquarters of the local health board. What more do we know about

this? Well, we know that the two children died after contracting

that rare form of E.coli, ESBL. It is different to the version we have

heard so much about. The first trialled, described as a very

premature baby, died in the neonatal unit of Singleton Hospital

in Swansea. A mother that was also in the unit has also tested

positive. What the investigation has to look at is the possible link

between the death of that baby and the death of another child, he

contracted the bug in the community. The Health Board and Public Health

Service in Wales tell us that it is one of three cases. There are two

others, including what we believed to be the child's mother contracted

it. The question is, how did they contract at bug?

This time next week we will know how the Chancellor hopes to get the

British economy moving again. George Osborne's Autumn Statement

will be under scrutiny from hundreds of struggling businesses

up and down the country. Danny Savage has been speaking to

manufacturers in South Shields about what they would like to hear

when Mr Osborne stands up. This is the Barbour clothing

factory in South Shields. What is made here is exported to more than

40 countries. Just one cog in the machine that makes the UK the 7th

biggest manufacturer in the world. It has grown its profits by

employing a large team of designers to widen its market. They see

themselves as a UK-based global brand. One that is looking for the

Government to be more proactive. would like to see more

encouragement from the Government to manufacture clothing in this

country. That would probably take two forms. One, the skills in this

area are dying out. We need more training. If we have more trained

people, we will employ them. Secondly, more encouragement to

invest at a capital level will also allow us to employ more people.

backbone of their business is their classic waxed jackets. They are

made by hand. So, why have they not been tempted abroad to use cheaper

labour? Obviously it would be much cheaper to manufacture abroad. But

the level of skills we have in our factory, the quality of the GAR

next and the made in England label is the best advertisement that the

brand can have. Nearly half of what they make in South Shields goes

across the sea as exports. 30% of what they manufacture go to the EU.

But with all of the problems there at the moment, that market could

potentially shrink. What the Government says it wants to do is

help companies boost trade to emerging markets further repealed.

But this economist believes the best thing the Government can do to

help and a factory here would be to renegotiate trade tariffs for

imported goods. But isn't that highly controversial, to start

raising trade tariffs to certain countries? It is. But I think we

need to have that debate. We cannot continue on the path we are at the

moment. When it comes to exporting, companies like the makers of

Wensleydale cheese here in North Yorkshire are already trying to

find new markets. But they want more help. We were in Shanghai at a

trade show, trying to sell allergies. So far, the evidence has

been really positive for us. We are prepared to go out and look for

that business and develop it. What we need is some tax relief or

incentives from the Government to help us along that process.

Manufacturers are just one of many sectors making demand on the

Government, which has its own financial constraints on what it

can give. Now, how should Britain's political

parties be funded? An independent inquiry says that taxpayers should

football of the bill and that trade union money should be restricted.

James Landale is at Westminster. Will these recommendations actually

get implemented? Well, there has long been concern about the way

that political parties are funded, whether by rich individuals or

which trade unions. The Committee on Standards in Public Life thinks

it has a solution. It reckons people should not be able to give

more than �10,000 to a party and that union members should choose to

give money to a party, rather than it being automatic. That would lead

to quite a substantial loss of income. So the committee says that

they should get taxpayers' money instead, around �23 million the

year. Not surprisingly, the three largest parties are opposed to this.

They think now is not the time for them to ask the voters to get their

wallets out for politicians. The prospects for agreement in the

short term are slim. But that doesn't mean the problem has gone

away. The fear is that it might take another scandal before

anything gets done. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has

landed safely back to worth, bringing back three crew members

from the International Space Station. The three astronauts, from

the United States, Russia and Japan, spent more than five months on

board. They have been replaced by two Russians and an American. The

landing in Kazakhstan was the first since NASA retired its space

shuttles. There were scrawled in marker pen

on the walls of a central London flat. You might think they are

meaningless graffiti, or vandalism comic even. One academic things

that these pictures by Sex Pistols CNET Johnny Rotten are a lot more

significant. -- Sex Pistols singer. There were the ultimate bad boy

band. Controversial, yet compelling. The media loved to hate them. They

couldn't care less. About most things! But the lead singer, Johnny

Rotten, was a bit upset one day when he came back to the fact that

the band shared here in central London. He walked up the stairs and

found that the others had given the place a makeover. It wasn't quite

to his taste. So he got out a marker pen and added his own

finishing touches. He drew a comic caricature air of guitarist said --

Sid vicious and his girlfriend, Nancy. He also drew the band's

charismatic manager. They are not unlike the doodles of a bored

teenager. But, according to some archaeologists, they are of great

importance. We know how important punk was to that generation and

society in the mid- 1970s. I think these paintings are relevant and

significant for that generation and that particular period of history.

So, that is the academic point of view. But what about the quality of

the drawings? There are a lot of accusations out there that we

produce a lot of terrible art. Unwittingly, John Lyden has

produced some good caricatures. But he is not trying to ram it down

anybody's throats, it has emerged without his influence. Whatever the

future holds for this particular collection of drawings, there is

little doubt that the time the Sex Pistols spent in this flat will be

studied by academics and Time for the weather now.

From rotten paintings to rotten weather. It has been pretty grim

over the last couple of days. A lot of mist and low cloud. But it has

prevented temperatures from falling too low. It was mild last night

across England and Wales, temperatures rarely falling below

double figures. Those self-same areas tonight are going to have a

shock to the system. A touch of frost in rural areas. You could be

scraping the windscreens tomorrow morning. The lowest temperatures

will be under the clearest skies. Across the heart of Wales we are

already close to freezing. Another area of cloud and some rain is

pushing into western Scotland, the north-west of Northern Ireland on a

freshening breeze. It is through this central slice where that tinge

of blue is indicating that temperatures are close to freezing.

Wherever you are, there will be a nip in the air first thing in the

morning. Tomorrow, a story of contrasts. Across more south-

eastern areas, a lot of sunshine once the early fog has cleared. A

bright day, with crisp, sunny spells. Further west, a lot of

cloud and outbreaks of rain for Northern Ireland and parts of

Scotland. Mid-afternoon, enjoy the sunshine. A fabulous day across

much of southern England, East Anglia and the Midlands. Light wind

and warming up to 11 or 12. A bit more cloud across Wales, may be a

spot of rain for Snowdonia and Cumbria. North of the border, some

outbreaks of rain. Belfast will see some drier spells. East of the

Highlands and the far north of Scotland could see some brightness.

On Thursday, very strong wind indeed. The risk of gales, further

south and east it is brighter and drier. Like the wind and

potentially quite mild. Chopping and changing. Keep up-to-date