:00:12. > :00:16.After the Hillsborough disaster, now the biggest ever independent
:00:16. > :00:20.investigation into police wrongdoing. 96 Liverpool fans died
:00:20. > :00:25.in 1989. Police officers will be investigated to see if any should
:00:25. > :00:29.face criminal charges. Justice demands that we do whatever is
:00:29. > :00:34.possible to investigate cull paibility to any offence which may
:00:34. > :00:40.have been committed. We've had the term. Now it is our turn for
:00:40. > :00:45.justice. This is the beginning of it. Also - the Jimmy Savile scandal.
:00:45. > :00:51.Police are pursuing 340 lines of inquiry and talking to 40 potential
:00:52. > :00:56.victims A big hike in gas prices. 11.5 million customers will have to
:00:56. > :01:01.pay more. Heavy rain is causing flooding in parts of Scotland,
:01:01. > :01:06.blocking roads and damaging property. I'm missing half my house.
:01:06. > :01:10.I'm missing the road, the neighbours - everything. Nothing is
:01:10. > :01:14.left. I'll be here with Sportsday later in the hour on the BBC News
:01:14. > :01:24.Channel, where we will look ahead to tonight's crucial World Cup
:01:24. > :01:35.
:01:35. > :01:39.qualifiers involving the home Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:39. > :01:42.News at Six. The biggest ever independent investigation into
:01:42. > :01:47.police wrongdoing is to be carried out following a damning report into
:01:47. > :01:53.the Hillsborough disaster. The IPCC will investigate what went wrong on
:01:53. > :01:58.the day in 1989 when 96 Liverpool fans died and the alleged cover-up
:01:58. > :02:01.afterwards. A report revealed more than 100 police statements had been
:02:02. > :02:07.altered. The Director of Public Prosecutions will investigate
:02:07. > :02:12.whether there are grounds to bring charges against officers, such as
:02:13. > :02:15.manslaughter. Our correspondent is outside Hillsborough Stadium.
:02:15. > :02:22.since Britain's worst ever sporting disaster happened here, those
:02:22. > :02:24.affected by it have been on a long and winding legal quest. Last month,
:02:24. > :02:30.Hillsborough independent report provided them with many of the
:02:30. > :02:37.answers they longed for. It has also paved the way for a further
:02:37. > :02:40.long legal journey. Ever since 96 Liverpool fans were
:02:40. > :02:44.crushed at Hillsborough, the families of those who died have
:02:44. > :02:48.wanted those responsible to be held to account. South Yorkshire Police
:02:48. > :02:51.were blamed, but no-one has ever faced criminal charges for the
:02:51. > :02:55.disaster. Today, the director of criminal prosecutions said legal
:02:55. > :02:59.action could now follow. He'll investigate whether there's enough
:02:59. > :03:05.new evidence to bring charges. The Independent Police Complaints
:03:05. > :03:10.Commission has also announced its biggest ever investigation. Justice
:03:10. > :03:16.demands that we do whatever is possible to investigate blame for
:03:16. > :03:21.any offence which may have been committed. To do so thoroughly and
:03:21. > :03:26.fairly. The IPCC will concentrate its investigation on the following
:03:26. > :03:30.points - the amendment of police statements. 116 were changed to
:03:30. > :03:35.remove negative comments about the South Yorkshire force, who ordered
:03:35. > :03:39.the changes and who was involved. The supply of myself leading
:03:39. > :03:43.information. The allegation that lies were told to the media and MPs,
:03:43. > :03:47.in an attempt to shift the blame from the police to the fans T
:03:47. > :03:51.actions of police officers immediately after the disaster,
:03:51. > :03:55.including why they checked the blood-alcohol levels of the dead
:03:55. > :03:59.and injured and the role of West Midlands Police, which was involved
:03:59. > :04:07.in three previous inquiries, including providing evidence to the
:04:07. > :04:11.Coroner. Those who are bereaved and who survived have welcomed the new
:04:11. > :04:15.investigations. Now it is our turn for justice. I think is the
:04:15. > :04:18.beginning of it. Retired and current police officers could be
:04:18. > :04:21.prosecuted. Around 200 who were working at the match are still
:04:22. > :04:27.serving today. This was always going to happen, that the IPCC were
:04:27. > :04:32.going to take this on and decide to run a very large inquiry. The terms
:04:32. > :04:38.of that inquiry clearly will be very much a matter for the IPCC. We,
:04:38. > :04:41.as South Yorkshire Police, stand ready to co-operate in any way
:04:41. > :04:44.whatsoever. The Chief Constable of South Yorkshire is said to have
:04:44. > :04:49.been involved in a police cover-up campaign. That will be investigated,
:04:49. > :04:52.along with a new allegation that he attempted to influence the way
:04:52. > :04:57.complaints against him were handled. The investigations are likely to
:04:57. > :05:01.take many months. Nearly 500,000 pages of documentation will be
:05:01. > :05:06.examined. Those who have campaigned for more than two decades say they
:05:06. > :05:10.are prepared to wait longer for justice. The two investigations
:05:10. > :05:16.announced today may ultimately may not be the only measures to result
:05:16. > :05:20.from the independent report because some families would like to see new
:05:20. > :05:22.invests ordered as well. The Attorney General has said he too
:05:22. > :05:32.will examine all the fresh evidence out there to see whether that may
:05:32. > :05:33.
:05:33. > :05:38.be possible. We have two inquiries, the DPP and
:05:38. > :05:42.the IPCC - why have these now and on such a large scale? The IPCC has
:05:42. > :05:47.gone probably further than a lot of people had expected today, both in
:05:47. > :05:51.terms of its remit and in its tone. There are good reasons for that. At
:05:51. > :05:54.the moment, I think the police and the body that oversees the police,
:05:55. > :05:58.the IPCC, I think their credibility, their legitimacy is at risk. There
:05:58. > :06:02.is a determination to do something to try and restore confidence in
:06:02. > :06:06.both of those. If you remember, of course, you have police officers
:06:06. > :06:10.under investigation right now for all kinds of offences after the
:06:10. > :06:14.phone hacking scandal. The IPCC itself has been the subject of
:06:14. > :06:18.criticism for not doing more to hold the police to account. In some
:06:18. > :06:24.ways they are looking for an opportunity to show that they can
:06:24. > :06:27.do something to make their point. I think it fits into a broader point
:06:27. > :06:33.here. The independent Hillsborough report, what it did is it showed
:06:33. > :06:39.that the checks and balances in our society, that effectively ensure
:06:39. > :06:41.our house is in order, did not work. We had a judicial inquiry,
:06:41. > :06:51.parliamentary scrutiny, independent oversight. Yet, we know they never
:06:51. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:33.got to the truth and in the end the Dozens saying they were abused.
:07:33. > :07:38.Jim'll Fix It. The actress Julie Fernandez appeared on it and
:07:38. > :07:42.remembers feeling very uncomfortable. He is a predator. It
:07:42. > :07:50.was done in a studio. A room full of busy people. His hand was just
:07:50. > :07:56.on my hand, on my arm. It was too intimate. It lingered for too many
:07:56. > :08:01.seconds. He was a man with special privileges. Access to Broadmoor.
:08:01. > :08:11.Children's homes. One former resident says he was reported after
:08:11. > :08:26.
:08:26. > :08:32.This afternoon, a new allegation against Jimmy Savile. Claiming he
:08:32. > :08:36.assaulted a ten-year-old boy at Jersey's children home. A number of
:08:36. > :08:41.institutions being drawn in continues to grow. Through it all,
:08:41. > :08:44.a question. What stopped this coming out sooner? For instance,
:08:44. > :08:54.Newsnight broadcast its investigation into Savile last
:08:54. > :09:10.
:09:10. > :09:13.night. No matter of proving institutional failure, a key reason
:09:13. > :09:23.why it was dropped. Today, speaking on 5 Live, the Deputy Prime
:09:23. > :09:34.
:09:34. > :09:42.Minister echoed what many are saying. I ask why did this remain
:09:43. > :09:47.buried. The facts about him speak for themselves. While we have been
:09:47. > :09:57.on air, the Director-General of the BBC, George Entwistle, has said
:09:57. > :09:59.
:09:59. > :10:09.there'll be too internal inquiries. Our correspondent is here with us
:10:09. > :10:14.
:10:14. > :10:19.now. Who snue -- who knew what, the second is more specific. That is
:10:19. > :10:23.all about Newsnight. They will look into that investigation. December
:10:23. > :10:29.last year - why was it dropped? Was there any undue influence from
:10:29. > :10:33.above, given that the BBC was about to broadcast those two tribute
:10:33. > :10:37.programmes to Jimmy Savile. When did they begin? The first can only
:10:37. > :10:41.begin when the police have completed their report. Given we
:10:41. > :10:45.have 340 lines of inquiry, who knows when that will happen. The
:10:45. > :10:48.Newsnight one, well we know already a BBC executive has been appointed.
:10:48. > :10:55.We know there have been conversations with members of the
:10:55. > :11:00.Newsnight team. Two energy companies have announced
:11:00. > :11:09.an increase in the cost of gas and electricity from next month. 11.5
:11:09. > :11:14.million million will be affected. British Gas will rise prices by 6%.
:11:14. > :11:21.Here's our chief economics correspondent. First it was British
:11:21. > :11:26.Gas with an �80 increase next month. Then N power a �10 09 price hike,
:11:26. > :11:31.burning another hole in customers' wallets. The companies blame the
:11:31. > :11:34.rising costs of gas supplies and the need to invest more in new
:11:34. > :11:39.energy. Why don't you sell energy at a loss, through the winter, but
:11:39. > :11:42.if we did, we wouldn't be able to invest in jobs. Wouldn't be able to
:11:42. > :11:45.bring new sources of energy to Britain. Wouldn't be able to help
:11:45. > :11:50.customers this their homes with energy efficiency. The explanations
:11:50. > :11:53.are no consolation for this couple. They are retired and are in poor
:11:53. > :11:58.health. They have been struggling with the bills as they are now, so
:11:58. > :12:03.news of next month's price rise has not gone down well. These bills
:12:03. > :12:07.keep going up. These companies are greedy any way. They made a lot of
:12:07. > :12:14.profit. It is profit, profit, profit. They don't give anything
:12:14. > :12:18.back to the people. So how do consumer prices relate to the cost
:12:18. > :12:26.of energy? Ofgem published this chart. A few years ago household
:12:26. > :12:31.bills closely tracked wholesale costs. The gap has widened.
:12:31. > :12:36.Consumer groups say the latest increase is harder to justify after
:12:36. > :12:46.British Gas Residential profits rose by nearly one-quarter in the
:12:46. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:54.first half of this year. The purpose of rises costs is to
:12:54. > :12:58.There is a valid reason for the increases which have been put
:12:58. > :13:05.forward, to consider the amount of investment needed, both in terms of
:13:05. > :13:10.new power stations, but also with regards to the actual transmission
:13:10. > :13:13.and distribution, delivering the gas and electricity to customers.
:13:13. > :13:17.Suppliers blame green energy policies, with I they claim add to
:13:17. > :13:22.the cost burden. Millions of customers will be thinking about
:13:22. > :13:24.how they will afford the increases. British Gas and NPower have
:13:24. > :13:30.followed Scottish & Southern with price hikes. Other supplies seem
:13:30. > :13:34.certain to follow. Services of remembrance have been
:13:34. > :13:38.taking place in Indonesia, Australia and London to mark the
:13:38. > :13:42.tenth anniversary of the Bali bombings. 200 people, including 28
:13:43. > :13:46.from Britain, were killed in the bombings in two nightclubs. It was
:13:46. > :13:49.the worst terror attack on Indonesian soil. The Afghan
:13:50. > :13:54.Government welcomes the arrest of seven Royal Marines on suspicion of
:13:54. > :14:03.murdering an insurgent. It is believed footage obtained from a
:14:03. > :14:12.laptop of a serviceman led to the arrests. 3 Commando Brigade were
:14:12. > :14:18.British forces fighting in Helmand operate under strict rules of
:14:18. > :14:23.engagement, even if it is sometimes hard to tell friend from foe. 3
:14:23. > :14:27.Commando Brigade were based there during the summer of 2011, when
:14:27. > :14:29.they saw seven of their number killed. This is believed to be the
:14:30. > :14:33.first time British forces have been arrested here in the UK on
:14:33. > :14:37.suspicion of murder in Afghanistan. Although several inquiries are
:14:37. > :14:43.continuing into incidents in Iraq. The MoD has said it will carry out
:14:43. > :14:47.an internal review to identify any less sons that need to be learned.
:14:47. > :14:52.It is understood the incident came to light after civilian police in
:14:52. > :14:58.the UK last weeked assed an. They discovered a video on his laptop
:14:58. > :15:03.showing an Afghan compound and what appears to be an injured insurgent.
:15:03. > :15:05.It is not clear what happened next, but the arrests of the seven
:15:05. > :15:09.Marines suggest the Royal Military Police believe there is a case to
:15:09. > :15:16.answer. The basic rules of engagement for British forces are
:15:16. > :15:23.known as "Card Alpha." International rules differ. The
:15:23. > :15:28.UK's rules of engagement are strict, which state lethal force is per
:15:28. > :15:33.missable only if troops' lives are at force. Why doesn't it happen
:15:33. > :15:37.more often. The human pressure they are under it is amazing the
:15:37. > :15:42.discipline is as good as it is. Overall they conducted 40,000
:15:42. > :15:47.patrols after overtaking control of the task force last year, meaning
:15:47. > :15:57.thousands of split-second decisions. British troops are well aware that
:15:57. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:33.they can be prosecuted if they get They must decide whether to charge
:16:33. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:16.the servicemen or have more time to Heavy rain is chording flooding in
:17:16. > :17:20.parts of Scotland. Some residents had a narrow escape when an
:17:20. > :17:25.overflowing river tore down part of the house. Our correspondent is in
:17:25. > :17:29.Aberdeenshire, in Stonehaven. The river looks very high. Yes, this
:17:29. > :17:34.was not a winter storm, just a lot of heavy rain which simply kept on
:17:34. > :17:43.falling. The River Carron is lapping at the gardens of these
:17:43. > :17:47.houses this evening, but for one village in Fife, it was a lot worse.
:17:47. > :17:51.The villagers of Dura Den woke up this morning to find that their
:17:51. > :17:55.road had become a river. A fortnight's worth of rain had come
:17:55. > :18:02.down overnight. The owner of this house was woken by a neighbour,
:18:02. > :18:09.urging him to get out. They are missing half my house, the road, my
:18:09. > :18:16.neighbours, nothing is left. The damage inside the house as well,
:18:16. > :18:19.the whole of the bottom floor is a river now. Everything has gone.
:18:19. > :18:24.road could have collapsed completely, but the emergency
:18:24. > :18:29.services were on the scene anyway. Even the fire fighters were amazed
:18:29. > :18:33.at what the water had done. We have just spoken to the officer in
:18:33. > :18:40.charge, and the water level you can see at the moment, it was
:18:41. > :18:44.considerably deeper than this. It was a very precarious situation.
:18:44. > :18:49.Further north, dozens of other communities were preparing for the
:18:49. > :18:54.worst. In Stonehaven, they were doing everything they could to stop
:18:54. > :19:00.the rising waters. They have been flooded here before. For some, it
:19:00. > :19:03.was already too late. It is just worrying, clearly. It comes from
:19:03. > :19:08.the front of the street to the back of the street and then comes under
:19:08. > :19:13.the old houses. The river emptied into the sea just a few hundred
:19:13. > :19:17.yards from these homes. As high tide approached at lunchtime, the
:19:17. > :19:22.levels crept up and up. By now, there were more 30 flood warnings
:19:22. > :19:26.in place across Scotland. Although the rain is easing, for some
:19:27. > :19:31.communities, the danger has not passed, because there is still a
:19:31. > :19:35.lot of water to come down off the hills, meaning that of most of the
:19:35. > :19:39.35 flood warnings are still in place this evening, they are
:19:39. > :19:44.generally applying to the low-lying farmland. As for here in Stonehaven,
:19:44. > :19:50.the next high tide is due at about midnight, so it will still be a
:19:50. > :19:55.nervy night. The government chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, is facing
:19:55. > :19:59.renewed calls to resign over his outburst at police officers in
:19:59. > :20:03.Downing Street last month. Representatives of the Police
:20:03. > :20:11.Federation met with him in his constituency in the last hour. They
:20:11. > :20:13.have described his position as untenable. Our political
:20:13. > :20:20.correspondent Ross Hawkins it is in Sutton Coldfield. So, the meeting
:20:20. > :20:24.has just broken up - what more can you tell us about what went on?
:20:24. > :20:28.This allegation, that he called police officers plebs has hung over
:20:28. > :20:32.him for weeks. If this meeting was meant to have cleared the air, then
:20:32. > :20:37.frankly, it has been a complete failure. Andrew Mitchell stands by
:20:37. > :20:41.his denial of saying those words. But the Police Federation says he
:20:41. > :20:45.should resign. They have a political angle, they were opposed
:20:45. > :20:48.to many of the changes in policing, but the political reality this
:20:48. > :20:52.evening is that it looks like David Cameron will return to Parliament
:20:52. > :20:57.next week with Andrew Mitchell still as the Chief Whip, looking
:20:57. > :21:01.forward to hearing lots of jokes about police and plebs, which for a
:21:01. > :21:07.party which is desperate to prove that it is not privileged, will not
:21:07. > :21:11.be very funny at all. It was one prime-time TV appearance which
:21:11. > :21:17.Barack Obama would rather forget. His performance in the latest
:21:17. > :21:21.presidential TV debate was largely pound, including by himself. So,
:21:21. > :21:30.last night's Vice-Presidential debate was greatly significant.
:21:30. > :21:36.Both candidates were determined to get the other hand. The young gun
:21:36. > :21:42.and the old warrior. When Joe Biden was first elected to Congress, Paul
:21:42. > :21:47.Ryan was just two years old. They began with foreign policy, and the
:21:47. > :21:50.Beasant killing of the US Ambassador to Libya. It took the
:21:50. > :21:55.President two weeks to acknowledge that this was a terrorist attack.
:21:55. > :22:00.We are watching the unravelling of the Obama foreign policy. With all
:22:00. > :22:04.due respect, Balzac. Not a single thing he said his accurate. That
:22:04. > :22:11.set the tone for what would become quite a performance from the vice-
:22:11. > :22:17.president. It featured sarcasm, exasperated body-language and
:22:17. > :22:21.interruptions, lots of them. Mathematically possible. It is
:22:21. > :22:29.mathematically possible, it has been done before. It has never been
:22:29. > :22:33.done before. It has been done a couple of times. But Paul Ryan
:22:33. > :22:36.remained unruffled, defending Republican policies on tax and
:22:36. > :22:42.health care, and keeping the economic focus firmly on the
:22:42. > :22:47.incumbent. President Obama, he had his chance. 23 million Americans
:22:47. > :22:53.are struggling for work today, 15% of Americans are in poverty. This
:22:53. > :22:57.is not what a real recovery looks like. You deserve better. Folks,
:22:57. > :23:02.use your common sense, who do you trust on this? Out on the campaign
:23:02. > :23:07.trail, Mick Rooney was watching it over a pizza. The President was
:23:07. > :23:11.watching on board Air Force One. -- Mitt Romney. Barack Obama is no
:23:11. > :23:14.doubt relieved that his running mate has put a bit of fire back
:23:14. > :23:22.into their campaign. But the opinion polls are tightening, and
:23:22. > :23:27.much will be hinging on the two remaining presidential debates. It
:23:27. > :23:34.is a Scottish coastline so remote that it has no mains electricity,
:23:34. > :23:38.no mobile phone reception, and the nearest road is two day's hike away.
:23:38. > :23:46.A new project linking communities to the World Wide Web has been
:23:46. > :23:50.achieving speedy results. Rory Cellan-Jones reports. On a stormy
:23:50. > :23:57.Highland morning, we'll off in search of a broadband miracle -
:23:57. > :24:00.remote places, which are getting a 21st century Internet connection
:24:00. > :24:05.through a community scheme. In Arnisdale, mobile phones do not
:24:05. > :24:11.work, but they have got a decent brought them signal. Nearby is
:24:11. > :24:14.somewhere even more challenging. Over there is the most remote part
:24:14. > :24:19.of mainland Britain. We are going there to see if we can find
:24:19. > :24:22.somebody with a broadband connection. An Edinburgh academic
:24:22. > :24:28.who spends a lot of time in Arnisdale is the man who caught the
:24:28. > :24:36.broadband scheme off the ground. are doing it wirelessly across from
:24:36. > :24:42.the Gaelic college, and we are relaying it through a series of
:24:42. > :24:44.masts to several places, and back to the Isle of Skye. Waiting for us
:24:44. > :24:50.on the other side, a farmer who does not have mains electricity,
:24:50. > :24:54.who takes his sheep to market by boat, but who is also getting the
:24:54. > :24:59.new broadband connection, beamed over from Skye. It is fast enough
:24:59. > :25:04.for a video call to his son in Australia. It is a bit grey and
:25:05. > :25:11.overcast. This is DIY broadband, requiring a bit of effort from the
:25:11. > :25:17.customer. We actually put up all the masts ourselves, and all the
:25:17. > :25:22.electronics. Occasionally, we go up to rearrange everything in the box
:25:22. > :25:28.up there! Back in Arnisdale, we found more people depending on
:25:28. > :25:32.their broadband. These two were planning a big event. Willy,
:25:32. > :25:37.meanwhile, was keeping in touch with family around the world.
:25:37. > :25:41.have been really happy with it. I would hate not to have it now. I
:25:41. > :25:47.never had a computer until this happened. I am just slowly getting
:25:47. > :25:50.used to it. There are now plans to make this network much faster.
:25:51. > :25:57.These communities, and many like them, are finding that if they want
:25:57. > :26:00.decent broadband, they have to do it themselves.
:26:00. > :26:04.We have already seen that Scotland has suffered with the range. Let's
:26:04. > :26:06.have a look at the weather now. It have a look at the weather now. It
:26:06. > :26:11.is looking fairly miserable, actually, in Scotland. Yesterday,
:26:11. > :26:19.we were talking about localised floods in Devon. This is the same
:26:19. > :26:23.system, now parked across the far north of Scotland. Still an amber
:26:23. > :26:27.warning in force, due to the intensity of the rainfall across
:26:27. > :26:34.Scotland. Although the rain is starting Tricky's somewhat, with
:26:34. > :26:40.the emphasis being a cross Caithness over the next few hours.
:26:40. > :26:44.-- starting to ease. This front will be drifting towards the team
:26:44. > :26:52.or overnight tonight. And we have still got the low pressure up over
:26:52. > :26:58.the far north of Scotland. So, we will start off our Saturday with
:26:58. > :27:01.that area of low pressure, feeling quite chilly. Initially spells and
:27:01. > :27:08.scattered showers elsewhere. I suspect by the middle of the
:27:08. > :27:13.afternoon, there will not be much change in Scotland. A better day in
:27:13. > :27:18.prospect as the afternoon goes on. Northern Ireland, clouding over
:27:18. > :27:22.into the afternoon. Sunny spells and scattered showers elsewhere,
:27:22. > :27:32.some of them fairly potent across the north of England. Temperatures
:27:32. > :27:39.fairly uniform. There seems to be a level of agreement finally about
:27:39. > :27:42.Sunday. This area of low pressure stays to the south of the channel.
:27:42. > :27:45.And that weather front, still bringing some patchy rain into
:27:45. > :27:52.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Some decent sunny spells for England and
:27:52. > :28:01.Wales. So, in summary, for the Wales. So, in summary, for the
:28:01. > :28:04.weekend... Our main headline - the biggest
:28:04. > :28:07.ever of independent investigation into police wrongdoing is to be
:28:07. > :28:11.carried out, following a damning report into the Hillsborough
:28:11. > :28:15.disaster. And while we have been on air, the BBC Director-General has
:28:16. > :28:19.announced more details of the corporation's inquiry into the
:28:19. > :28:23.allegations surrounding Jimmy Savile. Despite our efforts to make
:28:23. > :28:27.clear our belief that the decision to drop the Newsnight investigation
:28:27. > :28:33.was taken properly, for sound editorial reasons, people have
:28:33. > :28:39.continued to speculate. This is damaging to the BBC, and it is a
:28:39. > :28:42.cloud of suspicion which cannot be allowed to continue. The BBC
:28:42. > :28:47.executive board and I have therefore ordered it in the