:00:15. > :00:20.The British parliament delivers its verdict on the phone hacking
:00:20. > :00:24.scandal of Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper.
:00:24. > :00:28.In France, Marine Le Pen is intending to state her intentions
:00:28. > :00:33.poor voting in the final round of the presidential elections.
:00:33. > :00:38.May Day rallies across Europe reflect frustrations about
:00:38. > :00:44.austerity in an economic crisis. Welcome to World News Today. Also
:00:44. > :00:48.coming up: The capital of Mali witnesses and night of heavy
:00:48. > :00:54.gunfire as rival groups of soldiers to fight for control.
:00:54. > :01:04.And Australia's Reserve Bank cuts interest rates by half of 1% as it
:01:04. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:17.Thank you very much indeed for joining us on show macro will stop
:01:17. > :01:24.a group of British MPs is on the verge of publishing and long
:01:24. > :01:30.awaited report into the News of the World foam packing scandals. This
:01:30. > :01:34.committee looks at issues of the media, and the question the
:01:34. > :01:39.committee meets to decide is whether Parliament was misled about
:01:39. > :01:44.the extent of the practice of phone hacking at the newspaper, the News
:01:44. > :01:49.of the World. The report will certainly look at the role of James
:01:49. > :01:54.Murdoch, who has denied to them knowing of wrong doing at the paper.
:01:54. > :01:59.Our political correspondent is following events.
:01:59. > :02:04.Yes, it looks like it is going to be a massive bomb shop. I have been
:02:04. > :02:09.told that the committee will say that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit
:02:09. > :02:13.person to run a major company like News Corporation. That is a very
:02:13. > :02:19.damning indictment of his role in this affair and it will have
:02:19. > :02:25.massive implications for the continued state of News Corporation
:02:25. > :02:30.in the satellite broadcaster BSkyB. At the moment, that role is being
:02:30. > :02:33.examined by the UK regulator Ofcom, and obviously if that is the
:02:34. > :02:37.finding of a parliamentary committee, they will have to take
:02:37. > :02:42.that into consideration. That is a staggering blow, not
:02:42. > :02:46.least in terms of what we have been led to expect would be the minute -
:02:46. > :02:52.- limits of the report. It was thought the report would
:02:52. > :02:56.focus more on the managerial layers below the Murdochs but it now looks
:02:56. > :03:00.like they take their criticism right to the top of News
:03:00. > :03:03.Corporation and this will certainly be a stain on Rupert Murdoch's
:03:03. > :03:09.reputation, if the parliamentary committee comes out with that kind
:03:09. > :03:16.of criticism. I think we can catch up on a little
:03:16. > :03:21.bit of what they are saying now.... I was not aware of the e-mail and
:03:21. > :03:25.other evidence which indicated that phone hacking was more widespread.
:03:25. > :03:31.The committee was never the less astonished that he did not seek to
:03:31. > :03:36.see the evidence on which the decision to pay the settlement of
:03:36. > :03:42.the Gordon Taylor case was based. The committee also went on to
:03:42. > :03:46.conclude by a majority vote that corporately, the News of the World
:03:46. > :03:49.and News International had misled the committee repeatedly about the
:03:49. > :03:55.true extent and nature of the investigations that they claimed to
:03:55. > :04:02.have carried out in relation to phone hacking, and that they had
:04:02. > :04:10.failed to disclose documents which would have revealed the truth. As a
:04:10. > :04:16.result of these various attempts to mislead the committee, the report
:04:17. > :04:21.but we published in 2010 was not based on a fully accurate picture.
:04:21. > :04:27.As a result, the committee have decided that we will table a motion
:04:27. > :04:32.in the House of Commons, asking the House to endorse our conclusions
:04:32. > :04:36.about misleading evidence and we also refer the report to the
:04:36. > :04:40.liaison committee, which is looking into questions relating to the
:04:41. > :04:47.powers of the effectiveness of Select Committees. My colleagues
:04:47. > :04:52.wish to speak. Thank you. To put it politely, we have been led up the
:04:52. > :04:56.garden path by News International but more importantly, so with the
:04:56. > :05:02.readers of its newspapers, the general public, and their victims
:05:02. > :05:05.of phone hacking -- so were the readers. Two years ago, we found
:05:06. > :05:14.the organisation guilty of collective and the Asia and said it
:05:14. > :05:18.was inconceivable that one reporter was involved -- collective amnesia.
:05:18. > :05:21.In the same evidence we received, the Press Complaints Commission
:05:21. > :05:28.exonerated the News of the World and indeed shocked the Messenger,
:05:28. > :05:36.the Guardian. After closure of the News of the World, we have to look
:05:36. > :05:40.at you misled us. We do not want to prejudice any future trials
:05:40. > :05:45.following the arrests but we also thought that it was not right that
:05:45. > :05:48.a few people in these circumstances should carry the whole of the
:05:48. > :05:53.corporate can and you will find in the report a strong corporate
:05:53. > :05:58.finding against News of the World and News Corporation. I would just
:05:58. > :06:03.remind people of one thing in relation to these findings: Rupert
:06:03. > :06:07.Murdoch, who founded the organisation, has at all times been
:06:07. > :06:11.a director of News International, not just of News Corporation. One
:06:11. > :06:16.of the things we have sought to set out in the report is the human cost
:06:16. > :06:22.of phone hacking and other wrongdoing to which it contributed.
:06:22. > :06:29.It was not just a technical trick, a victimless crime. The human cost
:06:29. > :06:34.is laid bare in some of the statements, agreed finally in open
:06:34. > :06:39.court, and in particular recite one pot of one of those statements,
:06:39. > :06:46.that a Charlotte Church and the treatment of her family -- recite
:06:46. > :06:53.one part of one of those statements. Extraordinary. Our correspondent is
:06:53. > :06:56.listening to this. The wilful blindness of Rupert Murdoch.
:06:56. > :07:04.Criticism of some representatives of the Metropolitan Police and a
:07:04. > :07:08.whole host of executives working for Rupert Murdoch accused of
:07:08. > :07:13.misleading Parliament. Yes, it is very damning. They are
:07:14. > :07:18.saying it was not just a few individuals at Music Corporation,
:07:18. > :07:22.they are saying that the company misled the committee of the Houses
:07:22. > :07:26.of Parliament -- at News Corporation. It looks as though the
:07:26. > :07:30.committee will refer its findings to the House of Commons so that
:07:30. > :07:35.there could be a vote of censure for those involved, but the main
:07:35. > :07:39.headline remains that they believe that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit
:07:39. > :07:42.person to run a major company, and that is a very damning indictment
:07:42. > :07:49.of him and will have major implications for the media
:07:49. > :07:53.landscape in Britain, particularly the News Corporation state in BSkyB
:07:54. > :07:59.-- stake. The parliamentary knives are out.
:07:59. > :08:03.They are being thrust into anger at Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation.
:08:03. > :08:08.The reporters are still being announced, as you ANC. We will
:08:08. > :08:15.leave that for the moment. -- as you can see. We will take you now
:08:15. > :08:19.to Paris. The National Front garnered 18% of the first round of
:08:19. > :08:24.the presidential elections. They clearly have a key role in deciding
:08:24. > :08:29.where those 18% will go in terms of the second round. If they were to
:08:29. > :08:33.go in favour of the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, could he possibly
:08:34. > :08:38.remain as president? Otherwise it looks as if there will be a
:08:38. > :08:45.socialist president in France. Let us into Marine Le Pen.
:08:45. > :08:49.TRANSLATION: To be a Republican is to defend French sovereignty and
:08:49. > :08:59.not to bow down to globalisation and the power of the Europeans and
:08:59. > :09:01.
:09:01. > :09:11.the banks. To be Republican is not to allow people to come in, gangs
:09:11. > :09:25.
:09:25. > :09:28.and Islamic fundamentalists, into The rallying cries are clearly
:09:29. > :09:34.working for the supporters. We still wait to get the message she
:09:34. > :09:39.will deliver in terms of Sunday. Champs Marine Le Pen on the right
:09:39. > :09:46.there, her father, a stalwart member for so many years -- John
:09:46. > :09:49.Marine Le Pen. We now turn our attention to Greece.
:09:49. > :09:52.It is May Day and demonstrations are taking place pretty much around
:09:52. > :09:57.the world, certainly in those countries which are feeling the
:09:57. > :10:01.pinch. Greece is right at the top of that list at the moment.
:10:01. > :10:11.Demonstrations about the government austerity measures are building.
:10:11. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:16.Also on there is an election in Greece just around the corner. The
:10:16. > :10:20.Greek government is facing an awkward situation.
:10:20. > :10:25.A very tough job for any government that will take power of the
:10:25. > :10:28.Sunday's election. They will have to agree on 11 billion euros worth
:10:28. > :10:32.of cuts in June on top of the massive savings that have been
:10:32. > :10:38.pushed through over the last two years, and there is so much anger
:10:38. > :10:45.in Greece against the austerity measures. That is on show today.
:10:45. > :10:48.The protests. Strikes. Traditional May Day social unrest. I have to
:10:48. > :10:54.say they are smaller and less violent than in recent years and
:10:54. > :10:59.that is because minds of focused on Sunday's election. That is where
:10:59. > :11:01.people will vent their anger, at the ballot box rather than on the
:11:01. > :11:05.streets. Disappointment with mainstream parties is having
:11:05. > :11:10.another effect, that is pushing many Greeks away from the
:11:10. > :11:15.mainstream parties towards the extreme, the political extreme. You
:11:15. > :11:20.heard Marine Le Pen doing very well in France. The far right is also on
:11:20. > :11:24.the rise in Greece. On the road for votes from the most
:11:24. > :11:29.honourable. The far-right Golden Dawn party, delivering food and
:11:29. > :11:34.clothes to the needy. It is the first side of a group that critics
:11:34. > :11:38.call violent extremists but they are gaining support fast from those
:11:38. > :11:44.suffering from the crisis. The group makes several stops along the
:11:44. > :11:48.way. The next one is Katarina, a pensioner struggling to get by. She
:11:48. > :11:51.tells me she is battling with cancer. Why not vote for Golden
:11:51. > :11:55.Dawn? They are helping us so I should give them something in
:11:55. > :12:01.return. In the Athens suburbs, their
:12:01. > :12:05.message spreads fast. They are anti- immigrant. The poll suggests
:12:05. > :12:08.they will enter Parliament for the first time. Halfway through, the
:12:08. > :12:15.round on opponents. First a member of the public, who gave chase
:12:15. > :12:23.through a local market. Them a target a Socialist MP with food and
:12:23. > :12:30.water. Behaviour giving fuel to those who call the group fags. -- a
:12:30. > :12:34.violent thugs. You can see the face of them. Brutal violence, no
:12:34. > :12:39.respect to the democratic institutions. Golden Dawn have
:12:39. > :12:43.called for all immigrant to leave Greece but they go further still.
:12:43. > :12:47.We will have fences, we will have electric fences, guards and
:12:47. > :12:52.everything to protect the country. Do you think immigrants should be
:12:52. > :12:57.killed? I don't care, they should not come in the country. The whole
:12:57. > :13:01.country is dying from immigrants, from politicians like the guy you
:13:01. > :13:07.saw before and bankers. That anti- immigrant rhetoric is striking a
:13:07. > :13:11.chord, with increasing attacks. This Pakistani says he was
:13:11. > :13:15.assaulted. Golden Dawn denies frequent allegations that its
:13:15. > :13:19.members are behind anti- immigrant violence. I am scared of going out,
:13:19. > :13:23.he said, it never used to be this way.
:13:24. > :13:28.Immigration has emerged as one of the key issues in the upcoming
:13:28. > :13:33.election. 80% of migrants to the EU now pass through Greece, making
:13:33. > :13:38.them a target and playing directly into the hands of the far right.
:13:38. > :13:42.The other side also shouts loudly. Anti- racism rallies by those
:13:42. > :13:47.determined to stop Golden Dawn at all costs, but as Greece's
:13:47. > :13:53.recession deepens, many have turned to political extremes. A divided
:13:53. > :13:56.nation fearing the future and looking for someone to blame.
:13:56. > :14:02.What Greece would give to have the room for manoeuvre that Australia
:14:02. > :14:06.has! Absolutely. We have a big surprise
:14:06. > :14:11.from down under today. Not just about the Reserve Bank about the
:14:11. > :14:17.interest rate cut, it was the size of the interest rate cut. Half of
:14:17. > :14:25.1%. The main rate down to 3.75%. The reason being, the global
:14:25. > :14:30.economic slowdown that we started is now nipping at the shores of
:14:30. > :14:34.Australia. It is important to remind everybody that Australia was
:14:34. > :14:40.the Ali G 20 economy that avoided recession in the last downturn. --
:14:40. > :14:44.the only G20 economy. The Australian economy started to
:14:45. > :14:54.develop into two speeds. The mining and resource sector continued to
:14:54. > :15:00.boom. Other parts of the economy are slow them down, retail, home
:15:00. > :15:04.sales, at their lowest level in more than ten years, house prices
:15:04. > :15:10.have fallen for five consecutive quarters. Although many experts
:15:10. > :15:16.believe that this big surprise cut should do the trick. The housing
:15:16. > :15:20.market has been looking very soft today. Australians are highly
:15:20. > :15:23.indebted and any moves on the interest rate front does help,
:15:23. > :15:27.particularly if it is enough to get the banks to cut their interest
:15:27. > :15:32.rates. That has been part of the issue in the last six months, that
:15:32. > :15:35.the banks have been moving their mortgage rates independently of the
:15:35. > :15:39.Reserve Bank because a big chunk of their funding comes from deposits,
:15:39. > :15:44.which they are having to fight for, and because of the offshore funding
:15:44. > :15:48.issue, which is largely related to the deterioration of global
:15:48. > :15:55.financial conditions. So you if it will help, because of the surprise
:15:55. > :15:59.factor, and it could go further -- yes, it will help. China is seen
:15:59. > :16:04.steady growth again for the fifth month in a row. Its manufacturing
:16:04. > :16:14.sector expanded to its highest in one year indicating that the
:16:14. > :16:23.
:16:23. > :16:25.world's second largest economy is So can we put behind us fears of a
:16:25. > :16:27.sharp slowdown in China? From Beijing, China economist
:16:27. > :16:30.Alistair Thornton from IHS Global Insight said it's looking positive
:16:30. > :16:34.but no cigar just yet. There is a lot of optimism in the sector but
:16:34. > :16:39.it is too early to break out the champagne. There is a massive
:16:39. > :16:43.amount of volatility in the global economy. The Eurozone is a crucial
:16:43. > :16:47.risk for China and domestically there are higher risks, centred
:16:47. > :16:54.around the property market in particular, which continues to
:16:54. > :16:58.detract. That is having an impact on domestic growth momentum. I do
:16:58. > :17:03.not like to answer because I already pulled out a bottle of
:17:03. > :17:07.bubbly! How much impact as the policies that Beijing has put in
:17:08. > :17:13.place in particular, the limiting of the reserves on the banks,
:17:13. > :17:19.basically allowing a more, freeing up credit, has that had an impact?
:17:19. > :17:27.It certainly has, but monetary policy through this year has been a
:17:27. > :17:30.marked by our real reluctance to listen too quickly. The space in
:17:30. > :17:36.which policyholders operate has narrowed over the past couple of
:17:36. > :17:41.years which means that if they moved to aggressively, we have
:17:41. > :17:47.inflation and government debt. They are trying to softly go down the
:17:47. > :17:52.middle path and that is pretty tricky. But as we saw today, so far
:17:53. > :18:01.so good. Growth in the UK manufacturing
:18:01. > :18:03.sector slowed in April, according to an influential survey. The
:18:03. > :18:11.Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index, or PMI, dropped to 50.5 in
:18:12. > :18:15.April, down from 51.9 in March. Let me give you an idea. Any figure
:18:15. > :18:21.about 50 indicates an expansion of the sector. April's figure was the
:18:21. > :18:28.fifth consecutive month of growth. Azad Zangana, European Economist
:18:28. > :18:32.from Schroders, told me exports are falling and that's key. The export
:18:32. > :18:39.orders, brand new export orders were the weakest index and the
:18:39. > :18:42.biggest fall, falling to about 45. Domestic orders have also been weak
:18:42. > :18:48.but when we look at the employment numbers, those were a little
:18:48. > :18:52.stronger, so it seems that the export side has been the weakness.
:18:52. > :18:57.Given that it is exports, surely that has to be worried because the
:18:57. > :19:04.story for the UK has to be that it can weather the storm in the
:19:04. > :19:07.Eurozone to see some form of growth? Absolutely. To the advance
:19:07. > :19:14.surveys from mainland Europe highlight the weakness there. The
:19:14. > :19:20.French survey came in at 43 and the German won at 46.3. Both were below
:19:20. > :19:25.50 and contracting. That is the story that we are seeing, the UK is
:19:25. > :19:32.catching the cold from the rest of Europe. We are back in a recession
:19:32. > :19:36.in Britain, and giving today's numbers, does this push the powers
:19:37. > :19:41.that be back down the path of further economic stimulus? I think
:19:41. > :19:45.it does. It will be very difficult for the Bank of England not to
:19:45. > :19:51.seriously consider adding further stimulus through quantitative
:19:51. > :19:55.easing. It's this data came out and the confirmation that we were back
:19:55. > :20:00.in recession, before that, there was a reduction in the number of
:20:00. > :20:04.members on the committee voting for quantitative easing. Now we're
:20:04. > :20:14.seeing some of this weakness coming through, we could see more stimulus
:20:14. > :20:15.
:20:15. > :20:19.being added. That is the business news.
:20:19. > :20:22.You're watching BBC World News. Still to come: A blood test to show
:20:22. > :20:27.how likely you are to develop breast cancer could be available in
:20:27. > :20:30.five to ten years' time. The steamroller of symbolism in
:20:30. > :20:34.Burma continues apace as the UN Secretary-general has now held
:20:35. > :20:37.talks with Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. They met
:20:38. > :20:42.at her villa in Rangoon, where she spent nearly two decades under
:20:42. > :20:50.house arrest. Mr Ban said she had accepted an invitation to visit UN
:20:50. > :20:56.headquarters in New York. I have invited her to visit the United
:20:56. > :21:02.Nations. She can do this at a time convenient to her randy United
:21:02. > :21:08.Nations. I received a positive answer from her and I am looking
:21:08. > :21:12.forward to continuing our relationship for Peace and Human
:21:12. > :21:15.Rights. Rachel Harvey is in the Burmese
:21:15. > :21:21.capital, Nay Pyi Daw. I asked her if this latest high profile visit
:21:21. > :21:26.really gives a sense that Burma has reached a point of no return.
:21:27. > :21:32.I do not think anybody can put to date on it, but the momentum is
:21:32. > :21:37.continuing, and it has done for the past six months or so. That is why
:21:37. > :21:42.we are seeing so much diplomatic activity. In December Hillary
:21:42. > :21:46.Clinton came here. William Hague was here in January. Since then we
:21:46. > :21:51.have had the German and Italian foreign ministers, and the British
:21:51. > :21:58.Prime Minister, and in the past few days, we have had Catherine Ashton,
:21:58. > :22:02.the EU's foreign policy chief, and now Ban Ki-Moon. Pretty much all of
:22:02. > :22:05.the high-profile diplomatic and European leaders have been here in
:22:05. > :22:10.a matter of months which is an indication of how seriously they
:22:11. > :22:14.are taking this reform process, and how much they realise that it will
:22:14. > :22:19.need international support if this country is really to develop and
:22:19. > :22:24.move in the right direction. There is never much sign of dissent
:22:24. > :22:30.at all at these important meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi. It is very
:22:30. > :22:35.much, we agree exactly on where she stands, but do you detect some
:22:35. > :22:40.difference on opinion on the issue of sanctions?
:22:40. > :22:45.Between Aung San Suu Kyi and Ban Ki-Moon, yes. There is no doubt
:22:45. > :22:47.that there is the beginnings of a consensus in the sense that this
:22:47. > :22:53.government under President Thein Sein deserve some kind of reward
:22:53. > :23:03.and support for this ongoing reform process. The question is what form
:23:03. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:14.the support should take and how much and how great it should be.
:23:14. > :23:17.The leadership of Mali's military junta say they are in control of
:23:17. > :23:19.the country's TV station and the capital's airport after they say
:23:19. > :23:22.rival soldiers tried to stage a counter coup. Fighting broke out
:23:22. > :23:25.between members of the presidential guard and troops loyal to coup
:23:25. > :23:30.leaders who succeeded in toppling the president five weeks ago.
:23:30. > :23:36.If de people of Mali's Once again caught in the fight for control of
:23:36. > :23:41.their country. Barely five weeks ago there was a case here and on
:23:41. > :23:49.Monday night the city was in the throes of a counter-coup. -- it
:23:49. > :23:53.there was a coup. Soldiers reached the television offices and started
:23:53. > :23:56.firing all over the place, causing general panic. There is real worry
:23:56. > :24:01.raining across the capital which has already suffering from the
:24:01. > :24:07.trauma of recent events. I have seen panic everywhere since the
:24:07. > :24:13.news. It seems that there are ongoing exchanges of fire at the
:24:13. > :24:18.airport and the headquarters of Mali radio and television. On March
:24:18. > :24:23.22nd this army captain seized power in Mali. He and his men accused the
:24:23. > :24:28.ousted president of incompetence. They said he had not done enough to
:24:28. > :24:33.help the army fight Tuareg rebels in the north of the country. Three
:24:33. > :24:37.weeks ago the leader of the coup signed a deal with other African
:24:37. > :24:41.leaders, agreeing to an interim government. But there have been
:24:41. > :24:49.signs that they have changed their mind, such as the arrest of several
:24:49. > :24:52.opposition figures. This soldier is part of Mali's military junta. On
:24:52. > :25:02.Tuesday they took over this television studio to announce that
:25:02. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:14.they have defeated a counter to it by forces loyal to the President. A
:25:15. > :25:17.simple blood test could be used to predict a woman's risk of
:25:17. > :25:19.developing breast cancer later in life, according to new research.
:25:20. > :25:22.Scientists in Britain say they've identified a chemical process which
:25:22. > :25:24.is driven by cancer-causing factors like alcohol use, smoking and
:25:24. > :25:27.pollution. That process is called epi-genetics. Dr James Flanagan,
:25:27. > :25:30.who is the Breast Cancer Campaign scientific fellow at Imperial
:25:30. > :25:32.College, London explained to me what that is. First you have to go
:25:32. > :25:37.back and understand what genetics is. This is the code in our DNA
:25:37. > :25:40.that tells us what the genes are to turn into proteins. Epi-genetics is
:25:40. > :25:47.a pattern on top of the DNA that decides how much of that pattern
:25:47. > :25:53.gets made. Epi-genetics decides how much of a gene gets made in each
:25:53. > :25:57.person's cells. And you can work that out for an individual? We have
:25:57. > :26:03.methods that can detect DNA mutilation. We have methods to
:26:03. > :26:08.detect this. We can look within individuals and see who is
:26:08. > :26:12.different or variable for these particular marks. Let's apply that
:26:12. > :26:19.to the case of breast cancer. How does that work, and how sure can
:26:19. > :26:22.you be that this is a genuine breakthrough? We are looking for a
:26:22. > :26:30.variation across a population so we have looked at a case control study,
:26:30. > :26:34.of about 1,300 women, half of whom have had breast cancer. The
:26:34. > :26:39.distribution of the marker we're looking for, will look at the top
:26:39. > :26:42.20 % of individuals, one in five women, and they have at two fold
:26:42. > :26:48.increased risk of breast cancer compared with the people in the
:26:48. > :26:52.bottom 20 %. That tells us about the risk for individuals. We're