:00:09. > :00:12.This is BBC World News Today with me, Zeinab Badawi. The phone-
:00:12. > :00:18.hacking scandal leads to another high-profile police resignation in
:00:18. > :00:22.Britain. Assistant Commissioner John Yates steps down a day after
:00:22. > :00:30.his boss. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, returns early from an
:00:30. > :00:34.official trip Africa to brief MPs on the crisis. The relationship
:00:34. > :00:38.between politicians and media has not been right and this issue, it
:00:38. > :00:46.has stopped on my watch and I am determined to get to the bottom of
:00:46. > :00:48.it. And to put these things right. Sean Hoare, a formula Note -- news
:00:48. > :00:54.of the will reporter and source of some phone hacking allegations, has
:00:54. > :00:56.been found dead. -- News of the World. A leaked UN report accuses
:00:56. > :01:01.the Sudanese government of committing a series of atrocities
:01:01. > :01:03.in South Kordofan. It rejects the findings. Why the government in
:01:03. > :01:13.Madrid believes this monument to the Spanish dictator General Franco
:01:13. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:26.may have outlived its sell-by date. Hello and welcome. There has been a
:01:26. > :01:30.further development in the phone hacking scandal. In the past few
:01:30. > :01:35.minutes, the former News of the World reporter, Sean four, has been
:01:35. > :01:39.found dead at his home. He was at the heart of the scandal after
:01:39. > :01:43.accusing the former editor Andy Coulson of an encouraging staff to
:01:43. > :01:47.intercept phone messages in pursuit of the stories. Andy Coulson has
:01:47. > :01:49.denied allegations of wrongdoing. The government here has instigated
:01:49. > :01:52.a review into police corruption in the wake of the phone-hacking
:01:52. > :01:55.scandal. The two most senior police officers in London, Sir Paul
:01:55. > :01:59.Stephenson and his deputy, John Yates, resigned within a day of
:01:59. > :02:07.each other. Both men have insisted they've done nothing wrong and have
:02:07. > :02:17.not themselves been accused of committing illegal acts. Let's get
:02:17. > :02:19.
:02:19. > :02:24.more on the development of the death of Sean whore. -- Hoare. He
:02:24. > :02:30.was one of the very first people to speak up on us? He was found dead
:02:30. > :02:35.this morning at 10:40am by police after reports that somebody was
:02:35. > :02:39.unwell at his property. He was a man who was a former News of the
:02:39. > :02:44.World journalist, the showbiz reporter, who initially was one of
:02:44. > :02:49.the first people to claim that Andy Coulson, the editor, had known
:02:49. > :02:55.about the phone hacking. He made his claims when interviewed by the
:02:55. > :03:02.BBC, he was somebody that hoped the whole issue of phone hacking would
:03:02. > :03:05.lead to tabloid journalism being cleaned up. Recently he said the
:03:05. > :03:09.process of pinging it mobile phones by journalists to enable them to
:03:09. > :03:13.find out what the targets were at any one time. Has anyone said
:03:13. > :03:17.there's anything suspicious about his death? It isn't being treated
:03:17. > :03:22.as suspicious, he had a serious drink and drugs problem and a
:03:22. > :03:28.colleague who spoke to him 10 days ago was told that he had actually
:03:28. > :03:32.until recently been told he was terminally ill. That might explain
:03:32. > :03:39.a possible cause of his death, he might have taken his own life or
:03:39. > :03:43.some other cause. None of that has been confirmed. Police say that the
:03:43. > :03:53.death of this man isn't suspicious. Whatever the circumstances, it does
:03:53. > :03:54.
:03:54. > :03:57.add to the sense of drama? Thank you very much indeed. There is
:03:57. > :04:02.widespread unease in Britain that the relationship between the police,
:04:02. > :04:09.the press and the politicians has become too cosy. Nick Robinson
:04:09. > :04:13.looks at the main developments... He is no longer, resounding one day
:04:13. > :04:19.after his bus. The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul
:04:19. > :04:22.Stephenson. Both paying the price for failing to get to grips with
:04:22. > :04:29.the hacking scandal. So said the mayor of London. I regret to say
:04:29. > :04:37.that I have come off the phone to John Yates, who is tendering his
:04:37. > :04:42.resignation. I believe that both decisions are regrettable but I'm
:04:42. > :04:46.afraid that in both cases, the right call has been it. Boris
:04:46. > :04:49.Johnson insisted that both men had jumped and were not pushed. But he
:04:49. > :04:58.made it abundantly clear that he had done everything to encourage
:04:58. > :05:01.them. It became clear to both men that the issues of questions and
:05:01. > :05:06.circumstances would make it difficult for them to continue to
:05:06. > :05:10.do their jobs in the way that they wanted. John Yates began the day
:05:11. > :05:16.determined not to resign. Telling colleagues he would not submit to
:05:16. > :05:20.trial by media. He ended it explaining why he was going. Those
:05:20. > :05:25.obviously take and the most difficult jobs clearly have to
:05:25. > :05:31.stand up and be counted when things go wrong. However, when we get
:05:31. > :05:35.things wrong, we say so. And we try to put them out. As I have said
:05:35. > :05:38.recently, it is a matter of great personal regret that this
:05:38. > :05:46.potentially affected by the phone hacking were not dealt with
:05:47. > :05:49.appropriately. Sadly, there continues to be a huge amount of
:05:49. > :05:56.inaccurate, ill-informed and on occasions downright malicious
:05:56. > :06:00.gossip being published about me personally. This has the potential
:06:00. > :06:05.to be as significant distraction in my current role as the National
:06:06. > :06:11.League for counter-terrorism. is the man who unwittingly caused
:06:11. > :06:17.the crisis at the net. Neil Wallace, arrested last week, was a deputy
:06:17. > :06:20.editor of the News of the world's. Scotland Yard had to would net that
:06:20. > :06:26.they had hired the man they had arrested to help improve their
:06:26. > :06:28.public relations, but it was rather too late for that. Last week, Sir
:06:28. > :06:33.Paul Stephenson went to Downing Street to discuss how to restore
:06:33. > :06:36.the image of the net. He been no mention of the force's relationship
:06:36. > :06:40.with the walls and when the Prime Minister found out he was furious.
:06:40. > :06:44.What has divided David Cameron and the men from the Metropolitan
:06:44. > :06:48.Police is oddly what also connects them - both hired the former News
:06:48. > :06:56.of the World meant to improve their image. David Cameron with Andy
:06:56. > :07:00.Coulson, the editor, and Andy Coulson's deputy, Neil Wallis,
:07:00. > :07:07.insisted he knew nothing about it and was hired by John Yates and Sir
:07:07. > :07:10.Paul Stephenson. Welcome. The Prime Minister is on an awkwardly timed
:07:10. > :07:20.trip to South Africa, cutting it a day short to return home to make
:07:20. > :07:56.
:07:56. > :08:00.David Cameron insisted there was no comparison between his behaviour
:08:00. > :08:05.and the Metropolitan Police. This situations are not the same in any
:08:05. > :08:12.shape or form. In terms of Andy Coulson, no one has argued that the
:08:12. > :08:16.work he did in government in any way was inappropriate or bad. He
:08:16. > :08:19.worked well in government, he then left government. There is a
:08:19. > :08:26.contrast, I would say, with the situation at the Metropolitan
:08:26. > :08:30.Police, were clearly the issues have been around, whether or not
:08:30. > :08:37.the investigation is being pursued properly. That is why I think Sir
:08:37. > :08:39.Paul reached a different conclusion. Tomorrow, the Murlough father-and-
:08:39. > :08:49.son fierce cross-questioning in the Commons and the hacking headlines
:08:49. > :08:52.just keep on coming. As the phone- hacking scandal develops here, what
:08:52. > :08:55.is already clear is that it has thrown light on the connections
:08:55. > :08:58.between the police, the politicians and the press. To talk about that,
:08:58. > :09:00.we're joined in the studio by former Scotland Yard undercover
:09:00. > :09:03.detective Peter Bleksey and from our Westminster studio by the
:09:03. > :09:08.Conservative MP Peter Bone. Some people have said this is the
:09:08. > :09:13.biggest crisis of confidence for decades in Scotland Yard?
:09:13. > :09:16.certainly has been an extraordinary day with the resignations and the
:09:16. > :09:23.fact that Parliament is being recalled and the Prime Minister
:09:23. > :09:27.changing his plans to deal with the issue. It is definitely a crisis
:09:27. > :09:33.and I think the Prime Minister was quite right to recall Parliament.
:09:33. > :09:37.Peter Bleksey, we have heard about corruption, nepotism, they will be
:09:37. > :09:41.a review into looking into this thing, but should people be
:09:41. > :09:46.surprised that there are allegations like this in the police
:09:46. > :09:50.force? Surely it has always been around? Corrupt cops or a way of
:09:50. > :09:55.life, and as much as there are purges from time to time,
:09:55. > :09:58.successful prosecutions from time to time, whenever there is
:09:58. > :10:02.opportunity, there will live corruption and that is a fact of
:10:02. > :10:07.life. Do you think that what we're seeing now, just the fact that it
:10:07. > :10:12.is as business as normal, or is it worse? Even somebody like you would
:10:12. > :10:15.have guessed? The rank and file officers that ice-pick to regularly
:10:15. > :10:21.complain to me that senior management at Scotland Yard seems
:10:21. > :10:25.to have lost its way. It seems to have become more obsessed with spin,
:10:26. > :10:30.with its PR image, and that side of what it does, rather than the
:10:30. > :10:37.actual policing. Which the troops on the ground would like them to
:10:37. > :10:40.focus on. Peter Bone, what to your constituents say to you? Do you
:10:40. > :10:43.think public trust in the forces in Britain has been severely
:10:43. > :10:52.undermined by this war are people saying, this is just isolated
:10:52. > :10:55.cases? Over the weekend, I was not being asked about this a lot. But I
:10:55. > :10:59.did meet with the grip of Northamptonshire Police officers
:10:59. > :11:03.and they were very concerned, the basic summary is that they are
:11:03. > :11:08.honest, of the highest integrity but of course every police officer
:11:08. > :11:12.is now accrued. Like every MP during the expenses scandal. In
:11:12. > :11:15.reality, it is only a very small number that are bent and it seems
:11:16. > :11:19.that you do need to have the inquiries and you need to get to
:11:19. > :11:24.the bottom of things and have prosecutions but you must remember
:11:24. > :11:29.that the vast bulk of police are doing a public service band putting
:11:29. > :11:33.their necks on the line every day. We have to get perspective.
:11:33. > :11:38.this into global perspective. You were in the force, you trained
:11:38. > :11:42.police officers all over the world and the British policeman has this
:11:42. > :11:46.reputation of probity. Internationally, how do our police
:11:46. > :11:49.compare? The compared to some of the forces I worked alongside, I
:11:49. > :11:53.think British police generally speaking can hold their heads up
:11:54. > :11:59.high. Certainly there was more endemic corruption in other
:11:59. > :12:02.countries that I experienced. However, when I went to the FBI
:12:02. > :12:07.headquarters in quanta coal into Jeannette and spent a lot of time
:12:07. > :12:12.out there with law enforcement officers, it was surprising how at
:12:12. > :12:19.the corruption over their was often the same as ours in the UK. But
:12:19. > :12:24.this particular episode, were we're talking about perhaps uncomfortable
:12:24. > :12:30.relationships with members of the press and perhaps the police being
:12:30. > :12:36.too politicised, their brother knew in the way they have come out.
:12:36. > :12:39.will be a hard job to do? Detectives need the media and the
:12:39. > :12:44.immediate needs detectives but just because that is how it has always
:12:44. > :12:49.been does not mean it should always be like that in the future. We need
:12:49. > :12:53.a wider structure and governance of policing, as Iain Blair has said?
:12:53. > :12:57.What we need is a different relationship between the police and
:12:57. > :13:02.the press and the Government and MPs. The relationship has gone
:13:03. > :13:06.completely wrong and amateur you can do that by regulation but if we
:13:06. > :13:13.can expose what is wrong, we can struck to deal with it. Thank you
:13:13. > :13:16.both very much. Tomorrow the focus will shift from Scotland Yard back
:13:16. > :13:18.to Parliament. Rupert Murdoch, his son, James, and one of his former
:13:18. > :13:21.executives, Rebekah Brooks, are due to appear before a Commons
:13:21. > :13:24.committee for what could be some hostile questioning. Tim Willcox
:13:24. > :13:31.looks at how quickly and suddenly the sands of British public life
:13:31. > :13:36.have shifted. Rupert Murdoch, for decades this political kingmaker
:13:36. > :13:40.has towered over British politics. But what is his influence now after
:13:40. > :13:43.a momentous 10 days? His bid for Britain's main satellite
:13:44. > :13:47.broadcaster withdrawn, his most profitable newspaper shot down and
:13:47. > :13:50.Rebekah Brooks, his former News International chief executive,
:13:50. > :13:57.arrested. Has this shifted the balance between politicians and the
:13:57. > :14:01.media in Britain? The relationship that became too close and cosy, we
:14:01. > :14:05.were all in this world wanting the support of newspaper groups and
:14:05. > :14:09.even broadcasting organisations. And when we're doing that, do we
:14:09. > :14:12.spend enough time asking questions about how they are regulated and
:14:12. > :14:16.malpractices and the rest of it? We did not and there is a new chance
:14:16. > :14:20.to do that. A spotlight has been focused on the relationship between
:14:21. > :14:25.the British political and media elite and revelations of private
:14:25. > :14:28.lunches and weekend invitations to Chequers. Now, politicians and
:14:28. > :14:33.former leaders are distancing themselves from the Murdoch empire.
:14:33. > :14:38.We have seen this shift the centre of gravity. I would also say that
:14:38. > :14:43.the politicians are probably quite pleased about that. They feel
:14:43. > :14:46.they're getting the Beast of their back. As Rupert and James Murlough
:14:46. > :14:50.and Rebekah Brooks prepare for Tuesday's Commons Select Committee,
:14:50. > :14:53.some describe this as a moment of catharsis for politicians that they
:14:53. > :14:57.say have feared and quoted the Murdoch empire in equal measure.
:14:57. > :15:01.But will the day-to-day dealings between politicians and lobby
:15:01. > :15:06.correspondents change? I do not think it will changed one bit. It
:15:06. > :15:10.will die down and the dust will settle and life will go on. Up the
:15:10. > :15:13.road, the House of Commons, the journalists and MPs all work under
:15:13. > :15:17.the same roof and the MPs ply their trade through us and they want
:15:17. > :15:21.their stories about and they want to attack upon it -- opposition and
:15:21. > :15:24.for the public to read about their policies. It's the only way. While
:15:24. > :15:28.some find the day-to-day relationship between hacks and MPs
:15:28. > :15:31.unpalatable, the real focus of public anger has been the
:15:31. > :15:35.undocumented meetings between media proprietors and Prime Minister is
:15:35. > :15:39.here at Number 10. Until last Friday, a private dinner with the
:15:39. > :15:43.Prime Minister in his flat upstairs match just that. Off the record,
:15:43. > :15:46.nobody knew what was discussed. have to distinguish between
:15:47. > :15:51.journalism on the one hand and what I listed call the press barons.
:15:51. > :15:55.What has gone wrong in the last 50 years is the press barons and
:15:55. > :15:58.proprietors, the people who own newspapers, have been cordon The
:15:58. > :16:04.Shots and deciding the editorial policy and even telling journalists
:16:04. > :16:08.had to write stories. That is wrong and that has to stop. The pressure
:16:08. > :16:15.on Rupert Murdoch remains intense. And on Tuesday, there are two key
:16:15. > :16:19.questions to be answered. Did they had any knowledge of the illegal
:16:19. > :16:22.activity at the News of the World and are they now committed to
:16:22. > :16:28.exposing it? How they answer these questions could have a significant
:16:28. > :16:31.impact on the future of British Now a look at some of the days
:16:31. > :16:35.other news. Seven Afghan policemen have been killed in southern
:16:35. > :16:39.Afghanistan. The attack happened in Lashkar Gar, an area due to be
:16:39. > :16:41.handed over to Afghan control later this week. The attack took place
:16:41. > :16:45.even as the American commander of Nato forces, General David Petraeus,
:16:45. > :16:49.handed over to his successor General John Allen. General
:16:49. > :16:52.Petraeus is leaving to become head of the CIA.
:16:52. > :16:56.The British Army is to be cut by nearly twenty thousand - reducing
:16:56. > :16:58.it to its smallest size in more than a hundred years. The defence
:16:58. > :17:04.secretary, Liam Fox, said reservists like the Territorial
:17:04. > :17:06.Army, would form nearly a third of the army by 2020.
:17:07. > :17:09.The authorities in Romania have been reassuring the public after
:17:09. > :17:13.more than sixty missile warheads were stolen from a train on
:17:13. > :17:23.Saturday. Security officials say the stolen warheads cannot be
:17:23. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:27.detonated because they are in component form without explosives.
:17:27. > :17:30.Nelson Mandela has been celebrating his 93rd birthday. He's been
:17:30. > :17:33.spending the day with family but his foundation urged people to do
:17:33. > :17:36.67 minutes of voluntary work - to represent the 67 years he devoted
:17:36. > :17:40.to South Africa's political struggle.
:17:40. > :17:43.The split of Sudan last week has left a host of problems in its wake.
:17:43. > :17:47.A South Kordofan which is on the border between the two countries
:17:47. > :17:50.has seen bloody fighting in recent weeks. Now a leaked UN report
:17:50. > :17:56.accuses Sudan of committing a series of atrocities in South
:17:56. > :18:01.Kordofan. The document talks of aerial bombardment and contains
:18:01. > :18:04.eyewitness reports of mass graves. The government told the BBC that it
:18:04. > :18:14.only bombed rebels, many of whom had sided with South Sudan during
:18:14. > :18:18.the long civil war between north and south. Images taken on a bar
:18:18. > :18:22.phones and smuggled out of the mountains but the government denies
:18:22. > :18:28.it is indiscriminately bombing civilians. The other accusations
:18:28. > :18:35.made in a leaked report include eyewitness statements about the
:18:35. > :18:40.massacre of men and shelling of civilian areas. Most of the rebels
:18:40. > :18:43.fighting the government in South Kordofan are from the mountains and
:18:43. > :18:48.see themselves as African rather than Arab and feel under threat.
:18:48. > :18:52.The authors of the report conclude if the acts of proven they may
:18:52. > :19:02.amount war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Sudanese
:19:02. > :19:03.
:19:03. > :19:13.government rejects the charges. Against civilians and people but
:19:13. > :19:17.the government, what is done by the government is for security to
:19:17. > :19:23.facilitate everything for civilians to live normal lives. It be
:19:23. > :19:26.accusations continue to pile up. An American campaign group set up by
:19:26. > :19:31.George Clooney says it has identified three sites consistent
:19:31. > :19:37.with mass graves. And a member of the House of Lords known for a
:19:37. > :19:46.strong condemnation of Khartoum holds President Bashir responsible.
:19:46. > :19:52.When he talked peace, his people were bombing the civilians up in
:19:52. > :20:01.the mountains. And the situation is a re-run of what happened in the
:20:01. > :20:04.war against the South, in Darfur, dropping bombs and sadly in the
:20:04. > :20:10.mountains at the moment the specific targeting and terrorising
:20:10. > :20:14.of civilians who have been known to support the southern government.
:20:14. > :20:18.UN report came to light at a difficult time for President Bashir.
:20:18. > :20:22.They are trying to get more than $40 billion debt cancelled and
:20:22. > :20:29.sanctions removed to help of an ailing economy. These accusations
:20:29. > :20:31.of government abuses in South Kordofan make this harder.
:20:31. > :20:34.Joining me from Washington is Jonathan Hutson from the Sentinel
:20:34. > :20:37.Project, which includes the actor George Clooney, an outspoken critic
:20:38. > :20:46.of President Bashir. It's a US based organisation set up to
:20:46. > :20:50.monitor conflicts in Sudan. Those pictures which you say are
:20:50. > :20:53.consistent with a mass graves be you cannot be sure what you're
:20:53. > :20:58.seeing all we might be buried there and responsible for putting them
:20:58. > :21:04.there? Well, it shocks the conscience, the
:21:04. > :21:08.evidence mounting day-by-day, we have at least four independent
:21:08. > :21:12.eyewitness statements detailing seeing the digging of spits
:21:12. > :21:18.consistent with mass graves, high resolution of satellite imagery
:21:18. > :21:21.from digital globe showing pits measuring at 25 by five metres
:21:21. > :21:28.exactly where the witnesses said they would be, the witnesses
:21:28. > :21:33.described piles of bodies wrapped in body bags south of the Episcopal
:21:33. > :21:38.Church complex in the capital of the region. The satellite imagery
:21:38. > :21:45.is seeing that and the witnesses mentioned me to Bessie trucks and
:21:45. > :21:49.vehicles picking up the bodies and moving them -- Mitsubishi trucks.
:21:49. > :21:54.Yes, the United Nations report makes it player there is fighting
:21:54. > :21:58.on both sides, by the rebels and the Sudanese government although it
:21:58. > :22:05.does say the actions of the government forces are much more
:22:05. > :22:10.egregious. How can you verify who was responsible for the civilians
:22:10. > :22:15.fleeing, from the pictures you have taken it is not always clear?
:22:15. > :22:19.not just the pictures but we also have detailed eyewitness statements
:22:19. > :22:24.of the organised house-to-house search for civilians believed to
:22:24. > :22:27.support the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, and we had
:22:27. > :22:32.seen detailed statements from eyewitnesses detailing at the
:22:32. > :22:39.slaughter of men, women and children, civilians. What is
:22:39. > :22:44.fuelling the conflicts? State-sponsored ethnic cleansing to
:22:44. > :22:47.rid the mountains of the people. thank you.
:22:47. > :22:51.It's 75 years since General Franco led the military uprising that
:22:51. > :22:55.sparked the Spanish Civil War. Hundreds of thousands were killed
:22:55. > :22:58.in the fighting, and the political repression that followed. Despite
:22:58. > :23:01.this a huge monument to Franco still towers over modern Spain.
:23:01. > :23:04.Well, now the government wants an expert commission to suggest
:23:04. > :23:13.changes to the site, which could include removing the remains of
:23:13. > :23:19.Franco himself. Sarah Rainsford reports from Spain.
:23:19. > :23:24.It is a striking symbol of four decades of dictatorship. Of General
:23:24. > :23:29.Franco commissioned the monument to his victory in the civil war. But
:23:29. > :23:35.there is a vast basilica carved into the mountain. Inside, the tomb
:23:35. > :23:39.of General Franco. Still decorated with fresh flowers. It is 75 years
:23:39. > :23:45.since Franco led an armed revolt against the republican government.
:23:45. > :23:50.Hundreds of thousands have died in the war and in the repression. When
:23:50. > :23:54.Spain transmit -- went to democracy there was a pact of silence over
:23:54. > :24:01.its past. It has taken their to six years to consider the fate of the
:24:01. > :24:05.memorial. The this place was built to impress. The cross Towers 150
:24:05. > :24:10.metres high in the mountains, it is what it symbolises that is
:24:10. > :24:14.problematic, for years it has been a rallying point for the far right
:24:14. > :24:21.and the government wants to make it a place of a reconciliation. That
:24:21. > :24:26.will be hard,... He is one of many who cannot bear to visit the place,
:24:26. > :24:31.his father were shot by a fascist Execution Squad and the remains
:24:31. > :24:36.were taken years later to Frank his memorial. It is a mass grave for
:24:36. > :24:43.30,000 dead from both sides. Now he wants to give his father a proper
:24:43. > :24:46.burial. TRANSLATION: For me, this is excruciating.
:24:46. > :24:51.It is right painful my father is buried in a place built for the
:24:51. > :24:56.glory of the victors in a military coup. It feels like a double crime,
:24:56. > :24:58.his murder in 1936 and removing his remains without permission to a
:24:58. > :25:01.place which is totally inappropriate.
:25:01. > :25:08.And expect commission is considering moving the grave of
:25:08. > :25:12.Franco himself to this municipal some grit -- cemetery. Right wings
:25:12. > :25:18.-- right wing groups say they will contest it in court. The government
:25:18. > :25:23.admits it is handling this with kid gloves.
:25:23. > :25:28.TRANSLATION: Spain's transition to democracy was an act of prudence
:25:29. > :25:33.after the deep wounds of the war. One reason it succeeded was we
:25:33. > :25:36.addressed the pass little by little. People want the site to change.
:25:36. > :25:41.Maybe it is happening late but prudence has been key to the
:25:41. > :25:45.transition. The challenge then is to transform
:25:45. > :25:50.this device insight into a national memorial to the horror of the Civil
:25:50. > :25:59.War. And in honour of all its victims. 75 years on, it would be
:25:59. > :26:02.the first of its kind here. A reminder of our main news: It has
:26:02. > :26:06.been announced the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare has
:26:06. > :26:10.been found dead. He was at the heart of the scandal accusing the
:26:10. > :26:14.former editor Andy Coulson of encouraging staff to intercept
:26:14. > :26:18.phone messages in pursuit of stories, Andy Coulson rejected the
:26:18. > :26:23.accusations. The government has instigated a review into police
:26:23. > :26:28.corruption, this comes after the Assistant Commissioner John Yates
:26:28. > :26:33.quit. 24 hours after his boss Sir Paul Stephenson announced he was
:26:33. > :26:37.standing down. Both were involved in the appointment of a former
:26:37. > :26:42.deputy editor to work as a media consultant for the fours. Both men
:26:42. > :26:47.insist they have done nothing wrong. They have not been accused of
:26:47. > :26:57.committing illegal acts. That is all. Next, the weather. A really
:26:57. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:07.Hello, Monday it continued with cloud and rain across the country,
:27:07. > :27:13.tomorrow still quite cloudy and call but not so many showers. Many
:27:13. > :27:17.places escaping with a dry day. The weather is being driven by a low
:27:17. > :27:22.sitting on the North Sea. The wind coming down from the north or
:27:22. > :27:26.north-west, the isobars open out on to state so the wind not as strong.
:27:27. > :27:31.Most of the showers focused across eastern Scotland and north-east
:27:31. > :27:38.England. When the showers are going they will be slow moving, heavy and
:27:38. > :27:43.thundery. Torrential downpours possible through the afternoon.
:27:43. > :27:49.Towards the West, although the cloud, limited sunshine it will be
:27:49. > :27:54.a mostly dry day. One or two places escaping with a dry day.
:27:54. > :27:58.Temperatures in Cardiff the 20. The odd light shower but on the whole a
:27:58. > :28:03.much drier day across Northern Ireland. With the north-westerly
:28:03. > :28:07.breeze temperatures struggling at 15. Some thick cloud across
:28:07. > :28:13.northern Scotland bringing outbreaks of rain but in the south-