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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The Prime Minister rebuked by the Trial Judge - David Cameron | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
is criticised for talking about his former spin doctor's conviction | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
- before the trial is ended. The British Prime Minister said he'd | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
made the wrong decision to take former News of the World editor | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
Andy Coulson into Downing Street - but will Coulson's conviction push | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
him to change the law? A Spanish judge names Princess | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Cristina - sister of the new King - as a suspect in a corruption | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
investigation, paving the way for a possible criminal trial. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Also coming up: FIFA begin disciplinary procedures against | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez after he appears to bite an Italian player. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
We know about the poetry that emerged from the trenches of the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
First World War, but it also inspired some extraordinary music. | :01:05. | :01:20. | |
Hello and welcome. British Prime Minister David Cameron has come | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
under heavy criticism from a judge, campaigners and political opponents, | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
after his former communications chief Andy Coulson was convicted of | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
conspiracy to hack phones yesterday. In a highly unusual move, the trial | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
judge has criticised David Cameron for deciding to apologise for | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
employing Andy Coulson in Downing Street before the hacking trial was | :01:44. | :01:55. | |
over. Today the jury was finally discharged after failing to reach | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
verdicts on two further charges against Andy Coulson and the News of | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the World's former Royal editor, Clive Goodman. The judge will decide | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
on Monday if they are to face a retrial. | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Today victims of the hacking have called on David Cameron to make good | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
on his promises to reform the British press. Rob Watson has this | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
report. What was described as the trial of | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
the century has now ended. There was a battle for political advantage | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
after the trial. David Cameron left Parliament knowing that it would be | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
a tough session. The Prime Minister will always be remembered as the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
first ever occupant of his office who brought a criminal into the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
heart of Downing Street. But while Mr Cameron again apologised, he | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
insisted he had been cleared by the very enquiry that he had ordered. | :02:47. | :03:00. | |
All appointments were approved by the Leveson Inquiry. He cannot do it | :03:01. | :03:13. | |
because Leveson Inquiry they could not do it. Voters believe | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
politicians have been too cosy with the media and politicians also end | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
rebukes from the judge at the trial. He criticised Mr Cameron for | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
speaking out on the He criticised Mr Cameron for | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
speaking verdicts before the trial was completed. The end of the trial | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
has brought for the trial has brought further demands for | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
politicians to get tough on the newspapers. This is the sister of | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler whose hacking of her phone had | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
sparked the scandal and the first place. Make sure what happened to us | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
will never happen again. But the newspaper industry believes that the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
investigation into hacking and overlooks heavy-handed. It did not | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
result in an guilty of verdict for Rebekah Brooks or four other | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
defendants. This is not the end of the story and other court cases are | :04:24. | :04:36. | |
pending. Rupert Murdoch may well be questioned and the debate rumbles | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
on. report. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Roy Greenslade is Professor of Journalism at City University and a | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
former editor of The Daily Mirror newspaper. He joins me from | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
Brighton. What does this case tell you about | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
the way some British journalism practised their craft? I think it is | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
quite clear that the dark arts of journalism are generally regarded in | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
Fleet Street as having reached a market depth --murky depth. Many | :05:06. | :05:23. | |
people work is great anguish that that appears to have stopped and | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
there has been a kind of ethical clean-up since the hacking scandal | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
broke properly in July of 2009. The U think this case will push forward | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
greater reform, tighter regulation of the press, or do you think the | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
press will say they have regulated themselves? After the Leveson | :05:49. | :06:02. | |
Inquiry, that recommended itself a new form of regulation. It is still | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
self-regulation and that is a continued argument whether that | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
should be backed by statute or be totally independent. That debate has | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
largely been won already by the newspaper publishers who are setting | :06:16. | :06:32. | |
up their new system of price regulation --press regulation. They | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
will soon be creating a complaint procedure and a code of conduct and | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
that system will go ahead and I do not think this case will make any | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
difference to that outcome. They are so far down the road now and the | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
government knows there is a general election next year and I do not | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
think any of the party leaders have the appetite to take on the press | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
and the publishers at this moment. To outside eyes, do you think that | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
viewers around the world would see any difference after this new | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
system? I do not think the system will make that much difference but I | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
think in the intervening 45 years there has been much more of a | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
clean-up and I think there has also been a move away from the old diet | :07:34. | :07:48. | |
of kiss and tell stories. --four or five years. The Sun It is much more | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
friendly and less vulgar and a truism than it was five years ago. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
That is the result of the appraisal by all publishers following the | :08:08. | :08:07. | |
breaking of the scandal. World Cup news now, | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
and of course everybody's talking about the Uruguayan and Liverpool | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
striker Luis Suarez. Did he bite Italy's Giorgio | :08:21. | :08:21. | |
Chiellini last night? There are other matches going | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
on too on Day 14 of the tournament. It is unfortunate that the incidents | :08:24. | :08:46. | |
took the focus of some of the beautiful football we witness | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
yesterday. Luis Suarez has been given up to 17 hours, to make | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
representations on the Internet and then fever will investigate FIFA -- | :09:02. | :09:26. | |
will investigate. If they do find evidence that he did actually bite | :09:27. | :09:36. | |
the Italian player during that game, they will investigate further. We | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
have had two great games in Brazil today. Argentina have | :09:43. | :09:42. | |
have had two great games in Brazil topped their group. Even though | :09:43. | :09:51. | |
Nigeria lost by two goals to three, the fact that Bosnia beat Iran meant | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
that Nigeria finished with four points, in second place ahead of | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
Bosnia. points, in second place ahead of | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
This man has flown in from New York. How does it feel? It has been | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
amazing. We're really excited and we cannot wait to take on probably | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
France in the next round. It was quite nerve wracking, with a goal | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
after two minutes? They played well against Bosnia and well against Iran | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
and they had not conceded a goal up till now so I was confident they | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
would come back. They could face France in around of 16 or Ecuador. | :10:42. | :10:58. | |
Who would you pick? We would love to take on the weaker opponent, | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Ecuador. You travel back to New York tomorrow. I am flexible so I might | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
have to make a trip if they make it to the finals. Two very happy | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
Nigerian fans. The sister of the newly-crowned King | :11:22. | :11:37. | |
Felipe of Spain could face a a tax fraud and money-laundering | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
case. Princess Cristina was questioned in court in February | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
about her husband's business dealings, which are alleged to be | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
corrupt. Guy Hedgecoe is in Madrid. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
A bit of an unprecedented development for the sister of the | :11:51. | :12:02. | |
monarch to be potentially in court? We have never seen a member of the | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
Spanish Royal Family in modern times go through this process. It is | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
worrying for the whole Royal family which is trying to prove itself at | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the moment. This is not what they had in mind. Has there been any | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
statement from the Royals today? There was a brief statement in | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
reaction to the decision and said that the Royal household accepted | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
and respected the independence of the judiciary and so they accepted | :12:32. | :12:41. | |
the decision that had been made. I think this was the king making a | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
statement he was not getting involved in this case and he does | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
not want to be seen as influencing this case are helping his sister | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
somehow. I think Spaniards would view that very dimly so he is keen | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
to distance himself from this whole case and respect the judiciary is | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
the case and rivals. He is supposed to be the clean pair of hands after | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
his father and his popularity diminished. He took office last | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
Thursday. He is 46 and are very well travelled figure who has really been | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
groomed for this job. When he took office on Thursday, his first speech | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
as King mentioned specifically the way he saw his role and the way he | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
sees the monarchy in the 21st-century. He said the Spanish | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Royal Family must be beyond approach and offer an example by being honest | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
and transparent. Just six days later, he has his sister possibly | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
facing a court trial for corruption. This is not what he had in mind but | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
a lot of people do see him as someone they think can take the | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
monarchy forward and he seems to have more support than his father | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
did at the end of his time as King. Now, a look at some | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
of the day?s other news. Police say 21 people have been | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
killed and 17 injured in a shopping mall explosion | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The area was packed with people | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
at the time of the blast, and body parts are reported to be | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
scattered across the area. Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
al-Maliki has rejected calls for a national salvation government | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
to help counter the offensive He warned such calls represented | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
a "coup against the constitution and an attempt to | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
end the democratic experience". The US has repeatedly urged Iraq's | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
leaders to form a unity government More than 800 Taliban militants have | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
attacked military checkpoints in Helmand province | :14:42. | :14:50. | |
in southern Afghanistan. Local officials say there have been | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
heavy casualties on both sides, as Hundreds of families have walked | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
long distances to get away The American Secretary of | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
State John Kerry has urged President Putin to publicly call | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
on pro-Russian separatists Mr Kerry said that until Russia | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
took action to prove it was fully committed to peace, the United | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
States and Europe would be compelled He said that there would be tougher | :15:15. | :15:24. | |
sanctions if measures were not taken. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
We believe it is critical for President Putin to prove by his | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
actions, not just his words, that he is fully committed to peace. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
It is critical for him to stop the flow of weapons | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
Publicly, for the separatists to lay down their arms. | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
To pull Russian forces and equipment back. | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
And to help get the hostages released. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Until Russia fully makes that kind of commitment to the peace process | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
and to the stability of Ukraine, the United States and Europe are | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
compelled to continue to prepare greater costs, including tough | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
economic sanctions, with the hope that they will not have to be used. | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
But that is dependent on the choices Russia and its president | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
More than 70 South Korean teenagers who survived the ferry sinking have | :16:14. | :16:35. | |
returned to school. The trial for the 14 crew members held responsible | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
is now under way in the south of the country. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
They all arrive together, the ones who survived. For many of them, it | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
was a first glimpse of the campers since they all left together for a | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
school trip two months ago. Whilst their parents looked on, some | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
students cried, whilst others are out there heads as they walked | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
through the school gates. Everything may look the same, but with 250 of | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
their school friends not returning, it is a difficult time. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
TRANSLATION: We were not for get them. Our memories of them may | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
become memories of guilt and we may feel sorry for them, because there | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
are many things that we cannot do together. | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
In a statement, the parents said that they hoped going back to school | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
would help the children return to their normal lives. It is | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
frightening to send them back to school, while there pain have not | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
yet healed, but we support their wishes, the parents said. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Since the tragedy, the surviving students of the school have had | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
group therapy and psychological treatment. Many of them have | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
complained about the public spotlight and have asked the media | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
to stay away. The school authorities have said that in the coming weeks | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
the teachers will prioritise classes that help the students adapt to | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
school life. The UK's biggest so-called payday | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
lender Wonga has been ordered to pay more than ?2.5 million | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
in compensation after it used fake legal letters to pressurise | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
struggling customers into paying up. Wonga sent 45,000 people threatening | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
letters from law firms The City regulator has told the BBC | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
it has now sent a file to You appear to be in a financial | :18:28. | :18:47. | |
quandary, and one day you will choose exactly how much to borrow | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
and for how long. It all seems comforting, but a | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
different side of Wonga was shown. Bogus law letters sent by bogus law | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
firms, and an administration fee. The regulator told me that it was | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
behaviour that should stop. The individuals are often vulnerable | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
customers who have nowhere else to go for money and then they default | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
on those loans because they do not have the money to repay. And to | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
deceive these people with threats of an official letter which is fake I | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
think it is pretty serious. Here, the details of Wonga's fake | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
letters. 45,000 customers were said letters from fake law firms. They | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
would then charged administration fees, which totalled ?400,000. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Country-mac has also admitted that 200,000 customers had overpaid on | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
their loans -- Wonga. The payday lenders said that they | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
were sorry for the practices that continued from 2008 until 2010. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
Today is not a proud day for the company, and we sincerely apologise | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
to those affected. We will properly compensate them and these issues are | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
in the past. Here at the headquarters of the | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
company, they know that they are the guilty party, but the regulator says | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
that there are problems across the payday loan industry. There will be | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
more findings over the next few months. The regulator has also put | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Wonga on notice, sort these problems out, or their licence could be in | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
danger. The documents will be given to the | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
police, who will decide whether or not to take further action. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Country-mac say that they have changed, now is the time for them to | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
prove it. -- Wonga. On the centenary of the start | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
of World War One, across the BBC we're remembering the | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
music that emerged from the trenches and the way composers were changed | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
by the carnage across Europe. The poets of World War One, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
like Owen and Sassoon, are often celebrated, | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
but the Great War sparked some We'll hear more in a minute from | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
BBC Radio Three presenter But first David Hannah looks | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
at the impact of the war on some MUSIC PLAYS | :21:08. | :21:31. | |
Edward Elgar with his finer major work, the cello Concerto, giving his | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
response to the horrors of World War I. | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
British composers died in the trenches, including George | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
Butterworth and Cecil Coles. Others, such as Ivor Gurney, ended their | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
days in mental institutions. MUSIC PLAYS | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
Ralph Vaughan Williams with his Pastoral Symphony reflected on the | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
stillness of the battlefield. He was a medical orderly and was | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
himself gassed. MUSIC PLAYS | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
And, of course, there was the monstrous sound of battle. | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
Gustav Holst Mars from the Planets. English music would never be the | :22:42. | :22:42. | |
same again. With me now is a BBC Radio three | :22:43. | :22:58. | |
presenter. Thank you for joining us. We heard about how you have both the | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
optimistic music and the anguish. Yes, one of the interesting things | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
about all of this in-depth look at the music and the fact that the war | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
had on the music is that we see many different stories. There is | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
jingoism, and after the war, as countries are building their sense | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
of national identity and pride that is there. But there is also the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
sense of allergy, which British composers like Ralph Vaughan | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
Williams were looking at. -- of remembrance. And people who saw the | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
war were very changed. A lot of it is looking back to a previous | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
obsession with loss and the loss of the folk music tradition, which | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
composers were very interested in in the early 20th century, before the | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
outbreak of war. But that becomes part of the post-war music as well. | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
Do you also get the move, after the war, like other art forms, that | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
everything is falling apart, man's in humanity to man, it can lead to | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
chaotic music? Yes, I think that there were many | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
composers for whom the First World War got in the way. It is terrible | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
to say, but many people were already challenging music and pushing the | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
edges of what we understand to be music. They ended up serving, but he | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
wanted to get back to writing music. That is in contrast to a composer in | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
Paris, Ravel, whose music we will be playing live, it is going out across | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
Europe from Sarajevo, 100 years on it since arch duke Franz Ferdinand | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
was killed. He was determined to fight, but he was too short, so he | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
drove a lorry. But for him, the war was a marker for him as a man. | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
You are about to go to Sarajevo, marking the moment that the Archduke | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
was shot. But the BBC is looking at the changing of music at that time? | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
Yes, with Ravel in Paris, he used to visit a jazz clubs. Paris had huge | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
amounts of jazz, as did many other places in Europe. It was happening | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
before the war, but it continued. There are many different influences | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
coming in, and we think about it in terms of supplies and logistics, but | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
also for courtship? Yes, people were influenced, the | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
culture was influenced by what was going on. There was one composer who | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
spent time in mental institutions suffering from shell shock. | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
Thank you for your insight and telling us about these Sarajevo | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
concert on Saturday. Thank you for joining us. You can | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
talk to us about any of our stories on our Twitter page. Goodbye. | :26:42. | :27:00. | |
Good evening. There is still plenty of fine weather to | :27:01. | :27:02. |