cameron, your full name, please. >> david william donald cameron. >> thank you. you've kindly provided us with a statement dated the fourth of may of this year. it extends to 84 pages and possesses two exhibits, subject to one very minor matter to which we'll come in due course. is this the formal evidence you're tendering to our inquiry? >> it is. prime minister, as i've said to many other witnesses, i'm extremely grateful for the obvious work that you no doubt have put into your evidence and the material that you provided the inquiry at a time when there are obvious medical other calls on your time. >> thank you. >> mr. cameron, main may i start with two questions about your career before 2001, which, as we know, the day you entered parliament. you were a special advisor at both the treasury and the home office between 1992 and 1994, is that right? >> that's right. >> in your dealings with third parties, to what extent, if ever, did you express an opinion which was not the opinion of your minister without making it clear that he wasn't? >> well, it's quite a lo

the british prime minister, david cameron said he had no covert agreements with the media and had never traded policies in return for their support. mr. cameron has been answering questions about his close nature, and the inquiry followed some of britain's best-selling newspapers used phone hacking to get scoops. we have been watching that inquiry for the last couple of hours. the british prime minister is there facing questions about his relationship with the media. >> there was no deal. if you don't have a public inquiry, then there's the perception. >> it's very important alongside, you know, the appalling things that happened to innocent people. >> we'll leave david cameron. stay with us on "bbc world news." there's more to come. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, union bank, and shell. >> at shell, we believe the world needs a broader mix of energies. thats why were supplying cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity. and its also why, with our partner in brazil, shell is producing eth

she was very good friends with david cameron. there are all sorts of stories about their friendship, how rebekah brooks and her husband would enjoy horse i'ding sessions with david cameron, send each other with texts. another former news of the world editor who was then hired to be the communications chief for david cameron's government. that all came to a sticky end as well. he's also been charged. lots of question about his relationship with these people and how close he is to rupert murdoch and news corporation. back to you. >> okay. becky, thanks so much indeed. on trade web, spanish bond yields hit 7% for the first time in the euro era. currently on our reuters quote. on trade web we did go through 7% parentally. and ian, let's bring you in on this. everybody talks about the 7% mark, the magical figure. the point is, spain is already saying we don't want to fund ourselves at these prices anyway. >> i think -- i'm surprised we're at these levels. the reality is that funding will be there. the spanish banks will be taking that

>> david cameron spent rehearsing with this moment. his appearance before the inquiry into press ethics which he himself set up. he came to the royal courts of justice with a mission, to dispel the idea that his government had done a deal with news corp., trading commercial favors in return for the company's political support. >> there was no overt deal for support, there was no covert deal, there was a conservative politician trying to win over newspapers, trying to win over television, but not trading policies for that support. when you look at the detailed list, it is complete nonsense. >> at times, he was clearly irritated by the line of questioning. he accused his predecessor gordon brown of cooking up conspiracy theories. he suggested that his critics were trying to use the inquiry for political ends. >> when you get into a sort of witchcraft trials, how can you possibly prove you are innocent. >> perhaps the most interesting moment was a text message from 2009 that was read out in court. in it, the then news international boss t

david cameron lent his voice to calls for action. meanwhile, the election of francois hollande has deprived merkel of a key ally in her drive for austerity. on thursday, she appeared to agree with cameron that year was already made up of two camps. >> i think those countries which have a common currency must intensify their cooperation, just as we're doing with the physical contact. just as we will have to do in future with more steps of that kind. always remembering the currency is a common bond. >> one of the -- we are one of the leading enthusiasts of the single market. but we have our own borders. we will keep our own borders. >> in other words, deepen the union within the eurozone while those outside maintain their own policies and borders. hardly what the founders of the european project had in mind. >> for more, we spoke to our political correspondent. he told us more about angela merkel's ideas. >> what the chancellor is talking about and policy coordination of fiscal policies. she did talk about a joint budgetary policy withi

could liken to circling around a drain as the economy plummets into the sewer next headline max david cameron fears near perpetual stagnation in euro zone so the prime minister of britain says that britain must look to merging economies for economic salvation yes well once again the eurozone i like the way you conveniently omits britain from the eurozone you know when it when it's on the way up at a bull market of course is raw raw eurozone but during the hard times it's a wait a minute we're going we're going to do the confident leave us alone we're going to own guns i'm going to hold central bank another going to other guys or even though you guys what we never heard you guys so typical duplicity from a tory leader what else is new and his island nation is sinking into the muck the austerity measures are a bust george osborne is trying to walk back as aggressively as he can without losing his entire support the coalition is a shambles and that that won't last much longer yes but max i believe hedge funds and goldman sachs have already bennie in the so-called emerging economies for quite a f

in the euro, but david cameron was content with the agreement. >> they took some steps forward last night. for a long time, we've said more action needs to be taken for short-term financial facility, to drive down bond spreads and interest rates to create greater stability. it was an important step forward last night. i very much applaud that. >> a vision for the future. more integration and a closer union. that is the result. >> we are expecting more from brussels as leaders begin to make their statements to the press over the next few minutes. we will bring you that as it happens on gmt. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. three chinese astronauts have returned to earth to a hero's welcome after carrying out china's most complex and longest space mission. the 13-day voyage solve china's into space for the first time. martin patience reports. >> astronauts hurtled to wo earth. these were the final moments of china's space mission. it was a hard landing. china's leaders looking on at mission control -- appeared to be worried. would blanket media

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. >> and from president obama and british prime minister david cameron last night when they were urging euro zone leaders again to try to find some way out of this crisis. whatever happens, whatever happens in brussels, there will have to be closer collaboration between nations, won't there? >> there is. the problem with the banking sector is the banking systems are increasing internationally across the board yet when they come into trouble, it is still a national responsibility. so spain is responsible for spanish banks and so on. so now they want what they are calling a banking union where by those responsibilities would be spread across the entire currency zone. the proposal announced today are being described as a first step towards that. it's a pretty small step so far. >> all right. chris morris, thank you in brussels. thank you for giving me that update. let's cross to westminster and talk to my chief correspondent, norman. this conversation between president obama and david cameron, both of them very worried about what's going on. what can you tell us about what the two men had

on their way back, samantha cameron, david cameron's wife, thought he had 8-year-old nancy.d 8-year-old nancy. when they got home home they realized neither one of them had taken poor nancy with them back to the house. they immediately went back to the pub where she was apparently completely nonplussed by the thing sitting in the back and sipping on a pepsi and they brought her home and everything was okay. but because this is the british prime minister, there is political intrigue in the timing of all of this. it was the "sun" newspaper owned by rupert murdoch broke the story today. it happened two months ago. this week, cameron is going to be testifying in inquiry he set up to look into media ethics, specifically, the ethics of rupert murdoch's papers like "the sun." >> obviously, that is intriguing in itself this would come up. it's kind of old news. the kid is okay but comes up at this time when the paper is being looked at and murdoch's company as well. with all of that said, in the uk they are known for their headlines. any headlines related to this story, stephanie? >

. >> british prime minister david cameron. angela merkel said before he spoke that more countries need to hand over more political power to the european union if monetary reunion was to work. >> we not only need a currency union, but we also need a so- called fiscal union. meaning, we need more common budgetary policies. and we most importantly needed political union. that means in the future step by step, we need to hand over conferences in europe and allow more monetary opportunities. >> the eurozone crisis has deepened because the fourth biggest economy in the you, spain, is in the midst of a massive banking crisis. spain is finding it hard to raise money to fix its banking problem. in the past couple of hours or so, it has managed to raise more than 2 billion heroes in the credit markets. we will be life on the streets of madrid in just a few minutes. first or more of this -- on the financial news. david cameron and angela merkel were talking about germany acting out. what are other countries wanting from germany, and why

today, prime minister david cameron testified and was asked several questions about text messages sent to him by former news international ceo rebecca brooks. he also dismissed accusations that he made a deal with the news organization calling it "complete nonsense." coming up next, his first few hours of testimony before the inquiry earlier today. >> well, today, the honorable david cameron, please. >> please raise your right hand. >> i swear by almighty god that the evidence i give shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> your full name, please. >> david william donald cameron. >> you kindly provided us with a witness statement that extends to 84 pages and possesses three exhibits, subject to one minor matter to which we'll come in due course is this the formal evidence you're tendering to our inquiry? >> it is. prime minister, as i have said to many other witnesses, i'm extremely grateful for the obvious work that the systems have put into your evidence and the material that you provided the inquiry at a time when there are many other calls. thank you. >> m

we have a report from gary gibbon of independent television news. >> reporter: last summer, david cameron said politicians got too close to the press bosses. the court room today got a flavor of how close. with rebekah brooks, the news >> i think what it means was that as she put, we're friends but professionally-- me as leader of the conservative party and her in newspapers-- we were going to be pushing the same political agenda. >> reporter: david cameron rubbished gordon brown's claim that to win murdoch newspapers' support, david cameron had switched policies on media regulation and the bbc. there was, he insisted, no pre- election grand bargain with the murdochs. >> there was no overt deal for support. there was no covert deal. there was no nods and winks. there was a conservative politician-- me-- trying to win over newspapers, trying to win over television, trying to win over proprietors, but not trading policies for that support. mr. cameron claimed he was more >> reporter: lord justice leveson wanted to know just how far down the track of new rules for the press the prime ministe

in the hot seat -- british prime ministerdavid cameron suspends his -- british prime minister david cameron suspends his relations with the press at the inquiry into media action. >> there was no covert deal, there were no nods and winks. >> tracing mitt romney's past. we look at a british connection that helped to shape who he is today. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. tonight, democracy in egypt might be heading back to square one. the highest court has ordered that the parliament be dissolved in new elections held. -- and new elections held. the judge has said that the rules were unconstitutional under which a third of the seats were decided last year. in a separate ruling, they cleared the way for the last prime minister under hosni mubarak to stand in the runoff. from cairo, the bbc -- >> down with the military, they shout. revolution, revolution. they are enraged by the supreme court decision to dissolve egypt's first democratic parliament. >> the end of the egyptian revolution. our dreams are now dying. >> you can see the anger and the passion on the fac

david cameron said this week he getting a lot of information from the queen during his weekly meetings, do you believe it? >> oh, yeah. she has talked to every prime minister since churchill. she knows and has had a lot of experience. i think that the remarkable thing about england and the monarchy is the role of women in it, that the three greatest british monarches, elizabeth, victoria, and elizabeth have lasted longer than all of the men and they have all shown this remarkable sort of tenacity, this female tenacity. chris: thatcher as well? >> thatcher was a political figure. the great thing about the monarchy is the head of state is not a political figure. she represents human beings. chris: i put them all in the same bag as an american. >> and had is why britain's monarchy is superior in many ways than the american presidency. the system works because you have, you channel all of your patriotism into this person, into this family. you don't have polarization. >> i have had experiences just with moments with the queen when she was here and also over there and one of the things that

what an embarrassment for prime minister david cameron. today, the government will relaunch a mass i have program dealing with troubled families. are headlines like this one, it makes it hard to do. >> boy, that is a high degree of difficulty. you're right. thank you very much. everybody at the pub handled it well. put her to work. she was happy. >> the people at the pub said it's not like you can just ring up david cameron and say, you left your daughter here. >> good thing he called. >>> nancy's dish washing job cut about 50% off the original bill. work out. worked out. let's get to the low. the stubborn low sitting there in the gulf. one stuck front. you want to look at the patterns and say, is there anything in common with the dry pattern in the west and the wet one here. a lot of patterns staying if place longer than they normally would. you get the flooding rain and the dry weather in the west. the rain is moving slightly today. from atlanta to charlotte to washington, d.c., you'll see the showers. it will get into the northeast late

to get straight to the questions because he's very pressed for time i produced prime minister david cameron says that in the most complex up to twenty president who has shifted his view on the situation in syria what do you say about that is that true because that is the truth of the meeting so that if there are those whose president obama did discuss syria. oh so we're. just that here it goes and the british were saying this. president does that must go and then the external players must develop the transition plan for the syrian story. we expressed our position that we can the accept the policy of which would be aimed at changing regimes from outside this has been though there's no will and that we can. judge for the syrians what the outcome of the political dialogue would we strongly support the political dialogue the strong to support the efforts to stop the violence and we saw just the for this for this role that still the players should leave for the syrian party on the beach with troops. and thus persuade them there was draw from this it just blows the government and the armed groups

thank you. >> that's david cameron. the german chancellor has said that europe needs a political union to make the monetary union work. in an interview on german television, she said countries, including germany, needed to be prepared to cede more power to brussels. steve evans joins me from berlin now. steve, to pick up from the vantage point of cameron and merkel, they're not going to have an awful lot in common to talk about when they meet, are they? >> no, because mr. cameron comes having talked to president obama and the two of them saying that it's an urgent situation and the eurozone countries need to do more. chancellor merkel has been on television here in germany this morning, downplaying the idea of any kind of immediate solution and saying the way forward lies in much more political integration in europe, and the implication is you get that integration of institutions, and then you can talk about a collective shouldering of debt. none of that does anything about the immediate difficulties in greece or with t

this could be what david cameron described as the big bazooka. we need a big sum in order to make a big impression on the market. yes, i can say that, i think. but on the other hand, there's obviously a lot of worries that more needs to be done. and the spanish government has said that it's going to finalize exactly how much money it needs when it gets an i understand incident -- had it gets an independent audit. >> we don't know what's going to happen in spain. what are other things people will be looking out for now and how soon will we see anything? >> one of the interesting things about this bailout is that where it actually comes from and how the yours has got together to actually provide this money. the eurozone countries obviously want some kind of security on this. now, if they lend the money through what's known as the european stability mechanism, which is a new big fund which has been brought together, then they will get -- the debt will be known as senior debt. they'll get paid back if anything goes wrong in spain. however, if it come

and not only that but i ended into some fierce row with david cameron about it. utterly and totally untrue. and on this occasion, we were given i might office was given by a reporter the name of the person who had run ground and spread that particular story. and it was one of the advisers working for the then prime minister. and it was on that occasion that i wrote to the prime minister, making it absolutely clear to him that if anything of this sort happened again in the future, i would go public immediately and i would mean the adviser concerned and i would take the matter further. and that is the letter that you have from me to gus o'donnell dated the 30th of june. i regarded the behavior that norman lamont and die as being absolutely dishonest and dishonorable. and i suppose were big enough to take it, but it seems to me from what i heard it was happening to lots of other people as well in terms of this direct briefing. against people, and i thought it was time that there should be no doubt that the prime minister knew about it. so i asked the cabinet said it

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david cameron and his wife left something behind after having lunch at a london pub. r 8-year-old daughter. this happened a few months ago. nancy cameron spent 15 minutes in the pub before david cameron came back to get her. the camerons were eating with three children and another family. he thought his daughter was with his wife and their other children in the other car. they were wrong. i feel for him and his wife as a parent. you are frazzled. miscommunication. you have an 8-year-old at a pub by herself. >> you hear about that more often than you think. reminds me of an episode of "family guy." there's a child that gets left behind. >> you have three children, busy job, hard to juggle everything. i think i might kill my husband if he left one of my children in a pub. >>> 5:21 is our time. we'll look at your forecast for this monday. tom kierein is in storm center 4. >> off to a mild start. not as hot of weather as we had over the weekend coming up this week. 73 right now at reagan national. it's quite a mild start there. right near bay waters in the low 70s. all are

barn minister sergei lavrov very clearly rebutted those comments by david cameron that russia or more specifically president putin app the g twenty made it quote explicitly clear that russia was ready for president asad to go this is clearly not the case i've seen the statement by prime minister kind of the president put it up which is shifted his position after meeting some of the stuff as if there's no truth to the meetings is that it could there are that because president obama did discuss syria. goes so we're. watching this that you're with us and the british we're seeing this. president asad must go and then the external players must develop for the transition to live for the syrians to agree. we express though position that we can. accept the policy of which would be a good changing regimes for about say this has been though there's no will and that we can. judge for the syrians what the outcome of the political dialogue with the foreign minister lavrov told me that if a transition does take place it should be accompanied by talks that would ensure safety for all sides in this c

i mean, the current prime minister, david cameron, is eaton and christ church. he's one of 17 prime ministers that went to eaton, the same private school. these people basically -- they identify each other by saying to somebody they see, oh, were you at school? it's understood the only one to possibly be talking about is eaton. and apparently it's academically a tough and rigorous school and david cameron did well and the christ church and this and that and so forth and the people that run "the economist" are from model college, oxford. little mafias. we have many, many mafias in this country with lots of smart and talented people in lots and lots of them. one of our great strengths. if you get a leader -- you know, we have had a president who went to harvard law school, the previous president went to harvard business school and the leading republican candidate went to lewiston law school and bill clinton went to georgetown and nowhere. >> and then -- >> law school. newt gingrich came from a dysfunctional family background and attended emory and tulane which, ag

the current prime minister, david cameron, is eton and chri christchurch. they identify somebody by saying were you at school? it is understood the only one you could possibly be talking about is eton, and apparently it is ak can dep cli a tough school, david cameron did well there, and the people that run the economist of mostly from oxford, little mafias. we have many mafias in this country with lots of smart and talented people. lots of them. it is one of our great strengths. if you get a leader, we had a president that went to harvard law school, previous harvard business school, and then bill clinton came from nowhere, went to georgetown which was not a top rated college. newt gingrich came from dysfunctional family background and attended emory and tulane which again, they don't hold the position in our society that oxford and cambridge did, and nobody would mistake them for that, and yet they both ascended to the top of the political heap in part through a show of genuine intellect and skill in the 1990s and against the odds. so there's plenty of roo

bridge counterpart david cameron also called for a concerted action from international powers against syria for months and months we've seen the u.s. and its western allies pushing for regime change in syria over at the united nations in new york secretary general ban ki moon also said that bashar al assad and his government has all lost all its legitimacy and he said that any regime that tolerates the killing of its own people has lost all humanity clearly the secretary general pointing the finger at the syrian government now the secretary general of the arab league also took to the podium to address the general assembly and called on the u.n. security council to punish the syrian government including the use of force we have heard in recent weeks the u.s. and european leaders calling for consideration of some type of intervention into syria joint special envoy kofi annan who is also at the united nations has said that he must be frank that the plan that he put together the six point peace plan that calls for many things but most importantly ceasefire is not being implemented mr anon

>> certainly if they do it for the narrow party political reasons that david cameron close to stay outside the fiscal compact, they will fail. i think it was a very stupid thing he did, because he basically chose to have a couple of good headlines in "the daily mail" and the other tabloids rather than think about decisions about financial services in the internal market is already taken by a qualified majority, which means that david cameron, in order to protect these things, actually needs allies in the european union already, and by staying out of the fiscal compact, that's not a way to gain -- get a lot of friends, so he made a strategic mistake for short term gains. will they ultimately succeed? i think they will, because i think within -- there will be allies for the traditional open market model that the uk is associated with, free trade, et cetera, and also because the uk is not associated with light touch financial regulation anymore, so i think there's room. >> let me -- go ahead, comments from you both and then go back to the audience. >> let me ask a question of you, what is the

basically foreign minister sergei lavrov very clearly rebutted those comments by david cameron that russia or more specifically president putin app the g twenty made it quote explicitly clear that russia was ready for president asa to go this is clearly not the case and the foreign minister outlined russia's stance once again. as the truth of the knitting so that if there were the president the former i did discuss syria. oh so we're. on the list that you're with us and the british were saying this or president possibly must go and then the stone those players must develop or the transition. for the syrians to agree. we express those positions that we can let's accept for the suv which would be the changing regimes remote site this has been though a position that will and if we can. judge for the serious what the outcome of the political dialogue with. the foreign minister lavrov told me that if the transition does take place it should be accompanied by talks that would ensure safety for all sides in this conflict including those supporters of president assad we also touched on this issue

course turkey in addition to the comments coming from from ms clinton the british prime minister david cameron also called for concerted international action against syria more we've seen that western countries over the past months have been pushing for more pressure on the government of syrian president bashar al assad inside the united nations an outside with their private independent meetings making public comments over and over again that more pressure needs to be taken so clearly there hasn't been an independent investigation or findings even to what happened in the most recent violent circumstance in in syria western powers are clearly taking sides siding with the opposition just like they did two weeks ago when we saw the massacre in houla. this latest atrocity in syria comes just before kofi annan is should do to brief the u.n. security council on syria expecting anything concrete from this session. well international envoy kofi annan has been trying very hard over the past few months to try to bring peace to syria with his six point peace plan that was endorsed by the security council

secretary of state hillary clinton and the british prime minister david cameron who are meeting in a separate meeting and instead instable in turkey. hillary clinton saying that syria will not retain or have any peace until president assad goes prime minister cameron are also said that he is calling for the international community to increase its pressure on syria and now western powers have been for months pushing for regime change in syria and as of late pushing and campaigning for security council sanctions on syria now those sanctions is something that china and russia are opposed to russia the russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin also addressed the general assembly saying that the international community needs to coordinate its efforts behind the six point peace plan that was put forth by international envoy kofi annan that peace plan was endorsed and supported by the security council ambassador churkin also said that any policy of unilateral pressure on syria hasn't worked economic sanctions are only aggravating the humanitarian crisis there and now is the time for the s