nick robinson has the details. >> a friend anin need is a fried until they become a political headache. cameron defended giving andy a second chance until today. >> i would not have offered him the job and he wouldn't have taken it. you don't make decisions in hindsight. you live and you learn and believe you me, i have learned. >> he said he was sorry for what the appointment had caused. was he ready to apologize for hiring him. >> if it turns out i have been lied to, that is a moment for a profound apology. and i will not fall short. >> few expected him to go that far. but it was not far enough. >> that isn't good enough. it is not about hindsight. it is not about if he was lied to. it is about the information and warning that was ignored. >> this came before and after he came to number 10. his director tried to keep a low profile. >> it is 8:00, monday, september 6. police are looking into phone hacking by "tnenews of the world." >> a report said he knew about this. despite the claims, he was not fired and left 10 weeks later with praise ringing in his ears. >> the prime minister wa

nick robinson reports. >> he resigned just a day after his boss, commissioner paul stephenson. both are paying the price for failing to get to grips with the hacking scandal, so says the mayor of london. >> i have just come off of the phone with yates and tendered his resignation. >> insisted both men jumped and were not pushed. he made it clear he did everything to encourage them. >> there are issues and questions. it will make it difficult for them to continue to do their job in the way they wanted. >> john yates began the day determined not to resign. he told colleagues he would not submit to trial by media. he explained why he was going. >> we are truly accountable. those of us to take on the most difficult jobs have to stand up and be counted when things go wrong. sadly, there continues to be a huge amount of inaccurate and downright malicious gossip published about me personally. this has the potential to be a significant distraction in my current role. >> this is the man whose arrest caused the crisis. the former deputy editor neil wallace. they hired him to give years a

our political editor nick robinson reports. >> yes, there was even worse to come. the relatives of soldiers kill in iraq and afghanistan have been warned that their phones may have been hacked. according to tomorrow's daily telegraph. they joined the families of those whose loved ones were blown apart on 7-7. >> my mind went back to 2005. and the real emotional turmoil and state that we were in. and that somebody was listening to them. it's a violation, isn't it? >> also on the list of possible targets, the parents of holly and jessica who died. and of course mini dowler whose parents were given false hope that she was alive when her voice messages were deleted after her phone was allegedly hacked by a private investigator. last night, the prime minister returned from afghanistan to learn of the brewing storm. >> let me be very clear. yes, we do need to have an inquiry, possibly inquiries into what has happened. let us be clear. we're no longer talking here about politicians and celebrities. we're talking about murder victims, potentially terrorist victims, have be

first the bbc's political editor nick robinson, has more on the many departures. >> he is yates of the yard no longer, resigning just a day after his boss. the commissioner of the metropolitan piece sir paul stephenson. both paying the price for failing to get to grips with the hacking scandal, so said the mayor of london. >> i regret to say i have just come off the phone to a.c. john yates, who tendered his resignation. i believe both decisions are regrettable but i'm afraid in both cases, the right call has been made. >> boris johnson insisted both men had jumped and were not pushed but made it abundantly clear he had done everything to encourage them. >> i think it became clear to john yates that the cackny of questions and circumstances will make it very difficult for them to do their jobs in the way that they wanted. >> john yates began the day determined not to resign, telling colleagues he wouldn't submit to trial by media. he ended it, explaining why he was going. >> those of us who take on the most difficult jobs clearly have to stand up and be counted when things go wrong. ho

nick robinson, bbc news, westminster. >> the sun newspaper has suffered major attacks by computer hackers. anyone trying to access the web site was redirected to the speed of -- feed of lulzsec. they posted claims that rupert murdoch had been found dead. it has emerged that officials in the american state department and the libyan government held a meeting in tunisia. americans say they delivered a certain message that colonel gaddafi must step down. more details about the meeting. >> from the american side, the u.s. ambassador to libya until this crisis blew up in february, together with a senior state department official from the region -- they were the representatives of the united states. we do not know who was at the meeting from the libyan side. we do not know who called the meeting. we do have a rundown from state department officials in washington. they say a clear, firm, and unambiguous message was delivered to the libyans from the americans. that message, they say, was that the only way forward in libya, the only way out of the libyan situation, was for colonel gaddafi to step d

nick robinson reports. >> end to britain's most powerful, most feared media going you will.he policemen are there to protect rupert and james murdoch, not take that -- them into questioning. that fell into a crew of m.p.'s. his wife was behind him. offering physical and emotional support. his son and once heir apparent sat anxiously at his side throughout. >> i would like to say how sorry i am and how sorry we are. >> rupert murdoch was determined to deliver one key line. >> i would just like to say one sentence -- this is the most humbling day of my life. thank you. >> they were sorry, they were humble but whose fault was the criminality in their company? >> do you accept that ultimately you are responsible for this whole fiasco? >> no. >> who is responsible? >> the people they trusted to run it and then maybe the people they trusted. >> who that was he wasn't say. >> this is not an excuse. maybe it's an explanation. news world is less than 1 -- news corp is less than 1% of our company. i employ 53,000 people around the world. >> at this point his wife patrolleded him to st

nick robinson, bbc news, westminster. >> gathering to greet the duke and duchess of cambridge. their first official overseas trip as a married couple. following the visits and this report. >> increasingly, the load will be theirs. and this is the first chance they've had together to discover what that means on a complex foreign tour. william and katherine have come to canada, not simply as a visiting british prince and his british wife, but as a couple who one day will be king and queen of this country, too. the first duty, watched by tens of thousands of canadians, was to pay their respects to canada's war dead at the national war memorial in ottawa. william laid a wreath and katherine flowers at the grave of the unknown soldier. and then what the waiting crowds have been waiting for. a chance to greet the visitors personally. william taking one side of the crowd, and katherine the other. taking time to stop and talk, accepting flowers, and ignoring the timetable. the event was already overrun. it's impossible to say to what stenlt all of this -- to what extent all of this cur

nick robinson, bbc news, westminster. >> for more on this extraordinary drama, i spoke to a bbc reporter in london. i asked about bribes to london police officers. >> it seems every hour a new revelation has come about. we have even been told to be braced for worse revelations. but surely it has been those in the last couple of days which have really shocked mps and the public, particularly the idea that a murder victim had her voice mail hacked. but also that the relatives of the london bombings in 2005 -- that the victims had their voice mail hacked as well. a great deal of outrage in the house of commons today, a lot directed personally at rupert murdoch. he has released a statement saying he finds what happened deplorable and unacceptable. but interestingly, he is standing by the most senior british executive at news corporation. that is rebecca brooks. many mps here want her to quit. >> what are the political implications, both in terms of david cameron, who is a friend of rebecca broke, but also the role of police officers? they should have been protecting the public against this s

nick robinson, bbc news, westminster. >>> in other news práhsjjjr the army psychiatrist charged in themilitary court today. major nidal hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder for those killed in the 2009 attack. he is expected to enter a plea of not guilty. hasan does face the death penalty if convicted. >>> abc news has learned a mission to hunt down one of the world's most feared terrorists has failed. that's after word that two topo terrorists, the leader of al qaeda and also an american-born terror leader, are putting their forces together. here's abc's martha raddatz with exclusive details on a mission that went wrong. >>eporter: it is here on these dangerous streets where over the years we have watched al qaeda flourish, and leading them, anwar al awlaki, the terrorist officials say is most likely to launch the next successful attack against americans. last may, u.s. officials tell abc news that the u.s. military dispatched harrier jets, predator drones, and a special operations aircraft to follow a pickup truck in which al awlaki was a passenger. but this mission would be

a previous crew led by nick robinson, they clocked 60 rocket attacks on this town alone in one day. the situation has improved. they have been able to push the libyan army forces well away. it's about a 45-minute drive from here. they have been pushed gradually away from the area, and they are getting closer and closer to triply. the closer they get, the stiffer the resistance there they are encountering. there's no indication that somehow there will be a break through soon and the rebels will be in trip aly. >> why is the story so important where you are on the ground now facing potential danger again? >> reporter: this is just a continuation of this series of arab revolts that we have seen since the beginning of the year. of course this is one revolt that has taken a lot longer than elsewhere. there's a lot at play here. there is on the one hand, many libyans who are tired of 42 years of rule by moammar gadhafi, but moammar gadhafi has proven to be far more capable and working through the situation. it was thought when we came in here on the 22nd of february that it was a matter o