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Director general George Entwistle has defended the BBC's response to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, but accepted it raised questions of trust.

He told the Commons culture committee that since the "very, very grave" claims had emerged, "we have done much of what we should have done".
A past "cultural problem" at the BBC had allowed abuse by the presenter.
He also said the BBC was investigating five to 10 "serious allegations" involving past and present employees.
"There is no question that what Jimmy Savile did and the way the BBC behaved in the years - the culture and practices of the BBC seems to allow Jimmy Savile to do what he did - will raise questions of trust for us and reputation for us," he told the Commons culture, media and sport select committee.
"This is a gravely serious matter and one cannot look back at it with anything other than horror, frankly, that... his activities went on as long as they did undetected."
Police have described Savile, who was also a DJ and died last year aged 84, as a predatory sex offender, and believe he may have abused many people, including young girls, over a 40-year period.
A criminal investigation is under way.

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What became clear to us after the blog was published was that... on Newsnight there was a significant, it seemed, difference of opinion between the people working on the investigation and the editor”End Quote George Entwistle BBC director general

Mr Entwistle said: "I'm not sure in the 60s and 70s... they [staff] would have felt there was anything they could do" about sexual harassment.

Nowadays BBC staff "know where to go" over harassment complaints, he added.
But, on sexual discrimination within the corporation, Mr Entwistle said: "I believe the culture has changed at the BBC but I am not convinced that it has changed as much as it should have."
On Monday, BBC Panorama reported on the abuse allegations and an earlier BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile that was dropped last December.
Mr Entwistle said that, after seeing the Panorama broadcast, he believed the investigation by Newsnight into Savile should have been allowed to continue.
"I came away from Panorama firmly of the view that that investigation, even if in the judgement of the editor it wasn't ready for transmission at the point he was looking at it, should have been allowed to continue."
Newsnight editor Peter Rippon has stepped aside amid an independent inquiry - led by former Sky head of news Nick Pollard - into why the programme dropped its investigation.
Asked whether there was pressure from BBC management on Newsnight to drop its Savile investigation, Mr Entwistle said he had not asked Mr Rippon about any conversations on the investigation with more senior staff.
The director general said it was a matter of "regret and embarrassment" that Mr Rippon's original blog post about the dropping of the report had been inaccurate.
But he told MPs that he believed, "to the best of the evidence we have been able to assemble", the explanation now being offered by the BBC for the dropping of the Newsnight report was accurate.
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"What became clear to us after the blog was published was that what had happened on Newsnight, there was a significant, it seemed, difference of opinion between the people working on the investigation and the editor, Peter Rippon, who commissioned the investigation."
Earlier this month, in a blog, Mr Rippon explained the editorial reasons behind his decision to axe the Newsnight report. He said it was "totally untrue" he had been ordered to do it by bosses as part of a BBC cover-up.
On Monday the BBC issued a correction to some specific elements of the blog, calling it "inaccurate or incomplete in some respects", although it did not suggest he had been put under pressure to drop the report.

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Beirut funeral for Wissam al-Hassan followed by clashes

 

Clashes have erupted outside government offices in the Lebanese capital Beirut after thousands attended the funeral of security chief Wissam al-Hassan who was killed by a car bomb on Friday.

A group of protesters tried to storm the HQ, after a new call for Prime Minister Najib Mikati to resign. Police fired warning shots and tear gas.

Friday's attack also killed one of Mr Hassan's bodyguards and a woman nearby.

Opposition figures have blamed neighbouring Syria for the attack.

Many have protested against Syria and its Lebanese allies amid fears the Syrian conflict could spill over.

The confrontation outside the prime minister's office lasted for a few minutes.

Two former prime ministers - Saad Hariri and Fouad Siniora - intervened to urge their supporters to remain calm.

Lebanon's religious communities are divided between those who support the Syrian government - including many Shias - and those mostly from the Sunni community who back the rebels.

Lebanon's Shia militant group Hezbollah - a close ally of the Syrian government - condemned the bombing.

In pictures: Wissam al-Hassan funeral

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi called it a "cowardly, terrorist act". He said such incidents were "unjustifiable wherever they occur".

Syrian troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2005 after a 29-year-long presence, in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Mr Hassan, 47, was close to the 14 March opposition and the Hariri family, part of the anti-Syrian opposition.

Blaming neighbour

President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Mikati - who has faced calls for his resignation over the killing - greeted Mr Hassan's coffin at an earlier ceremony at the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces (ISF).

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Sir Jimmy Savile 'not alone with patients' at Broadmoor

Police believe Savile may have sexually abused 60 people dating back to 1959

Jimmy Savile abuse claims

Sir Jimmy Savile would not have been left alone with patients at Broadmoor, a former chairman of its branch of the Prison Officers Association has said.

Frank Mone, who worked at the psychiatric hospital at the time, said any evidence of him causing a threat would have been spotted immediately.
It follows claims Savile abused a 17-year-old patient in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, a man has told the Sun newspaper he was abused when he was a nine-year-old cub scout.
Police believe Savile may have sexually abused 60 people since 1959.
The Department of Health (DoH) has launched an investigation into the decision to appoint Sir Jimmy Savile as head of a taskforce overseeing Broadmoor hospital in 1988.
It said the abuse claims were "disturbing" and the entertainer should not have been appointed to the role.
Escort Frank Mone, who worked at Broadmoor at the time, told BBC 5 live: "To a trained eye, any evidence of someone like Jimmy Savile coming in and causing a possible threat to a patient or a member of staff would have been spotted immediately.
"Jimmy Savile could not walk onto a ward without staff being warned of [the] possibility of him being on the block.

"Certainly within the female blocks, he could no more walk onto a ward there than I could, because female staff had to be forewarned that a male was coming onto the ward so that an escort could be provided for them."
The claim of abuse at Broadmoor came from Steven George, who was known as Alison Pink while at the hospital and has since had a sex change.
Mr George said: "It was like another insult. I'm in a top security hospital and someone has got to me again. When does it stop?"
Mr George, who was released from Broadmoor in the 1990s when he was 38, said he told the police about what had happened, but says they did not believe him and wrote down nothing about his allegations.
The DoH had responsibility for running the high-security hospital when Savile was appointed, but West London Mental Health NHS Trust has been in charge since 2001.
Cub scout Meanwhile, Kevin Cook, now 45, has said he became Savile's youngest known victim after he appeared on his TV show Jim'll Fix It.
He said he was molested in the star's dressing room who asked him if he was ready to "earn" his badge.
He said Savile then warned him to keep quiet, saying: "Nobody would believe you anyway, I'm King Jimmy."
Scotland Yard, which is co-ordinating the investigation, said it was following up 340 lines of inquiry and is in contact with 14 other police forces.
Police said the allegations spanned six decades, with reports up to and including 2006.
The BBC has launched two inquiries relating to the claims surrounding Savile, who presented Top of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It in the 1970s and 80s, and died in October 2011, aged 84.
Meanwhile former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has denied claims he groped two women in BBC studios.
One of the women, who was just 17 at the time, told the Daily Mail he put his hand up her skirt in 1977, while the other claimed he touched her breasts while she was on Radio 4 in the 1980s.
Travis, who hosted the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from 1978 to 1980, said in a statement on Sunday: "I categorically deny that there is any substance in either allegation and I'm genuinely surprised that allegations of this nature have been made. I totally refute any impropriety."

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