Mr Martin, who knew in advance about the raid and Mr Green's arrest, told the Commons he had not been told the police did not have a search warrant. Mr Martin also promised that, in future, a warrant would be required before searches were carried out on Commons property. He added that the police did not explain, as they were required to do, that the sergeant at arms was not obliged to consent to the search or that a warrant should have been insisted upon.

Mr Green, shadow immigration minister, was arrested and held for nine hours last Thursday as part of a police inquiry into Home Office leaks. Raising a point of order, he told the Commons it would be a "bad day for democracy in this country" if facts that ministers preferred to keep hidden could not be revealed by MPs. "An MP endangering national security would be a disgrace. An MP exposing embarrassing facts about Home Office policy which ministers are hiding is doing a job in the public interest."

Anybody who refuses the Big Brother demand could face arrest and a possible prison sentence. The new rules come in legislation to be unveiled in today's Queen's Speech. They are presented as a crackdown on illegal immigration, but LAWYERS SAY THEY COULD BE APPLIED TO ANYBODY WHO HAS EVER BEEN OUTSIDE THE UK, EVEN ON HOLIDAY.

The civil rights group Liberty, which analysed clauses from the new Immigration and Citizenship Bill, called them an attempt to introduce compulsory ID cards by the back door. The move would effectively take Britain back to the Second World War, when people were stopped and asked to 'show their papers'. The law would apply to British citizens and foreign nationals, according to Liberty's lawyers. The only people who would be exempt are the tiny minority who have never been abroad on holiday or business.

A second clause says that people who are stopped 'must produce a valid identity document if required to do so by the Secretary of State'. Failure to do so would be a criminal offence with a maximum penalty of 51 weeks in jail or a £5,000 fine.

George Fisher, aged 18 months, was discovered dead in his cot in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire by his mother Sarah Fisher just hours after he was heard "chatting away on the baby monitor", a coroner was told.

Mrs Fisher, 44, and husband Christopher, 43, believe the vaccine is "implicated" in their son's death in January 2006 as THE TEMPERATURE-RAISING EFFECTS OF THE DRUG ON CHILDREN who have suffered febrile convulsions were not explained to them - knowledge they say might have allowed them to act sooner. Department of Health guidelines say THE JAB SHOULD BE GIVEN "WITH CAUTION" but does not ban child sufferers of febrile convulsions from taking it and recommends temperature monitoring.

In Harrow, north-west London, where the technology was first introduced, officials estimate they have saved £300,000 in three months by rejecting fraudulent claims. Unemployed people could also be forced to carry out "community punishments" such as litter-picking or gardening if they miss meetings designed to help them back into the workplace. And single parents and those on sickness benefits will have part of their weekly payments stopped for not keeping to a promise that they will make themselves ready for work.

The tough sanctions have been put forward by a Government adviser and could be adopted by ministers as part of a new regime to end Britain's culture of benefits dependency. Currently 2.6 million people claim Incapacity Benefit, with a further 900,000 on Jobseeker's Allowance and 750,000 lone parents receiving Income Support.

As The Daily Telegraph disclosed, unemployed people on JSA will be fined up to a month's benefits if they do not look for work under plans likely to be outlined in the Queen's Speech today.

Mr Obama must keep his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on the US, the experts said. "Diplomacy is not guaranteed to work," Richard Hass, one of the authors said. "But the other options – military action or living with an Iranian weapon are sufficiently unattractive for it to warrant serious commitment."

The warnings came in a report entitled Restoring the Balance. The Middle East strategy for the President-elect was drafted by the Council for Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. Gary Samore, one of the authors, said that the level of alarm over the "hornet's nest" facing the President-elect in the Middle East, and the need for the swift adoption of a previously untested approach, had inspired the decision to write policy for him.

The report paints a grim picture of the problems in the region but asserts that Mr Obama is still in a strong position. For the first time since the Iranian revolution the leadership in Tehran has endorsed the idea of talking directly with Washington, as Mr Obama has suggested. Syria, which has shown tentative signs of a desire for better relations with the West and has held negotiations with Israel, could be the ideal test case for a new diplomatic approach.

"It is beyond what anyone can face; what an individual can take. The cutting off of the city's water when there's a cholera outbreak, the cash withdrawal limit and now the security forces becoming undisciplined. We deserve a better life. We are not a country at war but look at the kind of life we are living. What on earth is going on?

People are dying in great numbers and there is no treatment because like I told you last time, Harare's two main hospitals are closed. It is so difficult because even the smaller local clinics are closed. In some parts of town there is raw sewage running down streets. But you should know that some people in the poor, poor parts of the high density areas have had to live with this every day for five years now. It is just that now pictures are circulating because of the cholera crisis.

You would think that by this stage it would be normal for riots to break out. But normal is not normal in Zimbabwe; and the sight of soldiers rioting, ransacking and looting would be considered implausible… But finally, no, it actually really, really happened. It is these cash withdrawal limits that have done this. The daily limit is 500,000 Zimbabwean dollars and it affects us all whether we are a soldier or a struggling citizen. That amount cannot even buy you a loaf of bread, not even a packet of chips. It is nothing.

Where I stay, we had water problems even before this complete city shut-down. It was becoming the order of the day - sometimes water would run from the tap but normally, not a drop. Now all we can do is go over to a neighbour who has a borehole. Absolutely everyone is boiling all their water. And because there's no power we have to make a fire to do so. We have become a very angry people."

UPDATE - A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed at least 484 people since August, according to the UN. More than 11,700 cases of cholera have been recorded over the same period, an update from the UN office for humanitarian affairs said.

HE WANTS TO DRAMATICALLY EXPAND THE POWER OF THE U.N., A CORRUPT GLOBAL INSTITUTION THAT IS INFESTED WITH SPIES FOR FOREIGN AND HOSTILE INTERESTS. Obama's record in the Senate included sponsorship of the pro-U.N. Global Poverty Act and co-sponsorship of the Jubilee Act. These two foreign aid spending measures alone would cost $920 billion to implement.

Mrs. Clinton, as First Lady, was a cheerleader for the U.N. and made a video appearance at a 1999 conference sponsored by the World Federalist Association (WFA), a group openly dedicated to WORLD GOVERNMENT financed by global taxes. President Bill Clinton had previously sent a message to the group on the occasion of the WFA's awarding of a "GLOBAL GOVERNANCE" award to Talbott, who had been his Deputy Secretary of State in charge of Russian affairs.

A former Time magazine journalist, Talbott wrote favourably about WORLD GOVERNMENT in a notorious column entitled "THE BIRTH OF THE GLOBAL NATION." In his message to the WFA, dated June 22, 1993, Bill Clinton noted that Norman Cousins, the WFA founder, had "worked for WORLD PEACE AND WORLD GOVERNMENT." Clinton didn't disagree with those goals, adding, "Best wishes... for future success."

Hence, when Hillary Clinton gave her video-taped address in 1999, which was in honour of former "CBS Evening News" anchorman Walter Cronkite receiving the organization's "global governance" award, there can be no doubt that she was aware of its PRO-WORLD GOVERNMENT ORIENTATION. Cronkite told the group that "WE MUST STRENGTHEN THE UNITED NATIONS AS A FIRST STEP TOWARD A WORLD GOVERNMENT" and that AMERICA MUST "YIELD UP SOME OF OUR SOVEREIGNTY."

The FT quotes Jose Manuel Barroso as saying "Some British politicians have already told me: 'If we had the euro, we would have been better off.'" A Telegraph leader notes, "There is a clue. The Business Secretary said at the weekend that he believed 'that our aim, our goal, should be to enter the single currency'. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE EURO HAS BEEN MENTIONED BY A CABINET MINISTER IN YEARS".

The story is reported on the front page of The Express, which quotes Open Europe's Lorraine Mullally arguing, "There is nothing to suggest that we would be better off in the euro... If the last few months have taught us anything, it's that we need as much flexibility and as many tools as we can get."

Ambrose-Evans Pritchard also notes in a piece for The Telegraph that despite Barroso's claims that the financial crisis was behind the "undercurrent" in favour of euro membership, the UK's problems could not be solved by a change in currency. He argues "How, exactly, would we have been better off?... [the euro] would have made matters worse".

Vice President-elect Joe Biden was briefed on the panel's study on Tuesday. Among other things, the report suggests that the incoming Obama administration shore up its counterterrorism efforts to fight against germ warfare. "OUR MARGIN OF SAFETY IS SHRINKING, NOT GROWING," states the report, a copy of which was obtained by FOX News. It is scheduled to be publicly released Wednesday.

The report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, led by former Senator. Bob Graham of Florida and Jim Talent of Missouri, acknowledges that terrorist groups still lack the needed scientific and technical ability to make weapons out of pathogens or nuclear bombs. But it warns THAT GAP CAN BE EASILY OVERCOME, IF TERRORISTS FIND SCIENTISTS WILLING TO SHARE OR SELL THEIR KNOW-HOW.

Graham said the threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear or biological weapons is growing "not because we have not done positive things but because adversaries are moving at an even faster pace to increase their access" to those materials. He noted last week's rampage by a small group of gunmen in Mumbai. "IF THOSE PEOPLE HAD HAD ACCESS TO A BIOLOGICAL OR NUCLEAR WEAPON THEY WOULD HAVE MULTIPLIED BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE THE DEATHS THEY COULD HAVE INFLICTED," he said.

The aide, who asked not to be identified, said the legislation would include a middle-class tax cut, billions of dollars for road, bridge and mass transit construction, expanded aid to states and investments in renewable energy. Speaking to reporters earlier, Pelosi said she hoped the job-creating legislation, which she did not detail, would be ready for President-elect Barack Obama to sign when he takes office on January 20.

"We'd like to have it ready for the president-elect," Pelosi told reporters before meeting Govs. Ed Rendell, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Jim Douglas, a Vermont Republican. "I think we will be coming to some agreements today." At $500 billion, the measure would dwarf the $168 billion economic stimulus that was enacted last February, which consisted mostly of tax rebates for families and small business tax benefits.

The new emergency spending would add to spiraling government spending WHICH SENT THE BUDGET DEFICIT TO A RECORD $455 BILLION IN THE FISCAL YEAR THAT ENDED SEPTEMBER 30. Obama has said that his first priority when taking office would be signing an economic stimulus bill into law.

Not only did stocks end their five-day winning streak, they erased more than half the gains. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, one of the broadest market gauges, lost nearly 9 percent. Erasing any lingering doubts, THERE WAS ALSO FINALLY AN OFFICIALLY DECLARED RECESSION - in progress in the United States since December 2007, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the nonprofit group of economists that classifies business cycles.

"This is just another episode in a long story and the story is all about recession and the question is how long and how deep," said Chuck Widger, chief executive and chairman of investment management firm Brinker Capital. "We're going to have continuing volatility until investors have better visibility." The Dow lost 679.95 points to close at about 8,149. There have only been three days in market history with bigger point losses for the Dow - the Monday after the Sept. 11 attacks, and Sept. 29 and Oct. 15 of this year.

Japan's Nikkei stock average fell 1.35 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 was down 5.19 percent, Germany's DAX index was down 5.88 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 5.59 percent.

A SECOND GOVERNMENT SOURCE SAYS SPECIFIC LOCATIONS, INCLUDING THE TAJ HOTEL, WERE LISTED IN THE U.S. WARNING. One month later, Nov. 18, Indian intelligence also intercepted a satellite phone call to a number in Pakistan known to be used by a leader of the terror group, Lashkar e Taiba, believed responsible for the weekend attack, Indian intelligence officials say.

The Indian intercept also revealed a possible sea-borne attack, the officials say. The chairman of the company that owns the hotel, Ratan Tata, told CNN that security was temporarily increased following a warning. Since Friday, U.S. intelligence agencies have been tracking the phones and SIM cards recovered by Indian authorities from the Mumbai terrorists leading to a "treasure trove" of leads in Pakistan and several possible connections to the United States, officials say.

Officials say one of the cell phone SIM cards may have been purchased in the United States but would not provide any more details because of the ongoing nature of the investigation. NSA, THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, HAS THE TECHNICAL MEANS TO RETRIEVE ALL CALLS MADE FROM SATELLITE AND CELL PHONES IN THE SOUTH ASIA REGION.

The figures were given to members of the House of Commons Health Committee as part of its inquiry into the safety of patients. NHS managers have already drawn up a list of serious mistakes which doctors and nurses are required to report in order to build a more accurate picture of the numbers who die as a result of mistakes by hospitals.

The blunders include carrying out the wrong operation on patients, administering the wrong drugs, leaving instruments inside patients after operations and failing to put up bars to stop patients falling out of bed. Professor Richard Thomson, from Newcastle University's institute of health and society, said the most reliable evidence showed AROUND 10 PER CENT OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL SUFFERED "HARM" BECAUSE OF TREATMENT. He told the committee that the number of overall deaths caused by medical care going wrong was far from clear but that some estimates put it at up to 40,000 a year. "A definitive study is needed to address the size of this problem and to identify priorities for action," he said.

Official figures from the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) suggest that around 2,000 NHS patients die each year as a direct result of errors in treatment - half of which could have been avoided. An estimated 5,000 die from superbug infections. Around 25,000 people die every year from venous thromboembolisms [blood clots] following operations.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, A 130-YEAR-OLD FEDERAL LAW RESTRICTING THE MILITARY'S ROLE IN DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT. But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the GREATEST DOMESTIC THREAT is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the libertarian Cato Institute are troubled by WHAT THEY CONSIDER AN EXPANSION OF EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY. Domestic emergency deployment may be "just the FIRST EXAMPLE OF A SERIES OF EXPANSIONS IN PRESIDENTIAL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY," or even an increase in domestic surveillance, said Anna Christensen of the ACLU's National Security Project. And Cato Vice President Gene Healy warned of "a creeping militarization" of homeland security.

"There's a notion that whenever there's an important problem, that the thing to do is to call in the boys in green," Healy said, "and that's at odds with OUR LONG-STANDING TRADITION OF BEING WARY OF THE USE OF STANDING ARMIES TO KEEP THE PEACE."

There are also many mistakes, especially in the administration of the structural funds. Out of the 42 billion euros in the structural fund budget, SOME 11 PER CENT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PAID OUT (4.62 billion). Some of the mistakes are relatively harmless – people who have received EU subsidies without having filled in the forms properly.

Others are more structural and therefore more serious: where the agricultural budget is concerned (51 billion euros a year) the Court of Accounts has again said that there is a "SUBSTANTIAL LEVEL OF MISTAKES". Unreliable data about olive groves are one of the key areas which lead to excess payments.