Waiting for the Baby P report

An independent report into what went wrong in the Baby P case will be handed to ministers later.

The 17-month-old was found with at least 50 separate injuries and doctors discovered that his spine had been snapped "like a hinge".

Social services have been accused of missing a string of warning signs which could have prevented the baby's death.

But whether the report is made available to journalists today remains to be seen.

"Ministers will get the report but we don't know anymore than that at the moment.

"It is a case of wait-and-see; but the newspapers are suggesting it's going to be a big deal. They are hinting at multiple resignations.

"I guess it boils down to what is a 'sackable' offence? The council had its own internal review of this and sent three warning letters, but did not find anything fundamentally wrong...

"The government is clearly trying to pressure some people to quit, rather than having to sack them."

Mumbai: still a crime scene

Our team in Mumbai have gained access to a flat overlooking the Jewish centre attacked by terrorists.

"It is still a crime scene. Apparently you can see blood-soaked mattresses and bullet-holes.

"We've spoken to the person who lives in the flat and saw it all happening.

"He can't believe it took three hours for the police to arrive. And then the commandos did not turn up until the next day."

As we await the names and nationalities of the victims of the attacks, attentions also turn to the diplomatic fallout.

"It boils down to whether India buys the line from Pakistan that it can't control these people.

"Or that India resolves that Pakistan knows where a lot of these terrorist training camps are but does nothing about them.

"India is measuring its response at the moment. It has not sent a million troops to the border like it did after the parliament bombings in 1993."

We are also trying to stand up lines about who was warned about the attacks, and when, amid conflicting rumours in the Indian press.

Obama the hawk

Barack Obama announces some of his key appointments today.

Former Democrat nomination rival Hillary Clinton is set to be made secretary of state, Robert Gates is likely to remain as defense secretary, with Jim Jones Jr as a national security advisor.

"It's being seen as quite a hawkish set of appointments - which has pleased Republicans and disappointed a few Democrats."

"But it was naïve to think he [Obama] was going to be much different. He has said he's going to close Guantanamo, but Bush would have done that too if only he could have found a way to.

"I don't think we are going to see any great departures in foreign policy under Obama."

are we in Watergate territory?

The row over the arrest of Tory immigration minister Damian Green for allegedly receiving leaked information from a civil servant rumbles on.

"The Daily Mail are now likening it to Watergate..."

We will be chasing former Home Secretary's today to see where they draw the line between politics and the police.

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