he comes in from australia, he's tanned and rested, and rupert is immediately put at ease, his boy is back. rupert stands down. for the time being, james survives. >> the murdoch family have closed their flagship sunday newspaper, abandoned their bid for bskyb, yet the political and commercial fallout from this scandal is nowhere near done. >> and for rupert if all of this wasn't bad enough, he can't even protect the one person he did seem to try to protect, and that's rebekah brooks. >> rebekah brooks, chief executive at news international, has resigned from her position. >> this is really devastating. it's as if his own daughter has been forced to resign. he'd been trying all along to protect her, but in the end he can't even do that.