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carriers, helicopters and a warship. The ousted Ukrainian president | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
resurfaces in Russia vows to return. TRANSLATION: I am eager and ready to | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
fight for the future of Ukraine. As all Britons are being urged to | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
leave Crimea, the UN meets to discuss the escalating situation. | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight: The serial killer who laughed as she was sentenced to life | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
in prison without parole. British police join forces around | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
the world to arrest fraudsters selling bogus financial investments. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
As gay men and women are threatened with life imprisonment in Uganda, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
the World Bank holds back millions in aid. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
And preparing for the Oscars with a British director and star tipped to | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
win. In Sportsday, Manuel Pellegrini is | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
handed a two-match touchline ban for comments about the referee in last | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
week's defeat to Barcelona. Good evening. | :01:07. | :01:34. | |
There are signs tonight of a build up of Russian forces over the border | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
in Crimea, the region of Ukraine where the majority of people are | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
ethnically Russian. As international leaders urge Russia to stay out of | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
the country's affairs, the interim Ukrainian government has accused | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
Russia of an armed invasion. Unidentified gunmen are patrolling | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
two key Crimean airports, Russian helicopters are flying though | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Crimean airspace, which has been closed to other traffic. Russian | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
armoured personnel carriers are lined up along the highway between | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Simferopol and Sevastopol airports. There are reports, unconfirmed, that | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
more Russian troops are being flown in. And a Russian warship is | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
blockading the strategic Black Sea port of Balaklava. Our Moscow | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
correspondent Daniel Sandford sent this report, which contains flash | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
photography. Crimea's main connection to the | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
outside world, today in the hands of men with machine guns. They were | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
wearing no insignia, but their military fatigues were of Russian | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
design, their weapons Russian standard issue. The airport is | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
nominally in Ukraine but not under Ukrainian control tonight. The armed | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
men, in green military uniforms, have taken over the building | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
containing the control tower in Crimea's main civilian airport. This | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
local activist said the troops were there to stop far right militia from | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Kiev. TRANSLATION: Radicalism and fascism | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
are not welcome in Crimea. This is our slogan, and we don't want | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
radicals from Ukraine, other regions and countries to visit us in Crimea. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
The extraordinary military movements went on all day. The new government | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
in Kiev complained that these Russian attack helicopters had | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
violated its airspace. This evening, armoured personnel carriers | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
appeared on the road. Kiev said it was an invasion. But this woman, | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
like many here, is suspicious of the new Kiev government and supported | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
the Russian move. TRANSLATION: Who else can we turn | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
to? Who can defend us? Thank goodness the Russian fleet is here | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
to defend us. This Russian naval ship appeared at the entrance to the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
world-famous Balaklava Bay, another show of strength by the Russian | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
armed forces. Ukraine has lost control of the seas around Crimea | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
and its main airports. But in Kiev, the acting president said he would | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
react carefully. TRANSLATION: I appeal personally to | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
President Putin to immediately stop provoking us. Pull out troops from | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Crimea and cooperate by sticking to agreements already signed between | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
us. Across the border in Russia, the man he replaced, the ousted | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
president, Viktor Yanukovych, appeared in public for the first | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
time since he fled last week. Ukraine has asked Russia to hand him | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
over as a suspect, but he seemed defiant. | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
TRANSLATION: I am eager and ready to fight for the future of Ukraine. I | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
was forced to leave, and there were threats to my life and to people | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
close to me. Power was taken by nationalist, fascist thugs, who are | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
in the minority in Ukraine. These security camera pictures released | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
tonight show the moment the regional parliament was stormed yesterday by | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
men with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. The TV station | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
was also taken today. This is not yet a war, but Kiev has not moved to | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
reassert control, and if it does, Moscow made clear today that its | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
troops are waiting. Daniel is in Crimea tonight. Events | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
seem to be changing quickly on the ground. What is the latest? At the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
moment, Crimean airspace is closed to civilian aircraft, with no | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
civilian flights being allowed in at present. There are rumours swirling | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
around about the arrival of many more Russian troops. First, there | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
were suggestions that some troops were landing, four planes were | :06:05. | :06:17. | |
landing. Then the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Nations | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Security Council confirmed that he believed that some planes had landed | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
and then the Ukraine's representative in Crimea said he | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
believed 13 transport planes had landed with 150 troops on each | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
plane. I should say that nobody from the BBC has been able to see any of | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
these planes or troops arriving, but there are now multiple reports of | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
that going on. This is a situation where Ukraine does not seem to have | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
any control over Crimea. They don't seem to be able to make any military | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
move. There is this great risk that if they decided they had to assert | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
their control, there would be this Russian reaction. That is why | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
authorities in Kiev at the moment are calling this a provocation, and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
saying they do not intend to react. The British Foreign Office is saying | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
that nobody should travel to Crimea and those who are here should try | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and leave, preferably by train. Thank you. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Events in Ukraine are being monitored in Washington and | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
President Obama has just begun speaking about the crisis. Ian | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Pannell is in Washington. President Obama and the Secretary of State, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
John Kerry, both expressing concern about events in Crimea. Yes, it is | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
interesting that as events on the ground have ratcheted up, so has the | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
language being used here in Washington. President Obama, | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
literally in the last couple of minutes, saying he was deeply | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
concerned about reports of military movements, describing any | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
infringement of the territorial integrity of Ukraine as deeply | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
destabilising. Earlier, John Kerry also made some reasonably strident | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
remarks about the situation. He has a cordial relationship with his | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Russian counterpart, who he spoke to earlier today, in which they seemed | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
to echo the same language about respecting that sovereignty, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
territorial integrity. But also, John Kerry said intervention would | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
be a grave mistake. He said that America supported the territorial | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
integrity of the Ukraine, and expected other nations to do the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
same. Again, a clear warning to Russia. There is a pre-existing | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
agreement, the Budapest memorandum, which technically binds Britain and | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
America to not just echo the words of supporting territorial | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
integrity, but to actually back it up. Ian Pannell in Washington, thank | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
you. Serial killer Joanne Dennehy has | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
been sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering three | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
men and randomly selecting and attempting to kill two others. She | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
laughed in court as the judge described her as "a cruel, | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer". Ed | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
Thomas reports. A killer who was calm, confident and | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
in control. Joanne Dennehy said she wanted to be famous for killing men, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
and write a book. She took these pictures to celebrate her murderers. | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Today, she arrived at court to be called a monster. Handcuffed, inside | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
the dock, the judge said she was a Krul, calculating serial killer. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Dennehy smiled before she was told she would spend the rest of her life | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
in prison. The fact that she will never see daylight again in the | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
outside world is a huge comfort for the family. Whilst I do not measure | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
success of any investigation on prison time, in this case, for | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Joanne Dennehy, it is absolutely the right thing that she won't come out | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
of prison. Dennehy, the court heard, had a thirst for blood. In March | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
last year she murdered her friend, her housemate John Chapman, and | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
landlord Kevin Lee. Today, Kevin Lee's family gave this reaction. | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
With -- we miss him more with each day that passes and we will all live | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
with the legacy of the actions of Joanne Dennehy. By the time she | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
killed, Dennehy had abandoned her two children. An alcoholic using | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
heroin, looking for men to kill. The blade was no bigger than three | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
inches but she was all over. Mark Lloyd met her the day she was | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
arrested. She forced him to watch as she stabbed two strangers. In fear | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
of his life, this CCTV shows him with the killer. She puts her arm | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
around his neck. But you can't see is the knife hidden under her | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
clothes. In his own -- only TV interview, he said he thought he | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
would be the next to die. She wanted to kill someone. Anyone, right there | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
and then, to kill. But could Dennehy have been stopped? A diagnosed | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
psychopath, who self harm done suffered from several personality | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
disorders. She would have been known to services. Someone has been | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
prescribing medication to her. There is no question that she would have | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
shown significant disturbance prior to these events. But predicting that | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
someone is going to do something as horrific as this is an extremely | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
difficult thing to do. The court was told -- told Dennehy killed because | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
she wanted to see how it felt. In the dock, she laughed and swore at | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
the judge as she revealed that she told a psychiatrist killing was | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Moorish and after her first murder, she wanted more. Joanne Dennehy will | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
never be released, a murderer who thought killing was fun. Ed Thomas, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
BBC News at the Old Bailey. Two women who were sexually | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
assaulted by a London taxi driver have won compensation from the | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
Metropolitan Police for failures in its investigation. John Worboys was | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
jailed for life in 2009 for a series of rapes and sexual assaults over a | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
six-year period. The women's successful challenge under the Human | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Rights Act could set a precedent for future cases. | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
In Preston, former television and radio presenter Stuart Hall has | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
pleaded not guilty to rape charges. The 84-year-old is charged with 15 | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
counts of rape and five of indecent assault, which date back to the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
1970s and 80s. Two of the alleged victims were girls below the age of | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
consent. Mr Hall's trial has been set for May sixth. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, has said he is | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
taking a "mega gamble" by predicting his party could win the European | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
elections in May. At his party conference in Torquay, he also said | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
UKIP could return a number of MPs at the next general election and he | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
would resign if none were elected. He was speaking to our Deputy | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Political Editor, James Landale. This report contains some flash | :12:38. | :12:38. | |
photography. Some may be old, some unsteady on | :12:39. | :12:50. | |
their feet, some perhaps even a little eccentric. What a nice day | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
for a lovely conference. But never let it be said that UKIP members | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
lack confidence. A Richter scale 7 political earthquake. It's going to | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
shake this country up. For a party once dismissed as fruitcakes and | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
loonies by David Cameron is now growing faster than any other. They | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
can abuse us as much as they want. The more they throw all these words | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
at us, the more people vote for us. That's why he's telling his party | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
that not only might they win most votes at the European election, they | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
could also win a good number of MPs at the next general election. If | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
they win none, he'd resign. This is the moment that we've waited for. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
This is it. This is the big one for UKIP. Together, we can achieve | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
something remarkable in these European Elections. We can top those | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
polls. He told them their party was changing, broadening its appeal and, | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
yes, involving more women and younger people. I've always loved | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
being amongst UKIP people. It's great fun. It's like being in Dad's | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Army, really! Some members of UKIP continue to embarrass the | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
leadership, most recently one blaming the floods on gay marriage. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
But this is a party with a spring in its step and a leader not afraid of | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
raising expectations. I want us to get back some pride and self-respect | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
in who we are. And if that means I'm taking a mega gamble on the European | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Elections on May 22nd, then so be it. So he did not mind having a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
slogan that, as it turned out, had once been used by the BNP. Nor was | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
he coy about how he thinks immigration has left parts of | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
Britain unrecognisable, such as when he caught a train recently in | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
London. It wasn't till after we got past Grove Park that I could | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
actually hear English being audibly spoken in the carriage. Does that | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
make me feel slightly awkward? Yes. For some local people, that sort of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
message was too much, but not all. Will you vote UKIP, madam? No. Why | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
not? Because they're too right-wing and I don't agree with their | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
policies on immigration. Your husband, does he share your views? | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Certainly not. How would you vote? I'll definitely vote for UKIP. Would | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
you vote UKIP? No. Why not? Because I think they're barking mad. How | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
would you vote? UKIP every day. Once UKIP conferences were thinly | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
attended. Now the car parks are full. And they're not shy of letting | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
people know why they're here. James Landale, BBC News, Torquay. | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
The boss of the company that owns British Airways says the airline may | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
benefit from a vote for Scottish Independence. Willie Walsh - the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
head of International Airlines Group - said British Airways wasn't | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
drawing up contingency plans for the prospect of a "yes" vote. But he | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
added, Scottish Government plans to scrap Air Passenger Duty could be | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
good for the aviation industry. We will continue to fly to Scotland, | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
and, if anything, it might be marginally positive. I suspect the | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
Scottish Government will abolish Air Passenger Duty. No, it is probably | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
going to be a positive development, if it does happen. | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
British detectives, working with police forces around the world, have | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
carried out a huge operation targeting gangs suspected of selling | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
bogus financial investments. They're known as boiler room scams after the | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
temporary back-street offices from where the fraudsters trick people, | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
over the phone, into parting with their money. 110 people have been | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
arrested - 20 in the UK. High-value goods - including sports cars - and | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
?500,000 in cash have been seized. Our correspondent, Robert Hall, | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
watched the operation unfold in Barcelona. His report contains flash | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
photography from the start. On a quiet street in the centre of | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Barcelona, Spain's elite Serious Crime Unit target a scam which has | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
ruined thousands of lives and cost victims millions of pounds. This | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
team is working with colleagues from the City of London's Financial | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
Crimes Unit. This office block is the base for what they believe is a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
boiler room and the raid is one fragment of an operation which | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
extends across Europe and beyond. Boiler room scams involve | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
individuals cold-calling and using high-pressure sales techniques to | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
persuade victims to buy into bogus investments. Last year, the BBC's | :16:53. | :17:00. | |
You and Yours programme secretly recorded one of the fraudsters. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
We're a basic commodity brokerage firm but we specify in corporate | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
gold leasing. -- specialise in corporate gold leasing. With this | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
particular investment, I can guarantee you 15% in 60 days. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
Another series of cold-calls cost this pensioner more than ?20,000. I | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
received a call from a very enthusiastic young man who excited | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
me because he - I was thinking about investing, he was talking about | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
carbon credits, which I had not heard about. He sent me loads of | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
literature, told me a lot of stuff about it, was very knowledgeable and | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
I foolishly trusted him and I did borrow money out of my house. There | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
are 300 Spanish officers deployed across their country and there are | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
further arrests taking place in the UK, the United States and Serbia. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
The City of London force, which has 40 officers here in Barcelona, said | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
it is the biggest deployment it's ever made in pursuit of a fraud | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
investigation. The aim, they say, is to decimate boiler room fraud by | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
arresting what they term "tier one criminals". This is a crime that | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
ignores global boundaries. It ignores international borders. It | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
operates right across the world. What we have shown here is that we | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
are able to do that as well. Police say these photos taken on the raids | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
show where the money goes - luxury homes, expensive cars and top of the | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
range personal items. The arrests won't eradicate the scam, but senior | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
officers believe the operation they codenamed Reco will offer | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
reassurance to victims and severely damage the boiler room operation in | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
Europe. Robert Hall, BBC News, Barcelona. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
One of the biggest providers of aid to Uganda - the World Bank - has | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
postponed a $90 million loan to the country following a new law imposing | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
harsh punishments for gay men and women. Homosexual acts were already | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
illegal in Uganda - with those convicted facing life imprisonment. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
But it now covers anyone who is "intending" to act. Promoting | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
homosexuality in any form has been banned - and carries a prison | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
sentence of up to seven years. And this week a national newspaper has | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
been naming what it says are the country's top homosexuals - | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
including individuals who haven't made their sexuality public. It's | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
raising concerns of a witch-hunt against gay people. Tulip Muzumdar | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
reports from the capital, Kampala. This week, Uganda proclaimed to the | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
world it won't change its anti-gay culture for anyone. If you are gay | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
in this country, the message from the government is to hide it or feel | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
the heavy hand of the law. One of the country's most popular tabloids | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
is helping whip up the ante gay sentiment. Human rights activist is | :19:52. | :20:09. | |
one of those fearing he will be exposed. The paper outing us is | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
another signal to Ugandans that you can do whatever you want to do with. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
The President called a press conference to sign the Bill into law | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
- a public act of defiance ignoring warnings from President Obama who | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
called the plans "morally wrong". But many here in Kampala are right | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
behind their President. They cannot make up a good family, or | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
relationship. I don't support gay. Our school taught us it's bad and | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
spreads disease. Most Ugandans do support the anti-gay legislation. | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
This is a deeply religious and conservative country. Some lawyers | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
say media reports like this one talking openly about homosexuality | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
could be seen as promoting it which could carry a prison sentence of up | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
to seven years. Uganda's health system is heavily reliant on foreign | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
donors. The UK suspended direct aid to the country last year over claims | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
of corruption. The US is considering whether to do the same over this | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
Bill. This doctor founded this hospice 21 years ago. It is almost | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
entirely funded by US aid. Really worried that the US has said that | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
they are going to cut donations to Uganda because of this Bill and that | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
is not going to affect anybody but the very poor. The country's Health | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
Minister says if international money disappears, Uganda will cope. He | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
also tried to reassure gay people. We are not in any way interfering | :21:46. | :21:56. | |
with the rights of all the people of Uganda, to get the due healthcare | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
that they need and that they deserve. Many Ugandans say they have | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
asserted their independence by not giving into Western pressure, but | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
with other donors threatening to follow the World Bank's example, the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
decision could end up costing them dearly. | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
The Green Party leader has used her spring conference speech to | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
re-enforce her party's opposition to fracking. Natalie Bennett told | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
supporters in Liverpool that opposing the controversial gas | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
extraction method would put their party on the "same side of the | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
argument" as the British public. Badger culls aimed at spreading TB | :22:38. | :22:58. | |
The red carpet has been rolled out and the nominees are preparing their | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
thank you speeches. The 86th Academy Awards take place this weekend. And | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
after picking up top awards at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, 12 Years A | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Slave - with its British director and star - is tipped to come away | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
with an Oscar or two. Our entertainment correspondent, Lizo | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
Mzimba, is on the red carpet in Los Angeles. Lizo. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
With all the torrential rain at the moment, the plastic-covered red | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
carpet! 12 Years A Slave is the film most people are talking about, but | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
there is strong competition particularly from Gravity. In a | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
couple of days, this is the exact spot where all the stars will be | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
walking into the auditorium from all the films. Ahead of that, we have | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
been speaking to the favourites in some of the biggest categories. | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
The dazzling visuals of Gravity. The stark inhumanity of 12 Years A | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Slave. The power in the performances in Dallas Buyers Club. All are | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
expected to be rewarded. The narrow favourite for Best Film, 12 Years A | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
Slave. Days ago I was with my family in my home. I'm so incredibly proud | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
that people are talking about the film in such a light. All the hard | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
work we did on the film, the fact we are being talked about as contenders | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
for winning an Oscar is great. It is an honour, really. Never wanting to | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
appear too keen to win cinema's biggest prize, hopefuls tend to | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
choose their words with care, perhaps with as much care as goes | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
into organising the night itself. Having those words "Oscar winner" in | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
front of their name can give even established film figures a boost | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
that no other award can offer and that's a thought that will be on | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
every single nominee's mind as they walk down this red carpet on Sunday. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
You've tested positive for HIV. It can have a big impact on a Best | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Actor winner. Dallas Buyers Club's Matthew McConaughey though brushes | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
off his front-runner status. Getting it made was a minor miracle. But | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
then we announced it's more than around, it's vital, it's being - a | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
light has been shown on it. It has translated, it communicates with | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
people. It appears to become personal with people. That's | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
something I'm very proud of. Terrific! While director Alfonso | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
Cuaron has won every major award so far for his work on Gravity. And few | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
expect that trend to change. How do you feel about being the favourite | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
for Sunday? Well, those things, I don't think so much about it. I just | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
take it one day at a time. And it's a celebration. I'm going to have | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
fun, no matter what. Still, the Oscars sometimes deliver surprises, | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
even the odd shock, and on Sunday the predictions will become | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
irrelevant as millions watch across the globe to see who will take home | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
a coveted statuette. Lizo Mzimba, BBC News, Hollywood. | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
It's a stunning natural phenomenon that is rarely visible from anywhere | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
in the UK apart from the remotest parts of Scotland. But last night, | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
the Northern Lights put on a spectacular display that was clearly | :26:11. | :26:12. | |
visible from Orkney down to Norfolk, even as far south as | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
Jersey. The bright dancing lights known as the Aurora Borealis are | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
caused by solar particles interacting with the Earth's | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
magnetic field and atmosphere. The spectacle gave thousands of us a | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
rare chance to witness one of nature's most magical events. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
That's all from us. Don't forget a first look at the papers over on the | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
BBC News Channel. Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you | :26:39. | :26:39. |