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about missing flight MH370. They accuse the Malaysian government of | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
trying to delay, distort and hide the truth about what happened. As | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
the search for wreckage is affected by bad weather, Malaysia Airlines | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
reject the criticism of their handling of the case. Well, I think | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
it is unfair, I think we've done all we can within our means to help | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
them. We'll have the latest from Beijing, | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
where the public protest has intensified. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
Also tonight, the gap between wages and prices narrows as inflation | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
falls to its lowest level for four years. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Paul Flowers, the former chairman of Co-op Bank, tells the BBC about his | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
and the bank's failures. I am no better and no worse, it seems to me, | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
than any number of other people. But of course I have sinned in that | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
old-fashioned term. The latest evidence that cases of | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
liver disease are rising dramatically in England. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
And in tonight's big Manchester derby, City were ahead in the first | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
minute. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
News, Andy Murray breezes past Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
at the Miami Masters. The defending champion will now play Novak | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
Djokovic in the quarterfinals. Good evening. The search area for | :01:27. | :01:49. | |
the missing Malaysian airliner has been narrowed, but there's still no | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
evidence of what happened to flight MH370. Angry relatives waiting for | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
proof of what happened have clashed with police outside Malaysia's | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
embassy in Beijing. They accused the Malaysian government of trying to | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
delay, distort and hide the truth. But speaking to the BBC, the head of | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Malaysia Airlines has defended the way his company has dealt with the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
families.The search for wreckage was suspended for much of the day | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
because of bad weather. From Kuala Lumpur, our correspondent Alistair | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
Leithead sent this report. Grief turning to anger on the | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
streets of Beijing, a rare show of protest from families of those lost | :02:28. | :02:28. | |
aboard Flight MH370. If you don't let me through, you're | :02:29. | :02:40. | |
not Chinese, this woman says, bursting towards the Malaysian | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
Embassy, the focus of their anger. We just want the truth, he says. | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
But news the plane had crashed into the ocean is not the truth they | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
want. Like many relatives here in Kuala Lumpur, Daniel Tan, the | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
brother of one of the Malaysian passengers, is still convinced he's | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
alive. As long as they don't find any craft, it's going to be a | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
waiting game for us. We just have to wait until they find the body of the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
aircraft. Before that, we will continue waiting, we will continue | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
to wait. Until you see wreckage? Until we see the wreckage of MH370. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Otherwise we will not give up hope. The chief executive of Malaysia | :03:25. | :03:36. | |
Airlines agreed to be interviewed for the first time today. He said | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
the families were his top priority. Our primary role in this tragedy is | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
really to ensure we care, we really take care of the families of those | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
on board. And I think we've gone beyond our normal responses. I think | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
they would say you haven't gone far enough. Their response has been very | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
angry and has been targeted at you. Well, I think it's unfair, I think | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
we've done all we can within our means to help them. You must realise | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
that in an incident like this, normally, in any tragedy there's | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
always some evidence in place. We have not had any evidence until | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
maybe last night. The search for remains of the plane | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
was grounded today by bad weather, the international search effort | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
stalled with a huge challenge still ahead. If I could put the analogy of | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
what we've got out there at the moment, we're not searching for a | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
needle in a haystack - we're still trying to define where the haystack | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
is, so that's just to put it in context. | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
A vast span of ferocious ocean, the sightings of a day before now | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
scattered in the high seas, the approaching ships delayed. It was a | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
big decision by the Malaysian Prime Minister to announce the loss of | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
flight MH370 without any physical evidence, and there's still a sense | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
of things being in limbo. For the families of those on board, who | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
really need to see wreckage before they can remove that faint glimmer | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
of hope. And for the investigators who have to try and pinpoint the | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
black-box flight recorder to solve the core of this mystery - what | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
caused this flight en route to Beijing to crash deep in the | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
southern Indian Ocean? Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Kuala | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
Lumpur. Live to Beijing and our | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
correspondents John Sudworth, the intensity of the anger we saw in the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
report, is that directed wholly at the Malaysians in Beijing or also | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
the Chinese authorities? Protests are extremely rare on the streets of | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
the Chinese capital, Huw. This one was emotional, spontaneous, it | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
appeared to catch the authorities by surprise, and it shows the political | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
stakes are rising for the Chinese government as well. You have had | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
hundreds of relatives cooped up in hotels for two and a half weeks, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
deeply Grix stricken, frustration mounting, beginning to demand that | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
their only does do a little more. Chinese politicians can appear aloof | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
and distant, of course. There have been no visits by senior politicians | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
to these families. But that is beginning to change. Yesterday, | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
after these protests, senior officials from the Chinese cabinet | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
visited the hotel, we had an announcement from the president that | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
he is sending a special envoy to Malaysian, and the Chinese premier | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
issued a statement saying, we feel for the plight and the sorrow of the | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
families. At the moment, the anger is directed at Malaysia, that is the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
main focus and concern of the families, but I think the risks for | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
the Chinese leadership are rising, also. | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
The rate of inflation has fallen to 1.7%, the lowest level for four | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
years. The fall, which is partly the result of lower fuel prices, means | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
the gap between pay increases and price rises continues to narrow. But | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Labour said prices were still rising faster than average wages, as our | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
Inflation, it swung upwards during the recession with prices rising | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
faster than earnings. But with the cost of living coming down and | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
earnings on the rise, could the balance be about to tip? It already | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
has. At this engineering company in East Kilbride. They got a 5% pay | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
rise last year, thanks to new business in foreign markets. Sales | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
are 60% higher than they were five years ago, and every year better | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
than the previous year, so we have not been affected by the crisis, we | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
have not been held back in terms of what we can offer in terms of wage | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
increases. The fall in inflation was largely driven by lower prices at | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
the pumps, and economists reckon it will continue to stay below the Bank | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
of England's 2% target for some time. Before the downturn, average | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
wage rises were higher than increases in the cost of living. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Then the trend reversed with inflation racing ahead of average | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
earnings, putting a huge squeeze on living standards. But it may not be | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
too long before this gap is closed. During the recession, it was the | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
private sector that first saw wages take a hit, then the public sector | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
followed. But in the past few months, private sector pay has been | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
creeping back up, driven by the recovery, with average wage | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
increases now neck and neck with the rate of inflation. But public sector | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
workers are still finding their pay lagging behind. Low inflation is | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
good news, but that doesn't hide the fact that real wages are falling | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
across the economy. Workers are still, on average, ?40 per week | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
worse off, pay packets are as small as they were ten years ago. It will | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
take another ten years before their full value is restored. House prices | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
aren't included in the consumer prices index. They are rising. | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
Strong growth in London and the south-east drove average prices up | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
by nearly 7% across the UK in the last year, a key part of our economy | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
which is being very closely watched. Emma Simpson, BBC News. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Live to Downing Street and James Landale, Howard deputy political | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
editor. This long-running debate about the cost of living, how is it | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
effective? Clearly, the fact that the gap between wages and cost is | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
narrowing is helpful for the Government. David Cameron was saying | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
this will help people, George Osborne saying it will mean more | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
economic security for families, but there is quite measured response. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
They know that there can be a huge gap between what statistics say and | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
how people actually feel. There was nobody there jumping around and | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
saying the debate is over. They know that even if later this year, wages | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
do rise faster than inflation for many people, they will not feel that | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
immediately in their pocket. That is why Labour were saying that what it | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
calls the cost of living crisis is still there and they reckon that in | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
2015 people will still be worse off than in 2010, simply because real | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
wages will take so long to catch up. As one of Ed Miliband's aides said | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
to me, one low inflation swallow does not a summer make. But the | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
figures are good for the Government and put more pressure on Labour to | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
come up with a clear economic strategy that some of their MPs | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
Beale has yet to be made. -- feel. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
A major new investment has been announced in Hull. 1,000 jobs will | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
be created making offshore wind turbines. The project costs more | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
than ?300 million and is being funded by the German engineering | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
giant Siemens and by Associated British Ports. | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
But Honda has announced it will cut production at its Swindon factory, | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
putting 340 jobs at risk. It follows disappointing sales in Europe. The | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
company said strong UK sales haven't been enough to keep the factory | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
working at full capacity. The former chairman of the Co-op | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Bank, Paul Flowers, has told the BBC that he and the bank failed in their | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
duty to customers. The bank had to be rescued after it was found to | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
have a shortfall of ?1.5 billion. Mr Flowers resigned last year after he | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
was alleged to have been buying cocaine. He's given his first | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
interview since stepping down to BBC Newsnight, as our correspondent | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Simon Gompertz reports. Paul Flowers, the Methodist minister | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
with no experience of managing banks who found himself at the helm of | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Co-operative Bank when it nearly imploded with a ?1.5 billion hole in | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
its accounts. At the height of inquiries into the bank's problems, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
he was shown in a newspaper video allegedly involved in a drug | :12:03. | :12:11. | |
transaction. This was well after he'd stepped down as chairman. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
Interviewed by Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman, Paul Flowers wouldn't talk | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
about the drug allegation but admitted to frailty and failings. I | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
am no better and no worse, it seems to me, than any number of other | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
people. But of course I have sinned in that old-fashioned term - which I | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
would rarely use, I have to say. He was still leading the bank | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
earlier last year when it was negotiating with Lloyds to buy more | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
than 600 branches, a dramatic expansion plan which fell apart as | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
the Co-op's dire financial straits became clear. Before the drug | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
episode, MPs probing the Lloyds debacle exposed Paul Flowers' | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
financial frailty when he underestimated the Co-op Bank's | :12:56. | :13:05. | |
assets by tens of billions. Just to give you an idea, you were offering | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
me three billion, and I'm telling you that your annual accounts showed | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
47 billion. Indeed they did, forgive me. And your loan book is about 32 | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
billion. These are very basic numbers. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
He told them then that a Treasury minister, Mark Hoban, had encouraged | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
the Co-op in the ill-fated attempt to buy the Lloyds branches, and he | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
went further tonight. They actually said that they were keen on the | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Co-op becoming a much more significant player with more scale. | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
We would have had about 7% or 8% of the market if this had gone through. | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
And there was pressure, certainly from Mark Hoban, but I believe and | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
know that that originated much higher up with the Chancellor | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
himself. Sources at the Treasury deny there | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
was interference over the Lloyds talks. They say the decisions were | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
entirely commercial and made by the Lloyds board. This is the odd | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
spectacle of a man now subject to a police investigation trying to | :14:14. | :14:15. | |
justify his record at a bank which nearly fell apart. | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
Simon Gompertz, BBC News. The Ukrainian authorities say a | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
leader of the hardline Right Sector movement has been killed while | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
resisting arrest. Oleksandr Muzychko, who led the far-right | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
group in Western Ukraine, was also suspected of involvement with | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
organised crime. Russia has cited right-wing extremists as one of the | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
reasons it's intervened in Crimea. There has been a significant | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
increase in the number of people dying from liver disease in England. | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
Between 2001 and 2012, deaths from the disease increased by 40%. In | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
2012, nearly 11,000 people died and doctors say most of those were | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
preventable. Instances of liver disease have risen across the UK and | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
one in five people is said to be at risk. Our medical correspondent, | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
Fergus Walsh, has the details. Two faces of liver disease. Both these | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
men know they are lucky to be alive after decades of self-inflicted | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
damage. For Chris Wilde, it was alcohol. The retired dentist nearly | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
died after living scarring caused a huge internal bleed. He's given up | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
now but used to drink two cans of lager and half a bottle of wine a | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
day. I was a social drinker. Perhaps on the heavier side than the lighter | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
side. As far as I was aware, I was not doing myself any harm. It was | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
only when my life was threatened and I was in casualty, that the message | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
came home that if I didn't stop, I wouldn't be alive in six months' | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
time. For Dave Norris, it was obesity that | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
damaged his liver. He used to weigh 15-and-a-half stone and has | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
diabetes. Four months ago, he had a liver transplant. I was never light. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
I was never sort of what you consider massively overweight. Then | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
suddenly to be told that, you know, your liver is no longer functioning, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
and it won't get any better, was, yeah, a complete shock. This all | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
feels fine. Nothing to make me worried. A simple blood test or | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
ultrasound scan may have picked up Dave Norris's liver problems a | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
decade ago. Liver specialists say it typifies how the disease has been | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
ignored. I have done my ward round. I have 40-year-olds dying of liver | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
disease that is very difficult to treat because they have come along | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
too late. All of those patients were potentially preventible, curable, if | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
I had got to them early. The average age people die from liver disease is | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
just 59 and getting younger. Of the five biggest causes of death in the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
UK, liver disease is the only one that is increasing. That's in | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
contrast to most of Europe, where death rates are going down. So, why | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
has liver disease increased so sharply? Well, the UK is one of the | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
few European countries where alcohol consumption has soared in the past | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
50 years, and, we are the fattest nation. An MPs' report has called | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
for a minimum unit price of alcohol of 50p in England and for more | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
action to tackle hepatitis, the viral infection and the third major | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
region why healthy livers like this are becoming damaged beyond repair. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Let's have a look at some of the day's other stories. The Government | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
is to sell off a further stake in Lloyds Banking Group, worth more | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
than ?4 billion. It means the Government's share holding in | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
Lloyds, which was bailed out at the height of the financial crisis, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
would be reduced to about a quarter. Ireland's police chief, the Garda | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Commissioner Martin Callinan, has resigned after facing months of | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
damaging allegations about his force. He'd been under pressure to | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
withdraw remarks about two police whistleblowers, who'd claimed | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
officers had removed penalty points from the driving licences of some | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
offenders. In South Africa, the prosecution in the trial of Oscar | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Pistorius has finished presenting its evidence. The defence will begin | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
to outline its case on Friday. The Olympic athlete denies murdering his | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, saying he shot her because he thought she | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
was an intruder. Is Relatives of a young soldier who | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
died at Deepcut barracks in Surrey nearly 20 years ago have been told | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
they can apply to the High Court for a new inquest. Private Cheryl James | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
was one of four soldiers to die there during a seven-year period, | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
prompting allegations of bullying and abuse. The Attorney-General | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
ruled that the original hearing failed to examine her death | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
properly. In the US, rescue workers in | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
Washington State say they're expecting to find more victims of a | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
landslide which devastated a village on Saturday. 14 bodies have been | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
recovered so far, but dozens of people have been reported missing, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
or remain unaccounted for. President Obama has declared an emergency in | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
the area, which lies in the north-west of the USA, as our | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
correspondent, David Willis, reports. | :19:29. | :19:41. | |
A desperate call to the emergency services as a deadly tide of mud and | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
rock crushed everything in its path. Homes were torn apart. Trees | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
wrenched from the ground and people sucked into a giant sea of mud. We | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
were tumbled inside and had mud in our eyes and nose and mouth. I'm | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
really grateful I'm alive. From the air, you can see the scale | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
of the disaster. Weeks of heavy rain had softened the ground, causing a | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
guyant slice of the hillside to collapse without warning. -- a giant | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
slice. The mud covers a mile square. The small town of Oso remains buried | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
beneath T rescuers have tried using helicopters, sniffer dogs and even | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
hovercraft but the mud is 20-feet-deep in places. One of the | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
last to be pulled from the wreckage was this little boy, Jacob. That was | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
on Sunday. Still missing, it's thought, is his father and his three | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
siblings. After hearing cries for help from the wreckage on Saturday | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
but being unable to reach those trapped in the mud, rescuers say | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
this sight has now fallen silent. Privately, they concede they stand | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
little chance of finding anyone else alive. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
As the wait continues, the anguish builds for people like Ray Smith | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
whose daughter is thought to be buried beneath the wreckage. My | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
16-year-old daughter. My adult son and his two young sons were down | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
there digging with his hands, trying to find her. This close knit | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
community has been devastated by this disaster. And in the last few | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
hours, it emerged that a Government scientist warned of the possibility | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
of just such a disaster 15 years ago, but still people were allowed | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
to build homes here. Open fishes countered by saying a small | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
earthquake could have been to blame. -- officials countered. After the | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
unusually wet but mild winter, the Met Office is suggesting that this | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
could be the pattern for British winters to come, while summers are | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
expected to become hotter and drier. The findings coincide with the final | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
stages of an investigation by the United Nations into global warming. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Our science editor, David Shukman, reports. | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
A single raindrop is a thing of exquisite beauty but imagine when | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
billions fall in a sudden burst. The results can be catastrophic | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
flooding, as we have just seen during the past winter. So, will | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
scenes like this become more frequent? The United Nations Climate | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
Panel assessing the global picture and the Met Office has studied what | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
might happen in the UK. The conclusion - they are not totally | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
sure but think think we are getting more of the heaviest downpours In a | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
warming world, the atmosphere holds more moisture. So when it does rain, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
the storms bring heavier rainfall. The key question is - will all | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
winters look like that or how will the variations look? It is a | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
challenging question for us. Watching out for the next storms is | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
a network of radar systems. It is quite a climb to the top. This tower | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
is in Dorset. It's one of 15 around the country and the radar beams | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
detect how much water is in the clouds. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
The devices are being upgraded to provide more accurate forecasts | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
about the most damaging rain. And here you can see how the radar picks | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
out the detail. So, if more intense storms are on the way, this should | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
help prepare for them. The challenge with extreme weather | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
is that there can never be any certainty about it. Instead, it is a | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
question of risk. But the message from the US Climate Panel s despite | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
any uncertainties in the science, it is still worth getting ready, | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
adapting, for a future where the weather may well be much more | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
violent. Giant waves battered the coast last month but gearing up for | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
more dangerous weather is difficult and often expensive. Repairs are | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
under way at Portland. The storm shifted vast amounts of rock and | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
shingle. The equivalent of 30,000 lorry loads. But many are wondering | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
if it is worth spending vast sums when projections for climate change | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
can never be certain? As a strong resistpence to making those | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
decisions. -- there is a strong resistance. It is based down on a | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
deep down hope that there will be more certainly emerging in the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
science community around the sort of predictions of climate change. | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Scientists are trying to provide a clearer picture of what may lie | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
ahead but as an island nation, on the receiving end of an | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
unpredictable jet stream, that's never going to be easy. | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
The charity Action for Children says neglect of the most vulnerable | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
people in our society is a growing problem in the UK. Its new report | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
suggests that 10% of children suffer neglect of some kind and it warns | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
that there needs to be greater awareness of the warning signs. Our | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, has the story. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
It is a tragic list of young lives lost. Donele Pelka, Ciara, Keanu and | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
Hamza. They all died at the hands of those who should have protected | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
them. In each case there had been previous neglect, prompting calls | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
for more awareness of the problem. No action to intervene. Mary knows | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
how devastating neglect can be. Her foster son arrived in her life, aged | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
13. He looked like an eight-year-old, malnourished. He | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
never owned a toothbrush. We had to teach him to wash himself. In the | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
park he would smell the bins of dog mess. A psychologist told us because | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
it reminded him of home. As soon as I saw him I knew he needed a hug. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Child neglect can be many things, children who aren't properly fed, | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
poorly clothed or perhaps who repeatedly miss medical | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
appointments. Any one of those would be cause for concern but they are | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
also potential indicators of much more serious problems. Other signs | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
of neglect include children being left alone for long periods. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Routinely being late or absent from school. Being withdrawn, and having | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
few friends. Looking unwashed and wearing dirty clothes. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Today's report says neglect now affects, on average, a child in | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
every street across the country. ! 1. 5 million children are being | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
neglected. We are not talking about it. Nobody is talking about it. I | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
guess the reason is there's so many other things around. Perhaps we need | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
to stand up, as we are today, and speak about it, because it is a | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
terribly damaging fact in our society today. The Government | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
insists it is already delivering many of the charity's | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
recommendations, and an Ofsted report is calling for better | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
training for teaches and social workers. It says too many children | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
suffering neglect are left in harmful situations for too long. At | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
issue is how best to intervene in cases where parents have failed in | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
their responsibilities. The Apollo Theatre in London's West | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
End re-opens tomorrow, three months after its roof collapsed during a | :27:25. | :27:26. | |
performance, injuring dozens of people. Initial investigations | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
suggest that some of the material supporting the ceiling was more than | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
100 years old, and had deteriorated. It has now been redecorated and is | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
ready for another opening night. Football now and Manchester United's | :27:39. | :27:48. | |
season has hit a new low. They were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City. For | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
the first time in the history of the Premier League, they have lost ten | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
games. Manchester City, their march for the league title gathers pace. | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
Dan Roan reports. The usual rivalry but this was a derby with a | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
difference. For once at Old Trafford, Manchester City arrived at | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
favourites and immediately it was obvious why. United's defensive | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
disarray pounced on by Edin Dzeko. This the fastest away goal here in | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
the Premier League history. Two wins may have eased recent pressure on | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
David Moyes but the hosts mini revival was over T could have got | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
worse before half-time. Dzeko denied by David De Gea. But United could do | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
nothing about this. Dzeko, who else, extending his side's lead. City | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
finding it all too easy. United did finally respond. Danny Welbeck | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
testing Joe Hart but nothing could halt the visitor's dominance. Yaya | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
Toure sealing a win that keeps City on course for the title. United left | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
to reflect on yet another humiliation that will raise more | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
questions about the future of their manager but which in truth, no | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
longer comes as a surprise. That's all from us. On BBC Two, Newsnight | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
last the full version of that interview with Paul Flowers, the | :29:04. | :29:04. |