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A fatal fire in Ukraine - police say at least 30 are dead. It follows a | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
day of fierce fighting. The blaze started during clashes in | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Odessa between pro-Russian activists and government supporters. It's the | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
worst violence to break out in the southern port of Odessa since | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Ukraine's President Yanukovych was ousted in February. It's the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
deadliest day since the revolution in February. We'll be asking how | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Russia might respond to this latest escalation. | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Also tonight: One last moment in the spotlight - the publicist Max | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Clifford is jailed for eight years for sexual assault in the 1970s and | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
80s. Police in Northern Ireland are given | :00:44. | :01:01. | |
And the biggest ever survey of our health and lifestyles, to try to | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
help future generations. In Sportsday, Eden Hazard's | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
commitment to Chelsea is questioned by manager Jose Mourinho after he | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
criticised Mourinho's footballing tactics. | :01:14. | :01:38. | |
Good evening. It's been a day of deadly violence | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
in Ukraine. It began in the early hours of this morning when the | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Ukrainian government launched an offensive to retake a city in | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. It's ended | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
this evening with the deaths of at least 30 pro-Russian activists who | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
died when a building caught fire in the southern Ukrainian port of | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Odessa. Ukraine has accused Russia of backing the insurgents who have | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
seized government buildings in more than a dozen eastern cities. But | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
tonight the focus moved to Odessa, as our special correspondent Fergal | :02:08. | :02:08. | |
Keane reports. Odessa's day of tragedy began with | :02:09. | :02:24. | |
protest. Rival groups of demonstrators converged on the city | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
centre. These pro-Ukrainians hurling missiles at the police, and beyond | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
them, a pro-Russian group. From early, there were injuries and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
death, four people apparently killed by gunfire from the pro-Russian | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
side. Then, disaster. The pro-Russians retreated to this | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
building. Dozens were killed when it was set on fire. Their pro-Ukrainian | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
enemies are being blamed. It came on a day when the state tried to | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
reimpose its will hear in the rebellious east. 400 miles from | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
Odessa in Sloviansk, the militants were waiting and well prepared for a | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
government attack. Here, petrol bombs being prepared and a promise | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
of fire down the road any soldiers might come. I don't want a | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
dictatorship to control my country, this man said. And this was their | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
answer to the government offensive. Missiles that bound helicopters. -- | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
brought down helicopters. Instruments of state power brought | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
crashing to the ground. Two pilots killed. Here, a wounded crew member | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
is helped by the rebels who captured him. It was an image that seemed to | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
define a day in which the government yet again struggled in the face of | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
determined opposition. But it was on this bridge that we found the army | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
being confronted by its own citizens. Helicopters deployed | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
troops onto this strategic crossing six miles from Sloviansk. But the | :04:07. | :04:23. | |
people refused to let them cross. Fascists, she cried. Locals said | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
this elderly man was injured by an advancing vehicle. But as the | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
stalemate hardened on the bridge, we found a mood of defiance. I am | :04:33. | :04:45. | |
prepared to take the gun, if need, for my land. You understand me? The | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
soldiers were nervous, far from Kiev and the government that is giving | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
them orders. You don't seem to control very much here. What is | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
happening? Pointing to the protesters, you told us, they are | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
for Putin. The atmosphere on the bridge remains tense. There is no | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
obvious appetite for confrontation on the part of the troops but there | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
is a great deal of anger among the pro-Russian demonstrators. Neither | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
side knows where this military escalation is leading. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
Let's speak to Daniel Sandford who's in Russia. The question has to be | :05:21. | :05:33. | |
what Russia's response might be. Well, the news from Odessa came too | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
late for an official response from the Kremlin that we have had a | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry saying the government in | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Kiev bears criminal responsibility for the deaths in Odessa, and saying | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
that the government in Kiev has been working with far right protesters in | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
a campaign of terror against those people campaigning for | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
federalisation in the Ukraine. A very strong statement from the | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Russian Foreign Ministry, and the events in Odessa fit the Kremlin | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
narrative of Ukraine stepping into chaos and civil war, in which | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Russian speakers are at risk. What will the Kremlin do about it? We | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
know there are tens of thousands of Russian troops camped on the | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Ukrainian border. It has never been clear whether they are there as a | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
signal, or whether there was any intention of using them. But | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
certainly, military advisers in Kiev and Washington and Brussels will be | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
watching very, very carefully what Russia's next move will be. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
The celebrity publicist Max Clifford is spending his first night in jail | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
after being sentenced to eight years in prison for a string of indecent | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
assaults against young girls and women in the 1970s and 80s. The | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
judge told Max Clifford that his position in the entertainment world | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
had meant that both he and his victims had thought he was | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
untouchable. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly reports on | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
a very public downfall. Her report contains flash photography. | :06:56. | :07:06. | |
He arrived at court to face the usual media scrum, but today he knew | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
that while he was walking in, he wouldn't be walking out. Max | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Clifford's career has been built on the media. Knowing he would be out | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
of the spotlight for some time, he posed for the cameras for almost | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
five minutes. No real comment apart from, it wasn't the best day of his | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
life. No apology to his victims, but there was a smile. The court was | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
full. And at the side of the dock, watching Max Bash Micro Max | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Clifford, some of the women he had abused and assaulted, who cannot be | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
identified. They were in tears as the eight-year sentence was handed | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
down. Judge Anthony Leonard said of his offences, the reason they were | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
not brought to light sooner is because of your dominant character | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
and your position in the world of entertainment, which meant that your | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
victims thought you were untouchable, something I judge that | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
you, too, believed and traded upon. One of his youngest victims was 15, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
a child when he groomed and abused her. I became very fearful of men | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
and had some difficult relationships because of that. I didn't really | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
trust anybody. When I was seeing him on television speaking to millions | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
of people, telling them he was innocent, I did think, no one is | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
going to believe me. Max Clifford was the Wizard of public relations, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
exposing other people's sex secrets, like an affair with England manager | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Sven Goran Eriksson. And a relationship with David Mellor, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
which ended his ministerial career. When the Jimmy Savile scandal blew | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
up, the third claimed celebrities were approaching him, fearful for | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
their reputations. -- Clifford claimed. They say, you are in the | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
middle of the media world, so if you suddenly hear our names, would you | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
be kind enough to let us know. Weeks later, he was arrested. It is not | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
fun being accused of being a fantasist Ashgrove fantasist... Even | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
during his trial, he played for the cameras. In sentencing, the judge | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
condemned this performance for trivialising events. Tonight, | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Scotland Yard released his mugshot. He is the first person to be | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
convicted under Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
historical sex offences. There is a clear message that nobody is immune, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
nobody is above the law. It does not matter when things happen, we will | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
prosecute when we have evidence to do so. The man used to travelling in | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
his Bentley left court in a prison van. Max Clifford, protector and | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
destroyer of reputations, brought down by a group of women he once | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
controlled. They took control and refused to remain silent. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
And we can speak to June Kelly now at Wandsworth Prison where Max | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Clifford is spending his first night behind bars. It has now emerged that | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
since the trial other women have come forward. That is right. We | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
understand that a number of new complainants have come forward, and | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
police and prosecutors are now considering those complaints. Max | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Clifford was sentenced under penalties and legislation which were | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
in force at the time of his offences. Under current legislation | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
and guidelines, he would have faced a far harsher jail term. And today | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
the judge maximised the sentence he was able to impose. Also under | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
current legislation, some of these offences would now be classed as | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
rape. So tonight, Max Clifford, PR consultant, Max Clifford convicted | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
sex offender. At the age of 71 he is preparing to spend the first of very | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
many nights in prison. Police in Northern Ireland have been | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
given another 48 hours to question the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
in connection with one of the most notorious murders during the | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
Troubles. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was shot by the IRA in 1972. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Mr Adams, who denies any involvement, voluntarily presented | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
himself for questioning in Antrim on Wednesday. Our Ireland correspondent | :11:11. | :11:23. | |
Chris Buckler reports. A new mural in west Belfast paints | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Gerry Adams as a peacemaker and visionary. But to detectives he is a | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
suspect in a murder case. As they were given an extra 48 hours to | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
question him there was a one-man protest outside Antrim Police | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Station. A court has given detectives the right to keep Gerry | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Adams behind these gates until Sunday night to question him about | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
the killing four decades ago. People like me are left living the life we | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
live because we cannot move on because of what happened. Helen | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
McKendry is just one of Jean McConville's ten children. She is | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
pictured with her mother in the only photograph that still exists of a | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
woman murdered by the IRA, a widow dragged out of her home and killed | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
in secret, leaving her family without a parent. Gerry Adams has | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
always denied being involved in the murder but Mrs McKendry has been | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
vocal in her belief that he was. If he comes on the television the | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
grandchildren say, there is the bad man. What I feel about him, he is | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
now a top politician and he thinks he is God, really, untouchable. But | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
if I don't get, if he is not charged today with the murder of my mother I | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
am hoping to take civil action. Gerry Adams' arrest has made | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
international headlines. In his years as a politician he shared the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
spotlight with world leaders. Among the allegations he is being | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
questioned about our claims by the late IRA commander Brendan Hughes, | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
recorded by researchers from Boston College. There is only one man who | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
gave the order for that woman to be executed. That man is now the head | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
of Sinn Fein. The Prime Minister and I appreciate the sensitivity and | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
seriousness of the situation, which is why he was engaging with the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
first and Deputy First Minister. But nothing can ease Sinn Fein's anger, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
directed squarely at the police, a point they made tonight. Are you | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
thinking of withdrawing support for the Police Service of Northern | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Ireland? There is growing anger with every hour that Gerry Adams spends | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
in there. There was an extension today, which was uncalled for. The | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
decision to arrest a leading politician was always going to be | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
controversial, particularly in Northern Ireland, where the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
relationship between police and politics has a long, difficult and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
sometimes fraught history. But detectives say they have a duty to | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
investigate all murders, including past crimes that can't be forgotten. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
The part-time judge and barrister Constance Briscoe has been jailed | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
for 16 months for perverting the course of justice. She was told at | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
her trial that her actions struck at the heart of the criminal-justice | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
system. She was found guilty of lying to police over her part in a | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
speeding-offence cover-up by former MP Chris Huhne and his then wife, | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Vicky Pryce. The American firm Pfizer has tried | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
to create one of the world's biggest companies by making another | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
multi-billion pound bid for the British pharmaceutical firm | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
AstraZeneca. It's been rejected for now, but critics fear that if Pfizer | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
is ultimately successful, it could mean big job cuts in the UK and dent | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
the influence of Britain's science sector. Our business editor, Kamal | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Ahmed, reports. It's more combat than courtship - | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
two giants circling each other, wondering who'll end up the winner. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Today Pfizer was rebuffed for a second time, but many predict it | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
will be back with another offer. With investment in scientific | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
research and thousands of jobs at stake, this is far more than a | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
simple business deal. My job is to protect the United Kingdom's | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
interests. I want to see see great science here in Britain, I want to | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
see great medicines delivered, I want to see great jobs in these | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
industries here in Britain. And that is why we have sought and received | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
robust assurances from Pfizer, were a deal to go ahead. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
The two firms dominate the drugs industry. Pfizer employs 70,000 | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
people around the world, including 2,00 in the UK. -- 2500. It had | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
sales of nearly ?31 billion last year. AstraZeneca employs over | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
50,000 people, including 6,700 in the UK. It had sales of ?15 billion | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
last year. Together, they would become the biggest drugs company in | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
the world. I'm here at AstraZeneca's | :15:55. | :15:56. | |
headquarters in London. They occupy the top three floors of this | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
building. These two businesses manufacture billions of pounds' | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
worth of drugs for millions of patients every year, everything from | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
headache tablets to cancer treatment. AstraZeneca alone | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
accounts for nearly 2% of all the goods exported from the UK. That's | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
why this deal is so important politically. Critics say that | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Pfizer's previous takeover deals have led to cost-cutting. What we've | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
got here is a British company which has been turned around, got good | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
pipelines of drugs coming along, and an attempted takeover by a company | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
which is notorious for having takeovers and then stripping out the | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
R, asset-stripping the intellectual property. I have to say | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
I'm totally opposed to that. It was only last week that the | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Chancellor was in Cambridge, where AstraZeneca plans to build its new | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
headquarters. He was speaking about the importance of science research | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
to the UK. The Treasury says it wants to make any pledges binding if | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Pfizer is successful in this battle of the giants. | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. The United Nations is warning that | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
the conflict in South Sudan could spiral into genocide. Thousands of | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
people have died since the ethnic violence first erupted last year. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Now the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has arrived in the country to | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
try to broker a peace deal. South Sudan is the world's newest country, | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
it won independence three years ago. Fighting broke out in December | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
between troops backing President Kiir and soldiers loyal to his | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
sacked deputy Riek Matchar. Since the conflict began, more than a | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
million people have fled their homes. Our correspondent Alastair | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Leithead is in the capital, Juba. A warning - his report contains some | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
disturbing images. There's anger and there is tension | :17:39. | :17:48. | |
in South Sudan. Tempers are short inside the United Nations camp in | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Juba. 20,000 people have been living on top of each other for months in | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
appalling conditions. Everyone here is from the same Nuer tribe. You can | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
tell by the markings on their foreheads, marks they fear could get | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
them killed. John was an engineer with the electricity ministry. Now | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
he sells phone cards. He hasn't left the camp since December, when a | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
political row reopened an historical tribal rift and sparked civil war. | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
He is afraid to leave. I cannot go home, because there is bad security | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
there outside. When I'm going outside, those who are working | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
there, they will kill me. The government will kill me. You are | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
sure? I am sure, because I am Nuer. Because you are Nuer. Because I have | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
this mark, they will see me outside, they will catch me and then they | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
will kill me. These people are Dinka, killed when | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Nuer rebels retook Bentiu town from government troops. Hundreds were | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
killed in the street, hospital, a church and a mosque. And the UN camp | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
in Bor is now a fortress after an armed Dinka mob bent on revenge | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
forced their way in past peacekeepers and killed 46 people, | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
half of them children. I think, from all the monitoring we | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
have done, that crimes against humanity are being committed here. | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
This is one half of South Sudan's problem, Riek Machar, a Nuer, the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
former vice president and the rebel leader. She warned him he would be | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
held accountable for atrocities. Today the US Secretary of State, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
John Kerry, stepped into the crisis, adding his voice to the chorus of | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
international outcry. He met President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, the | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
other half of the problem, who finally agreed to direct talks in | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Ethiopia, setting up a possible face-to-face meeting. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
If both sides do not take steps in order to reduce or end the violence, | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
they literally put the entire country in danger. | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
Tens of thousands of people are trapped in these camps all around | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the country in dreadful conditions. Well over a million people have now | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
been displaced by the fighting in South Sudan. This international | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
effort from the UN, from the US, this weekend from the regional heads | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
of state, is designed to try to break this cycle of violence and | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
revenge killing, to bring a cease-fire and try to get a lasting | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
peace. But that still seems a long way off. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
Alastair Leithead, BBC News, in Juba. | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
A landslide in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan has killed | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
at least 350 people and left more than 2,000 missing. Much of the | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
Badakhshan region has been hit by days of torrential rain. The UN is | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
working with authorities in the area to try to rescue people still | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
trapped, and the governor has appealed for shovels to help dig | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
through the mass of mud. The teenager charged with the murder | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
of the teacher Ann Maguire has appeared by video link at Leeds | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
Crown Court. The 15-year-old is accused of stabbing her to death in | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
a classroom on Monday morning. He can't be named because of his age, | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
but he will face trial in November. David Cameron has launched the | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
Conservatives' local-election campaign emphasising what he called | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
the great British recovery, which he said would be put at risk by voting | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
for other parties. With the European elections at the same time, he used | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the launch to re-affirm the Tories' commitment to offering an in-out | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
referendum of EU membership. Our deputy political editor, James | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
Landale, reports. David Cameron says that a great | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
British revival is taking place. In warehouses like this up and down the | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
country, there are new jobs and investment that he says only the | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Conservatives would protect in these elections, along with the promise of | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
lower council taxes and, yes, a referendum on Europe. Whatever it | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
takes, I will deliver that in-out referendum. Labour won't, UKIP | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
can't, I will. I would not be Prime Minister of a government unless we | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
could carry out our pledge of an in- out referendum. | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
UKIP, he said, was all talk, no delivery. And then there's UKIP. | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
Frankly, I don't need to discredit UKIP, they've done a good enough job | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
themselves over the last few weeks. It was a message that some of the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
workers he met here liked - but not all. I don't trust them at all. Just | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
him or them? The Conservatives. Em, I... I'm going to wait and see, see | :22:26. | :22:38. | |
if he does deliver what he says. I thought it was quite positive. | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
With being an apprentice with JCB, I felt the benefits of having more | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
jobs and job securities. And at a theme park just down the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
road, there was some support for the Conservatives, but also doubt about | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
just which they were heading. David Cameron is promising a referendum, | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
an in-out referendum. Do you trust him to deliver on that? I'm going to | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
say no. Why not? Historical reasons, that these things haven't | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
materialised. And that is why you are going to vote UKIP? I'm going to | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
vote UKIP. David Cameron has promised a | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
referendum on Europe, do you trust him to deliver on that? Hopefully, I | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
mean, if he sticks to what he says, then... Do you think he will stick | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
to what he says? I would like to think so. | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
I think he needs to come out with some definite policies. I don't | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
think a referendum is really going to satisfy the public, to be honest. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
For many years, the Tories have said their poll ratings will rise once | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
the economy recovers. Well, it hasn't happened yet. Many voters | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
still seem cautious, and they don't want to be taken for a ride. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
James Landale, BBC News, Staffordshire. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
And you can find details about the election campaigns of other | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
political parties, together with a detailed guide to the BBC's election | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
coverage, if you go to bbc.co.uk/news. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
It's the world's biggest body-scanning project. Scientists | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
are trying to find out why some people get sick while others live to | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
a healthy old age. It's part of UK Biobank, which is examining how our | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
health is affected by lifestyle, environment and genes. 100,000 | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
volunteers will undergo detailed scans. The volunteers have been | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
chosen from half a million adults who've already supplied their DNA. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Among the diseases being studied are cancer, heart disease and dementia. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh was the first person to be | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
scanned and has this report. OK, just keep nice and still | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
again... Heart, brain, bones, even fat content. Every part of the body | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
will be imaged for this ambitious project. I'm the first of 100,000 | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
people who'll be invited to undergo the tests. The MRI scans will yield | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
a huge amount of data - the goal is clear. We will understand better the | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
causes of a wide range of different diseases. The brain scans may well | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
help us to understand the causes of dementia and other types of | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
cognitive decline. Biobank scientists are analysing DNA | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
from all the volunteers and will compare this with information | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
supplied on diet, fitness, health records and cognitive tests. The DNA | :25:12. | :25:21. | |
is stored in this freezer, in trays at minus 80 degrees. It's the | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
combination of this huge genetic database together with lifestyle and | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
medical information that makes UK Biobank such a powerful resource. | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
Anne Johnson hopes the research will help explain why she got Alzheimer's | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
disease at just 52. My father had this before me, and his lifestyle, | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
like mine, was nothing wrong with it, so I can't identify what caused | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
it for him or me. So we need to identify if there's any common | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
denominators there which give us a clue as to what may be the cause of | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
this. The scanning project is not a health | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
check, volunteers won't see their scans. But if a potentially serious | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
problem like a tumour is spotted, that will be fed back. | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
You can see the fluid filled spaces... | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
It could mean early diagnosis but also cause alarm. Some tumours are | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
not amenable to treatment, and so somebody has to live with the | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
knowledge that they have something that nothing can be done about. And | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
that can just create worry and have a negative impact on travel and life | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
insurance. UK Biobank is an example of | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
altruism. Volunteers know it's not their health, but that of future | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
generations, that will benefit from this ground-breaking project. | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
Fergus Walsh, BBC News. That's all from us, don't forget - a | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel, but now on BBC | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
One, it's time for the news where you are. | :26:58. | :27:01. |