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Good afternoon. Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson, has | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
accused Sinn Fein of attempting to blackmail the police over the arrest | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
of Gerry Adams. Mr Adams has spent a fourth night in police custody in | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
connection with the murder of Jean McConville in 1972. He denies any | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
involvement in the mother of ten's death. Our correspondent Jon Brain | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
is in Antrim. Jon, what's the latest? | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Well, Maxine, we've just seen the first sign of activity for quite | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
some time here. Gerry Kelly, a senior Sinn Fein figure, has just | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
gone inside the jail. He is going to try to speak to the investigating | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
officer to find out what exactly is happening, because the longer Gerry | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Adams is held here, the angrier Sinn Fein are becoming. They of course | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
claim that the arrest is politically motivated, coming just three weeks | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
before the European elections. But there's been a forthright response | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
from First Minister Peter Robinson today, he's accused Sinn Fein of | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
crossing the line with their protests over this, and he's | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
particularly enraged by their hint that they could review their support | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
for policing in Northern Ireland if Mr Adams is charged. That support is | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
a crucial plank of the peace process here. He says that there be a beer | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
is a threat which is despicable, thuggish and an attempt at | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
blackmail. -- behaviour. Detectives can question Gerry Adams until eight | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
o'clock this evening about the murder of Jean McConville, a murder | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
he denies any involvement in, if they want more time, they'll have to | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
go to a court to apply for that. Maxine. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, says there needs to be an independent | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
assessment of whether a takeover of the British drug company AstraZeneca | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
by its American rival Pfizer is in the country's national interest. He | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
said David Cameron appeared to be cheerleading for the bid. Downing | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Street says the Government is fighting for British jobs and | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
British science. Our politics correspondent Chris Mason reports. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
If Pfizer swallows up AstraZeneca, it would be the biggest takeover | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
ever of a UK company by a foreign firm - good news for Britain or not? | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Labour leader Ed Miliband is worried and has written to David Cameron to | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
argue he needs to take a closer look at the proposed deal. If I was Prime | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Minister, I'd be bringing in a new public interest test which says that | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
widening the scope of the current public interest test, the largest | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
takeover in British history with all of the implications it has for its | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
assigned space, there's got to be an independent assessment of the | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
implications of this for our national interest. Small test tubes | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
are big business in Britain. AstraZeneca employs nearly 7000 | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
people in the UK. Pfizer 2500. The Government says it is talking to | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
both companies about any deal. Far from being a cheerleader, it says it | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
is neutral. We will have tests that will ensure this get-together | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
becomes a great Anglo-American Project or it doesn't happen. The | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
Miliband approach is to be anti-business, anti-jobs and | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
anti-job security that the families in this country want. Here is | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
something you probably never seen before, these two men sharing a | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
sofa. With the next general election a year away, will David Cameron | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
debate with UKIP's Nigel Farage? I don't think he's got any intention | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
of allowing me into any debate. We want general election debates, and | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
frankly I think we need to get David Cameron to the debates. Two people | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
could be Prime Minister after the next election, I want to David | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Cameron at those debates. If the broadcasters want to invite Nigel, | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
that's fine with me. This was one of the party leader debates before the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
last general election. Downing Street says it does not want to | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
start negotiating rules for future debates until the autumn. There were | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
new hints that David Cameron is up for it. He knows, after the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
president last time, wriggling out of debates will be rather tricky. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
Ukraine's interim Prime Minister has blamed the country's security | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
services for failing to prevent the deaths of more than 40 pro-Russian | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
protesters in the southern port of Odessa on Friday. It comes as | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
tensions remain high in parts of eastern Ukraine. Emily Buchanan | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
reports. Pro-Russian separatists are filled | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
with renewed fury. This is Donetsk, and these are revenge attacks on | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
government buildings after the deaths of over 40 people on Friday. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
The masked men met little was a stance as they stormed the offices. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
-- little resistance. Later, the leaders of the self-proclaimed | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Donetsk people of Calais rally, calling on people to join the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
insurgency. -- held a rally. This woman says, what happened in Odessa | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
cannot be excused, now I hate our government, I just can't access | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
this. In Odessa itself, people are still in shock, reeling from the | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
blaze which killed mostly pro-Russian separatists. They had | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
come under attack after barricading themselves inside this building. | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Police had failed to intervene, and the government is blaming them for | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the tragedy. These security forces are inefficient, and they violated | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the law. The prosecutor's office has started an investigation, and I | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
believe that the prosecutor needs to investigate everyone. Government | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
forces are now pushing forward with attempts to take control in the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
east. There have been clashes in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. In | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Kramatorsk, after a long stand-off, the army rolled in. They are now | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
thought to have reclaimed the television tower seized by | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
pro-Russian separatists. The centre of Sloviansk looks peaceful, but | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
it's a city under siege as the army fights to take rebel held | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
checkpoints. Residents have been stocking up on supplies while the | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
separatists hunker down behind their defences. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has defended the Church of | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
England's role in educating children, insisting Anglican schools | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
are consistently popular. Speaking to the BBC, Archbishop Welby also | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
expressed support for the Prime Minister's view that Britain's | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
underlying values were based on Christianity. This report by | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
religious affairs correspondent Robert Piggot does contain flashing | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
images. Archbishop Welby at St Paul's | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
Cathedral yesterday for a service celebrating women priests leads a | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
church with a declining influence in British society. However, he says | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
it's Christian heritage still influences national life. In recent | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
weeks, David Cameron has spoken repeatedly about the value of | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Christianity to Britain and said it should be confident in its status as | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
a Christian country. He was criticised last week by 50 leading | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
secularists who accused him of fostering division and sectarianism. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Now Archbishop Welby has weighed into the debate on the priming is | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
the's side, saying Christian values underpin Britain's national life. -- | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
on the Prime Minister's side. The basic way we look at the nature of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the human being, the essential dignity of the human being reflects | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the values of Jesus Christ. We are a deeply Christian country in that | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
way. Anglican schools educate almost 1 million children in an | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
increasingly secular country. Archbishop Welby I acknowledged that | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
only a minority of people went to church, but insisted that the | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
popularity of church schools told its own story. People seem to choose | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
the schools in large numbers, they are often in some of the poorest | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
parts of the country, and we seek to love and serve people, as we | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
should, through the schools, and we have done for hundreds of years. And | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
I think that's a very good expression of social capital. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Archbishop Welby also gave his support to the Church of England's | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
position as the established, or state church. He rejected the | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
suggestion by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, that the | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
church would thrive were it not longer in a bid to buy its official | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
role. -- inherited - inhibited. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
A street in Bristol has been turned into a giant water slide using | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
plastic sheets and hay bales. Thousands of people applied to take | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
part in the event, which is the work of artist Luke Jerram. Andrew | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Plant's been to take a look. Shooting down one of Bristol's | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
mainstream, it is also one of the steepest in the city. Closed to cars | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
since early this morning and converted into a giant water slide. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
It is all the idea of one local artist. I suppose I'm interested in | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
getting people to think about the city in a new way. Imagine if they | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
were permanent slides installed as a way of commuting to work, wouldn't | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
it be fun to my the key ingredient is the washing up liquid, they have | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
been adding more to the slide all morning. It was really good, because | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
I am like I went quite fast, and I didn't hit the size or anything. It | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
feels faster than it looks, it is pretty good fun. The first Sunday in | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
every month in Bristol will see the centre closed to traffic, and there | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
are plenty more ideas for more imaginative ways to move around. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Andrew Plant, BBC News, in Bristol. You can see more on all of today's | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is at 6:35. Bye | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
for now. It is proving to be a fairly mixed | :10:21. | :10:38. | |
holiday weekend. Sunny for some, damp for others and would keep the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
variety in the week ahead. There will be a blustery wind at time with | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
some | :10:46. | :10:46. |