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Two hitmen who stabbed the schoolboy Aamir Siddiqi de definite | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
case of mistaken identity of found guilty of his murder. He was killed | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
in front of his parents on their doorstep. His family have spoken of | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
their grief. He was the heartbeat of our family, but his warmth, love, | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
affection and humour touched many people. Top Scotland Yard officer | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
April Casburn is jailed on corruption charges. It's the first | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
conviction in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. At least two | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
people are feared dead in Turkey, after a suspected suicide bombing | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
outside the US embassy in the capital, Ankara. David Cameron | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
calls for a focus on extreme poverty in African nations, as eco | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
chairs UN talks on international development of its. I also think | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
it's important we look at those things that keep country's poor. | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
Conflict, corruption, lack of justice, lack of the rule of law. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
An urgent tests are taking place as hundreds of birds are washed ashore | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
along the south coast of England covered in a sticky, glue like | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
substance. The forgotten pensioner found close to death after a police | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
raid closed her care agency. And has a Chinese bail-out secured the | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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Welcome to the programme. Two hitmen who stabbed a schoolboy to | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
death in a case of mistaken identity have been found guilty of | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
his murder. Ben Hope and Jason Richards, both from Cardiff, were | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
each paid �1,000 to kill a man who live nearby. But the killers, but | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
high on drugs, went to the wrong address and murdered 17-year-old | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
Aamir Siddiqi in front of his parents. His sister said he'd been | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
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Aamir Siddiqi was a young man who had a bright future ahead of him. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
But that future was cut short in a matter of seconds when he became | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
the unintended victim of a contract killing. Today, his two killers | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
stared and look without emotion, as they were both found guilty of | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
killing her him and attempting to murder his parents. Bringing to end | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
a long and complicated four-and-a- half month trial. Aamir Siddiqi | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
grew up wanting to be a lawyer. A gifted student, he was the youngest | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
child in a family which doted on him. His violent death confounded | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
all who knew him. On a quiet Sunday afternoon in April, 2010, he opened | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the front door of the family home, expecting to welcome his Koran | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
teacher. Instead, he was attacked by two masked men who howled as | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
they stab him with daggers. His parents tried to defend their son, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
they, too, were attacked. Today, at the end of the four-and-a-half | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
month trial, they spoke of their relief at securing justice. Aamir | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Siddiqi was a beautiful person with a bright future. If he was still | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
with us, he'd be looking forward to turning 21 this year and completing | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
his law degree. He was the heartbeat of our family, but his | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
warmth, love, affection and humour touched many people. Jason Richards, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
on the left, and then hope we described in court as having shown | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
staggering incompetence. Two killers who made a fatal mistake. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Their intended victim had been a father of four living at this house | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
in a leafy Cardiff suburb. Despite a reconnaissance trip, the two men | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
drove to Aamir Siddiqi's home instead, 70 yards away. Today's | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
verdict brings justice after a four-and-a-half month trial. But | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
little can atone for the senseless nature of his death. In that | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
emotional statement on the steps, his family said that only now could | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
they begin to deal with the reality of his death. Jason Richards and | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Ben Hope will return to Swansea Crown Court next week to be | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
sentenced. A senior counter- terrorism officer at Scotland Yard | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for offering to sell | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
information to the News of the World about the phone hacking | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was convicted of | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
misconduct in public office. The judge at the Old Bailey said this | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
was the kind of activity that corrodes the public's faith in the | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
police force. Arriving at court to discover her fate, BBCi April | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
Casburn. In 2010 she was one of the most senior women in the Met's | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
counter-terrorism command. She told the court she was unhappy in her | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
job and annoyed that resources were being diverted to the phone hacking | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
inquiry. She rang the News of the World and spoke to this journalist, | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Tim Wood, who told the trial that she'd offered to sell information | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
about the phone hacking investigation into the newspaper. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
No money changed hands. But sentencing her to 15 months in | :05:20. | :05:30. | |
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April Casburn's conviction three weeks ago was the first of a police | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
officer in the cash for stories corruption investigation. Operation | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Elveden has its operations in the phone hacking inquiry. It has | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
arrested 58 people so far. Among them, nine former or serving police | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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officers. The Metropolitan Police Here is a person who is dealing | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
with sensitive, sometimes highly sensitive information on a daily | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
basis. Internally, if she can't be trusted, and if the public can't | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
trust her to deal with that information in the way it should be | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
dealt with, she has no place in the organisation. The judge told April | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Casburn that he would have sentenced her to three years in | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
prison, were it not for the fact that she was in the process of | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
adopting a very vulnerable young child. Nevertheless, he said this | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
was a straightforward but travelling case of corruption. And | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
so it was that a senior detective today left court in the back of a | :06:47. | :06:55. | |
prison van. Two people have been killed in a suspected suicide | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
bombing outside the American embassy in the Turkish capital, | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Ankara. The blast took place near a side entrance. What can you tell | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
us? The TV pictures suggest that the explosion happened at an | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
entrance next to a gatehouse, on the side entrance to the US embassy | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
in Ankara. The district is a heavily guarded diplomatic area, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
there are a number of other embassies in that area. It would | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
have been guarded by the Turkish police. The Governor of Ankara has | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
suggested that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber. | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
The US ambassador to Ankara has also been giving his response. | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
are very grateful to the Turkish state, to the police for a very | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
prompt response. We are very sad that we lost one of our Turkish | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
guards at the gate. We are very sad and we pray for the speedy recovery | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
of the wounded person, also a Turkish citizen. We pray very much | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
for that person's recovery. theory at the moment is this was | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
carried out by a suicide attacker. We don't know why. In 2003, Western | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
targets were attacked in Turkey. The UK consulate in Istanbul and a | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
branch of the HSBC branch were hit by Al-Qaeda inspired bombers. That | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
may be one line of questioning at the moment. We await response and | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
reaction from the Turkish Prime Minister. A police watchdog for | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
England and Wales is woefully under equipped, that's according to MPs. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
In a highly critical report, they say the Independent Police | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
Complaints Commission needs more resources and greater powers. The | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Independent Police Complaints Commission has dealt with some of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
the biggest controversies in policing history. From the shooting | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
of an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, to the disaster at | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
Hillsborough, still under investigation. But today's report | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
concludes it has lost the confidence of many who wanted to | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
provide answers. People like the family of Shaun Rigg, who in 2008 | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
died in police custody while being restrained by three officers. His | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
family say their complaints about what happened were not investigated | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
properly by the IPCC. They are supposed to be independent. What | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
that means is that families should be able to depend on them. I really | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
think that they should be more robust, transparent and should aim | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
to find the truth and facts, and not hide the facts. Today's report | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
concludes the IPCC LAX powers and resources to handle more than 300 | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
cases and more than 6000 appeals about police complaints each year. | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
It has 371 investigators. At the moment there is no faith in the | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
system that we have that governs the work of the IPCC. It is | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
woefully under-equipped. The powers it has are inadequate. The MPs say | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
investigators need to be at the scenes of incidents like police | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
shootings but in the so-called Golden hour after they've happened. | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
The commission does not have the power to force officers to answer | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
its questions. But the report says few a former police officers should | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
be employed as investigators, to maintain independence. Ahead of the | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
commission agrees entirely with these conclusions. We have to look | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
at the resources we need to be able to provide confidence to the public | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
about the way the police are doing things, as well as ourselves to do | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
the most serious cases. And the demand for investigations continues | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
to grow, in to police involvement in the Andrew Mitchell affair, into | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
complaints about police corruption, into historic cases. The Home | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Office says this spring it hopes to say how it will ensure the | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
commission has the powers and resources it needs. David Cameron | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
says the international community needs to focus more on combat in | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
extreme poverty. The Prime Minister isn't Liberia on the latest leg of | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
his African tour. He says it's important to focus on issues that | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
keep country's poor, such as conflict and corruption. David | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
Cameron arriving in Liberia on the latest leg of his African tour. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
What has brought him here is increasingly seen as a personal | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
mission for him. The key role he is playing in shaping the next phase | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
of the battle against poverty across the developing world. It is | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
very important we keep a focus on eradicating extreme poverty. Here | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
in Liberia, one in 10 children don't make it to the age of five. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
But I also think it's important we look at those things that keep | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
country's poor. Conflict, corruption, lack of justice, lack | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
of the rule of law. Those things matter as well as age and money. | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
That is what I'll be arguing for strongly here in Liberia. On the | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
very doorstep of today's meeting, Shanti districts of Monrovia. The | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
hardships people experience here, the struggle to stay -- scrape a | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
living to get a job. This in a country that is still emerging from | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
civil war, still trying to rebuild its economy. At issue is what will | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
follow the World present goals for tackling poverty, hunger and | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
disease that expire in two years' time. What I want to see David | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
Cameron do today is to create this blueprint for the future for the | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
next 15 years on how to build on what has already happened. If the | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
right plants are agreed, 350 million children will be able to be | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
brought out of poverty. Visiting this primary school with the | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Liberian President... Tell us about school. A lesson from Mr Cameron in | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
young ambition. What's your favourite subject? Law. You want to | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
be a lawyer. A primary education for every child has been one of the | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
millennium goals. There's much to bed now about what that the post | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
fit 2015 targets should focus more clearly and directly on the | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
eradication of extreme poverty, or be broadened, not least to deal | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
with the growing inequality within many countries. Argentina's Foreign | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Minister has turned down the offer of talks with William Hague over | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
the future of the Falklands Islands, after the Foreign Secretary | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
insisted that representatives of the island's government be present. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
They refuse to deal with the Port Stanley government, which Argentina | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
refuses to recognise. The boss of Barclays says he will give up his | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
bonus for 2012. Anthony Jenkin said it would be wrong to receive the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
award after a very difficult year for the bank. Reports had suggested | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
he was due to receive a bonus of at least �1 million for the year, | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
although he was entitled to 2.75 million. Swift action is needed to | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
tackle Britain's dual problems of water shortages and flooding. MPs | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
on the Environment Select Committee say the government acts far to | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
salute -- slowly when it comes to storing water and sharing supplies | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
across the UK. Ministers deny they have been slow in responding to the | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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The lastst months have been a reminder when you have too much or | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
too little. You have a problem. One of the major challenges facing | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
policy makers and politicians is just how to deal with all of this | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
water, which has been brought down in increasingly torrential | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
downpours. It is a complicated and complex problem, but today, the | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
Government is being told that it could, and should be doing more. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
The draft water bill is supposed to be the answer to the twin problems | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
of flood and drought. But today, committee of MPs says ministers are | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
not moving quickly enough. There is absolutely no cause to delay, we | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
really must treat flood risk, and appropriate flood management, and | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
resilience as an absolute priority. Last month the Environment | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
Secretary was out inspecting defence tons River Severn. There is | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
no doubt that many communities have been saved from flooding because of | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
schemes like this. Today, his team rejected claims that they are not | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
doing enough, and they are very much on the case. We have | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
implemented a massive change in how we deal with flooding, how we | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
assess flood risk, the partners that we brought into solving issues | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
locally has been dramty, and I completely do not accept that | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
criticism from the committee. recent floods have not been because | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
rivers have broken their banks but because of surface water, with | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
sudden rainfall the drainage system is overwhelmed, turning roads into | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
raging rivers. Judy Gibson lived in a caravan for two years, after her | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
home flooded, twice. We have to take a far more holistic view about | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
how we manage water, and that isn't just going to be achieved by | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
putting up concrete flood defences, because it is not going to work. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Our British weather has always been a talking poipbltd. The predicted | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
impact of climate change means it is also rising up the political | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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agenda. -- point. Our top story this lunchtime. Two hit men who | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
stabbed a schoolboy to death in a case of mistaken identity have been | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
found guilty of Miss Murder. Aamir Siddiqi's sister said he was the | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
heartbeat of the family. -- his murder. Coming up. Finding her | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
voice this time. Beyonce explains why she lip-synced ad at President | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Obama's inauguration. As the shard opening its public viewing platform | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
we find out how many of its 87 floor are occupied. After the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
transfer deadline controversy surrounds one player turning up | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
unannounced at Loftus Road. Tests are being done on a sticky white | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
wax found on more than 100 sea birds washed up on the south-west | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
coastline ch the RSPCA and the RSPB have rescued dozens of birds. Many | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
more will have been found on a stretch of coast which includes | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
Chesil Beach. Our correspondent is there for us now. When we were out | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
with the volunteers last night, they feared there would be more | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
victims washed up on the morning tides. Those fears are been borne | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
out. This is an inhospitalable coastline, even though the winds | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
have dropped and the teams have faced challenging and dangerous | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
moments as they tried to reach the injured birdslet it appears to be a | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
serious incident this, and they are determined they can rescue as many | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
as possible. Among rock, lashed by the tide, more and more victims of | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
a pollution threat which has spread along the coastline from the tip of | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Cornwall to Sussex. Experience has led volunteers here on Portland to, | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the areas where affected birds are most likely to be washed ashore. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
They may be exhausted. Water-logged and starving, but catching them in | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
this treacherous environment is challenging. Those now on their way | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
to treatment centres are displaying symptoms that are distressing, and | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
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now familiar. At the RSPCA welfare centre in Somerset, staff have been | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
using margarine and washing up liquid to good effect but these | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
guillemots are the lucky one, hundreds more will never reach | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
shore It is gluing the feathers together, so that will take any | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
ability for the feather to insulate the body. They can't control their | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
temperature, they can't dive for fish, they are not waterproof. So, | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
at sea, they are going to be dive dying from hypothermia, they will | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
be starving, because they can't feed. The longer they stay out at | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
sea the longer they have for survival. As the rescue work | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
continue, two lines of inquiry are being followed up. Scientists may | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
suspect that this contaminant is a form of vegetable oil, but they | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
have yet to confirm it. Once identifies, the product could hell | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
the maritime and coastguard agency to help trace the vessel but the | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
pollution may have travelled a great distance from where any | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
offence was committed. For now, efforts are concentrated on helping | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
as many birds as possible. The likelihood is that the weekend | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
tides will carry further victims ashore. Well, the volunteers are | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
still on the look out on Chesil Beach, just going from the numbers | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
here, more than 30 birds dead and alive rescued in this area, there | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
could be thousands who will never make to it to shore. Tracing any | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
vessel would be difficult, the quicker that this substance can be | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
identified the better. Two young children were left stranded on a | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
street in Birmingham, by car jackers who stole the vehicle they | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
had been travelling. In two men pulled the children's mother from | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
the car and drove off and abandoned the children aged one and five on | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
their own about half a mile away. Phil Mackie is in Birmingham for us. | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
A terribly distressing case for the children and their mother. What | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
exactly happened? Well, it all happened here, on Wednesday evening. | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
Round tea time. Quarter six. That young mum who is 23 was pulled out | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
of her white Vauxhall Astra. The two men who did it, drove off with | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
her two children aged five and 18 months in the back. About a mile- | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
and-a-half away from here, they dropped those two children at the | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
side of the road. Luckily, a passer by managed to care for them and | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
they were quickly reunited with their mother, known was physically | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
hurt but the mum says the children and her were traumatised by the | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
incident. West Midlands police are investigating it and taking it | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
seriously. They want to know what the motive was, whether there was | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
the theft of the car or whether there was more to it. They are | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
studying CCTV footage. They say it was a terrible ordeal for the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
family, and are appealing for Wynn witness, especially anybody who | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
might have seen that white Astra driving round in Birmingham on | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Wednesday evening. For now, everybody physically OK, but | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
obviously some deal of trauma for the mother and the two young | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
children. At least 25 people have died and more than 100 injured in | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
an explosion in Mexico City at the headquarters of the state oil giant | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Pemex. Up to 60 others could still be trapped. It is unclear what | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
caused the blast. The Government has promised a thorough | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
investigation. In central China, at least eight people have died after | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
a truck carrying fireworks ahead of the Chinese New Year exploded on | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
anel valted high way. Witnesses say cars were swept off the road, or | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
plunged to ground when part of the motorway collapsed. Rescue efforts | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
are continuing. Now, after all the excitement of last summer's Olympic | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
Games, the Government is being accused of turning its back on | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
school sport. As ministers prepare to announce a new strategy, Labour | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
say the state of school sport is disastrous and undermining the | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
Olympic legacy. Our sports correspondent has more. Here in | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
York, the Springboard the Olympics provided to inspire a generation is | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
apparent. This sports college used to be paid to share its PE staff | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
with 25 local primaries but funding for the nationwide school sports | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
partnership was cut by the Government, and this year the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
collaboration this school developed will have to cease. It is shameful | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
in terms of us wanting to develop young athletes for the future. It | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
is shameful in terms of the health agenda. We need to capture the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
imagination and enthusiasm of young people while they are young. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Although the requirement for schools to provide two hours PE | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
each week has been established pupils benefit from the facilities | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
and an emphasis on sport. In many primary schools it is different. | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
do PE two times a week. Last year when you were at primary school how | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
much sport did you play? About two times a week, but they didn't have | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
sports teachers. The Government has cendly committed �347 million to | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
elite sport and half a billion to community sport, but school sport | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
funding has been reduced to 65 million, and only runs till the end | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
of the academic year. What we are seeing is a disastrous reduction, | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
so the Olympic legacy is seriously undermined because of what is going | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
on in schools. It is essential we get this right. It is not just | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
about feeling good. There is a practical reason we have do this, | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
and this Government has turned its back on school sport. Here in | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Barnsley the work that school sports partnership used to do, such | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
as competition like this, is being continued, but by a not for profit | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
company. Schools are supported but it is outsourcesed and they have to | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
pay for it themselves. The government say the issue of sport | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
and fiscal exercise in school is being discussed at the highest | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
level and an announcement will be made soon. They are positive | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
progress will be made. We want to give good quality fiscal education | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
in the timetable, competitive sport in a properly, you know, managed | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
environment, and to give young people, particularly in state | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
schools, the opportunity of high quality fiscal education, that is | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
vital. With research showing that most parents feel school sport | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
could be better supports the Government finds itself under | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
pressure to put come up with a new strategy, just six months after the | :25:35. | :25:45. | |
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games a long-term legacy appears to the British winter, the start of | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Rugby Union's Six Nations tourn tournament le. Plenty of concern | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
about the players who won't be playing. Morgan is 28, a gifted | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
running rugby player, the snaitions should be his stage, but in Wales | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
he's is coaching, not playing. -- Six Nations. Last month he | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
announced his retirement from rugby. Morgan fracture his leg playing for | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
Wales. It was a freak injury, but a vivid reminder for even the most | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
dedicated professional, Rugby Union can be a short career. Everyone | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
knows when they take the field, that there is risk of injury, and I | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
think over the last few years it is an increased risk of injury. Any | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
16hfr 20-year-old coming through the academy. I would advice them to | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
get as many qualifications as they can while they are playing. You | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
never know when you are going to retire. Right now the injury list | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
across Welsh rugby is unprecedented. When Wales play Ireland here in | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
Cardiff on Saturday, it is o easy enough to think of ten Welsh | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
players who could have been involved, except they are out | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
injured. Wales are the defending snaitions champions but have lost | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
their -- Six Nations champions. If you are only as good as your last | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
game England should be well placed. They have resources, and Scotland | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
it is different. There are only round 11,000 men playing rugby in | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
Scotland. They lost to Tonga. So England versus Scotland should be | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
straightforward? I worry more about the games you are expected to win. | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
The expectation has increased but no-one can tell me playing Scotland | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
first up will be easy. Back in Wales Morgan will be watching it | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
all. He is well supported for Llanelli. He knows it has great | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
fiscal demands, even at the top you need a Plan B. Pop superstar | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
Beyonce has admitted singing a long the a prerecorded version of the | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
American National Anthem during President Obama's inauguration. | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
Doubts were raised about whether or not it was live. At a news | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
conference she answered critics firstly by single the star spangled | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
banner and described herself as perfectionist who wanted her | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
performance to be right. Earlier this week, we were treated to a | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
spectacular full moon, for those who missed it, a professional | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
photographer based in the New Zealand capital Wellington has | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
provided stunning images on his website. He said it was his | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
lifelong ambition to capture this spectacular shot of the full moon | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
rising over mount Victoria. Let us rising over mount Victoria. Let us | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
take do you the weather. Beautiful. Hopefully most of us will see the | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
sun this afternoon. A bit of a poor start, a lot of cloud in the UK, | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
and outbreaks of rain. This afternoon I think bright or sunny | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
spells for all areas still showers moving through as well. Heaviest in | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
Wales and the north-west of England. Perhaps wintry on higher ground. | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
Driest and brightest will be the south-east of England, the Midlands | :29:09. | :29:12. | |
and East Anglia. Some patchy cloud round here, top temperatures, seven, | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
eight degree mark. The breeze freshening things a little but a | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
glorious afternoon to be had. Further north for northern England | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
largely dry to the east, but a reminder of some of the showers, | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
they could be heavier and wintry on the highest ground. For Scotland | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
wintry showers on an northerly wind, but a lot drier and brighter here. | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
Certainly in comparison to yesterday. For Northern Ireland | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
some sunshine this afternoonment for Wales the showers could be | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
heavy, they could be wintry, across the highest grounds. For the south- | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
west of England, some light showers can't be ruled out. But we should | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
have some sunshine. This evening and the showers will push their way | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
eastwards but they should fizzle out. Overnight it will turn cold, | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
particularly in the northern half of the UK, where we will see a | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
fairly widespread frost. So beer that in mind with shower, we could | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
see a bit of ice, and we will continue with showers coming from | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
from the North Sea into the small hours Saturday and we could see a | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
bit of a covering of snow in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
north of Norfolk. The wind though, the biggest thing cut out cutting | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
down from the North Sea. It will be cold to the east but the day as a | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
whole. What a beautiful start to the weekend. Clear blue skies and | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
sunshine. The temperatures behind me here, a bit deceptive, you must | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
bear in mind that wind N the east it will feel closer to freezing but | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
it will be as promised a beautiful looking start. Shortlived though, | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
we are back under the influence of Atlantic weather so it is all | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
change again. A bit mild e it becomes windier, outbreaks of rain | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
spreading across. Sunday's temperatures probably round the | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
seven, eight degree mark. A lot of cloud round and breezy as for next | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
week, though, seven or eight degree also start to sound mild, because | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
we are in for another blast of colder air through the course of | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
next week. Windy as well. Look out for that, bringing us some | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
occasional wintry shower, more on the web site and an up-to-date look | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
the web site and an up-to-date look in regional detail too. Time for a | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
reminder of the tops. Two hit men who stabbed a schoolboy to death in | :31:23. | :31:27. |