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A royal day here at Broadcasting House as the Queen officially opens | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
the BBC's new headquarters. Her Majesty had been due to be | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
accompanied by her husband, but the Duke was admitted to hospital to | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
undergo an exploratory operation. Broadcasting has enriched our lives | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
in so many ways. I hope this new building will serve you well for | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
the future, and I'm delighted to declare it open today. We'll be | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
having more on the Queen's vizit and the condition of the Duke later | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
in the programme. Coronation Street actor Bill Roache | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
appears in court charged with indecently assaulting four girls in | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
the 1960s. A new blood test for Down's | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Syndrome is developed. Researchers say it will dramatically reduce the | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
need for invasive procedures. The United Nations launches the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
biggest appeal in its history to help those affected by Syria's | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
bloody civil war. "Do svadaniya" - Vladimir Putin | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
says goodbye to his wife on Russian TV as they announce they're getting | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
divorced. On BBC London, a security Minister sees first hand the | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
destruction caused by a fire at the Islamic Centre in Muswell Hill. A | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
smash and grab at we feel ridge's right in front of shoppers. Police | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
The Queen has spent the morning here at New Broadcasting House in | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Central London to open officially the BBC's new headquarters. She had | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
been due to do this accompanied by her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
but he is in hospital less than half a mile away at the London | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Clinic where he is undergoing exploratory surgery on his abdomen. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
The Queen visited Radio One and toured the BBC newsroom. But it was | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
from the studio of Radio Four's Today programme that she declared | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
the building open. Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell | :02:16. | :02:26. | |
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It was a morning when you might imagine she would have preferred to | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
remain away from the news media. Instead of which, as her husband | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
faced surgery, the Queen carried on without him with a visit to the | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
biggest media organisation in the country, the BBC, to open its new | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
headquarters at New Broadcasting House. The chairman of the BBC | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Trust, Lord Patten, and the BBC's recently appointed director general, | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Tony Hall, greeted her. Whatever the green's private concerns about | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
her husband, they were precisely that, private. This was an | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
engagement which had been in her diary for more than six months, and | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
it was being fulfilled. Little more than half a mile away | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
from the BBC building at the private London Clinic, doctors were | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
assessing the Duke with a view to surgery. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
At the BBC, the Queen's broadcasting adventure had begun in | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
the studios of Radio One with a song. | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
# I - I would be Queen # Not necessarily quite her thing, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
but after 60 years of doing this sort of thing, she's used to just | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
about anything. And then into the news area, home to all the BBC's | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
domestic and worldwide programmes on television and radio. John | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Humphries asked her how the Duke was. The Queen said she had no | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
information. She was taken into a studio which | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
was broadcasting live on BBC Radio Four and around the world on the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
BBC World Service, where she was invited to open the building by the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
BBC's director general. Your majesty, as you've seen so far | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
walking around this building, it gives us all enormous pleasure to | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
welcome you to New Broadcasting House, and particularly so in the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
week in which we are celebrating the 60th anniversary of your | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
coronation. We are all only sorry that His Royal Highness, the Duke | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
of Edinburgh, has been unable to come with you today, and all of us | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
wish him a speedy recovery. Thank you, Director-General. It is a | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
great pleasure to visit the BBC today and to see it in its new home. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
I remember first coming to New Broadcasting House with my father, | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
the King, and my mother and sister shortly before the war. I came | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
again with the Duke of Edinburgh just before the coronation in 1953. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
I was struck then, as I am now, by the sheer pace of change which has | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
transformed your industry over the past 60 years, years during which | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
broadcasting has enriched our lives in so many ways. I hope this new | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
building will serve you well for the future, and I'm delighted to | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
declare it open today. APPLAUSE | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
The main BBC newsroom is said to be the biggest in Europe, a hub of | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
supposedly hard-nosed newsmen and women. It has to be said that that | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
wasn't how it was when the Queen came to visit. For a few minutes, | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the hub was abandoned, as hundreds of BBC staff jostled for the best | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
position from which to see her. She gazed in at one of the new studios | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
broadcasting on the BBC News Channel, and the news channel gazed | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
back at her. Her Majesty, the Queen, to the heart of BBC New | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
Broadcasting House and our live newsroom. It's a view we share with | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
our live audience every day, but today a unique moment with a very | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
special Royal guest. But the Queen's thoughts on what | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
she was seeing and who she was meeting, there were any number of | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
familiar faces to have a word with. At the London Clinic, we know the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Duke of Edinburgh will be there for up to two weeks. He's already | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
receiving good wishes, including those of the Prime Minister. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Duke of Edinburgh is held in the highest esteem by people right | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
across our country. He's an extraordinary -- extraordinarily | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
dedicated public servant and such an enormous support for our | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
sovereign that I know the whole country will be thinking about him, | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
thinking about the family and wishing him well. The Queen left | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
the BBC without revealing anything about her husband's health. She, | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
like many others, will be waiting for news from the hospital. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
As we've heard, the Duke of Edinburgh is due to undergo an | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
exploratory operation on his abdomen after spending the night in | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
hospital. Prince Philip, who is 92 on Monday, was admitted to the | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
London Clinic yesterday and is expected to stay in hospital for | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
about two weeks. Daniela Relph has the latest. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
No obvious sign of a problem - no hint that surgery and a stay in | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
hospital were imminent - at a Buckingham Palace garden party | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
yesterday afternoon, it was business as usual from the Duke of | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Edinburgh. But as soon as the garden party was over, the Duke was | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
on his way here to hospital in central London where today's explor | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
more reatory surgery on his abdomen will take place under general | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
anaesthetic. The important factors in dealing with older surgical | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
patients is to make sure that you have prompt decision making done by | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
senior medical professionals and, in the case of older patients | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
having general surgery, it's best that they are nursed on high | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
dependency units. This is the Duke's third stay in hospital in a | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
year after the rigours of the Jubilee celebrations last summer. | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Prince Philip was twice admitted with a bladder infection, and at | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Christmas 2011 there was a more serious heart problem. That | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
required emergency surgery on a blocked artery. This current | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
hospital stay will mean the Duke has to scale back some of his | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
public engagements. He was at the Queen's side for this week's | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
service at Westminster Abbey marking 60 years since the | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Coronation, but Trooping the Colour next weekend and then Royal Ascot | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
may now be off the agenda. The Duke of Edinburgh could stay here in | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
hospital for up to two weeks. It would give him a chance to recover | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
from the surgery and force him to rest. | :08:51. | :09:00. | |
And there will be more on this story at the end of the programme. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
The Coronation Street actor Bill Roache has appeared in court in | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Preston charged with five counts of indecent assault, alleged to have | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
taken place in the 1960s. The charges involve four girls who were | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
aged between 11 or 12 and 16 at the time. Judith Moritz is at Preston | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Magistrates Court. Bill Roache came to court to face new allegations of | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
child sexual abuse. He was arrested yesterday when he went to a police | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
station in Lancashire. His lawyer spoke on his behalf before today's | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
hearing. During two lengthy police interviews, Mr Roache has fully | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
cooperated with all the questions that the police have had for him in | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
relation to these matters. We expect that later this year or | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
possibly earlier next year a jury will be asked to consider whether | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Mr Roache is guilty or not guilty of those charges. Mr Roache looks | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
forward to standing before that jury where he will vigorously | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
protest his innocence against what he regards as deeply upsetting | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
allegations made against him. Roache is charged with five counts | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
of indecent assault against four girls in Manchester in 1965 and | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
1968. Now 81, the actor was in his 30s at the time. The alleged | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
victims were between 11 or 12 and 16. They can't be identified for | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
legal reasons. I'm make an anniversary D... Bill Roache is | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
known to millions as Ken Barlow, the longest serving cast member of | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Coronation Street. He's appeared in the soap since its | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
first episode in 1960. The soap star was arrested at his home last | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
month and charged with raping a 15- year-old girl on two occasions in | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
1967. Today's allegations involving different girls were made national | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
wake of those rape charges. Bill Roache left court on bail. He'll | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
appear here at Preston Magistrates' Court on Monday. | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
Judith Moritz reporting there. A leading cancer charity has | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
forecast that by 2020 nearly half the population can expect to get | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
cancer in their lifetime. Macmillan Cancer Support says the figure has | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
gone up by more than a third in the past two decades. It says those who | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
do develop the disease will be less likely to die. Our health | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
correspondent explains. Frank is a cancer survivor. It's | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
more than ten years since doctors discovered a cancer tumour in his | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
brain. Extensive treatment, including chemotherapy and | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
radiotherapy successfully shrank the tumour. He's grateful to be | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
alive, but he's been left with serious health problems. You have | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
to come to terms with, in my case, a left-sided weakness in my arm and | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
my leg, balance problems, endless fatigue... | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
I'm sorry. We seem to have a problem with that report. We'll try | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
to sort out the technical problem there. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
A new method of screening for Down's Syndrome has been developed, | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
which trials suggest is more than 99% accurate. Researchers say it | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
could dramatically reduce the need for pregnant women to have invasive | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
procedures that can lead to miscarriage. The test analyses the | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
mother's blood, which carries fragments of the baby's DNA. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh is here. | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
This sounds very promising. How significant is this? I really think | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
this is a major advance in screening. A trial of a thousand | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
women at King's College Hospital in London - it was, as you said, more | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
than 99% accurate, and it gives parents a pretty definitive answer. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
We saw today our film today with our lady called Lucy Brazier, 12 | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
weeks pregnant. She went there for her first scan, and she was told | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
from the scan she had a one in 270 chance of having a baby affected by | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Down's, but two weeks before at ten weeks, she'd had a blood test, and | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
that reduced that risk to less than one in 10,000, so what it will do - | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
it will cut out lots of unnecessary invasive follow-up tests - | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
amniosentesis or others which carry a small risk of miscarriage. Every | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
year 300 healthy babies miscarry as a result of unnecessary checks. | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
am sure a lot of mothers-to-be listening will think, when might | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
this be available on the NHS? is another big trial starting next | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
month. 20,000 women - that'll take two years. The test costs will need | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
to fall. It's �400, but I've got very little doubt that in a few | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
years' time, this will be standard across the MHS. Presumably, great | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
excitement in the medical community that this development has come? | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
Absolutely, and it's come from this figure of a man who more than 20 | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
years ago at King's College Hospital pioneered and invented the | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
scan which is more than 90% accurate, very good. I really think | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
it's a very positive day for screening. OK, Fergus, very | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
interesting stuff. Thank you very much indeed for that. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
The time now - it's 1.14pm. Our top story this lunch time: | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
The Queen has officially opened the BBC's new headquarters. She was due | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
to be accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh but he is in hospital due | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
to undergo an operation. And still to come, from the | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
battlefield to the classroom - the former soldiers offered a fast | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
track into teaching. Later on BBC London: homelessness | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
in London has risen by 16% in the past year, the highest increase in | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
the country, and experts warn that the capital's trees are under | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
threat from the spread of disease. That's all to come in 15 minutes' | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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biggest appeal in its history in response to the ongoing crisis in | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
Syria. Aiming to raise more than �3 billion to help refugees. 1.6 | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
million people have now fits the rear and are staying in camps around | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
the country. 6.8 million people are thought to be in need. That is | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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almost one third of the total The physical destruction of the | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
country and the progressive collapse of a state. This is why so | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
many flee - fierce fighting in this town this week has left it in ruins. | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
A recent UN report said children are witnessing acts of brutality as | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
Syria tears itself apart. This week fighting in the Golan Heights | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
nudged up against Israeli territory, a sign the three-year conflict is | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
barely contained within Syria's borders. Already some 80,000 have | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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died. Life is increasingly and children are disproportionately | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
affected. The organisation admits it can barely keep up with demand. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Every month we are having 50,000 people crossing the border over to | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
Lebanon, coming from Syria, and every month we are increasing our | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
capacity to meet the needs of these people. For us, food is the highest | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
priority for these people at the moment. We are able to cope but it | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
is getting more and more difficult. Part of the problem has been | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
countries pledging money in the past and not paying up, but the bigger | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
problem is the continued fighting that drives people to flee. With no | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
political solution in sight, camps like this are unlikely to shrink | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
soon. In fact, the UN wants this latest appeal will only cover its | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
works until the end of this year. If you would like to find out more | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
about the appeal and the latest on what is happening in Syria, there | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
are more details on our website, bbc.co.uk/news. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Former Armed Forces personnel without degrees will be fast tracked | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
into teaching in England under a new government programme. The Troops To | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Teachers scheme will help ex-servicemen and women retrain over | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
at two year period. Ministers say the recruits will inspire young | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
people but teaching unions have warmed to teachers scheme will help | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
ex-servicemen and women retrain over at two year period. Ministers say | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
the recruits will inspire young people but teaching unions have | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
walked the proposals could threaten standards. Our education | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
correspondent Luke Walton has more. From frontline to the front of | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
class. Irfan Khan was a rifleman in the Royal Green Jackets including | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
spells in Northern Ireland and Sierra Leone before switching to | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
teaching. He says his time in the military helped build the skills and | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
confidence he needed for his new profession. In the Armed Forces I | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
picked up the willingness to do more and transferring that over the kids | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
now makes them enthusiastic about education. Kids do see me as a role | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
model generally because I am a teacher but being in the Army, they | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
like to ask questions, asking what was it like in the army? Under the | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
--. Under the scheme, ex-service men and women without degrees can | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
qualify as teachers in two years, half the current time, and there | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
will be salaries for both graduate and non-graduate trainees was a | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
military background. This teacher has made a successful transition | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
from the Armed Forces, but there are some who question the wisdom of | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
giving ex-military personnel are fast track into the classroom. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Teaching unions fear the training will cut corners. We believe there | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
will be some people who have spent some time in the army who will be | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
excellent, and in the nature of things there will be some people who | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
will not. The question is what the routers and whether they are | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
actually being appropriately trained and prepared for teaching and this | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
scheme does not look as if it will do that. The Government insists | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
selection for the courses will be rigorous and that successful | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
candidates are likely to have high levels of technical skills as well | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
as experience of men touring or teaching within the Armed Forces. | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Even so, the idea of giving them an unique accelerated path into schools | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
will remain contentious. A study has found that speed cameras | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
cut the number of serious road accidents by an average of more than | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
one quarter in areas they are placed. The research by the RAC | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
Foundation looked at more than 500 cameras in nine different locations | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
across England. At 21 cites the number of accidents actually | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
increased. Lifesaver or moneyspinner? Speed | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
cameras have been controversial since they were first rolled out 20 | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
years ago. Now this latest study suggests that most of them make the | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
roads safer. This research looked at 551 different fixed camera cites | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
across England and it found once that camera had gone in the number | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
of fatal and serious accidents fell by more than one quarter and the | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
number of injuries overall fell by 15%. But there were some exceptions. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
This is one of the exceptions here. The camera just outside the village | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
of Woodhurst in Cambridge. Since it has been there, serious accidents | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
have gone down but minor accidents have gone up. In fact, there are 21 | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
cameras where the numbers but the trend and no one knows why. It may | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
be the road surface needs improving. It may be that there has been a new | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
housing estate in the neighbourhood and that has caused more traffic, or | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
more children, to be around. Those sorts of reasons we don't know but | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
the point is there is responsible held account by the public to make | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
sure the cameras are doing the job they should be doing. A few years | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
ago the town Swindon ditched its fixed speed cameras. What do people | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
there think? I think they cause more problems. People slow down for them | :21:52. | :21:58. | |
when there is no need to. If they kept to a continuous speed, traffic | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
would flow better. In the country where there is a speed camera, they | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
have been dangerous accidents so even if they do not snap Hewitt is a | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
reminder it is a dangerous piece of road. Green bobbin if you know there | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
is a speed camera, you are more aware of your speed. Around 2000 | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
people die on Britain's roads each year. The government recently cut | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
funding for speed cameras, saying they were overused and there are | :22:24. | :22:34. | |
:22:34. | :22:34. | ||
better ways of saving lives. She may have only just 13 -- turned | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
13 but she has an IQ rivalling the greatest minds that ever lived. Neha | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Ramu from Surrey has joined Mensa, the society for people with high I | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
queues, having achieved a score of 162, the highest possible for | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
someone under 18. Like many girls her age, Neha Ramu | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
likes nothing better than sitting down with one of her favourite books | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
but when it comes to her intelligence she is not your typical | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
13-year-old. I was really excited but when I found out that I got such | :23:11. | :23:18. | |
a high score, I was disbelieving because it was so amazing and | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
unexpected actually. An IQ of 140 is considered to be the score for a | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
genius. A result of 162 has led to her being compared to some of the | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
world's greatest minds. Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein, they have | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
achieved so much that I could not dream of achieving. So it is like | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
not right to compare me to them. If I do not put in effort and make use | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
of my IQ, then there is no point in having it. She does it without | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
putting in much effort. There is no extra effort she puts in. She makes | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
sure she has enough time for TV, swimming, fun time with friends. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
the future, Neha Ramu says she was to be an urologist but for the time | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
being she is trying to play down expectations. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lydumila divorcing | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
after 30 years together. The couple told state television it was a | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
civilised divorce, saying they hardly saw each other any more. The | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
announcement ends years of speculation about their relationship | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
but it has come as a shock to Russians as Steven Rosenberg | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
reports. This was the moment the private | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
problems of Russia's president became very public. There are | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
rumours that you are no longer living together, says the nervous | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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interviewer, off camera. Is that true? It is true, replies President | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
Putin. My work involves being in the public eye all the time. Some people | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
like this, some people don't. It was our joint decision, she says, our | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
marriage is over because we hardly see each other. Vladimir | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Vladimirovich is fully emerged and his work. I don't like being in the | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
public eye. That is why Russians have seen less and less of their | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
First Lady, sparking more and more speculation about the marriage. Read | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
joint appearances like this one did not help. Vladimir looked more at at | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
ease here with his pet Labrador, Koni. For several years there have | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
been rumours of marital strife here in the Kremlin but this official | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
announcement has come as a shock to Russians. After all, the last time a | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
Russian leader divorced his wife was more than 300 years ago. It was | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
Peter the Great, who then dispatched his spouse to a nunnery. Putin is | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
only human, Lydia says. He has the right to make his own decisions. Our | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
leaders should not get divorced, says this man. If they are having | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
problems, what hope for us? But the Putins have pledged to stay on good | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
terms. They are calling it a civilised divorce. | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
Let's return to our top story, that the Queen has fulfilled an | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
engagement to open the BBC headquarters alone after the Duke of | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Edinburgh's admission to hospital. Let's speak to our royal | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
correspondent, Niklas Witchell. What have we learned or heard today about | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
what is happening with the Duke? can assume the doctors have been or | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
perhaps RSS link went to carry out this exploratory operation. -- | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
assessing. That exploratory operation may have taken pace, maybe | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
taking place now. I don't think we will hear anything further from | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Buckingham Palace until that operation has taken place, until | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
they are in a position to report on how he is. It is worth perhaps just | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
recapping what we do know. Routine tests, abdominal investigations, as | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
a result of what the doctors found during those investigations. They | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
fare felt this operation was necessary. The Queen coming to the | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
BBC, what can we read into this? The fact that she came, as far as one | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
could tell she looked very relaxed, she looked quite happy, that could | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
be taken to mean that within the family at this point there is no | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
undue concern, but it is dangerous to read too much into that. She will | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
be waiting, as everybody is waiting, for the bulletins from the hospital. | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
At one point she was asked about the Duke's health. She clearly did not | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
want to talk about it. She was clearly uncomfortable being asked | :27:49. | :27:56. | |
about it, but that she confirmed she had no information. Some have taken | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
the phrase exploratory operation to assume it is routine but there is | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
nothing routine. It is not routine, if you are having to go in for an | :28:08. | :28:09. | |
exploratory operation after an investigation of the abdomen. The | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
purpose of this is to find out whatever it is that has given rise | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
to clearly the concern that the Royal doctors are feeling. The other | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
concern of course is the fact that he is on Monday 92 years old. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
you. Time to look at the weekend whether head and Helen Witts has it | :28:28. | :28:38. | |
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Celsius in Porthmadog and Wales. There are some notable exceptions | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
today. You have woken up to cloudy skies across many southern areas and | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
here comes some showery rain, even the odd rumble of thunder. It is | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
slowly meandering northwards and westwards as you can see but for | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
most it is lovely afternoon. But the temperatures are rising, so lots of | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
heat in the atmosphere which could generate some intense thundery | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
downpours across potentially Dawn Warr -- Cornwall and Devon, even | :29:08. | :29:15. | |
flooding rains. To watch for the south-western quadrant of the UK | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
considering it has been so glorious of late. Elsewhere it continues | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
lovely. Plenty of sunshine. Always a little cooler but plenty of | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
sunshine. Rogue showers across the Cumbrian fells and Scottish | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
mountains. Fewer than yesterday. Very pleasant well -- whether to be | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
found across the vast majority of the UK, including Northern Ireland | :29:35. | :29:40. | |
where there will be fewer showers than yesterday. The sunshine came | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
out for the Welsh Marches. The risk of heavy showers does extend into | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
the south of Wales into this evening, as you have seen from the | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
satellite picture. When we do see the showers they will tend to linger | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
through this evening and into the night. Elsewhere, fairly quiet. | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
Missed and low cloud will roll backing of the North Sea tonight, | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
holding the temperatures up and giving a great start to tomorrow | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
morning even as far westwards as Edgbaston. I am hoping there will be | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
no interruptions to play. Catch the coverage on BBC Radio 15 live sports | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
extra. Tomorrow, perhaps a little fresh breeze in southern areas and | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
not quite as warm as it has been but still plenty of warm sunshine to be | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
found getting to work on the low cloud, burning it back to the North | :30:25. | :30:32. | |
Sea coast. Dry for southern and western areas. 22 or 23 Celsius | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
potentially but even around the coast the UV levels of sun are just | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
as strong. It is not temperature dependent. A similar story on | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
Sunday. The threat of a shower in the Channel Islands later on. A | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
great start for North Sea coastal counties hanging onto cloud for | :30:47. | :30:56. | |
longer and cool here but inland, glorious sunshine. Great news, -- | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
not great news, high levels of pollen at the moment. Lovely weather | :30:58. | :31:08. | |
:31:08. | :31:10. | ||
to be found, just potential for Queen has officially opened the | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
BBC's new headquarters. She was due to be accompanied by the Duke of | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
Edinburgh but he is in hospital due to undergo an operation. Today, a | :31:18. | :31:25. | |
unique moment with a very special royal guest. And her Majesty became | :31:25. | :31:28. |