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The High Court dismisses a claim by ten disabled people and their | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
families that cuts to housing benefit for those with spare rooms | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
are discriminatory. Families say they are bitterly | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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disappointed and vow to fight on in the Appeal Court. Taliban militants | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
- some dressed in police uniforms - free more than 240 prisoners in a | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
violent assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan. | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
Would you recommend your hospital to patients and friends? Only four prer | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
The survey that shows events like the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
London Olympic and Paralympic Games have made us happier than we were a | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
year ago. Later on BBC London, a man is | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
arrested on suspicion of murder after a triple stabbing in Brixton. | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
Two cors after being dismantled, King's Cross gets back one of its | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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News at 1.00pm. The High Court has dismissed a | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
challenge by ten families of disabled people that cuts in housing | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
benefit discriminate against them. Their lawyers had argued that the | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
extra space was necessary to cope with their health needs. The | :01:54. | :02:03. | |
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families have said they will appeal. Richard is a disabled council tenant | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
who lives in a three-bedroom bungalow. His stepdaughter, who is | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
also disabled, stays there when not at university. The third bedroom is | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
used to store equipment, inclouding a hoist and an electric wheelchair, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
but his housing benefit has been cut, and this morning he watched as | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
a judge dismissed his and nine other cases. My local council has already | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
started possession proceedings against me because I can't afford to | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
pay the shortfall. And by the same token, they've got no-where for me | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
to go either. I have to move. They have no-where for me to go. So it's | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
not a case of I choose not to - I've got no choice. They're giving me no | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
choice. In April the Government introduced the housing benefit cut, | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
which opponents dubbed a bedroom tax. Social tenants with one spare | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
room had a 14% reduction. For those with two extra bedrooms it was a 40% | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
cut. Disability campaigners have led the opposition to the policy saying | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
it discriminates against those who need the extra space or who can't | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
move because of their disability. But today the High Court rejected | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
their claim that the Government had acted illegally. This was perhaps | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the most significant legal challenge so far to the Government's welfare | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
changes and for the campaigners who have opposed them it's a significant | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
setback but Ministers welcome today's ruling ands say additional | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
money will now be made available to councils to help those who really | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
need it. We have trebled the discretionary housing payments. Can | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
I also say there are two million people nearly on housing waiting | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
lists. They too will have disabled people who will be waiting. There | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
are a quarter of a million people in overcrowded homes. Those two will | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
have disabled people there and their children, so we have to look at it | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
in the round. And despite the bitter disappointment of those hoping to | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
overturn the policy, the Government says its reform is needed to save | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
the taxpayer money and make the Our political correspondent Norman | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Smith is in Westminster for us, and with this High Court decision, a | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
sigh of relief in Government? Absolutely, Simon, and although | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
Government are saying there is no triumphalism, no gloating I am | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
absolutely sure if you were standing outside MrDuncan Smith's office you | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
would hear a long whistling sigh of relief because this was a bunch mark | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
benefit change which the Government had invested a huge amount of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
political capital and credibility into pushing through. It has been | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
one of the most politically charged benefit changes even down to the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
language around it with Labour insisting it's a bedroom tax and the | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Government insisting it's simply removing a, quote, spare room | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
subsidy, so defeat would have been a significant setback. It would have | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
also unpicked the give's plans to rein in the housing benefit budget. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
It would have made it harder to shake up the housing waiting list, | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
the Government arguing this will make it easier for families in | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
overcrowd overcrowded accommodation to get larger homes but above me it | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
seems to me defeat would have sent a legal shudder through his benefit | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
agenda because as we know there are other court cases pending and I | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
suspect he'll draw huge comfort today it appears the courts are not | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
going to listen too sympathetically to those citing human rights | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
legislation to try to unpick benefit changes. Norman Smith, thank you | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
very much. There is more information on the changes to benefit change and | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
background on the court cases on our website. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Shares in Barclays are falling this lunch time after the bank announced | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
it had to raise nearly �6 billion from shareholders to plug a more | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
than �12 billion pound hole in its balance sheet. Chief Executive | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Anthony Jenkins says he's "certain" the action will leave the bank | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
stronger. He has the backing of the Bank of England, which described the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
measures as "credible". Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
The mighty Barclays needs to raise more money. Today we find out just | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
how much, an eye watering �5.8 billion from its shareholders. | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
That's to fill a hole of nearly �13 billion on its balance sheet. It has | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
been under pressure from regulators to bolster its finances. If you look | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
at Barclays in particular there have been two concerns that have affected | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
our investor base. One is concern about regulation. Another is concern | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
about conduct costs. We've decisively addressed both of those | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
issues today. Why does this delobl investment bank, which didn't need a | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
taxpayer bail-out, need the extra money now? The Bank of England's | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Prudential regulation authority demanded all UK banks build up a | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
bigger cushion of capital to protect themselves against future shocks. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Barclays wasn't able to meet that specific target. I think it's | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
unfortunate that Barclays has been pushed into raising capital today. | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
To be clear, it's not raising capital because the capital ratios | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
were inadequate. It's raising capital to meet the new leverage | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ratio which was only introduced by the PRA last month. Not only does | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
Barclays have to raise billions of pounds of new money, it's still | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
paying for past mistakes. Today's half-year profits were less than | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
expected partly because the bill for mis-selling continues to rise. | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
Barclays is setting aside another �2 billion for compensation to | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
customers. Much of this is for payment protection insurance claims. | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
This means the total compensation bill is now at more than �5 billion. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Barclays has been trying to clean up its tarnished image. It's paying a | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
high price for a series of scandals. Not only is it having to change its | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
culture, it's now transforming its balance sheet as well. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
With me now is our business correspondent Ben Thompson. These | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
figures were a bit of a surprise. Shareholders don't like it. Markets | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
were expecting a figure of about �4 billion. This is substantially more. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
We should say, these will be new shares, so it won't dilute the value | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
of existing shares if you already have shares in Barclays. I'd also | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
crucial - if you're a shareholder, you'll be able to buy them at a | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
discount, about 40% cheaper than the price they were trading at this | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
morning, but nonetheless, the share of Barclays is currently down about | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
7%. That's because shareholders, since 2008, since the financial | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
crisis, Barclays has paid out more than �8 billion in bonuses, paid �6 | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
billion in fines yet it's paid just 2 billion in dividends, the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
dividends are the payment normally awarded to shareholders and in | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
response to being tapped yet again this morning from Barclays, Barclays | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
said it will start to increase the amount it pays in dividends. This | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
raises nearly 6 billion. The gap is nearly �12 billion. How do they fill | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
that? 6 billion will be from these new shares. They'll also issue bonds | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
worth �2 billion. This still leaves a big gap. They have also said | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
they'll rein in the business, shrink the balance sheet. That means it | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
will stop doing certain activities. That raises fears it will limit | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
credit in the economy, something the Government has been trying to hard | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
to prevent, but nonetheless, Anthony Jenkins, the boss, says this will | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
have no wider impact on the economy. Thank you very much. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
The results of a survey of hospital patients in England appear to show | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
that most people were satisfied with the care they received. Four hundred | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
thousand people were asked to rate their experiences on the wards and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
in A&E departments over a three month period. Patients on 36 of | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
4,500 hospital wards in England said they would NOT recommend them to | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
relatives. The NHS says direct patient and citizen feedback is | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
vital to improving its services. Here's our health correspondent, | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
Jane Dreaper. She's coming out. It's the start of | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
the biggest effort so far to find out patients' views. This ward in | :10:50. | :10:59. | |
war Saul was among the first to try out the Friends and Family Test. Now | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
many thousands of patients who have staid overnight or been to A&E since | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
April have given their opinion. The fact that I'm still alive and | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
filling in this form is testament to the care I've received, said one | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
grateful patient. Others were less grateful patient. Others were less | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
happy: "Dirty room, blood on bed." You would give this to a patient as | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
they leave the hospital? The organisation running the NHS in | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
England says it's a ground-breaking attempt to shine a light on where | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
change is needed. One of the key causes of the tragedy at mid staffs | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
was the fact that the patients were not listened to. This initiative sat | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
heart designed to guarantee for patients a National Health Service | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
that is listening and is driving high-quality health care. More than | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
400,000 patients have given their views. That's 13% responding. | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
Patients were more likely to answer on wards than in A&E. Just 36 wards | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
out of 4,500 showed a negative score, with many patients positive | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
about their care. It does make changes as well. I know that because | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
me and my friend come in here a lot. Before, it didn't, years ago, but it | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
does now. I mean, I listen to what they say. I wouldn't tell them not | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
to come. I would advise them to come here. These are places nobody wants | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
to come to anyway, but if you got to, you do. I was more than | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
satisfied to get out. Hospitals in England have been the first part of | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
the NHS to use the Friends and Family Test. Eventually, all | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
patients will be asked for their views, but there has been criticism | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
that the test itself is too narrow and won't give meaningful results. | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
It produces one number - a score - a single number for each service, and | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
that doesn't in any way communicate the complexity of what's going on | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
inside that service. You cannot rate a service by one number. The results | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
of the new test will be published every month, with separate research | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
today showing nurses are having to ration the care they offer because | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
they're stretched, the NHS will be under pressure to maintain good | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
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levels of satisfaction. Tal Tal fighters have stormed a prison in | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
north-west Pakistan releasing almost 250 inmates. The gunmen used loud | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
hailers to call for some prisoners by their names. 30 of the freed | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
prisoners are described as hard core militants by Government officials. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
James Robbins reports. This was a major assault, but the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
prison's defences proved to be completely inadequate. Dozens of Tal | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
iban militants came in a convoy to free their top leaders. They were | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
armed with grenades and rocket-propelled weapons. Locals say | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
explosions rattled every house in the neighbourhood. The militants | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
knocked out power supplies before blowing open the wall of the prison | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
and storming into the jail where officials say they used a loud | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
hailer to call for some prisoners by name. Both the Taliban and Pakistani | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
authorities say around 250 prisoners escaped including some 30 militant | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
leaders. Dera Ismail Khan, where the attack took place is, meant to be | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
the settled area. This is the north of Pakistan which is meant to be | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
fully controlled by the Government. Militants have gone to the settled | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
area and done what they wanted to do. Pakistani authorities are said | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
to have received intelligence about an impending attack two weeks ago. A | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
prison official said they didn't expect it to come so soon. It all | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
adds to embarrassment for the Government as scores of people post | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
messages in social media expressing disbelief and anger. After a similar | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
attack on a prison last year, many are wondering how the militants were | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
able to do the same thing all over again. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
It's exactly 1. 15pm. Our top story: A group of disabled people have lost | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
the High Court challenge to housing benefit cuts for residents with | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
spare bedrooms. And still to come: As the sun draws | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
visitors to our beaches, has it also brought some visitors to our waters | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
as researchers find more jellyfish during the heat wave. Later on BBC | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
London: Why businesses are hoping to benefit from the cycling equivalent | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
of the London Marathon this weekend. Reformed and ready for chart | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
domination once again, we catch up with the original Sugababes ahead of | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
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to be celebrated, and with events such as the Olympics and Paralympic | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
Games, we were apparently happy. Despite everything else going on, a | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
nationwide survey into well-being is showing a small improvement in | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
happiness. Those questioned by the Office for National Statistics also | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
reported high levels of life satisfaction. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
The Olympic and Paralympics feel-good factor of the summer. An | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
event that enhanced a sense of national pride. Latest figures say | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
it may have also boosted our own sense of personal happiness. Add to | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
that the celebrations to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, an event of | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
national significance which included an extra bank holiday and may well | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
have helped to improve the nation's mood. The well-being survey showed a | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
slight rise in most people's general happiness in the last year and a | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
small drop in anxiety levels in the UK in the same period. There were | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
signs of a midlife crisis for 45 to 49-year-olds, and those between 65 | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
and 79 were found to be most satisfied. Some of the key drivers | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
of well-being are being in employment, personal relationships, | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
and over 2012 we saw unemployment go down, they can see. While many other | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
European Union countries have seen their well-being levels fall, the UK | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
levels have stated that the country that appears to be the happiest and | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
most satisfied is Denmark. Denmark is happier than us but where | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
do we fare? Denmark is slightly less happy than it was! If you look | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
across the 27 EU countries, we have pretty much maintained our happiness | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
despite the recession but other countries have fallen back, and | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
notably France. That has been for a long time having higher levels of | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
well-being than Britain and they are now behind us. One country has shot | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
up, for reasons no one seems to understand, is Austria! What on | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
earth is the point of this survey? This is a project that won the Prime | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Minister's seal of approval a couple of years ago. He said, I want to | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
make sure this is used to shape government policy. He said he wants | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
to know what works, what will make people feel better about their | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
life. A number of government departments have already started to | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
use some of the early data, and this is very early date, to start shaping | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
their policy, the business department, local government, | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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health. They are already starting to look at well-being data to decide | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
how we should govern ourselves. The UK is losing the war against | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
Internet crime. That is a warning from MPs, as they published their | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
first ever report into e-crime. It is calling for more police to be | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
trained in digital crime detection. David is an expert in digital | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
marketing but that did not stop him becoming one of the thousands of | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
people who are defrauded online. I paid a large amount of money to | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
something I did not recognise. payments that occurred over eight | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
months and added up to nearly �2000. Obviously that was worrying | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
because I knew I had not used that card. A new report says the UK is | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
failing to win the war on e-crime. It says there is a black hole where | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
online fraud is not being reported and investigated, tougher sentences | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
are needed for criminals and an espionage team should be | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
established. David said he is surprised that police apparently did | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
not investigate his case. I thought the credit card company would ask me | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
to report a crime but they did not. I never involved the police. It was | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
all dealt with so quickly that it was never taken any further with the | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
police. Some police say the failure to adequately report and record | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
e-crime is evidence that recent figures showing a fall in crime are | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
misleading. It is simply moving online. The issues of e-crime is | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
something we feel has gone unreported for a long time. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
government needs to understand we need the resources in order to deal | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
with e-crime. Many online Forster 's are based within the EU and Eastern | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Europe. It is easier to steal online and off-line and the chances of | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
getting caught are much lower. When I was a police officer, criminals | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
were local. Now crimes can be conducted from anywhere in the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
world. We need to be making new attacks on them in order to detect | :21:28. | :21:35. | |
who they are and to bring them to prosecution. The Home Office says it | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
is investing �850 million for a National cyber Security programme | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
and admits it needs to keep pace with the criminals. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Since he was ousted from power almost four weeks ago, there has | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
been virtually no information about Egypt's former president. Now | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Catherine Ashton has met Mohammed Mercy in Cairo, the first foreign | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
correspondent to do so. She said she found the former president in good | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
health and spirits. More than three weeks after his | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
arrest, Mohamed Morsi supporters are still camping out around the clock | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
at their protest camp, demanding his return to power. Since the army | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
stepped in to remove him this month, he has not been seen in public and | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
nobody knows where he is. Catherine Ashton is the first outsider to see | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
him. They met for two hours at a military facility, she does not know | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
where, after a night-time helicopter ride. He is in good health and good | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
humour, he was told half an hour before I arrived I was coming. | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
seemed pleased to see me. It is a military place. The people around | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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him do care for him. More than 70 of Mr Morsi's supporters were killed in | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
clashes with police on Saturday and there are fears of an even worse | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
bloodbath if the interim government tries to clear out the Morsi protest | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
camp by force. That is what Baroness Ashton is trying to avert by looking | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
for common ground. There is a very strong and common desire to find a | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
way through this. The situation remains explosive. There is a lot of | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
mistrust. Baroness Ashton has been trying to identify competence | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
bolting steps that could locate dialogue. She was very discreet | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
about the details of any compromise that may be being explored. EU | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
officials will begin tinkering to follow up ideas after she leaves. In | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
the meantime, Lady Ashton said she is ready to come back if that helps. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
In a few hours, a judge will announce the verdict in the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
court-martial of Bradley Manning, the soldier who disclosed thousands | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
of secret documents to Wikileaks. Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
to ten offences but denies the most serious accusation of aiding | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
America's evidence. If found guilty, he could face life | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
imprisonment. Is Bradley Manning a young and naive | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
whistle-blower or a calculated, fame hungry traitor? Two very different | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
accounts of the four me -- former Army intelligence analysts have been | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
presented before the judge during the eight week military trials. The | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
25-year-old was posted in Iraq where he was given access to classified | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
information. He admits disclosing more than 700,000 government | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
documents to the Wikileaks website between 2009 and 2010. That included | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
reams of confidential messages between US diplomats. And key | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
military intelligence, like this video, of a US at patchy helicopter | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
attack -- Apache helicopter. It showed a strike of unarmed civilians | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
in Iraq. Bradley Manning denies that by putting this in the public | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
domain, he knew it could end up in the hands of America's enemies. | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
think he should be punished because we cannot afford to let the message | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
go out to people who work for our government that their | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
confidentiality agreements and their swearing to secrecy is an utterly | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
meaningless act. Bradley Manning supporters see him as a hero, who | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
simply wanted to expose the truth. He expose war crimes and he is being | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
punished for it as if he were a terrorist and I think that is wrong. | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
The defence say Bradley Manning leaked the information to spark | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
worldwide discussion about US foreign policy. The prosecution say | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
he craved notoriety. Either way, his actions have opened up a wider | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
debate about the sharing of classified data in the Internet age. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
People visiting UK beaches this summer are being warned to watch out | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
for jellyfish after the recent spell of hot weather. The Marine | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Conservation Society said numbers increased in June and July after the | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
cold snap, including Lou jellyfish and lion 's mane in North Wales and | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
north-west England. -- blue jellyfish. | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
Yes, plenty of people enjoying Swansea's seaside on this sunny day | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
but the recent warm weather has also drawn other visitors to the British | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
coastline. A surge of jellyfish have come in during the heatwave. Let's | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
speak to a marine biologist. What could be behind this recent increase | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
in numbers? A number of reasons. is probably a good year for | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
jellyfish. There are populations tend to go up and down in different | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
years. We have onshore winds, which tend to blow them into the coast and | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
you can see them in shallow water. The late spring, we had some very | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
odd weather and things turning up at slightly wrong times of year. And | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
then of course this fantastic weather, more people encountering | :27:35. | :27:45. | |
them. Do they pose any danger? Mostly not. Most of the jellyfish | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
around the UK coast will not cause any harm. One species in | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
particular, the lion 's mane jellyfish, has a large, frilly red | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
mass, and they can sting. It is like a nettle sting, and pleasant. But | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
for most people that would not cause any problems. The Marine | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
Conservation Society are asking people who spot the jellyfish to | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
report them to them. To not touch. It could help them to understand | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
what is causing this fluctuation in numbers. | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
Is there a sting in the tail of the weather? | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
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particularly today, tomorrow and Thursday. It will turn hot in the | :28:42. | :28:48. | |
south briefly and that could bring the risk of thundery downpours. The | :28:48. | :28:55. | |
satellite picture from earlier today shows a big lump of cloud. Further | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
north, speckled cloud. A mixture of sunny spells and showers. A bit like | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
yesterday but the showers are a little less widespread than | :29:04. | :29:11. | |
yesterday. Still the potential for very heavy showers across northern | :29:11. | :29:17. | |
England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with thunder mixed in. We | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
will still have persistent rain for most of the afternoon in the | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
South-East corner but that will clear. Gusty winds at the coast. | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
South-west England is becoming one of the brighter places. The cloud | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
should break up in the afternoon. This evening most of the showers | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
will fade away. By the end of tonight, another lump of rain coming | :29:41. | :29:47. | |
in. This could be quite heavy. Warm and humid in the south, a little | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
fresher further north. Tomorrow is dominated by this warm front. Things | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
will be starting to turn humid in the South as it pushes north. The | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
band of rain will work through many areas of England, Wales and | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
eventually Northern Ireland. Much fresher in the north and fewer | :30:11. | :30:17. | |
showers than we have had over recent days. Tomorrow night into Thursday, | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
the warm front will continue to progress northwards, taking the rain | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
with it. Thursday is the day where the warm air really arrives, | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
particularly central and eastern areas of England and Wales. Always | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
fresher to the north and the West but we will have more cloud and | :30:36. | :30:44. | |
outbreaks of rain. The fresher air will try to push down into the | :30:44. | :30:52. | |
South-East by the time we get to Friday. But as the fresh air tries | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
to arrive, that is where we have the risk of some thundery showers. Lots | :30:58. | :31:04. | |
of whether going on! If full forecast for where you are online. | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
A reminder of the main story: The High Court dismisses a claim by ten | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
disabled people and their families that cuts to housing benefit for | :31:14. | :31:19. |