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Norfolk killing four people onboard. It came down last night on the North | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Norfolk coast during a low-level training mission. The aircraft were | :00:14. | :00:26. | |
carrying gun ammunition so there are bullets scattered around this area. | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
We'll have the lastest from the scene of the accident. Also this | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
lunchtime: White out in America - records are broken as all 50 US | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
states record sub zero temperatures. Freezing. I can't feel my face. I'm | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
numb, and I'm pregnant, so we're both numb. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
More than 100 flood warnings still in place across the UK as David | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Cameron says lessons must be learned from the recent storms. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
French police reveal details of the skiing accident that's left Michael | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
Schumacher in a critical condition after viewing footage from his | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
helmet camera. And out of this world - the space | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
drama Gravity leads the way at the BAFTAs. | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
On BBC London: The head of The Met admits there is cause for concern | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
over the accuracy of crime stats. And why some parents say they are | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
wrongly accused of abducting their own children at London's airports. | :01:29. | :01:40. | |
Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News At One. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
An investigation is underway after a US military helicopter crashed on | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the North Norfolk coast last night, killing all four people onboard. The | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
Pave Hawk was taking part in a low-flying exercise flying out of | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
RAF Lakenheath, when it came down in marshes near Cley-next-the Sea. Our | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
correspondent Jo Black is near the scene of the crash. | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
Yes, yesterday afternoon to helicopters took off from RAF | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
Lakenheath, but only one survived. That aircraft can be seen on the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
landscape but find me. The other one is complete wreckage, now being | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
looked at by investigators. What happened here cost for people there | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
lives. One helicopter remains grounded, the other is | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
unrecognisable, shattered in pieces. Last night, both took off from the | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
base. It was supposed to be a low-level training exercise, but | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
something went wrong. The helicopter came very low over the back, very | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
noisy, and the lights were bright, they lit the whole house up. It was | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
making a weird noise and then the next thing I heard was the sky | :03:07. | :03:15. | |
rinse. It is a better-known version of the Black Hawk. It is used in | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
humanitarian missions. It usually had a crew of four but can carry 12 | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
passengers. It is designed for flying at night and has an excellent | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
safety record. It is a very reliable, tough helicopter. It has | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
been constantly upgraded. I would imagine it has the best safety | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
record of any helicopter the United States military has ever owned. This | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
afternoon, officers are collecting evidence. Debris has scattered | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
everywhere and the crash site is beside a big football pitch. Cos | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
there was live ammunition board, conditions remain hazardous. There | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
are some problems in that the aircraft was carrying gun | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
ammunition, said there are bullets scattered about this area I've just | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
described it will have to be recovered. The Pave Hawk was one of | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
a number at the US force. The fighter jets also blight out of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
here. Today, Blagdon at the base are at half-mast. Meanwhile, bodies of | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
the crew members will remain at the crash site until the coroner is | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
satisfied and the investigation can be handed over to the military. | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
There has been lots of speculation as to the cause of this crash. Some | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have cited technical difficulties, some have talked about a possible | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
bird strike, because this happened near a nature reserve. But the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
investigations are in the early stages and it could be weeks before | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
we know the real reason why this happened. In the meantime, the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Norfolk police are expecting to give us an update in the next half-hour. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
I defence correspondent is with me now. Tell us more about what they | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
were doing. Nothing too unusual about this mission, a lot of | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
military helicopters fly in this area. We've been told this was a | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
training exercise, a low-level flying mission, and they do that | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
quite often, as I said. The question is perhaps why night? Well, this | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
kind of crew go in potentially behind Avenue -- behind enemy lines, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
so they have to be combat ready. And why was it armed? We understand it | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
was carrying 1200 rounds for its machine gun. Essentially, it | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
could've been going to a range, there are a number of nearby ranges. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
And were also told it is routine to carry weapons on board and | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
ammunition on a training exercise. Weather records have been broken | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
across America, with all 50 states experiencing sub-zero temperatures | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
yesterday. The small town of Embarrass in Minnesota was the | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
coldest, at -37C. The most extreme arctic blasts, blamed on a weather | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
pattern known as the polar vortex, were said to have affected nearly | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
190 million people. Katy Watson reports. | :06:19. | :06:29. | |
These are Arctic conditions, but this is no glacier, it is the | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Niagara River. The freezing temperatures and blizzard like | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
conditions are creating scenes like this all over the US. The past few | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
days have been relentless. Temperatures in the midwest fell to | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
-37 Celsius. Twice the cold of to Google freezer. I'm freezing. I'm | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
numb, and I'm pregnant, so were both numb. In Chicago, Lake Michigan is | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
warmer than the air outside. Residents are used to freezing | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
temperatures, but these conditions are testing the homeless, who have | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
had to find shelter in doors. Last night we had over a thousand people | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
individuals, which we've never had before. Nearly 190 million people | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
have been affected across the country by the pattern known as the | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
polar vortex which began at the weekend. For some, these have been | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
deadly. The weather has brought roads to a standstill, literally. | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
These cars were frozen to the ground after a water main broke. Canada did | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
not escape will stop hundreds of flights were frozen -- cancelled on | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
Tuesday. It has been so cold that even Hell has frozen over. Residents | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
of this small town have been digging themselves out of snow. Along with | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
everyone else, they are hoping the warmer temperatures by the end of | :08:07. | :08:16. | |
the week. Well, here it is the jet stream that | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
is responsible for the heavy rain and floods that have been swamping | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
parts of the UK. More than 100 drug warnings remain in place. | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
I'm hearing what should be a very pretty part that actually looks more | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
like a swimming pool. Not that you would want to swim in this. As you | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
said, more than 100 blood warnings are in place across the U K -- flood | :08:46. | :08:57. | |
warnings. It might look pretty, but beneath | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
the Meadows lies the Merc. Filthy floodwater coursing through this | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
ancient city. A site where enough for locals to want to snap it and | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
share it. I haven't seen it as bad as this. I've lived here for 16 | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
years and it is the third time I've not been able to cross this without | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Wellington boots. Let's hope they continue to have it under control. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
For one village in Somerset, the water has proved beyond control. | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
Residents were told it was a once in a century event. No wonder they are | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
angry it has happened again. We've been pushing and pushing for | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
dredging to be done. They say it won't make any difference. Of course | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
it will. The church has changed. It is now part supermarket, part | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
listening point, admit disbelief the deluge has happened again. Some are | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
not waiting for the Environment Agency to wade in and help. One | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
farmer in Shropshire is trying to protect his land by dredging his own | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
River. They don't like is to take silk out of the river, they don't | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
like is to take weeds out or to raise the banks, but if we didn't do | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
this sort of thing in this situation, the land either side | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
would be flooded fairly regularly. You've heard of pop-up shops, now in | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
guilt that they have pop-up flood defences. One of many ways that the | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
Environment Agency is acting to protect homes and businesses. These | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
are tried and tested. They might look a bit flimsy that they are | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
tried and tested and these came from East Anglia over the weekend, so we | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
got no concerns about the fact they will be able to deal with the | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
situation. Not far away is pearly, where there are yet more problems | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
filmed by those living along. Every county in England has now had a | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
flood warning. All because of the weather that has marred this winter. | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
You get a sense from all that that all this water is creating a lot of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
frustration. The Environment Agency tell us they are protecting more | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
than 1 million homes with their various defence systems. They have | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
teams working around the clock to try to stop people from getting | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
flooded by waters like this. But the bad news is that, as always, there | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
is more water on the way. That means more problems and frustration across | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
the UK. Sarah Campbell is in Chertsey in | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Surrey. The Thames is where that boaters, | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
but there is a lot of water in between there and here. Not so much | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
a problem on the flood plain, but residents are seeing they have not | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
seen water levels like this since 2003. You can see the houses over | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
here. Daniel Butcher is one of the local residents. It's a bit of a | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
mess, isn't it's yes, there is about three foot at the back of the house. | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
It is running through the house like a river. The digger has been hired | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
by the local residents to cut the channel through. A bit of a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
desperate measure. It is just trying to alleviate the flood plain. We do | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
see it the lab in times but this is the highest it's been since 2003. Is | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
your home recoverable? No, the ground floor has three feet flowing | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
through it like a river. We've moved and was upstairs but the water is | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
slowly creeping in. It's just time now. This is why were trying to | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
drain away. The longer it sits, the more it soaks in and stagnates. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
Thank you and good luck will stop the bad news for residents as you | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
been hearing across the country is that the River Thames level is due | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
to rise further over the next few days. There is more rain forecast | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
for tomorrow. As we saw a moment ago in America it | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
is the big freeze paralysing parts of the state. | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
America's ABC correspondent, Linzie Thomas, is in Buffalo, in the state | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
of New York. Extraordinary conditions. How much | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
longer will this last? Not too much longer, luckily. We are in the | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
bull's-eye of that polar vortex right now. It is -12 Celsius. I'm | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
standing on a frozen lake. That polar air is sweeping across this | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
lake, colliding with the warmer temperatures at its service and | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
dumping so much snow on the shores it is coming down at a rate of four | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
inches per hour. This area is expecting up to five feet of snow, | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
blizzard like white out conditions, as you can see. Roads are closed, | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
schools are closed. This is what they call lake effect snow. And this | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
is the place for it, the snow belts. Incredible, thank you. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
The Labour MP Paul Goggins has died a week after collapsing while out | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
jogging with his son. He was 60. The former Northern Ireland and Home | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Office minister - who represented Wythenshawe and Sale East - had been | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
in Parliament since 1997. The Labour leader Ed Miliband said the party | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
had lost "one of its most dignified, humane, wise and loyal MPs." | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
It's emerged around half of criminals convicted of sexual | :14:52. | :14:53. | |
assault, burglary and drug dealing in England and Wales in 2012 were | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
not sent to prison. The figures were released by the Ministry of Justice | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
following a parliamentary question from Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
Khan. Our political correspondent Ross Hawkins has more. | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
How many people who break the law gets sent straight to jail? It turns | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
out last year roughly half of those convicted of burglary, half of those | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
convicted of sexual assault and half convicted of suspected drug dealing | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
went direct to prison in England and Wales. It means, of course, that the | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
rest of those offenders face fines or suspended sentences after | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
convictions, but not time walking corridors like these. This is | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
leading to victims saying, what is the point of reporting a crime, what | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
is the point of giving evidence if it means people who are found guilty | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
don't receive the appropriate sentence? The figures vary, 94% of | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
rapists go straight to prison. Changing things could be expensive. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
More prisoners would mean more prison places and they don't come | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
for free. Politicians who work at the Ministry of Justice, or who want | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
to in the future, like to talk tough. In fact, the percentage of | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
offenders sent straight to jail in England and Wales has fluctuated | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
between roughly seven and 8% over the last ten years. What has changed | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
are the sentences. They have got longer, rising on average by a month | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
since the general election. The minister says they are dealing with | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
a system created by the last government. One of the things that | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
really frustrated me was the level of people who commit that kind of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
offence who are getting off with a caution. We have stopped that now, | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
they have to end up in court and we will continue to take measures to | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
toughen up. This is a convex business. These measures include | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
offenders under 18 who often get lighter sentences than adults -- a | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
complex business. These figures are of concern. Every case needs to be | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
treated on its own merits and judges will make decisions about sentencing | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
at we want them to be sure they are understanding what the impact of | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
that crime has been on victims. The question of who ends up here | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
remains, gated, emotive and one the politicians can't afford to ignore | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
-- remains complicated. Our top story this lunchtime. | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
An investigation's underway after a US Air Force helicopter crashes in | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
Norfolk, killing four people onboard. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
And still to come - a football first? FIFA's Secretary General | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
rules out the summer months of June and July for Qatar's 2022 World Cup. | :17:31. | :17:45. | |
Later on BBC London. 54 flood warnings and almost 100 alerts - | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
because of the continuing wet weather. We're live in Surrey with | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
the latest. And we go Underground to take a look at the latest work on | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
the new Tottenham Court Road Station. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
Ten days after the skiing accident that left Michael Schumacher with a | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
life-threatening head injury, the Formula 1 star remains critical but | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
stable - in a medically induced coma in hospital. He was wearing a camera | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
on his helmet when he hit a rock in Meribel in the French Alps. This | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
morning French investigators, who've been examining the footage, have | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
been giving details of what it revealed. Our correspondent, Imogen | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Foulkes, is outside the court house in Albertville in France where they | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
were speaking. What have they been saying? This investigation is | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
already well underway. The team have staged a reconstruction up on the | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
slope where Michael Schumacher had his accident. They have interviewed | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
his teenage son who was with him. They have analysed this video | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
footage from his helmet camera. All of that evidence corroborates it | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
self. We know that Michael Schumacher chose to go off piste, to | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
leave pistes which were clearly marked. The chief investigator here | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
said that video footage in particular divide some very clear | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
evidence of how Michael Schumacher fell and where he felt -- provides | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
some very clear evidence. TRANSLATION: His position after he | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
fell was nine metres away from the least. We proceeded to examine the | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
film he recorded. This film is perfectly clear and gives us a lot | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
of information and confirms all of the detail we already had. So we | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
know from that film, and from witnesses that Michael Schumacher, | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
off piste, skied over a rock. That caused him to fall, he was thrown | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
forward, he hit his head on another rock and that is what caused those | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
serious injuries. Interestingly, the investigative team who performed 50 | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
such enquiries into ski accidents each year, say they can't say yet | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
just how fast he was going. They need to look at the video footage | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
frame by frame to assess that. They did say, though, he was skiing as he | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
is, a very experienced skier. The investigation continues. Michael | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
Schumacher, as you said, still in a coma in hospital. | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
The boss of Sainsbury's says the supermarket chain had its "best | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Christmas ever" with more than 28 million transactions in the week | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
running up to Christmas Day. Waitrose has also been toasting a | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
record Christmas. But there are warnings that 2014 could prove to be | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
a difficult year for supermarkets as customers tighten their belts. Our | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
business correspondent, Ben Thompson, is here. | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
Sainsbury's, better than expected, but latest results reflect how tough | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
it is out there. They do. Despite beating expectations, the boss of | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
Sainsbury's today, warning that still conditions out there remain | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
very tough. Nonetheless, Sainsbury's managed to report a 0.2% rise in | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
sales for the last quarter. They say that a good Christmas really did | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
help offset a difficult October and November. That means it is the 36th | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
consecutive quarter of growing sales. That is more than nine years. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
All the more impressive, given the state of the economy and the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
economic recovery. But its biggest growth area has been in smaller than | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
brilliant stores. Sales there rose by 18%. Nonetheless, the boss of | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Sainsbury's told us that all supermarkets are having to work much | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
harder to get customers through their doors. You can see that small | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
shops RE where it is at at the moment in terms of growth. -- really | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
wear. Yes, algae, Lidl, a lot of the retailers that your viewers will | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
know are all important. -- Aldi. They will have one supermarket that | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
they consider to be their main supermarket but they will shop | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
around. Waitrose have had a great Christmas but what about the rest of | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
the competition? Their sales were up over the vital Christmas period. We | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
have also heard from the Co-op, telling us that sales in its food | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
business were up. The important test will come tomorrow, we will hear | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
from Marks Spencer, we are expected sales to fall for its | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
clothing but it could be offset by better-than-expected food sales. We | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
will also hear from the UK's largest supermarket, Tesco, they are also | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
expected to see a fall in sales. Thank you. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
A coroner has ruled that PC David Rathband - who was found hanging a | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
year and a half after he was shot and blinded by gunman Raoul Moat - | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
did take his own life. PC Rathband was shot in July 2010 by Raoul Moat | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
who was on the run. At the inquest, the Coroner Eric Armstrong said the | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
attack on PC Rathband was the "first step" in the series of events which | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
led to him killing himself. He urged none of those involved in the | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
hearing to blame themselves. Voters should be required to show ID | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
at polling stations in an attempt to stamp out electoral fraud - that's | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
according to the elections watchdog. The Electoral Commission also wants | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
to prevent political candidates and campaigners handling any postal | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
votes. It's been reviewing vote-rigging, and admits that whilst | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
it is rare, electoral fraud is normally committed by candidates or | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
their supporters as Alex Forsyth reports. | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
Elections, a time when the public decides who is in power. Now the | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
voting watchdog, the Electoral Commission, has suggested a change | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
to the system. It wants voters to produce ID at the ballot box to | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
prevent electoral fraud, as they do in Northern Ireland. What do voters | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
in England think? Fraud is too much so the only thing to stop is to | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
carry our own IDs. I think that is fantastic. People who don't have | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
driving licence which some people carry around, you have got to take | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
your passport and that is a bit silly, isn't it? I am not fully | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
aware of how much broader is in election so it is difficult for me | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
to make a mad, but obviously we shouldn't allow any, so if it helps, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
I am for it. The Electoral Commission has identified 16 areas | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
at risk of vote ringing. -- rigging. It is also examining allegations | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
that Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities are susceptible. Tower | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Hamlets is alleged to have a history of electoral fraud. Proven cases are | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
red but the Electoral Commission says even suspicion is enough to | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
damage public trust in the voting system and that is what it wants to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
restore -- cases are rare. We will make sure we get the balance right | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
between security and accessibility, and that the form of ID which we | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
finally recommend doesn't disenfranchise people. We don't see | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
that it would but we need to get that right. From June, voters will | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
have to register individually and provide personal details to prevent | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
fraud. A senior Liberal Democrat source has suggested the party would | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
be nervous about a system which required voters to carry ID. | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
FIFA's Secretary General has ruled out the 2022 World Cup in Qatar | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
being played in the summer months of June and July. It comes after fears | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
that the summer heat in the Gulf emirate could be dangerous for both | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
fans and players. Our sports correspondent, Richard Conway, is in | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
Salford. When could it be played? That remains the question. We have | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
had a consultation process started by FIFA, that was launched in | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
October last year. That was looking into possible dates. Jerome Valcke | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
is a key member of that consultation process. His comments today that | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
June and July would be ruled out effectively are significant in that | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
context. FIFA were quick to clarify, they issued a statement | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
saying it was his view and that the consultation process was still | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
ongoing. We will wait to see that decision later this year. When will | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
this World Cup be played? We know that January and February are ruled | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
out, there is a clash with the Winter Olympics and that makes it | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
impossible to play them. The comments on June and July seemingly | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
rule out the summer, the traditional time slot. It seems increasingly | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
likely that November and December is FIFA's preferred choice, but they | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
are talking to players, leagues and domestic partners such as TV | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
companies. We will see later in the year on a final decision when that | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
World Cup, some eight years away from us still, will finally be | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
played. Nominations for this year's Bafta | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
film awards have been unveiled - with space drama Gravity, starring | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, leading the way. It's been short | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
listed in 11 categories including best film and best British film, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
original screenplay and original music. 12 Years A Slave and American | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Hustle also landed ten nominations each. Here's our entertainment | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
correspondent, Lizo Mzimba. Space thriller Gravity leads this year 's | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
list with 11 nominations, including best film and Best actress for | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
Sandra Bullock. Despite its American cast, it is a | :26:57. | :27:08. | |
British movie. It was shot here and the ground-breaking special effects | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
were done in the UK. Unsurprisingly, then, it is also up for best richest | :27:13. | :27:13. | |
film. Come here. I said, near! Close behind is harrowing drama 12 | :27:14. | :27:28. | |
Years A Slave. It has ten nominations including best film and | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
best actor for British star Chiwetel Ejiofor. To see myself and other | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
people in the film talks about and thought of in this way, and the | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
story we were trying to tell, just to talk about it it is very | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
touching, and I am really thrilled. Every year, we are asked to predict | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
who will wing and every year, most critics get it completely wrong -- | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
who will win. It is extraordinary for how long, harmony people have | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
been saying 12 Years A Slave is the one to watch. -- how many people. | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
Crime comedy drama American Hustle also has ten nominations, it is | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
recognised in every category. These are the British Academy Awards and | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
this is a strong year for many British performances, and not just | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
in the biggest nominated films. Emma Thompson is nominated for best | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
actress as Mary Poppins author PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks. And with | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
her 15th nomination, this time for Philomena, the true story of a woman | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
searching for the son she was forced to give up for adoption, Dame Judi | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
Dench becomes the actress with the most ever film nominations from | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
BAFTA. Time for a look at the weather. Here's Peter Gibbs. A bit | :29:00. | :29:07. | |
quieter than it has been, we have even managed some spells of sunshine | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
for many parts of the UK. You probably won't be too surprised to | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
hear that we can't shake off the rain completely. Some rain is | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
heading in from the South East as we speak, heavy bursts are possible for | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
that we can see that gathering on the satellite picture. This big area | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
of cloud is running in from the Atlantic. It looks like perhaps | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
Wales is in the firing line as far as the heavy, more persistent rain | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
is concerned through the rest of this afternoon. We have weather | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
warnings in force because of the sogginess of the ground, still. As | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
we had three to five o'clock this evening, during the busy travel | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
period, the rain easing off for a good part of south-west England, | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
very mild as well across the southern parts. Through the West | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
Midlands and southern parts they will be a lot of rain, a lot of | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
standing water am not terribly pleasant travelling conditions. | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
Apache mist and fog starting to turn up but a fairly quiet end to the | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
weekend -- Apache mist. Heavy bursts may be getting in a cross southern | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
England. It will turn to snow across the high ground of northern England | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
and southern Scotland. I touch of frost for the northern half of | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
Scotland, maybe some ice around, most places will stay frost free. It | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
will turn breezy overnight, the wind slowly easing during tomorrow. The | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
cloud and the rain has taken a while to get out of the way, still some | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
snow over the tops of the Pennines for a time. Most places end up with | :30:44. | :30:49. | |
something drier and brighter as the day wears on. Temperatures in double | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
figures in the south, near normal across northern areas. Let's look | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
out into the Atlantic for Thursday into Friday. This weather front is | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
the leading edge of this cold weather that has been hitting | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
America over the last few days. By the time it gets across to our part | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
of the world it is a spent force. It has been warmed up by the warmer | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
waters of the Atlantic. A bit of rain but nothing terribly heavy | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
living in. Some cold air in behind which could give snow across higher | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
ground in Scotland. A cold, crisp start to the weekend, the chance of | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
more rain from the west later on Sunday. Some uncertainty about that | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
but overall, the message is quieter than we have seen but we need to | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
watch for rain occasionally. Thank you very much. | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
Now a reminder of our top story. Specialist investigators are | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
examining the site in Norfolk where an American helicopter crashed last | :31:42. | :31:43. | |
night, killing all four | :31:44. | :31:45. |