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find information on routine operations like hip knee surgery | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
contained significant errors and inconsistencies. Also this | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
lunchtime, Britain is asked to take in more Syrian refugees. The Prime | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Minister is said to be open-minded about accepting those fleeing the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
conflict. Crime against households and adults in England and Wales | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
falls to a 33 year low according to The Crime Survey. More than 1400 | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
soldiers are to lose their jobs in the latest round of cuts, but | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Britain's security won't be put at risk, says the government. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Britain's battered coasts, how the recent storms have revealed | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
artefacts dating back thousands of years. And 900 years of history | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
comes to an end with the first women's quiet Canterbury Cathedral. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Later on BBC London, transport bosses announced plans to use | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
backroom staff to work during the tube strike. And Thames Water says | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
sorry over blocked sewers, after a pumping station is flooded. | :01:16. | :01:34. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Information about | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
waiting times for routine operations such as knee and hip replacements in | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
England is unreliable because of errors and inconsistencies in the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
way they are compiled. The public spending watchdog says it means | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
patients can't compare the performances of different hospital | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
trusts when they are deciding where to go for treatment. The Department | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
of Health says overall waiting times remain low and they will work with | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
the NHS to ensure more accurate figures. Our health correspondent | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
Branwen Jeffreys reports. Managing with a sore hip is not easy. Sue | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Walker has been waiting since March last year. Hip replacement needs to | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
be repaired. The operation was finally due to happen this week, so | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
her son took time off to be at home. But at the last minute, when she was | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
in a hospital bed, it was cancelled. The longer it goes on as it is the | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
worse it will get and the more difficult it will be for them to | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
replace. I find it really distressing, because I'm thinking | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
it's going to be even more difficult getting back to normal once I've had | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
the operation, the longer the waiting goes on. There are rules | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
about waiting times in England full stop 90% of patients having a | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
routine operation should get it within 18 weeks. 650 patient records | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
were looked at in detail as part of this investigation. Only 43% were | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
accurate. Most of the mistakes and recorded how long patients waited. | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
Trusts can face tough financial penalties if patients wait too long. | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
This report found people don't know their rights on waiting and | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
hospitals often don't make them clear. But managers insist mistakes | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
in waiting records aren't hiding a bigger problem. There is no | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
suggestion in this report that recordings are deliberate. Hospitals | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
are working flat out to treat patients as quickly as possible. | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
There is some tightening up that needs to be done but patients are | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
getting better car. Labour says this calls into question claims about | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
waiting times. But ministers argue there are fewer people facing very | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
long waits under this government. Almost patients care about is | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
knowing when exactly they can expect their operation. | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
Downing Street says the Prime Minister is open-minded about a cool | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
-- about a call to accept more refugees from the Syrian conflict. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
The UN is asking Western countries to accept 30,000 reference desk -- | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
referee -- refugees. David Cameron said his preference was to support | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
displaced people inside the region. That speaks our chief political | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
correspondent Norman Smith in Westminster. This issue will be | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
debated and voted on in Parliament next week. It is also my senses the | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
decision will be made before then because the mood music emerging from | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
government is that we are poised to accept Syrian refugees, a small | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
number, several hundred, because those around Mr Clegg this morning | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
saying he is confident such a decision will be reached and reached | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
"soon" . Those around Mr Cameron say he is open-minded to a change of | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
people can make a compelling case for accepting Syrian refugees and | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
what is driving this is two things. The brutal politics, that vote, with | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
the likelihood of significant of Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs may | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
support the Labour motion but more than that I think is the fear in | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
government circles that they are somehow perceived as the bad guys, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
when the view in government is actually we have a pretty good story | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
to tell in terms of help for Syrian refugees. We provide more cash than | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
the rest of the EU, we have taken in some 1000 Syrian asylum seekers and | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
I think there's a desire not to be seen in those circumstances to be | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
dragging our feet, or holding out against Syrian refugees. Norman | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
Smith unwed spinster, thank you very much. In Switzerland the United | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Nations is hoping to pave the way for the first direct talks tomorrow | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
between the Syrian government and opposition since the conflict began | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
three years ago. The mediator is meeting delegations today from both | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
sides separately to try to establish if there is enough common ground for | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
formal negotiations to begin. Our world affairs correspondent Paul | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Wood is in Geneva and all this after what was a pretty rocky start | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
yesterday. Yes, the hope was under the assumption by the UN was in the | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
building behind me both sides would sit across the table and engage in | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
the kind of direct dialogue. There hasn't been this in three years of | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
civil war. Then we have the opening of the conference yesterday in | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Montreux. It was always going to be speeches and not direct | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
negotiations, but those speeches were so ill tempered, there was such | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
enmity on display, but news started to filter out from the two | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
delegations they did not think they could sit and talk to each other so | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
delegations they did not think they Lakhdar Brahimi is trying to patch | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
things up and have meetings with both sides and later tonight we | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
should know whether they are going to talk face-to-face. Into this | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
rather toxic mix has been thrown some remarks by Hassan Rouhani, the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Iranian president, who was also in Switzerland for the Davos meeting. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Each had their should be a Syrian solution in Syria, there should be | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
elections and he doesn't think these talks have much chance of | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
succeeding. Given that Iran is the bankroll and the major support of | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Syria, a lot of people are wondering whether Iran through its influence | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
on President Assad is going to be the spoiler for these talks. There | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
wasn't much optimism surrounding the meeting tomorrow. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Paul Wood, thank you very much. Crime against households and adults | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in 33 years, since | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
The Crime Survey began. The survey's figures suggest the number | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
of crimes recorded dropped by 10% in the year to September. The Crime | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Survey, which estimates levels based on how many people say they have | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
been victims, says there were about 8 million incidents. Separate | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
figures from the police also recorded a drop in overall crime. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw is with me. Give us some more | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
detail about these figures? These figures from The Crime Survey are | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
very interesting because they include crimes that are reported to | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
the police at all and these -- and this survey is independent of the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Belize and it has shown that for almost 20 years there has been a | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
near continuous reduction in levels of offending and in the 12 months to | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
the end of September last year compared to the same period the year | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
before The Crime Survey showed that overall offences were down 10%. We | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
saw reductions in burglary, car crime, thefts and also a 13% fall in | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
violence. That is very significant because that takes levels of | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
violence to the lowest since the survey began in 1981. You have the | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
police reported crime figures and the reliability of those has been | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
questioned recently. Yes, there have been concerns these figures are | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
being manipulated all fit -- fiddled and there has been a debate into | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
that and because of that these figures have lost their kitemark | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
awarded by the UK Statistics Authority. But what they show pretty | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
much is similar to the official Crime Survey. Please crime overall | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
is down 3%. We saw how there were some areas where some categories | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
were booking this trend, with shoplifting up in 29 of the 43 | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
police forces, fraud was up and sex offences, we saw an increase there | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
of 17% and this was mainly due to more victims coming forward after | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
the Jimmy Savile programme in October 2012, having the courage to | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
report crimes are the police and most of those reports are in fact of | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
historical offences, crimes, sex crimes that date back more than 20 | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
years. Danny Shaw, thank you very much. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
More than 1400 soldiers are to lose their jobs in the latest round of | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
defence cuts. Almost 100 medical posts from the RAF and Navy are also | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
being cut. Soldiers currently serving or about the size in | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Afghanistan will be exempt. The army -- the Army is cutting the number of | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
regulars from 100,000 to 82000 x 2017 but the number of reservists is | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
being increased. Jonathan Beale in reports. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
It has been a confusing message. The Army wants to sign a new recruits. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Last weekend they were in Nottingham trying to drum up interest but at | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the same time it's been laying off thousands of troops. Not the easiest | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
sales pitch. It is tough times. There are cuts going on but we still | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
need to replace people who are leaving at the end of their careers. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Statement the Secretary of State for defence. This morning the Secretary | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
of State for defence said there will be another round of Dick -- | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
redundancies but he said it would be the least painful and the last. I | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
can confirm the overall number of redundancies is required is | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
considerably lower than that predicted in a number of recent | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
press articles and lower than in each of the three previous tranches. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
It will comprise up to 1425 members of the Army and up to 70 medical and | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
dental officers from the Royal Air Force and up to ten from the Royal | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Navy. It's all part of the defence cuts that will see the size of the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
regular Army shrink from about 100,000, to just over 80,000 troops. | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
There have already been three rounds or tranches of redundancies, was | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
last year four point -- with last year 4500 soldiers losing their | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
jobs. This year's tranche of 1400 redundancies should be the final | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
round. It is the beginning of the end of uncertainty for people across | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
defence and in particular the Army, as I'm sat here talking to you. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Redundancy is difficult and problematic because that -- at its | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
core is people who we care passionately about, very good | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
people, but we have to do this to get the arm of the right size and | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
the right skills for the future. The Gurkhas will be one of the hardest | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
units hit. Few of them volunteered to leave. Any soldier serving in | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Afghanistan will be exempt from the process. The Army says this is a | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
last planned round of redundancies but with the Chancellor making clear | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
he wants further cuts in public spending there are no guarantees. | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
A coroner has ruled that there were missed opportunities in the care and | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
treatment of four-year-old boy who died after surgery at Bristol | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Children's Hospital. Sean Turner died from a brain hemorrhage and | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
other complications in March 20 12, six weeks after he was operated on. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
The coroner said she had not heard any evidence of gross failures to | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
provide basic care. Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
reports. Football loving, adoring | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
four-year-old. It was how Sean Turner's parents described the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
little boy. In March last year he was admitted to Bristol's children's | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
hospital with severe heart problems. But the inquest was told that after | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
only 18 hours in intensive care he was returned to a cardiac ward | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
because of pressures on beds and staff. His parents say they pleaded | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
for Sean to be returned to the ICU unit. We begged for four days to go | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
back to intensive care but nobody listened. They seemed to make | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
observations on Shaun Batt were quite worrying and then walk away | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
and do nothing. The nursing staff particularly in the night, you | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
couldn't find a nurse to help you. We felt we were caring for him by | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
ourselves. He was sent back to intensive care but died four weeks | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
later after a massive lead in his brain. Today, a coroner recorded | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
what is called a narrative conclusion after a week-long inquest | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
into Sean's death. She said there had been lost opportunities in the | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
medical treatment the four-year-old had received. Speaking for the | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
family their lawyer said there was a lack of leadership, accountability | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
and communication. Yellow bobbing in our opinion Sean was in the wrong | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
hospital with the wrong surgeon. We have to try to rebuild our lives | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
without our little boy. The Bristol children's heart unit is facing | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
legal action over at least ten cases in which children have died or were | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
left severely damaged after care at the hospital since 2008. The | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
hospital authorities today said they had made changes since the case of | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Sean Turner. The inquest has also highlighted some missed | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
opportunities in the care we gave to shore when managing his | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
post-operative computations and in our communication with the family. I | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
would like to offer my sincere apologies to Mr and Mrs Turner for | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
the additional distress we have caused them in relation to Sean's | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
death. Sean's parents may join the calls of other families for a public | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
enquiry into what went on at this Children's Hospital. As part of | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
their grieving process. For the boy who loved life. Car production in | :14:37. | :14:51. | |
the UK has hit a six-year high. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Traders says more than1.5 million cars were made last year - that's | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
one every 20 seconds. Our industry correspondent John Moylan reports. | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
At Jaguar Land Rover's planned in Solihull, they have never been | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
busier. Demand is soaring around the world. The last two years was about | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
replacing the range Rover sport. We hired 2000 people. Going forward we | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
will be launching a new architecture, new Jaguar products on | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
the Solihull site. We will hire 1700 people this year and spend money | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
making it happen. Jaguar Land Rover is a genuine success story. Its | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
fortunes have been transformed over the past five years. It posted | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
global sales of almost 20%. It is part of the reason why in 2013, UK | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
car production grew by more than 3%. It means more than 1.5 million cars | :15:56. | :16:03. | |
were built in Britain. That is back at prerecession levels, the highest | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
volume since 2007. But there were losers. At Vauxhall's els near Port | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
plans, they build the Astra sport. Its biggest market is Germany but | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the weakness in that economy has hit sales. Production also fell at | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
Honda. What we are seeing in Europe is a gradual and slower recovery | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
from the recession. In 2013, the last three or four months saw an | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
increase in demand for new cars. If that continues the impact on UK | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
production will be positive as we will be exporting more cars into | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Europe as their economies recover. In Solihull, this success has given | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
local suppliers the confidence to expand, and with plans to hire 400 | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
new staff and with growth in the sector, there could be record levels | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
of car sales in 2014. Our top story this lunchtime: | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Patients in England are told they can't trust figures on hospital | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
waiting times - a health watchdog said they contain significant errors | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
and inconsistencies. And still to come: Jones has put it | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
over. More misery for Manchester United. They crash out of the | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
capital cup and slide down football's Rich list. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Later on BBC London: Surgeons at St Georges are offering patients with | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
deep vein thrombosis new hope. And we speak to Hollywood actress, | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
Angela Lansbury - returning to the London stage after nearly 40 years. | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
The coast of Wales being battered during the winter storms earlier | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
this month. The huge waves that crashed on shore didn't just damage | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
seaside resorts. A four-mile stretch of coastline near Tywyn in Cardigan | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Bay was so altered by the sea that it's been pushed back 50 feet. But | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
damage has brought with it some surprises. The new coastline has | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
revealed artefacts from World War II and even ancients forests with the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
remains of trees dating back 6,000 years. Richard Lister is in Tywyn. | :18:12. | :18:23. | |
This looks like the classic winter beach scene, complete with the | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
gales. But beneath those waves lie the newly exposed remnants of a | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
forest not seen for thousands of years and at low tide, all is | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
revealed. These days, the people of Tywyn are | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
waking up to a view that is different than what they are used | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
to. The winter storms has taken this part of the Welsh coast back to the | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Stone Age revealing a fossil forest with ancient stumps and fallen tree | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
trunks. Local archaeologists it is a rare opportunity to step back 6000 | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
years and examine the landscape walked up by the first people who | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
lived here. We can get a tiny fragments of ancient peat. But we | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
can see the spatial extent. We can see how big the tree stumps were. We | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
can see how they were spaced and get a clearer picture of what the | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
ancient landscape was like. Antlers from a red deer were also exposed, | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
more evidence of the forest that was here when the shoreline was miles | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
away. This photo taken last year shows how much has changed, creating | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
a new attraction. The beach has been as busy as some of the days in the | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
summer. Local schools ring me up if I can arrange the local tides so | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
they can bring the kids to see this. It is starting to cover over. Maybe | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
within a week or two it will be back to just sound like it was before. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
More recent history has been revealed like these tank tracks and | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
when it was a wartime training area, and these remnants of peat cutting | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
and possibly medieval fish traps. Nobody is sure, but now they are | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
visible. It would have been hard to know this sweep of beach was a dense | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
woodland as the ice age receded. But what the storms have revealed is it | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
has given new life to the slice of ancient Welsh history. What the C | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
Gibbs, it also takes away. It won't be too long before these historical | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
treasures buried again. Some of the forest that was visible | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
a few days ago has been covered in sand and other bits are being broken | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
of either porosity of the waves. If you do want to come and see what is | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
here, make it quick. An alleged victim of the veteran DJ, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Dave Lee Travis has told a court he pinned her up against a wall while | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
presenting his Radio 1 show and assaulted her when she was aged 17. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
He denies 13 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Our correspondent, Jon Brain was in court. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Tell us more about what was said first remark this woman said she had | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
met DLT on a couple of occasions and there had never been any problem. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
One afternoon she was near his studio when he was presenting his | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
programme. He invited her in to choose the next record. When she got | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
into the studio he turned the main light off and got her to dance with | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
him. She said his embrace was getting tighter until she realised | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
he had become aroused. She said she was horrified, was a virgin and | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
never been touched like this before. She tried to get out and pin her | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
against a wall and would not let her go, put his hand up her skirt. She | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
said she did not complain because DJs like Dave Lee Travis at that | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
time were considered demigods, it was all about audience ratings. | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Someone like I would never have had a complaint -- chants with a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
complaint like that. She only came forward when complaints against | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
Jimmy Savile came out. She said she went to the BBC then in 2012 and she | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
was told we not taking calls of that nature. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
Anti-government protestors who've been clashing with police in the | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
Ukrainian capital, Kiev, have agreed to hold a truce for a few hours | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
while talks take place between the president and opposition leaders. At | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
least two people have died in the violence which broke out on | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
least two people have died in the From Kiev, here's our correspondent | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Daniel Sandford. More fuel for the burning barricades | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
of Keir will stop what started as a pro-European union protest, has | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
become a revolutionary movements, trying to bring down the Ukrainian | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
government. Hidden behind this curtain of thick, black smoke from | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
the burning tyres, are rows of riot police guarding the hill that leads | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
up to Ukraine's national parliament. At times it resembles | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
medieval warfare with catapults. And priests fraying as the fires burn. | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
The conflict has casualties. This 17-year-old was captured by the | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
police and claims he was severely beaten as he walked through a long | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
tally of riot officers. He said he was stripped naked and cut with | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
knives. TRANSLATION: their eyes were shining | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
like drug addicts. They were enjoying beating me. They said it | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
was for their colleague who has been in a coma for nearly two months. On | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
the barricades, a group of men with fireworks stood ready like an | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
artillery battery. I asked what they were trying to achieve by the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
violence. TRANSLATION: domain name is the | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
liberation of the nation. As long as I have been alive we have always | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
been repressed. If we can get along with Europe, that is good. The use | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
of plastic bullets by the police has infuriated testers. Europe, please | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
get help us get rid of the President, this woman said. The | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
Ukrainian president said a compromise with the opposition is | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
possible. But he said what he called anti constitutional activity should | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
stop. Then, one of the opposition leaders, the former world boxing | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
champion, Vitali Klitschko managed to negotiate a truce at the front | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
line. Nobody knows how long that will hold. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Manchester United's miserable season got even worse last night, with a | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
penalty shoot-out defeat to Sunderland in the Capital Cup semi | :24:59. | :24:59. | |
final. And this morning - more bad news for | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
Man U as it dropped out of the top three in Deloitte's football rich | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
list for the first time. Now there are serious doubts as to whether | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
they'll get a Champions League spot. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss | :25:10. | :25:10. | |
reports. It was a night that summed up their | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
season. With a Wembley final at stake, Manchester United's nerve | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
crumbled inspect tacky love fashion. One of the worst penalty shoot outs | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
in memory. Handing Sunderland victory and United's critics another | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
field day. As Sir Alex Ferguson watched on, his successor could only | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
reflect on another grim results. We did not play that well. I we have | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
laid well in some games are not have the rewards. That is football. We | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
will get on with it. For The Reds, they have had a horrible case of the | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
January blues. First the FA Cup against Swansea, they lost that. | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
Then defeat to Chelsea effectively ended their Premier League hopes. | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
And now they will end the season trophy less. The only good news, the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
expected signing of Chelsea midfielder, Juan Mata ?437 million a | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
club record. The last minute they scored that goal and they could have | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
won, I just think Alex Ferguson going, they have gone down. | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
Shocking. Confidence is at an all-time low. They are missing a | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
whole midfield and defence. But their rivals are now catching them | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
off the pitch as well. For the first time ever they have dropped out of | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
the top three of Europe's biggest earning clubs. If they start failing | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
to qualify for the champions league, their problems could grow. | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
Problems on the pitch is only short-term, it is only if it goes | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
into a matter of months and years, then it might have an impact. | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
Greater Manchester Police revealed one supporter dialled 999 and mass | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
to speak to Sir Alex Ferguson. They pointed out that it wasn't an | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
emergency, but for Manchester United, the pain is for all to see. | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
For 900 years the choir at Canterbury Cathedral has been | :27:14. | :27:15. | |
male-only. But that tradition is about to change. This weekend the | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Cathedral's first girls' choir will perform at an Evensong service. Our | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
correspondent, John Maguire has been to see them rehearse for their big | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
debut. They have only been together since | :27:24. | :27:36. | |
November, but just listen to this. SINGING. | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
They are just two days away from making history. It is a good | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
opportunity. It is scary. Being the first girls in a quiet, big | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
expectations. The first time will be exciting, but quite a bit of | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
pressure. The male choir house to sing every day, the girls will not | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
have that level of commitment, but if they are in any doubt of their | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
responsibilities, look at this. They are being interviewed by the | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
international media, and that is before singing in public. It is only | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
20 years since the first women priests in the church of England and | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
so far, no female bishops, so are the voices of girls in the choir | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
stalls overdue? I think the sound we are producing with the boys and this | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
choir of girls, there will be different sounds. No doubt in the | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
future they will sing together, but we can achieve diversity of musical | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
sounds, which we have had already developing. The girls have only met | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
a few times, but their director believes they have made huge | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
progress. It was no surprise to find they sang very well together indeed. | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
Hopefully they will take gone a bit more in the Cathedral and possibly | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
away from the cathedral. Concerts, and going on tour and possibly | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
making a recording in the future. Who knows? | :29:08. | :29:18. | |
SINGING. Musically, this choir will provide a | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
new sound for Canterbury Cathedral when this particular group makes | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
history. No mean feat when you consider choral music here dates | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
back almost 1000 years. Now time for the weather. | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
Plenty of rain in the forecast. This in the Atlantic is heading our way. | :29:40. | :29:48. | |
We saw some rain earlier, but there is something brighter behind. So | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
there are spells of sunshine to be found, but equally, a scattering of | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
showers. The showers will be heavy in the north and the west of the | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
country. A few showers drifting through the Midlands and getting | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
towards London in the afternoon. Many places enjoying sunshine. | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
Temperatures peaking at eight or nine degrees. Into the second part | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
of the afternoon and evening, skies stay clear for longest across the | :30:17. | :30:22. | |
northern part of the UK. A risk of ice in Scotland. The further west, | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
we have cloud, wind and rain moving in. It turns temporarily to snow | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
across Scotland. Cold in the east by dawn. Temperatures down to freezing | :30:34. | :30:37. | |
or just below for towns and cities. Tomorrow will be about the rain. | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
Rainfall amounts are not huge but amber warnings have been issued for | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
Somerset Levels because of ongoing flood levels. The rain will be | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
heaviest in the south-west of the UK. The rain is showing its hand in | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
the London area at 8am. In East Anglia it is cold and dry. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
Elsewhere, there is a fair bit of rain around. Actual rainfall amounts | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
will not be huge, a little bit of snow across Scotland. Rainfall will | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
be not huge, but it will be dull and down. Rain always heaviest in the | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
South and West, but with the wind in the north of the UK it will feel | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
cold. Some of us will get it towards the double figure mark, but for most | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
it is only four, five or possibly six degrees. The rain is gone by | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
Saturday morning. So for the southern half of the UK it is a | :31:34. | :31:39. | |
reasonable start. But for the North, bands of rain sweeping south. The | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
rain clears away to the south-east through the evening and then it | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
turns cold to start on Sunday. But low pressure is heading our way. It | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
will be windy, gales or severe gales and we | :31:55. | :31:55. |