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calls for calm. At least 25 people have been killed in the past 24 | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
hours in the capital Kiev - and the violence has spread to other towns | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
and cities. We'll have the latest from Kiev. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Also this lunchtime: The News of the World hacking trial hears how Tony | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Blair advised former editor Rebekah Brooks how to handle the developing | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
scandal - just days before her arrest. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Unemployment falls again - this time by 125,000 - as average wages | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
continue to rise. French police seize weapons from the | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
home of a man arrested in connection with the murders of a British family | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
in the Alps. And drama in Sochi as Britain's | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
women curlers take on the favourites, Canada, in the | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
semifinal. Later on BBC London: A coroner urges | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the Government to take action on web safety after a teenager took her own | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
life. And anything but normal - as flood | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
waters continue to drop in Surrey, some families return home. | :01:04. | :01:24. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The smoke is still | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
rising from Independence Square in the Ukranian capital, Kiev, as | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
violent clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
continue. At least 25 people were killed and hundreds more injured | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
were injured yesterday as the police tried to clear the square. The | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, has blamed opposition | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
leaders for the latest fighting - and accused the protestors of having | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
crossed the line. Violence has spread from the capital to other | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
towns and cities. Our correspondent Duncan Crawford has the latest from | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
Kiev: The bloodiest 24 hours since Ukraine | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
deigned independence from the Soviet Union. Protesters threw fireworks | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
and petrol bombs at police in Independence Square. They responded | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
with rubber bullets and stun grenades. What has been the focal | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
point of largely peaceful demonstrations the weeks became a | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
battle zone. An armoured vehicle burst into flames as fires raged | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
amid the chaos. The clashes went on for hours with both sides claiming | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
the other used to live ammunition. TRANSLATION: There is no justice | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
here. Today's government, protecting itself using force, must serve its | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
people and not the oligarchs. This is the last war. This is the last | :02:50. | :02:59. | |
chance for us. If not, everything will be broken. The death toll has | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
continued to rise, with protesters and police killed in the violence. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Hundreds have been injured. President Yanukovych firmly blamed | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
the opposition for what has happened. TRANSLATION: I am again | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
calling for opposition leaders, who claim to want a peaceful resolution, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
to immediately separate themselves from the radical forces that promote | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
bloodshed is and clashes with security services. Overnight talks | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
between the president and opposition leaders failed to reach a deal. The | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Occidental politician, called for compromise. -- Vitali Klitschko, the | :03:39. | :03:48. | |
boxer turned politician, called for compromise. The protests began three | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
months ago after President Yanukovych rejected a trade deal | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. Since then, the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
protests have developed into a direct challenge to the government. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Sporadic clashes are still taking place. The situation is extremely | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
tense. This whole area had been under the control of the protest is | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
but they don't control it any more. -- the protesters. The protests have | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
spread to other regions of the country. In this western city, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
protesters seized government buildings. The Pope has called for | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
an end to the violence, which Russia has blamed on the opposition. EU | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
leaders are set to discuss possible sanctions against the government. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Ukraine is increasingly polarised. Today the violence continued. It | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
isn't clear what, if anything, can calmly under on the streets. | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
Duncan is in Kiev for us now. As the violence continues, the protests | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
spread. It's difficult to see how this is going to end. Very difficult | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
indeed. No sign of a resolution at the moment. Opposition leaders met | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
with President Yanukovych overnight but no deal was made. Because of the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
anger and distrust on both sides, it's really hard to see how they | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
will be able to reach a compromise. The protest is' core demand remains | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
for President Yanukovych to stand down. They blame him and the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
government for the violence on the streets. There is no sign that the | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
president will quit. The government blamed the violence on the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
protesters themselves, who they claim are articles. There have been | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
more clashes in the last few minutes in Independence Square with | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
protesters throwing stones and petrol bombs at the riot police. The | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
riot police responded with water cannons and stun grenades. Outside | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
this central square, Kiev is largely going along as normal. The city is | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
functioning but the Metro is not running. It has been shut down. Some | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
of the roads leading into the city have roadblocks where police are | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
stopping cars trying to come into the city and checking them. So the | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
situation is still tense and there is a very real prospect of more | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
violence over the next 24 hours. Our Europe correspondent Matthew Price | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
is in Brussels. There is talk of sanctions from the EU. Indeed. The | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
EU has felt it has been heavily involved in trying to bring about a | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
resolution to this crisis over the last few months. It has had the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
manse and senior officials shuttling back and forth between European | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
capitals and Kiev, yet to no effect. The deaths of the last 24 hours have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
galvanised opinion certainly among some of the member states of the | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
European Union. France, Poland and Sweden among others are calling for | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
sanctions to be targeted and put in place at an emergency meeting of EU | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Foreign Minister is here in Brussels tomorrow, which will include | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague. They say the sanctions should | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
be targeted against individuals who are deemed to have been complicit in | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
provoking this violence. But it is clear though is a Sanchez would have | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
to be put in place against, for example, President Yanukovych, his | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
inner circle and members of the government. It would be very hard to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
put in place sanctions against the ragtag band of Howard Clark -- | :07:36. | :07:47. | |
hard-core opposition rebels. As countries like Belarus and Zimbabwe | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
show, you can have sanctions in place for many years and it doesn't | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
have an impact on the ruling elite. Secondly, if sanctions are imposed, | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
there will be many people in Ukraine who then say, "Right, that's it. | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
Brussels is no longer a neutral observer but is picking sides", | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
which will make it very difficult for the EU to maintain the sort of | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
lines of communication it believes it needs with President | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Yanukovych's government. There's much more on this story on | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
our website, of course. Go to bbc.co.uk/news for all the latest | :08:23. | :08:31. | |
developments. The number of people out of work in | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
the UK has fallen again. Figures for the last three months of 2013 show | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
that the jobless total fell by 125,000 to 2.34 million. The number | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
claiming job-seeker's allowance fell for the 15th month in a row. And | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
those in work appear to be earning more - average wages were up by just | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
over 1%. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, has the | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
details. It is a brighter picture in the jobs | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
market. Economic growth means more work, including here, where the | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
holiday business CenterParcs is building a new site. That's created | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
openings for 1500 staff. They've had 11,000 applications. It's looking | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
like 40% of these jobs will be filled by young people, 16 to 24. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
They are people coming out of college, out of school, even off the | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
unemployment register. Youth unemployment nationally has fallen | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
and the young recruits here are glad of the opportunity of permanent | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
work. I've found getting a full-time job very difficult. I was looking | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
everywhere - newspapers, online - struggling to find anything. It was | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
quite a relief when I found CenterParcs. Ministers were quick to | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
welcome the news that the jobless total in the economy was falling. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Our economic plan is working. We have more people in work in this | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
country than ever before. The worst thing for the country would be to | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
step away from the plan that has got us this novel stop we need to keep | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
working very, very hard to make sure that the economy continues to gather | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
strength. Labour said the news was welcome but said there was still a | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
long way to go to tackle youth unemployment. There are still one in | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
five young people out of work, which is a huge waste of talent and a huge | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
waste of taxpayer and the wider economy because we're paying out | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
money in benefits and not getting the tax revenue they would be paying | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
in jobs. We've learned more today about what people in work are being | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
paid at a time of intense debate about the squeeze on household | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
budgets. Figures show average pay rises across the economy have picked | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
up a bit. The figures showed the inflation rate had fallen to 1.9%. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Wage growth, excluding bonuses, has moved up to 1%. But while public | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
sector workers were just 0.2% higher, there was a 1.5% increase in | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
the private sector. So still a little way to go for workers' wages | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
to catch up with price-wise is -- price rises and in some parts of the | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
UK, including Northern Ireland, there was a slight increase. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
Our chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, is at Westminster. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Good news for the government. On the face of it, these figures are manna | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
from heaven for ministers if it were not for this. Time. The timing of | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
this recovery is absolutely critical. How fast does it better | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
in? There's no doubt it's taking place. You look at the employment | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
figures - all good news. Unemployment down, youth | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
unemployment down, more people in full-time work, more women in work. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
The question is, how soon can people feel better off and, critically, how | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
soon does their pay catch up with, and overtake, prices? Prices are | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
coming down, pay is gradually inching up. The government wants | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
them to cross over well ahead of the next election so they can try and | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
engender a feel-good factor. Labour say it won't make a blind bit of | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
difference and people will still be ?600 worse off by the next election | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
but, for ministers, it's not just the fact a recovery is taking place | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
- what is absolutely vital is the pace and the timing of the recovery. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
The jury in the phone-hacking trial has heard that Tony Blair gave | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
advice to Rebekah Brooks six days before her arrest about how to | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
handle the developing scandal. -- Tony Blair allegedly gave advice. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
The former Chief Executive of News International is one of seven | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
defendants on trial and faces three charges, including conspiracy to | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
hack phones. She denies all the charges against her. Our home | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
affairs correspondent Matt Prodger is at the Old Bailey. Tell us more | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
about this e-mail. This came on the final day of the | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
prosecution case. We're at the halfway point in the trial and | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
evidence of advice given by former Prime Minister Tony Blair to Rebekah | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Brooks today. Sometime after Miss Brooks arrived at court today, the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
jury was presented with an e-mail thread between herself and her then | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
boss James Murdoch, sun of Rupert Murdoch. In one of those e-mails she | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
says, "I had an hour on the phone to Tony Blair. " | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
You may remember that the Hutton report was the official inquiry into | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
the death of the government scientist David Kelly and it | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
exonerated Tony Blair and other officials of involvement in the | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
so-called dodgy dossier of evidence about Iraq's weapons of mass | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
structure. In the e-mail chain, Rebekah Brooks went on to say... | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
KR M is Rupert Murdoch. This e-mail chain was in July 2011 at the height | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
of the media storm over allegations of phone hacking. It was sent just | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
after the News of the World had closed and just a few days before | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
Rebekah Brooks resigned and then was arrested. Her defence case is | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
expected to begin tomorrow. She denies charges including conspiracy | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
to hack voice mails, conspiracy to bribe public officials and | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
conspiracy to perverting the course of justice. | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
The parents of a six-day old baby girl thought to have been killed by | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
the family dog so they will cherish the little time they had with her. | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
The family have released this photograph of the baby, who died | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
yesterday, and said losing her like this had cast the most horrible | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
shadow over all of them. Police have yet to confirm the cause of her | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
death. French police say they have seized a | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
number of weapons at the home of a man arrested yesterday in connection | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
with the murder of a British family in the French Alps. He's believed to | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
be a former policeman. Saad al-Hilli was shot dead along with his wife | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
and mother in-law near Annecy in September 2012. A French cyclist was | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
also killed. Our correspondent Imogen Foulkes is in Annecy. As you | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
have said, it has been confirmed that it was a former policeman who | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
has been arrested. His mobile phone putting close to the murder scene at | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
the time the crime was committed. But whether his arrest will lead to | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
charges being brought, or whether it is just for questioning, the police | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
press conference is still going on and we are waiting to find out. It | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
is a deeply mysterious case which has baffled investigators across | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
Europe. A family gunned down in broad daylight in a popular tourist | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
spot. The two young daughters survived, but have been unable to | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
tell the police anything. A year and a half has gone by, and the | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
investigation has made little progress since the date Saad | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
al-Hilli, his wife, his mother-in-law and a passing cyclist | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
were shot dead. Police focused on a bitter row between Saad al-Hilli and | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
his brother, who was arrested and later bailed over money. Zaid has | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
always denied involvement in his death. Then, this week, | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
breakthrough. Based on this artist's impression of a | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
motorcyclist seen fleeing the scene, French police have arrested a | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
local man, aged 48, believed to be a former policeman and gun enthusiast, | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
his house has been searched and weapons confiscated. French police | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
are pointing out that this arrest is not necessarily mean charges will be | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
brought. Under French law, the arrest was necessary to question the | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
suspect. The police have also indicated that more arrests might be | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
expected. One big question about the investigation remains, have the | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
police now ruled out that key earlier line of enquiry, the dispute | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
between the brothers over money. Some very interesting details coming | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
out of that press conference. While we have been on air, in fact. One | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
thing that the police are stressing right at the start is the | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
presumption of innocence and they have said that this case has not | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
been cleared up yet. They have confirmed that they found a number | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
of weapons at the home of the man who has been arrested, but they did | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
not find the gun used to commit the crime. So I think, and the press | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
conferences door going on, there will be more details to follow and | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
we will keep you updated, but the moment this mystery not subject -- | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
and the press conference is still going on. The time is 1:18pm. Our | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
top story this lunchtime: There are global calls for calm as at least 26 | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
people are killed in violent clashes between police and anti-government | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
protestors in Ukraine. Hundreds more were injured. And still to come: | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
Prince Charles shows off some potentially dangerous dance moves in | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
Saudi Arabia. Later on BBC London: accused of financial mismanagement, | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
the Luton College who claimed more than ?1 million the students they | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
couldn't prove they had. And we speak to London Grammar, who | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
are crossing their fingers ahead of tonight's BRIT Awards. | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
For the past 47 days, the village of Hambledon in Hampshire has been | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
under water. The heavy rain in recent weeks led to serious ground | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
water flooding and the village has been virtually cut off. River levels | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
may be slowly falling but the Environment Agency says ground water | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
flooding remains a concern particularly in Berkshire, | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and parts of London. And ground water | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
flooding could continue to cause problems for weeks. Duncan Kennedy | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
is in Hambledon. Sophie, the 4th of January is a day | :19:09. | :19:20. | |
they went to get around these parts any time soon, because it was the | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
day these waters came, and as you say, they have not disappeared | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
since. 47 days of this. In all of these homes and streets, and it | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
hasn't gone away since. In many ways, it's not like the other | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
flooding we have covered in the past few weeks. It's not the rivers | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
coming over banks, this is ground water, coming up from underneath | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
because the chalk below this is saturated and it has nowhere to go. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
And you know what, it's just as devastating. Pumps, pumps, pumps. | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
Hambledon has become the home of pumps in the scramble to drain this | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
water. They are everywhere as it spews up from the ground. The chalk | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
below their feet is unable to absorb any more. We have a phone cable runs | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
out here. At Clint's home there is a cellar design to take it but it's | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
already brimming over. That is the water table. It is coming in the | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
same rate as we are pumping it out. The main street has been gushing | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
like this now for 47 days. The water cannot drain away. Down the road is | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
Ina Cleves, 102 years old, born in this very house, and now also seeing | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
the waters rise. Do you ever think you might move out to escape the | :20:40. | :20:52. | |
floods? No. I just go upstairs. -- Elna Cleeves. I go upstairs when I | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
want to go out. The village has its own control centre run by the | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
residents. They know that the ground here is acting like a sponge. When a | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
sponge is saturated and takes no more water, it flows into the | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
village, so all the roads in the village are currently rivers. And | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
currently no end in sight? None at all. The Prime Minister today | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
visited flood areas of Wales and alarmist -- promised flood victims | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
would be exempt from council tax. What people want to know is that | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
there is a vast national effort, and at the heart is the British | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
government bringing together all of our natural resources, which is why | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
we have the biggest pumping exercise happening in Somerset, that's why we | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
brought the military to bear with thousands of troops helping out in | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
our communities. Back in Hambledon they are proud to be known as the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
cradle of cricket. It's been in the village since the 1750s. But rain | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
really has stopped play on a community wicket that is beyond | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
sticky. As you can see, there's still plenty of it running through | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
the streets of Hambledon. It's going to be here for weeks to come because | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
it has nowhere else to go. And although David Cameron is promising | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
council taxpayers there will be relief for those in flooded homes, | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
people in these parts are saying they need investment, in a big pipe | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
that will take the ground water away. But they tell us they don't | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
expect the government to cough up the ?3 million they need here any | :22:24. | :22:24. | |
time soon. The High Court has rejected a claim | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
by David Miranda, the partner of a former Guardian journalist, that he | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
was detained unlawfully when he was held for nine hours at Heathrow | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Airport. Mr Miranda had been carrying documents leaked by the US | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, when he was questioned | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
under anti-terrorist laws in August last year. Our Home Affairs | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
Correspondent June Kelly reports. David Miranda, arriving back home in | :22:45. | :22:56. | |
Brazil last summer, after a stopover in London where he was detained | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
under terrorism legislation and had his laptop and other electronic kit | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
confiscated. The sensitive material he was carrying was destined for his | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
partner, the journalist, Glenn Greenwald. At the root of the case | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
is a row over precious freedom and secretive tactics of the NSA, and | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
its British counterpart, GCHQ. The former NSA contractor Edward Snowden | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
had leaked thousands of confidential files to Glenn who was working for | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
the Guardian. So when his partner David Aranda came through Heathrow, | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
with it, it is said, 58,000 secret documents, the police used terrorism | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
powers to stop him -- David Miranda. He challenged the detention | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
saying it was unlawful, but today the court came down in favour of the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
government and the police. We believe he was carrying highly | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
classified documents. Of those had reached the public domain, we | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
believe it would have been very damaging to national security, and | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
indeed that people 's lives will be put in danger. Today's court ruling | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
said the case involved the striking a balance between two aspects of the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
public interest: Press freedom itself on one hand, and on the | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
other, whatever is sort to justify the interference: Here, national | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
security. On the facts of this case, the balance is plainly in the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
favour of the latter. Last summer, as the Guardian began publishing | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
details of the leaked intelligence documents, the paper described how | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
it had come under government pressure to hand them over. Soon | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
after, the police moved in on David Miranda. We understand, anecdotally, | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
the journalists are changing travel plans to avoid UK airports and | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
ports. Their sources, their material, and the confidential way | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
in which they operate is potentially at grave risk. A sentiment echoed in | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
a statement from David Miranda himself, who said he would be | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
appealing against today's court ruling. | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
Prince Charles has been showing off his dancing skills while on a tour | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
of the Middle East. He joined members of Saudi Arabia's royal | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
family in a traditional sword dance as part of a festival of culture in | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Riyadh. Jon Brain reports. The things one has to do for mother and | :25:22. | :25:22. | |
country. Yes, this is the heir to the throne, | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
throwing some shapes on an unfamiliar dance floor. Dressed in | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
traditional robes, Prince Charles joined members of the Saudi royal | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
family for the sword dance. They appreciated his efforts. | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
The dance features hundreds of men and boys dancing and singing in | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
formation. This one in Riyadh was to celebrate all aspects of the Saudi | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
life. The Princes on his 10th visit to Saudi Arabia, and officials said | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
he is here to discuss the need for reconciliation in the region. Next | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
stop, cater -- Qatar, and whether he will be expected to strut his stuff | :26:16. | :26:16. | |
there is undisclosed. To the Winter Olympics now, and both | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
of Great Britain's curling teams are in action today in the semi final | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
stages in Sochi. The men play Sweden this afternoon looking to book a | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
place in the final and guarantee themselves a medal. Meanwhile | :26:30. | :26:31. | |
Britain's women's team took on an unbeaten Canada. Andy Swiss is there | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
for us now. Such high hopes for Britain's | :26:34. | :26:45. | |
curlers today, both the men and women teams in action today, both | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
hoping for a place in the Olympic final, but as far as Britain's women | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
are concerned, it's already been a story of disappointment. It was a | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
day a touch of Scotland came to Sochi. A bagpipe welcome for the | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
British bands as they arrived to cheer on their curlers. Two Olympic | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
finals in time to lighting -- tantalising reach. They have been | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
one of the top teams for years now, so play to form, and they are there. | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
My mates have taken sick yesterday, even my brother who doesn't like | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
curling was up screaming his head off. First, the women's team, there | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
form has been patchy, and in Sochi they faced the team of the | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
tournament with nine victories out of nine. The early signs were not | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
encouraging as Canada raced into an early lead. That's not the start | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
Great Britain wanted or needed. They had to find their focus, and they | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
did. Captain Eve Muirhead led the players to the world title last year | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
and began showing why. But at the halfway stage, her team still | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
trailed 4-3. It was nerve shredding stuff. But Eve Muirhead once again | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
kept her cool, and with one end remaining, Britain were just one | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
point behind. Could they pull off an unlikely comeback? Well, they clung | :28:08. | :28:15. | |
on to Canada's tale, but with the finals -- final stone of the match, | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
Canadian captain Jennifer Jones ended Britain's hopes of Olympic | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
glory. After such a battle, such disappointment. Britain will face a | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
play-off for a bronze medal tomorrow, but their dreams of gold | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
have now been dashed. Yes, an agonising defeat for Britain's | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
women. The men will hope for rather better when they play their | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
semifinal against Sweden, and that gets underway at 3pm your time. | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
Let's look at the weather. We could do with some more days like | :28:45. | :28:54. | |
today, fine, settled and dry. Here is the satellite picture, lots of | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
holes appearing in the cloud, so good-looking afternoon the many | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
areas. Still patchy cloud around, big enough for the odd spot of | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
drizzle. Not completely dry, but sunny spells and light winds. This | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
is the picture through the rest of the afternoon, lots of sunshine, | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
patchy, light rain or drizzle. Over the higher ground, and that's | :29:19. | :29:20. | |
certainly the case over Scotland, but plenty of Scotland around | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
north-eastern areas. It looks like the Highlands and the centre of | :29:26. | :29:28. | |
Stirlingshire and Perthshire are seeing spits and spots of light | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
rain. A fine looking rain in Northern Ireland. A good-looking | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
afternoon for much of England and Wales, the cloud is a bit thicker | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
across Wales and the south-west of England as we head into the later | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
part of the afternoon. Outbreaks of rain becoming more extensive heading | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
towards the evening. The reason for it, if we look out across the | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
Atlantic, an area of low pressure anchored close to Iceland will be | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
throwing its weather front across the UK as we head through the course | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
of the evening and overnight. Quite a change happening as we head into | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
the evening. A nice end to the day through the centre and the east, but | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
things turned heavy across the West as the rain comes in the south-west, | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
then widespread strong winds, perhaps gale force across the | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
south-west corner and some heavy rainfall in the likes of western | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
Scotland. The temperatures, with all the cloud, it will be a very mild | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
night at the time of year. Going into Thursday morning on a wild | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
note, pretty wet and windy. Outbreaks of rain continuing to push | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
out into the North Sea, then that follows a rash of showers but also | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
sunny spells for Thursday afternoon. The heaviest and most | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
frequent are across the North and the West, but the best is in the | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
central and eastern areas. Into Friday, it looks like being a day of | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
sunshine and showers, and nice start across central and eastern areas was | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
not most of the showers in the West and a bit cooler, so some showers | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
will have a wintry flavour in the north and the West. Into the | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
weekend, some uncertainty, but it looks like Saturday is a fine and | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
relatively dry day, the best of the sunshine in the East. Sunday, | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
starting to turn windy with rain pushing into the West. Some of the | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
rain might be slow-moving, so we could see quite a lot of rainfall in | :31:16. | :31:16. | |
a short space of time. Now a reminder of our top story this | :31:17. | :31:25. | |
lunchtime: there are calls for calm as at least 26 people are killed in | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
violent clashes between police and anti-government | :31:30. | :31:30. |