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Minister accuses Russian naval forces of occupying Sevastopol | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
airport in the autonomous region of Crimea. Here in Balaklava, a Russian | :00:16. | :00:33. | |
frigate today blocks the entrance to this strategically important | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
harbour. But whose orders is it acting on? We'll have all the latest | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
on the developing crisis in the Ukraine. Also this lunchtime... The | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Big Six energy companies are told to hand back ?400 million to households | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
after an investigation by the industry watchdog. Last year's | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
badger culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset were ineffective and | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
inhumane, according to an independent scientific assessment. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Globally-co-ordinated police raids - including here in the UK - against | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
the so-called boiler room gangs. The Northern Lights go south, as | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
spectacular illuminations light up the night sky far south as Essex and | :01:11. | :01:19. | |
Gloucestershire. Later on BBC London, a High Court judge rules the | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
Met failed the victims of this serial rapist. And the Tube unions | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
claim the new trains are unsafe. Tensions are running high in the | :01:33. | :01:46. | |
Ukraine's Crimea region, where armed men have seized one airport, and | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
taken over the control tower of another. Russia has denied | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
involvement, but the interim Ukrainian government has accused | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Moscow of invading the largely pro-Russian territory. Unconfirmed | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
reports on Ukrainian media say Russian military helicopters have | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
landed in Sevastapol, and that a Russian naval vessel has blocked the | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
entrance to the city's Balaklava Bay. Our correspondent Duncan | :02:11. | :02:25. | |
Crawford sent this report from Kiev. The main international airport in | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
Crimea is under the control of heavily armed men. They are | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
undoubtedly pro-Russian, but are they operating independently, or | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
under the guidance of the Kremlin? They moved in last night. The men | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
have not spoken about their plans, but the passenger terminal is still | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
open. This man says they are guarding against pro-Western forces, | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
aligned to the new government in Kiev. | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
TRANSLATION: Radicalism and fascism are not welcome here. This is our | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
slogan, and we do not want radicals from Ukraine or other regions, and | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
other countries, to visit us in Crimea. On a road leading to a | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
second airport, a military one, in Sevastopol, there are also armed | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
men. The new Interior Minister of Ukraine claims these forces are from | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
the Russian Navy, saying they are part of an armed invasion. Russia's | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
Black Sea Fleet is based nearby, but denies Russian servicemen are | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
involved. Russian speaking Crimea has been part of Ukraine for 60 | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
years, under a memorandum signed in 1994, Russia, the US, France and the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
UK agreed to uphold the territorial integrity of Ukraine. In Kiev, the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
parliament appealed to the West to protect that agreement. Emergency | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
meetings are taking place to determine how to respond. The new | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
government here has only been in power for 24 hours, yet they could | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
already be facing a counter revolution. The parliament here has | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
called on the UN Security Council to discuss the situation in Crimea, a | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
situation which threatens to spiral out of control. Many MPs are in no | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
doubt who is responsible. TRANSLATION: It is a provocation | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
against Ukraine by Russian special forces. It is a total violation of | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the laws governing the presence of foreign forces on Ukrainian | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
territory. Relations between Russia and Ukraine | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
have got worse ever since Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
ousted from power. But overnight, Russian President Vladimir Putin | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
talked about financial support for Russia's partners in Kiev. It is | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
unclear where the Kremlin really stands, or whether this really is | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
the start of a military takeover. Let's talk to our diplomatic | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
correspondent Bridget Kendall, who is in Moscow. -- Christian Fraser. I | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
wonder if you could just take us through the things you have seen | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
this morning? Yes, it has been a very fast developing situation. We | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
have seen roadblocks on the way from Simferopol to Sevastopol last | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
night, a significant roadblocks, stopping any traffic on the road. | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
This morning we went up to Sevastopol airport, and the main | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
approach has been blocked by two military vehicles, personnel | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
carriers. The men that are there are heavily armed, with powerful assault | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
rifles, but there is no insignia on the uniforms they are wearing. And | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
they are refusing to answer questions. They are also being | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
supported by what I suppose you could say is a civil defence force. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Just around this rather pretty headlined is a Russian frigate, not | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
entirely surprising, given that the Black Sea Fleet is stationed in | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Sevastopol, but is unusual to see a frigate manoeuvring backwards and | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
forwards in the bay, seemingly blocking the entrance to this | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
strategically important harbour, while under the watchful eye of the | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
coastguard. When you put it in context, particularly with a report | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
from one of our Russian colleagues that 23 Miller call vehicles -- 23 | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
military vehicles are en route to Sevastopol this afternoon, it does | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
look threatening. It looks such a screen setting, but I wonder whether | :06:29. | :06:42. | |
it feels tense? The planes on the runway belong to the Ukrainian | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
defence force, and yet, it does not seem as if they have very much power | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
over control over what is happening. So, they could do it one of two | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
ways. They could do it softly, softly, or they could come in here | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
hard, which could antagonise the situation. That dilemma I think is | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
reflected in the people that come to talk to us here. There are some who | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
come and give us these stickers, which are pro-Russian, this is the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
emblem of the Black Sea Fleet, the flag which is flying over the | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
frigate out in the bay. And there are others, one man who has just | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
come here, swearing and cursing and spitting on the floor when he | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
referred to Russia. So, there are splits in society. It is a | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
precarious situation at the moment. Bridget Kendall is monitoring events | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
for us in Moscow. I wonder what the Russians are saying about events | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
which are unfolding. The government is keeping its distance, it is not | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
commenting here in Moscow. President Putin had a meeting with | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
parliamentarians today, and his spokesman said Ukraine would not | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
even be top of the agenda, although it may come up. But in the media and | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
in comment, people are looking at the events in the Crimea and | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
describing them as spontaneous. The response of Russian speaking locals | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
to a government in Kiev which they feel is threatened. The Russian | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
government certainly endorses that. There is a new statement from the | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Russian Foreign Ministry today, from Sergei Lavrov, complaining to the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Europeans about the rise of nationalist and neofascist sentiment | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
in Western Ukraine. But at the same time, Moscow has not quite made it | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
clear what its attitude is towards the new government in Kiev. But it | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
has given sanctuary to the ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, who is | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
supposed to be giving a press conference soon. And a very senior | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
MP from Russia Justice morning raised the question of whether the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
deposing of Mr Yanukovych in Ukraine had been legal, and whether the | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
government and Parliament in Kiev could be considered legitimate. So, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
it could be that Moscow is hardening its stance just that of course would | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
have enormous indications for Russia's relations with the West. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
For more information on why Crimea has become such a focal point of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
this crisis, you can go to our website, where you'll find special | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
reports and analyis on Ukraine - that's at bbc.co.uk/ukraine. | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
The Big Six energy firms have been told to hand back more than ?400 | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
million owed to customers. Credit left in customer accounts when | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
people move or switch suppliers has accumulated over the last six years, | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
and millions of households are thought to be affected. Ofgem says | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
the amount is "unacceptably large". Our industry correspondent John | :09:33. | :09:33. | |
Moylan reports. When this pensioner moved house five | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
months ago, his energies apply told him that he was in credit to the | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
tune of ?1600. But he still has not received that cash, despite having | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
contact with the firm many times. They are very good at taking money | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
out of your account, so they should be just as good at putting it back. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
But I am not holding my breath. According to the regulator, the big | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
suppliers have accumulated more than ?400 million of customers' cash over | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
the past six years. It is thought that as many as 3.5 million | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
households may be out of pocket, as well as around 300,000 businesses. | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
This is a BCS issue which Ofgem has uncovered, and we are expecting the | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
company to do more to engage consumers to tell them what they | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
need to do to try and prevent this problem, to do more to try and | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
tackle the large sum of money which has been built up, so that it goes | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
back to individual consumers to whom it is old, and if that is not | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
possible, to track them down, to make sure that it benefits consumers | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
in general. This is all the more important because there has been a | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
big rise in the number of households switching supplier in recent months. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
The advice is to take a final metre reading and send it into your | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
supplier before you switch accounts. Ask if you are in credit, and if you | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
are, get them to send you the money back. The firms insist they do what | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
they can to attract customers down just many do not leave a forwarding | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
address, others leave big debts. We want to give this cash back to the | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
customer. At the same time, bad debts are four or five times that | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
amount. So, fall or five times ?400 million is an awful lot of money, | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
where people have gone away and left a bad debt and we cannot find them. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
But today, consumer groups called this latest revelation shocking and | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
appalling. The reputation of the big six suppliers has taken another | :11:34. | :11:34. | |
blow. Two women who were sexually | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
assaulted by a London cab driver have won a case at the High Court | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
which could allow them to claim compensation from the Metropolitan | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Police. The women were attacked by John Worboys, who was jailed for | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
life in 2009 for a series of attacks. The women claimed the | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
police's investigation into Worboys was "flawed at the most fundamental | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
level". Badger culls aimed at preventing the | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
spread of TB in cattle were ineffective and inhumane, according | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
to an independent report. The Government's official assessment | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
found that fewer than half of the animals were killed in West Somerset | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
and Gloucestershire. Some took more than five minutes to die. Our | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports. It is a toxic combination. | :12:16. | :12:28. | |
Concerns that badgers pass on TB to cattle, who then have to be | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
slaughtered. It has prompted a call to allow Marques meant to shoot | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
badgers pass on TB to cattle, who then have to be slaughtered. It has | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
prompted a call to allow Marques meant to shoot badges in two | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
organised culls, in parts of Somerset and Gloucestershire. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
Earlier research had shown that the spread of TB in cattle might only be | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
reduced if around 70% of the badgers were killed within a six-week | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
period. Now, the Government's official assessment of the culls has | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
shown that just under 50% of the badgers in each area were killed. It | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
also found that more than 5% of the badgers killed took more than five | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
minutes to die, contravening the government target for humaneness. | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Professor Woodruff is among a number of experts who warned that it would | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
be difficult to kill so many badgers in such a short space of time. These | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
culls have not killed enough badgers, have not done it fast | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
enough. The benefits will therefore not be as great as were found in a | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
previous trial, and there is a serious risk that they may have | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
increased TB in cattle, rather than decreasing it. Farming groups say | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
that culling is an important tool in eradicating TB from cattle, and they | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
say the purpose of the pilot culls was to learn lessons for the future. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
There is room for improvement and we shall have to look at what has | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
happened and try to devise a better strategy to achieve the targets. I | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
do not think it is in doubt, though, that we have to try and address the | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
infection level in the badger population. The Government is likely | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
to continue with its plans to roll out more culls this year. But | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
today's scientific assessment has raised questions about the | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
effectiveness of the policy. The British veterinary Association has | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
said that it raises serious concerns about its humaneness, and may even | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
withdraw its support for a wider roll-out of the culls. Our top story | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
- tensions are running high in the Ukraine. There are reports that | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Russia has moved its tanks to within ten miles of the border. It says it | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
is just a military exercise. Still to come - lighting up the night sky. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Clear skies have revealed a spectacular display of the aurora | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
borealis. Later on BBC London - after last nights flooding on | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
Clapham Road, now, repairs begin. A burst water pipe is to blame. And | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
serving the First World War effort at home, the story of how the women | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
in a Covent Garden hospital started saving lives. | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
It's being described as the biggest ever crackdown on criminal gangs. | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
City of London Police and agencies worldwide have carried out a series | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
of raids on gangs, who trick people to invest in worthless or | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
nonexistent stocks and shares. 110 people have been arrested - 20 of | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
them in the UK - as part of an international investigation against | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
so-called boiler room scams. This report from Robert Hall does contain | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
some flashing images. On a quiet street in the centre of Barcelona, | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Spain 's elite serious crimes unit target a scan which has ruined | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
thousands of lives and cost victims millions of pounds. This team is | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
working with colleagues from the city of London 's financial crimes | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
unit. The office block is the base for what they believe is a boiler | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
room and the raid is one fragment of an operation which extends across | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
Europe and beyond. There are further arrests taking place. It is the | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
biggest deployment it has ever made in pursuit of the fraud | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
investigation. Boiler room scams involve individuals cold calling and | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
using high-pressure sales techniques to persuade victims to buy into | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
bogus investments. Most never see their money again. The cold calls | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
cost this pensioner more than ?20,000. I received a call from a | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
very enthusiastic young man, who excited me. I was thinking about | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
investing and he was talking about carbon credits, which I had not | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
heard about. He sent me loads of literature and told me a lot of | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
stuff about it. He was very knowledgeable. I foolishly trusted | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
him. I did borrow money out of my house. The city of London force has | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
played a major part in this crackdown. The aim is to decimate | :17:13. | :17:24. | |
boiler room fraud. The photos taken by their officers show evidence that | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
the men who run the scams are living well on their victims losses. Luxury | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
cars, personal possessions and cash have been seized. This is a crime | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
that ignores global boundaries, it ignores global borders and operates | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
right across the world. We are able to do that as well. In Barcelona, | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
five people were taken away to join more than 90 others arrested in the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
simultaneous raids. This scan has not been eradicated but this | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
operation will offer reassurance to victims and severely damage the | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
ability of the boiler rooms to operate. Members of the UK | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
Independence Party are gathering in Torquay for their spring conference. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
UKIP's leader Nigel Farage will tell activists that the party poses the | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
biggest threat to the political establishment that has been seen in | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
modern times. The next big challenges for UKIP are the local | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
and European Parliament elections in May. Our political correspondent, | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Robin Brant, is there. In the battle for your votes in those elections in | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
May, UKIP reckon they are in with a really good shout. A few months | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
ago, Nigel Farage was predicting they would win. Now, in public, he | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
is not quite so confident. He has come to Torquay on the south coast | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
with a very clear message for his supporters. That is, onwards and | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
upwards. He is predicting an earthquake and he is all smiles | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
about it. The UKIP leader has come to Devon, making a lot of noise | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
about the European and local elections in May. Nigel Farage | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
thinks his party can come out on top, a big step for the party mocked | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
not so long ago by David Cameron. The more they throw all these words | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
at us, the more people vote for us. The palm trees not looking their | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
best in February. One of the most prominent members has told me, in | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
the general election of next year, she thinks they should get three or | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
four MPs. If things go really well, she predicts 20 class. For the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
die-hard members, the usual bits and bobs are on offer in Torquay. There | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
is a major outsider lobbying at the conference. Truth is, UKIP house a | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
long way to go on policy. The leader dismissed his last party 's | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
manifesto as drivel. They are halfway through a major review. They | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
have come to Torquay for one thing, a rallying call. I want to say to | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
the electorate, don't get mad, get even. Go out and vote UKIP. He | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
attacks the Government on its handling of the floods and has | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
called for some of the foreign aid budget to be diverted to victims at | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
home. There was what some supporters claim to be another type of blood. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
In scores of our cities and market towns, this country, in a short | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
space of time, has frankly become unrecognisable. That wave of | :20:40. | :20:51. | |
planeloads has yet to materialise. There is a simple message at this | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
conference, designed to appeal to the heart, not the head. You cannot | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
escape the fact that in Torquay there is a policy vacuum for this | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
party. UKIP is jittery about what will fill the vacuum. At the | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
conference last year, someone called women sluts and that dominated. | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
There is a fringe about sharia law, Islamic law. UKIP a very jittery and | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
nervous about what they see as distractions and others called true | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
colours for the party on issues like immigration and women. Before they | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
come forward with a serious policy offering it will be a serious issue | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
for this party. The chief executive of International Airlines Group, | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
which owns British Airways, has said a vote in favour of Scottish | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
independence would probably be a positive change. Willie Walsh said | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
the Scottish Government was expected to abolish Air Passenger Duty | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
because it recognised the huge impact the tax had on the economy. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Let's speak to our Scotland correspondent, Lorna Gordon. | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
Yesterday, after standard life, this kind of intervention has been | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
welcomed by those in favour of independence. Absolutely, it has. | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
British Airways is the UK 's national flag carrier. Its ultimate | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
boss says he is not fazed nor worried by the prospect of | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
independence. As you pointed out, Willie Walsh, the chief executive of | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
the parent company, said in the event of a yes vote on September the | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
18th, he saw it as probably going to be a positive development. He has | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
long campaigned against air passenger Judy and the Scottish | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Government in its white paper said they would like to reduce it by 15% | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
and ultimately get rid of it entirely. As you say, it has been | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
seized on by the Scottish Government. They have welcomed it. | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
They see business opportunities should Scotland become independent. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Only with independents will Scotland get the powers it needs to boost | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
business. The Westminster government would argue differently. They would | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
say the situation works just fine as it is, thank you very much. No | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
concerns from British Airways and no contingency plans in place. Those | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
campaigning for independence welcome these comments today. Royal Mail is | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
putting up the price of stamps from the end of next month. First class | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
will cost 62 pence, a two pence rise. Second class will go up by | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
three pence, to 53 pence. Members of the Northern Ireland assembly are | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
debating a motion which expresses disgust over letters sent to people | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
suspected of terrorist activity saying they were no longer wanted by | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
the Government. This has prompted real outrage. Here is our Ireland | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
correspondent. A long history of violence has scarred the years. It | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
cannot be forgotten. The idea that anyone suspected of playing a part | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
in murders, bombings and shootings could be given assurances they would | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
not be prosecuted. Quite a storm at Stormont. The First Minister | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
threatened to resign. He said he is now satisfied at the announcement | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
there will be a judge led enquiry into the issue, he is still | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
concerned. That outrage was not manufactured or synthetic, it was | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
real. It was an outrage felt by victims. And outrage felt by those | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
within the political process. This case revealed the existence of | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
scores of assurances. He denied murdering four soldiers from the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Household Cavalry in what became known as the Hyde Park bombing. He | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
was the main suspect. The High Court ruled that the letter from the | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
Government meant a trial should no longer take place, even though it | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
was sent in error. It is now known that at least 187 letters were | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
issued. However, no letters have been received by loyalists suspected | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
of terrorist offences. The past have a tendency to hang over politics in | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Northern Ireland. The First Minister has withdrawn his threat to resign | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
but there is real anger in unionist areas. That is because of the | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
perception this is a scheme set up specifically for Republicans. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Everyone should be brought to justice. Law is law. Fine it is time | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
everyone grew up and realised that the past is the past. -- it is time | :25:48. | :26:01. | |
everyone grew up. Who is he trying to tell people to calm down? I | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
suspect it is comrades in the IRA. Despite many jibes at the foot -- | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the Deputy First Minister, it is claimed this was not a surprise to | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
Unionists. I believe this has been used to poison the present. Efforts | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
need to be refocused. There have been many reassurances that these | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
letters do not offer immunity from prosecution but questions about this | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
scheme remain. Now if you were out last night and looked up at the sky | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
you may have been treated to a spectacular sight. The Aurora | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Borealis, better known as the Northern Lights, has been giving | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
rare and stunning displays over parts of the UK. The lights have | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
been clearly visible from Orkney to Norfolk to Essex and South Wales. | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
The BBC's weather presenter, Helen Willets, has more. Magical images | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
have delighted millions of people and many of our viewers across | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Britain. These pictures were taken by Andrew in Caithness in Scotland | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
last night. The little further south, pink and green hues were | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
enjoyed by Jonathan Cooper in Cumbria. In Norfolk, they were so | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
strong they were unaffected by light pollution. The aurora borealis is | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
normally associated with places much further north and Great Britain, | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
such as Norway. Here is the night display over Trondheim a few days | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
ago. How do they come about? Energy from the sun is carried 93 million | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
miles to Earth on a solar wind. As the electrically charged particles | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
approach it, they hit the planet 's field. There was a moderate solar | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
storm three days ago. The fact that so many of us across the whole | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
country experienced the Northern Lights is a surprise. It was a very | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
welcome phenomenon. Helen is here in person to give us the rest of the | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
weather forecast. Did you see it? I did not. I would have loved to have | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
seen it. There is not as great a chance tonight. It will be much | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
further north. There will be clear skies for some areas, in the North. | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
It might be worth seeing if you can see them. | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
It is the north where we are seeing the best of the sunshine. In the | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
south, the cult of cloud has been rather stubborn. It is measurable | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
and dank underneath that are not very quick to clear away for the UK | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
and see how slowly it is going away. We will be left with rather | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
dank weather for the evening rush hour. Still the possibility of sleet | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
and wet snow across the tops of the Chilterns. Overnight, the skies | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
clear away and we're looking at a more widespread frost and last | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
night. It be colder. We could have an ice whisk again tomorrow morning | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
and some fog, given the light win situation. It could be grey and | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
overcast across the eastern side of England. Further west, after the fog | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
lifts, we will see some spells of sunshine and a scattering of | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
showers. It would be a decent start and it will be cold. The fog will | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
take time to clear. The showers will mostly be in the north and west of | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Scotland and the western side of Northern Ireland. For a large swathe | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
of the country, a pretty decent day. Quite a deal -- a good deal of | :29:40. | :29:46. | |
sunshine. It will be slow to Brighton in East Anglia and the | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
south-east. They could have 20 millimetres of rain before the day | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
is out. Elsewhere, the rain showers to gather later in the West. It is | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
small and evening and overnight picture as you will see. When it | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
comes into the cold air, more snowfall for the Scottish mountains. | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
That is adding to the amounts they have the ski season at the moment. | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
The rainy nature further south could wash sold off the roads. The | :30:14. | :30:23. | |
widespread frosts. -- a widespread frost. Still a little uncertainty on | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
the timing of the new weather front on Sunday. Some patchy rain and | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
drizzle around probably in the second half of the day. Just a bit | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
of uncertainty. Saturday is drier. If you have plans, each into the | :30:41. | :30:48. | |
forecast. I am assure people well. More on our top story. The former | :30:49. | :30:53. | |
president of the Ukraine has appeared at a press conference in | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
the southern Russian city, saying he had to leave the country because of | :30:58. | :31:05. | |
threats to his -- his life. TRANSLATION: | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
It is time for me to say about that I am eager, ready to fight for the | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
future of Ukraine. There are those with terror and fear | :31:15. | :31:28. | |
trying to rule the Ukraine. More on a fast developing story throughout | :31:29. | :31:30. | |
the afternoon on | :31:31. | :31:31. |