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recognise the results. The US and the EU say it was illegal. I will be | :00:15. | :00:28. | |
reporting live from Crimea where the final referendum results show 97% of | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
voters chose to be part of Russia. Also this lunchtime: 26 countries | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
have now been asked to help join the search for the missing Malaysia | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Airlines jet which disappeared ten days ago. Speed things up, the boss | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
of HS2 tells politicians building work on the northern section of the | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
rail line should be ready six years sooner. Convicted Mafia boss | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Domenico Rancadore, nicknamed "the professor", goes back to his London | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
home after a court ruled he will not be extradited back to Italy. The | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Cook Clarissa Dixon Wright, who found fame as one of the Two Fat | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
Ladies, has died at the age of 66. Later on BBC London: The Transport | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Secretary backs plans for a bigger Euston station as part of HS2. And a | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
court hears how PC Blakes Lock's attackers passed around his helmet | :01:18. | :01:18. | |
like a trophy. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:19. | :01:37. | |
BBC News at One. Crimea's Parliament has formally declared independence | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
from Ukraine and asked to join the Russian Federation. It follows | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
yesterday's controversial referendum which officials say overwhelmingly | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
backed leaving Ukraine, but it is not clear how many people actually | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
voted. The Government in Kiev says it will not recognise the results, | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
the interim prime minister calling the vote a circus performance. The | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
US and EU say the vote was illegal and have vowed to impose sanctions | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
on Moscow. Live now to Simferopol and our correspondent Ben Brown. | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Yes, Simon, as soon as that referendum result came through MPs | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
here at the Crimean parliament took a vote to break away from Ukraine | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
and to become part of Russia. A delegation of Parliamentary leaders, | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
including the Prime Minister, have now left the parliament and are on | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
their way to Moscow to discuss annexation. It could all happen | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
pretty quickly. They partied into the early hours of this morning. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Ethnic Russians who believe in their words Crimea is going home to the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Russian motherland. Much of the world may have denounced their | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
controversial referendum. Here they celebrated it. 97% were in favour of | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
absorption into Russia. TRANSLATION: It is a festival, it is happiness, | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
it is a time for joy, we are coming home. I think there is a great and | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
huge future ahead for us together with the Russian Federation and I | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
can see a future for my children and grandchildren. In the Parliament | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Crimean MPs wasted no time. Right after the final referendum results | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
they declared independence from Ukraine and voted to formally ask | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Russia to annex their peninsular. This place is already beginning to | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
feel less and less Ukrainian. They have changed street signs into | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Russian. Within a few weeks it is expected they will change the | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
currency into the Russian ruble and even to switch to the Moscow Times | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
own. In Kiev there was no surprise at the referendum result, but plenty | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
of dismay. TRANSLATION: What can I say? It is the same band again which | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
is lying, stealing and it is criminal. I think this referendum is | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
illegal. All the world, the Ukrainians and our Government do not | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
recognise it and a minority of Crimean 's want to live in Russia. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
Ukraine has lost Crimea, that much is clear, but what now of other | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
parts of the country like Donetsk in the East with a large Russian | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
population? They are restless as well. These Russian protesters | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
attacked Government buildings over the weekend. The great fear in Kiev | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
is that President Putin may not stop at Crimea, but may ultimately move | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
his troops into the east of Ukraine as well. The European Union has | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
decided to punish Russia for what it has done here in Crimea. EU foreign | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
ministers have been meeting in Brussels to discuss sanctions. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Matthew Price is therefore as this lunchtime. What have they decided? | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Breaking news, foreign ministers have decided that 21 Russian and | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Crimean officials will be subject to restrictions. They will not be able | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
to come to the European Union. Any assets they hold in European Union | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
institutions will be frozen. That will happen in the next few hours, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
certainly by tomorrow morning. One source told me they hoped it would | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
start the knees knocking in Russia and would make Russia realise its | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
actions have consequences. So far European pressure has not | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
persuaded Russia to back down. Will today be any different? In Brussels | :05:43. | :05:59. | |
the frustration with Moscow is building. Listen to the barely | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
disguised contempt from the EU's top policy official. The top of our | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
agenda will be the situation in Ukraine to look at the results of | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
the so-called referendum. It is illegal under the Constitution of | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
Ukraine and under international law. Events on the ground in Crimea | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
are forcing the EU to consider tougher measures. But as the fallout | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
from the old Cold War splinters Ukraine two decades on, fears of a | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
new Cold War between East and West means some in the EU are reluctant | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
to push Russia too hard. How far will they go? It is likely they will | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
end the day with a list of people who will be banned from travelling | :06:31. | :06:42. | |
to the EU and have any EU -based bank accounts they hold frozen. We | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
are also prepared to move to further measures and there will be long-term | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
consequences for Russia if they continue to approach things in this | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
way. In Washington similar measures are also likely. Russia has | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
threatened to retaliate with like-for-like sanctions. Everyone is | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
calling for de-escalation, but the diplomatic temperature is rising. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
They started the day with more than 100 on the list and ended up with | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
just 21. It seems as though some of the voices of moderation in the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
European Union are winning out. They want to take this slowly and they | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
want to send a message. Thank you very much indeed. Crimea | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
is a pretty small place, a population of just over 2 million | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
people, but it has sparked off the biggest crisis in East -West | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
relations since the end of the Cold War. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
26 countries are now involved in the search for missing flight MH 370 as | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
confusion still surrounds the circumstances in which it | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
disappeared ten days ago. The search area now extends from Central Asia | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
to the Indian Ocean. Each state continues to bring new details of | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
the Boeing 77 seven's last contact, but with them are as many new | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
questions. Jonah Fisher is in Kuala Lumpur. The information from the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Malaysian officials has been confusing and sometimes | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
contradictory, but today we came the closest we have come so far to | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
discovering who was controlling this plane when it veered off its course. | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
These are believed to be the last images of the pilots of flight MH | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
370 as they passed through security in Kuala Lumpur. Their roles in the | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
plane's disappearance once again in the spotlight. At the centre of the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
investigation the exact sequence of events in the cockpit in the early | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
hours of that fateful Saturday morning. We already knew the final | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
words from the plane when it went silent and turned west were all | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
right, good night. Now the investigation team has announced | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
they believe it was first officer Zaharie Ahmad Shah who said those | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
words. The initial investigation indicates it was the co-pilot who | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
spoke the last time. The Malaysians are still far from clear as to | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
exactly the sequence in which communication is on board were | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
turned off. Two minutes after the good night message they say the | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
transponder was switched off. Whoever was flying the plane did not | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
sign in with Vietnamese air traffic control and the plane turned to the | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
West. The first officer's name first came up in this operation when two | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
women said they spent time with him in the cockpit floating and smoking | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
cigarettes on another flight. But there is little in his background to | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
suggest a man capable of hijacking a plane. Passengers have also come | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
under renewed scrutiny, in particular those who might know how | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
to disable a plane's communication system. 129-year-old engineer for a | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
private aviation company is one who fits that profile. His father is | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
sure his son is not involved and still clings to the hope he might be | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
found alive. TRANSLATION: People can say what they want about my son, I | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
do not care. He is my son and I know he is not involved. New maps today | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
show the area being searched extended further. It could be near | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the Caspian Sea or to the south just off the coast of Antarctica. Despite | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
a huge multinational effort the mystery of what happened to flight | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
MH 370 is still a long way from being solved. So this complex | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
investigation continues on two France, firstly trying to find | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
somewhere where the aircraft is, and increasingly difficult task, and | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
secondly trying to piece together all those events inside the plane on | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
that fateful Saturday morning. You can keep up to the date with the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
mystery of the missing flight by watching the news channel and there | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
is an analysis on the BBC website. Sir David Higgins, the new head of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
the high-speed rail project HS2 has called for work to be speeded up so | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
the line from London to the North of England can be completed six years | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
ahead of the original schedule. But opponents of the scheme have | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
questioned how easy it will be to be able to speed up construction. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
It is still years away, but the man in control wants to speed up | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
delivery of this project. Phase one of the scheme from London to | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
Birmingham is due to be completed by 2026. So David Higgins says phase | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
two should be speeded up with the line to crew completed just one year | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
later, six years earlier than planned. Both branches of the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
northern section will be finished by 2030, that is three years ahead of | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
schedule. If done right, High Speed two can provide an answer that | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
stands the test of time and addresses the issue of congestion in | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
the south and lack of connectivity to the North. The costs have to be | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
recognised and acknowledged and so too does the cost and impact of | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
doing nothing. Crewe station will be a major hub with services from other | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
parts of the North feeding into the root, welcome news for some | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
businesses. London receives a tremendous amount of investment and | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
infrastructure and having HS2 is a start to close that divide and it is | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
something businesses in the North needs to be able to compete with | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
their counterparts in London and in Europe. But Phil Smallwood takes a | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
different view. His family have kept cattle in Cheshire for 60 years, the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
route goes straight through their farm. We have decided amongst | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
ourselves, myself and my neighbours, you can reckon 6000 litres of milk | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
is lost per acre of land that is taken. It will finish me off. There | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
was opposition outside today's meeting. If this revised schedule is | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
approved, these protesters will have less time to fight the plans. Our | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
chief political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. I suppose | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
so David Higgins is saying, cut the waffle, get on with it. | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
He is. He is saying the problem is not a money problem, a transport | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
problem, it is the politicians, it is the failure to reach agreement to | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
give it the go-ahead and approved the necessary legislation that is | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
deterring investors and which is delaying a meaningful start date and | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
which is driving the costs up. He was appealing for an end to | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
political uncertainty and he wants to get Labour on board by getting | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the line into the North sooner into Labour constituencies and Labour | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
local authorities. But his difficulty is this place, the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
legislative architecture of Parliament is an absolute gift for | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
politicians who want to snarl and slow up the whole process. All the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
signs are the legislation to approve HS2 will not get through until after | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
the election. A former Tory whip has told a jury | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
that the MP Nigel Evans was told a complaint from an alleged victim was | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
a very serious matter and he should apologise. John Randall told Preston | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Crown Court that he had admitted making a pass on a constituent in | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
his home. Danny Savage is outside the court for us. | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
Once again the event in court today have focused on a weekend in July, | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
2009, when this alleged victim said he was sexually assaulted by Nigel | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Evans at his constituency home in Pendleton in Lancashire. That young | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
man returned to Westminster and complained to Tory party managers | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
about what had happened and there was a hastily arranged meeting | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
between this man and Tory party whips. He said that Mr Evans had | :15:29. | :15:42. | |
come down and got under the blanket with him. We asked him what he had | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
wanted to happen, the young man who says he was the victim. He said that | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
Nigel Evans should stand down at the next election, get help for his | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
drinking and come out as being gay. They then did meet with Nigel Evans, | :15:58. | :16:11. | |
and he admitted he had made a drunken pass, admitted the | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
allegations and apologised. Our top story this lunchtime: Crimea's | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
parliament formally declares independence from Ukraine. The | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
government in Kiev says it will not recognise the results. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
And still to come - why you'll have to look a little harder to see the | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
smallest planet in space. Later on BBC London: Shut the B taking French | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
lessons? Could they learn from Parisian measures to cut pollution? | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
And we speak to the eight-year-olds running their own restaurant. | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
After 13 years and the loss of 448 British service personnel, the UK's | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
military role in Afghanistan is coming to an end. All but two | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
military bases in Southern Afghanistan have now been closed or | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
handed over. At the height of the war there were 137 British bases, | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
but all that remains now are the hub - Camp Bastion - and an observation | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
post nearby. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale is in | :17:12. | :17:24. | |
Helmand. You can really sense the difference here at Camp Bastion. It | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
was once a bustling military hub, but if you look around you will see | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
vast empty spaces where military equipment was once stationed. There | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
are still 4000 British troops in Helmand but they are focusing very | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
much on the next stage of the mission, which is going home. From | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
dust to dust, this was Camp Price, once a large British base. Diggers | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
and saws are now the soldiers' weapons. They've even taken the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
concrete barriers that stood as makeshift memorials to fallen | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
comrades. I am now currently dreaming of iso-containers. There | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
have been so many here every day, we are sending out 20, 30 day at the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
moment and it is a nightmare. ?? WHITE But the British are leaving | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
while the fighting continues. Listen carefully and you can hear gunfire | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
in the distance. These soldiers on their last patrol are still dressed | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
for combat, and they are still weary, but there is relief that they | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
will soon be home. It is somebody else's nation and I'm happy that | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
they are in a better place now, but for me it is just job done and get | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
on. I don't think I will be sad to go, no. I'll miss the sun and that's | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
probably about it, I'm afraid. The end is getting nearer. This is one | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
of the last military convoys bringing back kit to Camp Bastion. | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
The British presence is slowly being erased, so what is the legacy they | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
leave behind? I only wish that people at home could see the changes | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
that I have seen. I think they would feel a lot better about the | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
investment and the work we have done here. But the British military can | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
give no guarantees for the future. They will soon all be out, with no | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
one left behind to see what happens next. 448 British soldiers have lost | :19:26. | :19:37. | |
their lives in Afghanistan and you won't hear military commanders | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
saying this is mission accomplished. They say there is | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
still a lot of work to be done. Time is running out and buy won't be any | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
British residents here by the end of this year. Thank you. | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
A convicted Mafia boss who's been living in London for 20 years has | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
won his battle against extradition back to Italy. Domenico Rancadore, | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
who's known as The Professor, was arrested in Uxbridge last year, | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
where he was living under the assumed name of Marc Skinner, with | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
his wife and two children. Clive Coleman reports. Oxbridge in | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
suburban west London, the last place you would expect to find a member of | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
the Sicilian Mafia. Domenico Rancadore, the man whose crime | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
family the Italian police say were involved in extortion racketeering | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
and drug trafficking. Since 1993 he had been living here under the name | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
of Marc Skinner. He was known as The Professor, and in 1999 he was | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
convicted in his absence of being a Mafia associate and sentenced to | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
seven years. Domenico Rancadore's quiet suburban life came to an | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
abrupt end last August when police arrived here with an arrest warrant. | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
He has been fighting extradition until today. The district judge told | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
the court he had originally decided to order Domenico Rancadore's | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
extradition. Satisfied with assurances from the Italian | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
authorities about its prison system. But in a dramatic turnaround he said | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
a judgement from the High Court last week meant that those assurances | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
were now simply too vague. The general assurance as to where | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Domenico Rancadore would be held is insufficient and because of the | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
problems they have in their prison system, they must give specific | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
assurances as to where people will be held. The Italian authorities say | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
they intend to appeal. Meanwhile Domenico Rancadore's British wife | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
left court to arrange a security payment, that is one of the bail | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
conditions under which her convicted Mafia husband can now return to his | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
quiet life in Uxbridge. The jury in the Oscar Pistorius | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
trial has been told the Olympian had good knowledge of the rules on gun | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
use and dealing with intruders. A firearms instructor who taught | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Pistorius and sold him weapons has been giving evidence. Mr Pistorius | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year, saying he | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
mistook her for an intruder. Let's get more from our correspondent, | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
Andrew Harding. An interesting day in court and is it kicked off we saw | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
Reeva Steenkamp's mother there for the second time and it seemed there | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
was a fleeting acknowledgement between her and Oscar Pistorius as | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
she sat down. Yesterday we saw blood splatters across Oscar Pistorius's | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
bed, but the key thing today was this man who trained Oscar Pistorius | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
how to handle guns. He read from a questionnaire that Oscar Pistorius | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
had filled in giving various scenarios about when it was | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
appropriate to fire your gun on an intruder and Oscar Pistorius made it | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
clear he understood it was only appropriate when intruders were in | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
his house, they were visible, approaching him under threat. Two | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
other questions he answered that it would not be appropriate to fire on | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
intruders. The prosecution clearly trying to show that Oscar Pistorius | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
must have known what he was doing on that night was wrong. | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
The way deaths in police custody in England and Wales are investigated | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
is to change - to give bereaved families more involvement in the | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
process, and more support. The Independent Police Complaints | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Commission carried out a review after complaints that investigations | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
weren't thorough enough, took too long and appeared to treat police | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
favourably. Here's our Home Affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Who polices the police? For a decade it has been the IPCC, a body made up | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
of former police officers and civilians. Too often it has been | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
found lacking so now it says it is changing. One of the things we are | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
doing is putting in more support into training. Anyone who thinks | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
doing the job of investigating the police is easy ought to try doing it | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
and we need to make sure we've got those systems in place. It is in the | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
cases of people who died in police custody, people like Sean Rigg, | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
where the IPCC has come in for most criticism. It found that police used | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
proportional restraint against Sean Rigg. It took his family and a | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
charity to suggest otherwise. His sister took part in the recent | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
review of how the IPCC could improve. I have no faith whatsoever | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
in the police system and the complaints system. So far they have | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
not been fit for purpose and we have been vindicated by these reports | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
that prove that. Now it is a defining time, a critical point for | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
the IPCC to prove themselves. In 2011 communication failures | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
following the shooting of Mark Duggan were blamed for sparking the | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
Tottenham riots. Since then the IPCC has also been given extra powers but | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
admitted more is needed. The commission says it needs to deal | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
more sensitively with relatives, improving communication, but it has | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
to strike a balance because its investigations need to be | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
independent not just of the police but of complainants and their | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
relatives as well. The report addresses the most inane criticism | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
that it is not independent enough of the police. Labour has previously | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
called for the IPCC to be scrapped and replaced. Reform is crucial to | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
its survival. The smallest planet in our solar | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
system is getting even smaller. A NASA mission has revealed that | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
Mercury has shrunk as it has cooled over time, almost nine miles in | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
diameter since it was formed more than four billion years ago, and the | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
planet's surface has been cracking and wrinkling in the process. Our | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh has more. The planet Mercury, | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
dwarfed by the sun. It is the smallest planet in our solar system | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
and over the years, it has become smaller. NASA's Messenger spacecraft | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
has spent the past three years photographing the planet. And this | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
is the result, the first complete picture of Mercury. On the ground, | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
chemicals, known as volatiles, that simply shouldn't be there anymore. | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
Now, NASA has published, in the journal Nature Geoscience, that the | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
planet has shrunk by 4.5 miles from its centre to the surface. We are | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
learning more every month, we are nearly three years into NASA's | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
orbital mission around Mercury and there's still a year to go. And I | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
think there are more surprises to come. I am staggered already, it is | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
rich in volatile elements that it shouldn't have, it has recent | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
volcanic activity, it has ice in the craters near the poles and it is | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
shrinking, as we expected - but in ways we hadn't expected. I am sure | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
there is more to come. The mission is showing that what many thought to | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
be the dullest planet in our solar system is more interesting and | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
interesting than astronomers had imagined. | :27:19. | :27:34. | |
The celebrity cook Clarissa Dickson Wright, who found fame on television | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
as one half of the Two Fat Ladies, has died at the age of 66. Our Arts | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
Correspondent David Sillito has more. Clarissa Dickson Wright was | :27:42. | :27:53. | |
best known to the world as one of the Two Fat Ladies. In the sidecar | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
next to Jennifer Paterson, TV brought the unlikely duo together. | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
They're cooking was as old school as their attitudes and they were a hit | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
around the world. She had, as you could perhaps guess from her bearing | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
in her lengthy name, come from a wealthy background. Her father had | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
been a surgeon to the Royal family and he was also a violent drunk, she | :28:20. | :28:30. | |
said. Her size, her straight talking, she was scornful of health | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
targets and a supporter of hunting. She was as far from the typical TV | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
presenter as you could get, which is probably why she was so popular. | :28:41. | :28:50. | |
Clarissa Dickson Wright, who has died at the age of 66. Let's catch | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
up with the weather forecast. up with the | :28:55. | :29:03. | |
Slow changes with the weather this week, but just a cautionary note, | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
sunshine and light winds are not always without their perils. This | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
picture taken in Paris where smog has been caused by sunshine and | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
light winds, which has been caused by this area of high pressure which | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
has been dominating across France, Iberia and the rest of the UK. Some | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
rain across the Northern Isles of Scotland and a scattering of | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
showers, but for most of England and Wales it is another fine day. Still | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
some sunshine lifting the temperature is another fine day. | :29:43. | :29:44. | |
Still some sunshine lifting the temperatures may be not to 20 | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
Celsius but brightening up. Like yesterday around these western | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
coasts, it may stay rather gloomy. Elsewhere, a bit of sunshine lifting | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
temperatures. Sunshine across eastern Scotland, a sprinkling of | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
showers in western Scotland and Northern Ireland, and here overnight | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
we will see the breeze picking up. We will also see those showers | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
gathering together and it could turn wet over Northern Ireland by the end | :30:13. | :30:19. | |
of the night. Becoming cloudy, and also becoming breezy with a | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
combination of cloud and breeze meaning it will not be a cold night. | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
Temperatures will certainly be frost free to start tomorrow. Generally | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
tomorrow across the UK there will be that stronger breeze blowing and | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
some showers, which could be heavy and possibly even thundery. You can | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
see this band really fizzles out as it gets to the east and the south so | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
many here having another dry day. Far from dry in the north with heavy | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
downpours coming through. Temperatures still reaching double | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
figures widely. Feeling a bit cooler than today because of the breeze, | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
which is still in evidence on Wednesday, when temperatures jump up | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
again. More cloud in the west, and the rain likely to put up late in | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
the day across north-west Scotland. Still some uncertainty about this | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
weather front as it drives south but it could well bring some heavy rain | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
across England and Wales on Thursday, though it may not reach | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
the south-east until Friday. Further north, showing signs of turning | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
colder once more. The Crimean parliament has declared the region | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
an independent state and | :31:42. | :31:42. |