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formalising division, as Vladimir Putin signs the law annexing Crimea | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
and the EU agrees closer ties with Ukraine. We'll be live in Moscow. | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
Also this lunchtime: The search of the Southern Indian Ocean for flight | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
MH370 intensifies, but there are no further sightings of debris. We have | :00:28. | :00:40. | |
a lot of hope and the conditions remain as they are, hopefully we | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
will find something soon. It can have terrible consequences, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
but now a vaccine against meningitis B looks set to be approved by the | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
NHS. The human tide - Italian authorities rescue thousands of | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
migrants from the waters off Lampedusa. | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Putting their lives on the line - the soldier shot in the neck and the | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
medic who saved him are recognised for their valour and bravery. | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
I owe him my life. Not that I would ever say that to his face! | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
Later on BBC London: A doctor is the first in the UK to face charges over | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
female genital mutilation. And the Prime Minister appeals to Boris | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Johnson to run in the next general election. | :01:20. | :01:38. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. President Putin has | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
signed a law formalising Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
calling it a remarkable event. It comes as the new authorities in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Ukraine and the European Union sign an agreement committing them to | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
closer political and economic ties. The deal is part of the same | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
agreement that the former Ukrainian president rejected back in November, | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
leading to protests and eventually his overthrow. Our Europe | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
correspondent Matthew Price is in Brussels. | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
Brussels and Moscow, two different cities, two very different visions | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
and different ceremonies today. One dragged Ukraine ever closer into | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
Europe. The other split Ukraine with its province of Crimea being | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
formally signed into Russia. In a dull conference room in Brussels, | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
surrounded by European smiles, Ukraine inched away from Russia | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
today. A simple signature from its interim unelected Prime Minister | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
committed the country to greater cooperation with the EU, a move | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
bound to incense Moscow. For ministers here, that is partly the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
point. This is probably the biggest move the EU can do right now. It is | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
a fight between East and West. To sign this today is good news for | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Ukraine. It is not just Ukraine the EU is drawing into its orbit. Two | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
other former Soviet states that Moscow once held close are also due | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
to sign deals soon. How well Moscow react? It has used gas as a weapon | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
before. The EU gets a third of its supply from Russia. Ukraine fears it | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
is about to start pushing up prices. It is urgent for Ukraine to get, | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
Russia violating all deals, it is to double the cries for the natural | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
gas. This is how Russia punishes Ukraine for its European choice. -- | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
the price. In a more ornate room, another ceremony, another is simple | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
signature. This one formerly splitting Crimea from Ukraine, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
joining it to Russia as far as he is concerned. There is no sign here | :04:13. | :04:24. | |
that sanctions on President Putin's associates have weakened resolved. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
Nor was there in Crimea itself. Ukrainian forces continued to give | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
up their bases, allowing Russian troops to move in. Privately here EU | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
leaders will admit Crimea is gone and it is not coming back any time | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
soon. The big strategic question they will have to answer is what | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
they can do if anything to ensure that if Russia wants to start | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
carving up other bits of Eastern Europe, it can't. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Let's talk to our Moscow correspondent, Richard Galpin. A | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
limited range of sanctions so far. I wonder what impact they are having | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
on the financial markets, maybe in the way business do -- people do | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
business every day in Russia? Even though the sanctions on | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
individuals, it is having a significant impact on the stock | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
market is here. The main index has gone down about 3% so far today. It | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
has gained a bit. Overall it is down almost 20%. Also today we have had | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
from two of the world's leading credit agencies, they have | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
downloaded the outlook for Russia from stable to negative. Customers | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
of two banks caught up in the sanctions here in Moscow, they have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
not been able to use credit cards. Inconvenience for people on the | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
streets. I think these sanctions are really beginning to bite. The | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
question now is whether the EU and US will ramp up the sanctions | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
another level and make them trade and financial sanctions. Financial | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
analysts here think it would have a catastrophic impact on the Russian | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
economy which already is very weak. Growth has slowed down over the past | :06:20. | :06:35. | |
12 months. People I have been speaking to think that... The | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
popularity of President Putin. Thank you very much indeed. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
Nearly two weeks after the disappearance of flight MH370, | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
reconnaissance planes are searching a remote section of the southern | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Indian Ocean for a second day. They're following what's been | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
described as the best lead yet, satellite images which may have | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
shown debris in the sea. Relatives are still anxiously waiting for news | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
of the Malaysian airliner which vanished shortly after take off from | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Kuala Lumpur. Our world affairs correspondent Jonathan Head is in | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Perth, Western Australia. After ten hours scanning the sea, | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
and the stray lien air surveillance aircraft comes home to its base -- | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
and Australian surveillance aircraft. It is one of five making | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
the long journey today to the search site. They are using every hour of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
daylight. Missions sometimes go on into the night. The stretch of ocean | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
they have to cover is so vast they know it is only a matter of luck as | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
to whether they find any of the missing airliner. Of all of the many | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
kinds of planes and vessels thrown into this remarkable operation, this | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
aircraft is among the most effective. Yet for all its sensitive | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
listening technology, the crew are overwhelmed by the size of their | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
task. Journalists crowd around the young pilot eager for any news of | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
the Malaysian airliner. We are going out today. Good weather compared to | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
yesterday. The visibility was great. Better than 10km visibility. We had | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
really good opportunities to see anything visually. For the task we | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
had today, the conditions were outstanding. We have a lot of hope | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and if the conditions remain as they are, hopefully we will find | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
something soon. These satellite photographs show the faintest | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
outline of something large on what has directed the search here. The | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
photos are five days old. With no cited in yet, they are expanding the | :08:38. | :08:48. | |
search to where the current might have carried it. It is a big area | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
when you are looking out the window trying to see something by I. We may | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
have to do this a few times to be confident about the coverage of the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
search area. It is exhausting, repetitive work. But they have to | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
keep going. Each day without any sign of where the airliner went down | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
makes the likelihood of finding it more on. -- more remote. | :09:13. | :09:28. | |
If you want to keep up to date with the search for flight MH370, we have | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
all the latest details on our website. | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
A new vaccine to protect infants against meningitis B should be made | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
available on the NHS, according to health officials. The Joint | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation says the injection | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
should be rolled out across the UK, as long as a suitable price can be | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
agreed with manufacturers. That overturns a controversial decision | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
last summer to reject the jab. Here's our health correspondent | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
Dominic Hughes. This girl is very fortunate to be | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
alive. At 15 months, she suddenly developed meningitis B, losing both | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
her hands and some toes. Doctor said his amazing she survived and her | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
mother believes the introduction of a vaccine for meningitis B is long | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
overdue. It will stop babies dying, losing hands, legs, give better | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
quality of life. It will have a massive impact. So many children | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
will be saved. Thank you for finally saying yes. Meningitis B is | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
relatively rare but one of the most feared in Britain. There are around | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
1800 cases in the UK each year. Most of those are found in very young | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
children and the impact can be devastating. One in ten will die. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
10% of those who survive will be left with a major disability. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Bacterial meningitis is complex and a vaccine has taken 20 years to | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
develop. Last year an expert panel advising UK health ministers said it | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
would not be cost-effective. Now they have changed their mind. We | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
have read on the analysis and found the vaccine could be cost-effective | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
as long as it is at a fairly low price. Around 700,000 children a | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
year will be eligible for the vaccination, possibly as soon as | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
this summer. We are keen to implement it as soon as we can. | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
There are important steps that need to take place before it starts, not | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
least of course the negotiation with the manufacturer about the price, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
but also ensuring we have a secure and sustainable programme going | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
forward. Those negotiations on price are crucial. Money spent on this | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
vaccine will mean less can be spent elsewhere. But for this girl and her | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
family, this is a day to celebrate. A soldier who had been shot in the | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
neck by an Afghan insurgent but carried on fighting, and the medic | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
who attended to him are among more than 100 members of the armed forces | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
who've been recommended for bravery awards. Most are being given to | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
servicemen and women who took part in last summer's deployment to | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Afghanistan. Sarah Campbell has more. | :12:15. | :12:15. | |
Shot through the neck while on patrol, British Army cameras | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
captured the moment Lance Corporal Simon Moloney was treated by his | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
friend and colleague Lance Corporal Wesley Masters. Both have been | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
recognised by their extraordinary courage under fire. I rolled off the | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
roof and realised I had been hit. Autopilot comes in. You wait for the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
30 seconds to see, I going to pass out and die? Risking his own life, | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Lance Corporal Wesley Masters began life-saving treatment. It was a | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
through and through gunshot wound. He had two holes in his neck. I try | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
to stay calm and calm him down and deal with what I saw, not let my | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
mind run away with me. The bullet had missed his right all arteries | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
and windpipe by millimetres. He continued to fight until the | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
helicopter arrived. He receives the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. Lance | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
Corporal Wesley Masters receives the Military Cross. What do you think | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
for what he did? I owe him my life. Not that I would ever say that to | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
his face! His whole confidence in the job, it was not just the way he | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
saved me, completely confident and calm. He was an awesome casualty. | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
The digs aptly what he wanted -- he did exactly what I wanted him to do. | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
He is a good lad. The latest list of awards is a reminder that although | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
British involvement in Afghanistan is winding down, the risks remain | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
and the men and women based there continue to perform outstanding acts | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
of bravery. This is just a selection of the more than 100 service | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
personnel who have received honours. All will be presented with their | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
medals and awards at Buckingham Palace. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Russia's parliament approves | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
Crimea's entry into the Russian Federation as European Union leaders | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
sign an accord on closer ties with Ukraine. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
And still to come: From middle distance runner to rhythmic gymnast, | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
how Lord Coe is raising money for Sport Relief. | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
Later on BBC London: The Government faces calls to appoint a minister to | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
work on the HS2 rail project. And the East London boxing academy | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
giving young people a fresh start in life. We look at how your | :14:35. | :14:48. | |
fundraising helps. 100 years on from the start of World | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
War I, drinking water is still affected by pollution in areas that | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
used to be the front line. In northern France, many babies are | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
kept away from tap water because of the high level of chemicals on a | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
consequence of the ammunition that was left behind. Angus Crawford | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
reports on the walls Trust on the wall's toxic legacy. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
A tribute to the dead. Every night, crowds gathered at the many negating | :15:14. | :15:26. | |
Belgium. For British schoolchildren this is history. But for those | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
living in the areas where battles once raged, the war's legacy as part | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
of daily life. Drinking water is still polluted by what the conflict | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
left behind. At this and hundreds of other nurseries in northern France, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
babies drink only bottled water. Their milk is made up using bottled | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
water. Pregnant women are also advised not to drink what comes out | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
of the tap. This woman, who runs the creche, says it is clear they never | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
thought of the time of the 14 - 18 war that 100 years on there would | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
still be consequences for future generations. The water in more than | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
500 villages and towns is contaminated by chemicals seeping | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
out of World War I bombs. So this is the very top of the water tower. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
There is no proven risk to health, though the authorities are now | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
trying to find where the bombs are buried. If we find them, those | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
deposits, to remove them and we hope that it will progressively reduce | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
the concentration of chemicals. But that will be a work of years? Of | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
years, yes, of course. We have found up until now about 350 shells. A | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
Belgian ball -- bomb disposal experts response to another | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
call-out. The area is sealed off. Mustard gases leaking into the | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
ground. More than 1 billion shells were fired during the war, in some | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
places as many as one quarter did not explode. Springtime on what was | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
the front line. But no flowers will grow in this clearing. Levels of | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
arsenic are 3000 times higher than they should be. This measuring | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
device was drilled into the subsoil here, to check on just how polluted | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
the water still is and looking around you can see almost nothing | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
can grow here. That is because this site was used to destroy 200,000 | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
chemical bombs at the end of the First World War. They were just | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
burned in the open. A terrible war which leaves a toxic legacy, even | :17:51. | :18:02. | |
today. The first-ever prosecutions for | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
female genital mutilation in the UK are to be brought against a doctor | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
and a second man. Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena from the Whittington | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Hospital in north London and Hasan Mohammed, who is not a medic, are to | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
face the first charges brought under the female judo -- the Female | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
Genital Mutilation Act. Children's services at the council which came | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
under fire over the death of a four-year-old boy have been branded | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
as inadequate by inspectors. Daniel Pelka died after being starved and | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
abused by his mother and stepfather in 2012. The Ofsted report also said | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
that Coventry's children's services were not seeing vulnerable children | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
fast enough. The council has promised a rapid improvement, is | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Phil Mackie reports. Daniel Pelka died two years ago | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
after being beaten and starved by his mother and stepfather. There | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
were many missed opportunities to intervene in the life of the | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
four-year-old, who was quiet, withdrawn and used to scavenge for | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
food in bins at school. But a Serious Case Review found he had | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
been invisible and the authorities had spent more time considering the | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
needs of his parents. Magdelena Luczak and Mariusz Krezolek are | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
serving life for his murder. Coventry promised it would do | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
better. Last month, the BBC was granted exclusive access to the | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
social workers who care for children in the city, to see if things had | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
improved. They said they were still overworked and under resourced. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
There are a lot of challenges in social care in Coventry at the | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
moment. Our caseloads are too high and that is stopping us from doing | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
some of the things we would like to do, in a timely manner. Today, | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Ofsted said that Coventry was getting many of the same things | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
wrong. It said vulnerable children were not seen swiftly enough, which | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
means they were left at risk of harm. Social workers have very high | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
caseloads and that means they cannot do their job properly and leaders | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
and managers have not tackled key witnesses in children's social care | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
quickly enough. We have to move on, irrespective of the tragedy we have | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
spoken about, because otherwise we will always find ourselves in a | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
position where we are overwhelmed at the front door and we will never be | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
able to manage the work load in the wake that is proportionate to the | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
amount of money we have got. Since Daniel Pelka's death, the number of | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
child referrals has gone up by 50%, but there is room for optimism. The | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
report says the leadership here is taking decisive action and they only | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
need to look a short distance away to Staffordshire, in less than two | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
years it has gone from being rated as performing poorly, to rated good | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
today. More social workers will be recruited and the process of change | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
sped up. The city knows it is under pressure to deliver because of the | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
horrific death of Daniel Pelka. The Italian Navy says more than 4000 | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
hydrants have been rescued from an -- from overcrowded boats in the | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily in the past four days and several other | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
rescue operations are under way. Yesterday over 230 people, who were | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
packed onto a rubber dinghy, were picked up near the island of | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Lampedusa. He was a relatively unknown manager | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
when taking charge in 1996, but just seven seasons later Arsene Wenger | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
had earned Arsenal the nickname the Invincibles. Tomorrow, the French | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
manager will oversee his 1000th game at a trip to Premier League leaders | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
Elsie, with the Gunners four points behind them. Joe Wilson reports on | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the highs and lows of arson Wenger's 18 year reign. -- Arsene | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Wenger's 18 year reign. A surprise party, while hardly. He has been | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
here for 1000 games. He demands respect but that is not a carriage | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
clock. He is not retiring. He says he is in another faith. Its first | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
decade at Arsenal was rich in football success. The -- | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
subsequently he is a balanced the books and built a new stadium but | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
stopped winning things. Do you feel satisfied with what you have | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
achieved in 1000 games, or is satisfaction may be something you | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
find difficult? Satisfaction is not one of my greatest qualities. I | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
thought maybe that was the case. This club has given me a chance but | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
in an important -- an important period of the life span of this club | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
I have shown loyalty and turned many things down and accepted to work | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
with restricted potential and knowing that I had to stay at the | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
top of the game and I will just say I did that through commitment. In a | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
football sense the commitment has always been to style. No one matched | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
his philosophy quite like Thierry Henry. Reaching 1000 games, it is | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
just crazy. It is crazy because you can see how important it is for this | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
club, staying for a long time in a club is not that easy, not because | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
the manager doesn't want to stay, but because sometimes you get the | :23:00. | :23:07. | |
elbow. There is huge respect for Arsene Wenger but of course in | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
football success tends to be measured in the form of trophies. He | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
is not -- he has not one since 2005. Other managers wonder if they | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
would be treated with such patients. It is not possible to have 1000 | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
match unless the club is also a fantastic weight in the way they | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
support the manager, especially in the back moments and especially when | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
the bad moments were quite a lot. Yes. Well, tomorrow it is Jose | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Mourinho's Chelsea at home to Arsenal and there will be no special | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
gifts. In case you didn't know, it is Sport | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Relief tonight and people all over the country including famous faces | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
like radio to's Jo Whiley have been running, cycling or swimming to help | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
raise money. The programme is also going to feature comedy sketches, | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
such as a cameo appearance from David Beckham in Only Fools And | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Horses, and for the first time the main show is taking place at the | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London and Ben Beck -- and Ben | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
Geoghegan is therefore as now. This year's Sport Relief has made | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
headlines because of the incredible challenges that some of the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
celebrities have set themselves. A few of them have been here training | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
this morning, but as everyone knows this is not about winning medals, it | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
is about raising money. It it is said to ribbon dancing to | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
Dolly Parton. -- said Coe. At the Olympic Velodrome with Sally | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Phillips and Olly Martins. It is not what you would expect perhaps but it | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
is a Sport Relief rehearsal and there is still some way to go. How | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
much technique have you got to develop? Quite a lot. He's a | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
natural, born to do this. This was the event he should have chosen at | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
the Olympics. The main rivalry at the Bella drone will be between | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Sebastian Coe and John Bishop in the clash of the Titans. In many | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
respects I feel like Steve Ovett. I am the underdog that most people | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
look at and think, you don't really look like you should be here, | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
whereas Sebastian Coe always looks perfect, doesn't it? Why are you | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
wearing those glasses? The first meeting of Del boy and Rodney for | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
ten years, this time the Trotters have a new sidekick. Yes. Good | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
thinking. Some of the celebrities have faced tougher challenges. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
Davina McCall has been running, cycling and swimming from Edinburgh | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
to London, plunging into Lake Windermere was one of the toughest | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
moments. It was quite hairy and probably the toughest thing I have | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
ever done. But then to have to get on a bicycle was torture. The DJ Jo | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
Whiley puzzles being pushed to her limits, earning a ?260,000 donation | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
from Coldplay. I am so grateful to so many people. I fell over at the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
last minute, I didn't fall over on the treadmill and at the last second | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
I went splat, on the floor. There is more rehearsing to do, but as far as | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
fundraising goes it has been a good start. The aim is to beat the ?50 | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
million relief -- raised for charity two years ago. Lord Coe is here with | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
us now and can tell us a bit more about today's events. It is good to | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
see you are dressed for the part. How is it going? You didn't miss the | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
calling of the rhythmic gymnast? I don't think so. Being serious, it is | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
a really tough sport. It is a fabulous sport. How is it going with | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
John Bishop, because you have been teasing each other in the lead up to | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
the clash? We have a good, friendly rivalry. He keeps telling me I am | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
from the south, but I was brought up in Sheffield. I am not sure his | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
geography is that good. You are doing the ribbon dancing but there | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
are lots of other events? Rhythmic gymnastics, but there is | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
synchronised swimming, the elimination races in the cycling. | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
You can see that behind us. This is good head to head, but it comes to a | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
head on the gymnastics floor here tonight. And of course we have had | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
the Olympics here a couple of years ago and you are associated with | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
that. How much of an effect might there be when it comes to people | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
donating and taking an interest in Sport Relief that is due to the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
success we had them? I hope so. Every year Sport Relief makes more | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
money and that is a great thing and tonight is a big televised event, | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
but there are thousands of things happening at this moment. My | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
daughter in the West Country is running a mile this afternoon and | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
there are kids the length and breadth of the country. Given the | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
volunteers who are helping put this on tonight and thousands of people | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
doing lots of things this afternoon, that is a good Olympic legacy. You | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
wonder whether these events will continue to capture the public's | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
imagination. Do you think tonight will? It is part of the national | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
landscape. I will be surprised if this is not going long after we have | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
left the scene. Thank you and good luck. You can watch all of the | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
events here at the Olympic Park on BBC One, 7pm this evening. | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
Let us get the weather for the weekend and Phil Avery is here. | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
Let us get the weather for the weekend and Phil Avery is Unite I | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
started a cruel vein. Last weekend temperatures hit 20 Celsius for | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
some, barbecues out. This weekend, barbecue for a source of warmth | :28:47. | :28:49. | |
cop. This is closer to what we would expect for this time of year. A | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
chilly weekend in store. It was a glorious start for money but as the | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
morning has gone on the shower cloud has a speckled up and we have seen | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
some hefty showers. We will come to Northern Ireland in the second. | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
Mid-afternoon, some of those showers will be heavy. Urged along I quite | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
noticeable south-westerly wind. As is the nature of the beast with | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
showers, not everybody is seeing them. Some of the South Coast could | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
be dry for a good part of the afternoon. It could be different in | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
the northern shores of Devon and Cornwall and the Bristol Channel, | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
the gateway for the showers, some pretty heavy ones across the high | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
ground of Wales. We might hear the odd rumble of thunder. The showers | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
eventually giving way to something more persistent. The showers already | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
have been a bit thundery, with pale and smoke at the higher levels of | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
Scotland. Through the course of the evening, the band of persistent ray | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
with snow will work its way across all parts of the British Isles. The | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
snow getting down to low levels and the North. Following behind, noticed | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
this, a cold night with ice, you will see some rather wintry looking | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
scenes, scenic rather than disruptive for the south-west and | :30:05. | :30:06. | |
the high ground of Wales and the high ground further north. Saturday, | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
another day of a lot of hefty, blustery showers. Some sunshine in | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
between. I was suggesting earlier, it will be cool compared to what we | :30:18. | :30:21. | |
have experienced of late. Sunday, the wind goes round to the | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
north-west. The pressure builds towards the West, killing the | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
showers. The bulk of the showers on Sunday are found through eastern | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
parts of the British Isles. For the weekend, chilly, some wintry showers | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
and some frost unites. That is for sure. I take you on to Monday, | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
widespread, could be one of the colder nights we have seen so far | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
this season, from Scotland to some southern parts of the British Isles, | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
that comes about as we topple this area of high pressure in across the | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
British Isles. A clear start on the chilly start on Monday. A decent | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
day, but then it could be that the front towards the West makes Tuesday | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
just a bit more unsettled. What's going on, we will keep you posted | :31:05. | :31:13. | |
through the course of the weekend. The top story this lunchtime. | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
President Putin has signed a law completing the annexation of Crimea | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
as EU leaders agreed closer ties | :31:21. | :31:21. |