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could be wreckage from the missing plane. The objects, some big and | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
brightly coloured, were spotted by French satellites 1,500 miles off | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
the coast of Perth. We will report from Western Australia where they | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
are coordinating the search. Also this lunchtime. The energy firm SSE | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
becomes the first of the Big Six to freeze prices - but the move means | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
job cuts. Thousands of children off school in England and Wales as | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
teachers strike over pay and pensions. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The publicist Max Clifford takes the stand at his trial for indecent | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
assault against seven women and girls. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
And after ten years of marriage, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
announce they've separated calling it a "conscious uncoupling". | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Later on BBC London: An inquest into the death of Russian billionaire | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Boris Berezovsky hears his legal battle left him a "broken man". And | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Thames Water are accused of not operating on a long term and | :01:04. | :01:22. | |
sustainable basis. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
BBC News at One. French satellites have spotted 122 objects in the | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
southern Indian Ocean. The images were taken three days ago and show | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
brightly coloured objects, one measuring up to 23 metres long. | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Search planes have been back in the skies again today - after | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
yesterday's bad weather. And ships continue to scour the seas. But the | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
search area remains huge - more than 600,00 square miles. And time is | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
running out to find the black box which could shed light on what | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
happened to flight MH 370 and its 239 passengers and crew. Jonathan | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
Head reports. It was a day last to bad weather yesterday at this | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
airbase but today we have seen the operation in full swing. Six | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
countries are contributing. They have been out over the ocean where | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
pieces of the missing a learner -- a learner have been spotted. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Photographs have been supplied by the French showing potentially 100 | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
objects. That will give them some hope of success identified items | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
that can be picked up in the next few days. -- identifying. The skies | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
over Western Australia clear today and planes were in the air once | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
again, heading out over the Indian Ocean. Earlier in the week they did | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
the possible debris but that whether prevented ships from reaching it. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Now they have another lead. One area of the ocean measuring some 400 | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
square kilometres, we were able to identify 122 objects. Some objects | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
were one metre in length, others as much as 23 metres in length. The | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
area where these new images are taken is still large, around 200 | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
square miles. And they were taken on Sunday. But finding so many | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
apparently man-made items in these desolate sees is unusual and pilots | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
today are already reporting some sightings. We had some possible | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
man-made objects to be verified. We passed on the position to a nearby | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
warship and aircraft. These latest satellite images may be the best | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
lead yet in this long and difficult search. But it will not be until | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
these aircraft have pinpointed where those objects are and they can be | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
collected by ships, that we will no whether or not they are indeed parts | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
of the missing airliner. For Chinese ships are now in the search area. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Spotting floating objects in these cities is very tough. We will make | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
full use of different observing methods such as radar, sonar and | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
night-vision devices and focus on floating object and people in the | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
sea. It could still be days before a debris field is identified. That is | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
when this American underwater locator which arrived today in Perth | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
could be deployed to track the airliner was my flight recorders. It | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
is state of the art. But it will be operating in the most challenging | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
conditions imaginable. Our correspondent Paul Adams is in Kuala | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Lumpa, where the authorities have been giving updates about the search | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
for the plane. And the most credible leads so far, they have been saying. | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
What else have they said today was like the keyword is the word | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
potential. You heard that used by the acting transport Minister. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Clearly there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that all | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
points in the same direction. Several sightings both from the air | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
and satellite and of course the Inmarsat data which pointed to the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
plane disappearing more or less in that area. But no one has talked | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
about a debris field. There is the hope here that we may be able to | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
identify that soon. But we are not there yet. And in the meantime the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Malaysians are still dealing with this torrent of criticism from the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Chinese, from those relatives who are convinced that they are being | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
lied to by the Malaysian authorities. The minister went out | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
of his way today to say that in his words, history will judge as well. | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
He said no other country could point to such success in gathering 26 | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
countries together to mount such a concerted search and rescue | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
operation. The Malaysians feel they're all they can. They are | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
somewhat bristling at the criticism coming from Beijing. And I think | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
they feel, although there are too cautious to say so, that we could be | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
on the verge of being able to say that is the plane, that is the | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
wreckage. And there's plenty more information on the search for the | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
plane on the BBC website where there's a special page with live | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
updates. The address is bbc.co.uk/missingplane. | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
One of the Big Six energy firms has announced it's freezing domestic gas | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
and electricity prices until 2016. SSE says it hopes the move will | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
offer their ten million customers "peace of mind". But the move comes | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
at a cost. 500 jobs are expected to go. And the company is also shelving | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
three planned offshore wind farm developments. Our Industry | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
Correspondent John Moylan has more. It is written's second biggest | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
supplier with around 8 million gas or electricity customers. Now it is | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
promising them what it claims is the longest price guarantee ever | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
offered. We are prepared to take a drop in profits especially in 2015, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
it could be up to ?100 million. And between all those things we can then | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
give the customer what they want, a price freeze right through until | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
2016. SSE increased its average prices back in the autumn by 8.2%. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
It finally reduced prices by 3.5% this week at becoming the last of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
the friends to pass on the government's ?50 cut in green | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
levies. That left the dual fuel Bill at around ?1186 per year. That is | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
still a big chunk of most family budgets. But today in Glasgow the | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
price freeze was broadly welcomed. Anything that can save money at this | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
point is a good thing. The energy costs have gone through the roof in | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
the last few years. Everyone wants the best value for money. We would | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
have to look at the best deal for us as a family. I wish they would all | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
do it. I wish ScottishPower and Scottish gas would do it as well. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
The move comes at a crucial time for the industry. Tomorrow is Bob at the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
energy regulator and competition authorities will published their | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
review of the energy market. It is widely anticipated that will trigger | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
a broader full-scale investigation would could take up to two years. -- | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
which could. SSE appear to be that enquiry today, saying it would | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
legally separated wholesale and retail arms. They will also shelled | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
three out of four of its proposed offshore wind farms. But does the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
price freeze suggest that the energy market is finally working? This move | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
by SSE chose it is possible for companies to reform and split up | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
their retail and wholesale businesses. But we cannot rely on | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
them doing that voluntarily. This has echoes of Labour's flagship | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
energy policy. Now embraced by one the biggest suppliers. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
Our Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. The | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
price freeze has dominated PMQs this lunchtime, both Labour and the | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
Conservatives claiming credit for it. There has been an unseemly | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
scramble, Mr Cameron claiming that it was the coalition by encouraging | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
us to shop around but led to the price freeze. But my sense is that | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the price freeze decision today was an absolute gift from the gods for | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Ed Miliband. Because if you had to think of just one keynote Labour | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
policy, it would be the price freeze. So the decision by SSE | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
enabled Ed Miliband to say today that that policy had credibility, | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
had been vindicated. It enabled him to throw back some of Mr Cameron's | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
quotes about the idea of a freeze being unworkable. Perhaps a | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Communist plot. But he needed this gift today because Mr Miliband is | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
going through a few difficult days. The gift could also be short lived | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
up SSE was the first energy company to put up bills and now is the first | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
to freeze them. If others follow then what is the point in Ed | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Miliband having a standout policy pledging to freeze energy bills went | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
all the energy companies have already done it? The government says | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
it has reduced the national debt by almost ?800 million through the sale | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
of the second tranche of Lloyds shares. The sale cuts the | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
government's holding in the Lloyds Banking Group to just under 25%, | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
down from an original 39%. The Chancellor said the sale represented | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
good value for the taxpayer and was another step toward repairing the | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
banks. Thousands of pupils across England | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
and Wales are off school today because of a teachers' strike by one | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
of the main unions. Members of the NUT have walked out as part of the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
continuing dispute about pay, pensions and workload. Unions say | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
the strike is a "last resort" but the Department for Education said it | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
was disrupting parents' lives and holding back children's education. | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
Here's Sarah Campbell. For parents this is the third | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
national walk-out since June 2011 that they have had to deal with. | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
They have been separate regional strikes in between. Today some | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
schools have closed, others remained open but only partially. We had | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
quite short notice and I had to rearrange my days at work. My | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
employer locally is flexible. Not good. I was struggling this morning. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
They have to do what they have to do. If they're not happy with | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
conditions they have to see what happens. This industrial action is | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
part of a long-running battle between teachers and the government | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
over pay, pensions and conditions. Negotiations between the two sides | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
are ongoing and one of the two main teaching unions decided not to take | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
part in the strike today while talks continue. This walk-out involves | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
members from just one teaching union, the NUT. But with more than | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
300,000 members, collectively they are able to cause widespread | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
disruption in schools across England and Wales. I am sorry that we are | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
inconveniencing parents today but actually there is a big problem in | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
teaching and there are problems in government policy for parents and | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
their children. Like the fact that teachers will not have to be | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
qualified and the changes in the curriculum. As part of the BBC's | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
global board project the schools that Mr was interviewed in advance | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
of the strike today. What are you going to do to persuade teachers not | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
to strike so I can be at school? Lot of things that have been | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
controversial with teachers about pension reforms and pay, I believe | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
strongly that they are necessary. We have been protected in schools and | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
the school budget much more than most other areas of government | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
funding. The Department for education estimates that less than a | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
quarter of the 24,000 schools in England are closed today but many | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
more will have been disrupted putting pupils and parents at the | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
centre of this dispute. The publicist Max Clifford has begun | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
giving evidence at his trial. He has contradicted allegations from one | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
woman who says he indecently assaulted her in his car in 1966. Mr | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Clifford told the court he couldn't drive and didn't have a car at the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
time. The 70-year-old is facing 11 counts of indecent assault against | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
seven women and girls. He denies all the charges. Our Correspondent | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Richard Lister is at Southwark Crown Court. Max Clifford took the stand | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
an hour ago. What else has he been saying? That is right. He has been | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
speaking for little more than an hour, mostly about his early life | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
and career. He has been giving an account of how he set up Max | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Clifford associates and came to be involved in show business. His | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
barrister said he intends to spend more time on that before getting to | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
the substance of questions. But he said the jury should bear in mind | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
that up until now they have only heard one side of the story. The | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
struggle well says he will show evidence that all the allegations | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
against Mr Clifford of force. If there is one of the reasons he can | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
say this so precisely is that he believes that once the Civic set of | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
allegations are completely contradictory. Namely the size of | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Max Clifford's genitalia. He said all the witnesses so far have | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
provided contradict the accounts of that. He says he will produce | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
evidence that they are all wrong and will produce diaries written by Max | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Clifford and put into storage. He says he did not have access to them | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
while he was being spoken to by police. And he was not aware of them | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
until relatively recently. He said he will -- these will shed new light | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
on these allegations. Mr Clifford denies all 11 of the allegations | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
against him. Our top story this lunchtime. French satellite pictures | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
show 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean - the | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
authorities call it the strongest lead yet in the search for the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
missing plane. And still to come. An extraordinary escape for a | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
construction worker trapped on the top floor of a blazing building. | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
Later on BBC London: The multi-million pound rebuild of | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
London Bridge Station - we get a look at how it is being transformed. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
And from TV talent show to West End musical - the new show having fun at | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
the X Factor's expense. The painstaking search for victims | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
of a massive landslide in the north-west of America is continuing. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
The mud is 20 feet deep in places, and hope of finding anyone alive in | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
the small town of Oso is fading. At least 24 people are believed to have | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
died on Saturday, but around 170 are still unaccounted for. Our North | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
America correspondent, David Willis, reports. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Little by little, officials are getting a sense of what lies beneath | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the thick layer of mud that enveloped this picturesque corner of | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
the American north-west on Saturday. It is not a pretty | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
picture. Such was the speed and ferocity of the mudslide that it | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
appears many in Oso were unable to escape, and ended up being buried | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
alive. We are finding that these vehicles are twisted into pieces. I | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
saw a car out there and I saw one piece of a car, and it was just all | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
twisted. It is amazing, the magnitude and the force that this | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
slide has created and what it has done. Almost as troubling as the | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
rising death toll, the revelation that a government scientist warned | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
of the catastrophe of precisely this kind as long ago as 1999. Yet still, | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
people were allowed to build homes here. Officials insist that the | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
mudslide was completely unforeseen, and are suggesting that a small | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
earthquake in the area if you days earlier could have been to blame. As | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
the death toll rises here, officials are warning that the rescue and | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
recovery operation could be a long one. They vow to find all the | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
victims, but concede that that could take weeks, if not months. David | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Willis, BBC News, in Washington state. | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
When Richard Durkin signed a credit agreement for a laptop in 1998, | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
little did he know it would result in a 16 year legal battle. Despite | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
returning the computer the next day, he was told to continue making | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
payments and was placed on a credit blacklist. Today, the Supreme Court | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
ruled in his favour. Our legal correspondent, Clive Coleman, is | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
here to explain more. Let's start with why he returned the computer? | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
He returned it because it did not have an in-built modem, which was | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
what he wanted. So he took it back to the store and terminated the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
contract of sale. However, HFC bank said he had to continue making his | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
payments under the credit agreement. They also ended up | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
putting a default notice on his credit files. He said that | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
annihilated his credit rating. He could not buy a house and was very | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
upset. He sued and won ?116,000 in damages, but he did not think that | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
was enough. So he appealed that decision and lost, so the ?116,000 | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
but dramatically reduced. So he took his case the whole way to the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Supreme Court and in a judgement which is great victory for consumers | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
but a hollow one for him, he won a ruling which says in effect that if | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
you reject goods in a valid way, by implication you are also terminating | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
the credit agreement. That is potentially very good for consumers. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
Also, if a credit company, a bank or other organisation offering credit, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
if they want to blacklist you, they have to be certain that you are | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
genuinely in default. They owe you a duty to carry out investigations. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
They did not do so in this case. So credit companies will have to be a | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
lot more careful now in carrying out due diligence. If they don't get it | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
right, they can be sued for negligence and damages. Sadly for Mr | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Durkin, the technical legal reasons, the Supreme Court cannot we | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
assess damages, though he is now left with just ?8,000. He did have | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
116,000! President Obama is meeting leaders | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
of the European Union and NATO in Brussels this lunchtime to discuss, | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
amongst other topics, the Ukraine crisis. Our correspondent, Matthew | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
Price, is in Brussels. This is about renewing ties, but it is also about | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
discussing article issues like reducing your's dependence on Russia | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
for energy? Very much so full of when this summit was first conceived | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
of over a year ago and spoken about several months ago, they did not | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
know Ukraine would be an issue. So we will not get major decisions made | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
her about what to do about Russia. We will not get more announcements | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
of EU or US sanctions. We may well have a restatement of some of the | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
sorts of things which are at the and others have been saying in recent | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
days about Russia, but nothing new in practical terms. However, it is | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
important to look out for, amongst talks about closer ties between | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Europe and the United States, most specifically regarding a trade | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
agreement which would form the world's largest trading block if it | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
comes into existence, which they have been negotiating for several | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
months now - as part of that, there are talks about energy. Energy is | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
crucial in the way the European Union deals with Russia, because it | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
gets so much of its gas from Russia. So are there going to be new | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
deals spoken of here for the United States to supply the European Union | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
with gas? Are they going to talk about the practical ways of building | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
infrastructure to do that? A second quick thought on NATO - Barack | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Obama, after he had met European Union leaders here, will head off to | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
see the NATO secretary general. There has been a lot of talk from | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
the White House about the need to show Eastern European countries who | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
feel threatened by Russia that NATO has their back. I am sure there will | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
be trying to add to some of the practical measures they have in | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
place to do that. MPs are about to vote on plans to | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
introduce an overall cap on the amount the UK spends on welfare each | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
year. Welfare spending, excluding the state pension and some | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
unemployment benefits, would be capped next year at just over ?119 | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
billion, under proposals set out in the Budget. The Labour leader Ed | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
Miliband supports the cap, but some party backbenchers are expected to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
vote against the plan. A construction worker in Texas has | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
had a very lucky escape after he was rescued from a burning building just | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
before the roof collapsed. Dramatic pictures show how the man became | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
stuck on a ledge of the apartment complex, which was being built in | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Houston. Amateur video footage filmed by witnesses in neighbouring | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
buildings captured the drama as it unfolded. Lisa Hampele reports. | :22:56. | :23:07. | |
He has escaped to the top ledge and in the building opposite, they can't | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
believe what they are seeing. Oh, God, oh, God. The winds fanned the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
rooftop fire, which was getting closer. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Rescue | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
workers brought the ladder towards him. The fire started as workmen had | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
been welding on the roof. They need to get him! A glass window pane just | :23:28. | :23:35. | |
misses him. Oh, Jesus. The high-rise building was under construction in | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. All this began with a small | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
blaze. Hell, he could jump on there. It was another difficult | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
decision. They need to move that truck up. Oh, my God. The heat was | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
intense, the danger palpable. We should be going. The winds were | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
gusting at 20 mph. Hell, yes. Oh, thank Jesus. 200 firefighters fought | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
the blaze. People in neighbouring buildings were evacuated, and for | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
this man, there was more to come. Oh, my God. Oh, no! He was carried | :24:14. | :24:23. | |
away over the tops of the trees to safety. Everyone was amazed. Oh, | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Jesus. I think it is time for us to go. They were thankful that the | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
drama had ended with no one even injured. Lisa Hampele, BBC News. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, and Nigel Farage, leader of | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
the UK Independence Party, are going head to head in a live broadcast | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
about Britain's membership of the EU tonight. They will try to win over | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
the public in the first of two debates between "the party of in and | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
the party of out". The debates are being staged in the run-up to the | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
European Parliament elections in May. Our political correspondent, | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
Chris Mason, reports. It all started with this. I will | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
challenge Nigel Farage to a public, open debate about whether we should | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
be in or out of the European Union. That is now the choice facing this | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
country, and he is the leader of the party of out. I am the leader of the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
party of in. Nigel Farage said, about time! It is a good platform | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
for the majority of British people, who want our relationship to be | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
based on trade, but wants no part of a political union. Those who have | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
felt like this have had their views brushed under the carpet. It is not | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
under the carpet now. The debate is on. Looking forward to it | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
enormously. I have waited 20 years to have a proper debate on national | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
media about whether we should be a member of the European Union, so I | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
am delighted. Tonight will be like a mini version of this, one of the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
leaders' debates before the last general election. Each leader will | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
make an opening statement. They will debate with one another and take | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
distance from the audience. You might think it is a bit odd that the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
two big parties in there, the Conservatives and Labour, are not | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
taking part tonight. In its own way, Europe is a bit awkward for them | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
both . But for pro-European Nick Lake and Eurosceptic Nigel Farage, | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
they will hope to capitalise on the clarity of their own views -- Nick | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
Clegg. The topic later boils down to this. Are these institutions a good | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
thing for the UK or not? It is over to Messrs Clegg and forage to slug | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
it out, and over to you to decide. -- Messrs Clegg and Nigel Farage. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
And the BBC News Channel will have live coverage of that debate between | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage from 7pm. | :26:45. | :26:45. | |
One of the world's most famous celebrity couples has announced that | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
they are splitting up. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
Chris Martin are separating after ten years of marriage. In a post | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
titled "conscious uncoupling" on her blog, the actress said they had made | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
the decision "with hearts full of sadness". Here is Lizo Mzimba. | :27:01. | :27:09. | |
Chris Martin and Quinn Paltrow have long been seen as one of the | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
world's was high-profile couples -- winner Paltrow. Now after ten years | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
of marriage, they are separating. The joint announcement, made on | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Gwyneth Paltrow's blog, said the decision was made with hearts full | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
of sadness, but we are closer than we have ever been, but that they had | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
decided to split. The web post was titled "conscious uncoupling" . The | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
same title was referred to in an accompanying 2000 word essay. What | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
does it actually mean? It is taking a life that to this point has been | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
lived together on the same path, and separating it in such a way that you | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
are valuing yourself, valuing the other, honouring your life together | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
and your future life, and you are being accountable for your own | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
emotional reality and whatever it is that is fuelling you to move forward | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
so that you can both evolve. They both enjoyed huge success in their | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
careers. Martin's band Coldplay has won eight Brit awards, seven Grammys | :28:10. | :28:18. | |
and sold 70 million records. Her acting career has ranged from her | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
Oscar-winning 1998 the drama Shakespearean love... To last | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
year's biggest box office hit, Ironman three. Six months ago, ship | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
managed on American TV that there are difficulties in long-term | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
relationships. It is not easy to be married for ten years. We definitely | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
have big ups and downs. In their separation statement, they said that | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
as they consciously uncouple and co-parent, they still saw their role | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
first and foremost to be father and mother to their two children. | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
Now the weather. The weather will feel a bit on the | :28:53. | :28:59. | |
cult site of the next couple of days. It is a triple whammy of below | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
average temperatures. Not a great deal of sunshine, and there will be | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
a cold easterly breeze. But that combination of weather is not set to | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
last and it will turn warm as we head into this weekend. This | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
afternoon's weather comes all the way from the Baltic as it moves | :29:16. | :29:23. | |
across Denmark. Then it moves towards the British Isles. This is | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
rain bearing cloud. We have also got a strip of cloud affecting Northern | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
Ireland and bringing spots of rain. This afternoon, we are looking at | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
bursts of rain, continuing to move in. It could be a lengthy spell of | :29:37. | :29:42. | |
rain, with heavy downpours here and there. The South West England and | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
Wales, not too many showers. Not feeling too bad. Across the | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
Midlands, temperatures are on the way down. Feeling chilly. Northern | :29:51. | :29:58. | |
Ireland will brighten up a bit of a bit the County Antrim and County | :29:59. | :30:01. | |
Down. Scotland has a glorious afternoon, the warmest place in the | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
country in the Highlands of Scotland. Overnight, the showers | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
will continue to feed in and as the air gets colder, we will start to | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
see some snow falling on some of the hillier areas. We could see a few | :30:14. | :30:22. | |
flakes of snow, and the potential for some frost patches. Thursday | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
starts off on a cloudy note, showers from the word go, particularly | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
across the south-west of the British Isles. As the heat builds, the | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
showers become more widespread as we head into the afternoon. Again, the | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
showers could be heavy, with some hail mixed in. Temperatures are | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
still disappointing. Those cold winds will still be with us on | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
Friday, but there are signs that the temperatures are beginning to edge | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
up. As we look towards the weekend, this area of pressure in the | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
Atlantic will dive southwards towards Portugal, bringing somewhat | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
weather towards us. But at the same time, there will be milder | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
southeasterly winds across the British Isles. Look at how the | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
temperature map lights up as we go towards Sunday. Warmer weather comes | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
from France and Belgium. But for many of us, temperatures will be | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
rising. It is just across north-eastern coast is that we could | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
be stuck with some chilly weather, but it is not looking too bad. | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
A reminder of our top story this lunchtime: a further 122 objects, | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
potentially from the missing Malaysian plane, have been | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
identified by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean. | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
That's all from us. Now on BBC One, time for | :31:41. | :31:41. |