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take extra care when they are outdoors. Reduce the amount of | :00:13. | :00:24. | |
strenuous physical activity you do outdoors, and be aware that you may | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
need to use your inhalers more on this had polluted days. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Several people have been killed in Chile after an earthquake with a | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
magnitude of 8.2 hits the country. Seconds out, round two - the stage | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
is set for Farage versus Clegg, the rematch. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
Nervous neighbours - the Baltic states on Russia's doorstep look to | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
NATO to help safeguard their borders. This aircraft can be | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
scrambled within minutes, but it is not just about reassuring the Baltic | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
states, it is also about sending a clear message to Russia as well. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
And two hugely valuable paintings by Gauguin and Bonnard stolen in London | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
over 40 years ago have turned up in a pensioner's flat in Sicily. | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
On BBC London: House prices in the capital are up by 18% in one year. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
And former Ford employees take their pension campaign to Westminster. | :01:22. | :01:43. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Parts of England | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
are being warned about abnormally high levels of air pollution today. | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
It's being caused by a combination of dust blown over from the Sahara | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
and vehicle exhaust emissions, and is expected to move across southern | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
England and the Midlands, with East Anglia at the highest possible | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
threat level. People with lung or heart conditions are being told to | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
take special care if they're outside. Here's our Science | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. As the sun rose, people in parts of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
England will want to expect a very high levels of air pollution. -- | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
people were warned. The government has a ten point scale for measuring | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
air quality, with one meaning a low risk of pollution and ten being very | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
high. Levels hit the maximum of ten in north-west Norfolk yesterday, and | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
it is still thought to be a hotspot today. The purple areas are forecast | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
to be the most polluted. Dark red indicates a likelihood of poor air | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
quality, with green being the best. Experts said it is an unusual | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
event. It is a combination of several factors, none of which in | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
themselves is particularly unusual, but it is the combination of four | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
individual factors, some of which are to do with chemistry, some with | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
emissions and some with air quality. They have all combined to give us | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
what we are experiencing. Cars and lorries are one of the main causes | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
of poor air quality. Although they are much less polluting than they | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
used to be, there are much more of them on the road. And here is | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
another cause. High winds have whipped up sand from the Sahara | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
desert, and it has been blown directly over the UK, making its | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
mark as it rained earlier this week. Sand and dust from the Sahara comes | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
to the UK a few times a year, but on this occasion, the effects have been | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
particularly bad. They have combined articles that have won over from | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Europe and air pollution has been particularly bad in the UK. For some | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
of us, it has meant sore throats and sore eyes, but those with throat and | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
lung diseases have been asked to take particular care. People with | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
asthma or conditions of that sort, where doing strenuous activity | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
outdoors, you may notice an increase in your symptoms, so you may need to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
reduce the activity you take outdoors if you are in one of the | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
highest polluted areas. And you may need to use your inhalers more than | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
usual. Pollution levels are expected to peak today and disappear by the | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
end of the week. But campaigners say the high levels highlight the fact | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
that most local authorities don't meet that target. In February, the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
European Commission launched legal proceedings against the UK for | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
failing to improve air quality. Let's get more from our environment | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
analyst, Roger Harrabin. Roger, how bad is bad? How does the air in | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
London compared to Delhi or Beijing? At the moment, we are in a | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
particularly bad episode. We have this strange combination of the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Saharan dust, plus severe local pollution, plus pollution from the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
continent. Assorted groups of heart and lung patients are angry, because | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
although we cannot affect the Saharan dust, we can affect what | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
happens on our own shores. The government is 15 years behind in its | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
efforts to meet a directive from the European Union to improve air | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
quality. London has some of the worst air quality in Europe, and so | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
to do a lot of other native cities. But making the comparison you just | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
made with Beijing or Delhi, for instance, we are suffering a bad | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
episode now, but generally speaking, much lower levels than those. And | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the Saharan dust does bring some benefit? It has a bizarre benefit. A | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
large proportion of the Atlantic is fertilised by nutrients in it, and | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
it blows right away over the Atlantic and over to Brazil and | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
fertilisers parts of the rainforest, so it is an ill wind | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
that blows nobody any good. Six people have died after a | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Chile. Thousands more were | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
told to leave their homes because of fears that the quake might have | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
triggered a tsunami. Those warnings have now been relaxed. The quake, | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
which had a magnitude of 8.2, followed days of powerful tremors | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
across the region. Here's our world affairs correspondent, Emily | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Buchanan. 8:50pm. Last-minute shopping before | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
dinner, and then suddenly, the terrifying tremors. The ground shook | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
as people ran out of the supermarket. The shelves were | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
shaking so violently that good is were thrown onto the floor. | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
Nearby in the port city of Iquique, the moment of the quake. All one | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
woman could do was pray as her house shook precariously. Outside, you | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
could hear the sound of walls and windows breaking. Then the lights | :07:04. | :07:15. | |
went out. The pitch darkness in this district was broken only by a huge | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
fire. People were desperate to flee the area, but they faced mayhem in | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the streets. If you had been killed by collapsing walls or from heart | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
attacks. It was very strong and it went on a long time, this woman | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
cried. Another said, the police have told us to leave. But it was hard to | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
find shelter. The hospitals themselves were being cleared of | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Haitians. The government has declared a state of emergency -- | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
hospitals were cleared of patients. Some inmates escaped from a women's | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
prison full of Chile's president missed that she would continue to | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
work to confront the emergency and protect people and their families. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
Chile has escaped relatively lightly. A large tsunami did not | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
materialise, although dangerous waves could hit countries across the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Pacific. But scientists warn of more big quakes to come. Emily Buchanan, | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
BBC News. Tonight sees the rematch between the | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
in the debate over Britain's future in Europe. Tonight's debate is | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
likely to see Mr Farage questioned on his views about Vladimir Putin, | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
having described the Russian President as the leader he admires | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
most. Here's our chief political correspondent, Norman Smith. | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
So, now we move to round two of the televised tussle between Messrs | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Clegg and Farage. Last time, the UKIP man was judged the winner, at | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
least in the polls, although many in the Westminster village thought that | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
actually, Nick Clegg had done better. Both men have had a solid | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
week to hone their key arguments, although we already know many of | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
their big pitches. We should not sacrifice a single job just to | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
fulfil this dogmatic view that we should turn our backs on the rest of | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
the world. The debate is between a tired status quo, defending a | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
crumbling European Union that frankly is not working any more, and | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
a fresh approach which says, let's be friendly with Europe and trade | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
with them, but not be governed by their institutions. So, what will be | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
the key crunch points? Obviously, the referendum. Last time, Mr | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
Farage's message was that we need one because you can't trust the | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
politicians. This was Nick Clegg's riposte. You have referenda in our | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
democracy when there is an important question to answer, when new powers | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
are being transferred to our country to the European Union. That is when. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
It should not be done by government, it should be done by you in a | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
referendum, and I and the government of which I am part have guaranteed | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
that in law. Another cringe -- crunch point - immigration. Nick | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Clegg said not to exaggerate it. This was Nigel Farage's reply. We | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
need to operate a system of work permits in terms of the shortages we | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
have and skills others may want to bring to us. But perhaps the real | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
crunch point could come with a slip or a gaffe or an unexpected | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
question, because no matter how much the two men have repaired the | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
tonight, there is no hiding place in a live, televised, face-to-face | :10:44. | :10:44. | |
debate. And we can talk to Norman now. So | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
you talked about Europe and immigration. What else might we look | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
forward to tonight? My sense is that we could be facing a real humdinger | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
of a debate tonight, because both men are promising a more competent, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
combustible contest. Team Clyde are saying there will be less facts and | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
figures on their man, less Mr sensible, and more passionate about | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
the case for Europe. And team Farage are saying their man is "ready to | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Rumble". We have already had some pre-match sparring over the issue of | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
president Putin, with Mr Farage's claim last time that the EU had | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
blood on its hands. This morning, Mr Farage was absolutely standing by | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
his remarks. I was asked a couple of months ago which world leader I | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
admire, and I said Vladimir Putin, as an operator, particularly with | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
the way he managed to stop the West getting militarily involved in | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Syria. But I don't like him and I would not want to live there. I am | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
sure there will be a ding-dong over that. I think simply to regard the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
bloodshed in Syria as a game I'm aware he admires blood amid Putin's | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
role in that, just shows how irresponsible his view is of the | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
world. This is the real world. You need to make serious decisions, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
particularly in the face of a terrible human Terry and disaster | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
such as in Syria -- humour disaster. Despite all the fighting talk, it | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
seems that both men could yet stagger from the ring victorious and | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
the real losers could be Messrs Miliband and Cameron, who are not | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
taking part tonight, risking accusations that they are afraid to | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
enter the fray and afraid to risk exposing divisions within their own | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
parties over the issue of Europe. A reminder that you can watch the | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
debate live on BBC Two from seven o'clock this evening. David Dimbleby | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
is hosting and you can watch it live on BBC Two and the BBC News | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
Channel. And there's all the build-up | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
throughout the afternoon, and then the reaction and analysis afterwards | :12:52. | :12:52. | |
on the BBC News Channel. The gap between house prices in | :12:53. | :13:09. | |
London and the rest of the country has risen to record levels. London | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
prices are now on average more than double those elsewhere, according to | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the nationwide building society. Property values are increasing | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
almost everywhere, with the average house costing 9.5% more than a year | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
ago. The jury at the Hillsborough inquest | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
has been told their task is to inquire "fully, fairly and | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
fearlessly" into the deaths of the 96 people who died in the disaster. | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
The judge said part of that would be to determine whether police amended | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
some of their statements in order to put the blame on the crowd and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
deflect criticism from themselves. Our correspondent, Judith Moritz, | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
has been at the inquest this morning. | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
Yes, that's right, and the Hillsborough disaster happened on | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
the 15th of April 1989, when the terraces at the Sheffield ground | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
became overcrowded. In the intervening 25 years, there has been | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
a catalogue of enquiries and investigations. This morning, the | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
coroner began by telling the jury about some of that history. | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
For the families of those who died at Hillsborough, coming to court | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
each day is starting to feel like a routine. Today, they came to hear | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
the coroner finishes opening speech. He spoke about the previous inquest | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
which were quashed and make way for this new hearings. He explained that | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
the last coroner had decided only to hear evidence from before 3.15 on | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
the afternoon of the disaster. It meant that the emergency response | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
was not examined. The court also heard about the | :14:43. | :14:57. | |
police statements which were made by South Yorkshire officers after the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
disaster. The jury was told that a large number had been amended. The | :15:02. | :15:02. | |
coroner said: Tomorrow, the court will begin | :15:03. | :15:21. | |
hearing the stories of the 96 men, women and children who died at | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Hillsborough. Their relatives have asked to speak about their | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
characters and personalities. I am hoping I will be brave enough to do | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
it. It is the last tribute I can give to my brother. I have done | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
loads of things over the 25 years, and that is probably one of the most | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
fickle. To keep it reasonably short, but to get the essence of the person | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
across, or in our case two people across, it is extremely difficult | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
and a few people have said it is very moving. The families will now | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
prepare themselves for the emotional experience of making their | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
statements over the coming days. Finishing his speech, the coroner | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
gave the jury selection of different topic areas that he suggests they | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
consider during this inquest, which could last for around a year. He | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
suggested they may want to think about questions such as whether more | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
could have been done to prevent the overcrowding and look at the | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
emergency response. Good more have been done by the police and | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
ambulance services? Judith in Warrington, thank you very | :16:28. | :16:28. | |
much. Our top story this lunchtime: There | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
are warnings of severe pollution warnings across some parts of | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
England because of vehicle emissions and dust blown over from the Sahara | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
desert. And still to come: Is it time to | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
stub out the e-cig? Wales considers a ban in public places. | :16:45. | :16:53. | |
Later on BBC London: Picking up the baton, the new move to encourage | :16:54. | :16:54. | |
more women to take the musical lead. The political crisis in Ukraine is | :16:55. | :17:09. | |
having repercussions way beyond its borders. Other countries bordering | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
on Russia are looking nervously at their larger neighbour following its | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
annexation of the Crimea. In the Baltic states, all now members of | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
NATO, that's meant stepping up air patrols along their borders with | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
America sending extra warplanes to bolster their defences. Our defence | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
correspondent, Jonathan Beale, has been to Lithuania to watch NATO's | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
forces on exercise. Every moment of every day NATO | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
warplanes are on alert. This is an exercise, but here in Lithuania, it | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
really matters. The Baltic states are increasingly nervous about the | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
behaviour of their big neighbour Russia. I can't say Cold War because | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
it is a very hot war. The Russians have occupied part of Ukraine and | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
concentrated their forces and I think we should be ready to defend | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
our states if this continues. These F15s can be scrambled within minutes | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
and it is not just about reassuring the Baltic states. It is also about | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
sending a clear message to Russia, too. | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
The Baltics don't have much of an air force, so they rely on NATO | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
partners to take turns patrolling their skies. Normally, there are | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
just four warplanes, but this time the Americans have sent ten and | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
there are offers of more planes, too. NATO has a great responsibility | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
across the entire spectrum of its airspace. Maintaining sovereign | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
airspace is very important to any nation. When you are part of the | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
strongest alliance in history of the world, our sovereign airspace, that | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
is where it all begins. Have you had the chance to see any Russian planes | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
up there? I have the same answer. I can't comment on operational | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
specifics of the mission. But at one of NATO's command centres, they have | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
seen increasing Russian military activity. At this base, they can | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
track every aircraft from the Alps to northern Norway, and practically | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
every week they are spotting Russian warplanes that appear without | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
warning. We have seen a slow increase over the years consistent | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
with Russian ambition, if you like. Their air forces now receive more | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
money and we know that everybody knows that and so we see more | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
activity. Does that worry you? I would say it is not worrying but we | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
need to be sure we are aware of it, yes. This is still a modest military | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
response and NATO officials are playing down talk of a new Cold | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
War. But out on the Eastern front, the Alliance's smaller members are | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
looking for assurances and a stronger show of force. Jonathan | :19:57. | :20:06. | |
Beale, BBC News, Lithuania. The Malaysian authorities say | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
they've ruled out any passenger involvement in the disappearance of | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
the airliner which vanished more than three weeks ago. Police are now | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
focusing on the crew after concluding that the flight path was | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
probably altered by someone on board. A Royal Navy submarine has | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
now arrived in the southern Indian Ocean to join the search operation. | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has called the current | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa an unprecedented | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
epidemic. So far more than 80 people have died in Guinea and four in | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
Liberia. Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge has | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
the latest. Ebola, now in West Africa for the | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
first time, is one of the world's deadliest diseases. It can kill up | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
to 90% of those that become infected and the threat to health workers | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
dealing with patients means they must wear fully protective | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
clothing. The World Health Organisation is shipping extra | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
supplies to Guinea and sending in more personnel. Top priorities are | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
to stop the disease spreading further and to chase contact with | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
those already infected. Evo laptop breaks are already of high concern. | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
-- Ibo virus outbreaks are all ways of high concern. It can never be out | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
of control until 40 days have passed since the last case. This outbreak | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
in the democratic Republic of Congo in the mid 1990s killed 200 people | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
before it was over. It was 20 years previously that the disease first | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
appeared in Sudan, with a similar outcome. The disease can be caught | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
from both humans and animals such as the fruit bat. The poorer the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
country affected, the greater the challenges, but as the battle to | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
contain this outbreak intensifies, any's President has called on his | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
people not to panic. Wales could become the first part of | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the UK to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public places. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Ministers say they're responding to concerns that the devices which can | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
contain nicotine make smoking appear normal and undermine the smoking | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
ban. Here's our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
A harmless puff in public or a gateway to greater harm? In pubs and | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
cafes once filled with clouds of smoke, the vapour of an e-cigarette | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
is now the new norm. For these users, the idea of a Government ban | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
is unthinkable. It has got nothing to do with them, has it? If you want | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
to smoke, you smoke. I think I would still smoke. I wouldn't go back to | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
cigarettes. I would still stick to the vapour. The potential risks of | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
using vaporisers like these are still being investigated, but the | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Welsh Government says it is certain they cause harm. We are fearful that | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
e-cigarettes are a gateway to real cigarettes, that once people get | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
used to using those, and they are nicotine products which are highly | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
addictive, then that will make it easier for them to move onto real | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
cigarettes. The growth in the e-cigarette industry has been | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
enormous in the last few years, with shops like this one popping up on | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
every High Street, serving an estimated 1.3 million users across | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
the UK. Retailers argue many of those are people trying to improve | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
their health by swapping smoke for vapour. I would say 95% of people | :23:36. | :23:44. | |
use it as a gateway to exit smoking regular cigarettes. I would have to | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
say that we don't get any people coming in saying, "I am thinking of | :23:51. | :24:07. | |
taking up the habit". A ban on sales to under 18-year-olds is likely to | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
come in across the UK, but by pushing even further, the Welsh | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Government is sending out a signal that it knows what is best for | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
public health. Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Cardiff. | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
Six people have died in bomb blasts in the run-up to the presidential | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
elections in Afghanistan this weekend. Hamid Karzai is standing | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
down as President and for the first time there is a real possibility | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
that a woman could become the country's Vice President, a major | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
change in a country with an international reputation for its | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
lack of women's rights. Our Afghanistan correspondent David Loyn | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
reports from Kabul. Handing over a box of toys, Habiba Sarabi is | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
campaigning to become the most powerful woman in Afghanistan, as | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
vice-presidential candidate in one of the three teams that stand a | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
chance of winning. This politician trained as a doctor and has been | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
seeing for herself the plight of malnourished children in hospital. | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
She knows that Afghan women have a long way to go. We have to work very | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
hard for the other women who are at the village level. Convince them | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
that they are human beings like others and they have to promote | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
themselves. Dr Sarabi became prominent as the reformist governor | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
of Bamiyan in the centre of the country. She is from the Hazara | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
community, where women have relatively more equality than in | :25:30. | :25:39. | |
other places. Another woman candidate, Safia Siddiqui, is a | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Pashtun, the same as the Taliban, and has had a harder struggle. She's | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
used to being in meetings where she's the only woman, but has not | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
heard criticisms when she's been campaigning this time. Even from the | :25:49. | :26:02. | |
Taliban side, I haven't heard that. It does mean that people are | :26:03. | :26:04. | |
accepting the woman's presence even at high level. This is one part of | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the issue. But for the other side, if the women cannot come forward to | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
vote, then there is no need for a women to be in the high level. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Intimidation and the threat of violence could prevent women voting, | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
even if there are now women to vote for. On a Kabul street on a normal | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
busy morning, there are hardly any women among the people bustling to | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
and fro. Life for too many women remains very pinched. They remain | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
property in the view of many Afghan men. 13 years after the fall of the | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Taliban, so many promises were made but so little has changed for | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
women's rights in Afghanistan. And these few women who are aiming for | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the top could begin to make a change for the better. David Loyn, BBC | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
News, Kabul. Police in Italy say they've | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
recovered two French masterpieces stolen in London 44 years ago. The | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
works by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard were taken from a house in | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Regent's Park in 1970. Police in Italy showed off the artworks at a | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
press conference this morning and revealed they'd been found in the | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
home of a pensioner in Sicily. Sarah Campbell has the story. | :27:09. | :27:20. | |
Thought to have been lost four decades after they disappeared, two | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
masterpieces are back on display. They still life by Paul go again is | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
worth an estimated ?8.5 billion. This work was stolen from a private | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
address in London in 1971. According to Italian police, they were left on | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
a train at one point and bought for a fraction of their real value by an | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
Italian worker. It was his son who spotted they could be genuine | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
artworks and alerted the police. The potential financial rewards from a | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
successful heist can be staggering. In 2008, in Switzerland, pieces by | :27:55. | :28:02. | |
money, Van Gogh and Cezanne with a total value exceeding ?80 million | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
were taken in a robbery lasting minutes. All were eventually found, | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
as was The Screen, one of the most famous thefts in recent years. It | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
had suffered damage but was able to be put on display. As countless | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
thefts have shown, as long as artworks retain their multi-million | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
pound price tag is, they will be targeted by gangs who see their | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
value purely in financial terms. Time for the weather. We are | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
normally concerned about the temperature but I suspect today it | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
is about air quality. Yes, we start with pollution levels. We are | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
expecting pollution levels to reach a high through the course of today, | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
particularly through the East Midlands and into East Anglia, but | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
it is for today only, as we had through the week, the pollution | :28:51. | :29:00. | |
levels will drop. This area of low pressure is gathering force in the | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Atlantic, and we have wings coming off the near continent. -- winds. A | :29:04. | :29:11. | |
band of rain has been spreading North, heavier in northern England. | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
By the middle part of the afternoon, it should lie across northern | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
England and one or two getting into the South East. Largely dry in the | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
South East and warmer temperatures already peaking at 21 in Kent. It | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
will be warm across southern areas but more cloud in the South West | :29:32. | :29:34. | |
with some showers through the afternoon. Similar picture for Wales | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
with most showers into North Wales and pushing towards the Isle of Man | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
at four o'clock this afternoon, and getting into southern parts of | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
Northern Ireland as well. In Scotland, an east-west split with | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
glorious sunshine in the West but more low cloud and a chilly breeze | :29:50. | :29:57. | |
in the East. That is how big is looking in the afternoon. Overnight, | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
that band of rain will continue to advance North with showers following | :30:03. | :30:05. | |
behind. Rumbles of thunder with that. In the South West, the next | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
batch of rain pushes into the South West and it could be heavy. Mild in | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
the South and quite chilly in the North, especially in North East | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
England. The morning will be damp and misty, especially in eastern | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
Scotland and North East England. The rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
and Wales and the South West of England was the heavy, persistent | :30:28. | :30:35. | |
rain, thundery at times. -- will see heavy rain. In the South East, with | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
warm air, we could see 18 or 19. On Friday, we see the main change. The | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
rain becomes confined to Scotland and we lose the southeasterly winds, | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
which will be replaced by the Atlantic south-westerly feeding in | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
sunshine and showers. A snapshot of the weekend, looking cooler and | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
fresher with the winds and an improvement for South East England. | :30:59. | :31:04. | |
Rain at times and some sunny spells, so not a wash-out by any means. | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: Pollution is that story. | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
Air quality over parts of southern and eastern England is expected to | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
deteriorate through the day because of dust from Sahara and polluted air | :31:19. | :31:20. |