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Oscar Pistorius tells a court about the moment he thought | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
He describes becoming overcome with fear, but said | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
his first thought was to protect his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
Just as I left my bed, I'll is expecting Reva to get down and | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
phoned the police. We'll have the latest | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
on the dramatic courtroom events The Queen welcomes Ireland's | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
President on the first formal Shrien Dewani is sent to a | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
psychiatric hospital after appearing in court in South Africa accused | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
of arranging his wife's murder. The unrest in Ukraine spills over | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
into the parliament, as pro-and Just how much did this 500 year | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
old Ming Dynasty cup sell for? Four people arrested, | :00:50. | :01:12. | |
26 years after a 15-year-old And an east London council | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
refunds drivers after issuing Good afternoon | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. Oscar Pistorius has told his murder | :01:20. | :01:39. | |
trial about the minutes leading up to the moment he shot dead | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He told the court that he was | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
overcome with fear after hearing a noise from the bathroom, and that | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
his first thought had been to arm The athlete denies deliberately | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
shooting dead Ms Steenkamp in his He says he mistook her | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
for an intruder. Let's hear the voice of Oscars | :01:58. | :02:14. | |
Pistorius describing it. That is the moment everything changed. I thought | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
there was a burglar intruding into my home. I was on the side of the | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
room where you first had to cross the passage which leads to the | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
bathroom. I think, initially, I just froze. I did not know what to do. I | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
heard a noise and interpreted it as somebody climbing into the bathroom. | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
There is no door between the bathroom and my room, it is a | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
passageway, there is a toilet door, but there is no barrier between me | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
and the bathroom, it is one room. I immediately thought that somebody, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
if they were at the window to where the entrance of the passage was, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
if they were at the window to where the entrance of the in three or four | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
metres they could be there at any moment. The first thing that ran | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
through my mind was that I needed to arm myself, I needed to protect | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Reeva Steenkamp and I needed to get my gun. Lets talk to our | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
correspondence outside the court. A crucial day of evidence. Explain | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
more about what he has been saying and its significance. It's been a | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
dramatic and heart-wrenching moment that we have seen inside the | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
courtroom today. Shortly before Oscar Pistorius spoke, in the | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
moments leading up to the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, he was asked to | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
remove his prosthetic legs and walk towards the bullet riddled door that | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
has been placed inside the courtroom. We saw a wobbling Oscar | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Pistorius walk towards the door and come back to take his seat. He was | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
talking about the moments before the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, and | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
also told the court about what time the couple had dinner that night, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Andy said it was between 7pm and 8pm on the evening. What is important is | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
that the pathologist said that Reeva Steenkamp had something to eat about | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
two hours before she died, and Oscar told the court that the couple had | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
gone to bed at around ten p.m., so there is a contradiction there. But | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Oscar Pistorius is trying to sort that out. We also saw, moments | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
before, as Oscar Pistorius has not yet told the court about the | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
shooting, and said he went for his gun and wanted to instantly protect | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Reeva Steenkamp, but there was a moment in the courtroom when a | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
photograph of Reeva Steenkamp's body was flashed onto the TV monsters and | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Oscar Pistorius looked to the floor as if he was about to vomit. -- the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
TV monitors. He was handed a bucket by a policeman, and that was the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
first time we saw Reeva Steenkamp's mother actually breaking down and | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
being comforted. I can tell you that the court is now back in session, | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
and Oscar Pistorius will continue his testimony about that night he | :05:19. | :05:30. | |
shot Reeva Steenkamp. You can see continuing live coverage. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
There'll be updates throughout the day, on the BBC News Channel. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
Plus a special programme, each evening, | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
Ireland's President has been welcomed to Britain by the Queen | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
at the start of the first formal visit by an Irish Head of State. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Later today, President Michael D Higgins will | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
address parliament, and visit the Grave of the Unknown Warrior in | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Westminster, in advance of a state banquet, which will be attended | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Thank you, Jane. The word historic could be put in front of each of the | :05:56. | :06:14. | |
event to outline, and the importance of the state visit is underlined by | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
the pomp and ceremony we have seen at Windsor Castle this morning -- | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
you outline. The Queen and the Irish president are having lunch before he | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
heads back to London for the historic address to both Houses of | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
Parliament. This report from our special correspondence, Fergal | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Keane. It is the final gesture in a journey of reconciliation between | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
two nations. The first state visit to Britain by an Irish president. A | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
visit to seal a friendship that has emerged from centuries of conflict. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
At the Irish Embassy in London, a formal welcome from the Prince of | :06:56. | :07:05. | |
Wales. Oh, yay! Today, here in Royal Windsor. In Windsor, where President | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Higgins will be the Queen's guest, final preparations were underway for | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the state procession. The crowds gathered from early. The young, with | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
no memory of the past, and others who recall the days of division. For | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
the Irish who came, there was real happiness. It's fantastic. It's a | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
privilege to be here. Why? Because we are proud. The Irish anthem, | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
played at Windsor, harks back to the days of revolution against the | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Crown. But when the Queen welcomes the Irish president, there was an | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
atmosphere of genuine warmth. Today's welcome is all about the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
spectacle of a grand state occasion. But behind the symbolism is a story | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
of real, historical significance, they changed relationship between | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
two nations. -- of a changed relationship. In the quadrangle of | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
Windsor Castle, President Higgins inspected a guard of honour, a | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
reminder of military links between the two countries stretching back to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
the days of empire. Here he presented the Irish guards with a | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
coat for their mascot, an Irish wolfhound called Duncan. After the | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
event, the sovereign and the president entered the castle for a | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
private lunch, on this, the first of four days of the state visit. Fergal | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
is with me now. Historically is an overused word, but | :08:41. | :08:41. | |
is with me now. Historically is an overused what about in this context? | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
In this case, it is fair usage. We have to look at the context of the | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
relationship between the two nations which goes back centuries, back to | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
the 12th century when Britain came to Ireland and there was a long | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
history of conquest and alienation. That nearly -- really is now | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
something of the past. What this visit does, following on from the | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
visit of the Queen to Ireland three years ago, is cement an important | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
relationship and it is critical, above all, for one reason, but the | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
hopes of a furthered peace in Northern Ireland. The president, | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
before he here, said we should not suffer group amnesiac, that there | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
are still things that need to be talked about. I think that is true. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
There are still 2500 unsolved murders in Northern Ireland and a | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
great deal of bitterness, still to be dealt with. What will be | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
happening behind-the-scenes is a reinforcing the view that the peace | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
process is not done and dusted. He clearly feels it himself. It needs | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
more work, and this visit is a central part of that. Fergal, thank | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
you. Full coverage continues on the BBC News channel through the | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
afternoon, but back to you, Jane. Shrien Dewani, who is charged with | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
conspiring to murder his wife during their honeymoon in South Africa, | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
has been remanded to a psychiatric hospital in South Africa after | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
appearing in court in Cape Town. He landed in the country this | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
morning, having lost a three-year He denies being involved | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
in his wife's death. More than three years after leaving | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
South Africa as a grieving husband, Shrien Dewani returned to Cape Town | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
this morning as a murder suspect. The businessman was immediately | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
taken to the High Court, his family following shortly afterwards to be | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
met by a small group of women's rights protesters. Shrien Dewani is | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
accused of paying to have his wife killed just two weeks after their | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
wedding, an accusation he strenuously denies. Hotel security | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
cameras show what appears to be a happy couple enjoying the honeymoon. | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
But later that day, Anni Dewani was shot dead. Ever since, Shrien Dewani | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
has been fighting extradition. The South African authorities have been | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
equally determined to bring him back to face justice. Those naysayers who | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
were peddling lies about the South African government are eating humble | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
pie. They were sceptical that we would even get the court order to | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
bring him here. He is not on a honeymoon, he is not on holiday, he | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
is here to stand trial and we want to see that happen. The taxi | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
carrying the couple through the neighbourhood was hijacked in | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
November 2010. Shrien Dewani escaped unhurt, but his wife was murdered. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Three people have been jailed in connection with her death, but the | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
driver of the taxi claims he was paid by Shrien Dewani to arrange the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
whole incident. Shrien Dewani will be kept at a psychiatric hospital | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
while doctors decide whether he is fit to stand trial for the murder of | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
his new bride. Our correspondent Jon Kay is in | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Cape Town. John, added Shrien Dewani, crossing | :11:54. | :12:06. | |
court to you? Jane, I have to say, he looked better than he did last | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
time we saw him, which was in court in London 18 months ago during the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
extradition process. He stood upright, he was smartly dressed in a | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
suit and tie, he listened intently to the judge, he was clean-shaven. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Very different from the last time we saw him. Although the court heard he | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
still has a serious mental disorder which will have to be assessed in | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
the psychiatric hospital. No cameras were allowed in court here, unlike | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
the other high profile South African court case going on with Oscar | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Pistorius, but the court room absolutely packed with media, | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
members of Shrien Dewani's family, who travelled from Bristol in the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
UK, and also representatives of South African women's groups, some | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
who held up pictures of Anni Dewani in the public gallery as some of the | :12:53. | :13:04. | |
legal argument went on. Thank you. There is no letup on the pressure | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
facing Maria Miller about her Parliamentary expenses. Ed Miliband | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
said that the Prime Minister had serious questions to answer, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
although he stopped short of calling on Maria Miller to resign. Our | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
political correspondence reports. Maria Miller in a rush to get out of | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the spotlight this morning. As she arrived for this week's Cabinet | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
meeting. But the culture secretary has been in the headlines for six | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
consecutive days after apologising for over claiming on her expenses. | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
Although not calling for her to resign, this morning, the Labour | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
leader Ed Miliband, put the pressure on the Prime Minister. I think David | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Cameron has some serious questions to answer. Serious questions to | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
answer about Maria Miller's failure to cooperate with the original | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
enquiry. He has serious questions to answer about her failure to provide | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
more than a perfunctory apology to the House of Commons, and serious | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
questions to answer about the fact that people in his own government | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
don't seem to be supporting her. The row centres on her former home in | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
South London and the mortgage payments she made. An independent | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
investigation into Mrs Miller's expenses found she had over claimed | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
by ?45,000, but a committee of MPs disagreed and decided she should | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
repay just ?5,800. Yet, it was this 32 second apology that has been so | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
heavily criticised. The committee has recommended that I apologise to | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
the house for my attitude to the Commissioner's enquiries, and I, of | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
course, unreservedly apologise. And now her case has not been helped by | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
a minister from her own party. I can honestly say it would not be how I | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
would have made an apology, but different people have different | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
styles and do things in different ways. With pressure growing on Maria | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
Miller and many Conservative backbenchers increasingly | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
irritated, the focus now shifts onto the Prime Minister. Tomorrow, he | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
will come face-to-face with his MPs at a regular party meeting. They | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
will want to question him about his continued support for his culture | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
secretary. Police may be over-using their power | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
to gather people's communications That according to the first report | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
by the new Commissioner Our security correspondent | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
Gordon Corera is here. So what is he saying? This is a | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
first report from the new commissioner, and he looks into the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
interception of Communications, when the police or intelligence agencies | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
actually listening to what people are saying, and he also looks at the | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
gathering of communications data, not when you listen to what some are | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
you saying, but you understand who owns a particular bone or what | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
address is associated with a phone -- particular bone, which phone has | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
been talking to another one. That kind Pukki locations -- | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
communications data might be used the police. There were half a | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
million communications interceptions, and he is concerned | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
it is a first resort for the police to go to to try and get this data, | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
not necessarily balancing it against the need for privacy of people. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Quite strong recommendations there from the Commissioner. The police | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
have always said that this kind of information is vital in their | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
investigations, and the Home Secretary today also said it was | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
vital, and the commission are looking into the allegations from | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
Edward Snowden about mass surveillance into people's privacy | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
and whether that takes place, he does clear GCHQ and says there is no | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
random, mass intrusion into the overseer of ordinary people. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Police say a post-mortem examination will be carried out in | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
the next few days on Peaches Geldof who died suddenly at her home in | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Her father, Bob Geldof, has said his family is "beyond pain". | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Police say her death was 'sudden, unexplained and not suspicious.' | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports. | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
Forensic experts were amongst the police teams at the secluded house | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
of peaches Geldof today. Kent police said again that her death was | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
unexplained, but not suspicious. There has been huge interest in your | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
life... Disappearance on Australian TV was amongst her last interviews | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
and she appeared content with her post-party life. What you could call | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
my wild child period was when I was 16 years old and now I am almost 25 | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
it is a long expanse of time. It was becoming a woman, not just | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
motherhood, but it is really fun being a mother. Across the celebrity | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
spectrum there have been tributes paid to her. Simon Cowell said: | :18:04. | :18:28. | |
Those tributes follow others from her father Bob Geldof who called her | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
funny and witty, and from her husband, Tom. But there have been | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
others from local people near her home in Kent who have also been | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
shocked by what has happened. Just shock, really, most people think | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
it's a tragedy. Especially after what happened to her mother 14 years | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
ago. There is no way I am going to beat this. Last month she appeared | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
on Sport Relief and seems to enjoy her evening of canine frivolity. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Always a prolific tweeter, this was the last she posted, showing her | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
with her late mother Paula. Peaches Geldof, party girl turned mother, a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
life filled in her short 25 years. Oscar Pistorius tells court about | :19:13. | :19:29. | |
moment just before he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
And still to come, a recipe for a health school dinner | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
the way the housing association has treated families. | :19:36. | :19:57. | |
And this baby receives is implants at Saint Thomas's hospital. | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
More than 2,700 schools in England need to improve their kitchens | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
in order to provide free school meals for all infant pupils. | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Research by the BBC has found that some school kitchens | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has pledged that children will have | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
a hot, healthy and free lunch for their first three years at school. | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Our political correspondent Alex Forsyth reports. | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
At this infant school in Dorset, most pupils bring | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
From September, that should be replaced with a free hot meal. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
The kitchen and dining hall are too small and there is not | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
The Government have given us money to buy the food. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
What we are missing is money to serve the food. | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Our experience of hot dinners is that we need three additional | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
This is what children will get instead. | :20:51. | :20:58. | |
It is not quite what Nick Clegg promised when he launched the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Lib Dem policy for English schools last autumn. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
All families who have got small children at primary school in | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
the first crucial three years when they are in infant school, we are | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
going to give all of the children a hot healthy meal at lunchtime. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
To deliver that, at least 2,700 schools need to | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
That is anything from a new oven or dishwasher to a total refurbishment. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
That is around a third of those assessed. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
Meals could be delivered by external catering companies or | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
Some teachers say they will have to stagger sittings | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
and extend lunchtimes to seat children in small halls. | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
The Department for Education has provided funding for schools to | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
upgrade facilities and enlisted catering experts to offer advice. | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Interim arrangements will be in place in a lot of schools, but I | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
think the catering staff and our members are telling us they will be | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
ready and they will deliver food to these children in September, come | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
what may, because that is what they are used to doing. | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
The Lib Dem Schools Minister David Laws echoed that confidence in the | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
saying the scheme would be in place on time and on budget and would not | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
He pointed to its benefits - not just healthy food for children, | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
While there is broad support for the principle of the policy, critics | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
say more thought should have been given to putting it into practice. | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
Russia has warned Ukraine to stop any military preparations, saying | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Russia's warning came after the Ukrainian authorities said they'd | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
carried out an operation during the night in which they'd arrested | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
about 70 pro-Moscow separatists who had seized a government building | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan reports. | :22:46. | :22:55. | |
Political tension in Ukraine is on a knife edge. In Kiev's parliament, | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
politicians traded insults. The commonest deputy was driven from the | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
rostrum by members of the far right nationalist party. It quickly | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
descended into a brawl. Outside the capital, the battle for control of | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
key cities in Eastern Ukraine is intensifying. Overnight, pro-Russian | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
protesters made another determined assault on the regional assembly in | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
Kharkiv. In Donetsk, police have cleared protesters from the city | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
council officers. The building is still under siege. TRANSLATION: We | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
are here for our families, our health and all of those who have | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
shed blood. We will not leave until we have a referendum. The referendum | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
could be a step towards the break-up of Ukraine. Protesters have already | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
declared Donetsk a new Republic. This whole crisis began in Crimea | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
which was swiftly annexed by Russia. Now it is the eastern region | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
of Ukraine which is the focus. At its heart, the city of Donetsk. Many | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
ethnic Russians here feel anxious about the new government in the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
capital Kiev. Some want to break away and move closer to Moscow, even | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
inviting Russia to send so-called peacekeeping forces. It deeply | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
worries the rest of Ukraine and NATO countries. This would be a very | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
serious escalation. We call on President Putin and his government | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
to cease all efforts to destabilise Ukraine. Russia still denies it is | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
to blame. Our American partners are attaching their own habits to it. | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
NATO says this is the greatest challenge to Europe's security in a | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
generation. The former Secretary General of | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
NATO, Lord Robertson, has said that Scottish independence would have | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
a cataclysmic impact on the world. Speaking in the United States, | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
he said a debilitating divorce after a yes vote in September would | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
threaten global stability. A spokesman for the First Minister | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
Alex Salmond described the comments as crass and offensive | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
and said that an independent Scotland would make a hugely | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
positive contribution to the world. Here's our Scotland | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
correspondent James Cook. This man has been battling Scottish | :25:29. | :25:40. | |
independence for decades. Even by his standards, this was a fierce | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
attack. Last night he said a yes vote would be a disaster for | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Scotland, the UK and the entire Western world. The loudest cheers | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
for the break-up of Britain would be from our adversaries and from our | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
enemies. For the second military power in the West to shatter this | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
year would be cataclysmic in geopolitical terms. This is what | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
particularly alarms Lord Robertson, Britain's nuclear weapons based on | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the River Clyde which an independent Scotland would almost certainly | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
remove. The Labour peer says it could threaten world peace. These | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
remarks will not be welcomed by all supporters of the union. Polls | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
suggest there is a rising tide in favour of independence and some | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
campaigners against it think this doom and gloom approach is simply | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
not working. That is also the view of the Scottish Government which | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
called the comments shocking, insulting and offensive. The factors | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
Scotland is an independent country and would be an important | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
contributor to the world. I think Lord Robertson would regret is | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
completely ridiculous comments. Lord Robertson says a yes vote would aid | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the forces of darkness, his opponents say it would be a beacon | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
of hope. Soon the voters will decide. | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
So, how much would you pay for an antique like this? | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
It?s more than 500 years old and was once owned | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
Well, this morning it was bought by a Shanghai-based billionaire | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
for a new world record for Chinese porcelain, as our arts correspondent | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
This little moment was for a wine cup. It is eight centimetres wide, | :27:23. | :27:38. | |
it has some chickens painted on it and it is worth, well, have a listen | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
to the bidding. 170 million. $250 million. All done? A new world | :27:46. | :27:58. | |
record price for the cup, 250 million dollars. The bid is on the | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
telephone. Fair warning. Sold. It is about ?20 million. You can guess | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
this is something very special. They were made in the 15th century and | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
fired in the Imperial kilns. One emperor so loved the silky smooth | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
texture he wrote a poem in praise of it. China invented porcelain. It | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
took 1500 years of refining the process to reach this level of | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
perfection. Six have survived, four are in private hands and until today | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
none in China. When it returns, it will be the only genuine chicken cup | :28:35. | :28:42. | |
in the whole of China. The pleasure is in the touch. But the price owes | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
everything to China's economic boom and the passion to recover its | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
cultural heritage. The thought from the experts was, why did it not go | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
for more? You would not want to drop that! Let | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
us catch up with the weather. It is feeling quite fresh in the | :29:02. | :29:11. | |
brisk breeze. That stays with us through the rest of today. It has | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
brought us sunshine as well. Plenty of that this afternoon. We started | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
with clear skies. The cloud has been filling in to some extent as | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
temperatures have picked up. Some of the cloud thick enough to give a few | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
showers. Let us take you forward through the afternoon. He showers | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
mainly across northern areas. More scattered as you come further south. | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
Through the afternoon, northern Scotland, heavier showers. With the | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
brisk wind, they will go through quickly. Sunshine in between. Good | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
sunny spells across eastern Scotland. Showers dying away from | :29:48. | :29:50. | |
Northern Ireland. Well scattered through the afternoon across much of | :29:51. | :29:53. | |
the rest of England and Wales. Temperatures lower than recently. | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
But these are about right for the time of year. You will need some | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
shelter from the breeze to feel the full benefit of the sunshine. | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
Feeling quite chilly this evening as the sun starts to go down. Clear | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
skies across central and southern parts. The cloud thickening in the | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
North. Painful Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern parts of | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
England. That helps to keep the temperature is up. Rural spots could | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
go lower, a touch of frost possible. High pressure dominating | :30:26. | :30:34. | |
across southern areas tomorrow. The weather fronts are draped across the | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
North and they will continue to feed in cloud and rain, fairly persistent | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
rain. North Western parts of Scotland. More intermittent across | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
Northern Ireland and northern England. Not as much sunshine is | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
today. More in the way of cloud. One or two light showers across | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
southwestern parts. Despite the cloudy skies, temperatures a little | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
higher with the winds coming in from the milder south-westerly direction. | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
By Thursday, we will see the weather front pushing south, drier, brighter | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
but cooler weather. And. Fairly cloudy all swear. Relatively mild | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
for most. -- cooler weather for Scotland. There will be sunshine | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
around for the weekend. Largely dry. Rain in the North on Saturday. | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
Relatively mild. Decent weather for getting out and about as we go | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
through to the end of the week. That is all from me. | :31:34. | :31:35. |