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Pro-Russian supporters ignore Kiev's deadline to leave government | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
buildings, or face eviction by Ukrainian forces. This morning, | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
pro-Russians stormed yet another police station in eastern Ukraine. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Oscar Pistorius breaks down, as he is accused of "concocting his | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
evidence" about shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Why are you getting emotional now? I did not fire at Reeva! | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
Andy Coulson, former editor of the News Of The World, takes to the | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
stand for the first time at the phone hacking trial. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
A robotic submarine will be used for the first time, in the hunt for | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
wreckage of the missing Malaysian plane. | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
25 schools are investigated by Birmingham City Council over | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
allegations of Muslim extremism and radicalism. | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
Cambridge versus Cambridge, as William tries to bowl his maiden | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
over in New Zealand. On BBC London: We go undercover to | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
expose the black market in stolen smartphones. | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
And, a man who collapsed on the finish line of the London Marathon | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
has died. Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:20. | :01:44. | |
BBC News At One. Around 100 pro-Russian separatists | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
have attacked police headquarters in a city in eastern Ukraine this | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
morning. They stormed the main police building in Horlivka, in the | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Donetsk region, ignoring Kiev's deadline to leave occupied | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
government buildings by first thing this morning. Ukraine has accused | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Russia of infiltrating the country, and has threatened to use force, if | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
the pro-Russian uprisings don't subside. James Reynolds is in the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. Not a very good day for Kiev, it had | :02:10. | :02:22. | |
threatened to move in and kick out those pro-Russian protesters at 9am. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
But that did not happen. Instead, it was the other way around, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
pro-Russian protesters carried out a raid of their own. | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
This morning, pro-Russian protesters rated these headquarters in | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
Horlivka. They made their way in, and enjoyed their conquest. The West | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
accuses Moscow organising raids across the East of Ukraine, not far | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
from the Russian border. In the city Sloviansk, pro-Russian activist held | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
the ground they took on Saturday. The authorities in Kiev promised to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
launch what they described as a large scale anti-terrorist operation | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
against them at 9am. The government deadline came, and went. The | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
protesters did not appear to be particularly worried. They argue for | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
a greater say in how their country is run. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
TRANSLATION: I would like us to be heard, our government has forgotten | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
about us. When the Western Ukrainians rose up, they were | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
revolutionaries, but we are called aggressors. Why? We want to live how | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
they live. Those protesters are backed by | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
Russia. Its Foreign Minister condemns the threat of force against | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
them. TRANSLATION: It is a very dangerous | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
development and those who are encouraging the current authorities | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
in Kiev to act in this way must be held fully accountable. The | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
authorities in Kiev did not comment on the expiration of the deadline. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
But the president did suggest a new idea. He told lawmakers that a | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
national referendum might be held alongside presidential elections | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
next month. He suggested that a majority of voters would support a | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
united Ukraine. But that idea is unlikely to win | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
over the pro-Russian protesters crowding outside the police | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
headquarters in Horlivka. The police have come to our site, the man | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
shouts. It is a scene that will worry and anger the government in | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Kiev. In the last few minutes, we have | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
seen more pictures from Horlivka showing a row of dejected police | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
office -- police officers taking orders from what looks like a | :05:11. | :05:11. | |
Russian colonel. With me is our diplomatic | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
correspondent, Bridget Kendall. This deadline came and went, it is | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
very tense but it does not look like today is a turning point. When this | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
deadline was announced last night by the acting Ukrainian president that | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
there could be a military operation, we all remember there have been | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
deadlines announced before. Last Friday, a deadline for activists | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
holding an intelligence headquarters, that they had to | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
giving weapons and surrender otherwise it would be stormed but | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
that did not happen. We have not seen any military operation by the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Kiev government. We can get a sense why. Their rhetoric may be strong | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
but they had to ask themselves, isn't the will among their police | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
forces and military forces to want to fire on fellow Ukrainians, the | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
allegation is these protests are being organised possibly by Russian | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
special forces, but there are civilians among them. It is | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
high-stakes. It is important the acting president this morning gave | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
the beginnings of a concession. Not just presidential elections but a | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
referendum at the end of May. Russia has been pushing week after week for | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
there to be constitutional reform, referendums in the east, to decide | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
on their future. This won't be enough for Russia but it is a sign | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
they would still try to find a political way out. Russia can sit | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
back and say it is nothing to do with us. These are local protests, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
and accused Kiev of waging war on its people, and accused the West of | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
being behind this. The Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov embellished | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
on the idea the CIA are involved. This is not a conflict just inside | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
the Ukraine which is tense and dangerous, but a widening rift | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
between the East, between Russia and the West. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
The South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been accused in court | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
of "concocting his evidence" about the night he shot his girlfriend | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Reeva Steenkamp. The prosecutor, Gerri Nel, suggested there was a | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
row, and Miss Steenkamp wanted to leave. Mr Pistorius denies murder. | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
He says he shot at what he thought was an intruder. Our correspondent | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
Andrew Harding is at the courthouse in Pretoria. | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
It has been another difficult morning for Oscar Pistorius, the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
start of his second week giving evidence. The prosecutor has been | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
focusing on the exact details of what happens in the run-up to the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
death of Reeva Steenkamp. And immediately afterwards. Looking for | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
inconsistencies, and repeatedly accusing the athlete of tailoring | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
his evidence. Back in court, some well-wishers | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
waiting for Oscar Pistorius. He shrugged aside the balloons, the hug | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
was harder to escape. In court, there was no hint of sympathy for | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
the athlete from Gerrie Nel, the prosecutor. Your version is so | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
improbable that it cannot be reasonably possibly true. The focus | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
again today, the circumstances of Reeva Steenkamp's death, the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
prosecutor looking for holes in the story, insisting the couple had a | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
row. I am saying and it is the state's | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
case that she wanted to leave, and that you were both awake. That is | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
not correct, that is untrue. And that there was an argument. Then, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Oscar Pistorius was asked again about his movement from the bedroom | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to the bathroom where he says he feared intruders had broken in. I | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
screamed, I said, get out of my house! Get out of my house! But Mr | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
Nel was sceptical, at one point he got a policeman to sit in the toilet | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
cubicle to show where Reeva Steenkamp might have been. | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
You fired at Reeva. The other versions of yours cannot work, you | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
fired at her. Why are you getting emotional now? | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
I did not fire at Reeva! This was a tough day for the athlete | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
who as usual was not shown on court cameras. His evidence was shown to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
be incomplete and at times inconsistent. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
The trial has just resumed, Oscar Pistorius, trying to explain he | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
wasn't thinking the moment he pulled the trigger for times. But Gerrie | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Nel saying, he did not believe that, saying, White at the very | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
least did he not fire a single warning shot in case perhaps there | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
was a child or unarmed Bartlett inside the toilet? Instead, it was | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp -- burglar. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
There will be a special programme on the BBC News Channel tonight, | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
showing the key moments from today in court. That's the Oscar Pistorius | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Trial, tonight at 7.30pm. The former editor of the News Of The | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
World - Andy Coulson has begun giving evidence for the first time | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
at the phone hacking trial. He's defending himself against | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
allegations of conspiracies to hack phones, and pay public officials for | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
stories. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, is at | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
the Old Bailey. He began giving evidence a short | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
time ago, what has been saying? He has been giving a description of his | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
early years in journalism, starting on his local paper, with work | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
experience at 16, joining properly at 18. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
And moving quickly within two years on to joining the tabloid | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
newspapers, one of which he was go on -- to go in and edit. He was | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
asked about the culture of the News Of The World. He said there was a | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
rivalry between features and news desk which he felt was not good for | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
the paper. He was asked about his resignation in 2011 when phone | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
hacking flew up and became public. He said, after that, he went on a | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
weekend away with David Cameron, when he became director of | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
communications. He said that was the last time he spoke to the Prime | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Minister after resigning as director of communications. He was asked in | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
the last half an hour about the use of private investigators, on illegal | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
news-gathering which this trial is about. He said, while he was at the | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Sun newspaper, as a showbiz reporter, he said he did not use | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
private investigators at all. He is likely to be in the witness box for | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a great deal of time, probably up to three weeks, and he will continue | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
giving evidence later this afternoon. | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are to use a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
robotic submarine for the first time to search the sea floor of the | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
southern Indian Ocean for wreckage. It will try to determine whether | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
signals detected last week by sound-locating equipment were from | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
the plane's black boxes. It's thought the batteries may now have | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
run out. The plane disappeared five weeks ago, with 239 people on board. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has the latest from Perth. | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
For the last ten days, this small yellow triangle has offered the best | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
hope for finding flight MH370. Today came the announcement that the Pinot | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
locator is coming out of the water. The attempt to detect pings from the | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
black boxes is over. The Australian defence vessel Ocean Shield will | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
cease searching with the towed pinger locator later today, and | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle Bluefin 21, as as soon as | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
possible. The Bluefin 21 is in fact a large | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
yellow torpedo like vehicle. Starting tonight, it will be sent | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
down 4000 metres to the bottom of the Indian Ocean. There, it will fly | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
slowly back and forth, using high-powered Cerner to map the ocean | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
floor below. It travels at barely more than walking pace. No one is | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
now pretending this will be quick, easy. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
I would caution you against raising hopes at the deployment of the | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
autonomous underwater vehicle will result in the detection of the | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
aircraft wreckage. It may not. However, this is the best lead we | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
have, and it must be pursued vigorously. When they picked up the | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
sound last week, there was a sense of expectation here they were about | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
to find the plane. Then the pings stopped and they have heard nothing | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
for the last six days, so they have no choice but to start the long, the | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Boreas process of mapping the ocean floor, using sonar. That could take | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
weeks, months or even years. The search for the missing plane did get | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
one small breaks today. Researchers have found an oil slick on the ocean | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
surface, just to the south of where they picked up the pings last week. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
It may be nothing, but if it turns out to beat aviation fuel, this | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
could be more good evidence they are, at least, searching in the | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
right area. Birmingham City Council is | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
investigating more than 200 separate allegations that a group of hardline | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Muslims have tried to take over at least 25 schools in the city. The | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
inquiry began when a document - dubbed Operation Trojan Horse - was | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
leaked to the council and the media. Phil Mackie is in Birmingham. | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
Of This is the first time we have heard | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
from the leadership at Birmingham City council about these allegations | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
that have been widely reported over the last couple of weeks. They have | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
announced that a man called Ian Kershaw, a former headteacher, will | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
oversee an investigation that has worried he lasted three months. They | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
have also said that a former Home Office director, Stephen Romer, and | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
four-time run the national anti-radicalisation programme that | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
Mac prevent, will oversee a second review looking at these groups and | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
communities in the city. This Operation Trojan Horse letter does | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
not allege that Muslims were taking over schools in Birmingham 's dog | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
that is to be expected in a city with such a large Muslim population. | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
But it does say that a small clique with hardline views were trying to | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
take over some schools and impose their views on those schools and at | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
the same time turns on state funded secular schools into your just once. | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Bridget Jones is the council in charge of schools in Birmingham. If | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
parents choose to send their children to a secular school, they | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
deserve a secular education. And if they send their children to a | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
religious school, they should expect certain things in terms of what | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
their children are taught and how they behave. We need to set down | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
guidelines and clarify the ground as part of this investigation. Ofsted | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
has carried out investigations at 15 of those 24 schools. One would | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
expect those inspection reports to be published after Easter. | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Meanwhile, this overarching review into the allegations is expected to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
publish its findings in early July. Our top story this lunchtime: | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
Pro-Russian supporters ignore Ukraine's deadline to leave occupied | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
buildings, and storm police headquarters in yet another city. | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
And armed protestors are also reported to have seized a nearby | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
airport at Sloviansk. And still to come... Working for a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
fitter city. With 100 days to go, organisers want this summer's | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
Commonwealth Games to leave the people of Glasgow stronger and | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
healthier. Later on BBC London: Driving on the | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
hard shoulder - an extra lane is created on the M25 in Hertfordshire, | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
but is it safe? And "painting with scissors" - the | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
colourful new Matisse exhibition goes on show at Tate Modern. | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
The trial of the radical cleric Abu Hamza, who was extradited from | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Britain to the United States after a protracted legal battle, starts | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
today in New York. He's facing 11 terrorism charges, including | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
providing support to Al-Qaeda and conspiring in the kidnapping of | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
tourists in Yemen. Abu Hamza was extradited from a British prison, | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
having been jailed for seven years for inciting murder and racial | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
hatred. Nick Bryant has more from New York. | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
The court complex in lower Manhattan, where Abu Hamza will be | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
tried. It is close to the site of the September the 11th attacks, | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
which the naturalised Briton has praised as a towering day in | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
history. It has been claimed that his incendiary sermons at the | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
Finsbury Park mosque in London inspired at least one of the 911 | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
attackers. Abu Hamza has been charged in America with the 1998 | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
kidnapping in Yemen of Western tourists, resulting in the deaths of | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
three Britons and an Australian. He is alleged to have provided material | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
support for Al-Qaeda by trying to set up a training camp here in | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
Oregon. He is also accused of organising support for the Taliban | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
in Afghanistan. After years of fighting extradition from Britain, | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
he was brought to America in 2012, with David Cameron delighted to see | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
the back of him. Like the rest of the public, I am sick to the back | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
teeth of people who come here and threaten our country, who stay at | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
vast expense to the taxpayer, and we can't get rid of them. I am | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
delighted that on this occasion, we have managed to send this person off | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
to a country where he will face justice. 150 Park Row. It sounds | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
like a luxury Manhattan apartment, but it is the address of the high | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
security jail next to the courthouse where he has been imprisoned. Abu | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
Hamza has complained about the conditions in which he is being | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
held. He wants access to the internet, better food and a b-day in | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
his cell. But the judges had no sympathy, telling him, it is a | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
jailhouse, not a hotel. In a letter to the judge, Abu Hamza said he is | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
ready to discuss issues such as the September the 11th attacks, but his | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
lawyers have argued they should not be mentioned, as it would deprive | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
him of a fair trial. Legal experts disagree. The prosecutors in New | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
York have long history with terrorism cases. They have developed | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
tremendous expertise in it. Terrorism suspects have been | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
demonstrated to receive fair and objective trials that result in | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
verdicts based exclusively on the evidence. This long anticipated | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
trial is expected to last for six to eight weeks. | :20:28. | :20:39. | |
Officials say that "dozens of people" have been killed in | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
explosions at a bus station in the Nigerian capital, Abuja. Two bombs | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
went off at the transport hub, and witnesses say they saw numerous | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
victims being taken to hospital. The area was packed with commuters | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
heading to work. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts yet. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
French police are taking the unprecedented step of DNA-testing | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
more than 500 male pupils and teachers at a secondary school. The | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
unusual move is designed to help solve a six-month old rape case at | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
the school, in the city of La Rochelle. Traces of the culprit's | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
DNA were found on the girl's clothing. It could be several weeks | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
before it's known if there's a match. | :21:13. | :21:14. | |
The former Commons deputy speaker Nigel Evans, who was cleared of a | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
string of sexual assaults last week, says innocent people who are | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
"dragged through the courts" should not face "financial ruin". The MP is | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
facing a large legal bill, despite being acquitted of all charges | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
against him. He says he now intends to campaign to reform the law. Our | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
political correspondent Ross Hawkins reports. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
When he was cleared last week, he stepped out to face a pack of | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
reporters. Today, he spoke to interviewers won by one about what | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
he called in 11 months of hell. Shell-shocked. I likened it to being | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
hit by an Eddystone about truck every morning, and several times | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
throughout the day. He was paid for the TV appearance, not for radio | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
interviews later, and he did not want to answer every question thrown | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
his way. How angry are you at the way you | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
were treated? But he needs the money. He is an | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
innocent man, left with ?130,000 legal bill. I was a bit shocked that | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
you did not get your money back on acquittal. I thought you always did, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
but apparently the rules change a few years ago. I don't see why | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
people who are dragged through the courts and then are acquitted of | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
charges have to face financial ruin. Barristers have long | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
campaigned on that issue, and said recent changes have made it harder | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
for some acquitted defendants to get their costs repaid. But Nigel Evans | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
says there is a bigger problem with the Crown Prosecution Service or CPS | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
charging high profile people just in case they are guilty. They Lib Dem | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
came to their defence. I have every sympathy with what Nigel Evans says | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
about the distress caused to him. Justice involves people bringing | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
evidence before the court which is then examined and the judgement is | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
made. That is what happened. Nigel Evans is well liked by many at | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Westminster, and plenty of MPs are asking whether his case raises | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
questions about innocent defendants who find their finances and | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
reputation is at risk. The government says many defendants | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
still get costs repaid when they are acquitted, and ministers believe the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
system is just. The organisers of yesterday's London | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
Marathon have offered their condolences to the family of a | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
competitor who has died. The man, who was 42, collapsed after crossing | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
the finish line. 36,000 people took part in the event. | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
Today marks 100 days until the start of the Commonwealth Games in | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Glasgow. As well as bringing world class athletes to the city, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
organisers are hoping the Games will leave a lasting legacy for the | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
people of Glasgow, encouraging them to lead healthier and more active | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
lives. Chris McLaughlin is outside Celtic Park, the venue for the | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
opening ceremony, now. Chris. Organisers will be hoping for | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
weather like this in 100 days' time. But where are they in terms of | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
preparation is? 94% of the tickets have been sold. Most of the venues | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
are ready, but what about the long-term legacy 's eye have been | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
asking not what Glasgow can do for the combo of games, but rather what | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
the games can do for Glasgow. The Glasgow skyline is changing. | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
Across the city, crumbling tower blocks are giving way to sports | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
stadiums, ready and waiting for the Commonwealth Games. The organisers | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
hope the games can help get the city healthy, but there are grim | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
reminders that for some here, life is still tough, evidence of social | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
deprivation that has contributed to some alarming health statistics. | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
Only 43% of secondary school kids who were going to leave secondary | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
school in 2005 would make it to their pensionable age in some of the | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
places we studied. Shocking figures that will probably come as no real | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
surprise to the people here in the East End of Glasgow. Just a few | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
streets in that direction is the new, revamped Tollcross swimming | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
centre. Just beyond that is the new athletes' village and Emirates | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
Arena. But can these venues inspire people of this area to get fitter, | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
and ultimately live longer? The Games come with a price tag of over | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
half a billion pounds. But they also come with a long-term sporting and | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
cultural target. Build, regenerate, and a legacy will be left, or so the | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
story goes. The games are not a panacea, but we have tried to make | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
these Games about people. We can make a difference in the lives of | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
ourselves and others. I think there is a real momentum that has been | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
created that I think touches people from different backgrounds. When the | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
celebration of sport is over, attention will turn to the pregames | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
promises, and the sick man of Europe will await evidence of a | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
Commonwealth cure. Now, you may have noticed the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
demolition of a tower block at the start of my piece. Glasgow 2014 were | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
looking to demolish five more as part of the opening ceremony. Those | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
plans have been cancelled, due to a public protest. They say the games | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
will still start with a bang, just a less controversial one. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been visiting the city of | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
Christchurch in New Zealand, to meet the families of people who died | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
there in the earthquake of 2011. The couple also took part in an | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
impromptu cricket match promoting the 2015 World Cup, which will be | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
held in New Zealand and Australia. From Christchurch, here's our Royal | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
correspondent, Nicholas Witchell. He returned to a city which has | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
picked itself up from tragedy, and this time he was accompanied by his | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
wife. William and Catherine spent several hours at Christchurch, the | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
scene three years ago of a major earthquake. William visited | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
Christchurch soon after it happened. He was shown the devastation. It | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
made a deep impression on him. This is Christchurch today. Some parts | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
are still in ruins and are gradually being demolished, but much of the | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
city has already been rebuilt. 185 people were killed in the | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
earthquake. William and Catherine met bereaved families and heard | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
accounts of the day the earthquake struck. In a speech, William paid | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
tribute to the city. What has truck me on this visit, three years on, is | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
the resilience and adaptability of Christchurch. Despite the daunting | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
job ahead of you, life continues with classic Kiwi humour, | :27:37. | :27:37. | |
creativity, innovation and determination. Then a sharp change | :27:38. | :27:47. | |
of mood. Next year, Christchurch will be one of the cities hosting | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
the Cricket World Cup. Good reason, then, to invite these sporting | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
guests to have a quick game. No matter that she was hardly dressed | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
for the occasion. Catherine took to the crease. The bat was grasped, and | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
advice was taken. A batting stance of sorts was adopted. At the | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
bowler's end, William, his first delivery a full toss. The crowd | :28:10. | :28:17. | |
gasped. Catherine wagged her finger. A wide was signalled. She survived | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
three more deliveries, then retired not out. The crowd loved it. Over | :28:22. | :28:28. | |
the past week, William, Kate and not forgetting baby George, certainly | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
appear to have endeared themselves to this country. In coming days, we | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
will see whether they can do the same in Australia. Nicholas | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
Witchell, BBC News, in Christchurch. Now the latest weather. The weather | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
for the weekend is looking mainly dry. We start the week on a sunny | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
note, but the cloud will tend to build during the latter half of the | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
week, but staying mainly dry. Overnight frosts are likely in | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
response, so gardeners might want to take notice. The satellite picture | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
tells the tale nicely. Most of us started with sunny skies and a bit | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
of Fairweather cloud for some. Across south-west England and south | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
of Wales we keep the clear blue skies for the rest of the day. But | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
we will have this strong north-westerly winds blowing down | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
the north sea coast, making it feel a little on the chilly side. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
Northern Ireland, patchy cloud of living here and a bit of Fairweather | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
cloud for Scotland. There could be a few showers for the Highland 's. But | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
this showers will be light and fleeting. A word to the wise, we do | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
have fairly high levels of UV at the moment, so if you are outside for | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
any length of time during the Easter holidays, it might be worth putting | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
a bit of sun cream on. Tonight, any club which has built up will tend to | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
fade away and we will be left with clear skies. Maybe the odd missed | :29:58. | :30:04. | |
patch. Not desperately cold, but it is a different story in oral areas. | :30:05. | :30:11. | |
With those clear skies, temperatures will fall further -- in oral areas. | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
You could even have a touch of frost setting in. That is something | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
gardeners might want to take note of. On Tuesday morning, high | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
pressure is still in charge, so more sunshine to come. There will be an | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
easterly wind across the southern counties of England, so it will not | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
be as warm, but still plenty of sunshine. Maybe more warmth for | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland as well. High pressure is still on the scene | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
as we get towards the middle of the week mobot tending to slip towards | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
Germany. That allows this weather to move in off the Atlantic. That will | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
bring increasing amounts of cloud to Northern Ireland and Scotland on | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
Thursday. Away from that, the story is of a chilly start to the morning, | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
with plenty of sunshine. The wind is coming from the south-east this | :31:01. | :31:02. | |
time, so temperatures are building in London. The front from the north | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
and west will push southwards as we had towards the end of the week, | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
introducing cloudy conditions to most parts of the British Isles, but | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
it should stay mainly dry and bright. | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. | :31:20. | :31:28. | |
Pro-Russian supporters ignored Kiev's deadline to leave occupied | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
government buildings. They have stormed police headquarters in yet | :31:33. | :31:35. | |
another city in eastern Ukraine. Foreign Secretary William Hague told | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
it a dangerous escalation of the crisis. That's all from us. | :31:40. | :31:40. |