24/04/2014 BBC News at One

It's claimed that at least five pro-Russian separatists have

The new clashes happened in the pro-Russian east of the country.

Russia's president Putin warns there will be consequences if the

Ukrainian government uses the army against its own people.

British counter-terrorism police appeal to Muslim women to stop

their relatives travelling to Syria to fight in the civil war.

Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone appears in court

A warning that the number of elderly people in England needing care will

soon outstrip the number of family members able to provide it.

Crime in England and Wales fell by 15% last year according to

And for the first time, the Cornish are to be recognised as a national

The FBI tries to identify victims of a paedophile who taught

And a post mortem is due to be carried out on the bodies of three

Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

Ukrainian officials claim up to five pro-Russian rebels have been killed

in clashes with government forces in the east of the country.

The interior ministry described them as terrorists, and said they died

when Ukrainian troops destroyed three illegal checkpoints

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, says if Kiev uses

its forces against its own people it would be a serious crime

Our world affairs correspondent Nick Childs has the latest.

Abandoned and inflamed, pro-Russian checkpoint on the way to the eastern

Ukrainian town of Slaviansk. Some progress finally perhaps in the Kiev

authoritiesmacro-poss operation to establish their control here. But

what is the real significance of this move and what is the potential

cost? In terms of inflamed tensions on the ground and anger in Moscow?

Kiev says up to five separatists were killed as its forces advanced

here. At the centre of the pro-Russian revolt, they have been

as entrenched as ever as they wonder what might come next. And already,

from Russia's president, somewhat ominous response. The latest action,

he said, is a punitive operation and will of course incur consequences

for the people making these decisions. International tensions

were already simmering from far-off Japan. President at

so far at least we have seen not abide by the spirit or the letter of

the agreement in Geneva. Instead, we consider that continue to seek

militias and armed men taking over buildings, harassing folks who are

disagreeing with them. Helicopters circle over Slaviansk as the

international accusations fly back and forth over who was to blame for

the failure to escalate this high-stakes stand-off. It's scary,

I'm frightened for my baby. He's only just been born. I'm very

worried. These pictures show the military taking mother checkpoint

outside the time but also been reported equality pulled back again.

Such confusion, the risk of miscarriage elation in this crisis

both within Ukraine and beyond remains high. That's big to

Bridget. He spoke in consequences but what does he mean? Russian

officials from various spokesmen right up to President Putin himself

said Russia would only send troops into eastern Ukraine as a last

resort. But, at the same time have left open the possibility there

could be Russian military intervention as a way to protect

people there from widespread bloodshed. Sergei Lavrov said it

Russian citizens found themselves in danger, that was a threat to Russia

itself. If you look closely at what President Putin said today, this was

another warning of consequences but it didn't sound to me like a final

warning. For a start, this wasn't a nationwide address. That's when you

get a sign of something momentous about to happen. There was immediate

conference and he tried to answer it. He'd only had media reports of

what has happened in eastern Ukraine, in other words, had to find

out what was going on. Further, he said if the Ukrainian government had

used force against its own people, it would be a serious crime and the

consequences but then he said, consequences on the people who took

the decision, consequences on interstate relations, that doesn't

sound like consequences I'm going to order my soldiers over the border

with yet. He went on to say B will see how things develop and then we

will draw conclusions based on what is happening on the ground. What I

conclude from that is the situation in eastern Ukraine is getting more

tense and uncertain all the time. A lot of rhetoric on all sides but

everybody at the moment are still holding back from the brink.

Bridget, thank you. Counter terrorism police are urging

British Muslim women to come forward if they're concerned that

their relatives may be planning to The move follows a series of deaths

of British men who have been killed The new campaign in Britain is

focusing on the mothers, wives and girlfriends

of would-be Jihadists in the hope Our security correspondent

Gordon Corera reports. This man, the first British suicide

bomber in Syria, and this man, a British teenager from Brighton

killed last week. Just two of the British men who've died after

joining anti-government rebels in Syria. This man went to Syria were

two of his brothers driven by the desire to do something for that one

originally going on an aid convoy. Their mother is distraught, says the

boys auntie. She is desperate and wants to go and speak to them, to do

anything she can. And, you know, it's very hard to accept, isn't it,

that well, three of them have gone. And one of them is dead. And she

still trying, you know, to bring the others back. Today, national

campaign is being launched by police to try and stop more people going.

They are appealing to women, mothers, wives and girlfriends to

intervene. Persuade people not to go, and work with the authorities.

Police are not alone poisonous for have a range of committee members,

organisations, women from across the country who will be able to be

approached and to be approached and look after families. The police have

also been taking a tougher line, 40 Syria related terrorism arrests so

far this year. Up from 25 in the whole of last ear. For those working

in the community, it's hard to counter the attraction of those

trying to recruit people over social media, online. There are people who

are going to want to recruit foreign fighters, including from Britain.

And they will use coded language, as well, through social media. So, you

know, it's being aware of all these dangers. Many of the hundreds of

Britons have gone to Syria have been motivated by humanitarian concerns.

But the fear is, even they could be radicalised. And that those who

choose to fight may bring violence back here to Britain.

The Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has gone on trial

The 83-year-old is accused of paying a German banker to secure

the sale of a stake in the Formula 1 business to a company he favoured.

The striders confident, other charges Bernie Ecclestone faces in

this Munich court could change his life for ever. In a 256 page

indictment, German prosecutors have painted a vivid picture of money,

power and corruption. A man seemingly so obsessed with holding

onto power, he would break the law keep it. He is accused of paying $44

million worth of bribes to the jailed banker to smooth the sale of

his German bank shares in Formula one to a private equity firm. This

was called a corrupt agreement. German prosecutors say he preferred

the company over rival bidders because they promised they would

keep him on as Executive. But he claimed it was harsh money to keep

the bank acquired because he was threatening to tell lies about his

UK tax affairs. These arguments were rehearsed in a civil case in London

last year. He ultimately won but a High Court judge deemed his

blackmail defence in plausible and called him an unreliable witness.

From a used car salesman to a billionaire, the consequences for

Bernie Ecclestone if found guilty of bribery are potentially ruinous. He

would be fired, he could face up to ten years in jail, and the sporty

built from nothing could suffer. He spoke little today, except for a

joke about his two divorces. Instead, his lawyer gave a lengthy

statement denying the charges, and talking about a love affair with the

sporty spent four decades building into a legacy. But it's the day he

spent in this court over the next few months which will ultimately

have the biggest bearing on his future.

The number of elderly people needing care at

home will soon outstrip the number of family members able to provide it

The Institute for Public Policy Research estimates

that by 2030 there will be more than two million people aged 65

and over with no child living nearby to give care if needed.

Britain's elderly population is growing. As it does, pressure on

families to provide care is also on the rise. And an increasing number

of older people don't have relatives close at hand. Cathy Johnson lives

200 miles from her parents. When her late mother was diagnosed with

Alzheimer's, looking after her proved a challenge. It caused me a

lot of stress, emotional stress, disruption, I was travelling on the

train back for each week. Sorting paperwork, the house, the bills, how

they run their finances, making decisions about medication. Whilst

running my own business and bringing up my daughter. What you think would

happen to you haven't been there to help? Everything would have fallen

apart. I held it together by organising everything taking over

their lives. And this is an issue which affects nearly every household

in the country. Among the report predictions, by 2017, they will be

more elderly people in need of care in than family members able to

provide it. By 2030, there will be at least another quarter of a

million elderly people who need at least 20 hours care a week. And

won't have additives to help. There won't be the family members needed

to provide the sorts of care that people have received at the moment.

Social pressures on social services like the NHS, and so what we need to

do is have a fundamental rethink about the way that we look after

each other later in life. And we think the government needs to invest

in community networks, it needs to make it easy for people to care and

to combine work. Government ministers say they are responding to

the problem of an ageing population. They are encouraging

councils and the NHS to work together to support older people

living at home as well as increasing the legal rights of carers. But all

accept there won't be instant solutions to this most long-term

problems. The Labour Party is

considering severing its historic Its chairman Paul Flowers

resigned before being charged And this month the bank reported

the biggest losses in its history. Our business editor

Kamal Ahmed is here. So Labour is considering breaking

its links with the Co-op. you broke this story this morning.

This is almost like a divorce after a very, very long marriage. The

Co-op bank has been the bank to the Labour Party for something like 100

years. The people in the Labour Party say they can't amend when it

wasn't their bank but, as you say, for Labour, the Co-op bank has been

an issue of controversy over that last year. Paul Flowers, former

Labour councillor, every time the bank was in headlines, Labour was

dragged in, so there is some upside for them. They can say we are moving

our bank accounts, no longer involved with the Co-op bank. For

the bank, the chief executive is very keen to do what he says, make

the bank apolitical, move the bank away from politics, so there's

possibly some upside for him as well. What next I think is the

issue. Labour says it wants to move a ?1.1 million loan from the Co-op

bank to what's called the Unity trust bank, not the people of of

that. It was started by the trade unions and is run on behalf of trade

unions and charities. Labour want to move their loan into that bank but

the Conservatives are going to try to make some hay out of that. Grant

Shapps says it shows Labour own pockets of the union and Labour says

only doing that for getting a better rate of interest on our loans. Thank

you very much. Concerns raised earlier this month

about a lack of long-term vision for education in Wales were first

highlighted over six years ago. BBC Wales has seen

a confidential document from 2007 which details weaknesses

in strategy and teacher training. The findings were similar to

a critical report by the worldwide Organisation for Economic

Co-operation and Development which A system struggling for direction.

Criticism of Welsh schools and the way they run has come thick and fast

in recent months. But a report leaked to the BBC is just the

warning signs were there over six years ago. A report commissioned by

the Welsh government in 2007 concluded that more coherent

policies were needed and they should be backed up with clear targets for

improvement. It warned Wales suffered from outdated teacher

training. A current adviser to the Welsh government says lessons were

simply ignored. good at education. We thought we

could do no wrong. But recent results have proved it wrong. On

average, Welsh pupils are at least half a school year behind the rest

of the UK in maths, reading and science. We asked to speak to the

current Education Minister for Wales, the First Minister and the

Education Minister in charge at the time of the report. We were told

none were available. In a statement, the Welsh Government told us it has

put in place a rigorous reform agenda which is starting to show

results. According to teaching unions, they are still confused

about Welsh classrooms with schools being told to cooperate and compete.

The mixed messages causes confusion for parents, pupils and teachers.

What we want people to look like is not clear. The recent report said

they offer a positive place to learn. Pupils and parents will help

some of the lessons have finally sunk in -- will hope.

Clashes in eastern Ukraine - it's claimed that at least five

pro-Russian separatists have been killed by Ukrainian forces.

Live from Cornwall, the first county ever to be given special minority

status. Months after the flooding,

we go back to find out how the And the London ballet company

made up entirely of children. It's exactly a year since

the collapse of an eight-storey building housing several clothing

factories in Bangladesh. But as our world affairs

correspondent Paul Adams reports, many families have not received

compensation and an international agreement on factory safety is still

to be fully implemented. 12 months on, an outpouring of

despair on the streets of Dhaka. There are still missing daughters, a

pervasive feeling no one cares. This was a disaster of staggering

proportions, more than 1100 dead, many thousands wounded. Scenes of

miraculous escape too. This person became a national heroine when she

was pulled out alive after 17 days. This woman survived but lost her

legs. Without her steady job, she and her husband struggled to get by.

TRANSLATION: I am borrowing money to survive. My husband is caring for

me. Who will look after me and do the household work if he goes to

work? Compensation is coming but too slowly for the survivors and

families. Multinational companies have pledged a third of the ?25

million needed for a donor trust fund. This woman says she searched

in vain for her daughter who was working on the sixth floor of the

building. She says she has yet to receive anything. The disaster led

to an international agreement signed by retailers setting safety

standards for 4000 Bangladeshi factories. A quarter have been

inspected, some have been closed. I am confident this will prevent

another Rana Plaza. It is what needs to be done. The inspections will

reveal factories that are susceptible to that kind of collapse

and we will take the appropriate action. The safety accord should

improve the working lives of millions of Bangladeshis. The

process is fraught with problems. European and American retailers

agree on standards but differ on issues of liability and how the

scheme should be financed. Overall crime in England and Wales

fell by 15% last year according to The level of reported crimes

in the crime survey for England and Wales was the lowest

since it began in 1981. But there were increases

in some areas, with a 25% jump in fraud and a 17%

increase in sex offences attributed in part to publicity surrounding

the Jimmy Savile abuse claims. Our home affairs correspondent

Matt Prodger is here. Welcome news but how reliable are

the figures? There are? S over the reliability of them -- question

marks. The recorded measures by the police and the crime survey of

households in England and Wales asking people about their

experiences of crime. The headline figure, 15% drop overall. A drop of

22% in violence according to the figures. 25% drop in household

theft. There have also been rises but they are qualified by the

statisticians. There has been a rise in the recordings of historical

sexual offences. That has been put down to the Jimmy Savile effect.

Trials involving celebrities prompting people to come forward.

Domestic violence, better recording by police and better responses by

police because they have been criticised recently is seen as

contributed to a 1% rise in violence overall. Finally, the figure of 25%

in fraud related to cyber crime. There has been a difference in the

way they have measured it recently so we have to be cautious about

comparing it. It is an area people will look at closely over the coming

years. We think it is a growth area. Particularly big drop in the most

recent figures. Thank you. It's a month to go to the European

elections and here in the UK the fiercest debates have

been around whether we should stay Our correspondents Chris Morris

in Marseille and Matthew Price in Hamburg have been looking

at the big issues for voters They can afford to take it easy in

Germany. This is the economic powerhouse of Europe. Even when the

wind is not really blowing, they are still living a good life. The season

is coming for sale in and economy wise I guess it -- Everything is

here. Exports are solid, people are confident. Like an awful lot of the

rest of the EU -- unlike. The French know how to enjoy life

too. Here is the question, how will they pay for it? At this petanque

club, you can sense the mood of economic anxiety. Unemployment is

high. While petanque is always very competitive, you cannot say the same

about the French economy. TRANSLATION: They say we do not work

as hard as the Germans. We do need reform. I think we can do it. Darren

at the old port, the morning catch has come in -- down at. Plenty of

people are working hard to make ends meet. Economic change is often a

painful process and when you share your currency with others it is not

entirely in your own hands. Everything is more expensive with

the Euro says this woman. You used to have a good meal on the cheap.

Others may see it differently but there was no doubt the single

currency and its future will be at the heart of the election campaign.

Marine Le Pen and the National Front which wants to leave the euro could

come first. A big protest vote. A little bit different on your side of

the border. That is right. Being part of the euro has helped Germany

to build up its wealth and even here are some doubts are beginning to

creep in about the single currency. Those concerns do not run that deep.

Most here do believe their status as an economic colossus is guaranteed

only if the EU's weaker economies become more, well, more German. It

is our interest to have a strong EU against the USA and also against

Asia. So, Germany and France, two countries very much at the political

and economic heart of Europe. They have such different economies they

are putting pressure on the whole EU. Pressure which is bound to

affect the way people in both countries vote.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has launched

his party's European election campaign with a promise to take

At a rally in Colchester in Essex, he said that only the Lib Dems are

unequivocally in favour of staying in the European Union.

The one thing I can absolutely tell you without any fear of

contradictions is that if we were to pull ourselves out of the EU, there

would be more people out of work, higher joblessness, higher

unemployment in our country. That is not an act of patriotism. It is

economic vandalism. The monarchy has a long

and secure future in Australia according to the country's

Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. He made the comments

at a reception for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

at Parliament House in Canberra. The Duke paid tribute to Australia,

describing it as a magnet for investors, visitors and those

wanting a better quality of life. The royal tour of Australia and

New Zealand is due to end tomorrow. Cornwall is being granted national

minority status which means for the first time Cornwall's

distinct identity will be They'll be granted the same rights

and protections as the Scots, Welsh and Irish and official bodies will

now be required to take their views Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy is

in Saltash in Cornwall Hello. That is right. Otherwise

known as the gateway to Cornwall, this is the bridge, once you are

cross it, you are in Cornwall. This is the first county ever to get the

special minority status and the first non-nation to be given the

status in the UK. It is not about independence. It is more about

recognising the culture and heritage of a unique county. From its

coastlines to its tin mines, Cornwall offers so much more than

pasties and Padstow. The place rich in culture and heritage, it is now

the first English county to be given minority status. It is a move

welcomed by Cornish nationalists. Fantastic news. The Government has

recognised the Cornish are national minority. In practice, it does not

mean a huge cash injection. It is protection under EU law for

Cornwall's language and culture. Most people we spoke to seemed to

like that idea. My heritage goes back 600, 700 years. It is something

to be proud of. They are one of the original indigenous people of this

country. I'm not sure what it will do for us. We would not manage on

our own. I think it is great. It will help us to keep our culture.

The only sad thing I think is that we never kept our language. Others

seem less than overwhelmed. Other areas of the country might say they

deserve similar status. After 15 years fighting for it, Cornwall is

the first. A special title for a unique county. Some may see this as

a gimmick. Others are describing this as something that should have

gone further, maybe Cornwall should have had devolution. At a time when

the UK and Scotland is deciding its future, others are saying it is

something very different and it is all about culture and heritage, a

very distinctive part of this country.

Let us have a look at the weather now.

The rain has moved to the north-east. A slow start with low

cloud around. Things have been improving and will continue to do

so. Quite promising this afternoon with decent spells of sunshine. It

should be quite warm, particularly with light winds. Not completely

dry. There will be one or two showers. They are fairly hit and

miss. Most will occur over higher ground. Many places willing -- will

enjoy a decent afternoon. Spells of sunshine through the Midlands, the

south-east. Temperatures up to 18 degrees in the west of London.

Pretty decent afternoon for much of northern England and Wales. Over the

hills, one or two showers. Northern Ireland doing quite well in the

afternoon, as is much of Scotland. The north-east has the cloud and

rain and an easterly breeze which will be a key feature of things

overnight as the showers fade away. The low cloud will drift in from the

North Sea. It will become quite grey across the eastern side of the UK

overnight. Not particularly cold with a lot of cloud. The morning,

quite grey for the Eastern side of Scotland. Poor visibility. Newcastle

Airport, Leeds airport, poor conditions possible. The grey

weather extends to the south-east. The rain will move its way

northwards through the day. Some? Is about the detail with tomorrow's

rain. -- some question Marks. Tomorrow, West is best. The western

side of Scotland, England, Wales faring best. The weekend, it is this

area of low pressure which will dominate things, particularly on

Saturday. Isobars on the chart, it will be windy. Particularly in the

far south-west. Close to go. Quite windy too for the eastern side of

Scotland. -- close to gale force. Brighter spells so by no means a

complete wash-out. The winds are lighter on Sunday. There will still

be showers around. But not a wash-out.

Our main story: At least five pro-Russian separatists have been

killed by Ukrainian forces. That