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Barclays announce huge job losses - many of them in the UK. 14,000 jobs | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
are being axed this year alone, half of them in Britain, as Barclays | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
tries to steamline its global operations. Also this lunchtime... | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls - Nigeria's president | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
says it could be the turning point in the fight against Islamist | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
extremists. Calls for clearer packaging after it emerges that some | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
supermarkets are selling halal meat - without labelling it. The | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls - the president of | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Nigeria says it could be a turning point in the fight against | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
extremists. I wonder if there are creatures like as our there. And the | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
British scientist Professor Colin Pillinger, famous for his efforts to | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
find life on Mars, has died at the age of 70. | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
On BBC London, radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza claimed he worked with MI5 | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
to keep London safe in his trial in New York. | :01:09. | :01:22. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Barclays has | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
announced it is cutting 19,000 jobs over the next three years - 7,000 of | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
them will go in the UK this year. The jobs are being cut as Barclays | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
tries to streamline its operations and reduce the size of its | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
investment banking arm. Shares in the bank rose after the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
announcement. Our business correspondent Simon Gompertz has | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
more. The swashbuckling survivor of the financial crisis which ripped | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
through its rivals has become a allt tightening bank. Barclays' | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
investment business carried it through the bad time, but now it has | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
stalled, and staff will bear the brunt. Back in figure it, Barclays | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
said up to 12,000 jobs will go this year. Now, the figure has gone up to | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
14,000. It says a further 5000 jobs will be cut in 2015 and 2016, so the | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
total is now 19,000 jobs to go, just over half of them in the UK. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Barclays has a new chief executive, who has been bracing his workforce | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
for a big change of direction. We have two recognise that we operate | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
in very different times today. We need to run the bank in a way which | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
is focused and more simple and will deliver the returns sought by our | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
shareholders. The biggest investments bought and sold by bank | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
traders are bonds issued by companies and governments who have | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
to borrow. Hot money which boosted this trade has more than halved in | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
the last few years, the mark-ups are lower, and there is little prospect | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
of the prophets flipping back. It has positioned itself with staff as | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
an all singing, all dancing, investment bank. Now, it will be | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
saying that industry conditions have changed, and therefore we must | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
change. Barclays is targeting families | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
buying homes and stashing away their savings to fill the gap. Its staff | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
are sweating on the wheel of basic banking, no longer masters of the | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
universe, conjuring profits from betting on markets. It is the bank | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
which brought you the LIBOR scandal over attempts to rig interest rates | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
and was criticised by shareholders over bonuses paid to high-flyers. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Now, that risk taking side of Barclays, which pushed the | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
boundaries, stands to lose the most jobs. And Simon is with me now. | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Drastic cuts, but as we heard the boss saying, these are different | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
times? Yes, you have two look back to the credit crunch and the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
aftermath of the financial crisis. At that time there were billions, | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
trillions of pounds winging their way across the globe, people trying | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
to find safe homes for their money, a lot of trading going on with banks | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
like Barclays which were masters of this sort of trade, in what were | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
called bondss. There was a lot of money to be made because of the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
uncertainties in pricing. Barclays made massive profits, which brought | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
it through the financial crisis. Now, it is boring for the financial | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
markets, there is much less trading going on, interest rates are low, | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
margins are lower, there just is not so much going on, less money to be | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
made, fewer people needed for it. They are having to focus more on | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
boring old retail banking and trying to make money out of that. Just a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
quick word about branches, because people will have heard that hundreds | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
of those are likely to close. No actual announcement about that | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
today. But there are jobs likely to go in the branches as well, and we | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
will hear more about that in the coming months and years. A woman who | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
claimed she was repeatedly raped by the broadcaster Stuart Hall in his | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
dressing room at the BBC more than 35 years ago has told a court she is | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
not a gold digger looking for compensation. She is one of two | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
women allegedly sexually assaulted by the former TV presenter in the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
late 70s and early 1980s. Stuart Hall, it can pick paedophile, has | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
pleaded not guilty to all 20 current allegations. Our correspondent is | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
outside the court. In the dock, Stuart Hall sat with his head down, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
just yards away from both of the women who had come this morning to | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
the whip despots to tell the jury about the abuse they claim happened | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
to them more than 30 years ago. -- to the witness box. Making the daily | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
trip from prison to court, Stuart Hall knew that today the court would | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
hear more about claims that he raped two girls in the 1970s. The | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
84-year-old sat in the dock listening to the evidence through | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
headphones. The jury has heard that his first alleged victim has sought | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
to claim ?20,000 compensation. QC defending asked her if that was her | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
motivation for contacting the police. She answered, if I was | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
purely after compensation, do you honestly think I would have put | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
myself through this? You are making me sound like a gold digger. Well, | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
there are easier ways to make money. The prosecution say the woman was | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
around 14 when she was first raped by Stuart Hall at the BBC's former | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
studios in Manchester, and that he went on to rape her at his dressing | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
room in another building at least 30 times. The court has been told that | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
the TV presenter admits having sex with the girl, but denies rape, | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
claiming that she consented. The prosecutor asked her if the sex had | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
been consensual. She answered, when I think of somebody being raped, I | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
think of them being attacked in an alleyway. But there are different | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
forms of rape. It is quite a strong word, isn't it, rape? Even though I | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
did not put up a fight, he knew I word, isn't it, rape? Even though I | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
was in a very vulnerable position. I just think he took full advantage of | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
it. Stuart Hall is also charged with raping a second girl, who may have | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
been as young as ten when she was abused. The court has begun hearing | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
evidence from her. The former broadcaster denies all the charges. | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
In the last few minutes, that second woman alleging rape has been | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
speaking about the attack she says happened when she was a young girl. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
She was asked whether she had done anything about it. She said, I did | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
not say a word, I did not fight, I did not do anything. I was just | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
there, like a rag doll. She was asked whether she had told anybody | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
since until recently coming forward. She said, I did not want my father | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
to be ashamed of me. You feeling credibly dirty, ashamed, confused | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
and very frightened. The court will continue to hear from that woman for | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
the rest of the afternoon. Campaigners and faith leaders have | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
called for meat products to be labelled clearly after revelations | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
that four of the UK's biggest food retailers have sold halal meat | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
without describing it as such. The group Compassion in World Farming | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
says consumers need more information about how animals are slaughtered. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Our correspondent Sian Lloyd reports. In this butcher's in | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
Birmingham, all the meat sold is halal. It has been slaughtered in | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
accordance with Islamic religious beliefs. Halal meat basically is | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
when the animal is slaughtered with a sharp knife, there is as little | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
suffering as possible, and before it is performed, they say a blessing | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
three times, and the animal is slaughtered. This butcher follows | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
the strictest of principles and chooses an abattoir where animals | :09:05. | :09:05. | |
are not stunned before slaughter. chooses an abattoir where animals | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
believe it should not be stung because there is a possibility that | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
the animal could be killed whilst it is stunned, which is not halal. But | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
90% of halal meat in the UK does come from animals which have been | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
stunned. That does not go far enough for some, though. British law | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
already makes it compulsory for animals to be stunned when they are | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
being slaughtered, except for religious exemption, and I would | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
like to see the Government remove that exemption, so that all animals | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
can be treated humanely when they are being slaughtered. But that is | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
unlikely to happen. The Government says it would prefer animals to be | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
stunned, but it says it has no intention of banning religious | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
slaughter. For retailers, selling halal meat can be attractive, as it | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
can be eaten by Muslim and not Muslim customers. But that is not | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
always spelt out so, what our customers buying? Morrisons said... | :10:06. | :10:32. | |
The Government says that it is important that customers do know | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
what they are buying. It has been taking part in a European study | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
which could lead to the compulsory labelling of halal and kosher meat. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Does anybody really know what we are eating from supermarket foods? No, I | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
do not think we do. I do not mind if it is halal or not. Once again, the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
meat industry in the UK is a cause for debate. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
The Bank of England has kept interest rates at an historic low | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
for another month. It has been held at half of 1% for more than five | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
years. Worries about rising house prices have intensified the debate | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
over when rates might increase. With me is our chief economics | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
correspondent, Hugh Pym. It is house prices which are worrying people? | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Yes, in policy-making circles, the housing market is becoming an | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
increasingly big talking point. Figures from the Halifax today said | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
average prices fell slightly in April but they are still up Barrett | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
the house-builder said today it has presold 25% of the homes it is going | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
to build next year. That is up a lot on recent years. The OECD has said | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
there is a danger of the UK housing market overheating. And we have had | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
three former chancellors saying the current Chancellor, George Osborne, | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
should pull back on the help-to-buy scheme. What can be done about it by | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the Bank of England? On the Help to Buy scheme, the Chancellor has said | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
that it is up to the Bank of England to tell the Treasury at one point it | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
is time to rein it back. That might involve bringing down the top of the | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
ceiling, from ?600,000 to a lower level. Or it could involve | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
intervening to tighten up the criteria which are used to assess | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
whether someone can afford a mortgage. It is really down to the | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
Bank of England, under current legislation. That has got a major | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
meeting of its important committee in June. | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
A large explosion in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has destroyed | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
a hotel and several other buildings, according to reports. Rebel fighters | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
are believed to have placed a bomb beneath the Hotel near the city's | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
medieval citadel. Opposition activists said government troops | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
were based there, and the number had been killed. The British scientist | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Colin Pillinger, who was best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
on Mars, has died, aged 70. Professor Pillinger built the probe | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
to try to search for Martian life. He named it Beagle 2 after Charles | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Darwin's HMS Beagle. It was supposed to land on the planet on Christmas | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
Day but vanished without a trace. Our science correspondent Pallab | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
Ghosh looks back at his life. He was a man with a mission, to Mars. | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Professor Colin Pillinger built and designed a British probe to search | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
for life on the Red Planet. With his bushy sideburns and Victorian air, | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
he was a modern-day Charles Darwin. If we could find just a glimmer of | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
some life on Mars, then you could make this quantum leap of realising | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
that we are not the only living species in the universe. Through the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
sheer force of his personality, determination and charisma, he | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
persuaded the European Space Agency to launch his spacecraft, Beagle 2, | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
in the summer of 2003. It was supposed to have landed on Christmas | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Day. There was no signal from the spacecraft. Professor Pillinger did | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
not give up hope. On this mission, our faith has been unshakeable that | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
the mission would go ahead, and we have crossed a lot of bridges to get | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
this far, so we will keep the unshakeable faith. This photograph, | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
of what might be the wreckage, suggests that Beagle 2 had probably | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
crash landed. He was often argumentative, but always, always | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
inspirational and able to bring people round to his way of | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
thinking. In 2005, Professor Pillinger was diagnosed with | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
multiple sclerosis. But he continued his efforts, poking and prodding | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
space agencies to back another plan of his to land on Mars. It is mostly | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
about meetings, and I can always reach you with a crutch if I need to | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
prod you, you see! So I have got some advantages! Although Professor | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
Pillinger was not successful in landing Beagle 2 on Mars, his | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
efforts inspired the nation and infused the new generation in the | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
wonders of science and space travel. He reached for the stars, | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
and persuaded others that they could, too. | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
Our top story this lunchtime. Barclays has announced it is cutting | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
19,000 jobs over the next three years, 7000 in the UK this year. And | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
still to come from the channel to the Amazon jungle, a special report | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
from Frank Gardner on the new weapon in the fight against drugs. It is | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
part of a training exercise and they are hoping it will give them the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
edge in their fight against drugs traffickers. Later on BBC London, | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
the families of children who contracted E. Coli after cop | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
visiting a Surrey farm say not as -- not enough is being done to stop it | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
happening again. Concerns about the number of students taking | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
prescription drugs to help them stay awake. | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
It is almost a month since more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped at | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
gunpoint from their school in north-east Nigeria. They were taken | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria's government has been | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
heavily criticised for not doing enough to find them, but now the | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
president, Goodluck Jonathan, has pledged to track them down. He says | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
it could be a turning point in Nigeria's long-running battle | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
against the Islamist extremists. Nick Childs reports. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
A wave of helpless anguish. These new images of the moment when the | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
families of the abducted schoolgirls flooded desperately into the | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
wrecked, burnt out shell of their school. And now, news of the new | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
wave of hundreds more killings in this troubled region. Adding to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
people's grief and to the pressures on the beleaguered Nigerian | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
authorities. Nigeria's president had hoped this week to be focusing on | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
the country's economic progress. Instead his government has been | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
defending its response to the campaign by the violent Islamist | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
group Boko Haram, while visiting Chinese Premier is the latest | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
international leader to offer Nigeria help over the kidnappings. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
The government of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
France, have also spoken with me and I have expressed our commitment to | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
help us resolve this crisis in Nigeria. I believe that the kidnap | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Certainly a swelling high-profile social media campaign has reflected | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
global revulsion over the kidnappings. Among the latest to | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
join, the American First Lady. Plenty of security on show in the | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
capital to protect the World Economic Forum. But | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
capital to protect the World were slow to respond to the | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
kidnappings and seem unable to stem the broader | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
kidnappings and seem unable to stem Haram. But part of the international | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
alarm has been the claim from the group's leader that the | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
alarm has been the claim from the girls would in effect be sold as | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
alarm has been the claim from the wealthy businessmen, traditional or | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
religious leaders in wealthy businessmen, traditional or | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
That means that they are additional to the four wives permitted under | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Islam. They the fifth wife, slave wife. For now though, the focus | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
remains on what if anything can still be done to rescue these | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
families' missing children. More than 1 million families in the | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
UK are struggling with problem debt, which means they are behind with at | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
least one bill or credit commitment. The Children's Society | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
and StepChange Debt Charity is say on average these households owe | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
almost than -- ?3500 on average these households owe | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
out loans to pay for basics. The charity said children in debt ridden | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
households suffer particularly badly. Michael Buchanan reports. | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
A major damp problem was the start of the difficulties for this woman | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
and her family. Fixing it led of the difficulties for this woman | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
racking up thousands of pounds worth of debts. As charges on interest | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
were added to her loans, as are many problems worsened, so did her family | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
life. It got to a point where I would not leave the property. I | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
could not go out. My daughter missed loads of nursery. She was getting | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
could not go out. My daughter missed upset as well. She was asking if we | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
could go to places, like Peppa Pig world and you have to say, you can't | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
go. Debt is a significant problem for many UK families, according to | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
the report. The charity has found nearly 2.5 million children are | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
living in families who are behind on at least one household bills. On | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
average, they owe nearly ?3500. Nearly 3 million other families with | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
children are on the brink of financial problems. Children are | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
living in families which are arguing about debt, which are under | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
pressure, and we find one in five kids are being bullied at school | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
because their families are in debt. These children are growing up in an | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
environment where they have got low aspirations, low hope for the | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
future. Borrowing money has in many ways never been easier, with plenty | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
of lenders on high streets and all over the Internet. Getting money | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
from short-term loan companies can be useful for some people. But | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
others find the repayment is difficult to meet and what was a | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
small debt can quickly become unmanageable. When this family's | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
credit card bills spiralled, Mum felt lonely. Her daughter, | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
embarrassed. I did not feel like an equal of the kids. People at school | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
have money they were flashing about. I did not say much. I felt I had to | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
keep myself to myself for my family's sake. Families need more | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
help, say the charities. They want the government to work with | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
creditors to create a scheme that would give struggling households | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
more protection from default charges on enforcement action. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Scotland Yard is calling it the world's biggest pilot scheme. It | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
involves police using portable cameras attached to their uniforms. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
500 cameras will be distributed to officers, who will be expected to | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
use them when dealing with stop and search operations and violence. It | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
is hoped it will bring speedier justice for victims. This report | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
from a home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger contains images you may | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
find disturbing. Police respond to a report of | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
domestic violence. Get away from me. The evidence from a police body | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
camera is undeniable. Of our children here? Where are your kids? | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
The attacker pleaded guilty. His victim was birds are further ordeal | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
of attending court -- spared the further ordeal. Sometimes victims | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
are so terrified they cannot bring a prosecution. This is evidence and we | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
can put it before a court and as importantly for me, as you will see | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
in that footage, you see the terror. This trial will establish how | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
effective body cameras. Officers say they have boosted the number of | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
guilty pleas and helps avoid costly trials. They say they are also | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
seeing fewer complaints about police behaviour. The reasoning behind | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
these body cameras is simple. If the criminal knows there is recorded | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
evidence of their wrongdoing, then they are more likely to plead guilty | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
early. And if somebody knows that they are being filmed, they are less | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
likely to be violent. He is walking over, that one. Camera use will | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
focus initially on reports of violence and stop and search. But | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
there are concerns that officers may abuse the power to stop and start | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
recording. Clearly there is a risk that if an officer recognises the | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
situation is arising and does not want it recorded, that that officer | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
can turn the camera off. If that does happen and evidence is not | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
created, the Met police have got to crack down on that very hard, | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
otherwise the public. Seeing this as reassuring and theatres are | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
one-sided surveillance technology. The Met predicts that in London | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
alone, 10,000 - 20,000 body cameras will eventually be in use and many | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
more across the UK. Labour to call a vote in the Commons | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
in an attempt to ban letting agents charging fees to tenants. The | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
party's leader Ed Miliband says people who buy a house are not | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
charged fees by agents, but people who read our. Mr Miliband is | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
spending the day visiting communities in Manchester and | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Dewsbury. Let's get more from Norman Smith. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
I have been out and about with the Labour leader this morning and what | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
is clear is the extent to which Mr Miliband is using these elections as | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
a dress rehearsal to test run his cost of living campaign ahead of | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
next year's general election, which is why he has announced he is to | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
force a vote next Tuesday, which would have the effect of banning | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
estate agents from charging tenants of the simply for the privilege of | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
renting a property for them. These fees can cost a lot of money, up to | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
?500. Mr Miliband told me while sitting a sure start Centre in | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Manchester that if this vote was passed the ban could come into force | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
before the next election. David Cameron seemed to be warming to | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
Labour's policy on rents. Now he has a chance to vote for it on Tuesday | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
and Conservatives and Liberal Democrats now has to answer the | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
question, do they stand up for generation rent? 9 million people in | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
this country, they will want to know from Conservative MPs and Liberal | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Democrat MPs this weekend, we can ban these fees, we can ban letting | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
agents and charging fees. That is an immediate financial benefit to | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
people who rent their homes. Let's get it done and do what is in the | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
national interest. The Association of residential letting agents have | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
attacked the move, saying you get rid of these fees, landlords will | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
put up their rents. But it is an awkward one for Mr Cameron because | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
while he doesn't want to be seen to being blown around by Mr Miliband on | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
the cost-of-living ended -- issue, neither does he want to be seen to | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
be on the side of landlords and estate agents against people simply | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
trying to find a home. Yesterday, when challenged, Mr Cameron did not | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
dismiss out of hand or Mr Miliband's ideas on helping | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
so-called generation rent. You can get full coverage of the | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
local and European elections online. They used to be a familiar sight | :26:06. | :26:17. | |
going back and forth across the Channel, but now hovercraft were | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
phased out. Now, they are making a comeback in the Amazon jungle of all | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
places. British hovercraft, built in Southampton, are being used as a new | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
weapon against Colombian insurgents and cocaine traffickers. Frank | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
Gardner reports from the remote Amazon settlement of Puerto | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
Leguizamo. Deep in the jungle of southern | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
Colombia there is something new on the river. They are fast, heavily | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
armed and they can reach places ordinary boats can't get to. | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
armed and they can reach places British built combat hovercraft have | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
been brought all the way from Southampton to the Amazon jungle and | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
the Colombian navy is helping -- is hoping it will give them a crucial | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
advantage chasing drugs smugglers and insurgents here in the heart of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
the world's cocoa industry. We watched them practice the river | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
borne assault on a mocked up rebel camp. In this part of Colombia, they | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
are operating in areas where much of the jungle is infiltrated by the | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
main rebel group. The Fox-macro movement. Both sides in this | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
conflict have committed human rights abuses. They have also -- there have | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
been allegations of corruption in the military, even collusion with | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
drugs traffickers. With no cease-fire signed, the war goes on. | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
TRANSLATION: These hovercraft are going to change | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the whole dynamics of the war. Because up until now, we have only | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
been able to operate for half the year. From October to January, we | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
can't move because the river level stop so far our boats hit the rocks. | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
These hovercraft don't stop so far our boats hit the rocks. | :27:57. | :27:59. | |
water, so now we can cut off the rebels' supply lines. I flew west | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
with the military to see one of rebels' supply lines. I flew west | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
border with Ecuador, where they are facing a deadly scourge. Mines. This | :28:12. | :28:19. | |
was a controlled explosion. But the Marines said they have had to clear | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
dozens here, placed by the rebels and drug traffickers to defend their | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
illegal coca crops. Peace talks with the FARC are under way, but there | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
was no cease-fire and if a deal is signed will that mean an end to | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
Columbia's drug problem? We have to be realistic. We should expect as we | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
have seen in the past that some crimes and some criminal bands might | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
pop up, right appear in some areas, trying to keep the kind of business. | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
The new hovercraft are unlikely to change that overnight. But they will | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
add to the mounting pressure on insurgents and drug traffickers to | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
end the violence that is -- that has plagued Colombia for so long. | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
Time for a look at the weather now. The next views is not that great for | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
hovercraft, we have strong winds across the South in particular | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
through the INGRES channel. It is not just wind. A lot of rain. The | :29:17. | :29:23. | |
radar picture shows bright colours, indicating heavy downpours through | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
Wales and England. The heaviest is pushing out into the North Sea. We | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
are seeing showers moving in as the afternoon wears on. There are the | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
wind averages. Touching gale force at times along the gale -- along the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
Dover Straits. The best of the sunshine across the Northern Quarter | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
of Scotland as we head into the afternoon, including the Northern | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Isles. We could see heavy downpours. Further south, rather cloudier | :29:49. | :29:50. | |
affair for much of central Further south, rather cloudier | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
thicker cloud There will be some brightness | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
particularly for the East of Northern Ireland and perhaps east of | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
any high ground for Wales and England. Always a lot of around. | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
Temperatures, highs of 13-16dC. That is the afternoon. Into the evening | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
Temperatures, highs of 13-16dC. That period and overnight, we see the | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
heaviest showers moving to the North Sea. Drier interlude for a time for | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
England and Wales. The next crop of showers moving around dawn. These | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
could be heavy. We have the wind, blustery showers and it should not | :30:27. | :30:30. | |
be too cold, 8-11 Celsius in the South. We start Friday morning | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
rather showery, heavy showers clearing away from eastern areas | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
through the course of the morning. Tomorrow, a better day in regards to | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
more sunshine. Far more sunshine across England and Wales. Scotland | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
and Northern Ireland seeing heavy, slow moving and thundery downpours | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
at times. Feeling Warburg -- warmer, particularly in the south-east, 18 | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
or 19 Celsius. For the weekend, a low pressure area which is deep for | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
the time of year. Fairly breezy or windy throughout the weekend. Windy | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
particularly near the coast. Rain followed by sunshine and showers. | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
Not a wash-out. Not a pretty start the day for Saturday. Heavy rain | :31:12. | :31:15. | |
around, strong winds across the South. Pushing into the East. A day | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
of blustery showers and some sunny spells. The showers could be heavy | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
in the West, top temperatures mid to high teens Celsius. On Sunday, | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
cooler. West north-westerly wind, feeding into some heavy showers at | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
times interspersed with sunshine. On Monday, we continue with sunshine | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
and showers into the start of the new week. | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
and showers into the start of the new Unite that is | :31:41. | :31:41. |