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A video claiming to show more than a hundred of the kidnapped Nigerian | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
schoolgirls is released by the Islamist group Boko Haram. It says | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
it won't release the Nigerian schoolgirls until all their | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
militants are freed from prison. We'll be live in Borno province with | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
our world affairs editor. Also this lunchtime: A woman has | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
told a court of her shock at being assaulted by Rolf Harris while on | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
holiday with his family in Hawaii. The Prime Minister says the Take | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
That singer Gary Barlow doesn't need to hand back his OBE over the tax | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
avoidance scheme he'd used. The toll of battle - there's a sharp | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
increase in the number of Afghanistan veterans seeking help | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
for post traumatic stress disorder. Countdown to Glasgow 2014 - the | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Commonwealth baton begins its 74 day tour of the British Isles. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Later on BBC London, the former Essex County Council leader faces | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
suspension from Parliament over his allowances. | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
And warning of Muslims being radicalised in prison. | :01:03. | :01:24. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. A new video said to | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
show more than 130 of the missing schoolgirls, kidnapped in Nigeria | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
almost a month ago, has been released by the Islamist group, Boko | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Haram. It shows pictures of the group's leader who says the girls | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
will only be freed if members of his group are released from detention. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Our correspondent Nick Childs reports. | :01:47. | :01:58. | |
Images that are sure to renew the anguish but also maybe raise some | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
hopes for the missing Nigerian schoolgirls. According to Boko | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Haram, this frightened looking group is more than 100 of the abducted | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
girls. They are chanting verse from the Koran will stop their | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
full-length garb is because they have converted to Islam, say Boko | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
Haram. A militant leader sets out is demands in the video. He says he | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
will release the girls only if members of Boko Haram are also set | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
free from prison. Here, one girl from the group, shuffles anxiously | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
forward, reciting the Koran. Here, a rather contracting image and a very | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
different appearance. Four students reunited with their families a week | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
after the abduction. The grief of these families over their missing | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
children has reached an resonated around the world. Nearly a month now | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
since the Boko Haram read that right this school and took away their | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
pupils, the international effort to find them has widened. Israel has | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
offered its expertise. The Nigerian military may be making a show of its | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
presence on the ground now, but still the criticism grows over the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
authorities response. They will tell you they are doing their best. But | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
we as parents, and I as a representative of the people, will | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
only say the Government have done very well if the girls are back safe | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
and healthy. If the girls are back. We don't know when or exactly where | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
this video was recorded. The state governor of the region believes most | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
of them are still in Nigeria and have not been taken across the | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
border. What all this means for the chances of finding and freeing them | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
is not clear. But it is sure to sharpen the global concern for their | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
fate. A woman has been telling a jury how, | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
as a teenager, she was sexually abused by Rolf Harris while she was | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
on holiday with the entertainer and his family. Rolf Harris denies | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
indecently assaulting her and three other girls, between 1968 and 1986. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
Our correspondent Sangita Myska is at Southwark Crown Court. | :04:10. | :04:21. | |
Rolf Harris, once described as a national treasure, today came to | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
court to face one of his accusers. She claims that Rolf Harris | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
repeatedly sexually assaulted her over two decades. She says the abuse | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
started when she was 13 years old on a family holiday to Hawaii. Flanked | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
by his wife and his daughter, Rolf Harris arrived at court for the | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
second day of his trial. It is Bindi's childhood friend who today | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
accused the veteran childhood entertainer of abuse lasting more | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
than two decades. Inside court, he listened intently through headphones | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
as his alleged victim told the court: | :05:01. | :05:23. | |
around the time of the alleged incident, Rolf Harris was well known | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
and a much loved children's entertainer. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
It was that fame, said the alleged victim, but stopped speaking out and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
left her feeling disgusted with herself will stop she described her | :05:37. | :05:48. | |
as a teenager she turned to alcohol. The alleged victim claims the abuse | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
continued for several years after the holiday ended, including an | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
incident at the Harris family home in Berkshire. Mr Harris is accused | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
of 12 historic counts of indecent assault. There are at least four | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
alleged victims. He denies the charges against him. Of those 12 | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
charges, seven relates to this particular victim. Her evidence is | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
expected to continue for the afternoon. | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
David Cameron has rejected calls for Gary Barlow to hand back his OBE, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
after a judge ruled the singer had invested in a scheme predominantly | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
designed for tax avoidance. The Labour MP, Margaret Hodge, said the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
singer might now like to show a bit of contrition by giving back the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
award. Barlow and two other members of Take That, Howard Donald and Mark | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Owen, may have to repay millions of pounds in tax relief. Ross Hawkins | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
reports. Should the boy band star who grew up | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
to organise the Jubilee concert for the Queen, give back his OBE for | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
trying to keep down his tax bill? The Prime Minister does not think | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
so. Gary Barlow has done a huge amount for the country. He has | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
raised money for charity, done very well for Children in Need. I am not | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
sure the OBE is in respect of that work. But clearly this scheme was | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
wrong. It is right they have to pay back the money. Among the investors | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
in the scheme were Barlow along with Howard Donald and Mark Bowen. | :07:27. | :07:38. | |
Larkdale LLP... The court has decided the losses were artificial. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
It all seems very distant from the moment in 2010 when David Cameron | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
picked Gary Barlow to sprinkle a little stardust on his election | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
campaign. It is a pleasure to share the stage with a founding member of | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Britain's best ever boy band, Gary Barlow. Things were much less matey | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
with comedian Jimmy Carter to years later, when David Cameron said his | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
tax arrangements were morally wrong. At the Treasury, all of the talk is | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
of a crackdown. Somebody is cheating on their taxes, that is reducing | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
resources in public services. It is socially unacceptable. Whatever the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
politicians say, after the adulation and euphoria could come the sort of | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
tax bill that would bring even the brightest of stars down. -- | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
down-to-earth. And we can speak brightest of stars down. -- | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
Ross now. How difficult is it for the Prime Minister to be seen to be | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
praising somebody who has aggressively been avoiding paying | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
text? Avoiding taxes legal. The risk is if you put all your money into a | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
company that is only there to plan for tax, you risk facing a massive | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
bill after tax tribunal. The politicians would like British | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
culture to substantially change so people feel so bad in their heart of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
hearts, they don't do this. They know there are plenty of lawyers and | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
accountants coming up with this scheme. They are not going out of | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
business any time soon. They know there is a real difficulty in | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
appearing to show any sympathy with somebody accused of avoiding tax, | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
but also going out of your way to publicly criticise them. Once you | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
criticise one person, you get asked about the next. There is a political | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
the message the Government wants to the message the Government wants to | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
get out there about cracking down on tax avoidance. | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
Pro-Russian separatists in part of eastern Ukraine have declared | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
victory in an unofficial independence | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
victory in an unofficial opposition from western leaders, and | :09:44. | :09:44. | |
from the authorities in Kiev. Within opposition from western leaders, and | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
hours of the polls closing in the Donetsk region, the organisers said | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
89% of voters had backed a break Donetsk region, the organisers said | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
Rainsford is in Donetsk, where the first results were announced. | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
Rainsford is in Donetsk, where the As you are saying, we have | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Rainsford is in Donetsk, where the series of voices in the | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
international community and from the Government in Kiev condemning this | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
bold, talking about it as a legal -- illegal and a farce. The organisers | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
are claiming a huge victory, talking about a landslide result in favour | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
of self-rule. This boat has only added to the tensions here in what | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
is becoming very rapidly a very deeply divided society. -- is this | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
vote. The morning after the referendum. Sloviansk is their | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
stronghold. There were clashes with government troops on the outskirts | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
overnight. Now there is an uneasy calm. Activists have been collating | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
the results of the vote. As expected, it declared a landslide | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
victory for self-rule. This was no ordinary ballots. Held alongside the | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
armed men now in control here. The rebels say this region has spoken | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
now. It's destiny is decided. Away from the barricades, I found opinion | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
deeply divided even among Russian speakers. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
TRANSLATION: There are lots of nationalities in this region, not | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
just Russian. Why should they become Russian citizens just because some | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
people you speak Russian? They want to live in Ukraine. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
TRANSLATION: I want to join Russia. This country can no longer be | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
united. But on the streets here live does | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
look pretty normal. People have gone back to work. They are going about | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
their business. Just a few metres from here in City Hall, pro-Russian | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
rebels are still in control. There aren't meant in checkpoints around | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
the city. Russia, which had called on the rebels to put -- to postpone | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
the referendum, say people have spoken and there will must be | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
respected. TRANSLATION: We respect the will of | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
the people of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. We hope the | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the people of the Luhansk and cementation of the referendum will | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
proceed along civilised lines. International leaders have condemned | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
the vote as a farce. The EU is discussing more sanctions. These | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
attempted referendum sub zero and ability in the eyes of the world. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
They are illegal by anybody's standards. They do not meet a single | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
standard of objectivity, transparency, fairness or being | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
properly concocted. -- conducted. Dancer moving fast. The rebels are | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
talking about a parallel government, even a military. Stepping back is | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
becoming increasingly difficult. The situation here is extremely | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
volatile, potentially very dangerous. And now Russia talking | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
about the need for a dialogue within Ukraine between the east and the | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
west of the country. The Government in Ukraine say they will not | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
negotiate with what it calls terrorists in the east of the | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
country. Two bodies have been found this | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
morning by rescuers searching for three men who disappeared while | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
kayaking on the River Tyne in Northumberland. The alarm was raised | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
when the men failed to return home last night. Police, coastguards and | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
an RAF team are continuing the search. Danny Savage is at Wylam in | :13:16. | :13:28. | |
Northumberland. What was really noticeable about | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
these rivers flowing out of the high Pennines over the weekend is that | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
they were unseasonably high and flowing very fast. That is because | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
we have had a lot of rain in this part of the country in the past | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
three days. Those sort of conditions have to be a factor in this | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
investigation. Tied to the top of the fire engine, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
this is believed to be one of three kayaks involved in a disastrous trip | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
down the River Tyne yesterday. Three men were reported missing late last | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
night. Searchers have found the bodies of two of them, but the other | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
man is still missing. We look for two brothers aged 41 and 40, and the | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
cousin aged 36. The three of them went to Hexham to commute down the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
river as they have done before. It was not until they were excessively | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
late home that concern was expressed and we started to search. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Unfortunately, at about 5:15am this morning we recovered one body. An | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
hour later we recorded a second person. -- recovered. We are looking | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
for a third person. Emergency services are spread out along this | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
pretty stretch of the River Tyne, several miles west of Newcastle. As | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
well as boats and binoculars, helicopters are also involved in the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
operation. Police say a car belonging to the kayakers was found | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
close to a rowing club in Hexham. Another of their vehicles was | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
located downriver. That is a distance of about 13 miles. Not far | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
into their journey, things went badly wrong. Another of the kayaks | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
was found near Corbridge. It was carried away by investigators. Were | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
these suitable vessels for the conditions last night? | :15:17. | :15:46. | |
Start-macro the conditions look pretty benign. | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
Search crews are carrying up and down all the time, trying to locate | :15:58. | :16:10. | |
the one last body. Our top story... A video claiming to show more than | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
130 of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls is released by the | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Islamist group, Boko Haram. It says it won't release the girls until all | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
their members are freed from prison. We are live from St Helier where | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
hundreds of people have watched the Queens baton relay on its first full | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
day across the Channel Islands. On London, the First World War stories | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
preserved for generations thanks to a new digital archive. As Ashley | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
Cole bowed out of international football, we asked which London | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
players will make it into the England squad. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
There has been a significant increase in the number of UK | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
veterans of the Afghanistan conflict seeking mental health treatment. A | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
leading charity, Combat Stress, said it had received 358 new referrals in | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
2013, a 57% rise on the previous year. The charity, which currently | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
supports more than 660 Afghanistan veterans, said the issue would | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
become heightened as UK forces prepare to leave the country. Our | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
defence correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, reports. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
British forces have fought in Helmand since 2006. The UK 's role | :17:30. | :17:37. | |
in the war may soon be over but some face new battles back at home. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
Physical wounds can be easier to see and treat but mental scars may | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
remain. Former reservist Jack Wood saw friends die in front of him in | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
Helmand. He still suffers from post-traumatic stress. His book | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
describes the trauma veterans can feel on return from combat. I was | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
constantly on alert for dangers around me. That is the mentality you | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
have in Afghanistan. You bring this home with you. I was getting | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
terrible dreams, always revolving around either killing people or | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
seeing people killed. Combat Stress has said it has seen a sharp rise in | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
soldiers who fought in Afghanistan seeking its help although it is | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
still hard for many to admit they need it. Many pretend they can solve | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
the problems themselves. We train soldiers to solve problems. That | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
training makes them very good soldiers and make them very bad at | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
asking for help. Maybe it is not all great. I am going through a real | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
mind map at the moment. Do I need to talk about it? No. An ad campaign | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
launched three years ago encouraged soldiers to come forward. Veterans | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
of Afghanistan are seeking help sooner, after 18 months, rather than | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
waiting for 13 years. It is not entirely clear why veterans of the | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
campaign in Afghanistan are coming for most -- forward earlier for help | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
than in other campaigns but the MoD is keen to help with the stigma of | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
combat. British Bull says are preparing to leave Helmand. The task | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
now is to ensure those struggling with mental wounds are not left to | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
cope alone. The Olympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has had an anxiety | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
disorder since childhood and was anxious about violent crime. That is | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
according to a psychiatrist giving evidence at his murder trial. It is | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
said the actions should be seen in the context of his anxiety. The | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
double amputee denies intentionally killing Reeva Steenkamp. Our | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
correspondent is outside the court in Pretoria. Take us through what | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
has been said. A very significant day in this trial. The defence | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
psychiatrist was brought in, basically, to try to explain to the | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
court the sense of vulnerability, the disability experienced by after | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
the stories. -- Oscar Pistorius. He had an anxiety disorder | :20:34. | :20:34. | |
the stories. -- Oscar Pistorius. He to where he had his legs amputated. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
He normal person would do about that. | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
She said the night that Reeva Steenkamp was killed, Oscar the | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
stories was much more likely to have a fight rather than a flight | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
instinct. -- Oscar Pistorius. He was more likely to confront perceived | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
danger than run away from it. She said he was not mentally ill and new | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
right from wrong. The prosecutor said, if you are using his mental | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
health as a defence, then he should be submitted for psychiatric | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
evaluation by the court. There has been some toing and froing on that | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
in the last few minutes. Basically, it looks like the prosecution will | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
ask for that. If the judge agrees, we could see this trial delayed by a | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
month or more. Thank you very much for that. The CBI has issued a | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
warning about the risks of unsustainable house price | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
inflation. The employers organisation says that policymakers | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
need to be alert to the risks associated with rising prices. It | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
also says the Bank of England may raise interest rates early next | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
year. With me is keep him. I think the Governor of the Bank of England | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
will be speaking about this later in the week. -- with me is Hugh Pym. It | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
is becoming a pretty big talking point. The CBI is upbeat about the | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
British economy. It says prospects are bright and they do expect a | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
broader recovery this year. They are bringing forward their forecast of | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
when interest rates may go up from the historic rate of .5% we have had | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
for quite a few years now. They think it will happen in the early | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
part of next year, the first three months. They are joining various | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
other commentators who take that view. Others expected to happen | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
later in the year. If it did happen in the first three months, that | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
would be before the general election. A pretty important move if | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
that does happen. They say the rate of house price inflation does look | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
unsustainable. Some suggest double figure growth in quite a few areas | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
above 10%, that is. Therefore, action quite possibly may be | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
needed. Who will take the action will be the Bank of England, through | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
its financial policy committee. It has the powers to get lenders to | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
tighten up criteria in terms of lending to people, what they can | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
afford in terms of mortgages. That may well happen in June, when the | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
bank 's financial policy committee meets. We will hear from the | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Governor on Wednesday when he unveils, with his colleagues, the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
inflation report. That is broadly about the state of the economy. | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
There will be questions about house prices to him. He may give us some | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
clues and also clues as to what the bank is thinking about when the | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
first increase in interest rates will happen. Thank you. After 107 | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
caps and three world cups, Ashley Cole has retired from international | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
football after being left out of being does God for Brazil. It is | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
thought Luke Shaw will be named in Roy Hodgson 's squad this afternoon. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Let's speak to our correspondent. What else we know of who is in and | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
who's out? When an England manager announces a World Cup squad who can | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
be sure of two things. Not everyone will agree and it will leak to the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
press. The biggest decision was whether to go on form or reputation. | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
If he does choose Luke Shaw, as we believe, for back-up to Leighton | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
Baines at left back and said Ashley Cole, and it is clear he has gone on | :24:20. | :24:28. | |
form because Luke Shaw has had a sensational season Hampton. He is | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
now the subject of a ?27 million bid sensational season Hampton. He is | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
for Manchester United but he has only played 45 minutes for United -- | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
England. When the news broke last night, Ashley Cole took to twitter. | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
He agreed the England team should be about young players and thought it | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
best to retire from England now. It was a pleasure to get to 107 caps. | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
Like me or not, trust me, it has hurt me to stop playing for my | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
country, proud and honoured. He called the decision one of the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
hardest of his career. In the next hour, he will explain the reasons | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
behind the rest of the players in the 23 man squad and the seven | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
players he has placed on stand-by. I understand Michael Carrick has | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
played the prize for Manchester United 's bad season. He won not be | :25:19. | :25:27. | |
in the 23. The make up of the squad is expected to be quite young, very | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
useful. Maybe only three players over the age of 30. The focus on | :25:31. | :25:40. | |
youth and the future. In 74 days, the 2014, last games' go. Today, the | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
Queens baton begins its tour of the British Isles. It arrived in Jersey | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
yesterday and was carried ashore by Tom Daley. Our correspondent is in | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
St Helier for us. Over to you. If you are a young athlete in Jersey, | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
this was a day for dreaming, a date when you could hold the Commonwealth | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
bat on, perhaps -- baton, perhaps get a picture. Big to the day when | :26:14. | :26:22. | |
you could get a gold medal it was about getting as many people as | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
possible as close to the baton so far that plan seems to be working. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
On the outskirts of St Helier, the sun rose to the sound of pipes. Many | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
would have a close encounter with a symbol of sporting prowess. The | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
first appointment was with the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
first appointment was with the the hill, a stadium about. Perhaps | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
these young athletes would win that own gold medals one day. This | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
morning of the most of them a moment they would never forget. We are | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
small island, a small community. A huge percentage will see it and a | :27:05. | :27:14. | |
huge percentage will get involved. Every twist, every turn... A small | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
island in a large sporting family. Since the baton (last October, it | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
has crisscrossed the world. By the time it made landfall in Jersey | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
yesterday, it had already visited most of the nations and territories | :27:29. | :27:36. | |
to make up the Commonwealth. From Canada to a mode island, cities and | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
tiny villages. In Edinburgh, it stirred memories of past games. The | :27:46. | :27:57. | |
Commonwealth Games is known as the friendly games. The likes of any | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
Channel Islands, whether it is go to your journey, the islands in the | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
Pacific that are in the Commonwealth, they can compete at an | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
international level. They can be on the world stage with the best there | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
is. Everyone remembers the day the Olympic torch pass through. Now this | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
journey is pointing the way to another inspiring summer and | :28:22. | :28:31. | |
encouraging many to reach for the top. The baton goes off to meet more | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
young athletes this afternoon and into tomorrow morning and then back | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
across the seas to Guernsey. Thank you very much indeed. Now for the | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
weather. I wonder whether there will be gorgeous sunshine like there was | :28:51. | :28:51. | |
in Jersey. In this forecast, we have the best | :28:52. | :29:00. | |
burst. The talk of whether transformation as we go through this | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
week. The warmer colours come across south. By the end of the week, we | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
are talking temperatures into the high teens, low 20s in places. We | :29:10. | :29:14. | |
are not there yet. As well as the Caulfield, plenty of showers. The | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
day started with heavy downpours. You can see the extent of the | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
showers dotted about the UK at the moment. Intense downpours. Hale and | :29:25. | :29:33. | |
thunder is possible with the showers as well. Let's take a look at things | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
at 4pm. Not many showers at taught in novel in Scotland. Elsewhere, in | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
Scotland, with the showers, a lot of showers around. The | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
Scotland, with the showers, a lot of Anglia. Some are migrating | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
east into the southern counties. Drier conditions for many of us in | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
south-west England and Wales. Note the strength of the wind. It is | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
blustery, as we just saw from those pictures in Jersey. There is a | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
strong wind and showers in the vicinity. A further shower cannot be | :30:08. | :30:13. | |
ruled out. The wind eases a little bit across southern areas as we go | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
through the night. Light winds, clear skies for some. Temperatures | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
dropping lower than they have been of late. Maybe a rumble of thunder. | :30:22. | :30:31. | |
Colder in the countryside. In northern Scotland, temperatures | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
close to freezing as the day begins. Tomorrow, a fairly slow | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
start. There will be a few showers around. A few more will get going as | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
we go deeper into the day. England, Wales, south-east Scotland and | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
Northern Ireland. Some of them will be thundery. There is too skies | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
between the showers and it will feel warmer than it does today. -- blue | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
skies. Very few showers and variable cloud and sunshine. You will notice | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
the temperatures are heading up a few degrees. That is due to the high | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
pressure building in across the UK. There will still be some cloud, | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
breeze and rain bearing weather fronts across the UK. The second | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
half of the week is looking drive. Hallowed to warmth and high-pressure | :31:17. | :31:24. | |
and the temperatures heading up. -- hello. Now a reminder of our top | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
stories: A video claiming to show more than 130 of the kidnapped | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
Nigerian schoolgirls is released by the Boko | :31:38. | :31:38. |