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The woman appointed by the Prime minister to head | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the child abuse inquiry steps down after less than a week. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Baroness Butler-Sloss had been asked to look into allegations of abuse | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
But she's been under intense pressure to stand down - | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
The UN says that almost 1000 homes have been destroyed in Gaza | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
since the Israeli airstrikes began last week. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
A vote will decide today whether women can finally become | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Celebrations into the early hours as Germany wins the World Cup for | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
Three months after the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
we hear from some who escaped and from Malala Yousefzai who's | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
We're with you and we are standing up with you in your campaign. I am | :00:52. | :01:11. | |
here, in Gigli, where two and a half years, the Costa Concordia capsized, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
killing 32 people. Today they are re-floating it and preparing to take | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
it away to scrapped. Could there be a summer | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
of motoring misery, as Putney Bridge shuts to traffic, | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
as well as the Hammersmith Flyover? And, Scotland Yard bans | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
non-Londoners from applying for Good afternoon | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. In the past hour it's been announced | :01:32. | :01:50. | |
that Baroness Butler-Sloss is to stand down as chair of | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
the historical child abuse inquiry. Her appointment by the government | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
less than a week ago was widely criticised, because the former | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
judge's family connections suggested Downing Street said it was | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
'entirely her decision' to go. Our political correspondent | :02:05. | :02:16. | |
Ben Wright reports. She's a highly regarded former | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
judge. Picked by the Home Office to lead an enquiry into allegations of | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
child abuse. At first it looked like an obvious choice, but last week | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
many asked whether Lady Butler-Sloss was really the right person to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
investigate a possible establishment cover-up. Why, because her late | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
brother, Sir Michael Havers, was the Attorney General in the 1980s when | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the abuse was alleged to have taken place, he was the government 's top | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
lawyer, and some felt it compromised her outlook. After talking to the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Home Secretary over the weekend Lady Butler-Sloss issued a statement in | :02:56. | :02:56. | |
the last hour saying: Her appointment had put the | :02:57. | :03:16. | |
government under pressure, and number ten said today it was | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
entirely Lady Butler-Sloss's decision to stand down. It was | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
announced, the terms of reference are still not decided. The fact she | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
has resigned so quickly I think is probably a good thing and we can now | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
really focus on the terms of reference, the people on the inquiry | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
team and getting the survivors to have their voices heard for the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
first time. The inquiry was set up to investigate allegations of abuse | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
in 1980s, made by this late Tory MP, Geoffrey Dickens, who said children | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
were abused by prominent figures at the centre of the British | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
establishment and he was prepared to name names. But it was never | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
investigated, Lady Butler-Sloss's connection to a senior government | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
minister at the time convince MPs and lawyers that she should stand | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
aside. Their decision is a blow to the government which will now have | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
to find a new chairman. Our Chief Political Correspondent | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Norman Smith joins me now Was this inevitable and what does it | :04:13. | :04:26. | |
mean for the enquiry? It was inevitable. Although support for | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Lady Butler-Sloss was waning among MPs, because of the criticism also | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
from the victims of the abuse. Lady Butler-Sloss took the view it was | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
not tenable for her to lead an enquiry in the face of scepticism | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
and doubt from those victims, who almost from her appointment have | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
been unhappy. Unhappy she was a figure of the establishment | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
investigating the establishment, she was a member of the House of Lords | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
probably investigating those peers alleged over child abuse, questions | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
over whether her age, whether she had the energy and the drive to | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
pursue a difficult and potentially lengthy inquiry. Doubts over her | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
link to the scandal of the 1980s, because her brother was the Attorney | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
General. And then the steady dribble of damaging stories. Looking at her | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
resignation statement she is quite clear herself, a victim orientated | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
inquiry, you have to have the confidence of the victims and | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
clearly she didn't have that. The United Nations says 17,000 | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Palestinians in Gaza have taken shelter in schools after being | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
ordered by Israel to leave their The UN says that almost 1000 | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
homes have been destroyed in Gaza since the Israeli airstrikes began | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
last week. Palestinian officials now say 172 | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
people have been killed Overnight Palestinian militants | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
continued firing more rockets Our correspondent Yolande Knell | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
reports from Gaza. The start of the seventh day of | :05:50. | :06:03. | |
Israel's military operation in Gaza. Some air strikes caused | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
massive destruction. But the violence also targets Israeli towns | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
and cities. EXPLOSIONS These pictures from Hamas militants | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
are said to show home-made Palestinian rockets being fired at | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
Tel Aviv. Israel says it is targeting rocket launching sites, | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
and it is determined to stop the threat to the civilians. For | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
ordinary Palestinians, the uncertainty continues. Thousands | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
from northern Gaza are in temporary shelters after they were forced from | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
their homes. Israel says it is planning to widen the operation | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
against militants in the border area where they live. But with no sign it | :06:49. | :06:57. | |
has started, some are heading back. It is risky here, and there, and | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
nobody is taking care of us, this woman says. But others are staying | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
at this school, they fear an Israeli ground invasion. These people have | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
turned classrooms into their bedrooms. They came rushing to the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
school the shelter, after the Israeli military told them to leave | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
their homes. And now there's a lot of frustration here because they do | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
not know how long they will stay. The United Nations says that too | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
many of the more than 170 Palestinians killed this week were | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
civilians. And one quarter were children. Behind every loss of life, | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
every child killed, and woman killed thereat individual histories. I | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
cannot access it -- accent we reduced to this -- this to something | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
anonymous, they are not statistics. Is the humanitarian situation | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
worsens, the international calls for a cease-fire in creased -- is it | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
worsens. Our Middle East Correspondent Kevin | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
Connolly is in Jerusalem. So, Israel showing no let up | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
in the military offensive? As things stand, the second week of | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
the operation began very much as the first week did. We are told there | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
was 50 Israeli air strike since midnight, dozens of rockets have | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
gone the other way and alarms have sounded in Israeli cities. In a | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
strange new test we are told a Hamas operated drone was shot down by a | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
patria anti-aircraft missile. -- patriot missile. That over Ashdod, | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
the Israelis are looking for the wreckage of the drone to see whether | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
it was capable of carrying explosives. There are calls | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
internationally for a cease-fire. Where you hear public calls, I think | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
you can always assume in the background diplomats are working on | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
a truce, trying to find out what Israel would want on the one hand | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
and what Hamas would want on the other hand. To stop the exchanges of | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
missiles and rockets. But it's also possible that Israel is planning to | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
expand the operation by launching a ground invasion of Gaza, too. I | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
think it sums up the situation at the start of the second week. That | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
nobody can really tell you for sure which of those options is the more | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
likely. Some sort of move towards a cease-fire on the one hand or an | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Israeli ground operation on the other. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
And you can find out more about the crisis in the Middle East | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
by going to our website and going to special reports, Middle East Crisis. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
After years of debate and argument, women will find out today | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
if they can become bishops in the Church of England. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
A vote is taking place at the General Synod. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, says he's hopeful the radical | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
reform - which was previously rejected - will finally be agreed. | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Our Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert Piggott reports from York. | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
Anglicans have come to the General Synod to witness a moment of | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
history. Rarely has the future of the church turned so profoundly on a | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
single vote. Women clergy have campaigned for decades for access to | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
the church top jobs. A clear majority of the General Synod | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
support the creation of women bishops but once again in the final | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
debate today the issue has been partly about preserving a wide range | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
of beliefs in the church. It will soon become normal and routine. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Women in the ministry unremarkable normality. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Traditionalist evangelicals say they will vote against the legislation | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
insisting only men should lead the church. We believe the Bible teaches | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
while men and women are equal in the eyes of God in every respect, | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
nevertheless they have different roles within the church and they are | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
supposed to keep to those roles to model things which are true about | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
God. Women now make up one third of Anglican clergy and they have become | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
indispensable to the church. They say that the church needs women as | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
bishops, too. Women have gifts and talents to offer. I think the church | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
that harness those gifts and talents. It is bad for the mission | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
and the Ministry of the church if we are only able to use half of the | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
people, half of the clergy who potentially could be bishops in the | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
future. The congregation at Saint Mary 's, say that creating women | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
bishops is long overdue. We pray and hope so, that the holy spirit will | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
guide them to a positive answer. It is about time. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
guide them to a positive answer. It without Lady Vickers, some of the | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
churches would be entered. This morning, the Prime Minister added | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
his support for women bishops. I think the archbishop showed | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
leadership and I hope he will be successful. The General Synod knows | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
that voting yes would break a tradition of male only bishops | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
stretching back to the time of Jesus himself will | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
Germany is celebrating after their World cup win. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
A quarter of a million people packed into the centre of Berlin last night | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
partying into the early hours after their team beat Argentina. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
It's the fourth time Germany has lifted the World Cup and | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Tomorrow even more people are expected on the streets | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
of Berlin to greet the team when they return home. | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
yes, German fans partying through the night in Rio. And well they | :12:32. | :12:43. | |
might because it was a wonderful World Cup final that they won, with | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
a wonderful goal. The consensus is that Germany were the best side in | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
the tournament. They scored more goals than any other team. They are | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
the first European side to win the World Cup on South American soil. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
The moment Germany had waited almost a quarter of a century for, lifting | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
the World Cup, and the burden of expectation | :13:09. | :13:08. | |
the World Cup, and the burden of of footballing talent finally came | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
of age. Earlier, Argentina started strongly, Higuain with the costly | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
miss. Chances continued to come and go, Germany hitting the post, evenly | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
in all messy could not break the deadlock, the match destined for | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
extra time. -- deadlock, the match destined for | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
the game on a knife edge, Mario Gotze did this. The substitute with | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
a wonderful finish, the kind of goal which | :13:36. | :13:35. | |
Cup final. The shattered Argentinians had no time to recover | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
and minutes later Germany had one. Having demolished Brazil in the | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
semifinal, Germany had delivered again and when it mattered the most. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Ella it was crazy, I wanted to feel this | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
moment. To celebrate. In the dressing room after, even Angela | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
Merkel joined the party. This is what it meant to the euphoric fans | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
in Berlin. Unrestrained joy at a fourth World Cup triumph, but the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
first they have enjoyed since 1990. It is unbelievable, fourth World | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
Championship. Unbelievable. Germany were worthy winners of the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
tournament, rewarded for a system designed to produce world champions | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
and their rivals will look to learn from them. They confounded critics | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
delivering one of the greatest World Cups they have ever seen. Much of | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
the credit will go to a German team whose flair has lit up a tournament | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
which will live long in the memory. Not all Argentinians took the defeat | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
with good grace, in Buenos Ira is there was rioting, 50 people were | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
arrested, 15 please officers were injured dashed when | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
for Brazil, it ended with humiliation in the 7-1 thrashing in | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
the semifinal, rumours today that there coach has been sacked. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
Brazil, as host of this tournament have won plenty of friends and | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
admirers, it has been a magical and magnificent World Cup tournament. | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
Thank you for joining us. Baroness Butler-Sloss steps down, | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
after less than a week as Chair of the inquiry | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
into historical child abuse. Not fit for purpose, | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
the verdict on UK broadband services latest Japanese craze sweeping | :15:32. | :15:46. | |
across Ron don. All you need is a costume, a wig and some imagination. | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
If you want to play it safe instead, we'll have the weather for you at 1. | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
30pm. Three months ago more than 200 | :15:55. | :16:06. | |
schoolgirls were abducted by Islamic militants in Nigeria and they are | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
still missing. Today Malala Yousafzai has been meeting some of | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
their parents and pledging support for the campaign to free the girls. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
17-year-old Malala was shot in the head by the table two years ago. The | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
-- by the Taliban two years ago. Today has been made Malala Day. | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
Into the conference room of a hotel room strides the small figure of a | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
girl the Taliban couldn't kill and who by coming to Nigeria is defying | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
another who by coming to Nigeria is defying | :16:45. | :16:45. | |
extreme Islamic group, Boko Haram. The parents of several of the girls | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
kidnapped by Boko Haram are here to see her. For Malala, fighting | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
terrorism and encouraging education are part of the same battle. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
We express our solidarity with you. We are with you. We are standing up | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
with you in your campaign of Bring Back Our Girls. I consider those | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
girls as my sisters. They are my sisters. I am going to speak out for | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
them until they are released. In the emotionally-charged atmosphere, her | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
father, Ziauddin, starts to tell the parents her story. Sh ewas attacked | :17:24. | :17:35. | |
-- she was attacked... Soon, they are crying too. | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
The parents believe the Government simply doesn't care about them. | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
Suppose our daughters were the children of someone important, this | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
man asks, would they still be prisoners after 90 days? Boko Haram | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
seems to have kidnapped the girls so they could be exchanged for its | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
fighters, held in Nigerian jails. For Malala's visit, it put out a | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
video which mockingly demanded not Bring Back Our Girls, but "bring | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
back our army." I hope that our friends, your sisters... Malala was | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
able to meet some girls who had been kidnapped with the others, but | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
managed to escape. When I talked to able to meet some girls who had been | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
kidnapped with the others, but these girls, I asked them if the Nigerian | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
army had interviewed them to find out about their experiences. | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
TRANSLATION: They have not had any debriefing by the military. Still, | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the Government insists it is doing what it can to get the girls back. | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
Though there's no sign whatever of any progress. | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
More than ?1 billion is to be invested in the capabilities of the | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Armed Forces, including ?800 million being earmarked for intelligence and | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
surveillance T announcement was made this morning be I the Prime Minister | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
at the Farnborough Air Show. Mr Cameron said it was his aim to | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
sustain the thriving defence industry. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Well, the big attraction here was to be the F 35-B, which was to make its | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
first appearance in the UK in the skies here. Thanks to an engine fire | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
back in June, the planes have not arrived here yet. The hope is they | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
may be here by the weekend. The other announcement awaited by the | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
160,000 people across the UK is what the brm will say today and what -- | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
what the Prime Minister will say today about what signals he will | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
send about defence jobs and for the industry here. | :19:50. | :19:50. | |
For the the brm will say today and what -- | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Armed Forces having the right high tech kit is more vital than ever, | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
over e over land and sea. Today was crucial as the right people to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
operate it. At the Farnborough international air | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
show, the Prime Minister said that spending on intelligence and | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
surveillance equipment, such as unmanned aerial systems was a | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
national priority. Especially if you are a trading nation like the United | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
Kingdom and if you are living in such a dangerous and uncertain | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
world. To put it like this, you cannot have a long-term economic | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
plan unless you also have a long-term defence plan. That is what | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
was set in place. Amongst other things, the more than ?1 billion | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
announced today will boost Special Forces' ability to deal with threats | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
such as hostage taking and protect the UK from unconventional attack. | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
?300 million of that cash will be used for existing programmes, | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
including the next generation radars for typhoon jets. It should help | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
extend the lives of the spy plane to at least 2018. That cash will help | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
pay for HMS Protector, bought by the Royal Navy in September last year. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
There are concerns that the defence budget could suffer cuts after the | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
election next year, when the next review will be held. Critics point | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
out that the money announced today is not new, but part of the MoD's | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
underspend from its 2012-2013 budget. For visitors here, the air | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
show has opened without a star attraction, the fient strike | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
fighter. It is the aircraft which is due to fly from the decks of HMS | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
Queen Elizabeth. It suffered an engine fire last month in the USA | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
and was grounded. Many hope it will arrive in the UK in time to fly here | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
this weekend. So, a warm welcome for the Prime | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
Minister's announcement from a sector that did something like ?10 | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
billion worth of defence exports to the rest of the world last year and | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
is keen to continue those highly-skilled jobs. Still, some | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
fears about what could happen after the next election under a new | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Government and whether another Defence Review could come back to | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
make more cuts to the programme. Thank you. | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
More exercise and less smoking and drinking could help prevent | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
one-third of Alzheimer's cases. That is according to a study in the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Lancet. The findings suggest 200,000 of the cases of the disease could be | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
prevented by 2050 if people live healthier lives. With me is our | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
health correspondent. So healthier living - that is what it is all | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
about? What this research does is sets the scale of the problem we | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
face with Alzheimer's. It is projected to rise above 100 million | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
cases by the middle of the century. There are some risk factors we | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
cannot do anything about. Our age, for example and our genes. What this | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
paper focuses on is what we can address, things like smoking, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
inactivity and obesity. It really assesses what would happen if we | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
address these effectively and if that were to happen then one in | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
three cases of Alzheimer's could be prevented. That is obviously a | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
massive premium in terms of human suffering and costs saved for the | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
NHS. If there is one important message, one of those key risk | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
factors - inactivity. The findings are based on high levels of | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
activity. Five sessions of 30 minutes of moderate activity a week. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
That is quite a high bar for a lot of people. What researchers are keen | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
to emphasis is with more modest levels, perhaps a brisk walk, ten | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
minutes, regularly, that too could make a real difference. Broad bapd | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
in the UK is not fit for purpose, according to a leading business | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
group, the Federation of Small Businesses said the target is not | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
ambitious enough and a major re-think is needed. Although the | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
problem is worse in rural areas, businesses in towns and cities can | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
struggle with low broadband speeds, according to their report. | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
Fast, reliable broadband. It is now deemed essential. Today's report | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
says too many businesses are still in the slow lane. For this small PR | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
and marketing firm, a fast Internet connection is vital. They are based | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
down the road from tech City, London's answer to Silicon Valley. | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
Their broadband speed was still holding them back. I was trying to | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
get some information to one of our technicians who was working at home | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
and it said it would take nine hours to get the file to him. In the end I | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
had to put it on a USB and send it by bike. That is the straw that | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
broke the camel's back. Broadband is faster now thanks to a new fibre | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
optic cable, which they organised themselves and it was not cheap. | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
Today's report says too many businesses are being held back | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
because they don't have super fast broadband and the Government should | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
do more. This should be the fourth utility and the Government doesn't | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
seem to treat it in that way. There isn't enough aspiration to make sure | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
we're in line with other European countries and other countries across | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
the globe or competitive market. Ministers insist Britain is getting | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
up to speed. When we came into power, the last Government's targets | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
was two megabits for everybody. We have upped that to 24, superfast, | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
for 90% by 2017. Some of places are hard to reach, especially rural | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
areas. The Government says they are connecting tens of thousands of | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
homes and businesses every week. It seems in towns and cities, there is | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
still some way to go. The biggest salvage operation in | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
maritime history is into its final stage, two-and-a-half years after it | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
sank, killing 32 people, the wreck of the Costa Concordia is being | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
refloated off Giglio. The cruise line ler be then towed to Genoa, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
where it will be broken up and scrapped. Our correspondent is | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
watching the operation for us. The news is the Costa Concordia, | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
two-and-a-half years on, as you say, is now floating. You may not be able | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
to make that out behind me but we are told it is about a | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
metre-and-a-half now off the platform on which it has been | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
resting for the last few months. Then, over the coming day, they will | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
float it gently, inch by inch, stage by stage higher and higher until it | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
is ready to be towed away from here. At first light, the Costa Concordia | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
was ready for her final voyage. This twisted, rusting of ship, where 32 | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
people died, finally heading for the scrap yard. | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
The salvage master n the cafe that is his local, had one last coffee. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Today, we find out if the calculations are fine or how | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
accurate they were, based on assumptions. The weather is good. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Everybody is offshore. Now we have to take advantage of the good | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
weather and lift her off the platforms and the mattress. | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
For two-and-a-half years, this cruise ship has laid forlorn. Its | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
bars saturated, lifeless. With much of the ship only accessible to | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
divers. The operation to move it is a | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
delicate one. Last September, engineers slowly pulled it upright. | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Massive tanks have been welded to the side of the wreck. This week, | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
the water in them will be pumped out and the ship, inch by inch, | :27:57. | :28:04. | |
refloated, before being towed away. It was January, 2012 when the ship | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
went down. On board, passengers scrambled for | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
safety as the whole vessel tilted to one side. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
The crew sailed too close to the island, hit a rock and ripped a hole | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
in the hull. Most of the 4,000 on board made it | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
to safety. The captain is still on trial for manslaughter and | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
abandoning his ship. By midday, the Costa Concordia was | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
floating. Raised one metre out of the water and crucially staying | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
horizontal. They are confident here, but there is still a long way to go. | :28:46. | :28:52. | |
And that long way to go could take several more days yet. By the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
weekend, they think they may be in a position to finally take the Costa | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
Concordia away from Giglio. Time now for a look at the weather. | :29:02. | :29:03. | |
position to finally take the Costa Concordia away | :29:04. | :29:04. | |
We have some sunshine today, but more cloud and rain in the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
north-west. That front will move southwards. Around the middle part | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
of the week, temperatures will climb, along with the humidity | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
before it triggers some thunderstorms to finish off the end | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
of the week. To today's weather, clearest skies over central and | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
eastern areas. More cloud in the north-west: Much of the rain across | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
north-west Scotland. That will move south. Ahead of it, some thicker | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
cloud giving patchy rain across northern England. By 4pm in the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
afternoon we have cloud, outbreaks of rain across Scotland. Perhaps | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
some brighter spells for Northern Ireland, with some scattered | :29:44. | :29:49. | |
showers. Despite it being overcast over northern England, temperatures | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
20-21 Celsius. The cloud increasing for Wales. Always keeping the best | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
of that sunshine for central and eastern areas, where we are looking | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
at a top temperature of 24 Celsius, maybe 25 Celsius by the end of the | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
afternoon. Through the night, the winds will pick up for a time across | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
northern Scotland, as our band of rain moves south. It is weakening. | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
The rain will be patchy and light. Leaving a blanket of cloud over | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
England and Wales. Leaving it at 15-16 Celsius. There might be a few | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
showers tomorrow in the north-west and one or two for parts of Kent. | :30:28. | :30:34. | |
They should clear away. For most tomorrow, a bright day. Not feeling | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
too bad in the sunshine. 19-20 Celsius. We could see When we | :30:40. | :30:51. | |
get to Wednesday we will have low pressure around the UK bringing | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
cloud and rain, keeping the best of the sunshine further south and east. | :30:56. | :31:04. | |
Tied into this system we draw up the warm area, temperatures will climb | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
along with the humidity, we could see 27 degrees on Wednesday. Widely | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
temperatures around the low 20s. Temperatures could climb further on | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
Thursday, we could get 30 degrees somewhere. As the week goes on a | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
greater risk of seeing heavy showers and thunderstorms, the chance it | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
could last into the weekend. It is a fairly mixed picture, some rain to | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
come in the North West today. We will notice the increased heat and | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
humidity by the end of the week. The main story, Baroness Butler-Sloss, | :31:40. | :31:44. | |
appointed by the Prime Minister to lead the inquiry into historical | :31:45. | :31:45. |