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The wrong place and the wrong person. Two hitmen are found guilty | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
of murdering a student to death by mistake in front of his parents. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
17-year-old $:/STARTFEED. Amir Siddiqui was murdered as he opened | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
the door to two masked men. He was the heartbeat of our family. His | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
warmth, love and human affection touched many people. Also on the | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
programme. A suicide bomber bombs Ankara. A Counter-Terrorism officer | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
who offered to sell information to the News of the World is jailed. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Fears that thousands of seabirds may have been killed by a | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
mysterious substance in the sea off the south coast of England. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
And the price of perfection - Beyonce finally admits she mimed | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
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the National Anthem at President Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
News at Six. It was a terrible case of mistaken identity that left a | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
promising teenage law student dead in a leafy suburban street. Two | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
hitmen went to the wrong address and stabbed 17-year-old Aamir | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Siddiqui to death when he answered the front door of his home in | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Cardiff. Ben Hope and Jason Richards who were both high on | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
drugs were supposed to kill a man living in the next road but they | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
went to the wrong address. High well Griffith is there for us. | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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This house used to be filled with laughter until their life changed | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
forever when Aamir Siddiqui became the victim of a senseless attack. | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Gifted and he wanted to become a lawyer. Aamir Siddiqui's life was | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
cut short when he became the unintended victim of a contract | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
killing. After sifting through a four-and-a-half month trial, today | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
his family saw Aamir Siddiqui's assailants convicted of murder and | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
they remembered the son and little brother they doted on. Aamir was a | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
beautiful person with a bright future. If he was still with us, | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
he'd be looking forward to turning 21 this year and completing his law | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
degree. He was the heartbeat of our family. His warmth, love, affection | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
and humour touched many, many people. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Aamir was attacked after answering the family front door. He was | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
expecting to welcome his Koran teacher. Instead, he was confronted | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
by two masked men who attacked him and his parents. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Jason Richards on the left and Ben Hope, were described in court as | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
having shown staggering incompetence. The two drug addicts | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
had been promised �1,000 each to kill. Their intended victim was a | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
father of four living at this house in a leafy Cardiff suburb. Despite | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
a reconnaissance trip, the two men drove to the Siddiqui home instead, | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
yards away, and then rang the door bell. He always opened the door | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
whenever someone came. The second this incident happened, it changed | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
our life. The people who committed this crime can't understand that | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
such a loss it is. The two men fled thinking they'd completed the | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
contract but they left behind a trail of evidence, a footprint in | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
Aamir's blood on the doorstep of the house, more blood on their | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
clothing and in the car they used to make their escape. | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
The search for Aamir's killers became one of the biggest | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
investigations in the history of South Wales police. In my 27 years | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
service, I've never dealt with such a brutal attack upon such a young | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
innocent man in his own home. This happened on a sunny Sunday | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
afternoon in an affluent area of Cardiff with lots of people going | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
about their daily business when these two attackers attended at the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
home address of Aamir Siddiqui and brutally murdered a very innocent | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
young man. The two men were driven from court in high security | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
vehicles. They will return to be sentenced next week. The judge has | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
already warned that they face life prison terms. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Two men soon squandered the money they were paid. CCTV images show | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
them out shopping for trainers and a laptop computer. The cost of | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
their actions is still being felt by the Siddiqui family. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Thank you very much. The US embassy in the Turkish | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
capital Ankara has been attacked by a suicide bomber who blew himself | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
up at a security gate killing a guard. The US has warned its | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
citizens travelling to Turkey and those already living there to take | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
extra care. Gordon Corera reports. The chaotic aftermath of a deadly | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
blast. The target - American's embassy in Ankara. Police raced to | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
secure the scene while ambulances took away the injured. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Turkish officials say a suicide bomber was responsible. The blast | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
occurred at a side entrance to the US Embassy. The bomber perhaps | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
tried to get past the guards, one of whom was killed, according to | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
America's ambassador who appeared outside the building a few hours | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
later. We are very sad, of course, that we | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
lost one of our Turkish guys at the gate. It was very sad. We pray for | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
the speedy recovery of the wounded person, also a Turkish citizen. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Security is tight which may have saved lives. Four months ago, | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
America's ambassador to Libya was killed in a poorly protected | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
Consulate in Benghazi. It's not the first time diplomatic missions in | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
Turkey have been targeted. Al-Qaeda has been responsible in the past. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
This time, Turkish officials are suggesting it may be a domestic | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
left-wing group angry at the country's relationship with America. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
America is the target. They're nationalists, left-wing groups, as | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
well as eIslamists not happy with the Turkish Government's alliance | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
with Washington. Turkey's Prime Minister said the attack showed the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
need for close international cooperation, while the White House | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
said that whoever was responsible, this was an act of terror. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
A senior police officer has been jailed for 15 months for offering | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
to sell information to the News of the World about the phone hacking | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
inquiry. Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn who worked in | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
Counter-Terrorism was convicted of misconduct in public office. The | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
judge at the Old Bailey said actions like hers corroded the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
public's faith in the police force. Matt Prodger reports. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Arieching at court, DCI April Casburn, the first person to be | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
jailed in connection with the phone hacking scandal since the | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
investigation re-opened two-and-a- half years ago -- arriving at court. | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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Sentencing her to 15 months, Mr In 2010, April Casburn was one of | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
the most senior women in Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
She was unhappy in her job and annoyed that resourcesing with | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
being diverted to the phone hacking investigation. So she rang the News | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
of the World and spoke to a journalist, Tim Wood, who said she | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
tried to sell details about the investigation. No money changed | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
hands. Mr Justice Fulford told April | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Casburn that he would have sentenced her to three years in | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
prison were it not for the fact that she was in the process of | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
adopting a very vulnerable young child. Nevertheless, he said this | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
was a straightforward but troubling case of corruption. | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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The corruption Operation Elveden has arrested 58 people so far. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Thrches another today. April Casburn is the first | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
conviction -- there was another today. She knew full well what she | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
was doing was wrong I'm sure and she set an appalling example to her | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
colleagues and the people that worked for her, as well as breaking | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
the public's trust. A very serious offence. The judge rejected April | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
Casburn's claim that she was a whistle-blower, rather than corrupt, | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
and so it was that a senior detective left court in the back of | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
a prison van. A 46-year-old police officer from | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
Scotland Yard's Diplomatic Protection Group was arrested at | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
her work today over alleged leaks to the media linked to the Andrew | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Mitchell plebgate affair. The Chief Whip resigned over allegations | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
about what he said to officers at Downing Street during a row. A 46- | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
year-old officer arrested yesterday has been bailed until March. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service won't bring charges against two | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Australian DJs who made a hoax call to a hospital treating the didge | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
for morning sickness. A -- the Duchess of Cambridge. The nurse, | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
Jacintha Saldana, who took the call took her life. | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
The Chief Executive of Barclay's, Antony Jenkins, is giving up his | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
annual bonus reportedly worth at least �1 million. He said 2012 had | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
been a difficult year for the bank and it would be wrong to accept the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
money. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
brushed aside oughtions that some Conservative MPs are increasibly | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
unhappy with his stewardship of the economy. On a visit to Warrington | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
in Cheshire to promote invest, he said he's 100% focused on | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
delivering growth. Our Chief Economics Correspondent, Hugh Pym, | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
reports. The Chancellor was probably glad to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
have a hard hat on. His policies have come under fire after recent | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
news what the economy has gone back into reverse. Today, he visited a | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
flood defence construction site in Warrington. The - with him was the | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
former Olympic supremo, now infrastructure Treasury Minister | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
whose job it is to get more projects like this off the ground. | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
The message the Chancellor wants to get across is that infrastructure | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
investment is a top priority. But the questions remain, where is the | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
money coming from, what can be delivered and how quickly? | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
As well as building projects, the Chancellor was promoting science | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
investment today, visiting the darsbury laboratory, but the harsh | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
reality for him is that the economy's stalled -- Daresbury. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
Still no growth three years in. Shouldn't you be doing more and | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
thinking again? I would say we have done the things that have seen the | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
deficit come down by a quarter, not only given us the record low | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
interest rates so important for homes and businesses but we are | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
taking the tough decisions to invest in things like science and | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
roads that we didn't do in the first place. This company has heard | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
it all before and is disappointed with the lack of progress. It's not | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
come up with the pace anticipated. Unfortunately, that's meant in | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
certain parts of the business, we have had to reduce hid count and in | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
some cases exit supply from the market segments because there's no | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
scale of activity. Labour had its own message for Mr Osborne. Growth | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
is disappearing, the economy is shrinking. Infrastructure spending | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
is being cut and it's hurting our economy. It's no wonder that | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
there's a whispering campaign against the Chancellor and the | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
prospects of a leadership challenge r challenge from the Conservative | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
backbenchers. Back with the Chancellor, I put to him that there | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
had been reports some in his party might be losing confidence in him. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
I think people understand across Britain actually that it's a very | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
tough economic situation, that we are going to have to take some very | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
tough decisions like I have had to do. They are things which affect | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
people, but they are the decisions to make sure this country pays its | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
way in the world. They are decisions that will help create the | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
jobs of tomorrow and I'm absolutely focused on that. Focused he may be, | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
but for the Chancellor, the road ahead could get even bumpier if the | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
economy continues to drift. Swift action is needed to tackle | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Britain's dual problems of water shortages and flooding according to | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
a group of MPs who've accused the Government of acting too slowly | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
when it comes to storing water and sharing supplies across the UK. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Ministers deny dragging their feet. Jeremy Cooke reports. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Water, so many of us take it for granted. The last 12 months have | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
been a big reminder that when you have too much, or too little, you | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
have a problem. In some parts of the country, it | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
feels like the floods have been here for months. They're | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
increasingly becoming a fact of life. Today's report by MPs says | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
ministers are acting too slowly to tackle the twin problems of drought | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
and of what they call the shattering impact of flooding. | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Julie Gibson's home's been flooded twice and she agrees there must be | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
a more comprehensive response. The threat of water and the threat | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
of climate change, whether that be drought or whether it be floods, is | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
so great now that I think we have to take a far more holistic view | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
about how we manage water. Here in Worcester, there's plenty | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
of water about. But the good news is that flood defences have largely | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
kept it out of the city away from homes and businesses. But walls and | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
embankments and barriers can only ever be part of the solution. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Many recent floods have not been because rivers have broken their | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
banks but because of surface water with sudden intense rainfall. The | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
drainage system is quickly overwhelmed, turning roads into | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
raging rivers. As more of our landscape, gardens and drives are | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
paved over, there's no chance for water to drain into the earth. | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Still, ministers defend their record and their plans. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
We have implemented a massive change in how we deal with flooding, | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
how we assess flood risk. The partners that we brought in to | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
solving issues locally I think has been dramatic and I completely do | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
not accept that criticism from the committee. They are wrong. | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
British weather's always been a talking point. The predicted impact | :15:04. | :15:14. | |
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of climate change means it's also Two hit man are found guilty of | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
killing 17 year-old Emir Siddiqui after calling at the wrong address. | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
Rugby Union, with its commitment, energy and sometimes injury - we | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
are looking forward to the Six Nations. | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
On the BBC News Channel, we will be at the Millennium Stadium for | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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Inside Six Nations ahead of Wales Experts fear that thousands of | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
seabirds may have been killed by a glue-like substance in the sea off | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
the south coast of England. Rescuers have saved dozens of | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
guillemots and razorbills swept ashore along the 200 mile stretch | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
of coastline. It is thought the substance is a refined mineral oil, | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
but further tests are needed. Among rocks lashed by the tide, the | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
victims are still coming ashore. As the pollution threat spreads along | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
the coastline, teams of volunteers, soaked butter determined, spend | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
another day trying to save as many lives as possible. In this area | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
roughly one mile long, more than 50 guillemots have been recovered, all | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
coated with the same mystery contaminant. The lucky few are on | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
their way to treatment centres. The majority died before it reached | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
help. Wildlife experts are warning that, based on the numbers | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
identified so far, thousands may have been lost at sea. A you can't | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
help but be angry that this contaminant has been put there, we | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
don't know how or why. These wild animals, they are out there living | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
their lives and we're into the evening, we should not be doing | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
that and it makes you angry. The Marine and Coastguard Agency | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
this afternoon said one of their aircraft was trying to trace the | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
source of the pollution, which may have trapped many miles on the | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
strong south-westerly wind and has now been reported as far east as | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Sussex. The key is to nail down what they are dealing with. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Although the RSPCA have found an effective treatment, samples of the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
contaminants are being analysed and results are not due until tomorrow. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
We will be using the system which attracts ships to try to see if | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
there are any vessels we can interrogate their cargoes to find | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
out if there were any one -- if there was anyone else with those | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
sorts of cargoes around the time. Such are the distances involved | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
that by now an offending vessel may have I of -- offloaded her cargo or | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
be many miles away. We understand scientists have identified the | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
contaminants as a mix of mineral oils, which might make treating the | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
affected birds are a little bit easier. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
In Egypt, protesters and police are clashing again in Cairo outside the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
presidential palace. Riot police using tear gas and water cannon are | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
trying to drive back government opponents throwing rocks and petrol | :18:26. | :18:33. | |
bombs. Large crowds have taken to the streets of Port Said, where | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
demonstrators are marking the first anniversary of a football riot | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
which left more than 70 people dead. 32 people are known to have died in | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
an explosion at the headquarters of the Mexican state our company, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Pemex. Rescuers are searching for survivors. It happened yesterday | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
afternoon as shifts were changing, making the area particularly | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
crowded. The public is being let down by the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
police watchdog which has Wolverley under-equipped to do its job, | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
according to a committee of MPs. It says the Independent Police | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Complaints Commission needs greater powers and more resources to | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
investigate cases properly. David Cameron has stressed the need | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
to eradicate extreme poverty as he continues his tour of North Africa. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
The Prime Minister, in Liberia for a UN meeting on development and aid, | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
said countries need to deal with the problems keeping them poor, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
such as conflict and corruption. Nick Robinson is travelling with | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
the Prime Minister. He sent this report from Monrovia. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
What do these people need to get out of poverty? Aid, trade, better | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
government? Is it our responsibility or none of our | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
business? That is what David Cameron is grappling with in | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Liberia. There are people who will say they don't want their Prime | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Minister to come here, they don't want their money here, they don't | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
want British troops in North and West Africa. David Cameron's answer | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
to all of that has been simple, it is not just good in itself, he says, | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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David Cameron's final stop on this African tour is to chair an | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
international summit with the president of one of the poorest | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
countries on the planet. And the work we've gotta do is try to work | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
out what goals the world should set for tackling poverty, hunger, | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
disease and helping people and helping countries to make the very | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
best of themselves in the years ahead. Here, that means ensuring | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
more children go to school and get jobs, and fewer die of disease and | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
starvation. In a country where one in 10 never reach the age of five. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
This meeting is debating how to strike the right balance between | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
targeting poverty and growth and combating environmental degradation. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
These are goals for the United Nations which could last for 20 | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
years. They miss out on school, they have children... This is what | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
your taxes help pay for, a drop-in centre for children who all too | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
often have children of their own. Learning to so, she hopes, might | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
pay for her baby to go to school. So what is the connection between | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
those guys in a conference centre talking about goals and this? | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
already have a set of goals, they have driven incredible progress in | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
places like this. A few years ago, one in six under fives died in | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
communities like this, now it is one in 12. We have made amazing | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
progress but the question is can we agree a blueprint which means that | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
instead of one and 12 dying, no children die from preventable | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
diseases. We think we can. Helping Africa - part of helping ourselves, | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
or a distraction we can't afford? This question has hung over the | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Prime Minister's trip. It is one of the bigger sporting | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
weekends of the British winter, the start of the Rugby Union Six | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Nations Championship. Wales are the defending champions but confidence | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
has been in short supply after a string of poor results. England | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
start as one of the favourites, they take on Scotland tomorrow at | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Twickenham. Logic would tell you that if | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
England can beat the world champions at Twickenham, as they | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
did in December, they can beat anybody. Logic often has very | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
little to do with the Six Nations, mind you, which is part of its | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
enduring appeal wherever you go. I spent some of the week in Wales. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
There is concern not just about the men who will take the field but | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
also about the players who will be missing. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
Morgan Stoddart is 28, a gifted running rugby player the Six | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Nations -- a gifted running rugby player. The Six Nations should be | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
his stage, but last month he announced his retirement from rugby | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
and now he is coaching, not playing. More than fractured his leg playing | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
for Wales. It is too disturbing to show close-up. It was a freak | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
injury. Rugby Union can be a short career. Everybody knows when they | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
take the field that there is that if -- the definite risk of injury. | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Over the last few years I think the risk is increased. Any 16 to 20 | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
year-old coming through the academy, we advise them to try to get as | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
many qualifications as they can while they are playing because you | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
never know when you will retire. Right now the injury list across | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
the Welsh rugby is unprecedented. When Wales play Ireland tomorrow | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
afternoon it is easy enough to think of 10 Welsh players who could | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
have been involved, except they are all out injured. Wales are the | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
defending Six Nations champions but have lost their last seven matches. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
A year is a long time. If you are only as good as your last game | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
England should be well placed, they beat world champions New Zealand | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
before Christmas. They play Scotland tomorrow, ranked 12th in | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the world. Simple? I worry more about the games you are expected to | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
win. The expectation has increased but no one can tell me that playing | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Scotland first up will be easy. Scotland have a recent defeat | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
against Tonga to ponder, it cost the last coach's job. There are 10 | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
times as many players in England and Scotland - they are out | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
resourced but never overwhelmed. will be nervous, but we are a good | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
rugby team. 50-50, it will go at down to the wire. But we are going | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
for stealth, under the radar. in Wales, Morgan Stoddart will be | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
watching. He is well supported by Llanelli. He knows rugby is a great | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
career with great physical demands, and even at the top it can all go | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
very quickly. It starts at 1:30pm in Cardiff, | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
Wales versus Ireland. At 4pm at Twickenham, England versus Scotland. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Sunday is France versus Italy. There is your weekend plant, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Sophie! Millions were asking after the | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
presidential inauguration, was Beyonce singing live or miming? For | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
many, it sounded a little too good to be true. Now they have their | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
answer. It was one of the most talked-about | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
moments of re-inauguration, Beyonce's pitch perfect rendition | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
of the national anthem in front of the President and millions more, | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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but then came the questions - was And then at the press conference | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
for Sunday's Super Bowl, she gave parents therefore stopped I did not | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
have time to rehearse with the orchestra due to the weather, due | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
to be delayed, due to no proper soundcheck. I did not feel | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
comfortable taking a risk. Calling herself a perfectionist, | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
she says she will be singing live at the Super Bowl this weekend in | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
front of one of the biggest audiences of her career. | :26:24. | :26:34. | |
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She certainly can sing! Now the Pretty good weather for read, | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
particularly tomorrow. Bright blue skies, but there will be a chill in | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
the air. A widespread frost, particularly across the north of | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the UK tonight. Some wet weather to deal with his evening. Across the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
Midlands in particular. The rain will ease the way, but further | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
showers moving in. There will perhaps be a covering of snow in a | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
few places by the end of the night. Northern England and Scotland in | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
particular may get some frost, temperatures dropping a few degrees | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
below freezing, with a you winds -- the wind that makes by penetrating | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
frost, but it will be bright blue skies. A cheery day, some showers | :27:24. | :27:33. | |
running in. Most places will start the day dry, particularly -- albeit | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
with lower temperatures. Through the rest of the day, most places | :27:40. | :27:47. | |
few showers down the North Sea coast, particularly into Norfolk, | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
and some sleet and snow, but that will struggle to settle. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
Temperatures will struggle a little bit. With a wind-chill effect it | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
will feel like it is staying below freezing. If you're going to the | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
rugby, it is a fantastic day for the opening of the tournament. | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
Temperatures will be around five or six, but at Twickenham you will | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
feel the chill with the brisk northerly winds. | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
A very different day on Sunday, westerly winds, more cloud coming | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
in. Some rain but not much. Temperatures higher, around seven | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
to ten degrees. But a big change back the other way into next week, | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
cold winds from the north, next cold winds from the north, next | :28:26. | :28:31. |