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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Police in Leicester say | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
they're treating the deaths of a woman and her three teenage children | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
in a house fire in the middle of the night as murder. Emergency crews | :01:30. | :01:44. | |
fought to save the family, but all four were found dead in their | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
bedrooms. Only the father has four were found dead in their | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
survived, he was away working in Ireland. Detectives say it may have | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
been a revenge attack linked to the murder of a man nearby several hours | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
earlier. Our reporter Sian Lloyd is at the scene. | :01:55. | :02:25. | |
A mother who was in her 40s and were found in I could see the house was | :02:25. | :02:37. | |
on fire. I could see a blazing up and went and you could see the | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
staircase. The door was open, the staircase was fire. If you were | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
upstairs, there was no way to get down. In the mosque, from home | :02:48. | :02:59. | |
during the week at a hospital in Ireland. It is understood he | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
returned to Leicester on being told of I saw people, helping a lot of | :03:06. | :03:20. | |
told to keep away from him. Give him some time so we can sort out the | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
issues and community members. Three days of mourning will be held by the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
local religious community who are struggling to understand why this | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
family forensic officers are carrying out their work and a | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
fingertip search of the neighbourhood is also underway. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Police don't yet know what caused the blaze. But what happened on this | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
nearby road yesterday could hold a clue. A 20-year-old man was attacked | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
last night. And later died in hospital. Police say they are not | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
ruling out a possible link between the two crimes. I can't confirm here | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
and now it is a revenge attack. It may be or it may not be bad lines of | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
enquiry will certainly get to the may be or it may not be bad lines of | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
bottom of that. What happened here this morning is still unclear. | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
Police say they need the help of the community in Leicester to piece | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
together why a quiet studious family were the subject of an arson attack. | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Community leaders are meeting police officers this evening. There was a | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
great deal of controversy tonight. Local people have a clearer picture | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
of what happened and will emerge over the coming days. The location | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
of all children's homes in England has been revealed for the first | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
time, showing that nearly half of youngsters in care are in places far | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
from their home and family. A new Department for Education report also | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
reveals some councils are placing all their children outside their own | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
local authority areas. The Education Secretary described the practice as | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
indefensible. Reeta Chakrabarti reports. For this young man, the | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
term care home is a contradiction in terms because he says he received no | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
care. Between the ages of 11 and 16, terms because he says he received no | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
he was moved eight times, far from his family home in London and on one | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
I hated the world and that was because of the way I felt I was | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
raised. I did not feel Love from anyone. I did not feel care from | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
anyone and that made me angry. And I showed it to people. I was itching | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
anyone and that made me angry. And I for fights. I spent suicidal. He | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
won't use his childhood as an excuse for spending time in prison for | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
robbery but wonders what life might have been like otherwise. That | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
experience might not be uncommon. Figures released today for 2012 show | :05:47. | :06:05. | |
that, outside their area. The government collected the data after | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
the jailing last year of nine men from Rochdale and old for child | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
sexual exploitation. One of the victims was in a home having been | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
relocated from Essex local authorities they sometimes are good | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
reasons for sending children away. Councils will often look to place | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
children away from home to break the cycle of abuse, to get a child away | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
from someone like a paedophile, who may be grooming them, drugs gang who | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
could be trying to draw them in. By moving them away from that, can give | :06:33. | :06:52. | |
them a chance for a fresh start. Ministers accept that but say | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
councils and others have failed to be clear about who was in their | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
councils and others have failed to homes and where they are. The | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
Secretary of State Michael Gove said homes and where they are. The | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
he met with a wall of silence because of what he called | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
he met with a wall of silence rules preventing these details from | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
being shared. How society shares the rules preventing these details from | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
information of vulnerable children came under scrutiny authorities of | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
hiding to provide examination of how children Time and time again in this | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
area, the rules which are there to protect children's identity are | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
being used and distorted by the public authorities who do not want | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
scrutiny of their own actions and they are not properly accountable to | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
the taxpayer, who is spending a fortune. Some have left the care | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
system and been scarred by it. The government says, armed with a new | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
data, it will try to improve life for those 12 men have been arrested | :07:30. | :07:39. | |
for an alleged plot to steal millions of pounds from Santander | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
bank by taking remote control of a computer. Officers say they believe | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
a bogus workman intended to fit a device inside a branch computer | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
which would have enabled the thieves to download reams of customer data. | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
Ben Geoghan reports. This bank is in the target of what police say was a | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
sophisticated and audacious plot. There was no physical break-in, nor | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
a man with a gun at the counter. Instead, criminals tried to connect | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
a device to a computer inside the bank which could have allowed them | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
to steal they used a gadget similar to this one. It is the keyboard | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
video mask device. The gang hoped it would give remote access to details | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
of customers accounts, which they could then used to commute that | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
commit fraud. Yesterday afternoon, man came to this bank lending to be | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
a maintenance engineer. He tried to fit the device to one of the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
computers inside but was unsuccessful. Staff became | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
suspicious and raise the alarm. Today, the bank said no money was | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
ever at risk. There have been warnings the UK is a | :08:44. | :08:58. | |
prime target for so-called cyber criminals. The Metropolitan | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
Police's a central unit have arrested Santanderthere have been | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
warnings the UK is a prime target for so-called cyber criminals. The | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Metropolitan 's a central unit have arrested 12 people connected with | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
the plot. PoliceSearchers have been carried out in at least six | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
locations. Some other gangs may not be technical at all but what they | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
hiring people to help them please save the most significant case of | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
hiring people to help them please its kind ever come across which | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
could have led to the loss of a very large Four men who raped and | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
murdered a student on a bus in Delhi have been sentenced to death. The | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
attack on the 23-year-old woman led to days of violent demonstrations in | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
India. This morning the judge rejected pleas for lighter sentences | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
saying the case fell in the rarest of rare category. How to secure | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
Syria's chemical weapons and put them beyond use was the focus of a | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
second day of talks between Russia and America. Speaking in Geneva, the | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the talks had been constructive | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
and could lead to a wider initiative to end the conflict. But the details | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
of how to dispose of Syria's entire chemical arsenal will not be easy to | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
resolve.This report from James Robbins contains flash photography. | :10:09. | :10:28. | |
It's been a long day 's talking. We glimpsed Russia's Foreign Minister | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
It's been a long day 's talking. We Sergei Lavrov on the phone in a | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
break from the search for common ground with his American | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
counterpart. John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov are said to get on well and | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
have even been looking ahead with a top UN official to the possibility | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
of wider peace talks but first I have to reduce differences over the | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
chemical weapons issue, not least have to reduce differences over the | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
the right to the ministry -- strikes. I think a constructive | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
conversation regarding that but those conversations are continuing | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
and both of us want to get President Putin has been meeting leaders in | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Central Asia as architect of the armament plan, he sounds bullish. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
TRANSLATION: The initiative to establish control over Syrian | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
chemical weapons is underway and wheat attach much significance to. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Hope for positive results which should lead to a peaceful or at | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
least create conditions for a peaceful settlement the crisis. And | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
are still big undersold tensions between the USA and Russia at these | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
talks. Quite apart from that, behind me the right chemical weapons | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
experts from both countries working together to devise a safe and | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
practical ways of dealing with President Assad's chemical arsenal, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
if he does keep to his word. America and Britain are amongst countries | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
were to dispose of chemical weapons. The USA spent many years and | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
billions of dollars destroying its own stocks. Getting rid of Syrian | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
chemical is likely to be a. Syria's docs thought to contain nerve agents | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
like this, mustard gas and believed to be held at 50 sites across the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
country. Scientists stress the enormous complexity of disposing of | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
the shells and their content. Disposal could involve separating | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
high explosives, neutralising the liquid inside with other chemicals, | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
and burning them in special furnaces. The empty shells | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
themselves may end the destruction of these weapons will take some | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
time. We're not talking about weeks but months, and it will depend on | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the complexity, whether the chemical is stored in bulk, precursor | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
chemicals that he mixed together to make the chemical weapon, and | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
whether you have got munitions with the chemicals in. An even bigger | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
prize, of course, would need to bring an end to all this. The daily | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
killing with conventional weapons in Syria. The War crimes on both sides | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
are accused of even if most are blamed on government forces. Ending | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
the agony of Syria's Civil war remains a much Well Britain has | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
pledged to lead the world in its humanitarian response to the crisis. | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Other countries including Germany are accepting refugees from Syria, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
but the government here says there are no plans to do the same. The UK | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
is however committing £400 million to provide help. And many British | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
charities have been raising funds for those most in need. Our | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
correspondent Jeremy Cooke has spent the day with one of them in | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
Nottingham. All of this stuff, the baby milk, the nappies and the boxes | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
of children's clothes have all been donated by the British public but | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
it's all be the Syrian community who are desperate to do something, to do | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
anything, as this humanitarian crisis continues to unfold. , mum | :13:49. | :14:03. | |
Tracey from Yorkshire, the father from Syria. The girls are growing up | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
in both countries. And now they are he was outside Damascus and I | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
believe they over Arabic tea, the talk is not so much of chemical | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
weapons and diplomatic manoeuvring, for them, it's about so many they | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
need help desperately, they need for them, it's about so many they | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
something now, not later. Now. It's happening. On isn't one thing, they | :14:34. | :14:48. | |
have heard David Cameron's promised to lead the there may be these | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
extensions for Syrians already in the UK but no plans to match | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
Germany's commitment to it needs to follow Germany's lead and if they | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
say they care, they need to do something about it, and stop talking | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
about it. They can do it, so why not act now when is not all about the | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
government. The UK's Assyrian community is doing all it can, | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
especially for they are sat in Syria, waiting for their turn, am I | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
going to get food, and I don't get my baby some milk? So when the day | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
came and we saw the we the desperate need is for information. But the | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
Internet is down. And the What we do know is that all of this is so badly | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
needed. Over the weekend it will be loaded into a container and driven | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
over land to be in Syria within the next couple of weeks is. | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
Our top story: A mother and her three children are | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
killed in a house fire in Leicester. The police say it is murder. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Coming up: Critics claim it is dangerously hot | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
and must be moved to winter, but the man behind the Qatar World Cup says | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
the tournament will go ahead, whatever the weather. | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
And coming up in Sportsday, all of the football and we hear from | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill on her nightmare year and why she will not have | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
Achilles surgery. It has revolutionised parts of the | :16:32. | :16:45. | |
internet to become a global cultural force in its own right. Twitter | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
famously allows users to post messages on the web of 140 | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
characters or less. That happens 500 million times every day. It makes | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
the site a big draw for advertisers. Now it is to be floated on the stock | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
exchange, valued at an estimated six point £3 billion. Our technology | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
correspondent has the details. -- 6.3 billion. | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Many people have decided a tweet is the best way to speak to the world, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
publicise your latest album, or to announce an impending birth. Even | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
the Pope now uses Twitter, sending messages to almost 3 million | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
followers. It is their instant news channel to spread the word about | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
what they are doing. It allows them to connect to their fans, to build a | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
huge fan base following, and ultimately to sell stuff. Twitter | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
has also become the way kinds of news breaks. When a plane landed on | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
the Hudson River, the first photo was tweeted by a witness. As the | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
hunt for Osama Bin Laden reached its conclusion, a tweet in Pakistan was | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
the first to tell the world what was happening. But now, as Twitter | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
prepares to float on the New York Stock Exchange, the question is, | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
what makes this free service a valuable business? Here is how it | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
started in 2006 with the first tweet and the first typo by one of the | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
founders. For years, they just concentrated on growing the audience | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
from that one user. By 2008, there were 1 million of them, and that has | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
now reached 200 million. Only recently has Twitter thought about | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
making money, and this year it is on course to earn £380 million in | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
revenue. John Campbell shows companies how to use Twitter to | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
promote their products. Twitter have been clever in that the advertising | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
is very subtle. Many users do not know there is Twitter there, which | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
is one of the appeals to consumers and advertisers. Increasingly that | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
will change and perhaps advertising will become slightly more intrusive. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
But as it stands, it is a platform many people enjoy using because of | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
the apparent lack of advertising. Twitter has been under fire over | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
offensive behaviour by some users. Now, the plan for a share sale, | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
announced in a tweet, means more pressure to behave like a grown-up | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
company. Thousands of people have been warned | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
to evacuate parts of Colorado to escape what officials have described | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
as a 100 year flood. Storm rains have killed at least three people, | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
with rescue crews struggling to reach stranded communities. | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
The roads have come rivers, and canyons are overflowing, as the | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
record downpour in the Rocky Mountains has forced thousands of | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
people to flee their homes. Flash floods caught motorists unaware. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Some tried to make their way on foot. This woman battled the | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
powerful flow of the water before finally being helped to safety. Late | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
summer and a normally brings relief from intense heat, but unusual | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
weather patterns brought half a year of rain in just a few hours. Homes | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
have been washed away. This man desperately tried to signal for | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
help. Rescuers have been trying to reach those caught in rising | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
floodwaters. This man was trapped for an hour. He found a pocket of | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
air and he was just sitting there breathing in that pocket of air | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
until the dive team could get to him. The weather forecasters say | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
there is more to come, as all-time rainfall records continue to be | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
broken. Annual house price rises should be | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
capped at 5%, amid concerns the UK could be heading for another housing | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
bubble, according to a group of leading surveyors, who claimed the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
proposed limit would prevent buyers getting too deep into debt. It | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
follows the business Secretary's comments earlier this year that a | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
government help to buy a scheme could fuel a -- and unsustainable | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
rise in house prices. Home to Kings, colleges and | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
cathedrals, Winchester is also location, location, location for | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
some of the highest property prices in Britain. For sellers and buyers | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
like Rachel and Ian, the idea of capping price rises brings a mixed | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
response. Ian is a first-time buyer and he says price caps are good | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
idea. Just something to stop prices from spiralling out of control. I am | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
trying to buy a place and everything is so expensive, so I would be up | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
for it. But Rachel has just put her house on the market, and she says | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
price caps are the wrong way to go. I want to maximise the price I can | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
get for my house, so I can buy the next home for our family. I | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
appreciate it is difficult for next home for our family. I | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
first-time buyers but I think the market has to work everybody. You do | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
not have to look far for house -- high house prices here. This one is | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
worth £1.1 million. This one is selling at £1.2 million, and this | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
one is £1.7 million. And this one is selling at £1.2 million, and this | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
worth £1.2 million. The whole idea of rice capping is to stop these | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
fluctuations of recent years. -- price capping. Six years ago, prices | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
were rising by 10%, then they dropped 20%, and now they are up | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
again, 3.5% in some places. To cap price rises would mean there is | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
curbs on mortgage lending, but what works in Winchester might not work | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
in Leeds. Those in the housing industry say limiting mortgages, or | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
loan to value ratios, is not the way forward to help buyers or sellers. I | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
do not think there are enough householders moving at the moment. | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
Prices are not moving as much as people think they are, judging | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
purely on London. Until we get that happening, it is going to slow down | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
the market. With so many property markets around the country, price | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
caps may be ahead of their time. The priority now is recovery, not | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
restrictions. The leader of the Green Party, | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
Natalie Bennett, has told supporters at their annual conference in | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Brighton that the Greens are the only alternative to the | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
indistinguishable big Westminster parties. She used her opening speech | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
to attack the government's welfare reforms and also condemned the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
involvement of private firms in the Royal Mail and the NHS. The NHS is a | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
national jewel that must be grabbed back from the jewel thieves. It must | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
be polished and set back again in pride of place. The profit motive | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
has no place in the health care system, and we will not rest until | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
we have expelled every last corporate bloodsucker from our NHS. | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
The man in charge of that 2022 football World Cup in Qatar insists | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
his country is the right place for the competition despite concerns | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
about extreme temperatures during the tournament. It is now expected | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
to be staged in winter months to avoid the heat, but that is not | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
satisfied some critics. Our correspondent went to meet | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Hassan al-Thawadi at the world 's oldest football club, Sheffield | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
city. The 2022 World Cup is Qatar. Nearly | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
three years after being unexpectedly awarded the World Cup, Qatar are | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
fighting back against critics. In his first major interview on his | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
country's plans, the head of Qatar's World Cup told me, having | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
won the bid, they will not be giving it up. Somebody's gain to take the | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
World Cup away from us? No, absolutely not. There is no reason | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
for it. Every promise we have provided during the bidding stage, | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
we have worked very hard to ensure we are within the rules of the | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
bidding and the hosting agreement. But concerns are mounting. This | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
week, the head of world football, set blatter, said that holding the | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
tournament during the summer is not the right thing to do. Greg Dyke, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
chairman of the football Association, said they have two | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
choices, they can move the time or to another location. And the Premier | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
League Chief Executive believes an awful lot of chaos would be caused | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
across world football if it got moved. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
Those views stem from the extreme heat that the Gulf state experiences | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
in June and July, but Qatar insists it can welcome the world at any time | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
of year. I would like to assure everybody that is not impossible to | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
host the World Cup in the summer, absolutely not. Everybody seems to | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
think it is impossible. The 50 degrees number seems to be plastered | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
on. That is the extreme. Whether it is in June, July, November, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
December, May, January, February, any moment in time, we are ready to | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
host it at any time. As the first World Cup in an Islamic state, many | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
fans will experience different social attitudes in Qatar. Hassan | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
al-Thawadi must now deliver a successful event. You ring a visit | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
to the world 's oldest football club, the newest football club in | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
the game agreed to meet supporters to answer their questions. Even as a | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
fan wanting to visit, what are the issues with alcohol? Alcohol is | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
available. Not as readily available as anywhere in England, because it | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
is not part of our culture and tradition. The current laws in Qatar | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
are such that gay men are not allowed to be themselves if they | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
want to come to the World Cup. We have our own beliefs, but it does | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
not been we will judge anybody or restrict anybody. -- it does not | :26:39. | :26:48. | |
mean. Qatar may be small in size but it is big on ambition. There is a | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
desire to dazzle and exceed expectations. The World Cup brings | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
football together, but a tournament that is still nine years away is | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
threatening to divide the game. You can hear that interview in full | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
at 7pm on Radio five Live. Time for the weather. It is looking good for | :27:09. | :27:18. | |
some and terrible for others. I will summarise what is heading our | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
way at the top of the forecast. Saturday is the quiet day, OK. Gales | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
and rain for many across northern Britain on Sunday, and some of that | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
bad weather will last right into Monday. So a spell of pretty | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
unpleasant weather on the way. Here and now, there is rain across the | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
southern part of the UK, probably lashing against your windows. That | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
will last in some areas until the early hours of Saturday morning. | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
North-west Scotland will be quite clear through the night and quite | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
chilly as well. The forecast for tomorrow is not bad. The weekend is | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
not a complete write-off. There will be some sunshine. But the big change | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
comes as we head into Sunday. This area of low pressure that we have | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
been forecasting four days, the first autumn storm, heading our | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
way. Lots of strong wind. We are not forecasting gales everywhere. They | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
will be reserved to coasts and hills. Inland, wet, which -- windy, | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
and there could be some disruption for the ferry crossings across the | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
Irish Sea and around Scotland. Also, if you are travelling on | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
exposed roots there could be some branches and the odd tree could | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
fall. The trees have lots of leaves, so big resistance against the wind. | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
And lots of rain heading our way. Plenty of rain for the great North | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
run. Very strong wind blowing from the south-west. And you know what, | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
it will not be great heading into Monday. Gales could even strengthen | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
for a time across northern Britain, particularly through the low land of | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
Scotland. To the south, it should quieten down over time we get to | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
Monday. Autumn is knocking on the door. | :29:01. | :29:04. |