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David Cameron's convoy surrounded by protestors in Sri Lanka - they claim | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
their relatives were murdered during the country's bitter civil conflict. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
The demonstration overshadows the start of the Commonwealth Leaders' | :00:15. | :00:33. | |
Summit. Mr Cameron insists coming here is the right way to highlight | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
the allegations. Also tonight. The plight of the | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
children in the Philippines, homeless and hopeless after Typhoon | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Haiyan. The needs of this school here, the people, food and medicine. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Inspiration to move on. New proposals for the elderly and | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
vulnerable to have a named GP in charge of their care. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Princess Anne gives us all something to chew on as she says perhaps we | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
should consider eating horse meat. And follow the bear - Pudsey's on | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
parade for Children In Need. Good evening from Colombo, where the | :01:07. | :01:46. | |
Commonwealth Summit has got underway officially. The meeting has been | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
overshadowed by allegations that the Sri Lankan government is guilty of | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
war crimes committed at the end of the 30-year conflict with Tamil | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
separatists. Thousands of civilians were killed in the final battle. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
David Cameron is here, and it's and issue he's raising with the Sri | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Lankan President, Mahindra Rajapaksa. After the opening | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
ceremony here in Colombo, Mr Cameron became the first foreign leader for | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
over 60 years to visit Jaffna - the heart of the Tamil minority. Our | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Political Editor Nick Robinson travelled with him. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
David Cameron's convoy surrounded right women carrying photographs of | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
loved ones who they say have disappeared. The Prime Minister's | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
motorcade could not move as protesters were pushed away. David | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Cameron deliberately make this trip to the capital of the northern | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
province of Sri Lanka to highlight alleged abuses of human rights, | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
which he explained. I think it is important to shine a spotlight on | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
what has happened in this country and speak up against abuses that | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
have taken place. Make sure those people in the north of the country | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
do have a proper voice. The tension over human rights makes the Prince | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
of Wales' task at this summit a tough one. His duty is to open | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
meeting three Commonwealth prime pulled out. Many are happy to see | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, with the prestige of attending this | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
event. Commonwealth summit 's try to stress harmony and the shared values | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
meant to underpin this club. Today the Sri Lankan Prime Minister used | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
his speech to bat away all charges of abuses of human rights. In the | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
terrorism of 2009, we asserted the greatest human rights, the right | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
life. I am happy to state that in the past four years there has not | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
been a single terrorist related incidents, anywhere in Sri Lanka. It | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
was left to Prince Charles to deliver words carefully chosen, | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
hinting at problems, offering the Commonwealth as a potential balm. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Each one of us is here because of the Hope and the trust we place in | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
the Commonwealth, to bring that touch of healing to our troubles and | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
deliver the very best future for our people. For all of the colour and | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
ceremony which accompanies any opening of a Commonwealth summit, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
even a herd of elephants cannot conceal the controversy and | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
division, which the decision to bring this summit to Sri Lanka has | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
created. In the talks, leaders will try to focus on challenges of | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
economic and political developments, but the Commonwealth family is not | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
looking too happy. Since the victory over Tamil separatists, the military | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
has achieved heroic status from those who saw the conflict as a war | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
against Terex, but the ticks have said the Sri Lankan armed forces | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
have too much power over civilian affairs. There are growing fears | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
especially among Tamils, but the military is planning to crowd out. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
If the amount of concrete and glass is anyway to judge a country's | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
progress, then Sri Lanka's economy is on the up. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
There is investment in infrastructure, not just in the | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
capital but in the war-ravaged north. Even the military is in on | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
the act. Without a water fight, perhaps it is better to have upwards | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
of 300,000 men under arms and occupied, rather than have them | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
return to civilian life in one, big rush. But some fear or troubling | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
development. Never before in this country's history has the military | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
had such a role of prominence in public life. My fear is that | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
institutionalised militarisation like we have at the moment, will | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
shift the structure of power. What about the East coat? We went to the | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
East Coast, the Tamil East Coast has some of the country's prime beaches. | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
During the civil war, it was out of bounds. When it was over, people | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
with land thought they would be reaping the dividend. Jesuit priest | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
and human rights lawyer, says the presence of the military has made it | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
difficult. There is denial of access to Tamil farmers and also Tamil | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
civilians who are getting back their lives. This is the beach. This man | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
has dreams of inviting tourists to his plot of land on the beach and | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
brought me, what he says, are his title deeds. We tried to go to the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
property got no further than the military checkpoint. Yet, further | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
along the coast, the air force runs a resort for its personnel. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Elsewhere, the military is involved in everything from guesthouses to | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
agriculture. At the summit today, the presidential spokeswoman told me | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the military was helping to develop the country. The idea the military | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
is helping economic development is one lost on the local people in the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
east of the country. I am not sure I agree. We have heard outsides. We | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
have heard people commending the role of the military and all they | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
have done. I am not sure who you have spoken to, but we have heard | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the other side. The great fear is, the growing presence of the military | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
is part of what they call a process of colonisation, an attempt to | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
change the demography of the country. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
I am joined by our political editor, Nick Robinson who has been | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
travelling with David Cameron. That meeting between Mr Cameron and the | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Sri Lankan president has taken place, will it make any difference? | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
We do not know. But the meeting be held at the David Cameron return | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
from the north of Sri Lanka was in the diplomatic code, a short, sharp, | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Frank - in other words, not uneasy meeting. They looked slightly | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
awkward when they were photographed, and we roughly know what David | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
Cameron said. He argued, in victory you should show magnanimity. He | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
argued he had met with the first select the Tamil leader, of what was | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
once going to be a separate country, they hoped, is now not going to be. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
That was the result of the victory in the civil war. This was a decent | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
man, that should try to work with him. He related the story of going | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
to see a Tamil newspaper in which six members of staff had been | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
murdered, the printing presses set fire to an smashed. David Cameron | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
was moved by what he saw. Those who travelled with him and found it | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
powerful. He said he is turning the spotlight on Sri Lanka. Is that | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
spotlight more powerful than the great prestige the president gets | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
from chairing this summit? Nick Robinson will have a report on the | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
news at ten later. That is all from us at the moment, act to you, Fiona. | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
Tonight's other news now. And the government has struck a deal with | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
doctors' leaders in England which it hopes will reduce the numbers of | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
patients turning to overstretched A departments for help. A million | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
of the most vulnerable patients, the over 75s or anyone with complex | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
health problems, will get greater support from their GP practice and a | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
named GP in charge of their care. For everyone, the minimum of ten | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
minutes per appointment will be scrapped allowing doctors to see | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
them for more or less time. And from next year patients must be offered | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
online booking of appointments if they ask for it. Our Health | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Correspondent, Dominic Hughes has more details. | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
At GP's surgeries, doctors provide a broad range of care. Up this clinic | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
in Stockport, GPs even carry out minor surgery, but there have been | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
complaints there is too much bureaucracy and box ticking in | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
general practice. Ministers say this new contract would give. Does more | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
time to concentrate on the most vulnerable patients. This restores | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
the vital link between GPs and the patients they are to look after that | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the over 75 is in the country. This is a very important first step. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
We'll patients be reassured by a single named Doctor responsible for | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
their care. Much better to know the doctor and for the doctor to know | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
the patient. Different doctors don't see certain things. It gives me | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
confidence and I feel like he knows me. I am all for it. Do you think it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
will be a reassurance as you get older? Definitely, yes. Do I look | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
old? Not every elderly patients will necessarily see the named GP every | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
time, just that the cow will be supervised by that doctor. Under | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
David Cameron it has got harder to get an appointment and nothing in | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
this announcement will correct that. These changes are designed to put. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
The surgeries like this one right at the heart of care of elderly | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
patients. It should ease the pressure on a hard-pressed A | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
department. Providing better care for older people matters because | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
they make up the majority of patients admitted to A Faced with | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
an ageing population, doctors believe and much more fundamental | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
change is needed. We need to switch money from beds and hospitals to | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
looking after people in their own homes by switching. Us and nurses | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
and technology from an acute hospital bed system, to a primary | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
care system. This announcement will not take effect in England next | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
April, and negotiations for the rest of the country is underway. By 2020, | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
it is project did most people over 75 will have increased to around 5 | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
million. The care of those frail and vulnerable people is changing. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
?30 million has now been raised in the emergency appeal for those | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. This morning a cargo | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
plane set off from RAF Brize Norton loaded with heavy vehicles and | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
medical supplies bound for the islands. But a week after the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
typhoon struck, aid and shelter is still desperately needed. Our | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
correspondent Jeremy Cooke has been to a school in the devastated city | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
of Tacloban, which is now home to 1,500 people. | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
The waters are calm off Tacloban today. The children playing in | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
peace. But metres away, the reality dash their homes destroyed by the | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
raging storm and giant waves that struck here a week ago. Their young | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
lives changed for ever. This lady was badly injured as she swam for | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
her life. This cut in her head is becoming infected. The parents are | :13:54. | :14:03. | |
waiting for someone, anyone to help. She is badly hurt, he says, doctors | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
say she needs to be transferred to another hospital. But they don't | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
have the facilities to treat her here. Amid the ruins, and the chaos | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
and the confusion, tens of thousands of children in this once city, are | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
homeless. The schools, if they still stand, have become shelters. Class | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
rooms and corridors are packed to capacity. Infant babies who somehow | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
did -- survived the disaster, entire families with no other place to go. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
In an upstairs dorm, teenagers reflect on how totally, utterly life | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
has changed. Everything was normal. It was a sunny day and we thought | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
the storm wasn't true. Looking at the school now and seeing how the | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
storm hit the school, , it is never going to be the same. The children | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
and their families consider themselves to be among the lucky | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
ones. They have survived and found themselves a place of safety. Yes, | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
the future is still uncertain, but at least they are alive all stop so | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
far the international aid has not. This far. But the teachers, like | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
this, are organising for when it does. Everyone they say, will get | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
their share, and the requirements are basic. The needs of the people | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
here are food and medicine. And inspiration to move on. Inspiration | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
yes, but practical help needed also. There is hunger, but most | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
starvation. The need help, but the people, the children are holding on | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
despite so much destruction and tragedy. Our top story: David | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
Cameron's convoy has been surrounded by protesters at the Commonwealth | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Summit in Sri Lanka. Still to come: I am live in the Children in Need | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
studio ahead of this year's appeal night. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
News, a date with the world champions for Scotland. They take on | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
New Zealand this evening in the quarterfinals of the Rugby league | :16:26. | :16:25. | |
World Cup. Millions of Catholics are being | :16:26. | :16:41. | |
asked to fill out a survey about their attitudes to a number of | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
issues including divorce, gay rights and contraception. The global | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
questionnaire was ordered by the Pope. The results will be discussed | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
by bishops next year. The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
and Wales said it would allow the church time for a period of deep | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
reflection. High Mass at Westminster Cathedral. | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
A celebration for Catholics of their belief in an unchanging truths about | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
God. But even believers reject some church teaching, especially about | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
what they regard as their private lives. The Pope's instruction to | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
bishops around the world to consult, as far as possible, all Catholics, | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
represents an unprecedented attempt to gauge opinion in this vast | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
church. The way the survey is worded has been criticised as obscure and | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
convoluted, but there is no denying it goes to the heart of some | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
fundamental and often awkward issues about the way Catholics lead their | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
lives. The survey asks if divorced Catholics which remarry should be | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
allowed communion. Do people accept the rules about contraception? What | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
can the Church do to connect with gay couples? The leader of the | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
church in England and Wales insisted today that, whatever the response, | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
core Catholic beliefs would not change. The point of this is not, as | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
it were, to see the church's rules as a pragmatic policy which can | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
shift this way or that. The point of this is to say, how are we | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
journeying towards the Lord together? But there is a growing gap | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
between church teaching and the way Catholics behave. Only 5% of British | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
Catholics are good Catholics, according to the Catholic Church's | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
teaching. That is declining with every generation. The consultation | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
reflects Pope Francis's belief that what he calls the church's | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
small-minded rules have heard people. The Catholic Church don't | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
recognise me because I have been divorced and remarried. The rules of | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
the church must stay firm. Otherwise we will just be diminished. The | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
Pope's initiative shows that he wants to reform the Vatican's rigid | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
control of the church. It is also a tacit acknowledgement that the way | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
the church deals with those that cannot or will not conform to | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
teaching must change as well. George Osborne went down a mine | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
today and emerged to say he believed it would take at least a decade for | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Britain to emerge from its black hole, economically. It comes at the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
week when the Governor of the bank of England says there were finally | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
grounds for optimism, with unemployment and inflation falling. | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
Once, Conservative chancellors closed coal mines. Today, they visit | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
them. Bearing gifts. This is Thoresby colliery, in the East | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
Midlands, one of the last deep pits in England. George Osborne took the | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
lift deep into the ground, not just to see what it is like to work 700 | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
metres below the surface, but also to announce help for 1500 former | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
miners who have lost their three coal allowance, when their old | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
employer went bust. When you come down here and see the hard work that | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
miners put in all of their lives, I am determined they do not lose the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
allowance that they owned. To no fault of their own, they were losing | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
it, the Government stepped in to help. He came down here not just to | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
announce help for retired miners, but also to show that the economic | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
recovery is not just happening in London and the south-east, but also | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
in places like this, where places elite micro-jobs are being retained. | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
But on the surface, the Chancellor was keen to tell me that, for all | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
the positive signs, the recovery is not complete, not by a long shot. We | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
are making progress. There are lots of risks out there and fixing what | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
went wrong cannot happen overnight. When the Bank of England talks of | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
recovery gaining hold, the Chancellor is urging patients. A | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
plan to fix the debt and deficit, make sure that we fix the roof when | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the sun is shining so we don't find ourselves in debt again. It's also a | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
decade-long project to sure our kids have the right skills, welfare | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
system rewards work, our companies expand and we can win the global | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
race. There is no quick fix to the mess that Britain got itself into. | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
For some living nearby, the recovery is yet to be felt. Our money is | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
worth nothing. Our savings, which we have saved all our lives, is not | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
worth anything. Might as well go and spend it. Prices in shops are going | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
up. Wages are not. Even pensions are not going up in real terms. I don't | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
think we feel the recovery yet. Here, we haven't got that many shops | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
which are empty. Most of them are... You know, they seem to be | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
getting people in there now. We are hopeful, aren't we? For all the | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
doubts, George Osborne says the recovery is taking shape and | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
protecting jobs in mines like this. But he also wants us to know that it | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
is going to be a long haul. Princess Anne has said we should | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
consider eating horsemeat to improve the way that horses are treated in | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Britain. In a speech to the World Horse Welfare charity, she said that | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
a legitimate trade incorrectly labelled horsemeat might increase | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
the value of horses and make it less likely that they are neglected by | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
owners. Pony driving on Dartmoor. The annual | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
round-up of animals who have been here for more than 3000 years. But | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
the auctions that are now taking place cannot find buyers. Nobody | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
wants them. Farmers here say they cannot even sell them for meat. The | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
general public will not buy the meat, which is the healthiest meat | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
in the country, because supermarkets will not put it on their shelves. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
There is a market out there. Now, others agree, including the Princess | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
Royal. A champion horse rider who thinks eating horsemeat should be | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
considered. She told this conference creating a valuable horse market | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
might improve the animal's welfare. Should we be considering a real | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
market for horsemeat? Would that reduce the number of welfare cases, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
if there was real value in the horsemeat sector? I put that out for | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
what it is worth. I think it needs a debate. The scandal were horsemeat | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
was found in lasagne and burgers saw me people revolted. Yet in France, | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
equine eating is normal. That is why animal welfare groups in Britain | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
have accepted the Princess Royal's argument. The RSPCA is not against, | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
in principle, the eating of horses. However, it has to be done according | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
to good welfare principles. The horse has to be cared for properly. | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Most consumers we spoke to thought that horses should be pets, not | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
products. Personally, I look at horses as friends, not food. They | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
should not be eaten, in my opinion. It is not necessary. Where does it | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
stop? I understand the instinctive apprehension somebody might have. As | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
long as it is ethically sourced, I don't think it is a problem, to be | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
honest. Whatever those views, for most people at the moment, when it | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
comes to horses they will probably think more company and kitchen. Our | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
times and tastes changing, led by Royals and others that believe that | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
consumption may actually help their protection? | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
In just over an hour, the annual BBC Children in Need television appeal | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
will begin, hoping to break last year's total of ?26 million. Doctor | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Who, Torvill and Dean and the stars of the musical hit Matilda will be | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
taking part. Lizo Mzimba is in the studio with a special guest. | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
This is where it is all going to be kicking off in just over one hour's | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
time. Who better to talk us through the highlights and the man himself, | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Sir Terry Wogan? You always wanted to make each year better than the | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
previous ones. How are you going to do that this year? It is never easy. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
But what ever we raise, it is going to be to the advantage of Britain's | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
disadvantaged children. I just keep my fingers crossed. I think the | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
omens are good for this year. We had a very successful dinner, we have | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
had Children In Need Rocks. We've had lunches. I've eaten well, so I | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
am in good form for this. This week, the British public have already | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
given ?30 million to the Philippines typhoon appeal. How do you think | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
that will affect Children in Need this year? First of all, the British | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
public are unparalleled and unmatched, I think, anywhere in the | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
world, in their ability to respond when called upon. The terrible | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
tragedy in the Philippines, they have responded well to that. Knowing | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
them as I have over the years, they are going to respond to Children in | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
Need. I have no doubt about that. They have always risen to the | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
occasion. Last year was a record-breaking year. I have every | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
hope that this year is going to be another one. Thank you for talking | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
to us. Enjoy the evening. It kicks off on BBC One at 7:30. | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Let's have a look at the weather now. | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Should be a great evening for Children in Need. The weather will | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
remain quiet and generally dry through this weekend as well. There | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
is not going to be an awful lot of rain around. There will be a lot of | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
cloud around. Where it breaks, there will also be patchy frost and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
hopefully that of sunshine. We had sunshine across the south-east. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Here, we had clear skies. Later, we will see mist and fog. There will be | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
more cloud and strong wind in Scotland. That will certainly keep | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
the temperature is up. Cold in the South. Those are the temperatures in | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
towns and cities. In rural areas, we are likely to catch a bit of frost. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
There will also be that fog. In some areas, particularly the South | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
Woodlands, that could linger all morning. Beware if you are | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
travelling. The fog will lift. The cloud in the North will sink | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
southwards, limiting the sunshine to the southeastern corner. A lot of | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
sunshine and later some rain in the south-west. They be some drizzle | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
around western coast sandhills. Sunshine across Kent and Sussex, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
along the south coast. Cloudy skies moving through the Midlands. A bit | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
of drizzle over the Pennines. Brighter, I think, to the east of | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
the Pennines. Later, we will see this rain coming into Scotland and | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Northern Ireland. It is all change, really, tomorrow night. The frost is | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
going to be in Scotland this time, as the skies clear. Further south, | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
the temperatures will be held up because the cloud is going to be | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
around. It means on Sunday it will be a cloudy day across the bulk of | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
England and Wales. A bit of drizzle pushing back into Northern Ireland | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
later. The sunny skies or across central and eastern Scotland this | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
time. It will feel a touch cooler. Next week we are expecting to get | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
much, much cooler. As that happens, there will be some wintry showers, | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
particularly in the north and east. A reminder of the main story | :28:03. | :28:12. | |
tonight: David Cameron's convoy has been surrounded by protesters at the | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
Commonwealth Summit in Sri Lanka. That is all from the BBC News at | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
six. On BBC One we | :28:19. | :28:19. |