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years. By last November, the jobless total was down to 2.3 million - the | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
number of people on job-seeker's allowance is the lowest for five | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
years. It was horrible being out of work, it was a great feeling to get | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the job. We'll be asking what the improving job numbers could mean for | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
interest rates. Also tonight... Stan Collymore's anger over abusive | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
tweets - the former England striker blames the site for "not doing | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
enough". Computer coding for kids - lessons for every pupil in England | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
from September, but are there enough trained teachers? | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Andy Murray is beaten by a new-look Roger Federer at the Australian Open | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
- he loses in four sets. Tonight on BBC London... "In the | :00:53. | :01:07. | |
clutches of a toxic digital world" - the mother of a teenager who | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
committed suicide warns of the Web's dark side. And how an increase in | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
construction jobs has helped reduce unemployment in the capital. | :01:14. | :01:28. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. The number of people | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
unemployed has seen its biggest fall since 1997. David Cameron said the | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
latest set of figures meant more security, peace of mind and | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
opportunity for Britain. But the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
life was still getting harder for millions of people. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
The number of jobless people fell by a 167,000 in the three months to | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
November. That leaves a total of just over 2.3 million people out of | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
work. The unemployment rate now stands at 7.1%. That's a whisker | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
away from the point at which the Bank of England Governor said he | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
would consider increasing interest rates. Our chief economics | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports. Father and son, both celebrating the | :02:10. | :02:24. | |
rapid improvement in the jobs market. Kevin had been out of work | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
for some time, but he started his new job this week, thanks to a | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
recommendation from his son, who had joined the same company a few months | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
earlier. It was horrible being out of work. It was a great feeling to | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
actually get the job. They are at a fast growing business in Derby which | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
makes carbon fibre components. Heartily thank to companies like | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
this, the City last year saw the biggest fall in the number out of | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
work of any area. Only started the business five years ago. And yet | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
already, he is employing more than 40 staff. I started the business at | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
the beginning of the recession, but I am really enthusiastic about the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
future, and we are working very hard to grow and to invest in new | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
technology. News of the big drop in unemployment generated cheers on the | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
Government's benches in the Commons, as the Prime Minister highlighted | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
the figures. Youth unemployment coming down, long-term unemployment | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
coming down, the claimant count coming down, unemployment overall | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
coming down. But overall, would we have seen today is the biggest ever | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
quarterly increase in the number of people in work in our country. But | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
with news that average pay rises were still worse than half the rate | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
of inflation, the Labour leader raised the cost of living issue. He | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
is trying to tell millions of families around the country that | :03:54. | :03:55. | |
they are better off, when they are worse off, and they know it. It does | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
not help for the Prime Minister to tell them the opposite. Here in | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Derby and elsewhere in the UK, falling unemployment is seen as an | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
important barometer for the state of the recovery. But they also know | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
that the Bank of England has said the jobless rate as its key | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
benchmark for its decisions on interest rates. The Bank says it | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
will only consider interest rate rises when the jobless total is 7% | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
of the workforce. The bank thought it would stay above that figure for | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
at least three years. But by December, it had fallen to 7.4%. | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Today, it has fallen again, to 7.1%. When the Bank of England first set | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
up its forward guidance system, they said they were not going to raise | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
rates until the middle of next year. But now, the speed of improvement in | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
activity and employment data suggests they may have to consider | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
raising them this year. The Bank has made clear it is in no rush to raise | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
the cost of borrowing, even after the jobless rate hits 7%. That will | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
be a relief to consumers, but not savers. Our political editor, Nick | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
Robinson, is in Downing Street. These figures, just the kind of | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
thing the Government has been waiting for? Yes, Cameron and George | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Osborne probably desperately wanted to utter those words, I told you so, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
so, today, but they just about managed to hold themselves back. But | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
they do want to crow about. They want to say, unemployment is not | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
just falling, it is doing so on every single measure that counts. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Inflation is also falling. It comes just before figures which will come | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
out next week which will confirm what we heard from the International | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Monetary Fund yesterday, which is that growth is increasing. They head | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
off to that the summit of the world's rich and famous in Davos in | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Switzerland, able to hold their heads high. One year ago, people | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
were saying, poor you, you are probably heading for a double, even | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
a triple dip recession. Labour are responding, as they have each time | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
there has been good news, by saying that many people are simply not | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
feeling better off. We had an intriguing development in that | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
today. David Cameron in PMQs insisted that after tax, if that was | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
taken into account, people's take-home pay was, at least if you | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
were in the bottom 80% of the population, your actual take-home | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
pay has gone up in the last year. I have spent the afternoon trying to | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
find the statistical basis for that claim, something which Labour say | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
they simply do not believe. I am now told that it is based on internal | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
calculation is made in the Treasury, unpublished figures from the Office | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
for National Statistics. But if people do not believe them, I am | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
told ministers will produce what they insist is hard evidence that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
after a period of getting poorer, we are beginning to get, some of us at | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
least, Richie Reagan. Labour will still say, that will still leave us | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
poorer than we were when the coalition came to power. -- which | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
are again. And you can find out more about levels of unemployment where | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
you live by looking at the jobs tracker on the BBC News website. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
The former England footballer Stan Collymore says he's dismayed with | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the social networking site Twitter, accusing it of doing nothing about a | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
stream of abusive messages he has received. He says he has been | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
subjected to racist abuse and death threats after he suggested the | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez dived during a match at the weekend. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Here's our sports editor, David Bond. | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
A straight dive for Luis Suarez, they have robbed their way back into | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
the game, I'm afraid. Stan Collymore, a pundit with a | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
reputation for telling it as he sees it. He cheated and he dived to get a | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
penalty. Forget the contact issue, it was not enough to knock over a | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
toddler. His remarks led to a torrent of abuse on Twitter. He says | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
he has had enough. It has not just been racist abuse, of which there | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
have been 10-15 quite foul messages, but also threats of murder. I am | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
there to turn up on your doorstep and I am going to murder you. That | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
is I would suggest a fairly serious crime. Online abuse is a relatively | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
new problem. In 2012, over 4000 incidents of abuse on the main | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
social media platforms were reported to police across Britain. 643 people | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
were charged. There are no figures available for convictions, as | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
official statistics include e-mails, text and telephone calls. These two | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
were convicted. They will be sentenced later this week for | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
sending threatening tweets to this woman, Caroline Criado-Perez, who | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
successfully campaigned to have Jane Austen on the ?10 note. Police are | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
now investigating Collymore's claims, but there is a limit on what | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
they can do. From a legal perspective, Twitter is seen as an | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
intermediary, not as a publisher. They do not have the same rules | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
which publishers such as newspapers or online websites might have. With | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
half a billion tweets per day, Twitter says monitoring content is | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
near impossible. They add that they do take action when their specific | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
threats of violence or if there is direct, targeted abuse. Sports stars | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
like Tom Daley have been among the most enthusiastic users of Twitter. | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
But sport attracts fierce debate, and many have paid the price. Tom | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
Daley, for his part, thinks Twitter has always acted responsibly. For | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
me, whenever I have had problems with Twitter, it has been sorted out | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
pretty quickly. I do not know what they are doing behind-the-scenes, I | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
cannot comment on that, I know that any experiences I have had have been | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
sorted pretty quickly. Football is once again the arena for a debate | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
about wider social issues. Stan Collymore hopes his intervention may | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
prompt a rethink on how social networks are regulated. | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Two people have been shot dead in clashes between police and | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
demonstrators in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. They are the first | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
fatalities since the start of protests two months ago. It follows | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
the Ukrainian president's decision to shun a deal with the European | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
Union. He favours closer ties to Russia. Our correspondent Daniel | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
Sandford is in Kiev. Yes, there is a huge anti-government | :10:23. | :10:35. | |
demonstration tonight. What you can see behind me is the peaceful | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
protest, but just 300 metres to my left, things were very different | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
today. As night fell, violent demonstrators were stoking the fires | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
on the barricades in Kiev. This was the day when new anti-protest laws | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
were introduced in Ukraine, but they were not designed to deal with this | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
kind of chaos. This evening, this square in central Kiev is like a | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
vision of hell, with black tyres burning and protesters hurling | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
stones and firing fireworks straight into the lines of riot police. The | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
violence started at breakfast time. Police had tried to clear the | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
barricades, and this was the response of the protesters. The riot | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
officers they were attacking had been deployed to defend the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Ukrainian parliament, which passed the hated new laws. The Prime | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
Minister made this statement, which only stoked their anger. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
TRANSLATION: The cynicism of the terrorists has reached the stage | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
where they are even throwing Molotov cocktails at people. It all began in | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
December, as demonstrations in favour of joining the European Union | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
took place. But it has ended with officers firing plastic bullets at | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
the crowd. And today, the police confirmed for the first time that | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
some protesters had died. In hospital, I found Valery Fisun, a | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
retired military man from Crimea lost his eye in the fighting on | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
Monday. It was his birthday. TRANSLATION: I was near the | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
barricade when the riot police fired and hit my head. I took the bullet | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
out myself with my hand, and then I was taken away by ambulance, which | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
brought me here to the hospital. I had surgery straightaway, and might | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
I was removed. Below Parliament, police made several attempts to | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
clear the crowd, resulting in further injuries. The violence is | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
still really confined to one street. There were holes in the fighting, | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
when more peaceful protesters went up to the front line to sing the | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
national anthem, before the chaos descended again. Opposition leaders | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
held three hours of talks with President Yanukovych tonight, but | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
one of them, the former world boxing champion Vitaly Critchlow, has just | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
told the crowd that they made little progress. However, he called for | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
restraint, saying he did not want to see any more bloodshed, he did not | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
want to tell any more mothers that their sons had been killed. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
For the first time since the Syrian conflict began three years ago, | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
representatives of the government and opposition forces have sat | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
around the same table. But as the long-awaited peace conference got | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
under way in Switzerland, there were angry words from both sides. | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
Detailed negotiations begin on Friday. So is there any chance of a | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
breakthrough? Our correspondent Paul Wood reports from Montreux. | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
War criminal to some, a saviour to his supporters today. The fate of | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
President Assad is the main issue in this conference. These are not yet | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
direct talks between regime and opposition. But at least they are in | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
the same room. Syria's Foreign Minister had this to say about the | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
opponents of the regime. The media claims these terrorists are | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
moderate, but they know full well they are extremists and terrorists. | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
The UN Secretary-General accused him of using inflammatory language. I | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
have the right to give the Syrian version, you live in New York, I | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
live in Syria. Yes, of course, that is the object. That is my right. We | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
have to have some constructive and harmonious dialogue. Please refrain | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
from any inflammatory... Ban Ki-Moon is usually quite mild-mannered, but | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
these are intractable issues. The opposition insist Mr Assad cannot be | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
part of a transitional government. TRANSLATION: All the vicar terms in | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Syria are just to allow one man to retain his throne. No-throw and has | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
the value of one single innocent life. There is no way, no way | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
possible in the imagination, that the man who has led the brutal | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
response to his own people could read gain legitimacy to govern. One | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
man, and those who have supported him, can no longer hold an entire | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
nation and region hostage. No one should have worried that the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
diplomatic niceties would obscure the real issues here. One side | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
thinks these discussions should be all about regime change. The other | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
side believes the talks should be about anything but a transition of | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
powerful stop at the end of the first day of meetings, the two sides | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
seem as impossibly far apart as ever. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
The latest fighting. Perhaps 130,000 people have died in Syria. President | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
Assad has clung on power but he cannot win an outright victory. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Neither can the rebels. The hope comes from both sides recognising | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
that fact and beginning a dialogue. Well, the issue of Syria sparked | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
controversy at Westminster. MPs have been arguing over how many Syrian | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
refugees Britain should be taking. Our deputy political editor, James | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
Landale, is at Westminster. Do you think we are seeing Syria becoming a | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
political issue for the first time? I think there are shared aims but a | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
very different approach. At the moment, the government and Britain | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
are doing a lot for Syrian refugees. 600 million pounds has been donated | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
for food, water and shelter. Today, for the first time, the Prime | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Minister indicated that he would consider taking in some of the most | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
vulnerable refugees, the orphans, the torture victims, the most | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
severely injured people, but he was not willing to sign up to a separate | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
United Nations scheme which could potentially mean hundreds coming to | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
live here. Labour say that is not good enough, they will force a vote | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
in the House of Commons next week and they think they will get some | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
good cross-party support. The government thinks most refugees want | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
to be helped in the region so when the conflict is over they can go | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
home more easily. I also detect some Whitehall worry about the impact on | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
the Met migration figures. But now, David Cameron has opened the door a | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
little to some Syrian refugees and Labour think that door should be | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
opened a lot wider. Thank you. Our top story this evening: Latest | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
figures show the biggest fall in the number of unemployed people for more | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
than 15 years. Still to come: And now for the | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
women's coalition - Samantha and Miriam lend their support to a | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
campaign to encourage teenage girls to aim high. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Later on BBC London: This film is hotly tipped for Oscar success - but | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
why is the number of ethnic minority film makers falling? | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
And the capital's bravest bobby - an award for the policeman who arrested | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
a man wielding a samurai sword. From September, every child in | :18:21. | :18:32. | |
England will have to learn computer coding. But, are there enough | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
trained teachers to do the job? Today the Education Secretary called | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
it "the language of the future". To most of us this little programme | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
makes no sense at all, in fact it's an illustration of the kind of | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
instruction that could run this next report. Here's our technology | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. His report contains some flashing | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
images. Meet Ruby and Siena, primary school | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
pupils who have programmed this car using a computer language called | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Python. It sounds difficult to me. It is hard to learn it but | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
eventually you get the hang of it. I have picked it up quite quickly but | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
I know some people have been struggling a bit. From next | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
September, every child at a state school in England will have to learn | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
computer coding. I can lock you out. Michael Gove thinks the next | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
generation could be out in the cold if they do not learn the skills. At | :19:36. | :19:55. | |
an educational technology fair he came to trumpet a revolution in the | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
way children learn about computers. I do not think anyone can deny that | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
schools will be a better place and children will be better prepared for | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
the future if they understand the language of the future, and that is | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
computer programming. From September, ICT will be replaced by | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
coding, perhaps making mobile phone apps. The problem is, there are | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
16,000 secondary school ICT teachers and most of them will not be up to | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
speed on computer coding. There are 160,000 primary school teachers who | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
will also have to understand the subject. So, a big job ahead | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
training teachers to bring computing alive. This teacher is a coding | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
enthusiasts but says training his staff is an enormous challenge. The | :20:36. | :20:45. | |
staff development took take the time to teach coding and understand what | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
is expected from the curriculum, never mind the practicalities of | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
teaching coding to children. That will happen in every school across | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
England? I think it will be difficult to do in a short space of | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
time so we are very much up against it. The promises the new curriculum | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
will provide an exciting way of introducing computing concepts that | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
teachers will worry that they do not have time to learn a new language | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
before they have to start teaching it. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
The Lib Dems MP Mike Hancock has been suspended by his party after | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
officials were shown a leaked copy of a report into allegations of | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
sexual misconduct. Mr Hancock temporarily resigned from the party | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
last year in order to contest a High Court civil action brought by a | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
female constituents but remained a councillor in Portsmouth. A police | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
investigation into the claims found no further action should be taken. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
Nick Clegg's wife, Miriam, has denied a newspaper report that she | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
put pressure on her husband to take a tough line on the sexual | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
harassment row involving the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard. She, | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
along with Samantha Cameron, appeared at an event to encourage | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
teenage girls to aim high in their careers. Our education correspondent | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti has more. They are wonderful women and have a | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
can-do attitude in life. Miriam Gonzalez Durantez at a secondary | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
school in Essex hoping to inspire 100 girls to aim high in their | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
careers. She was not the only famous face here, at an event risking being | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
ambushed by newspaper headlines saying she had urged her husband to | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
take a tough stance on Lord Rennard. So had she? It is a complete | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
fabrication. If I wanted to say something I would say it openly and | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
publicly and what we are doing here today is supporting the girls and my | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
opinions about the political issues of the day, I keep them to myself. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
She was here to talk about an issue close to her heart, persuading girls | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
to be ambitious in their lives and look beyond jobs women have | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
traditionally done. In her first broadcast interview since the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
coalition was formed, she said she herself did not come from a | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
privileged background and had succeeded through sheer hard work. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
At the end of the day, it is what is within you. You may get there sooner | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
or later, but I remember the day when I had a scholarship and I | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
thought, this glamorous school, kids from glamorous schools around me and | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
I thought, you know, I can actually compete. It might require more | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
effort but I can do it. She wanted the girls to feel the same way but | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
were they put off careers in politics after this week's | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
headlines? At every profession you will have problems when men and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
women work together. The problem is when things are made public when | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
other things that happen are not always so public. I would still | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
consider going into politics with everything that is going on. Not | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
quite the day she had hoped for but Miriam Gonzalez Durantez will have | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
achieved to macro things today, inspiring young girls and squashing | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
some unwelcome rumours. Andy Murray has lost to a resurgent | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Roger Federer at the quarter finals of the Australian Open. Murray was | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
playing his first grand slam tournament since recovering from | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
back surgery and was outplayed for much of the encounter, although he | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
did stage a third set fight back. Here's our sports correspondent Andy | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Swiss. He had yet to be tested in Melbourne | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
but Andy Murray knew that was about to change. His opponent, only the | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
most successful man in tennis history, but one still it seems with | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
a point to prove. Last year, Roger Federer looked like yesterday's man | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
but here he was back to his fluent, near flawless best. The touch, the | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
timing and soon a two set lead. Murray, only recently recovered from | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
back surgery was flailing. From the brink of defeat, he suddenly stirred | :25:07. | :25:18. | |
in barnstorming style. From two match point down, Murray clinched a | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
third set tie-break with another nerve shredding comeback on the | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
cards. For a while, it seemed like it might. But Federer rolled back | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
the years. In a flash, it was over. On this form, and 80th grand slam | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
title could beckon for Federer. For Murray, doggie displayed at an | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
ultimately disappointing defeat. Time for a look at the weather, | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
here's John Hammond. It is actually relatively quiet out | :25:40. | :25:51. | |
there. Later on we will see a band of heavy, squally showers sweeping | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
across Northern Ireland, into western parts of Scotland. Ahead of | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
that we could see if you missed patches forming. Temperatures close | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
to freezing. That presents a problem. There will be some rain, | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
hail, sleet and snow down to low levels. A wild start the day with | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
some thunder and lightning possible. We could see a late dip in | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
temperatures so the risk of ice. Watch out for that first thing in | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
the morning. A band of squally showers will rattle through the rest | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
of the country promptly in the morning. We will see some sunshine. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
Most of us will see some sunshine tomorrow afternoon. There will be | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
scattered showers. It will be windy and cold than today. Temperatures | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
will be a couple of degrees down on today's values. The showers in | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
northern areas will be wintry down to low levels. A frosty night | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
tomorrow night and then it is all change again. Rain sweeping in from | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
the West. Some uncertainty about the timing. Warnings have been issued | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
from the Met Office. A cold feeling as well. We will see a late rise in | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
temperature from the west later in the day. Beyond that, for the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
weekend, we are into a run-off strong westerly winds on Saturday. | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
You can see what is on the menu for Sunday. Make the most of Saturday | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
because Sunday looks pretty filthy. Thank | :27:19. | :27:19. |