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after George Osborne said that voting for independence would mean | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
walking away from the pound. To be told there are things that we cannot | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
do will certainly elicit a Scottish response. It is as resolute as it is | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
uncomfortable to the no campaign. Yes, we can. Also tonight, get on | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
with it. David Cameron calls on insurers to help flood victims as | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
soon as is. We need asylum. -- as soon as is. The Ethiopian pilot who | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
hijacked his own plane in order to claim asylum. It is going to be | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
close! And that is it. TeamGB's women's curling team are in the last | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
at Sochi but the men face a play-off tomorrow. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
We have laptops, tablets and smartphones but nine out of ten | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
still sit back and watch the telly. And coming up on BBC News, Team | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
GB's women's curlers are through to the semifinals but they will have to | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
wait. Good evening and welcome to the News | :01:19. | :01:47. | |
at six. The war of words over the future of Scotland has intensified. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
The first Minister, Alex Salmond, has hit back to the response of his | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
intervention last week when he said an independent Scotland would not be | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
able to keep to the -- keep the pound. In a speech, he warned that | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
the financial consequences of not sharing the pound could cost | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
businesses and the rest of the UK many hundreds of millions of pounds. | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
Our special correspondent reports from Aberdeen. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
The counterattack was launched in Aberdeen, where unemployment barely | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
exists and investment is rising and the economy thriving. It is a symbol | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
for the Nationalists of all that an independent Scotland might become. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
Alex Salmond told an audience of independence pro Asda's leaders that | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
George Osborne had no right to deny Scotland the pound sterling. To be | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
told we have no rights to assets jointly built up is insulting and | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
demeaning. To be told that there are things that we cannot do will elicit | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
a Scottish response that is as resolute as it is uncomfortable. It | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
is, yes, we can. Set that sharing the pound would be good for the rest | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
of the UK as well Scotland, maintaining trade across borders and | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
saving perhaps ?500 million in transactional costs associated with | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
changing currencies. And it would boost to the pound's balance of | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
payments and keeping North Sea oil in the sterling zone. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
payments and keeping North Sea oil Resolute and pugnacious league, he | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
told me he was sticking to a shared currency even though all three | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
Westminster parties have ruled it out. We're going to have the pound | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
and we will share the pound. That is the best option and that is the one | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
we are putting forward. We will not be knocked around by George Osborne | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
on what is best for Scotland and the UK because he is deploying a | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
campaign tactic. We see through that tactic and we will articulate our | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
positive case and rally the people behind that positivity. Alex | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
Salmond's response is to say that we do not believe you, we do not | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
believe that you will really kicked us out of the shared currency and | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
that he will want to see all of Scotland's oil wealth outside of the | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
sterling zone. In other words, he is asking the people of Scotland to | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
believe that in the event of a yes vote, the Westminster parties Wilson | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
plea change their minds. He was equally dismissive of the president | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
of the European commission who claimed yesterday that Scottish | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
membership of the EU would be difficult if not impossible. He said | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
that failure to recognise Scotland would run counter to the founding | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
democratic ideals of the EU. He has always wanted to turn this into a | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
struggle between himself and David Cameron, whose Conservative Party | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
remains deeply unpopular in Scotland. The UK government's Matic | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
intervention last week in effect have done that -- has done that for | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
him. Alex Salmond is now a man without a plan. He told us that he | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
wanted to have a currency union and that now looks under threat. He has | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
told us that he wanted Scotland as part of the European Union and that | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
is under threat. And he is making, I think, and empty and angry speech | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
today, but he does not have a plan. I think people will see that he does | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
not have a plan. Alex Salmond has chosen a tricky course to steer. To | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
persuade the Scottish people that if they vote yes, the Westminster | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
parties will see the light and change their minds, and sign up to | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
sharing the pound. That could prove quite a task. | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
Our Scotland political editor is in Glasgow. Wonder if Alex Salmond has | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
done enough to counter the arguments of people like George Osborne and | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
the European commission? That is the core question for the voters who | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
have to choose which side they trust. It is intriguing to point out | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
why these issues are so salient in this campaign. Alex Salmond can | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
offer Independence Party cannot guarantee the Bishop of the European | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
Union. He can offer Independence Party cannot guarantee a sterling | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
zone. That is the point at which the independents offer rubs up against | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
interdependence. It rubs up against other power bases. For example, the | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
argument by George Osborne is that this is a hard-headed assessment of | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
the difficulties. If you like, they have refined their position. They | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
previously said that a sterling zone was unlikely but now they are saying | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
it is a no-go. They are saying that if you want the pound, keep the | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
union. Alex Salmond says it is a bluff and that in the event of Scots | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
voting for independence, he says it would be common sense and the | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
self-interest of the rest of the United Kingdom that will kick in. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
David Cameron has been visiting people in more flood hit areas and | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
promised an extra ?10 million for businesses affected by the disaster. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
He has also urged insurers to help victims as quickly as possible. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
There has been a lull in the recent bad weather forecasters say that | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
more rain is on the way. A landscape that is used to | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
flooding. This town has been underwater 80 times in the last 40 | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
years. What levels on the river have been receiving, but only one main | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
route is open to normal traffic and the Army has been called in to help | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
get people around. -- water levels on the river have been receding. It | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
is an excellent service. Personally, I would not come into | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
town just for a couple of bottles of milk if I had to go the long way | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
around. But this is ideal. We can stock up for the local community. It | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
is brilliant. The Prime Minister visited the market town to reassure | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
business people concerned by a fall in trade. The government has | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
allocated ?10 million to support traders in areas hit why flooding. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
In terms of business, we have announced that we are going to have | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
a grand system of up to ?5,000 for businesses that have been flooded, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
to help protect themselves in the future. We also need this ?10 | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
million fund, money to be destroyed at it to the local authorities that | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
are affected, so that they can help businesses that have either been | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
directly or indirectly hit by the floods. A few miles away, this pub | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
is one business looking to use the government money. There is a drain | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
outside and that is the problem. The what is seeping in. The clean-up is | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
bad enough, but on top of that, the pub has been looted. Someone has | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
been through one of the windows and they have ransacked upstairs, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
looting, stealing money. They have gone through the whole place. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Investment in flood defences has largely saved Upton. The Prime | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Minister praised the success of the scheme year, completed two years | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
ago. But other communities are still calling for their share of | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
investment and protection. That is the situation in | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Worcestershire. In the Thames Valley, the Baron and agency has | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
reduced the threat level saying that there is no longer a danger to life. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
The downgrade comes with a warning that it would not take much rain to | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
see the flood water rising again. -- the Environment Agency. The receding | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
waters have learned to -- have led to new concerns about security. How | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
do you recover from this? One Street in Egham, but it could be many | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
others. The water is going down. On the a right, pollard filmed on | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
Friday, on the left, the same pollard, today. -- a pollard. Angela | :09:24. | :09:36. | |
returning home. She has no idea whether it is flooded or broken | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
into. That is my back garden, or what is left of it. A moment later, | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
the enormity of what has happened to her services. When you see your | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
house, Even though the street is still | :09:48. | :10:24. | |
under water. What are you doing here? Waste clearance and | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
gardening. He seems genuine but then police are called with reports of | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
another stranger. Again, it appears innocent. So many are on edge here. | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
Angela confronts an officer about security. If they can go further | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
down, I would like to see how they could because it is a dead-end. They | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
are obviously up to no good. If you see anything, call it in. Those | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
anxieties are real. Even though police say that flood related | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
robberies Rayer, not everybody is back in their homes and able to | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
protect their properties. -- robberies are Rayer. Flooding is | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
about a lot more than water, even when it goes away. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
For more details of where flooding is affecting communities in England | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
and Wales, you can go to the BBC News website: | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
A UN enquiry team has warned Kim Jong-un that he could be held | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
accountable under international law for crimes against humanity. | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
In a new report investigators say that atrocities at some prisons in | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
North Korea are reminiscent of the worst excesses of Nazis | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
concentration camps. Our diplomatic correspondent is with me. What sort | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
of things are they saying? It is a hard-hitting report. They accuse | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
North Korea of crimes against humanity, including abduction, | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
prison torture, starvation and what they call systematic extermination. | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
It also names the North Korean leader as potentially personally | :12:12. | :12:12. | |
responsible because he is in sole charge of the country. He is such a | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
powerful leader. They say that the gravity and scale of the abuses is | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
unparalleled in the contemporary world. All of this comes from the | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
Tessa money off hundreds of defectors who have fled the regime. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
And the detail they give is horrific. People held in prison | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
camps for their entire life, deliberately starved, summary | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
executions, all families tortured. The question is, does this report | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
make any difference? You have to say, in the short-term, probably | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
not. North Korea have said that they think it is un-American lot. If | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
anything, they are likely to become more belligerent because of it. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Persecution is difficult. China would block that at the UN Security | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Council. -- and American plot. The United Nations say it is important | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
to have this evidence documented so that in some point it could maybe be | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
acted upon. Our top story this evening, a new | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
war of words between the SNP and Westminster over whether an | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
independent Scotland would be able to keep the pound. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
And coming up, Roy Hodgson's trip down the Amazon, ahead of the World | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Cup. Coming up in Sportsday, Leeds' last | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
is union's Lane -- game. Italy's Prime Minister is do not | :13:36. | :13:56. | |
tend to last long these days. Today, the country got a new one. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Matteo Renzi is still in his 30s and is the youngest ever to be chosen | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
for the role. His nickname, The Scrapper, refers to his calls to | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
scrap the Italian political establishment. In his current role | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
as the mayor of Florence, he has plenty of political experience, but | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
he has never been elected to Parliament or served in government. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Our Europe editor has sent this report. Italy is betting its future | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
on this man. He's young, chic, and he bristles with energy and | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
ambition. Today he drove himself to the presidential palace in Rome. He | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
is 39 years old and is set to become Italy's youngest Prime Minister. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Matteo Renzi is not even an MP. He is the mayor of Florence with no | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
experience in government. Now he is tasked with running Italy. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
TRANSLATION: I would like to assure the president of the republic, the | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
political parties and above all the Italians who are watching this | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
government crisis that I will devote all the courage, energy and | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
enthusiasm that I am capable of. He reeled off an ambitious agenda - | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
constitutional reform before the end of the month, jobs reform by March. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
So power is passing to a political outsider, a man who promises to | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
break the old political cast of Italian politics. His lack of | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
political experience is part of his appeal to many Italians. Matteo | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
Renzi's power lies in his being different. Some are calling him | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
Italy's Tony Blair, a centre-left politician with little time for | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
ideology. He has an easy smile, he winks, he charms. But in truth he's | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
a political unknown. He has no alternative but | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
challenging the situation. I'm not sure that he knows how difficult the | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
situation is. Today there was a small protest, | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
that yet again Italy was turning to an unelected Prime Minister who had | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
pledged to seek power by an election but instead engineered the removal | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
of a serving Prime Minister. TRANSLATION: He has unbridled | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
ambition, I see it as being for personal gain and not something that | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
will help everyone. TRANSLATION: Matteo Renzi says he | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
can move seas and mountains. Let's try him, because Italy is in a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
swamp. Matteo Renzi is expected to move | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
into the Prime Minister's office later this week. He faces an immense | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
challenge in a country struggling out of recession with youth | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
unemployment at 40%. Gavin Hewitt, BBC News, Rome. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
An Ethiopian airline pilot who hijacked his own aeroplane and flew | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
to Switzerland to claim asylum has been taken into custody. All 202 | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
passengers and crew on board the flight from Rome to Addis Ababa, | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
rather from Addis Ababa to Rome, were unharmed. Frank Gardner | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
reports. An Ethiopian airliner, a Swiss | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
airport and a co-pilot who hijacked his own plane in flight. Seeking | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
political asylum in Switzerland, he had waited for the captain to go to | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
the toilet, locked himself in the cockpit and then called air traffic | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
control while the captain hammered on the door. This is a recording of | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
the air to ground conversation. The plane began its journey in Addis | :17:24. | :17:44. | |
Ababa and then flew north, as planned, heading up to Rome. But | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
instead the copilots I've edited to Switzerland, intent on seeking | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
asylum there. -- the copilots diverted it. Fighter jets were | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
hijacked to a scored the blame. This map shows the actual route taken, | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
you can clearly see the plane going around and around Geneva before | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
landing. Once on the ground, the co-pilot let himself out of the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
cockpit window using an emergency rope. The Swiss police were waiting | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
and sprang into action, probably arresting him on suspicion of air | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
piracy. The 200 passengers and crew were escorted off unharmed. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Ethiopian officials are now investigating. They say security is | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
tight at both the airport in Addis Ababa and in flight. They say the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
hijacker's behaviour makes no sense. It is not the first Ethiopian | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
airliner to be hijacked. This one crashed into the Indian Ocean in | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
1986, but security experts say it is not all about terrorism. We need to | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
focus on the broader threats to aviation, and therefore we need to | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
look at people's intent, not just whether or not you are carrying | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
primitive items. The passengers have since reached their destination in | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Rome. Although none were harmed, their ordeal has been described as | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
terrifying. In just four months' time, thousands | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
of England fans will head to the middle of the Brazilian rainforest | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
to watch their team play its first World Cup match. The conditions in | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
the tropical city of Manaus, where England will face Italy, will not be | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
easy - expects welder in heat and humidity. Today Roy Hodgson visited | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
the area himself to test the temperature. Chief sports | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
correspondent Dan Roan joined him and sent this report. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
The Amazon may not be natural habitat for an England manager, but | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
Roy Hodgson is planning for an away fixture like never before. England | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
will kick off their World Cup at Wenger here in the jungle city of | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Manaus. This visit is a chance to sample one of the most exotic venues | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
in the comp edition's history. It is hot, isn't it? It is going to be | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
hard at the FIFA World Cup, it always is, that is something you | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
have to come to terms with, and we are interested in getting some feel | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
for the slightly different, more tropical climate in the North of | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
Brazil. England! England's worst fears were realised when they were | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
drawn to play Italy in 1800 miles away from their Rio base, and this | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
is a charm offensive after Hodgson upset the local authorities by | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
describing out as a place to avoid because of its sweltering climate. | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
But many in Manaus will be glad to welcome England. Some locals here is | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
in less prosperous neighbourhoods are converting their homes into | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
hostels for the World Cup. This family hopes to how is 16 fans here. | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
This room will sleep up to five of them, each charged around ?50 per | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
night. We want to have the English here, she says, we want to show them | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
how the Amazonian people live. We can provide transport and food, and | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
we are close to the stadium. Having missed its original completion | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
deadline, the Arena da Amazonia is finished but at a cost. Six | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
construction workers have died building stadia in Brazil, and three | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
of them have lost their lives here. Meanwhile, on the streets of Brazil, | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
violent protests, the cost of staging the protest, continue to | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
overshadow the build-up to a World Cup that was meant to be a source of | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
national pride. FIFA put an awful lot of working with the local | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
organising committee and the Brazilian government has put an | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
awful lot of working to make sure that Brazil, a fantastic football | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
nation, can have a World Cup. I don't see any reason for as | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
technicians to doubt them. Roy Hodgson now knows what is in store | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
for England, and when he returns, he hopes his team will avoid any | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
mishaps. It has been a tense day for | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Britain's colours at the Winter Olympics and Sochi, with both the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
men and women playing for a place in the semifinals. Team GB's women made | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
it through automatically, but the men will have to overcome Norway in | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
a play-off to make it into the last four. Andy Swiss is in the Olympic | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
Park in Sochi for us. Andy. Yes, a huge day for Britain's | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
curlers here in Sochi. They came here with Heijkoop is but have | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
struggled over the first week, and a new today that they had to be at | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
their best. -- they came here with high hopes. | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
For Britain's curlers, it was make-or-break time. This is a sport | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
of touch and tactics, the aim - to slide your stones into the target | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
and knock out your opponent's. That is it! The women's team safely | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
through to the last four thanks to victory over the hosts, Russia. But | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
there was frustration for Britain's men after losing to China. They now | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
face a play-off for a semifinal spot. It was obviously a little bit | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
bittersweet. That was our chance to go over the finish line, we have had | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
a couple of chances and obviously not got there. The good side is we | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
are still in it. Meanwhile, there have been more | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
questions about competitors' safety, British skier Rowan Cheshire being | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
visited by team-mates after spending the night in hospital. Her crashed | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
in training, which left it with concussion, was one of several | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
yesterday. Two snowboarders, including Helene Olafsen of Norway, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
had to be stretchered off the slopes. But organisers insist there | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
have been no more injuries here than at previous Games. Our figures are | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
that there is no difference at all, no significant difference at all | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
from Vancouver. So winter sport, snow sports are not without their | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
risks, but we don't see any difference between this Games and | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
the last one. Several events had to be postponed | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
in the mountains today because of fog. The bobsleigh wasn't, and that | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
meant the final appearance here of the Jamaican team. Led by | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
46-year-old Winston Watts, they finished last, but in terms of | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
popularity they won by a street. Yes, hosts Russia eventually won the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
bobsleigh. Just to give you an update on Rowan Cheshire, Team GB | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
says she has been released from hospital and they will decide over | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
the next few days whether she can compete on Thursday. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
All right, Andy, thanks very much. In the era of smartphones and | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
tablets, you might think the old-fashioned television in the | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
corner of the room is a thing of the past, but you would be wrong. New | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
research suggests our love affair with the box is a strong as ever. In | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
fact, people are watching more TV than they were ten years ago. Here | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
is media correspondent David Sillito. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Watching the box, it is almost hypnotic. | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
The hours can slip by. We all have our favourites. I like Shopaholic | :24:48. | :24:59. | |
Showdown on TLC. But in this household, like millions of others, | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
there are new arrivals vying for the attention of both children and | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
nieces and nephews. The tablets and the smartphones. However, we are | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
actually watching more TV than we were watching ten years ago. The | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
figure has come down a little bit over the last 12 months, but we are | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
still watching three hours and 52 minutes per day. On the tablet and | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
smartphone, TV watching is only around three and a half minutes per | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
day. Most of us are like this family, watching 90% of our TV the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
traditional way. It is never the same, trying to watch a television | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
programme on a little iPad, it is much better to watch it on a bigger | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
is green with the family, relaxing on the city. As you can see, this | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
debate about television and family life is far from new, but do we | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
really watch an average of nearly four hours? People find it very hard | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
to be honest about TV viewing. If you ask them, they say, no, we don't | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
watch TV anymore, we watch on demand. If you fill them in their | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
homes will get them to record a diary of their viewing, the real | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
picture is very different. However, we are talking about an average. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Young families like this one actually watch relatively little TV. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
It is the over 50s who are watching more than five hours a day. David | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Sillito, BBC News. So there has been a bit of a lull in | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
the weather, but what about the forecast? Nina Ridge is here. | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
It has been a little bit cloudy today with a few showers, but it is | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
all relative - the rest of this week will not be as windy as last week, | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
we have still got rain but not as much, and it stays mild with some | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
seeing temperatures well above average. A mild night to come | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
tonight, a lot of cloud around. Some of the showers in the next few hours | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
could be on the heavy side over Northern Ireland, but turning quite | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
misty and murky, a lot of hill fog around for the early hours. Most | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
seeing temperatures of six - seven. The exception is the Northern Isles, | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
a touch of frost here with clear skies. Certainly a great start to | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
tomorrow morning, a few showers scattered around, one or two across | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
southern counties on the heavy side, but away from the showers we are | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
getting off to a dry start, if on the cloudy side. Plenty of cloud | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
sitting across parts of Northern Ireland, again a few showers, a dull | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
start across parts of Scotland with the remains of a weak front giving | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
patchy rain, a little bit of hill snow as well, and that will only | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
slowly clear eastwards across Scotland through the day. Still a | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
few showers scattered to the south and across southern counties, one or | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
two on the heavy side, maybe with hail and thunder in, but foremost, | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
commonly afternoon, away from the showers we will see drier weather | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
with a hint of brightness for central southern areas. Temperatures | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
here, ten or 11, further north Devon or eight. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
On Wednesday, most places should be dry, but by the time we get to | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
Thursday the potential for a more widespread band of rain to sweep | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
across the country. At the moment, it looks like the heaviest rain will | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
be in the north and west, but the winds could pick up as well. Welcome | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
respite on Wednesday, we will keep a close eye on Thursday, because a | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
little bit more rain around. You can check out the latest details by | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
going to the BBC Weather website. That is all from the BBC News At | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
Six, on | :28:34. | :28:34. |