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crisis. The jury sees an e-mail from Rebekah Brooks in which she says | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
that Mr Blair spoke for an hour and told her to take sleeping pills and | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
topped up. Today, Mr Blair said he was just offering informal advice. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight, 26 people killed in the overnight violence in the | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Ukraine. EU leaders consider sanctions at an emergency meeting. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
Another drop in the number of people out of work. Down by 125,000. Offer | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
some, it is still a struggle. I was looking everywhere, newspapers, | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
online. I was struggling to find anything, really. It was quite a | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
relief when iPhone Center Parcs. The parents of the six-day-old baby | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
apparently attacked by a pet dog say that they will cherish the short | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
time they spend with her. And Britain's men are through to the | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
curling finals at the Winter Olympics. | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
And coming up on BBC News, Arsenal welcome Bayern Munich to the | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Emirates later in the last 16 of the Champions League. | :01:20. | :01:41. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at six. The phone hacking | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
trial has heard that Tony Blair had an hour long conversation with | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World, just days | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
before she was arrested in July 2011. The jury was shown an email in | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
which Ms Brooks said the former Prime Minister offered to give | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
unofficial advice to the Murdoch family, major shareholders of News | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
International. Mr Blair issued a statement today saying he was simply | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
giving informal advice. Let's join Matt Prodger at the Old Bailey. | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Today, the jury was taken back in time to July 11, 2011. The News of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the World had just collapsed beneath the weight of the phone hacking | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
scandal. The former editor, Rebekah Brooks, was six days away from | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
arrest by police. According to evidence this morning, she was | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
taking advice from the former Prime Minister himself. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Tony Blair and Rebekah Brooks, back in the days when he was Prime | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Minister and she was editor of Britain's bestselling newspaper. Ten | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
years on, she is standing trial. And the court was today told that at the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
height of the media storm over the phone hacking scandal, she sent Mr | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Blair -- said Mr Blair offered his help as an unofficial adviser will | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
stop in 2011, she sent an e-mail to her boss, James Murdoch, discussing | :03:05. | :03:05. | |
the situation. She said: The Hutton report was the official | :03:06. | :03:23. | |
enquiry a decade ago into the death of the government scientist, Doctor | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
David Kelly. It exonerated Tony Blair and other | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
officials of any involvement in the dodgy dossier about weapons of mass | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
destruction. Rebekah Brooks went on to say that Tony Blair had told her | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
to keep strong and definitely sleeping pills. | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
Tony Blair's office tonight said that he had simply been giving | :03:51. | :04:07. | |
informal advice over the phone. He had made it absolutely clear to miss | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
brooks that it was essential to have a transparent and independent | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
process to get to the bottom of what had happened. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Rebekah Brooks left court with her husband, Charlie, also standing | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
trial. Of the seven defendants, she faces the most charges. Conspiracy | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
to intercept voice mails, bribe public officials, and perverted the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
course of justice. All the defendants say that they are | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
innocent. Today marked the end of the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
prosecution case. The halfway point of the trial. From here on in, the | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
defendants give their version of events. Rebekah Brooks' defence | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
begins tomorrow morning. There is a tense stand-off between | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital tonight. It | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
follows the worst violence since thousands took to the streets last | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
November to protest a government decision to reject a deal with the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. The number of people killed | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
in overnight clashes has risen to 26. Today, in Kiev, all schools, the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Underground network and many shops are closed. An emergency meeting of | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
European Union foreign ministers has been called with some demanding | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
sanctions. Our correspondent, Daniel Sanford, reports from Independence | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Square in Kiev, at the heart of the protests. | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Lunchtime today in the heart of a major European city. And riot police | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
hurled rocks and tear gas at the protesters they have been fighting | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
for more than 24 hours. Faced with a low-level revolution, they have | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
resorted to firing plastic bullets and shotgun pellets. There have been | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
hundreds of injuries. The anger of the protesters is now matched by the | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
anger of the riot police who now understand the risks involved. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Several of their colleagues were killed in the fighting yesterday. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
This is the worst violence Ukraine has seen since independence. 26 | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
people were killed yesterday and overnight. The anger started in | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
November when President Viktor Yanukovych signalled a move away | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
from the European Union and back towards Russia. And it has | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
intensified week by week. Today, the president turned on moderate | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
opposition leaders. TRANSLATION: They crossed the line when they | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
encouraged people to take up arms. It is a grave violation of the law | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
and those who broke the law must face trial. This morning, the | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
aftermath of the worst fighting was everywhere. What had been the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
opposition headquarters was a burnt shell. At this one central Kiev | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
hospital, they took in 150 injured people overnight, including this | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
man, who told me that riot police beat him unconscious. TRANSLATION: | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
We fight for Ukraine and freedom. We would like to see Ukraine as an | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
independent country, freedom for our families. But this dictator makes us | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
nervous. As the women of Independence Square appeared for | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
another night of violence, the Telly Klitschko, the world's champion | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
boxer turned opposition leaders said the president Yanukovych alone was | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
responsible for the killing of his people. -- said that President | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Yanukovych. Exhausted police officers know they are going into | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
battle again soon. Russia says this is an attempted coup against | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
illegitimate government while the European Union, the other side of | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
this double Matic tug-of-war, has threatened targeted sanctions | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
against those responsible for the violence. | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Here, the number of people out of work as phone again, adding to signs | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
of a continued recovery in the economy. The number of unemployed | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
fell by 125,000 in the last three months of 4013. The latest estimates | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
show 2.3 million people are now out of work, according to the office for | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
National statistics. Youth unemployment has also fallen, now | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
standing at just over 900,000. Its lowest level since the spring of | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
2011. Our chief economic correspondent, dupe them, looks at | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
what the figures mean on the ground. -- Hugh Pym. Economic growth is | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
governing omentum, which means more jobs, including near where the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
holiday business, Center Parcs, is building a new site. 1500 workers | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
are needed to run the centre. They have had 11,000 applications and the | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
lucky ones are breezed to get in break. Why was not aware of the | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
competition for jobs at the time. You focus on the jobs you are | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
interested in. After coming on board, I discovered how much | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
accommodation there was. I've found getting a job very difficult. I was | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
looking everywhere, newspapers, online. I was struggling to find | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
anything. It was quite a relief when iPhone Center Parcs. Ministers said | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
the fall in the jobless total was further proof that the economic plan | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
was working. Labour argued that although youth unemployment has | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
fallen to its lowest in three years, there was still one in five young | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
people out of work. Taking a closer look at the growth of Britain's | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
workforce reveals varying trends. The total number employed by an | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
organisation was 25.5 million in the three months to December, up 0.2% on | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
the previous three months. The number self-employed was 4.4 | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
million, up by a much larger proportion, 4.1%. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
One of those who has joined the ranks of the self-employed, working | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
from home, is Roger. He lost his job at a technology business but | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
welcomes the chance to go it alone, refurbishing bungalows. He knows it | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
might take time to develop a steady income. Until the business is up and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
running, you do not know what costs will be or what the market is | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
running, you do not know what costs will be like will stop you do not | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
know whether you are going to be successful so it is a step into the | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
unknown. At times, it can be a little bit scary. Some argue that | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the growth in self-employment suggests the jobs market is more | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
uncertain than it looks. On one hand, we have people who may have | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
been forced to be self-employed, people who have lost their jobs and | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
have decided to not stay on welfare but create a new business. On the | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
other hand there is increasingly entrepreneurial spirit, people | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
taking you risk who have good ideas. Unemployment is not falling | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
as fast as it was. In Northern Ireland, there was a slight | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
increase. Through a statistical quirk, the UK's jobless rate is | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
higher than reported last month but there was Roger news for those in | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
work with a slight pick-up in wage increases. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. Inflation yesterday, jobs today. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
It all adds up to music in the government's ears. | :11:26. | :11:26. | |
At first glance, the figures are hugely encouraging for ministers | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
with unemployment down by a big chunk. Difficult areas like | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
long-term unemployment and youth employment are down. But I suspect | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
there is still a nagging fear in the pit of ministerial stomachs, and it | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
is this. Time. Is there no one of time ahead of the next election for | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the recovery to release a cold so that people feel better off. Because | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
if you look at page, yes it is gradually clawing its way back to | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
overtake inflation, but it may only do so a few months and head of the | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
next election and ministers need a chunky six-month period where | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
earnings outstrip prices if they are to feel a feel-good factor. The | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
politics of the economy have become all about timing. No one doubts the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
recovery is taking place but ministers really need the pace of | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
that recovery to pick up. The parents of a six-day old baby | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
girl thought to have been killed by the family dog say they will cherish | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
the little time they had with her. Elisa Maynor Lane from Ponta very | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
died yesterday. Police have yet to confirm the cause of the death. An | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Alaskan malamute dog, not a banned breed, has been taken away. | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
A baby girl whose parents say brought joy into their lives. Sharon | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
John -- and Patrick Mullane said today: | :12:56. | :13:12. | |
The baby died just before 830 yesterday morning. Papers who tries | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
to help save that all eyes are made's mother is distraught. I don't | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
think she knew whether she was coming or going. She was walking | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
around in a daze. She hadn't got a clue what you was doing. I don't | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
think she took it all in. I don't think she understood what had | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
happened. Police have spent a second day here carrying out a detailed | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
forensic examination of the house. They are anxious not to add to spec | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
elation over exactly how this baby died but it is clear that what | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
happened with the family dog is their main line of investigation. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
The dog was an Alaskan malamute, a breed that is growing in popularity | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
in Britain. Experts warn that they may not always suit a young, growing | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
family. I see clients whose dogs have changed during the pregnancy. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
The dogs are aware, they have very acute senses and they are aware that | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
the owner is pregnant. Underdog can start to change its personality in | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
response to that. -- and the dog. Tonight, the family is still being | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
supported by the police. They and the community around them remain in | :14:23. | :14:32. | |
deep shock. Our top story this evening: The hacking trial is told | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
Tony Blair advise News International's Rebekah Brooks on | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
handling the scandal just days before her arrest. And still to | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
come: The men are through to the curling finals, but disappointment | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
for the women at the Winter Olympics. | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
Later on BBC London, accused of financial mismanagement, the college | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
that claimed nearly ?1 million for students it could not prove it had. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
The pop-up pub that scientists have created to find out why we drink to | :15:06. | :15:19. | |
get drunk. Anyone who's been forced to leave | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
their homes because of the floods should not have to pay council tax. | :15:23. | :15:34. | |
That's the pledge from Number Ten. ?4 million has been set aside to | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
refund local councils in England to cover the cost of rebates. River | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
levels may be slowly falling but the Environment Agency still have two | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
severe flood warnings in place in Somerset. And after last weekend's | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
storms Network Rail now say damage to the main rail route to Cornwall | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
at Dawlish will not be repaired until mid-April. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
The Prime Minister said today his Government is at the heart of a vast | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
national effort to deal with the situation. James Landale reports. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Four days, they have been up and down the road, wellies on, diaries | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
torn up. Politics now is about flooding and very little else. Today | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
the Prime Minister was supposed to be in the Middle East. Instead he | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
was in the South West, announcing more help for flood victims. If you | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
are flooded out of your house, you don't have to pay the council tax | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
when you are out of your house and central Government will be funding | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
that or local Government. Political crises can make or break political | :16:32. | :16:43. | |
reputations. Gordon Brown did well when David Cameron did not. But | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
flooding can pay dividends. The German Chancellor turned his | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
election fortunes around by donning wellies faster than his rival. He | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
showed people that he cares and it gave him the belief that he could | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
try and actually win that election six weeks later. So speed matters. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
David Cameron may not have chaired his first Cobra meeting until this | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
month, but he has visited 18 flood areas including the damaged track at | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
Dawlish. The damage is so bad they will not repair the line until | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
mid-April. All the visits, press conferences and meetings, opinion | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
polls suggest many people think the Government could and should have | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
done more and faster. They feel like in the areas where the Government | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
has control in terms of forward planning and support that people | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
need, they are failing and not doing enough. Here in Winchester, people | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
praise the local authorities for keeping some floods at bay by | :17:42. | :17:53. | |
diverging water into fields. But even here, views are mixed. At first | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
we were told to by Aaron sandbags and things, which we did, and then | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
since David Cameron said money was no object, I have not had to buy | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
sandbags. There was a lack of planning and dealing with rows of | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
wires at -- reservoir. A lot of people are in serious difficulty and | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
we will see if they get help. National crises give Prime Minister | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
is a chance to appear prime ministerial, calling up the army and | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
so on. But they also pose risks, test of leadership and confidence. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
The waters may be receding but the political consequences may linger | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
longer. The prosecutor investigating the | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
murders of a British family in the French Alps says the arrest of an | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
ex-policeman does not mean the case is solved and that there is no | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
obvious link between the man detained and the killings. Police in | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Annecy have taken a second person in for questioning this morning as part | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
of the investigation into the deaths of Saad al-Hilli, who was killed | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
along with his wife, her mother and a French cyclist. Our correspondent, | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Christian Fraser, has just sent this report from Annecy. | :18:57. | :19:04. | |
The new suspect, character who soon, 48-year-old Frenchman, who | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
works as a security guard. He bears a striking resemblance to this | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
artist's impression of a motorcyclist seen on the road. He | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
lives near the crime scene with his wife and two children. Forensic | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
police have been scouring the garden with metal detectors. His next-door | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
neighbour told me they had removed one of two motorbikes that he owns. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Last night they came to start a search the roof. In a sea, the | :19:36. | :19:45. | |
prosecutor confirmed he is being held on suspicion of weapons | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
trafficking. They found Beluga pistol in his possession but not the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Swiss version used in the murders. Could he have been there that day, I | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
asked? His mobile phone signal was picked up in a location that meant | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
he could have been at the murder scene at the right time, he replied. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
So now they are trawling his background. The houses he has lived | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
in, where he worked. His best round was also taken into custody today on | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
suspicion of arms trafficking. The man they have in custody is known by | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
pretty much everyone here. That is because he was their village | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
policeman for some 15 years. That is until he was sacked last June for | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
the misuse of public funds, said one official. I am also told that for 12 | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
years he was a reservist in the French gendarmerie, the military | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
police. The prosecutor told us tourists had complained he was | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
aggressive, even racist, a sentiment echoed by this former councillor. He | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
was very strange. At certain moments he would get angry. He was seriously | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
moody. Police urge caution. It certainly there is an intriguing | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
profile. He had collected grenades and World War II weapons. He is a | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
keen motorcyclist. The scooters they have removed is different to the one | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
that was seen. Then there is the helmet in the picture. Unusual. Only | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
8000 were made but they were issued to police. They have not yet found | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
it. The obvious question is why would he be involved? No link has | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
yet been established between him and the victims. So far there is no | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
weapon and no motive. The partner of a former Guardian | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
journalist, who was held for nine hours at Heathrow Airport under | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
anti-terrorism laws, has lost his High Court claim that he was | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
detained unlawfully. David Miranda was stopped last August as he | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
changed planes while carrying material leaked by the former US | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. Our Home Affairs | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
correspondent June Kelly reports. David Miranda and Glenn Greenwald, | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
regarded by the UK authorities as espionage suspects. At their home in | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
Brazil, they learned of the legal ruling from London and the | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
journalist Glenn Greenwald was contemptuous. The judgement today is | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
completely inconsequential. Fortunately for the world, the | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
British Empire collapsed a long time ago. This ruling has a fact within | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
the small borders of this single country. We are not going to | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
remotely make judgements about our journalism based on the intimidation | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
of threats of the British Government. Visible partner denied | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
claims he had been used as a mule to transport secret documents. I would | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
do it again and not for a second I regret that. I was not being used. I | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
was very aware of what I was doing at that time. At the root of this | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
case is the disclosure of classified information relating to both | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
America's National Security Agency, the NSA, and the British counterpart | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
GCHQ. The former contractor Edward Snowden had leaked thousands of | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
documents to the then Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. When | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
David Miranda, with 58,000 confidential files, came through | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Heathrow, the police used terrorism powers to stop him and that proved | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
controversial. While David Miranda's lawyers argued that his | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
detention had been unlawful, the judges here said they had to strike | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
a balance between press freedom and national security. So they came down | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
in favour of the Government and the police. We believed that he was | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
carrying highly classified documents. If those had reached the | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
public domain, we believed it would be very damaging to national | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
security, and indeed that people's lives would be put in danger. Last | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
summer as the Guardian started publishing details of the leaked | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
documents, the paper described how it had come under public pressure to | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
hand them over. As Glenn Greenwald continues his investigative work, | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
his partner is planning an appeal against the ruling. Jim Kelly, BBC | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
News. Members of the Russian protest group | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Pussy Riot have been attacked by Cossack patrol men at the Winter | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
Olympics in Sochi. The group said they were attacked with pepper spray | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
and beaten as they tried to perform a song. Yesterday two of the group | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
were released after being held on suspicion of theft. They had | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
previously served prison sentences for an anti-government protest in a | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
church in Moscow. But at the Games, Great Britain's | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
curling teams were in action. Both the men and the women were hoping to | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
reach the finals and guarantee themselves a medal. The women went | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
first against an unbeaten Canada, losing a tight match on the final | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
stone. And in the last few minutes, the men have triumphed over Sweden. | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
Andy Swiss reports. It was a day a touch of Scotland came to Sochi. A | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
bagpipe welcome for the British fans as they arrived to cheer on their | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
curlers. Two Olympic finals in tantalising reach. They have been | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
one of the top teams for years now, so hopefully just play to form. My | :25:12. | :25:19. | |
mates are all watching it, even those that don't like curling. They | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
were up at five o'clock, screaming their heads. First the women's team. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Eve Muirhead and players faced unbeaten Canada and from the start, | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
it seemed the curling gods were against them. Eve Muirhead's Stone | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
had deviated off as stray brush hair, a tiny detail which had a huge | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
impact. It allowed Canada to take the lead which they never | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
relinquished and coolly and clinically, they broke British | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
charts. A six - four defeat means Eve Muirhead's team play for bronze | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
tomorrow with their hopes of gold now over. I am proud of the girls. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
We gave it 110% and played the best we could play as a team. We will | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
give it our all tomorrow for that bronze medal because we don't want | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
to go home and he handed. British attention then turned to the man, | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
against Sweden. What followed was predictably tents. With the teams | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
level at two all, Swedish mistake put Britain ahead. But by the final | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
stone of the final end, David Murdoch's team were trailing 5-4. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Once again it was down to the captain. Could heap or offer another | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
extraordinary turnaround? Unforgettably, gloriously, he did. | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
-- could heap pull off? A place in the Olympic final for Britain on | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
what has turned into an incredible day. Yes, what result for Britain's | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
men. They will play in the final on Friday. They are of course now | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
guaranteed a medal. That means that with three medals, this is already | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Britain's best Winter Olympics since 1936. All in all, quite a day. | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
Thanks very much. Now it is time for the weather. | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
Hello. Not particularly exhilarating today, it has to be said. Big cloud | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
coming in now with some wind and rain on the way. For most of us, it | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
will happen through the night and for a time tomorrow morning, so that | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
tomorrow afternoon will be a little bit drier and brighter. Let's see | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
what is coming our way. This cloud is coming in from the Atlantic by | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
this area of low pressure. The cloud is biggest across western areas | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
where we have the rain. The winds are strengthening to gale force | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
across the South and southwestern coasts. Any rainfall is not welcome | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
in the flooded areas, especially across the South and South West. For | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
most it will be dribs and drabs, no more than that. Very mild, seven to | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
eight degrees, with strong winds and rain for a time for many of us | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
tomorrow morning. It may last until lunchtime in the extreme East and | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
the South East. The broad message is that the afternoon tomorrow is going | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
to be a bright one. Occasionally interrupted by one or two heavy | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
showers. Maybe Hale and thunder as well, so take your umbrella as well. | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
The end of the week looks pretty unsettled once again. A big area of | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
low pressure. Nothing to be alarmed about. Just wind and rain once again | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
through the course of Friday. Yes, gale force winds along the coast. | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
Again, one or two showers but no more severe than that, you will be | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
pleased to know. Come the weekend, the winds are going to pick up again | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
and it could be very windy in western areas of the UK. The weather | :28:46. | :28:48. | |
on Saturday, out of the two, will be better. On Sunday, there should be | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
rain on the way but it is not certain when and where. There will | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
be some rain around on Sunday. Thank you. | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
That is all from the | :29:03. | :29:03. |