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it accuses Russia of an armed invasion. Men with guns and Russian | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
naval flags are now patrolling two airports in the Crimea region. A | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Russian frigate appears to be blockading a crucial port, also in | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Crimea. The ousted president speaks from Russia, vowing to return. | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
TRANSLATION: I am eager and ready to fight for the future of the Ukraine. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
It's unclear whether Russia is orchestrating events. The Foreign | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Office has urged all Britons to leave the area. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Also tonight: The serial killer who laughed as she was sentenced to life | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
in prison without parole. The BBC learns last year's badger | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
cull was ineffective and not sufficiently humane, according to | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
the Government's own report. Washed up by this winter's storms, | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
the bombs left over from World War II. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
And as far south as Jersey, the spectacular view of the northern | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
lights. Victims of a serial rapist win the | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
right to sue The Met for failures in the investigation. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
And an international crackdown on financial fraudsters. | :01:10. | :01:31. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Tension is mounting in | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Ukraine as the ousted president, who hadn't been seen for days, has | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
resurfaced in Russia and is vowing to fight against what he called a | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
coup. The interim Ukrainian government has accused Russia of an | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
armed invasion and occupation, as gunmen carrying Russian naval flags | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
have begun patrolling airports in the region of Crimea, where the | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
majority of the population are ethnically Russian. It's not clear | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
who the men are at Simferopol and Sevastopol airports, nor who has | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
ordered them to be there. And a Russian frigate is blockading the | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
strategic Black Sea port of Balaklava. Our Moscow correspondent | :02:07. | :02:19. | |
Daniel Sandford sent this report. Crimea's main connection to the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
outside world, today in the hands of men with machine guns. Simferopol | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
International Airport in south-east Ukraine, but patrolled by men | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
without markings on their uniforms and apparently loyal to Russia. The | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
armed men, in green military uniforms, have taken over the | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
building containing the control tower in Crimea's main civilian | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
airport. All day, military trucks were on the move through Crimea. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Although it is a region of Ukraine, Russia's Black Sea fleet are based | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
here. Troops loyal to Moscow were in control of the main military airport | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
near the port of Sevastopol, too. The new government in the Ukrainian | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
capital, Kiev, said it was an invasion. But this woman, like many | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
in Sevastopol, is suspicious of the new Kiev government and supported | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the Russian move. TRANSLATION: Who else can we turn | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
to? Who can defend us? Thank goodness the Russian fleet is here | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
to defend us. And then this Russian naval ship appeared at the entrance | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
to the world-famous Balaklava Bay, another show of strength by the | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
Russian Armed Forces. Ukraine appears to have lost control of the | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
sea and the main airports in Crimea, a major strategic region. As | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
the country fell apart, there were angry scenes in the national | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
parliament, and the new security chief pointed the finger directly at | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
Moscow. TRANSLATION: Crimean 's have nothing | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
to do with events in Crimea. These are extremists, or military troops | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
of the Black Sea forces. In Russia, the ousted Ukrainian president, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Viktor Yanukovych, appeared in public for the first time since he | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
fled last week. He said he was ashamed he had not been able to hold | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
onto power juror in the Kiev uprising and apologised for failing | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
to keep stability. -- juror in the uprising. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
TRANSLATION: I am eager and ready to fight for the future of the Ukraine. | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
I was forced to leave and there are threats to my life and to people | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
close to me. Power was taken by nationalist, fascist thugs who are | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
in the minority in the Ukraine. Although Kiev has lost control of | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Crimea, including the main regional TV station, no shots have been | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
fired. This is not yet a war, but Kiev has not moved to reassert | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
control, and if it does, Moscow made it clear today that its troops are | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
waiting. Daniel joins me from Sevastopol. An | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
unconfirmed report has come in that four Russian air force transport | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
aircraft, carrying hundreds of troops, have landed at Simferopol | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
airport. Can you shed light on that? It was certainly known that flights | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
in and out of the airport were stopped earlier this evening. There | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
are not flights landing there at the moment. The news agency reporting | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
this, one of the main Ukrainian news agencies, is usually reliable. It is | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
saying four Russian transport planes with 700 men on board have landed | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
and some personnel carriers have travelled from here to go and pick | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
them up. We have not been able to verify that, but the news agency is | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
normally quite reliable. The Foreign Office is warning British National | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
is to avoid travelling to Crimea, and if they do come here, they | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
should leave as soon as possible and by train, because that is probably | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
the only way out at the moment. The White House is urging Moscow not to | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
intervene in Russia and to preserve Ukraine's territorial integrity. | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
Downing Street said the Prime Minister, David Cameron, spoke to | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
President Putin in Russia today and President Putin promised to honour | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Ukrainian sovereignty, but we have seen influential Russian MPs in | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Crimea all week. And we know that many people in Crimea would like to | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
be part of Russia and ever since Russia lost Crimea it has wanted it | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
back. Thank you. Serial killer Joanne Dennehy has | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
been sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering three | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
men and randomly selecting and attempting to kill two others. She | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
laughed in court as the Judge described her as "a cruel, | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer". Ed | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
Thomas reports. A killer who was calm, confident and | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
in control. Joanna Dennehy said she wanted to be famous and write a | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
book. She took these pictures to celebrate her murders. Today, she | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
arrived at court to be called a monster. In the dock, the judge said | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
she was a cruel serial killer. Dennehy smiled before she was told | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
she would spend the rest of her life in prison. The fact that she will | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
never see daylight again in the outside world is a huge comfort for | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the family. Whilst I don't measure success of any investigation on | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
prison time, in this case, the Dennehy, it is absolutely the right | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
thing that she won't come out of prison. Dennehy, the court heard, | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
had a thirst for blood. Last year she murdered her friend Lucas | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Slaboszewski. Today, the family gave this reaction. We miss him with each | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
day that passes and although the sentence has been passed we will | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
live with the legacy of the actions of Joanna Dennehy. By the time she | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
killed, she had abandoned her children and was an alcoholic, using | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
heroin and cannabis. The blade was no bigger than three inches, but she | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
had had practice. This is Mark Lloyd. She forced him to watch as | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
she stabbed two strangers. This CCTV shows him with the killer. She puts | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
her arm around his neck. What you can't see is the knife hidden under | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
her clothes. In his first TV interview, Mark Lloyd said he | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
thought he would be the next to die. She wanted to kill someone, anyone, | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
right there and then. But could she have been stopped? She was diagnosed | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
a psychopath with several personality disorders. She would | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
have been known to services. Someone has been prescribing medication to | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
her. There is no question that she would have shown significant | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
disturbance prior to these events. But predicting that someone is going | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
to do something as horrific as this is an extremely difficult thing to | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
do. The court was told she killed because she wanted to see how it | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
felt. In the dock, she laughed and swore at the judge as she revealed | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
that he told a psychiatrist that killing was moreish, and after her | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
first murder, she wanted more. Joanne Dennehy will never be | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
released. A murderer who said killing was fun. | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
Two women who were sexually assaulted by a London taxi driver | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
have won compensation from the Metropolitan and for failures in its | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
investigation. He was jailed for life in 2009 for a series of rapes | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
and sexual assaults over six years. The women brought their challenge | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
under the human rights act, in a case which could pave the way for | :09:46. | :09:47. | |
similar claims. They were hugely controversial last | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
year and now BBC News understands that badger culls carried out in | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
west Somerset and Gloucestershire were ineffective and insufficiently | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
humane. That's according to the Government's own official report. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
The culls had a target of killing 70% of the badgers within six weeks. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
In fact they killed less than half. They also had a target of no more | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
than 5% of the badgers taking more than five minutes to die, and that | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
target was missed too. Our science correspondent Pallab | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Ghosh sent this exclusive report from West Gloucestershire. | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
It is thought that badgers pass TB onto cattle, and that they are a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
source of an epidemic that is slowly spreading across the country. Last | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
year, the government allowed licensed marksman, here training, to | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
shoot them. Culls were organised in parts of Gloucestershire and | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Somerset. Now, the government's own assessment has shown that in their | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
first year there have been no risks to public safety but in other | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
respects, they have failed. Professor Rosie Woodroffe warned | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
that if too few badgers were killed, TB rates in cattle may actually | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
increase. And she says now, ministers should scrap plans to | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
extend the culls to other parts of the country. Both farmers and | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
government should be scratching their heads and wondering if it is | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
even worth going forward with these culls, let alone recruiting new | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
areas. Because it is so costly, and the benefits are likely to be | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
minimal. TB has been devastating cattle farms across the south-west. | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Farmers believe that culling would be essential to eventually | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
eradicating the disease. So rather than abandoning the culls, they want | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
to learn lessons from them, so that they can do a better job in the | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
future. Go on. Andrew cousins is a dairy farmer in Gloucestershire. He | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
has had TB on his farm before and it has hit his business card. An | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
average of 3000 up to ?5,000. Each time we have to go through winter | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
keeping extra cattle. That is money off the bottom line the end of the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
day. We have two culls some of the wildlife. It is a no-brainer. It has | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
to be done. No two ways about it. The government has said it plans | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
more badger cull is to help farmers such as Andrew, but its own | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
scientific assessment has raised serious concerns, and there are also | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
worries about the humaneness of the policy. The British Veterinary | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Association says it may even withdraw support if it feels too | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
many badgers are suffering too much. The leader of the UK Independence | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Party, Nigel Farage, has said he is taking a "mega gamble" by predicting | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
his party could win the European elections in May. At his party | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
conference in Torquay, he also told the BBC that he was very proud of | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
taking votes from the British National Party. He was speaking to | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
our Deputy Political Editor, James Landale, who has just sent this | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
report. This report contains some flash photography. | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
Some may be old, some unsteady on their feet, some perhaps even a | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
little eccentric. Nice day for a lovely conference. But never let it | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
be said that UKIP members lack confidence. Richter scale seven | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
political earthquake is going to shake up the country. 48 party once | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
dismissed as fruitcakes and loonies is now growing faster than any | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
other. They can abuse us as much as they want. The more they throw at | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
us, the more people vote for us. That is why he is telling his party | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
not only might they win most votes at the European elections, but also | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
a good number of MPs at the next general election. And if they do not | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
win any, he would resign. This is the moment we have waited for. This | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
is it. This is the big one for UKIP. Together, we can achieve | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
something remarkable in these European elections. We can top those | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
polls. He told them their party was changing, broadening its appeal, and | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
yes, involving more women and younger people. I have always loved | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
being among UKIP people. It is great fun, like being in dad 's Army. Some | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
members continue to embarrass the leadership, recently won blaming the | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
floods on gay marriage, but this is a party with a spring in its step, | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
and a leader not afraid of raising expectations. I want us to get back | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
pride and self respect in who we are. If that means taking a gamble | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
on the European elections, so be it. But why gamble by reclaiming a | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
slogan once used by the British National Party? If you take the | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
total UKIP vote, the percentage that comes from the BNP is very small, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
and I am very proud we take those votes of the BNP. We have actually | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
smashed them by saying to people, if you believe immigration should be | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
controlled but you do not hate everybody, both Russ and not for | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
them. It has worked. It is a message some locals liked, but not all. Will | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
you vote for UKIP? No. They are too right wing and I don't agree with | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
their policies on immigration. Do you share her views? Certainly not. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
I would definitely vote for UKIP. Would you vote for UKIP? No, they | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
are barking mad. The car parks are full, and they are not shy of | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
letting people know why they are here. Our top story this evening: | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
The interim Ukrainian government has accused Russia of an armed invasion. | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
And still to come, the multi millionaire who rescued Cardiff City | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
on why he won't allow his critics to force him out. Later on BBC London: | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Jailed for manslaughter - the parents who denied their child | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
medical care for religious reasons. And the Olympic Gold medallist | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
returning to his east end roots to help inspire the next generation of | :15:57. | :16:12. | |
rowers. Every year the Royal Navy deals with dozens of unexploded | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
bombs and artillery rounds across the UK but this winter's | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
unprecedented storms have sparked a sharp rise in call-outs. This time | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
last year the specialist diving squadron safely disposed of 108 | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
munitions. But, this winter, that number rose to 244 - mostly small | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
mortars and shells just 3-5 inches long, exposed by the huge waves | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
along the south-west coast of England. In a BBC exclusive, Claire | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Marshall has been on patrol with the naval divers charged with making our | :16:32. | :16:46. | |
coastline safe. This is what the winter storms have exposed. A 500 | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
pound World War II depth charge. It has become dangerous to walk on the | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
beaches here. On the south coast of Britain, more world war bonds are | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
being discovered than ever before. Here in Devon, this couple were out | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
for a Sunday walk when this is what they found. I was suspicious because | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
of the shape of it. It was sticking out of the sand and looked like a | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
missile. Welcome to the unit that handles these emergencies. We were | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
given exclusive access to this training exercise. From taking the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
call to leaving the base, they have 30 minutes and they do not know what | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
they will find when they get there. This is one of dozens of shells that | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
they have made safe along the coastline this week. To do this they | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
have to learn how to get up close. At the base in Portsmouth, this is a | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
test lake. They call them the human minehunters. The diver approaches | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
the missile and wraps it in plastic explosives. This is the team | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
detonating a German mind. The explosive is usually high quality. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
The Germans are good engineers. We do not know if the weapons are | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
viable into we get our team on site. This makes rebuilding smashed flood | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
defences very risky. Around the UK coastline there are still hundreds | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
of thousands of tonnes of old munitions still to be found. The | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
chief executive of the group which owns British Airways has said a vote | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
in favour of Scottish independence would probably be a "positive" | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
change for the airline. Willie Walsh of International Airlines Group said | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
the Scottish Government's plans to abolish air passenger duty | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
recognised the huge impact the tax had on the economy. Our Scotland | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
correspondent Lorna Gordon is at Glasgow Airport for us now. Coming | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
after the comments by Standard Life, this must be a welcome move for the | :19:04. | :19:13. | |
pro-independence campaign? Yes, absolutely. The bosses of a couple | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
of good businesses have told how independence may impact on their | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
companies. Standard Life said they had concerns and said they would | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
want to see agreements on financial regulation or they will have two | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
lose some jobs. Willie Walsh, whose company is headquartered in London, | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
said that his company had no concerns and no contingency plans. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
He said: Yes vote would be a positive development why? He is a | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
hard-nosed businessmen and does not like airline duty, that tax we pay | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
when we get on and airline. -- when we get on an airline. In the event | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
of independence, they would like to cut back tax in half and eventually | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
abolish it. They say that only independence would give Scotland the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
powers to boost business. I think, over the next few weeks and months, | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
we will see other companies declaring their hands in this | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
debate. Thank you. The Green Party leader | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
has used her Spring Conference speech to re-enforce her party's | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
opposition to fracking. Natalie Bennett told supporters in Liverpool | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
that opposing the controversial gas extraction method would put their | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
party on the "same side of the argument" as the British public. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
He's one of the most controversial figures in British football. The | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
multi millionaire owner of Cardiff City has sacked the club's manager | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
and changed the players' strip. But the Malaysian business tycoon | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
Vincent Tan has told the BBC he thinks the vast majority of fans | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
support him. David Ornstein's exclusive report contains some flash | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
photography. He saved Cardiff City from financial ruin, but much of the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
good will that Vincent Tan has gained has been lost. He changed the | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
shirt from blue to red and also the manager. It is farewell and thank | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
you. 90% of the fans are supportive. The problem is that 10% | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
who are not supportive and they should regret what they have done to | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
me. Some of them should apologise to me. They can be a little bit racist | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
and unfair. It is a different story in his home country of Malaysian | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
where he is regarded as a hero. As you know, I bought Cardiff City | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
football club. Sometimes I wonder why I did it. His relationship with | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
British football has been turbulent but it is hoped that this level of | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
support can be repeated in the Welsh capital and Premier League. Right | :22:12. | :22:24. | |
now, I will stay unless the fans annoy me and then I will leave. You | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
made one of the most controversial decisions in football history when | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
you changed the colour of the shirt. You will not change it back? No way. | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
I like blue. Perhaps if I am bought out, they can change it to blue. | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
Scenes of celebration have been replaced by controversy at Cardiff. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Vincent Tan is hoping to turn that around and relaunch his reputation. | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
It's a stunning natural phenomenon that is rarely visible from anywhere | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
in the UK apart from the remotest parts of Scotland. But last night | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the aurora borealis - or Northern Lights - put on a spectacular | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
display that was seen as far south as Jersey. It gave thousands of us a | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
rare chance to witness one of nature's most magical events, as | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Duncan Kennedy reports. When you think of the Northern Lights, you | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
probably imagine the Arctic Circle, not this road. That is where | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
17-year-old astronomer Tom has been viewing this spectacular sight. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Right here in Woking, in Surrey, in the heart of the South. It is | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
amazing, really. I did not think I would see the Northern Lights from | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
my hometown. It is a once-in-a-lifetime event. For | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
several nights, this is what some astronomers have been treated to, | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the aurora borealis, a stunning light show which shoots beams of | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
colours across the sky. It is not just here in leafy Surrey that the | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
lights have been seen. They have been viewed in Essex, | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. It is the first time they have been seen | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
in a quarter of a century. They are the result of charged particles | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
streaming of the sun and colliding with the Earth 's atmosphere. If you | :24:27. | :24:38. | |
get more charged particles, you do not just get the Northern Lights in | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
the south, you get them further down. You can see them at much lower | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
latitudes. Northern Britain has not been left out of this. There is | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
still another nights to witness them. Southern Britain may have to | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
wait until 2040 until it gets another glimpse of this solar show | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
stopper. Time for a look at the weather... Here's Alex Deakin. Will | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
be get a repeat of last night's of events? No, I do not think so. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Clearer skies but the aurora borealis is not in evidence tonight. | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
She will provide some other rare elements, though. There will be | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
frost and for the patches tomorrow morning. There will be sunny spells | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
on Saturday, just a few showers, and rain will spill in on Sunday. Some | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
rain will move away from the East first off. It will take a while, | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
lingering over Hampshire. A dry night, turning clear, and cold. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
Temperatures in towns and cities hovering above freezing. It may lead | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
to things turning icy in the South, particularly where we had the wet | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
weather during the day. Misty and murky weather fog patches are. They | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
should clear away and then it will be a bright enough day on Saturday. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Cloud in the West with some scattered showers, and cloudy across | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
the South East with some showers lingering. Elsewhere, something a | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
bit brighter. Cloud across Wales, scattered showers. Sunny spells for | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
the Midlands and North East England and most of Scotland. Western | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Scotland there could be some showers and we see this band of rain moving | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
away from Northern Ireland. That could turn wet around tea-time. As | :26:36. | :26:47. | |
this clears, it turns cold, and again there is the risk of ice for | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Sunday morning. Temperatures just above freezing but in rural areas | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
there will be a frost. A chilly start to Sunday with some rain to | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
move away to the East. Writer for northern England and Scotland is, | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
before the next band rain arrives, which will bring a wet ends to the | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
weekend. Temperatures are a bit higher but it will be cold in the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
morning. This weekend is the first weekend of March which is the first | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
weekend of spring. Thank you. A reminder of our main story... We are | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
getting reports of developments in the South of the country. What can | :27:27. | :27:37. | |
you tell us? It does appear that the airspace over the Crimean peninsula | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
has been closed. The biggest airline in the country has complained that | :27:43. | :27:50. | |
it has not been a -- able to land planes in the main airport in the | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
south. A flight from Istanbul was closed. -- cancelled. For Russian | :27:56. | :28:03. | |
aircraft landed in Crimea with 700 men aboard. Those reports cannot be | :28:04. | :28:13. | |
confirmed and our colleagues at the airport have not seen this but there | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
are numerous military airports on the peninsula so that does not mean | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
that these reports are not true. Associated Press has seen armed | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
personnel carriers moving across the peninsula today. The risen a lot of | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
military activity in the area tonight. That is all from | :28:37. | :28:37. |