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Union impose sanctions against top Russian officials. EU foreign | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
ministers say officials backing the break-away Crimean region will face | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
travel bans and see their assets abroad frozen. America also imposes | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
sanctions. The international community will continue to stand | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
together to impose any violations of the Ukrainian sovereignty and | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
continued Russian military intervention in Ukraine will only | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
deepen Russia's diplomatic isolation. It's the worst threat to | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
east west relations since the Cold War. We'll have the latest. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Also tonight, Mick Jagger's long term girlfriend, fashion designer | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
L'wren Scott is found dead in her apartment. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
The mystery of flight MH 370, investigators say the co-pilot was | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
the last person to speak to ground controllers. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Backing from the government after a new report says plans for HS2 should | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
be speeded up. It happened in less than a | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
trillionth of a second after the big bang. New evidence about the start | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
of the universe. Tonight on BBC London: Back on | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
track, anger as plans for a massive redevelopment of Euston station are | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
unveiled again. And walking free from court, a | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
former mafia boss living in London wins his appeal against extradition. | :01:23. | :01:41. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. First the diplomacy, | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
then the warnings and now the action. America and the European | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Union have announced sanctions against senior Russian officials | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
who've backed Ukraine's break-away Crimean region. Today Crimea's | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
parliament has declared its independence and decided to join | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Russia. It follows yesterday's referendum in Crimea in which | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
officials say 97% of voters chose to leave Ukraine. The United States and | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
the European Union say the vote broke international law. So now | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
they've announced travel bans and asset freezes against a number of | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
top officials from Russia and Ukraine. In a moment, more of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
today's diplomacy from our correspondent Bridget Kendall. But | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
first, this report from Daniel Sandford in the Crimean capital, | :02:26. | :02:37. | |
Simferopol. Under the statue of Lenin in the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
centre of the Crimean capital, they were still celebrating yesterday's | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
referendum. A vote to break away from Ukraine and join Russia, a vote | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
that has plunged Europe into crisis. In the Crimean parliament, the first | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
stage was to declare independence from Ukraine. From there, the Prime | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
Minister flew straight to Moscow to formally ask President Vladimir | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Putin to annex Crimea to the Russian Federation. Russian troops and | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
armour still surround the Ukrainian Armed Forces in premier but the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
Ukrainian defence Minister insisted that there will be no retreat. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
TRANSLATION: Crimea was, is and will be a Ukrainian territory. Our | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
military will stay there and we will solve this problem in a peaceful and | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
diplomatic way. We drove north from Simferopol to a strategic town near | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
where Crimea joins the Ukrainian mainland. They are, we found a new | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Russian military base and a mobile radar station on what had been a | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
disused airfield until a fortnight ago. Far from relaxing, the Russians | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
are reinforcing what may soon be a disputed border with Ukraine. Then, | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
a group of men claiming to be from the People's militia asked us to | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
leave. Although the referendum is now over, there is still a huge | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
Russian military presence in Crimea. All day, we have been | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
filming trucks coming and going on the main road from Crimea to | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
mainland Ukraine. In this small town near the base, people were also | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
salivating. Alexi, a freelance writer, was helping his parents on | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
their market stall and hopes that Crimea's moved back into the Russian | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
fold will improve the economy. We believe in one thing, in a better | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
life in future. Not as part of Ukraine. But the price that will be | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
paid for the future is an international crisis. Months or even | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
years of uncertainty and a new stand-off between Russia and the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
West. Announcing the sanctions, President | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
Barack Obama said there was a still a chance for diplomacy to work, but | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
one of his officials said the measures were the toughest since the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Cold War. Here's our diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall. | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
At last night's euphoria, now the consequences. In Crimea, the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
referendum results to break away from Ukraine was for Russian | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
speakers a cause for celebration. But in Kiev and the West, it is an | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
illegal move and must be resisted. So both EU and the United States | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
today new sanctions. The international community will | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
continue to stand together to oppose any violation of Ukrainians | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
offertory and territorial integrity and continued Russian military | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
intervention in Ukraine will only deepen Russia's diplomatic | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
isolation. These sanctions are aimed at those closely involved in trying | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
to split off Crimea from Kiev. Travel bans on those behind the | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
Russian military build-up and asset freezes. European sanctions on 21 | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
people and 11 named by the Americans, including a deputy | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Russian Prime Minister, the ousted Ukrainian president, Viktor | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Yanukovych, and Crimea's separatist leaders. And there is a warning of | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
more sanctions to follow. In Moscow, one of the officials targeted | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
dismissed the sections as political blackmail. President Putin's | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
reaction will come in a big speech he is giving tomorrow. In the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
meantime, his government have laid out of conditions for negotiation | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
and made clear that it backs Crimea's call to reunite with | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
Russia. TRANSLATION: I expect the majority of the Ukrainian population | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
will respect this convincing result. So what does Russia wants? Well, | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
firstly, constitutional reform, to devolve powers to Ukraine's Russian | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
speaking regions. And a cast-iron UN guaranteed that Ukraine will stay | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
neutral and not join the EU or NATO. It also once Russian language to be | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
given equal status to Ukrainian. So far, so good, but Russia also | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
insists that Crimea's referendum vote to leave Ukraine must be | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
respected and there is no way that either the West or Kiev will agree | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
to that. Already, it has been ruled out by Ukraine's acting president. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
We are ready for talks with Russia, he said today, but we will never | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
accept the annexation of our territory. So all Ukraine can do is | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
dig in to protect its borders from further incursions as tensions with | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Russia set to escalate. The fashion designer and girlfriend | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
of Mick Jagger, L'Wren Scott, has been found dead at her apartment in | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
New York. She was 49 and was found hanged this morning. She'd been in a | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
relationship with the Rolling Stones singer for about 13 years. A | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
spokesman said he was "completely shocked and devastated". Our Arts | :08:04. | :08:16. | |
Correspondent David Sillito reports. L'wren Scott had been a model, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
stylist and, in recent years, a successful fashion designer. She had | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
shown collections at London Fashion Week. Elegant, articulate, the | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
epitome of upmarket glamour. Our business is expanding in Europe and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the Middle East, moving into Asia. However, today her body was found in | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
her New York apartment. Initial reports say that she was found with | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
a scarf around her neck, attached to a door. Born in Utah in the states, | :08:42. | :08:50. | |
at six, she towered over her partner of the last 13 years, Mick Jagger. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
He is today in Perth, Australia, appearing for concerts with the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Rolling Stones. A spokesman said he was completely shocked and | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
devastated by the news. As first wife, Bianca Jagger, said she was | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
heartbroken. Tributes come from friends and fellow designers are | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
describing her as a talented artist and giving friend. | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
Let's speak to our Correspondent Nick Bryant who's in New York. This | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
story only broke in the last couple of hours. What more can you tell us? | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
Her body was found at 10am this morning, four hours ago, by her | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
personal assistant. She had received a text message from L'wren Scott | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
reportedly saying come round and when she did, she opened the door | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
with her own key and found her lifeless body. And a scarf was | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
attached to a door knob. The theory that the police is working under is | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
that this is a tragic suicide. There is no sign of foul play, no sign of | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
a suicide note either. She is known as Mick Jagger's girlfriend but none | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
as well as a very successful fashion designer here with a celebrity | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
clientele. Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Nicole Kidman, Angelina | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Jolie. Tributes pouring in from the fashion industry in Chelsea, where | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
she has her luxury apartment. Only last month, five minutes from here, | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
we were stood outside the apartment of the actor, Philip Seymour | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
Hoffman. The authorities in Malaysia now | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
believe the final message from the airliner that disappeared nine days | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
ago was made by the co-pilot. 26 countries are now involved in the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
search which extends from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. From Kuala | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Lumpur, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes sent this report. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
These are the last pictures of the captain and the co-pilot of flight | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
MH370, going through security minutes before boarding the plane. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Today, we learned that it is this man, the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Hamid, who was in control of the aircraft moments before it | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
disappeared. The initial investigation indicates that it was | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
the co-pilot. He spoke the last time it was recorded on tape. Just two | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
minutes after freak Abdelhamid made that last call, the plane's | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
transponder was switched off and flight MH370 disappeared from radar | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
screens. In the last few days, the focus of suspicion has been very | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
much on the captain of flight MH370 but following today's revelations, | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
the focus appears certain to switch here. Behind me is the house where | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid lived with his parents. Across the street | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
is the mosque where he prayed. He is not the only suspect. This man's | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
son, an aircraft engineer flying to a new job in Beijing, is also being | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
investigated. For the families, the tortured wait for information drags | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
on and on. And the area that must be searched only continues to grow. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
North, it stretches across western China to the shores of the Caspian | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Sea. To the south, from Indonesia, almost to the Antarctic. Analysts | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
say that this mystery is unprecedented in aviation history. I | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
think it was very well-planned. They knew what was there and what routes | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
to go to. They practised it even. Whoever has planned this is well | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
ahead of us. And we do not yet know where it is. It is going to be very | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
challenging to be able to figure this out. Today, the Chinese Navy | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
began stocking up for the long voyage into the Indian Ocean. There | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
are now 26 countries involved in this search but whoever took the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
plane has left them almost no trail to follow. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Confusion still surrounds the exact circumstances under which the | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
communication system was turned off on flight MH370. A satellite company | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
in London was the last to make contact with the systems on board | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
the aircraft. Our Transport Correspondent Richard Westcott has | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
been tracing the plane's last movements. | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
March the 8th, approaching one in the morning local time. And take off | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
at Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 climbs over the city. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
Nothing is a mess. We're just over half an hour into the flight, | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
approaching the east coast of Malaysia, and this is where the | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
first thing happened. One of the aircraft's commune occasion | :13:43. | :13:54. | |
systems, called ACARS, was deliberately switched off. It is a | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
simple process if you know your way around the clock ticked -- cockpit. | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
At 20 past one, someone, thought to be the co-pilot, radio is the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
aircraft's final message to the leasing Air Traffic Control. All | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
right, good night. Seemingly innocuous. Does it all the clue that | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
something wasn't right? Normally they would have given the aircraft | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
callsign of 370 and acknowledged the new frequency given by the control | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
in Vietnam, and continued with the new frequency, followed by good | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
night to Malaysia. Shortly afterwards, another important | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
communication system, the transponder, is also apparently | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
deliberately switched off. Malaysia military radar then seized the | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
aircraft turnaround. Seas. The trail leads to a control room in London | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
and a satellite network that helps aircraft to communicate. This is the | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
area covered by the satellite over the Indian Ocean. You can see here | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
will Asia and Vietnam, and the search area is around about here. | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
The aircraft automatically took to a -- talked to a satellite for seven | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
more hours proving it was either flying or have landed and kept the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
power on. If the ground machine has not heard from a particular unit | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
over a set period of time, usually around about an hour, then it will | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
send out a message saying, are you there? The machine will then receive | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
that message if it is powered up, and it will send back a simple | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
handshake, saying yes, I am. The fact that only one satellite saw | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
this flight means that they cannot pinpoint an exact position. At 11 | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
minutes past eight, the aircraft fell silent. Our top story this | :15:41. | :15:49. | |
evening. EU foreign ministers and America have imposed sanctions | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
against top Russian officials over the crisis in Crimea. And still to | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
come. Preparing to leave after 13 years. Britain's military role in | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
Afghanistan draws to a close. Later on BBC London, the controversial car | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
ban aimed at cutting pollution in Paris. We ask whether a similar | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
scheme would work here? And one primary school macro-brother | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
hands-on approach to lessons in food and finance. | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
Work on the HS2 high speed rail link needs to start earlier, be carried | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
out more quickly and go further. That's according to the new head of | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
the project. Sir David Higgins wants the first phase of HS2, originally | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
planned to end at Birmingham in 2026 to continue to Crewe by 2027, six | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
years ahead of schedule. The second phase of HS2, to Leeds and | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
Manchester could then be completed by 2030 instead of 2033. Our Chief | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym reports from Crewe. Crewe goes about | :16:58. | :17:06. | |
its business on a day when the town has been offered a chance to play a | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
key role in the high-speed rail project. It could now become a major | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
hub on the route north of Birmingham. Crewe always has been a | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
railway town but nothing like what it was in the steam age. High-speed | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
rail offers the chance of a new departure. Phase one of the HS2 | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
project currently covers London to Birmingham but the boss wants it | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
extended to Crewe, which, as things stand, is part of phase two. He | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
thinks a significant new transport hub could be created there. Crewe | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
has historically been a railway town and for good reason because it's got | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
the North Wales services, Liverpool, West Coast and if we can have one | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
integrated station that connects those to HS2, plus the A500 just | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
south of it, it's a good location for a big interchange. It's an | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
enticing prospect for local businesses in Crewe. Like this | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
engineering firm. It modifies and fits out commercial vans for use in | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
the catering industry. For our business, we couldn't ask for | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
anything better. New opportunities, improved links with South and | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Europe, and internationally. We export a lot and we import a lot of | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
items. But there are varying opinions on economic benefits of | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
faster rail services to Birmingham and Crewe as well as Manchester and | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
Leeds. The debate will continue over whether high-speed rail link really | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
will provide a boost to economic growth long-term in the North of | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
England, or whether it will simply offer more opportunities for | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
commuters to get to London more quickly. I don't think it will boost | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
the economies of towns in the north. For starters, they face the big tax | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
bill to pay for the project and also the numerous examples both in the | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
North and the Midlands of towns which already have vast buildings to | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
London but fail to be transformed. -- fast rail links. Today's report | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
also says the planned link between HS2 and the high-speed rail link to | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
the Channel tunnel should be dropped. Instead, Euston should be | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
redeveloped at the end of the line. Ministers say they will look | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
carefully at the proposals. A jury at Preston Crown Court has been | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
hearing evidence from former Conservative Party whips as the | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
trial of the MP, Nigel Evans, enters its second week. Mr Evans, who is | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, is accused of a | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
series of sexual offences against men. He denies all the charges, | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
which relate to events which allegedly took place between 2002 | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
and last year. Danny Savage was in court. Week two of Nigel Evans' | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
trial. He arrived at court today to hear evidence from fellow MPs. It | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
focused on the fallout from an alleged sexual assault in the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
village of Pendleton in Lancashire five years ago. After a boozy night | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
out at the local pub, Nigel Evans and his alleged victim went back to | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
the MP's constituency home next door where it is claimed Mr Evans later | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
assaulted the man who was asleep on the sofa. Afterwards, the man | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
returned to Westminster where he complained to Conservative Party | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
managers, known as whips. Today, they came to court to give their | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
account of the meeting they had with him. John Randall was one of those | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
whips present. He told the jury today they asked the man about what | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
he wanted to happen. The alleged victim replied: | :20:18. | :20:27. | |
The Transport Secretary Patrick McLaughlin was the Chief Whip at the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
meeting. He recalls being told that something had happened in Lancashire | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
but nothing too serious. So when the man called for Nigel Evans to stand | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
down, he thought it was a huge ask. He was being asked to give up his | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
entire Parliamentary career for what appears to have been a | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
misunderstanding. The whips then gave Nigel Evans a stern talking to, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
where he admitted making a drunken pass at the man, having misjudged | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
the situation. He denies the sexual assault and all the other charges. | :20:59. | :21:11. | |
The BBC says it has issued a full apology to the London School of | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
Economics and one of its students over a Panorama programme on North | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
Korea that used a student trip to help gain access. The BBC Trust | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
ruled that the students on the trip did not have enough information | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
about Panorama's involvement and the presence of reporter John Sweeney to | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
give their informed consent. The Trust also said the tour leader had | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
a conflict of interest because she worked for the BBC, as well as being | :21:31. | :21:43. | |
linked to the LSE. After 13 years and the loss of 448 service | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
personnel, Britain's military role in Afghanistan is drawing to an end. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
All but two military bases in Southern Afghanistan have now been | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
closed or handed over. At the height of the war there were 137 British | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
bases, but now all that remains is Camp Bastion and one solitary | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
observation post nearby. Our Defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
from Helmand. Until recently, this was the British headquarters in | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
Helmand. Lashkar Gar is now completely empty. These British | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
troops on a final patrol are still dressed for combat. Still wary. But | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
their minds are now focused on going home. It's somebody's else's nation | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
and I'm happy that they're in a much better place now but, for me, it's | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
just job done, get home. I don't think I'll be sad to go, no. I'll | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
miss the sun and that's about it, I'm afraid. Saws and diggers are as | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
much now a soldier's weapon. At the height of the war, the British | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
occupied more than 100 bases. Most have been flattened. From dust to | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
dust. And they are leaving hardly anything behind. Except the sound of | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
gunfire. The insurgents haven't given up. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
This is one of the final military convoys carrying the kit, the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
remnants from one of the last British military bases in Helmand. | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
Returning here to Bastian, which itself is gradually being shut down. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
I think possibly history will judge that which we have achieved here. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
But, for my money, it is clear when I speak to my Afghan counterparts, | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
that a huge amount has been achieved here in central Helmand. But at a | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
cost. 448 British soldiers have lost their lives. Among them, Mark | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
Everson, killed in 2009. There is nothing in my mind that would | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
justify my son's death. Whether we are pulling out, at a time when it | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
is more stable, I'm not sure. David Cameron has said mission | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
accomplished, hasn't he? Yeah. What do you think? Well, he has to say | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
that. Whatever the final verdict, this is fast approaching the end. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
The last British soldier will be leaving here within a matter of | :24:05. | :24:05. | |
months. The TV cook Clarissa Dickson Wright, | :24:06. | :24:21. | |
best known for her part in the BBC series Two Fat Ladies, has died. The | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
66-year-old was described by her agent as utterly non-PC and said her | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
fun and laughter would be missed by many. Now, the Big Bang theory is | :24:29. | :24:38. | |
supposed to explain how the universe began. We've been told that often | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
enough. Now scientists say they think they know what happened | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
immediately afterwards. It's called cosmic inflation and it occurred in | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
the first trillionth, of a trillionth, of a trillionth of a | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
second after the Big Bang. I know, it's mind-boggling so here's our | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
Science Editor David Shukman with an explanation. These are ancient and | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
incredibly challenging mystery is, how the universe started. What was | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
it that gave everything we are familiar with to be born, questions | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
which science has tried to answer with the idea of the big bang. It's | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
a theory of a single burst of creation. And now, for the first | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
time, there is proof of this protest at work. A telescope under the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
freezing skies of the South Pole has detected clues about light from the | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
earliest moments of time. Applause today for a major advance. At | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Harvard University, the first results were unveiled and this is a | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
genuine breakthrough in understanding how it all began. For | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
decades the idea of a Big Bang giving birth to the universe has | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
been a theory with no hard evidence of exactly how this worked. Now this | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
American team has discovered patterns in the energy left over | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
from the very earliest moments. They've spotted particular twists in | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
the light that was created back then. Patterns that can only have | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
been formed by ripples radiating out from the initial burst of the Big | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
Bang and those ripples are what ultimately allowed gravity to pull | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
together the galaxies, the stars and the planets so this is a major | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
advance in understanding how we got here. Scientists all over the world | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
have been poring over the results. This team gathered Oxford university | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
this afternoon as a recognition that this is a hugely important | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
milestone. We don't know why the universe started expanding. We don't | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
know why the Big Bang happened, and this takes us as far back as it's | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
possible to go and we will hopefully figure it out. So all this raises a | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
tantalising thought. If we can know how the Big Bang got going, can be | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
also find out how it actually started? The big question about our | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
own existence? Time for a look at the weather. Here's Nina Ridge. | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
Tonight, breezy with a few showers but by tomorrow, a reminder that the | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
wind will be stronger as well. Staying fairly cloudy, as well. It's | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
not going to be particularly cold. The shower is getting heavy across | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
the Northwest in the early hours. One or two further south. Most | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
places will be dry. Temperatures, 7-8 as we start tomorrow morning. | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
Most of the showers in the north-west of the country, further | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
south, escaping. A rather grey, overcast start of the day but | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
temperatures around nine degrees. For East Anglia and the Midlands, | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
dry start tomorrow morning. More showers further west. And north. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
They could be heavy with thunder mixed in as well. Quite breezy. | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
Again, the northern half of the country we are focusing on, with the | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
strongest wind. Further south, few breaks in the cloud giving hints of | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
brightness throughout the afternoon. The highest temperature, | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
14-15. Stronger winds further north. Temperatures about double figures. | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
Ten - 11. By the time we get to Wednesday, it stays windy. More rain | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
in the north and west. Further south, dryer with brightness for | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
central and eastern areas. More sunshine on Wednesday. Temperatures | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
around 16-17. This weather front becomes more active on Wednesday. It | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
looks like it's going to move further south. At high level of | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
uncertainty as we go towards the end of the week but, certainly, more | :28:34. | :28:38. | |
significant rain and behind it, it looks like it could turn colder as | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
well. More details if you want to go on the website. That's | :28:46. | :28:47. |