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passed to protect vulnerable women and girls, the first prosecution. | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
A doctor at a London hospital and another man are charged in | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
connection with female genital mutilation, a move welcomed by | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
campaigners. As a campaigner, today is one of the best days of my life | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
in campaigning and I feel like standing on top of the roof and and | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
shouting. That's how I feel about it. | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
With tens of thousands of women and girls in the UK thought to have | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
suffered FGM or be at risk, we'll be looking at why it's taken so long to | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
bring a prosecution. Also tonight, as President Putin | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
signs a declaration absorbing Crimea into Russia, the EU agrees closer | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
ties with Ukraine. A vaccine to protect children | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
against a dangerous strain of meningitis is likely to be made | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
available on the NHS. Bravery awards for a soldier shot in | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
the neck in Afghanistan and the medic who risked his life to help | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
him. Anyway, why are you wearing them | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
glasses? And Becks in specs brings Rodney and | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
Del Boy out of retirement for Sport Relief. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
Tonight on BBC London: Captured on camera, teachers | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
restraining primary pupils. Parents demand an investigation. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
And the acid attack which left this woman scarred for life. Her attacker | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
is jailed for 12 years. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:36. | :01:56. | |
News at Six. A doctor and another man have become the first people in | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Britain to be charged in connection with performing female genital | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
mutilation. It's alleged the offence took place on a woman at the | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Whittington Hospital in North London. FGM has been banned since | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
1985 but it's taken until now to bring the first prosecution. It's | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
thought over 60,000 women in the UK have been mutilated and more than | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
20,000 girls are at risk, as Our home affairs correspondent Matt | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
Prodger reports. Whittington Hospital in London. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Where a doctor, Dr Dhanoun Dharmasena, is alleged to have | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
mutilated a woman's genitals after she gave birth. Prosecutors say his | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
offence was to effectively restore a mutilation that had been performed | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
on the woman prior to her becoming pregnant. Another man faces a charge | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
of encouraging the act. Female genital mutilation, or if GM, has | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
been outlawed for 30 years but today marks a first prosecution. -- FGM. A | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
lot of these will be young girls and it will involve immediate members of | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
their families and they will not want to make a complaint or give | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
evidence against them that could see them as their family go to prison, | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
so we have had to look at other ways to get the evidence. We have looked | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
at how we work with the police on proactive operations and there are | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
lots of other things we can look at, for example, anonymity for victims. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
It is estimated 66,000 women in the UK have been affected and more than | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
20,000 girls under 15 thought to be at risk of the practice, which is | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
classed as torture by the UN. The BBC discovered only this week that | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
almost 4000 FGM patients had untreated in London alone since | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
2009. Female genital mutilation is an appalling crime. It is something | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
that has been hidden for far too long. That is why this Government | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
has stepped up its response, actually stepped up some greater | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
understanding, to take this crime out of the shadows and into the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
light. More than 70 women and children each month are contacting | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
helplines like this. For many years, a practice little known in | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the UK, FGM has been given greater attention thanks to the work of | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
campaigners. They are delighted by today's news. Today is one of the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
best days of my life! In campaigning. And I feel like | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
standing on top of the roof and shouting! That is how I'd feel about | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
it. All eyes will be on the success or failure of these first | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
prosecutions. The two accused will appear in court next month. | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
And Matt's here now. 30 years since this law was passed and the first | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Project -- prosecution we hear about today. This woman had been | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
campaigning for 30 years and you heard there it is the best day of | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
her life. It is that the early stages. Let's not forget these two | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
men have not been convicted. This is the beginning of a prosecution and | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
there are still barriers to successful prosecutions relating to | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
be no genital mutilation, for example, no anonymity for victims. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
That needs to be addressed. We also know the CPS decided not to proceed | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
further with four other cases today, so there are problems there. | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
We are also lagging behind other countries, for example, France, | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
which has had 100 successful prosecutions for FGM. We have not | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
had a single conviction just yet. And over the past four years there | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
have been 140 referrals to the police but nothing that has gone | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
further than the police. So still a long way to go but this is a | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
significant milestone for campaigners. Thank you. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
On the day President Putin signed a declaration formally absorbing | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
Crimea into Russia, Europe has agreed closer relations with | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Ukraine. In a show of support for the country, the EU also issued more | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
sanctions against individuals in Russia, aimed at President Putin's | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
inner circle. Our Europe editor, Gavin Hewitt, has sent this report | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
from Brussels. A day of signings. Two Wells, East | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
versus West, different leaders with different pens. -- two worlds. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Resident Putin sealed the absorption of Crimea into Russia eye signing | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
the legal documents. He called it a serious momentous event and the | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Russian anthem played. 1400 miles away in Brussels, a very | :06:26. | :06:37. | |
different signing. The EU took the symbolic first step of signing a | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
political agreement with Ukraine. Winning the nation of 46 million | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
people closer to the heart of Europe. -- winning. Just a ripple of | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
applause. No anthem here. At a summit in Brussels, Europe's leaders | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
adopted new sanctions against 12 Russian officials, including the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Russian Deputy Prime Minister, after the referendum in Crimea which led | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
to the region breaking away. Since we last met, a sham, and illegal | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
referendum, has taken place at the barrel of a Kalashnikovs and Russia | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
has sought to annex Crimea. This is a flagrant breach of international | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
law and something we will not recognise. So, after this summit, 33 | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
Crimean 's and Russians now face travel restrictions and a freeze on | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
their assets. Most significantly, the summit agreed here that if the | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
crisis escalates, then they are prepared to move to some form of | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
economic sanctions and the commission has been tasked with | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
exploring potential targets. In the corridors, the atmosphere was spiced | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
with warnings about Russian intentions. This was the Ukrainian | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Prime Minister. What is happening in the world today? Russia decided to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
actually impose a new post-Cold War order and to revise the results of | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
the Second World War. This is the truth. And this was the president of | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Lithuania, one of the Baltic states and once part of the Soviet Union. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
We are facing the largest security threat and challenges after the | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Second World War. And so admit such warnings, European leaders agreed to | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
accelerate, reducing their dependency on Russian energy. -- and | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
so among such warnings. Too many children are at risk of | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
harm in Coventry due to inadequate child protection services. That's | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
according to an Ofsted report. The local authority's failings were | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
highlighted two years ago after four-year-old Daniel Pelka was found | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
starved and beaten to death at his home. The Department for Education | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
said measures carried out by Coventry following the case are | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
simply not good enough, as Sian Lloyd reports. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
The truth about Daniel's suffering shocked the nation and shook | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Coventry City Council to its core. The four-year old had been beaten, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
starved and tortured. A Serious Case Review said opportunities to save | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Daniel had been missed. The council promised it would do better but the | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
pace of change hasn't been fast enough. It's now two years since | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Daniel was murdered by his parents here in his own home. But Ofsted | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
inspectors have found other vulnerable children in this city are | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
still not safe. The council's Children's Services department has | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
been rated inadequate. Failings include children not being seen or | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
assessed quickly enough, leaving them at risk of harm. And social | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
workers have such heavy caseloads they can't do their jobs properly. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Wherever you have a Serious Case Review and a child dead, all | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
organisations will become very, very attendant to child protection. You | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
will always get an increased referral rate into children's social | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
care. The fact it's gone up 48% in two years is absolutely | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
unprecedented. That's clearly contributed to the problems we've | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
got now in the City Council. To meet those challenges, new teams of | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
social workers will be appointed. Last month, the BBC was given | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
exclusive access to film with people doing the job now. We have good | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
assessment skills and we have good social workers here. But we have too | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
many cases and people are stretched too thin. We know that there are a | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
lot of challenges in social care in Coventry at the moment. We know our | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
caseloads are too high. We know that's stopping us from doing some | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
of the things we'd like to do. In Daniel's case, information wasn't | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
properly shared between the council and other agencies, like the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
police. This report identifies similar problems now. The council is | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
under pressure to improve or face further sanctions. Sian Lloyd, BBC | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
News, Coventry. The second day of searching a remote | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
part of the southern Indian Ocean for debris that may be linked to the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
missing Malaysian airliner has concluded without any sightings. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Flight MH370 vanished shortly after take-off from Kuala Lumpur nearly | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
two weeks ago with 239 people on board. Our correspondent John | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Donnison is in Perth, in Western Australia. Exactly a fortnight on | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
and no-one seems any closer to finding out what happened to this | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
plane? No. The weather conditions were much better for the search on | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Friday but they came back, they didn't find anything. Four | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Australian planes and one American headed out. 1500 miles into the | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
southern Indian Ocean. They came back after an 11 hour flight | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
reporting they had seen nothing. The search will resume in around four | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
hours time at daybreak. One interesting development in the last | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
few hours, The Daily Telegraph newspaper is reporting it has got | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
hold of the final transcript of the final communications between the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
pilot and co-pilot in air traffic control in Malaysia. The last 54 | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
minutes of those communications. And what is interesting, on first | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
reading of what they are saying is that there was nothing out of the | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
ordinary on those communications and that was, of course, at a time when | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
investigators believed that the plane had already been sabotaged. So | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the mystery continues. The search continues. And for the families of | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
the passengers, the waiting continues. Thank you. | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
The number of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to the UK since | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
immigration controls were lifted at the start of the year is more a | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
trickle than a flood, according to a report by MPs. The exact figures are | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
not known, though, and the Home Affairs Select Committee has warned | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
the Government's failure to compile official estimates have fuelled | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
anti-immigrant prejudice. For those who have made the journey to the UK, | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
their experiences have been mixed, as Mike Sergeant reports. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
A maintenance shed under a London flyover. And inside, a shocking | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
picture of destitution. Police! Hello. Those staying here have just | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
slipped away. Was this what they were expecting when they came from | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Romania? Well, the police say three Romanians have been living here | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
since the middle of December with more migrants coming in January. | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Conditions really are appalling. The stench is unbelievable. You can see | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
holes in the mattresses where the police say rats have been crawling | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
in and out. Most Romanians don't live in squats but homelessness has | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
been a stubborn problem. So how desperate would you have to be to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
think this is your best option? Stefan knows the answer better than | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
most. He was living in a garage until recently but now has somewhere | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
decent to state and the most important thing of all - a national | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
insurance number to work legally. -- somewhere decent to stay. ?? | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
FORCEDYELLOW For me, England is very beautiful. People are very nice. ?? | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
FORCEDWHITE But it's hard here. You had to live in a garage. People have | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
to live on the streets. I know this. Because for me, at the moment, there | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
is not another chance. This is my chance now. Here at Ashford Place, | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
Romanian rough sleepers are getting help. But those running this centre | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
insist there hasn't been a sudden influx since January. Many were in | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the UK already and they're here for one reason - work. If nothing else, | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
it's about pride. These people aren't content to come over here and | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
just exist on benefits, for example. I've never met a group of people | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
more offended by the notion of going on benefits than this Romanian | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
group. Here you have to check to the right. Violetta epitomises hard | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
graft. Highly educated and qualified, she was delivering pizza | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
last week. Now she's giving driving lessons and hopes for much more. ?? | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
CAPNEXT I find more opportunities for my personal development. My | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
personal development, my family's development. For this reason I came | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
here. At the other end of the scale, scenes of poverty and confusion. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Back at the flyover, police make an arrest. They think this Romanian man | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
is wanted for robbery but there's been a mix-up and he's later | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
released. For some migrants, it's hardly the promised land. Mike | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
Sergeant, BBC News, Cricklewood. Tonight's top story, the first ever | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
prosecution for female genital mutilation. A doctor at the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Whittington Hospital in London and another man are charged. | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
Coming up, Lord of the Prance. Seb Coe gets in some practice for | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
tonight's Sport Relief. Later on BBC London, a new report | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
says the HS2 rail project could create 25,000 jobs. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
And a grand game for the Gunners. Arsene Wenger on the eve of his | :15:35. | :15:36. | |
1,000th match. A new vaccine to protect infants | :15:37. | :15:50. | |
against meningitis B is likely to be made available on the NHS. Health | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
officials say the injection should be rolled out across the UK - as | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
long as a suitable price can be agreed with manufacturers. The | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
announcement reverses a decision last year rejecting the jab as too | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
expensive. About 1,761 people contract meningitis B each year - | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
with babies under one most at risk. It leads to death in a tenth of | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
cases. Of those who survive, one in three is left with disabilities such | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
as brain damage, losing a limb or deafness. Here's our health | :16:21. | :16:32. | |
correspondent Dominic Hughes. I put my arm in there. | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Tilly Lockey is learning to use her new prosthetic hand. Meningitis B | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
robbed the eight-year-old of both hands, some toes and nearly her life | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
when she was just a baby. Now she's glad that, in the future, other | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
children should be safe from the infection that nearly killed her. I | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
don't want people losing their hands and feet and dying. It's going to | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
have a massive impact. So many children are going to be saved. | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Thank you for finally saying yes. Meningitis B is one of the most | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
feared childhood infections in Britain. Developing a vaccine has | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
taken 20 years. Now the expert panel that advises UK health ministers has | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
changed its mind on whether introducing the vaccine will be | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
cost-effective. We've redone the evaluation on cost effectiveness and | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
found the vaccine could be cost-effective, as long as it's at a | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
fairly low cost. Tilly and her friends have already benefited from | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
one of the world's most comprehensive childhood immunisation | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
programmes. The UK is now the first country to add meningitis B to that | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
list. The great benefit of this vaccine is that it has the potential | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to offer protection not just to individuals but to children across | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
the UK, creating what is known as a herd immunity. And offering a | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
defence against an infection that can have a devastating effect on the | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
lives of children and their families. Around 700,000 children a | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
year will be eligible for the vaccination. At the moment, it costs | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
?75 per shot and the full treatment involves three injections. But the | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
NHS will demand a big discount. There is the negotiation between the | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
Department for Health and the manufacturer to ensure that we can | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
obtain the vaccine at a cost-effective price. Today the | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
experts charged with the tough job of striking a balance between the | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
cost of the vaccine and the value of a child's life have recognised they | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
don't always get it right first time. Dominic Hughes, BBC News, | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
County Durham. A student from east London has been | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
jailed for 12 years after an acid attack on her friend, which left her | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
scarred for life. 22-year-old Mary Konye disguised herself with a | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
Muslim veil to carry out the attack on Naomi Oni, following a row about | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
a text message. The judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court described | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
the attack as a premeditated and callous plan to disfigure the | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
victim. Weeks after devastating floods in | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
the south-west of England, most affected families are returning | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
home. In the Budget, the Government promised an extra ?140 million to | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
boost flood defences. One project that's about to get underway is in | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
Hull. The city and surrounding areas were hit by severe flooding seven | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
years ago. 23,000 homes and businesses were damaged. Our UK | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
affairs correspondent Jeremy Cooke has been to see how people there are | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
recovering. The soaking summer of 2007 and, for | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
the city of Holme Acra, disaster. Across the region, 23,000 homes were | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
flooded. -- the city of whole. The sickly yellow terrible. Just a | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
nightmare. The lesson from here is that floods are nightmare that | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
change lives. After 50 years of fish industry, this man is now just a | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
spectator visiting son-in-law's business. The floods put his home | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
under water and began to sink his own business I honestly think if the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
floods hadn't come, I would have still been working. The floods that | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
did the damage. They knocked us back and we more or less didn't survive, | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
really. It's hard to imagine today that this is the exact same spot | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
where all that water and sewage came gushing out of the ground, covering | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
the football pitch and the houses over there. The floods here came and | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
went in just a few days but for some the impact has lasted years. That's | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
me in the kitchen with the fridge floating away. At his home in | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Beverly, Keith reflects on a life changed forever by the floods. He | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
and his wife Jean were enjoying active retirement but he's convinced | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
it all accelerated her move into a care home and his own rising anxiety | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
levels. I went to the doctor. I thought, I've got to talk to | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
somebody. I said I was really absolutely struggling to cope with | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
the house in MS and jeans getting more and more distressed. In this | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
disaster zone, politicians were a respite. Promises of cash were | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
almost unheard of. People were forgotten. People felt like this was | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
the forgotten city. The political media spotlight was elsewhere, yet | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
the most damaged city in the country was where we're standing now. Here, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
there is plenty of sympathy for this year's flood victims. The messages | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
that hard work and strong communities will get the job done. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
An attempt by the Turkish government to block access to Twitter is being | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
widely ignored. The Turkish Prime Minister had blocked the social | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
media site apparently in a bid to prevent allegations of government | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
corruption circulating. But users of the site, including the President, | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
have discovered ways around the ban and have continued to send messages. | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
A soldier who'd been shot in the neck by an Afghan insurgent - but | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
carried on fighting - and the medic who risked his life to attend to him | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
are among more than 100 members of the armed forces who've been | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
recognised with bravery awards. Most are being given to servicemen and | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
women who took part in last summer's deployment to Afghanistan. Sarah | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Campbell has more. Shot through the neck while on | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
patrol in Helmand. British army cameras captured the moment Lance | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Corporal Simon Moloney was treated by his friend and colleague Lance | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
Corporal Wes Masters. Both have been recognised for their extraordinary | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
courage under fire. I rolled off the roof, about an eight foot drop, and | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
I put my hands on my neck and realised straightaway that I'd been | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
hit. Then autopilot comes in. You wait for those 30 seconds to see - | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
am I going to pass out, am I going to die? Risking his own life to | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
reach his injured colleague, medic Wes Masters immediately began | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
life-saving treatment. It was a through-and-through gunshot wound, | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
in one side and out the other. So he had two holes in his neck. | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Basically, I was trying to stay calm and calm him down and deal with what | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
I saw and not let my mind run away with me. The bullet had missed Lance | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Corporal Moloney's vital arteries and windpipe by millimetres. He | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
continued to fight until a helicopter arrived to evacuate him, | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
and receives the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. Medic Wes, for his | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
bravery, receives the Military Cross. What do you think to Wes for | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
what he did at the scene? Fundamentally, I owe him my life - | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
that's the long and short of it. Not that i'd ever say that to his face. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
But his whole confidence in the job when he was there. It wasn't just | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
the way he saved it... He was completely confident, completely | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
calm. He was an awesome casualty. He just did exactly what I wanted him | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
to do. He needed a bit of persuading sometimes because he just wanted to | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
go off and fight again but, yeah, he's a good lad. This latest list of | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
awards is a reminder that although British involvement in Afghanistan | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
is winding down, the risks remain and the men and women based there | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
continue to perform outstanding acts of bravery. This group is just a | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
selection of more than 100 service personnel who've received honours. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
All will be presented with their medals and awards in ceremonies in | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
Buckingham Palace. Now, it's Sport Relief tonight and | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
people all over the country - including famous faces like Radio | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
2's Jo Whiley - have been running, cycling or swimming to help raise | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
money. The programme this evening will feature comedy sketches, such | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
as a cameo appearance from David Beckham in Only Fools And Horses. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
For the first time, the main show is taking place at the Queen Elizabeth | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
Olympic Park in East London. Colin Paterson is there for us now. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
Lord Coe was one of the biggest flag-wavers for the London | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
Olympics. Now he's back on site at the velodrome, twirling a ribbon to | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
the sounds of Dolly Parton. For Sport Relief, he's teamed up with | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
the pop star Olly Murs and actress Sally Phillips to take part in | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
rhythmic gymnastics. I'm not a natural. It's a really tough sport, | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
actually. It really is a serious sport. And I think when we watch it | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
tonight, you'll realise just how tough it is. Will people want to | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
donate money after seeing you? I sincerely hope so, even if only out | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
of pity. Here in 2012, it was all about gold. Tonight it's about | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
money. Two years ago, the last Sport Relief raised ?50 million on the | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
night. This time the contributions have already started coming in. | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
Radio 2 DJ Jo Whiley spent 26 hours running on a treadmill. The band | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Coldplay were so impressed they donated ?260,000. I nearly fell over | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
at the very last minute. I didn't fall over once on the treadmill and | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
then the last second, I go splat on the floor! Anyway, why are you | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
wearing them glasses? Tonight's show will also feature the first new Only | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
Fools And Horses in 11 years, complete with a cameo from David | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
Beckham. I want to be a bit "incognitive". Yeah, good thinking. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
The Olympics had Super Saturday. Sport Relief is hoping for a | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
fantastic Friday. Colin Paterson, BBC News. | :25:58. | :26:09. | |
Before we go, the singer Kate Bush is to return to the stage 35 years | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
after she retired from touring after just six weeks. | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
# You had a temper like my jealousy. Too hot, too greedy #. She gave up | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
touring after just one tour back in 1979 after topping the charts the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
previous year. She will play 15 dates at the Hammersmith Apollo in | :26:34. | :26:34. | |
London from August. Time for a look at the weather - | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
here's Jay Wynne. Cast your mind back to last weekend | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
and some of us saw temperatures as high as 20. Forget that for this | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
weekend. It's more like 10 degrees. Cool, breezy and some showers. We've | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
seen showers across the UK and the rumble of thunder. A bit more | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
organised now across the western side of the UK. A real mix of rain, | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
some hail, some thunder, gusty winds and snow for the north of the UK. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
That moves eastwards and is followed by further showers which will | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
contain a wintry element. Temperatures will be on the low side | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
with icy patches developing from Wales northwards. In the south-west, | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
we could see a dusting of snow across the hills and the same in | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Wales. Don't expect any disruption. The further west you are, are pretty | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
bright start and stop -- the further east. In northern England, icy | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
patches around. Some showers in Northern Ireland and the West of | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
Scotland, turning wintry up over the hills. Eastern Scotland should start | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
on a dry and bright note. There will be heavy showers dotted around. Some | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
hail and thunder and maybe a bit of sleet and snow on the hills in the | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
north of the UK. A cooler fielder things. Maybe into double figures | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
for London. A cold start to Sunday and a cool north-westerly breeze. | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Showers will fade away from the western side of the UK and then it | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
turns really cold on Sunday night. Some rural spots will get as low as | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
minus four. Really cold to start the day on Monday. That comes about | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
because of this ridge of high pressure late on Sunday but it will | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
mean a pretty decent day on Monday with a good deal of sunshine and | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
light winds. But you can't help but notice the weather front of the | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
Atlantic Ocean will bring rain by Tuesday. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
Our main story: The first ever prosecution for female genital | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
mutilation. A doctor at the Whittington Hospital in London and | :28:38. | :28:38. | |
another man are charged. | :28:39. | :28:40. |