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UN says no nation will be left untouched. Scientists warn crops, | :00:11. | :00:20. | |
health, and homes are all likely to be threatened. The world has too | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
adapt. The sooner we do that, the less the chances of some of the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
worst impacts of climate change. We'll be asking how the world can | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
learn to live with the effects of climate change. Also tonight... The | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
murder of an 11-month-old baby by his mother could have been | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
prevented, according to a serious case review. Families of those who | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
lost their lives in the Hillsborough football disaster attend new | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
inquests which opened today. The search for flight MH370, new | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
information on the last recorded words from the flight deck. And | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
dredging of rivers on the Somerset Levels begins to avoid a repeat of | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
this winter's flooding. On BBC London. Looking to the US for | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
solutions. Could body cameras help boost public trust in the Met? And | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
the Mayor of Tower Hamlets denies he's given funding to charities to | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
gain electoral support. The impacts of climate change are | :01:15. | :01:42. | |
likely to be "severe, pervasive and irreversible" - that's the stark | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
warning in a major report by the United Nations. The report suggests | :01:46. | :01:58. | |
rising global temperatures are likely to cause a higher risk of | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
flooding, more extreme weather like heatwaves, as well as changes to | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
crop yields causing food shortages. Scientists say the document is the | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
most comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change to date | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
and conclude that people may be able to adapt to some of these changes, | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
but only within certain limits. There is some criticism that the | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
report is too alarmist. Our science editor David Shukman reports. A | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
consignment of animal feed from South America, brought ashore in | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Belfast Harbour. The food industry is now so global and so dependent on | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
international trade that if crops are struggling in one part of the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
world, impacts will be felt in another. So how the climate changes | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
in countries very different -- distant from our own can have | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
serious implications. This is soya from Brazil, where they've just had | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
a heatwave. So the prices have gone up. Because this stuff is used for | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
chicken feed, the prices of chicken will also rise. What the UN climate | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
panel is saying is while some plants in some regions may do better with | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
climate change, overall the yields are likely to go down. The | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
scientists say the most severe impacts, like this record drought in | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Texas two years ago, are more likely if temperatures rise steeply during | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the course of the century. And they want the world to start adapting to | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
a changing climate. At the launch of the report in Yokohama this | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
morning, there was a warning of the need for urgent action. The one | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
message that comes out very clearly is that the world Haass to adapt and | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
mitigate. And the sooner we do that, the less chances of some of the | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
worst impacts of climate change being faced in different parts of | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
the world. The report says that climate change is now being felt | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
across the continents and the oceans, warming the Arctic. And, as | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
we've been reporting in recent years, melting the ice, which raises | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the level of the sea. There is also changing the oceans. The water is | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
becoming more acidic. The BBC was in Papua New Guinea last week to report | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
on the threat that is happening to Corels. And scientists warn coastal | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
areas are at risk. We filmed these scenes in Bangladesh five years ago, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
a struggle to cope with extreme conditions. The most vulnerable, the | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
report says, are the poorest cities. Within the slum areas they do not | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
have the proper facilities. When you add on the impact of climate change | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
or extreme events, people become more vulnerable. The report does | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
offer a message of hope that, just as the Dutch build defences against | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
the rising sea, people can adapt to a changing climate. The question is | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
how serious the impact will be. One scientist withdrew his name from the | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
report because he said it was going too far. People live on the equator | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
and on the polls. Humans are very adaptive to very diverse climate. We | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
have very well developed technology to deal with it. There will be | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
impacts, I just don't think they will be dramatic. Here, the chief | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
government scientist says climate change will mean more intense rain | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
and more flooding. That is in line with what is expected for Russ. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Global warming will mean different things to different parts of the | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
world. But according to this new report, we will all be affected. And | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
David Shukman is with me now. Is that what makes this report | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
different from so many others? We get these reports from the UN | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
roughly every seven years. I think there is a change of tone. Going | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
back to 2007, when I covered the publication of that report, it was | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
very doom laden. It seemed to focus on all the bad things that could | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
possibly happen with global warming. The report today does more of the | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
same. It lays out very starkly the bad things that could happen. But it | :05:56. | :06:15. | |
also provides, very importantly, a recognition of context. That climate | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
change isn't always a factor on its own. If you have more and more | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
people living along coastlines and they get flooded, is that the Fort | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
of climate change and rising sea levels, or is it because there are | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
more people in harm's away? There's the focus to try and be upbeat, for | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
people to adapt, to get ready for the kinds of changes that will come | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
down the track. In Britain, with the memory of the past winter, thinking | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
about better flood defences. The emphasis is not just on warnings but | :06:37. | :06:49. | |
also solutions. The death of an 11-month-old baby, blinded and | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
beaten by his own mother, could have been prevented, according to a | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
serious case review into his murder. The highly critical report concluded | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
that professionals missed chances to intervene before Callum Wilson's | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
death in Windsor three years ago. His mother was jailed for life | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
earlier this year. Daniela Relph reports. Killed by his own mother. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Callum Wilson, just 11 months old when he died. A death today's | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Serious Case Review says could have been prevented. His mother, Emma | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
Wilson, lied repeatedly to doctors, nurses and childcare workers. She | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
had given her son a brain injury from which you would never recover. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Every time agencies reached out to her to ask her and to probe her, she | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
came back with what was deemed plausible at that point, plausible | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
rationale for their questions. We all now know that they were | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
consistent lies. The deceit began early. Callum Wilson was born on the | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
23rd of April 2010, his mother had kept her pregnancy secret. She then | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
chose to place with foster parents at birth, but changed her mind and, | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
in November, he was returned to his mother. Less than six months later | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
he was taken to Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, suffering serious | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
injuries. He was transferred to Oxford where he died three days | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
later in March 2011. He attended a playgroup at this children's Centre | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
in Windsor. Staff did notice bruises and scratches, but their concerns | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
were not properly reported. Cal lived his final days on this estate | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
in Windsor. The authorities say they have done all they can to ensure | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
mistakes in this case will not be repeated. The unambiguous approach | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
to bruising, if bruising like that was found on him today, it would be | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
expected to be a referral to a paediatrician, regardless of the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
explanation. Those safeguards are in place. His death has brought change, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
but it came too late to save Callum Wilson. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
New inquests have begun into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans who were | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
killed in the Hillsborough disaster 25 years ago. The original verdicts | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
of accidental death were overturned at the High Court in 2012, after a | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
campaign by the victims' families. Our correspondent Judith Moritz is | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
in Warrington for us. Yes. Nearly a quarter of a century | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
since Hillsborough, those bereaved by the disaster have been asking | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
questions about what happened. Today, as they came here to | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Warrington, many of them told me they hoped these new inquests would | :09:27. | :09:40. | |
provide them with the answers. They lost their loved ones 25 years ago. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Today, they came to court to find out what happened at Hillsborough. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
These families have spent years campaigning for new inquests. They | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
know the months ahead will not be easy. I think there will be quite a | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
few shocks as we progress over the next six, eight, maybe 12 months. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
Quite a few shocks and the truth will out. You can't underestimate | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
how difficult it is going to be for everybody. All we can do is do our | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
best and trust in the judge and everything else. Sheffield | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Wednesday's Stadium has long been associated with the disaster which | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
happened here. It is where Liverpool came to play an FA Cup semi-final in | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
1989, and where the terraces became so overcrowded that 96 people | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
eventually lost their lives. What happened here in Sheffield many 25 | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
years ago has defined the lives of many people post at most directly, | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
of course, the Barisic and survivors. But arguably, across the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Pennines and Liverpool, the entire reputation of the city has been | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
affected, too. We haven't got a life anymore. In 1991, Donna Miller spoke | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
to reporters about her brother, Paul, who died at Hillsborough. The | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
jury at the previous inquest had delivered accidental death verdict. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
They were quashed two years ago and today Donna came to court again | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
today. Back for second time. It's something we've got go through, the | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
evidence. As hard as it is, we've got to do it for the 96. They | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
deserve it. They were taken away from their families needlessly. We | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
will continue and we've got each other. God knows how we are going to | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
get through the next nine, 12 months. The new inquests are housed | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
in a purpose-built courtroom and sitting with a coroner and jury. The | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
hearing will cover areas including cause of death, crowd management and | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
the response of the emergency services. There's thousands and | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
thousands of pages of documents, hundreds of witnesses coming and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
there are hours and hours of footage that has never been seen before. All | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
the work that has gone into this before the inquest starting today is | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
huge. The youngest to die at Hillsborough was ten, the oldest 67. | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
Most were under the age of 30. The story of every one of the | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
disaster's 96 victims will be told through the course of these | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
inquests. Judith Moritz, BBC News, Warrington. The Chancellor, George | :12:05. | :12:16. | |
Osborne, has declared he will fight for full employment in Britain, | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
making job creation a central part of the Government's economic plan. | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Mr Osborne said he wanted Britain to have the highest employment rate of | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
any of the world's leading economies. Our political editor Nick | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Robinson listened to the speech at Tilbury Port in Essex. Getting | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Britain back to work. It's not the sort of slogan you'd normally | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
associate with the Tory party. That, of course, is precisely why George | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
Osborne made it today and made it here, at Tilbury docks. That's why | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
today I'm making a new commitment. A commitment to fight for full | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
employment in Britain. Making jobs a central goal of our economic life. | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
In case you forgot his script, the Chancellor's colleagues had written | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
it up behind him. They want to highlight tax cuts for people and | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
businesses, which take effect this week. To those who ask why, let me | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
tell you. If our businesses include more of the money they've earned, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
because the rates and taxes are lower, then they can hire more | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
people and invest in the future. It is all about jobs. So why did they | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
pledge long associated with Labour cross George Osborne's lips? Full | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
employment is quite a phrase but it begs a question. What do you | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
actually mean? What we mean by full employment is this is the best place | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
in the world to create a job, to get a job. We are saying explicitly we | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
want to have one of the highest employment rates of the world 's | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
leading economies. In Britain, more people are already in jobs than in | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
many countries overseas, even America. The Chancellor is setting | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the aim of overtaking Germany. So what did this group, all apprentices | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
at Tilbury and or listening to date, make of that? Do you believe him? | :14:08. | :14:17. | |
Not really. No. Yes. Encouraging, yes. I asked him, what do you | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
actually mean, what do you think of his answer? I think they are empty | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
words. If there are enough jobs for everybody in Britain, I definitely | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
agree with George Osborne at what they are doing to try and help is | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
definitely the start. What jobs are being created on the coast here but | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
most of them don't go to people just down the road at the Tilbury flat. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
You know what it's like and people look at the telly and say, she could | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
get a job that she wanted. What is your message to those people who | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
think it's easy to get a job? Come and stand in our shoes, live out our | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
life for a day. Is it difficult to find jobs? It's hard, you put the | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
CVN but you don't get anything round here. George Osborne try to come up | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
with an economic goal that people can enact with emotionally, not the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
dry statistics of talking about the deficit. The test is not the words | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
but whether he can make a difference to people who live in areas like | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
this who are still struggling to find work. Labour say a jobs | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
guaranteed for any young person unemployed for more than a year is | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
better than any words the Tories might use. A lot of this rhetoric | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
from the Chancellor doesn't match the reality. He should tell it to | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
the 900,000 young people who've been out of work for 12 months or more. | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
Long-term youth unemployment has doubled under his watch. It's an | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
apology he should have been giving so far. For decades, politicians | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
must full employment. For decades they struggled to deliver it. | :16:12. | :16:42. | |
For most of the winter, this was how the Somerset Levels looked. These | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
flooded landscapes brought despair to hundreds of homes and businesses | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
who were inundated by the waters. Many locals blamed a lack of river | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
dredging for the severity of the crisis. Today, dredging began on | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
five miles of the Rivers Parrett and Tone - part of a 20-year flood | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
action plan that will cost ?100 million. Other measures include a | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
tidal barrage and extra pumping sites. Jon Kay is in Burrowbridge in | :17:03. | :17:14. | |
Somerset. Yes, during the flooding, the one thing people around here | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
kept telling us they wanted to see was the dredging of the rivers. | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Under pressure, the Government agreed it should happen. And it has | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
begun today. But tonight, there are still questions about how necessary | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
this really is, how effective it is going to be, and long-term, who is | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
going to pay for it. It is not very pleasant looking, but | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
for people living on the Somerset Levels, this mud is a glorious | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
sight. Over the next few months, nearly half 1 million tonnes of it | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
be removed. The aim is to take away all of the silk and sludge which has | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
built up over the last few decades and take the rivers back to the way | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
they were in the 1960s. So, this stretch of Burrowbridge would go | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
back to looking like this, when the river had much more room to flow. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Many people here blame clogged up rivers for causing the worst | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
flooding in living memory. They think much of it could've been | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
avoided if the water had taken away faster. This farm was among those so | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
badly hit, and they hope dredging means it never happens again. It is | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
a big boost to morale, to know that those diggers are there. It gives | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
you that little bit of extra confidence and hope that your book | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
but dredging is controversial. The Environment Agency stopped the | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
practice here 20 years ago. And those who made that decision ain't | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
bringing it back is just a way of appeasing local people. I do not | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
think it will make any difference at all. My main concern is the fact | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
that it is a false hope to those people that have been affected, who | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
now have to plan the rest of their life. The Government has given ?5 | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
million to clear this five mile stretch. After that, the case for | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
more funding will have to be made. The tide brings in silt twice a day | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
into the river. It will silt up again within 5-10 years if we do not | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
do that regular maintenance. The disastrous winter in Somerset life | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
is slowly returning to normal here. But recovering from all this and | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
planning for the future are going to take time. It is quite a slow | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
process doing this. We have been watching them all day and they have | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
done about 80 metres or so. It will take them seven months to go up one | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
bank and down the other side. One way it has been suggested it might | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
be paid for is local people paying a surcharge on their council tax. The | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
real test will be during the rain next winter. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
The first ever annual assessment of the police service in England and | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
Wales says a series of controversies has left the service damaged, but | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
not broken. The Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, says | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
public trust and police morale have both been shaken. But he says the | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
great majority of officers are honest and brave. Our home editor, | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Mark Easton, is at the Home Office for us. How will this assessment be | :20:15. | :20:23. | |
received, Mark? Well, actually, Tom Winsor was a pretty controversial | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
appointment as chief is off police, particularly within the police | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
service. This was traditionally the job of a police officer, and he was | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
the man be a sweeping changes to police terms and conditions. But | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
this report I think is pretty supportive of officers. -- the man | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
do. It does list the many enquiries and scandals which has dominated | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
headlines in the last few years. It makes the point that public | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
confidence has been severely shaken, and notes that the public feel badly | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
let down, and perhaps afraid, when police officers are exposed as | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
having failed. But Tom Winsor defends undercover police officers, | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
controversially used in the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. He notes how | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
honest officers have been dismayed by the way they can be tarred with | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
the same brush. So I think generally this report will be welcomed by | :21:21. | :21:21. | |
those in the police service. Now let's have a look at some of the | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
other stories making the news today. For the first time ever, solicitors | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
and probation officers jointly walked out of courts across England | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
and Wales today, at the start of a two-day strike. Members of the | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
National Association of Probation Officers are protesting against | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
government plans to privatise up to 70% of the service. Criminal defence | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
solicitors meanwhile are walking out over cuts in legal aid fees. | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Charlie Brooks, the husband of the former News of the World Editor | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Rebekah Brooks, has told a court he hid pornography from the police | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
because he feared embarrassing details would be leaked to the | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
press. The racehorse trainer put the DVDs in a padded envelope and placed | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
it behind some bins in an underground car park. He denies | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
conspiring to pervert the course of justice. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
The Malaysian authorities have revealed that the last words from | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
the crew of the missing plane were, "Good night, Malaysian 3-7-0" and | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
not "All right, good night," as previously reported. The new, more | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
formal, final words could suggest that there wasn't a problem in the | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
cockpit as had first been thought. Ten aircraft and 11 ships from ten | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
nations are scouring an area of 245,000 square kilometres west of | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
Perth. Jon Donnison is in Perth and has the latest. | :22:43. | :22:51. | |
Back to base, but still no breakthrough. Planes are now | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
scouring the Southern Indian Ocean. But they are no closer to knowing | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
where the airliner crashed. For the moment, no question of giving up. I | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
am certainly not putting a time limit on it. We owe it to everyone | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
to do whatever we reasonably can, and we can keep searching for quite | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
some time to come. Setting off from Perth today, an Australian Navy ship | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
which we were given access to. It is carrying a device called a pinger | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
locator, which will be dragged through the water to try to pick up | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
signals from the missing black box flight recorder. But the locator | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
only has a short range. Despite the state-of-the-art technology on board | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
this ship, it is only really of any use if they know where the plane hit | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
the water. And at the moment, they have no idea. Research teams admit | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
that finding the black box is a long shot. First they need to work out | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
which direction to look, which finding some debris. It all depends | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
upon how effect if we are at reducing that search area. Right | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
now, the search area is basically the size of the Indian Ocean, which | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
would take an untenable amount of time to search. Progress at the | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
moment is slow. It is more than three weeks since the Malaysian jet | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
disappeared over the ocean. Investigators are warning the | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
recovery could take years. Cricket - England's miserable winter | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
has ended after they were resoundingly beaten by the | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
Netherlands at the World Twenty20 in Chittagong. With neither side able | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
to reach the semi-finals, the Dutch made 133-5. In reply, England were | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
all out for just 88. England's highest score, 18, was made by Ravi | :24:50. | :24:50. | |
Bopara. Riley Ward may only be two years old | :24:51. | :24:59. | |
but he knew exactly what to do when his mother collapsed at home - he | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
dialled 999 and told the operator, "Mummy's on the floor." Today, the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
toddler was given a bravery award from East Midlands Ambulance Service | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
for his quick thinking. Sian Lloyd has the story. Only two years old, | :25:09. | :25:20. | |
but when Riley's mother collapsed, he knew who to call. He was amazing, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
I am so proud of him. A little superstar. He remembered what his | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
mum had taught him, and tiled 999 to save her when she suffered a blood | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
clot. But the emergency services did not have much information to go on. | :25:38. | :26:07. | |
It was enough for the police to trace the call to their home. And | :26:08. | :26:17. | |
today, Riley's bravery was rewarded with a special certificate. He is | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
absolutely a life-saver, a very important part of the team. Do you | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
think he might be joining the Ambulance Service one day? I would | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
be light -- I would be happy to have him as my crewmate. But for now, he | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
is just a happy to-year-old, who cannot work out what all the fuss is | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
about. Time for a look at the weather, with Tomasz Schafernaker. | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
A reminder of our main story... There is some fairly decent weather | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
around over the next couple of days. This is the satellite picture from | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
today. I want to focus mainly on the direction of the cloud. You can see | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
it is coming in from the south. These winds have been coming all the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
way from the Sahara desert. So, this morning, if you thought your car was | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
a bit dirty, it is the Saharan dust. We made the dust particles a bit | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
bigger for comedy value. There are other pollutants in the atmosphere | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
as well. From the Sahara, back to the UK. This is the weather front, | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
which is affecting western parts of the UK through this evening. The | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
rain will be quite heavy for a time in Northern Ireland, and will end up | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
in Scotland by the early hours of Tuesday morning. To the south, there | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
will be some mist and fog. Tomorrow, I think there will be a | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
bit of a smile on our faces, for England and Wales, anyway. But as | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
far as Scotland goes, the rain will be easing, but it will be a damp | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
day, and still chilly. 11 degrees in Newcastle, no more than that. In the | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
middle part of the week, the area of low pressure is still within the | :28:18. | :28:24. | |
neighbourhood, so, still cloud and rain circling around it. But this | :28:25. | :28:31. | |
central portion of the country could be warming up. | :28:32. | :28:40. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six - on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:41. | :28:41. |