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The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller resigns after anger over her | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
expenses claims. The Culture Secretary finally stood down after a | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
week of damaging headlines, saying it was entirely her own decision. I | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
hoped that I could stay but it has become clear to me over the last few | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
days that this has become an enormous distraction. If a normal | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
person had done it we would be locked up. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
As Labour accuse the Prime Minister of an error of judgement for not | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
sacking her, we'll be asking how damaging it has been. Also tonight. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
A man is cleared of killing police officer Keith Blakelock during riots | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
in north London in 1985. A tough day for Oscar Pistorius as | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
he's repeatedly questioned about his version of events on the night he | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
killed Reeva Steenkamp. The changing shape of men - warnings | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
about the rapidly increasing numbers injecting steroids. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
And a Royal crawl about - Prince George on his first public | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
engagement in New Zealand. Tonight on BBC London. The victims | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
of an alleged kidnap and robbery attempt by the police speak of their | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
horror at finding out they were targeted. And the Government reveals | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
its compensation package for the thousands living on the route of | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
HS2. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:22. | :01:44. | |
News at Six. After days of hostile headlines over her expenses claims, | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
the Culture Secretary Maria Miller has resigned from the Cabinet. She | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
said she'd stepped down to end what she called an "enormous distraction" | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
for the government. The Prime Minister said allowing her to | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
apologise and continue her duties in recent days had been the "right | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
thing to do". But the Labour leader Ed Miliband accused Mr Cameron of a | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
"terrible error of judgement" in keeping Mrs Miller in her post. This | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
from Nick Robinson. Going, going, gone. The pressure too much. After a | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
week of it Maria Miller lost the will to fight on. Breaking news. | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
The culture secretary Maria Miller. Downing Street has revealed she has | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
resigned. I was cleared of the central allegation made about me by | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
a Labour member of Parliament. I hoped that I could stay but it has | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
become clear over the last few days that this has become an enormous | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
distraction. By distraction she means this. Seven days of hostile | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
headlines which began when an enquiry into her expense claims | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
ordered her to stand up and apologise to the Commons. Which she | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
did. Sort of. The committee has recommended that I apologise to the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
house for my attitude to the commissioners enquiries and I of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
course unreservedly apologise. And that was almost that. 32 seconds | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
later she sat down and the questions began about her expense claims for | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
this house in Wimbledon. She was cleared of the original charge, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
asking taxpayers to fund it as a home for her elderly parents. But | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
the standards committee of MPs asked her to pay back almost ?6,000 | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
because she had failed to cut your mortgage claims when interest rates | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
fell. The independent polyamory -- Parliamentary Commissioner | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
originally suggested she should pay back ?45,000. Meantime the prime | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
minister backed his minister again and again. I think people should | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
leave it at that. I think she should get on with the job of being culture | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
secretary. His aides claimed he had been ready to defend her again today | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
at Prime Minister 's questions. He said six days ago she had done the | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
right thing and should leave it at that. This was a terrible error of | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
judgement. David Cameron said it was right to give Maria Miller at the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
chance to apologise and clear her name. This is a good and honest | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Parliament with good and hard working people in it. He just does | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
not get it. That is what he has shown today. He promised in | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
opposition to be an apostle for better standards and has spent the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
past week being an apologist for unacceptable behaviour. If he thinks | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
it is leadership to fire someone at the breast sign of trouble rather | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
than giving someone a chance to get on with the job, that is not | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
leadership but weakness. What did for Maria Miller was the fact that | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
number ten Downing St was told by many Tory MPs that she was costing | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
them votes, a message that was passed on to her yesterday. If there | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
is one winner from this saga it is the new culture secretary, said Jude | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
Javed. The son of a Pakistani bus driver who became his party's first | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Muslim MP. But the Cabinet now has one woman viewer around the table. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
There are now just three after the emotional decision of Maria Miller | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
to quit. I want to make sure that the situation is clear to everybody | :05:25. | :05:35. | |
and make sure I can move on. What is clear is the country has yet to move | :05:36. | :05:47. | |
on. From its fury about MP expenses. Well today the Prime Minister said | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
there was more to do to "reassure the public" about MPs' expenses. So | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
how does the system work? And how could it be changed? Our Political | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Correspondent Vicki Young sent this report from Maria Miller's | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Basingstoke constituency. It is less than an hour from | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Westminster but voters here in the Basingstoke constituency of Maria | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Miller say MPs are living on another Janet. Politicians insist they have | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
cleaned up their act since the scandal over their expenses was | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
first exposed. It is not a method that has got through here. They make | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
the rules and they are the ones failing the rules. If a normal | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
person had done it we would be locked up. It is one rule for them | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and a different one for us. If you are a Cabinet minister you have to | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
be above reproach and she is not. It is a different level. And the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
apology was next to useless. They're using the rules to own benefit. They | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
have changed the rules since 2010 but that does not make a difference. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
They have been big changes to the system since the expenses scandal a | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
few years ago, including restrictions on what MPs can claim | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
for their accommodation. But also the way the complaints are | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
investigated. Maria Miller's expenses data back to 2005 so she | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
was investigated under the old system. That meant an independent | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
commissioner that a panel of MPs had the final say. Now that has changed | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and an independent body looks into these matters which does not include | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
any MPs. I think the system is perfectly adequate. The fact is you | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
cannot have orders put out to third parties. Parliament must have some | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
responsibility for policing itself in a partly because we are the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
people who make the laws of the land and we are accountable. No longer a | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
minister, Maria Miller could now be spending more time here at | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
constituency home. Her departure from the Cabinet no does mean she's | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
entitled to a payoff of just over ?70,000. And our political editor | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
Nick Robinson is in the Houses of Parliament now. How damaging is it | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
that expenses are back in the headlines all over again as Mac it | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
does feel sometimes that nothing has really changed. It is now five years | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
since the scandal of MP expenses first broke. Back then we had a | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
prime minister defending some of his own, a leader of the opposition | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
saying he simply did not get it. But that was David Cameron as leader of | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
the opposition attacking Gordon Brown. Words that were quoted back | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
at him today by Ed Miliband. David Cameron believes the rules have | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
changed much more than people have changed much more than people | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
realise. Today Maria Miller is not entitled to a second home to be paid | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
for in any way, and even if she was she could only claim rent and not a | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
mortgage. And if she abused the system MPs would have no say on the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
penalty used against her. This was a so-called legacy case but I think | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
she believed she was under attack, for the way she looked after and | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
brought up her family and looked after her parents. And as a result | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
she simply paid no attention at all and perhaps the Prime Minister made | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
the same mistake, to the fact of what would emerge as she was | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
defending herself. The fact that tens of thousands of pounds had been | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
paid to her in the form of housing payments. The real legacy of | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
expenses was that fury of voters did not go away, it was simply waiting | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
to be woken again. Now Labour may not do that. One senior source put | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
it to me that the view of the electorate was a plague on all your | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
houses. India may be, but the politicians who are not in here, not | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
least UKIP, they certainly will exploit it. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
A man has been cleared of killing the police officer Keith Blakelock | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
during the Broadwater Farm riots in north London in 1985. Nicholas | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Jacobs, who was 16 at the time, denied murdering the officer, who | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
was stabbed 43 times while on duty that night. At the Old Bailey the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
jury heard from three witnesses who said they saw Mr Jacobs take part, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
but the defence team questioned their credibility. Our correspondent | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
Robert Hall was in court. On the pavement outside the Old | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Bailey those who had supported Nicky Jacobs gathered to mark the end of a | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
five-week trial which they say should never have gone to court. Mr | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Jacobs had protested his innocence from the outset. His supporters | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
included Winston Silcott and Mark Braithwaite and wiki -- who were | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
cleared of the murder of PC Blacklock back in 1991. This case | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
was as close as you could come to our legal lynching as we have ever | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
seen. The case was built on the testimony of three lying witnesses | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
who told lies through their teeth. The story began on a north London | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
estate known locally as the farm. Broadwater Farm, 1000 flats linked | :11:01. | :11:08. | |
by overhead walkway. In 1985, completely out of control on that | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
October night. Rising tension between the community and the police | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
had finally boiled over. Officers tried and failed to contain several | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
hundred people who attack them with petrol bombs and other missiles. It | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
was scary. It was scary. I believe that is what hell is like. Seeing so | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
many cars warning and people going backwards and forwards. PC Keith | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
Blacklock was with colleagues call to protect firefighters on the first | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
floor of the complex, but they were driven back down the stairwell. As | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Keith Blakelock ran out of this car park he tripped over a low wall and | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
he fell. His colleagues were powerless to reach an as he was | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
surrounded by a crowd. He was punched, kicked and stamped. At his | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
postmortem he was found to have more than 40 wounds to his body. You | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
could see their arms moving up and down, moving up and down. And with | :12:10. | :12:19. | |
machetes and knives just cutting into his body. Although it was from | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
a distance I knew exactly what was happening. From the outset there | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
were questions over the subsequent investigation. The crime scene | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
inadequately protected it. Suspects interviewed without lawyers present. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Arrests which the community claimed were prompted by internal pressure | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
rather than hard evidence. In 2004 there were 14 further arrests. But | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
only Nicholas Jacobs was charged. The case against Jacobs depended on | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
three anonymous witnesses. Two of them had received financial | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
assistance from police. All had been granted immunity. It is really | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
tricky simply because there are no forensics, no CCTV from those days | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
and the only witnesses to a crime like that are people involved in | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
writing. We do not have people of good character walking through the | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
area. You have to deal with difficult people. We have not given | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
any financial incentive to anyone in this trial. Tonight the widow of PC | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Blacklock and his three sons said they were sad and disappointed at | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the verdict. Events of that evening in 1985 hang heavy over those who | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
believe that justice must be done and those convinced that old Reggie | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
juices will taint that investigation. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
A postmortem examination has failed to establish what caused the death | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
of Peaches Geldof. The body of the 25-year-old broadcaster and writer | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
was found at her home in Wrotham on Monday. Kent Police say the results | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
of toxicology tests may not be known for several weeks. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
The South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has faced tough | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
questioning from the prosecution about his version of events on the | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. And there were gasps in | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
court as the prosecutor produced a graphic photo of her head wounds and | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
told Oscar Pistorius to look at it. The athlete denies murder. Andrew | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
Harding reports from Pretoria. For two days he has been a | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
remorseful, fragile figure in court. Today the prosecution decided it was | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
time to remind people who the rails at Tim is. As usual no images of | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Oscar Pistorius giving evidence but here is the prosecutor launching | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
into a furious cross-examination. I made a mistake. Your repeated three | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
times. What was your mistake. I took Reeva's life. You shot and killed | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
her. Take responsibility for that. I do. Then say it. Say yes. I shot and | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
killed Reeva Steenkamp. I did, my lady. And that was just the start. | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
Next, amateur video footage of the stories with friends at a firing | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
range. It exploded, my right. You know the saying it's -- the same | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
happened to Reeva's head. And to reinforce the point, a photograph of | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
her head wound, to graphic to show your. It came up on the screen in | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
court. Pistorius's relatives were distraught. Reeva's mother simply | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
bowed her head. Pistorius refused to look. I will not look at a picture | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
where I was tormented by what I saw and felt that night. I remember, I | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
do not have to look. I was there. As viszla objected. I think it is | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
uncalled for. I see no basis for that. The athlete broke down, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
sobbing. The focus then moved to the toilet door, the one Oscar Pistorius | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
shop through four times. Today he told the court he had done so | :16:01. | :16:12. | |
accidentally. I did not intend to shoot anyone. I fired my firearm | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
before I had time to think. I believe somebody was coming out of | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
the toilet. This goes to the heart of the case, | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
the prosecution can group he committed murder. Our top story this | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
evening: The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller resigns after anger over her | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
expenses claims, saying she had become a distraction. And still to | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
come, new exams for A-level and GCSE students in England. Are they really | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
going to be tougher? On BBC London: We will have the latest from | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Tottenham as the man accused of killing PC Keith Blakelock is | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
cleared. And on board a tall ship on the Thames ahead of the biggest | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
regatta in the capital for 25 years. There has been a dramatic rise in | :16:59. | :17:10. | |
the number of body-builders injecting themselves with anabolic | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
steroids according to one of the country's biggest drugs charities | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
called CRI. The charity, which provides needle exchanges in | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
England, says the number of steroid users it has helped has jumped by | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
645%, from 290 people in 2010 to more than 2000 last year. Catherine | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
Burns from Radio 1's Newsbeat has been investigating and found fears | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
that a shift in men's attitudes to body image could be fuelling an even | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
bigger rise. Dave Crosland claims his biceps | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
could be among the biggest in Britain. He spends hours in the gym, | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
it eats 10,000 calories a day and takes anabolic steroids. He has been | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
a careful user over many years, but thinks there is a growing number of | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
people who are more reckless. There are a group of 17-25 year olds who | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
do not train and have a poor diet and are using steroids for a quick | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
fix and they are mixing it with recreational drugs. Anabolic | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
steroids are class C drugs and they can help you train longer and harder | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
and stimulate muscle growth, but there is a list of side effects, | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
everything from acne, hair loss, mood swings through to live, | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
fertility and heart problems. Dave takes tablets and inject | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
steroids and every couple of months he goes to stock up on equipment at | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
a needle exchange. The drugs charity CRI says one third of its needle | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
exchanges now see more people on steroids than illegal drugs like | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
heroin and crack cocaine. They are different from other substance users | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
because they can lead a normal life, but the risks when it comes to | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
injecting is the same as any other drug user and they could get | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
hepatitis and HIV. Some experts think several thousand people take | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
steroids and that number is rising. This is partly due to a culture | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
change among men with many obsessing about their appearance and feeling | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
extra pressure to get an ideal physique. We cannot ignore the | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
stresses and the amount of exposure young men have towards a stylised | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
body image, to performing, to having is basic -- specific way of | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
looking, which is more muscular than in the past. Drug workers are saying | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
people are injecting more drugs to change their appearance. Now the | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
health watchdog NICE says needle exchanges in England need to adapt | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
to meet all these different types of drug users. | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
GCSEs and A-levels are to get tougher in England according to the | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Government. It says it is tackling grade inflation and the dumbing down | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
of subjects. There will be a bigger emphasis on maths skills and problem | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
solving in science subjects. The first students to be affected will | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
be those sitting their exams in 2017. With me now is Reeta | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
Chakrabarti. How much are these exams going to change? Quite a bit. | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
We are getting details about the contents that is being phased in in | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
England in GCSEs. The grades will be from 9-1 and an AES grade in | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
A-levels will not count towards the final grade. Looking at GCSEs in | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
history we will get more British history than we have at the moment | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
and everybody will do 3 euros of history, medieval, early and modern. | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
In science we will have more cutting edge themes, things like Gene | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
technology and space physics. A-levels will be taught in schools | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
from 2015 and in sciences everybody will do 12 practical is, more than | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
at the moment, although they will not be included in the final grade. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
It will be a registry of a pass or a fail. For economics there will be | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
things about financial regulation and the role of central banks, a nod | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
to the financial crisis of recent years. Ministers say this will add | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
two more rigorous and more challenging exams, but teaching | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
unions say it is too rushed and it could be confusing because children | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
will be sitting old and new exams at the same time. This is England only | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
because Wales and Northern Ireland are sticking to existing exams. In | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Afghanistan votes are still being counted after Saturday's | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
presidential election. More than seven million people defied Taliban | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
threats of violence by going to the polls to select a successor to | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
President Karzai. A top priority for the new leader will be to try to | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
reduce growing numbers of civilian casualties, among them young | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
children. Our correspondent Karen Allen tracked down a badly injured | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
young girl she met in a Kabul hospital last year. You may find | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
some of the images in this report disturbing. | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
This is what happens to little girls in Afghanistan. This saving | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
numeral's body was shattered when she took the full force of a | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
grenade. I met her in Kabul by chance six months ago after fears | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
she would not pull through. Now she is an American success story. She | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
has been at school following more surgery, flown here by a medical | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
charity to a foreign land far from home. She is making a slow but | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
steady recovery. She has got new friends and is talking again, but | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
behind the smile she is still deeply traumatised by what happened. Left | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
behind was her father. He described the family home where still everyday | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
people live in fear of their lives. TRANSLATION: I am scared because we | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
live in the mountains. When there is fighting between the Afghan army and | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
the Taliban there is no guarantee people will not get killed. This was | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
the first time her father saw pictures of his little girl. Just | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
like foreign friends who have been there to help his daughter, he | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
believes a foreign, military presence has helped his country as | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
well. In Afghanistan funerals for the young have become a familiar | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
sight. 2013 saw a record number of women and children killed and hurt. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Many children have taken some explosive materials in their houses. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
They are injured by these explosions. Do you fear you will | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
have to carry on treating these injuries for many years to come? I | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
think so, I will be busy in the future as well. Tomorrow she will be | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
home, but her family fears a future, when troops finally leave, | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
these are uncertain times and it would not take much for their | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
country to slide back into war. The school student in the US state | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
of Pennsylvania has stabbed 19 pupils and a security guard during | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
an attack in classrooms and hallways. Officials say nine people | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
from Franklin regional high school in Pittsburgh were seriously | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
injured. Most of the victims were aged between 14 and 17. A | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
16-year-old boy has been arrested. The Australian team searching for | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
the missing Malaysian airlines plane has picked up signals. Ocean Shield | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
has recorded two more transmissions from the same area of the Indian | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
Ocean as those heard over the weekend. They are optimistic the | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
remains of the aircraft will be found. | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
It was his first public engagement and at just eight months old Prince | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
George seemed to enjoy his royal crawl about. The prince met ten | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
other babies at his play date in New Zealand as part of the Duke and | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
Duchess of Cambridge's tour of the country. Our royal correspondent | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
Nicholas Witchell was there. He was not afraid to assert himself, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
but that is perfectly normal for an eight-month-old boy. His crawling, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
and people said there were moments when he was not far short of | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
walking. For George it was something new, a brief but boisterous start to | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
what will potentially be a lifetime of bumping into people and being the | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
centre of attention. He had been brought by his mother to a playgroup | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
at Government House. Ten babies of roughly the same age as him. At | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
first he was more bashful and seemed more interested in his mother's | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
here, but then a girl caught his eye. Not an entirely successful | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
encounter. She retired in tears. George tried again with someone | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
else. He spotted at what he wanted, so he reached out and grabbed it. | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
Once again, mum had to come to the rescue. He was his own little man | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
and took control and went into the middle of the circle of toys. He | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
propped himself up and he owned the place, basically. George at eight | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
months, starting to learn about the world around him, though still | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
oblivious as to what his own future holds. For now he seemed happiest | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
playing with his rattle. Now he has completed his first public | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
engagement, George can relax at Government House. He will not be | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
seen again in public until he leaves New Zealand with his mother and | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
father in about a week's time. Let's have a look at the latest | :27:10. | :27:11. | |
weather. Conditions in Wellington are pretty | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
similar to overhear in the next few days. It will be relatively mild by | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
day and the temperatures will be getting into the teens, but it will | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
still be a bit chilly at night. Rain has been across western Scotland | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
during the day and it pushes steadily into Northern Ireland. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
Elsewhere it is a dry night. In rural areas it will get down to two | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
or three and it will be a bit fresh first thing. For many it is a dry | :27:53. | :28:00. | |
and a bright day. Rain early on in Northern Ireland and West Scotland. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
A brighter day in the north-west of Scotland. A few light showers in | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
south-west England and South Wales, but generally in the south it will | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
be dry. Temperatures get up to 16 or 17 and there should be some decent | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
spells of sunshine in the East. A different feel in the north-west of | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
England as the rain pushes in. Early reign in southern Scotland and | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
Northern Ireland, but it will be brighter by the afternoon. A few | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
showers in the North West on Friday, but generally another fine | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
day. Most places are dry and bright with some sunshine. Temperatures get | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
up to 11 or 12 and in the south they get into the mid-teens. It is very | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
similar as we go into the weekend. There will be a bit more clout and | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
maybe some rain. It is looking pretty good for the London Marathon. | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
There is more information on the website. | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
The Cabinet Minister Maria Miller has resigned after anger over her | :29:10. | :29:17. | |
expenses claims, saying she had become a distraction. Now it is | :29:18. | :29:18. |