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Ukraine's soldiers suffer their biggest loss of life so far after an | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
attack by pro-Russian separatists. 13 soldiers were killed, dozens more | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
injured, at a checkpoint in the east of the country. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Meanwhile, Prince Charles' reported comments likening President Putin's | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
actions over Ukraine to those of Hitler anger the Russians. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
TRANSLATION: We consider the use the Western media have made of members | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
of the British Royal Family in a propaganda campaign unacceptable, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
outrageous and dishonourable. We'll bring you the latest on the | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
diplomatic spat and the worsening crisis in Ukraine. Also tonight: | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
Royal Mail reports its first profits since privatisation but calls for an | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
inquiry into the threat from its competitors. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Figures out today show the number of people coming from the EU to live in | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
the UK went up by over a quarter last year. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
SHE SPEAKS MANDARIN. And why more and more children are | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
throwing themselves into learning Mandarin. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Tonight on BBC London. Anger at the last-minute price hike | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
making their affordable homes unaffordable. | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
And bikers lead tribute to murdered Lee Rigby one year on from the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
soldier's death. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:26. | :01:43. | |
News At Six. Ukrainian soldiers have suffered the biggest loss of life so | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
far during the crisis in the east of the country. 13 have been killed and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
dozens more injured in an attack by pro-Russian forces. There are just | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
three days now until the country's presidential elections and the | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
violence shows no sign of easing. The attack took place at a military | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
checkpoint on the outskirts of the town of Volnovakha, 20 miles south | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
of Donetsk. From there, our correspondent Mark Lowen reports. | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
The attack came before dawn and with devastating effect. This was a | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Ukrainian army checkpoint, targeted in the deadliest assault on the | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
military since this conflict began. At least 13 were killed and around | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
30 injured in a well-planned strike. TRANSLATION: Three of my friends | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
have fallen and I can't even collect their bodies. Their combat unit has | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
been lying there in the field for 30 minutes already. Separatist groups | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
are thought to have carried it out. They showed off their spoils, which | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
they say they took from troops at the checkpoint. This unverified | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
footage appears to show helicopters moving in after the incident. It is | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
not confirmed to whom they belong to, but the video was shot in | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
daylight and one Ukrainian soldier told us it was an operation against | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
the separatists. At the local hospital, the dead kept coming as | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
serious injuries proved fatal. Another body has just been taken out | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
of his vehicle into the morgue. This is a terrible blow for the Ukrainian | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Armed Forces and a reminder of quite what these armed separatists are | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
capable of doing. A Ukrainian general would talk only with his | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
identity hidden, for fear of reprisals. They were professional | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
killers, he told me, hired soldiers. They mowed down my men in | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
15 minutes. They are doing it by money, not for patriotically deals. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
The Ukrainian government laid the blame at Moscow and its links with | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
the armed groups in the East. TRANSLATION: This is a confirmation | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
that Putin's words are a lie when he talks of withdrawing troops and not | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
interfering in the internal affairs of Ukraine. In reality, Russia | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
continues to adopt a very aggressive military activity. The attack comes | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
three days before the Ukraine presidential elections that Kiev | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
vows will also be held here. Separatist leaders say they will | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
block it and the region is now independent. Could today have been a | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
warning shot? Ukrainian forces secured the scene but in this battle | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
for control, the volatile east is slipping further from their grasp. | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
Prince Charles has upset Russia with comments he's reported to have made | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
about Ukraine, in which he is said to have likened President Putin to | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Hitler. Moscow has called them "outrageous" and "unfit for a future | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
monarch". Russia's Deputy Ambassador in London has been meeting with | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Foreign Office officials here this afternoon to seek an official | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
explanation of the comments, which the Prince is reported to have made | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
in private while visiting Canada. Our correspondent Frank Gardner | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
reports. A harmless royal tour around a | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Canadian polar bear sanctuary, what could possibly go wrong? Well, | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
comments made by Prince Charles during his Canadian tour have ended | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
up touching a royal nerve in Russia. In a private, off-camera | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
conversation in this building with a Polish born emigre, the Prince of | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Wales reportedly compared the actions of President Putin in the | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler. Moscow first brushed it off, but by | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
today, it had turned into a diplomatic row. President Putin, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
visiting Siberia today, as his own --lost his own brother in the Nazi | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
invasion of Leningrad and a Russian spokesman called Prince Charles's | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
comments outrageous. TRANSLATION: We consider the use | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
that Western media have made of the British Royal family in a campaign | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
against Russia on an acute international issue unacceptable, | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
outrageous and dishonourable. The Russian Embassy in London | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
demanded an official explanation. What was the air to the British | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
throne doing apparently making such remarks? Russia asked for and got a | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
meeting with the senior British diplomat. This cannot have been an | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
easy conversation at the Foreign Office this afternoon. It started | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
out as a complaint by the Russian deputy ambassador against Prince | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Charles's reported comments and developed into a much wider, robust | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
discussion about the whole course of the events in Ukraine and Britain's | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
dissatisfaction about Russia's activities there. | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
Let's speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall, who's | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
in Moscow for us this evening. These reported comments by Prince Charles, | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
how may they aggravate the already poor relations between Russia and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the West over Ukraine? We have heard from the Foreign | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Ministry in Russia this morning saying they would wait to see what | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
they heard from the British Foreign Office before they decided if they | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
should be any consequences. What we understand from the Foreign Office | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
is that they said to the deputy ambassador that they cannot expect | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
to comment on what our private conversations. Will Russia want to | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
take it further? On the one hand, they have used strong language today | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
and the other, they have blamed the British press for making too much of | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
it. We have to remember that this isn't really about reported comments | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
by Prince Charles, it is all about the deep rift between Russia and the | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
UK and the rest of the West about Ukraine. There that clash in Ukraine | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
today that amply demonstrated that, the two sides with diametrically | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
opposed views and Kiev, backed by the West, will blame pro-Russian | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
forces it thinks are influenced by Russia, whereas the West is | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
worried. Russia says that while it thinks are Ukraine is carrying out a | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
special operation against its own citizens, it can't possibly expect | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
to have a proper election on Sunday. -year-old Bridget Kendall, | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
thank you. Royal Mail has turned a profit in | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
its first results since it was privatised. It's announced full year | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
profits of ?671 million, a 12% rise. Nonetheless, it's warning its | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
ability to fulfil the universal service obligation, its legal duty | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
to deliver to all parts of the UK, could be under threat. It's urging | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
the regulator Ofcom to look into the matter, saying it wants fresh | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
measures to prevent competitors cherry-picking the most lucrative | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
parts of the postal service. Our Business Editor Kamal Ahmed reports. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
This report contains some flashing images. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
From the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall, there has been a | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
guaranteed postal service across Britain since 1839. Today, the Royal | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Mail said its ability to deliver that service and remain economically | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
viable is coming under increasing strain. For those who rely on it, | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
like the residents of Ogmore by Sea in rural Wales, a universal service | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
is essential. A lot of older people in this community here rely on these | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
services, a lot of people on their own. As far as I'm concerned, if | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
they stop the mail coming to Ogmore, it would be an absolute disaster. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
New entrants like TNT have started delivery services in places like | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
London, Manchester and Liverpool. With short distances and plenty of | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
business mail, the big-city is aware there is money to be made. TNT | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
deliver in urban areas around the country and they intend to expand | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
that. They are increasing their market share and these are the areas | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
that are easiest to deliver, leaving Royal Mail with its obligation to | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
deliver six days a week everywhere in the country, including rural | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
areas. The Government is slowly deregulating the market, encouraging | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
competition and urging Royal Mail to cut costs. The stresses, Royal Mail | :09:32. | :09:43. | |
says, are beginning to show. It's lucrative city centre routes like | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
these that the Royal Mail's competitors would love to get a bite | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
of. The Royal Mail says that without intervention by the regulator, its | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
legal obligation to deliver to the whole of Britain could be | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
undermined. It has to make money here to be able to support those | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
difficult rural routes. The universal service is at the heart of | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
the Royal Mail's business. It guarantees delivery six days a | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
week. It includes all 29 million addresses in the UK. The Royal Mail | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
alone delivers 13 billion letters a year. Competitors say the Royal Mail | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
is crying wolf. This is typical Royal Mail whingeing. They have just | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
delivered some record profits. TNT Post are delivering choice for our | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
customers, which they want, and we are creating thousands of jobs, so | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
we certainly no threat to the universal service and that is | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
something the industry regulator, Ofcom, agrees with us. Royal Mail's | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
share price fell today by nearly 10% as investors worried that increased | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
competition could profits. -- could affect profits. After the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
controversy of the part privatisation last year, the | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
business still has plenty of challenges ahead. | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
One of the first DJs on Radio 1, Chris Denning, has been charged in | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
connection with a series of alleged sex attacks on 22 boys, aged between | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
nine and 16. The Crown Prosecution Service says the former DJ faces | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
more than 40 charges, including 34 counts of indecent assault, over an | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
18-year period until 1985. There's been a military coup in | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Thailand. Soldiers took control after two days of inconclusive talks | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
between the country's rival political factions. This morning, | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
soldiers surrounded the building where the talks were taking place | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
and then took away the party leaders. TV broadcasting has been | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
suspended, political gatherings are now banned and there is a nationwide | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
curfew. It follows months of political turmoil in the country. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
From Bangkok, Jonathan Head sent this report. | :11:38. | :11:50. | |
The Army club in Bangkok. Inside, rival political factions were | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
holding reconciliation talks. Suddenly, the exits were blocked. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
Troops raced into position. Thailand was having another coup. The faction | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
leaders were detained and taken away. And the man who had invited | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
them here now runs the country. In time-honoured fashion, a new | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
military council announced that the constitution was being suspended and | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
a curfew imposed. General Prayut has now done what he has said many times | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
would not solve the crisis, mounted a full military takeover, saying he | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
has done it for peace and stability. Yet there was bound to be strong | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
opposition. Most of all from supporters of the former Prime | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
Minister, in what Shinawatra -- Yingluck Shinawatra, and her | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
brother. The so-called Red Shirts. They have won every election for the | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
past 15 years. Many of their leaders are now under arrest, but they have | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
always said they would resist a coup, with force if necessary. The | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
anti-government protesters, the so-called Yellow Shirts, have long | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
been calling for military intervention. After seven months on | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
the Bangkok streets, they can now go home. That leaves the soldiers to | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
short -- sort out the chronically divided country. Their chances of | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
success do not look promising. Figures out today show that the | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
number of EU citizens moving to the UK has increased by 27% in 2013. And | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
the Office of National Statistics also estimates that net migration - | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
the difference between the numbers coming into the UK and the numbers | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
leaving - has remained steady at just over 200,000. The Government's | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
target is to bring that figure down to the tens of thousands by the next | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
election. Reeta Chakrabarti is here to tell us more. Reeta. | :13:48. | :13:56. | |
These figures come out every three months that they show that broadly | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
speaking, migration in the UK remained static towards the end of | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
last year, so net migration was 212,000 in December last year, and | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
that remains unchanged from September. It is, however, twice as | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
high as what the Government wants to see it at by this time next year. If | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
you can bear the figures year on year, they also show that net | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
migration went up by 35,000 on the previous year -- compere the | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
figures. That is December 2012, with significantly more EU migrants | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
coming in and proportionately fewer non-EU migrants. The focus at the | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
moment is on Romanians and Bulgarians, when work restrictions | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
were lifted at the beginning of this year. If you look at the figures | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
there, they show 23,000 Romanians and Bulgarians came last year, up | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
from 9,000 the previous year. Along with the statistics, there is | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
another set of figures out today that show migrants applying for | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
National Insurance numbers since the beginning of this year, so since the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
time the Romanians and Bulgarians have been given more freedom to | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
work. They show the highest number of applications is from Romanians, | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
that is 47,000 applications, up from 29,000 the previous year. And there | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
are significant numbers of the Polish, Bulgarian and Italians | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
applying. These are not people who are necessarily recent migrants, | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
they may have been hipper sometime, but applying for National Insurance | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
numbers gives them more access to work, access to benefits but means | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
they would be paying taxes. Our top story this evening: | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
Ukraine's soldiers suffer their biggest loss of life so far after an | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
attack by pro-Russian separatists. Still to come: More planes join the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
efforts to find the missing sailors in the atlantic. We have the latest. | :15:45. | :16:11. | |
Most patients who go to accident and emergency units do need urgent care | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
- according to a study by A consultants. There are 14 million | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
visits to emergency departments each year. A report for NHS England last | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
year suggested that up to a quarter of people could have been treated | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
elsewhere. But this latest study indicates only 15% could have been | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
treated by their GP the following day. The difference between those | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
two figures amounts to nearly one and a half million visits. This | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
could affect where NHS money and resources are targeted in England as | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
our health correspondent Dominic Hughes reports. It contains some | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
flashing images. A across the UK are getting busier. | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
More patients, many of them older people, are needing treatment. So | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
how best to reduce the pressure on the services? This is the A | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
Department... Here is an idea, trying to persuade people to think | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
twice before turning to A, using local GPs or advice lines. But | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
specialists argue that is not enough. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Doctors saying that trying to redirect large numbers of patients | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
away from A is not enough to release the pressure. They say that | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
their research show that the vast majority of patients that arrive | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
here need to be here. The A at North Manchester General is one of | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
the busiest in the country. Here they are recruiting GPs to work as | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
part of the emergency medicine team. We should have six consultants | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
working, we have three. So we are adding four GPs into the mix, | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
working at a senior doctor level will enable us to supervise the | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
juniors and see the patients. Young children like Felix make up | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
the biggest group of A patients that can be seen elsewhere but like | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
many parents his mum did not hesitate to go to the hospital when | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
he hit his head. With the kids you want to get it | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
sorted straight away. When I have been there it is full of people with | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
children. People want a quicker response. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
This is partly an argument about where the money is best-spent, in | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
hospitals or the community services but neither option is likely to be | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
cheap. The cost of treating patients in in | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
a GP service is probably not that different from the A departments. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
But there is a practise that is suffering financially and in terms | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
of the level demand that is being seen. | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
NHS Patient says that a range of services can be used to help relieve | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
the pressure. But people want fast care, that seems for most, the local | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
A The BBC understands the Government | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
will publish a report estimating that there are several billion | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
barrels of oil contained in shale rocks beneath parts of Sussex, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Hampshire and Kent, but only a fraction of it is likely to be | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
recovered through fracking. That compares to around 45 billion | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
barrels of oil that's been extracted from the North Sea over the past 40 | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
years. Our industry correspondent John Moylan is here. John, you found | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
out about this, what more can you tell snubs There is a lot of gas in | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
shale rocks in the north of Englandment tomorrow we learn | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
details of a study that looks at the south of England to tell us that | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
there are several billion barrels of oil in place across the areas you | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
mentioned, Kent, Sussex. That is a lot of oil. Not as much as the north | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
sea, and only fraction may be economic to get out but it is likely | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
to be enough to attract the attention -- attention of the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
fracking industry. There will be a concern to environmentalists, who | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
worry about the earth tremors and pollution but the estimate could | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
have implications for our long-term security. | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Voting is underway in the European and local council elections - the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
final big test of public opinion before the 2015 General Election. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
All 73 UK seats in the European Parliament - the EU's only directly | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
elected body - are up for grabs. The results will be announced on Sunday. | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
Meanwhile 4,216 seats on local councils across England and Northern | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Ireland are also being decided. David Dimbleby will be your guide to | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
the local council results as the votes are counted tonight. Join him | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
and the BBC's team of experts from 11.35pm on BBC One. The search for | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
the four sailors missing in the Atlantic since Friday has been | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
boosted by extra air support. More planes have now joined the sea | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
search for any sign of the men or their yacht. Earlier debris was | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
spotted in the search area, raising hopes, but the US Coast Guard says | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
it's unrelated to the yacht. The men were sailing back to Southampton | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
from a regatta in Antigua last week. Contact was last made about 1,000 | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
miles off Cape Cod. Duncan Kennedy reports. These are the first | :21:11. | :21:19. | |
pictures from the search scene in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
Taken on board a private yacht that has gone to help, they show the calm | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
conditions. Visibility is also appearing to be looking good. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Exhausted and running short of supplies, it was this skipper who | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
found the debris, near to where the men went missing. He says it | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
includes a small piece of wood. We did see during this night some | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
debris. I have reported it to the US coastguard with the time and the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
position. So there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
News of the find was given to the relatives of the missing men who | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
have been in London. First at the Foreign Office and then at the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
American embassy, there to get a comprehensive briefing of what is | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
happening. At the are continuing to do what | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
they can. They have been fantastic. It is all very reassuring. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Whilst the US coastguard has cast doubt about the debris, it is still | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
co-ordinating a huge search operation, with at least four | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
aircraft and five boats now at the scene. The Cheeki Rafiki sent out a | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
distress call before contact was lost. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
Andrew Bridge, James Male, Paul Goslin and Steve War en have been | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
missing for almost a week. This afternoon I spoke to the skipper of | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
another yacht that arrived at the search location, 1,000 miles off the | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
coast of America. There are obviously a lot of | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
families listening and watching this, what is your message to them? | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
Have hope. That is all that we have. There are a lot of resources on out | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
here. The US coastguard has pulled out everything. As long as there is | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
hope, you keep it. That is why we are here. Let's hope we get a good | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
result. These first grainy shots from the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Atlantic, show exhausted crew members but conditions almost | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
perfect for searching. 12,000 square miles have been scoured, the scale | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
of the effort matched only by the open hopes of the families. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Those pictures are the first time that the family have seen the area. | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
They will take comfort from that. Especially with the calm seas. It is | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
nearly a week since the men went missing, there has never been more | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
resources dedicated to it. I am sure that they will take | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
comfort from that as well. Now for most of us, not only does | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
this not make sense, we would not know how to pronounce it. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
But many tomorrow are beginning GCSE Mandarin exams. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
We have been back to school... Ready for launch. A language class with a | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
difference. By the time that these 11-year-olds | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
leave school, China may well be the world's largest economy. They are | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
throwing themselves into the language. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
I enjoy writing the characters and learning the tones. In English, | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
there is always exceptions to the rules, in the Chinese they follow | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
the rules, I like that. Good that they like it, as at this | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
school in Hampshire, they are doing Mandarin emersion... The strange | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
thing is, it is not just the Chinese that improves, they are ahead of | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
their peers across the board. The students have to learn to | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
concentrate hard and to be resilient and persevere. These are very | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
important transferrable skills to use and apply to benefit other | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
aspects of study. So, I have been trying to learn | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Chinese on and off for most of the past 30 years. To tell you the | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
truth, I find it really hard it is partly the Chinese characters, and | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
getting the tones and reproducing the redifferent sounds. But if you | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
start at this age it comes much more easily. | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
So, are we doing enough to talk to a country of over 1 billion? Despite a | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
consensus amongst politicians and schools on the need, the numbers are | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
small. Just over 3,000 sat Mandarin GCSE last year. French is almost 60 | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
times as popular. A minority of schools offer Chinese but teachers | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
are hard to find and good marks are hard to come by. On the other side | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
of the world, Chinese customers but British gallery and staff. Six years | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
ago, Holly did not speak a word of Mandarin, now Beijing is her home. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
I would not have had the opportunities I have today if I did | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
not speak Chinese. I know people who have come here without Chinese but | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
it is a very different life you live if you don't speak Chinese in China! | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
From September, language learning is compulsory for seven-year-olds in | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
England. Perhaps some will follow in Holly's foot steps, sealing deals in | :26:39. | :26:51. | |
the UK in China. Neil Lennon has confirmed he has | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
left Celtic after four years as manager. Lennon played for the club | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
for seven years before taking charge in 2010, leading them to three | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
league titles and two Scottish Cups. Time for a look at the weather. | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
Here's Peter Gibbs. We have had lightening striking today. There is | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
a line of wet weather running up to the Midlands, to the area of | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Yorkshire, so thunder storms here. They will fade away but then the | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
showers pushing from Wales and the south. That rain that has been | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
plaguing Scotland is sticking around and there is a chilly wind blowing | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
in, where the lowest temperatures will be. But a relatively mild night | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
elsewhere. On to Friday morning. We have rain to contend with, all the | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
way from the Channel Islands up to the south-west of England, into | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
Wales and to the Midlands. There is a potential for heavy downpours | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
there. Not so much rain in the east of | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
England. But the north-east is the exception. Over Scotland and the | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
north of England cloudy skies and the breeze. Struggling to get rid of | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
the rain in the north of Scotland. It never quite let's up. | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Over the north of Wales, some heavy showers. To the east starting to | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
brighten up, allowing sunshine to come through. Where you get the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
sunshine, you get up to the high teens. A chilly day, though, for the | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
north-east of England and eastern Scotland. | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
A bank holiday weekend is coming up. Lots of showers to start with over | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
England and Wales. By Sunday and by the bank holiday Monday it is | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
looking pretty good. So a showery start to the weekend, some sunshine | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
filtering through. By Monday feeling warm for all. | :28:46. | :28:47. |