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Nearly ?7 billion pledged at a London conference | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Years of conflict have left millions homeless - | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Britain offers more than a billion pounds in extra aid. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
Today has been and is a day of hope, a day about saving lives, | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
a day about building futures, the day | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
about giving people the chance of a future. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
A lost generation - calls for cash to put every refugee | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
I'm in Lebanon, one of the places where the refugee crisis is most | :00:34. | :00:50. | |
acute. Roughly a quarter of the population here are Syrian refugees. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Will these latest pledges be turned into hard cash? | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Also tonight: A UN panel of legal experts says the Wikileaks founder, | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Julian Assange, is being unfairly detained. | :01:01. | :01:01. | |
Is Age UK pushing the elderly into expensive energy deals? | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
The industry watchdog will investigate. | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
A friendly face for Top Gear - Matt LeBlanc joins the line up | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
And on Reporting Scotland at 6.30: Further delays to allowing | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
heavy lorries back on the Forth Road Bridge. | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
And, a man is cleared of causing the deaths of three people, | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
including his wife and seven-year-old daughter, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:30. | :01:53. | |
On a day when yet another government offensive in Syria has turned | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
tens of thousands more into refugees David Cameron has warned | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
of a "critical shortfall" in aid for its people. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
He was speaking at an international fund-raising conference in London. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
So far nearly ?7 billion has been pledged by donor countries. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Britain alone has offered an extra ?1.2 billion | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
That money will fund jobs and education - | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
part of the government's strategy to help refugees | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
But past pledges of cash have not always been honoured | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
as our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall reports. | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
This is the scale of the problem, camps in Jordan stretching | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Across the region, Syrian refugees may soon number over 4.5 million, | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
with 13.5 million more displaced inside the country. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
there was a feeling this pledging conference must do more to help. | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
Syria's neighbours say they are near breaking point. | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Soon Lebanon will no longer be able to contain | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
an eruption that could involve further migration to distant shores, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
de-stabilisation and devolved security threats. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Looking into the eyes of my people, and seeing | :03:19. | :03:32. | |
Looking into the eyes of my people, and seeing the hardship and distress | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
they carry, I must tell you we have reached our limit. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Last year, the world only gave the United Nations | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
half the aid they needed, so in the end food rations | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
one reason so many decided to move on to Europe. | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Which means today in London, there is new self interest, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
give aid to ease conditions in the region, | :03:50. | :03:50. | |
and maybe stem the flow coming towards Europe. | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
There have been previous donor conferences, is a the same thing is | :03:53. | :04:05. | |
happening this time round and all your impressive pledges will ring | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
rather hollow? It will make a difference in terms of saving lives, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
in terms of providing medicine, shelter and food, and these are | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
important because we are fulfilling our moral was sponsored that the as | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
countries to those people who are caught up in this terrible conflict. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Of course, announcing big aid packages in London | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
is one thing, actually delivering the aid where it is needed | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
But anyway, everyone agrees, any amount of funding | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
for humanitarian assistance or long-term development | :04:37. | :04:47. | |
is all very well, but what is really needed is a way to end the war. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
On the ground, the bombardments from Russian air strikes backing | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
Syrian government troops have just got heavier. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
This is around the city of Deraa in the last two days. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Fierce fighting has put under threat the fledgling peace talks | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
in Geneva, when they had hardly begun. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
That is even before the outside world works out how to unite | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
against the so-called IS jihadists in the east. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
World leaders this morning said it was time to act, not talk. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
But whatever is achieved here in London, it seems | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
unlikely it will bring this conflict any nearer to a close. | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Well, as we've heard, Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon desperately need | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
long-term support to cope with the huge influx from Syria. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Over four million refugees are now living in the region. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
One million of them are in neighbouring Lebanon, | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
Our correspondent Clive Myrie is in one of them. | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
Plenty of words here, what are the facts on the ground? Yes, George, a | :05:43. | :05:53. | |
lot of money has been pledged, but where is it needed most? There is no | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
question the vast majority of refugees here would like to work to | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
provide for their families, and some of the donor money will go towards | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
opening the Labour market here and creating jobs. But many refugees are | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
children and funding is sorely needed for their education. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
They have had a rough ride in life, these children, victims of a war | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
they are too young to understand. In this refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
valley, they are being given back their childhoods, a few hours at a | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
time. Meet Muhammad who was 13, and his brother Mr far a year older. | :06:33. | :06:41. | |
They attend school five days a week, like the 270 other youngsters at the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
camp -- Mustafa. But when school is out, they and some of the other kids | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
receive a lesson in life. They work in the brick factory that borders | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
their home. The pay, around 40p a day. It is dusty and smelly. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
their home. The pay, around 40p a but necessary work for this family. | :07:04. | :07:17. | |
because our little brother is sick. He has cancer. Then they | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
because our little brother is sick. in Syria. Around sunset | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
because our little brother is sick. firing, he said, then | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
because our little brother is sick. As they toiled and | :07:36. | :07:35. | |
because our little brother is sick. for Syria, raised more money to pay | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
for the education of refugee children and create well | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
for the education of refugee opportunities for their parents. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Over lunch, Mustafa and Mohammed admits life is hard. Lunch over, it | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
is back to work. Those two young men are mature | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
beyond their years, like so many other child refugees, they have had | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
to grow up fast. The boys told me they want to return home to Syria. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
But what are the prospects of that in the near future? Frankly, they | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
are incredibly slim. The nascent peace talks have been suspended. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Islamic State holds large swathes of land. Pledges of funds from the | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
London conference will help make lives of those in exile a lot | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
better, it is hoped, but when will they return home? Not for some | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
considerable time. George, back to you. Thank you. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
A UN panel of legal experts has decided that the Wikileaks founder, | :08:45. | :08:55. | |
Julian Assange, is being unfairly detained. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
More than three years ago Mr Assange sought political asylum | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
in Ecuador's London embassy to avoid detention. | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
Today Downing Street said the UN panel's ruling | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
Our correspondent Caroline Hawley is outside the embassy | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
It is true it is not legally binding. It is also true that if | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
Julian Assange was to walk out of the embassy, he would be arrested. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
But this is a UN body which is used to criticising countries with some | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
of the worst human rights records in the world, so it does put Britain | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
and Sweden in a difficult position. It is a controversial decision, but | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
at the very least, it is a PR coup for Julian Assange. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
This was Julian Assange back in 2012, the summer he sought refuge | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Now a UN panel has heard him, and to the dismay of | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
Britain and Sweden, to the deight of his supporters, | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
and to some surprise, it has upheld his complaint. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
I really hope that as a consequence of this ruling, that Julian can | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
leave the embassy and go to Ecuador, where he can benefit | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
I fear the British government might ride roughshod | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
over this, but I think it would be really | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
unfortunate, and send a terrible message internationally, | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
about our recognition of international | :10:13. | :10:13. | |
Julian Assange first made headlines in 2010, | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
when Wikileaks began to publish hundreds | :10:19. | :10:19. | |
of thousands of American state secrets. | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
In August that year, allegations were made of sexual | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Two years later, Ecuador granted political asylum to Mr Assange, | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
on the grounds that he risked being extradited on to the US. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Last year, police announced that officers would no longer | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
be stationed outside the Ecuadorian Embassy. | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
They had cost the British taxpayer more than ?12 million. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
This morning, Julian Assange said he would accept arrest | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
by the British police, if the UN panel ruled against him. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Of course, we now know it has ruled in his favour. | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
One of the things I would be interested to hear from the UN | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
is why they regard this as a detention, when essentially, | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
The UK has a European Arrest Warrant for very | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
serious charges from Sweden, a well-respected jurisdiction, | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
and that will still have to be enforced come what may. | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
Today, a high-profile visitor for Mr Assange, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
in the form of the fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood. | :11:13. | :11:14. | |
The UN panel's decision is a big victory for Julian Assange, | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
and an embarrassment for Sweden and the UK. | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
But unless Julian Assange really is ready to be arrested, | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
for the moment at least, the Ecuadorian Embassy will remain home. | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
The Bank of England has cut its prediction for economic | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
growth and warned that wages are likely to increase | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
The bank's governor, Mark Carney, blamed "unforgiving" conditions | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
It was also announced the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
voted unanimously to keep interest rates on hold at its latest meeting. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
It's now thought they may not rise this year. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Detectives in Birmingham are hunting two men after a company boss | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
was shot dead during an attempted robbery in Birmingham last night. | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
Akhtar Javeed, who ran a soft drinks company, | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
was fatally wounded during the raid by two masked men at a warehouse. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Police described the attack as targeted and a murder | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
The charity Age UK has been accused of promoting unfavourable | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
gas and electricity deals in return for cash. | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
The Sun newspaper has alleged that energy deals offered by Age UK | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
with the supplier E.On may have been much more expensive | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
Age UK strongly reject the allegations while E.On says | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
The claim is to be examined by the energy and charities | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
regulators as Simon Gompertz reports. | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
It is called Age UK, but on the side, this charity offers broadband, | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
computers, insurance and one of its biggest earners, gas and | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
electricity. Beth Porter from East Sussex is one of thousands who | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
signed up for the energy deal, then felt she was paying too much. I | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
trusted that Age UK's promotion of something that was in my best | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
interest would be in my best interest. Then I found out it was | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
not. I also trusted them to give me peace of mind, as well as savings of | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
money and promised that this was the best deal for me. And then I found | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
out it wasn't. Age UK's two-year fixed-rate contract supplied by the | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
energy giant E.On had the average user paying ?1049 last year. Some | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
calculated that was ?245 more for some customers than yon's cheapest | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
rate. Age UK received ?6 million from E.On or ?41 for each customer | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
signed up. With donations and government money harder to come by, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Age UK has had to look for cash elsewhere. It says its gas and | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
electricity officer has been good value and helped maintain the | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
charity, while E.On says the latest offer was the cheapest of its kind | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
on the market when it was launched, and customers who find a cheaper | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
deal can switch without penalty. No one from Age UK would be interviewed | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
about today's allegations, but there was some support in the charity | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
world for its business partnerships. I think it is perfectly right we | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
have the appropriate relationships with commercial companies to raise | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
money to support our beneficiaries. It is how do we support in this case | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
frail elderly people and the work Age UK do? I do not criticise them | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
from having that relationship. I think it is a good thing and I think | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
many charities who do that are right to do so. Beth thinks if Age UK | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
wants to sell energy, they should do the legwork to find the best | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Our top story this evening: commission. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
Nearly ?7 billion has been pledged at a London conference | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
And still to come: The British pig farmers who say falling pork prices | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
And coming up on Reporting Scotland at 6.30: We talk to Scotland's | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
wheelchair tennis champion Gordon Reid who's back home | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
And Aberdeen put on the pressure as they get within three points | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Suicide is one of the biggest causes of death in the UK and yet it's one | :15:37. | :15:49. | |
New figures out today reveal the scale of the problem. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
They show that in 2014, 6,122 people killed themselves. | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
And the majority of those - 75% - were men. | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
In fact it's the biggest cause of death for men under 50 | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
Our Social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports on how one | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Trust in Liverpool is trying to tackle the problem. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
I am disappointed and I feel let down. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
And there are times when I feel quite furious. | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
When things go wrong and I am trying to sort things out with my children, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
I am angry that he didn't realise on that day it was the wrong | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Rebecca Gibson's husband Andy killed himself 15 months ago, | :16:30. | :16:46. | |
a debilitating shock to her and her two sons. | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
There were circumstances I believe that led to his death but I still, | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
I still can't believe that he would go ahead and do | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Some people feel that suicide is a selfish thing to do. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
I do think it is a selfish, or a self-centred thing to do. | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
I think it is very hard for those, selfish for those who are left | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Andy Gibson was 54 when he died, today's figures show three quarters | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
of suicides are by men, most are in middle age. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
On average 13 men kill themselves each day. | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
Here at the Mersey Care Mental Health Trust they are determined | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
They have adopted a zero suicide policy, copying an | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
The aim, to stop all suicides of patients by 2020. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
Their new approach includes working with American researchers to produce | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
an app which will tell medics when someone is feeling suicidal. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
Patients who agree to it will have all their communications monitored | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
E-mails, social media, even phone calls. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
The data will be analysed in real-time with doctors alerted | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
We think we can anticipate people who may be likely to harm themselves | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
with greater accuracy than we currently do and therefore | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
be able to do something about it and save their lives. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
The app will be trialled in about a year, an innovative | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
effort to stop the crippling consequences of suicide. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
The mess that they leave behind, he will never see his grandchildren, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
he will never see what his children achieve, he will never | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Everything I thought I had to look forward to as my children grew up, | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Rachel Gibson ending that report by Michael Buchanan. | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
And if you've been affected by these issues and would like details | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
of organisations which offer advice and support, | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
then you can go online to bbc.co.uk/actionline or call | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
the BBC Action Line to hear recorded information on 0800 066 066. | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Lines are open 24 hours and calls are free from landlines and mobiles. | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
David Cameron has been continuing negotiations about changes | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
to Britain's membership of the European Union today. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
The Prime Minister has been discussing the draft deal | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
with his EU counterparts and officials. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
A source close to the negotiations has told the BBC that nobody is | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
happy with the proposal. Our Deputy Political Editor James | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
Landale is in Downing Street. Are we getting a sense of how these | :19:24. | :19:34. | |
talks are going? The Prime Minister has had a busy day, he has seen the | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
Prime Minister's of Belgium, Sweden and Greece. He is off to Poland | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
tomorrow, and will see the Danes. He has been meeting with the president | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
of the European Parliament and today we have got a sense of a bit of | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
concern, resistance to the draft reform deal published earlier in the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
week. Evidence it is still very much a draft deal. The Bulgarian Foreign | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Minister said more negotiation had to be done over the idea to try and | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
restrict benefits of EU migrants. The European Parliament per resident | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
who I have just spoken to said there are concerns about these plans to | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
try and cram the style of the Eurozone and protect the countries | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
outside of the euro. Also a source in Brussels today said that Donald | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Tusk, the politician in charge of all these negotiations, when he has | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
made his initial assessment talking to the other countries, the other | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
countries said nobody is happy. Does this mean the deal is about to | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
collapse? No, but it shows it is not a done deal and it is not automatic | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
that there will be an agreement at a big summit in Brussels in two weeks' | :20:44. | :20:44. | |
time. Thank you very much. A brief look at some of the day's | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
other other news stories Coastguards have cordoned off | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
a beach in Norfolk where a sperm The animal is alive but isn't | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
expected to survive. It's two miles from where another | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
sperm whale was washed up The full re-opening | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
of the Forth Road Bridge has been HGVs have been banned | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
from the bridge, just North of Edinburgh, since it | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
was closed in December Engineers say further | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
work is still necessary. The legendary Belfast blues-man | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
Van Morrison became a Sir today, when he collected his Knighthood | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
for services to the music industry from Prince Charles | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
at Buckingham palace. He has been a fixture in the music | :21:24. | :21:24. | |
scene for over 50 years. Welsh Assembly ministers would be | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
made to take a 10% pay cut if the Conservatives win | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
May's Assembly elections. Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
says if he becomes First Minister, it would be a condition of getting | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
a job in his cabinet. The British pig farming industry | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
is facing a crisis - due to a glut of cheap pork | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
from the continent and a fall That's according to farmers who say | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
that it's led to a sharp drop in price for their produce | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
and a real struggle to make Our Correspondent Sian Lloyd | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
is at a pig farm in Stonehouse This farm specialises in rare breeds | :22:00. | :22:22. | |
like Gloucester old spot to claim a premium from customers. But that | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
prices farmers have been paid across the country have dropped to an | :22:27. | :22:27. | |
eight-year low. These piglets were born just a few | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
weeks ago to some of the 3000 sows owned by Midland Pig Producers, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
one of the biggest suppliers But ten years ago the company had | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
double the number and was sending almost two and a half thousand pigs | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
to market every week. Now the company is closing | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
two of its ten farms. 18 jobs will go and the size | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
of the business will be cut Every pig we sell per week | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
at the moment is losing us money, Currently we are losing ?50,000 | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
a month and that is unsustainable. Which is a great shame | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
because there should be So why are pig farms | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
like this one struggling? There is currently a glut of pigs | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
on the European market due to a Russian ban on importing | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
pork and pork products. Production costs in Europe | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
are cheaper, partly due to stricter welfare laws here, and customer | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
demand for pork is dropping. There are only a handful of pig | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
producers on this scale left So what, if anything, | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
can be done to halt the decline? Zoe Davies runs the organisation | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
which speaks for the We would like consumers to think | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
about what they are buying We are also asking the retailers | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
to continue to support us, those that are 100% on fresh | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
British pork. But also those that are not, | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
we would like to see a 5% increase We will definitely see more | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
producers go out of business, There have been health warnings | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
about eating too much processed meat I would always try and buy | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
British pork if I can. Because I firmly believe | :24:06. | :24:22. | |
in supporting the farming industry A lot of people, especially | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
if you have got families and young children, you need | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
to put price first. By scaling back its business this | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
pig producer is hoping But prices are expected to drop | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
further, leading to fears He's best known for his role as Joey | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
in the American sitcom - Friends - but today | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
it was announced that Matt LeBlanc is to join Chris Evans | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
as a presenter on Top Gear. He's already a familiar face | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
on the motoring show - He says he's a "car nut and massive | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
fan" of the programme - which is set to return | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
later this year. Please welcome, Matt LeBlanc! Keys | :25:00. | :25:16. | |
already had a taste of Top Gear, he was a star in a reasonably priced | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
car. Matt LeBlanc, Joey from Friends is the secret weapon of the Top Gear | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
relaunch. It itself was relaunched with huge success 14 years ago, with | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
characters such as the team dressing driver, the state. This was the most | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
widely watched factual programme in the world. With Jeremy, James and | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Richard out, will those territories resubscribe? It's worth a lot of | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
money to the BBC. Chris Evans is not merely known globally but Matt | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
LeBlanc is. He's already had a taste of presentation with this | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
compilation programme which you can see is available now. Top Gear is a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
way of making money from cars for the corporation. I was on the next | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
plane to England. And original Lamborghini, I had no idea. And in | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
1963 Porsche. But beautiful cars don't always make brilliant TV, Top | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Gear was, a few years ago, under threat of cancellation. What saved | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
it was Jeremy Clarkson and the realisation that it was all about | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
the presenters, the chemistry and the comedy. Matt LeBlanc is an actor | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
and we all project fantasies onto him and he will have to show his | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
real self to the viewers to make this work because what the previous | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
trio did was make us feel as if we knew them very well. He was, he said | :26:47. | :26:56. | |
today, honoured. Of course Top Gear has had many presenters. I have | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
three mirrors, one on the left... But these days it's no longer just a | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
car programme, it's a global brand. Bit of a wet blanket of cloud | :27:04. | :27:17. | |
heading our way, so for the next 12 hours or so not much happening on | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
the weather front, just a cloud, mild air coming of the Atlantic, | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
dribs and drabs of rain and an increasing breeze. Beyond that over | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
the weekend into next week it will turn quite rough. This is what it | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
looks like first thing on the morning on Friday for the early | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
birds, mild and damp in the south and the North. Heavy rain for | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
Ireland and West and Scotland. Strengthening winds as well, gale | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
force across western and southern coasts. Chile air reaching Scotland | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
and Northern Ireland in the second half of the afternoon. Could have | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
quite a bit of rain. Into the weekend turning very windy and there | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
will be some wet weather around, it will come and go, this low pressure | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
will bring nasty weather for South West and southern areas, in fact to | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
read the country it would be a great day on Saturday. You'll force winds | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
around that caused, and inland, if you're planning a trip out it looks | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
pretty rough. Further north of wind not so strong but still showers on | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
and off. Sunday a little better but not completely because we are going | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
to have gale force winds across the South. The South will get its fair | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
share of blustery weather because in the last few weeks it's always been | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
the North West but this time it's the South. Scenes like this not just | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
through the weekend but into next week as the low pressure will be | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
barrelling across the UK. That's all from the BBC News at Six | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
- so it's goodbye from me - | :28:57. | :28:59. |