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A UKIP MEP is suspended after calling a roomful of female party | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
members sluts. Godfrey Bloom made the comments at | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
the party's conference, to the fury of his leader. I made a joke and | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
said, you are all sluts, and everybody laughed, including all of | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
the women. What are you trying to make of this? We cannot have any one | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
individual destroying UKIP's National conference, and that is | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
what he has done today. We'll look at whether this will | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
affect the party's growing popularity. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
affect the party's growing Also tonight: Another bank is | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
targeted by cyber thieves. This time, over £1 million is stolen | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
from Barclays. How hundreds of children are being | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
blackmailed by paedophiles online, with some driven to self harm, even | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
suicide. After the decades-long civil war in | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Sri Lanka, we have a special report, as the country rebuilds but remains | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
divided. And how TV manufacturers plan to | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
transform the way we watch. In Sportsday: Sir Bradley Wiggins | :01:01. | :01:11. | |
leads the Tour of Britain by 32 seconds. | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Simon Yates won today's stage. Good evening. | :01:13. | :01:40. | |
The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, had intended to use his annual | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
conference today to boast of how far the party has come and how it has | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
grown in popularity. Instead it's been overshadowed by the comments of | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
the UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom, who called a roomful of female party | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
members "sluts". He insisted he was joking, but his leader failed to see | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
the funny side and suspended Mr Bloom. It's not the first time the | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
MEP has found himself in hot water. In August, he was forced to | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
apologise after he said that British aid should not be sent to "Bongo | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
Bongo Land". Here's Robin Brant. This was supposed to be his big day. | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
UKIP has had a great year. A breakthrough in local elections. The | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
message from Nigel Farage was, we are one of the big boys now. We have | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
over 30,000 members, rising fast, and by the next general election we | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
will have the third highest membership of any party in this | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
country. But a few hours later, one of the current members torpedoed | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
UKIP was my bid to broaden its appeal. At a fringe meeting about | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
women, MEP Godfrey Bloom, a senior party spokesman was recorded | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
women, MEP Godfrey Bloom, a senior apparently joking about housework. | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
You said the place is full of sluts. Is that true? You will have to look | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
at the clip, I cannot remember. What I remember is that everybody, I | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
think all of the girls said, none of us clean behind the fridge. And I | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
made a joke and said, you are all sluts, and everybody laughed, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
including all of the women. Was there a single woman that did not | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
laugh at the joke, you sad little man? Then there was more, this time | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
on race. What do you make of the cover of this brochure with no black | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
faces? What they racist comment. That is an appalling thing to say. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
You are picking people out for the colour of their skin! New disgust | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
me. Get out of my way. You are disc race for! Later, explained that he | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
meant the very old fashioned meaning of the word slut. It means under | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
side. As your mother never called you a slut Western Mark perhaps you | :04:01. | :04:12. | |
are very tidy. It was a joke. Head held high, there was no apology, but | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
one of the party's prominent women was quick to call for him to go. It | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
is demeaning to the person who made that comment and to whoever they | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
consider the target. It is not the language I would use, nor language | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
that is endorsed by other members of UKIP. Nigel Farage was in a pub | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
having a pint when he first heard about the slut comment. He knows | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
that controversial remarks like that in the past have not necessarily | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
damaged UKIP's reputation. But what is clear is that what unfolded in | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
the hall next door could be a major setback for the party. A man with a | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
look of despair by the end of the day, Nigel Farage told members the | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
conference was gone, dead, he said. We cannot have any one individual | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
destroying UKIP was Mac National conference, and that is what he has | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
done today. And I am sad about that, but we cannot tolerate it and we | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
have to act. UKIP has been accused of being a one-man band, all about | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Nigel Farage. Today, the party tried to show there is more to it, and it | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
succeeded, but this is 1 million miles from the plan. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
Lets get more from Norman Smith, who joins us from Westminster. Not | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
exactly the kind of coverage Nigel Farage was hoping for from the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
annual conference. How damaging is this to UKIP? I suspect profoundly | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
damaging. Nigel Farage has tonight conceded that Godfrey Bloom's | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
comments are politically "disastrous" . They overshadow what | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
was UKIP's biggest ever conference. They are a gift to Nigel Farage's | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
political opponents. Being in no doubt that David Cameron will be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
wearing a particularly large grin tonight. But above all, it will fuel | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
the perception that UKIP contains in its ranks people who are frankly | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
rather reactionary and out of touch, decidedly the moment when Nigel | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Farage is trying to present UKIP as representing mainstream | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
middle-of-the-road opinion. I suspect it may also call for | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
something of a rethink about the way that UKIP is run and its ethos. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
Nigel Farage has made much of the fact that UKIP are different to | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
other parties, not hidebound by political correctness and party | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
discipline. That brings advantages, but huge risks, too, and it seems | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
those risks have come back to clobber Mr Farage with a vengeance. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
A man described by police as the "Mr Big" of UK cyber crime is believed | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
to be one of eight men being questioned tonight after £1.3 | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
million was stolen from a branch of Barclays Bank. Scotland Yard is | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
linking the crime to a similar attempted theft last week, and said | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
those responsible were significant players in a sophisticated criminal | :06:52. | :07:03. | |
network. Here's Rory Cellan-Jones. Britain's banks are under constant | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
cyber attack but usually we learn nothing about it. Today was | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
different. It was back in April that this north London branch of Barclays | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Bank suffered the theft of £1.3 million. Now, police have arrested | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
eight men alleged to have got control of the bank's computer | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
systems in an operation masterminded from a flat in this block. Police | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
seized cash, jewellery and thousands of credit cards. They say the raid | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
was the work of a sophisticated of credit cards. They say the raid | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
criminal network. This premises, we would consider the control room of, | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
again I would use Mr Big of UK cybercrime at doesn't. In there, the | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
evidence, the setup and Logistics has overwhelmed us. This heist | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
depended on physical access to the bank. A man posing as an IT engineer | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
visited the branch, claiming he had come to fix the computers. Once the | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
intruder got access to one of the computers, he was able to hook up | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
this device, called a KVM switch, which allows the user to control | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
several computers from one keyboard monitor and mouse. They are widely | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
used. This one had a 3G router attached with a mobile card in it, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
which meant the gang could control the computer remotely, from their | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
headquarters. Last week, the same technique was used in a failed raid | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
on a branch of Santander, and police are investigating links between the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
plots. Most banks have made their online services more secure by | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
making customers use authentication devices. But now they face a new | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
threat. The banks need to be better about human and physical security. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
They need to put more tests in place as to who is coming into the branch | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
and what they are doing if they are meddling with computers. That will | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
be difficult because they want people to come in off the street. | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Barclays Bank is stressing that no customers have lost money as a | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
result of this incident, but banks which have spent huge sums making | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
computer networks secure from hackers now have to stop the raiders | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
from just walking through the door. Hundreds of children are being | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
tricked into sharing sexual images of themselves online and are then | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
being blackmailed by paedophiles who threaten to send the pictures to the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
child's family and friends. Investigators say almost 200 | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
children in Britain, some as young as eight, have been targeted. Some | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
of the victims have been driven to self-harm, even suicide. Here's Tom | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
Symonds. The role of written's child | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
protection agency, CEOP, is to spot emerging threats to young people. It | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
is really worried about this one, internet lack mail by abusers posing | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
as teenagers. 424 young victims have been identified worldwide, of which | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
184 were in the UK. There were six British suicide attempts, and one | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
resulted in death. Daniel Perry, 17, thought he was having an online | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
relationship with an American teenager. He sent explicit images, | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
but he was communicating with a blackmailer threatened to send the | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
pig was to his friends and family. He felt his death from the Forth | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
Road Bridge, the victim of an abuser he had never met. If they speak to a | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
14-year-old they say, I am 14, 15, are you interested in me? It is | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
introduction through the web as they would introduce themselves at | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
school, except they go straight for the sexual exploitation imagery. | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
This is a transcript of messages between an abuser and his victim. He | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
begins by asking her age, sex and location. She responds, 16, female. | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
He says he is 17, which is a lie, and mail. He quickly asks if she has | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
a webcam. Within minutes, the victim is talked into sending explicit | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
video to someone she thought was her own age. It could be posted online | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
at any time. The next day he types, two times more and you will be free | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
for ever. Her response, thanks for making me want to kill myself. He | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
for ever. Her response, thanks for ignores her distress. Remember, I | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
have your video, he says, so don't do anything bad. In this form of | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
sexual abuse, every young person is vulnerable simply because they are a | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
young person. Because they are an adolescent they will be exploring | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
young person. Because they are an their sexuality and are more likely | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
to take risks and be impulsive than an adult. And that vulnerability so | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
concerns a small number of parents that they are now taking direct | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
action. Chasing down men who they say have tried to approach children | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
online. The Leicester group Letzgo Hunting posed as under age girls, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
watching for the moment innocent chat becomes grooming for sex. They | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
turned their cameras on this man, James Stone, who was today sentenced | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
to eight years for child abuse, but the police say the group's | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
activities played no part in the conviction and can result in harm, | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
including the recent suicide of a man its members accused. Their | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
advice to children targeted online is to tell someone because you are | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
not to blame. The Syrian government has begun | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
sending details of its chemical weapons to the international | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
watchdog which will supervise their destruction. Under a deal brokered | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
by America and Russia, Syria has been given until tomorrow to give a | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
full account of the weapons it possesses to the Organisation for | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons The US had threatened military | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
action over a chemical attack in Damascus which the UN says was a war | :12:40. | :12:52. | |
crime. A former member of the Scottish Parliament has been jailed | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
for a year for assaulting his three ex-wives and a stepdaughter. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
71-year-old Bill Walker was found guilty last month of 23 charges of | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
domestic abuse between 1967 and 1985. He was expelled from the SNP | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
party when the allegations were raised and resigned two weeks ago. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
Germans head to the polls on Sunday in an election which many | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
commentators are suggesting is too close to call. Angela Merkel is on | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
course to win a third term as Chancellor. Of that there seems | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
little doubt. But the German political system means she will need | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
to form a coalition, and there's no indication yet as to who with. Gavin | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
Hewitt has been following the campaign and reports from Munich. A | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
main square in Munich tonight, one of the last campaign stops for | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Chancellor Angela Merkel, as she made her final pitch to the German | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
voters. The most powerful politician in Europe is expected to win a third | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
term on Sunday, when Germany votes. But the polls have narrowed. She has | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
built her campaign around having shielded Germany from Europe's | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
financial crisis. But he told the crowd the election was a fight down | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
to the wire. TRANSLATION: Ladies and gentlemen, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
in just a few more hours we are pleading with you to choose. I want | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
to be your Chancellor for four more years. On the street she undoubtedly | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
command respect, but there is also an appetite for change. She might | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
not be that charismatic but she did a great job. It's our Chancellor and | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
she's doing her work really well, but I'm thinking it's time for | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
change. It's time for a new party to come to power. Her main opponent is | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
Pere Steinberg, from the social Democrat party. In recent days he | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
has attacked Angela Merkel for dithering, for her innate caution. | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Has she done anything about the infrastructure he asks. No, the | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
crowd. Education? Has she improved local finances? Yet one of the | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
possible outcomes of a close result on Sunday is that Angela Merkel | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
could be forced into a grand coalition with the social Democrats. | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
It would be an uneasy alliance. And at Angela Merkel's Valley tonight | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
there were concerns that the outcome might be confiscated. Angela | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
Merkel's party will get the most votes, that's not in doubt. Whether | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
she will end up with an absolute majority is less certain. Her fate | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
is in the hands of some of the smaller parties including her | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
current coalition partner and how smaller parties including her | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
well they poll. The crowd in Munich clearly expected the woman they call | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
mummy to be returned to power. But there are uncertainties. Who will | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
she be in coalition with, will decisions over Europe be harder and | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
could Germany face weeks of haggling over its future government? The | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he will scrap the government's most | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
controversial cut to benefits if he becomes the next Prime Minister. Mr | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
Miliband says the policy, which cuts benefits for social housing tenants | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
with spare rooms, is both unfair and doesn't work. It is one of the | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
government's most controversial benefit changes. Since April, social | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
housing tenants with spare rooms have either had to pay more in rent | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
or move somewhere smaller. Labour said that was wrong, but Ed Miliband | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
hadn't promised that he would scrap it. Until now. We are starting by | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
showing how we would abolish the bedroom tax, by ending boardroom tax | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
loopholes that this government is allowing. That is a fair choice that | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
will help disabled people and some of the people in the greatest | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
hardship in our country. The announcement follows months of | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
criticism from the government, who claimed Ed Miliband moaned about a | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
policy but couldn't be certain he would get rid of it. You ranted and | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
raved about the spare room subsidy will stop are you going to reverse | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
it? Just nod. Labour say it would pay for this policy by scrapping | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
what it calls a tax break for hedge funds. Getting rid of a Treasury | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
scheme that allows employees to give up some right in exchange for shares | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
that Labour claims creates a tax loophole. And closing what it calls | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
tax scams in the construction industry. This would save, the party | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
says, more than £1.5 billion. Susan Lloyd lives in Saint Helens with a | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
says, more than £1.5 billion. Susan husband and grandson but has three | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
bedrooms. She receives disability living allowance for a chronic chest | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
condition and now gets around £50 a month less in housing benefit. The | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
gas is more important than the bedroom tax. For a little bedroom | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
like this, it's disgraceful. This idea will cheer those hoops in their | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
rents going up in recent months. It will also cheer those within the | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Labour Party have been stressing its about time the party set out clear | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
policy ideas. But welfare cuts, opinion polls suggest, are often | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
quite popular. And the government is scathing about Labour's idea, and | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
questioning, too, whether it has even thought through how it will be | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
paid for. Only three months ago Ed Miliband were saying we needed iron | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
discipline in spending. And the very next thing he announces is for more | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
spending on welfare paid for by more borrowing. Meanwhile, a new book | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
from Gordon Brown's former adviser, Damian McBride, is full of claims of | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
backstabbing that went on when Labour was in power. So, after a | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
tough summer for Ed Miliband, his challenge now, as the party gathers | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
for its conference, will be announcing other policies like this | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
that set out what he would do if he became Prime Minister. For more than | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
two decades should like was torn apart by a brutal civil war, with | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
the government accused of human rights abuses. Now it is trying to | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
rebuild its reputation ahead of the Commonwealth heads of government | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
summit, which takes place in niche Lankan capital later this year. For | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
26 years the country was riven by violence and bloodshed. The | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
government tried to stop the Tamil minority in the North from gaining | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
independence. The war finally ended four years ago, leaving up to | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
100,000 dead and the country deeply divided. But for the first time in | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
25 years, voters in the Tamil dominated northern province will get | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
their chance tomorrow to vote in local elections. We report from | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Jaffna City. Celebrations for what local elections. We report from | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
the shrill and in government calls a new era. It is staging a group | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
wedding for former Tamil rebels who've gone through a process of | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
re-education to convert them to its side. They are rewarded with a | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
government job. TRANSLATION: We are happier now. We | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
spent a year and a half in the rehabilitation programme and we've | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
changed ourselves. We have started a new life. Sri Lanka's civil war | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
lasted nearly 30 years, the Tamil Tigers becoming notorious for | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
suicide attacks in their battle for independence. But after a massive | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
Sri Lankan army offensive, they were defeated four years ago. Both sides | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
were accused of atrocities. The rebels of using Tamil civilians as | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
human shields. And the army of indiscriminate shelling. Among those | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
caught in the crossfire was this woman and her family. Then her | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
daughter and son-in-law were arrested. She admits he was a rebel. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
But she tells me her grandchildren were taken as well. Four years | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
later, the army still won't say what happened to them. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
TRANSLATION: They were just five and three years old when they were | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
taken. They were flowering buds. I have to believe they are still | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
alive. That is what keeps me going, otherwise I will kill myself. The | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
government wants to move on. It is spending huge sums trying to revive | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
the economy in the north. But the price for the majority Tamil | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
population isn't -- is an often intimidating military presence. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
There's a real sense of fear here. We've come to this shopping area to | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
talk to people. These soldiers have showed up, there's also a police car | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
nearby. Now no one wants to speak to us. Tamil Tigers a-macro say they | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
are second-class citizens, like this us. Tamil Tigers a-macro say they | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
man who tells me he was forced to close his business by the army. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
TRANSLATION: They accused me of getting money from Tamils with links | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
to the rebels. It's not true, but they see us all as their enemy. With | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
to the rebels. It's not true, but the president due to host the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Commonwealth summit later this year, calls are growing for Britain and | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
others to boycott it. It is militarily dismiss accusations they | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
massacred Tamil civilians. I don't think... Not everyone can buy that. | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
This war, unlike in other countries, this war was between government | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
forces, not against the civilian population. The obvious scars of war | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
are fading, as northern Sri Lanka population. The obvious scars of war | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
prepares for elections. The land is united now, says one Tamil. But | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
people 's minds are still divided. A retired teacher has been trampled to | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
death by a wild elephant while on safari in southern India. | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
67-year-old Colin Manvell, from safari in southern India. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
Havant, was on a jungle tour in the state of Tamil Nadu. It's believed | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
that he was trying to photograph the animal when it charged. The Anglican | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
church has appointed the UK and Ireland's first female Bishop. The | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Reverend Pat Storey was chosen by the Church of Ireland to be the new | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
Bishop of Meath and Kildare. The married mother of two, who grew up | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
in Belfast, said she was both "excited and daunted" by the | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
historic appointment. The Canadian smartphone maker, Blackberry, is to | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
sack 4,500 of its employees worldwide, cutting its workforce by | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
40%. The company, which is looking for a buyer, said it expects to | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
report loses of more than £600 million when it publishes figures | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
for the three months to September next week. | :23:34. | :23:43. | |
Over the years, technology has shrunk most things in our lives - | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
but not the size of our televisions. The days of a family huddled around | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
a tiny screen are long gone - and our screens keep on growing with 40, | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
50 even 60 inch screens readily available. And now TV manufacturers | :23:55. | :24:01. | |
are going even further with screens double that size, as our media | :24:01. | :24:12. | |
correspondent David Sillito reports. The TV, the small screen, the box to | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
sit around. An idea that is being challenged. Welcome to one vision of | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
the future. Wallpaper TV that surrounds you. Controlled by a | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
tablet device, this prototype throws any content in any size onto walls | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
lined with ultra-thin screens. For Simon Parnell, a man described as a | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
thought leader for the future of TV, the 130 inch movie screen is the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
future. Look at how sharp that is. The television as a box in your | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
room, it's over, isn't it? I think so. Television is going to inhabit | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
our homes in a way that is unobtrusive. It's going to blend | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
into our environment. And one thing is already definitely happening. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Television is getting an awful lot bigger. If you measure this one, it | :25:11. | :25:19. | |
is... 85 inches. That's the equivalent of four 42 inch | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
televisions. The price, £32,000. Prices have a habit of shrinking. By | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
the end of the decade, we expect a third of all TV sets sold will be | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
jumbo-sized, 33 inches or larger. Within there, there will be a good | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
proportion that a 60, 80 or even 100 inches in size. But there are | :25:39. | :25:46. | |
doubters. Covering the house with screens doesn't seem to resonate | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
yet. Damian Reid shows 60 inches is a natural limit. How far away should | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
we be standing to watch ourselves here? You'll a-macro for a 60 inch | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
screen and it is typically 15 feet. Bigger than most British living | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
rooms today. Of course, this 15 foot ideal viewing distance may fuss and | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
be a matter of opinion. Indeed, the whole heart of this debate isn't | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
technology, it's us. Just how much of our living space and our lives do | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
we really want screened? That's all from us. There a first | :26:24. | :26:24. |