:00:10. > :00:16.about missing flight MH370. They accuse the Malaysian government of
:00:17. > :00:22.trying to delay, distort and hide the truth about what happened. As
:00:23. > :00:24.the search for wreckage is affected by bad weather, Malaysia Airlines
:00:25. > :00:31.reject the criticism of their handling of the case. Well, I think
:00:32. > :00:34.it is unfair, I think we've done all we can within our means to help
:00:35. > :00:36.them. We'll have the latest from Beijing,
:00:37. > :00:39.where the public protest has intensified.
:00:40. > :00:42.Also tonight, the gap between wages and prices narrows as inflation
:00:43. > :00:46.falls to its lowest level for four years.
:00:47. > :00:54.Paul Flowers, the former chairman of Co-op Bank, tells the BBC about his
:00:55. > :01:00.and the bank's failures. I am no better and no worse, it seems to me,
:01:01. > :01:07.than any number of other people. But of course I have sinned in that
:01:08. > :01:11.old-fashioned term. The latest evidence that cases of
:01:12. > :01:14.liver disease are rising dramatically in England.
:01:15. > :01:17.And in tonight's big Manchester derby, City were ahead in the first
:01:18. > :01:20.minute. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:21. > :01:25.News, Andy Murray breezes past Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets
:01:26. > :01:26.at the Miami Masters. The defending champion will now play Novak
:01:27. > :01:49.Djokovic in the quarterfinals. Good evening. The search area for
:01:50. > :01:52.the missing Malaysian airliner has been narrowed, but there's still no
:01:53. > :01:57.evidence of what happened to flight MH370. Angry relatives waiting for
:01:58. > :02:00.proof of what happened have clashed with police outside Malaysia's
:02:01. > :02:05.embassy in Beijing. They accused the Malaysian government of trying to
:02:06. > :02:08.delay, distort and hide the truth. But speaking to the BBC, the head of
:02:09. > :02:11.Malaysia Airlines has defended the way his company has dealt with the
:02:12. > :02:14.families.The search for wreckage was suspended for much of the day
:02:15. > :02:16.because of bad weather. From Kuala Lumpur, our correspondent Alistair
:02:17. > :02:27.Leithead sent this report. Grief turning to anger on the
:02:28. > :02:28.streets of Beijing, a rare show of protest from families of those lost
:02:29. > :02:40.aboard Flight MH370. If you don't let me through, you're
:02:41. > :02:41.not Chinese, this woman says, bursting towards the Malaysian
:02:42. > :02:50.Embassy, the focus of their anger. We just want the truth, he says.
:02:51. > :02:57.But news the plane had crashed into the ocean is not the truth they
:02:58. > :03:00.want. Like many relatives here in Kuala Lumpur, Daniel Tan, the
:03:01. > :03:05.brother of one of the Malaysian passengers, is still convinced he's
:03:06. > :03:09.alive. As long as they don't find any craft, it's going to be a
:03:10. > :03:13.waiting game for us. We just have to wait until they find the body of the
:03:14. > :03:20.aircraft. Before that, we will continue waiting, we will continue
:03:21. > :03:24.to wait. Until you see wreckage? Until we see the wreckage of MH370.
:03:25. > :03:36.Otherwise we will not give up hope. The chief executive of Malaysia
:03:37. > :03:42.Airlines agreed to be interviewed for the first time today. He said
:03:43. > :03:46.the families were his top priority. Our primary role in this tragedy is
:03:47. > :03:50.really to ensure we care, we really take care of the families of those
:03:51. > :03:56.on board. And I think we've gone beyond our normal responses. I think
:03:57. > :04:02.they would say you haven't gone far enough. Their response has been very
:04:03. > :04:06.angry and has been targeted at you. Well, I think it's unfair, I think
:04:07. > :04:11.we've done all we can within our means to help them. You must realise
:04:12. > :04:17.that in an incident like this, normally, in any tragedy there's
:04:18. > :04:21.always some evidence in place. We have not had any evidence until
:04:22. > :04:24.maybe last night. The search for remains of the plane
:04:25. > :04:27.was grounded today by bad weather, the international search effort
:04:28. > :04:34.stalled with a huge challenge still ahead. If I could put the analogy of
:04:35. > :04:37.what we've got out there at the moment, we're not searching for a
:04:38. > :04:41.needle in a haystack - we're still trying to define where the haystack
:04:42. > :04:43.is, so that's just to put it in context.
:04:44. > :04:46.A vast span of ferocious ocean, the sightings of a day before now
:04:47. > :04:52.scattered in the high seas, the approaching ships delayed. It was a
:04:53. > :04:54.big decision by the Malaysian Prime Minister to announce the loss of
:04:55. > :04:59.flight MH370 without any physical evidence, and there's still a sense
:05:00. > :05:02.of things being in limbo. For the families of those on board, who
:05:03. > :05:07.really need to see wreckage before they can remove that faint glimmer
:05:08. > :05:10.of hope. And for the investigators who have to try and pinpoint the
:05:11. > :05:13.black-box flight recorder to solve the core of this mystery - what
:05:14. > :05:20.caused this flight en route to Beijing to crash deep in the
:05:21. > :05:27.southern Indian Ocean? Alastair Leithead, BBC News, Kuala
:05:28. > :05:30.Lumpur. Live to Beijing and our
:05:31. > :05:35.correspondents John Sudworth, the intensity of the anger we saw in the
:05:36. > :05:41.report, is that directed wholly at the Malaysians in Beijing or also
:05:42. > :05:46.the Chinese authorities? Protests are extremely rare on the streets of
:05:47. > :05:50.the Chinese capital, Huw. This one was emotional, spontaneous, it
:05:51. > :05:54.appeared to catch the authorities by surprise, and it shows the political
:05:55. > :05:57.stakes are rising for the Chinese government as well. You have had
:05:58. > :06:01.hundreds of relatives cooped up in hotels for two and a half weeks,
:06:02. > :06:06.deeply Grix stricken, frustration mounting, beginning to demand that
:06:07. > :06:10.their only does do a little more. Chinese politicians can appear aloof
:06:11. > :06:15.and distant, of course. There have been no visits by senior politicians
:06:16. > :06:19.to these families. But that is beginning to change. Yesterday,
:06:20. > :06:22.after these protests, senior officials from the Chinese cabinet
:06:23. > :06:26.visited the hotel, we had an announcement from the president that
:06:27. > :06:30.he is sending a special envoy to Malaysian, and the Chinese premier
:06:31. > :06:35.issued a statement saying, we feel for the plight and the sorrow of the
:06:36. > :06:39.families. At the moment, the anger is directed at Malaysia, that is the
:06:40. > :06:42.main focus and concern of the families, but I think the risks for
:06:43. > :06:47.the Chinese leadership are rising, also.
:06:48. > :06:52.The rate of inflation has fallen to 1.7%, the lowest level for four
:06:53. > :06:55.years. The fall, which is partly the result of lower fuel prices, means
:06:56. > :06:59.the gap between pay increases and price rises continues to narrow. But
:07:00. > :07:02.Labour said prices were still rising faster than average wages, as our
:07:03. > :07:11.business correspondent Emma Simpson reports.
:07:12. > :07:14.Inflation, it swung upwards during the recession with prices rising
:07:15. > :07:18.faster than earnings. But with the cost of living coming down and
:07:19. > :07:26.earnings on the rise, could the balance be about to tip? It already
:07:27. > :07:32.has. At this engineering company in East Kilbride. They got a 5% pay
:07:33. > :07:38.rise last year, thanks to new business in foreign markets. Sales
:07:39. > :07:41.are 60% higher than they were five years ago, and every year better
:07:42. > :07:47.than the previous year, so we have not been affected by the crisis, we
:07:48. > :07:52.have not been held back in terms of what we can offer in terms of wage
:07:53. > :07:57.increases. The fall in inflation was largely driven by lower prices at
:07:58. > :08:01.the pumps, and economists reckon it will continue to stay below the Bank
:08:02. > :08:05.of England's 2% target for some time. Before the downturn, average
:08:06. > :08:09.wage rises were higher than increases in the cost of living.
:08:10. > :08:14.Then the trend reversed with inflation racing ahead of average
:08:15. > :08:21.earnings, putting a huge squeeze on living standards. But it may not be
:08:22. > :08:25.too long before this gap is closed. During the recession, it was the
:08:26. > :08:29.private sector that first saw wages take a hit, then the public sector
:08:30. > :08:34.followed. But in the past few months, private sector pay has been
:08:35. > :08:37.creeping back up, driven by the recovery, with average wage
:08:38. > :08:42.increases now neck and neck with the rate of inflation. But public sector
:08:43. > :08:48.workers are still finding their pay lagging behind. Low inflation is
:08:49. > :08:53.good news, but that doesn't hide the fact that real wages are falling
:08:54. > :08:57.across the economy. Workers are still, on average, ?40 per week
:08:58. > :09:02.worse off, pay packets are as small as they were ten years ago. It will
:09:03. > :09:06.take another ten years before their full value is restored. House prices
:09:07. > :09:13.aren't included in the consumer prices index. They are rising.
:09:14. > :09:17.Strong growth in London and the south-east drove average prices up
:09:18. > :09:23.by nearly 7% across the UK in the last year, a key part of our economy
:09:24. > :09:29.which is being very closely watched. Emma Simpson, BBC News.
:09:30. > :09:32.Live to Downing Street and James Landale, Howard deputy political
:09:33. > :09:37.editor. This long-running debate about the cost of living, how is it
:09:38. > :09:43.effective? Clearly, the fact that the gap between wages and cost is
:09:44. > :09:47.narrowing is helpful for the Government. David Cameron was saying
:09:48. > :09:51.this will help people, George Osborne saying it will mean more
:09:52. > :09:56.economic security for families, but there is quite measured response.
:09:57. > :10:01.They know that there can be a huge gap between what statistics say and
:10:02. > :10:05.how people actually feel. There was nobody there jumping around and
:10:06. > :10:09.saying the debate is over. They know that even if later this year, wages
:10:10. > :10:14.do rise faster than inflation for many people, they will not feel that
:10:15. > :10:17.immediately in their pocket. That is why Labour were saying that what it
:10:18. > :10:23.calls the cost of living crisis is still there and they reckon that in
:10:24. > :10:28.2015 people will still be worse off than in 2010, simply because real
:10:29. > :10:34.wages will take so long to catch up. As one of Ed Miliband's aides said
:10:35. > :10:39.to me, one low inflation swallow does not a summer make. But the
:10:40. > :10:41.figures are good for the Government and put more pressure on Labour to
:10:42. > :10:48.come up with a clear economic strategy that some of their MPs
:10:49. > :10:52.Beale has yet to be made. -- feel.
:10:53. > :10:55.A major new investment has been announced in Hull. 1,000 jobs will
:10:56. > :10:58.be created making offshore wind turbines. The project costs more
:10:59. > :11:00.than ?300 million and is being funded by the German engineering
:11:01. > :11:06.giant Siemens and by Associated British Ports.
:11:07. > :11:11.But Honda has announced it will cut production at its Swindon factory,
:11:12. > :11:15.putting 340 jobs at risk. It follows disappointing sales in Europe. The
:11:16. > :11:22.company said strong UK sales haven't been enough to keep the factory
:11:23. > :11:25.working at full capacity. The former chairman of the Co-op
:11:26. > :11:29.Bank, Paul Flowers, has told the BBC that he and the bank failed in their
:11:30. > :11:33.duty to customers. The bank had to be rescued after it was found to
:11:34. > :11:36.have a shortfall of ?1.5 billion. Mr Flowers resigned last year after he
:11:37. > :11:41.was alleged to have been buying cocaine. He's given his first
:11:42. > :11:45.interview since stepping down to BBC Newsnight, as our correspondent
:11:46. > :11:47.Simon Gompertz reports. Paul Flowers, the Methodist minister
:11:48. > :11:50.with no experience of managing banks who found himself at the helm of
:11:51. > :11:59.Co-operative Bank when it nearly imploded with a ?1.5 billion hole in
:12:00. > :12:02.its accounts. At the height of inquiries into the bank's problems,
:12:03. > :12:11.he was shown in a newspaper video allegedly involved in a drug
:12:12. > :12:15.transaction. This was well after he'd stepped down as chairman.
:12:16. > :12:18.Interviewed by Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman, Paul Flowers wouldn't talk
:12:19. > :12:27.about the drug allegation but admitted to frailty and failings. I
:12:28. > :12:32.am no better and no worse, it seems to me, than any number of other
:12:33. > :12:38.people. But of course I have sinned in that old-fashioned term - which I
:12:39. > :12:41.would rarely use, I have to say. He was still leading the bank
:12:42. > :12:44.earlier last year when it was negotiating with Lloyds to buy more
:12:45. > :12:47.than 600 branches, a dramatic expansion plan which fell apart as
:12:48. > :12:53.the Co-op's dire financial straits became clear. Before the drug
:12:54. > :12:55.episode, MPs probing the Lloyds debacle exposed Paul Flowers'
:12:56. > :13:05.financial frailty when he underestimated the Co-op Bank's
:13:06. > :13:08.assets by tens of billions. Just to give you an idea, you were offering
:13:09. > :13:14.me three billion, and I'm telling you that your annual accounts showed
:13:15. > :13:21.47 billion. Indeed they did, forgive me. And your loan book is about 32
:13:22. > :13:25.billion. These are very basic numbers.
:13:26. > :13:28.He told them then that a Treasury minister, Mark Hoban, had encouraged
:13:29. > :13:35.the Co-op in the ill-fated attempt to buy the Lloyds branches, and he
:13:36. > :13:38.went further tonight. They actually said that they were keen on the
:13:39. > :13:45.Co-op becoming a much more significant player with more scale.
:13:46. > :13:51.We would have had about 7% or 8% of the market if this had gone through.
:13:52. > :13:54.And there was pressure, certainly from Mark Hoban, but I believe and
:13:55. > :14:00.know that that originated much higher up with the Chancellor
:14:01. > :14:03.himself. Sources at the Treasury deny there
:14:04. > :14:07.was interference over the Lloyds talks. They say the decisions were
:14:08. > :14:13.entirely commercial and made by the Lloyds board. This is the odd
:14:14. > :14:15.spectacle of a man now subject to a police investigation trying to
:14:16. > :14:16.justify his record at a bank which nearly fell apart.
:14:17. > :14:27.Simon Gompertz, BBC News. The Ukrainian authorities say a
:14:28. > :14:31.leader of the hardline Right Sector movement has been killed while
:14:32. > :14:34.resisting arrest. Oleksandr Muzychko, who led the far-right
:14:35. > :14:40.group in Western Ukraine, was also suspected of involvement with
:14:41. > :14:47.organised crime. Russia has cited right-wing extremists as one of the
:14:48. > :14:50.reasons it's intervened in Crimea. There has been a significant
:14:51. > :14:53.increase in the number of people dying from liver disease in England.
:14:54. > :14:58.Between 2001 and 2012, deaths from the disease increased by 40%. In
:14:59. > :15:01.2012, nearly 11,000 people died and doctors say most of those were
:15:02. > :15:05.preventable. Instances of liver disease have risen across the UK and
:15:06. > :15:13.one in five people is said to be at risk. Our medical correspondent,
:15:14. > :15:17.Fergus Walsh, has the details. Two faces of liver disease. Both these
:15:18. > :15:24.men know they are lucky to be alive after decades of self-inflicted
:15:25. > :15:30.damage. For Chris Wilde, it was alcohol. The retired dentist nearly
:15:31. > :15:35.died after living scarring caused a huge internal bleed. He's given up
:15:36. > :15:40.now but used to drink two cans of lager and half a bottle of wine a
:15:41. > :15:46.day. I was a social drinker. Perhaps on the heavier side than the lighter
:15:47. > :15:50.side. As far as I was aware, I was not doing myself any harm. It was
:15:51. > :15:57.only when my life was threatened and I was in casualty, that the message
:15:58. > :16:01.came home that if I didn't stop, I wouldn't be alive in six months'
:16:02. > :16:07.time. For Dave Norris, it was obesity that
:16:08. > :16:11.damaged his liver. He used to weigh 15-and-a-half stone and has
:16:12. > :16:18.diabetes. Four months ago, he had a liver transplant. I was never light.
:16:19. > :16:22.I was never sort of what you consider massively overweight. Then
:16:23. > :16:28.suddenly to be told that, you know, your liver is no longer functioning,
:16:29. > :16:33.and it won't get any better, was, yeah, a complete shock. This all
:16:34. > :16:40.feels fine. Nothing to make me worried. A simple blood test or
:16:41. > :16:44.ultrasound scan may have picked up Dave Norris's liver problems a
:16:45. > :16:48.decade ago. Liver specialists say it typifies how the disease has been
:16:49. > :16:52.ignored. I have done my ward round. I have 40-year-olds dying of liver
:16:53. > :16:58.disease that is very difficult to treat because they have come along
:16:59. > :17:01.too late. All of those patients were potentially preventible, curable, if
:17:02. > :17:08.I had got to them early. The average age people die from liver disease is
:17:09. > :17:11.just 59 and getting younger. Of the five biggest causes of death in the
:17:12. > :17:16.UK, liver disease is the only one that is increasing. That's in
:17:17. > :17:20.contrast to most of Europe, where death rates are going down. So, why
:17:21. > :17:24.has liver disease increased so sharply? Well, the UK is one of the
:17:25. > :17:29.few European countries where alcohol consumption has soared in the past
:17:30. > :17:35.50 years, and, we are the fattest nation. An MPs' report has called
:17:36. > :17:40.for a minimum unit price of alcohol of 50p in England and for more
:17:41. > :17:47.action to tackle hepatitis, the viral infection and the third major
:17:48. > :17:53.region why healthy livers like this are becoming damaged beyond repair.
:17:54. > :18:00.Let's have a look at some of the day's other stories. The Government
:18:01. > :18:03.is to sell off a further stake in Lloyds Banking Group, worth more
:18:04. > :18:06.than ?4 billion. It means the Government's share holding in
:18:07. > :18:12.Lloyds, which was bailed out at the height of the financial crisis,
:18:13. > :18:15.would be reduced to about a quarter. Ireland's police chief, the Garda
:18:16. > :18:17.Commissioner Martin Callinan, has resigned after facing months of
:18:18. > :18:20.damaging allegations about his force. He'd been under pressure to
:18:21. > :18:22.withdraw remarks about two police whistleblowers, who'd claimed
:18:23. > :18:24.officers had removed penalty points from the driving licences of some
:18:25. > :18:27.offenders. In South Africa, the prosecution in the trial of Oscar
:18:28. > :18:37.Pistorius has finished presenting its evidence. The defence will begin
:18:38. > :18:40.to outline its case on Friday. The Olympic athlete denies murdering his
:18:41. > :18:46.girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, saying he shot her because he thought she
:18:47. > :18:49.was an intruder. Is Relatives of a young soldier who
:18:50. > :18:53.died at Deepcut barracks in Surrey nearly 20 years ago have been told
:18:54. > :18:56.they can apply to the High Court for a new inquest. Private Cheryl James
:18:57. > :18:58.was one of four soldiers to die there during a seven-year period,
:18:59. > :19:01.prompting allegations of bullying and abuse. The Attorney-General
:19:02. > :19:07.ruled that the original hearing failed to examine her death
:19:08. > :19:09.properly. In the US, rescue workers in
:19:10. > :19:12.Washington State say they're expecting to find more victims of a
:19:13. > :19:17.landslide which devastated a village on Saturday. 14 bodies have been
:19:18. > :19:23.recovered so far, but dozens of people have been reported missing,
:19:24. > :19:26.or remain unaccounted for. President Obama has declared an emergency in
:19:27. > :19:28.the area, which lies in the north-west of the USA, as our
:19:29. > :19:41.correspondent, David Willis, reports.
:19:42. > :19:48.A desperate call to the emergency services as a deadly tide of mud and
:19:49. > :19:53.rock crushed everything in its path. Homes were torn apart. Trees
:19:54. > :20:00.wrenched from the ground and people sucked into a giant sea of mud. We
:20:01. > :20:06.were tumbled inside and had mud in our eyes and nose and mouth. I'm
:20:07. > :20:12.really grateful I'm alive. From the air, you can see the scale
:20:13. > :20:18.of the disaster. Weeks of heavy rain had softened the ground, causing a
:20:19. > :20:23.guyant slice of the hillside to collapse without warning. -- a giant
:20:24. > :20:29.slice. The mud covers a mile square. The small town of Oso remains buried
:20:30. > :20:34.beneath T rescuers have tried using helicopters, sniffer dogs and even
:20:35. > :20:37.hovercraft but the mud is 20-feet-deep in places. One of the
:20:38. > :20:41.last to be pulled from the wreckage was this little boy, Jacob. That was
:20:42. > :20:47.on Sunday. Still missing, it's thought, is his father and his three
:20:48. > :20:51.siblings. After hearing cries for help from the wreckage on Saturday
:20:52. > :20:57.but being unable to reach those trapped in the mud, rescuers say
:20:58. > :21:01.this sight has now fallen silent. Privately, they concede they stand
:21:02. > :21:06.little chance of finding anyone else alive.
:21:07. > :21:10.As the wait continues, the anguish builds for people like Ray Smith
:21:11. > :21:16.whose daughter is thought to be buried beneath the wreckage. My
:21:17. > :21:21.16-year-old daughter. My adult son and his two young sons were down
:21:22. > :21:25.there digging with his hands, trying to find her. This close knit
:21:26. > :21:30.community has been devastated by this disaster. And in the last few
:21:31. > :21:35.hours, it emerged that a Government scientist warned of the possibility
:21:36. > :21:40.of just such a disaster 15 years ago, but still people were allowed
:21:41. > :21:44.to build homes here. Open fishes countered by saying a small
:21:45. > :21:51.earthquake could have been to blame. -- officials countered. After the
:21:52. > :21:54.unusually wet but mild winter, the Met Office is suggesting that this
:21:55. > :21:57.could be the pattern for British winters to come, while summers are
:21:58. > :22:00.expected to become hotter and drier. The findings coincide with the final
:22:01. > :22:03.stages of an investigation by the United Nations into global warming.
:22:04. > :22:09.Our science editor, David Shukman, reports.
:22:10. > :22:16.A single raindrop is a thing of exquisite beauty but imagine when
:22:17. > :22:20.billions fall in a sudden burst. The results can be catastrophic
:22:21. > :22:24.flooding, as we have just seen during the past winter. So, will
:22:25. > :22:30.scenes like this become more frequent? The United Nations Climate
:22:31. > :22:33.Panel assessing the global picture and the Met Office has studied what
:22:34. > :22:39.might happen in the UK. The conclusion - they are not totally
:22:40. > :22:45.sure but think think we are getting more of the heaviest downpours In a
:22:46. > :22:50.warming world, the atmosphere holds more moisture. So when it does rain,
:22:51. > :22:54.the storms bring heavier rainfall. The key question is - will all
:22:55. > :22:57.winters look like that or how will the variations look? It is a
:22:58. > :23:01.challenging question for us. Watching out for the next storms is
:23:02. > :23:07.a network of radar systems. It is quite a climb to the top. This tower
:23:08. > :23:10.is in Dorset. It's one of 15 around the country and the radar beams
:23:11. > :23:15.detect how much water is in the clouds.
:23:16. > :23:19.The devices are being upgraded to provide more accurate forecasts
:23:20. > :23:23.about the most damaging rain. And here you can see how the radar picks
:23:24. > :23:28.out the detail. So, if more intense storms are on the way, this should
:23:29. > :23:31.help prepare for them. The challenge with extreme weather
:23:32. > :23:35.is that there can never be any certainty about it. Instead, it is a
:23:36. > :23:41.question of risk. But the message from the US Climate Panel s despite
:23:42. > :23:45.any uncertainties in the science, it is still worth getting ready,
:23:46. > :23:49.adapting, for a future where the weather may well be much more
:23:50. > :23:53.violent. Giant waves battered the coast last month but gearing up for
:23:54. > :24:01.more dangerous weather is difficult and often expensive. Repairs are
:24:02. > :24:05.under way at Portland. The storm shifted vast amounts of rock and
:24:06. > :24:11.shingle. The equivalent of 30,000 lorry loads. But many are wondering
:24:12. > :24:14.if it is worth spending vast sums when projections for climate change
:24:15. > :24:18.can never be certain? As a strong resistpence to making those
:24:19. > :24:23.decisions. -- there is a strong resistance. It is based down on a
:24:24. > :24:27.deep down hope that there will be more certainly emerging in the
:24:28. > :24:31.science community around the sort of predictions of climate change.
:24:32. > :24:37.Scientists are trying to provide a clearer picture of what may lie
:24:38. > :24:40.ahead but as an island nation, on the receiving end of an
:24:41. > :24:49.unpredictable jet stream, that's never going to be easy.
:24:50. > :24:51.The charity Action for Children says neglect of the most vulnerable
:24:52. > :24:55.people in our society is a growing problem in the UK. Its new report
:24:56. > :24:58.suggests that 10% of children suffer neglect of some kind and it warns
:24:59. > :25:01.that there needs to be greater awareness of the warning signs. Our
:25:02. > :25:07.correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, has the story.
:25:08. > :25:18.It is a tragic list of young lives lost. Donele Pelka, Ciara, Keanu and
:25:19. > :25:23.Hamza. They all died at the hands of those who should have protected
:25:24. > :25:26.them. In each case there had been previous neglect, prompting calls
:25:27. > :25:33.for more awareness of the problem. No action to intervene. Mary knows
:25:34. > :25:40.how devastating neglect can be. Her foster son arrived in her life, aged
:25:41. > :25:44.13. He looked like an eight-year-old, malnourished. He
:25:45. > :25:49.never owned a toothbrush. We had to teach him to wash himself. In the
:25:50. > :25:54.park he would smell the bins of dog mess. A psychologist told us because
:25:55. > :25:58.it reminded him of home. As soon as I saw him I knew he needed a hug.
:25:59. > :26:02.Child neglect can be many things, children who aren't properly fed,
:26:03. > :26:05.poorly clothed or perhaps who repeatedly miss medical
:26:06. > :26:09.appointments. Any one of those would be cause for concern but they are
:26:10. > :26:14.also potential indicators of much more serious problems. Other signs
:26:15. > :26:19.of neglect include children being left alone for long periods.
:26:20. > :26:26.Routinely being late or absent from school. Being withdrawn, and having
:26:27. > :26:30.few friends. Looking unwashed and wearing dirty clothes.
:26:31. > :26:36.Today's report says neglect now affects, on average, a child in
:26:37. > :26:40.every street across the country. ! 1. 5 million children are being
:26:41. > :26:45.neglected. We are not talking about it. Nobody is talking about it. I
:26:46. > :26:48.guess the reason is there's so many other things around. Perhaps we need
:26:49. > :26:53.to stand up, as we are today, and speak about it, because it is a
:26:54. > :26:56.terribly damaging fact in our society today. The Government
:26:57. > :27:00.insists it is already delivering many of the charity's
:27:01. > :27:03.recommendations, and an Ofsted report is calling for better
:27:04. > :27:08.training for teaches and social workers. It says too many children
:27:09. > :27:13.suffering neglect are left in harmful situations for too long. At
:27:14. > :27:21.issue is how best to intervene in cases where parents have failed in
:27:22. > :27:24.their responsibilities. The Apollo Theatre in London's West
:27:25. > :27:26.End re-opens tomorrow, three months after its roof collapsed during a
:27:27. > :27:30.performance, injuring dozens of people. Initial investigations
:27:31. > :27:35.suggest that some of the material supporting the ceiling was more than
:27:36. > :27:38.100 years old, and had deteriorated. It has now been redecorated and is
:27:39. > :27:48.ready for another opening night. Football now and Manchester United's
:27:49. > :27:51.season has hit a new low. They were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City. For
:27:52. > :27:56.the first time in the history of the Premier League, they have lost ten
:27:57. > :28:02.games. Manchester City, their march for the league title gathers pace.
:28:03. > :28:06.Dan Roan reports. The usual rivalry but this was a derby with a
:28:07. > :28:08.difference. For once at Old Trafford, Manchester City arrived at
:28:09. > :28:14.favourites and immediately it was obvious why. United's defensive
:28:15. > :28:17.disarray pounced on by Edin Dzeko. This the fastest away goal here in
:28:18. > :28:22.the Premier League history. Two wins may have eased recent pressure on
:28:23. > :28:26.David Moyes but the hosts mini revival was over T could have got
:28:27. > :28:31.worse before half-time. Dzeko denied by David De Gea. But United could do
:28:32. > :28:35.nothing about this. Dzeko, who else, extending his side's lead. City
:28:36. > :28:41.finding it all too easy. United did finally respond. Danny Welbeck
:28:42. > :28:45.testing Joe Hart but nothing could halt the visitor's dominance. Yaya
:28:46. > :28:50.Toure sealing a win that keeps City on course for the title. United left
:28:51. > :28:53.to reflect on yet another humiliation that will raise more
:28:54. > :28:57.questions about the future of their manager but which in truth, no
:28:58. > :29:03.longer comes as a surprise. That's all from us. On BBC Two, Newsnight
:29:04. > :29:04.last the full version of that interview with Paul Flowers, the