:00:10. > :00:17.A fatal fire in Ukraine - police say at least 30 are dead. It follows a
:00:18. > :00:19.day of fierce fighting. The blaze started during clashes in
:00:20. > :00:27.Odessa between pro-Russian activists and government supporters. It's the
:00:28. > :00:29.worst violence to break out in the southern port of Odessa since
:00:30. > :00:33.Ukraine's President Yanukovych was ousted in February. It's the
:00:34. > :00:36.deadliest day since the revolution in February. We'll be asking how
:00:37. > :00:38.Russia might respond to this latest escalation.
:00:39. > :00:41.Also tonight: One last moment in the spotlight - the publicist Max
:00:42. > :00:43.Clifford is jailed for eight years for sexual assault in the 1970s and
:00:44. > :01:01.80s. Police in Northern Ireland are given
:01:02. > :01:04.And the biggest ever survey of our health and lifestyles, to try to
:01:05. > :01:11.help future generations. In Sportsday, Eden Hazard's
:01:12. > :01:13.commitment to Chelsea is questioned by manager Jose Mourinho after he
:01:14. > :01:38.criticised Mourinho's footballing tactics.
:01:39. > :01:44.Good evening. It's been a day of deadly violence
:01:45. > :01:46.in Ukraine. It began in the early hours of this morning when the
:01:47. > :01:49.Ukrainian government launched an offensive to retake a city in
:01:50. > :01:52.eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian separatists. It's ended
:01:53. > :01:55.this evening with the deaths of at least 30 pro-Russian activists who
:01:56. > :02:00.died when a building caught fire in the southern Ukrainian port of
:02:01. > :02:02.Odessa. Ukraine has accused Russia of backing the insurgents who have
:02:03. > :02:07.seized government buildings in more than a dozen eastern cities. But
:02:08. > :02:08.tonight the focus moved to Odessa, as our special correspondent Fergal
:02:09. > :02:24.Keane reports. Odessa's day of tragedy began with
:02:25. > :02:31.protest. Rival groups of demonstrators converged on the city
:02:32. > :02:36.centre. These pro-Ukrainians hurling missiles at the police, and beyond
:02:37. > :02:41.them, a pro-Russian group. From early, there were injuries and
:02:42. > :02:47.death, four people apparently killed by gunfire from the pro-Russian
:02:48. > :02:51.side. Then, disaster. The pro-Russians retreated to this
:02:52. > :02:57.building. Dozens were killed when it was set on fire. Their pro-Ukrainian
:02:58. > :03:02.enemies are being blamed. It came on a day when the state tried to
:03:03. > :03:06.reimpose its will hear in the rebellious east. 400 miles from
:03:07. > :03:11.Odessa in Sloviansk, the militants were waiting and well prepared for a
:03:12. > :03:14.government attack. Here, petrol bombs being prepared and a promise
:03:15. > :03:20.of fire down the road any soldiers might come. I don't want a
:03:21. > :03:28.dictatorship to control my country, this man said. And this was their
:03:29. > :03:38.answer to the government offensive. Missiles that bound helicopters. --
:03:39. > :03:41.brought down helicopters. Instruments of state power brought
:03:42. > :03:47.crashing to the ground. Two pilots killed. Here, a wounded crew member
:03:48. > :03:52.is helped by the rebels who captured him. It was an image that seemed to
:03:53. > :03:58.define a day in which the government yet again struggled in the face of
:03:59. > :04:01.determined opposition. But it was on this bridge that we found the army
:04:02. > :04:06.being confronted by its own citizens. Helicopters deployed
:04:07. > :04:23.troops onto this strategic crossing six miles from Sloviansk. But the
:04:24. > :04:28.people refused to let them cross. Fascists, she cried. Locals said
:04:29. > :04:32.this elderly man was injured by an advancing vehicle. But as the
:04:33. > :04:45.stalemate hardened on the bridge, we found a mood of defiance. I am
:04:46. > :04:52.prepared to take the gun, if need, for my land. You understand me? The
:04:53. > :04:55.soldiers were nervous, far from Kiev and the government that is giving
:04:56. > :05:00.them orders. You don't seem to control very much here. What is
:05:01. > :05:06.happening? Pointing to the protesters, you told us, they are
:05:07. > :05:09.for Putin. The atmosphere on the bridge remains tense. There is no
:05:10. > :05:14.obvious appetite for confrontation on the part of the troops but there
:05:15. > :05:16.is a great deal of anger among the pro-Russian demonstrators. Neither
:05:17. > :05:20.side knows where this military escalation is leading.
:05:21. > :05:33.Let's speak to Daniel Sandford who's in Russia. The question has to be
:05:34. > :05:38.what Russia's response might be. Well, the news from Odessa came too
:05:39. > :05:41.late for an official response from the Kremlin that we have had a
:05:42. > :05:44.statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry saying the government in
:05:45. > :05:48.Kiev bears criminal responsibility for the deaths in Odessa, and saying
:05:49. > :05:55.that the government in Kiev has been working with far right protesters in
:05:56. > :05:58.a campaign of terror against those people campaigning for
:05:59. > :06:01.federalisation in the Ukraine. A very strong statement from the
:06:02. > :06:05.Russian Foreign Ministry, and the events in Odessa fit the Kremlin
:06:06. > :06:10.narrative of Ukraine stepping into chaos and civil war, in which
:06:11. > :06:15.Russian speakers are at risk. What will the Kremlin do about it? We
:06:16. > :06:19.know there are tens of thousands of Russian troops camped on the
:06:20. > :06:22.Ukrainian border. It has never been clear whether they are there as a
:06:23. > :06:28.signal, or whether there was any intention of using them. But
:06:29. > :06:31.certainly, military advisers in Kiev and Washington and Brussels will be
:06:32. > :06:34.watching very, very carefully what Russia's next move will be.
:06:35. > :06:37.The celebrity publicist Max Clifford is spending his first night in jail
:06:38. > :06:40.after being sentenced to eight years in prison for a string of indecent
:06:41. > :06:44.assaults against young girls and women in the 1970s and 80s. The
:06:45. > :06:47.judge told Max Clifford that his position in the entertainment world
:06:48. > :06:51.had meant that both he and his victims had thought he was
:06:52. > :06:55.untouchable. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly reports on
:06:56. > :07:06.a very public downfall. Her report contains flash photography.
:07:07. > :07:10.He arrived at court to face the usual media scrum, but today he knew
:07:11. > :07:14.that while he was walking in, he wouldn't be walking out. Max
:07:15. > :07:18.Clifford's career has been built on the media. Knowing he would be out
:07:19. > :07:24.of the spotlight for some time, he posed for the cameras for almost
:07:25. > :07:28.five minutes. No real comment apart from, it wasn't the best day of his
:07:29. > :07:34.life. No apology to his victims, but there was a smile. The court was
:07:35. > :07:38.full. And at the side of the dock, watching Max Bash Micro Max
:07:39. > :07:42.Clifford, some of the women he had abused and assaulted, who cannot be
:07:43. > :07:47.identified. They were in tears as the eight-year sentence was handed
:07:48. > :07:49.down. Judge Anthony Leonard said of his offences, the reason they were
:07:50. > :07:52.not brought to light sooner is because of your dominant character
:07:53. > :07:57.and your position in the world of entertainment, which meant that your
:07:58. > :08:02.victims thought you were untouchable, something I judge that
:08:03. > :08:07.you, too, believed and traded upon. One of his youngest victims was 15,
:08:08. > :08:11.a child when he groomed and abused her. I became very fearful of men
:08:12. > :08:18.and had some difficult relationships because of that. I didn't really
:08:19. > :08:20.trust anybody. When I was seeing him on television speaking to millions
:08:21. > :08:28.of people, telling them he was innocent, I did think, no one is
:08:29. > :08:33.going to believe me. Max Clifford was the Wizard of public relations,
:08:34. > :08:38.exposing other people's sex secrets, like an affair with England manager
:08:39. > :08:43.Sven Goran Eriksson. And a relationship with David Mellor,
:08:44. > :08:48.which ended his ministerial career. When the Jimmy Savile scandal blew
:08:49. > :08:53.up, the third claimed celebrities were approaching him, fearful for
:08:54. > :08:58.their reputations. -- Clifford claimed. They say, you are in the
:08:59. > :09:02.middle of the media world, so if you suddenly hear our names, would you
:09:03. > :09:08.be kind enough to let us know. Weeks later, he was arrested. It is not
:09:09. > :09:13.fun being accused of being a fantasist Ashgrove fantasist... Even
:09:14. > :09:17.during his trial, he played for the cameras. In sentencing, the judge
:09:18. > :09:22.condemned this performance for trivialising events. Tonight,
:09:23. > :09:27.Scotland Yard released his mugshot. He is the first person to be
:09:28. > :09:31.convicted under Operation Yewtree, the police investigation into
:09:32. > :09:35.historical sex offences. There is a clear message that nobody is immune,
:09:36. > :09:38.nobody is above the law. It does not matter when things happen, we will
:09:39. > :09:45.prosecute when we have evidence to do so. The man used to travelling in
:09:46. > :09:49.his Bentley left court in a prison van. Max Clifford, protector and
:09:50. > :09:54.destroyer of reputations, brought down by a group of women he once
:09:55. > :09:56.controlled. They took control and refused to remain silent.
:09:57. > :09:59.And we can speak to June Kelly now at Wandsworth Prison where Max
:10:00. > :10:06.Clifford is spending his first night behind bars. It has now emerged that
:10:07. > :10:12.since the trial other women have come forward. That is right. We
:10:13. > :10:15.understand that a number of new complainants have come forward, and
:10:16. > :10:20.police and prosecutors are now considering those complaints. Max
:10:21. > :10:24.Clifford was sentenced under penalties and legislation which were
:10:25. > :10:28.in force at the time of his offences. Under current legislation
:10:29. > :10:33.and guidelines, he would have faced a far harsher jail term. And today
:10:34. > :10:39.the judge maximised the sentence he was able to impose. Also under
:10:40. > :10:44.current legislation, some of these offences would now be classed as
:10:45. > :10:51.rape. So tonight, Max Clifford, PR consultant, Max Clifford convicted
:10:52. > :10:54.sex offender. At the age of 71 he is preparing to spend the first of very
:10:55. > :10:57.many nights in prison. Police in Northern Ireland have been
:10:58. > :11:00.given another 48 hours to question the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams,
:11:01. > :11:03.in connection with one of the most notorious murders during the
:11:04. > :11:08.Troubles. Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was shot by the IRA in 1972.
:11:09. > :11:10.Mr Adams, who denies any involvement, voluntarily presented
:11:11. > :11:23.himself for questioning in Antrim on Wednesday. Our Ireland correspondent
:11:24. > :11:28.Chris Buckler reports. A new mural in west Belfast paints
:11:29. > :11:32.Gerry Adams as a peacemaker and visionary. But to detectives he is a
:11:33. > :11:37.suspect in a murder case. As they were given an extra 48 hours to
:11:38. > :11:40.question him there was a one-man protest outside Antrim Police
:11:41. > :11:43.Station. A court has given detectives the right to keep Gerry
:11:44. > :11:48.Adams behind these gates until Sunday night to question him about
:11:49. > :11:51.the killing four decades ago. People like me are left living the life we
:11:52. > :11:58.live because we cannot move on because of what happened. Helen
:11:59. > :12:01.McKendry is just one of Jean McConville's ten children. She is
:12:02. > :12:06.pictured with her mother in the only photograph that still exists of a
:12:07. > :12:09.woman murdered by the IRA, a widow dragged out of her home and killed
:12:10. > :12:15.in secret, leaving her family without a parent. Gerry Adams has
:12:16. > :12:20.always denied being involved in the murder but Mrs McKendry has been
:12:21. > :12:23.vocal in her belief that he was. If he comes on the television the
:12:24. > :12:30.grandchildren say, there is the bad man. What I feel about him, he is
:12:31. > :12:37.now a top politician and he thinks he is God, really, untouchable. But
:12:38. > :12:43.if I don't get, if he is not charged today with the murder of my mother I
:12:44. > :12:47.am hoping to take civil action. Gerry Adams' arrest has made
:12:48. > :12:51.international headlines. In his years as a politician he shared the
:12:52. > :12:55.spotlight with world leaders. Among the allegations he is being
:12:56. > :12:59.questioned about our claims by the late IRA commander Brendan Hughes,
:13:00. > :13:04.recorded by researchers from Boston College. There is only one man who
:13:05. > :13:10.gave the order for that woman to be executed. That man is now the head
:13:11. > :13:14.of Sinn Fein. The Prime Minister and I appreciate the sensitivity and
:13:15. > :13:19.seriousness of the situation, which is why he was engaging with the
:13:20. > :13:23.first and Deputy First Minister. But nothing can ease Sinn Fein's anger,
:13:24. > :13:29.directed squarely at the police, a point they made tonight. Are you
:13:30. > :13:32.thinking of withdrawing support for the Police Service of Northern
:13:33. > :13:36.Ireland? There is growing anger with every hour that Gerry Adams spends
:13:37. > :13:43.in there. There was an extension today, which was uncalled for. The
:13:44. > :13:46.decision to arrest a leading politician was always going to be
:13:47. > :13:49.controversial, particularly in Northern Ireland, where the
:13:50. > :13:54.relationship between police and politics has a long, difficult and
:13:55. > :13:57.sometimes fraught history. But detectives say they have a duty to
:13:58. > :14:03.investigate all murders, including past crimes that can't be forgotten.
:14:04. > :14:05.The part-time judge and barrister Constance Briscoe has been jailed
:14:06. > :14:09.for 16 months for perverting the course of justice. She was told at
:14:10. > :14:12.her trial that her actions struck at the heart of the criminal-justice
:14:13. > :14:15.system. She was found guilty of lying to police over her part in a
:14:16. > :14:20.speeding-offence cover-up by former MP Chris Huhne and his then wife,
:14:21. > :14:23.Vicky Pryce. The American firm Pfizer has tried
:14:24. > :14:26.to create one of the world's biggest companies by making another
:14:27. > :14:30.multi-billion pound bid for the British pharmaceutical firm
:14:31. > :14:33.AstraZeneca. It's been rejected for now, but critics fear that if Pfizer
:14:34. > :14:36.is ultimately successful, it could mean big job cuts in the UK and dent
:14:37. > :14:39.the influence of Britain's science sector. Our business editor, Kamal
:14:40. > :14:47.Ahmed, reports. It's more combat than courtship -
:14:48. > :14:52.two giants circling each other, wondering who'll end up the winner.
:14:53. > :14:57.Today Pfizer was rebuffed for a second time, but many predict it
:14:58. > :14:59.will be back with another offer. With investment in scientific
:15:00. > :15:05.research and thousands of jobs at stake, this is far more than a
:15:06. > :15:08.simple business deal. My job is to protect the United Kingdom's
:15:09. > :15:11.interests. I want to see see great science here in Britain, I want to
:15:12. > :15:16.see great medicines delivered, I want to see great jobs in these
:15:17. > :15:19.industries here in Britain. And that is why we have sought and received
:15:20. > :15:26.robust assurances from Pfizer, were a deal to go ahead.
:15:27. > :15:29.The two firms dominate the drugs industry. Pfizer employs 70,000
:15:30. > :15:38.people around the world, including 2,00 in the UK. -- 2500. It had
:15:39. > :15:41.sales of nearly ?31 billion last year. AstraZeneca employs over
:15:42. > :15:52.50,000 people, including 6,700 in the UK. It had sales of ?15 billion
:15:53. > :15:54.last year. Together, they would become the biggest drugs company in
:15:55. > :15:56.the world. I'm here at AstraZeneca's
:15:57. > :15:58.headquarters in London. They occupy the top three floors of this
:15:59. > :16:01.building. These two businesses manufacture billions of pounds'
:16:02. > :16:03.worth of drugs for millions of patients every year, everything from
:16:04. > :16:06.headache tablets to cancer treatment. AstraZeneca alone
:16:07. > :16:11.accounts for nearly 2% of all the goods exported from the UK. That's
:16:12. > :16:16.why this deal is so important politically. Critics say that
:16:17. > :16:21.Pfizer's previous takeover deals have led to cost-cutting. What we've
:16:22. > :16:24.got here is a British company which has been turned around, got good
:16:25. > :16:27.pipelines of drugs coming along, and an attempted takeover by a company
:16:28. > :16:29.which is notorious for having takeovers and then stripping out the
:16:30. > :16:39.R, asset-stripping the intellectual property. I have to say
:16:40. > :16:42.I'm totally opposed to that. It was only last week that the
:16:43. > :16:48.Chancellor was in Cambridge, where AstraZeneca plans to build its new
:16:49. > :16:52.headquarters. He was speaking about the importance of science research
:16:53. > :16:56.to the UK. The Treasury says it wants to make any pledges binding if
:16:57. > :16:57.Pfizer is successful in this battle of the giants.
:16:58. > :17:05.Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. The United Nations is warning that
:17:06. > :17:09.the conflict in South Sudan could spiral into genocide. Thousands of
:17:10. > :17:13.people have died since the ethnic violence first erupted last year.
:17:14. > :17:17.Now the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has arrived in the country to
:17:18. > :17:22.try to broker a peace deal. South Sudan is the world's newest country,
:17:23. > :17:24.it won independence three years ago. Fighting broke out in December
:17:25. > :17:30.between troops backing President Kiir and soldiers loyal to his
:17:31. > :17:33.sacked deputy Riek Matchar. Since the conflict began, more than a
:17:34. > :17:36.million people have fled their homes. Our correspondent Alastair
:17:37. > :17:38.Leithead is in the capital, Juba. A warning - his report contains some
:17:39. > :17:48.disturbing images. There's anger and there is tension
:17:49. > :17:52.in South Sudan. Tempers are short inside the United Nations camp in
:17:53. > :17:58.Juba. 20,000 people have been living on top of each other for months in
:17:59. > :18:02.appalling conditions. Everyone here is from the same Nuer tribe. You can
:18:03. > :18:08.tell by the markings on their foreheads, marks they fear could get
:18:09. > :18:13.them killed. John was an engineer with the electricity ministry. Now
:18:14. > :18:16.he sells phone cards. He hasn't left the camp since December, when a
:18:17. > :18:23.political row reopened an historical tribal rift and sparked civil war.
:18:24. > :18:27.He is afraid to leave. I cannot go home, because there is bad security
:18:28. > :18:30.there outside. When I'm going outside, those who are working
:18:31. > :18:41.there, they will kill me. The government will kill me. You are
:18:42. > :18:44.sure? I am sure, because I am Nuer. Because you are Nuer. Because I have
:18:45. > :18:47.this mark, they will see me outside, they will catch me and then they
:18:48. > :18:50.will kill me. These people are Dinka, killed when
:18:51. > :18:53.Nuer rebels retook Bentiu town from government troops. Hundreds were
:18:54. > :18:59.killed in the street, hospital, a church and a mosque. And the UN camp
:19:00. > :19:02.in Bor is now a fortress after an armed Dinka mob bent on revenge
:19:03. > :19:08.forced their way in past peacekeepers and killed 46 people,
:19:09. > :19:11.half of them children. I think, from all the monitoring we
:19:12. > :19:19.have done, that crimes against humanity are being committed here.
:19:20. > :19:22.This is one half of South Sudan's problem, Riek Machar, a Nuer, the
:19:23. > :19:31.former vice president and the rebel leader. She warned him he would be
:19:32. > :19:34.held accountable for atrocities. Today the US Secretary of State,
:19:35. > :19:39.John Kerry, stepped into the crisis, adding his voice to the chorus of
:19:40. > :19:42.international outcry. He met President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, the
:19:43. > :19:44.other half of the problem, who finally agreed to direct talks in
:19:45. > :19:50.Ethiopia, setting up a possible face-to-face meeting.
:19:51. > :19:53.If both sides do not take steps in order to reduce or end the violence,
:19:54. > :20:01.they literally put the entire country in danger.
:20:02. > :20:04.Tens of thousands of people are trapped in these camps all around
:20:05. > :20:08.the country in dreadful conditions. Well over a million people have now
:20:09. > :20:11.been displaced by the fighting in South Sudan. This international
:20:12. > :20:14.effort from the UN, from the US, this weekend from the regional heads
:20:15. > :20:17.of state, is designed to try to break this cycle of violence and
:20:18. > :20:22.revenge killing, to bring a cease-fire and try to get a lasting
:20:23. > :20:25.peace. But that still seems a long way off.
:20:26. > :20:29.Alastair Leithead, BBC News, in Juba.
:20:30. > :20:32.A landslide in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan has killed
:20:33. > :20:36.at least 350 people and left more than 2,000 missing. Much of the
:20:37. > :20:41.Badakhshan region has been hit by days of torrential rain. The UN is
:20:42. > :20:44.working with authorities in the area to try to rescue people still
:20:45. > :20:53.trapped, and the governor has appealed for shovels to help dig
:20:54. > :20:57.through the mass of mud. The teenager charged with the murder
:20:58. > :21:00.of the teacher Ann Maguire has appeared by video link at Leeds
:21:01. > :21:04.Crown Court. The 15-year-old is accused of stabbing her to death in
:21:05. > :21:08.a classroom on Monday morning. He can't be named because of his age,
:21:09. > :21:09.but he will face trial in November. David Cameron has launched the
:21:10. > :21:12.Conservatives' local-election campaign emphasising what he called
:21:13. > :21:16.the great British recovery, which he said would be put at risk by voting
:21:17. > :21:19.for other parties. With the European elections at the same time, he used
:21:20. > :21:22.the launch to re-affirm the Tories' commitment to offering an in-out
:21:23. > :21:29.referendum of EU membership. Our deputy political editor, James
:21:30. > :21:34.Landale, reports. David Cameron says that a great
:21:35. > :21:37.British revival is taking place. In warehouses like this up and down the
:21:38. > :21:40.country, there are new jobs and investment that he says only the
:21:41. > :21:43.Conservatives would protect in these elections, along with the promise of
:21:44. > :21:48.lower council taxes and, yes, a referendum on Europe. Whatever it
:21:49. > :21:56.takes, I will deliver that in-out referendum. Labour won't, UKIP
:21:57. > :21:59.can't, I will. I would not be Prime Minister of a government unless we
:22:00. > :22:06.could carry out our pledge of an in- out referendum.
:22:07. > :22:12.UKIP, he said, was all talk, no delivery. And then there's UKIP.
:22:13. > :22:16.Frankly, I don't need to discredit UKIP, they've done a good enough job
:22:17. > :22:20.themselves over the last few weeks. It was a message that some of the
:22:21. > :22:25.workers he met here liked - but not all. I don't trust them at all. Just
:22:26. > :22:38.him or them? The Conservatives. Em, I... I'm going to wait and see, see
:22:39. > :22:46.if he does deliver what he says. I thought it was quite positive.
:22:47. > :22:48.With being an apprentice with JCB, I felt the benefits of having more
:22:49. > :22:52.jobs and job securities. And at a theme park just down the
:22:53. > :22:55.road, there was some support for the Conservatives, but also doubt about
:22:56. > :22:58.just which they were heading. David Cameron is promising a referendum,
:22:59. > :23:01.an in-out referendum. Do you trust him to deliver on that? I'm going to
:23:02. > :23:04.say no. Why not? Historical reasons, that these things haven't
:23:05. > :23:06.materialised. And that is why you are going to vote UKIP? I'm going to
:23:07. > :23:09.vote UKIP. David Cameron has promised a
:23:10. > :23:13.referendum on Europe, do you trust him to deliver on that? Hopefully, I
:23:14. > :23:16.mean, if he sticks to what he says, then... Do you think he will stick
:23:17. > :23:21.to what he says? I would like to think so.
:23:22. > :23:24.I think he needs to come out with some definite policies. I don't
:23:25. > :23:30.think a referendum is really going to satisfy the public, to be honest.
:23:31. > :23:33.For many years, the Tories have said their poll ratings will rise once
:23:34. > :23:37.the economy recovers. Well, it hasn't happened yet. Many voters
:23:38. > :23:42.still seem cautious, and they don't want to be taken for a ride.
:23:43. > :23:49.James Landale, BBC News, Staffordshire.
:23:50. > :23:52.And you can find details about the election campaigns of other
:23:53. > :23:54.political parties, together with a detailed guide to the BBC's election
:23:55. > :23:59.coverage, if you go to bbc.co.uk/news.
:24:00. > :24:04.It's the world's biggest body-scanning project. Scientists
:24:05. > :24:07.are trying to find out why some people get sick while others live to
:24:08. > :24:10.a healthy old age. It's part of UK Biobank, which is examining how our
:24:11. > :24:13.health is affected by lifestyle, environment and genes. 100,000
:24:14. > :24:18.volunteers will undergo detailed scans. The volunteers have been
:24:19. > :24:22.chosen from half a million adults who've already supplied their DNA.
:24:23. > :24:26.Among the diseases being studied are cancer, heart disease and dementia.
:24:27. > :24:34.Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh was the first person to be
:24:35. > :24:37.scanned and has this report. OK, just keep nice and still
:24:38. > :24:40.again... Heart, brain, bones, even fat content. Every part of the body
:24:41. > :24:43.will be imaged for this ambitious project. I'm the first of 100,000
:24:44. > :24:50.people who'll be invited to undergo the tests. The MRI scans will yield
:24:51. > :24:58.a huge amount of data - the goal is clear. We will understand better the
:24:59. > :25:03.causes of a wide range of different diseases. The brain scans may well
:25:04. > :25:06.help us to understand the causes of dementia and other types of
:25:07. > :25:09.cognitive decline. Biobank scientists are analysing DNA
:25:10. > :25:11.from all the volunteers and will compare this with information
:25:12. > :25:21.supplied on diet, fitness, health records and cognitive tests. The DNA
:25:22. > :25:27.is stored in this freezer, in trays at minus 80 degrees. It's the
:25:28. > :25:29.combination of this huge genetic database together with lifestyle and
:25:30. > :25:37.medical information that makes UK Biobank such a powerful resource.
:25:38. > :25:44.Anne Johnson hopes the research will help explain why she got Alzheimer's
:25:45. > :25:47.disease at just 52. My father had this before me, and his lifestyle,
:25:48. > :25:51.like mine, was nothing wrong with it, so I can't identify what caused
:25:52. > :25:54.it for him or me. So we need to identify if there's any common
:25:55. > :25:56.denominators there which give us a clue as to what may be the cause of
:25:57. > :26:07.this. The scanning project is not a health
:26:08. > :26:10.check, volunteers won't see their scans. But if a potentially serious
:26:11. > :26:16.problem like a tumour is spotted, that will be fed back.
:26:17. > :26:20.You can see the fluid filled spaces...
:26:21. > :26:24.It could mean early diagnosis but also cause alarm. Some tumours are
:26:25. > :26:27.not amenable to treatment, and so somebody has to live with the
:26:28. > :26:31.knowledge that they have something that nothing can be done about. And
:26:32. > :26:36.that can just create worry and have a negative impact on travel and life
:26:37. > :26:40.insurance. UK Biobank is an example of
:26:41. > :26:43.altruism. Volunteers know it's not their health, but that of future
:26:44. > :26:49.generations, that will benefit from this ground-breaking project.
:26:50. > :26:53.Fergus Walsh, BBC News. That's all from us, don't forget - a
:26:54. > :26:57.first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel, but now on BBC
:26:58. > :27:01.One, it's time for the news where you are.