0:00:05 > 0:00:08A former Russian spy is critical in hospital after a suspected
0:00:08 > 0:00:11poisoning in Salisbury.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Sergei Skripal, convicted of spying on Russia for the UK,
0:00:13 > 0:00:18has been living in Britain for nearly eight years.
0:00:18 > 0:00:21Police in protective clothing have sealed the area after the Russian
0:00:21 > 0:00:24and a young woman were found unconscious on a bench.
0:00:24 > 0:00:28There was a couple, an older guy and a younger girl.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30She was sort of leant in on him, it looked
0:00:30 > 0:00:31like she had passed out, maybe.
0:00:31 > 0:00:38He was doing some strange hand movements, looking up to the sky.
0:00:38 > 0:00:41We'll bring you the latest as police and doctors race to establish
0:00:41 > 0:00:43if this is another example of a Russian being
0:00:43 > 0:00:44poisoned on UK soil.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Also tonight....
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Bradley Wiggins tells the BBC he's not a drugs cheat after MPs
0:00:48 > 0:00:52accuse him of taking medicine to boost his performance.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55This whole thing has just been, you know, a complete mess
0:00:55 > 0:00:57of innuendo and rumour and nothing has been substantiated
0:00:57 > 0:00:58and it is just...
0:00:58 > 0:01:04I am having to deal with the fallout of that now.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07An aid convoy gets in at last to the people trapped by bombing
0:01:07 > 0:01:14in Eastern Ghouta in Syria.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16And Gary Oldman wins his first Oscar at 59 while profoundly deaf
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Maisie Sly is in her first Oscar winning film aged just six.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News, find out if Manchester United
0:01:24 > 0:01:28can get a win at Crystal Palace tonight, which would take them back
0:01:28 > 0:01:31to second in the Premier League.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51Good evening.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Could this be another example of a Russian
0:01:53 > 0:01:55being poisoned on UK soil?
0:01:55 > 0:01:57The BBC understands that a man in hospital tonight
0:01:57 > 0:01:59is Sergei Skripal, a Russian convicted in Moscow
0:01:59 > 0:02:02for spying for Britain and now living in the UK,
0:02:02 > 0:02:06is in a critical condition.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09He and a young woman were found unconscious on a bench in a shopping
0:02:09 > 0:02:10centre in Salisbury.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12She is also critically ill.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15A number of locations in the city centre have been cordoned off
0:02:15 > 0:02:17and police in full protective gear have been using hoses
0:02:17 > 0:02:20to decontaminate the street.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22The hospital where the couple are being treated has
0:02:22 > 0:02:23declared a major incident.
0:02:23 > 0:02:31Tom Symonds has more.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Whatever happened here is now the subject of a delicate and
0:02:37 > 0:02:41potentially hazardous investigation. And so officers in respirators were
0:02:41 > 0:02:45tonight searching bins in the square where Sergei Skirpal and the
0:02:45 > 0:02:4933-year-old woman he was with were found slumped and delirious
0:02:49 > 0:02:55yesterday afternoon. Eyewitnesses said the pair had been sitting on a
0:02:55 > 0:02:58bench now covered with a police ten when it became clear that something
0:02:58 > 0:03:04was wrong.There was a couple, an older guy and a younger girl. She
0:03:04 > 0:03:08was sort of leaning on him, looked like she had passed out, maybe. He
0:03:08 > 0:03:12was doing some strange hand movements and looking up to the sky.
0:03:12 > 0:03:19I felt anxious and like I should step in, but they look so out of it
0:03:19 > 0:03:22and I thought I was not sure how I could help.After they went to
0:03:22 > 0:03:26hospital, the square was cordoned... And teams in full hazardous material
0:03:26 > 0:03:30suits were called in to make the area safe. A major incident was
0:03:30 > 0:03:35under way. Both victims are in a critical condition at Salisbury
0:03:35 > 0:03:41District Hospital. Sergei Skirpal is Russian. He is 66 years old. He was
0:03:41 > 0:03:46arrested by Russian secret service officers in 2004, accused of handing
0:03:46 > 0:03:59over state secrets to MI6. In 2006, he was
0:04:01 > 0:04:02convicted by a military court in Moscow of high treason. But in 2010,
0:04:02 > 0:04:05he was pardoned by the Russian authorities and came to this country
0:04:05 > 0:04:08in return for the release of ten spies from the US. Police who were
0:04:08 > 0:04:10at his home in Salisbury today said they are keeping an open mind.We
0:04:10 > 0:04:14have access to a wide range of resources and services that are
0:04:14 > 0:04:18helping us to understand what we are or are not dealing with at this
0:04:18 > 0:04:23time. The focus at this moment is trying to establish what cause these
0:04:23 > 0:04:27people have -- to become critically ill and we are working with partners
0:04:27 > 0:04:30to prioritise this diagnosis.They would not discuss the possibility
0:04:30 > 0:04:36that he was targeted because of his past. If so, there are many
0:04:36 > 0:04:38unanswered questions. Why did it happen here in the centre of
0:04:38 > 0:04:43Salisbury in such a public area? How was he targeted? The pair were both
0:04:43 > 0:04:51found with no sign of external injuries and why and why now? And
0:04:51 > 0:04:56tonight, sections of the city centre remain closed off while a few miles
0:04:56 > 0:05:01away, two people are fighting for their lives in hospital. Tom Symons,
0:05:01 > 0:05:04BBC News, Salisbury.
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Our security correspondent Gordon Corera is here.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08If this is a poisoning, too early to say, it has
0:05:08 > 0:05:10uncomfortable echoes with what happened to another
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Russian living in the UK, Alexander Litvinienko.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14What are the priorities for this investigation?
0:05:14 > 0:05:18That is right. The parallels are striking to the case of Alexander
0:05:18 > 0:05:22living and go. He was a former Russian intelligence officer who
0:05:22 > 0:05:25came to the UK and fell ill for reasons initially unclear which
0:05:25 > 0:05:31turned out to be poisoning. Again we have a former Russian intelligence
0:05:31 > 0:05:34officer falling ill of what is said to be an unknown substance. The
0:05:34 > 0:05:40police are stressing they do not know what cause the owners and their
0:05:40 > 0:05:43not saying that they even know of a crime was committed. While there are
0:05:43 > 0:05:46similarities, it is too early to say that these are the same. In the case
0:05:46 > 0:05:48of Alexander Litvinenko, it took days to establish what had happened
0:05:48 > 0:05:53and what the poison was. In that case, eventually, a judge found that
0:05:53 > 0:05:57the link and the orders for it went not just to the Kremlin but most
0:05:57 > 0:06:07likely to Vladimir Putin himself. What are the priorities?
0:06:07 > 0:06:08What are the priorities? The first is understanding what that unknown
0:06:08 > 0:06:11substance is. That is vital for treating these people. It is vital
0:06:11 > 0:06:14to establish for sure whether it was a deliberate poisoning, because if
0:06:14 > 0:06:18it was, it means that the perpetrators could still be at
0:06:18 > 0:06:22large, perhaps even still in the UK and beyond that, the question as
0:06:22 > 0:06:27with Alexander Litvinenko is why? Is this someone who was targeted
0:06:27 > 0:06:30because Russian intelligence but he was a traitor or is there another
0:06:30 > 0:06:34reason, if it was a deliberate poisoning? If it was and the trail
0:06:34 > 0:06:42leads back to Moscow, then I think there will be real pressure on
0:06:48 > 0:06:50the British Government to respond and real questions asked about
0:06:50 > 0:06:52whether they did enough in the past to respond to previous incidents to
0:06:52 > 0:06:55deterrent this kind of thing happening again and again and
0:06:55 > 0:06:55perhaps again.Thank you.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Sir Bradley Wiggins has told the BBC that he is categorically
0:06:58 > 0:07:00not a drugs cheat - after he was accused
0:07:00 > 0:07:01of "crossing an ethical line".
0:07:01 > 0:07:04A report on doping compiled by a committee of MPs claims
0:07:04 > 0:07:06he took an asthma medicine, which is permitted for health
0:07:06 > 0:07:07reasons, to boost his performance.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09The findings cast a shadow on the cyclist's victory
0:07:09 > 0:07:11in the Tour de France in 2012.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13In an exclusive interview with our Sports Editor Dan Roan,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17Sir Bradley said he had done nothing wrong - and that his family
0:07:17 > 0:07:24was going through a "living hell".
0:07:24 > 0:07:26He's Britain's most decorated Olympian, but today
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Sir Bradley Wiggins was effectively accused of cheating.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31MPs alleging the first Tour de France winner that he used asthma
0:07:31 > 0:07:33drugs to boost performance and not just for medical need.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35But today, in his first interview for 18 months,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Wiggins came out fighting, telling me he'd done nothing wrong.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40The report by the DCMS select committee said you cross
0:07:40 > 0:07:47the ethical line, did you?
0:07:47 > 0:07:50The report by the Select Committee says that you crossed the ethical
0:07:50 > 0:07:51line, is that fair?
0:07:51 > 0:07:53Did you?
0:07:53 > 0:07:54No, we did not.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Not at any time during my career could be crossed the
0:07:57 > 0:07:58ethical line.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01As I said before, I had a medical condition, that I went
0:08:01 > 0:08:02to a doctor.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04This has been treated since back in 2003 when I was
0:08:04 > 0:08:06diagnosed with it, through the doctors
0:08:06 > 0:08:07at British cycling at that
0:08:07 > 0:08:08time.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11This was the treatment that I had been prescribed for that
0:08:11 > 0:08:12particular occasion, which was seven years ago now.
0:08:12 > 0:08:20Under specialist supervision as well.
0:08:21 > 0:08:23And in place of the rules of that time, you were
0:08:23 > 0:08:25allowed to apply for use of this medication.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28This was not a medication that was abused in order
0:08:28 > 0:08:29to gain an advantage.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31That is not what your former coach said.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33He said that your use of that drug was,
0:08:33 > 0:08:34quote, unethical.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37That hurts me, actually.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40Shane knows around that time, exactly what and why I was
0:08:40 > 0:08:45taking her medication.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50taking that medication.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54The revelations that he used exemptions for a powerful banned
0:08:54 > 0:08:58steroid before three major races triggered the saga. MPs have
0:08:58 > 0:09:03suggested he came to rely on it to shed weight without losing power.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05Only one other time did you use the drug
0:09:05 > 0:09:07other than the times we know about?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10The report says, they suggest you may have taken it nine times in four
0:09:10 > 0:09:12years.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15This, I do not know where that has come from.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16I really would like to know.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18This is an anonymous source, an anonymous person.
0:09:18 > 0:09:26It does not mean it is wrong.
0:09:27 > 0:09:28You say it is a lie?
0:09:28 > 0:09:29I refute that 100%.
0:09:29 > 0:09:30Yes.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31This is malicious.
0:09:31 > 0:09:32This is a direct...
0:09:32 > 0:09:34This is someone trying to smear me.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Sitting here now, you can categorically say that you did not
0:09:37 > 0:09:38cheat?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40100%.
0:09:40 > 0:09:41Never throughout my career.
0:09:41 > 0:09:49No.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57I worked and had the passion I had for this sport for 15
0:09:57 > 0:09:58or 20 years.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01Jerseys, I am doing a book, I have been writing a book,
0:10:01 > 0:10:02about my love of the sport.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04To do that to the sport...
0:10:04 > 0:10:05I mean, it is just absurd.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08These allegations, it is the worst thing to be accused of,
0:10:08 > 0:10:09I said that before.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11It is also the hardest thing to prove you have not
0:10:11 > 0:10:13done.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14We are not dealing in the legal system.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17I would have more rights if I had murdered someone in
0:10:17 > 0:10:18this process.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21I have been gagged for the last 18 months because there was a
0:10:21 > 0:10:24legal investigation going on and I could not say anything.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25We were still waiting on this report.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27These allegations had never been put to me
0:10:27 > 0:10:28until now.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31I have only found out today what I am being accused of.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33The whole jiffy bag thing was a shambles.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35The Geoffrey Bible is a mystery medical delivery in 2011, and lack
0:10:35 > 0:10:39of record-keeping adding to the suspicion, Bradley Wiggins insist he
0:10:39 > 0:10:43only had a legal decongestant that they -- the Jiffy bag.
0:10:43 > 0:10:44What was in it?
0:10:44 > 0:10:45God knows!
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Your guess is as good as mine.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49That package, as we have been told in the
0:10:49 > 0:10:52houses of Parliament, contain the drug.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57At the end of the day, the buck stops with me. We travelled six
0:10:57 > 0:11:01hours later on a train with the doctor came and I was treated that
0:11:01 > 0:11:08evening.The report's criticism has raised questions over the future of
0:11:08 > 0:11:12Sir David Aylesford who launched Team Sky promising to be whiter than
0:11:12 > 0:11:16white but despite denials of wrongdoing, he is now embroiled in
0:11:16 > 0:11:21the grey areas -- Sir David Brailsford.If proven, maybe he
0:11:21 > 0:11:26should go, but until that is, we cannot take this report as that is
0:11:26 > 0:11:30it, set in concrete.How much of the toll has this taken on a Bradley
0:11:30 > 0:11:35Wiggins?
0:11:35 > 0:11:38I am trying to do other things with my
0:11:38 > 0:11:40life and the effect it has had, the widespread
0:11:40 > 0:11:41effect it has had on the
0:11:41 > 0:11:45family, it is horrific and I do not know how I will pick up the pieces
0:11:45 > 0:11:49with the kids and stuff and I am left to do that as well as try and
0:11:49 > 0:11:50salvage my reputation from this.
0:11:50 > 0:11:56I would not wish it upon anyone.
0:11:56 > 0:12:02But the MPs report as gone way beyond cycling. Record-keeping
0:12:02 > 0:12:07around the injection of a substance for Mo Farah has seen athletics
0:12:07 > 0:12:11criticise. The most powerful figure in track and field, Lord Coe accused
0:12:11 > 0:12:15of misleading Parliament about when he first knew about corruption
0:12:15 > 0:12:20allegations, claim he denied. This is a chastening day for some of
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Britain's biggest sporting reputations.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25An aid convoy has delivered supplies to people trapped
0:12:25 > 0:12:27in Syria's Eastern Ghouta - for the first time since a major
0:12:27 > 0:12:29bombardment by pro-government forces began two weeks ago.
0:12:29 > 0:12:32But it was forced to cut its mission short as shelling began.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Dozens of people are reported to have been killed today.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38Forty six lorries carried provisions intended to feed
0:12:38 > 0:12:41around 27,000 people.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43The region has a population of around 400 thousand -
0:12:43 > 0:12:45and bombing and artillery fire have continued , despite
0:12:45 > 0:12:48a UN backed ceasefire.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen was there as the convoy set off
0:12:51 > 0:12:54into Eastern Ghouta - heading for the town of Douma -
0:12:54 > 0:13:00and sent this report.
0:13:00 > 0:13:0446 lorries moved through some of the most dangerous territory
0:13:04 > 0:13:07around Damascus to get into Eastern Ghouta.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09The Syrians refused to let them take in 70%
0:13:09 > 0:13:12of their surgical and trauma kits, but they carried food and medical
0:13:12 > 0:13:17supplies for 27,500 people.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19It was a start.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22We need to be sending convoys at least three times a week
0:13:22 > 0:13:24to a besieged area such as Eastern Ghouta,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27where there are serious shortages of medical equipment,
0:13:27 > 0:13:29medical supplies, food and nutrition for nearly 400,000 people
0:13:29 > 0:13:35trapped on the inside.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37The lorries moved through the final Syrian army checkpoint
0:13:37 > 0:13:42on the edge of Eastern Ghouta.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45The fact this convoy is moving at all is a sign
0:13:45 > 0:13:47of President Assad's confidence.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51Syrian armed forces are pressing ahead into Eastern Ghouta
0:13:51 > 0:13:54that way, of course, with their Russian allies.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59And if they win, and at the moment that's the way it appears to be,
0:13:59 > 0:14:03President Assad will have scored a significant victory,
0:14:03 > 0:14:05because, for the first time since the war started,
0:14:05 > 0:14:11he will have secured his capital.
0:14:11 > 0:14:18The enclave has been controlled by Islamist militias since 2012.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Some militias are negotiating, and there's talk of a deal,
0:14:21 > 0:14:25but not yet.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27The Syrian army says it is fighting terrorists in Eastern Gouta,
0:14:27 > 0:14:29who fired hundreds of mortars into Damascus this year,
0:14:29 > 0:14:37killing many civilians.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39Even so, Damascus, a few miles away, has suffered much less destruction
0:14:39 > 0:14:46and death than Eastern Ghouta.
0:14:46 > 0:14:51But, as I found in a small basement flat, statistics don't
0:14:51 > 0:14:59matter when an attack has changed your family's life for ever.
0:15:00 > 0:15:05Everyone in this family was wounded by a mortar ten days ago. They were
0:15:05 > 0:15:08out together, picking up the children from school when the mortar
0:15:08 > 0:15:14hit.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17hit. This man lost three toes.
0:15:21 > 0:15:28His wife has a serious leg mood and -- leg wound. I asked them what they
0:15:28 > 0:15:35would take to the man who fired? "I Would tell him, when you fire the
0:15:35 > 0:15:39mortar at innocent people, imagine if these were your kids. Would you
0:15:39 > 0:15:44want this to happen to your kids? Your blood is on your hands until
0:15:44 > 0:15:50Judgment Day." . I would tell him he was an evil
0:15:50 > 0:15:57coward, if he wasn't a coward he wouldn't fire on us.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05President Bashar al-Assad is the strongest he has been since the war
0:16:05 > 0:16:09started. He says the West is lying about the humanitarian crisis in
0:16:09 > 0:16:16Eastern Ghouta. Inside the siege, heavy shelling and air strikes
0:16:16 > 0:16:19continued throughout the day.
0:16:24 > 0:16:34A white helmet civil defence rescue team was caught up in an attack.
0:16:34 > 0:16:42Into this came the aid convoy. Carrying a limited amount of relief,
0:16:42 > 0:16:50for a place the UN Secretary General calls "Hell on earth". They ran out
0:16:50 > 0:16:52of time, leaving before they could unload all beaten tracks, because of
0:16:52 > 0:17:01more shelling. -- all the trucks. Eastern Ghouta's underground clinics
0:17:01 > 0:17:06have been working at full stretch for weeks. More casualties were
0:17:06 > 0:17:14coming in, and for this doctor it was almost nonstop.
0:17:15 > 0:17:20This was filmed for the BBC. The Syrian government won't allow us
0:17:20 > 0:17:27into Eastern Ghouta. The doctor doesn't flinch any more when shells,
0:17:27 > 0:17:31in. She didn't think the convoy would change anything.How can a
0:17:31 > 0:17:46small convoy help us, including some food and materials? It isn't enough
0:17:46 > 0:17:51even for a few days. People live close together in
0:17:51 > 0:17:59Eastern Ghouta. There is nowhere to hide, and plenty of places to die.
0:17:59 > 0:18:06The grown-ups war is spending and breaking another generation. --
0:18:06 > 0:18:09bending and breaking another generation.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Three men have appeared in court in Leicester in connection
0:18:12 > 0:18:14with an explosion that killed five people in the city.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16They are all charged with manslaughter and arson
0:18:16 > 0:18:19and remanded in custody.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21The blast, in the Hinkley Road area, destroyed a shop
0:18:21 > 0:18:24and the flat above it.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30After the big freeze has come the big thaw -
0:18:30 > 0:18:32and it's causing problems with thousands of people
0:18:32 > 0:18:35losing their water supply because of burst pipes.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Water companies in London, the Midlands and South Wales
0:18:38 > 0:18:41are urging people to use as little as possible to conserve supplies.
0:18:41 > 0:18:46Bottled water has been distributed to people in parts of the capital.
0:18:46 > 0:18:49But in Cumbria, remote households remain cut off by snow
0:18:49 > 0:18:51and helicopters have been making drops of food and firewood,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54as Danny Savage reports.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57Getting to the cut-off communities of the Pennines can only be done
0:18:57 > 0:19:01on foot or quad bike.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05The 'Farmy Army' are still doing their bit.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09The snow was up to the top of the door here, with the window.
0:19:09 > 0:19:17We had snow all over the front window.
0:19:18 > 0:19:19It just stuck, it's like living in an igloo.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22Gill and her husband have been cut-off for a week.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24So this RAF Chinook over their home was a welcome sight.
0:19:24 > 0:19:29It's been doing the rounds in Cumbria today, going
0:19:29 > 0:19:34from isolated hamlets to cut off farms, offering help.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37They've run out of heating oil here, so a delivery of logs
0:19:37 > 0:19:39for the burner was very welcome.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41What is their reaction when you drop in?
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I think they're quite surprised, but I think
0:19:43 > 0:19:45they are pleased to see us.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48We are here to assure them that help is on its way.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Obviously working with the police and the Mountain rescue and they are
0:19:51 > 0:19:52doing their bit as well.
0:19:52 > 0:19:56A few minutes later, they were away to their next cut-off location.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Further south, rising temperatures have seen a sudden spike
0:19:59 > 0:20:02in burst water pipes.
0:20:02 > 0:20:06Supplies have been cut off in London, Kent, Scotland and Wales.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08In Carmarthenshire, Darren has been without running
0:20:08 > 0:20:11water since Thursday.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Getting rainwater from outside and from my neighbour,
0:20:13 > 0:20:15so it's not been impossible.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19But I would say the worst thing is not being able to keep
0:20:19 > 0:20:22the washing up in the kitchen clean and also keep myself clean,
0:20:22 > 0:20:24having a shower everyday.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Just a very basic wash in a basin with cold water.
0:20:27 > 0:20:32As people queued for bottled water in south London,
0:20:32 > 0:20:36frustration grew at the lack of a basic service.
0:20:36 > 0:20:397:30 in the morning they sent me a message the water was fixed.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Nothing was fixed.
0:20:40 > 0:20:47I think this is absolutely appalling.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49It's shocking that there is such poor...
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Well, there is zero communication.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54In the Midlands, big companies like Jaguar Land Rover and Cadbury,
0:20:54 > 0:20:55halted production so Severn Trent could sustain supplies
0:20:55 > 0:20:56to households.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58The cold weather devastated wildlife too.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03The storms killed millions of sea creatures.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05In East Yorkshire, they have been rescuing lobsters and reviving them
0:21:05 > 0:21:08in salt water at fish markets.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12I think the industry will be fine, but from an natural perspective,
0:21:12 > 0:21:17it's quite shocking what mother nature can do.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Back in the hills of northern England, people living
0:21:21 > 0:21:24beyond the snowdrifts hope to be reached by road, rather than air
0:21:24 > 0:21:25over the next couple of days.
0:21:25 > 0:21:27Danny Savage, BBC News, Cumbria.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33Two anti-establishment parties in Italy have each claimed they have
0:21:33 > 0:21:35won the right to govern the country following yesterday's
0:21:35 > 0:21:39general election.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Support for the far-right anti immigration League party also
0:21:41 > 0:21:49surged to record levels.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58The Eurosceptic Five Star Movement became Italy's
0:21:58 > 0:22:00largest single party - which has won almost
0:22:00 > 0:22:01a third of the vote.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04A hung parliament is the most likely outcome with weeks of negotiation
0:22:04 > 0:22:06and coalition building ahead..Our Europe Editor Katya Adler reports.
0:22:06 > 0:22:07Her report contains flash photography.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10Luigi Di Maio's Populist Party has turned Italian politics on its head.
0:22:10 > 0:22:13Now, he can't walk up on stage without getting crushed.
0:22:13 > 0:22:20What a scrum, the press are hungry for him.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Before the elections, Luigi Di Maio and the Five Star Movement
0:22:23 > 0:22:25were dismissed by the Italian establishment as naive,
0:22:25 > 0:22:26populist shambles.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Now he's the man and they are the party of the moment.
0:22:29 > 0:22:37Looking like he couldn't quite believe what's just happened,
0:22:37 > 0:22:40the 31 year-old declared a new Italian republic -
0:22:40 > 0:22:42of the people, for the people.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Five Star's leaders have holed up in this Rome hotel,
0:22:44 > 0:22:47planning their next move.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49But are they really ready to govern?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52TRANSLATION:This is a revolution.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Italians understood they can't trust the old politicians.
0:22:54 > 0:22:58It's time for us to work on serious issues.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01But here is the dampener on those plans - Five Star hasn't won
0:23:01 > 0:23:04an absolute majority.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Just look at this map.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Italy is divided.
0:23:08 > 0:23:14Five Star supporters in the south, highlighted in orange,
0:23:14 > 0:23:18while a group of right-wing parties dominates the North,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22led now by this man, another Italian Populist,
0:23:22 > 0:23:28but this time of the anti-immigration Eurosceptic kind.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30TRANSLATION:In Brussels, some people are worried.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33They are wrong.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37With the Italian vote, the people of Europe have taken
0:23:37 > 0:23:39a step towards liberation from rules and regulation that bring
0:23:39 > 0:23:42about poverty and insecurity.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Now, behind guarded doors, the political horse trading begins.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47It will be weeks before Italians know which Populist politicians
0:23:47 > 0:23:49make it into government and whether they keep
0:23:49 > 0:23:57their promises.
0:24:01 > 0:24:05The EU is watching events unfold here carefully. Brussels is jumpy.
0:24:05 > 0:24:12The two main Populist parties are sceptical in nature, they don't want
0:24:12 > 0:24:16to leave the EU but want to change and are much less likely to keep to
0:24:16 > 0:24:19its rules. That could put Rome on collision course with Paris and
0:24:19 > 0:24:24Berlin just as they are trying to deepen European integration. And
0:24:24 > 0:24:28when it comes to Brexit, political turmoil in Italy means yet another
0:24:28 > 0:24:32EU country could be distracted from negotiations with the UK.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Thank you.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35One of the most significant political gatherings
0:24:35 > 0:24:40for a generation has opened in China.
0:24:40 > 0:24:45The National People's Congress will consider a proposal to abolish
0:24:45 > 0:24:48presidential term limits, which would hand the current
0:24:48 > 0:24:51President, Xi Jinping, a mandate for life.
0:24:51 > 0:24:57The idea was welcomed with applause at today's meeting.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00The Prime Minister is urging developers to do their duty
0:25:00 > 0:25:01and build the homes the country needs.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04She says owning a property is now largely unaffordable to young people
0:25:04 > 0:25:06without "the bank of mum and dad".
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Theresa May claims changes to planning rules -
0:25:10 > 0:25:13which would penalise developers who delay building on their land -
0:25:13 > 0:25:15should help to deal with the shortage of properties.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Labour described the proposed changes as 'feeble.'
0:25:17 > 0:25:20Here's our Home Editor Mark Easton.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25The Prime Minister donned the hi-vis today, determined to show she's
0:25:25 > 0:25:29tackling what she describes as a national housing crisis.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33But Theresa May's not the first senior Tory to get her shoes
0:25:33 > 0:25:34muddy on a building site.
0:25:34 > 0:25:35Remember him?
0:25:35 > 0:25:36And him?
0:25:36 > 0:25:38And him?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Today, the PM had the big builders and developers in her sights,
0:25:42 > 0:25:45blaming some of them for putting profit before their patriotic duty
0:25:45 > 0:25:49to restore the dream of home ownership.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54The bonuses paid to the heads of some of our biggest developers
0:25:54 > 0:25:58are based not on the number of homes they build but on their
0:25:58 > 0:25:59profits or share price.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01I expect developers to do their duty for Britain and build
0:26:01 > 0:26:02the homes our country needs.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06Some builders will tell you their first responsibility
0:26:06 > 0:26:08is to their shareholders, and it is unusual for
0:26:08 > 0:26:12a Conservative Prime Minister to tell private companies she's
0:26:12 > 0:26:14considering changing the rules to make it more difficult
0:26:14 > 0:26:18for them to make a profit.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Among possible planning reforms is the idea that developers
0:26:22 > 0:26:25with a reputation for not building homes fast enough, might be denied
0:26:25 > 0:26:29planning permission by councils.
0:26:29 > 0:26:34Not only do house-builders make returns to their shareholders,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36we're also cross subsidising almost half of the affordable housing
0:26:36 > 0:26:38in this country every single year.
0:26:38 > 0:26:41So we're doing the job of government.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Mrs May wants lots more houses but doesn't want
0:26:44 > 0:26:47to upset her core vote.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Hello, do you know about...
0:26:49 > 0:26:55People like these residents in true blue Surrey,
0:26:55 > 0:26:59who are supported by their MP, Environment Secretary Michael Gove,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02in their opposition to a new garden village.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04Planning reform worries these campaigners.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08I think this is going to be a backward step and we are really
0:27:08 > 0:27:10worried that these sort of developments, which are really
0:27:10 > 0:27:13damaging to the environment and the community as a whole,
0:27:13 > 0:27:17will be pushed forward, against the peoples' wishes.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Some Conservatives want the Treasury to relax borrowing rules so councils
0:27:19 > 0:27:21and housing associations can build many more genuinely
0:27:21 > 0:27:26affordable homes.
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Others see the priority as protecting England's
0:27:29 > 0:27:30precious green landscape.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34It's a surprise, perhaps, the Prime Minister didn't think it
0:27:34 > 0:27:35wise to wear a hard hat today.
0:27:35 > 0:27:42Mark Easton, BBC News.
0:27:42 > 0:27:43The inventor Trevor Baylis - best known for developing
0:27:43 > 0:27:51the wind-up radio - has died at the age of 80.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56And to make it work, you simply wind this and now...
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Mr Baylis was inspired to design the radio after watching
0:27:58 > 0:28:00a documentary about Aids in Africa.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02He believed the invention would help halt the disease by making
0:28:02 > 0:28:04educational radio broadcasts accessible to more people.
0:28:04 > 0:28:06He died this morning at his home on Eel Pie Island,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09in south-west London, after a long illness.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13The British actor Gary Oldman is celebrating after
0:28:13 > 0:28:16winning his first Oscar.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18He picked up the award for his portrayal of
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23The British short film - The Silent Child -
0:28:23 > 0:28:25starring six-year-old Maisie Sly from Swindon who's deaf -
0:28:25 > 0:28:27also won an Oscar.
0:28:27 > 0:28:31But the night belonged to The Shape of Water which won four awards,
0:28:31 > 0:28:32including best film.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz was there.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39The night began with host Jimmy Kimmel using his opening
0:28:39 > 0:28:42monologue to round up some of the elephants in the room.
0:28:42 > 0:28:47Black Panther and Wonder Woman were massive hits, which is almost
0:28:47 > 0:28:49miraculous, because I remember a time when the major studios didn't
0:28:49 > 0:28:53believe a woman or a minority could open a superhero movie.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56And the reason I remember that time is because it
0:28:56 > 0:28:57was March of last year.
0:28:57 > 0:28:58LAUGHTER
0:28:58 > 0:29:02That joke set the agenda for the evening.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05In the year of the 90th Academy Awards, it was Time's Up
0:29:05 > 0:29:07for a monocultural male dominated movie business.
0:29:07 > 0:29:08It's a new day in Hollywood...
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Said Jennifer Lawrence, before announcing that the winner
0:29:10 > 0:29:12of Actress in a Leading Role was...
0:29:12 > 0:29:16Francis McDormand, Three billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
0:29:16 > 0:29:19So, I'm hyperventilating a little bit.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23If I fall over, pick me up, because I've got some things to say.
0:29:23 > 0:29:28If I may be so honoured to have all the female nominees in every
0:29:28 > 0:29:33category stand with me in this room tonight, the actors...
0:29:33 > 0:29:35Meryl, if you do it, everyone else will, come on.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37The film-makers...
0:29:37 > 0:29:40Look around everybody, look around ladies and gentlemen,
0:29:40 > 0:29:45because we all have stories to tell and projects we need financed.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49The call for equality and tolerance was made time and again
0:29:49 > 0:29:51and was perhaps best captured by Guillermo del Toro,
0:29:51 > 0:29:55whose film The Shape Of Water, a story of misfits and outcasts,
0:29:55 > 0:30:00won Best Picture and he Best Director.
0:30:00 > 0:30:03I am an immigrant, and like many, many of you,
0:30:03 > 0:30:06the greatest our art does and our industry does is to erase
0:30:06 > 0:30:07the lines in the sand.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10We should continue doing that when the world tells us
0:30:10 > 0:30:11to make them deeper.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14Roger A Deakins...
0:30:14 > 0:30:17There were long-awaited wins for two British veterans.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20After 13 failed attempts, the cinematographer Roger Deakins
0:30:20 > 0:30:22finally converted a nomination into a golden statue for his work
0:30:22 > 0:30:23on Blade Runner 2049.
0:30:23 > 0:30:28And for his portrayal of Winston Churchill
0:30:28 > 0:30:31in The Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman won his first Oscar.
0:30:31 > 0:30:35I say to my mother, thank you for your love and support.
0:30:35 > 0:30:40Put the kettle on, I'm bringing Oscar home!
0:30:40 > 0:30:44The Silent Child, a British film about a deaf four-year-old,
0:30:44 > 0:30:47played by Maisie Sly, won the Short Film Category.
0:30:47 > 0:30:51I made a promise to our six-year-old lead actress that
0:30:51 > 0:30:52I'd sign this speech.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57My hands are shaking a little bit, so I apologise.
0:30:58 > 0:30:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:59 > 0:31:02Maisie, who is deaf in real life, had friends and family
0:31:02 > 0:31:05watching the ceremony nearby when the announcement was made.
0:31:05 > 0:31:07The Silent Child, Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton...
0:31:07 > 0:31:10CHEERING
0:31:10 > 0:31:12Our daughter is the face of change, let's hope.
0:31:12 > 0:31:16You know, it's just...
0:31:16 > 0:31:23I don't know what to say.
0:31:24 > 0:31:28A lot of the reaction from last night's Oscars were they were a bit
0:31:28 > 0:31:32boring, there were no real surprises. Indeed, the early viewing
0:31:32 > 0:31:36figures show that to be the fact, down about 15%. That would be to
0:31:36 > 0:31:39ignore the fact that a line was drawn last night between the past,
0:31:39 > 0:31:43the present and the future, where diversity is more than just rhetoric
0:31:43 > 0:31:47and talk, it's a real thing and I think it will change the shape of
0:31:47 > 0:31:53Hollywood in the future. Will in Los Angeles, thank you. Back
0:31:53 > 0:31:56to our top story, in the last few minutes Wiltshire Police say a
0:31:56 > 0:31:58restaurant in Surrey has been closed as a precaution after a former
0:31:58 > 0:32:03Russian spy on the woman he was with were left critically ill in hospital
0:32:03 > 0:32:04with suspected poisoning.