:00:22. > :00:27.Good afternoon. Some 25,000 people in the UK are
:00:27. > :00:29.unaware they are infected with HIV. Details have emerged from the
:00:29. > :00:35.Health Protection Agency which says around 600 people are needlessly
:00:35. > :00:40.dying from the condition each year. David Cameron says the message
:00:40. > :00:47.should be spread about education, testing and early diagnosis.
:00:47. > :00:52.Philippa Thomas reports. We have known for decades that the HIV
:00:52. > :00:58.virus can infect and destroy our immune system. Left untreated, it
:00:58. > :01:01.can develop over the years in AIDS or acquired immune deficiency
:01:01. > :01:04.syndrome. The Health Protection Agency says not enough people are
:01:04. > :01:08.being tested for HIV, adding to the spread of the virus.
:01:08. > :01:13.And the Prime Minister has recorded a special video message to mark
:01:13. > :01:19.World AIDS Day. Thanks to effective treatment and
:01:19. > :01:23.the brilliant care of our NHS, an early diagnosis means that the
:01:23. > :01:28.outlook for most people today with HIV in the UK is a good one, but
:01:28. > :01:31.some 25,000 people in the UK do not know that they have had, are not
:01:31. > :01:36.benefiting from the treatment and are increasing the risk of passing
:01:36. > :01:43.the virus on. The HPA's latest report estimates
:01:43. > :01:47.that about 96,000 people in the UK are living with HIV. With more
:01:47. > :01:52.than,000 new diagnosis last year alone, but almost a quarter of
:01:52. > :01:56.people with the virus don't know that they have it. AIDS and HIV
:01:56. > :01:59.campaigners stress that the record numbers of people living with the
:01:59. > :02:06.condition are proof that the treatment works.
:02:06. > :02:13.Somebody who is diagnosed early, they will have maybe 35 to 40
:02:13. > :02:17.years' life expectancy, a really strong argument to test regularly.
:02:17. > :02:25.With.events being staged worldwide to mark the day, some campaigners
:02:25. > :02:29.want the message to get out earlier, urging age-appropriate awareness
:02:29. > :02:31.lessons at school. Police have charged an actor, who's
:02:31. > :02:34.been in Coronation Street and The Bill, with historic child sex
:02:34. > :02:37.offences. Andrew Lancel, from Gateacre in Liverpool, will appear
:02:37. > :02:41.in court later this month to face five counts of indecent assault
:02:41. > :02:45.against a child. Australia has become the first
:02:45. > :02:48.country in the world to introduce unbranded packaging for cigarettes.
:02:48. > :02:52.From today all logos and colours are being replaced by dark green
:02:52. > :02:55.packaging with graphic pictures and warnings. The Australian Government
:02:55. > :03:01.says it is a decisive blow against the ill effects of smoking, but the
:03:01. > :03:11.tobacco industry says it infringes their legal rights. From Sydney,
:03:11. > :03:12.
:03:12. > :03:17.Duncan Kennedy reports. Any colour as long as it is green. This is the
:03:17. > :03:22.future for the smokers in Australia, plain packaging where one brand is
:03:22. > :03:27.barely distinct wishable from another. The Australian smokers
:03:27. > :03:30.will be deprived of favourite colour coded brands. There are
:03:30. > :03:36.35,000 out let's across Australia with you can buy cigarettes, from
:03:36. > :03:40.now on they will come in this plain, drab, green packaging. Gone are the
:03:40. > :03:44.logos of the tobacco companies. Campaigners say that the plain
:03:44. > :03:51.packaging stubs out remaining glamour.
:03:51. > :03:58.Once you take the colour-coding and the imagery and the gold packaging,
:03:58. > :04:04.and everything standardised you do de-glamourise a product and go as
:04:04. > :04:09.far as de-normaliseing smoking. This is how cigarettes used to be
:04:09. > :04:13.sold. Cigarette packs became the last advertising platform for the
:04:13. > :04:16.tobacco companies. Why they fought hard against plain packaging in the
:04:16. > :04:22.courts. We have said for a long time now
:04:22. > :04:26.that there are serious, unintended consequences to flow on from plain
:04:26. > :04:31.packaging, including the growth in the illegal tobacco market, the
:04:31. > :04:36.reduction of legally tobacco prices, court cases, a whole range of
:04:36. > :04:40.consequences to flow on from this. But as Australia packs away old
:04:40. > :04:43.packets, other countries like Britain and India are gearing up
:04:43. > :04:47.their campaigns to take on the tobacco companies in the battle of
:04:47. > :04:50.the cigarette box. The former England cricketer Andrew
:04:50. > :04:53.Flintoff has won his professional boxing debut. He beat the American
:04:53. > :04:57.Richard Dawson on points, despite being knocked down in the second
:04:58. > :05:00.round. Flintoff's first heavyweight bout came after months of training
:05:01. > :05:10.with his coach, Barry McGuigan, and was filmed for a documentary. Olly
:05:11. > :05:14.
:05:14. > :05:19.Foster was ringside. COMMENTATOR: Flintoff! When Andrew
:05:19. > :05:22.Flintoff walked out into the boxing ring as a cricketer, he put fear
:05:22. > :05:27.into the opposition, but this is a different world. He said he could
:05:27. > :05:32.not have trained harder, four months for four two-minute rounds.
:05:32. > :05:37.With the friends and family ringside, it was obvious he wanted
:05:37. > :05:42.to make every second count against Richard Dawson, a novice from
:05:42. > :05:46.Oklahoma. The American caught him in the second, the Manchester arena
:05:46. > :05:51.held its breath. No training could prepare him for this. Could he take
:05:51. > :05:56.a punch? He could. Andrew Flintoff did not hold back in the third and
:05:56. > :06:00.the fourth rounds. He threw more punches and at the final bell, the
:06:00. > :06:06.home crowd thought they knew who had won and so did he.
:06:06. > :06:11.There are many people who wanted Andrew Flintoff to fail here
:06:11. > :06:15.tonight, but he trained properly, he came here to fight and to prove
:06:15. > :06:19.a few people wrong. He has done just that.
:06:19. > :06:24.I got the full experience it was amazing, the people of Manchester
:06:24. > :06:27.are friends and family it was like an out of body experience it was
:06:27. > :06:32.unbelievable. To think that I could have the opportunity to do that
:06:32. > :06:36.here. I think he did brilliant. He outboxed the American. He did well.
:06:36. > :06:44.The watched the documentary, I thought he would be knocked out in
:06:44. > :06:48.the first one and two, but he lasted throughout and out-boxed him.
:06:48. > :06:54.I thought he did well. That lad was massive.