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quarterfinals of the FA Cup. The BAFTA is awarded to 12 Years A | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Slave. And it is A Slave. And it isn't my fault -- a night of triumph | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
for British talent at the film awards in London. | :00:07. | :00:23. | |
Good evening. The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Barroso, says it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for an | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
independent Scotland to join the European Union. But his remarks have | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
been dismissed by the Scottish National Party Ospreys boss trust. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
-- preposterous. Opponents of independence say the comments are | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
bit set back for the yes campaign. Laura Bicker has the story. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
The question seems simple. Would an independent Scotland be a member of | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
the European Union? But the answer is never been clear and today came a | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
warning. It is a new country and so I believe it is going to be | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
extremely difficult, if not impossible, and new member state | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
coming out of one of our countries, getting the agreement of the other, | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
but having said that it is now for the British people and the Scottish | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
people, of course in their referendum, to decide their future. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
If Scotland has too applied to join the 27 country club it would need | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
the approval of all its members and convincing Spain might be tricky. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Catalan separatists fighting for independence and Spain would be wary | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
of setting a precedent which may make it easier for Catalonia to | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
break away from Madrid. Opponents of Scottish independence say that is | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
just one reason why negotiations would not be easy. Even when the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
European Union has been absolutely united in admitting new members it | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
takes an inordinately long time to agree everything. You would not have | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
that. This is the first time a country would be breaking away from | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
existing member state and applying to get back in again. The SNP has | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
always asserted an independent Scotland would be welcome the EU. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
And there would be no need to reapply for membership, they say, | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
despite what Mr Barroso says. I think his remarks really don't | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
represent the reality, given that not a single member state of the | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
European Union has in any way suggested that they would veto | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Scotland's membership of the European Union. Voters in Scotland | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
have had a lot to think about this week. George Osborne, backed by all | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
three main UK parties, told them voting yes would mean walking away | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
from the pound. Tomorrow, Alex Salmond will make a speech in which | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
-- which he claims will deconstruct the Chancellor's intervention on the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
currency union point by point. It certainly feels that this referendum | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
campaign is stepping up a gear, as both sides battle for every vote. | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has defended the government's | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
handling of the floods crisis, but says in future the military would be | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
deployed sooner. It comes as the Environment Agency says the overall | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
picture is starting to improve, though there are still 16 severe | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
flood warnings in place and water levels in some areas are expected to | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
rise. Jeremy Cooke reports from Wraysbury in Berkshire. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
In flood ravaged Wraysbury, the sun has come out. Of course, the water | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
is still here, but for now at least it is slowly, slowly in retreat. It | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
is much lower than it has been. But there is still a lot of water, yes, | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
so I have been sleeping in my armchair in the lounge with my | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
wellies on, because everything was sodden and many layers of clothes | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
because my heating went for several days, so it was a bit chilly. Here | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
on the village green it is another place where there is actually some | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
good news because believe it or not the water levels here are dropping. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
But everyone knows that the ground water level is now so high that any | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
more rain here or upcountry could bring a new wave of flooding. Make | :04:10. | :04:17. | |
no mistake then. The crisis is still with us. The water still being | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
pumped out of houses. And in many communities the military is on the | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
ground, amid suggestions that they could have been ordered in earlier. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
We offered troops quite a long while ago to civil authorities who wanted | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
them. What we have done over the last ten days is pushed them a bit | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
more aggressively up to civil authorities. For some, the extreme | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
weather has brought tragedy. Last week a freak wave hit the Marco Polo | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
cruise liner in the English Channel. 85-year-old James Swinstead | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
was killed but the ship's owners have denied accusations by his widow | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
that it was poorly maintained. I said to my husband, that is a rusty | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
patch. There was water on the windowsill next to him and there was | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
a woman behind me who was looking in an agitated way because the sea was | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
big, then suddenly it blew in. For some so, today has been a day of | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
respite. But the Environment Agency is urging caution, more rain is | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
expected. But for now, here in Wraysbury, the chickens can finally | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
come home to roost after a week away from their flooded homes. A small | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
indication that things may be improving. Everyone has been | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
absolutely brilliant. Everyone has looked after everyone else, looking | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
out for people, the army have been here doing a fantastic job, the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
police, the Fire Brigade, people have come from so many different | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
areas. It is unbelievable. The direction of travel is good for now, | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
but all eyes here are on the water levels, set to rise again in the | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
coming days. The labour leader Ed Miliband has | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
warned that climate change is now a matter of national security and the | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond says it is clearly a factor in the | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
recent storms. New research suggests the main weather system which | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
affects the UK, known as the jet stream, is changing, and some | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
scientists believe that is because of recent warming of the Arctic. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
Here is our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
The storms in Britain have gone on for weeks. While America has | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
experienced one of its most bitter winters. The meteorologists at this | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
weather station in Illinois have seen nothing like it for many a | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
year. Not only just below average conditions but really much below | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
average. For instance, the month of January in Chicago, ranked as the | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
10th coldest on record, dating back to 1872. Chicago is used to freezing | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
winters, but data taken from this weather station chose it has been | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
one of the coldest on record and the same is true across many other parts | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
of the United States. So the big question is whether this can be | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
explained by natural variability, or whether something has gone wrong | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
with our weather. Some scientists are worried that the recent warming | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
in the Arctic has shifted the main system that drives weather patterns | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
in northern Europe and North America. A current of fast flowing | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
air, in red and green, called the jet stream. This year, it has dipped | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
down lower than usual, which has meant weather has stayed the same | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
for weeks on end keeping the cold weather in North America and the | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
storms over Britain. At a science meeting in Chicago Jennifer Francis | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
has presented new evidence that in recent years these tips have been | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
deeper and they have been happening more often. I think we can expect | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
more of the same and we should expect it to occur more frequently, | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
it being these very wavy patterns in the jet stream that tend to result | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
in weather conditions being very persistent in one place, so it seems | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
like your weather is kind of stuck for a long time. It is too soon to | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
tell whether this shift in the jet stream is permanent, or whether it | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
is a direct result of man-made climate change, but the new research | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
does suggest we may have to get used to winters were spells of whether go | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
on for weeks, or even months. In Syria, around 300 men are still | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
being held for questioning after leaving the rebel held part of the | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
city of Homs last week during Annie Machon -- evacuation. The Foreign | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
Secretary has called for their release, while the Syrian government | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
insists the men will not be mistreated. Lyse Doucet has been | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
given access to the centre of Homs, weathermen are being held. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
This school in Homs is where hundreds of young men now await a | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
decision on their fate. Family members can visit them, but they | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
can't leave. Many who escaped the besieged wall city already know | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
their future will be tough. In this first room we visit, all the men | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
have suffered serious injuries. 14-year-old Abdul was shot in the | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
leg when he was out buying bread. His father died long ago, his mother | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
died of malnutrition. He tells me he has no one in the world. This boy | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
can't walk. His nine-year-old sister does not leave his side. There was | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
no medical care inside the old city, he says, and no food. We had to eat | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
grass, and cats. Families were ready to kill for food. Many men did not | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
want to be on camera. Some told us they were involved in the fighting, | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
but they had no choice but to come out. If they stayed they would have | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
died. Now, they face a different kind of danger. It is in these | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
classrooms on the top floor that the interrogations involving the police | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
and intelligence services are taking place. Everyone we have spoken to, | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
who has been through this process, say they are being asked a lot of | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
questions about their own activities and also about the rebel fighters | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
still inside the old city. That is what made many people uneasy about a | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
humanitarian mission that is also turning into an intelligence | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
gathering operation. We saw men going in and out of these rooms. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
Some were told they will be freed. But others were not. They are | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
fearful. They are being lectured here. This is called re-education. | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
The governor tells them, we are all Syrian, all the side. But what about | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
the men who told us they will not be freed? | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
TRANSLATION: I believe most of the men will be | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
cleared, or given an amnesty. I -- they will be free to go wherever | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
they wish. For those who are not, they will be tried in civilian | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
courts. The UN is keeping a close eye on what happens here, but they | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
admit as time goes on that may not always be possible. | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
With all the sport, here's Lizzie Greenwood Hughes at the BBC Sport | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Centre. Good evening. Arsenal have knocked | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
Liverpool out of the FA Cup. Today's 2-1 victory means they are | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
through to the quarterfinals, where they will play Everton, who beat | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
Swansea city 3-1. Tim Hague reports. Arsenal needed to put down a marker | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
after this fixture eight days ago. 5-1 they were humiliated at | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Liverpool. They began casually in this match. Daniel Sturridge should | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
have scored in under two minutes. He couldn't, but his England team-mate | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain could. But Arsenal did not settle for just one. | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
Oxlade-Chamberlain turning provider next full Lukas Podolski. But after | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
conceding a penalty, which Steven Gerrard scored, it got nervy and | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
even more so when Daniel Agger headed wide of an open goal. But | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Arsene Wenger's Arsenal are not. Everton away to the quarterfinals | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
and then matzo -- their manager, a cup winner with Wigan last season, | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
got the perfect start against Swansea. Traore using his lengthy | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
frame to meet effect. While Swansea equalised, Everton regained control, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
scoring two second-half goals including this one from Steven | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Naismith to move a match away from Wembley. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Here is the draw for the next round. Sunderland will travel to brighten a | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
whole, there is a repeat of last year's final as Manchester City face | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Wigan and there could be a Sheffield derby as United, who beat Nottingham | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
Forest today, will play either Sheffield Wednesday or Charlton. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Celtic's lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership is back to 21 | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
points. A hat-trick from Anthony Stokes gave them a 3-0 victory over | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
St Johnstone and a record equalling 12 clean sheet for the keeper. Great | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Britain's Young halfpipe skier rowing Cheshire suffered concussion | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
after a serious fall in training at the Winter Olympics. It comes after | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
a difficult day for Team GB, including Zoe Gillings narrowly | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
missing out on the final of the snowboard cross. Andy Swiss reports. | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
It is perhaps sport's greatest roller-coaster ride. The snowboard | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
cross. Drama guaranteed. The first three qualified for the women's's | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
final and in the white bib, Britain's Zoe Gillings thought she | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
had scraped through. But a photo finish showed she had just missed | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
out. The final was won by the Czech Republic's delighted Eva Samkova. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Meanwhile, there was a rip -- the return of an Olympic fairy tale. 12 | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
years after their last appearance, the Jamaican bobsleigh team were | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
back. 46-year-old Winston Watts and his team-mate Marvin Dixon had to | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
raise their own funds to get here. They got down safely, but they are | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
in 30th and last place at the halfway stage. Britain 23rd. But | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
there is also been worrying news for Team GB that 18-year-old halfpipe | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
skier rowing Cheshire was knocked unconscious during a training | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
accident this evening and had to be stretchered from the course -- | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
rowing Cheshire. The British team say she is staying in hospital | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
overnight for further assessment. They will make a decision in the | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
coming days over whether she can compete in her event here on | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Thursday. There was one of the story for you | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
this evening. England's Dan Cole will miss the rest of rugby union's | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Six Nations championship with a neck injury. | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
It is the biggest night of the year for the British film industry, with | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the BAFTA awards ceremony taking place in London. 12 Years A Slave | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
won best film and the best actor award for Chiwetel Ejiofor. Will | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
Gompertz was that the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and his | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
report contains some flash photography. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
A sea of super celebrities roll-out the Royal Opera house red carpet, | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
stopping for a photo, twirling for the telly and head off for the 2014 | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
BAFTAs. Whoever Winston Wright is likely to be a good evening for the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
British film industry which is enjoying a purple patch. British | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
actors and directors are in high demand and technicians and studios | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
based here are proving a magnet for big Hollywood blockbusters, | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
particularly those with a digital dimensional. And it was just such a | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
film that turned out to be the big winner tonight. And the BAFTA goes | :16:02. | :16:13. | |
to... Gravity. Gravity. Gravity. Gravity. Grab hold of anything you | :16:14. | :16:23. | |
can. The British made space thriller won six BAFTAs, including its | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
director, Alfonso Cuaron. I consider myself a part of the British film | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
industry. I live in London for the last 13 years and I have done almost | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
half of my films in the UK. Steve McQueen, the Turner prize-winning | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
British film director, saw his film 12 Years A Slave win the prestigious | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
Best film category. I just hope that 150 years from now, our ambivalence | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
will not allow another film-maker to make this film. Thank you so much | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
for this trophy, thank you. The film star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, picked up | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
the best actor award for his performance as Solomon Northrup, | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
free black man who was kidnapped and enslaved in the American South. Wow. | :17:10. | :17:22. | |
The best supporting actor went to Barkhad Abdi. Cate Blanchett won | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
best actress award for her role in blue jasmine. And Jennifer Lawrence | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
picked up the best supporting actress BAFTA for her part in the | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
1970s crime caper American Hustle. Please welcome to the stage Dame | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Helen Mirren. Prince William presented Dame Helen Mirren with | :17:41. | :17:42. | |
Fellowship of the British Academy, and with that the show was over. A | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
case of next stop, the Oscars, in two weeks' time. | :17:50. | :17:52. |