:00:20. > :00:23.Good afternoon. Efforts are under way in Ukraine to form a unity
:00:24. > :00:26.government after MPs there voted to remove President Yanukovych from
:00:27. > :00:30.office yesterday following weeks of protests. Today the Ukrainian
:00:31. > :00:32.parliament voted to strip the president of his powers and
:00:33. > :00:43.appointed the speaker of the assembly as interim president. It's
:00:44. > :00:47.not know where Mr Yanukovych is. Duncan Crawford is live in Kiev for
:00:48. > :00:52.us now. Duncan. There is a lot of uncertainty on the
:00:53. > :00:55.streets of Kiev today, nobody seems to know where President Yanukovych
:00:56. > :01:00.is, and they don't know what his next move is going to be. There is a
:01:01. > :01:03.political vacuum in this country at the moment. The situation is
:01:04. > :01:12.unstable. This report contains some flash photography.
:01:13. > :01:17.Even in rushing speaking east of Ukraine, President Yanukovych's grip
:01:18. > :01:23.on power could be going in flames. Anti-government demonstrators in
:01:24. > :01:30.khaki of wanting the same revolutionary deal as those in the
:01:31. > :01:36.West. -- Kharkiv. This was a stronghold for the President, and
:01:37. > :01:41.the sporadic clashes continue to break out between his supporters and
:01:42. > :01:46.protesters. Police still guard some government buildings, but others
:01:47. > :01:53.have been abandoned. They ran away, they just understood, they realised
:01:54. > :01:58.that they can't change things here. So we really happy. The BBC cannot
:01:59. > :02:04.independently verify this footage, but video has emerged which appears
:02:05. > :02:09.to President Yanukovych's entourage fleeing from his luxurious mansion
:02:10. > :02:13.outside the ever yesterday. -- outside Kiev yesterday. The
:02:14. > :02:17.Parliament have been told they must form a unity government within the
:02:18. > :02:22.next 48 hours to replace a president who has gone missing. Millions of
:02:23. > :02:29.Ukrainians want to know, where is Yanukovych? He disappear. The
:02:30. > :02:36.President has disappeared. That is why we have to elect a new one.
:02:37. > :02:40.There is a power vacuum in the country. Police and security have
:02:41. > :02:45.disappeared from the streets of Kiev. These men run the streets now.
:02:46. > :02:50.They are the heroes of what people call a revolution. Nobody knows who
:02:51. > :02:53.is in control of this country. The Parliament has tried to push the
:02:54. > :02:56.President from power, but he has remained defiant so far, and he
:02:57. > :03:02.could still try to mobilise his supporters. Huge crowds have turned
:03:03. > :03:07.out to honour the dead. They say the men who died were killed fighting
:03:08. > :03:13.for a freer, United Ukraine. But the country is now desperately in need
:03:14. > :03:19.of leadership to secure its future. Duncan Crawford, BBC News, Kiev.
:03:20. > :03:22.After the fast developing events of the last few days, more changes
:03:23. > :03:28.today with politicians in Parliament is trying to stabilise the political
:03:29. > :03:32.situation in the country. They have voted today to strip the president
:03:33. > :03:36.of his powers, they have voted for the Speaker of the parliament to be
:03:37. > :03:43.given temporary presidential powers, and they also voted to
:03:44. > :03:46.dismiss the Foreign Secretary, the Foreign Minister, under President
:03:47. > :03:52.Yanukovych's government. Also, developments across the country,
:03:53. > :03:56.some tensions are still there, in Donetsk, for example, in the Far
:03:57. > :04:01.East of Ukraine, very close to the Russian border. That is President
:04:02. > :04:06.Yanukovych's home city. A BBC colleague there has told me that
:04:07. > :04:09.dozens of anti-government protesters are protesting, there is a stand-off
:04:10. > :04:12.involving supporters of the government. Those supporters are
:04:13. > :04:16.saying the protesters are fascists, that they want to maintain closer
:04:17. > :04:20.ties with Russia, they don't want to seek closer ties with the West. And
:04:21. > :04:24.those kinds of situations are popping up in other parts of the
:04:25. > :04:29.country as well, so the situation remains unstable. But here in Kiev,
:04:30. > :04:32.thousands of protesters behind me, the situation remains calm.
:04:33. > :04:35.The North Sea oil industry will be stronger if Scotland stays within
:04:36. > :04:39.the United Kingdom, David Cameron has said. The Prime Minister pledged
:04:40. > :04:42.to invest in the sector to attract business and create jobs. But
:04:43. > :04:44.Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, said independence would
:04:45. > :04:49.bring enormous potential to the sector. Tomorrow both men will chair
:04:50. > :04:54.cabinet meetings in north-east Scotland. Our political
:04:55. > :04:58.correspondent Vicki Young is here. Vicki, what are we expecting? I
:04:59. > :05:02.think it is a clear sign that Westminster politicians want to have
:05:03. > :05:05.a higher profile role, really, in the whole referendum debate. We had
:05:06. > :05:09.George Osborne going to end a warning that an independent Scotland
:05:10. > :05:13.would not be able to keep the pound, but the focus to morrow will be on
:05:14. > :05:19.the oil industry, and David Cameron's message is that only the
:05:20. > :05:23.broad shoulders of the UK can maximise the potential of North Sea
:05:24. > :05:27.oil. He says it is a very volatile international commodity and its
:05:28. > :05:31.knees the might of a large UK economy to stand behind the industry
:05:32. > :05:34.in difficult times. -- its needs. The opposite message from Alex
:05:35. > :05:38.Salmond, who was going to say that if there were an independent
:05:39. > :05:40.Scotland, he would set up a new department with headquarters in
:05:41. > :05:45.Glasgow and Aberdeen which would build and capitalise on the
:05:46. > :05:48.expertise that is already there. But it is clear that employment and the
:05:49. > :05:51.economy is central to this debate on independence. Vicki Young, thank
:05:52. > :05:54.you. The British Chambers of Commerce is
:05:55. > :05:57.calling on the Chancellor to invest in youth training and employment to
:05:58. > :06:01.avoid what it calls a lost generation. Ahead of next month's
:06:02. > :06:04.Budget, the group's pressing for a fund to be established to get 16 to
:06:05. > :06:09.24-year-olds into work or apprenticeships. Here's our business
:06:10. > :06:14.correspondent Joe Lynam. 19-year-old Charlotte Coon is
:06:15. > :06:17.getting her hair done this weekend. She's struggled to find work since
:06:18. > :06:20.leaving school, but now she's got an apprenticeship, although it's not in
:06:21. > :06:24.education, where she'd love to work full-time. I left sixth form in
:06:25. > :06:28.June, and I tried to get a job all the way until September, and I
:06:29. > :06:32.couldn't get one. Most of the jobs I applied for all had to have
:06:33. > :06:35.experience, and it was just like, how are you going to get it if
:06:36. > :06:38.nobody's taking on people that aren't experienced?
:06:39. > :06:41.Youth unemployment may be falling, but the British Chambers of Commerce
:06:42. > :06:44.says that young people are still three times more likely to be
:06:45. > :06:48.unemployed than the rest of the population, and it wants action. In
:06:49. > :06:51.its Budget submission, the BCC says that every firm should get a grant
:06:52. > :06:56.of ?1,000 for employing a young person who's been out of work for a
:06:57. > :06:59.while. It also wants to nearly double the tax relief to 50% for
:07:00. > :07:05.those individuals who invest in companies started by young people.
:07:06. > :07:10.The young people are our future, they're the who are going to create
:07:11. > :07:13.the wealth of the future. To get them into the workforce is very
:07:14. > :07:16.important. It gives them better life chances, but it's also very valuable
:07:17. > :07:19.for the economy. The Government says that the economy
:07:20. > :07:21.is creating jobs and that it is delivering half a million
:07:22. > :07:24.apprenticeships and abolishing national insurance for under-21s.
:07:25. > :07:26.It's also saying, though, that there'll be no let-up in the
:07:27. > :07:29.deficit-reduction policies, meaning very little room for manoeuvre in
:07:30. > :07:33.next month's Budget. Joe Lynam, BBC News.
:07:34. > :07:36.Taliban fighters have killed at least 20 Afghan soldiers in one of
:07:37. > :07:42.the deadliest attacks against the security forces in the past year. It
:07:43. > :07:46.happened at a checkpoint in the Kunar province near the Pakistan
:07:47. > :07:48.border. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility and said it had taken
:07:49. > :07:55.soldiers as prisoners. In Thailand, a five-year-old girl
:07:56. > :07:58.was killed when gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in the
:07:59. > :08:02.east of the country. Dozens of others were hurt. Attackers threw
:08:03. > :08:06.explosives and shot at people gathered for a rally in a market. So
:08:07. > :08:11.far, no group has said it carried out the attack.
:08:12. > :08:14.And there've been more demonstrations across Venezuela,
:08:15. > :08:18.both in favour of and against the government of Nicolas Maduro. Over
:08:19. > :08:22.the past two weeks, at least ten people have been killed on both
:08:23. > :08:25.sides, with more than 100 injured. It's the worst violence since
:08:26. > :08:26.President Maduro came to power last April, replacing the late Hugo
:08:27. > :08:35.Chavez. It's the last day of competition at
:08:36. > :08:39.the Winter Olympics. This afternoon will see the Games' closing
:08:40. > :08:43.ceremony. Earlier, there was one last chance for a medal for Team GB.
:08:44. > :08:45.Our correspondent Andy Swiss is live in Sochi with news of the four-man
:08:46. > :08:56.bobsleigh. Andy. Yes, Nick, they came close, but the
:08:57. > :09:01.bobsleigh team couldn't quite win another medal for Team GB. They
:09:02. > :09:06.began the day in seventh position, they ended up in fifth, so just out
:09:07. > :09:09.of the medals, but it was another good performance in a Games that has
:09:10. > :09:14.had plenty of very good British performances. Ball medals in total,
:09:15. > :09:21.gold for Lizzy Yarnold, bronze for Jenny Jones, medals for both curling
:09:22. > :09:26.teams. -- four medals. It is the best since the first Winter Games in
:09:27. > :09:29.1924 in Chamonix. No fifth medal for Team GB, that would have been a
:09:30. > :09:32.record breaker, but it has still been a very good games as far as
:09:33. > :09:39.British athletes are concerned. And have the Games overall been seen
:09:40. > :09:43.as successful? Yes, it is an interesting one, isn't it? We have
:09:44. > :09:47.the closing ceremony coming up later tonight inside the Olympic Stadium,
:09:48. > :09:51.so have the Games been a success overall? There were a lot of
:09:52. > :09:54.concerns in the build-up to these Winter Olympics about a number of
:09:55. > :10:00.issues, security, human rights, the cost of the games, ?30 billion, the
:10:01. > :10:03.most expensive in Olympic history, but generally things have gone
:10:04. > :10:08.smoothly. The venues have been very impressive, the crowds have been
:10:09. > :10:13.good, and Russia has finished top of the medals table, I can tell you, so
:10:14. > :10:18.as far as the hosts, the people here are concerned, these Games have been
:10:19. > :10:21.a success. Andy Swiss in Sochi, thank you very much. The last
:10:22. > :10:29.surviving member of the Von Trapp family singers made famous in The
:10:30. > :10:34.Sound Of Music has died. Maria von Trapp was 99. She died at her home
:10:35. > :10:39.in the United States. She and her family fled Nazi occupied Austria in
:10:40. > :10:43.1938 and ended up performing around the US.
:10:44. > :10:48.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel. The
:10:49. > :11:02.next news on BBC One is at 6:10. From me, for now, goodbye.
:11:03. > :11:09.Good afternoon. It looks like a lively week of weather ahead of us.
:11:10. > :11:12.There'll be fairly strong winds at time and rain. It's been windy so
:11:13. > :11:14.far