:00:20. > :00:24.Good afternoon. Ukraine's Prime Minister has accused Russia of
:00:25. > :00:27.declaring war and says his country is on the brink of disaster. It
:00:28. > :00:30.comes a day after the Russian Parliament approved deploying troops
:00:31. > :00:35.to Ukraine and forces took control of key sites in Crimea. In response
:00:36. > :00:40.Ukraine has called up its military reservists and placed its armed
:00:41. > :00:41.forces on full combat readiness. From Sevastapol, Christian Fraser
:00:42. > :00:53.sent this report. The headquarters of the Ukrainian
:00:54. > :00:58.navy in Sevastopol, still occupied this morning by Russian troops, but
:00:59. > :01:02.now surrounded by a civilian guard, who are stopping sailors coming to
:01:03. > :01:08.work. Through the gates, the naval officers watch and wait, confined to
:01:09. > :01:14.base. On the rooftop, a sniper. The only man allowed to leave is the
:01:15. > :01:20.admiral. I am very sorry that Ukrainian soldiers and sailors are
:01:21. > :01:25.the hostages of this situation. It is very sad. They have to sit down
:01:26. > :01:28.immediately around the table and work very hard. And once he had
:01:29. > :01:34.gone, the Russians broke into the storeroom. And so there is a dilemma
:01:35. > :01:39.for the Ukrainian military. Submit to the new authority in Crimea or
:01:40. > :01:45.else. In Kiev, the defence minister is trying to hang onto whatever he
:01:46. > :01:48.can, but amid the confusion, the Russians have moved quickly. The new
:01:49. > :01:52.interim Government in Ukraine has put its armed forces on Battle
:01:53. > :01:59.footing and it is calling up the reservists. This is not a threat.
:02:00. > :02:06.This is actually a declaration of war to my country. And we urge
:02:07. > :02:13.President Putin to pull back its military. President Obama spent 90
:02:14. > :02:17.minutes on the phone last night with President Putin. Ban Ki-moon, the UN
:02:18. > :02:25.Secretary-General, said he was gravely concerned. It is crucial to
:02:26. > :02:30.remain calm and proceeds to an immediate de-escalation of the
:02:31. > :02:36.situation. Dialogue must be the only tool in ending this crisis. But on
:02:37. > :02:39.the ground, no sign of any de-escalation. These pictures from
:02:40. > :02:43.the northernmost tip of the peninsula, one of the few land
:02:44. > :02:47.routes into Crimea, and shows Russian soldiers digging in,
:02:48. > :02:52.literally. The fleet based in Sevastopol have sent out two
:02:53. > :02:57.anti-submarine warships. Here, Ukrainian soldiers at a radar
:02:58. > :03:00.station handed over their rifles. But here Ukrainian marines are
:03:01. > :03:06.refusing to leave their base. It is one of several tens confrontations
:03:07. > :03:11.developing as forces loyal to Kiev begin to make a stand, a worrying
:03:12. > :03:15.development for the NATO ambassadors in Brussels meeting to consider
:03:16. > :03:20.their response. Christian is in Sevastopol now. We saw in your
:03:21. > :03:28.report worrying signs of a stand-off between Ukrainian and Russian
:03:29. > :03:31.forces. You know, I think the Ukrainian military were caught on
:03:32. > :03:35.the hop last week while the Government was changing in Kiev.
:03:36. > :03:39.This started as a trick. There's the Russians took the Parliament in
:03:40. > :03:44.Crimea, then the two airports, then they moved in wholescale, and have
:03:45. > :03:47.been seizing military assets around the peninsular. Things changed
:03:48. > :03:51.today. The Ukrainian military was put on a warfare footing and they
:03:52. > :03:56.are suddenly not coming out of their bases in the same way, and we are
:03:57. > :04:02.seeing confrontation, not just at the two spots identified in the bill
:04:03. > :04:06.but in several places around the crime in -- in the film but in
:04:07. > :04:10.several places around the peninsular. They need to put
:04:11. > :04:15.pressure on Russia. They need to know President Putin's ambitions.
:04:16. > :04:18.Crimea is one thing. It is pro-Russian and Russian military
:04:19. > :04:22.people were in Sevastopol already. But to move into eastern Ukraine,
:04:23. > :04:26.where we have already seen flash points, if they rolled into eastern
:04:27. > :04:30.Ukraine, that is a whole different proposition and things would
:04:31. > :04:35.snowball quite dangerously and very dramatically. Thank you. The Foreign
:04:36. > :04:41.Secretary William Hague is heading to clear today to discuss the crisis
:04:42. > :04:47.with the Kiev interim leaders. Emily Buchanan is at RAF Northolt. What
:04:48. > :04:51.are William Hague's options? Well, I don't think he has a lot, that he
:04:52. > :04:56.has a long list of things he wants to do. He is leaving just now for
:04:57. > :05:00.Kiev for 24 hours. The first thing he wants to do is meet the new
:05:01. > :05:04.Government. There is no particular relation at the moment with that
:05:05. > :05:08.Government. He wants to meet them. I think he wants to urge them not to
:05:09. > :05:13.do anything that would provoke Russia into action. One of the first
:05:14. > :05:18.things he wants to do is to make sure that Russian minorities in
:05:19. > :05:22.Ukraine are protected, so that Russia does not have a pretext to
:05:23. > :05:28.make any more incursions into the country. He also talked about
:05:29. > :05:36.meetings at the G8 in June possibly being suspended. That is the kind of
:05:37. > :05:40.like Gucci is talking about. I -- language he is talking about. There
:05:41. > :05:44.are no major developments so far. Thank you.
:05:45. > :05:48.The Chinese authorities have blamed separatists for a mass stabbing at a
:05:49. > :05:51.railway station in which at least 29 people died and 130 were wounded. A
:05:52. > :05:54.group of around ten attackers rushed at passengers in the southwestern
:05:55. > :06:03.city of Kunming yesterday. From there, Damian Grammaticas sent this
:06:04. > :06:07.report. Armed police on guard today, around Kunming's train station.
:06:08. > :06:13.Incredibly travellers were already flooding back in less than 24 hours
:06:14. > :06:17.after the murderous rampage here. Ten or more attackers clad in black
:06:18. > :06:22.and masked ran amok. They drew their knives and began slashing at people.
:06:23. > :06:29.The crowd scattered everywhere. In the space of just 12 minutes, 150
:06:30. > :06:33.people were killed and injured. It was horrible. I saw bodies
:06:34. > :06:35.everywhere, dead, injured, right in front of the station. They were
:06:36. > :06:40.really vicious, slashing and killing. He told us one of the
:06:41. > :06:46.attackers was a woman who had been shot by police. Another eyewitness
:06:47. > :06:50.told us the attackers carried several lives each and one was
:06:51. > :06:55.recovered at the scene. Chinese authorities say this was done by
:06:56. > :06:59.terrorist elements from Xinjiang in the far west of China. One of the
:07:00. > :07:06.attackers ran towards this woman, stabbing wildly. Xinjiang lies
:07:07. > :07:11.thousands of miles away on the Chinese border with Pakistan and
:07:12. > :07:15.Afghanistan. Many of the Muslims there resent what they see as
:07:16. > :07:20.heavy-handed Chinese control. Violence here is getting worse and
:07:21. > :07:25.dozens died last year. It may now be seeping into other parts of China.
:07:26. > :07:29.Last October, China said this incident in Tiananmen Square was a
:07:30. > :07:34.terror attack. A car ploughed into a crowd and burst into flames. Two
:07:35. > :07:40.terrorists and three people in the vehicle died. This latest rampage
:07:41. > :07:43.was far more bloody. The worry for the Chinese authorities is that
:07:44. > :07:47.despite the vast sums being spent on internal security, the violins is
:07:48. > :07:54.spreading. -- violence.
:07:55. > :07:56.The former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain says pursuing
:07:57. > :08:00.British soldiers involved in the Bloody Sunday killings is a waste of
:08:01. > :08:03.police time. 14 civilians died in Londonderry in 1972 after soldiers
:08:04. > :08:06.opened fire during a civil rights march. Mr Hain's comments follow the
:08:07. > :08:09.disclosure that a number of Republican terrorism suspects were
:08:10. > :08:11.sent letters which in effect gave them immunity from prosecution as
:08:12. > :08:15.part of the Northern Ireland peace process.
:08:16. > :08:18.The gambling industry has been criticised by the Government for not
:08:19. > :08:21.doing enough to protect people from losing money on high-stakes betting
:08:22. > :08:24.machines in bookmakers shops. The culture secretary Maria Miller says
:08:25. > :08:29.a new voluntary code of conduct for the use of gaming machines will be
:08:30. > :08:37.made compulsory. She also wants to introduce stricter rules on spending
:08:38. > :08:42.limits. Daniella Relph reports. It can be addictive, compulsive, and
:08:43. > :08:48.easy hit. The fixed odds betting terminals. A high-stakes fruit
:08:49. > :08:52.machine, a real moneyspinner for betting shops. The gambling industry
:08:53. > :08:55.announced a voluntary code of conduct on Friday, including limits
:08:56. > :08:58.to the amount of money and time customers spend. The Government says
:08:59. > :09:03.that code will now become compulsory and it is looking at making it
:09:04. > :09:06.tougher. It has asked the industry regulator the Gambling Commission to
:09:07. > :09:11.look at other ways gamblers could be protected. They include a warning
:09:12. > :09:17.message to appear straightaway telling customers to stay in control
:09:18. > :09:20.and play responsibly. And forcing gamblers to set spending limits and
:09:21. > :09:25.time duration before they start playing. And if bookmakers want a
:09:26. > :09:29.licence to operate, they will have to accept the mandatory rules. Those
:09:30. > :09:34.who have had gambling problems want to see things go even further. We
:09:35. > :09:38.think the best route would be a stake reduction to make the product
:09:39. > :09:56.less harmful. At the moment you can bet ?100 every 20 seconds and we
:09:57. > :09:59.think that should come down to ?2, to be in line with other gaming
:10:00. > :10:01.machines in the UK. The Association of British Bookmakers has welcomed
:10:02. > :10:03.these plans, saying they want to focus on helping the small number of
:10:04. > :10:05.people with problems with affecting, without impacting on the
:10:06. > :10:07.millions who gamble safely. -- problems with betting.
:10:08. > :10:11.Newcastle United have fined their manager Alan Pardew ?100,000 after
:10:12. > :10:13.he appeared to head butt a Hull City player during their Premier League
:10:14. > :10:17.fixture yesterday. The altercation took place when the pair seemed to
:10:18. > :10:19.get in the way of each other in Newcastle's technical area. Pardew
:10:20. > :10:23.apologised in his post-match interviews. The Football Association
:10:24. > :10:27.says it will investigate. You can see more on all of today's stories
:10:28. > :10:36.on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is at 6:05pm. Bye
:10:37. > :10:49.Hello. The weekend started on a lovely note. We had some glorious
:10:50. > :10:54.sunshine yesterday, it stayed dry for most. A different story this
:10:55. > :11:02.afternoon, low-pressure sending its weather front and it's tighter
:11:03. > :11:04.isobars across the country, meaning wet and windy conditions. Much of