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Rupert Murdoch says there was a cover up at the News of the World, | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
but insists it was kept hidden from him. He tells the Leveson Inquiry | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
that he blames one or two people for failing to tell him about the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
extent of phone hacking and said he was guilty of not paying enough | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
attention to the paper. Some newspapers are closer to my heart | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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than others. I have to say, I failed. The former President of | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
Liberia has been found guilty of war crimes during the civil war. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Should girls as young as 13 be allowed to buy the pill over the | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
counter? An NHS report says it could help cut teenage pregnancy | :00:56. | :01:05. | |
rates. Credit card and bank details on sale for as little as �1. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
Diamond Jubilee celebrations move to Wales, as the Queen continues | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
her tour of the UK. Later on BBC London: Calls to force | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
officers to be interviewed if they witness a fatal shooting by a | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
colleague. And the mother of a 15- year-old girl, murdered by her ex- | :01:19. | :01:29. | |
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boyfriend, is granted an inquest Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
News at One. Rupert Murdoch has told the Leveson Inquiry that he | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
failed to stop what he called a cover-up at the News of the World. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
He said he had not paid enough attention to what was going on at | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the newspaper. He apologised to News of the World staff who lost | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
their jobs when the newspaper closed because of the hacking | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
scandal. Day two of Rupert Murdoch's | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
evidence and a rare sight in public - the media mo gull contrite and at | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
one point angry. The discussion - the phone hacking scandal which has | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
done him so much damage. He said things had happened at the News of | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
the World which had shocked him. There was no question in my mind | :02:24. | :02:32. | |
that maybe even the editor, but certainly beyond that, someone took | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
charge of a cover-up. Which we were victim to and I regret. Where did | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
this cover-up emanate, Mr Murdoch? I think from within the News of the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
World. Counsel suggested Mr Murdoch himself had been too passive in his | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
efforts to discover what had been happening at the paper. Some might | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
say that all this picture is consistent with one of a desire to | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
cover-up, rather than to expose. Would you agree with that? With | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
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minds like yours, perhaps. I am sorry, I take that back. After that | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
flash of anger, Mr Murdoch became contrite. I also have to say that I | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
failed. All I can do is apologise to a lot | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
of people, including all of the innocent people in the News of the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
World who have lost their jobs. Rupert Murdoch said he wished he | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
had questioned Clive Goodman, the one journalist convicted of phone | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
hacking and who, when he came out of prison, claimed others had been | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
involved. I should have thrown them all 0 of the plaigs and seen Mr | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
Goodman one or one. He had been an employee for a long time and cross- | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
examined him myself and made up my mind, maybe rightly, maybe wrongly | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
- was he telling the truth? If I came to the conclusion he was | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
telling the truth I would have torn the place a part and we would not | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
be here tonight. Mr Murdoch denied News International had a cavalier | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
attitude to taking risking. He said they made mistakes and the process | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
of cleaning up the mess caused great pain, but he was glad they | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
had done it. Let's go to Westminster now and to | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
our political correspondent. At the beginning of the session this | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
morning, there were questions about this issue of the number of | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
meetings that the Prime Minister has had with Rupert Murdoch. How | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
much pressure is the Prime Minister under? Sophie, my sense is that | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Downing Street are desperate for the Prime Minister not to become | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
the focus of the political and media cry over the Leveson-Murdoch | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
saga, which is why they have adamantly disputed the idea that Mr | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
Cameron may have had up to eight separate meetings with Mr Murdoch | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
since he has become Prime Minister. They insist there are only two | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
meetings, another occasion when Mr Murdoch was in the audience when | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
the Prime Minister was giving a speech. Another when they may have | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
bumped into each other at a social event. The reason they want to | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
quash that idea is, one, to sheld the Prime Minister from this | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
controversy. Two, to quash the idea that Mr Murdoch may have easy | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
access to the Prime Minister or Mr Cameron may be at the bebg and call | :05:33. | :05:42. | |
of the Murdoch empire and three, there is the sense we're not all in | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
this together. It is striking, if you go back a short time how long | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
ago politicians would have crawled over hotbeds to have dinner with Mr | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
Murdoch, now they will not dare be seen with him. Is there pressure on | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
him? His top civil servant today was asked if he could back Mr | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
Hunt's assertion that he authorised his special adviser, the man who | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
has resigned, to be the go-between the Department of Culture and | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Murdoch empire. Five times the top civil servant was asked to confirm | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
that. Five times the top civil servant stone-walled and did not | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
back Jeremy Hunt. Thank you. Scotland's First Minister, Alex | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Salmond, has come in for fierce criticism by some SNPs over his | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
relationship with the Murdoch media empire. The Scottish Labour leader | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
said some people might describe Mr Salmond as devious and double- | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
dealing over his support for the empire's bid to control BSkyB. Our | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Scotland correspondent is at Holyrood in Edinburgh now. Tell us | :06:59. | :07:08. | |
more about what he said. Well, what we heard was an affair dominated by | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
the bulky shadows of two big business men, Donald Trump and | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Rupert Murdoch. In terms of Rupert Murdoch, Alex Salmond is accused of | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
offering to lob bithe UK Government on behalf of Rupert Murdoch's | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
corporation, essentially in return for favourable press coverage to | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
help advance the proposed takeover of BSkyB, which ultimately did not | :07:32. | :07:41. | |
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happen. That accusation was put to him. Some say he has been devious, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
double-dealing. Isn't he just trying to cover-up the fact that a | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
rich man has played him for a fool again? Humbug hypocrisy. The job of | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
a First Minister is to advocate jobs for Scotland. This First | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
Minister will continue to do it. Well, as for Donald Trump, | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
yesterday Alex Salmond was accused by the US tycoon who was here of | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
luring him in to invest in Scotland. He said he gave him assurances that | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
a wind farm offshore near his golf development near Aberdeenshire | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
would not be built. Again Alex Salmond denied giving those | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
assurances. The decision is expected later this year. For the | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
moment, the pressure on Alex Salmond, because of his | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
relationships with both these men pretty much continuing. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Thank you. The former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, has been | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
found guilty of aiding and abetding war crimes. He was accused of -- | :08:43. | :08:53. | |
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abetting war crimes. He was accused The prosecutor verses Charles | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
Taylor. It has been a day of immense symbolic significance in | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
the evolution of international justice. Charles Taylor is the | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
first international head of state to face the judgment of an | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
international court. The case has lasted four years. Hundreds of | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
witnesses for both the prosecution and the defence have been brought | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
to The Hague to testify. In a two- hour written verdict, the presiding | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
judge said Charles Taylor faced 11 counts, five of which constituted | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
crimes against humanity. These included murder, rape, sexual | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
slavery and enslavement. The prosecution had asked that | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Taylor had command responsibility for these crimes and he planned the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
joint enterprise with rebel commanders. The judges ruled that | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
on both these charges Charles Taylor could not be held criminally | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
responsible because he did not have control of the fighters on the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
ground. There is insufficient evidence to find beyond a | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
reasonable doubt that they remained under the effective control and | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
demand of the accused once in Sierra Leone. The judge said | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
Charles Taylor had instructed rebel forces to seize and hold the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
diamond-rich region, that Taylor received supplies of diamonds in | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
return for supplying shipments of ammunition. He asked him to stand, | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
before saying that the accused was criminally responsible for aiding | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
and abetting crimes against humanity, through encouragement and | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
moral and practical support for those committing crimes. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Having considered all the evidence and the arguments of the parties, | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
the statute and the rules, and based upon the findings as | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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determined by the trial chamber, we find you guilty.... Charles Taylor | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
listened throughout. He has always denied the accusations against him, | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
arguing throughout his years he tried to bring peace to Sierra | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Leone. The court will reconvene in two weeks when Charles Taylor will | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
have half an hour to address the judges. Sentence will be passed two | :11:11. | :11:17. | |
weeks after that, on May 30th. We can join our correspondent now. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
This day has been long awaited. What was it like in court? Well, I | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
have been coming to The Hague now to sit in various international | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
courts for several years and I have never known a courthouse so gripped | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
by anticipation as the courthouse was this morning. This is a very | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
big day for international justice. It's a landmark. It's the first | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
time a sitting head of state, or previous head of state has faced | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
the court. He tried to argue as of head of state he had immunity. The | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
court dealt with that and said, no immunty did not apply. In a -- | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
immunity did not apply. In a sense the court are sending out a message | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
to every dictator in the world that they can no longer think of | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
themselves as immune for crimes they might commit against their own | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
people. That is the symbolism of today's judgment. | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Thank you very much. Activists in Syria have accused | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Government forces of killing up to 70 people in an attack on the city | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
of Hama on Wednesday. A video posted on td line showed bodies | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
being pulled out. It said 16 people were killed. A retired British | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
businessman who was extradited to America on charges of arms dealing | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
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has been released on bail ofened -- been released on bail on $1 million. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
The contraceptive pill should be made available to girls as young as | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
13 without the need for them to see a doctor - that is according to a | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
group of NHS trials in London. Trials are being carried out on the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Isle of Wight and in Manchester. Opponents say there is no evidence | :13:13. | :13:21. | |
it will cut the number of teenage pregnancies. | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Teenage pregnancies in some parts of the country are among the | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
highest in Europe. To try and bring the numbers down, five pharmacys in | :13:31. | :13:39. | |
London have offered the pill to over 16 without having to see a | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
doctor. Now it is suggested it is offered to girls as young as 13. | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
Who will follow them up? They may be given a packet of pills and be | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
chaotic in their lifestyle and end up getting pregnant and getting a | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
sexually-transmitted infection. Similar projects are underway in | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
the Isle of Wight and Manchester. Pharmacists say if they get proper | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
training they can offer good advice. The age of the child would need to | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
be ascertained. If it was irrelevant for that medication to | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
be provided. Also a number of guidelines we use, which are | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
nationally accepted around child protection. It means that the child | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
is aware of the information and advice they have been given. | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
very idea of offering the pill to 13 year olds without informing | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
their parents has been condemned by family campaign groups. If you are | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
allowing underage girls to access the pill, without any medical | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
monitoring, it, in my view, is a charter for child abusers, because | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
these girls are going to be all the more targets for predatory men. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Department of Health says teenagers should think carefully before | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
having sex and get good advice on sexual health and contraception. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Increasingly it seems pharmacists could be the ones offering that | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
advice and they could find themselves offering advice to very | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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The banking group HSBC says it is cutting jobs in the UK. It said it | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
was eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy. The Unite union said | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
there was no reason for this treatment of staff. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
The inquest into the death of the MI6 officer, Gareth Williams, has | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
been told an internal inquiry found no evidence that his death was | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
linked to his work. But an unnamed officer, called Witness F, said he | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
had made an unnamed searches of the MI6 database without justification. | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Gordon Corera is outside Westminster Coroner's Court. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
heard this morning from a senior representative of MI6. She, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
speaking on behalf of the service, said they were profoundly sorry in | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
the delay in contacting police about Gareth Williams' absence. He | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
had been missing from work for a week before the police were finally | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
told. They then attended his flat and found his body decomposed in | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
the bag. The witness acknowledged the distress that this had caused | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
the family and the impact on the police investigation because friend | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
six had been lost in that period. Did the court here any more about | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
why he may have died? We heard more about his work, essentially. He had | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
been operationally deployed but only in the UK and not overseas. He | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
had made some unauthorised or unexplained searches of the MI6 | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
database, we were told. But the MI6 witness said there was no evidence | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
that he was at risk or had been identified by any hostile | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
intelligence service. She also said that there had been no cover-up. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
Rupert Murdoch has admitted he failed to do enough to stop what he | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
called a cover-up at the News of the World. And coming up: A massive | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
appeal for blood donors to cope with any emergency during the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
Queen's Jubilee and the Olympics. Later on BBC London: | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Christopher Tappin, charged with arms dealing in the US, speaks | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
after being released on bail. And how the artists are taking on | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
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the athletes - details of the 2012 The Queen is on a two day visit to | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Wales, as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. This morning | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
she has attended a service at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff. Then | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
she will meet Wales' Grand Slam winning rugby team. | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
When the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in Cardiff, she | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
travelled by horse-drawn carriage. Today, her mode of transport was | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
slightly more modern. But the welcome was traditionally warm. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
is an amazing woman. She is the same age as my mother and she has | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
just been going on and on and on. have always wanted to meet the | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
Queen and she is important. She rules over the United Kingdom. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
First stop on this two-day tour was a service of celebration, an | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
opportunity to reflect on the last 60 years and to give thanks. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
think it is quite something that the Queen has chosen to start her | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
visit to Wales by coming to a service in Llandaff Cathedral. She | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
herself wanted to do that. She is a person of great faith. This tour | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
will see the Queen returned to some places in Wales she first visited, | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
not as monarch, but as a young, slightly nervous Princess still | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
getting used to her role in public life. My Lord Mayor, ladies and | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
gentlemen, I am always glad of an opportunity to visit Wales. Over | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
the years, those visits have witnessed decades of real social | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
change and a growing sense of Welsh, rather than British identity. The | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
relationship between Queen and country has had to evolve. She has | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
not put too much strain on it, she has not asked for too much. She has | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
not strained the links. She has let them rest there quietly in a way. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
That is the way institutions survive. Next stop, lunch with the | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Welsh rugby team, an opportunity to celebrate their recent Triple Crown | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
and to take pause before the tour moves on. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are meeting a team of | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
soldiers who recently re-created the famous Scot Am and son raced to | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
the South Pole. Six men had to carry all their supplies during | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
their seven today trek which raised money for the Royal British Legion. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Luisa Baldini is in central London. This is the second of three | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
official engagements which the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge rack | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
carrying out in 24 hours and the first occasion in which Prince | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
William is being seen in public since he returned from his | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
deployment to the Falklands. When they arrived here just over half an | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
hour ago, people were crowding out the windows of the offices here | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
just opposite Goldsmiths Hall where the Prince and Duchess are now | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
attending a reception in aid of the Royal British Legion, which is | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
campaigning to raise �30 million for the battle back Centre in | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Shropshire, a special centre which provides sport and adventure | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
training for those in the Armed Forces who have been wounded. As | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
part of that fund-raising campaign, a two serving British Army teams | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
re-created the captain Scott Roald Amundsen race to the South Pole | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
which took place 100 years ago. As patron of that expedition, Prince | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
William gave a speech a few minutes ago. He congratulated both the | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
teams and said the same levels of courage and determination | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
demonstrated by our Antarctic heroes in 1912 and 2012 are shown | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
each and every day by our wounded servicemen and women. Their courage | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
and spirit humble me, he said. Later, Prince William and Catherine | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
will be attending a function at the Imperial War Museum. They have had | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
a busy couple of days but they will then be retreating to celebrate | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
their first wedding anniversary on Sunday out of the public eye. | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
you. The NHS is making one of its | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
biggest ever appeals for blood donations. It is warning that | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
stocks will need to increase by 30 % if they are to have enough | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
supplies for the Jubilee, Olympic and Paralympic Games. | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
It is blood donors like Patricia Delaney who keep supplies flowing. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
This session in Sussex is the beginning of a life saving process. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Each year, there are more than 2 million donations collected | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
everywhere from offices to village halls. This year, more will be | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
needed with the help of new donors like Mark giving up his time. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
grandma has donated 60 times, my mum has donated 30 times. They are | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
the ones who got me into it. I thought, if they can do it, why | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
can't I? This is where they end up, special plants where the different | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
parts of blood are separated. White blood cells are filtered out first | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
to allow red blood cells and plasma to be processed. This summer, the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
blood service faces special pressures during big sporting | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
events and there are plenty this year. Donation levels fall at the | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
same time demand is higher. expectation is we will have 1.2 | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
extra -- 1.2 million extra visitors coming into the country. We need to | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
make sure we are well prepared to handle any contingency. Each day, | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
3,000 units of blood are processed in just this plant. In the run-up | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
to the Olympics, that needs to increase. By the time the Games | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
start, stocks need to be 30 % higher than usual. Lucia, who is 11 | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
years old, cannot make heroin red blood cells. Without them, she will | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
die. While the NHS prepares for extra demands, it also has to make | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
sure there is enough for patients like Lucia. Since I was two, I have | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
had to come once a month and have two packs of red blood and it | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
normally takes three hours. That is why, to fill donation sessions like | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
this one and early summer, the NHS blood service is gearing up for one | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
of its Evert -- biggest ever appeals. | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
There is still no evidence that mobile phones harm human health, | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
according to a major safety review. Health Protection Agency reviewed | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
hundreds of studies on the dangers posed by a mobile phones and other | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
wireless devices. They found no convincing evidence that they cause | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
brain tumours or other cancers but the HPA said children should still | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
avoid excessive use of mobile phones. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
The UK Independence Party has launched its campaign ahead of next | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
month's elections. The party's leader, Nigel Farage, said he is | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
hope for the party will make a breakthrough on 3rd May. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Two people have died in a collision on the M1 near Bedfordshire. The | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
accident happened two weeks after a lorry driver was killed on the same | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
stretch of road between junctions 13 and 14. The motorway will remain | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
closed as police investigate the crash. | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Police have shut down dozens of criminal website which sold credit | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
card or bank account details of millions of people for as little as | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
�2. Officers in three continents were involved in the operation and | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
there have been a number of arrests, two of them in the UK. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
It could be the shopping channel but this is an online store for | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
criminals and what they are selling is the details of millions of | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
unsuspecting credit card users. Now in raids in Britain, the US, | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Australia and elsewhere in Europe, dozens of these websites have been | :25:40. | :25:47. | |
taken down. Now, all users will see is this warning from the FBI. Some | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
of the websites have been under observation for two years and in | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
that time, the details of 2.5 million credit cards were recovered, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
preventing fraud of at least half a billion pounds. Detectives think | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
the credit card details of millions of us are floating around on line. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
The first we know of it is when a fraud is committed. Usually it is | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
individuals or the credit card industry who have to pick up the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
tab for fraud which is now taking place, say police, on an industrial | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
scale. There are so much data that is available across the world but | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
they cannot do this one to one selling any more. They have created | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
this system of automatic vending cards in order to enable people to | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
visit the site and take as much data as they want and pay for it | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
automatically. Three people are now in custody and other arrests are | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
likely. The police admit that despite closing these websites, the | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
battle with criminals in cyberspace is becoming a virtual arms race in | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
which they are struggling to keep They have been reports of a number | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
of tornadoes hitting parts of the UK during yesterday's storms. One | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
is thought to have hit Rugby last night. Residents described it as a | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
mini tornado. Essex was also affected. This picture was taken at | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
a farm in Whiteash Green. Luckily, We have had some very unsettled | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
weather. We also had reports of a tornado of the coast of South Wales. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
It is something to watch. We had this beautiful picture cent in from | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
Margate. Shower clouds developing off the coast there. There are | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
further showers in today's forecast, all spiralling around AD area of | :27:41. | :27:49. | |
low pressure. Abound of heavy rain hitting northern areas of England. | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
In Cumbria they have had 29 mm of rain already today, compared to | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
what we should have for the whole of April, that is a third in just | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
one day. More wet weather in the forecast for the rest of today. | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
Gusty winds to be had across Northern Ireland and into north- | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
west Scotland as well. Interspersed with sunny spells and scattered | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
showers. Gusty winds to 30 or 40 mph. The persistent rain continues | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
to fall -- feeding across northern Scotland and England. Weather front | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
brings rain across northern England, particularly Lancashire and into | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
north-west Wales. With the crowd and persistent rain, cool afternoon | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
for some. Then to the south of our band of rain, it is sunshine and | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
showers. South-west England, then West Midlands in particular, the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
difference with yesterday is with lighter winds they will be slower | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
moving. Hail and thunder again unlikely. A lot of spray on the | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
roads. The South-East having a breezy end but a bright end to the | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
day. Overnight tonight, the showers will tend to ease off. The South | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
sticks with a band of rain but cloudy and mild. In the North it | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
turns colder with a touch of frost first thing tomorrow. A bright | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
start for Scotland and Northern Ireland tomorrow. The northerly | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
wind feeds in colder air. Sunny spells and showers, some falling as | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
snow across high ground. In the south, further heavy showers. As we | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
look ahead to the weekend, high pressure is trying its hardest to | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
build but it looks like the low- pressure area will win out. What | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
that does is bring more rain and more wet weather as we head into | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
the weekend. Perhaps not starting off too badly, Saturday's sunny | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
spells and scattered showers. By Sunday it turns cloudy, wet and | :29:47. | :29:54. | |
windy for many of us. Umbrella as at the ready. Any sign of sunshine? | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
Not this week! A reminder of our top story: Rupert | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
Murdoch says there was a cover-up at the News of the World but | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
insists it was kept hidden from him. He tells the Leveson Inquiry that | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
he blames one or two people for failing to tell them about the | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
extent of phone hacking and says he was guilty for not paying enough | :30:15. | :30:18. |