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The man accused of killing April Jones weeps in court, as the | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
charges are read to him. BOOING | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
Mark was driven to magistrate's court in Aberystwyth. He's accused | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
of murdering the five-year-old and perverting the course of justice. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
The search for April continues a week after her disappearance - the | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
number of police officers on the ground doubles. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
The Chancellor confirms cuts into the Welfare Bill and says he's | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
considering a limit on the number of children that can be supported | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
on benefits. How can we justify giving flats to young people who | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
have never worked when working people twice their age are still | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
living with their parents because they can't afford their first home? | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
The Director-General of the BBC says there will be an examination | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
of allegations of sexual abuse against Sir Jimmy Savile, but only | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
once police work has finished. A teenager has her stomach removed | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
after drinking a cocktail bought in a bar which contained liquid | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
nitrogen. And defacing a multi-million-pound | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
mural - a man adds black paint to a modern masterpiece but denies being | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
a vandal. Later on BBC London: | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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Plans for a multi-billion-pound Disney-style park near the M25, and | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
the anniversary of the harrow wealdstone rail a crash. -- Harrow | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at 1.00pm. The man accused | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
of killing five-year-old April Jones has wept as he appeared in | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
court charged with murder, child abduction and perverting the course | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
of justice. FivMark Bridger cried as the charges were put to him. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
April was last seen a week ago, police are continuing their search | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
for her - the numbers of officers on the ground doubled today. More | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
on that in a moment, first, our correspondent Jon Brain is outside | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
the court in Aberystwyth now. This time last month, April Jones | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
was safe and happy in a classroom at her school. This morning, | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
specialist search teams have again been looking for the little girl's | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
body. It's been an emotional week for everyone concerned, emotions | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
which were reflected at today's court appearance. Seven days after | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
April Jones went missing, the man accused of being responsible for | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
her disappearance was brought to court. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
A small but vocal group were waiting to hurl abuse. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
BOOING In the dock, Mark Bridger looked | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
tearful as the charges were put to him that he'd abducted and murdered | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
April and disposed of and concealed her body with the intention of | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
perverting the course of justice. Idea if he understood, he said yes. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
His voice faltered. Mark Bridger has now been remanded | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
in custody. His next appearance will be via a video link at | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Caernarfon Crown Court in two days' time. April was last seen a week | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
ago climbing into a car outside her home. Despite the efforts of | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
hundreds of people, there's been no trace of her since then. | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
Specialist search teams are out in force yet again today still trying | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
to find April and evidence of what may have happened to her. | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
There are a number of search areas that are new to search, but also, | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
we're rechecking, and what these search officers - are very skilled | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
and experienced. They'll do a meticulous and systematic search | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
really to eliminate to as high a possible level as we can that we're | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
not missing anything. Meanwhile, Mark Bridger has been taken to | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
prison in Manchester to await his next court appearance. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
This is all a heart-wrenching time for April's family, of course. This | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
morning her mother issued an appeal on Facebook asking for people to | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
keep that search going. In it she says, "Please keep looking for my | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
baby girl." Thank you. Jon Brain from | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Aberystwyth. More than a hundred police officers | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
are involved in the search for April Jones, and detectives say | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
their operation has switched emphasis, with a change in their | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
resources. Rhun Ap Iorwerth is in Machynlleth now. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
As we were saying, police numbers have increased, but has the focus | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
changed at all? They're still certainly look in and | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
around the Machynlleth area, but the nature of the search has | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
changed I believe stemming, more than anything, from the decision by | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
mountain rescue yesterday to suspend their operations. These are | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
volunteers, of course. They'll be back should there be new | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
intelligence, so the police response about the number of | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
officers they have - a hundred and more officers searching for April, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
and 17 specialist teams in Machynlleth searching open areas | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
within Machynlleth town itself. We have been up today near the home of | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Mark Bridger, but still, the River Dyfi remains a focus. We have seen | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
marine units using specialist eight-wheel-drive vehicles to take | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
supplies up to specialist officers working just upstream from where I | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
am here, rope access, looking in gullies, in creeks. This is a very | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
difficult river to search, plus of course the many tributaryrys to | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
this river. The picture has changed. I'd have been waist deep in fast- | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
flowing river a few days ago. Now the water level has receded. As the | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
picture changes with the river, so the police have to again search | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
over and over places they have already searched within the past | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
week, so still a very wide area, and the police insisting that the | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
momentum will be maintained. At the same time, we still have a | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
community here that is devastated by what's happened over the past | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
week, and tonight at around 7.30pm, we believe, the family has asked | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
that balloons be released to the sky above Machynlleth as they | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
continue to think of April. Thank you. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
The Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed he's considering whether | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
there should be a limit on the number of children in a family that | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
can be supported on benefits. He's just told the Conservative Party | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Conference in Birmingham that he intends to cut a further �10 | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
billion from the welfare budget and a system that encouraged families | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
to live a life on benefit had to be tackled. He said the Government | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
wouldn't budge from its plans to cut the deficit, but that it | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
couldn't be done only the "wallets of the rich". From Birmingham, our | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
political correspondent Carole Walker reports. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
George Osborne insisted there was no question of taking apart his | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
economic strategy. On a visit to Birmingham University, he announced | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
some extra funding for research. This is incredibly difficult... | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
his overall message was a tough one - �10 billion of welfare cuts by | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the first full year of the next Parliament. In his conference | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
speech, the Chancellor acknowledged it was taking longer than he'd | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
hoped to pay off the deficit, but with the Prime Minister lending | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
visible support, he declared he would finish the job of repairing | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
the economy. Today in the face of the great economic challenges of | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
our age, we here resolve - we will press on. We shall overcome. | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
APPLAUSE He repeated his mantra, "We're all | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
in it together" and insisted those with the most money should | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
contribute the most, but he defended his decision to cut the | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
top rate of tax. It is a completely phoney | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
conception of fairs than you stick with a tax rate you know raises no | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
money that you know drives away jobs and investment, that you know | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
weakens the economy just to say you've kicked the rich. Mr Osborne | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
said what he called the most radical reform on welfare for | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
generations wasn't just about saving money. It was about fairness | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
and enterprise, making sure it pays to go to work. How can we justify a | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
system where people in work have to consider the full financial costs | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
of having another child while those out of work don't? | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
APPLAUSE But any future limit on benefits to | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
children would be highly controversial. Turning around to a | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
group of children and saying, "Look, your parents made the wrong | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
decision. You shouldn't have been born" I think is really dangerous. | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Those children will be with us, and we've got to as a society say, | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
actually, we owe these children an obligation morally but also on an | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
economic level, because, as I say, they're our future workforce. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
tough message on welfare was always going to go down well at Tories at | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
their conference. Ministers believe it will resonate with voters too, | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
but what about the Lib Dems? The coalition partners accept there | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
will have to be more cuts to benefits but on this scale? Nothing | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
has been agreed in detail to cuts and saves to welfare. The | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Conservatives are perfectly entitled to set up their stall as | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
to what we do as a country. We have to tighten our belts further, as we | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
indeed were at our party conference. The Chancellor said any wavering | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
from the hard choices would risk Britain's economic credibility. He | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
said he would not gamble with the nation's future. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
Let's talk now to our political correspondent Norman Smith who | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
joins us from Birmingham too. We were hearing George Osborne saying | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
a radical reform of the welfare budget was needed, a tough message. | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
Why such a tough, blunt message from him today? Well, the | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
calculation is that by levelling with the British people, by being | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
straight with voters about the scale of economic pain we've still | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
got to get through - another �10 billion of benefit cuts, Mr Osborne | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
will at least win plaudits for candour, but there is another | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
calculation, and that is among so- called striving classes, benefit | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
curves actually plays rather well. Again and again we heard from the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Chancellor but also other Ministers talking about people who have to | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
get up early in the morning, feed the dogs, get out to work, get on | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the commuter train - how they resent it and look over their | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
shoulder at their neighbour's house where they may be on benefits and | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
they're still lying in bed asleep, so the view is benefit curves are | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
an economic necessity, but politically, they also play well | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
with the aggrieved, squeezed middle. Yes. Now, Boris Johnson, the Mayor | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
of London, at a conference today - he speaks to the conference | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
tomorrow. What are people there saying about his appearance? Well, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
it's interesting. David Cameron refers to Boris Johnson publicly as | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
a "blond-haired mop". In private, I suspect he's grinding his teeth and | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
clenching his teeth at the mere mention of Boris's name. Why? | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Because Boris Johnson seems to delight wandering around hurling | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
turnips at the direction of the Prime Minister over Heathrow. Many | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
more people here view Boris Johnson with affection and maybe affection | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
and of course he's going to sound testy at the mention of this Tory | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Prince, but at the moment, my sense is despite that Boris Johnson is | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
not yet a threat to the Prime Minister. Norman, thank you. Norman | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Smith joining us from Birmingham. The Director-General of the BBC, | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
George Entwistle, says the corporation will examine | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
allegations of sexual abuse made against Sir Jimmy Savile once | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
police have finished their investigation. There have been | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
calls for an independent inquiry into claims BBC staff knew about | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
suggestions the presenter was abusing young girls, but failed to | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
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act. David Silitto reports. The allegation against Jimmy Savile | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
have mounted, and now a week on, the BBC today said sorry to the | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
women involved. I would like to apologise on behalf of the | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
organisation to each and every one of them for what they have had to | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
endure here. The police are leading inquiries but the Direct Line of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the BBC told radio Four's Today programme that the corporation at | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
the right moment would carry out its own investigations. When the | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
police have finished everything they have to do and have given us | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
an assurance there is no way of us compromising or contaminating the | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
investigation, I'll take it further and make sure any outstanding | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
questions are answered. And there is growing pressure. Everyone has | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
to ask themselves the question is there new evidence that needs to be | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
looked at? Are there new things as an organisation we should examine? | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
But from what I have read, and that's just a consumer of the media, | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
as it were, truly shocking things have been said. So BBC has | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
apologised, but what exactly are they apologising for? And this is | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
beginning to go wider than just the Jimmy Savile case. A number of | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
female TV presenters spoke up over the weekend about a number of | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
incidents and the wider sexual culture this broadcasts at the time. | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
This goes much wider than criminality. This goes to a culture | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
that seemingly existed, and this is said by people who were in that | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
environment at the time, a culture that existed. It was a pretty | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
rotten culture that allowed young girls to be molested and worse. | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
The star's reputation as a lovable, if eccentric, charity fundraiser | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
has been treaded. The Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust today confirmed | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
it's considering dropping his name. I think we get the idea, you know, | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
that whatever has happened, there's something very unpleasant that's | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
been going on, so therefore the Jimmy Savile name is going to be | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
very difficult to - for people to think of in a good light. Others | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
have spoken out about his knighthood, so now a police | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
investigation and a BBC apology to the women who, for years, felt | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
unable to speak out about one of Britain's biggest stars. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
A teenager has had her stomach removed after drinking a cocktail | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
containing liquid nitrogen. The 18- year-old complained of severe pain | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
and breathlessness after having the drink during a night out in | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Lancaster. The bar which sold the cocktail has stopped using liquid | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
nitrogen, which creates a smoky dry ice effect. Danny Savage is outside | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
the Lancaster bar. What's being said there about what | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
happened to this girl? Well, this goes back to last Thursday evening, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
and Gabby Scanland, the 18-year-old who is now in hospital with serious | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
injuries, was out celebrating her 18th birthday here in the City. She | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
came here behind me to Oscar's wine bar, and while she was here, she | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
had a cocktail that was prepared using liquid nitrogen. She had that | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
drink, and later on in the evening, she had - began feeling unwell. She | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
had a severe reaction to it. She collapsed. She was taken to | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
hospital, and she had to have emergency surgery to remove her | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
stomach. Police say they have been told by medics that if she hadn't | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
had that operation, she probably would have died. Liquid nitrogen is | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
obviously not meant to be ingested, but it is made as a sort of trendy | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
drink at the moment to make cocktails look as though they're | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
smoking. It appears she's had some very severe reaction to what | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
happened. The bar say they're cooperating fully, and they've now | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
stopped selling that sort of dink. Meanwhile, what of the victim | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
herself? What's her condition? Do we know? She's in a serious but | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
stable condition at the moment. Her school have released a statement | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
saying she's one of the most hardworking, mature sthunts had | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
simply gone out to celebrate her birthday. Our whole community is | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
shocked by what happened. They say, "We're pleased to hear that she's | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
making better-than-expected progress." But she's obviously had | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
a very serious operation and a serious reaction. Her friends are | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
thinking a great deal of her for the moment. They're worried, but | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
she should make a recoverry, we understand, but it is something | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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that'll change her life forever Chelsea and England left back | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Ashley Cole has been charged by the FA in relation to a Twitter comment, | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
which it said was improper or brought the game into disrepute. He | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
reacted angrily after a commission passed doubt. High-profile backers | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
of Julian Assange, who together put up a large sum in security money | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
have been ordered to pay more than �0,000 by Westminster Magistrates' | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
Court. They gave -- �90,000 by Westminster Magistrates' Court. | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
They give him backing in June. He is trying to avoid extradition to | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault. 79 women are to | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
be offered extra screening after they were given the wrong results | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
for their breast cancer tests. An urgent inspection is under way, | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
after the tests carried out on the patients at Sherwood Forest | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. What happened?. Well, all the women | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
were seen here and they were all undergoing a test to decide which | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
treatment is best for them, following best cancer. There were | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
problems in the laboratory with this test, which I am told is a | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
very complicated test, involving a lot of processes. What went wrong | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
has not been identified yet. It is known 120 women were given the | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
wrong results. That is between the years 2004-2010. What's more, we | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
are told it may have contributed to the deaths of some patients, the | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
experts reckon between one and three patients may have died as a | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
result of this mistake. What is happening now is all the patients | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
affected are being contacted and their families, to recall them, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
where necessary, and to try and explain in the cases where the | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
women have died, what role this played in their death, if any. Tell | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
us more about Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
It's not been the best day for the trust. Not only has this problem | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
come to light, but there are also huge problems repaying the Private | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Finance Initiative deal - that's the money spent building this | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
hospital behind me. It is cost over �300 million. Private companies put | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
up the money and the NHS is paying back over many years. The Trust is | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
struggling to make the payments. It may run out of money in January and | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
it is posstbl Government may have to step in with a loan to bail the | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
hospital out. Today they are reassuring women are getting on top | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
of this problem with the screening and those affected are being | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
written to. Thank you. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki- | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Moon, has expressed deep concern about the escalating attacks | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
between Syria and Turkey. Mr Ban said the continuing shelling and | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
artillery fire in the border region was extremely dangerous and he | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
called for action to stop the flow of arms to Syria. Our correspondent | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
reports now from the Turkish-Syrian border. | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Turkish soldiers have a perfect view of Syria. The Arab country is | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
right next door. It's 19-month long conflict has now begun to cross the | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
border. This is what happened yesterday | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
afternoon in the border town of abgabg - a single mortar round from | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Syria landed in a field inside Turkish territory. No-one was | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
injured, but Turkey responded by firing artillery across the border. | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
This morning, this primary school stayed shut in case of further | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
shelling. "Everybody is afraid. The children do not understand. The | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
schools are closed and the children are home." | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
The tea-drinkers just across the street decided to take a few more | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
risks. TRANSLATION: War is blood and destruction. I am concerned, | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
but I am against war. Everybody should be. Down the road, Turkey's | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
forces keep their eyes on their neighbour. Turkey wants to defend | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
its territory. At the same time, it doesn't want to get dragged into | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
fighting a war. The Government says it does not want Syria to become | :20:40. | :20:50. | |
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Now, a look at the time: It is 1.20pm. Mark Bridger t man accused | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
of killing April Jones, appeared in court charged with murder and | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
perverting the cause of justice. Coming up: The people of Walsall | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
stage a home-coming reception for Ellie Simmonds. | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
Later on BBC London: The Chelsea footballer Ashley Cole is charged | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
with misconduct by the Football Association for a comment they | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
allege brought the game into disrepute. And the struggling | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
:21:28. | :21:35. | ||
dancers given a chance to make it A mural by Mark Rothko, one of the | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
most famous artists of the 20th century has been defaced at the | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Tate Modern A Russian man walked up to the artwork and daubed wit black | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
paint, saying he was doing it as part of a movement called | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
"yellowism." The gallery said it did not have a price for the piece, | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
but paintings by Rothko often fetch tens of millions of pounds. It is | :21:58. | :22:06. | |
called Black on Maroon - a work of art by one of America's most famous | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
post war painters. Now it has been defaced and a message of | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
"yellowism." It is part of an exhibition of work by Mark Rothko. | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Yesterday, visiters ot the Tate Modern were left stunned when the | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
painting was defaced. The question now is, can it be repaired? There | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
is a fantastic team who are knowledgeable. They have got to the | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
paint quickly. I think there's every hope that it will be cleaned | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
without any... Well, it is difficult to clean off, but it will | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
be cleaned off and the painting will be back to how it used to be. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
The yellowism website attempts to explain the philosophy. He insists | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
he was not trying to damage the painting and that he's not a vandal. | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
I would like this picture to be presented in the context of | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
yellowism and consider it to be about yellow colour only. Rothko's | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
paintings sell for many millions at auction. It is not clear how the | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
value of Black on Maroon will be affected by the stain of yellowism. | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
Let's hear now from our arts editor, who joins us from the Tate Modern | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
in London. This man said he's not a vandal. Give us a further idea of | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
his reasons behind this? He's describing it as an act of pure | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
expression. He is citing the father of conacceptualal art as hirz | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
inspiration. -- his inspiration. He picked off a | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
urinal and put it on the wall. The big difference is that those | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
artists have either defaced works of art they already owned, had | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
permission to deface, or were cheap throw aways, like a postcard. They | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
did not walk up to a work of art, in a gallery, which is being looked | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
at by other people and start drawing on it. That is not a work | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
of art, that is an act of vandalism. We heard the Tate saying they can | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
repair it. No doubt it is extremely embarrassing? Embarrassing, | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
annoying, upsetting. The way these galleries work, not just in Britain | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
but across the world, is on a basis of trust, that you can go up and | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
look at these artworks, you can go up and put your nose up against | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
them. They are not shut off against panes of glass. This act breaks | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
that trust. It is like on football pitches, there are no longer fences | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
keeping fans from the pitch. The fans do not go on the pitch, | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
because they understand that is the deal. The deal is the same for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
people who visit art galleries. You don't touch or ruin the exhibits. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
If you don't do that you get great access to them. Yes, this is | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
embarrassing. What can you do? Five million people come to this place | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
every single year. They cannot watch every single one of them. I | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
am told that this single incident will mean they will change their | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
policy of letting people see the art up close. Thank you. This | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
year's Nobel Prize for Medicine has been won by the British scientist | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan for their ground-breaking | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
work on stem cells. It showed mature cells could be reprogrammed | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
to undertake new functions. This should revolutionise the | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
understanding of how cells and/or begannisms develop. The Venezuelan | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
President, Hugo Chavez has won a fourth term in office. He finished | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
ten points ahead of Henrique Capriles. He said Venezuela could | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
continue its march towards socialism, but also promised to be | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
a better President. This had been billed as a tight | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
race, but in the end the results came quickly after the final | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
polling stations had closed it gave Mr Chavez a clear ten-point lead. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
TRANSLATION: To those who promote hate, to those who promote social | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
poison, to those who are always trying to deny all the good things | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
that happen in Venezuela - I invite them to dialogue, to debate and to | :26:33. | :26:42. | |
work together for Venezuela. His followers were jubilant. Chavez | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
has won because he's given free education to all. He has given free | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
health system, he has given housing to poor people. TRANSLATION: | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
have the best President in the world. We all love him. The women | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
love him and we're going forward and we're growing with him. | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
Street parties like this one broke out almost as soon as results were | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
announced. Just as the politics is polarised, so as some people are | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
celebrating tonight, others will be commiserating. The opposition | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
candidate, Henrique Capriles, standing for a coalition of parties, | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
conceded defeat. With his promises to maintain social programmes, but | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
also encourage private business, he had managed to mount a serious | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
challenge for the presidency, but in the end it does not enough. | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
-- it was not enough. Mr Chavez was treated for cancer earlier this | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
year and many will be watching the state of his health closely as he | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
begins another six-year term of office. For now, his supporters are | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
thinking only of celebrating. One of Britain's Paralympic stars | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
has been taken an open-top bus tour of her home town. Crowds have | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
turned out to welcome the swimmer Ellie Simmonds back to Walsall. Our | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
correspondent is there for us now. Good afternoon. They turned out in | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
force to welcome home their paraoimian golden -- their | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
Paralympian golden girl, Ellie Simmonds. How does it feel to be | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
back here? Amazing. Going to my postbox and then to my old school | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
and to open a pool they have opened after me and to come here to | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Walsall, it is good. I am looking forward to chatting to all the kids. | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
It is really good. You are only 17. How does this make you feel? Really | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
good. Amazing. The support I've had during the Games, it has been good. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
You opened a school swimming pool today? It is a pool I used to swim | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
in. It is from when I used to go to primary school, they named the pool | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
after me, called Ellie Simmonds. It is really good. That pool, perhaps | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
one of the legacies of the summer of Olympic and Paralympic glory. | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
Thank you and congratulations to Ellie Simmonds too. Let's get a | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
Ellie Simmonds too. Let's get a look at the weather. Cloudy | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
conditions, bits and pieces of rain around. You are not alone, I have | :29:21. | :29:31. | |
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to say. Those situations across the You will notice there, southern | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
Scotland and north of England and Northern Ireland too, a good deal | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
finer and drier. There are some decent gaps in that cloud. The same | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
cannot be said further south. I am hopeful over towards the western | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
side of Wales some brightness there. We improve our chances up towards | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
Northern Ireland and across a good part of Scotland. Of course you | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
have that band of cloud to contend with. The showers and few between. | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
You will notice north of there a bracing feel to the day. Lovely for | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
the in order of England. Once we sink further south, a complete veil | :30:09. | :30:16. | |
of cloud is yours to be had. Rain across parts of the south-east. | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
Come down towards the far south- west, yes a lot of cloud here, but | :30:20. | :30:27. | |
a different feel to the afternoon - 11-12 Celsius, but towards towards | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
the south-west, 15-16 Celsius could be yours this afternoon. Overnight, | :30:32. | :30:37. | |
we thicken up the cloud across the far south-west. There'll be more | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
coherent rain pushing in, which stays on the mild side further | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
north. Notice how the cities dip away. In the countryside there'll | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
be a frost for sheltered Scotland there. Down to minus four Celsius. | :30:53. | :31:03. | |
:31:03. | :31:07. | ||
We have to thank the high pressure You can see the migration of that | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
rain - some moderate bursts here for Wales and the south-west and | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
creeping further north. Further north again, across Scotland and | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
the north of England there, a little bit of fog to contend with. | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
Once we get going, again, plenty of sunshine around. On Wednesday | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
something of a north and east, south and west split, with the best | :31:27. | :31:33. | |
of the sunshine towards the north and east. Cloud pushing in towards | :31:33. | :31:43. | |
:31:43. | :31:47. | ||
By Thursday, I think we will talk about something much wetter for all. | :31:47. | :31:52. |