:00:10. > :00:14.Protecting your property, the Government plans to allow home
:00:14. > :00:17.owners to use greater force against intruders. The Justice Secretary
:00:17. > :00:21.says people should be able to do whatever it takes to deal with a
:00:21. > :00:26.burglar, as long as it's not grossly disproportionate.
:00:26. > :00:31.Stressing his loyalty to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson addresses
:00:31. > :00:37.the Conservative Party Conference. If we can win in the middle of a
:00:37. > :00:42.recession and wipe out a 17-point Labour lead, I know that David
:00:42. > :00:45.Cameron will win in 2015. The International Monetary Fund
:00:45. > :00:49.sharply downgrades its growth forecast for the British economy,
:00:49. > :00:54.saying it will shrink by 0.4% this year.
:00:54. > :00:56.Tight security in Athens as the German Chancellor arrives for her
:00:56. > :01:00.first visit since the euro crisis began there.
:01:00. > :01:03.The skydiver about to jump from a balloon 23 miles above earth as he
:01:03. > :01:05.attempts to become the first person to break the sound barrier without
:01:05. > :01:13.using a vehicle. And the Duke and Duchess of
:01:13. > :01:16.Cambridge officially open England's On BBC London - It made them laugh,
:01:16. > :01:18.but what do London's Conservatives make of today's speech by Boris
:01:18. > :01:28.Johnson? And after a wet summer and the Olympics, visitor numbers
:01:28. > :01:41.
:01:41. > :01:45.plummet at some of our most famous Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:45. > :01:48.News at 1pm. People who use force against burglars are promised
:01:48. > :01:53.greater legal protection by the Government. The Prime Minister said
:01:53. > :01:56.that only the use of grossly disproportionate force would remain
:01:56. > :02:00.a crime and that changing laut would provide certainty. Currently
:02:00. > :02:03.in England and Wales, anyone can use reasonable force against an
:02:03. > :02:05.intruder. This has, on occasion, led to householders being sent to
:02:06. > :02:13.jail for attacking burglars. Our political correspondent Carole
:02:13. > :02:17.Walker reports. Conservatives gathered here are longing for a new,
:02:17. > :02:20.tough message on law and order from their new Justice Secretary. Today,
:02:21. > :02:24.Chris Grayling is promising to give greater legal protection to
:02:24. > :02:27.householders who tackling burglars, even if they overreact in the heat
:02:27. > :02:31.of the moment. The Prime Minister, who revealed he'd been burgled
:02:31. > :02:34.twice in the past, said it was something that bothered people.
:02:35. > :02:40.What we're doing effective here is just raising the bar and raising
:02:40. > :02:45.the bar pretty high and saying, anything you do as long as it's not
:02:45. > :02:48.grossly disproportionate is OK. I think that will give householders,
:02:48. > :02:52.people across our country a certainty that if they ever got
:02:52. > :02:54.into that situation they could defend their homes, their property,
:02:54. > :02:59.their family. That's a very important sense that people need to
:02:59. > :03:03.have. It's more than 12 years since Tony Martin, a farmer in Norfolk,
:03:03. > :03:06.was found guilty of murder and jailed after shooting a burglar in
:03:07. > :03:11.his own home. But since then, there have been only a handful of similar
:03:11. > :03:14.case that's have ended up in court. The law is already well established,
:03:14. > :03:18.a person can use reasonable force to defend themselves, their
:03:18. > :03:22.property or their family. It's really for a jury to decide if a
:03:22. > :03:29.matter goes to court whether the force used is reasonable. To use
:03:29. > :03:35.words like "disproportionate" really doesn't help. Given the high
:03:36. > :03:39.rates of re-offender sluggish courts and overcrowded prisons,
:03:39. > :03:42.it's a move that pleases the crowd. They were cheered further by
:03:42. > :03:46.another rousing performance from the London Mayor, who's been
:03:46. > :03:50.stealing the limelight here. He brushed aside yet more questions
:03:50. > :03:53.about his own leadership ambitions and lavished praise on his old
:03:53. > :04:00.friend, the Prime Minister. I was pleased to see that you've called
:04:00. > :04:04.me a blonde-haired mop in the pages of the... A mop is what I am. If
:04:04. > :04:09.I'm a mop, then Dave, you are a broom that is cleaning up the mess
:04:09. > :04:10.left by the Labour Government and a fantastic job you are doing and I
:04:10. > :04:14.thank you... APPLAUSE
:04:14. > :04:20.Boris told the Tories they should take heart from his victory in the
:04:20. > :04:25.London elections. If we can win in the middle of a recession and wipe
:04:25. > :04:32.out a 17-point Labour lead, then I know that David Cameron will win in
:04:32. > :04:36.2015. He said Britain needs to get through the age of austerity to a
:04:36. > :04:44.new age of enterprise. The pressure now is on the Prime Minister to set
:04:44. > :04:46.out how that can be achieved. In a moment, we'll speak to our
:04:46. > :04:49.political correspondent Norman Smith at the Conservative Party
:04:49. > :04:54.Conference, but first our home editor Mark Easton is here. When
:04:54. > :04:58.will the law actually be changed then in regards to intruders
:04:58. > :05:01.entering people's property? This is a hardy perennial this one.
:05:01. > :05:05.Certainly Conservative Home Secretarys and justice secretaries
:05:05. > :05:08.have been talking about this issue for years and years. Mr Grayling
:05:08. > :05:13.himself in 2009 said that he was determined that a Conservative
:05:13. > :05:17.Government would introduce did you ever rules on householders using
:05:17. > :05:21.self-defence against a burglar or something. Actually, it doesn't
:05:21. > :05:24.look as though anything will happen very quickly. No Parliamentary time
:05:24. > :05:30.has been put aside for the legislation that would be required
:05:30. > :05:34.for this measure. Indeed, as we were hearing in that report, most
:05:34. > :05:38.senior yim nal -- criminal lawyers and some judges would say it's not
:05:38. > :05:43.necessary any way. The law, as it stands, is perfectly able to deal
:05:43. > :05:50.with these cases. I say all these cases, in fact, these are very rare
:05:50. > :05:54.cases. One or two a year before you have one case. It's a very narrow
:05:54. > :05:58.issue, one that plays well with obviously both the party faithful
:05:59. > :06:02.and indeed the public. But I don't think that we're going to be seeing
:06:02. > :06:05.legislation any time soon. Thank you very much. Let's go to Norman
:06:05. > :06:08.Smith at the Conservative Party Conference. Let's talk about Boris
:06:08. > :06:14.first of all. There was concern he might overshadow the Prime Minister.
:06:14. > :06:19.Do you think he has? Sophie, imagine if you will and humour me
:06:19. > :06:24.here, a Boris Johnson with his hair neatly combed, tie done up and
:06:24. > :06:29.shoes polished, that was the Boris Johnson on show today. He was
:06:29. > :06:32.politically on his absolute best behaviour with not a word of
:06:32. > :06:41.criticism of David Cameron, because if there had been any it would have
:06:41. > :06:43.been seen as the equivalent of Brutus Boris stabbing Caesar
:06:43. > :06:47.Cameron in the back. Instead praise for David Cameron. Significantly we
:06:47. > :06:53.got a list of what Boris Johnson regards as his achievements in
:06:53. > :06:56.London. Now the read across from that is that this is Boris Johnson
:06:56. > :07:00.saying this is what I have achieved in London, this is what I could
:07:00. > :07:04.achieve in the country. This is what I could achieve for this party.
:07:04. > :07:09.For that reason, those whose job it is to guard David Cameron's back,
:07:09. > :07:13.be in no doubt, despite today, they will continue to be watching Boris
:07:13. > :07:16.Johnson very, very closely indeed. And Boris Johnson aside, there's
:07:16. > :07:22.been a significant development on Europe railsed by the Prime
:07:22. > :07:25.Minister. Absolutely. The Prime Minister gave his strongest
:07:25. > :07:29.indication that his favoured mechanism for determining a new
:07:29. > :07:33.relationship with the European Union would be through a referendum
:07:33. > :07:36.after the next election. He said today that the cleanest, neatest
:07:36. > :07:41.and simplest way of deciding any new arrangement with Europe would
:07:41. > :07:44.be through a referendum rather than through some commitment in a
:07:44. > :07:49.general election. Now, when you talk to Tory Euro-sceptics here,
:07:49. > :07:55.yes, they are pleased. But they have one big caveat - they welcome
:07:55. > :07:58.Mr Cameron's words, but they say they've heard it all before.
:07:58. > :08:04.The International Monetary Fund has cut its forecast for the UK economy,
:08:04. > :08:09.saying it now thinks it will shrink by 0.4% this year. The biggest
:08:09. > :08:14.downgrade of any advanced economy. It predicts o only a slow
:08:14. > :08:18.improvement next year with growth of 1.1% expected. The IMF is gloomy
:08:18. > :08:21.about the prospects for the world economy, saying the global recovery
:08:21. > :08:26.is weakening and the situation could easily get worse. Our chief
:08:26. > :08:31.economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports. It's the latest situation
:08:31. > :08:37.report on the UK economy and it comes from the world's leading
:08:38. > :08:43.forecaster and economic watchdog, The Bells O Peover -- the IMF. It
:08:43. > :08:46.thinks the economy is heading the wrong way with a decline of 0.4%.
:08:46. > :08:49.The Prime Minister said given what was happening in the global economy,
:08:49. > :08:54.this wasn't a great surprise and there had been a positive appraisal
:08:54. > :08:59.of the Government's policies. IMF also say we shouldn't abandon
:08:59. > :09:03.our plans of making reductions in Government spending and also,
:09:03. > :09:07.regrettably in some cases, putting up some taxes to get on top of our
:09:07. > :09:12.debt and deficit. It's not Plan B that we need. What we're doing is
:09:12. > :09:16.making sure that every part of Plan A is firing on all cylinders.
:09:16. > :09:21.IMF, currently holding one of its main conferences in Tokyo, warned
:09:21. > :09:25.the British Government might have to think again if growth hadn't
:09:25. > :09:31.materialised by early next year. Labour claimed it all added up to a
:09:31. > :09:35.blow for the Chancellor: He's left our economy too exposed. We ought
:09:35. > :09:39.to have a stronger position now. What is the chance doing - no
:09:39. > :09:43.change of course, absolutely nothing is necessary. We're in the
:09:43. > :09:47.longest double-dip recession since the Second World War apbtd IMF
:09:47. > :09:52.giving him plenty of warnings, he needs to act now. It's not just the
:09:52. > :09:56.UK. The IMF downgraded forecasts for China and other emerging
:09:56. > :09:59.markets and for the global economy. Today's predictions come into line
:09:59. > :10:06.with what most leading forecasters are saying, that is that the UK is
:10:06. > :10:10.likely to Soay contraction of economic activity across this year.
:10:10. > :10:13.The IMF is adjusting to a new reality, not exactly bright for the
:10:13. > :10:18.UK now. It is a serious downgrade. The reason is because of the
:10:18. > :10:22.eurozone. It's having a powerful negative impact on the UK. We're
:10:22. > :10:25.likely to grow less quickly because of the crisis and recession there.
:10:25. > :10:29.I wouldn't be surprised to see negative growth this year and slow
:10:29. > :10:33.growth not future. It may be slow, but there will be growth in the UK
:10:33. > :10:36.next year according to the IMF, so the outlook may be a bit brighter.
:10:36. > :10:43.The organisation also warns everything could change if there's
:10:43. > :10:47.a worsening of the eurozone crisis. The Chancellor, George Osborne, is
:10:47. > :10:52.in Luxembourg, where he's meeting other European Finance Ministers.
:10:52. > :10:59.Chris Morris is there. A pretty bleak outlook for the economy in
:10:59. > :11:02.Europe as well? Yeah, I'm afraid so. Good afternoon. It is after all the
:11:02. > :11:07.news we've heard from Europe over the last couple of years, perhaps
:11:07. > :11:11.no surprise how gloomy it is. The IMF welcomes some of the policy
:11:11. > :11:16.responses made to try to resolve the eurozone crisis. It says that
:11:16. > :11:21.crisis is deepening and the situation remains precarious. It
:11:21. > :11:26.reckons the eurozone economy as a whole will shrink by 0.4% this year.
:11:26. > :11:30.It's downgraded growth for next year it a palatery 0.2%. If you
:11:31. > :11:37.look at individual countries, there are problems everywhere. Spain and
:11:37. > :11:41.France, for example, and others, it believes, will struggle to meet the
:11:41. > :11:45.budget deficit targets. There will have to be a debate there. Do they
:11:45. > :11:50.let the targets slip or implement more cuts? You look at Greece,
:11:50. > :11:54.where the depth of the recession mean that's even now, the
:11:54. > :11:59.accumulation of government debt is still more rapid than has been
:11:59. > :12:05.expected. If there's any good news, I guess, it comes from emerging
:12:05. > :12:10.economies in Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic republics, which will
:12:10. > :12:14.grow somewhat next year. If one thing emerges from this report it
:12:14. > :12:21.will be that the debate about growth versus austerity, the right
:12:21. > :12:25.balance will intensify. The IMF has admitted it has consistently
:12:26. > :12:29.underestimated the effect of cuts on the ability to promote growth.
:12:30. > :12:33.The woman many Greeks blame for their country's hardships has riefd
:12:33. > :12:38.in Athens. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is making a brief
:12:38. > :12:41.visit to show support for the Greek government and it forces through
:12:41. > :12:45.further austerity measures. There's tight security, with 7,000 police
:12:45. > :12:51.officers on duty and a ban on public gatherings in some areas.
:12:51. > :12:56.Our correspondent Mark Lowen is there. Thank you very much indeed.
:12:56. > :13:00.Yes, Athens feels like two different cities today. Here on the
:13:00. > :13:04.square, thousands have protested against Angela Merkel, who they see
:13:04. > :13:09.as the architect of austerity. There have been a couple of rounds
:13:09. > :13:13.of tear gas already. Behind the security cordons the Greek and
:13:13. > :13:18.German leaders have held an amicable and symbolic meeting. It's
:13:18. > :13:25.a sign of a deeply divided Greece, one that Mrs Merkel is visiting for
:13:25. > :13:29.the first time in over five years. Europe's Paymaster arriving in the
:13:30. > :13:34.eurozone's most indebted nation. Angela Merkel in Athens for her
:13:34. > :13:39.first trip in over five years. In the past she's stayed away,
:13:39. > :13:43.critical of the slow pace of reform here. Germany and Greece in a
:13:43. > :13:46.frequent war of words. Buff now she came to support the new cost-
:13:46. > :13:52.cutting government of Antonis Samaras, a crucial endorsement as
:13:52. > :13:56.he tries to rebuild the credibility of his country. In central Athens,
:13:56. > :14:00.no welcome, just protests and a strike. Many here see the
:14:00. > :14:05.Chancellor as the driving force behind the painful austerity
:14:05. > :14:10.measures. Large parts of the city were in lock down, a sign of the
:14:10. > :14:15.widespread anger. Reviled by many, respected by some, few foreign
:14:15. > :14:18.leaders ellicit such reaction here. TRANSLATION: Let's hope it's for
:14:19. > :14:22.the best and that coming here to Greece, she'll see first hand what
:14:22. > :14:26.the Greeks are going through and the reduction in their standard of
:14:26. > :14:30.living and she can form an opinion. Let's hope we're not the guinea
:14:30. > :14:34.pigs of Europe. TRANSLATION: She should see how the
:14:34. > :14:43.people are suffering. The anxiety we are going through, that there is
:14:44. > :14:47.no future. Others have a softer response to Mrs Merkel. This woman
:14:47. > :14:53.says anti-German feeling is misplaced and that Greeks should
:14:53. > :14:57.toast the shared goals. The visit is a positive sign there a definite
:14:57. > :15:02.will from Germany and also from other European countries that
:15:02. > :15:06.Greece stays in the euro. But on the streets, rage continues to boil.
:15:06. > :15:11.Demonstrations in the run up to the visit targetting the German leader.
:15:11. > :15:15.As this nation sinks further into its worst crisis in modern history,
:15:15. > :15:22.it's looking for someone to blame. Angela Merkel is often that figure.
:15:22. > :15:25.Now she's come into the lion's den. You might be able to see a few
:15:25. > :15:28.rocks being thrown at riot police in the corner of the square as the
:15:28. > :15:31.protests begin to turn a little ugly. No grand announcements are
:15:31. > :15:34.expected during this visit. The leaders will discuss the new
:15:34. > :15:39.spending cuts to come. The very fact that Mrs Merkel is here at all
:15:39. > :15:42.is perhaps the most important thing. Fear drives the markets, they will
:15:42. > :15:52.be reassured by her visit. On the streets of Athens, the anger will
:15:52. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:09.All the bids meant too little protection for taxpayers against
:16:09. > :16:10.
:16:10. > :16:12.the risk of a collapse by the franchise holder. The error meant
:16:12. > :16:15.all the bids offered too little protection for taxpayers against
:16:15. > :16:18.the risks of collapse by a franchise holder. It's still
:16:18. > :16:20.unclear who will run the service while a new tendering process is
:16:20. > :16:22.completed, which could take up to two years.
:16:22. > :16:25.A 20-year-old man from West Yorksire has been sentenced to 240
:16:25. > :16:28.hours of community service for comments he made on the internet
:16:28. > :16:30.about the deaths of six soldiers. Azhar Ahmed from Dewsbury posted
:16:30. > :16:34.the "grossly offensive" comments on the social networking site Facebook.
:16:34. > :16:37.Barclays is buying the online bank ING Direct UK from its Dutch owners.
:16:37. > :16:39.The deal means 1.5 million customers and seven hundred and
:16:39. > :16:42.fifty ING Direct staff will transfer to Barclays. Our Personal
:16:42. > :16:45.Finance Correspondent Simon Gompertz is here. How good a deal
:16:45. > :16:49.is this for Barclays? It's a lot of people, and Barclays is virtually
:16:49. > :16:53.being paid to take them away because ING, the Dutch bank, is
:16:53. > :16:58.pulling out of the UK, so it does look like a good deal. As you say,
:16:58. > :17:03.there are 1.5 million customers affected. They're virtually all
:17:03. > :17:06.savers with average savings of around �8,000 in ING, so they're
:17:06. > :17:12.valuable customers to have. Total savings, nearly �11 billion. That
:17:12. > :17:15.would be a 10% increase in savings held at Barclays, less in mortgages,
:17:15. > :17:20.about �5.5 billion. This is an internet bank, ING, so customers
:17:20. > :17:25.who are used to shopping around for the best deals - and Barclays will
:17:25. > :17:29.have to work hard to keep ahold of them. What does it mean for the
:17:29. > :17:33.customers? What'll they do? Barclays has promised they'll
:17:33. > :17:37.honour the existing terms and conditions. If you have a fixed
:17:37. > :17:41.rate saving or mortgage that'll be honoured, but Barclays will be
:17:41. > :17:45.setting the - in the long run. You have to keep an eye on that there
:17:45. > :17:48.is time. Your deposit protection will improve because it's �85,000
:17:48. > :17:52.under the UK system, which is more than under the Dutch system, which
:17:52. > :17:55.is what it was before with ING. I think on the other hand, we're
:17:55. > :17:58.always being told there are not enough players in banking, not
:17:58. > :18:01.enough competition. Here's one being taken away which was known
:18:01. > :18:08.from time to time for offering very good interest rates, so that could
:18:08. > :18:13.be a worry. Thank you very much. The time is coming up to 1.20pm.
:18:13. > :18:15.Our top story this lunch time: plans to allow homeowners to use
:18:15. > :18:20.greater force against intruders as long as it's not "grossly
:18:20. > :18:24.disproportionate". Coming up: I'm in Roswell, New
:18:24. > :18:28.Mexico where the Australian adventurerer will attempt to break
:18:28. > :18:35.the world skydiving record and become the first man to fall faster
:18:35. > :18:38.than the speed of sound. On BBC London: after months of
:18:38. > :18:48.delay, state-of-the-art school for children with special needs that
:18:48. > :18:52.
:18:52. > :18:54.still isn't open. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:18:54. > :18:56.are in Staffordshire this lunch time where they are officially
:18:56. > :18:58.opening England's new National Football Centre. St George's Park,
:18:58. > :19:00.near Burton-upon-Trent, will provide state-of-the-art training
:19:00. > :19:08.facilities for players and coaches. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan
:19:08. > :19:11.is there. Thanks, Sophie. Unlike footballing
:19:11. > :19:16.heavyweights like Spain and the Netherlands, England, until now,
:19:16. > :19:19.have been effectively homeless, having to borrow training
:19:19. > :19:26.facilities and accommodation before big international match, but no
:19:26. > :19:32.longer. Attention to detail is what St George's Park is about. For
:19:32. > :19:35.example this park behind me is an exact replica of Wembley in terms
:19:35. > :19:42.of grass and indeed its dimensions. By leaving no stone unturned, the
:19:42. > :19:45.hope is this place will produce better players and better coaches.
:19:45. > :19:49.For William, England and St Louis Cardinals, today was all about
:19:49. > :19:53.Heralding a new era for national sport. The president of the FA and
:19:53. > :19:55.his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, here to open up a new facility
:19:55. > :20:02.designed to return England to footballing royalty. What you would
:20:02. > :20:06.like is a youngster coming here, 15, 16, hopefully they get an early wow
:20:06. > :20:12.factor. This is a great place to come, and they want to be through
:20:12. > :20:16.the age groups, 17, 18, 19 - can I stay through the seniors? It's an
:20:16. > :20:19.aspirational home now. 11 years in the making, this site houses
:20:19. > :20:23.training, rehab and the best science sports facilities money can
:20:23. > :20:27.buy, all designed to give English football its own centre of
:20:27. > :20:32.excellence to match its European rivals. This is what over �100
:20:32. > :20:36.million of investment gets you. This is the state-of-the-art full-
:20:36. > :20:40.sized indoor pitch here at St George's Park. It's all very
:20:40. > :20:43.impressive, of course. But the big question is, will this bring about
:20:43. > :20:49.a change in the fortunes of the England team? Despite such funding
:20:49. > :20:54.of the elite level, up and down the country at the grassroots level,
:20:55. > :20:57.clubs continue to suffer from poor sporting facilities and investing
:20:57. > :21:01.costs. The cabins here, we had one of them
:21:01. > :21:05.burn down recently. It cost the club �2,000 to replace the
:21:05. > :21:09.equipment we lost. �2,000 is a small fraction of a hundred million.
:21:09. > :21:13.If a small amount of money was provided for a place like us, then
:21:13. > :21:19.it would make a real difference which would help to supply players
:21:19. > :21:22.within the region to play at a lie level. After his foul-mouthed Tweet
:21:22. > :21:26.abusing the FA last week Ashley Cole and the rest of the squad are
:21:26. > :21:31.here ahead of their next match Friday. Whether the defender wins a
:21:31. > :21:35.99th cap, though, is unclear. apologised for his actions. He
:21:35. > :21:39.really did show, I believe, sort of genuine remorse. He said to me it
:21:39. > :21:44.was done on the spur of the moment and he was sorry he did it and had
:21:44. > :21:49.apologised, so one way or another, we have now left it to Roy Hodgeson
:21:49. > :21:52.to decide whether he plays. But no time for domestics in the game's
:21:52. > :21:59.new home. Today was about England's football family and the foundation
:21:59. > :22:02.for a new sporting dynasty. Football fans, of course, are
:22:02. > :22:07.notoriously impatient, but this is all about the long-term development
:22:07. > :22:11.of the English game, and after 46 years now without a major trophy
:22:11. > :22:14.for England, it's pretty clear that St George's Park won't provide a
:22:14. > :22:17.quick fix. Sophie? Dan, thank you very much.
:22:17. > :22:20.A secret agent who infiltrated the IRA on behalf of British Security
:22:20. > :22:22.Services says he's been abandoned by those he served loyally and has
:22:22. > :22:25.been left to live destitute with severe mental health problems.
:22:25. > :22:27.Raymond Gilmour, who's lived under a false identity in the south-east
:22:27. > :22:37.of England for almost 30 years, passed on sensitive information
:22:37. > :22:41.
:22:41. > :22:45.about IRA military operations in Raymond Gilmour infiltrated the IRA
:22:45. > :22:49.at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A super-grass
:22:50. > :22:54.witness, he later earnt himself an IRA death sentence. I brought the
:22:55. > :22:58.Provisional IRA to their knees in Derry. I have saved countless
:22:58. > :23:03.amount of lives. But living under false identity for almost 30 years,
:23:03. > :23:08.he says he has been failed by the intelligence services. I am living
:23:08. > :23:13.on a knife edge because of my mental health. I have no financial
:23:13. > :23:23.stability, which I was promised. I have nothing. With the assistance
:23:23. > :23:26.of his MP, he is now taking his case to the investigatory tribunals
:23:26. > :23:30.panel, which examines complaints against the intelligence services.
:23:30. > :23:35.Is this just about money? Not at all. It's about the betrayal of the
:23:35. > :23:39.intelligence services, the Security Services towards me.
:23:39. > :23:45.contractual agreements between an agent, that's who we're talk about,
:23:45. > :23:48.the Government, and the dirtiest war ever besides Kosovo should be
:23:48. > :23:52.protected. For some reason, Raymond Gilmour is still remembered as a
:23:52. > :23:55.traitor, guilty of betrayal. There will be no love lost for him. There
:23:55. > :24:00.will be no sympathy for him. It doesn't come unexpected that when
:24:00. > :24:03.the MI5 are finished with people, they discard them. It's suggested
:24:03. > :24:06.Raymond Gilmour's case could have serious repercussions for the UK's
:24:06. > :24:09.intelligence services, in particular, how they care for
:24:09. > :24:15.intelligence agents - not just those in Northern Ireland, but
:24:15. > :24:20.those now being employed to help in the fight against Islamic terrorism.
:24:20. > :24:24.The establishment will always need agents, good agents, to infiltrate
:24:24. > :24:28.organisations. No matter where you are in the world, they'll always be
:24:28. > :24:32.needed, but the point is you've got to honour your debts to them and
:24:32. > :24:36.look after them as best - way you can. The Home Office say they do
:24:36. > :24:40.not comment on intelligence matters. Raymond Gilmour accepts speaking
:24:40. > :24:44.out could endanger his life, but he says he's been left with little
:24:44. > :24:48.choice. And viewers in the south-east of
:24:48. > :24:53.England can see more on this tonight at 6.30pm on BBC One, and
:24:53. > :24:57.it'll be available everywhere after that on the BBC iPlayer. An
:24:57. > :25:07.Austrian sky diver is hoping to become the first human to break the
:25:07. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:14.sound barrier without the help of a vehicle by jumping to earth from a
:25:14. > :25:17.height of 23 miles. Felix Baumgartner will leap from a helium
:25:17. > :25:20.balloon above the desert in New Mexico and fall so fast he's likely
:25:20. > :25:22.to reach supersonic speeds within a minute. Our science correspondent
:25:22. > :25:25.Pallab Ghosh is in New Mexico. He'll in fact be breaking four
:25:25. > :25:28.records. It will be a record for the highest balloon flight, the
:25:28. > :25:32.highest skydive, the longest skydive, and as you say, he'll
:25:32. > :25:37.become the first man to break the sound barrier as he falls. Now, the
:25:37. > :25:42.balloon will take him 120,000 feet into the stratosphere. That's
:25:42. > :25:52.20,000 feet higher than the current record and 23,000 feet higher than
:25:52. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:57.he himself has been before in his last test flight in July.
:25:57. > :26:03.Felix in training for his world- record jump. He'll be taken 23
:26:03. > :26:08.miles up by balloon. He's so high up that if his space suit leaks,
:26:08. > :26:12.his blood will boil. When he jumps, he'll fall so fast,
:26:12. > :26:18.he'll break the sound barrier. No- one knows what affect that'll have
:26:18. > :26:22.on his body, but after his last test jump, he was upbeat. We have
:26:22. > :26:29.practised this for so many years, and now we're almost there, so this
:26:29. > :26:36.is my biggest dream, and we're one step closer, and I am almost there.
:26:36. > :26:41.I feel good at the moment. Felix came to fame as a young base jumper
:26:41. > :26:44.hurling himself off giant buildings and notoriously off the giant Jesus
:26:44. > :26:48.monument in Rio. This time he'll need more than just his nerve. He's
:26:48. > :26:51.being helped by a team of scientists and engineers. His suit
:26:52. > :26:58.has been adapted from a conventional pressurised suit to
:26:58. > :27:02.allow him greater movement so that he can glide during free-fall. The
:27:02. > :27:06.capsule has been specially built to protect him from the freezing
:27:07. > :27:13.conditions of high altitude. The launch will be at a small airfield
:27:13. > :27:17.in Roswell, New Mexico. The balloon is 55 stories high and thinner than
:27:17. > :27:23.a lastic bag. Felix will get in the capsule, and once the wind drops,
:27:23. > :27:30.the crane releases it and away he'll go. The record was set 52
:27:30. > :27:36.years ago by Come nor Joe Kittinger. Two people have died trying to
:27:36. > :27:42.break his record. The colonel is now helping Felix, giving him
:27:42. > :27:46.support and advice - and it seems living every moment of the mission.
:27:46. > :27:50.Felix's mother and other family members and friends have come to
:27:50. > :27:54.wish Felix luck and watch with pride as he falls further and
:27:54. > :27:58.faster than anyone has ever fallen before.
:27:59. > :28:02.So we'll know in the next couple of hours whether we're go for launch.
:28:02. > :28:06.The balloon - if we are, the balloon will be inflated in the
:28:06. > :28:11.area just behind me. You can see the sun rising, and then if we are
:28:11. > :28:15.go for launch, it will take two hours to get Felix up to the
:28:15. > :28:17.stratosphere, five-and-a-half minutes down, but as to whether we
:28:17. > :28:20.launch, it all depends on the weather.
:28:20. > :28:25.Thank you very much. Of course, if it does happen, you can watch it
:28:25. > :28:28.all on the BBC News Channel. Finally, you may have been lucky
:28:28. > :28:31.enough to witness the spectacular skies above parts of Northern
:28:31. > :28:34.Britain last night. They were lit up by the Northern Lights which
:28:34. > :28:37.occurred after a huge explosion on the sun last Thursday flung a wave
:28:37. > :28:47.of solar particles towards Earth. Here are just a few of the images
:28:47. > :28:55.
:28:55. > :28:58.And this series of images was taken by the photographer Zoe Barrie in
:28:58. > :29:02.Fife at about 2.30am this morning. She says she never thought she'd
:29:02. > :29:12.see anything like it and was in tears as she took the photos from
:29:12. > :29:14.
:29:14. > :29:17.Lovely clear skies aided all of those processes. Hopefully, the
:29:17. > :29:20.wind will play ball with Felix as well. The weather certainly playing
:29:20. > :29:24.ball through a good part of the British Isles this afternoon -
:29:24. > :29:30.sunny spells, light winds does it for most of us. There are
:29:30. > :29:32.exceptions to these hard and fast rules. They come in the shape of a
:29:32. > :29:35.front in Northern Scotland and in southern counties of England and
:29:35. > :29:41.Wales where the cloud is sitting low in the atmosphere. Fog
:29:41. > :29:45.conditions in the Channel Islands into the south-west of England.
:29:45. > :29:48.Temperatures to 15 Celsius. For sunshine, you'll have to move
:29:48. > :29:51.towards Kent - anywhere north of London into clear sparkling
:29:52. > :29:55.conditions, in fact. Temperatures not worthy of a postcard home, I am
:29:55. > :29:59.afraid, just about getting into double figures as we speak. One or
:29:59. > :30:02.two location struggling for that even. Further north in Scotland,
:30:02. > :30:06.you'll notice from the satellite we had the cloud. There is the rain
:30:06. > :30:09.associated with that. Further south of the great glen into Northern
:30:10. > :30:13.Ireland, dry, fine and sunny will do it. For most of us through the
:30:13. > :30:16.rest of the afternoon, a similar prospect in the north of Wales.
:30:16. > :30:20.Come too far south in Wales, we slip into the frontal territory
:30:20. > :30:24.where the cloud is thick, sitting low in the atmosphere, especially
:30:24. > :30:29.on the hills of South Wales. In the evening to the small wee hours of
:30:29. > :30:32.Wednesday, the cloud is still there. The rain petering away somewhat. It
:30:32. > :30:38.will remain dank and drizzly. Mild in the south-west. But what a
:30:38. > :30:45.difference further north, yet again. Towns and cities - 12-3-4 Celsius.
:30:45. > :30:51.Put a minus the you're in the countryside. We could see minus 4
:30:51. > :30:55.Celsius or 5 Celsius. We do get fog and the frost too into a glorious
:30:55. > :30:58.start of northern and eastern parts of Britain. Generally speaking on
:30:58. > :31:02.Wednesday, I think they'll find more cloud across Northern Ireland,
:31:02. > :31:06.a good part of central and Western England coming back into Wales.
:31:06. > :31:09.It's not a write-off by any means, but just be aware there will be a
:31:09. > :31:16.wee bit more cloud. The best conditions to the east. The top
:31:16. > :31:21.temperatures on the day, 14-15 Celsius. Having had this area of
:31:21. > :31:26.unsettled area of low pressure, that is slipping into Europe. What
:31:26. > :31:29.a disappointment. It allows a lot of wind to come in, rain as well.
:31:29. > :31:32.The heaviest in Eastern Scotland and Northern Ireland. We all get it
:31:32. > :31:34.during the course of Thursday. It's still there Friday. The Met Office
:31:35. > :31:39.still warning about this situation with regard to the north-east of
:31:39. > :31:48.Scotland. There will be a lot of rain. Sunny spells and showers just