:00:04. > :00:08.The Conservative peer Lord McAlpine denies all allegations linking him
:00:08. > :00:10.to child abuse in North Wales care homes in the 1970s. The former Tory
:00:10. > :00:13.treasurer calls the accusations wholly false and seriously
:00:13. > :00:23.defamatory and says he's only been to Wrexham once and never visited
:00:23. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:31.the home. We have to be very careful before casting aspersions
:00:31. > :00:38.against individuals, and throwing people's names around, without
:00:38. > :00:41.proper evidence. Everybody has to think carefully about this.
:00:41. > :00:44.Astonished and excited - the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin
:00:44. > :00:50.Welby, says he never expected to be chosen as leader of the world's
:00:50. > :00:53.Anglican community. I am utterly optimistic about the future of the
:00:53. > :01:01.Church. We will certainly get things wrong, but the Grace of God
:01:01. > :01:03.is far greater than our biggest failures. 4,000 customers of
:01:03. > :01:08.Britain's biggest bank, HSBC, are being investigated over allegations
:01:08. > :01:13.of tax avoidance. Britain slashes its aid to India - from 2015, there
:01:13. > :01:16.will be no new support for the increasingly wealthy country. And
:01:16. > :01:26.the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban - tens of thousands call for Malala
:01:26. > :01:30.
:01:30. > :01:35.Yousafzai to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Later on BBC London, a
:01:35. > :01:45.life sentence for the man guilty of murdering a telephone executive at
:01:45. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:55.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The Conservative
:01:55. > :01:58.peer Lord McAlpine has strenuously denied allegations linking him to
:01:58. > :02:03.child abuse at care homes in North Wales, saying they are "wholly
:02:03. > :02:07.false and seriously defamatory". Last week, a man told BBC Newsnight
:02:07. > :02:12.he had been repeatedly abused at a home in Wrexham in the '70s by a
:02:12. > :02:15.senior Conservative politician from the Thatcher era. This morning,
:02:15. > :02:21.after a week of Internet rumours, Lord McAlpine, who wasn't named by
:02:21. > :02:25.Newsnight, said he wanted to set the record straight. He said he had
:02:25. > :02:33.never been to the care home and had only visited Wrexham once in his
:02:33. > :02:38.life. Chris Buckler reports. There have been days of speculation over
:02:38. > :02:42.who was involved in the abuse at Bryn Estyn. In last week's
:02:42. > :02:46.Newsnight report, there were allegations that a senior member of
:02:46. > :02:51.the Conservative party visited this children's home in north Wales.
:02:51. > :02:58.Lord McAlpine was not named in the report, but he says that many
:02:59. > :03:03.Internet blogs have named him. Today, he warned, enough was enough.
:03:03. > :03:13.In a statement, he described the allegations as "wholly false and
:03:13. > :03:19.
:03:19. > :03:22.seriously defamatory". He stated... There has been much gossip, and
:03:22. > :03:29.yesterday, the Prime Minister was handed names of some politicians
:03:29. > :03:36.who have been accused online. not want this to turn into a sort
:03:36. > :03:40.of witch-hunt, particularly against people who are gay. One MP has
:03:40. > :03:43.asked Ofcom to investigate, following claims that some of the
:03:43. > :03:47.names could be seen on television. We have to be very careful before
:03:47. > :03:51.casting aspersions against individuals or bandying people's
:03:51. > :03:55.names around, as was being done yesterday, without proper evidence.
:03:55. > :03:59.Every institution, journalist and politician has to think carefully
:03:59. > :04:05.about this. This morning, one newspaper said it believed that
:04:05. > :04:08.Lord McAlpine had been the victim of mistaken identity. The Tory peer
:04:08. > :04:12.himself has called it a media frenzy, and there are questions
:04:12. > :04:15.being asked about how responsible the reporting has been by
:04:15. > :04:19.broadcasters and others. Ever since the abuse allegations involving
:04:19. > :04:24.Jimmy Savile were made public, many have been asking what else had been
:04:24. > :04:29.covered up. There are inquiry is investigating what happened in
:04:29. > :04:33.various different places. But before finding the truth, there are
:04:33. > :04:40.fears about who could be smeared by lives. Our political correspondent
:04:40. > :04:43.Carole Walker is at Westminster. A very long, strongly-worded
:04:43. > :04:47.statement this morning from Lord McAlpine - where does this leave
:04:47. > :04:51.the Government's inquiry announced this week into child abuse at care
:04:51. > :04:54.homes? That question was put to the Prime Minister's spokesman this
:04:54. > :04:58.morning, whether in fact the Government had been rather too
:04:58. > :05:03.hasty to order these inquiries. But he said that there had been serious
:05:03. > :05:07.allegations made about the police investigation into abuse in
:05:07. > :05:11.children's homes in North Wales, that there had also been questions
:05:11. > :05:15.about the subsequent public inquiry, and that it was right to look into
:05:15. > :05:18.them. He pointed out that the Government has not actually
:05:18. > :05:21.launched an inquiry into the inquiry, it has simply appointed an
:05:21. > :05:25.independent figure to look at the scope and conduct of that public
:05:25. > :05:29.inquiry. But I think it does illustrate the difficulty which
:05:29. > :05:33.politicians are finding, in framing the right response to this issue,
:05:33. > :05:38.which has really escalated over the past few weeks. It is clear that
:05:38. > :05:42.when the allegations surfaced, which Lord McAlpine has responded
:05:42. > :05:45.to today, allegations which appear to go to the heart of the
:05:45. > :05:48.Conservative Party, David Cameron has been seen to be keen to be on
:05:48. > :05:52.the front foot, not to be shying away from the issue, but to be
:05:52. > :05:56.saying, yes, let's take a serious look at what has gone on. The
:05:56. > :06:01.problem is that you have now ended up with a whole series of different
:06:01. > :06:04.inquiries into some very serious allegations. Whilst those police
:06:04. > :06:09.investigations are continuing, there are good legal reasons for
:06:09. > :06:13.not naming individuals, because to do so could potentially prejudicial
:06:13. > :06:17.future trials. But in the meantime, you then get rumours taking hold
:06:17. > :06:21.and spreading on the Internet, and while that continues, it simply
:06:21. > :06:23.does not help the very serious process of trying to get to the
:06:23. > :06:26.bottom of what has happened. The next Archbishop of Canterbury,
:06:26. > :06:29.Justin Welby, says his new appointment is "exciting and
:06:29. > :06:33.astonishing". The former oil executive, who has been Bishop of
:06:33. > :06:35.Durham for just a year, says he never expected to be chosen to lead
:06:35. > :06:45.the world's Anglican community. Mike Wooldridge is at Lambeth
:06:45. > :06:47.
:06:47. > :06:52.Palace. Justin Welby has said that his first thoughts, when he was
:06:52. > :06:56.told that he would be Archbishop of Canterbury, work, oh, no. But today,
:06:56. > :07:01.this priest from the evangelical wing of the Church, who has been in
:07:01. > :07:04.the church for just 20 years, but has had a lot to do with
:07:04. > :07:09.reconciliation of various kinds, and who has been Bishop of Durham
:07:09. > :07:13.for just one year, was presented to the church, the country and the
:07:13. > :07:19.world in his new role. Minutes after the formal announcement from
:07:19. > :07:24.Downing Street, the man who will be the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
:07:24. > :07:27.said he was astonished and excited. Well, this is the best kept secret
:07:27. > :07:32.since the last cabinet reshuffle. He does a strong line in self-
:07:32. > :07:35.deprecation, but not when it comes to the church itself - often
:07:35. > :07:40.portrayed as bitterly divided and dwindling in its congregation and
:07:40. > :07:45.influence. I am utterly optimistic about the future of the Church. We
:07:45. > :07:49.will certainly get things wrong, I certainly will. But the grace of
:07:49. > :07:56.God is greater than our biggest failings. We will also certainly
:07:56. > :08:03.get much right, and we do so already. From Nigeria, a warning
:08:03. > :08:09.over one of the most challenging controversies he will inherit.
:08:09. > :08:14.have things which have been promoted, certain agendas, and if
:08:14. > :08:17.that is the agenda he is coming to promote, we will not be part of it.
:08:17. > :08:24.Justin Welby acknowledged that there were deep differences over
:08:24. > :08:27.homosexuality. It is absolutely right for the state to define the
:08:27. > :08:35.rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of
:08:35. > :08:42.relationship. That includes several partnerships. We must have no form
:08:42. > :08:47.of homophobia in any part of the Church. Bishop will be is a rarity,
:08:47. > :08:57.with 11 years in the oil industry behind him, before he went into the
:08:57. > :08:58.
:08:58. > :09:00.church. I think my background taught me that moats -- most issues
:09:00. > :09:05.surrounding business are more complicated than they appear from
:09:06. > :09:08.the outside. People are people, in every sector. Currently a member of
:09:08. > :09:11.the parliamentary commission on banking standards, he says that as
:09:11. > :09:14.Archbishop, he will definitely not be party political in his
:09:15. > :09:20.pronouncements, but he says he does believe absolutely that the Church
:09:20. > :09:25.should speak out in public and political life. Justin Welby made
:09:25. > :09:30.the point also that the work of the Church of England is not primarily
:09:30. > :09:34.done on television or here at Lambeth palace, but, he said, in
:09:34. > :09:37.the more than 16,000 churches across the country. They are the
:09:37. > :09:40.front line of the Church, and he intends to give due recognition to
:09:40. > :09:43.them. The tax affairs of more than 4,000
:09:43. > :09:46.HSBC customers with bank accounts in Jersey are being scrutinised
:09:46. > :09:48.after their details were leaked to tax and revenue officials. The list
:09:49. > :09:51.was unearthed by a whistleblower and allegedly includes the names of
:09:51. > :10:00.serious criminals. Our personal finance correspondent, Simon
:10:00. > :10:04.Gompertz, has the story. It is one of the world's biggest banks, yet
:10:04. > :10:07.it has been hurried with allegations that it is lax in
:10:07. > :10:11.monitoring criminals moving their money, and that its customers are
:10:11. > :10:16.avoiding tax. Jersey is well known for being favoured by a wealthy
:10:16. > :10:20.investors as a haven for their money. Tax is not automatically
:10:20. > :10:23.deducted from bank interest here, as it is in the UK. But today's
:10:23. > :10:29.allegations are that criminals have also been taking advantage of its
:10:30. > :10:34.special status. A whistleblower has revealed HSBC's Jersey client list,
:10:34. > :10:39.containing the names of more than 4,300 Britons with accounts,
:10:39. > :10:43.including celebrities and London bankers, holding a total of �699
:10:43. > :10:47.million. The Daily Telegraph alleges that among them are several
:10:47. > :10:50.who are criminals or wanted by police. But for most, the question
:10:50. > :10:54.will be whether they have eventually paid tax on the money
:10:54. > :11:00.earned in the accounts. I would be very surprised if any of those
:11:00. > :11:04.4,000 were criminals, and had set out to break the law. However, if
:11:04. > :11:08.someone has hidden money in Jersey, and they have not told the revenue
:11:08. > :11:13.authorities about it, they really need to get in touch quickly, get
:11:13. > :11:17.to the Revenue, before the Revenue get to them. HM Revenue and Customs
:11:17. > :11:20.confirmed that it had received the data and was studying it, and it
:11:20. > :11:24.said banks had to tell the authorities of any suspicions that
:11:24. > :11:29.criminals were exploiting one of their accounts. HSBC is expecting
:11:29. > :11:32.to pay fines of around �1 billion in the United States for breaching
:11:32. > :11:36.money laundering regulations there. So, these allegations about
:11:36. > :11:39.accounts in Jersey could not have come at a worse time, because they
:11:39. > :11:49.add to suggestions that the bank is not vigilant enough in checking
:11:49. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:04.what its customers are up to. HSBC It is perfectly legal to have an
:12:04. > :12:07.account in Jersey, but the 4,000 people on the list are likely to
:12:07. > :12:10.have their affairs being scrutinised in detail.
:12:10. > :12:13.Britain's backlog of immigration and asylum cases in the UK is
:12:13. > :12:16.spiralling out of control - that's the warning from a group of MPs. In
:12:16. > :12:19.a highly critical report, they say they are concerned that attempts to
:12:20. > :12:22.clear the backlog could lead to an amnesty for people who have no
:12:23. > :12:32.right to be here. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, has the
:12:32. > :12:36.story. In May, it was as big as the population of Cambridge. By July,
:12:36. > :12:41.the Home Affairs Select Committee said Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Now, the
:12:41. > :12:47.MPs are measuring the immigration backlog by country. Iceland has a
:12:47. > :12:54.population of just over 300,000. The total backlog for the last
:12:54. > :13:00.three months is... It includes what is called the migration refusal
:13:00. > :13:10.is called the migration refusal pool. These people are still
:13:10. > :13:16.
:13:16. > :13:20.MPs say more needs to be done. is spiralling out of control, and
:13:20. > :13:24.they need to take urgent action, to deal with cases quickly, to close
:13:24. > :13:30.those cases and then remove people from the country who have no right
:13:30. > :13:33.to be here. The MPs are concerned that the rush to remove failed
:13:33. > :13:38.immigration applicants will result in rushed decision-making, and in
:13:38. > :13:42.an amnesty for some applicants. Not so, says the minister. We are not
:13:42. > :13:45.waiting these cases of, we're not going to give people the right to
:13:45. > :13:48.stay when they do not have the right to do so. We are working
:13:48. > :13:53.through these cases consistently, and we will have done so by the end
:13:53. > :13:57.of this year. But there are concerns that that deadline might
:13:57. > :14:02.cause different problems. 13 people were granted asylum this year, even
:14:02. > :14:05.though they had been previously refused it. If decisions are rushed,
:14:05. > :14:10.there is a higher likelihood that they will be incorrect, which could
:14:10. > :14:15.have grave consequences, life-and- death consequences, for people, if
:14:15. > :14:20.their asylum claim is incorrectly refused. The Home Office says this
:14:20. > :14:22.report raises legitimate concerns, but by restricting access to health
:14:22. > :14:27.care and financial services, as well as fighting more cases in
:14:27. > :14:31.court, the Government believes that every day, it is becoming harder to
:14:31. > :14:35.live illegally in Britain. Britain is to drastically cut its
:14:35. > :14:40.aid programme to India. All new financial help will stop
:14:40. > :14:45.immediately, and current projects will finish by 2015. After that,
:14:45. > :14:47.aid will only be 10% of its current size, and will be limited to
:14:47. > :14:53.technical assistance as well as help for the private sector.
:14:53. > :14:57.now? Justine Greening was in India this week, explaining to the Indian
:14:57. > :15:00.government what she is doing. There will be a sigh of relief across the
:15:00. > :15:04.British Government. This is the most controversial part of the aid
:15:04. > :15:07.programme, and it will stop the sniping from the Tory backbenchers,
:15:07. > :15:10.and sneers from Indian politicians, who see this relationship as
:15:11. > :15:14.demeaning. The Indian Foreign Minister was speaking to William
:15:14. > :15:17.Hague this week, and he said there was no discussion about eight
:15:18. > :15:22.whatsoever, only about trade, and that is going to be the new
:15:22. > :15:25.relationship. However, Oxfam says it is too hasty, we still have a
:15:25. > :15:29.third of the world's poorest people living in India. Save The Children
:15:29. > :15:34.says that a quarter of global children's deaths happen in India.
:15:34. > :15:37.What happens to the money that is saved? That is a curious political
:15:37. > :15:41.problem. Britain is committed to the so-called millennium
:15:41. > :15:44.development goals, trying to relieve poverty worldwide. If it
:15:44. > :15:49.does not go to India, it has to go to places which are equally
:15:49. > :15:53.deserving, as it were. Britain has this huge aid budget at the moment,
:15:53. > :15:57.and is committed to raising it over the next couple of years, so there
:15:57. > :16:00.are new political issues coming up, as to what priorities they will
:16:00. > :16:10.have for this vast amount of money which will come back to the aid
:16:10. > :16:13.
:16:13. > :16:16.Tens of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling
:16:16. > :16:20.for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded to the Pakistani teenager
:16:20. > :16:23.Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head on her school bus by the
:16:23. > :16:25.Taliban last month. The 15-year-old, who survived the attack, was
:16:25. > :16:28.targeted because she had been campaigning for the rights of girls
:16:28. > :16:36.to have an education. She is recovering in hospital in
:16:36. > :16:44.Birmingham, as Daniel Boettcher now reports. Malala looks through the
:16:44. > :16:48.thousands of cars she has received. Her father spoke. I'm utterly
:16:48. > :16:54.thankful to all the well-wishers who strongly condemn the
:16:54. > :16:58.assassination attempt on Malala, who pray for her health, and to
:16:58. > :17:04.support the great cause of all Malala Yousafzai it that his piece,
:17:04. > :17:09.education, freedom of thought and freedom of expression. It is a mum
:17:10. > :17:14.thinks -- eight is a month since Malala was shot because of her
:17:14. > :17:17.campaign for education for girls in Pakistan. There is a growing online
:17:17. > :17:22.petition calling for had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
:17:22. > :17:28.and tomorrow will see a global day of action inspired by Malala to get
:17:28. > :17:33.30 million girls around the world into the classroom. It is supported
:17:33. > :17:37.by Gordon Brown who is in Pakistan to prevent a petition. To have 32
:17:37. > :17:41.million girls without an education, sometimes prevented from going to
:17:41. > :17:43.school, if you can see every girl you meet thinks it is completely
:17:43. > :17:50.unacceptable and they are not going to allow other people to prevent
:17:50. > :17:54.that right to education from happening. Malala's family say she
:17:54. > :17:58.is humbled and inspired by the support she has received from
:17:58. > :18:00.around the world. Our top story this lunchtime: The
:18:00. > :18:06.Conservative peer Lord McAlpine denies all allegations linking him
:18:06. > :18:10.to child abuse in North Wales care homes in the 1970s. Coming up: They
:18:10. > :18:15.may not be England's first 11 - but the British Army's cricket team is
:18:15. > :18:19.putting a smile back on the faces of cricket lovers in Pakistan.
:18:19. > :18:21.Later on BBC London. Remembering veterans of the Russian
:18:21. > :18:31.convoys during World War Two. And Arsene Wenger's frustrations as
:18:31. > :18:32.
:18:32. > :18:35.Jack Wilshere is called up for In less than a week's time, 41
:18:35. > :18:40.police and crime commissioners will be elected to oversee the forces of
:18:40. > :18:44.England and Wales, excluding London. It has been described as the
:18:44. > :18:54.biggest change to police accountability for almost 200 years.
:18:54. > :18:58.Matthew Amroliwala can tell us more. He is in Wolverhampton for us.
:18:58. > :19:02.Thank you. The idea of these police and crime commissioners are simple.
:19:02. > :19:06.They are supposed to be the voice of the people, someone who will
:19:06. > :19:10.lead the fight against crime, some who will set the priorities for the
:19:10. > :19:14.police and someone who will be held to account if they fail to deliver.
:19:14. > :19:18.That is the idea. Critics of this plan are already warning about
:19:18. > :19:23.political interference and there is a more immediate concern and that
:19:24. > :19:27.is the worry about a record low turnout at these elections. Our
:19:27. > :19:31.correspondent Mike Sergeant has been finding out more. Most members
:19:31. > :19:36.of the public care about crime. They want an effective response to
:19:36. > :19:40.incidents like these. But will people vote in police elections and
:19:40. > :19:44.do people want a politician governing their force? I think it
:19:44. > :19:48.will be a constructive relationship. We will work hard to make sure it
:19:48. > :19:52.works. There are huge variety of people standing. Some have a huge
:19:52. > :19:57.depth of knowledge already. Others less so, we will have to work hard
:19:57. > :20:01.with them to get them to understand the complexity. The new
:20:01. > :20:05.commissioners replace an elected police authority, holding the
:20:05. > :20:13.police to account with the power to hire and fire the Chief Constable.
:20:13. > :20:17.They will be paid between �65,000 and �100,000 a year. Robin Mawdsley
:20:17. > :20:21.has a very clear idea about what he would like as a commissioner. A few
:20:21. > :20:25.years ago, his pregnant daughter in law was shot in this phone book --
:20:25. > :20:29.phone box with an airgun. Afterwards, he pressed for the
:20:29. > :20:35.introduction of CCTV cameras. think the main thing around this
:20:35. > :20:41.area for our idea is to get more bobbies on the beat. We are very
:20:41. > :20:45.low on the amount of police here. Others have different priorities.
:20:45. > :20:49.This canal boat is operated by current and former drug users.
:20:49. > :20:53.Police have supported the initiative as a way of tackling
:20:53. > :20:57.drug crime. Peter Ellwood, who has spent much of his life in prison,
:20:57. > :21:03.once the new commissioners to understand the value of this type
:21:03. > :21:06.of project -- Pete yoghurt. When one person get better, their
:21:07. > :21:11.families improve and when their families improve that improves
:21:11. > :21:16.their community. The issue of turnout in these elections is
:21:16. > :21:20.critical. I think it would be very disappointing if there is a very
:21:20. > :21:25.low turnout. I think that would be damaging. I guess one of the real
:21:25. > :21:28.benefits of this change is that the architects of change will claim
:21:28. > :21:32.this benefit and I think there is legitimacy in the claim of trying
:21:32. > :21:36.to engage people more in the police and engage people with governments,
:21:36. > :21:40.with that sense of setting priorities. Next week we will find
:21:40. > :21:44.out whether people have embraced the idea of elected commissioners
:21:44. > :21:50.or remain unconvinced that a new breed of politician can make the
:21:51. > :21:54.streets safer. We can talk to a former chief
:21:54. > :21:59.constable who used to run the Gloucestershire force. Thank you
:21:59. > :22:04.for being with us. If it is a really low turnout, will there be
:22:04. > :22:08.question marks over the legitimacy? Is if it is a really low turnout,
:22:08. > :22:13.less than 20 %, a will damage the mandate that the commissioners
:22:13. > :22:18.claimed. But it is a democracy and everyone has the chance to vote.
:22:18. > :22:21.You used to run a force, what are the likely tensions, do you think
:22:21. > :22:24.which lie ahead? There is always the potential for personality
:22:24. > :22:29.clashes but I think chief constables will work hard to
:22:29. > :22:33.minimise that. The big tension will be whether they put resources into
:22:33. > :22:37.visible patrols or detection, investigating serious crimes. That
:22:37. > :22:42.is where the big tension is likely to live. We heard in the report
:22:42. > :22:47.what various members of the public want. Do you think this will cut
:22:47. > :22:50.crime? Crime has been coming down for 20 years. How I do not think
:22:50. > :22:56.one person getting elected will make that difference but they need
:22:56. > :23:00.to make the Test against declining resources. There is less money for
:23:00. > :23:03.policing and not a lot they can do about that.
:23:03. > :23:07.And there is more on the forthcoming elections for police
:23:07. > :23:09.and crime commissioners in England and Wales on our website.
:23:09. > :23:13.The Environment Secretary has admitted that it is impossible to
:23:13. > :23:16.eradicate ash dieback disease in Britain. He chaired a COBRA crisis
:23:16. > :23:26.meeting this morning, which examined how to stop the spread of
:23:26. > :23:26.
:23:26. > :23:31.the disease. Britain's woodlands are under
:23:31. > :23:35.threat. It is clear that most of the ash trees will fall killer to
:23:35. > :23:39.this fungal infection. In London, a meeting of the government's
:23:40. > :23:44.emergency COBRA committee has been working on a plan but without much
:23:44. > :23:49.optimism. We do not have a magic potion which we can stick in a
:23:49. > :23:54.helicopter this afternoon and spray. There is no immediate cure. But
:23:54. > :23:59.what we are confident his that there is a small number of these
:23:59. > :24:04.trees which can survive. That could be a long-term answer. If DNA
:24:04. > :24:08.testing can identify the future ash trees are resistant to Chalara
:24:08. > :24:12.fraxinea, they might be used to repopulate the landscape. But it is
:24:12. > :24:17.a long-term hope and suggest that many of our 80 million ash trees
:24:17. > :24:21.will be lost. Some are still hoping for a scientific solution. There
:24:21. > :24:26.are trees which are in excess of 1,000 years old. He is there
:24:26. > :24:30.anything we can do to prevent the damage to them? Today's meeting has
:24:30. > :24:35.stressed the need to monitor the spread of the disease through our
:24:35. > :24:45.woodland. That is the easy bit. On how to stop the spread, there are
:24:45. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:49.no easy answers. They have been called the forgotten
:24:49. > :24:52.army - hundreds of men who fought in the fierce battle of Kohima in
:24:52. > :24:55.India during the Second World War. Now some of the surviving veterans
:24:55. > :25:02.have been invited to Buckingham Palace by Prince Andrew to be tell
:25:02. > :25:06.their stories in recognition of what they did. Robert Hall reports.
:25:06. > :25:13.These are the men whose lives changed on a battle-scarred
:25:13. > :25:16.landscape deep in the Indian jungle. They eat defended a tiny settlement
:25:16. > :25:23.called Kohima. In it is not a fact that this particular campaign has
:25:23. > :25:29.been forgotten, it has never been brought out in its horror, more
:25:29. > :25:36.than anything else, that we don't know about it. Kohima lay in the
:25:36. > :25:41.path of the Japanese advance into India. 15,000 of their troops
:25:41. > :25:45.surrounded 1,500 British and Indian defenders. The most savage fighting
:25:45. > :25:48.took place around a tennis court high on the ridge where the
:25:48. > :25:54.landscape was torn by explosions and littered with the bodies of
:25:54. > :25:59.those who could not be buried. of my troops got a burst of machine
:25:59. > :26:05.gun fire and I tried to get him out. He looked me in the face and said,
:26:05. > :26:11.it is no use Sir, I am finished. So I left him. It has been on my
:26:11. > :26:15.conscience ever since. The battle for Kohima lasted more than a month,
:26:15. > :26:21.10,000 lives were lost. At a time of remembrance, the veterans have
:26:21. > :26:25.thought not for themselves, but for the Naga people who lost lives and
:26:25. > :26:30.livelihoods in a conflict which was not of their making. If that
:26:30. > :26:33.educational trust is going to have a legacy, that I would have
:26:33. > :26:39.expected it to be probably on the grounds that we should remember who
:26:39. > :26:44.we are, where we are, what our places in the world and how
:26:44. > :26:50.important each and every one of us is to making sure that we live
:26:50. > :26:54.sodium prosperous and happy and free world. The survivors of that
:26:54. > :26:59.forgotten army grow fewer but they are still repaying what they regard
:26:59. > :27:02.as a debt of honour. Millions of cricket lovers in
:27:02. > :27:05.Pakistan have been deprived of top- class action for years, because of
:27:05. > :27:09.security concerns. That is why crowds have been flocking to see
:27:09. > :27:12.the British Army's team, who have been on tour there. They have
:27:12. > :27:20.become a sporting sensation, making front-page news across the country.
:27:20. > :27:23.Aleem Maqbool went to their last match, against Pakistan's Army.
:27:23. > :27:30.They have been no international matches in Pakistan since the Sri
:27:30. > :27:33.Lankans got was attacked here in 2009. These cricketers, all serving
:27:33. > :27:38.British Army personnel have had an apparently safe tour, albeit under
:27:39. > :27:46.tight security. I think this is a good initiative by the British Army.
:27:46. > :27:53.They are going to come here and play. The English players should
:27:53. > :27:57.come and play in Pakistan. None of us ever thought it could be so good
:27:57. > :28:02.that here in Pakistan and get the chance to play in Rawalpindi
:28:02. > :28:05.Stadium. You have been on the front pages of the newspapers, you took
:28:05. > :28:13.the wickets of three Test players yesterday, that is something else,
:28:13. > :28:17.isn't it? It is a bit surreal. I was today Yesterday and you have to
:28:17. > :28:20.take a step back to let it all sinking a bit. The amount of
:28:20. > :28:25.coverage this tour got with all the matches being shown on live
:28:25. > :28:28.television if he is an indication of just how hungry Pakistanis are
:28:28. > :28:32.for international sport to return here. The cricket authorities will
:28:32. > :28:40.be hoping that the British Army team have played some part in
:28:40. > :28:45.ensuring that happens. Finally, while we have been on air,
:28:45. > :28:50.it has been announced the Coronation Street star Bill Tami
:28:50. > :29:00.died this morning. He lost the -- he left the long-running show two
:29:00. > :29:01.
:29:01. > :29:07.years ago. Now a look at the The weekend is approaching. Sunday
:29:07. > :29:12.will be the drier day of the two but it will be chilly. We have
:29:12. > :29:17.today's rain to clear first of all. This huge sweep of cloud has given
:29:17. > :29:21.a lot of wet weather in the north. It is sweeping into England and
:29:21. > :29:29.Wales. It will persist through the afternoon. This is the rainfall
:29:29. > :29:38.chart. Those showers, blown along by blustery winds and there could
:29:38. > :29:42.be hell, rumbles of thunder and wintry nurse across Scotland. The
:29:42. > :29:47.rain band will come and go, probably intensifying into the
:29:47. > :29:52.evening. To the south and east, it is a largely dry picture but even
:29:52. > :29:56.here the sunshine is fairly limited. Temperatures are around average for
:29:56. > :30:01.the time of year. As we head through this evening and overnight,
:30:01. > :30:08.the strong wind will blow the rain further south and east what with
:30:08. > :30:13.some rain to brush into the Far East as well. Further north,
:30:13. > :30:18.following the rain with the showers continuing and a touch of frost, we
:30:18. > :30:23.could have some icy patches. Some patchy frost further south and some
:30:23. > :30:31.mist and fog. It will be very grey and murky underneath the rain
:30:31. > :30:35.banned. Really reluctant to clear. Dragging its heels. Brighter for
:30:35. > :30:40.northern England and Wales but a real rush of showers. Feeling
:30:40. > :30:45.cooler than has done recently. Not brilliant weather for our first
:30:45. > :30:53.autumn internationals but not too bad. Perhaps a shower at the
:30:53. > :30:57.Millennium Stadium. You can catch that coverage across the BBC.
:30:57. > :31:03.Overnight, where we have the complication of the showers with a
:31:03. > :31:07.greater frost risk tomorrow night, maybe more ice on the morning of
:31:07. > :31:13.Remembrance Sunday. It is still looking light the brighter, drier
:31:13. > :31:17.day to the weekend. We will not be without showers. In the north and
:31:17. > :31:21.west of Scotland, some showers around here. More bright, dry
:31:21. > :31:30.weather after the fog clears the way. It is business as usual with