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