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Crunch day for millions on benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
to cap payments. It would mean working age benefits and tax | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
credits would rise by 1% a year rather than the rate of inflation. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
If they stop it already is it any more, one of us will have to go on | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
the dull and that is it. That is reality. Fires rage in South | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Eastern Australia. They are the worst conditions ever seen there. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
A British soldier is killed and six others are injured after a man in | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
an Afghan army uniform opens fire in Helmand. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Northern Ireland is being held by ransom by protesters in the Union | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
flag dispute says the secretary of state. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
And is this what we will all be wearing one day? I say to my | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
glasses, which way to my hotel? Later on BBC London, a retrial has | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
begun of a man accused of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan who was shot | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
dead by police. And a promise for 20% more seats on rail routes into | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Welcome to the BBC News at One. Millions of people on benefits will | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
find out today if increases to their payments will be capped to 1% | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
over the next few years. MPs will vote on the plans later which will | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
amount to real-terms cuts for working aid claimants. Labour says | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
it would hit working families hard, but the Government says it is | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
unfair for payments to go up by a higher percentage than wages. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
This is the argument at the very heart of the benefits question, how | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
to share the pain of austerity between those in work and those on | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
benefits. The Government says it has no choice but to cut the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
welfare bill in order to deal with the deficit. What we have seen his | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
many people in work paying tax for all the welfare benefits. The | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
reality is their money and their pay has not risen by anything like | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
what welfare has done, in fact less than half. We have to save the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
money and the fairest way to do this is to save for that money from | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
welfare payments. The Government aims to save around �4 billion by | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
capping and not increasing as benefits by 1%. With inflation over | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
2%, that is effectively cutting the value of benefits such as | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
jobseeker's allowance. It is also being planned to affect tax credits. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
This couple both work part-time and receive child tax credits. She says | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
the benefits cat will make their situation harder. It means one of | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
us will have to stop working and go on benefits which is what the | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Tories do not want people to do, particularly women. Labour says it | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
is precisely because they want to protect families like this that | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
they are opposing the bill. We are going to be voting against a tax on | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
strivers, a tax that will hit people who are working hard, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
getting up early, staying up late and you are going to see their help | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
reduced as a result of this Bill. In the House of Commons Nick Clegg | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
challenged Labour's deputy leader over where she would make the cuts. | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
Would she take it on the NHS? I know her health spokesperson things | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
increasing spending under the NHS is not good. But not all Liberal | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
Democrats agree with him. A handful of others may abstain from the vote. | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
The majority of MPs will back the bill, so the Government is expected | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
to succeed in limiting the rise in benefits, but the arguments over | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
spending cuts and who should bear the brunt of them is expected to | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
continue right up until the next general election. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
Let's get more from our political correspondent Norman Smith who is | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
in Westminster. There is a lot at stake for people on benefits and | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
for the politicians. This is all about appealing to so-called | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
strivers and I am reminded of the film Spartacus where once Labour | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
gets up and says, I am Spartacus and another says, no, I am | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
Spartacus. We have got pretty much the same going on here at | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Westminster where they are saying they are on the side of the | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
striders. Both the coalition and Labour want to use the vote to | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
demonstrate how they represent the interests of the low and middle | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
income earners. The coalition say by imposing a benefit cap they are | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
standing up for the interests of strivers to have seen benefits | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
going up faster than paid. Labour say by opposing that cap they are | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
the ones standing up for striders because they are resisting cuts To | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Working tax credits which many of them received. This matters | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
politically because both sides are trying to push the other into an | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
awkward corner. The Government are trying to say Labour by opposing | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
the benefit cap, that shows they are on the side of claimants. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Labour are saying the Government by hitting tax credits, that shows | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
they are out of touch with the concerns of ordinary families. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
Politically this is hugely significant because it is about | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
identity, though you stand for and how you are perceived by the | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
electorate. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders is here. This | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
serves to remind us how much money is at stake. It was always | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
inevitable when you look at what the Government was trying to do, to | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
bring down the deficit, that we would have rowers of this kind. You | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
cannot squeeze public spending without squeezing welfare. He | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
cannot squeeze welfare without affecting a lot of people. Nearly | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
10 million households will be affected by this change, more than | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
half of working age households. Some of them will not lose very | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
much, but rightly or wrongly they feel they have paid a lot into the | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
system and they deserve to get it back. There is an element of | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
uncertainty because a lot depends on the economy. If inflation | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
behaves as forecasters expect it to do, and it is not very high, the | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
real level of benefits will be cut by about 4% over the next few years. | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
That is roughly what has happened to average earnings, but if | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
inflation picks up, this policy would leave some of the poorest | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
households quite exposed to that shock. You can find out how the | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
benefit changes may affect you by going to the BBC News website. | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
Firefighters in the Australian state of New South Wales are | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
battling some of the worst fires they have ever faced. More than 130 | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
are burning and the risk is at its highest level because of the | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
combination of higher winds, extremely dry vegetation and | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
temperatures above 40 Celsius. Bath in scale, frightening in | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
intensity, the New South Wales bush fires are being fanned by ferocious | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
winds and some of the highest temperatures the state has ever | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
witnessed. Four large regions are at the highest state of alert, a | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
catastrophic. The bushfires are uncontrollable and fast moving and | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
residents are being urged to escape their path. At ground level we saw | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
for ourselves how terrifying and unpredictable they can be. They | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
look like the mouth of hell. This is one of the main roads, the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
Princes Highway, to dangers for all but the emergency services to | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
travel. Dust off his our country homes and property is most at risk. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Close to the front you get a sense of the conditions the firefighters | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
are dealing with. These swirling, vicious winds, the soaring | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
temperatures, 45 degrees. There has been a sudden change in the wind | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
and that is what makes these fires so unpredictable. In this small | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
town, Barbara Bennett had decided to stay and protect her home, a | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
garden hose is her main defence. am only going if necessary. So, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
let's hope it does not come to that. With roads at Shap and communities | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
isolated, many locals faced a different kind of agony, Standard | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
from family members. Two of them cannot get out and I cannot get | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
into them. I told them to pick up every available bucket and Bath. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
is not just New South Wales, Victoria, the state which suffered | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
the Black Saturday Disaster in 2009, is being hit again. Australia has | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
rarely witnessed a heat wave quite like this. Nor fires that have | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
devastated such a large area of the country. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Tributes have been paid to a British soldier from 28 Engineer | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
Regiment who has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by a man | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
wearing Afghan army uniform. Six British soldiers were injured in | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
the attack. The dead soldier's family has been informed. More than | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
60 foreign troops were killed by their Afghan colleagues last year. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
The latest attack happened in Patrol Base Hazrat. Later today, | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Hamid Karzai is due in Washington to discuss American withdrawal from | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
his country and a strategy for tackling the Taliban. Quentin | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Somerville is in Kabul now. This attack happened late last | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
night in a very small patrol base near Nahr-e Saraj in Helmand. It | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
seemed the gunman got into an argument with his Afghan colleagues | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
and firstly fired on them before turning his weapons on the British | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
engineers who were working at the base, tried to prepare it for | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
handover to Afghan security forces. One British soldier was killed and | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
six were injured. We do not know if the dead British soldier was armed | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
at the time he was attacked. This is one of the growing tensions we | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
have seen in Afghanistan's relationships with its foreign | :11:05. | :11:12. | |
allies. There has been a huge rise in these attacks and it will be one | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
of the issues President Karzai will discuss when he meets President | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
Obama later today. They are cleaning up and clearing | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
out. US Marines and their armoured vehicles are leaving Afghanistan | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
behind and heading back to the States. 30,000 foreign troops left | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
the country last year. This compound holes only a tiny fraction | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
of what is to be returned. But it is all going to be sent back home. | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
We are not leaving anything behind. We have a history of bringing | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
everything out with us and unless it is totally broken and cannot be | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
used again, it will be coming back with us. Far from Afghanistan, the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
President's will discuss who will replace these soldiers and the kind | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
of support they give Afghan troops. Hamid Karzai wants US soldiers out | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
of his country's towns and villages and Afghans have taken over | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
security from a nearly 90% of the population, but some places are | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
still far from ready. This was the last time they sat down together in | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
May. On their agenda this week will be progress on talks with the | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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Taliban and in advance the insurgents sent a warning. If they | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
leave a single soldier, they will be responsible for all future | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
casualties. Some hope the meeting will mean troops will pack up and | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
head home sooner. That might help the peace process. If the | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
international troops withdraw from the country, the jihad or holy war | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
against international invaders will be, if not totally, but more than | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
90% stopped. This meeting will influence the number of American | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
soldiers President Obama is prepared to send here and the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
number that President Karzai is willing to tolerate, but it could | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
also changed the nature of the war. Will this change into a war of | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
counter-terrorism where the main enemy is Al-Qaeda? The interests of | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Afghanistan and America will not easily be disentangled. Across the | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
country US bases are disappearing and troops are leaving. This week's | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
meeting of the leaders will in part help determine the direction it | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
will take and the speed at which they will go. | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
President Karzai arrives in Washington later today. He will not | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
see President Obama until Friday. But if we return to the insider | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
attacks, it is worth pointing out that of the six British soldiers | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
who have been killed in this current six-month tour of duty | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
every single one of them has died at the hands of the Afghan security | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
forces. Forensic experts searching for the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
body of a schoolgirl who went missing more than 50 years ago have | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
opened a grave in North Lanarkshire. Moira Anderson was 11 when she was | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
last seen getting on a bus in Coatbridge in 1957. The bus driver, | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
a convicted rapist, who has since died, has been linked to her murder. | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
What happened to this little girl? For more than half a century the | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
question has haunted whereat Anderson's family. But now the | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
inquiry into her disappearance is under way again. Forensic | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
scientists are exhuming a great where her body may have been hidden. | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
We cannot lose sight of the real human story behind this. Moira | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Anderson went missing in 1957 and she left behind a family and we | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
have a responsibility not only to her, but to her family to bring the | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
inquiry to a conclusion. More it was last seen at this. Just a | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
couple of miles from the cemetery. A few weeks later, the bus driver, | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Alex Gartshore, was jailed for raping another schoolgirl and | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
before he died his own daughter accused him of murdering Moira and | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
hiding her body. My dad said to me, I was the last person to see her, | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
she got on my bus. He would say his own father had blamed him for all | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
sorts of things including the Moira Anderson thing. But finding the | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
truth after all these years is not easy. These are challenging | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
conditions for the forensic scientists, the ground is | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
waterlogged and the grade is old and the work is difficult. It could | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
be many days before they find out exactly what is contained in his | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
The Northern Ireland secretary's called for an end to demonstrations | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
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over the Union Flag in Belfast are holding nielgd to ransom. Last | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
night, police officers were attacked with sledge hammers and | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
hatchets by loyalists angry at a decision to stop flying the Union | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
Flag every day above city hall. Mark Simpson is in Belfast for us | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
now. One of the most remarkable things | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
about Belfast is this City's ability to quickly recover from a | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
very bad night. I can tell you all the roads are open, all the shops | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
are open, there's peace and calm. I'm tempted to ask riot, what riot? | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
But last night in East Belfast, things were pretty bad. | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
Police officers came under sustained attack. Caught in the | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
middle trying to keep the peace. In a part of East Belfast where | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
largely loyalist district meets a mainly nationalist area. The | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
troubles started as loyalist flag protesters returned from a | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
demonstration in the city centre. A group of nationalists threw stones | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
at them. When the police intervened, they were attacked. | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
As the clear-up began today, the blame game continued. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Police have accused some loyalist paramilitaries of organising | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds | :17:35. | :18:54. | |
trouble. Others blame social media. It is crunch day for millions on | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
benefits as MPs vote on controversial plans to cap payments. | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
Working age benefits would rise by just 1% a year. Coming up: Where | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
Are We Now?? David Barrie's first new material for a decade is | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
released today. Later on BBC London, the family is trying to stop a | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
severely disabled man from being returned to present. And a | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
recommendation for Lewisham's Hospital A&E to close. Thousands of | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
staff and patients are unhappy. High street stores up only a slight | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
boost in sales over Christmas. The British Retail Consortium says | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
total sales were up by just 1.5% last month compared with a year | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
before, but there was a big jump on how much consumers spent online. | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
Christmas, it seems a long time ago now. Today we got a snapshot of how | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
retailers fared in this crucial month. Total sales were up in | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
December, but not by much, 1.5%, a flat end to a flat year. It was | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
neither a bumper Christmas or a complete disaster. We had modest | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
growth in December. We as consumers have remained cautious threat the | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
lot of 2012 and Christmas was no different. What little growth there | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
was over Christmas was not generated by sales on the High | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
Street. It was online with internet spending up by nearly 18% on the | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
year. And this retailer did even better with online growth of more | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
than 40% in its recent trading update. The boss of John Lewis told | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
me their investment into making shopping easier was paying off. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
great result online, but the exciting thing is we had growth in | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
our shops as well. If there was one thing that stood out, it was the | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
making of the online collection service more convenient and working | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
with Waitrose. Online goods on the move. It is the only part of this | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
industry that is growing right now. But for some retailers sales have | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
simply moved from the High Street to online. Online has opened a | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Pandora's box to their retail economic model. It has added cost, | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
it has not added sales, and it has really left most retailers in the | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
industry with far too many stores. The sales may have got off to a | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
flying start, but with consumers still strapped for cash, 2013 looks | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
set to be just as challenging for Britain's retailers. | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Network Rail has given details of how it plans to spend more than �37 | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
billion on running and improving services over the next five years. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
They include 1000 miles of electrified lines with faster and | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
greener trains. But savings will need to be made and fares will keep | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
on rising. It has been hailed as part of the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
biggest investment in our trains since the Victorian era. Billions | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
of pounds to guarantee a better, more reliable service. Network Rail | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
is setting out how it will deliver dozens of projects ours or by the | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Government. The plan includes a promise to add 170,000 more peak- | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
time commuter seeds and a plan to spend �600 million protecting | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
against flooding and to add 1000 miles of electrified line. The | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
company boss says it is making up for decades of neglect. We have not | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
invested to meet up with demand and playing catch-up is always more | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
expensive. But there are warnings as well. These ambitious plans are | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
only affordable if Network Rail manages to save more than �3 | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
billion over five years. They also say fares will keep going up above | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
inflation to help pay for it all. Passengers want to see the | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
investment is handled very carefully. The quality of | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
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information has got to be good so Five more years of inflation- | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
busting fare rises. Nobody will welcome that. It will be a long | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
time before commuters see a difference. Many of the big | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
projects will take years to complete. | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
From driverless cars to checking the Internet through a pair of | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
glasses, this year's newest and cleverest gadgets are on display at | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
one of the largest technology shows in the world in Las Vegas. So what | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
does the future look like? Our technology correspondent, Rory | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
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Cellan-Jones, is there to take a It's the brashest, most colourful | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
city on earth, the place where America comes to party, but for one | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
week in January, Las Vegas is also the world's technology hotspot. And | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
the Consumer Electronics Show is in town. We get a glimpse of how | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
technology could change the way we work, relax and this year how we | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
drive. From satnav to parking sensors, all | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
sorts of new technology's entered cars recently, but none of it has | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
transformed the basic driving experience. Now though, that could | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
be about to change. Lexus, owned by Toyota, has been | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
testing this vehicle packed with sensors which of feblgtively allow | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
it to drive itself. -- effectively. Google has been testing its own | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
driverless car. Lexus still thinks we'd want to be behind the wheel. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
REPORTER: You won't see a day when I'll let the car do the work? | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
would prefer that you drove and the car made you a better driver. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
At a preview event, plenty more new ideas fighting for attention. Here | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
is what could be the future of television. Ultra HD, amazing | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
pictures at an equally amazing price. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Wearable technology is a big thing here, like these new glasses. | :25:31. | :25:41. | |
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I'm obviously eating too fast. Some of the gadgets will take off. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Others will not. Technology continues to invade every area of | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
our lives. David Bowie is 66 today and to | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
celebrate, he's releasing his first new material in a decade. He hasn't | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
performed since 2006 and has rarely been seen in public since then. But | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
now he's back and his new album will be out in March. Our | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
entertainment correspondent, Liza Mzimba, reports. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
He's always been a musician famous for the unexpected, but this | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
morning's news took David Bowie's fans around the world totally by | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
surprise. # Where are we now... # After years | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
of silence, a new single, his first in a decade, with an album to | :27:00. | :27:09. | |
follow. It's a wonderful, heart felt, poignant song. We know he's | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
had times of ill-health recently and I detect a bit of fragility in | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
the voice, even though it's croony, which is a really endearing thing. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
# There's a starman waiting in the sky... # | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
He's one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
Ashes to ashes... # As well known for his ability to reinvent himself | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
as his string of hits. Now a surprising birthday present | :27:38. | :27:46. | |
for his fans. When he was 64, he kept quiet. Maybe he was doubting | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
being a pensioner, et cetera, but I think in a way,, this is his last | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
shot and he's having fun and dog it for himself with nothing to prove. | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
He hasn't toured in years, but today's announcement has | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
electrified fans who're now hoping that as well as his new album, they | :28:05. | :28:14. | |
tour a legendary performer whom they feared turned his back on | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
music for ever. music for ever. | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
Let's have a look at the weather now. | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
A bit of a temperature oddity over the past few days! It's been a mild | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 78 seconds | :28:37. | :29:27. | |
The winds are starting to pick up across the far north of Scotland | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
and it is quite gusty tonight. There will be some fog patches | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
forming. It will be a misty and damp day in the southern half of | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
England. It will be another mild night in the far south, but | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
elsewhere there as temperatures will drop. Towns and cities will | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
stay above freezing, but in rural areas there will be frost. The rain | :29:57. | :30:03. | |
and strong winds will linger in the northern isles. For many it will | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
brighten up tomorrow and there will be some sunshine. In the sunshine | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
the temperatures are about average for this time of the year. But | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
whether fog lingers we are going to struggle at about one or two | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
Celsius. As temperatures drop again we are going to seize some pockets | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
of frost as we head into Thursday morning. More rain will be heading | :30:26. | :30:33. | |
in by then as well. Remember that cloud I showed you earlier? That is | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
this weather front approaching on Thursday. Rain is coming in and | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
many eastern areas will stay dry until late in the day, but there | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
will be fought with the cloud increasing. There may be summer | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
falls of snow on top of the hills. Temperatures are back closer to | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
average and that is how we go into the weekend. There is more details | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
online and also an update on the Australian heat wave. Our top | :31:01. | :31:07. |