:00:14. > :00:17.Heavy know forces the closure of almost 5,000 schools. The icy
:00:17. > :00:20.weather makes conditions treacherous. It is affecting
:00:20. > :00:23.northern England and eastern Scotland. Much of Britain is
:00:23. > :00:31.blanketed, affecting travel on the roads, rail, and at the airports
:00:31. > :00:37.too. Much of the north has been hit by blizzards, these are the worse
:00:37. > :00:41.conditions since the winter of 2010. The Algerian siege. At least 80
:00:41. > :00:45.people are known to have died in the hostage crisis. A year after
:00:45. > :00:53.the smoking ban, there has been a big fall in the number of children
:00:53. > :00:57.with asthma. And I am live in Washington, on inauguration day,
:00:57. > :01:03.where amid tight security, Barack Obama will set out his priorities
:01:03. > :01:07.and vision for the next four years. Later on BBC London, another day
:01:07. > :01:17.off school as almost 600 are forced to close in London alone. And fire
:01:17. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:36.chiefs vote on proposals to close Good afternoon and welcome.
:01:36. > :01:39.Thousands of schools are closed across England, Wales and Scotland
:01:40. > :01:44.and transport is struggling to cope, as snow continues to cause
:01:44. > :01:47.disruption in many parts of the UK. There are delays on some rail
:01:47. > :01:51.services, between London, Birmingham and the north-west, and
:01:51. > :01:55.Heathrow Airport says more than 180 flights have been cancelled already.
:01:55. > :02:01.The snow is continuing to affect large parts of southern and eastern
:02:01. > :02:05.Scotland, and northern England too. Our correspondent join us from
:02:05. > :02:10.Carterway Heads in Northumberland. If you were down on the coast here
:02:10. > :02:15.in North East England, there is probably on a few sent metres of
:02:15. > :02:19.wet slushy know, you get up on -- snow. You getten up on the hills
:02:19. > :02:23.there has been snow since the early hour, it is roads like the one
:02:23. > :02:27.behind me tA6 going up over between Darlington and Hexham, where the
:02:27. > :02:32.ploughs are working very hard to keep the routes open. The wind are
:02:32. > :02:37.strong, it is causing that snow to drift. As ever, people are
:02:37. > :02:42.struggling to cope in these conditions. Once again, winter has
:02:42. > :02:44.swept across a large part of eastern Britain. With heavy show
:02:44. > :02:50.and strong winds blizzard conditions are widespread, with
:02:50. > :02:56.people in North East England saying this is as bad as the winter of
:02:56. > :03:01.2010. Many tried to get to work, but not even was successful. I'm on
:03:01. > :03:07.my way to work, I have spun up and waiting to be rescued from my boss.
:03:07. > :03:11.At least you tried to get to wok. am trying, yes. I am an hour and
:03:11. > :03:15.ten minutes late, but, I'm on my way. If you wanted to go anywhere
:03:15. > :03:21.in the hills of Durham or Northumberland today, you either
:03:21. > :03:25.walked or dug the car out first. This is not good for many
:03:26. > :03:30.businesses. If it doesn't clear, we are stuck. We can't get the van off
:03:30. > :03:35.the drive. In Consett, it was all hands on deck at the ambulance
:03:35. > :03:40.station. If call outs were going to be answered emergency vehicles had
:03:40. > :03:47.to be able to get moving. In parts of northern England nearly all the
:03:47. > :03:50.schools are closed. Their grounds given over to sledging and artistic
:03:50. > :03:55.endeavours.. It is good fun sledging and good fun being off
:03:55. > :04:01.school. I love the snow. It is just great. I love our weather in the
:04:01. > :04:05.North East. These are tough times for farmer, and livestock too.
:04:05. > :04:08.Sheep and cattle are having to be fed in the fields as they tough it
:04:08. > :04:12.out in freezing conditions. And this snow will hang round for some
:04:12. > :04:20.time yet. Even when it stops falling, the forecast is for
:04:20. > :04:24.continuing cold weather. There is no sign yet of a thaw. And those
:04:24. > :04:28.snow levels are mounting up. There is a lot of lying snow up on the
:04:28. > :04:33.hills in this part of the country. When we got here yesterday, that
:04:33. > :04:37.has been added to today. It is not surprising that police forces are
:04:37. > :04:42.urging people to be particularly careful if they do have to venture
:04:42. > :04:46.out. There are still high routes closed, wide-open stretchs on the
:04:46. > :04:51.moors where the ploughs are struggling, with the drifting snow
:04:51. > :04:57.to keep the road clear. That hasn't reopened. The problems are expected
:04:57. > :05:00.to last for the next 24-hours this this part of the country. We will
:05:00. > :05:02.turn our attention to travel in a moment, but as we have been hearing
:05:02. > :05:08.thousands of schools have been closed because of the weather. Many
:05:08. > :05:13.of those though, are in areas where no new snow has fallen today.
:05:13. > :05:18.Jeremy Cooke has been in the Midland finding out why so many are
:05:18. > :05:22.shutment A Monday morning, in term time. If you are a kid, the stuff
:05:23. > :05:26.that dreams are made of. Across Britain's white out landscape
:05:26. > :05:31.thousands of schools have shut their doors. The most important
:05:31. > :05:36.thing is we don't want children or teachers getting injured. It would
:05:36. > :05:40.be a double tragedy if be were to get sued, but it is bad enough if a
:05:40. > :05:44.child breaks their arm or a teacher breaks their leg or something, it
:05:44. > :05:48.is just unacceptable to put them to that risk. In some places the only
:05:48. > :05:53.chance for snowballs is at break time. This Birmingham academy is
:05:53. > :05:57.open, while other schools on the same site are closed. They have
:05:57. > :05:59.played in the snow all weekend. It's a school day. We are back at
:05:59. > :06:04.work. The roads are open. The transport is running, I want
:06:04. > :06:08.children here learning. Clearly keeping things open in this kind of
:06:08. > :06:13.weather takes a lot of hard work. For many parents, there is the
:06:13. > :06:23.question why are some schools open, while others are closed? The
:06:23. > :06:30.
:06:30. > :06:34.With much of the country under a blanket of snow, it is likely that
:06:34. > :06:40.some schools will remain closed for days to come. Fun, of course, to
:06:40. > :06:45.the kids, not so easy for mums and dads trying to balance work
:06:45. > :06:49.commitments with childcare. We were hearing about disruption on the
:06:50. > :06:55.roads. It has been another day of disruption to air travel. Flights
:06:55. > :06:59.at East Midland, Manchester and Leeds Bradford Airport have been
:06:59. > :07:02.suspended. There are delays at Heathrow because of poor visibility.
:07:02. > :07:07.Let us get the latest from there. What is the picture there Richard?
:07:07. > :07:11.Dare I say it, but the sun has come out and we are not vbl visibility
:07:11. > :07:17.issues at the moment, but they expect some later in the day. That
:07:17. > :07:20.is why, already we have had 180 cancellation of flights here, there
:07:20. > :07:27.were meant to be 130 but there is a knock-on effect. We are not the
:07:27. > :07:31.only ones suffering, in Paris and Frankfurt, Switzerland,? Schiphol,
:07:31. > :07:34.they are having problems with the snow, that is having a knock-on
:07:35. > :07:38.effect across Europe. I tell you what sums up what has been
:07:38. > :07:41.happening at Heathrow. It is going on in that building over there in
:07:41. > :07:46.the distance, Terminal 5. The BBC has been talking to a passenger
:07:46. > :07:51.called Ian, he is trying to get to Las Vegas for a business meeting.
:07:51. > :07:56.He has been trying to get there since Friday. He stayed a night in
:07:56. > :08:03.a hotel, at home, he spent 13 hour s on a plane not going anywhere and
:08:03. > :08:09.he hasn't seen his bags. This is his story. I arrived at the airport
:08:09. > :08:16.Friday, checked in, dropped off my luggage, boarded the plane, at
:08:16. > :08:22.about 3.15. The plane didn't move. We got off at about 9.00 at night.
:08:22. > :08:26.So about six to six-and-a-half hours when we got off. We had no
:08:26. > :08:33.luggage, they wouldn't return it and no accommodation. So Sunday,
:08:33. > :08:37.back to the flight. I got onboard, same time. 3.15 we boarded. Much
:08:37. > :08:43.less communication this time. We sat there and sat there at one
:08:43. > :08:49.point the captain apologised for the PA not working, we were de-
:08:49. > :08:53.iceed after four hour, it got very hot. Some unhappy passenger, and
:08:53. > :08:58.then, about five hours in, after the deviceing we thought we were
:08:58. > :09:06.going to go and they announced that the flight had been rescheduled for
:09:06. > :09:11.Monday. And here we are. Monday. Monday is my rescheduled flight, 11
:09:11. > :09:16.o'clock in the morning which has been shifted to 2.30 in the
:09:16. > :09:20.afternoon, and guess what, I don't have my luggage. As you heard there,
:09:20. > :09:24.he is still there he hopes to take off in an hour and 20 minutes. We
:09:25. > :09:27.will let you know how he gets on on the news channel. If you are
:09:27. > :09:31.travelling today, you contact your airline, you contact the train
:09:31. > :09:35.company, you go on the Twitter feeds, you go BBC local radio,
:09:35. > :09:41.because this is a quickly changing situation. It is hard to get
:09:41. > :09:45.information, so go directly to the companys on line. Thank you Richard.
:09:45. > :09:49.Well, parts of Scotland are badly hit by the weather. One of the
:09:49. > :09:55.major roads between Scotland and England the A6 has been closed. Let
:09:55. > :09:59.us get the latest from James Cook who joins us from Forfar. It
:09:59. > :10:03.stopped snowing, but is there much disruption James? There hasn't been
:10:03. > :10:07.a huge amount of disruption, but it is bitter, it is cold, and the snow
:10:07. > :10:12.is coming through in blizzards. You can see the picture here on the
:10:12. > :10:16.hills. This really is typical of the scene up and down the east of
:10:16. > :10:22.Scotland this morning. And into lunchtime. If I take you over here,
:10:22. > :10:26.I can show you it is not having too dramatic effect on the major routes
:10:26. > :10:31.in Scotland. This is the A90 which runs from Aberdeen to Edinburgh.
:10:32. > :10:39.Traffic moving along that freely at the moment. As you say, the A68 is
:10:39. > :10:44.closed, just south of the Scottish -English border. That is the only
:10:44. > :10:50.major route that has been shut in Scotland. Some schools are closed.
:10:50. > :10:54.Not a huge number. About 30 or so. Most are in the Borders but some up
:10:54. > :11:02.and down the east coast. The worry is this snow might continue,
:11:02. > :11:04.although at the moment it is not as bad as some feared. Thank you. Just
:11:04. > :11:07.a reminder, the BBC News channel will have all the latest
:11:07. > :11:14.information on the weather and travel throughout the day. There
:11:14. > :11:18.are more details on the website. Here is the address. Click on the
:11:18. > :11:22.live link and the BBC weather website will have comprehensive
:11:22. > :11:27.forecast for where you live. You can tune into your local radio
:11:27. > :11:30.station for the latest new, weather and travel in your area too. Other
:11:30. > :11:38.news now. Algerian forces have found at least 20 more bodies at
:11:38. > :11:40.the gas plant where they ended a four day siege by Islamist
:11:40. > :11:44.militantsers the bodies were recovered last night and haven't
:11:44. > :11:52.been officially identified but it is being reported they were all
:11:52. > :11:58.hostages. The arsenal of weaponry which the Algerian authority say
:11:58. > :12:03.the kidnappers had with hem. As estimated of the numbers who died
:12:03. > :12:09.continue to mount Britain and other countries are trying to piece
:12:09. > :12:12.together what happened. For the family of Kenny, there is grim
:12:12. > :12:20.confirmation of what they first learned on the internet. He was one
:12:20. > :12:28.of the casualties. The police came last night, and informed us that
:12:28. > :12:32.what was on Facebook was true, that Kenny had been, he was executed.
:12:32. > :12:37.For others, dramatically beter news. Alan Wright is Health and Safetyly
:12:37. > :12:42.home with his family and a story of 24 terrifying hours in hiding
:12:42. > :12:49.before local workers cut an escape route through a fence. I initially
:12:49. > :12:54.said no. I sat tight, thinking I am going to stay and not be uncovered,
:12:54. > :12:59.but as I said, the first, as soon as they cut the first wire, it
:12:59. > :13:05.changed my mind completely, and I thought, well, we are going, there
:13:05. > :13:08.is no option, we are going to go and make a run for it. Senior
:13:08. > :13:12.ministers gathered for another meeting of the COBRA emergencies
:13:12. > :13:16.committee, chaired by the Prime Minister, to to receive the latest
:13:16. > :13:21.update as they continue to assess the fall out from a crisis that Mr
:13:21. > :13:25.Cameron has described as part of a global challenge. The sudden new
:13:25. > :13:29.security focus on northern Africa is because the attack in Algeria
:13:29. > :13:34.has highlighted the challenge of taking on extremists who can
:13:34. > :13:38.exploit the vast remote difficult to defend spaces in the region. The
:13:38. > :13:43.French intervention in Mali, enough of which has fall on the extremists
:13:43. > :13:47.has underlined the fear that militant safe havens here and local
:13:47. > :13:49.terror threats in other countries could pose a threat to the west and
:13:50. > :13:53.its interests. For Britain its allies and the Governments of the
:13:53. > :14:01.region, the issue is how to work together to prevent a repetition of
:14:01. > :14:04.this deadly hostage stand off. The Prime Minister is to make a commons
:14:04. > :14:08.statement about the Algerian hostage crisis this afternoon. Let
:14:08. > :14:13.us get the latest from Westminster. Norman, David Cameron spoke of the
:14:13. > :14:17.difficulties in trying to tacking terrorism in north Africa, what is
:14:17. > :14:20.his message likely to be today? There is no disguising the
:14:20. > :14:27.seriousness with which the Prime Minister views the terrorist threat
:14:27. > :14:32.from north Africa. He warned how they posed an xis ten shall threat
:14:32. > :14:37.to the west and would require ion resolve from western capitals. Said,
:14:37. > :14:42.there is a determination in Downing Street, not to have an Afghanistan
:14:42. > :14:48.mark two, which is why Number Ten was stressing again and again there
:14:48. > :14:52.will be no combat role for British forces, instead we will provide
:14:52. > :14:56.diplomatic support for Government, we will provide humanitarian aid,
:14:56. > :15:00.intelligence, logistical support. We will fund, train African forces
:15:00. > :15:04.but we will not provide boots on the groan. Why? Because burned on
:15:04. > :15:09.the very soul of ministers is the Iraq, Afghanistan experience and a
:15:09. > :15:13.view we cannot impose solutions and there is to be peace, it will have
:15:13. > :15:17.to be provided by African troops and politicians. The danger of
:15:17. > :15:20.course is of mission creep, which is Prime Minister is bound to be
:15:20. > :15:24.pressed about when 4 answered questions this afternoon N the
:15:24. > :15:30.meantime he has to turn his attention to his big Europe speech,
:15:30. > :15:33.which was delayed on Friday because of the Algeria hostage crisis, we
:15:33. > :15:36.learn that will be this Wednesday morning, in Central London, ahead
:15:36. > :15:41.of Prime Minister's Questions, when the Prime Minister will set out
:15:41. > :15:51.exactly what sort of referendum he might offer us after the next lebg
:15:51. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :15:57.Snow has forced the closure of almost 5,000 schools. Much of
:15:57. > :16:01.Britain is blanketed, affecting travel on roads, rail and the
:16:01. > :16:05.airports too. Coming up: We are in a nether world.
:16:05. > :16:12.We are demons. Why the world of gaming is not just
:16:12. > :16:22.for the young. Later in the hour: I have the sport
:16:22. > :16:28.on the BBC News Channel. Including a look ahead to a new match against
:16:28. > :16:32.pot teenow. -- Juan Martin Del Potro.
:16:32. > :16:37.President Obama is to give his inaugural address today, to mark
:16:37. > :16:43.the start of a second term in the White House. He was sworn in at a
:16:43. > :16:48.private ceremony yesterday as the US constitution akier that the US
:16:48. > :16:51.President take oath of office on the 20th of January. More than half
:16:51. > :16:58.a million people are expected to be there for the swearing in. There
:16:58. > :17:00.will be a parade and a special evening of events. Including
:17:00. > :17:05.Beyonce singing the American National Anthem.
:17:05. > :17:10.Jon Sopel joins us there now. Thank you. Well, Barack Obama's
:17:10. > :17:13.position in history is guaranteed. That was assured four years ago
:17:13. > :17:18.when he became the first African American President, but he is
:17:18. > :17:22.legacy will be shaped by what he does over the next four years, at
:17:22. > :17:29.home and abroad. The great inaugural addresses, they tend to
:17:29. > :17:34.become a part of American history. So what can we expect from a
:17:34. > :17:38.serbgd-term Obama? -- second-term Obama? An early start for those
:17:38. > :17:41.planning to witness the key day in the life of a nation, when partisan
:17:41. > :17:46.politics are put aside and Americans come together to
:17:46. > :17:49.celebrate their democracy. 800,000 are expected to gather on the
:17:49. > :17:52.National Mall in the front of the Capitol.
:17:52. > :17:55.The souvenir stalls are hoping for a brisk trade.
:17:55. > :18:01.The excitement is fantastic, though. The atmosphere is fantastic. We are
:18:02. > :18:04.just having a ball. I think it is great to see the next President to
:18:04. > :18:08.be re-elected for the next four years. Some say that the
:18:08. > :18:11.celebration will not be as large, but I think we should still
:18:11. > :18:15.celebrate. Last time, almost 2 million turned
:18:15. > :18:19.out to see the nation's first black President sworn into office. This
:18:19. > :18:24.time there is not the same level of excitement but there is still a
:18:24. > :18:32.strong sense of history. Not least as this inauguration falls on
:18:32. > :18:36.Martin Luther King Day. But this inauguration sees idealism
:18:36. > :18:41.replaced by determination. President Obama, now 51, and vis
:18:41. > :18:46.ability more grey, had a tough first time, battling a hostile
:18:46. > :18:49.republican Congress and shoring up a struggling economy. Second terms
:18:49. > :18:54.about securing legacies. President Obama has laid out his priorities.
:18:54. > :19:02.They include continuing to heal the economy, reforming immigration, and
:19:02. > :19:05.tightening gun control. I,... He has already set a
:19:05. > :19:10.different tone. More challenging, the republicans than courting them
:19:10. > :19:14.and shown a robust approach to fiscal negotiations on the deficit.
:19:14. > :19:20.More battles lie ahead there, and there are foreign policy challenges
:19:20. > :19:24.in the Middle East and beyond that could de-rail his domestic agenda.
:19:24. > :19:32.Today, though, is about pageantry and parties. Politics begins again
:19:32. > :19:37.tomorrow. Well with me here overlooking the
:19:37. > :19:40.capital is the historian, Kenneth Mack. What should we expect from
:19:40. > :19:45.the speech, this, the second address by President Obama? Well, I
:19:45. > :19:50.think that we should expect the normal themes of a President
:19:50. > :19:57.inaugural address. The greatness of America. The founding traditions of
:19:57. > :20:05.liberty and equality, and to attempt to update the traditions.
:20:05. > :20:12.Also an attempt to rebut rhetoric mobilised by opponents, call --
:20:12. > :20:16.calling him a socialist for trying to introduce a national healthcare.
:20:16. > :20:21.I think that there will be an update for his own vision for
:20:21. > :20:24.America. When we say you expect it, you are
:20:24. > :20:28.well informed, you and Barack Obama are friends. You were at college
:20:28. > :20:34.together. You know him well. Do you have an inside track of what he may
:20:34. > :20:41.be saying? Eknow from people around him what expect, but I think what
:20:41. > :20:44.we should expect is a bold agenda but really updating the nation's
:20:45. > :20:48.founding principles of liberty. Four years ago, everything was hope.
:20:48. > :20:52.Since then, there has been the banking crisis, the terrible
:20:52. > :20:57.inheritance he had because of that. Do you think it will be more
:20:57. > :21:03.pessimistic, the tone? No. No. I think, the first inaugural
:21:03. > :21:10.addresses are always optimistic, no matter what the times. Even if the
:21:10. > :21:18.time are hard, even Abraham Lincoln, FDR, they try to show a hopeful
:21:18. > :21:25.address for the future. I said you were friends of
:21:25. > :21:29.President Obama, is it slightly odd being a friend of the President?
:21:29. > :21:35.little odd. He is the President of The United States but he is also
:21:35. > :21:40.Barak. It is a weird thing, both familiar and unfamiliar. My kids
:21:40. > :21:44.came to the White House a coup of years ago. They were shy it was
:21:44. > :21:50.daddy's friend but he is also the President of The United States. The
:21:50. > :21:55.oddest thing. Thank you very much.
:21:55. > :21:59.Back to you in the studio. The BBC News Channel is broadcasting the
:21:59. > :22:03.President's inaugural speech live this afternoon. A special programme
:22:03. > :22:08.with Jon Sopel live this afternoon at 4.00pm. The first alleged victim
:22:08. > :22:12.of a group of men charged with grooplg girls for sex in Oxford has
:22:13. > :22:16.begun to give evidence. Nine men face more than 50 charges,
:22:16. > :22:23.including rape and child trafficking, which they deny. Our
:22:23. > :22:28.correspondent is at the Old Bailey. Now, what happened in court, Mik,
:22:28. > :22:33.e? Well, before a packed court, the first prosecution witness gave her
:22:33. > :22:36.evidence. She was 14 at the time of the alleged incidents. She
:22:36. > :22:46.describes running away from a children's home.
:22:46. > :22:46.
:22:46. > :22:51.She said that the men were K dog, identified at Kamar Jamil. Another
:22:51. > :22:56.man was Anjum Dogar, together with his brother, Akhtar Dogar. She
:22:56. > :23:02.described how she and friends would dress up in skirts and pretend they
:23:02. > :23:08.were going clubbing. She said that the men were nice at first but then
:23:08. > :23:12.became thing. The man she called Jammy, threatened her with a gun.
:23:12. > :23:17.She described an occasion when taken in a car to a field in the
:23:17. > :23:21.dark. The man known as K-Dog, told her to go in the field. She was
:23:21. > :23:28.asked if she had a problem going with him.
:23:28. > :23:35.The judge, Noel Lucas, said could you stop him? She said no. She did
:23:35. > :23:40.not have a choice. The number of children admitted to
:23:40. > :23:46.hospital with asthma has fallen sharply, fabling the -- following
:23:46. > :23:50.the introduction of a ban on smoking in public. The study shows
:23:50. > :23:54.that the figures were down 12% in the first year after the law was
:23:54. > :23:59.changed and they have continued to fall.
:23:59. > :24:03.Before the smoke-free law came into force, critics warned instead of
:24:03. > :24:08.lighting up in public places, smokers would have more cigarettes
:24:08. > :24:12.at home, harming the health of families. Second-hand smoke can
:24:12. > :24:18.trigger asthma attacks. This research adds to earlier evidence
:24:18. > :24:23.that the fears were ill-founded. Before the law change, hospital
:24:23. > :24:28.admission fos children with severe asthma were rising by two percent a
:24:28. > :24:33.year. The study found that the admissions fell by 12%. After three
:24:33. > :24:38.years, the impact was equivalent to nearly 7,000 hospital admissions.
:24:38. > :24:42.The authors say it has been an unexpected but welcome change in
:24:42. > :24:47.behaviour. We think that as people are
:24:47. > :24:51.adopting smoke-free homes, when the laws are introduced, it is because
:24:51. > :24:53.of the benefit that they see in public and want to adopt them in
:24:53. > :24:58.their home. This benefits the children. They
:24:58. > :25:02.are less like will to be introduced to second-hand smoke.
:25:02. > :25:08.There is a call for further action to stop children and young people
:25:08. > :25:12.taking up smoking. Five men accused of raping and
:25:12. > :25:17.measurering a young woman in Delhi have appeared in court. They are
:25:17. > :25:21.being trailled in a special fast- track court set up to deal with
:25:21. > :25:26.rape cases. A sixth suspect is expected to be tried in a youth
:25:26. > :25:30.court. The student was assaulted on a bus in an attack that caused
:25:30. > :25:34.outrage across India. A Taliban assault on Kabul's
:25:34. > :25:39.traffic police headquarters is over. Five attackers were killed. Three
:25:39. > :25:43.policemen died in the assault. It lasted about eight hours. The last
:25:43. > :25:46.two attackers killed after a fierce gun battle. The second major attack
:25:46. > :25:50.against a government building in the Afghan capital in the space of
:25:50. > :25:55.a week. It seems that the image of the
:25:55. > :25:59.teenager on the sofa, glued to the latest computer console game may
:25:59. > :26:03.not be the whole story. More older people are getting into the world
:26:03. > :26:07.of gaming. To the point that companies are coming up with
:26:07. > :26:14.products designed to attract a wider age rage.
:26:15. > :26:21.Why not get out this game? With age comes experience. In this case,
:26:21. > :26:28.video game experience! I played this one with my aunt that is now
:26:28. > :26:32.94. We had a hilarious time. Hilda Knott is set berating her
:26:32. > :26:35.86th birthday next month. She's been playing video games for 40
:26:35. > :26:39.years. What do you enjoy about it now?
:26:39. > :26:44.Finding something new in the day. Getting to the next stage.
:26:44. > :26:49.Do you think that it keeps you active, mentally? Definitely. Yes.
:26:49. > :26:58.A lot of them are puzzles, working out how to do something, when to do
:26:58. > :27:04.Today, she plays on the giant 65- inch screen, mainly to help with
:27:05. > :27:10.her eye-sight, a far cry from this... In the 1970s, Pong was the
:27:10. > :27:16.first mainstream video game. In the 90s, we saw the rise fr Super Mario,
:27:16. > :27:25.a game that transcended age with its design and format and in the
:27:25. > :27:30.naughties, Wii Sport, helping with fiscal agility.
:27:30. > :27:35.-- physical. Blitz Studios in Leamington, one of
:27:35. > :27:40.the world's largest independent games video developers. They are
:27:40. > :27:44.designing new games for tablets and smartphones s with mass market
:27:44. > :27:49.appeal. The market is huge. There is no
:27:49. > :27:55.reason why middle-aged women and older people may not want to play
:27:55. > :28:02.the video games. Hilda, who plays puzzles on her
:28:02. > :28:09.iPad now enjoys games that are less fast-paced but don't be fooled,
:28:09. > :28:14.after serious playing time, she has still got game! There you are, I'm
:28:14. > :28:19.drowning, that's it. Poor old Hilda! Sport and Andy
:28:19. > :28:22.Murray has cruised into the quarter-finals of the Australian
:28:22. > :28:27.Open. Andy Murray is yet to drop a set in
:28:27. > :28:31.four matches. He won 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 over an hour-
:28:31. > :28:37.and-a-half against Gilles Simon. He plays Jeremy Chardy on Wednesday.
:28:37. > :28:40.Now a look at the weather. Well, it is cold and will be cold
:28:40. > :28:45.for the rest of the week. There is a risk of disruption through the
:28:45. > :28:49.afternoon on into the evening across parts of northern England
:28:49. > :28:54.and Scotland. The Met Office has an amber warning in force. So be
:28:54. > :29:00.prepared for disruption. We are looking at fresh snowfall over
:29:00. > :29:02.parts of the north country in the parts of the north country in the
:29:02. > :29:07.evening. It will be a little quieter over
:29:07. > :29:13.the north-east of England later in the day but not before we have seen
:29:13. > :29:23.snow over the Pennines. Heavier snow in Kinross and the
:29:23. > :29:25.
:29:25. > :29:29.Grampians. This evening turning wintry with a
:29:29. > :29:34.risk of disruption. Wintry flurries to the east of Northern Ireland.
:29:34. > :29:38.And to the north a strong wind driving the snow home so, blizzard
:29:38. > :29:41.conditions are possible. In comparison it is quieter across
:29:42. > :29:46.Wales and to the south-west of England, but there is cold air
:29:46. > :29:52.around. There is a lot of lying snow and ice is the biggest hazard
:29:52. > :29:55.this afternoon and into the evening. In the evening, a few breaks in the
:29:55. > :30:00.cloud but the temperatures falling quickly.
:30:00. > :30:04.The snow is out in the east of England and the winds piling into
:30:04. > :30:08.the north-east of Scotland. By the end of the night, we have to cast
:30:08. > :30:13.our eye to the south-west. There is a bit of uncertainty for Tuesday
:30:13. > :30:16.here, at the moment it could be a weather feature is approaching the
:30:16. > :30:22.south-east of England and Wales bringing in fresh snow, the amounts
:30:22. > :30:26.are difficult for us to be exact about. It could cause disruption
:30:26. > :30:30.here if you live in these areas, keep up to date with the forecast.
:30:30. > :30:35.There could be fresh snowfall getting into the southern counties
:30:35. > :30:39.of England on Tuesday as well. Quieter day in the north. A lot of
:30:39. > :30:43.cold lying snow around. A reminder that there could be problems with
:30:43. > :30:48.ice. So the advice remains, travelling
:30:48. > :30:52.anywhere, bear in mind that you may well encounter problems. Keep up to
:30:52. > :30:58.date with the BBC local radio stations and the website.
:30:58. > :31:03.For the rest of the week, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, staying cold but
:31:03. > :31:09.quieter. A lot of frost and ice around, but a mainly drier picture.
:31:10. > :31:16.When will it send in -- end? It could be the weekend.
:31:16. > :31:22.Raise ray now the toip: Heavy snow has forced the closure of almost
:31:22. > :31:28.5,000 schools. Much of Britain's blanketed, affecting travel on the