:00:05. > :00:08.More than 5,000 British soldiers are to lose their jobs this summer.
:00:08. > :00:14.The redundancies are part of the latest round of cuts to the armed
:00:14. > :00:16.forces and there are more to come. Shock in Indonesia as a judge
:00:16. > :00:21.sentences a 56-year-old British woman to death for smuggling
:00:21. > :00:25.cocaine into Bali. Hundreds of schools remain closed as more heavy
:00:25. > :00:28.snow brings yet more disruption around much of the UK. Israelis go
:00:28. > :00:33.to the polls with Benjamin Netanyahu favourite to remain as
:00:33. > :00:43.prime minister. And life on the frontline. A look behind the scenes
:00:43. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:47.with Prince Harry. Everybody has a good old look at me, and that is
:00:47. > :00:52.one thing I dislike about being here because there are plenty of
:00:52. > :00:55.guys who have never met me and to look at me as Prince Harry, rather
:00:55. > :00:58.than captain Wales. And coming up in the sport, defending Champion
:00:58. > :01:08.Novak Djokovic is through to the semi finals of the Australian Open,
:01:08. > :01:18.
:01:18. > :01:22.beating Thomas Berdych by two sets Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:22. > :01:26.BBC News at One. 5,300 soldiers will lose their jobs this summer in
:01:26. > :01:29.the latest round of Army redundancies. And the Ministry of
:01:29. > :01:33.Defence has warned that there are more job losses to come. The cuts
:01:33. > :01:37.had already been announced but they are higher than expected. Army
:01:37. > :01:40.numbers are being cut from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020 in a bid to help
:01:40. > :01:48.plug a multi-billion pound hole in the defence budget. Here's our
:01:48. > :01:51.defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale.
:01:51. > :01:57.This was part of the British Army on exercise on Salisbury Plain a
:01:57. > :02:01.few years ago. Today, it has fewer tanks and fewer soldiers. Within a
:02:01. > :02:07.few years' time, it will be even smaller. With confirmation another
:02:07. > :02:13.5,000 troops are to be made redundant in this shrinking force.
:02:13. > :02:18.In 1960, as national service came to an end, the army was 315,000
:02:18. > :02:28.strong. By 1982, the time of the Falklands war, it had 160,000
:02:28. > :02:30.
:02:30. > :02:33.troops. Last year, it was 102,000 and by 2017, it will those
:02:33. > :02:37.currently surveying, or about to serve in Afghanistan will be exempt
:02:37. > :02:40.from this largest round of redundancies. But the security
:02:40. > :02:43.threat is not just confined to Helmand province, but there are
:02:43. > :02:48.growing concerns about Islamic radicals in the rest of the world,
:02:48. > :02:53.most recently in the north of Africa. The restructuring of the
:02:53. > :02:57.army under the Army proposition, it gives you a force designed to deal
:02:57. > :03:00.with these threats and this is a case, big is not always better. It
:03:00. > :03:07.is taking what you have and resource it probably and training
:03:07. > :03:11.for threats. It is the hostage crisis in Algeria and the West's
:03:11. > :03:16.intervention in Mali which has prompted Labour to question the
:03:16. > :03:20.logic behind these latest cuts. For now, the government says it will
:03:20. > :03:23.limit Britain's military involvement in Mali to logistics
:03:23. > :03:28.support, intelligence and training but the question, what will happen
:03:29. > :03:32.if that is not enough? The problem is, once you have deployed those
:03:32. > :03:37.clever things, and they don't quite work, the temptation then is to
:03:37. > :03:42.start think again about putting books on the ground and that is
:03:42. > :03:46.when smaller forces are always at a disadvantage. The ministers say
:03:46. > :03:50.this has been a painful process for the armed forces and it is not over
:03:50. > :03:56.yet. With the army set to go through a 4th round of redundancies,
:03:56. > :03:59.possibly later this year, with another 4,000 soldiers said to lose
:03:59. > :04:05.their jobs. Our political correspondent Norman
:04:05. > :04:07.Smith has more from Westminster. Rather awkward timing, this. Only
:04:07. > :04:09.yesterday the prime minister was warning of the generational
:04:09. > :04:15.struggle with al-Qaeda linked groups in North Africa. Is the
:04:15. > :04:20.government under pressure to rethink these cuts? They are, but,
:04:21. > :04:24.Sophie, cuts to the army or always profoundly politically difficult
:04:24. > :04:28.because of understandable public sympathy for soldiers and some of
:04:28. > :04:31.these soldiers are going to be sacked, made compulsory redundant.
:04:31. > :04:35.As you say, these cuts are particularly difficult because of
:04:35. > :04:38.the juxtaposition between the Prime Minister yesterday warning over
:04:38. > :04:43.this generational struggle against terrorists, who apparently regard
:04:43. > :04:48.mass murder as not only acceptable, but desirable, and the decision
:04:48. > :04:52.today to press ahead with a large tranche of army cuts we have seen
:04:52. > :04:54.in recent history, a decision made even harder by questions about the
:04:54. > :04:59.Government's broader defence strategy and whether they give
:04:59. > :05:01.enough account of the emerging threat of this new terrorist threat
:05:02. > :05:08.with Labour saying that the Strategic Defence Review, which
:05:08. > :05:12.underpins these cuts, makes no mention of Mali or Algeria and a
:05:12. > :05:17.factor in the threat from terrorists in North Africa. My
:05:17. > :05:21.senses the government are very unlikely to back off over these
:05:21. > :05:25.redundancies. Why? Because they say the only support they could provide
:05:25. > :05:29.in North Africa is a logistical, involving transport, training, but
:05:29. > :05:34.it will not involve soldiers on the ground, and be affected by reducing
:05:34. > :05:40.the size of the army. But there is a bigger factor and that is money.
:05:40. > :05:43.The MoD has a black hole in its budget of around �37 billion, and
:05:43. > :05:48.given the huge difficulties the Government is having cutting back
:05:48. > :05:52.the deficit and debt, it is extremely unlikely they will ease
:05:52. > :05:55.back on the pace of redundancies in the army. The Norman, thank you
:05:55. > :05:59.very much. A British woman has been sentenced to death for smuggling
:05:59. > :06:02.drugs into Indonesia. 56-year-old Lindsay Sandiford was arrested last
:06:02. > :06:05.May for trying to traffic nearly five kilos of cocaine into Bali in
:06:05. > :06:08.a suitcase. Her lawyers say they are surprised at the sentence, and
:06:08. > :06:17.will appeal. Karishma Vaswani's report from Bali contains flash
:06:17. > :06:22.photography. Lindsay Sandiford was expecting a
:06:22. > :06:32.guilty verdict today but nothing like this. There was an audible
:06:32. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:38.gasp in the room as the judges The judges handed down the death
:06:38. > :06:44.penalty despite the prosecutor's recommendation that she should get
:06:44. > :06:50.15 years in prison. They added she had damaged reputation of Bali and
:06:50. > :06:53.weaken the Government's anti-drug programme. Any comment? Are you
:06:53. > :07:00.shocked they gave you the death penalty? Visibly shocked and hiding
:07:00. > :07:04.her face behind a Brown at scarf, she refused to speak to us as she
:07:04. > :07:09.left the court room. Her lawyer says she will appeal and the
:07:09. > :07:13.verdict is too harsh. TRANSLATION: I think the judges did
:07:13. > :07:17.not consider her remorse for her actions. In her previous statement,
:07:17. > :07:21.she has already said she regretted what she did and has apologised to
:07:21. > :07:27.the people of Indonesia. Many holidaymakers were surprised by the
:07:27. > :07:31.news but not all were sympathetic. This verdict has shocked people
:07:31. > :07:37.fear in Bali and around the world but it appears that the judges were
:07:37. > :07:40.trying to send out a message. Get caught bringing drugs here and you
:07:40. > :07:46.will face serious consequences. Officials here don't want anything
:07:46. > :07:49.to ruin the image of their peaceful holiday island.
:07:49. > :07:55.There's more travel disruption today across the UK, because of the
:07:55. > :07:58.snow and icy conditions. And hundreds of schools remain closed.
:07:58. > :08:03.More than 500 schools are shut in Wales alone. Our correspondent
:08:03. > :08:08.Hywel Griffith has more from Caerphilly. Sofi, yes, don't be
:08:08. > :08:11.fooled by the picturesque scenery. This fresh blanket of snow which
:08:11. > :08:16.fell overnight has caused a fresh round of problems across South
:08:16. > :08:19.Wales. As you say, hundreds of schools closed, many people still
:08:19. > :08:24.recovering from last week's battering and now the Met Office at
:08:24. > :08:30.issued a fresh am a warning which comes into effect this afternoon.
:08:30. > :08:35.Besieged by snow. This medieval castle has weathered plenty of
:08:35. > :08:39.storms over the years but today's fresh snowfall has brought another
:08:39. > :08:45.day of disruption and difficulty to South Wales. Several mountain roads
:08:45. > :08:50.have been closed, others are gritted and possible but many
:08:50. > :08:53.businesses are already feeling the chilling effect of these weather
:08:54. > :08:56.conditions with no customers venturing to their doors. Yes,
:08:56. > :09:01.let's hope it does not go on for much longer because it's costing
:09:01. > :09:06.people money, wages, it is costing everybody, really, it's not good
:09:06. > :09:10.for anyone. Councils are also feeling the strain, rubbish
:09:10. > :09:13.collections are abandoned so staff could work on clearing the snow.
:09:13. > :09:18.These conditions can be pretty bewildering for parents. For
:09:18. > :09:21.example, this school is open today and the children are in their
:09:21. > :09:26.classrooms but just 200 yards away, on the other side of the playground,
:09:26. > :09:32.the neighbouring school has closed. Nearly 500 schools across Wales
:09:33. > :09:38.have been closed. For this teacher, that means a day looking after her
:09:38. > :09:41.own children. She understands some parents are becoming frustrated.
:09:41. > :09:45.It's easy to have a go at teachers because we have quite a lot of
:09:45. > :09:47.holidays and things like that but I know the head teacher would not
:09:48. > :09:51.close the school and as a was absolutely necessary and would
:09:52. > :09:56.consider the safety of the children. Another 10 centimetres of snow
:09:56. > :10:02.could fall on higher ground here this evening and many are already
:10:02. > :10:06.stocking up, preparing themselves for yet another day in the cold.
:10:06. > :10:12.Well, that warning, net of this means that people should consult
:10:12. > :10:16.and check the forecast before they venture out for the rush hour in
:10:16. > :10:21.South Wales this afternoon will be anything but, with fresh snow
:10:21. > :10:24.falling and a risk of ice, as well, on the roads. Thank you very much.
:10:24. > :10:26.Drifting snow has caused problems on roads in Aberdeenshire and Moray.
:10:26. > :10:30.Grampian Police have advised motorists not to travel unless it's
:10:30. > :10:32.absolutely necessary. There have been some partial road closures on
:10:33. > :10:36.minor roads due to large vehicles losing traction. Forecasters say
:10:36. > :10:41.the east of Scotland is expected to get at least 15 centimetres of snow
:10:41. > :10:46.before 6.00pm tonight. Four times as many schools are shut in
:10:46. > :10:49.Scotland, than yesterday. More than 150 are closed today compared with
:10:49. > :10:52.37 yesterday. In northern Ireland, almost 90 schools have closed. The
:10:52. > :10:55.bad weather has caused problems in the south west of England where
:10:55. > :10:58.there have been a number of accidents caused by ice and hail
:10:58. > :11:01.storms. In Birmingham, icy conditions forced the rush-hour
:11:01. > :11:04.closure of the Aston Expressway, which links the city centre with
:11:04. > :11:07.the M6. Heathrow Airport says there will be more delays and
:11:07. > :11:10.cancellations today. Other airports have warned passengers to check
:11:10. > :11:18.their flights before leaving home. Our correspondent Sian Lloyd is at
:11:18. > :11:23.Heathrow. What is the situation today? 48 flights cancelled so far
:11:23. > :11:26.today. That's compared to hundreds that were cancelled yesterday and
:11:26. > :11:30.over the weekend. The airport tell us that today the problem is
:11:30. > :11:34.nothing to do with Heathrow, but the conditions are good,
:11:34. > :11:39.particularly the visibility, but it is the bad weather in Europe,
:11:39. > :11:42.Frankfurt, Paris and Brussels at the airports, and they are
:11:42. > :11:47.experiencing bad weather and they are popular destinations for
:11:47. > :11:51.flights from Heathrow. However, the weather will change later on in the
:11:51. > :11:54.day and they will monitor that closely. No one wants to see a
:11:54. > :11:59.return to those scenes at the weekend when hundreds of people
:11:59. > :12:03.were sleeping on the floor here at Terminal 5. People on planes not
:12:03. > :12:07.going anywhere and were later cancelled. Elsewhere, they had been
:12:08. > :12:12.problems at Gatwick and Birmingham airport, too. And on the railways,
:12:12. > :12:17.for rail passengers, South Eastern trains have seen some problems, the
:12:17. > :12:21.Gatwick Express, and also Eurostar. And, of course, the Rose,
:12:21. > :12:25.disruption for passengers as we have been hearing -- the roads. The
:12:25. > :12:33.AA say this could be one of the busiest days of beer for them
:12:33. > :12:37.because they are receiving reports of breakdowns of 2000 per hour.
:12:37. > :12:40.Let's come back to Heathrow and in case you're wondering about what
:12:40. > :12:50.happened to one unfortunate passenger who we featured yesterday,
:12:50. > :12:53.I can bring you right up to date on that. Ian Acheson had been trying
:12:53. > :12:57.to get to a meeting in Las Vegas since last Friday. During that time
:12:57. > :13:00.he stayed a night in a hotel, and spent one night at home. Altogether
:13:00. > :13:04.he spent 13 hours on a plane, without taking off. And he didn't
:13:04. > :13:06.see his luggage in all that time. Well, we have some good news. Ian's
:13:06. > :13:14.flight finally left yesterday afternoon. And, as you can see,
:13:15. > :13:18.he's arrived in Las Vegas with his bags. Thank you very much. Well,
:13:18. > :13:20.just a reminder that the BBC News Channel will have all the latest
:13:20. > :13:25.information on the weather and travel throughout the day. There
:13:25. > :13:30.are also more details on our website. The BBC Weather website
:13:30. > :13:33.will have comprehensive forecasts for where you live. And don't
:13:33. > :13:40.forget to tune in to your BBC Local Radio Station for the latest news,
:13:40. > :13:42.weather and travel in your area. A former police officer and a senior
:13:42. > :13:51.journalist from the Sun newspaper are facing criminal charges over
:13:51. > :13:53.alleged corrupt payments for information. Former Metropolitan
:13:53. > :13:56.Police Constable Paul Flattley and the Sun's defence editor Virginia
:13:56. > :13:58.Wheeler will be charged with conspiracy to commit misconduct in
:13:59. > :14:03.public office. The charges are being brought as a result of
:14:03. > :14:06.Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden. The government borrowed slightly
:14:06. > :14:09.more than expected last month, fuelling fears that the UK could
:14:09. > :14:11.lose its coveted triple A credit rating. Figures from the Office for
:14:11. > :14:17.National Statistics show that UK public sector net borrowing hit
:14:17. > :14:23.�15.4 billion in December. That's �600 million more than a year ago.
:14:23. > :14:27.Our business correspondent Adam Parsons is here. What is behind
:14:27. > :14:30.these latest figures? A lot of technical language goes around but,
:14:30. > :14:33.basically, every month the government spends a certain amount
:14:33. > :14:37.and looks at how much has come in and it doesn't have enough, it has
:14:37. > :14:42.to borrow more and what has happened this past month, it has
:14:42. > :14:46.spent more than it had, so had to borrow over �15 billion. Quite
:14:46. > :14:51.simply, the economy is contracting, there's not much money coming in in
:14:51. > :14:55.terms of income tax, corporation tax, and VAT, so they have to
:14:55. > :15:01.borrow more and more and of course, you get into this vicious circle.
:15:01. > :15:04.As the economy contracts, fewer tax receipts coming, so with those same
:15:04. > :15:08.austerity will have to be even tighter, spending cuts should come
:15:08. > :15:12.in, the Chancellor has said he wants to balance the books. The
:15:12. > :15:16.fear now is that if the economy really is beginning to weaken, and
:15:16. > :15:19.the triple-A rating, the best credit rating you can get, could
:15:19. > :15:23.slip away, and that is one of the things the Chancellor George
:15:23. > :15:26.Osborne has always nailed his colours to. He says he wants to
:15:26. > :15:34.defend that credit rating and at the moment it under more pressure
:15:35. > :15:38.than it's been for many years. Our top story: more than 5,000
:15:38. > :15:42.British soldiers are to lose their jobs this summer. The redundancies
:15:42. > :15:46.are parts of the latest round of cuts to the armed force and there
:15:46. > :15:50.are more to come. I'm at the Royal Academy in London, taking a look at
:15:50. > :15:52.the first exhibition in this country for over 50 years of the
:15:52. > :16:02.pioneering French artist, Edouard Manet.
:16:02. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:20.Later in the hour I'll have all the The people of Israel are voting in
:16:20. > :16:25.a general election today. The Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's
:16:25. > :16:30.alliance is expected to win with a reduced majority. The polls
:16:30. > :16:35.indicate that Israel's coalition has been losing ground a riffal
:16:35. > :16:39.party further to the right. -- rival. Israel's Prime Minister,
:16:39. > :16:43.Binyamin Netanyahu was chirpy this morning, as he arrived to vote.
:16:43. > :16:47.By the end of the day, he'll likely have even more reason to be
:16:47. > :16:54.cheerful. The leader of the right-wing Likud
:16:54. > :16:58.Party is expected to come out on top and keep his job.
:16:58. > :17:04.But at Jerusalem's main market, the lack of suspense means there's
:17:04. > :17:14.little election fever. Most take it as a given that
:17:14. > :17:19.Binyamin Netanyahu will get four more years in office. Bibi, if you
:17:19. > :17:23.ask me, no Bibi, no nothing. Security, never far from the minds
:17:23. > :17:29.of Israelis, is what many here see as Netanyahu's strength. But if he
:17:29. > :17:33.is to win, he won't win alone. At the polling stations today,
:17:33. > :17:38.voters have a choice of more than 30 different parties. They're
:17:38. > :17:41.competing for just 120 parliamentary seats. Now Israel has
:17:41. > :17:45.proportional representation. And you don't have to be a mathematical
:17:45. > :17:50.genius to work out that, as usual, we are going to end with up a
:17:51. > :17:56.coalition government. One of those likely to join a
:17:56. > :18:02.coalition is the only real surprise of these elections,-and-a-half
:18:02. > :18:07.tally Bennett and his new Jewish Home Party, -- Naftali Bennett.
:18:07. > :18:11.They are to the right of Netanyahu. His success, some say, shows the
:18:11. > :18:15.country is opposing that way. He doesn't want to give up any land to
:18:15. > :18:20.create a Palestinian state, side- by-side with Israel. This year,
:18:20. > :18:24.Middle East peace has not been a vote winner. Palestinians,
:18:24. > :18:30.settlements, peace, people aren't talking about that.
:18:30. > :18:35.And as Israel goes to the polls, that does not bode well for those
:18:35. > :18:39.hoping for peace in the Middle East. Let's talk to our correspondent
:18:39. > :18:42.Katya Adler who is at a polling station in Jerusalem. There are
:18:42. > :18:47.fears about the impact that this election could have on the peace
:18:47. > :18:50.process. Well, yes, absolutely. It's not
:18:51. > :18:54.just the Israelis voting here today who will be watching carefully the
:18:54. > :18:58.outcome of this election. The international community, including
:18:58. > :19:03.Britain and the United States, expressed great frustration at the
:19:03. > :19:05.outgoing government of Binyamin Netanyahu, which kept building and
:19:05. > :19:09.expanding settlements, illegal under international law, on land
:19:09. > :19:13.the Palestinians want as part of their future state. But, Sophie, we
:19:13. > :19:17.have to be careful about predicting the policies of Israel's next
:19:17. > :19:23.government, even if Binyamin Netanyahu stays the country's prime
:19:23. > :19:26.minister. He is not a man wedded to ideology, he is a political
:19:26. > :19:30.pragmatist. So rather than imbed himself in a government of the
:19:30. > :19:33.right or far right and risk further alienating friends abroad and even
:19:33. > :19:36.Israelis at home, he may well choose to invite a couple of
:19:36. > :19:41.parties of the centre into his coalition government, which would
:19:41. > :19:45.give him more political wiggle room, if you like. His main focus, some
:19:45. > :19:48.say his absolute obsession is Iran, and stopping that country getting
:19:48. > :19:52.nuclear weapons it could be point at Israel. If, for example, the
:19:52. > :19:57.United States, Israel's closest ally would say - we'll take tougher
:19:57. > :20:00.action on the Iran issue but you in Israel need to take some steps
:20:00. > :20:04.towards restarting the stalled Palestinian peace process, Binyamin
:20:04. > :20:08.Netanyahu may well do just that. Now for years it's been hailed as a
:20:08. > :20:11.popular, sustainable fish, renowned for health benefits. Now we are
:20:11. > :20:15.being told that mackerel should be eaten onlyly occasionally because
:20:15. > :20:18.of fear that is too many are being taken from the sea around the
:20:18. > :20:23.pharoah islands. The Marine Conservation Society says consumers
:20:23. > :20:26.need to be aware of the dangers now posed to mackerel by overfishing.
:20:26. > :20:30.We are not suggesting that people stop eating mackerel altogether but
:20:30. > :20:33.just to think about the situation. We are putting up a sign-post
:20:33. > :20:38.saying it is an issue that needs to be dealt with soon. If knots, the
:20:38. > :20:41.stock is in great danger of collapsing altogether. -- if it is
:20:41. > :20:45.not. Ed Thomas is at the fishing port of
:20:45. > :20:49.Grimsby. What has been the response to that? A lot of people here are
:20:49. > :20:54.worried, Sophie. So many rely on the fishing industry in this town.
:20:54. > :20:57.I have also been told that mackerel has been one of the most popular
:20:57. > :21:02.buys today at the fish market but concern for the Scottish fishermen
:21:02. > :21:07.is too many of these fish are being taken out of the sea around the
:21:07. > :21:13.pharoah islands and Iceland. There is even talk now of factions --
:21:13. > :21:19.Farr owe islands. It is It is a worrying for people
:21:19. > :21:24.like Chris sparks. How do we get to this situation? By the fears of the
:21:24. > :21:30.Scottish fishermen who fear like the Icelandics and those in the
:21:30. > :21:35.Faroe islands are taking too many fish out of the sea. These talks of
:21:35. > :21:39.sanctions from the EU placed on Iceland on white fish stock, what
:21:39. > :21:45.impact would that have on places like Grimsby? It would be
:21:45. > :21:51.catastrophic to a place like Grimsby that rely mainly on imports
:21:51. > :21:54.on fresh fish of cod, haddock and plaice. It would be devastating.
:21:54. > :22:01.How many jobs in this town from the fishing industry? Somewhere in the
:22:01. > :22:06.region of 4,500 to 5,000 rely on the seafood and processing industry.
:22:06. > :22:11.What is your message to the EU, Icelandics and sksh fishermen?
:22:11. > :22:18.my -- Scottish fishermen? From Grimsby's point of view, get around
:22:18. > :22:21.the table, sort it out and have an end to it, amicably. Thank you. The
:22:21. > :22:24.Icelandic government says it is willing to talk and negotiate.
:22:24. > :22:28.Prince Harry is on his way back to Britain after completing a second
:22:28. > :22:32.tour of duty in Afghanistan. Before leaving Helmand province, the
:22:32. > :22:36.Prince gave a series of interviews at Camp Bastion, which couldn't be
:22:36. > :22:42.broadcast until he left the country. Harry talks about what life is like
:22:43. > :22:49.for a gunner & Co pilot of an Apache helicopter, who also happens
:22:49. > :22:54.to be nird line to the throne. - third in line. Life is never
:22:54. > :22:58.quite normal, but perhaps this is as close as he gets. On the
:22:58. > :23:04.PlayStation in Afghanistan, where Prince Harry says he can be just
:23:04. > :23:09."one of the guys." The most amazing thing I suppose is being in a tent
:23:09. > :23:13.one minuteing, playing PlayStation and thrashing the guys at FIFA and
:23:13. > :23:17.then jumping in the cab and the only time you know what you are
:23:17. > :23:20.doing is when the information comes on the radio. Prince Harry's
:23:21. > :23:28.deployment came with an agreement to do a number of media interviews.
:23:28. > :23:33.If he was needed, though, the talking stopped.
:23:33. > :23:38.But even just doing his job in Afghanistan doesn't offer much
:23:39. > :23:43.privacy. Camp Bastion is huge. Home to around 30,000 military personnel.
:23:43. > :23:48.And the third in line to the throne never goes unnoticed. It is a weird
:23:48. > :23:52.reality being stuck in Bastion. For me, I hate it being stuck here. I
:23:52. > :23:56.go into the cookhouse. Everyone has a good gawp. That's one thing I
:23:56. > :24:00.dislike about being here. There is plenty of tkpwhies there who have
:24:00. > :24:04.never met me and therefore look at me and think Prince Harry as
:24:04. > :24:09.opposed to Captain Wales. Which is frustrating. Christmas comes
:24:09. > :24:17.towards the end of Prince Harry's tour and he is in festive mood.
:24:17. > :24:21.have show you the homely bit. -- I will show you. Paradigm phone.
:24:21. > :24:25.So, this is as much privacy as one would ge. It is fine. There is only
:24:25. > :24:28.four of us here. If you are sitting in that seat, you are probably
:24:29. > :24:34.speaking to home, I would have thought.
:24:34. > :24:39.The storeroom. The usual things. It never changes. KitKats and Mars
:24:39. > :24:44.bars. Everyone tries not to eat them but they do. This is my bed. I
:24:45. > :24:48.don't make it when I'm here. Army friend one. His mother needs to
:24:48. > :24:54.know he has been smoking while he is out here. We will make sure that
:24:54. > :24:58.is on camera. Now Harry is returning to the UK,
:24:58. > :25:01.inevitably there are questions about whether he will settle down.
:25:01. > :25:06.If you find the right person and everything feels right, it'll take
:25:06. > :25:09.time. Especially for myself and my brofrplt you ain't ever going to
:25:09. > :25:14.find someone who will jump into the position that it would hold, as
:25:14. > :25:21.simple as that. -- for myself and my brother.
:25:21. > :25:26.far as you are concerned, there is no-one waiting for you at home?
:25:26. > :25:33.100% single? I'm out here doing my job. That's all I can say at the
:25:33. > :25:37.moment. In Afghanistan, he has had as much of the prief sane life he
:25:37. > :25:41.craved. Life back home will feel different. You can watch a special
:25:42. > :25:44.programme showing more of Prince Harry's tour in Afghanistan on the
:25:45. > :25:49.BBC iPlayer. The French artist Manet has been
:25:49. > :25:52.described as the founding father of modern art, because of the way he
:25:52. > :25:58.broke the rules of the art establishment, by painting modern
:25:58. > :26:02.life in a modern way. This week the Royal Academy in London has opened
:26:03. > :26:08.up an exhibition of his work in the UK and for the first time the focus
:26:08. > :26:14.has been on Manet's portraits. I'm in the Royal Academy in London
:26:14. > :26:21.where the first major Edouard Manet show for over 50 years is about to
:26:21. > :26:27.open this Saturday. I'm joined by the curator, Marya, in ne, Stevens.
:26:27. > :26:31.Why has to takeen so long for an Edouard Manet show to be staged in
:26:32. > :26:37.London There have been exhibitions- his work else where. There was the
:26:37. > :26:40.sense that why make another retrospective. Let's look at a
:26:40. > :26:45.particular area of his work that has not been looked at before and
:26:45. > :26:48.see to what extent that will open up new ways of understanding this
:26:48. > :26:54.really, extraordinary artist. doubt he is an extraordinary artist.
:26:55. > :26:58.You call him the founder of modern art. He was an inspiration to the
:26:58. > :27:02.impressionist and rebelled against the academy. What will we learn
:27:02. > :27:05.from the show? First that he was a committed portrait painter. Nobody
:27:05. > :27:11.has bothered to look at tpwfrplt he started at the beginning of his
:27:11. > :27:15.career and right to the end of his life - when he died early at the
:27:15. > :27:20.age of 51 - he he was painting portraits. He used the sitters in
:27:20. > :27:24.his portraits to translate them into actors in his scenes of
:27:24. > :27:34.contemporary life. He use Madam Manet, he paints her portrait and
:27:34. > :27:37.
:27:37. > :27:43.then he uses her sitting in an interior in Arachon in 1871. It is
:27:43. > :27:46.important. It is a part of Manet's way of taking up the challenge of
:27:46. > :27:50.the dominant aesthetic movement of the day - realism. And saying, if
:27:50. > :27:54.I'm going to make a really, realistic painting I'm painting
:27:55. > :27:57.people in my scenes of contemporary life, who I know, who I have
:27:57. > :28:05.painted and who are there for reality. It kind of awe thenty
:28:05. > :28:10.kaits that message. Now if you live along the south
:28:11. > :28:18.coast and have been detecting a funny smell here is why. A leak at
:28:18. > :28:25.a chemical flapbt Rouen in northern France has sent clouds of foul-
:28:25. > :28:28.smelling gas across the region, across the channel. Emergency
:28:29. > :28:32.services in Paris were inundated with calls from worried people but
:28:32. > :28:39.French police say the gas is a harmless substance which escaped
:28:39. > :28:43.from the factory yesterday. from the factory yesterday.
:28:43. > :28:49.Now the latest weather. Something else to worry southern
:28:49. > :28:51.England now, an amber weather warning issued for the south-west
:28:51. > :28:56.of England and South Wales which comes into play this afternoon,
:28:56. > :28:59.last through this evening and into tomorrow. Our amber warning across
:28:59. > :29:03.Scotland will lapse this afternoon. Conditions improving here. An area
:29:03. > :29:07.of rain approaching the south-west will turn increasingly to sleet and
:29:07. > :29:10.snow as it pushes particularly into Devon and across into Dorset this
:29:10. > :29:16.afternoon and through the evening. This is the rush-hour and notice
:29:16. > :29:21.how we could see snow perhaps as far north as the M4. We cannot be
:29:21. > :29:25.precise about the ins tensities but we could be looking at lower levels
:29:25. > :29:30.to two to five centimetres snow. For higher grounds, perhaps up to
:29:30. > :29:33.ten sent meerts and with a strong breeze, problems with drifting and
:29:33. > :29:38.reduced visibility. -- ten centimetres.
:29:38. > :29:40.The problems in Scotland will tame down. The winds easing and we'll
:29:40. > :29:43.lose fresh-falling snowfall. For Northern Ireland, showers clearing.
:29:43. > :29:47.For Wales a largely fine evening to the north but to the south that
:29:47. > :29:51.question mark about how far north that area of rain, sleet and snow
:29:51. > :29:54.might spread. I urge you, if you are travelling in south Wales or
:29:54. > :29:59.the south-west, increasingly through this evening perhaps
:29:59. > :30:02.further eastwards to keep up-to- date with the forecast. BBC Radio
:30:02. > :30:06.stations and internet pages excellent places to keep up-to-date.
:30:06. > :30:09.Through the evening the spell of wintry weather persists moving into
:30:09. > :30:13.Hampshire and Wiltshire and into the small hours we could see a risk
:30:13. > :30:17.of fresh snowfall into the West Midlands and eastern Wales. The
:30:17. > :30:20.issues are likely to continue into Wednesday morning rush-hour. Of
:30:20. > :30:24.course, it's another bitterly cold night with a widespread frost. So
:30:24. > :30:27.there will still be a lot of lying snow around elsewhere and ice will
:30:27. > :30:31.be a big issue first thing on Wednesday. Add to that as well the
:30:31. > :30:35.potential for patches of freezing fog. Overall, the day as a whole
:30:35. > :30:40.quieter than we have had of late. In terms of any fresh snow flurries,
:30:40. > :30:44.perhaps a few light ones out of the thicker cloud. Generally a dry day.
:30:44. > :30:49.Again, though, it is cold. Ice could be an issue really throughout
:30:49. > :30:53.the day. Any thaw very gradual as we go into the latter days of this
:30:53. > :30:57.week. The story is for it to stay cold into Thursday and fri. Once
:30:57. > :31:01.again ice will be one of the our biggest hazardsment By the weekend,
:31:01. > :31:05.the potential for some significant change and quickly as well. Milder
:31:05. > :31:08.air coming in to start weekend. By Sunday the potential for heavy rain
:31:08. > :31:14.and strong winds. Unfortunately by this time next week, that means we
:31:14. > :31:18.could be talking about flooding. Thank you very much. The top story:
:31:18. > :31:22.more than 5,000 British soldiers are to lose their jobs this summer.