:00:12. > :00:16.The Prime Minister tells world leaders why Britain needs a new
:00:16. > :00:21.deal with the rest of Europe. David Cameron says it's about making a
:00:21. > :00:25.more competitive, open and flexible EU. This is not about turning our
:00:25. > :00:30.backs on Europe, quite the opposite. This is about how we make the case
:00:30. > :00:35.for a more competitive, a more open, a more flexible Europe and how we
:00:35. > :00:40.secure the UK's place within it. A drop in the crime figures in
:00:40. > :00:44.England and Wales, but police are accused of exaggerating the fall.
:00:44. > :00:49.A backlog of 16,000 unprocessed immigration case sz deemed
:00:49. > :00:52.unacceptable by inspectors. More wintry weather for some parts
:00:52. > :00:56.of the UK and warnings that things are going to get worse before they
:00:56. > :01:02.get better. Some remarkable pictures of the
:01:02. > :01:06.moment an injured dolphin turned to a diver for a helping hand.
:01:06. > :01:09.Later on BBC London. We reveal how Social Services ignored requests to
:01:09. > :01:19.visit this woman, days before she was murdered by her partner. The
:01:19. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:37.number of reported assaults in male Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:37. > :01:41.News at 1pm. The Prime Minister has brushed aside criticism about the
:01:41. > :01:44.impact the prospect of an EU referendum, claiming it would be
:01:44. > :01:49.more risky to do nothing than tackle the issue head on. Speaking
:01:49. > :01:52.at the world economic form in switserlapbld, Mr Cameron warned
:01:52. > :01:55.other European leaders that any attempt to shoe horn countries into
:01:55. > :02:00.deeper union was a mistake that Britain would not be part of.
:02:00. > :02:03.Here's our Chief Economic Correspondent, Hugh Pym. It was, in
:02:03. > :02:07.effect, the start of David Cameron's long campaign to win
:02:07. > :02:11.support in Europe for a major political rethink in. A speech in
:02:11. > :02:15.Davos ah, tended by European, political and business leaders, he
:02:15. > :02:20.argued letting events developed as currently planned was not
:02:20. > :02:23.acceptable. We should try and shape them in the UK's national interest.
:02:23. > :02:29.Let us negotiate a new settlement for Europe that works for the
:02:29. > :02:34.United Kingdom and let's get fresh consent for it. It's not just right
:02:34. > :02:38.for the United Kingdom, it is necessary for Europe. Outside the
:02:38. > :02:43.conference rooms the London Mayor was pressing the British Government
:02:43. > :02:52.case, here with the IMF chief. the right thing for Europe, because
:02:52. > :02:56.you cannot go on with the Brits endlessly being at the back. Long
:02:56. > :03:01.live Great Britain and long live Europe, she says. In private, pz on
:03:01. > :03:05.Mr Cameron's stance may not be quite so good natured. But he did
:03:05. > :03:10.win support from one former leading German policy maker. I think that's
:03:10. > :03:14.a sensible proposition. As a European and somebody who's very
:03:14. > :03:18.pro-European, I hope the British population decides when that vote
:03:18. > :03:23.and if that vote comes up that they see the benefits. At home more than
:03:23. > :03:26.50 bills leaders have backed Mr Cameron in a letter to the Times
:03:26. > :03:29.they say, "We agree with the Prime Minister that brib's best chance of
:03:29. > :03:34.success is partd of a reformed Europe. We need a new relationship
:03:34. > :03:38.with the EU, backed by democratic mandate. A third of the signitaries
:03:38. > :03:42.are Conservative donors or peers. Others in the corporate world are
:03:42. > :03:45.concerned about the impact on British trade. Just under half of
:03:45. > :03:48.UK exports of goods and services head to the EU. There's a fear by
:03:48. > :03:53.raising the possibility of quitting, the Prime Minister will undermine
:03:53. > :03:58.business. He's in a bit of a political predicament that he has
:03:58. > :04:05.to deal with. From a bills point of view, economic point of view, it
:04:05. > :04:09.can't be very good. In the best, it's neutral. At the worst it's
:04:09. > :04:13.negative, in terms of generating uncertainty. For David Cameron, one
:04:13. > :04:17.key reaction to his demands for reform is all important, that of
:04:17. > :04:23.the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and she's due to speak in
:04:23. > :04:28.Davos within the next hour. In a moment we'll hear from our
:04:28. > :04:32.political correspondent Norman Smith. First to our business
:04:32. > :04:37.correspondent Simon Jack. What sort of reaction did Mr Cameron's speech
:04:37. > :04:42.get from the other European leaders? When he got up, the
:04:42. > :04:46.reception was about as cool as the mountain air behind me Mario Monti
:04:46. > :04:51.said we don't want unwilling Europeans. He had some explaining
:04:51. > :04:56.to do in front of a tough crowd. He said he does want to be awe
:04:56. > :05:03.European, but he doesn't want to be a pure even -- European in the road
:05:03. > :05:07.you're heading towards. The reaction he got then in the Q&A
:05:07. > :05:13.after was illustrative of how it wents down. He said I've said my
:05:13. > :05:17.bit, was there any questions, there was an embarrass ly --
:05:17. > :05:22.embarrassingly long pause before a question came about aid. Also
:05:22. > :05:26.someone said, look the the European Union has bent over backwards to
:05:26. > :05:31.keep Greece in the European Union and are they convinced they will
:05:31. > :05:36.dot same for you? Simon Jack there from Davos. Now to Westminster and
:05:36. > :05:39.talk to our political correspondent, Norman Smith. It's all about Mr
:05:39. > :05:43.Cameron selling his message to the other European leaders. Did we get
:05:43. > :05:47.a sense of how he will do that in the next few months today? I think
:05:47. > :05:51.we did. We discovered how Mr Cameron wants to pitch his case,
:05:51. > :05:54.how he wants to present it to the rest of the EU and to the
:05:54. > :05:59.international business community. That is, he does not want to be
:05:59. > :06:05.seen as some sort of Mr Angry of little England, straining to hold
:06:05. > :06:08.back his bulldog at the white cliffs of Dover. He wants to be
:06:08. > :06:13.seen as Mr Reasonable of Westminster, Mr Euro sensible of
:06:13. > :06:16.SW1 by saying to the business communities, look, a reformed EU
:06:16. > :06:20.would be more complexible, better able to compete against India and
:06:20. > :06:24.China. In other words u, it would make business sense for you. To say
:06:24. > :06:28.to EU leaders, there's no point pretending this debate isn't
:06:28. > :06:31.happening, it's under way. This is an opportunity to re-engage with
:06:31. > :06:36.voters and to underscore support for the EU in. Other words, it's
:06:36. > :06:40.good politics for you. Now he's not going to convince them overnight.
:06:40. > :06:44.There are serious doubts in the business community and amongst EU
:06:44. > :06:49.leaders about the referendum idea. But his hope is to get a hearing,
:06:49. > :06:59.to get them to at least listen to him and not to dismiss him as Mr
:06:59. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:05.Angry of the lounge bar of warming Immigration inspectors say they've
:07:05. > :07:09.uncovered a backlog of 16,000 cases which haven't been dealt with by
:07:09. > :07:13.the UK Border Agency. Most of them were requests to settle through
:07:13. > :07:17.marriage and include people waiting a decade to hear if their partner
:07:17. > :07:21.had permission to live in the UK. The Chief Inspector of imgaigs says
:07:21. > :07:25.the situation is unacceptable. Our home affairs correspondent Matt
:07:25. > :07:29.Prodger reports. They're no strangers to queues at immigration
:07:29. > :07:33.processing centre in Croydon, and in the system, as a whole, there
:07:33. > :07:37.have been no fewer than eight backlogs in the past two years,
:07:37. > :07:42.ranging from student visas to asylum claims. Now there are two
:07:42. > :07:46.more adding a total of 16,000 unresolved cases. To wait such a
:07:46. > :07:50.long time, even if their case was complex is completely outside any
:07:50. > :07:56.service standards that the agency has. It should be addressed as a
:07:57. > :08:01.matter of urgency. One backlog is 14,000 applications for people
:08:01. > :08:06.seeking review of a refusal to let them settle with husbands or wives
:08:06. > :08:08.in the UK. Inspectors found the case load was rising by 700 a month.
:08:08. > :08:14.And more than 2,000 others were awaiting any kind of decision at
:08:14. > :08:18.all. Some go back a decade. Here at the Home Office they say the
:08:18. > :08:22.smaller backlog has been cleared since the inspection. And the
:08:22. > :08:27.larger backlog is being eliminated as a result of recent changes in
:08:27. > :08:32.immigration rules. But there remain more than 300,000 cases across the
:08:32. > :08:35.system that are still awaiting decisions. We're going through,
:08:35. > :08:40.working through these issues. I'm confident that by the time we get
:08:40. > :08:43.through this Parliament, the agency will be in good shape. You know,
:08:43. > :08:48.it's not an overnight fix. We're going in the right direction. We're
:08:48. > :08:51.getting a grip of these things and sorting them out. Emily Churchill
:08:51. > :08:55.and her Palestinian husband had to live apart for more than a year
:08:55. > :09:00.because she was refuelsed a visa. Now he's in London, but his case
:09:00. > :09:04.hasn't been resolved. And his temporary visa expired today.
:09:04. > :09:07.think that the uncertainty that the immigration system puts you under
:09:07. > :09:11.is very, very difficult to live with. It's difficult to be a couple
:09:11. > :09:17.and a family and not know when you're going to be together or not
:09:17. > :09:22.know what the future holds for you. It takes them so long to give you a
:09:22. > :09:27.decision. The Border Agency was criticised for failing to take into
:09:27. > :09:32.account the interests of children. But in most cases, inspectors said
:09:32. > :09:37.its decisions ultimately were reasonable.
:09:37. > :09:40.A study of crime trends in England and Wales suggests the fall in
:09:40. > :09:44.offences recorded by police may have been exaggerated. The report
:09:44. > :09:48.from the Office for National Statistics comes as new figures
:09:48. > :09:51.showed continued reductions in virtually every category of crime.
:09:51. > :09:54.Our Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw is in Central London.
:09:54. > :09:59.What's the ONS saying about police overstating the fall in crime?
:09:59. > :10:03.it had a look at the way that the police recorded crime figures over
:10:03. > :10:08.the past five years and compared that to the crime survey of England
:10:08. > :10:12.and Wales, which are both pet unitable, official sets of data.
:10:12. > :10:18.They found that the police figures were recording crimes at a rate
:10:18. > :10:22.which was much less than the crime survey, about half. So the decline
:10:22. > :10:26.measured by the police was greater than the decline measured by the
:10:26. > :10:32.official crime survey. Possible reasons for this are one, the
:10:32. > :10:38.target culture. The police have to try and get crimes down and that
:10:38. > :10:41.there's great store set by that. Secondly, concerns about cuts, the
:10:41. > :10:45.possibility that perhaps with fewer officers and staff they're not
:10:45. > :10:50.involved in measuring crime so effectively and lastly, police
:10:50. > :10:53.officer on the ground are given more discretion to deal with minor
:10:53. > :10:57.offences informally rather than logging all the crimes. A dispute
:10:57. > :11:01.how much crime is going down by, but it's still going down? Yeah,
:11:01. > :11:06.that's the good enough. Crime is definitely on the decrease. The
:11:06. > :11:12.police figures show a reduction in the year to the end of September of
:11:12. > :11:16.7% overall. In terms of the crime survey, it's an 8% reduction. Falls
:11:16. > :11:21.across all categories of crime, particularly homicides, down to
:11:21. > :11:28.their lowest level since 1978. The only category bucking the trend is
:11:28. > :11:31.pick pocketing. A deal between the UK and Ireland to bring wind energy
:11:31. > :11:35.to British homes is being criticised for potentially damaging
:11:35. > :11:38.the Irish countryside. The deal, signed today, will mean Britain
:11:38. > :11:42.gets cheaper green energy and Ireland gets investment and jobs.
:11:42. > :11:44.There are concerns that it will lead to the construction of some of
:11:44. > :11:49.the biggest wind turbines in the world. Our correspondent Matt
:11:49. > :11:53.McGrath reports. EU targets mean that keeping the lights on across
:11:53. > :12:00.the UK is going to need a lot more renewable energy from 2020. One
:12:00. > :12:08.possible solution is to buy that from Ireland, a country associated
:12:08. > :12:12.with all things green. Britain's opportunity is in wind energy. They
:12:12. > :12:17.believe they can provide 1.5% of UK energy needs from Irish wind by
:12:17. > :12:21.2017. They are blaning to put turbines all across the boggy Irish
:12:21. > :12:27.Midlands. But there are worries that the wind in the bogs is often
:12:27. > :12:30.too slow to generate power,. Some much larger turbines will be needed.
:12:30. > :12:34.Building windfarms on boglands has been done successfully here in
:12:34. > :12:37.Ireland in Tipperary. To generate the green electricity needed to
:12:37. > :12:41.power three million UK homes, it's going to require much bigger
:12:41. > :12:45.turbines than the ones you see here. In fact, it will need some of the
:12:45. > :12:49.biggest ever built in the world. The company behind the plan says
:12:49. > :12:55.that 700 of these giant turbines will be needed. They will stretch
:12:55. > :12:58.over 600 feet into the Irish sky. We felt it was better to build
:12:58. > :13:03.slightly large you are turbines but fewer of them. That's the best way
:13:03. > :13:07.to minimise the impact on the local area. Opponents say they will be a
:13:07. > :13:11.blot on the landscape of a country that trades on its unspoilt green
:13:11. > :13:14.image. They say the real reason that Ireland is being saddled with
:13:14. > :13:19.these turbines is because of the hostility of many Conservative MPs
:13:19. > :13:24.to wind. It seems to be an Irish solution it a British problem.
:13:24. > :13:28.Politically, they don't want turbines in the British countryside.
:13:28. > :13:34.They're under pressure from the public over there. It would seem
:13:34. > :13:39.they want time pose the windfarms on the Irish instead. Plz say the
:13:39. > :13:43.agreement is but a first step to a different type of power share ago
:13:43. > :13:49.agreement between the countries. No difintive decisions have been taken
:13:49. > :13:52.yet about how the wind energy will be generated.
:13:52. > :13:59.All Britons have been urged by the Government to leave the Libyan city
:13:59. > :14:01.of Ben Gaza in response to a specific and imminent threat
:14:01. > :14:04.against Westerners. The Foreign Office has been advising against
:14:04. > :14:07.travel since last September, but it's now stepped up that warning.
:14:07. > :14:11.Let's speak to our world affairs correspondent Caroine Hawley. What
:14:11. > :14:16.else is the Foreign Office saying about this? The Foreign Office
:14:16. > :14:19.understand and believes, it's not giving details about the imminent
:14:19. > :14:25.threat, it says, though, that after the French military intervention in
:14:25. > :14:29.Mali, which of course, is being backed by Britain, there is the
:14:29. > :14:33.possibility of retaliation against Western interests. This comes a day
:14:33. > :14:39.after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, testifyed about
:14:39. > :14:43.the attack on the American mission, that you may remember, September
:14:43. > :14:48.11th, in which the US ambassador was killed and three others. She
:14:48. > :14:54.said yesterday that Al-Qaeda was on the rise. It also comes, of course,
:14:54. > :14:58.a week after that hostage crisis at the gas facility in Algeria. That
:14:58. > :15:05.has raised serious concerns about a terror threat right across the
:15:05. > :15:11.north of Africa with links to Libya and a senior Algerian official said
:15:11. > :15:17.that attack in Algeria at the gas facility had links to the Benghazi
:15:18. > :15:20.attack as well. Police say the Chelsea midfielder, Eden Hazard
:15:20. > :15:24.won't face criminal action after he kicked a ball boy who appeared to
:15:24. > :15:29.be time wasting. The incident happened last night during Swansea
:15:29. > :15:34.is the Iy's victory stkpwepbs Chelsea in the League Cup. Gordon
:15:34. > :15:37.Taylor says Hazard shouldn't have taken the law in his own hands. He
:15:37. > :15:47.said he lost his head and had to receive his punishment. Our Wales
:15:47. > :15:50.
:15:50. > :15:52.Last night, Charlie Morgan was cast in a leading role. In the final
:15:52. > :15:58.minutes of the game he stop Swansea's opponents from getting
:15:58. > :16:02.the ball. Frustrated, Chelsea's Eden Hazard saw red, kicking out
:16:02. > :16:07.and making contact with the ball, he says, not the boy. Either way,
:16:07. > :16:11.he soon saw red will gain as the referee sentence to the sidelines.
:16:11. > :16:17.He is going to send him off. As a slight's winners, Swansea City are
:16:17. > :16:20.keen to move on. Have you ever seen anything like that before? It is
:16:20. > :16:25.part of the game. We do not go to the police because otherwise the
:16:25. > :16:29.player could be arrested. We will leave it as it is. But some have
:16:29. > :16:35.lost sympathy for the 17-year-old, after it emerged he had sent a
:16:35. > :16:41.tweet before the game mentioning time-wasting. He is 17. He should
:16:41. > :16:44.be behaving better. When Eden Hazard kicked the ball, the boy
:16:44. > :16:49.rolled over pretending to be more injured but he was. It is
:16:49. > :16:52.disgraceful. At the end of last night's game, Eden Hazard and the
:16:52. > :16:56.boy apparently shook hands in the dressing rooms. The police are
:16:56. > :17:01.taking no more action. Here in Swansea at least, attention turns
:17:01. > :17:05.to how to secure a ticket for the club's first-ever major cup final.
:17:05. > :17:09.Hazard may still face sanctions, but whoever the heroes and villains
:17:09. > :17:18.of the piece, the game will be remembered as the night the ball
:17:18. > :17:22.boy finally took centre stage. A quick look at the time. It is
:17:22. > :17:25.1:17pm. Our top story, the Prime Minister has brushed aside
:17:25. > :17:29.criticism about the impact of the prospect of an EU referendum,
:17:29. > :17:33.claiming it would be more risky to do nothing. Coming up, a special
:17:33. > :17:38.report from Jordan on the refugee crisis caused by the conflict in
:17:38. > :17:42.Syria. All day, people are continuing to arrive here, some
:17:42. > :17:49.3,000 in the last 24 hours it. We are told there are tens of
:17:49. > :17:54.thousands more are waiting on the other side of the border. Later, on
:17:54. > :17:59.BBC London, a royal visit for the art school that helped to decorate
:17:59. > :18:09.the Queen's Jubilee budge. The London Business woman beating the
:18:09. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:12.recession was her passion for pom- Fierce fighting in Syria has caused
:18:12. > :18:16.a major humanitarian crisis within the region, with hundreds of
:18:16. > :18:19.thousands of people seeking shelter in neighbouring countries. Now the
:18:19. > :18:23.United Nations and Jordan say they are concerned they will not be able
:18:23. > :18:28.to cope with the increasing numbers. Our correspondent Fergal Keane
:18:28. > :18:33.reports from a camp in Jordan. These are just some of the 3,000
:18:33. > :18:38.people who arrived at the camp in the last 24 hours and what you see
:18:38. > :18:42.now is the queue of the menfolk, who are waiting to get blankets and
:18:42. > :18:48.to be allocated tents for their families. Those tents are going to
:18:48. > :18:51.be their homes for who knows how long. There are something like
:18:51. > :18:57.between 60,070 1000 people in this camp and the numbers are growing
:18:57. > :19:00.every day. -- 60,000, to 70,000 people. There are quarter of a
:19:00. > :19:05.million refugees from Syria in Jordan. It is putting a huge strain
:19:05. > :19:08.on the country. We have heard the Jordanians warning they may have to
:19:08. > :19:11.close down the border. They hope they will not have to do that, but
:19:11. > :19:17.I think the fear is that if there is a total breakdown of order
:19:17. > :19:22.inside Syria, then Jordan will not be able to cope. As you can see,
:19:22. > :19:26.all around here, a lot of women and very young children. Cement are
:19:26. > :19:29.either out in the camp, trying to find the tense for their families,
:19:30. > :19:34.or others have stayed behind in Syria to protect what is left of
:19:34. > :19:38.the family's properties. -- the men. When they come here, they bring
:19:38. > :19:42.what they can carry. Mostly it is some clothes and a few personal
:19:42. > :19:45.mementoes, maybe the stove to cook on. Everything else, for everything
:19:45. > :19:52.else, they are dependent on the charity of the international
:19:52. > :19:57.community. It is extremely critical. We are receiving about 2000, or
:19:57. > :20:00.3,000 people a night. We know there are around 50,000 or 60,000 ready
:20:01. > :20:04.to cross into Jordan. We have done as well as we cannot giving the
:20:04. > :20:10.resources we have got, which is that we have no resources any more.
:20:10. > :20:14.We need money desperately to expand this camp had open two others. We
:20:14. > :20:17.will receive another 2000 or 3,000 people tonight, women and children
:20:17. > :20:21.are desperate for support and accommodation, desperate for
:20:22. > :20:25.blankets. There is a limit to what we can provide at the moment.
:20:25. > :20:29.You can hear more of that from Fergal Keane on tonight's Six
:20:29. > :20:32.O'Clock News on BBC One. Almost a quarter of schools and
:20:32. > :20:36.colleges in England are producing no pupils with the A-level grades
:20:36. > :20:43.sought by the most competitive courses at leading universities.
:20:43. > :20:47.Nearly 600 sixth-forms and colleges had no one achieving two grey gate
:20:47. > :20:50.and a grade B preferred by the Russell group of universities.
:20:51. > :20:55.It is being suggested that women who spoke today are far more likely
:20:55. > :20:59.to die as a result of a habit than in the 1960s. Researchers say women
:20:59. > :21:06.are start smoking younger and until recently smoked more heavily than
:21:06. > :21:11.in previous generations. Dominic Hughes reports.
:21:11. > :21:17.Smoking among women really took off in the 19 fifties and sixties.
:21:18. > :21:21.like smoking. I think people slow because they like smoking. Now a
:21:21. > :21:25.new study in the United States involving two million people shows
:21:25. > :21:28.how the effects are still being felt today. While health generally
:21:29. > :21:33.has improved over the past 50 years, the relative risks to smokers of
:21:33. > :21:37.diseases like lung cancer has increased as well. So a woman
:21:37. > :21:42.smoking in the 1960s was nearly three times more likely to die from
:21:43. > :21:48.lung cancer than a non-smoker. But by 2010, lung cancer was 25 times
:21:49. > :21:53.more likely to claim the life of a female smoker than a non-smoker.
:21:53. > :21:56.Smoking among women peak in the 1980s. One reason the risk of
:21:56. > :22:02.serious disease has continued to rise may be that women are starting
:22:02. > :22:05.to smoke younger and until recently were smoking more heavily than
:22:05. > :22:11.previous generations. Researchers say their findings confirm the
:22:11. > :22:15.claim that women who smoke like men will die like men. Smoking causes a
:22:15. > :22:19.range of different diseases. In the past, we thought that women might
:22:19. > :22:24.have a protective, be protected from some risks of disease, but now
:22:24. > :22:29.it appears that there are equally at risk from a whole range of
:22:29. > :22:33.different diseases in the same way that men are. When you smoke, the
:22:33. > :22:36.chemicals you inhale... Oh this recent anti-smoking campaign that
:22:36. > :22:40.running England tries to bring home to smokers the risks they run with
:22:40. > :22:44.their health. But the good news is that stopping smoking at any age
:22:44. > :22:50.dramatically reduces death rates from all major diseases caused by
:22:50. > :22:54.smoking. The US military is ending its ban
:22:54. > :22:58.on women serving in combat roles. The Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
:22:58. > :23:03.will announce the policy change later today. America has 1.5
:23:03. > :23:05.million active service personnel 14% of them are women. Our
:23:05. > :23:10.Washington correspondent Ben Wright reports.
:23:11. > :23:14.Women have been getting closer to combat for years. They serve in the
:23:14. > :23:21.US military in many roles, as pilots, medics, mechanics and
:23:21. > :23:24.police. But since 1994, women have been banned from joining frontline,
:23:24. > :23:31.artillery and infantry battalions. Patrols on frontline fighting has
:23:31. > :23:35.been the job of men. Until now. The decision to overturn the ban has
:23:35. > :23:38.been made by the Obama administration, but its US military
:23:38. > :23:42.chiefs who have recommended a change to the rules. More than
:23:42. > :23:47.20,000 women served with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several
:23:47. > :23:53.have since filed lawsuits against the Pentagon, claiming they served
:23:53. > :23:57.in a combat role but have not been recognised for it. Of America's 1.5
:23:57. > :24:02.million members of the armed services, 14% are women. Lifting
:24:02. > :24:07.the ban will open up hundreds of thousands of new jobs for them. It
:24:07. > :24:10.is thought the US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta once initial plans in
:24:10. > :24:13.place by May and military chief for sad -- and military chiefs will
:24:13. > :24:17.have three years to decide if some combat roles should remain off-
:24:17. > :24:25.limits to women. But this is a ground-breaking step. One that will
:24:25. > :24:29.lead to American women and men fighting on the front line together.
:24:29. > :24:33.Dolphins are well known for their friendliness towards humans, but
:24:33. > :24:37.here is a remarkable story of how one actually came up to a group of
:24:37. > :24:40.divers for help. The animal was caught in a fishing line of Hawaii,
:24:40. > :24:45.swam up to the group and then stayed with them while one of the
:24:45. > :24:50.divers cut him free. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has more.
:24:50. > :24:54.A bottlenose dolphin swimming close to the surface of the coast of Kona
:24:54. > :24:59.in Hawaii. It swims up to a group of divers and they noticed that it
:24:59. > :25:04.is tangled up in a fishing line. They see that a hook is lodged in
:25:04. > :25:09.its bin. The line is wrapped around its head. Unless it can get free,
:25:09. > :25:16.it could die. It seems like it is asking for help. The woman filming
:25:16. > :25:20.this remarkable incident explains how she felt. It was such a special
:25:20. > :25:25.situation. I have been doing this for a long time. To see a creature
:25:25. > :25:30.asking another creature for help was mind-blowing. The diver cuts
:25:30. > :25:35.the fishing line. Then pulls the hook out of its fin. The dolphin
:25:35. > :25:41.allows the driver to do his work and waits patiently and calmly. It
:25:41. > :25:47.seems to know that the diver is helping. Amazing illustration of
:25:47. > :25:52.empathy between two species. This was an eight ft bottlenose dolphin.
:25:52. > :25:57.If it had opened its mouth, their teeth in it. It is a wild animal.
:25:57. > :26:02.But the communication was there was a solution, it stayed there and it
:26:02. > :26:07.was incredible. Now free, the dolphin swims away. The divers say
:26:07. > :26:14.they will go back soon a check-up on it and give an update on its
:26:14. > :26:17.condition. There are warnings of ice across
:26:17. > :26:21.the UK as snow continues to cause disruption. Freezing temperatures
:26:21. > :26:25.are set to continue into Saturday and forecasters are working --
:26:25. > :26:30.warning of further heavy snowfalls across the UK tomorrow. Danny
:26:30. > :26:34.Savage joins us from North Yorkshire.
:26:34. > :26:37.I think from most of the country today it is a respite from all the
:26:37. > :26:42.snow that has been falling. You can see the road behind me is fairly
:26:42. > :26:45.clear, but it is icy. For millions of people across Britain the snow
:26:45. > :26:50.and the cold weather is still dominating their everyday lives at
:26:50. > :26:55.the moment. In some areas of Britain, the snow has been lying
:26:55. > :26:59.around for 11 days now. Well known than to Marx had disappeared,
:26:59. > :27:03.camouflaged under the landscape. -- landmarks. High on the North York
:27:03. > :27:08.Moors, standing out against the snow, is the Lion Inn. The weather
:27:08. > :27:12.has had to be defective. Eight ft drifts across the road and all
:27:12. > :27:17.around the pub. You can see quite a lot of smoke. How long way you cut
:27:17. > :27:22.off for? Two full days come which is unusual. We don't close for
:27:22. > :27:26.anything. It is not hard to see why they are cut off but concern now is
:27:26. > :27:30.about what happens when all this begins to thaw at the weekend.
:27:30. > :27:34.centimetres of snow is the same as one inch of rain and we have snow
:27:34. > :27:38.across this country on very wet land. If it falls very quickly with
:27:38. > :27:41.the rain, there is a risk we will see flooding, particularly across
:27:41. > :27:45.the south-west of England on Friday and across the country over the
:27:45. > :27:48.weekend. But in the rural communities of North Yorkshire,
:27:48. > :27:53.they are out preparing for the sting in the tail, the cold weather
:27:53. > :27:57.has in store for tomorrow. We will have to stock up so we don't have
:27:57. > :28:03.to turn out tomorrow. Because when it snows appear, it certainly does,
:28:03. > :28:07.doesn't it? Yes, it puts it together really well up here, yes.
:28:07. > :28:11.The Environment Agency says a call to hit -- a call to build snowmen
:28:11. > :28:18.to ease before was a light-hearted remark, although this effect in
:28:18. > :28:21.County Durham is arguably doing his bit for the cause.
:28:21. > :28:26.The the ice is a problem on some roads today. I know some drivers
:28:26. > :28:30.have had a lucky escape in Buxton in Derbyshire after two cars came
:28:30. > :28:33.off the road and ended up in deep water. The people and the cars
:28:33. > :28:37.escaped without serious injury, but the Fire and Rescue Service say it
:28:37. > :28:42.was caused by ice. Be aware of that. Keep an eye on a forecast. More
:28:42. > :28:49.snow is expected. We will do that now. Let's get the
:28:49. > :28:52.latest one are forecast. How is it The end of the current cold snap is
:28:52. > :28:57.in sight, but not before we see further heavy falls of snow on
:28:57. > :29:02.Friday. Today, aware that it -- a relatively quiet picture. A lot of
:29:02. > :29:04.cloud. Some breaks in the cloud, particularly the south-west England,
:29:04. > :29:10.Wales and increasingly across north-east England. For Northern
:29:10. > :29:16.Ireland, extensively cloudy and cold, 3-4 degrees Celsius. In
:29:16. > :29:20.Scotland, a few cloud breaks across the north so limited sunny spells.
:29:20. > :29:24.Not much doing for the temperatures, struggling to get above freezing.
:29:24. > :29:28.Overnight tonight, a band of rain moving in from the Atlantic and a
:29:28. > :29:32.few flakes of snow in Northern Ireland. Milder air will move in,
:29:32. > :29:36.so snow turns back to rain. Elsewhere, a cold night.
:29:36. > :29:40.Temperatures down to minus five degrees Celsius but if we get clear
:29:40. > :29:44.spells the temperatures in the countryside could be minus ten
:29:44. > :29:48.degrees Celsius, one of the coldest nights of this winter so far. For
:29:48. > :29:51.Friday, the cold air is in place across much of the country. These
:29:51. > :29:56.were the fans will try to move in off the Atlantic bringing the band
:29:56. > :29:59.of rain with it and gradually it will bump into the cold air. During
:29:59. > :30:03.Friday morning, it quickly turned to snow across Scotland and snow
:30:03. > :30:07.arriving during Friday afternoon across north-west England, maybe
:30:07. > :30:11.into parts of Wales as well. The drier, cold weather hanging on
:30:11. > :30:16.across the East. The mild air continues to flow in across western
:30:16. > :30:20.areas with temperatures back to normal for the time of year. It is
:30:20. > :30:23.overnight into Friday that we will see further heavy falls of snow. We
:30:23. > :30:28.have an ample warning in force across parts of Scotland, northern
:30:28. > :30:31.England and the Midlands -- amber warning. We could see four, to
:30:31. > :30:36.eight centimetres of snow falling, as much as 20 centimetres across
:30:37. > :30:41.hills, but is eight inches of snow. Don't get caught out as we go
:30:41. > :30:44.through Friday night. I know a lot of people tend to travel home and
:30:45. > :30:48.see relatives and friends but conditions could be nasty. We may
:30:48. > :30:52.see some power supply problems as the wet, sticky Snowflakes stick to
:30:52. > :30:56.power lines and bring them down in a strong wind. There will be snow
:30:56. > :30:59.around on Saturday morning. It will tend to clear out of the way.
:30:59. > :31:03.Saturday night, another weather front, bringing another push of
:31:03. > :31:07.mild air across the British Isles. They will be heavy rain and it will
:31:07. > :31:10.set in a rapid fall of lying snow and into the weekend we will be
:31:10. > :31:14.concerned by the risk of some localised flooding as well. There
:31:14. > :31:23.is a lot going on with the weather. Stay in touch with your local
:31:23. > :31:26.weather forecast and the details on A reminder of the top story. The
:31:26. > :31:29.Prime Minister has brushed aside criticism about the impact of the