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The Prime Minister tells world leaders why Britain needs a new | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
deal with the rest of Europe. David Cameron says it's about making a | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
more competitive, open and flexible EU. This is not about turning our | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
backs on Europe, quite the opposite. This is about how we make the case | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
for a more competitive, a more open, a more flexible Europe and how we | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
secure the UK's place within it. A drop in the crime figures in | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
England and Wales, but police are accused of exaggerating the fall. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
A backlog of 16,000 unprocessed immigration case sz deemed | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
unacceptable by inspectors. More wintry weather for some parts | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
of the UK and warnings that things are going to get worse before they | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
get better. Some remarkable pictures of the | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
moment an injured dolphin turned to a diver for a helping hand. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Later on BBC London. We reveal how Social Services ignored requests to | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
visit this woman, days before she was murdered by her partner. The | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
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number of reported assaults in male Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
News at 1pm. The Prime Minister has brushed aside criticism about the | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
impact the prospect of an EU referendum, claiming it would be | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
more risky to do nothing than tackle the issue head on. Speaking | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
at the world economic form in switserlapbld, Mr Cameron warned | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
other European leaders that any attempt to shoe horn countries into | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
deeper union was a mistake that Britain would not be part of. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Here's our Chief Economic Correspondent, Hugh Pym. It was, in | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
effect, the start of David Cameron's long campaign to win | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
support in Europe for a major political rethink in. A speech in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Davos ah, tended by European, political and business leaders, he | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
argued letting events developed as currently planned was not | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
acceptable. We should try and shape them in the UK's national interest. | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
Let us negotiate a new settlement for Europe that works for the | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
United Kingdom and let's get fresh consent for it. It's not just right | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
for the United Kingdom, it is necessary for Europe. Outside the | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
conference rooms the London Mayor was pressing the British Government | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
case, here with the IMF chief. the right thing for Europe, because | :02:43. | :02:52. | |
you cannot go on with the Brits endlessly being at the back. Long | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
live Great Britain and long live Europe, she says. In private, pz on | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Mr Cameron's stance may not be quite so good natured. But he did | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
win support from one former leading German policy maker. I think that's | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
a sensible proposition. As a European and somebody who's very | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
pro-European, I hope the British population decides when that vote | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
and if that vote comes up that they see the benefits. At home more than | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
50 bills leaders have backed Mr Cameron in a letter to the Times | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
they say, "We agree with the Prime Minister that brib's best chance of | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
success is partd of a reformed Europe. We need a new relationship | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
with the EU, backed by democratic mandate. A third of the signitaries | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
are Conservative donors or peers. Others in the corporate world are | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
concerned about the impact on British trade. Just under half of | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
UK exports of goods and services head to the EU. There's a fear by | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
raising the possibility of quitting, the Prime Minister will undermine | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
business. He's in a bit of a political predicament that he has | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
to deal with. From a bills point of view, economic point of view, it | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
can't be very good. In the best, it's neutral. At the worst it's | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
negative, in terms of generating uncertainty. For David Cameron, one | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
key reaction to his demands for reform is all important, that of | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and she's due to speak in | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Davos within the next hour. In a moment we'll hear from our | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
political correspondent Norman Smith. First to our business | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
correspondent Simon Jack. What sort of reaction did Mr Cameron's speech | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
get from the other European leaders? When he got up, the | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
reception was about as cool as the mountain air behind me Mario Monti | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
said we don't want unwilling Europeans. He had some explaining | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
to do in front of a tough crowd. He said he does want to be awe | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
European, but he doesn't want to be a pure even -- European in the road | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
you're heading towards. The reaction he got then in the Q&A | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
after was illustrative of how it wents down. He said I've said my | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
bit, was there any questions, there was an embarrass ly -- | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
embarrassingly long pause before a question came about aid. Also | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
someone said, look the the European Union has bent over backwards to | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
keep Greece in the European Union and are they convinced they will | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
dot same for you? Simon Jack there from Davos. Now to Westminster and | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
talk to our political correspondent, Norman Smith. It's all about Mr | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Cameron selling his message to the other European leaders. Did we get | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
a sense of how he will do that in the next few months today? I think | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
we did. We discovered how Mr Cameron wants to pitch his case, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
how he wants to present it to the rest of the EU and to the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
international business community. That is, he does not want to be | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
seen as some sort of Mr Angry of little England, straining to hold | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
back his bulldog at the white cliffs of Dover. He wants to be | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
seen as Mr Reasonable of Westminster, Mr Euro sensible of | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
SW1 by saying to the business communities, look, a reformed EU | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
would be more complexible, better able to compete against India and | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
China. In other words u, it would make business sense for you. To say | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
to EU leaders, there's no point pretending this debate isn't | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
happening, it's under way. This is an opportunity to re-engage with | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
voters and to underscore support for the EU in. Other words, it's | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
good politics for you. Now he's not going to convince them overnight. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
There are serious doubts in the business community and amongst EU | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
leaders about the referendum idea. But his hope is to get a hearing, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
to get them to at least listen to him and not to dismiss him as Mr | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
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Angry of the lounge bar of warming Immigration inspectors say they've | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
uncovered a backlog of 16,000 cases which haven't been dealt with by | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
the UK Border Agency. Most of them were requests to settle through | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
marriage and include people waiting a decade to hear if their partner | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
had permission to live in the UK. The Chief Inspector of imgaigs says | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
the situation is unacceptable. Our home affairs correspondent Matt | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
Prodger reports. They're no strangers to queues at immigration | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
processing centre in Croydon, and in the system, as a whole, there | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
have been no fewer than eight backlogs in the past two years, | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
ranging from student visas to asylum claims. Now there are two | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
more adding a total of 16,000 unresolved cases. To wait such a | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
long time, even if their case was complex is completely outside any | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
service standards that the agency has. It should be addressed as a | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
matter of urgency. One backlog is 14,000 applications for people | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
seeking review of a refusal to let them settle with husbands or wives | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
in the UK. Inspectors found the case load was rising by 700 a month. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
And more than 2,000 others were awaiting any kind of decision at | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
all. Some go back a decade. Here at the Home Office they say the | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
smaller backlog has been cleared since the inspection. And the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
larger backlog is being eliminated as a result of recent changes in | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
immigration rules. But there remain more than 300,000 cases across the | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
system that are still awaiting decisions. We're going through, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
working through these issues. I'm confident that by the time we get | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
through this Parliament, the agency will be in good shape. You know, | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
it's not an overnight fix. We're going in the right direction. We're | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
getting a grip of these things and sorting them out. Emily Churchill | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
and her Palestinian husband had to live apart for more than a year | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
because she was refuelsed a visa. Now he's in London, but his case | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
hasn't been resolved. And his temporary visa expired today. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
think that the uncertainty that the immigration system puts you under | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
is very, very difficult to live with. It's difficult to be a couple | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
and a family and not know when you're going to be together or not | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
know what the future holds for you. It takes them so long to give you a | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
decision. The Border Agency was criticised for failing to take into | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
account the interests of children. But in most cases, inspectors said | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
its decisions ultimately were reasonable. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
A study of crime trends in England and Wales suggests the fall in | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
offences recorded by police may have been exaggerated. The report | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
from the Office for National Statistics comes as new figures | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
showed continued reductions in virtually every category of crime. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Danny Shaw is in Central London. | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
What's the ONS saying about police overstating the fall in crime? | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
it had a look at the way that the police recorded crime figures over | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
the past five years and compared that to the crime survey of England | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
and Wales, which are both pet unitable, official sets of data. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
They found that the police figures were recording crimes at a rate | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
which was much less than the crime survey, about half. So the decline | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
measured by the police was greater than the decline measured by the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
official crime survey. Possible reasons for this are one, the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
target culture. The police have to try and get crimes down and that | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
there's great store set by that. Secondly, concerns about cuts, the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
possibility that perhaps with fewer officers and staff they're not | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
involved in measuring crime so effectively and lastly, police | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
officer on the ground are given more discretion to deal with minor | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
offences informally rather than logging all the crimes. A dispute | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
how much crime is going down by, but it's still going down? Yeah, | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
that's the good enough. Crime is definitely on the decrease. The | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
police figures show a reduction in the year to the end of September of | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
7% overall. In terms of the crime survey, it's an 8% reduction. Falls | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
across all categories of crime, particularly homicides, down to | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
their lowest level since 1978. The only category bucking the trend is | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
pick pocketing. A deal between the UK and Ireland to bring wind energy | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
to British homes is being criticised for potentially damaging | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
the Irish countryside. The deal, signed today, will mean Britain | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
gets cheaper green energy and Ireland gets investment and jobs. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
There are concerns that it will lead to the construction of some of | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the biggest wind turbines in the world. Our correspondent Matt | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
McGrath reports. EU targets mean that keeping the lights on across | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
the UK is going to need a lot more renewable energy from 2020. One | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
possible solution is to buy that from Ireland, a country associated | :12:00. | :12:08. | |
with all things green. Britain's opportunity is in wind energy. They | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
believe they can provide 1.5% of UK energy needs from Irish wind by | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
2017. They are blaning to put turbines all across the boggy Irish | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Midlands. But there are worries that the wind in the bogs is often | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
too slow to generate power,. Some much larger turbines will be needed. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
Building windfarms on boglands has been done successfully here in | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
Ireland in Tipperary. To generate the green electricity needed to | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
power three million UK homes, it's going to require much bigger | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
turbines than the ones you see here. In fact, it will need some of the | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
biggest ever built in the world. The company behind the plan says | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
that 700 of these giant turbines will be needed. They will stretch | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
over 600 feet into the Irish sky. We felt it was better to build | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
slightly large you are turbines but fewer of them. That's the best way | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
to minimise the impact on the local area. Opponents say they will be a | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
blot on the landscape of a country that trades on its unspoilt green | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
image. They say the real reason that Ireland is being saddled with | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
these turbines is because of the hostility of many Conservative MPs | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
to wind. It seems to be an Irish solution it a British problem. | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Politically, they don't want turbines in the British countryside. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
They're under pressure from the public over there. It would seem | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
they want time pose the windfarms on the Irish instead. Plz say the | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
agreement is but a first step to a different type of power share ago | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
agreement between the countries. No difintive decisions have been taken | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
yet about how the wind energy will be generated. | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
All Britons have been urged by the Government to leave the Libyan city | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
of Ben Gaza in response to a specific and imminent threat | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
against Westerners. The Foreign Office has been advising against | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
travel since last September, but it's now stepped up that warning. | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
Let's speak to our world affairs correspondent Caroine Hawley. What | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
else is the Foreign Office saying about this? The Foreign Office | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
understand and believes, it's not giving details about the imminent | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
threat, it says, though, that after the French military intervention in | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
Mali, which of course, is being backed by Britain, there is the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
possibility of retaliation against Western interests. This comes a day | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
after the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, testifyed about | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
the attack on the American mission, that you may remember, September | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
11th, in which the US ambassador was killed and three others. She | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
said yesterday that Al-Qaeda was on the rise. It also comes, of course, | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
a week after that hostage crisis at the gas facility in Algeria. That | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
has raised serious concerns about a terror threat right across the | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
north of Africa with links to Libya and a senior Algerian official said | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
that attack in Algeria at the gas facility had links to the Benghazi | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
attack as well. Police say the Chelsea midfielder, Eden Hazard | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
won't face criminal action after he kicked a ball boy who appeared to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
be time wasting. The incident happened last night during Swansea | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
is the Iy's victory stkpwepbs Chelsea in the League Cup. Gordon | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Taylor says Hazard shouldn't have taken the law in his own hands. He | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
said he lost his head and had to receive his punishment. Our Wales | :15:37. | :15:47. | |
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Last night, Charlie Morgan was cast in a leading role. In the final | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
minutes of the game he stop Swansea's opponents from getting | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
the ball. Frustrated, Chelsea's Eden Hazard saw red, kicking out | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
and making contact with the ball, he says, not the boy. Either way, | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
he soon saw red will gain as the referee sentence to the sidelines. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
He is going to send him off. As a slight's winners, Swansea City are | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
keen to move on. Have you ever seen anything like that before? It is | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
part of the game. We do not go to the police because otherwise the | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
player could be arrested. We will leave it as it is. But some have | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
lost sympathy for the 17-year-old, after it emerged he had sent a | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
tweet before the game mentioning time-wasting. He is 17. He should | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
be behaving better. When Eden Hazard kicked the ball, the boy | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
rolled over pretending to be more injured but he was. It is | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
disgraceful. At the end of last night's game, Eden Hazard and the | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
boy apparently shook hands in the dressing rooms. The police are | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
taking no more action. Here in Swansea at least, attention turns | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
to how to secure a ticket for the club's first-ever major cup final. | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Hazard may still face sanctions, but whoever the heroes and villains | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
of the piece, the game will be remembered as the night the ball | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
boy finally took centre stage. A quick look at the time. It is | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
1:17pm. Our top story, the Prime Minister has brushed aside | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
criticism about the impact of the prospect of an EU referendum, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
claiming it would be more risky to do nothing. Coming up, a special | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
report from Jordan on the refugee crisis caused by the conflict in | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Syria. All day, people are continuing to arrive here, some | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
3,000 in the last 24 hours it. We are told there are tens of | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
thousands more are waiting on the other side of the border. Later, on | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
BBC London, a royal visit for the art school that helped to decorate | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
the Queen's Jubilee budge. The London Business woman beating the | :17:59. | :18:09. | |
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recession was her passion for pom- Fierce fighting in Syria has caused | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
a major humanitarian crisis within the region, with hundreds of | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
thousands of people seeking shelter in neighbouring countries. Now the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
United Nations and Jordan say they are concerned they will not be able | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
to cope with the increasing numbers. Our correspondent Fergal Keane | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
reports from a camp in Jordan. These are just some of the 3,000 | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
people who arrived at the camp in the last 24 hours and what you see | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
now is the queue of the menfolk, who are waiting to get blankets and | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
to be allocated tents for their families. Those tents are going to | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
be their homes for who knows how long. There are something like | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
between 60,070 1000 people in this camp and the numbers are growing | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
every day. -- 60,000, to 70,000 people. There are quarter of a | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
million refugees from Syria in Jordan. It is putting a huge strain | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
on the country. We have heard the Jordanians warning they may have to | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
close down the border. They hope they will not have to do that, but | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
I think the fear is that if there is a total breakdown of order | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
inside Syria, then Jordan will not be able to cope. As you can see, | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
all around here, a lot of women and very young children. Cement are | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
either out in the camp, trying to find the tense for their families, | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
or others have stayed behind in Syria to protect what is left of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
the family's properties. -- the men. When they come here, they bring | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
what they can carry. Mostly it is some clothes and a few personal | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
mementoes, maybe the stove to cook on. Everything else, for everything | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
else, they are dependent on the charity of the international | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
community. It is extremely critical. We are receiving about 2000, or | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
3,000 people a night. We know there are around 50,000 or 60,000 ready | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
to cross into Jordan. We have done as well as we cannot giving the | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
resources we have got, which is that we have no resources any more. | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
We need money desperately to expand this camp had open two others. We | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
will receive another 2000 or 3,000 people tonight, women and children | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
are desperate for support and accommodation, desperate for | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
blankets. There is a limit to what we can provide at the moment. | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
You can hear more of that from Fergal Keane on tonight's Six | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
O'Clock News on BBC One. Almost a quarter of schools and | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
colleges in England are producing no pupils with the A-level grades | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
sought by the most competitive courses at leading universities. | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
Nearly 600 sixth-forms and colleges had no one achieving two grey gate | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
and a grade B preferred by the Russell group of universities. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
It is being suggested that women who spoke today are far more likely | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
to die as a result of a habit than in the 1960s. Researchers say women | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
are start smoking younger and until recently smoked more heavily than | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
in previous generations. Dominic Hughes reports. | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Smoking among women really took off in the 19 fifties and sixties. | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
like smoking. I think people slow because they like smoking. Now a | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
new study in the United States involving two million people shows | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
how the effects are still being felt today. While health generally | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
has improved over the past 50 years, the relative risks to smokers of | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
diseases like lung cancer has increased as well. So a woman | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
smoking in the 1960s was nearly three times more likely to die from | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
lung cancer than a non-smoker. But by 2010, lung cancer was 25 times | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
more likely to claim the life of a female smoker than a non-smoker. | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Smoking among women peak in the 1980s. One reason the risk of | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
serious disease has continued to rise may be that women are starting | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
to smoke younger and until recently were smoking more heavily than | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
previous generations. Researchers say their findings confirm the | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
claim that women who smoke like men will die like men. Smoking causes a | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
range of different diseases. In the past, we thought that women might | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
have a protective, be protected from some risks of disease, but now | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
it appears that there are equally at risk from a whole range of | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
different diseases in the same way that men are. When you smoke, the | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
chemicals you inhale... Oh this recent anti-smoking campaign that | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
running England tries to bring home to smokers the risks they run with | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
their health. But the good news is that stopping smoking at any age | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
dramatically reduces death rates from all major diseases caused by | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
smoking. The US military is ending its ban | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
on women serving in combat roles. The Defense Secretary Leon Panetta | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
will announce the policy change later today. America has 1.5 | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
million active service personnel 14% of them are women. Our | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
Washington correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
Women have been getting closer to combat for years. They serve in the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
US military in many roles, as pilots, medics, mechanics and | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
police. But since 1994, women have been banned from joining frontline, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
artillery and infantry battalions. Patrols on frontline fighting has | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
been the job of men. Until now. The decision to overturn the ban has | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
been made by the Obama administration, but its US military | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
chiefs who have recommended a change to the rules. More than | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
20,000 women served with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
have since filed lawsuits against the Pentagon, claiming they served | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
in a combat role but have not been recognised for it. Of America's 1.5 | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
million members of the armed services, 14% are women. Lifting | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
the ban will open up hundreds of thousands of new jobs for them. It | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
is thought the US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta once initial plans in | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
place by May and military chief for sad -- and military chiefs will | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
have three years to decide if some combat roles should remain off- | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
limits to women. But this is a ground-breaking step. One that will | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
lead to American women and men fighting on the front line together. | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
Dolphins are well known for their friendliness towards humans, but | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
here is a remarkable story of how one actually came up to a group of | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
divers for help. The animal was caught in a fishing line of Hawaii, | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
swam up to the group and then stayed with them while one of the | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
divers cut him free. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has more. | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
A bottlenose dolphin swimming close to the surface of the coast of Kona | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
in Hawaii. It swims up to a group of divers and they noticed that it | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
is tangled up in a fishing line. They see that a hook is lodged in | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
its bin. The line is wrapped around its head. Unless it can get free, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
it could die. It seems like it is asking for help. The woman filming | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
this remarkable incident explains how she felt. It was such a special | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
situation. I have been doing this for a long time. To see a creature | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
asking another creature for help was mind-blowing. The diver cuts | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
the fishing line. Then pulls the hook out of its fin. The dolphin | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
allows the driver to do his work and waits patiently and calmly. It | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
seems to know that the diver is helping. Amazing illustration of | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
empathy between two species. This was an eight ft bottlenose dolphin. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
If it had opened its mouth, their teeth in it. It is a wild animal. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
But the communication was there was a solution, it stayed there and it | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
was incredible. Now free, the dolphin swims away. The divers say | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
they will go back soon a check-up on it and give an update on its | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
condition. There are warnings of ice across | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
the UK as snow continues to cause disruption. Freezing temperatures | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
are set to continue into Saturday and forecasters are working -- | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
warning of further heavy snowfalls across the UK tomorrow. Danny | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Savage joins us from North Yorkshire. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
I think from most of the country today it is a respite from all the | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
snow that has been falling. You can see the road behind me is fairly | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
clear, but it is icy. For millions of people across Britain the snow | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
and the cold weather is still dominating their everyday lives at | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
the moment. In some areas of Britain, the snow has been lying | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
around for 11 days now. Well known than to Marx had disappeared, | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
camouflaged under the landscape. -- landmarks. High on the North York | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Moors, standing out against the snow, is the Lion Inn. The weather | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
has had to be defective. Eight ft drifts across the road and all | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
around the pub. You can see quite a lot of smoke. How long way you cut | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
off for? Two full days come which is unusual. We don't close for | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
anything. It is not hard to see why they are cut off but concern now is | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
about what happens when all this begins to thaw at the weekend. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
centimetres of snow is the same as one inch of rain and we have snow | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
across this country on very wet land. If it falls very quickly with | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
the rain, there is a risk we will see flooding, particularly across | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
the south-west of England on Friday and across the country over the | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
weekend. But in the rural communities of North Yorkshire, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
they are out preparing for the sting in the tail, the cold weather | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
has in store for tomorrow. We will have to stock up so we don't have | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
to turn out tomorrow. Because when it snows appear, it certainly does, | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
doesn't it? Yes, it puts it together really well up here, yes. | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
The Environment Agency says a call to hit -- a call to build snowmen | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
to ease before was a light-hearted remark, although this effect in | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
County Durham is arguably doing his bit for the cause. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
The the ice is a problem on some roads today. I know some drivers | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
have had a lucky escape in Buxton in Derbyshire after two cars came | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
off the road and ended up in deep water. The people and the cars | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
escaped without serious injury, but the Fire and Rescue Service say it | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
was caused by ice. Be aware of that. Keep an eye on a forecast. More | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
snow is expected. We will do that now. Let's get the | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
latest one are forecast. How is it The end of the current cold snap is | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
in sight, but not before we see further heavy falls of snow on | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
Friday. Today, aware that it -- a relatively quiet picture. A lot of | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
cloud. Some breaks in the cloud, particularly the south-west England, | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
Wales and increasingly across north-east England. For Northern | :29:04. | :29:10. | |
Ireland, extensively cloudy and cold, 3-4 degrees Celsius. In | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
Scotland, a few cloud breaks across the north so limited sunny spells. | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
Not much doing for the temperatures, struggling to get above freezing. | :29:20. | :29:24. | |
Overnight tonight, a band of rain moving in from the Atlantic and a | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
few flakes of snow in Northern Ireland. Milder air will move in, | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
so snow turns back to rain. Elsewhere, a cold night. | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
Temperatures down to minus five degrees Celsius but if we get clear | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
spells the temperatures in the countryside could be minus ten | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
degrees Celsius, one of the coldest nights of this winter so far. For | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
Friday, the cold air is in place across much of the country. These | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
were the fans will try to move in off the Atlantic bringing the band | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
of rain with it and gradually it will bump into the cold air. During | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
Friday morning, it quickly turned to snow across Scotland and snow | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
arriving during Friday afternoon across north-west England, maybe | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
into parts of Wales as well. The drier, cold weather hanging on | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
across the East. The mild air continues to flow in across western | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
areas with temperatures back to normal for the time of year. It is | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
overnight into Friday that we will see further heavy falls of snow. We | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
have an ample warning in force across parts of Scotland, northern | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
England and the Midlands -- amber warning. We could see four, to | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
eight centimetres of snow falling, as much as 20 centimetres across | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
hills, but is eight inches of snow. Don't get caught out as we go | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
through Friday night. I know a lot of people tend to travel home and | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
see relatives and friends but conditions could be nasty. We may | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
see some power supply problems as the wet, sticky Snowflakes stick to | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
power lines and bring them down in a strong wind. There will be snow | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
around on Saturday morning. It will tend to clear out of the way. | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
Saturday night, another weather front, bringing another push of | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
mild air across the British Isles. They will be heavy rain and it will | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
set in a rapid fall of lying snow and into the weekend we will be | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
concerned by the risk of some localised flooding as well. There | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
is a lot going on with the weather. Stay in touch with your local | :31:14. | :31:23. | |
weather forecast and the details on A reminder of the top story. The | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
Prime Minister has brushed aside criticism about the impact of the | :31:26. | :31:29. |