:00:10. > :00:13.Oscar Pistorius tells a court in South Africa he had not meant to
:00:13. > :00:14.kill his girlfriend. He said the couple had been deeply in love. But
:00:14. > :00:17.couple had been deeply in love. But the Paralympic champion is charged
:00:17. > :00:22.with pre-meditated murder on the day a private funeral is held for
:00:22. > :00:26.Reeva Steenkamp, in her hometown of Port Elizabeth. There is a space
:00:26. > :00:29.missing inside all of the people she knew. That can't be filled
:00:29. > :00:32.again. Diamond heist - one of the biggest ever robberies takes place
:00:32. > :00:36.in Brussels. Heavily armed men make off with �40 million worth of
:00:36. > :00:41.precious gems. The world's biggest food company, Nestle, is the latest
:00:41. > :00:44.to be embroiled in the horsemeat scandal. A warning that energy
:00:44. > :00:50.bills will continue to rise as the UK becomes more dependent on
:00:50. > :00:53.imported gas. And the Princess and the Author - controversy as Hilary
:00:53. > :01:03.Mantel describes the Duchess of Cambridge as a machine-made
:01:03. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:09.princess with no personality. Later in London, the police call for
:01:09. > :01:19.regulations to clamp down on ticket, the outs and council will raise
:01:19. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:31.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Oscar Pistorius
:01:31. > :01:36.has told a court he had no intention of killing his girlfriend
:01:36. > :01:39.Reeva Steenkamp. The couple, he said, had been deeply in love. This
:01:39. > :01:41.morning the Paralympic champion made a second court appearance
:01:41. > :01:46.during which the prosecution claimed the killing had been
:01:46. > :01:49.premeditated. They claim that in the early hours of Valentine's Day
:01:49. > :01:52.he had put on his prosthetic legs, picked up a gun and walked more
:01:52. > :01:57.than 20 feet before opening fire and killing his girlfriend through
:01:57. > :02:07.a bathroom door. His defence argues he had mistaken her for a burglar.
:02:07. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:14.From Pretoria, Peter Biles sent this report. The fate of South
:02:14. > :02:21.Africa's best known athlete is in the balance. South Africans remain
:02:21. > :02:27.gripped by the tragedy. The court was packed bng lofr Oscar Pistorius
:02:27. > :02:32.appeared. And the magistrate asked him whether he was well under the
:02:32. > :02:38.circumstances. Yes, he replied. But before long he had broken down in
:02:38. > :02:43.tears. The prosecution outlined what they believe was the sequence
:02:43. > :02:49.of events last Thursday. How Reeva Steenkamp went to the house
:02:49. > :02:55.expected to spend the night there. The prosecution described how she
:02:55. > :03:05.was allegedly shot three times by Oscar Pistorius while 2349 -- in
:03:05. > :03:08.
:03:08. > :03:13.The magistrate has ruled it was pre-meditated murder. It will make
:03:13. > :03:18.it more difficult for defence to argue that Oscar Pistorius be
:03:18. > :03:22.granted bail. His lawyer say while there may have been an argument
:03:22. > :03:27.between Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp, it was not proof of
:03:28. > :03:32.murder. At Reeva Steenkamp's house, family gathered for her funeral.
:03:32. > :03:35.There is a space missing inside the people that she knew that can't be
:03:35. > :03:40.filled again. We are going to keep all the positive things that we
:03:40. > :03:47.remember and know about my sister and we will try and continue with
:03:47. > :03:51.the things that she tried to make better. We will miss her. What is
:03:51. > :03:55.not in dispute is that Oscar Pistorius shot and killed Reeva
:03:55. > :04:00.Steenkamp. But the story of how it happened is only now beginning to
:04:00. > :04:07.emerge. And our Africa Correspondent Andrew Harding is
:04:07. > :04:11.outside the courthouse. We have been hearing the prosecution case
:04:11. > :04:17.and an affidavit read out establishing Oscar Pistorius's key
:04:17. > :04:27.defence. What did the court hear? It was an extraordinary statement
:04:27. > :04:32.from Oscar Pistorius, delivered by his lawyer. So emotional in fact
:04:32. > :04:36.did Oscar Pistorius get that the hearing had to be suspended. He
:04:36. > :04:44.said in the middle of the night he woke to bring in a fan from the pal
:04:44. > :04:48.Connie and heard noises and went over not with his prosthetic leg on
:04:48. > :04:53.and shot four times through bathroom door, convinced that he
:04:53. > :04:56.was being burgled. He said he returned to the bedroom and then
:04:56. > :05:02.realised that Reeva Steenkamp was not in the bed and that perhaps she
:05:02. > :05:10.was in the bathroom. He says he put his pros Peth thetic limbs on,
:05:10. > :05:15.picked up a cricket bat, found his girlfriend dying 5 took her down
:05:15. > :05:20.stairs she died in his arms. We have heard friends describing a
:05:20. > :05:24.very close couple, both apparently considering marriage. So a strong
:05:24. > :05:29.case from the defence. Now we will hear from the prosecution in more
:05:29. > :05:35.detail. The bail hearing just adjourned. So what does happen
:05:35. > :05:40.next? The bail hearing will continue tomorrow. This is suppose
:05:40. > :05:46.to be a two-day hearing. After that it is not clear hen a trial date
:05:46. > :05:51.will be set. It could be some months away. Thank you. And we can
:05:51. > :05:56.see the extents of the coverage, how would you describe the mood
:05:56. > :06:00.there? It is a frenzy. There was almost a stampede as we tried to
:06:00. > :06:07.get into the court. There is just phenomenal interest and a real
:06:07. > :06:10.sense of mystery here. This is not an open or shut case and I think
:06:10. > :06:15.although Oscar Pistorius's evidence is compelling to a lot of people,
:06:15. > :06:20.still the prosecution will be saying what about those calls that
:06:20. > :06:26.there was a disturbance at that apart., at his house that night.
:06:26. > :06:31.What about the reports that he had some sort of abusive relationship?
:06:31. > :06:34.Thank you. It's already being called one of the biggest diamonds
:06:34. > :06:37.heists in history. Gems worth more than �40 million were stolen when
:06:37. > :06:40.masked gunmen broke through a perimeter fence at Brussels airport
:06:40. > :06:44.and held up a security van loading the diamonds on to a flight bound
:06:45. > :06:48.for Zurich. Ben Ando's report has some strobing images. By the time
:06:48. > :06:53.the police arrived the robbers had fled, all they left behind a gaping
:06:53. > :06:58.hole in the fence and a burnt out car. The gang struck just before
:06:58. > :07:03.8pm Brussels time, targeting a Swiss jet. It had just been loaded
:07:03. > :07:06.with uncut diamonds from a Brinks security truck. Police say eight
:07:06. > :07:14.robbers in police uniforms and brandishing guns grabbed the load
:07:14. > :07:17.and escaped across the tarmac. It was all over in minutes.
:07:17. > :07:21.operation at the airport has taken exactly three minutes. So this was
:07:21. > :07:27.a very quick hit and run, very well organised. There has been no
:07:27. > :07:33.shooting. There were no injuries. So far the airline has not
:07:33. > :07:36.commented, police say passengers on board the jet saw and heard nothing.
:07:36. > :07:39.Though the flight was later cancelled. The stolen diamondss had
:07:39. > :07:45.come from Antwerp, known as the world's diamond capital, and are
:07:45. > :07:47.said to be worth around �43 million. 30 years ago the Brinks Matt
:07:47. > :07:52.warehouse near Heathrow was raided and robbers escaped with diamonds
:07:52. > :08:00.and bullion worth in today's money around �86 million. Much of the
:08:00. > :08:03.haul was never recovered. Unlike the Brinks Matt robbery, this raid
:08:03. > :08:06.took place airside and experts say while it was well planned, the
:08:06. > :08:16.airport will need to examine why a breach of the perimeter fence did
:08:16. > :08:18.
:08:18. > :08:23.not sound alarm businessmens more quickly. -- alarm bells more
:08:23. > :08:26.quickly. Energy bills will rise in the future as the UK becomes more
:08:26. > :08:29.reliant on gas imports. That's the warning from the energy watchdog,
:08:29. > :08:35.Ofgem, which predicts that the closure of old power stations could
:08:35. > :08:39.lead to a 10% fall in capacity by April alone. John Moylan reports.
:08:39. > :08:44.Our energy bills may be at record highs, but now there is news
:08:44. > :08:48.they're likely to go higher. According to the the regulator,
:08:48. > :08:54.there will an increase risk of power cuts and rising prices for
:08:54. > :08:59.all of us. EU rules mean older polluting power plants like this
:08:59. > :09:04.will start to close within weeks. With no new plants being built, our
:09:04. > :09:10.national power network is about to enter unchartered territory. Within
:09:10. > :09:14.a month 10% of our capacity, old plant, goes off the system and we
:09:14. > :09:20.have been running this coal-fired plant as if it has been going out
:09:20. > :09:24.of fashion and sadly it is going out of fashion three years earlier.
:09:24. > :09:28.We will be very tight on power station capacity in three to five
:09:28. > :09:33.years time. In the years ahead, more of our electricity will come
:09:33. > :09:38.from gas. But our own off shore supplies are shrinking. So we could
:09:38. > :09:44.need to import more gas at a time of rising global demand.
:09:44. > :09:47.Campaigners warn that can only mean higher prices. Already six million
:09:47. > :09:52.families live in fuel poverty and are spending more than 10% of their
:09:52. > :09:57.income on energy. That will rise to nine million families. So what we
:09:57. > :10:02.have got to do is protect the least well off and insulate the homes
:10:02. > :10:08.better. The Government wants the UK to have a mix of energy sources, it
:10:08. > :10:12.is negotiating with the French firm EDF over plans for two new nuclear
:10:12. > :10:16.reactors in Somerset. But the talks are said to be in frubl and the
:10:16. > :10:21.industry recognises there could be difficult times ahead. -- trouble.
:10:21. > :10:27.It is going to be a tricky way forward to through this transition
:10:27. > :10:31.into a new world at a price which is affordable for people and keeps
:10:31. > :10:37.our industry competitive. Government says its energy bill
:10:37. > :10:46.ensure there is sufficient supply when margins get tight and give
:10:46. > :10:49.incentives for private sector investment in new power generation.
:10:49. > :10:52.MPs have called for people who use aggressive tax avoidance schemes to
:10:52. > :10:54.be named and shamed to discourage the rich and famous from exploiting
:10:54. > :11:04.legal loopholes. The Public Accounts Committee says it's
:11:04. > :11:08.
:11:08. > :11:11.costing the Treasury �5 billion a year. The world's biggest food
:11:11. > :11:14.company, Nestle, is the latest to be embroiled in the horsemeat
:11:14. > :11:17.scandal. The Swiss-based company has removed beef pasta meals from
:11:17. > :11:20.shelves in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA.
:11:20. > :11:22.The firm says it has stopped deliveries of meat products from a
:11:22. > :11:27.German supplier. From Berlin, Stephen Evans reports. Another day,
:11:27. > :11:30.another batch of meat products is taken off shelves as the crisis
:11:30. > :11:38.spreads. Today, the world's biggest food producer said there was horse
:11:38. > :11:41.meat in some of its products. Nestle said brands of its beef
:11:41. > :11:50.pasta contained horse and were withdrawn from sale in Italy and
:11:50. > :12:00.Spain. And a beef product for sail in France also had horse meat.
:12:00. > :12:07.
:12:07. > :12:12.Nestle is blaming a German company. The German company said it hadn't
:12:12. > :12:18.bought horse meat, though in future its buying procedures would be
:12:18. > :12:21.tightened with DNA testing of all the meat. In Germany, the
:12:21. > :12:27.Government says there will be tightser regulation and expects
:12:27. > :12:30.more cases. TRANSLATION: We expect more cases to be uncovered and that
:12:30. > :12:36.is why these controls are being put in place. In order to get
:12:36. > :12:42.everything on the table and in particular to resolve this.
:12:42. > :12:48.drive for cheap food from consumers has led to an international market
:12:48. > :12:52.in frozen meat with a supply chain that nobody can keep track of. The
:12:52. > :13:02.problem for consumers and food sellers is that a lack of clarity
:13:02. > :13:04.
:13:04. > :13:14.means an increase in mistrust of the whole process. The award
:13:14. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:20.winning author, Hilary Mantell has compared the Kate Middleton as a
:13:20. > :13:24.shop man Quinn request no personality. The -- mannequin with
:13:24. > :13:31.no personality. The Prime Minister described the comments as misguided.
:13:31. > :13:36.This report contains some frash photography. -- flash. She is
:13:36. > :13:40.roughly four months pregnant and there is evidence of a more round
:13:40. > :13:45.stomach than before. The pregnancy sickness of December has passed.
:13:45. > :13:51.Yet Catherine is still taking things carefully. Last week she and
:13:51. > :13:56.William were on holiday. Today she was fulfilling her first public
:13:56. > :14:01.engagement for some weeks in London at a centre helping women with drug
:14:01. > :14:06.and alcohol problems. Despite this low profile, she has become the
:14:06. > :14:12.focus of unflattering comment business the author Hilary Mantel.
:14:12. > :14:18.During a lecture, she described how the media has portrayed Kate
:14:18. > :14:24.Middleton's transition to fashionable Duchess. I saw Kate
:14:24. > :14:30.becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. In those
:14:30. > :14:38.days she was just a shot window mannequin. With no personality of
:14:38. > :14:43.her own and entirely defined by what she wore. Miss Mantell said
:14:43. > :14:48.the person who eemerged saemed -- seemed machine made. St James'
:14:48. > :14:53.palace declined to comment. But Catherine was defended by the Chief
:14:53. > :14:59.Executive of the charity she visited. All can I speak of is my
:14:59. > :15:06.experience of her. That is somebody natural and genuine and eager to
:15:06. > :15:16.learn. She is a Dutch Ness a role which attracts attention and at
:15:16. > :15:25.
:15:25. > :15:28.times robust views that won't Coming up: It is dark, and it
:15:28. > :15:32.matters, the new theories that could revolutionise our
:15:32. > :15:35.understanding of the universe. Later on BBC London, still no
:15:35. > :15:38.confirmation over whether West Ham will move into the Olympic Stadium.
:15:38. > :15:41.And designer Tom Ford unveils his first Fashion Week show in the
:15:41. > :15:51.capital and tells us London is the most international city in the
:15:51. > :15:55.
:15:55. > :15:59.A man who killed a two-year-old boy when he blew up a house has been
:15:59. > :16:02.jailed for 10 years. The gas explosion in Oldham last June
:16:02. > :16:06.destroyed the rented home of Andrew Partington and neighbouring houses.
:16:06. > :16:10.The bottle of Jamie Heaton, will live next door to the House, was
:16:10. > :16:15.found in the wreckage. -- the body. Ed Thomas's outside Manchester
:16:15. > :16:19.Crown Court. We heard how Andrew Partington used
:16:19. > :16:24.a sop to hack his way through two Gas pipes. For 11 hours, he used
:16:24. > :16:28.his home to be filled with gas before the cigarette. What he did
:16:28. > :16:32.took the life of two-year-old Jamie Heaton, because he had a row with
:16:32. > :16:36.his girlfriend. Both this explosion did not just
:16:36. > :16:40.destroy homes and a community. It took the life of a two-year-old boy.
:16:40. > :16:45.Jamie Heaton was watching television seconds before the blast.
:16:45. > :16:52.His parents, Kenny and Michelle, were in court today as their
:16:52. > :16:57.neighbour was jailed for killing their son. It has been horrendous,
:16:57. > :17:07.losing Jamie, we have just been up and down, it has been a bit of a
:17:07. > :17:11.roller-coaster, really. Christmas was very hard. His birthday was on
:17:11. > :17:16.9th February, that has just gone, another hard day, but every day,
:17:16. > :17:20.you do not know how you're going to feel when you get up. Sundays are
:17:20. > :17:25.good, sometimes bad. Andrew Partington caused the explosion.
:17:25. > :17:29.The mother of his five children had left him after years of abuse, and
:17:29. > :17:34.within hours he sent her this text message. It said, next time you
:17:34. > :17:42.leave me, the house goes up with me, you left your kids with no dad and
:17:42. > :17:46.no home, goodbye, despite cut, The night before the explosion,
:17:46. > :17:50.neighbours say they could here arguing outside the house. The
:17:50. > :17:56.morning before, neighbours said they could smell gas. By the time
:17:56. > :18:05.they ran for help, it was too late. Eight months on, homes here are
:18:05. > :18:09.still empty, streets deserted. selfishness has destroyed that much.
:18:09. > :18:13.It has turned our lives upside-down and that of our neighbours as well.
:18:13. > :18:17.For what he did here, Andrew Partington was told he was a threat
:18:17. > :18:24.to others. The parents of Jamie Heaton said their lives were empty
:18:24. > :18:27.and lost without their son. The judge accepted that Andrew
:18:27. > :18:31.Partington was full of remorse for what he did, but he was also
:18:31. > :18:36.described as a bully and a man with a pattern of violent offending. The
:18:36. > :18:46.judge went on to say that in effect he had created and detonated a bomb.
:18:46. > :18:46.
:18:46. > :18:49.Lloyds Banking Group has been fined �4.3 million for delaying
:18:49. > :18:54.compensation to customers who were mis-sold payment protection
:18:54. > :18:58.insurance. The Financial Services Authority set up to 140,000 people
:18:58. > :19:03.have to wait longer than one month for their money. Lloyd's is the
:19:03. > :19:08.first bank to be fined by the FSA for delaying payments. We can get
:19:08. > :19:12.more from Simon Gompertz. Tell us about this particular case. Well,
:19:12. > :19:16.payment protection insurance was mis-sold to millions of bank
:19:16. > :19:20.customers, designed to help them if they could not pay back their loans.
:19:20. > :19:25.It would not have worked in many cases, and the FSA, the financial
:19:25. > :19:29.watchdog, has been scathing in its criticism of Lloyd's, saying it did
:19:29. > :19:31.not have the systems in place to deal with the waves of hundreds of
:19:32. > :19:35.thousands of complaints that were going to come in once people
:19:36. > :19:40.realise there is and that they did not have the skilled and
:19:40. > :19:44.experienced people in place to deal with them. It is 140,000 people who
:19:44. > :19:50.had to wait for their payment, but we're also told that 24,000 of
:19:50. > :19:54.these payments were simply mislaid and never sent out. So it really
:19:54. > :20:00.did go wrong. What we are hearing from Lloyd's at the moment is that
:20:00. > :20:05.almost all of those now have been sent out. The average payment is
:20:05. > :20:10.around �2,750. David Cameron has been holding
:20:10. > :20:14.talks in Delhi with his Indian counterpart on the second day of
:20:14. > :20:17.his trade visit to the country. Manmohan Singh used the talks to
:20:17. > :20:20.raise concerns about corruption allegations relating to the sales
:20:20. > :20:26.of helicopters to India by the Anglo-Italian company
:20:26. > :20:31.AgustaWestland. Sanjoy Majumder's report contains flash photography.
:20:31. > :20:36.This was a visit meant to secured new deals for British business.
:20:36. > :20:42.Instead, it was overshadowed by one already in the bag and threatening
:20:42. > :20:45.to unravel. India is investigating allegations that bribes were paid
:20:45. > :20:49.by the Anglo Italian firm AgustaWestland for 12 advanced
:20:50. > :20:54.helicopters. They are built in a plant in Somerset. If the deal
:20:54. > :20:59.falls through, jobs could be on the line. So David Cameron was quick to
:20:59. > :21:01.say he would do everything to help with the investigation. We have
:21:01. > :21:07.introduced and the bribery legislation that is probably the
:21:07. > :21:11.strongest anywhere in the world. -- anti-bribery legislation. We will
:21:11. > :21:16.root out any problems of bribery or corruption wherever they appear.
:21:16. > :21:19.But there was plenty on the table. An agreement to help India fight
:21:20. > :21:24.cyber crime aimed at protecting the personal data of millions of UK
:21:24. > :21:28.citizens which is stored in Indian call centres. Mr Cameron also
:21:28. > :21:34.pressed for more opportunities for British companies in infrastructure,
:21:34. > :21:38.At a meeting with university students, the Prime Minister
:21:39. > :21:43.invited them to study and work in the UK. He has already announced
:21:43. > :21:47.easier visas for students and business travellers. Terrorism and
:21:47. > :21:51.regional security were also on the agenda. Earlier, the Prime Minister
:21:51. > :21:56.paid tribute to policemen who have lost their lives during the Mumbai
:21:56. > :22:01.terror attacks of 2008. He spoke of the need to secured the region from
:22:01. > :22:06.more threats, especially after the withdrawal of Western troops from
:22:06. > :22:09.Afghanistan in the 2014. David Cameron has tried hard to hit the
:22:09. > :22:13.right notes during this visit, bringing with him a large business
:22:14. > :22:18.delegation, talking of his love for Currie, even playing a game of
:22:18. > :22:22.cricket, all of which has gone down very well here. But he is not the
:22:22. > :22:27.only one competing for India's attention and opportunities. The
:22:27. > :22:37.French President was here a week ago, and even Belgium does more
:22:37. > :22:38.
:22:38. > :22:41.business with India than the UK. A patient infected with a
:22:42. > :22:45.respiratory illness similar to the deadly SARS virus has died in the
:22:45. > :22:49.UK. He was being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in
:22:49. > :22:53.Birmingham and died on Sunday morning. Of the 12 people known to
:22:53. > :22:57.have been infected with the virus, six have died. In a moment we will
:22:57. > :23:01.speak to Branwen Jeffreys to learn more about the virus, but first we
:23:01. > :23:04.will speak to Ben Bland, who was outside the Queen Elizabeth
:23:04. > :23:09.Hospital in Birmingham. What more do we know about this particular
:23:09. > :23:14.case, Ben? Well, the hospital here has confirmed that the man who died
:23:14. > :23:18.on Sunday was being treated in the hospital's Critical Care Unit. We
:23:18. > :23:22.do not know how old he is, but we know that he had an underlying
:23:22. > :23:26.health condition which left him with a weaker immune system and so
:23:26. > :23:30.more vulnerable to catching this virus. We also understand that he
:23:30. > :23:33.caught the virus from his father, he was being treated in Manchester.
:23:33. > :23:37.His father had travelled to the Middle East recently, which is
:23:37. > :23:41.where it is thought he picked up the virus. The man who died here on
:23:41. > :23:45.Sunday have not travelled to that region. The reason that is
:23:45. > :23:51.significant is because it suggests that this virus can be transmitted
:23:51. > :23:55.from person to person. This is one of 12 cases to have been confirmed
:23:55. > :23:59.worldwide, one of four in the UK, but crucially he is the first
:23:59. > :24:02.person to have died as a result of the virus in this country. The
:24:02. > :24:07.hospital is now working with the help protection agency to trace
:24:07. > :24:12.anyone who had contact with him in the days before he died. -- Health
:24:12. > :24:17.Protection Agency. Branwen Jeffreys, how concerned are the authorities?
:24:17. > :24:20.Coronavirus is a family of viruses, responsible for everything from the
:24:20. > :24:25.common cold that many of us get in winter to more serious illnesses
:24:25. > :24:29.like SARS, that people will have heard about. This new type of
:24:29. > :24:33.coronavirus has been responsible for, as we have been hearing, 12
:24:33. > :24:37.cases worldwide, and because six of those people have died there has
:24:37. > :24:41.been a high level of vigilance not just here in the UK, where cases
:24:41. > :24:44.have been carefully monitored, but also around the world. They are
:24:44. > :24:48.sharing information. It is because they are monitoring the case is
:24:48. > :24:52.very carefully that they were able to confirm that link, that it had
:24:52. > :24:55.been transmitted from one member of a family to another. But despite
:24:55. > :25:00.that, the general public should not worry, although clearly this can be
:25:00. > :25:04.a very serious illness. It has been transmitted through close contact.
:25:04. > :25:08.The advice is, though, if you are travelling for family reasons or
:25:08. > :25:13.business to the Middle East, and within 10 days of coming back, if
:25:13. > :25:17.you develop severe respiratory problems, problems with your
:25:17. > :25:21.breeding, you should really go to your doctor and get checked out. --
:25:21. > :25:24.breeding. Scientists in America have
:25:24. > :25:28.announced they are going to investigate one of the universe is
:25:28. > :25:31.greatest mysteries, a force called dark energy. They will use the
:25:31. > :25:35.Hubble space telescope to study the speed at which galaxies seemed to
:25:35. > :25:38.be accelerating away from one another. Science correspondent
:25:39. > :25:44.Pallab Ghosh has been finding out how they hope to rewrite some of
:25:44. > :25:47.the theories of modern physics. The world around us is made of
:25:47. > :25:52.atoms, a link-up to form the buildings we see, the water which
:25:52. > :25:57.follows, and all life on the planet. Back in the 1960s, scientists
:25:57. > :26:00.developed one of the most important theories of modern physics. It is
:26:00. > :26:05.called the standard model. It explains how the atoms that make up
:26:05. > :26:10.the world around us, this table, these chairs, the fruit in his bowl,
:26:10. > :26:14.how they are held together and interact. But then, as the years
:26:14. > :26:19.wore on, scientists began to realise that is incredibly
:26:19. > :26:29.successful theory was incomplete and only explain the behaviour of
:26:29. > :26:31.
:26:31. > :26:34.The rest is completely unknown. There are two discoveries that seem
:26:34. > :26:39.to be driving the development of a brand-new theory of sub-atomic
:26:39. > :26:42.physics. First, it is to do with the beginning of the universe.
:26:42. > :26:46.After the big bang, the current theory of physics suggest that the
:26:46. > :26:52.expansion of the universe would slow down and then contract under
:26:52. > :26:57.the force of gravity. Instead, it seems that galaxies are flying
:26:57. > :27:01.apart faster than ever before. Scientists believe that his force
:27:01. > :27:05.is called dark energy and accounts for nearly two-thirds of the
:27:05. > :27:09.universe. Scientists want to know where their seemingly endless
:27:09. > :27:14.energy that is driving the universe apart is coming from. They are now
:27:14. > :27:17.using the Hubble space telescope to find out. One of the researchers
:27:17. > :27:20.involved in the project told me that the results may show that the
:27:20. > :27:24.universe would continue to accelerate apart forever.
:27:24. > :27:28.bigger it gets, the faster it will go, and that would be a universe
:27:29. > :27:32.that expands and expands forever. The piece of the universe that we
:27:32. > :27:38.get to see will have fewer and fewer galaxies in it, it will be a
:27:38. > :27:42.dark, lonely, cold place, you know, 100 billion years from now.
:27:42. > :27:46.mystery of dark energy is arguably the most important puzzle of our
:27:46. > :27:56.time. The solution will rewrite the theories of modern physics and
:27:56. > :27:57.
:27:57. > :28:02.change our own notion of the Well, finally, a drag car driver
:28:02. > :28:10.has had an incredible escape after walking away from a 300 mph crash.
:28:10. > :28:13.Anton Brown is in the blue car when The engine exploded, the car
:28:13. > :28:20.careered across the track before ending up in a sand trap. He was
:28:20. > :28:24.pulled from the wreckage and walked away with only minor injuries.
:28:24. > :28:31.Right, on that note, we will take you to the weather with Ben Rich.
:28:31. > :28:34.Nothing quite that dramatic, but big changes on the way. Another
:28:34. > :28:40.beautiful day in most places, as you can see from the satellite
:28:40. > :28:44.picture, barely a cloud in the sky. If only that was going to last! Out
:28:44. > :28:47.in the North Sea, you can see a lump of cloud looming and advancing
:28:47. > :28:52.from the east, and it is going to bring a change in our weather
:28:52. > :28:56.through the next few days. For the time being, most of us enjoying the
:28:57. > :29:00.sunshine, blue skies for the most part, pleasant in light winds, but
:29:00. > :29:03.we see the beginnings of this change across the east coast of
:29:03. > :29:07.Scotland and eastern England as this weather front begins to work
:29:07. > :29:12.in during this evening and tonight. A week weather front bringing light
:29:12. > :29:17.and patchy rain, maybe some sleet over high ground. It is certainly
:29:17. > :29:20.going to increase the cloud moving westwards. Staying clear across
:29:20. > :29:25.Northern Ireland and the south-west, a touch of frost here, fog patches
:29:25. > :29:29.for a time. But under the cloud, temperatures will mainly hold just
:29:29. > :29:34.above freezing. As we wake up tomorrow morning, a very different
:29:34. > :29:37.started the day. Scotland, lots of cloud, patchy rain and drizzle,
:29:37. > :29:40.wintriness mixed in over high ground. The same for much of
:29:40. > :29:43.northern England. Across East Anglia and the south-east, the
:29:43. > :29:47.cloud starting too thin a little bit to give some glimmers of
:29:47. > :29:52.brightness, but not the crisp blue skies and sunshine of today, by any
:29:52. > :29:57.means. One place where we will have a blue sky start will be across
:29:57. > :30:00.Cornwall, no cloud by this stage, sunshine to be had first thing.
:30:00. > :30:04.Some sunshine across the west of Wales, a cold start here, but not
:30:04. > :30:09.as cold where we have the cloud in place. For Northern Ireland, a
:30:09. > :30:12.bright start, particularly the further west you are. Northern
:30:12. > :30:16.Ireland probably holding on to some of the brightest weather through
:30:16. > :30:20.the day, but elsewhere this strip of cloud continuing to ease its way
:30:20. > :30:23.westwards. To the east, the cloud thinning and breaking, some sunny
:30:24. > :30:28.spells breaking through, but you will notice a difference in the way
:30:28. > :30:33.that things feel. Temperatures eight degrees at best with an
:30:33. > :30:38.easterly breeze, feeling really chilly. That breeze stronger still
:30:38. > :30:42.on Thursday, accentuating the cold feel. A lot of cloud around, thick
:30:42. > :30:46.enough to produce light snow flurries. The best brightness in
:30:46. > :30:52.the West. Temperatures will reach four degrees, but with the strength
:30:52. > :30:55.of the wind it will feel more like minus four. That bitter wind is a
:30:55. > :30:59.big feature of the weather by the end of the week with widespread
:30:59. > :31:07.frost and the risk of a few snow flurries. Make the most of the
:31:07. > :31:10.A reminder of our top story: Oscar Pistorius tells a court in South