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The Oscar Pistorius bail hearing continues, with reports that | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
steroids, needles and unlicensed ammunition were found at his home. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
The court is told screams were heard from the athlete's home on | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
the night he killed his girlfriend. His defence says a witness was too | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
far away to have heard. UK unemployment falls again. The | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
number of people claiming job seeker's allowance is now at its | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
lowest level for two years. Five mobile phone companies win the | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
rights for 4G but the auction raises �1 billion less than the | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Treasury had hoped. Paying his respects in India. David | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Cameron visits Amritsar, the scene of one of the bloodiest massacres | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
in British colonial history. This was a deeply shameful event in | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
British history. One that Winston Churchill, at the time, quite | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
rightly said was "monsterous." driving test examiner has been | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
arrested after allegations that thousands of pounds changed hands | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
in exchange for passes. And the race for Rio starts here - | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the first major Championship since the Olympics looks set to test new | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
faces in the British track cycling On BBC London: Passengers stranded | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
overnight at King's Cross, after damaged power cables bring services | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
to a halt. And a new study suggests air pollution is killing those who | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC News at one. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
A court in South Africa has been told that a witness heard screams, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
followed by gunfire at the home of Oscar Pistorius on the night he | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A senior detective said | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
unlicensed ammunition, needles and testosterone were also found at the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
athlete's home. The defence said the witness lived too far away to | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
have heard an argument and the substance found was a herbal remedy. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
The athlete denies deliberately killing his girlfriend. | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
Andrew Harding is at the court in Pretoria for us. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
It was a day of high drama in the courtroom here. First, as the | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
detective, the lead detective investigating the killing at Oscar | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Pistorius's house laid out his case and said he believed the athlete | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
was guilty of murder. But then under a withering cross-examination | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
he was forced to concede that he had no evidence to that effect. My | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
colleague Peter Biles now has more. It's nearly a week now since Oscar | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
public interest is more intense than ever. The Paralympic champion | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
came back to court this morning. He has consistently appeared | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
emotionally fragile, despite the efforts of his family to support | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
him. The prosecution and defence have presented conflicking accounts | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
of what happened last week. -- conflicting. The state said it was | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
premeditated murder. Oscar Pistorius said nothing could be | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
further from the truth. Today the senior police investigating officer | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
described how he arrived at Oscar Pistorius's house at 4.15 last | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
Thursday morning. He found Reeva Steenkamp dead. Her body was | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
covered in towels. The police officer said four shots had been | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
fired through a toilet door. Three of them had struck Miss Steenkamp, | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
one in the head. A gun was recovered from the bathroom as well | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
as a cricket bat. Yesterday, Oscar Pistorius said in an affidavit, | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
that he used the bat it break down the locked bathroom door when his | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
girlfriend had been inside. The investigating officer also said two | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
botyefls testosterone and needles had been found in the house. -- | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
bottles of. The defence said it was not | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
testosterone but a herbal remedy used by athletes and it is not | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
banned. This is only a bail hearing but it is taking on the appearance | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
of a full-blown trial with a torrent of evidence being laid | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
before the court it. May not be until the end of the week that | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
Oscar Pistorius learns whether he is granted bail. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
The court session has just ended. Oscar Pistorius went back down to | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
his cells. He will be back here tomorrow where it is very likely, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
according to many experts, that the magistrate will make a decision. | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Judging from the magistrate's tone in court today where he scoffed or | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
appeared to scoff at the idea that an Olympic athlete would flee the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
country and risk tarnishing his reputation, it seems possible that | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
Oscar Pistorius just might be granted bail. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Almost 30 million people were in work at the end of 2012, the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
highest total since records began in 1971. Figures from the stat stt | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
stat also showed the number of people out of work fell by 14,000. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Office for National Statistics. That's between October to December | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
2012. Youth unemployment increased by 11,000. The highest rise for a | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
year. The jobs market is still growing. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Total numbers in work are increasing and a whole range of | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
employers are taking on staff. This restaurant in Salford is no | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
exception. It's only been open two weeks. 60 post have been created. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Katie a student has one a part-time job to pay for her studies. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
really, really pleased that I have got something that I don't think | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
I'm going to have to leave in a few months' time. I feel secure in my | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
job. The latest figures show that between October and December, total | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
employment was up 154,000 on the previous three months. Long-term | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
unemployment, those out of work mother than a year, was down 15,000 | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
over the same period. Youth unemployment, though, was up, | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
11,000. Darren is one young person who hasn't yet had any luck finding | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
work. He is on a training course run by salfrd City College learning | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
skills for home insulation projects. Db Salford. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
He said he was determined to find a job. I'm not a loser. I'm not like | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
that. I have always wanted to do something. I'm not happy with being | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
unemployed. It is hard. Ministers argue that although youth | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
unemployment has gone up, it's underlying picture is more healthy | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
and on a downward trend. It is high, but if you look around the rest of | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Europe, it is even higher. What we are seeing now is the trend | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
downwards for youth unemployment which is a positive feature. Yes, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
we want to do more but we are beginning to do a lot. Labour said | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
there was nothing to celebrate in the figures and the Government | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
wasn't doing enough to help. It is a mixed Piccadilly tour. We are not | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
out of the woods. People are -- picture: people are doing their bit | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
we. Need to do our bit to get people back to work faster. Where | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
does the employment market go from here? Most forecasters expect | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
growth to pick up in 2013 a bit after a flat picture last year. It | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
is hard to tell what that might mean for job creation. And news | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
today that HMV, whichp went into administration last month is to | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
close more stores with the loss of nearly 500 jobs, is a reminder that | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
the outlook for employment in the economy is far from certain. Some | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
further analysis with Hugh who is with us. Unemployment falling but | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
so too is everall economic output. What is going on? Well, Kate, it is | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
a puzzle to experts how you can have falling output and actually | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
job creation carrying on rising it. Could be the jobs figures are a | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
more accurate guide to what is going on and the output figures may | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
have to be revised it. Could be that employers have been hanging on, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
hoping for an upturn feign that doesn't materialise this year, then | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
actually the trend will go in a different direction. It is | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
difficult to read. Maybe employers are taking advantage of the fact | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
that wage rises are lagging well behind in inflation. Average | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
earnings figures rising faster than they were and people in work being | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
squeezed. The Bank of England we learned this mornings actively | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
considering pump morgue money into the economy. Yes the Bank of | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
England has held off on quantitative easing, creating more | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
money but we heard today in minutes of the latest meeting three of the | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
nine members voted for more money creation including the governor. He | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
was outvoted but it shows it is back on the agenda. Maybe they are | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
worried about lack of growth in the months ahead. Thank you very much | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Broadband-like speeds on your smart phone should soon be available to | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
customers on five networks. The companies behind EE, O2, Vodafone, | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Three and BT have been awarded licences for 4G mobile phone | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
networks. They'll pay a total of �2.3 billion but the spectrum | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
auction raised around �1 billion less than the Government had | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
expected. Here's our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
It's supposed to be the future of communication. Fast new mobile | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
phone networks that will allow us all to do much more on the move. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Now the companies who have won the right to roll out 4G are | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
celebrating You can watch a TV programme. You cannot watch a TV | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
programme on a 3G network on your Smartphone. You can't stream a | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
video or do video conferenceing. All those things are possible with | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
a 4G network. The 4G auction raised less than expected. The Government | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
thought the bids would reach at least �3.5 billion. In the end the | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
total bid was �3.2 billion. 13 years ago the 3G auction raised | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
over �22 billion. One company, EE had already got permission to | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
launch its 4G service early in some places, but so far customers | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
haven't exactly rushed to transfer to the faster service. I think | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
consumers arguably have a difficult decision to make. They probably in | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
many cases don't know what 4G is and haven't had experience and it | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
is more expensive, at least on EE than what they are used to paying. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
The operators have a difficult job. Today is the beginning for them | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
stkpwhrs. Pure speed that 4G offers. The mobile phone companies will be | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
happy that they paid less than expected to launch fast new | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
services. But for the Government there is now a hole in the public | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
finances. In his Autumn Statement the Chancellor included an estimate | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
for the proceeds of the 4G auction in his sums. Labour says it's now | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
clear he was too optimistic. No-one doubts - and a lib Government would | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
have also been auctions the 4G licences. -- a Labour Government. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
No-one doubts there is economic benefits from it. What we doubt is | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
the credibility of the Chancellor's economic mathematics. Of course we | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
would have liked more money. In the forecasts were by independent | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
experts. And they have to carry a health warning with them. You don't | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
know until you see the receipts, what you will get. Among today's | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
auction winners, BT, which will use 4G to boost its public Wi-Fi | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
hotspots and the four big mobile networks. They must now convince | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
consumers that it is worth signing up to a faster future. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Let's look at the political aspects of this with Iain Watson at | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Westminster. In terms of the money raised, how much of a political | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
blow is this for the Chancellor? think it is quite clear that �1 | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
billion sounds like an awful lot of money, but compared to aroundeds | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
700 billion of Government spending, it is relatively small change -- | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
around �700 billion. I don't think economically it is disaster for the | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Government. The cost will be political. Reason for that is that | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
as we heard back in December the Chancellor was able it stand up in | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
the House of Commons and say borrowing was going down and not up | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
but wrong-footed the Opposition and indeed many independent | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
commentators. That was in part, due to the fact that he was factoring | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
in raising �3.5 billion from the sale of the 4G spectrum. He has | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
obviously got less than that. Labour are creating a political row | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
at Westminster saying he has been involved in financial trickery and | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
smog and mirrors. The Government's de-- smoke and mirrors. The | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Government's defence is to say the figure was independently verified | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
by the Office of Budget Responsibility at arm's length from | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
the Government. They in turn, however rmaking it quite clear that | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
the figure of �3.5 billion emanated from the Government itself. That's | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
a political row. But where the Government wants the focus to be | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
now is into the longer-term economic benefits of 4G. They say | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
that could bring a bst to the economy of not �1 billion but �50 | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
billion. -- a boost. Now former police inspector has | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission over | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
claims he acted on behalf of Jimmy Savile. The officer from West | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Yorkshire is accused of contacting Surrey Police before they | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
questioned Savile about alleged sex offences four years ago. Seven | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
police forces are being asked to consider if any other officers | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
should be investigated over the way they handled the complaints against | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Savile. The judge in the trial of Vicky | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Pryce, the formerer wife of Chris Huhne has told the jury at | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Southwark Crown Court that they can reach a majority verdict after | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
almost 14 hours of deliberation. Vicky Pryce admits taking speeding | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
points for her former husband but says she was forced to do so and | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
has pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice on | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
the grounds of marital coercion. Our Home Affairs correspondent Tom | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
sigh smonds at Southwark Crown Court for us. Tell us more of what | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
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has been happening in court this which the jury had written notes to | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
him to ask over the last few days. This does happen from time to time, | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
the odd note to clarify something. In this case, there were 10 | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
questions, and in each case the judge went through each question | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
and gave an answer. The jury asked whether it could come too late | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
verdict based on a reason not given in court, sorry, not given in court | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
that has no facts or evidence to support it. The judge said no, they | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
could not. The jury said, could we speculate? The judge said no, they | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
could draw inferences, common sense conclusions on facts which were | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
true. They asked for a further definition about marital coercion. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
He said it would not need to involve of violence and there would | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
be no marital coercion proven if she had been persuaded out of | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
argument, art of love or loyalty, if she had a choice. One final | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
question, a juror asked whether religious conviction would be a | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
good enough reason for a wife feeling that she had no choice. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
This she promised to obey her husband in her wedding vows and he | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
ordered her to do something. The judge said the answer to that | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
question would not help them reach A driving test examiner has been | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
arrested as part of an investigation into allegations of | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
bribery. It is part of a crackdown by the Driving Standards Agency, | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
which has been looking at allegations that the examiner was | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
charging thousands of pounds for guaranteed passes. Two instructors | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
and four candidates have also been After months of investigation, | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
these police officers are about to make an arrest. The man they are | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
looking for is an examiner, in the purple jacket at his north London | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
driving test centre. His fellow examiners are not suspected of | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
wrongdoing. I am arresting you on suspicion of conspiracy to commit | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
fraud. He is accused of taking bribes from some test candidates, | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
�3,000 for every guaranteed pass. As police gather evidence, their | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
colleagues elsewhere are arresting two driving instructors and four | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
candidates. We believe that the candidates have approached their | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
driving instructor, they have had a conversation to say, for an amount | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
of money we can guarantee you a Pass, the candidate agrees to that. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
The instructor then tells the examiner which tests to pass. | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Investigators have identified 100 people who allegedly bribed this | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
particular examiner for driving licences, and those licences, | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
gained as a result of the alleged fraud, are now being revoked. | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
Across the country, investigators are also examining 900 cases of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
alleged identity fraud, where a candidate pays somebody else to | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
take a test for them. It is a growing problem, but not yet | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
widespread. Of the 1.5 million driving test every year, the vast | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
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majority, like this successful Our top story this lunchtime: A | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
court in South Africa has been told they witness heard screams at the | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
home of Oscar Pistorius the night he shot his girlfriend. | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
Coming up, Team GB's cyclists return to the track with a new | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Later on BBC London, the house- boaters campaigning against | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
proposals to change the rules on mooring. And she became only the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
fourth actress to play the role of Miss Moneypenny, we catch up with | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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Londoner Naomie Harris aboard the Eight new guideline for England and | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
Wales say the age limit for women to qualify for IBF on the NHS | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
should rise from 39 up to 42. In -- updated guidance says couples | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
should be allowed treatment after two years of trying that the | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
:18:25. | :18:26. | ||
guidelines are not mandatory as Dominic Hughes reports. Caroline | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
and her husband had to pay for it out of their own pockets as their | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
local trust did not funded for women over the age of 35 and she | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
may not have been able to get it on the health service even under new | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
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guidelines, as they are not legally If the new guidelines are | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
implemented, which I doubt, I would have qualified for some treatment | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
on the NHS, which I think would have only been fair. I have been a | :18:59. | :19:05. | |
taxpayer all my working life, and it is a medical condition. The new | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
guidelines aim to help the one in seven couples who find they have a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
problem with fertility. They include extending IVF do some women | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
up to the age of 42, and younger couples will have to wait just two | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
years before waiting instead of three. These new guidelines tell us | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
which treatments and investigations are affected and which are | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
ineffective, and it will help people work their way through and | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
hopefully gain what they want, which is a family. The changes | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
reflect improvements in fertility treatment. For example, success | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
rates among older women are much better than a few years ago. These | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
new guidelines mean more people should be able to access IVF on the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
National Health Service, but the big question is, who is going to | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
pay for it? It is still a postcode lottery when it comes to fertility | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
treatment. It is all well and good to have good practice out there for | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
the medical profession and patients, but if the NHS cannot funded, they | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
are just words and guidelines which will never be adhered to, as we | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
have had in the past. We need three cycles for couples under 40, are we | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
going to get them? These guidelines apply in England and Wales. The | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
health service in Northern Ireland provides IVF up to the age of 39, | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
and in Scotland the age limit is 38. Only around one in four primary | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
care trust in England meet the existing guidelines, so many | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
couples may find they still struggled to access IVF through the | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
One in five children is living below the poverty line according to | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
new research by campaigners. A map using data compiled by the Campaign | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
to End Child Poverty highlights areas around the country where | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
children are poorest. In some areas, more than four and 10 children are | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
living in poverty, including West Belfast, from where Chris Butler | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
now reports. Every parent wants to give their | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
child the best start in life, but in the current economy there are | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
many families is it is becoming more and more difficult to pay | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
their bills. I do not pay them when you are paid the following week, | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
things like that. It is hard for everybody at the moment, trying to | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
work. If anybody is seeking a family, it is even tougher. Like | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
his most difficult for the very poorest. New research compiled by | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
dozens of charities has found that in West Belfast more than four in | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
every 10 children are said to be living in poverty. According to the | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
most commonly-used definition, any child brought up in a household | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
with less than 60% of the median income is regarded as being in | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
relative poverty. Because that income has fallen, technically | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
300,000 children have moved out of poverty, according to the latest | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
figures, but the government accepts that it has made no real change to | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
their lives. The charities behind the campaign have used existing | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
research to estimate the scale of the problem in areas right across | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
the UK. In terms of local authorities, Belfast sat alongside | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Tower Hamlets in London and Manchester as among the areas with | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
the highest levels of poverty. is a wake-up call, really, and | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
there is a great concern that these figures are going to deteriorate, | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
not improve, with all the welfare reforms, because a lot of those | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
changes are not just going to impact on people who are out of | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
work, but they also impact on people who are working. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
government insists its reforms are aimed at improving the lives of the | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
poorest families, but today's figures suggest that in parts of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Manchester close to half of all children are disadvantaged. I think | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
people get stuck in a rat, and they do not know how to get out of it. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Because like I am on benefits now, and the Jobcentre tried to help you, | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
but they do not help you at the same time, even though you have got | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
qualifications. There is no jobs out there. The Government is | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
committed to ending child poverty, but campaigners say with some | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
families the poorest needs to be made a main priority. | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
A huge explosion and fire in a shopping district in Kansas City in | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
the United States has injured at least 14 people. Police suspect the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
blaze which completely destroyed a restaurant was sparked by a gas | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
explosion. Work was being carried out on a network nearby after | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
people reported a strong smell of gas in the area before the fire. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
Thousands of workers are protesting in Athens as part of a general | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
strike against the austerity measures being pursued by the Greek | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
government. Unions say the industrial action is a response to | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
dead-end policies that have squeezed the life out of workers | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
and plunged the economy into crisis. The 24 hour protest is expected to | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
David Cameron has described one of the bloodiest massacres in British | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
colonial history has been deeply shameful on the last day of his | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
visits to India. He became the first serving prime minister, | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
British prime minister, to visit Amritsar, where hundreds of unarmed | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Indian protesters were killed by British soldiers in 1919. James | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
Landale has been travelling with David Cameron and sent this report. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
The Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of holies for seats around | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
the world. David Cameron came to this corner of the Punjab on the | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
border with Pakistan not just to see the epicentre of one of the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
world's great faiths, but also to visit a place where hundreds of | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
thousands of British voters can trace their roots. Every Sikh is | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
expected to give up a week of their lives to volunteer here, and every | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
day they feed 100,000 pilgrims and visitors. But if Amritsar as many | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
ties to Britain today, it also has echoes of Britain's less glorious | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
past. Just a few steps from the temple, these gardens, where on | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
April 13th, 1919, thousands gathered for a festival. A British | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
general was sent in to disperse the crowd. He blocked all the exits, he | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
lined up his Riflemen and ordered them to fire. They did not stop | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
until they ran out of ammunition. Hundreds lay dead, more than 1,000 | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
injured. Past prime ministers have expressed regret, the Queen has | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
spoken of a distressing episode, but David Cameron is the first | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
serving British Prime Minister to come here in person to pay his | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
There was no formal apology, but his words in the book of | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
remembrance and to the camera were uncompromising and clearly | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
heartfelt. This was a deeply shameful event in British history, | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
one that Winston Churchill at the time quite rightly said was | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
monstrous. We should never forget what happened here, and in | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
remembering I think it is very important we always make sure that | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
Britain stands up for the right to protest peacefully all over the | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
world. He is was David Cameron's last stay | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
:26:12. | :26:16. | ||
looking to the future but not just Now, sport, and it was Team GB's | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
most successful sport at the London Olympics, the track cyclists won | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
seven gold medals in the velodrome. Today they are back in action for | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
the first major championship since the Games, but as Andy Swiss | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
reports from Minsk in Belarus, there are some new faces in the | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
line-up. They were Britain's brightest stars | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
of a golden games, the track cyclists, an astounding seven | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
titles in London, where you go from there? The answer, frozen Minsk. | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
The next Olympics in Rio may feel one million miles away, but this is | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
where the journey starts for the likes of Laura Trott, rested, | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
recuperated and ready once again to take on the world. I just want to | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
win! Like that is my motivation, winning, the feeling you get when | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
you do win, making people happy. I just love getting up on my bike. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
But with Victoria Pendleton retired and no Sir Chris Hoy, there are big | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
shoes to fill. There is already the sense of a new era for British | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
cycling. The average age is just 21, and it seems the next generation of | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
Olympic stars are making their move. Like 18-year-old Elinor Barker, go | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
in forecourt alongside Laura Trott, while still studying for her A- | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
levels. -- go in 4 gold. It is quite difficult trying to teach | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
myself everything, but then I have got about six weeks of no racing so | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
that I can cram some studies in and get some results. So a learning | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
experience for some, but the early signs are encouraging. The men's | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
pursuits D-Mark through to tonight's final. For Britain's | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
youngsters, it could beat a golden opportunity. -- the men's pursuit | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
team are through to tonight's final. More on the BBC News Channel, and | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
some other stars from London 2012 making the headlines at Buckingham | :28:10. | :28:18. | |
Palace. Anthony Joshua, who won Boxing gold, received an MBE. As | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
did Peter Wilson, who won gold in the double trap shooting | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
competition. Britain's Paralympic Rollers, the mixed coxed fours, | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
:28:37. | :28:37. | ||
were awarded MBEs for services to Tomasz Shafenaker, how is the | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
Cold and cloudy, the weather is not great, a big change from yesterday, | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
and winter is back, it is going to be back over the next few days and | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
is here to stay through the weekend. This is the view from space. We had | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
sunshine yesterday, you might have been out in town, enjoying the sun | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
with your travelling copy, but now the clouds are right across the UK, | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
coming in from eastern Europe, where it is very cold right now. | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
Here it is again, the cloud clawing its way across the UK. It is not | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
cloudy everywhere, there is a bit of sunshine, but over the next few | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
days there is this process of cold air from central and eastern parts | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
of Europe filtering our way, cold winds as well, so wind-chill is | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
going to be a real factor over the next couple of days. For the moment, | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
still some sunshine across north- western Scotland, not that bad, and | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
the main focus for the cloud and any little dribs and drabs of rain | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
is across eastern areas from Newcastle down into southeastern | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
parts of the UK. But for example in London and the south coast, bits of | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
sunshine coming and going. But look at western parts, quite a bright | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
start to the day, you might have been enjoying the sunshine, but now | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
that cloud has filtered in, come in all the way from the east, so the | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
second half of the afternoon in Cardiff all the way up to the clean | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
peninsula is looking cloudy. For the moment, Northern Ireland fairly | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
bright, but then that cloud is going to be clawing its way back | :30:08. | :30:14. | |
towards the east. The wind arrows show a breezy night, but also quite | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
chilly. Often in this part of the world, when it is windy and cloudy | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
we do not get a frost, but tonight is going to be different. We will | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
see frosts developing under clear skies, so temperatures in leads | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
down to minus one degrees, but where we have got clearer skies in | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
western areas, that is where it could drop sharpest. Breezy | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
tomorrow across the south-west in the morning, then more cloud | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
filtering in from the east. Eastern areas getting more cloud than the | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
West. This is what your garden thermometers will say, but with the | :30:47. | :30:54. | |
wind coming in it will be minus and two or minus 3. This is the end of | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
the week, then, it looks like it will stay cold into the weekend, a | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
bitter wind, even a chance of, guess what, a bit of snow coming | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
your way, affecting eastern areas of the UK. So the wind certainly | :31:07. | :31:12. | |
not over yet, and after yesterday's sunshine, it feels like a bit of a | :31:12. | :31:18. | |
A reminder of our main story again, a bail hearing in South Africa has | :31:18. | :31:22. |