:00:12. > :00:16.Three men are found guilty of a plot to explode rucksack bombs in
:00:16. > :00:20.the UK. Police believe these men were central in the attacks that
:00:20. > :00:23.could have been bigger than the atrocities in July 2005. The
:00:23. > :00:28.detective leading the case against Oscar Pistorius could be removed,
:00:28. > :00:34.as it's emerged he's facing seven attempted murder charges.
:00:34. > :00:37.David Cameron says more of the UK's aid budget could be spent on
:00:37. > :00:42.peacekeeping missions overseas. Critics call the plan outrageous.
:00:42. > :00:46.Better news for the UK's finances - more tax revenue helped boost last
:00:46. > :00:52.month's borrowing figures. An attack on Tottenham Hotspur fans
:00:52. > :00:57.in France ahead of their team's Europa League tie in Lyon.
:00:57. > :00:59.Voyage to the bottom of the sea - a special report on the strange
:00:59. > :01:04.creatures surviving in the depths of the ocean.
:01:04. > :01:10.Later on BBC London: Thank you for this miracle right
:01:10. > :01:12.now over your life. The satellite TV that promises to kill life-
:01:12. > :01:22.threatening illnesses over the phone. Health charities condemn the
:01:22. > :01:31.
:01:31. > :01:37.practise. Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. In
:01:37. > :01:39.the past few minutes three men have been found guilty of leading a
:01:39. > :01:44.terrorist bomb plot police believe could have been bigger than the
:01:44. > :01:51.attacks of July 7, 2005. Irfan Naseer, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali
:01:51. > :01:53.were described as central figures in a plot to set off up to eight
:01:53. > :01:55.rucksack bombs in crowded areas. Our Home Affairs Correspondent June
:01:55. > :02:00.Kelly is outside Woolwich Crown Court.
:02:00. > :02:03.Well, by blowing themselves up, these men intended to cause mass
:02:03. > :02:08.deaths and casualties on the streets of the UK. That is what the
:02:08. > :02:12.court was told. The jury also heard they hadn't decided on specific
:02:12. > :02:16.targets on occasion, but one of them said they had talked about
:02:16. > :02:20.killing British soldiers. The ringleader had tried to recruit
:02:20. > :02:25.other young men to join this plot, and this is a plot that was
:02:25. > :02:31.thwarted as the result of a joint operation involving the Security
:02:31. > :02:37.Service MI5 and West Midlands Police Counterterrorism Unit. The
:02:37. > :02:40.climax to a massive counterterrorism investigation -
:02:40. > :02:45.late night in Birmingham, and the police are about to arrest three
:02:45. > :02:55.men involved in a plot to become suicide bombers and commit mass
:02:55. > :02:57.
:02:57. > :03:03.murder on the streets of Britain. First out of the car, Ashik Ali,
:03:03. > :03:09.then Irfan Khalid and finally the key figure in this terrorist cell,
:03:09. > :03:13.Irfan Naseer. Birmingham is the hometown to all
:03:13. > :03:18.three, but although they have been born and brought up here, the jury
:03:18. > :03:24.heard they had come to despise the British. Irfan Naseer, the
:03:24. > :03:27.mastermind of this plot, had attacked the 7/7 London bombers for
:03:27. > :03:31.not causing enough carnage. Irfan Khalid, his right-hand man, was
:03:31. > :03:35.with him at every stage of the plot, and Ashik Ali described how they
:03:35. > :03:40.talked about donning suicide vests and using guns and bombs to
:03:40. > :03:44.slaughter British soldiers. These men were the real deal. They
:03:44. > :03:47.were committed, passionate extremists. They had a real stated
:03:47. > :03:52.intention of killing and maiming as many people as they possibly could.
:03:52. > :03:57.The plot leader, Irfan Naseer, went from popular schoolboy to jihadist.
:03:58. > :04:02.He was planning to put his pharmacy degree to use as the bomb maker in
:04:02. > :04:08.this terrorist cell. Some who knew him kept their distance because of
:04:08. > :04:17.his radical views. He was very open about his support for jihadists in
:04:17. > :04:23.Afghanistan. He was very open about his approval and admiration for the
:04:23. > :04:25.Taliban, even within the extremist fold, he was extreme. The men were
:04:25. > :04:31.under the influence of radical Islam. Although the plot was
:04:31. > :04:37.hatched in Birmingham, Naseer and Khalid travelled thousands of miles
:04:37. > :04:40.to the tribal areas of Pakistan for terrorist training with Al-Qaeda.
:04:40. > :04:44.The pair revered Osama Bin Laden and recorded suicide videos to be
:04:44. > :04:48.released after their deaths. These haven't been found. But from the
:04:48. > :04:53.time they landed back in the UK, they were under surveillance. They
:04:53. > :04:58.were being monitored by the police and the Security Service MI5. Bugs
:04:58. > :05:03.were planted in their cars, and they were heard planning to
:05:03. > :05:07.detonate up to eight rucksack bombs. To finance the plot, they pretended
:05:07. > :05:14.to be collecting money for charity, raking in thousands of pounds
:05:14. > :05:18.during the holy month of Ram Dan. But the charity Muslim Aid was
:05:18. > :05:24.cheated out of cash by the men. Inside their home they started
:05:24. > :05:31.gathering components to make a bomb. On a noteS in a ear had sketched
:05:31. > :05:37.out a plot to make the device. Concerned for safety, MI5 decided
:05:37. > :05:43.to make arrests. These men achieved notoriety by blowing themselves up.
:05:43. > :05:46.They may be infamous, but they'll be behind bars for years.
:05:47. > :05:50.Six associates of these men had already pleaded guilty to terrorism
:05:51. > :05:54.charges. In the case of four of them, they had been sent to
:05:54. > :05:57.Pakistan for terrorism training by the ringleader, Irfan Naseer, but
:05:57. > :06:03.they didn't actually go through with the training. They were
:06:03. > :06:07.ordered home by relatives. As I said in the piece, these men
:06:07. > :06:11.defrauded their own community by pretending to be collecting for the
:06:12. > :06:16.charity Muslim Aid. Muslim Aid has put out a statement saying these
:06:16. > :06:19.too were victims of fraud in all of this. The next stage for the men is
:06:20. > :06:28.sentencing. That won't happen today, but the judge has told them that
:06:28. > :06:31.they should expect life terms. June Kelly, thank you very much.
:06:31. > :06:33.There's been another twist in the Oscar Pistorius murder inquiry -
:06:33. > :06:36.the South African police officer leading the investigation is
:06:36. > :06:38.himself facing seven charges of attempted murder. Detective Hilton
:06:38. > :06:41.Botha, who faced fierce questioning at the athlete's bail hearing
:06:41. > :06:44.yesterday, was allegedly involved in a shooting two years ago. There
:06:44. > :06:46.are calls for him to be dropped from the case. Oscar Pistorius
:06:46. > :06:55.denies the premeditated murder of his girlfriend. Our correspondent
:06:55. > :06:59.Peter Biles has just sent this report. Each day at this bail
:06:59. > :07:03.hearing in Pretoria brings surprises, and the process is
:07:03. > :07:06.taking longer than expected. As Oscar Pistorius was brought back to
:07:06. > :07:09.court this morning, it was revealed that yesterday's key witness, the
:07:09. > :07:15.investigating officer for the police, is facing charges of
:07:15. > :07:21.attempted murder. Hilton Botha is alleged to have been involved in an
:07:21. > :07:24.incident two years ago in which he and fellow officers opened fire on
:07:24. > :07:30.a minibus taxi carrying seven people. Charges had been dropped,
:07:30. > :07:33.but after further investigations, they were reinstated earlier this
:07:33. > :07:41.month. They have handled it clumsily. Surely, they should have
:07:41. > :07:45.been prepared and aware of the fact that the - was going to be
:07:45. > :07:48.reinstated. I would assume they would have dealt with it in a more
:07:49. > :07:53.professional manner in at least mentioning it or bringing it up,
:07:53. > :07:57.just not dealing with it as a spice. It's just a week since Oscar
:07:57. > :08:01.Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, and
:08:01. > :08:05.South Africans remain shocked by what's happened and bewildered by
:08:05. > :08:09.the way in which events continue to unfold. The amount of detail that's
:08:09. > :08:13.come out of the early stage of this murder investigation is unusual,
:08:13. > :08:15.but that's because Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have to make a very
:08:15. > :08:19.convincing argument to the magistrate if there's to be any
:08:19. > :08:24.hope of bay. The court has been shown, for example, the floor plan
:08:24. > :08:28.of Oscar Pistorius' house in Pretoria. From the postmortem
:08:28. > :08:31.evidence it was found that Reeva Steenkamp's bladder was empty. This
:08:31. > :08:34.was said to be consistent with going to the bathroom in the middle
:08:35. > :08:38.of the night. There were no other injuries apart from the gunshot
:08:38. > :08:43.wounds that she sustained. It was confirmed that four shots had been
:08:43. > :08:47.fired through the toilet door. A full trial is still many months
:08:47. > :08:51.away. Much of this evidence will be heard again then. For now, the
:08:51. > :09:01.issue is a simple one - should Oscar Pistorius be granted bail or
:09:01. > :09:04.Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding spent the morning in court.
:09:04. > :09:07.You have the bail issue, but with this extraordinary turn of events
:09:07. > :09:11.with the detective, what impact could that development have on the
:09:11. > :09:14.case? Well, it was quite extraordinary.
:09:14. > :09:18.The magistrates summoned the detective to court. He hadn't
:09:18. > :09:22.appeared this morning, so there was a short delay, and it was confirmed
:09:22. > :09:26.that he is facing seven counts of attempted murder. After that,
:09:26. > :09:30.frankly the issue was dropped. It seemed clear that the magistrate
:09:30. > :09:33.and the defence did not want to make a big deal about that that it
:09:33. > :09:36.happened two years ago, and they'd much rather focus on the evidence
:09:37. > :09:42.concerning Oscar Pistorius, and it was that that the prosecution and
:09:42. > :09:46.the defence focused in on now. So what is likely to happen next,
:09:46. > :09:51.Andrew? Well, the defence is just wrapping up. Essentially, they were
:09:51. > :09:56.going through, again, yesterday's evidence and saying this Detective
:09:56. > :10:00.Botha had been biased, selective and that essentially the state had
:10:00. > :10:03.no case of premeditated or simply murder against Oscar Pistorius and
:10:03. > :10:07.he should be granted bail. The defence is expected to wrap up any
:10:07. > :10:12.moment now. Then it will be the prosecution's turn to begin its
:10:12. > :10:15.arguments in favour of keeping Oscar Pistorius in jail. It's
:10:15. > :10:20.likely because of the delays we have had today that a decision
:10:20. > :10:23.won't be announced now until tomorrow. Andrew, thank you. Andrew
:10:23. > :10:31.Harding there. You can follow all the latest developments from the
:10:31. > :10:34.courtroom on the BBC News Live web page. That's bbc.co.uk/news.
:10:34. > :10:36.David Cameron has indicated he wants to use the UK's aid budget to
:10:36. > :10:39.fund peace-keeping and other defence-related operations around
:10:39. > :10:41.the world. The Prime Minister said that security and stability were
:10:41. > :10:44.often needed before development could go ahead. He's been under
:10:44. > :10:47.pressure from his backbenchers to cut the aid budget, which he'd
:10:47. > :10:57.promised to protect but there has been criticism from some aid
:10:57. > :10:57.
:10:58. > :11:02.charities, as our political correspondent Ross Hawkins has more.
:11:02. > :11:05.David Cameron has long been committed to spending 0.7% of the
:11:05. > :11:10.aid of Britain's income on aid. That is a lot trickier when cuts
:11:10. > :11:14.are being made at home, as you mentioned. It's caused tensions in
:11:14. > :11:17.the Conservative Party as well. He's sticking by that target, but
:11:17. > :11:21.he's dropped a strong hint that some of that money could be shared
:11:21. > :11:24.a bit more widely. Spending on aid and food rations
:11:25. > :11:28.like these is going up, while spending on defence is being
:11:28. > :11:32.squeezed. In the past, that's made some Conservatives furious, but a
:11:32. > :11:36.change could be on its way, and some of the Prime Minister's
:11:37. > :11:42.backbench critics are very pleased. I congratulate the leader of my
:11:42. > :11:47.country for actually making a very sensible and pragmatic decision.
:11:47. > :11:54.Aid should be delivered properly. If aid is delivered properly, you
:11:54. > :11:56.require security. But outside his party, they warn what makes
:11:56. > :12:00.Conservative backbenchers happy won't necessarily meet targets for
:12:00. > :12:03.aid spending. I think David Cameron is obviously concerned that some
:12:03. > :12:08.critics feel that the defence budget has been cut while the aid
:12:08. > :12:12.budget has been expanded, but the idea that you can simply switch
:12:12. > :12:16.development assistance money into defence and achieve the target is
:12:16. > :12:21.not possible. What's happening? An existing pot of money called the
:12:21. > :12:23.conflict pool already helps pay for peacekeeping. It's run by three
:12:23. > :12:27.Government departments - the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign
:12:27. > :12:31.Office and the Department for International Development. It could
:12:31. > :12:35.be significantly increased with more development money going in, so
:12:35. > :12:39.extra aid cash could be spent on the military, and for some, that's
:12:39. > :12:43.troubling news. We're very worried about any of the aid budget degree
:12:43. > :12:47.diverted to military spending. Aid is to help fight poverty. That's
:12:47. > :12:51.why millions of people across the UK support it. We need to see it
:12:51. > :12:59.spent on schools not soldiers. Government says it will stick to
:12:59. > :13:02.rules that stop aid spending being spent for purely military purposes.
:13:02. > :13:06.In Westminster, Government departments are fighting over how
:13:06. > :13:10.much money they'll each have after 2015. Necessary plans are part of
:13:10. > :13:20.that debate. We'll need to wait until the budgets are published to
:13:20. > :13:21.
:13:21. > :13:25.find out if this is a big change in the way aid spending works.
:13:25. > :13:28.We'll find out in the first half of this year just what the departments
:13:28. > :13:33.get to spend from 2015. People will be watching the defence budget
:13:33. > :13:36.closely, particularly Conservatives who simply observe Britain has new
:13:36. > :13:43.military commitments in West Africa at a time of cuts at home.
:13:43. > :13:45.Indeed. Ross, thank you. Official figures show the Government
:13:46. > :13:50.received more money than it spent last month helping to reduce its
:13:50. > :13:55.borrowing for the year. January's figure is usually in credit but
:13:55. > :13:59.Ministers say the surplus was larger than expected. Hugh Pym is
:14:00. > :14:05.with us, as you can see. How much larger was it? Yes, the money comes
:14:05. > :14:09.flooding into the give's coffers in January usually because of the
:14:09. > :14:15.self-assessment tax deadline, this much as ever. Let's have look at
:14:15. > :14:17.that figure - a pretty chunky number, quite a lot higher than
:14:17. > :14:21.last year, but there was money moving over from the Bank of
:14:21. > :14:26.England and so on. So let's look at the underlying picture for the
:14:26. > :14:30.first ten months of the financial year, and that shows Us the
:14:30. > :14:34.Government was borrowing �897.6 billion for ten months, quite a bit
:14:34. > :14:40.higher than the previous year once you have stripped out these figures
:14:40. > :14:44.- that was �92.3 billion at the same stage. The Chancellor's aiming
:14:44. > :14:48.for �120 billion. It's going to be touch and go whether he maip makes
:14:48. > :14:53.it or not. The Treasury's response is what? They're saying even
:14:53. > :14:58.stripping out the factors it was quite good. You shouldn't read too
:14:58. > :15:02.much into these figures. Theses are volatile. You can get subsequent
:15:02. > :15:08.revisions. Last year was revised down a lot after a few months had
:15:08. > :15:12.passed. Labour is saying this is a flatlining economy and that the
:15:12. > :15:15.Government is failing in its aim of reducing the deficit. Three
:15:15. > :15:18.Tottenham Hotspur fans have been attacked and injured in the French
:15:18. > :15:24.city of Lyon on the eve of their team's Europa League cup tie.
:15:24. > :15:26.Around 150 supporters of the club were gathered in a bar when up to
:15:26. > :15:36.fifty masked people confronted them, throwing chairs and smashing
:15:36. > :15:40.Mobile phone footage of a surprise attack showing boar stools and
:15:40. > :15:45.tables flying through the air. Tottenham Hotspur fans inside this
:15:45. > :15:51.pub say they were subject to an onslaught by around 20 men dressed
:15:51. > :15:54.in balaclavas. Dozens of Spurs fans had gathered in this pub in the
:15:54. > :16:01.centre of Lyon when suddenly, they say, people tried to smash their
:16:01. > :16:05.way in, using tables and chairs from a nearby bar as missiles. Fans
:16:05. > :16:11.reported after, the men had given Nazi salutes outside the pub before
:16:11. > :16:17.launching their attack. I've witnessed violence before, but only
:16:17. > :16:21.football vie lepbls. That was racism. That was nothing to do with
:16:21. > :16:27.football. There have been football fans walking round town all day.
:16:27. > :16:32.No-one was touched. There are similarities to a violent clash in
:16:32. > :16:36.Rome last November when ten Spurs fans were hospitalised about a
:16:36. > :16:40.group carrying iron bars and knives. Fans then said some of the
:16:40. > :16:45.attackers were wearing balaclavas and reported hearing anti-Semitic
:16:45. > :16:51.chanting during the attack. Tottenham Hotspur, with its roots
:16:51. > :16:56.in North London, have long had a large Jewish following. Last night
:16:56. > :17:02.attacks have left many fans worried about travel ago broad. The club
:17:02. > :17:05.says extra stewards are on hand now ahead of the game.
:17:05. > :17:11.An inquest has opened into the deaths of two British servicemen
:17:11. > :17:18.who were killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan soldier. Sergeant Luke
:17:18. > :17:21.Taylor of the Royal Marines and lance corporate rat Michael Foley
:17:21. > :17:28.of the Adjutant General's Corps were killed in Afghanistan last
:17:28. > :17:35.March. This was believed to have been a so-called green or blue
:17:35. > :17:38.attack? Yes, there was a dramatic rise in those insider attacks last
:17:38. > :17:43.year. 14 British soldiers died last year in these kind of attacks.
:17:43. > :17:47.That's a quarter of all the British casualties last year in Afghanistan.
:17:47. > :17:54.We've been hearing in court the details of that event on the 26th
:17:54. > :17:57.of March, the first of these kind of attacks last year at the main
:17:57. > :18:00.operating base in Lashkar Gah. It was at the maybe entrance of that
:18:00. > :18:05.base, we've heard from a number of soldiers on guard, two of them
:18:05. > :18:11.breaking down, recalling the events of the day. They described how two
:18:11. > :18:15.Afghan vehicles with troops arrived at main entrance. They asked to be
:18:15. > :18:20.allowed in. They were turned away. They became aye rate. They stayed
:18:20. > :18:24.there. The situation, we are told, was calm. Then we understand Lance
:18:24. > :18:31.Corporal Michael Foley opened the gate to allow somebody in. Then one
:18:31. > :18:34.of the Afghans burst in shot Lance Corporal Michael Foley and in that
:18:34. > :18:38.firefight, sergeant Luke Taylor was killed. We don't know what the
:18:38. > :18:43.motive for this attack was. Whether this was an insurgent attack, what
:18:43. > :18:48.we do know is that security at the base has been tightened since.
:18:48. > :18:54.We're expecting the Coroner to return a verdict later today.
:18:54. > :18:58.It is coming up to 1.19pm. Our top story: Three men have been found
:18:58. > :19:04.guilty of a suicide bomb plot that could have been bigger than the
:19:04. > :19:08.attacks of 7/7. This robotic submarine has been
:19:08. > :19:13.investigating some of the strangest features of the deep ocean. I'll
:19:13. > :19:18.have a special report on its latest discoverries.
:19:18. > :19:24.The man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend the week
:19:24. > :19:34.before their child was due. And the organ at the royal Festival
:19:34. > :19:35.
:19:36. > :19:38.Hall being restored to its former The came pain for Eastleigh the
:19:38. > :19:42.former seat of the ex-Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne has
:19:42. > :19:45.been called the most colourful by- election in recent memory. 14
:19:45. > :19:48.candidates are in the race with the coalition partners, the
:19:48. > :19:52.Conservatives and Lib Dems, at the heart of the battle. Our political
:19:52. > :19:58.correspondent, Robin Brant, has been to see how voters are feeling
:19:58. > :20:03.ahead of the poll a week today. The River Hamble on the edge of
:20:03. > :20:08.Eastleigh, you'd be hard pushed to find a more tranquil place. But
:20:08. > :20:13.upstream, on the road into town, there are signs of the major scrap
:20:13. > :20:16.taking place here. It's set the two sides of the coalition against each
:20:16. > :20:20.other. The Liberal Democrats have been stuffing leaflets through
:20:20. > :20:25.doors since they won back in 1994. There's no question about their
:20:25. > :20:28.enemy in this room. Let's cut to the chase, you're campaigning to
:20:28. > :20:32.succeed a lying, disgraced Liberal Democrat, how's that going? It's
:20:32. > :20:35.not a problem on the doors at all. We're looking at taking this
:20:35. > :20:40.forward. The reputation I've got locally, that the Liberal Democrats
:20:40. > :20:44.have locally are providing tax cuts for local people, investment and
:20:44. > :20:49.jobs. That's what we'll do if we go on to win. The Conservatives are
:20:49. > :20:54.deploying their big guns to stop that happening. The Mayor of London
:20:54. > :20:58.draws a following. But parts of Eastleigh were atough -- a tough
:20:58. > :21:03.call for Boris. Some couldn't even bring themselves to shake hands.
:21:03. > :21:07.Sorry. But it's not all about personalities. It's about the fact
:21:07. > :21:10.that they need as soon as possible to elect an MP that can be
:21:10. > :21:15.trustworthy here who has worked with local people across the
:21:15. > :21:19.constituency, working on projects and campaigns they truly are behind,
:21:19. > :21:26.the fight to save our green field spaces here in Eastleigh. This part
:21:26. > :21:30.of the country, like many suburban areas, needs new homes. There are
:21:30. > :21:34.controversial plans to pave over every fairway u, bunker and green
:21:34. > :21:38.of a local golf course. It's not just about local politics. For the
:21:38. > :21:41.Liberal Democrats if they can't retain this seat ai, strong hold,
:21:41. > :21:44.some inside the party could get gloomy about their leader Nick
:21:44. > :21:47.Clegg and the years ahead. For the Tories, if they're to think about
:21:47. > :21:54.moving beyond coalition, David Cameron's got to prove he can win
:21:54. > :21:59.in places like this. I've voted by postal vote. This is not a two-
:21:59. > :22:04.horse race though. The UK Independence Party is on the march.
:22:04. > :22:08.They're trying to take votes off all sides. I don't see us as the
:22:08. > :22:13.protest party. I think increasingly and you've only got to look at the
:22:13. > :22:17.media over the last few years, more and more people are waking up and
:22:17. > :22:22.feeling very, very dissatisfied with what the EU is causing for UK
:22:22. > :22:26.citizens on a day-to-day basis. Then there's Labour in Eastleigh,
:22:26. > :22:31.is Ed Miliband's message punching through in the south? Can I leave
:22:31. > :22:36.that with you? Yeah, but I don't vote. They've chosen a writer, a
:22:36. > :22:40.non-politician to get over that. There is a certain amount of
:22:40. > :22:43.disillusionment with politicians, boring men in grey suits, he said.
:22:43. > :22:46.The problem is that people with feeling that all politicians are
:22:46. > :22:50.the same and they say one thing and do another. I don't mind being
:22:50. > :22:53.slightly off message for the Labour Party. This is a genuinely high-
:22:53. > :23:03.stakes race. All the party leaders are visiting. Each would love to
:23:03. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:07.The by-election takes place on February 28. That's a list there of
:23:07. > :23:16.all the candidates. You can also all the candidates. You can also
:23:16. > :23:21.find that on the BBC website. The Conservative peer Lord McAlpine
:23:21. > :23:24.is dropping defamation claims against some Twitter users, who
:23:24. > :23:29.wrongly named him as a paedophile. Instead he's asked them to donate
:23:29. > :23:34.�25 each to the BBC's Children In Need.. He was falsely implicated as
:23:34. > :23:37.a result of an investigation bit BBC's Newsnight programme.
:23:37. > :23:42.At least 30 people are reported to have been killed in a car bomb
:23:42. > :23:45.attack in the centre of the Syrian capital Damascus. It's believed the
:23:45. > :23:49.head quarter of the ruling Ba'ath Party was the target. A political
:23:49. > :23:53.solution to the crisis in the country is still being sought. The
:23:53. > :23:58.opposition is holding a two-day meeting in Cairo to discuss ways to
:23:59. > :24:03.try to reach a peace deal. A businessman, suspected of
:24:03. > :24:08.murdering a family of four in their home two years ago, has appeared
:24:08. > :24:11.before magistrates. The Ding family was stabbed to death in Wootton in
:24:11. > :24:18.Northampton. Anxiang Du was extradited back to the UK yesterday.
:24:18. > :24:22.Our correspondent, Jo Black, is at Northampton Magistrates' Court.
:24:22. > :24:27.Du was brought back onto British soil yesterday afternoon on a
:24:27. > :24:30.flight from Casablanca. This morning he was brought here to
:24:30. > :24:34.Northampton magistrates in an unmarked police car. It's almost
:24:34. > :24:39.two years since the death ftz Ding family. This morning this case
:24:39. > :24:44.brings to an end the global search for Anxiang Du.
:24:45. > :24:50.On April 29th, 2011, as most of the country watched the Royal Wedding,
:24:50. > :24:55.a family of four were murdered in their own home. Geoff Ding, his
:24:55. > :25:00.wife Helen and their two daughters were all stabbed to death. Two days
:25:00. > :25:06.later detectives took the unusual step of naming a suss peck. The
:25:07. > :25:09.family's former business associate Anxiang Du. These pictures show Mr
:25:09. > :25:13.Du arriving in Northampton by train on the day of the murders.
:25:13. > :25:17.Detectives drew a blank. He was nowhere to be found. They appealed
:25:17. > :25:24.internationally through Interpol to over 180 countries. Then in July
:25:24. > :25:30.last year, 15 months later, Mr Du was recognised, spotted on a
:25:30. > :25:34.building site in Tangiers. He was working as a night watchman. He was
:25:34. > :25:36.arrested. The UK has no extradition treaty with Morocco. It's taken
:25:36. > :25:43.seven months to bring him back. This morning he was blaut to court
:25:43. > :25:48.where he now faces four murder charges. This morning's hearing at
:25:48. > :25:50.Northampton magistrates was relatively short. It only lasted a
:25:50. > :25:56.few minutes. Through an interpreter Mr Du told the court his name and
:25:56. > :25:59.address. The case has been referred to the Crown Court.
:25:59. > :26:03.British scientists have been exploring some of the most hostile
:26:03. > :26:09.conditions in the seas of the Caribbean. They've discovered vents
:26:09. > :26:12.which blast out some of the hottest water on the planet, 400 degrees
:26:12. > :26:19.centigrade. Our science editor, David Shukman, sent this report
:26:19. > :26:23.from the James Cook research vessel. This is the Caribbean and I'm on a
:26:23. > :26:27.research ship called the James Cook, which is investigating the ocean
:26:27. > :26:31.floor three miles down below us. They've been deploying a robotic
:26:31. > :26:39.submarine to look down there. The images it's produced are quite
:26:39. > :26:43.extraordinary. Hide ra thermal vents are belching out what likes
:26:43. > :26:46.like black smoke, but it's hot water. The chief scientist on the
:26:46. > :26:49.skpe Titian is Dr Jon Copley from the National Oceanography Centre.
:26:49. > :26:55.What is the key thing that you have discovered so far? We've been
:26:56. > :27:01.exploring the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents, where new
:27:01. > :27:07.crust of the earth is being created. Our submarine is about to come back.
:27:07. > :27:13.It's got samples of the hot fluid here, 400 degrees C when we
:27:13. > :27:17.collected it. We're hoping for specimens of new creatures. As an
:27:17. > :27:21.extraordinary landscape down there, rather eerie actually. What is
:27:21. > :27:28.significant scientifically about it? This is a world which sz -- has
:27:28. > :27:31.been hidding from us for all of human history, until now. Know with
:27:31. > :27:34.ke explore the world under our world. For the first time we're
:27:34. > :27:39.seeing what the face of our planet is really like. What that means for
:27:39. > :27:44.the geological force that's shape our world, the patterns of life in
:27:44. > :27:49.the ocean that we're kocted to. When you sent the submarine down
:27:49. > :27:54.you were expected to find vents, but you stumbled on an entirely new
:27:54. > :27:59.set. We stumbled on a new set of underwater vents. We saw we were
:27:59. > :28:02.seeing the ones we had seen before. But we were in a different location,
:28:02. > :28:06.completely unexpected to us. This is common place as we explore the
:28:06. > :28:09.deep ocean. Every visit we make new discoverries. It's often said that
:28:09. > :28:13.we know more about the surface of the moon or Mars than about the
:28:13. > :28:17.surface of the deep ocean, is that actual lit case? It is the case
:28:17. > :28:22.that we know more about the surface of other planets because our own
:28:22. > :28:25.world has this watery veil. It blocks the kind of things we use to
:28:26. > :28:29.look at the surface of planets from satellites. We can't do that in the
:28:29. > :28:35.ocean. The only way to understand the deep ocean is to get down there
:28:35. > :28:39.and actually see it close up. is genuine discovery, Dr Jon Copley,
:28:39. > :28:44.thank you very much. The dives of the submarine will continue. The
:28:44. > :28:46.basic message is that the more they look, the more they find.
:28:46. > :28:51.Absolutely fascinating there. Our science editor, David Shukman,
:28:51. > :28:56.there. You can see more on that on tonight's BBC News at Six. Now,
:28:56. > :28:59.time for the weather. How are we time for the weather. How are we
:28:59. > :29:04.looking? Pretty cold. I hope you have a nice
:29:04. > :29:08.scarf because it's looking on the chimy side. I still have goose
:29:08. > :29:15.bumps from coming into work, such is the bitter wind that creeps up
:29:15. > :29:18.behind you. Here's the wind, this is the graphic which shows the air
:29:19. > :29:22.from continental Europe, where it's colder now. Because the winds are
:29:22. > :29:25.from the east it's cold across the UK as well. This is what the
:29:25. > :29:29.temperatures are today, two or three degrees. When you add the
:29:29. > :29:32.wind it feels like it's minus two or minus three degrees. That's not
:29:32. > :29:36.that bad, but it's cold enough I suppose for some of us. This is the
:29:36. > :29:39.cloud then across the UK right now. There is a bit of sunshine around,
:29:39. > :29:43.it's not dull and grey everywhere. There is some lovely weather across
:29:43. > :29:46.the UK. If you're sheltered from the wind, it feels like a
:29:46. > :29:52.reasonable day. It's these western fringes where we have a bit of
:29:52. > :29:56.sunshine. For the rest of the us, especially the eastern areas, it's
:29:56. > :30:00.the beanies an ber yays and all. That make sure you have your gloves
:30:00. > :30:05.as well if you're outside. Temperatures plus one or two
:30:05. > :30:08.degrees. There might even be one little flurry of snow off the North
:30:08. > :30:12.Sea through the afternoon. Notice the south, we have breaks in the
:30:12. > :30:17.cloud as well. Then across the south-west of the country, plus
:30:17. > :30:21.five degrees. The air is very dry across the UK today. So that's why
:30:22. > :30:25.it also feels pretty cold. Dry air feels very chilly when the wind is
:30:25. > :30:28.blowing. Western parts of Wales a bit of sunshine. Also across
:30:28. > :30:33.Northern Ireland. The sunny spells will be coming and going, then
:30:33. > :30:37.coming back again. Around two or three degrees. This evening and the
:30:37. > :30:41.wind blows from the east once more. The map turns blue. There's a frost
:30:41. > :30:49.on the way. Temperatures will dip down to around minus one, minus two.
:30:49. > :30:52.Last night in Scotland we had mine is seven. This coming night we
:30:52. > :30:58.could see temperatures down to minus ten. Tomorrow morning, we
:30:58. > :31:02.could be waking up to a bit of snow across the south-east, Kent, Sussex
:31:02. > :31:08.those sorts of areas. And the weather, we do it all over again.
:31:08. > :31:12.This is what it looks like, down to around minus two, even minus four
:31:12. > :31:17.on the Norfolk coast with that biting wind, the beast from the
:31:17. > :31:21.east. Saturday, we could see more substantial snow flurries across
:31:21. > :31:24.the East Midlands and Sunday it's copy-cat conditions again, it's
:31:24. > :31:28.chilly winds out of the east and temperatures around about two to
:31:28. > :31:34.five degrees. So, it's certainly looking chilly. Are you ready?
:31:34. > :31:37.I am! Thank very much. Now then a reminder of our main story. Three