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