:00:10. > :00:14.A hot-air balloon crashes in Egypt killing up to 19 tourists, among
:00:14. > :00:17.them Britons. It came down near Luxor after an explosion 1,000 feet
:00:17. > :00:23.up in the air. Eyewitnesses say people were jumping from the
:00:23. > :00:30.balloon. An American photographer who took these photographs before
:00:30. > :00:35.the crash described what he heard. We heard a bang, I saw smoke. Our
:00:35. > :00:39.pilot told us to look forward to prepare for landing.
:00:39. > :00:45.The Italian comedian whose protest party has won a quarter of the
:00:45. > :00:50.votes in the general election, but his success brings stalemate for
:00:50. > :00:53.Italy. Nick Clegg police should be able to
:00:53. > :01:00.investigate inappropriate behaviour by Lord Rennard.
:01:00. > :01:04.An inquest hears how Tom Maynard was electrocuted and then killed by
:01:04. > :01:08.a train after fleeing police last year.
:01:08. > :01:12.I'm at the world's biggest mobile phone show where they are showing
:01:12. > :01:16.off sorts of new ideas. I can start this scooter by tapping the phone
:01:16. > :01:20.on it. We will be looking at where mobile technology is taking us.
:01:20. > :01:30.Jail for the man who supplied the gun to Mark Duggan - whose fatal
:01:30. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:51.shooting by police sparked the Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC
:01:51. > :01:54.News at One. Two Britons are among a group of tourists who have died
:01:54. > :01:58.in a hot-air balloon crash in Egypt. Up to 19 people are thought to have
:01:58. > :02:02.been killed after the balloon exploded in mid-air this morning
:02:02. > :02:08.near Luxor. Thomas Cook has confirmed that two of their clients
:02:08. > :02:13.have died and two more have been injured.
:02:13. > :02:16.In a field west of Luxor, the blackened wreckage of a tourist
:02:16. > :02:20.adventure that went horribly wrong. Ambulances arrived minutes after
:02:20. > :02:25.the balloon plummeted to the ground from 1,000 feet up. Eyewitnesses
:02:25. > :02:30.said there had been a fire and an explosion. The photographer in the
:02:30. > :02:36.balloon nearby described what happened. We were approaching the
:02:36. > :02:41.end of our balloon flight, heading into Luxor. It was more of what we
:02:41. > :02:47.heard. A loud explosion and then a lot of smoke right behind us. Our
:02:47. > :02:50.first feeling was it couldn't be a balloon, but it turned out to be
:02:50. > :02:55.this accident. These are his photographs of the balloon setting
:02:55. > :02:59.off this morning, though which one was involved is not clear. Thomas
:02:59. > :03:09.Cook UK said two of its guests are among the dead and two others were
:03:09. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:19.Dawn balloon rides over some of Egypt's most famous sites have long
:03:19. > :03:23.been popular with tourists. New controls were brought in four years
:03:23. > :03:29.ago after a string of accidents. But recent passengers in Egypt have
:03:29. > :03:34.also expressed concerns about the level of safety. There were six in
:03:34. > :03:39.our little compartment and there weren't enough hand-holds. When it
:03:39. > :03:44.does hit the ground like ours crashed the people standing in
:03:44. > :03:47.there headbutt you so we had broken cheekbones, black eyes, broken
:03:47. > :03:52.noses. One balloon safety expert says such flights are generally
:03:52. > :03:56.safe but he admits there are problems in Egypt. From my
:03:56. > :04:02.experience there and elsewhere overseas, I could see that there
:04:02. > :04:07.were cracks in the system which might have contributed to this kind
:04:08. > :04:11.of occurrence and so whilst I hope that this was just a one-off
:04:12. > :04:16.accident, there are certainly doubts that one might raise about
:04:16. > :04:21.the overall oversight of the system out there for balloon flights.
:04:21. > :04:26.Investigations at the crash site are continuing and all hot-air
:04:26. > :04:30.balloon flights over Luxor have now been suspended.
:04:30. > :04:34.Stock markets have tumbled across Europe after Italy's general
:04:34. > :04:40.election ended in stalemate and instability. A quarter of the vote
:04:40. > :04:44.was won by a comedian's protest party resulting in no overall
:04:44. > :04:49.winner. They tell the story of a political
:04:49. > :04:54.crisis, an election that failed to find a winner. Italians woke up to
:04:54. > :04:59.the news that neither of their biggest political parties can
:05:00. > :05:08.control Parliament. Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the centre-left,
:05:08. > :05:12.was expected to win, but he was torpedoed by a very familiar figure.
:05:12. > :05:17.Silvio Berlusconi on the campaign trail. He promised big tax cuts and
:05:17. > :05:22.many people liked the sound of that. Mr Berlusconi did enough to stop
:05:22. > :05:27.his rivals winning, but now there's stalemate and there's frustration
:05:27. > :05:30.at the confusion of it all. TRANSLATION: They have given us
:05:31. > :05:36.another ungovernable country so we can't be happy about this result.
:05:36. > :05:40.TRANSLATION: We don't know, they will decide. Our future is in the
:05:40. > :05:43.hands of the four or five who do whatever they want.
:05:43. > :05:48.This is where Italy's Prime Minister lives, but nobody is going
:05:48. > :05:55.to be moving in any time soon. This country has been plunged into what
:05:55. > :05:59.will very like I'll be a period of protracted political instability.
:05:59. > :06:05.But one man was delighted with what happened last night, the comedian
:06:05. > :06:10.turned politician Beppe Grillo. He led a new movement of citizen
:06:10. > :06:15.activists who have utter contempt for the old traditional parties.
:06:15. > :06:21.The activists came third, a stunning result that has shaken
:06:21. > :06:26.Italian politics to its core. Our chief Economics Correspondent
:06:26. > :06:30.is here. Let's take a look at the impact that this has had on the
:06:30. > :06:35.stock markets. Yes, it is the old cliche, markets hate uncertainty.
:06:35. > :06:40.They have got it with Italy today. Italy's government borrowing costs
:06:40. > :06:47.have gone up to their highest since last October. Let's look at the
:06:47. > :06:56.stock market further afield. The MIB index down more than 4% this
:06:56. > :07:01.morning. The IBEX2.5%. The CAC is down 2%. The FTSE 100 is down 1.3%.
:07:01. > :07:05.The old ghosts of eurozone crisis back again. It is obvious what
:07:05. > :07:11.impact it will have on Italy - a lot of uncertainty. What about the
:07:11. > :07:18.rest of the EU? What impact will have it there and here? It's
:07:18. > :07:23.reawakened memories of the Greek crisis in the summer of last year,
:07:23. > :07:25.an anti-establishment party gaining ground. The markets are worried
:07:25. > :07:31.about Italian government debt and whether a new government can deal
:07:31. > :07:38.with that. The danger is a spiralling loss of confidence
:07:38. > :07:42.affecting banks. How could it affect the UK? We had two city
:07:42. > :07:46.policymakers giving evidence today. Both said everything was looking
:07:46. > :07:50.all right for growth in the UK! The problem is this looks like it could
:07:50. > :07:54.go on for quite some time, as we were hearing in that report? Yes,
:07:54. > :07:58.anything that smacks of continued uncertain ty and not coming up with
:07:58. > :08:01.a government who can deal with further reforms and further
:08:01. > :08:05.austerity increases a lack of confidence around Europe and all
:08:05. > :08:11.last year's problems. After a period of comparative peace coming
:08:11. > :08:14.back to haunt markets. Thank you very much. Let's go to Rome now and
:08:15. > :08:20.our correspondent Chris Morris is there for us now.
:08:20. > :08:24.Italians left with a political vacuum? Yes, absolutely. It is the
:08:24. > :08:29.one thing that outsiders didn't want, it is the one thing that most
:08:29. > :08:33.politicians didn't want. They have been delivered a bloodied nose by
:08:33. > :08:37.the voters. The idea of a party which isn't really a political
:08:37. > :08:41.party at all, a movement which didn't exist four years ago, taking
:08:41. > :08:45.one in four votes in a major European country. It is quite an
:08:45. > :08:48.extraordinary achievement. It shows the level of dissatisfaction here
:08:48. > :08:53.with the traditional political classes. The problem is that does
:08:53. > :08:56.mean that there will be this period of uncertainty at a time when
:08:56. > :09:01.everybody desperately wants Europe, the third largest economy in the
:09:01. > :09:05.eurozone, to get back to work. Italy's been struggling for a
:09:05. > :09:09.decade now with low growth, unemployment is rising. The
:09:09. > :09:14.prescription from Brussels and to some extent from Germany has been
:09:14. > :09:20.austerity, fiscal consolidation. A clear majority of voters last night
:09:20. > :09:24.voted against that, voting for Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi,
:09:24. > :09:28.it was a vote against the policies that many people see being imposed
:09:28. > :09:32.on them from outside. Senior Liberal Democrats are due to
:09:32. > :09:35.meet police officers over allegations of sexual harassment
:09:35. > :09:39.against Lord Rennard. The police say they are working with the Party
:09:39. > :09:43.to find out whether any criminal activity has taken place. Lord
:09:43. > :09:50.Rennard strongly denies the allegations of inappropriate
:09:50. > :09:54.behaviour towards women. The Liberal Democrats are facing a
:09:54. > :09:58.mounting crisis, claims of a sex scandal at the top of the Party and
:09:58. > :10:01.a leader who has changed his story about what he knew and when he knew
:10:01. > :10:06.it. The questions won't two away for Nick Clegg. I understand there
:10:06. > :10:09.are many people who appear to want to act as self-appointed detectives
:10:09. > :10:13.trying to piece together events that happened many years ago. The
:10:13. > :10:17.only way we will establish exactly what happened and who knew what and
:10:17. > :10:20.when is by allowing the two investigations that I established
:10:20. > :10:26.immediately after the Channel 4 broadcast to do their job. Five
:10:26. > :10:31.women have made claims that Chris Rennard abused his position. He
:10:31. > :10:34.stren usely denied those allegation -- strenuously denied those
:10:34. > :10:39.allegations. Two inquiries have been set up to dig deeper. This is
:10:39. > :10:47.one of the women who must be properly listened to. For a start,
:10:47. > :10:50.it is going beyond the pat on the knee, who gets to decide what is
:10:51. > :10:55.unacceptable advance and what is not an unacceptable advance? The
:10:55. > :11:02.power dynamics are quite scary. business of being in coalition goes
:11:02. > :11:05.on. Some senior Lib Dems can't escape the fact they have given
:11:05. > :11:08.different versions of who knew what. REPORTER: Did you feel annoyed you
:11:08. > :11:14.were putting out the line that he didn't know about the allegations
:11:14. > :11:18.and then it changed? I'm not going to add to what I said yesterday. I
:11:18. > :11:22.was perfectly comfortable with that. All this is unfolding as the
:11:22. > :11:25.Liberal Democrats fight an intense battle to try to hold on to that
:11:25. > :11:29.crucial seat of Eastleigh in a by- election this Thursday. But it
:11:29. > :11:33.could put the spotlight on how politics and relationships work in
:11:33. > :11:36.this place. The police have now been called in. Lib Dem officials
:11:36. > :11:42.are meeting with officers later. They will look at Lord Rennard's
:11:42. > :11:45.time in charge when this was the Party HQ. He was known as a by-
:11:45. > :11:49.election guru. It is that by- election in Eastleigh that will be
:11:49. > :11:54.the immediate concern. Nick Clegg and others will want to limit any
:11:54. > :11:58.damage to the Lib Dem campaign over the next two days.
:11:58. > :12:02.Let's get more on that from Norman Smith, who is in Eastleigh, where
:12:02. > :12:08.there is that by-election. How is all this playing out for the
:12:08. > :12:14.Liberal Democrats in Eastleigh? Well, my sense is that the Liberal
:12:14. > :12:18.Democrats here feel they have been given "a hospital pass" in the form
:12:18. > :12:23.of the Chris Rennard claims. The allegations are proving deeply
:12:23. > :12:27.distracting and destabilising for a campaign they want to be fought on
:12:27. > :12:32.local issues. Distracting because every time a Lib Dem MP comes down
:12:32. > :12:38.here all he is questioned now about are the Chris Rennard claims.
:12:38. > :12:40.Destabilising because there are so many allegations swirling around,
:12:40. > :12:46.ricocheting around, that they simply do not know what sort of
:12:46. > :12:49.headlines they are going to wake up to. Here is a paradox: While the
:12:49. > :12:55.Party nationally is being mauled in the polls, with one suggestinging
:12:55. > :13:01.they are down to 8%, locally a poll today suggests the Lib Dems are
:13:01. > :13:07.still ahead by some 4%, so it could be that the Lib Dems here manage to
:13:07. > :13:11.throw a dummy, hoof the ball into touch and save Nick Clegg's bacon.
:13:11. > :13:16.Thank you. Here is a full list of all the
:13:16. > :13:24.candidates contesting the Eastleigh by-election. It is also on the BBC
:13:24. > :13:26.News website - bbc.co.uk/news. The Vatican has answered some of
:13:26. > :13:29.the questions surrounding the future of the outgoing Pope.
:13:29. > :13:31.Following his retirement tomorrow, Pope Benedict will be known as
:13:31. > :13:34."Emeritus Pope" and will continue to wear a white cassock. However,
:13:34. > :13:37.his ring of office will be destroyed according to Vatican
:13:37. > :13:42.tradition. His successor will be chosen by a conclave of more than
:13:42. > :13:49.one hundred Cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
:13:49. > :13:52.A court has heard that a friend of Vicky Pryce is being investigated
:13:52. > :13:56.for allegedly lying about her involvement in leaking the story
:13:56. > :14:01.about Chris Huhne's speeding points to the press. Vicky Pryce denies
:14:01. > :14:05.perverting the course of justice. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, the man
:14:05. > :14:08.convicted of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan minutes before his
:14:08. > :14:12.fatal shooting by police, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. If
:14:12. > :14:15.killing of Mr Duggan sparked riots which spread across London and
:14:15. > :14:19.other areas of London in August 2011.
:14:19. > :14:22.An inquest has heard how a county cricketer who had been tipped as a
:14:22. > :14:27.future England star died after he was electrocuted on a railway line
:14:27. > :14:30.before being hit by a train. Tom Maynard, who was 23, had been
:14:30. > :14:40.trying to run away from police in the early hours of the morning last
:14:40. > :14:49.
:14:49. > :14:54.The inquest began with growing -- glowing tributes from Maynard's
:14:54. > :14:59.father and from sorry. We heard from a pathologist about
:14:59. > :15:04.circumstances surrounding the death. A pathologist was unable to confirm
:15:04. > :15:09.whether Maynard was killed before the tube train hit him or not. He
:15:09. > :15:13.stepped on a live rail at London Underground. There was a lot
:15:13. > :15:17.surrounding the toxicology reports. They showed that Maynard was not
:15:17. > :15:22.only well over the legal alcohol limit but also that he had taken
:15:22. > :15:26.cocaine within hours, perhaps, of his death. From a sample of his
:15:26. > :15:30.hair it showed that he was a regular and habitual cocaine user
:15:30. > :15:36.for perhaps a number of months. have heard from friends and team-
:15:36. > :15:40.mates? A bowler who was playing for England a fortnight ago in New
:15:40. > :15:48.Zealand, Rory Hamilton Brown, the captain at Surrey during Maynard's
:15:48. > :15:51.career, also his girlfriend, Carly Baker. Both Hamilton Brown and the
:15:51. > :15:55.other cricketer were asked about drug use, they said they were not
:15:56. > :15:59.aware that he had been taking drugs. But questions are being asked and
:15:59. > :16:03.statements being released by the Professional Cricketers'
:16:03. > :16:10.Association defending both their drug education programme and their
:16:10. > :16:16.drug-testing regime. A thank you. A our top story this lunchtime: A
:16:16. > :16:21.hot-air balloon has crashed in Egypt, killing up to 19 tourists,
:16:21. > :16:25.including two Britains. It came down near Luxor after an explosion
:16:25. > :16:30.1000 ft in the air. The unwitting many mules, where
:16:31. > :16:35.thousands are being duped into laundering money for fraudsters.
:16:35. > :16:41.On BBC London: Tesco axes 800 jobs in Harlow but creates thousands
:16:41. > :16:47.more in Reading and Dagenham. And the 100th anniversary of the
:16:47. > :16:50.birth of a London photographer Norman Parkinson is celebrated in
:16:50. > :16:55.pictures. -- of the London photographer.
:16:55. > :16:59.Fraud experts have Lord -- warned that thousands have been duped into
:16:59. > :17:04.laundering money for fraudsters, allowing their own bank account to
:17:04. > :17:10.be used to disguise the proceeds of crime in exchange for a cut of the
:17:10. > :17:14.cash. Simon Gompertz reports. They target you after you posed a
:17:14. > :17:19.CV online or through mass e-mails, offering innocent sounding admin
:17:19. > :17:24.jobs as long as you have a bank account, for reduce the pay packet.
:17:24. > :17:29.In fact, it is fraudsters wanting to use your account to launder the
:17:29. > :17:33.proceeds of their crimes. They call you a money mule. This woman was
:17:33. > :17:39.out of work for a year and was tempted. She even signed a contract
:17:39. > :17:42.but, luckily, pulled out. It makes you feel sick. I had been out of
:17:42. > :17:49.work for a long time. I wasted time filling in details thinking I might
:17:49. > :17:54.get a job at the end of it. But it was just wasting my time. Dirty
:17:54. > :17:57.money from credit card and other frauds is paid into the mule's
:17:57. > :18:02.account to disguise criminal origins. The mule takes a cut and
:18:02. > :18:08.then transfers the cash to an overseas bank, classic money
:18:08. > :18:11.laundering. Do you know what's a money mule is? The students are
:18:11. > :18:17.being told to take care. There is such concern about the
:18:17. > :18:23.danger of becoming money mules that Crimestoppers is warning students
:18:23. > :18:29.not to be duped into becoming involved. Today's research shows
:18:29. > :18:33.13% of unemployed people offered work as money mules accepted it,
:18:33. > :18:38.and 19% of students. They might not realise it, but they are breaking
:18:38. > :18:42.the law. It is a colossal waste, you are taking almost all the risk
:18:42. > :18:46.on behalf of the criminals, that is why they try so hard to get people
:18:46. > :18:51.to do this for them, they are most likely to be caught. Hundreds of
:18:51. > :18:56.thousands may have already worked as money mules. They risk their
:18:56. > :19:01.bank accounts being frozen and maybe even being sent to prison.
:19:01. > :19:06.Victims of rape were encouraged by police to retract allegations to
:19:06. > :19:09.boost detection rates, according to a report by the Independent Police
:19:09. > :19:13.Complaints Commission. The watchdog says the approach taken by a
:19:13. > :19:17.specialist unit in South London of failing to believe victims was
:19:17. > :19:22.wholly inappropriate. June Kelly is at New Scotland Yard, what is
:19:22. > :19:26.thought to have been going on? is not for the first time the
:19:27. > :19:31.country's largest force is in the dock over failings in rape
:19:31. > :19:35.investigations. In this case, when women went and complained to
:19:35. > :19:38.officers at Southwark in South London, in some cases they were
:19:38. > :19:42.pressurised to retract the allegation. We don't know how many
:19:42. > :19:48.women are involved, the figures have not been kept, but it was so
:19:48. > :19:53.officers could meet detection target rates. In 2008 a woman made
:19:54. > :19:58.a complaint, she was pressurised to withdraw, she did that, the man and
:19:58. > :20:04.Bob, a very violent man, went on to murder his two young children, a
:20:04. > :20:06.boy of 10 and a girl of eight. This begs the question, if he was
:20:06. > :20:11.investigated properly he potentially could have ended up in
:20:11. > :20:15.jail and those children could still be alive today. Senior officers at
:20:15. > :20:20.Scotland Yard acknowledge this is another bad day for the Met in
:20:20. > :20:23.terms of rape investigations, they say that since 2009 or rape
:20:24. > :20:28.investigations in London have been placed under one centralised
:20:28. > :20:32.command -- all rape investigations. They say this bad practice is not
:20:32. > :20:35.happening today. Her 80% of people living in care
:20:35. > :20:39.homes have either dementia or a significant memory problems,
:20:39. > :20:43.according to a new report from the Alzheimer's Society. The charity
:20:43. > :20:49.found many families have worryingly low expectations about the quality
:20:49. > :20:52.of life their loved ones will lead in care homes.
:20:52. > :20:56.As the number of people diagnosed with dementia increases, the
:20:56. > :21:01.question of how to provide them with good quality care becomes more
:21:01. > :21:05.pressing. Lorna Anderson is now happily settled in this home, where
:21:05. > :21:09.the care is good. But the first place she was in was very different.
:21:09. > :21:13.Her daughter Lorraine was so appalled by the conditions she took
:21:13. > :21:18.her mother out after just a week. There was a remarkable change in
:21:18. > :21:21.mum, she was happy, laughing, but staff could understand her care
:21:21. > :21:25.needs. They also let her express herself, which is very, very
:21:26. > :21:30.important. Today's report shows more people than ever are living
:21:30. > :21:35.with dementia in care homes. 80% of care home residents are thought to
:21:35. > :21:38.have dementia or a significant memory problems, but just 41% of
:21:38. > :21:44.families surveyed thought their relatives had a good quality of
:21:44. > :21:47.life. There is a widespread fear of going into a home. 70% of adults
:21:47. > :21:51.say the prospect scares them. More and more people living in care
:21:51. > :21:55.homes have been diagnosed with dementia or severe memory problems.
:21:55. > :21:59.Their families seem to have a very low expectation of the kind of
:21:59. > :22:03.quality of life they might enjoy. The Alzheimer's Society says that
:22:03. > :22:06.does not have to be the case. Throughout our lives, for our
:22:06. > :22:12.children or ourselves and our working lives, we demand high
:22:12. > :22:18.quality. Why should we expect a lower-quality, a second class
:22:19. > :22:23.quality, for people at the end of lives? This is what good care looks
:22:23. > :22:27.like, gentle and patient, forming a connection, for example through
:22:27. > :22:31.photographs prompting memories. People live well with dementia, it
:22:31. > :22:35.is not just a case that they have dementia and it is a final outcome,
:22:35. > :22:41.they can live very well with dementia, people in the community,
:22:41. > :22:45.people in care. The report says families need to know that good
:22:45. > :22:49.quality care for dementia sufferers does exist, and they need to know
:22:49. > :22:53.how to find it. If a High Court challenge could
:22:53. > :22:57.change the way 17 year-olds in England and Wales are treated after
:22:57. > :23:01.they are taken into police custody. It has been brought by a children's
:23:01. > :23:06.charity which says that a legal anomaly means that 17 year-olds are
:23:06. > :23:09.classed as adults, not children, when in police detention, meaning
:23:10. > :23:14.they don't automatically receive the guidance of a parent or
:23:14. > :23:20.guardian to help them. In the early hours of the 9th of
:23:20. > :23:23.August last year, this couple's 17 year-old son Joe was stopped by the
:23:23. > :23:29.police for drink-driving, held for several hours before being charged
:23:29. > :23:33.and released. Two days later he was found dead at the family home, he'd
:23:33. > :23:37.killed himself. If he had been 16, his parents would have been
:23:37. > :23:41.informed of his arrest and allowed to be with him at the police
:23:41. > :23:46.station. When he was asked if he wanted to inform anybody his answer
:23:46. > :23:51.was, not really, there was nothing anybody can do. Well, there was a
:23:51. > :23:56.lot that we could have done. If we had been contacted then we really
:23:56. > :24:00.firmly believe that Joe would be with us now. 17 year-olds detained
:24:00. > :24:04.in police custody in England and Wales are treated as adults,
:24:04. > :24:09.meaning they don't automatically receive a range of supports that
:24:09. > :24:13.anyone under 16 does get, including a parent or appropriate adult being
:24:13. > :24:19.informed of the arrest and attending a police station. Lawyers
:24:19. > :24:24.bringing today's legal challenge say that has to change. It is the
:24:24. > :24:27.only place, at the police station, that 17 year-olds are treated as
:24:27. > :24:30.adults, nowhere else in the criminal justice system. If they
:24:30. > :24:36.were charged they would go back to being children and sent to youth
:24:36. > :24:39.courts. Northern Ireland change its law to include 17 year-olds in 2009,
:24:40. > :24:45.today's High Court challenge concerns a 17 year-old held at a
:24:45. > :24:49.London police station overnight on suspicion of robbery. According to
:24:49. > :24:56.the Home Office, each year 75,017 year-olds in England and Wales are
:24:56. > :24:58.taken into police custody. -- 75,000 17 year-olds. They can be
:24:58. > :25:08.allowed an appropriate adult, but in practice it often does not
:25:08. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:16.That is little comfort for Nick and Jane, still in touch with Joe's
:25:17. > :25:20.friends. These children have such - - have still been visiting us in
:25:20. > :25:24.the six months since he died, they have changed a massive amount and
:25:24. > :25:31.you can see already they are becoming more mature and turning
:25:31. > :25:37.into young adults. At 17 years of age, you are not an adult.
:25:37. > :25:41.The collapse of the contractor -- contract to run the West Coast Main
:25:41. > :25:44.Line has cost the taxpayer at least �50 million. First Group were
:25:44. > :25:48.awarded the franchise last year, but the deal fell through because
:25:48. > :25:51.of errors by the Department for Transport. The Government says
:25:51. > :25:57.major changes have been made to ensure such mistakes don't happen
:25:57. > :26:00.again. Now, from smartphones to Smart
:26:00. > :26:05.Homes, the latest hi-tech handsets and household gadgets are being
:26:05. > :26:11.unveiled in Barcelona this week. What could the future look like?
:26:11. > :26:15.Rory Cellan-Jones is there for us now.
:26:15. > :26:19.This event is like the motor show for phones, you get to see the
:26:19. > :26:24.latest handsets, they are incredibly sophisticated miniature
:26:24. > :26:27.computers. They are beginning to all look much the same to me. What
:26:27. > :26:32.is more interesting is what you will be able to do with them. I
:26:32. > :26:35.have been looking at exactly where mobile technology is heading.
:26:35. > :26:40.At Mobile World Congress this year they are determined to show that
:26:40. > :26:44.mobile technology reaches into every area of our lives, and this
:26:44. > :26:49.exhibit is meant to demonstrate that. The mobile phone experience
:26:49. > :26:57.we are used to is being taken into the car? As far as I understand it,
:26:57. > :27:02.the android phone system is being linked direct to this screen?
:27:02. > :27:07.have an untried system and the car, smart link, it copies the screen
:27:07. > :27:13.from your smartphone -- and android system. What is this giving me that
:27:13. > :27:18.Sat Nav and access to my music generally would not give me?
:27:18. > :27:24.safer and better experience. It is easier to navigate and control the
:27:25. > :27:34.system. And there is one sector Rasham. Say I wanted to listen to
:27:34. > :27:44.Bruce Springsteen? -- and there is a voice recognition. The boss.
:27:44. > :27:44.
:27:44. > :27:48.I have seen an awful lot of smart homes over the year, but they are
:27:48. > :27:54.getting smarter and more connected to on the move. This one can be
:27:54. > :27:59.controlled by a tablets on various software platforms. I am at work
:27:59. > :28:05.and I want the fire on before I come home. Yes, it is turned on. I
:28:05. > :28:10.am also a bit worried about the actual temperature of the house. 13
:28:10. > :28:20.degrees strikes me as a bit hot -- bit cold, let's push it up to 21
:28:20. > :28:29.degrees. Maybe I am out and I want to feed the pet. Let's see if I can
:28:29. > :28:33.do that. 1, two, three. Excellent. Happy pet.
:28:33. > :28:37.One other thing that is big here this year it is near field
:28:37. > :28:42.communications, technology built into phones allowing them to do all
:28:42. > :28:46.sorts of stuff. I can touch this scooter and cities unlocked, I can
:28:46. > :28:56.rent it and take it away. But I think I would rather have an app
:28:56. > :28:56.
:28:56. > :29:01.And now the weather: Not long before we get some apt to predict
:29:01. > :29:05.all the weather conditions! There is some good news on the horizon if
:29:05. > :29:10.you are longing for sunshine, there is sunshine on the way for places
:29:10. > :29:16.that perhaps have not seen much over the last few days, and it will
:29:16. > :29:20.not be as cold. The temperature -- high pressure is in charge, so lots
:29:20. > :29:26.an awful lot is changing, though weather pattern is about the same.
:29:26. > :29:30.-- so not an awful lot is changing. Where we have the wind coming from
:29:30. > :29:35.the east, that is where we have the clout. Closer to the scent of a
:29:35. > :29:39.high pressure. Where the winds are much lighter in Scotland, that is
:29:39. > :29:43.where we have those fine and sunny conditions all the way from Orkney
:29:43. > :29:47.and Shetland across the Western Isles and through the central
:29:47. > :29:52.islands. So some lovely weather across Scotland and north of --
:29:52. > :29:56.most of Northern Ireland. Further south, winds coming from
:29:56. > :30:04.the east or the North-East, we have dank, cloudy conditions and a
:30:04. > :30:09.really drizzly and unpleasant start to the day. Five or six degrees,
:30:09. > :30:13.temperatures in Norwich around four degrees. Top temperatures today
:30:13. > :30:18.around five degrees in England and Wales, staying cloudy this evening
:30:18. > :30:22.so temperatures will not be much different. In Scotland with a
:30:23. > :30:28.beautiful blue skies, once the sun sets, but temperatures will take a
:30:28. > :30:31.real dip down to around minus eight. So we are at the time of the year
:30:31. > :30:35.whether contrasts between daytime and night-time temperatures are
:30:35. > :30:38.very big the given clear conditions. Frost in Scotland first thing on
:30:38. > :30:41.Wednesday, for the rest of the UK, temperatures generally above
:30:42. > :30:46.freezing. Towards the south tomorrow we have
:30:46. > :30:49.most of the cloud, but there is a sliding your ones in the weather
:30:50. > :30:54.forecast. Across Yorkshire and maybe into parts of East Anglia
:30:54. > :30:58.there is more sunshine coming through. Towards the south we have
:30:58. > :31:01.cloudy conditions. High pressure with us on Thursday, but the
:31:02. > :31:07.difference with Scotland this time as we have a weather front crossing
:31:07. > :31:11.Scotland, meaning it will be a bit more cloudy. All the sunshine in
:31:11. > :31:14.the north will basically be shunted a little bit further south. Sir
:31:14. > :31:19.towards Thursday I think the chances are we will get a bit more
:31:19. > :31:22.brightness across Wales and England. This is the outlook for the end of
:31:22. > :31:24.the week, temperatures hovering at about five or six, but in some
:31:24. > :31:29.about five or six, but in some places we will finally get to see
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