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A hot-air balloon crashes in Egypt killing up to 19 tourists, among | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
them Britons. It came down near Luxor after an explosion 1,000 feet | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
up in the air. Eyewitnesses say people were jumping from the | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
balloon. An American photographer who took these photographs before | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
the crash described what he heard. We heard a bang, I saw smoke. Our | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
pilot told us to look forward to prepare for landing. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
The Italian comedian whose protest party has won a quarter of the | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
votes in the general election, but his success brings stalemate for | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
Italy. Nick Clegg police should be able to | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
investigate inappropriate behaviour by Lord Rennard. | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
An inquest hears how Tom Maynard was electrocuted and then killed by | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
a train after fleeing police last year. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
I'm at the world's biggest mobile phone show where they are showing | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
off sorts of new ideas. I can start this scooter by tapping the phone | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
on it. We will be looking at where mobile technology is taking us. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Jail for the man who supplied the gun to Mark Duggan - whose fatal | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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shooting by police sparked the Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
News at One. Two Britons are among a group of tourists who have died | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
in a hot-air balloon crash in Egypt. Up to 19 people are thought to have | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
been killed after the balloon exploded in mid-air this morning | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
near Luxor. Thomas Cook has confirmed that two of their clients | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
have died and two more have been injured. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
In a field west of Luxor, the blackened wreckage of a tourist | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
adventure that went horribly wrong. Ambulances arrived minutes after | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
the balloon plummeted to the ground from 1,000 feet up. Eyewitnesses | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
said there had been a fire and an explosion. The photographer in the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
balloon nearby described what happened. We were approaching the | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
end of our balloon flight, heading into Luxor. It was more of what we | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
heard. A loud explosion and then a lot of smoke right behind us. Our | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
first feeling was it couldn't be a balloon, but it turned out to be | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
this accident. These are his photographs of the balloon setting | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
off this morning, though which one was involved is not clear. Thomas | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Cook UK said two of its guests are among the dead and two others were | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
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Dawn balloon rides over some of Egypt's most famous sites have long | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
been popular with tourists. New controls were brought in four years | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
ago after a string of accidents. But recent passengers in Egypt have | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
also expressed concerns about the level of safety. There were six in | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
our little compartment and there weren't enough hand-holds. When it | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
does hit the ground like ours crashed the people standing in | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
there headbutt you so we had broken cheekbones, black eyes, broken | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
noses. One balloon safety expert says such flights are generally | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
safe but he admits there are problems in Egypt. From my | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
experience there and elsewhere overseas, I could see that there | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
were cracks in the system which might have contributed to this kind | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
of occurrence and so whilst I hope that this was just a one-off | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
accident, there are certainly doubts that one might raise about | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the overall oversight of the system out there for balloon flights. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Investigations at the crash site are continuing and all hot-air | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
balloon flights over Luxor have now been suspended. | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Stock markets have tumbled across Europe after Italy's general | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
election ended in stalemate and instability. A quarter of the vote | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
was won by a comedian's protest party resulting in no overall | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
winner. They tell the story of a political | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
crisis, an election that failed to find a winner. Italians woke up to | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
the news that neither of their biggest political parties can | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
control Parliament. Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the centre-left, | :05:00. | :05:08. | |
was expected to win, but he was torpedoed by a very familiar figure. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Silvio Berlusconi on the campaign trail. He promised big tax cuts and | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
many people liked the sound of that. Mr Berlusconi did enough to stop | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
his rivals winning, but now there's stalemate and there's frustration | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
at the confusion of it all. TRANSLATION: They have given us | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
another ungovernable country so we can't be happy about this result. | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
TRANSLATION: We don't know, they will decide. Our future is in the | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
hands of the four or five who do whatever they want. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
This is where Italy's Prime Minister lives, but nobody is going | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
to be moving in any time soon. This country has been plunged into what | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
will very like I'll be a period of protracted political instability. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
But one man was delighted with what happened last night, the comedian | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
turned politician Beppe Grillo. He led a new movement of citizen | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
activists who have utter contempt for the old traditional parties. | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
The activists came third, a stunning result that has shaken | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
Italian politics to its core. Our chief Economics Correspondent | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
is here. Let's take a look at the impact that this has had on the | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
stock markets. Yes, it is the old cliche, markets hate uncertainty. | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
They have got it with Italy today. Italy's government borrowing costs | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
have gone up to their highest since last October. Let's look at the | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
stock market further afield. The MIB index down more than 4% this | :06:47. | :06:56. | |
morning. The IBEX2.5%. The CAC is down 2%. The FTSE 100 is down 1.3%. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
The old ghosts of eurozone crisis back again. It is obvious what | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
impact it will have on Italy - a lot of uncertainty. What about the | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
rest of the EU? What impact will have it there and here? It's | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
reawakened memories of the Greek crisis in the summer of last year, | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
an anti-establishment party gaining ground. The markets are worried | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
about Italian government debt and whether a new government can deal | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
with that. The danger is a spiralling loss of confidence | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
affecting banks. How could it affect the UK? We had two city | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
policymakers giving evidence today. Both said everything was looking | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
all right for growth in the UK! The problem is this looks like it could | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
go on for quite some time, as we were hearing in that report? Yes, | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
anything that smacks of continued uncertain ty and not coming up with | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
a government who can deal with further reforms and further | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
austerity increases a lack of confidence around Europe and all | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
last year's problems. After a period of comparative peace coming | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
back to haunt markets. Thank you very much. Let's go to Rome now and | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
our correspondent Chris Morris is there for us now. | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
Italians left with a political vacuum? Yes, absolutely. It is the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
one thing that outsiders didn't want, it is the one thing that most | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
politicians didn't want. They have been delivered a bloodied nose by | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the voters. The idea of a party which isn't really a political | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
party at all, a movement which didn't exist four years ago, taking | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
one in four votes in a major European country. It is quite an | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
extraordinary achievement. It shows the level of dissatisfaction here | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
with the traditional political classes. The problem is that does | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
mean that there will be this period of uncertainty at a time when | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
everybody desperately wants Europe, the third largest economy in the | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
eurozone, to get back to work. Italy's been struggling for a | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
decade now with low growth, unemployment is rising. The | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
prescription from Brussels and to some extent from Germany has been | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
austerity, fiscal consolidation. A clear majority of voters last night | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
voted against that, voting for Beppe Grillo and Silvio Berlusconi, | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
it was a vote against the policies that many people see being imposed | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
on them from outside. Senior Liberal Democrats are due to | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
meet police officers over allegations of sexual harassment | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
against Lord Rennard. The police say they are working with the Party | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
to find out whether any criminal activity has taken place. Lord | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Rennard strongly denies the allegations of inappropriate | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
behaviour towards women. The Liberal Democrats are facing a | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
mounting crisis, claims of a sex scandal at the top of the Party and | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
a leader who has changed his story about what he knew and when he knew | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
it. The questions won't two away for Nick Clegg. I understand there | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
are many people who appear to want to act as self-appointed detectives | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
trying to piece together events that happened many years ago. The | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
only way we will establish exactly what happened and who knew what and | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
when is by allowing the two investigations that I established | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
immediately after the Channel 4 broadcast to do their job. Five | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
women have made claims that Chris Rennard abused his position. He | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
stren usely denied those allegation -- strenuously denied those | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
allegations. Two inquiries have been set up to dig deeper. This is | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
one of the women who must be properly listened to. For a start, | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
it is going beyond the pat on the knee, who gets to decide what is | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
unacceptable advance and what is not an unacceptable advance? The | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
power dynamics are quite scary. business of being in coalition goes | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
on. Some senior Lib Dems can't escape the fact they have given | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
different versions of who knew what. REPORTER: Did you feel annoyed you | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
were putting out the line that he didn't know about the allegations | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
and then it changed? I'm not going to add to what I said yesterday. I | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
was perfectly comfortable with that. All this is unfolding as the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
Liberal Democrats fight an intense battle to try to hold on to that | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
crucial seat of Eastleigh in a by- election this Thursday. But it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
could put the spotlight on how politics and relationships work in | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
this place. The police have now been called in. Lib Dem officials | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
are meeting with officers later. They will look at Lord Rennard's | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
time in charge when this was the Party HQ. He was known as a by- | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
election guru. It is that by- election in Eastleigh that will be | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
the immediate concern. Nick Clegg and others will want to limit any | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
damage to the Lib Dem campaign over the next two days. | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
Let's get more on that from Norman Smith, who is in Eastleigh, where | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
there is that by-election. How is all this playing out for the | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
Liberal Democrats in Eastleigh? Well, my sense is that the Liberal | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Democrats here feel they have been given "a hospital pass" in the form | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
of the Chris Rennard claims. The allegations are proving deeply | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
distracting and destabilising for a campaign they want to be fought on | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
local issues. Distracting because every time a Lib Dem MP comes down | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
here all he is questioned now about are the Chris Rennard claims. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
Destabilising because there are so many allegations swirling around, | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
ricocheting around, that they simply do not know what sort of | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
headlines they are going to wake up to. Here is a paradox: While the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Party nationally is being mauled in the polls, with one suggestinging | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
they are down to 8%, locally a poll today suggests the Lib Dems are | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
still ahead by some 4%, so it could be that the Lib Dems here manage to | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
throw a dummy, hoof the ball into touch and save Nick Clegg's bacon. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Thank you. Here is a full list of all the | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
candidates contesting the Eastleigh by-election. It is also on the BBC | :13:16. | :13:24. | |
News website - bbc.co.uk/news. The Vatican has answered some of | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the questions surrounding the future of the outgoing Pope. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Following his retirement tomorrow, Pope Benedict will be known as | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
"Emeritus Pope" and will continue to wear a white cassock. However, | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
his ring of office will be destroyed according to Vatican | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
tradition. His successor will be chosen by a conclave of more than | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
one hundred Cardinals in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
A court has heard that a friend of Vicky Pryce is being investigated | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
for allegedly lying about her involvement in leaking the story | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
about Chris Huhne's speeding points to the press. Vicky Pryce denies | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
perverting the course of justice. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, the man | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
convicted of supplying a gun to Mark Duggan minutes before his | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
fatal shooting by police, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. If | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
killing of Mr Duggan sparked riots which spread across London and | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
other areas of London in August 2011. | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
An inquest has heard how a county cricketer who had been tipped as a | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
future England star died after he was electrocuted on a railway line | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
before being hit by a train. Tom Maynard, who was 23, had been | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
trying to run away from police in the early hours of the morning last | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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The inquest began with growing -- glowing tributes from Maynard's | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
father and from sorry. We heard from a pathologist about | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
circumstances surrounding the death. A pathologist was unable to confirm | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
whether Maynard was killed before the tube train hit him or not. He | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
stepped on a live rail at London Underground. There was a lot | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
surrounding the toxicology reports. They showed that Maynard was not | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
only well over the legal alcohol limit but also that he had taken | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
cocaine within hours, perhaps, of his death. From a sample of his | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
hair it showed that he was a regular and habitual cocaine user | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
for perhaps a number of months. have heard from friends and team- | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
mates? A bowler who was playing for England a fortnight ago in New | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Zealand, Rory Hamilton Brown, the captain at Surrey during Maynard's | :15:40. | :15:48. | |
career, also his girlfriend, Carly Baker. Both Hamilton Brown and the | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
other cricketer were asked about drug use, they said they were not | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
aware that he had been taking drugs. But questions are being asked and | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
statements being released by the Professional Cricketers' | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Association defending both their drug education programme and their | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
drug-testing regime. A thank you. A our top story this lunchtime: A | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
hot-air balloon has crashed in Egypt, killing up to 19 tourists, | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
including two Britains. It came down near Luxor after an explosion | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
1000 ft in the air. The unwitting many mules, where | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
thousands are being duped into laundering money for fraudsters. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
On BBC London: Tesco axes 800 jobs in Harlow but creates thousands | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
more in Reading and Dagenham. And the 100th anniversary of the | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
birth of a London photographer Norman Parkinson is celebrated in | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
pictures. -- of the London photographer. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Fraud experts have Lord -- warned that thousands have been duped into | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
laundering money for fraudsters, allowing their own bank account to | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
be used to disguise the proceeds of crime in exchange for a cut of the | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
cash. Simon Gompertz reports. They target you after you posed a | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
CV online or through mass e-mails, offering innocent sounding admin | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
jobs as long as you have a bank account, for reduce the pay packet. | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
In fact, it is fraudsters wanting to use your account to launder the | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
proceeds of their crimes. They call you a money mule. This woman was | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
out of work for a year and was tempted. She even signed a contract | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
but, luckily, pulled out. It makes you feel sick. I had been out of | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
work for a long time. I wasted time filling in details thinking I might | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
get a job at the end of it. But it was just wasting my time. Dirty | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
money from credit card and other frauds is paid into the mule's | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
account to disguise criminal origins. The mule takes a cut and | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
then transfers the cash to an overseas bank, classic money | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
laundering. Do you know what's a money mule is? The students are | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
being told to take care. There is such concern about the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
danger of becoming money mules that Crimestoppers is warning students | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
not to be duped into becoming involved. Today's research shows | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
13% of unemployed people offered work as money mules accepted it, | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
and 19% of students. They might not realise it, but they are breaking | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the law. It is a colossal waste, you are taking almost all the risk | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
on behalf of the criminals, that is why they try so hard to get people | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
to do this for them, they are most likely to be caught. Hundreds of | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
thousands may have already worked as money mules. They risk their | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
bank accounts being frozen and maybe even being sent to prison. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Victims of rape were encouraged by police to retract allegations to | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
boost detection rates, according to a report by the Independent Police | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Complaints Commission. The watchdog says the approach taken by a | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
specialist unit in South London of failing to believe victims was | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
wholly inappropriate. June Kelly is at New Scotland Yard, what is | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
thought to have been going on? is not for the first time the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
country's largest force is in the dock over failings in rape | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
investigations. In this case, when women went and complained to | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
officers at Southwark in South London, in some cases they were | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
pressurised to retract the allegation. We don't know how many | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
women are involved, the figures have not been kept, but it was so | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
officers could meet detection target rates. In 2008 a woman made | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
a complaint, she was pressurised to withdraw, she did that, the man and | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Bob, a very violent man, went on to murder his two young children, a | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
boy of 10 and a girl of eight. This begs the question, if he was | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
investigated properly he potentially could have ended up in | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
jail and those children could still be alive today. Senior officers at | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Scotland Yard acknowledge this is another bad day for the Met in | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
terms of rape investigations, they say that since 2009 or rape | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
investigations in London have been placed under one centralised | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
command -- all rape investigations. They say this bad practice is not | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
happening today. Her 80% of people living in care | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
homes have either dementia or a significant memory problems, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
according to a new report from the Alzheimer's Society. The charity | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
found many families have worryingly low expectations about the quality | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
of life their loved ones will lead in care homes. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
As the number of people diagnosed with dementia increases, the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
question of how to provide them with good quality care becomes more | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
pressing. Lorna Anderson is now happily settled in this home, where | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
the care is good. But the first place she was in was very different. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Her daughter Lorraine was so appalled by the conditions she took | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
her mother out after just a week. There was a remarkable change in | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
mum, she was happy, laughing, but staff could understand her care | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
needs. They also let her express herself, which is very, very | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
important. Today's report shows more people than ever are living | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
with dementia in care homes. 80% of care home residents are thought to | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
have dementia or a significant memory problems, but just 41% of | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
families surveyed thought their relatives had a good quality of | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
life. There is a widespread fear of going into a home. 70% of adults | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
say the prospect scares them. More and more people living in care | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
homes have been diagnosed with dementia or severe memory problems. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
Their families seem to have a very low expectation of the kind of | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
quality of life they might enjoy. The Alzheimer's Society says that | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
does not have to be the case. Throughout our lives, for our | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
children or ourselves and our working lives, we demand high | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
quality. Why should we expect a lower-quality, a second class | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
quality, for people at the end of lives? This is what good care looks | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
like, gentle and patient, forming a connection, for example through | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
photographs prompting memories. People live well with dementia, it | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
is not just a case that they have dementia and it is a final outcome, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
they can live very well with dementia, people in the community, | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
people in care. The report says families need to know that good | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
quality care for dementia sufferers does exist, and they need to know | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
how to find it. If a High Court challenge could | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
change the way 17 year-olds in England and Wales are treated after | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
they are taken into police custody. It has been brought by a children's | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
charity which says that a legal anomaly means that 17 year-olds are | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
classed as adults, not children, when in police detention, meaning | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
they don't automatically receive the guidance of a parent or | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
guardian to help them. In the early hours of the 9th of | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
August last year, this couple's 17 year-old son Joe was stopped by the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
police for drink-driving, held for several hours before being charged | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
and released. Two days later he was found dead at the family home, he'd | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
killed himself. If he had been 16, his parents would have been | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
informed of his arrest and allowed to be with him at the police | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
station. When he was asked if he wanted to inform anybody his answer | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
was, not really, there was nothing anybody can do. Well, there was a | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
lot that we could have done. If we had been contacted then we really | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
firmly believe that Joe would be with us now. 17 year-olds detained | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
in police custody in England and Wales are treated as adults, | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
meaning they don't automatically receive a range of supports that | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
anyone under 16 does get, including a parent or appropriate adult being | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
informed of the arrest and attending a police station. Lawyers | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
bringing today's legal challenge say that has to change. It is the | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
only place, at the police station, that 17 year-olds are treated as | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
adults, nowhere else in the criminal justice system. If they | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
were charged they would go back to being children and sent to youth | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
courts. Northern Ireland change its law to include 17 year-olds in 2009, | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
today's High Court challenge concerns a 17 year-old held at a | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
London police station overnight on suspicion of robbery. According to | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
the Home Office, each year 75,017 year-olds in England and Wales are | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
taken into police custody. -- 75,000 17 year-olds. They can be | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
allowed an appropriate adult, but in practice it often does not | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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That is little comfort for Nick and Jane, still in touch with Joe's | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
friends. These children have such - - have still been visiting us in | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the six months since he died, they have changed a massive amount and | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
you can see already they are becoming more mature and turning | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
into young adults. At 17 years of age, you are not an adult. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
The collapse of the contractor -- contract to run the West Coast Main | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Line has cost the taxpayer at least �50 million. First Group were | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
awarded the franchise last year, but the deal fell through because | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
of errors by the Department for Transport. The Government says | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
major changes have been made to ensure such mistakes don't happen | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
again. Now, from smartphones to Smart | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Homes, the latest hi-tech handsets and household gadgets are being | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
unveiled in Barcelona this week. What could the future look like? | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
Rory Cellan-Jones is there for us now. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
This event is like the motor show for phones, you get to see the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
latest handsets, they are incredibly sophisticated miniature | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
computers. They are beginning to all look much the same to me. What | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
is more interesting is what you will be able to do with them. I | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
have been looking at exactly where mobile technology is heading. | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
At Mobile World Congress this year they are determined to show that | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
mobile technology reaches into every area of our lives, and this | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
exhibit is meant to demonstrate that. The mobile phone experience | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
we are used to is being taken into the car? As far as I understand it, | :26:49. | :26:57. | |
the android phone system is being linked direct to this screen? | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
have an untried system and the car, smart link, it copies the screen | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
from your smartphone -- and android system. What is this giving me that | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
Sat Nav and access to my music generally would not give me? | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
safer and better experience. It is easier to navigate and control the | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
system. And there is one sector Rasham. Say I wanted to listen to | :27:25. | :27:34. | |
Bruce Springsteen? -- and there is a voice recognition. The boss. | :27:34. | :27:44. | |
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I have seen an awful lot of smart homes over the year, but they are | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
getting smarter and more connected to on the move. This one can be | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
controlled by a tablets on various software platforms. I am at work | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
and I want the fire on before I come home. Yes, it is turned on. I | :27:59. | :28:05. | |
am also a bit worried about the actual temperature of the house. 13 | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
degrees strikes me as a bit hot -- bit cold, let's push it up to 21 | :28:10. | :28:20. | |
degrees. Maybe I am out and I want to feed the pet. Let's see if I can | :28:20. | :28:29. | |
do that. 1, two, three. Excellent. Happy pet. | :28:29. | :28:33. | |
One other thing that is big here this year it is near field | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
communications, technology built into phones allowing them to do all | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
sorts of stuff. I can touch this scooter and cities unlocked, I can | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
rent it and take it away. But I think I would rather have an app | :28:46. | :28:56. | |
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And now the weather: Not long before we get some apt to predict | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
all the weather conditions! There is some good news on the horizon if | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
you are longing for sunshine, there is sunshine on the way for places | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
that perhaps have not seen much over the last few days, and it will | :29:10. | :29:16. | |
not be as cold. The temperature -- high pressure is in charge, so lots | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
an awful lot is changing, though weather pattern is about the same. | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
-- so not an awful lot is changing. Where we have the wind coming from | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
the east, that is where we have the clout. Closer to the scent of a | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
high pressure. Where the winds are much lighter in Scotland, that is | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
where we have those fine and sunny conditions all the way from Orkney | :29:39. | :29:43. | |
and Shetland across the Western Isles and through the central | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
islands. So some lovely weather across Scotland and north of -- | :29:47. | :29:52. | |
most of Northern Ireland. Further south, winds coming from | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
the east or the North-East, we have dank, cloudy conditions and a | :29:56. | :30:04. | |
really drizzly and unpleasant start to the day. Five or six degrees, | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
temperatures in Norwich around four degrees. Top temperatures today | :30:09. | :30:13. | |
around five degrees in England and Wales, staying cloudy this evening | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
so temperatures will not be much different. In Scotland with a | :30:18. | :30:22. | |
beautiful blue skies, once the sun sets, but temperatures will take a | :30:23. | :30:28. | |
real dip down to around minus eight. So we are at the time of the year | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
whether contrasts between daytime and night-time temperatures are | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
very big the given clear conditions. Frost in Scotland first thing on | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
Wednesday, for the rest of the UK, temperatures generally above | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
freezing. Towards the south tomorrow we have | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
most of the cloud, but there is a sliding your ones in the weather | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
forecast. Across Yorkshire and maybe into parts of East Anglia | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
there is more sunshine coming through. Towards the south we have | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
cloudy conditions. High pressure with us on Thursday, but the | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
difference with Scotland this time as we have a weather front crossing | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
Scotland, meaning it will be a bit more cloudy. All the sunshine in | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
the north will basically be shunted a little bit further south. Sir | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
towards Thursday I think the chances are we will get a bit more | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
brightness across Wales and England. This is the outlook for the end of | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
the week, temperatures hovering at about five or six, but in some | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
about five or six, but in some places we will finally get to see | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
some brightness. Our top story: A hot-air balloon | :31:29. | :31:34. |