:00:06. > :00:10.A farewell to the faithful. Hundreds of thousands of people
:00:10. > :00:13.pack St Peter's Square as Pope Benedict makes his final appearance.
:00:13. > :00:22.The Pope, who will retire from public life tomorrow night, says
:00:23. > :00:26.he's faced joy, light and difficult moments during his papacy.
:00:26. > :00:33.continue to accompany the Church with my prayers and ask each of you
:00:33. > :00:37.to pray for me and for the new Pope. We'll be live from the Vatican on
:00:37. > :00:40.the latest on an emotional day for the Roman Catholic Church.
:00:40. > :00:42.Boosted by the cold weather - a sharp rise in profits for British
:00:42. > :00:45.Gas after the recent sharp rise in prices.
:00:45. > :00:47.Nick Clegg admits "very serious mistakes" were made over the
:00:47. > :00:51.handling of sex allegations against the former Lib Dem chief executive,
:00:51. > :00:54.Lord Rennard. The doomed hot air balloon in Egypt
:00:54. > :00:58.- relatives of the dead head to Cairo as investigations into the
:00:58. > :01:01.crash continue. People in England could be drinking
:01:01. > :01:11.far more than was thought, say researchers after analysing alcohol
:01:11. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:21.sales figures. Later on BBC London, raids at dawn as the Met carries
:01:21. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:37.out a day of action targeting Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:37. > :01:40.BBC News at One. Hundreds of thousands of people
:01:40. > :01:44.have packed St Peter's Square at the Vatican to say a final farewell
:01:44. > :01:47.to Pope Benedict, before he steps down tomorrow night. During his
:01:47. > :01:51.last public appearance, the Pope told the crowd that he was fully
:01:51. > :01:54.aware of the seriousness of his decision but that he had peace of
:01:54. > :01:58.mind because of his faith in God and the Church. Pope Benedict is
:01:58. > :02:07.the first pontiff to resign for almost 600 years. Jon Sopel is at
:02:07. > :02:11.the Vatican for us now. Sophie, thank you. As you can see behind me,
:02:11. > :02:17.the crowds have now dissipated. The Vatican authorities put out seats
:02:17. > :02:21.for some 50,000 people. In the event, foufr times that number
:02:21. > :02:24.turned up for this unique occurrence. In effect we've now
:02:24. > :02:28.heard from Pope Benedict for the last time before he retreats into
:02:28. > :02:31.prayer and meditation. From this very private man a public
:02:31. > :02:37.acknowledgement of the problems that have buffeted the Catholic
:02:37. > :02:43.Church, and his reasons for going. Let's get this report from our
:02:43. > :02:47.special correspondent Allan Little. Pope Benedict has never seemed
:02:47. > :02:51.entirely comfortable in front of crowds, even a crowd as adoring as
:02:51. > :02:58.this one. The Vatican said they expected 50,000. It seemed many,
:02:58. > :03:02.many more than that. It is like, it means the world to me. I grew up a
:03:02. > :03:07.Catholic so it is just huge, monumental. To deepen our
:03:07. > :03:13.understanding of this great event that is taking shape in our Church.
:03:13. > :03:18.This is the main reason why I'm here today. It was a long and
:03:18. > :03:21.physically demanding event for a man whose frailty is all too
:03:21. > :03:26.evident. His message was emotional and personal. And he referred to
:03:26. > :03:31.the controversyies that have dogged his pontificate. He said the Church
:03:31. > :03:38.had faced stormy weather. It had seemed at timed that the Lord was
:03:38. > :03:42.sleeping. When he was elected Pope eight years ago, he said, he had
:03:42. > :03:52.surrounded his right to a private life, and there could be no going
:03:52. > :03:56.
:03:56. > :04:00.back. I am not, he said, a I abandoning the cross. I will
:04:00. > :04:07.continue to accompany the Church with my prayers and I ask each of
:04:07. > :04:11.you to pray for me and for the new Pope. APPLAUSE This is the last
:04:11. > :04:16.time the public will see this Pope. Very soon for the sake of the
:04:16. > :04:23.credibility and authority of the next Pope Benedict 16th will in his
:04:23. > :04:28.own words be hidden from the world for the rest of his life. His
:04:28. > :04:31.troubled eight-year pontificate has taken its toll on him but today he
:04:31. > :04:41.retreats from public view buoyed nonetheless of the affection of the
:04:41. > :04:41.
:04:41. > :04:45.faithful. I'm joined by Monsignor Roderick
:04:45. > :04:49.Stranger. Thank you for being with us. It must have been difficult for
:04:49. > :04:53.him, a private man, to have to explain why he did what he did and
:04:53. > :04:58.acknowledge the difficulty the Church has faced? Yes, it must have
:04:58. > :05:02.been very difficult. Who knows the emotions he is going through, but
:05:02. > :05:07.it must be a powerfully emotional time for him, as when his voice
:05:07. > :05:11.broke when he was reciting the Angelus or speaking on Sunday
:05:11. > :05:17.morning at the Angelus. It is a powerful emotional time for many of
:05:17. > :05:22.us I feel. Yes, I wonder for him but also for the pilgrim who is
:05:22. > :05:26.were here. I can't speak for them, only for myself. I thought this
:05:27. > :05:33.morning when I woke up, why am I feeling did way I feel? I was
:05:33. > :05:39.feeling heavy and sad. This is a wonderful day of Thanksgiving for
:05:39. > :05:44.the papacy but it is sa sad day. We are losing a wonderful Pope and his
:05:44. > :05:49.gifts. And now the process of finding a new one. And that will be
:05:49. > :05:55.exciting and invigorating as well. It will, who knows how long it will
:05:55. > :06:00.take but we would hope not too long, as there've been uniquely in modern
:06:00. > :06:05.times there's been two or three weeks to prepare and the Cardinals
:06:05. > :06:09.to arrive in Rome and get ready. Thank you. My pleasure. Something
:06:09. > :06:14.like 70 Cardinals are reportedly already in Rome that. Process will
:06:14. > :06:17.start pretty quickly and perhaps by Monday week the conclave will have
:06:17. > :06:20.begun. From here at the Vatican in St Peter's Square, Sophie, it is
:06:20. > :06:23.back to you in the studio. Jon, thank you.
:06:23. > :06:26.Britain's biggest energy supplier, British Gas, has seen a big rise in
:06:26. > :06:29.the profits it makes from residential customers. They were up
:06:29. > :06:34.11% in 2012 to �606 million. The company says a particularly cold
:06:34. > :06:37.winter led to an increase in gas usage. The company put up its
:06:37. > :06:47.electricity and gas bills by 6% at the end of last year. Here's our
:06:47. > :06:53.industry correspondent, John Moylan. Britain's biggest energy supplier
:06:53. > :07:01.has had a bumper year. Colder weather meant its 50 million
:07:02. > :07:06.customers used more energy, sending profits flying everhigher.
:07:06. > :07:15.In 2012 British Gas saz profits jump to �606 million. That's up 11%
:07:15. > :07:19.on last year and comes on the back of a 12% rise in gas consumption.
:07:19. > :07:23.Under fire this morning the company was unrepentant. If we are going to
:07:23. > :07:28.continue to keep the lights on, to keep secure supplies of gas coming
:07:28. > :07:33.into the UK, we have entered into �50 billion worth of commitments
:07:33. > :07:39.for gas for our UK suppliers. You cannot do that unless you remain a
:07:39. > :07:44.successful company. All the major suppliers hiked tariffs last year,
:07:44. > :07:49.making life tougher for comerz. In October British Gas announced it
:07:49. > :07:55.was increasing prices by about 6% for both gas and electricity. Now
:07:55. > :08:02.that added around �80 to a typical dual fuel bill, which then jumped
:08:02. > :08:08.to more than �1,300 a year for a typical household. Some like Karen
:08:08. > :08:13.O'Brien from Gosport pay even more. Around �30 a week for gas alone.
:08:13. > :08:17.I put the gas cooker on I generally switch the heating off and vice
:08:17. > :08:21.versa. We don't have it on at night when we are asleep. It is not a
:08:21. > :08:25.huge house, so there's not a lot to heat, but British Gas have raised
:08:25. > :08:30.their prices as well, which we've noticed, so it is costing us more
:08:30. > :08:34.money. Consumers will listen to the results and say my prices have been
:08:34. > :08:41.going up for years, my household bills are more and more stretched
:08:41. > :08:45.and yet British Gas are announcing huge profits. Reaction will be on a
:08:45. > :08:51.range from resignation to anger. British Gas's parent company points
:08:51. > :08:53.out that it supports 170,000 jobs in the UK and pays �1 billion each
:08:53. > :08:56.year in tax too. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick
:08:56. > :08:59.Clegg, has admitted that his party made "very serious mistakes" in the
:08:59. > :09:02.way it handled complaints of sexual harrassment against its then chief
:09:02. > :09:04.executive, Lord Rennard. He also conceded that the issue was "in the
:09:04. > :09:13.background" when the peer, who strongly denies the allegations,
:09:13. > :09:18.stepped down from his post four years ago. Obviously this is all in
:09:18. > :09:21.the background. Look, I became like any new leader of any organisation,
:09:21. > :09:26.political party, any organisation, I wanted to make sure that the
:09:26. > :09:31.organisation reflected my priorities, my values. I felt it
:09:31. > :09:35.was the time for a change at the top of the kind of, you know, the
:09:35. > :09:39.professional party. His health was, was poor and that was the immediate
:09:39. > :09:44.reason why he left, but of course these things were in the background,
:09:44. > :09:48.but his ill health was the immediate reason why he stood down.
:09:48. > :09:51.Nick Clegg speaking this morning. Norman Smith is at Westminster.
:09:51. > :09:57.These things were in the background? More revelations, more
:09:57. > :10:02.twists and turns in this story. sense is poor old Nick Clegg
:10:02. > :10:07.probably feel as bit like you are when you are at the dentist and he
:10:07. > :10:10.is drilling away, and he wishs with it is over. But here we are a stole
:10:10. > :10:14.id week since the Chris Rennard saga first broke. Today another
:10:14. > :10:18.shift in the Lib Dem line. Remember at the weekend we had Nick Clegg
:10:18. > :10:21.acknowledging for the first time that yes actually he did know about
:10:22. > :10:27.some general allegations about Chris Rennard. Now today he
:10:27. > :10:31.acknowledges for the first time that he wasn't forced to go just
:10:31. > :10:36.because of ill health but because of also inappropriate behaviour. It
:10:37. > :10:40.also suggests that maybe Mr Clegg's knowledge of the allegations
:10:40. > :10:46.against Lord Rennard were perhaps more substancive if they formed
:10:46. > :10:49.part of the case that forced him to quit. Lord Rennard's friends
:10:49. > :10:54.insists he was a very ill man. Doctors had told him he may have
:10:54. > :11:00.only a year to live if he didn't change his lifestyle and that was
:11:00. > :11:03.why he was forced to go. But it tell us that one day ahead of a
:11:03. > :11:08.crucial by-election, this story is still dominating the political news.
:11:08. > :11:13.The party have been unable to draw a line under it, to get a grip on
:11:13. > :11:19.it. It is not so much a bit of light political dentistry he is
:11:19. > :11:20.having to ignore but it is beginning to look more like root
:11:20. > :11:23.canal surgery. Norman Smith, thank you.
:11:23. > :11:25.The amount of alcohol consumed in England could be much higher than
:11:25. > :11:28.previously thought. Researchers at University College London have
:11:28. > :11:35.compared alcohol sales with what people say they drink, and they
:11:35. > :11:40.found a big difference in the figures. Dominic Hughes reports.
:11:40. > :11:44.Most people know they shouldn't drink too much but when it comes to
:11:44. > :11:48.it, how honest are we about our consumption? When you go to the
:11:48. > :11:52.doctors they ask you how many units you have a week and if you are
:11:52. > :11:57.honest you will get the stamp. will probably drink nothing one
:11:57. > :12:00.week and maybe double the amount the next week. There's a cultural
:12:00. > :12:05.thing where people don't remember how much they drink. Researchers
:12:05. > :12:10.compared alcohol sales figures in England with surveys detailing what
:12:10. > :12:14.we all say we drink. Almost half of the alcohol sold in England is
:12:14. > :12:18.unaccounted for, indicating that we are drinking more than we admit to.
:12:18. > :12:21.If you factor in underreporting that could mean 08% of women and
:12:21. > :12:26.three quarters of men are drinking at dangerous levels had, and half
:12:26. > :12:29.of all men and women would be classed as binge drinkers. That
:12:30. > :12:35.means that people are drinking twice as much as they realise, if
:12:35. > :12:39.everybody underreports by the same amount. The health implications of
:12:39. > :12:45.that are very worrying. Government is currently reviewing
:12:45. > :12:50.the advice on safe alcohol limits. At the moment it is no more than
:12:50. > :12:54.four units day for men... (Inaudible) if there is this
:12:54. > :12:58.difference between what we say we are drinking and what we are
:12:58. > :13:00.actually consuming, that has big implications on how to Government
:13:00. > :13:03.tackles the Government's drinking culture.
:13:03. > :13:06.The supermarket chain, Tesco, says it's going to start buying more
:13:06. > :13:10.meat from British farmers to prevent a repeat of the horsemeat
:13:10. > :13:13.scandal. Tesco was one of the first retailers that had to withdraw
:13:13. > :13:15.products when horsemeat was found in some of its frozen burgers. It's
:13:15. > :13:17.chief executive will address the National Farmers' Union conference
:13:17. > :13:27.in Birmingham this afternoon. Our correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, is
:13:27. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:31.there. Thank you Sophie.Ine as the farming delegates were arriving
:13:31. > :13:36.here at the conference came word that yet another company has been
:13:36. > :13:40.dragged into the horsemeat scandal. This time it is Welsh Brothers of
:13:40. > :13:45.Newport. Traces of horsemeat have been found in their frozen minced
:13:45. > :13:50.beef, which has now been withdrawn from distribution. No wonder the
:13:50. > :13:55.horsemeat scandal is dominating the agenda and in our fields. On
:13:55. > :14:00.British farms the age old process of producing British beef continues
:14:00. > :14:05.in many ways as it always has. But look closer. Each of these young
:14:05. > :14:10.cattle has ear tags. They are electronically connected to a
:14:10. > :14:14.database. Their breeding, location, entire history on record and
:14:14. > :14:18.traceable. Standards are high, but there's growing concern that the
:14:18. > :14:22.horsemeat scandal is damaging to even our best farm businesses.
:14:22. > :14:27.think farmers are really frustrated because they do produce to very
:14:27. > :14:31.high standards and it has always been very frustrating to have
:14:31. > :14:34.inferior products coming on to the marketplace that aren't produced to
:14:35. > :14:38.the same standards that we produce to. Clearly the horsemeat scandal
:14:38. > :14:43.has been damaging to the reputation of the food industry, but down here
:14:43. > :14:47.on the farm they believe that a moment of cries Christ become a
:14:47. > :14:50.moment of opportunity. And so gathering at their N fufplt
:14:50. > :14:54.conference this morning farmers sensed that this is the time to
:14:54. > :14:59.push for a short her, less- complicated food supply chain, so
:14:59. > :15:08.that we can all understand how food gets from the farm's gate to our
:15:08. > :15:13.plates. The message - buy British. We now need supermarkets to stop
:15:13. > :15:16.scaring the world for the cheapest products they can find and start
:15:16. > :15:21.sourcing high quality traceable product from farmers here at home.
:15:22. > :15:26.For the big retailers the horsemeat issue has been a big embarrassment.
:15:26. > :15:31.Today Tesco's boss will tell farmers that things will change.
:15:31. > :15:36.The reason I'm here today talking to the NFU is to signal a change, a
:15:36. > :15:40.change which means we'll have the most stringent testing regime, a
:15:40. > :15:46.change that means we'll bring production closer to home, and more
:15:46. > :15:50.partnerships with farmers near the There are of course concerns that
:15:50. > :15:54.home-produced home-processed food could put prices up. But the NFU
:15:54. > :16:00.says its latest opinion poll suggest there's a growing demand
:16:00. > :16:05.for British produce. The Tesco boss will address farmers
:16:05. > :16:09.in a short time. The relationship between those farmers and big
:16:09. > :16:19.supermarkets has sometimes been pretty difficult but you get the
:16:19. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:23.sense today this may just be a The Environment Secretary has
:16:23. > :16:25.confirmed that he is pressing ahead with proposals to cull badgers as a
:16:25. > :16:28.measure to control Bovine TB. The cull will begin in West
:16:28. > :16:31.Gloucestershire and West Somerset this summer. It had been postponed
:16:31. > :16:34.last year with the Government laying out a number of factors for
:16:34. > :16:36.the delay including the bad weather and time consuming legal challenges
:16:36. > :16:38.to the cull. Our top story this lunchtime:
:16:38. > :16:41.Hundreds of thousands of people have packed St Peter's Square as
:16:41. > :16:46.Pope Benedict made his final public appearance before retiring from
:16:46. > :16:49.Coming up: The controversial practice of
:16:49. > :16:54.dumping thousands of unwanted fish is finally being phased out by the
:16:54. > :17:04.European Union. Britain has described the vote as a historic
:17:04. > :17:05.
:17:05. > :17:09.Later on BBC London: How the success of the Olympics is
:17:09. > :17:19.helping the capital attract other sporting events.
:17:19. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:22.And how the front-man of this 1990s All balloon flights in Egypt have
:17:22. > :17:26.been grounded while the authorities investigate yesterday's accident
:17:26. > :17:29.near the ancient city of Luxor. 19 foreign tourists, three of them
:17:29. > :17:36.from Britain, were killed when their balloon exploded and crashed
:17:36. > :17:42.to the ground. One other British tourist survived. Our correspondent
:17:42. > :17:47.Aleem Maqbool, is in Luxor. Yes, Sophie, I am outside the city and
:17:47. > :17:53.this is where that hot air balloon was flying over the West Bank of
:17:53. > :17:57.the Nile just behind me to my right is the Valley of the Kings and
:17:57. > :18:01.that's where it crashed in this sugar cane field. There are
:18:01. > :18:06.remnants of the charred balloon, the ropes and the basket as well
:18:06. > :18:10.and some of the belongs of those -- belongings of those who have died.
:18:10. > :18:18.Officials have been here laying flowers and we are getting a
:18:18. > :18:23.This was the moment the balloon started its flight over the West
:18:23. > :18:27.Bank of the Nile with its pilot and 20 tourists. An hour later, it was
:18:27. > :18:30.in trouble, on fire. We got this chilling footage from the pilot of
:18:30. > :18:34.another balloon. He told us the fire on board got worse and drove
:18:34. > :18:40.the balloon higher into the sky before there was an explosion and
:18:40. > :18:49.it dropped from the air. Among those who died was Joe
:18:49. > :18:55.Bampton and his partner, Suzanna Gyetvai Suzanna Gyetvai.
:18:55. > :19:01.The other Britain who died was Yvonne Rennie. But her husband
:19:01. > :19:05.Michael was the only tourist who survived the crash. The British
:19:05. > :19:11.ambassador to Egypt visited Mr Rennie in hospital in Cairo and
:19:11. > :19:16.said he was in remarkably good shape. The testimony of Mr Rennie
:19:16. > :19:20.who is said to remember everything of the accident and that of the
:19:20. > :19:25.Egyptian balloon operator will be key in finding out what caused the
:19:25. > :19:27.tragedy. We have had some of the initial findings of one of the four
:19:27. > :19:31.investigations that has been launched and what we have been told
:19:31. > :19:36.is that there was no criminal intent in the tragedy that happened.
:19:36. > :19:41.But we also heard that the very same company which operated this
:19:41. > :19:46.hot air balloon, Sky Cruise, passed an official inspection just two
:19:46. > :19:50.weeks ago and that was by the Egyptian authorities and that will
:19:50. > :19:54.worry people, not only are the regulations not tight enough, but
:19:54. > :19:57.the inspections regime is not working.
:19:57. > :19:59.Police in Switzerland say there has been a shooting at a wood
:19:59. > :20:05.processing factory and three people have been killed. Seven others have
:20:05. > :20:08.been injured. Some of them seriously. An area in central
:20:09. > :20:11.Switzerland has been sealed off and emergency services there are at the
:20:12. > :20:14.scene. The Department of Health in
:20:14. > :20:17.Northern Ireland has promised to take the first step towards giving
:20:18. > :20:21.the NHS there clear advice on abortion. It was facing legal
:20:21. > :20:24.action in the high court today over delays in spelling out the law.
:20:24. > :20:29.Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland, except in very restricted
:20:29. > :20:33.circumstances and currently no official guidelines exist. Here's
:20:33. > :20:36.our health correspondent, Branwen Jeffreys. In Northern Ireland,
:20:36. > :20:42.abortion remains an issue of the highest sensitivity. Even the
:20:42. > :20:46.opening of a clinic to provide advice pro pro provoked protest.
:20:46. > :20:52.Abortion is only legal under limited i. There is no official
:20:52. > :20:55.advice to the NHS on how to interpret the law. The Family
:20:55. > :21:00.Planning Association came to court this morning to force the
:21:00. > :21:04.Department of Health to publish guidance. In a surprising last
:21:04. > :21:07.minute move, the court was told draft guidelines would be put
:21:07. > :21:12.before the Executive next week, a move welcomed by health
:21:12. > :21:17.professionals. This Is why we need this clarification and we needed it
:21:17. > :21:22.seven years ago and we are frustrated that it is good that
:21:22. > :21:25.some movement must now happen within the the Department of Health,
:21:25. > :21:29.but there is no time scale and we could be having this interview next
:21:29. > :21:32.year on the same topic. The law on abortion in Northern
:21:32. > :21:37.Ireland is different from the rest of the UK. It is a serious criminal
:21:37. > :21:41.offence which carries a life sentence in prison. Unless it is to
:21:42. > :21:47.preserve the life of the woman or if a woman is at serious risk of
:21:47. > :21:51.permanent damage to her physical or mental health. Every year, 40
:21:51. > :21:54.abortions are carried out in Northern Ireland under the law. Any
:21:55. > :22:00.advice to the NHS will have a significant impact on the decisions
:22:00. > :22:08.made to allow terminations. Today's decision is likely to be only the
:22:08. > :22:13.first stage in deciding what that advice should be.
:22:13. > :22:18.A man was killed in a shark attack off the coast of New Zealand. The
:22:18. > :22:22.the 47-year-old was swimming 200 meters from shore when eyewitnesses
:22:22. > :22:28.described him shouting for help before being dragged under the
:22:28. > :22:31.water by what is believed to be a Great White shark.
:22:31. > :22:35.The Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has appeared in court
:22:35. > :22:38.charged with 19 sexual offences against a child. He did not enter a
:22:38. > :22:44.plea, but his solicitor said the charges would be fully contested.
:22:44. > :22:47.Our correspondent, Judith Moritz, is in Manchester. Yes, Sophie,
:22:47. > :22:52.Michael Le Vell was arrested in connection with sexual offences
:22:52. > :22:56.against a child back in 2011. But no charges were brought at that
:22:56. > :23:00.point and the matter was dropped. More recently though, the Crown
:23:00. > :23:03.Prosecution Service has reviewed the case and a week-and-a-half ago
:23:03. > :23:06.they said there was enough evidence to prosecute and today, the actor
:23:06. > :23:14.came here to Manchester Magistrates' Court to face the
:23:14. > :23:17.As one of the best known faces on British television, Michael Le
:23:17. > :23:21.Vell's arrival at court this morning attracted considerable
:23:21. > :23:24.media interest. This is the first time that the actor has appeared in
:23:24. > :23:30.court to answer the charges which were brought against him earlier
:23:30. > :23:39.this month. He is charged with a total of 1 sexual offences against
:23:39. > :23:45.-- 19 sexual offences against the same girl.
:23:45. > :23:49.The offences are said to have happened between 2001 and 2010.
:23:49. > :23:54.Charged under his real name of Michael Turner the actor stood in
:23:54. > :23:58.the dock and spoke to confirm his details. His solicitor said he
:23:58. > :24:04.would fully contest the charges. The hearing lasted for less than
:24:04. > :24:07.ten minutes. Michael Le Vell, who is 48, was given bail and told to
:24:07. > :24:12.appear at Manchester Crown Court on 20th March.
:24:12. > :24:22.Well, the court here in Manchester City centre is less than a mile
:24:22. > :24:23.
:24:23. > :24:28.from the the Granada Television Stewed yos. He -- studios. He isn't
:24:28. > :24:34.on screen, ITV said he won't appear in the soap while legal legal
:24:35. > :24:38.The controversial practise of fishermen dumping unwanted catches
:24:38. > :24:39.overboard will begin to be phased out from next year following an
:24:40. > :24:42.agreement by European Union fisheries ministers. Almost a
:24:42. > :24:47.quarter of all fish caught is thrown away. Britain has described
:24:47. > :24:54.the vote as a historic victory to end a scandalous policy. Our
:24:54. > :24:58.environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, has more. Eat fish, we are told, it
:24:58. > :25:05.is healthy, low-fat food, but industrial fishing has taken a huge
:25:05. > :25:09.toll on the oceans. This for instance, the practise of dumping
:25:10. > :25:16.fish because they are not the sort the crews intended to catch. Almost
:25:16. > :25:21.a quarter of Europe's fish catches are discarded largely because the
:25:21. > :25:24.current quota system doesn't work. Most of the fish are dead.
:25:24. > :25:28.Fisheries Ministers Arrived in Brussels on a wave of public anger
:25:28. > :25:32.about fish discards after an all night session, they agreed in a
:25:32. > :25:37.landmark decision that discards should start being phased out from
:25:37. > :25:47.next year. It is a very important milestone in our desire to see an
:25:47. > :25:51.end to discards and see meaningful reform of the Common Fisheries
:25:51. > :25:58.Policy. Greenpeace is concerned about the
:25:58. > :26:04.outcome. There was inTim tation from the -- intimidation by the big
:26:04. > :26:09.fishing nations. A powerful group of countries including the the UK
:26:09. > :26:13.held up against that. Some loopholes were created in the deal.
:26:13. > :26:17.New net technology will be needed to help crews catch the right sorts
:26:18. > :26:22.of fish. This grid grid being demonstrated in Denmark allows
:26:22. > :26:28.small fish to swim through and escape. CCTV cameras like these on
:26:28. > :26:32.trial in the UK record everything that fishermen discard. They are
:26:32. > :26:36.likely to become widespread to keep the rules. The people of Europe
:26:36. > :26:41.have voiced their disgust at the practise of throwing away perfectly
:26:42. > :26:46.good fish. Ministers have at last begun to to take heed, but it will
:26:46. > :26:56.be a big task to restore the oceans after almost 100 years of
:26:56. > :27:01.
:27:01. > :27:07.destructive industrial fishing. Prince Harry is back in Lesotho to
:27:07. > :27:12.visit the charity he helped set-up seven years ago. Peter Biles sent
:27:12. > :27:16.this report. Prince Harry is a welcome visitor to Africa's
:27:16. > :27:24.mountain kingdom. His first trip was nine years ago and he takes a
:27:24. > :27:34.keen interest in the charity which he and the local prince helped set-
:27:34. > :27:36.
:27:36. > :27:41.up. Bea Sentebale means forget me not. This is one of the community
:27:41. > :27:46.projects which the charity supports and in around the capital, Maseru.
:27:46. > :27:56.This is a far cry from act of service in Afghanistan. Since he
:27:56. > :27:57.
:27:57. > :28:00.first came to Lesotho in 2004, he says he found real inspiration here.
:28:00. > :28:05.Prince Harry spent the last three day ins Lesotho familiarising
:28:05. > :28:11.himself with the problems of this impoverished country where life
:28:11. > :28:19.expectancy is 41. The country has the world's highest HIV infection
:28:19. > :28:22.rate and a a quarter of the population are orphaned or
:28:22. > :28:32.vulnerable children. Later Prince Harry will be attending a dinner in
:28:32. > :28:36.South Africa where it is hoped Sentebale will raise �2.4 million
:28:36. > :28:38.to help more children in need of to help more children in need of
:28:38. > :28:41.help. Now the weather. You will have noticed that things
:28:41. > :28:51.aren't changing quickly at the moment and that's because we have
:28:51. > :28:52.
:28:52. > :28:57.this big ridge of high pressure in charge of our weather. The one
:28:57. > :29:00.thing that's changing is the amount of cloud in the sky. This is the
:29:00. > :29:04.satellite picture from earlier today. We have had a cloudy start.
:29:04. > :29:09.It feels cold underneath the cloud, at the same time this lovely wedge
:29:09. > :29:14.of clear weather making things feel more pleasant in the sunshine.
:29:14. > :29:19.Across Northern England for example, temperatures of 7, 8 or 9 Celsius
:29:19. > :29:23.likely. The sunshine beginning to to ninl away at the -- nibble away
:29:23. > :29:31.at the cloud. The cloud thinning across the South East. For many
:29:31. > :29:37.areas, it is a cloudy story. Where this cloud is at its thickest,
:29:37. > :29:43.producing the odd spit and spot of drizzle. A few breaks in the cloud
:29:43. > :29:47.along the Antrim Coast and cloudy for the far north-west of Scotland.
:29:47. > :29:50.For many eastern parts of Scotland, here the best of the sunshine
:29:50. > :29:53.through the day. Where we have the sunny skies by day, the skies
:29:53. > :29:57.remain clear overnight and temperatures plunge. You can see
:29:57. > :30:02.the blue shading on the map indicating a frost. Temperatures
:30:02. > :30:05.are are going to drop away close to freezing and below in places
:30:05. > :30:08.particularly where we have the clear skies. To the south and the
:30:09. > :30:13.north-west, things are likely to stay above freezing. A much milder
:30:13. > :30:17.night. A different feel to things. There could be fog patches in the
:30:17. > :30:20.clearer zone, but they should clear away during tomorrow morning and
:30:20. > :30:24.then sunny skies for Northern England and the sunny skies sinking
:30:24. > :30:29.into the Midlands and parts of the south-east. South-west England
:30:29. > :30:31.holding on to thicker cloud and rain. More cloud across Northern
:30:31. > :30:36.Ireland and Northern Scotland. But where we have the best of the
:30:36. > :30:41.sunshine, well the best of the temperatures - 9, 10 and possibly
:30:41. > :30:44.11 Celsius. Through tomorrow night, we will see this weak weather front
:30:44. > :30:49.sinking south, but it is running into our ridge of high pressure.
:30:50. > :30:53.Nothing much more than a band of cloud cloud cloud sinking
:30:53. > :30:56.southwards. A cloudier day and it will feel colder. Temperatures
:30:56. > :31:01.around 6 or 7 Celsius, but there will be a little bit of brightness
:31:01. > :31:04.at times. The changes remain slow as we head on into the weekend.
:31:04. > :31:08.Again, we will see slithers of brightness. Generally a lot of