:00:09. > :00:13.Britain will provide armoured vehicles and body armour for force
:00:13. > :00:16.area's opposition as the foreign secretary says the situation is
:00:16. > :00:21.reaching catastrophic proportions. A million people have now fled the
:00:21. > :00:27.crisis. William Hague says as the crisis becomes increasingly extreme,
:00:27. > :00:31.Britain cannot look the other way. Syria has become the top
:00:31. > :00:36.destination for jihadists anywhere in the world, we are seeing a rise
:00:36. > :00:40.in sectarian violence. A crackdown on pay-day known companies, they
:00:40. > :00:43.are told to clean up their act or face being shut down by the summer.
:00:43. > :00:49.A radical overhaul of the way child abuse allegations are handled in
:00:49. > :00:56.England and Wales is announced. need to get this right. What be
:00:56. > :01:01.don't want our guidelines in five whooping years, when somebody says
:01:01. > :01:07.that they were wrong. Thomas Cook, the world's oldest travel company,
:01:07. > :01:16.and out his plans to cut 2500 jobs in the UK. And why they are turning
:01:16. > :01:24.back the time in Cornwall. A rather curious addition, this is nearly 60
:01:24. > :01:27.ft long and it is a replica of a Bronze Age boat. Later, eight men
:01:27. > :01:31.are arrested on suspicion of grooming and raping an underage
:01:31. > :01:41.girl. And University Challenge - how Imperial College's new campus
:01:41. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:54.could bring 3000 jobs to the Good afternoon. The foreign
:01:54. > :01:58.secretary William Hague has announced that Britain will provide
:01:58. > :02:02.armoured vehicles and body armour to the opposition in Syria to try
:02:02. > :02:06.to end a crisis that has reached what he called catastrophic
:02:06. > :02:09.proportions. He said the humanitarian situation was becoming
:02:09. > :02:14.increasingly desperate and extreme and said Britain could not turn the
:02:14. > :02:22.other way. The UN says the number of refugees who have fled Syria has
:02:22. > :02:26.now reached 1 million, --. Every day thousands of Syrian refugees
:02:26. > :02:31.stream across the border into neighbouring countries and beyond.
:02:31. > :02:37.The vast majority, women and young children. Many severely traumatised
:02:37. > :02:44.by the bloodshed they have witnessed. This growing flood of
:02:44. > :02:47.refugees, prompting the UN to issue a stark warning. If you want to
:02:47. > :02:51.avoid an explosion in the Middle East, if you want to guarantee the
:02:51. > :03:00.peace, stability in the countries around, it is important to find a
:03:00. > :03:06.political solution for the problem before things get worse. Conditions
:03:06. > :03:09.in the Refugee Council in Jordan, as elsewhere, are very tough. More
:03:09. > :03:12.than a third of a million Syrians have already fled here, despite
:03:12. > :03:21.promises of help from the international community, no way
:03:21. > :03:26.near enough is being provided. And back inside Syria itself, the civil
:03:26. > :03:31.war continues unabated. The rebels claimed to have taken more ground
:03:31. > :03:39.but still show no sign of toppling the Assad regime. To achieve that,
:03:39. > :03:47.they say European countries must now lift their arms embargo.
:03:47. > :03:52.regime is sent -- still bombarding every village, every city, there
:03:52. > :03:58.used surface-to-surface long- distance missiles, they used to
:03:58. > :04:04.admit missiles against civilians. To stop the killing and destruction,
:04:04. > :04:07.we need to alter. For the time being of the Foreign Secretary says
:04:07. > :04:13.Britain will not supply weapons to the rebels but in Parliament today,
:04:13. > :04:18.he did promise of a kind of assistance. It will certainly
:04:18. > :04:25.include armoured four wheel drive vehicles, as well as personal
:04:25. > :04:31.protection equipment including body armour. This 19-year-old was the
:04:31. > :04:34.millionth of Syrian citizen to Reg -- register as a refugee. The fear
:04:34. > :04:37.of all the countries looking after them is there could beat 2 million
:04:37. > :04:45.refugees sing because the international committee is doing
:04:45. > :04:49.too little to stop the conflict -- soon. Let's speak to our
:04:49. > :04:53.correspondent at a refugee camp in Jordan now. The foreign secretary,
:04:53. > :05:00.speaking a short time ago, talking about the increasingly desperate
:05:00. > :05:05.situation. What is it like there? Well, I came here three months ago,
:05:05. > :05:10.and it was an expanding camp. But in the period since, it has
:05:10. > :05:13.exploded in terms of the number of people coming here. There are now
:05:14. > :05:18.100 and 1000 people in this camp and you will find that right across
:05:18. > :05:23.the region, and not just in Refugee Council. There are tens of
:05:23. > :05:27.thousands of people who have camped out in abandoned buildings. I have
:05:27. > :05:32.seen them as far into Europe as Greece, across Turkey, or all of
:05:32. > :05:36.the borders of Syria. The conditions, according to the UN, is
:05:36. > :05:39.that they are running out of money, they have just 20% of what they
:05:39. > :05:44.need to be able to cater for these people as a now. They thought they
:05:44. > :05:48.would be at that stage by June, but the sheer weight of numbers
:05:48. > :05:54.crossing the borders of Syria has put the UN relief effort into a
:05:54. > :05:57.very dire situation. There has been a stark warning from the Foreign
:05:57. > :06:02.Secretary this lunchtime, he said it is essential that Syria is not
:06:02. > :06:06.allowed to turn into a breeding ground for terrorists. That is a
:06:06. > :06:12.fairly widespread concern. The dilemma of for Britain in providing
:06:12. > :06:16.non-lethal military age to the armed opposition is that to people
:06:16. > :06:19.who in many parts of Syria are at the forefront of attacks against
:06:19. > :06:24.the government are jihadist grips with a strong Islamist sympathy.
:06:24. > :06:28.Quite how the British government ensures that none of the military
:06:28. > :06:31.aid or if they do provide any arms, how they ensure that doesn't get to
:06:31. > :06:39.the Islamist groups is going to be one of the biggest challenges.
:06:39. > :06:43.Thank you. Some of the UK's biggest pay-day loan companies to have been
:06:43. > :06:46.accused of widespread irresponsible -- irresponsible lending have been
:06:46. > :06:50.told they have three months to change the way they operate or face
:06:50. > :06:55.being shut down. The Office of Fair Trading says they have found deep-
:06:55. > :06:59.rooted problems in the industry. Pay-day lenders have been taking
:06:59. > :07:03.over Britain's high street and are the target of a pincer movement
:07:03. > :07:07.from the Office of Fair Trading and the government today. Ministers,
:07:07. > :07:12.promising a much tougher regime and the OFT's three-month ultimatum
:07:12. > :07:15.coming after they found customers were not being assessed properly.
:07:15. > :07:20.Police found evidence of irresponsible lending and failing
:07:20. > :07:25.to comply with the standards across the country. This is not just a
:07:25. > :07:28.handful of rogue lenders it is about businesses across the sector.
:07:28. > :07:32.A government clampdown means pay- day lenders will face curbs on the
:07:32. > :07:36.number of adverts they put out and when they can show them. They could
:07:36. > :07:44.face unlimited fines or closure if they break lending rules and there
:07:44. > :07:47.will be tougher supervision. Stricter controls might have helped
:07:47. > :07:53.Christopher from Durham, whose debt quadrupled because he couldn't
:07:53. > :07:58.clear it. I would never advise anybody to take a pay-day loans out,
:07:58. > :08:02.never. Not even for �10. Because once you get the first one you have
:08:02. > :08:11.got to get a second one, then the third, then the 4th, just so you
:08:11. > :08:15.can cover the interest. The flood of adverts and internet promotions
:08:15. > :08:20.has helped turn this into a �2 billion industry. The lenders say
:08:20. > :08:25.they do try to assist customers in trouble. We have measures in place
:08:25. > :08:29.to help people who are in financial difficulty, so we have a repayment
:08:29. > :08:33.plans in place if we see somebody who has got into difficulty, we
:08:33. > :08:38.will freeze their interest and the fees, help them pay back their
:08:38. > :08:43.loans. Regulators are being given the power to cap excessive interest
:08:43. > :08:47.rates, the Treasury is saying the time is not right to use that power
:08:47. > :08:51.despite today's revelations. The Office of Fair Trading found today
:08:51. > :08:55.that too many people were being trapped with high-cost loans. They
:08:55. > :08:59.found that although the loans were supposed to be paid back within 30
:08:59. > :09:02.days, more than half of pay-day lenders's revenue came from
:09:02. > :09:07.customers while having to roll over the loans because they couldn't
:09:07. > :09:11.afford to pay the money back. It is asking the Competition Commission
:09:11. > :09:18.to investigate a sector which it accuses of preying on a captive
:09:18. > :09:20.market of people desperate for cash. A major overhaul of the way
:09:20. > :09:24.allegations of sexual offences against children in England and
:09:24. > :09:27.Wales are handled has been announced. The Director of Public
:09:27. > :09:31.Prosecutions says he wants the Jimmy Savile scandal to serve as a
:09:31. > :09:34.watershed for the criminal justice system. Keir Starmer says he
:09:34. > :09:44.believes police and prosecuting lawyers have sometimes adopted an
:09:44. > :09:47.over-cautious approach in cases of sexual assault involving children.
:09:47. > :09:51.Jimmy Savile's crimes spanned more than 50 years. His hundreds of
:09:51. > :09:55.victims never saw him brought to justice, but the Savile scandal has
:09:55. > :10:00.been described as a watershed for child protection in this country.
:10:01. > :10:05.We can't afford another Savile moment is the message from the
:10:05. > :10:10.Director of Public Prosecutions. need to settle this and get this
:10:10. > :10:14.right. What we don't want our guidelines which in five or 10
:10:14. > :10:17.years somebody says or were wrong and didn't really work. There will
:10:17. > :10:21.be a new approach when it comes to witness credibility which will mean
:10:21. > :10:26.a sharper focus on the suspect, not just the person making the
:10:26. > :10:30.complaint. And the plan is for a more consistent response from the
:10:30. > :10:35.professionals. There will also be a rethink on concern at the Fort --
:10:35. > :10:39.of false allegations, which is said to have resulted in too much
:10:39. > :10:42.caution. There have been cases where adults have been wrongly
:10:42. > :10:47.accused and some police and prosecutors are said to have
:10:47. > :10:50.adopted an over-cautious attitude, fearing allegations were false. Now
:10:50. > :10:55.the pendulum will swing the other way and that is worrying some
:10:55. > :10:59.lawyers. We are concerned to make sure the pendulum doesn't swing too
:10:59. > :11:02.far, we have experience of wrongful convictions and miscarriages of
:11:02. > :11:07.justice in this area and are clearly worried that what we should
:11:07. > :11:11.do is achieve a balanced side genuine victims to obtain justice,
:11:11. > :11:16.but we don't wrongfully convicted people again at of crimes they
:11:16. > :11:19.didn't commit. Like many victims, Patrick Raggett was too afraid to
:11:19. > :11:24.speak out when he was a child. He suffered years of abuse by a
:11:24. > :11:29.Catholic priest. He welcomes the new approach and says all those
:11:29. > :11:33.involved with children have to communicate better. Teachers,
:11:33. > :11:36.social workers, therapists, the police, they all have to come
:11:36. > :11:41.together to try to improve their collective understanding of child
:11:41. > :11:45.sexual abuse and acknowledge, frankly, how it is much more
:11:45. > :11:49.prevalent a then people ever dream of. The Director of Public
:11:49. > :11:53.Prosecutions says the national debate over child protection will
:11:53. > :11:57.go beyond those involved in the criminal justice system. The
:11:57. > :12:01.Governor of the Bank of England has proposed a radical shake-up of the
:12:01. > :12:06.Royal Bank of Scotland, West -- mostly owned by the taxpayer. He
:12:06. > :12:12.says in its current form, the band -- back is holding back the economy
:12:12. > :12:18.and should be split up. We should devise a plan which should enable
:12:18. > :12:24.U2 restructure RBS, divided into a bank, it could be a new RBS, a
:12:24. > :12:27.healthy bank, capable of lending to the UK economy and attracting
:12:27. > :12:31.funding and therefore could be sold back to the private sector
:12:31. > :12:39.relatively soon. It doesn't mean being decisive in dealing with
:12:39. > :12:41.those activities, going to the other part of the bank. I'm joined
:12:41. > :12:46.by our chief economics correspondent. Something of a
:12:46. > :12:53.challenge to the Chancellor, this? Is indeed, quite a bombshell from
:12:53. > :12:57.the Bank of England. Government policy is to keep going with RBS
:12:57. > :13:01.with a stake of more than 80% held by the government to try and get it
:13:01. > :13:05.in order and try and start selling the shares at some stage. Only last
:13:05. > :13:09.week the management of RBS were saying they could have it ready for
:13:09. > :13:12.a share flotation towards the end of next year. Sir Mervyn King is
:13:12. > :13:17.basically saying that approach is not right, it is better to accept
:13:17. > :13:20.the fact that the taxpayer will make losses, hold on to the bad
:13:20. > :13:25.assets in the public sector and float off the healthier side of the
:13:25. > :13:29.bank. Has there been any reaction from the Treasury or from RBS?
:13:29. > :13:34.are not saying anything in public, I think they are rather taken aback
:13:34. > :13:37.by the Governor's comments. The Treasury are pointing to remarks by
:13:37. > :13:42.George Osborne last week that this idea was put to him, he did not
:13:42. > :13:46.rule it out but said there are big obstacles. To make it happen
:13:46. > :13:50.committee would have to nationalise RBS, take the existing private
:13:50. > :13:55.shares after market, that would cost a lot of money and be hard to
:13:55. > :14:00.justify. It didn't look like he was in favour last week. RBS are making
:14:00. > :14:05.it clear they think they have done the right thing. But a big
:14:05. > :14:10.intervention by Sir Mervyn King. Thank you. More questions on
:14:10. > :14:20.banking and bank bonuses at today's PMQs. Our political correspondent
:14:20. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:37.Ministers do not think this will work, because banks will simply put
:14:37. > :14:41.up salaries, and also, they think some banks will leave the City. On
:14:41. > :14:46.the one side, you have got Tory MPs getting up the Chancellor for not
:14:46. > :14:49.doing enough to stand up to Europe, to stand up for the City, and on
:14:49. > :14:56.the other side, Ed Miliband accusing him of doing too much to
:14:56. > :14:59.stand up for bankers and for the wealthy. But here's his difficulty
:15:00. > :15:04.- the economics and politics of this story are out of sync.
:15:04. > :15:10.Economically, the Chancellor believes he has to resist this EU
:15:10. > :15:15.plan, but politically, being seen to be standing up for bankers'
:15:15. > :15:18.bonuses is a bit like being seen to be going on a late night rampaged
:15:18. > :15:25.through the Blue Peter garden, it is not going to win you many
:15:25. > :15:29.friends. Our main headline - Britain will provide certain
:15:29. > :15:36.equipment to the opposition in Syria, in a bid to end a crisis
:15:36. > :15:40.which has reached catastrophic proportions. Coming up, the
:15:40. > :15:50.increasing cost of childcare, with parents getting hit by bills which
:15:50. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:08.are rising at twice the rate of Seven days of national mourning
:16:08. > :16:13.have begun in Venezuela following the death of President Hugo Chavez
:16:13. > :16:17.yesterday. President Chavez was a controversial figure, who polarised
:16:17. > :16:22.opinions at home and abroad. Last night, thousands of people filled
:16:22. > :16:28.the streets of Caracas, chanting his name. A state funeral will be
:16:28. > :16:33.held on Friday. For these mourners, Hugo Chavez was more than just a
:16:33. > :16:39.President. He was an icon. They are struggling to come to terms with
:16:39. > :16:45.their loss. Chavez has not died, the revolution goes on, this lady
:16:45. > :16:49.says. President, I know you are up in heaven, you will be our died,
:16:49. > :16:53.she says. Hugo Chavez was a hero to some, as well as a generous donor
:16:53. > :16:59.of aid. For them, he was the socialist revolutionary torchbearer
:16:59. > :17:07.who dared to defy the United States, even insulting George W Bush at the
:17:07. > :17:13.TRANSLATION: He fought for his country, a friend who gave his life
:17:13. > :17:16.for the Liberation of the Venezuelan people. He gave it for
:17:16. > :17:21.all the ante imperialists and anti- capitalists of the world.
:17:21. > :17:25.former soldier brought great charisma to the job. One of his
:17:25. > :17:30.first acts as President was to nationalise the oil wells. The
:17:30. > :17:34.revenue funded grants for the poor which gave him huge popularity. But
:17:34. > :17:42.the mainly middle-class opposition said he was a dictator who stifled
:17:42. > :17:47.enterprise and ruined the economy. Vice-President Nicolas Maduro is
:17:47. > :17:53.now the caretaker leader. He could win in the elections, but what of
:17:53. > :17:58.Hugo Chavez's revolution, will it survive? It depends on whether his
:17:58. > :18:02.successor is able to maintain the strengths of Hugo Chavez, but
:18:02. > :18:06.tackle the weaknesses, the inflation, the homicide, the
:18:06. > :18:11.personal insecurity, corruption, nepotism and so on. If they cannot
:18:11. > :18:15.do that, then it will unravel. is a deeply divided country.
:18:15. > :18:18.Millions say they have lost a father figure. Others see an
:18:19. > :18:28.opportunity for change. The battle for the future of Venezuela has
:18:28. > :18:32.Police in Moscow say all three men arrested in connection with an acid
:18:32. > :18:36.attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet have given
:18:36. > :18:41.written confessions admitting to the crime. One of the three is a
:18:41. > :18:45.leading Bolshoi soloist, who was accused of ordering the attack. A
:18:45. > :18:50.second man was suspected of throwing the acid, and the third,
:18:50. > :18:57.of being the getaway driver. The world's oldest travel firm, Thomas
:18:57. > :19:02.Cook, has announced plans to cut almost 2,500 jobs in the UK, and to
:19:02. > :19:08.cut 195 of its high-street travel agencies. Our correspondent is in
:19:08. > :19:13.central London for us. But Thomas Cook seems to have survived? Yes,
:19:13. > :19:16.these are very heavy job losses, but as you say, this is part of a
:19:16. > :19:21.turnaround plan to revive a struggling business. Thomas Cook
:19:21. > :19:26.operates in markets all over the world, but right now, in the UK, it
:19:26. > :19:32.just is not making any money. Today, we have the news that 2,500 posts
:19:32. > :19:38.are to go, about 16% of the workforce. Also, we're going to see
:19:38. > :19:43.the closure of 195 high street stores, as you said. That still
:19:43. > :19:47.leaves Thomas Cook with 874 outlets. Clearly, very bad news for the
:19:47. > :19:50.employees, but management have taken a close look at this business
:19:50. > :19:54.and have come to the conclusion that there is way too much capacity
:19:54. > :20:00.on the high street. People are migrating online to book holidays.
:20:00. > :20:03.We also know that there will be job losses in administrative and
:20:04. > :20:10.managerial posts at head offices in Preston and Peterborough. In a
:20:10. > :20:14.statement this morning, the chief executive officer, Peter Fankhauser,
:20:14. > :20:18.said, it is never easy to make decisions, but the company needed
:20:18. > :20:22.to make changes to secure its future and provide continued
:20:22. > :20:27.employment for many thousands across the UK. Of course, that will
:20:27. > :20:33.not be much comfort to the 2,500 people whose full-time posts will
:20:33. > :20:40.be going. The cost of childcare in the UK has risen by 62% in the past
:20:40. > :20:44.decade, with a full-time nursery place for a tiled -- child under
:20:44. > :20:49.two costing �11,000 a year, more than some private schools charge in
:20:49. > :20:53.fees. The Daycare Trust says costs are rising at twice the rate of
:20:53. > :20:58.inflation, at a time when wages are stagnating. Reeta Chakrabarti
:20:58. > :21:03.reports. Childcare comes in many forms, including after-school clubs
:21:03. > :21:12.like this one. According to today's survey, are all provision has
:21:12. > :21:17.say child care is a major outlay. It used to expensive. Sometimes you
:21:17. > :21:22.think you are better off if you do not work. Travel, rent, child care,
:21:22. > :21:26.the big three. I find it quite reasonable here, compared to
:21:26. > :21:31.private nursery fees, which we were paying previously. The report found
:21:31. > :21:33.parents using an after-school club for 15 hours a week found an
:21:33. > :21:43.for 15 hours a week found an increasing costs of 9% on the
:21:43. > :21:43.
:21:43. > :21:47.previous year. Parents with a child under two in nursery pay nearly
:21:47. > :21:51.�11,000 a year for full-time care. �11,000 a year for full-time care.
:21:51. > :21:55.Investing in quality provision in the early years is really important
:21:55. > :21:59.for children and I days. If you have high quality, affordable child
:21:59. > :22:02.care in place, it means that parents can go out to work and
:22:02. > :22:07.contribute to the economy. They can contribute to their family finances
:22:08. > :22:12.as well. Child care can be as expensive as a mortgage for many
:22:12. > :22:18.families. Ministers say that costs will be driven down by the plan to
:22:18. > :22:23.allow well-qualified staff to look after more children than at present.
:22:23. > :22:28.But there have been no details yet regarding government hints of a tax
:22:28. > :22:31.break for working families. An announcement on further help is
:22:31. > :22:39.expected soon. Today's report underlines the burden for families
:22:39. > :22:41.across Britain. The shock after Manchester United's defeat to Real
:22:41. > :22:47.Madrid in last nights Champions League clash has turned to anger.
:22:47. > :22:53.The focus of the fury is the match referee, who sent off Nani in the
:22:53. > :22:57.56th minute. Dan Roan is at Old Trafford. It was all going so well
:22:57. > :23:02.for Manchester United here last night. It was a titanic clash with
:23:02. > :23:06.Real Madrid. United were leading 2- 1 on aggregate, on course for a
:23:06. > :23:11.place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, their hopes of a
:23:11. > :23:16.treble very much alive, but then came another fateful refereeing
:23:16. > :23:21.decision, which appeared to turn the game, and left United
:23:21. > :23:26.devastated. The moment the dream turned sour, when Nani collided
:23:26. > :23:36.with Alvaro Arbeloa, in a clumsy rather than malicious challenge.
:23:36. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:40.But sadly for the hosts, referee CuneytCakir disagreed. An incensed
:23:40. > :23:46.Sir Alex Ferguson was said to be too distraught to speak to the
:23:46. > :23:50.media after the match, leaving his assistant to do the job. We all
:23:50. > :23:54.witnessed a decision which seemed very harsh, possibly incredible, at
:23:54. > :23:57.that moment in the game. knighted had been leading, but
:23:57. > :24:01.having been reduced to 10 men, quickly conceded twice. This
:24:01. > :24:10.morning, the fans were in no doubt that the referee was the man to
:24:10. > :24:18.blame. It was the changing of the game. It was such a massive game,
:24:18. > :24:24.he destroyed it. Disgusting, really. The Turkish official is no stranger
:24:24. > :24:27.to controversial decisions. He sent off Keith Andrews of the Republic
:24:27. > :24:32.of Ireland last year at the European finals. Some are not so
:24:32. > :24:38.sure it was an error. If you put your boot up that high in Europe,
:24:38. > :24:42.you run that risk, and the referee has gone strong. But that's not how
:24:42. > :24:48.United saw it last night. At 37 years of age, the referee was
:24:48. > :24:55.younger than Ryan Giggs. But it is the referee who has grabbed the
:24:55. > :24:59.headlines. For many, that game of football will go down as a great
:24:59. > :25:03.occasion, potentially which was ruined by a contentious and poor
:25:03. > :25:07.refereeing decision. Whichever way you look at it, it is regrettable
:25:07. > :25:10.but once again in this competition, an occasion such as this has been
:25:10. > :25:14.overshadowed by the conjecture over the rights and wrongs of a big
:25:14. > :25:17.decision by a match official. United must now decide whether or
:25:17. > :25:21.not to lodge an official complaint with Uefa about the performance of
:25:21. > :25:26.the referee, but whatever they decide to do, it will be of little
:25:26. > :25:31.consolation, the damage has been done.
:25:31. > :25:34.Falmouth has not seen anything like it for 4,000 years. Today, a
:25:34. > :25:38.replica of a Bronze Age boat will be launched at high tide. It is
:25:38. > :25:42.50ft long, it weighs five tonnes, and it has been reconstructed to
:25:42. > :25:47.find out more about ancient seafaring. The big question is,
:25:47. > :25:52.when it float? John Kane reports. Yes, among the yachts and the
:25:52. > :26:00.fishing boats here in Falmouth harbour, a rather curious addition.
:26:00. > :26:04.This one isn't nearly 60ft-long, and it is a replica of Bronze Age
:26:04. > :26:09.boat. It has been built by archaeologists, volunteers and
:26:09. > :26:14.others over the past seven months. They have built it, as far as they
:26:14. > :26:21.know, as closely to the original as possible. They have even used
:26:21. > :26:25.replica Bronze Age tools. We can speak now to one of the experts who
:26:25. > :26:31.has been involved in the creation of this. You're an archaeologist.
:26:31. > :26:36.Just explain what you're doing. are plugging the gaps, making the
:26:37. > :26:40.boat waterproof. It is just some moss, which was found on the
:26:40. > :26:46.original archaeological excavations, so we have sourced this, ended his
:26:46. > :26:50.being squashed into these crevices to fill up any gaps. Then, the next
:26:50. > :26:56.layer up is going to be some tallow, some animal fat, which looks a bit
:26:56. > :27:02.messy, but what that does is, when you smear it on top of the Moss, it
:27:02. > :27:06.is going to make a nice, watertight seal, we hope. We will find out how
:27:06. > :27:10.watertight later this afternoon. It has been seven months in the
:27:11. > :27:16.building. We can see some speeded- up footage danger. You created it
:27:16. > :27:22.out of giant logs - why do this, as a historian, as an archaeologist?
:27:22. > :27:26.Because you can only Know him So much from finds. We know that they
:27:26. > :27:30.had boats because you can find the goods moving across the ocean. But
:27:30. > :27:40.what we do not know is how this boat worked. It is the only way to
:27:40. > :27:40.
:27:40. > :27:42.test out some of the ideas. We will test out some of the ideas. We will
:27:42. > :27:47.see if it works later. Good luck. It's time now for the weather
:27:47. > :27:52.forecast. What a difference a day makes. We will not be reaching 17
:27:52. > :27:56.degrees, like yesterday. Today is cooler, thanks to a good deal of
:27:56. > :28:02.cloud around, even a few spots of rain. This was yesterday's
:28:02. > :28:08.satellite picture, with clear blue skies for most of the UK. Today,
:28:08. > :28:12.much, much more cloud. There are a few holes here and there. But for
:28:13. > :28:16.most of us, it will be cloudy. It in into the later part of the
:28:16. > :28:23.afternoon, we could see some breaks in the cloud arriving across
:28:23. > :28:31.southern areas of Cornwall and Devon. It will certainly be cooler
:28:31. > :28:35.than yesterday in Wales. Maybe a few spots of rain fox still to come
:28:35. > :28:39.in Northern Ireland. There could be a little bit of sunshine on the
:28:39. > :28:47.north coast. The best of the sunshine so far, and this afternoon,
:28:47. > :28:51.will be across the western side of Scotland. Eastern Scotland and the
:28:51. > :28:53.east coast of England, feeling pretty cold. Coming down into the
:28:53. > :28:58.Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east of England, it feels
:28:58. > :29:05.quite cold under the cloud. The south-east of England should see
:29:05. > :29:09.some sunshine. Double figures already in Kent and Sussex. More
:29:09. > :29:19.rain and drizzle pushing northwards into Scotland and Northern Ireland
:29:19. > :29:23.overnight tonight. In the south, it will be particularly mild. Even
:29:23. > :29:32.further north, it should be milder than last night. Tomorrow, there
:29:32. > :29:36.will probably be more rain around. There will be little or no sunshine.
:29:36. > :29:44.Quite a range of temperatures tomorrow. Chilly in the north-east
:29:45. > :29:49.of Scotland, coming down to double figures further to the south. These
:29:49. > :29:54.low pressures will continue to rotate out in the Atlantic, and it
:29:54. > :30:00.is these which are bringing the cloud. Again, not a great deal of
:30:01. > :30:09.sunshine around on Friday. So much a stronger winds for more than
:30:09. > :30:13.parts of the UK. -- some much stronger winds. With those winds,