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limited but growing evidence that chemical weapons have been used by | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
government forces in Syria. As violence escalates in the country, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
David Cameron says reports that sarin gas has been used on a small | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
scale would amount to a war crime, but he says he does not want to see | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
British troops involved. Also this lunchtime, three members of a | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
terrorist cell which planned bombing campaign in the UK have received | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
lengthy prison terms. The death toll rises in Bangladesh. Hundreds are | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
still missing. Police opened on protesters angry at conditions in | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
the country's clothing factories. MPs warn the Treasury and the big | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
four accountancy firms have an unhealthily cosy relationship. | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
Trying to save Britain's bee populations. Could banning a | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
pesticide be the answer? The ballroom dancer who lost her leg in | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
the Boston Marathon bomb, who says she is determined not to give in or | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
give up. I absolutely want to dance again and will dance again. I also | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
want to run the marathon next year. Later on BBC London, the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Metropolitan Police is to reorganise the way it investigates rates, after | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
a series of bungled investigations. Shock explosions on a Pimlico | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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the BBC News that one. David Cameron has said there is limited but | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
growing evidence that Syrian troops have used chemical weapons against | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
their own people. Mr Cameron called any use of such weapons of war crime | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
and said they represented a red line for the international community to | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
do more. But he said it was unlikely British troops would enter Syria. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Yesterday, the US government said it believed that with varying degrees | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
of confidence, the Syrian government had used chemical weapons. You may | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
find some images in this report distressing. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
More shelling today in a district of the Syrian capital. We can't | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
independently verify these images but this grim conflict is already | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
more than two years old and the United Nations estimates has cost | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
more than 70,000 lives. Now, a potentially significant new | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
development. Are these distressed victims being treated in hospital | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
for the effects of the chemical weapons attack? Something the Obama | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Administration has previously said would constitute a red line. For the | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
first time, the Americans are saying this -- they have some evidence the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Syrian government may have used sarin gas. A journalist said he was | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
at a recent hospital where victims were treated. And Oracle -- American | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
medical team turned up. There were hair samples sent off to an American | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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laboratory. The results, I don't know. This is also a conflict into | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
which Washington remains deeply reluctant to intervene. So the | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
administration is being cautious, talking of only a limited use of | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
chemical weapons and saying more information and a UN investigation | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
are needed, that this is not yet the crossing of the red line. The Obama | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
administration has talked about a possible breakdown of command, | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
perhaps a rogue commander has used them. Another explanation is perhaps | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
they were used inadvertently, the explosive shells and chemical shells | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
were mixed up, hence the usage was that way. The Obama administration | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
is under pressure at home and from its allies to take a tougher stand. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
It is very disturbing what we are seeing. It is limited evidence but | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
we there is growing evidence that we have seen of the use of chemical | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
weapons, probably by the regime. It is extremely serious. This is a war | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
crime and we should take very seriously. These are set to be more | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
images of chemical attack. But perhaps with the Iraq experience in | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the background, there is caution in London and as David Cameron again | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
underlined, no appetite for western boots on the ground. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Let's speak to our correspondent, Wyre Davies, in Beirut. Distressing | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
scenes but as we heard in the report, caution being exercised in | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
the language because people will ask how sure we can be of the evidence? | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
The West has been wrong before, most notably ten years ago with weapons | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
of mass destruction and that invasion of Iraq. The difference | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
back then, there was a political appetite in Western capitals to go | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
into Iraq, despite the evidence. It is the opposite now. We are hearing | :05:03. | :05:12. | |
quite strong evidence apparently but there is a reluctance to go into | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Syria. The Americans talk about the need for greater clarification | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
uncertainty because it is difficult to prove that sarin has been used. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Even then, I do not think we will see Americans, British or French | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
troops on the ground, an attempt to enforce a no-fly zone or bottom -- | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
buffer zone. I do not think we will see military info to mention from | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
Western powers even if chemical weapons have been used. Three | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
members of a terrorist cell, who planned a bombing campaign in the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
UK, have received lengthy prison terms. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
The ringleader, Irfan Naseer, 31 and from Birmingham, was given a life | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
sentence and told he would spend at least 18 years in jail. Police said | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
the plot could have been more devastating than the July the 7th | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
attacks in London. Matt Prodger is that worried -- Woolwich Crown | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Court. This marks the culmination of the biggest counterterrorism | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
operation in Britain for several years. | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
11 men sentenced, the longest life sentence, the shortest, 14 months. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
The judge in his sentencing remarks said of the plot, many deaths were | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
planned by determined team of individuals who were fully | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
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radicalised and at the heart of that plan to bomb targets in the UK was a | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
trio of ringleaders. Three men from Birmingham who planned mass murder | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
in their own country. All jailed today. They were arrested in 2011. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Police pulled over a car containing the three would-be suicide bombers. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
First out of the vehicle was Ashik Ali, then if unhallowed and -- in | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Irfan Khalid and the ringleader, Irfan Naseer. The judge said Irfan | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Naseer had planned multiple acts of suicide bombing with serious loss of | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
life. He received a life sentence. He spoke of staging another 9/11. He | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
was jailed for 18 years. Ashik Ali was in charge of full -- | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
fundraising, sentenced to 15 years. This case was immensely serious | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
because they aspired to commit mass murder by suicide bombs, by placing | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
bombs in crowded places. They were very critical of the 7/7 bombers in | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
terms of not killing enough people will stop they had nails and their | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
bombs. They wanted to kill a lot of people and they aspired to their | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
9/11. They wanted to go down in history doing it. Their trial had | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
heard how they had been watched by MI5 and the police. Bugs were | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
planted in their car. They were heard planning to detonate up to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
eight bombs. The targets were not clear but they talked about turning | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
parts of Birmingham into a war zone. They pretended to be | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
collecting money for charity, taking in thousands of pounds from their | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
own community. But they cheated the charity, Muslim aid, out of the | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
cash. Ahmed, jailed for four years, gambled away most of the money on | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
the currency markets. Inside the home of one of the men they had | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
started experimenting with bomb-making equipment. Irfan Naseer | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
had scratched out a blueprint for it is I -- device. Ahmed and seven | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
other men played a small role. Four of them went to Pakistan for | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
terrorist training but they left as soon as they're furious families | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
discovered what they were up to. The judge said they had made a chilling | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
mistake. This morning, a statement was released on behalf of | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Birmingham's 230,000 strong Muslim community. | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
It reads, these acts are not carried out in our name, and calls for | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
peace. In defiance, it says, of extremists that try to take root on | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
the fringes of all our communities. A huge demonstration has taken place | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
in Bangladesh, with thousands of protesters calling for better | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
conditions for workers in the clothing industry. At least 280 | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
people are known to have died in the building collapse in Dhaka on | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Wednesday. More than 2000 people have been rescued. The search for | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
more survivors continues. Our correspondent Anbarasan Ethirajan | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
reports. Thousands of angry and frustrated | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
garment workers took to the streets in Dhaka and its industrial suburbs. | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
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Their demand, answers from the owner of the building which collapsed. The | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
eight story building contained clothing factories and a number of | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
shops. It came down earlier this week, trapping hundreds of people. | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Nearly 300 people are now known to have died and -- in the incident and | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
more than 1000 are injured. TRANSLATION: | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
Of machine fell on my hand and I was collapsed. My hand had to be cut | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
off. Security forces used batons and tear gas to disperse the protesters. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Meanwhile, more bodies have been recovered from the building collapse | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
site. Hundreds of people still thought to be trapped inside. Rescue | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
workers are aware that they are racing against time. There is | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
growing anger on how the factory's continued work despite warnings on | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
the safety of the building. These pictures, from a local television | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
channel, show cracks on the building on Tuesday, which triggered an | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
evacuation of workers. But they had been ordered back into the | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
production lines. A day later, the building collapsed. The Government | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
has promised tough action against those responsible for this tragic | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
incident. In recent years of the country has become a major producer | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
of low-cost clothing for Western retailers. However, the latest | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
incident has come as a jolt to the thriving industry. Trade union | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
leaders say if safety standards in factories are not improved, it could | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
lead to more protests in the future. We can speak to our reporter now. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
On that question, could this terrible tragedy prove perhaps be a | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
turning point in the clothing industry there? That is what many | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
people here hope because there have been a number of incidents like this | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
in the last few years. The notable one was a big fire in a clothing | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
factory last November outside the capital Dhaka killing more than 110 | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
people. Within six months we have this second tragic incident in which | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
nearly 300 people have been killed in the building collapse and this | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
building contained a few clothing factories. Western retailers have | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
been urging the factory owners here to improve safety standards, because | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
Bangladesh is becoming the world's tailoring shop. It is the world's | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
second largest exporter of ready-made clothes and people here | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
hope the latest incident will also put pressure on the factory owners | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
to improve safety standards in Bangladesh. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
The four biggest accountancy firms are accused of using an unhealthily | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
cosy relationship with the government to help their wealthy | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
clients avoid paying tax. A group of MPs from the Commons Public Accounts | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Committee say stuff from the accountancy firms who have been on | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
secondment to the Treasury have used information to help clients reduce | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
their tax. First MPs targeted Starbucks, Google | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
and Amazon over tax. Now they are going for the big four accountancy | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
firms, who advised major companies. The Public Accounts Committee is | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
says evidence they saw showed the firms exploit inside knowledge to | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
cut tax. The worst thing we uncovered was this practice that I | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
call poacher turned gamekeeper turned poacher. What that means is | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
the big four accountancy can -- firms put that experts into Treasury | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
and HMRC, helped write the technical rules that become new laws and armed | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
with that insider knowledge, they go back to their companies and use that | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
knowledge to devise new schemes for tax avoidance. The committee wants | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
to stop accountants using inside knowledge to operate as tax | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
vouchers, to ban them from public sector work if they sell tax | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
avoidance schemes and to force them along with businesses to be more | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
open about declaring profits in countries which charge less tax. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
Accountants complain the criticism is unfair. You'll we give tax advice | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
responsibly in accordance with the law in the intentions of parliament | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
generally and we advise companies when they are considering what they | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
are doing to take account of the wide impacts. The Treasury says | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
revenue and Customs has raised billions more pounds in tax by | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
clamping down on avoidance and it defends the practice of employing | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
staff from accountancy firms. we not engaged with taxpayers and | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
their advisers, I think that would be an absurd suggestion. We want to | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
make sure we get tax law right. That means talking to those who have an | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
interest in the area. There are particular areas where we are making | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
our tax system more competitive. We want to make sure we get that right, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
it is effective and workable. Pressure from the Public Accounts | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
Committee bash at Starbucks to volunteer to contribute �20 million | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
extra in tax. Now the pressure is on accountants to stop exploiting what | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
today's report calls, our hopelessly complex tax system, to enable | :14:31. | :14:40. | |
countries to pay less. -- police to pay less. Our top story, the Prime | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Minister says there is limited but growing evidence that chemical | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
weapons have been used by government forces in Syria. Coming up, move | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
over Batman. The young royals get a taste for movie magic. Later on BBC | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
London, a choreographer behind hit musicals like Cats is rewarded for a | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
lifetime's work on a West End stage. Chelsea are on course to book | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
themselves a place at this year's Europa League Final. And a look at | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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these are in danger of dying out, and campaigners think a commonly | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
used pesticide which creates havoc with their sense of direction is to | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
blame, and they are marching on Parliament Ed of a key vote to ban | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
the chemical. Jeremy Cooke joins us with more from Hanbury Hall to tell | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
us more. Jeremy. Yes, it has been an absolutely | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
gorgeous morning here at Hanbury Hall and gardens, plenty of | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
sunshine, a little bit of cloud as well, and it is quite cool. The bees | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
that populate these hives have decided, quite understandably, that | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
will stay inside and stay cosy, and who can blame them? Over recent | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
years, they have been facing an increasingly hostile environment. | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
In the heart of the British countryside, something is killing | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
the bus. For years, our bee populations have been in decline, a | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
toxic mix of deadly parasite and horrible weather have taken their | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
total. But there is another suspect in the search for the bee killer, a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
pesticide used in crop production is under investigation. Many are | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
already convinced that the chemicals are the culprit, and today | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
beekeepers and environmentalists let the countryside to march on London, | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
joining celebrities taking their protests directly to Westminster. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Their message, that some pesticides should be banned while scientists | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
study how damaging to bees they can be. If there is any chance that they | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
can be affecting the health of pollinators, which are responsible | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
for pollinating two thirds of our food, I think it would be more than | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
precautionary, it would be extremely sensible to support this ban. | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
pesticides in question are neonicotinoids, the active | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
ingredient is civil to nicotine in cigarettes. They offer cross | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
protection against bugs including aphids, and it was thought they were | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
safe for bees, but with population struggling, the population -- the | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
European Union wants a moratorium while tests continue. Manufacturers | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
deny that their products are to blame, and here the Government is | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
cautious. We have to base whatever we do on the evidence, on the | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
scientific research that is available. That is far from | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
conclusive. We have got to get this right, because doing the wrong thing | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
may evolve worse effects on the bee and pollinator population than | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
simply acting in a knee-jerk way. committee of MPs has accused the | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Government of being complacent over the issue, and government scientists | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
accept that neonicotinoids do kill bees, but as issue is how many. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Ministers must now balance the need to protect colonies with the need to | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
protect crops. Both are, of course, essential for the production of food | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
for a hungry population. Now, there will be a vote on this in | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Europe on Monday. The British position remains that before there | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
can be a moratorium or a ban, there must be more scientific evidence. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
A fire at a psychiatric hospital in Russia is thought to have killed 38 | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
people, all but two of them patients. The fire started in the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
early hours of the morning in Ramensky, north of Moscow. We can | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
speak to Daniel Sandford, who is at the scene. Daniel. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Yes, this has been the scene of a terrible tragedy. You can still | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
smell in the air the remains of the smell of burning wood. At two | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
o'clock this morning, a fire burst out just towards the front of that | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
red bus there, you can probably see the gap in the fence. That was the | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
psychiatric ward of a hospital, a wooden building with bars on the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
window, because the patients might have escaped. Many of them were | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
sedated, so when the fire broke out, it tore through the building very | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
fast, and many of the patients did not wake up. Those who did struggled | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
to get out of the building. Of the 41 people in the building, only | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
three escaped, one nurse and two patients, and that left 36 patients | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
and two members of staff dead. The primary star and the president have | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
ordered urgent enquiries into what happened, and it has cast a | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
spotlight on big problems in Russia with fire safety and the poor | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
standards in medical those other days. | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
Next Thursday says local elections across England and a by-election in | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
South Shields, called following the resignation last month of David | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Miliband, who has moved to New York to work for a charity. South Shields | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
has been a Labour seat since 1935 and currently has a majority of | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
11,000, but as north-east political editor Richard Moss reports, | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
challengers are hoping to pull off a shock result. | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
South Shields, coastal, historic and, up to now, rocksolid Labour. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Over the last 78 years and 19 general elections, South Shields has | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
always returned a Labour MP, and opponents have sunk without trace. A | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
Labour says it is not taking a 20th successive victory for granted. It | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
has been careful to choose a locally born and bred candidate this time, | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
but is that every action to David Miliband's lack of local roots? | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
at all, MPs bring different things into the role, and David was a | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
different kind of MP to what I will be. I have spent my whole life here, | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
and people know I will fight for them in Westminster if I am | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
successful. The Conservatives have also chosen someone born in South | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Shields, and a born optimist, too. You would have to be to hope for | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
victory in a seat which has not returned a single Tory MP in its 180 | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
year history. I have got 15 years of business experience in the City of | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
London. I want to come back to my hometown because I think I can those | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
skills here, and I want to be an advocate for enterprise, investment, | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
to really get things going. Liberals were once the party to beat | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
here. Mind you, that was 80 years ago. But the Liberal Democrats | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
believe that change is possible once again. I am here to give people a | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
real choice. A lot of people are telling me they are fed up with | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
Labour running the place as a 1-party state. If I believed in a | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
1-party state, I would move to North Korea. There is a new name on the | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
high Street - UKIP has chalked up some good by-election results, but | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
can they win one? While we are here basically to beat the coalition, | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
that is our number one target, we are also in it to win it, and | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
anything could possibly happen in a by-election. At the moment it is | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
hard to send Labour blood, and history suggests the party will | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
continue to rule the waves here next Thursday. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
You can find much more information about the upcoming elections on our | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
website. So Winston Churchill is to be judged | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
on the new �5 note. The Bank of England has announced that Britain's | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
leader during World War II will appear on the back of the fibre | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
together with some of his most famous words, I have nothing to | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Luisa Baldini is at his | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
former home and can show us, as you can see, what the note will like. | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
Yes, here it is, unveiled by the Governor of the Bank of England this | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
morning, and the most prominent feature of course is that portrait | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
of Sir Winston, and then a view of Westminster, which is acknowledging | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
that for almost 60 years Westminster was his life. And the image of the | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
clock, the hands at three o'clock, which represents the time on the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
13th of May, 1940, when he delivered his first speech as Prime Minister, | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
saying those words - I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
sweat. In the background, the image of the Nobel Prize he was awarded in | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
1953 for literature. This is expected to come in to circulate and | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
in 2016. It is hoped that it will be nicknamed a Winston. | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
There is magic with a sprinkling of royal stardust going on in Watford | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
at this lunchtime, the juke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
Harry are visiting the home of another Harry, Harry Potter. They | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
are there to meet children and representatives of the various | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
charities they are connected with, and to have a go at some wizardry. | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
Nicholas Witchell has been with them. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Yes, a day at the movies or at least at the studios, these �100 million | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
studios are the first built by a Hollywood studio in the UK for some | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
70 years. Home, as you say, to Harry Potter and the Caped Crusader, | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
Batman, as to their delight, William and Harry discovered. | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
It is every small boy's dream to be Batman for the day, and for two not | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
so small boys, this was the day they could pretend it was true. One of | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
the big film studios, here was the Caped Crusader's motorbike, just too | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
much for William, a keen biker himself, to resist. So much for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
royal dignity, then! Kate seemed to think he looked chewed, Harry | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
suggested he needed a pair of Batman years. And here was something called | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
the Tumbler, once again it was William at the controls, and this | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
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time there was a throttle to play for whom the studios are best known, | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
the boy wizard himself, Harry Potter. He was off on his broomstick | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
somewhere, but his creator, JK rolling, was there. William made a | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
speech to inaugurate the new studios, but his mind was clearly | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
still on the capital at the back mobiles. I am over the moon to have | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
seen the real machines. Do you do baby seats for those cars? Finally, | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
they were shown the sets and props from the Harry Potter films, | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
familiar characters and scenes from counters childhoods. -- countless. | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
They are still inside, and they have been chairing a meeting of the | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
leaders of their charities on the It is 11 days since the Boston | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Marathon bombing in which three people lost their lives and dozens | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
more were injured. One of the victims, Adrianne Haslett, a | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
ballroom dancer, lost her left foot and part of the lake after one of | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
the bombs exploded behind her. Despite injury, she has vowed she | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
will dance again and she wants to run in the next bar of the marathon | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
next year. All of a sudden, we heard a loud | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
blast, and the first bomb had gone off, and we knew just by the sheer | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
sound of it and the smoke that it was not something that was, you | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
know, a phone explosion of confetti or anything like that. We were | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
terrified, and I knew at that moment that there would be another | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
explosion, I just knew, I knew that there was no way there could just be | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
one. We were about four Pete from where the bomb was. And we were | :26:57. | :27:04. | |
knocked off our feet, and I remember that the S sort of... The impact of | :27:04. | :27:12. | |
the explosion hitting my chest, and being knocked off, knocked off of | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
our feet, and we landed in a sort of pretzel. I said, I think there is | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
something wrong with my foot. And he looked down, and I looked down, | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
there was blood everywhere, his legs were completely covered in blood, | :27:24. | :27:34. | |
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and my foot, my left foot, my ankle, I won't take off my shoe, I | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
have dancer's Pete! My foot was missing from year to year. A couple | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
of the firemen said, she has got to go, and I was screaming, I am a | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
ballroom dancer, please save my foot. When I dance, I do not care | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
about anything else at all. I could be having a horrible day, a horrible | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
morning, and if I could just dance for five minutes, I would feel much | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
better, and that is why this is hard, because I cannot just get up | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
and dance right now. I absolutely want to dance again and will dance | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
again, and I also want to run the marathon next year, and I have a lot | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
of people that are backing me up and supporting me, even though they know | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
I am not a runner, at all! There is so much that I have left. I do not | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
want this to be at, so I am going to fight everything I can to make sure | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
that it is not. Adrianne Haslett there with his | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
story following the Boston Marathon bombing. While we have been on air, | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
we have been getting reports of a major crash on the M6 G2 near | :28:43. | :28:46. | |
Pontefract in west Yorkshire, near junction 32. Early reports from | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
emergency services say that two people may have died and ten others | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
are seriously injured. The accident involved a lorry and a minibus. Six | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
air ambulances are in attendance. OK, it is time now to take you to | :29:03. | :29:13. | |
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the weather, Darren Bett has joined cold weather today, and with that | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
comes some sunshine but also showers, heavy possibly with a loud | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
thunder as well. The colder air has swept down from the north, behind | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
this belt of cloud, and that brought the rain overnight and this morning | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
in the south-east, just about clearing away now, seeing some | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
sunshine for a while, but you can see the speckled cloud that is | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
bringing showers, which will be frequent and heavy across Northern | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
Ireland. The wind is blowing those showers over the Irish Sea with | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
heavier showers arriving in North Wales later in the afternoon, and by | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
then it may be dry across South Wales. Fewer showers in the | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
south-west of England, some sunshine, but the showers are not | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
far away, and in the south-east there will be a lot of showers this | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
afternoon. Here, temperatures are 10 degrees lower than they were at this | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
time yesterday, so a real chill in the air across the south-east, | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
colder weather pushing across the Midlands as well, still a few sharp | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
showers, heavy in northern England, hail and thunder, and over the hills | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
of northern England and Scotland there will be sleet and snow as | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
well. Through this evening and overnight, the showers gradually | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
become fewer, but there will be bands of showers, and later a | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
heavier band across East Anglia and the south-east. Clearing skies, | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
though, the winds dropping in northern Scotland, a risk of a touch | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
of frost, but elsewhere three degrees with sufficient cloud and | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
showers. The weekend is going to be quite cold, especially for the time | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
of year. Not completely dry, there will be showers and patchy rain on | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
Sunday, and as if that was not enough, there is a risk of a touch | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
of frost on Saturday night. Saturday day sees showers across England and | :30:51. | :30:55. | |
Wales, being blown southwards, heavy showers across East Anglia and the | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
south-east, improving in northern England, showers fading in eastern | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Scotland. Not a bad day for Scotland and Northern Ireland, bright, | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
clouding over by the evening, but temperatures are disappointing, nine | :31:06. | :31:13. | |
or 11 degrees. Overnight, frost in rural areas, shown by the blue. That | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
risk is greater further south across the UK, because here we will have | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
clearer skies for longer. A ridge of high pressure, albeit briefly, will | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
keep its chilly overnight. Change is coming from the north-west, winds | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
strengthening, blowing in cloud, patchy light rain or drizzle, a | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
bright start in the south-east but clouding over, feeling chilly across | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
the south-east and the Midlands. After the rain, some sunshine and | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
showers for Scotland and Northern our main story: The Prime Minister | :31:45. | :31:49. |