:00:05. > :00:09.The siege in Nairobi enters its fourth day, as Somali militants
:00:09. > :00:15.continue to hold out against Kenyan security forces. Fighting has
:00:15. > :00:20.continued this morning, with reports that the group are still holding
:00:20. > :00:23.hostages. The Somali militant group Al Shebab
:00:23. > :00:29.says this is the moment when its fighters stormed the shopping mall -
:00:29. > :00:33.51 people are still missing. Was the British wife of a 7/7 bomber
:00:33. > :00:35.part of the attack? UK security services say it's a possibility
:00:35. > :00:48.Samantha Lewthwaite may have been involved in the attacks. From the
:00:48. > :00:58.information that we have, two or three Americans and I think so far
:00:58. > :01:02.I've heard of one Britain. I'm live outside the Westgate centre where a
:01:02. > :01:06.senior police source has told us the siege is over. There is still no
:01:06. > :01:09.word yet on the fate of the hostages.
:01:09. > :01:12.Also this lunchtime: As the Labour leader Ed Miliband prepares to give
:01:12. > :01:19.his speech to conference in an hour's time, why is a former leader
:01:19. > :01:23.so keen to get away from the camera? Has the BlackBerry dream run out of
:01:23. > :01:27.juice? It's agreed in principle to a buy-out by one of its leading
:01:27. > :01:31.shareholders. And a black and white case of a very
:01:31. > :01:41.cute story - 14 artificially-bred pandas are put on show in China.
:01:41. > :01:46.Later, firefighters planned to strike tomorrow and we find out what
:01:46. > :01:48.contingency cover there will be. And why not everyone is welcoming the
:01:48. > :02:11.gentrification of London. Good afternoon.
:02:11. > :02:14.Police in Kenya say they've been trying to defuse bombs left in the
:02:14. > :02:19.Nairobi shopping centre which was stormed by Islamist militants on
:02:19. > :02:22.Saturday. At least 62 people are known to have died at the Westgate
:02:22. > :02:27.mall, including six British nationals. The Kenya Red Cross says
:02:27. > :02:30.that 51 people are missing. Sporadic gunfire has been heard throughout
:02:30. > :02:39.the morning, but a senior police commander has told the BBC that the
:02:39. > :02:42.operation is over. Let's cross to my colleague Jon
:02:42. > :02:49.Sopel who's at the scene in Nairobi. Jon.
:02:49. > :02:55.It has been a morning of some confusion about what is happening
:02:55. > :02:58.300 metres behind me. We've heard sporadic gunfire and there have been
:02:58. > :03:04.small explosions, but we've also heard from a senior Kenyan police
:03:04. > :03:06.source that the siege is over. That has been contradicted by Al-Shabab
:03:07. > :03:14.who say they are still holding hostages. It may be that we're going
:03:14. > :03:19.to a definitive statement from the Interior Ministry in the next hour.
:03:19. > :03:25.We know morgues in the city have been told to prepare to receive more
:03:25. > :03:32.bodies. Let's get this report from a correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse.
:03:32. > :03:39.The morning after the assault, the shopping centre is still cordoned
:03:39. > :03:44.off as security forces try to secure the complex. They are being
:03:44. > :03:49.cautious. The building could be booby-trapped. Yesterday afternoon,
:03:49. > :03:53.the road leading to the centre echoed with the sounds of gunfire
:03:53. > :03:56.and explosions. The fire burned per hours afterwards as government
:03:56. > :04:03.forces tried to flush out the militants. At the moment, this is an
:04:03. > :04:07.ongoing security operation, and a humanitarian one as well. The Red
:04:07. > :04:11.Cross has been providing counselling to the victims, many of them
:04:11. > :04:15.children. They've been preparing for the horrors they may have to
:04:15. > :04:21.confront when this is over. They say at least 51 people may still be
:04:21. > :04:26.missing. I believe we will recover the bodies or have people alive.
:04:26. > :04:35.Which ever way, the human beings will be accounted for. Do you think
:04:35. > :04:37.51 people are still inside? There is a likelihood, although it is a
:04:37. > :04:50.difficult question for meat and said. -- for me to answer. So, a
:04:50. > :04:53.confusing picture coming out. Clearly there is an ongoing
:04:53. > :04:57.operation. We think there may be a number of gunmen still alive inside
:04:57. > :05:02.the building. But the attention is now beginning to shift to the
:05:02. > :05:07.identity of the attackers. An image has urged appearing to show two of
:05:07. > :05:13.the gunmen inside the shopping centre. It cannot be independently
:05:13. > :05:17.verified, but Al-Shabab say it is genuine. The Kenyan authorities have
:05:17. > :05:21.been giving conflicting statements. Some say the attackers were all men,
:05:22. > :05:27.others, that a British woman may have been involved. From the
:05:27. > :05:34.information that we have, two or three Americans, and I think so far
:05:34. > :05:41.I've heard of one British person. A British-born woman. Yes, I think
:05:41. > :05:45.she's done this many times before. This crisis is slowly edging towards
:05:45. > :05:50.its conclusion, but as it does so, the death toll edges upwards.
:05:50. > :05:55.Mortuaries in the city are preparing to take in more bodies. It will be
:05:55. > :06:02.some time before we know the full enormity of what happened at the
:06:02. > :06:05.Westgate centre. What has been emerging as some of
:06:05. > :06:10.the harrowing stories of the people who were in the shopping centre on
:06:10. > :06:14.Saturday morning, just going about their everyday business when the
:06:14. > :06:16.shooting started. Satpal Singh described coming face to face with a
:06:16. > :06:35.gunman. Here's what he had to say. Well, I'm afraid we can't seem to
:06:35. > :06:39.bring you that report. Let's speak to our correspondent who has been
:06:39. > :06:44.following the events closely. We keep hearing different claims about
:06:44. > :06:50.what is going on. Police are saying the siege is over. When can we say
:06:50. > :07:03.definitively that it is done? Not quite yet. We are seeing military
:07:03. > :07:06.trucks both going away but also going in. The shopping centre is
:07:06. > :07:08.still cordoned off. As you say, we've been hearing contradictory
:07:08. > :07:13.remarks. Al-Shabab say they are still holding is -- hostages. The
:07:13. > :07:19.Interior Ministry said there were no hostages left. I don't think we can
:07:19. > :07:22.say that this is fully over until the Westgate shopping centre is
:07:22. > :07:27.opened up and we can go in and see what is inside them. The people I've
:07:27. > :07:33.spoken to from the Red Cross are quite nervous about what they will
:07:33. > :07:37.find. Yes, we've heard that morgues are being told to receive more
:07:37. > :07:43.bodies. Presumably, this death toll is going to rise. That is almost
:07:43. > :07:49.inevitable. The Red Cross say at least 51 people are still reported
:07:49. > :07:54.missing. They've had nearly four days to get comprehensive lists of
:07:54. > :07:58.names from hospitals and morgues, so their logic is whoever is not on
:07:58. > :08:05.those lists and still missing, there is a high likelihood that they may
:08:05. > :08:09.be inside Westgate. Thank you. Just say in the last half an hour we
:08:09. > :08:20.soared to British vehicles with plates going in. -- we saw two. They
:08:20. > :08:23.would not say what they were doing. And we've also heard the Interior
:08:23. > :08:27.Ministry is going to get some kind of statement in the next hour.
:08:27. > :08:34.Whether that happens remains to be seen.
:08:34. > :08:37.So, still some confusion about who exactly carried out this attack. But
:08:37. > :08:40.according to the Kenyan foreign minister, some foreigners are
:08:40. > :08:42.believed to have been involved, including Samantha Lewthwaite, the
:08:42. > :08:51.British widow of a 7/7 bomber. This from our security correspondent
:08:51. > :09:00.Frank Gardner. Did this British woman, Samantha
:09:00. > :09:03.Lewthwaite, take part in the Nairobi attacks? She has been on the run in
:09:03. > :09:06.East Africa. Something they saw her at the scene. She is the widow of
:09:06. > :09:12.the 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay, but had no record of terrorism before
:09:12. > :09:17.she left for Africa. Last year, she was suspected of involvement in a
:09:17. > :09:20.plot to bomb tourist resorts. Investigators believe she is a
:09:20. > :09:27.behind-the-scenes terrorist facilitator. Those who knew her
:09:27. > :09:30.buying this hard to believe. I think she would be incapable of such
:09:30. > :09:36.sophisticated terrorism activity. It frightens me. Is she involved? Is
:09:36. > :09:41.she under pressure or duress? So many questions to be asked. This
:09:41. > :09:55.month that I knew, I cannot imagine it. -- the Samantha that I knew.
:09:55. > :09:59.So, what are the global connections of Al-Shabab? With the jihadists be
:09:59. > :10:06.coming from the US, the UK, Scandinavia and elsewhere? People
:10:06. > :10:14.talk of a pipeline of recruits coming from the US. Experts I'd hope
:10:14. > :10:17.-- I talked to said they hoped the pipe line had slowed down, but this
:10:17. > :10:26.attack obviously proves it is continuing. Al-Shabab is not doing
:10:26. > :10:33.well in Somalia. Its forces have been driven out of the main cities
:10:33. > :10:37.by UN backed African troops. Their draconian rule is resented in many
:10:37. > :10:46.error ears they still rule. But they can still strike across borders.
:10:46. > :10:50.Since the African union forces have driven them out of the capital and
:10:50. > :10:55.one of the main ports, they have gone on the attack and become more
:10:55. > :11:02.like Al-Qaeda leader. There has been a coup within the organisation and
:11:02. > :11:06.from trying to hold territory, they are simply going on the attack and
:11:06. > :11:11.creating a spectacular incident that makes the world take them seriously
:11:11. > :11:15.again. As Kenyan investigators race to identify the attackers,
:11:15. > :11:18.counterterrorism officials from many other countries are urgently
:11:18. > :11:24.checking their records and looking for answers.
:11:24. > :11:29.There will be more on that story throughout the afternoon on the BBC
:11:29. > :11:32.News Channel. In just under an hour's time, the
:11:32. > :11:35.Labour leader Ed Miliband will take to the podium at his party's
:11:35. > :11:38.conference for one of the most important speeches of his political
:11:38. > :11:41.career. He is expected to announce plans to help more than a million
:11:41. > :11:44.small companies in England by reversing a planned rise in business
:11:44. > :11:48.rates. The move would be paid for by cancelling a UK-wide cut in
:11:49. > :11:52.corporation tax for larger firms. Mr Miliband will cast the Conservatives
:11:52. > :11:55.as the party of the rich, and he will accuse David Cameron of stoking
:11:55. > :12:01.what he calls "a cost of living crisis". Our political correspondent
:12:01. > :12:06.Iain Watson reports. Ed Miliband has a question for you.
:12:06. > :12:11.Do you feel better off? He says there is a crisis in Britain, with
:12:11. > :12:16.prices rising faster than wages. He believes only a change of government
:12:16. > :12:21.will ease the financial pain. But there are questions for him as well.
:12:21. > :12:27.Do voters see him with -- as a potential Prime Minister? I think he
:12:27. > :12:32.would be a great future prime minister. So mini people feel
:12:32. > :12:37.politicians are out of touch. The unerring ability he has of
:12:37. > :12:43.understanding people's concerns, ordinary, practical concerns, that
:12:43. > :12:48.they've got, and also he is intelligent and committed enough to
:12:48. > :12:53.work out what needs to be done. Politics is entering uncharted
:12:53. > :13:03.territory. Governments rising -- presiding over a rise in the cost of
:13:03. > :13:06.living do not normally last long. But Labour are becoming less trusted
:13:06. > :13:10.to take over the nation's finances as the situation improves. He is
:13:10. > :13:13.quite a way behind David Cameron on personal ratings, and Labour is
:13:13. > :13:17.quite a way behind David Cameron on behind conservatives on economic
:13:18. > :13:22.competence. It is hard enough, but possible, to overcome one of those
:13:22. > :13:27.obstacles. I can't think of an example of a party over coming both.
:13:28. > :13:31.So Labour are trying to go way beyond pleasing their own
:13:31. > :13:39.supporters. Today, Ed Miliband will pledge to keep electricity prices
:13:39. > :13:43.down and to help small businesses by freezing their rates. This would be
:13:43. > :13:49.at the expense of bigger companies. Labour are not yet seen as the party
:13:49. > :13:52.of enterprise. Taking one section of the business community and saying,
:13:52. > :14:01.we will take something from you to give it to another section. That
:14:01. > :14:05.will not cause businesses to invest. In these wide ranging speech
:14:05. > :14:11.delivered without notes, Ed Miliband succeeded last year in convincing
:14:11. > :14:15.critics that he was a credible leader of the opposition. Now, he
:14:15. > :14:20.has to convince us he can be a leader of the country as well.
:14:20. > :14:25.Let us be to our chief political correspondent Norman Smith. This is
:14:25. > :14:29.a big speech. A huge speech with huge
:14:29. > :14:34.expectations, and it follows last year's speech which was regarded as
:14:34. > :14:42.a pretty good speech. The crux of this year will be what Labour can do
:14:42. > :14:45.for the average person. There will be a big announcement on bearing
:14:45. > :14:50.down on energy bills, those proposals on housing and help the
:14:50. > :14:56.smaller firms. The wrinkle in all this is the business community are
:14:56. > :14:59.beginning to look increasingly unhappy because they don't like the
:14:59. > :15:02.idea they might lose out on that cut in corporation tax. They are not
:15:02. > :15:08.thrilled they will have to take on more apprenticeships, they are not
:15:08. > :15:17.excited about having to pay a higher minimum wage. The problem is this:
:15:17. > :15:20.The price of Ed Miliband's cost of living pledges may be the danger of
:15:20. > :15:27.being portrayed as anti-business, and therefore anti-recovery.
:15:27. > :15:33.In your hand is a book which is causing something of a sideshow down
:15:34. > :15:38.there, isn't it? It is the book by Damian McBride,
:15:38. > :15:41.Gordon Brown's former spin doctor. He's been in Brighton doing endless
:15:41. > :15:44.interviews, telling us about all the dark deeds he got up to. I caught up
:15:45. > :15:55.with him earlier. I am ashamed of a lot of things
:15:55. > :15:59.did and it is something I deeply regret, equally I don't think I was
:15:59. > :16:03.alone in politics over the last decades in some of the ways I
:16:03. > :16:10.operated and I hope people can see the truth of some of these
:16:10. > :16:15.operations laid bare, and learn from that so those things can never
:16:15. > :16:19.happen again. Is it true Gordon Brown knew nothing about what was
:16:19. > :16:27.going on? He didn't know about the activities I have described. Did he
:16:27. > :16:34.just choose not to know? He didn't know about those activities.
:16:34. > :16:40.Then Damian McBride went to do more interviews, but as the Gordon Brown
:16:40. > :16:45.he was on the other side of the Atlantic, where an enterprising
:16:45. > :16:49.reporter from the Daily Telegraph managed to catch up with him to ask
:16:50. > :16:55.him what he knew about the skulduggery that had gone on. Gordon
:16:55. > :16:59.Brown was in less than conversational mode, he didn't seem
:16:59. > :17:03.keen to answer questions. We don't know whether this is just
:17:03. > :17:08.Westminster gossip, something for the Westminster village to chat
:17:08. > :17:13.about, or whether it will sour the way people view Ed Miliband and Ed
:17:13. > :17:21.Balls who were also part of Gordon Brown's in a team.
:17:21. > :17:27.Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: The Nairobi siege enters
:17:27. > :17:30.its fourth day, militants are holding out against Kenyan security
:17:30. > :17:35.forces. There was a time when it was the
:17:35. > :17:42.mobile phone of choice, but has blackberry run out of juice? Later
:17:42. > :17:47.on BBC London, we see some of the artworks that could make it onto the
:17:47. > :17:51.plinth in Trafalgar Square in two years. And how netball is going from
:17:51. > :17:59.strength to strength at Wembley Arena.
:17:59. > :18:03.Scientists say smoke from millions of tiny cooking stoves in Pakistan,
:18:03. > :18:07.Bangladesh and India is causing glaciers to melt more quickly. The
:18:07. > :18:09.UN's climate panel, meeting in Stockholm, will say soot in the
:18:09. > :18:15.smoke darkens white glaciers making them absorb more heat. Campaigners
:18:15. > :18:18.say this is another reason to promote the use of new clean cooking
:18:18. > :18:20.stoves which could also help protect millions of women from lung disease.
:18:20. > :18:30.stoves which could also help protect Our environment analyst Roger
:18:30. > :18:37.Harrabin reports. They are collecting cow dung, a
:18:37. > :18:46.traditional fuel the millions of people in places like this. This
:18:46. > :18:53.person is using the other main fuel, wood. Both of these fuels cause
:18:53. > :18:57.massive health problems for the people who use them, almost
:18:58. > :19:04.invariably women. She tells me the stove turns her house black, makes
:19:04. > :19:09.her calf and hurts her eyes. You can see the effects of this stove, this
:19:09. > :19:14.beam is blackened from the smoke and the heat that pours out of these
:19:14. > :19:21.stoves. This brings problems to the family, this is one of the biggest
:19:21. > :19:31.killers for women and children under five. The killer is the smoke, yes?
:19:31. > :19:38.The smoke is the killer. This family owns a shop and they can afford an
:19:38. > :19:44.improved cooking stove. This family is part of the UK aid scheme to
:19:44. > :19:47.bring stainless steel cooker is controlled by battery-powered fans.
:19:47. > :19:57.They cut out most of the pollution and need only half as much wood. She
:19:57. > :20:02.tells me it does not get as hot and it doesn't produce as much smoke. It
:20:02. > :20:06.is easy to see how cutting pollution would benefit people in a village
:20:06. > :20:11.like this but there are so many stoves polluting. 80 million of them
:20:11. > :20:17.estimated in India but they are creating a problem hundreds of miles
:20:17. > :20:23.away in the Himalayas. The smoke combines with pollution from open
:20:23. > :20:29.fires and dirty engines. It lands on the glaciers and turns them darker
:20:29. > :20:35.which makes them absorb more heat. Black carbon as an impact on snow,
:20:35. > :20:40.wherever it is, and certainly on the glaciers. It is an area that we need
:20:40. > :20:46.to tackle because it has harmful impact on human health. So there is
:20:46. > :20:51.a double benefit to promoting clean cookers. For about £30 a family,
:20:51. > :21:02.this is a problem the world can solve, if there is a will.
:21:02. > :21:05.The inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting in north
:21:05. > :21:08.London in 2011 led to riots in a number of English cities, has been
:21:08. > :21:11.hearing further evidence from a senior police officer. Detective
:21:11. > :21:14.Chief Inspector Mick Foote from the gang crime unit Trident told the
:21:14. > :21:17.jury he'd been surprised by media reports after the killing, which
:21:17. > :21:20.wrongly stated that there had been a shoot-out between Mr Duggan and the
:21:20. > :21:26.police. Let's speak to our home affairs
:21:26. > :21:28.correspondent. This is the second day Detective Chief Inspector Mick
:21:28. > :21:34.Foote has been giving evidence here. He arrived at court today to
:21:34. > :21:43.be cross-examined by Michael Mansfield QC who is representing the
:21:43. > :21:44.Duggan family. He said he had no recollection of making a phone call
:21:45. > :21:47.Duggan family. He said he had no to another officer within 15 minutes
:21:47. > :21:53.Duggan family. He said he had no of the killing of Mark Duggan. That
:21:53. > :21:59.phone call noted that Mark Duggan came under the officer's firing.
:21:59. > :22:03.Mark Duggan fired no shots before he was shot dead. In response to
:22:03. > :22:06.questioning, Detective Chief Inspector Mick Foote said he was
:22:06. > :22:10.surprised by media reports after the killing which said there had been a
:22:10. > :22:16.shoot out between Mark Duggan and the police. He said that was not the
:22:16. > :22:20.case. The evidence is continuing this afternoon and we will be
:22:20. > :22:25.hearing more from Detective Chief Inspector Mick Foote. Thank you.
:22:25. > :22:28.Household waste is becoming a fuel of choice in Norway where vast
:22:28. > :22:31.energy plants have been built to turn non-recyclable rubbish into hot
:22:31. > :22:34.water and electricity. Oslo is also importing waste from Leeds and
:22:34. > :22:43.Bristol to use. But the process is proving controversial, as our Europe
:22:43. > :22:48.Correspondent Matthew Price reports. The waste from tens of thousands of
:22:48. > :22:59.households. A disgusting decaying mass. The stench sticks in the back
:22:59. > :23:09.of your throat. But here, this is not classed as waste. It is seen as
:23:09. > :23:14.energy. Anything that can be recycled is before it gets to this
:23:14. > :23:21.stage, then they pile it up in tonnes ready to burn. All of that
:23:21. > :23:28.waste is burnt in the incinerator and if you take a look, it is 850
:23:28. > :23:34.degrees in there, you can see it still doesn't quite burn everything.
:23:34. > :23:39.Tin cans and metal mattress springs are left over, so at the end of the
:23:39. > :23:46.process you get some ash, some metal which can be recycled, and a lot of
:23:46. > :23:50.heat. That heat boils water, the steam drives this turbine producing
:23:50. > :23:55.electricity, and the scalding water is piped off from the plant to
:23:55. > :24:00.houses and public schools across Oslo. Rubbish from across Europe
:24:00. > :24:07.helping to heat them through the harsh winter. Energy from waste, an
:24:07. > :24:13.environmentalist's dream you would assume, well not completely. The
:24:13. > :24:18.overall goal should be to reduce the amount of waste, but when you have
:24:18. > :24:26.power plants that require that we produce more and more waste, we are
:24:26. > :24:28.not able to reduce the amount. Public transport is also running on
:24:28. > :24:33.rubbish fuelled by biogas given off Public transport is also running on
:24:33. > :24:39.by decaying food and other organic waste. Enough eventually to run over
:24:39. > :24:44.100 buses every year but is now most of our rubbish ends up in landfill.
:24:44. > :24:57.The energy locked within, wasted for ever.
:24:57. > :25:00.Not long ago BlackBerry accounted for half the world's smartphones but
:25:00. > :25:03.now that market share has collapsed to a mere 3%. It's been massively
:25:03. > :25:06.outperformed by rivals Apple and Samsung. The company has now agreed
:25:06. > :25:10.to be bought by a consortium led by the private equity group Fairfax
:25:10. > :25:12.Financial. But is it the end of the road for the device? Our business
:25:12. > :25:15.correspondent is here to explain. Gone it seems are those days, and
:25:15. > :25:19.this rescue deal underscores how fickle the technology market can be.
:25:19. > :25:23.Just five years ago BlackBerry was worth $83 billion. Last night the
:25:23. > :25:29.Canadian firm agreed to be bought for just 5% of that value - a measly
:25:29. > :25:31.$4.7 billion. The deal is with one of its major shareholders, the
:25:31. > :25:36.private equity firm Fairfax Financial. So what happened? Well,
:25:36. > :25:41.compare Blackberry sales to rival Apple and the picture becomes
:25:41. > :25:49.clearer. Apple is powering ahead in the market BlackBerry once
:25:49. > :25:52.dominated. In just one weekend, Apple sold nine million of its new
:25:52. > :25:55.iPhones. That's more than BlackBerry has sold in the last four months.
:25:55. > :25:58.Blackberry isn't the first company overtaken by events. Computer giant
:25:58. > :26:01.IBM lost out to rival Microsoft in the PC revolution, but did carve out
:26:01. > :26:05.a niche for itself making business machines. The original hand-held
:26:05. > :26:07.computer, Palm, has all but disappeared after being bought by
:26:07. > :26:12.Hewlett Packard for a knock-down price. And Nokia, that once
:26:12. > :26:17.dominated the mobile market, fell so far behind its rivals, it was bought
:26:17. > :26:28.by Microsoft earlier this month. So will Blackberry go the same way? It
:26:28. > :26:35.is a fast-paced industry and the deal is not done yet. Turning around
:26:35. > :26:43.the firm's fortunes will not be easy, it is already planning to cut
:26:43. > :26:51.40% of its workforce and has warned its losses could hit £620 million.
:26:51. > :27:01.This deal could be a lifeline BlackBerry can't afford to turn
:27:01. > :27:04.down. The controversial UK Independence
:27:04. > :27:07.Party MEP who last week referred to some women activists as sluts, will
:27:07. > :27:09.no longer represent UKIP in Europe. Godfrey Bloom was facing
:27:09. > :27:12.disciplinary action after his remarks at the party conference. He
:27:12. > :27:15.said he would continue to sit as an independent member of the European
:27:15. > :27:20.Parliament, saying the new UKIP was "not really right" for him.
:27:20. > :27:21.Well while zoo keepers in Edinburgh anxiously wait to find out if their
:27:21. > :27:25.pandas will have a cub, there's no anxiously wait to find out if their
:27:25. > :27:28.such worry in China. 14 newly-born cubs have been put on display at a
:27:28. > :27:36.breeding and research base in Sichuan province. The eldest, Meng
:27:36. > :27:39.Meng, is four times heavier than the youngest, Ya Yi. Our correspondent
:27:39. > :27:47.Olivia Richwald has more. Is there anything cuter than a baby panda?
:27:47. > :27:52.How about 14 cubs coupled up? No wonder this research base is keen to
:27:52. > :27:58.show them off. This man says the biggest now weighs almost four kilos
:27:58. > :28:04.and the smallest just 700 grams, far more valuable than gold. Panda can
:28:04. > :28:12.be rented to a foreign zoo for £600,000 a year. Fewer than 2000 of
:28:12. > :28:17.the animals are left in the wild. The habitat is shrinking and in
:28:17. > :28:22.captivity pandas find it hard to reproduce. Today there has been
:28:22. > :28:32.disappointing news from Australia - it panda pair in Adelaide have
:28:32. > :28:35.failed to produce a cub for the third successive year. But in
:28:35. > :28:38.Britain there is hope this panda will give birth. There has been
:28:38. > :28:50.promising signs she is pregnant, and will give birth. There has been
:28:50. > :28:55.yesterday the panda and closer -- enclosure was close to the public
:28:55. > :29:00.because the panda has become sensitive to noise. China is
:29:00. > :29:05.justifiably proud of this year 's cubs. In Britain we are not greedy,
:29:05. > :29:14.we just want one, please! That would be enough!
:29:14. > :29:20.The change of mood, let's have a look at the weather. This was the
:29:20. > :29:25.chart from yesterday and although the overall pattern doesn't change
:29:25. > :29:29.much, it does not do to think that the days are just going to be pretty
:29:29. > :29:35.much the same as one-day follows another, and I can best illustrate
:29:35. > :29:39.that with the satellite picture. There is depressing familiarity
:29:39. > :29:44.about the days across the northern part of Scotland, fairly gloomy
:29:44. > :29:49.there, but it is these islands of cloud further south that changes the
:29:49. > :29:54.day is completely. Yesterday many of the locations struggled for heat,
:29:54. > :30:00.but it doesn't mean to say everybody is on that improving curve. Many
:30:00. > :30:03.parts are going in the opposite direction. This is how things are
:30:03. > :30:16.shaping up for the rest of the afternoon. The further north and
:30:16. > :30:23.east that you are, the duller things are. After the foggy start across
:30:23. > :30:26.central and southern parts, there will be some sunshine with
:30:26. > :30:30.central and southern parts, there temperatures which have been on the
:30:30. > :30:34.high side this week. Then in the north, this is where we have the
:30:34. > :30:39.bulk of the cloud and there is some rain to be had. Not a great deal of
:30:39. > :30:44.change through this evening. If you have had some sunshine, it will be a
:30:44. > :30:48.glorious evening. Through the course of the night and into the small
:30:48. > :30:54.hours of Wednesday, there will be fog forming again but not in the
:30:54. > :30:59.same places as was the case this morning. It will be down into some
:30:59. > :31:02.of the southern counties, probably not as bad as we had it in the south
:31:02. > :31:09.for this morning so bear that in mind. On Wednesday I'm afraid the
:31:09. > :31:13.weather front is still there but it has come further south, introducing
:31:13. > :31:18.rain and fresher weather into the northern part of Scotland. Further
:31:18. > :31:27.south, watch out for the fog but here we go again. By Thursday, that
:31:27. > :31:32.weather front will have fizzled away, a better chance of some
:31:32. > :31:44.sunshine there, and on the western side of the British Isles there will
:31:44. > :31:50.be some rain drifting across. Now a reminder of our top story this
:31:50. > :31:55.lunchtime. The Nairobi siege enters its fourth day. Somali militants are
:31:55. > :32:00.holding out against Kenyan security forces. There are reports the group
:32:00. > :32:03.is still holding hostages. In the last few minutes we have seen
:32:03. > :32:06.pictures of what appears to be soldiers roaming an area of the
:32:06. > :32:07.shopping centre.