:00:00. > :00:14.The 15-minute flying visits to the elderly and disabled. It's been
:00:14. > :00:17.criticised by a charity. They say elderly and disabled. It's been
:00:17. > :00:20.the practice is on the rise with elderly people having to choose
:00:20. > :00:25.between having a drink and going to the toilet. They really need some
:00:25. > :00:28.time. They need to feel you can help and that you care about what's
:00:28. > :00:31.happening. What's happening to them, what they need. Also this lunchtime.
:00:31. > :00:35.The Scotland Secretary, Michael Moore, is sacked as David Cameron
:00:35. > :00:38.begins a ministerial reshuffle. Britain's version of the FBI, the
:00:38. > :00:44.new National Crime Agency, to fight serious organised crime is launched.
:00:44. > :00:48.A series of attacks on strategic targets in Egypt. At least ten
:00:48. > :00:53.people die in attacks against security forces in the latest wave
:00:53. > :00:55.of violence. And shot in the head by the Taliban, the Pakistani teenager
:00:55. > :01:04.Malala Yousafzai says talking to the extremists, is the only way to
:01:04. > :01:08.achieve peace. They must do what they want through dialogue. They
:01:08. > :01:15.must tell us what they want and killing people and hurting people,
:01:15. > :01:21.and flogging people is totally against Islam. Later on BBC London,
:01:21. > :01:26.tax relief on season tickets. The Mayor asks the Treasury for helping
:01:26. > :01:28.hand for computers and what lies beneath? The Japanese plant bringing
:01:28. > :01:46.down house prices in the capital. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:46. > :01:48.BBC News At One. Elderly and disabled people are missing out on
:01:48. > :01:50.essential care because many carers disabled people are missing out on
:01:50. > :01:55.only have time to make flying visits. That's according to the
:01:56. > :01:59.charity Leonard Cheshire Disability. It says older people are having to
:01:59. > :02:02.choose between having a drink or going to the toilet because their
:02:02. > :02:05.carers are spending so little time with them. And more and more
:02:05. > :02:17.councils are allocating visits that are just 15 minutes long. Our
:02:17. > :02:20.correspondent Mike Sergeant reports. This woman never does visits as
:02:20. > :02:24.short as 15 minutes. The provider she works for the policy of half an
:02:25. > :02:29.hour minimum. Giving carers enough time to build a relationship and do
:02:29. > :02:33.all the necessary tasks. They really need some time, they need to feel
:02:33. > :02:36.you can help, and that you care about what's happening. What's
:02:36. > :02:39.happening to them, what they need. And they need to be treated with
:02:39. > :02:46.happening to them, what they need. kindness and clarity and patients.
:02:46. > :02:48.But today's study by the charity Leonard Cheshire Disability reveals
:02:48. > :02:53.two thirds of all councils in England use some 50 minute visits,
:02:53. > :02:57.the overall number of them increasing 15% in five years. And in
:02:57. > :03:03.some extreme cases, cancelled commission three quarters of all
:03:03. > :03:05.home care in 15 minute slots. Whilst the government and local authorities
:03:05. > :03:09.share the view 15 minutes is not long enough to help with everyday
:03:09. > :03:13.tasks, some councils say shorter visits can be useful if the purpose
:03:13. > :03:18.is just to check someone is OK or that they have had their medication.
:03:18. > :03:23.Senior care managers say the type of support should be tailored to the
:03:23. > :03:26.needs of the individual. I think we talked generally about care needs as
:03:26. > :03:30.if they are the same. But we have always said we need to treat people
:03:30. > :03:34.as individuals, and make sure that their needs are assessed and that
:03:34. > :03:38.the time is given in order to make the needs that they have met.
:03:38. > :03:44.Because they are all difference, some people can manage with less and
:03:44. > :03:50.others need more. But many, like Richard, who has multiple sclerosis,
:03:50. > :03:52.think council should be told to make all visits longer. They just don't
:03:52. > :03:57.have enough time. Bless them, they do their best, but it just doesn't
:03:57. > :04:07.work, really. They are good people, most of them. They want extra time
:04:07. > :04:14.but on their remit. Campaigners this morning want a ban on all 15 minute
:04:14. > :04:16.visits. But councils says significant can cut their funding
:04:16. > :04:19.mean local authorities are struggling to meet rising demand for
:04:20. > :04:25.care. Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt is here.
:04:26. > :04:31.This has been looking at the situation in England. Is it all down
:04:31. > :04:36.to money? Well the Association of directors of adult social services
:04:36. > :04:40.say that there are times when it is fully justified and fully adequate
:04:41. > :04:45.to provide someone with a 15 minute visit. That might just be because of
:04:45. > :04:51.medication or something relatively quick, but I think at the end of
:04:51. > :04:56.it, money has to be a major in this. The directors of adult social
:04:56. > :05:02.services estimate £800 million short of budgets. And they are not
:05:02. > :05:07.seeing, they say, the transfer of money from the NHS to local
:05:07. > :05:14.authorities. The government would say that is happening, and they have
:05:14. > :05:17.made it clear it believes 15 minute visits are too short. It's also
:05:17. > :05:21.clear from the point of view of the companies who are providing this
:05:21. > :05:25.care, some of them agree it's far too short and some refuse to give
:05:25. > :05:30.that sort of short visit, because it's not the care that they want to
:05:30. > :05:33.deliver. And we have a society now where the ageing population is
:05:33. > :05:39.growing all the time. It's difficult to see how this can be resolved.
:05:39. > :05:44.300,000 people in England get home care at the moment. That figure is
:05:44. > :05:47.going to rise. Not only are we an ageing population, and ageing
:05:47. > :05:52.doesn't always mean good health. We are trying to shift care from being
:05:52. > :05:56.provided in hospitals to at home, which is where most people would
:05:56. > :06:01.want it to be. But that has a cost attached to it if that person needs
:06:01. > :06:05.support. And that means there is a need for wider debate, not just
:06:05. > :06:09.about the individual funding, which is being looked at, but also, are we
:06:09. > :06:14.putting enough into the pot of money which provides care via local
:06:14. > :06:16.authorities? Thank you very much. The Scottish Secretary, Michael
:06:17. > :06:19.Moore, has been sacked from the cabinet as the Prime Minister begins
:06:19. > :06:22.a minor reshuffle. He will be replaced by another Liberal
:06:22. > :06:24.Democrat, the Chief Whip, Alistair Carmichael, less than a year before
:06:24. > :06:30.the Scottish independence referendum. Our chief political
:06:30. > :06:36.correspondent, Norman Smith, is at Westminster. The reshuffle is now
:06:36. > :06:40.well and truly underway. We are told that the Prime Minister wants to
:06:40. > :06:44.bring in more women, more MPs from the north, and so far only one woman
:06:44. > :06:47.who also happens to be from the North, has been promoted, but the
:06:47. > :06:51.big story of the day has to be the axing of the Scottish Secretary,
:06:51. > :06:56.Michael Moore, who was deemed to be not a enough, not a belligerent
:06:56. > :07:02.enough towards Alex Salmond, head of independence referendum next year.
:07:02. > :07:07.Chris Mason now reports. Arriving at his new office with a smile, as
:07:07. > :07:10.Secretary of State for Scotland. Alistair Carmichael was greeted by
:07:10. > :07:14.the boss and will now lead the government's fight to give UK
:07:14. > :07:19.together in next year's independence referendum. He is replacing Michael
:07:19. > :07:22.Moore, who has been sacked from the Cabinet. I'm disappointed to be
:07:22. > :07:25.leaving office right now, but I'm very pleased with what I have
:07:25. > :07:29.achieved in the last couple of years particularly in the constitutional
:07:29. > :07:32.debate with Scotland and the Edinburgh agreement but this big
:07:32. > :07:36.decision we are taking as a country, is bigger than one individual,
:07:36. > :07:42.bigger than one party. Also leaving, the Cabinet Office Minister Chloe
:07:42. > :07:47.Smith, the deputy Chief Whip, John Randall and the Transport Minister,
:07:47. > :07:52.Simon Burns. Chloe Smith finds a ministerial career over aged just
:07:52. > :07:55.31. This is entirely my decision, positive one to me because it allows
:07:55. > :08:00.me to focus on the things most important to me, my work for the
:08:00. > :08:05.constituency and work I can do to also promote the cause of young
:08:05. > :08:12.people. The government is made up of 120 ministers. Before today, 24 were
:08:12. > :08:17.women. 21 Cabinet ministers. Northern MPs and women are expected
:08:17. > :08:22.to do well in this shake-up. Esther McVeigh has become employment
:08:22. > :08:26.Minister. MPs have been clutching their phones trying to find out news
:08:26. > :08:29.as to whether or not they could be working in Whitehall or no longer
:08:30. > :08:33.working here. What is guaranteed today is some MPs will be
:08:33. > :08:36.disappointed either because they have been fired or because they have
:08:36. > :08:41.been overlooked. It could mean some of them are rather grouchy on the
:08:41. > :08:44.backbenches. But, on the whole, this is a shake-up of the government's B
:08:44. > :08:53.team rather than the ministers we tend to see the most of. So not
:08:53. > :08:57.everyone is riveted. Sophie, what we have not had is the traditional walk
:08:57. > :09:01.of shame as those about to be dispatched have to walk in front of
:09:01. > :09:06.the cameras into number ten. Instead, ministers have all been
:09:06. > :09:10.promoted. Be in no doubt, tonight there will be many former ministers
:09:10. > :09:13.who are deeply unhappy and deeply unhappy former ministers can spell
:09:13. > :09:17.trouble for party leaders on the backbenches. It's not just the
:09:17. > :09:21.government doing reshuffling today because the Labour leader is
:09:21. > :09:24.expected to make changes to his top team? The biggest story today may
:09:24. > :09:29.actually be the Labour reshuffle because we are told this will be a
:09:29. > :09:31.Shadow Cabinet reshuffle in which Mr Miller band will seek to reshape his
:09:31. > :09:36.top team, to send out a different Miller band will seek to reshape his
:09:36. > :09:40.message and also signal a different approach in key policy areas so we
:09:40. > :09:48.could see movement in the top posts such as health, DWP, education and
:09:48. > :09:54.transport. -- Ed Miliband. The real story at the Denver that they could
:09:54. > :09:57.be the Labour reshuffle. Thank you very much. It's being dubbed
:09:57. > :09:59.Britain's version of the FBI - a new police organisation called the
:09:59. > :10:01.National Crime Agency is launched today. It's replacing the much
:10:01. > :10:04.criticised Serious Organised Crime Agency and will focus on organised,
:10:04. > :10:08.economic and cyber crime, border policing and child protection. But
:10:08. > :10:16.Labour says it's just a re-branding exercise. Our home affairs
:10:17. > :10:23.correspondent Tom Symonds reports. Open the door. National Crime
:10:23. > :10:27.Agency. Britain's FBI comes calling. Early this morning, this
:10:27. > :10:32.was the first operation of the new National Crime Agency. It is the
:10:32. > :10:36.third attempt to create a UK wide law enforcement body in 15 years.
:10:36. > :10:41.But the new director says it won't just work alongside the police. It
:10:41. > :10:45.will take a lead. We need leadership to bring agencies together, based on
:10:45. > :10:49.a clear intelligence picture, intelligence led, and we target
:10:49. > :10:52.interventions appropriately and our top priority is continuously
:10:52. > :10:55.disrupting people involved in organised crime. So what difference
:10:55. > :11:01.will it make and what firepower can call upon? This unit is training in
:11:01. > :11:06.Gateshead and is one of around two dozen based around the country. The
:11:06. > :11:14.officers are firearms capable but also experienced investigators. This
:11:14. > :11:17.is clearly the sharp end. But the new National Crime Agency behind it
:11:17. > :11:22.will be a bigger, much more visible, operation. Active across
:11:22. > :11:27.the UK, but, for the first time, with the powers to direct local
:11:27. > :11:31.police forces. The broader remit will include continuing to tackle
:11:31. > :11:36.serious and organised criminals. But also cyber crime and economic crime.
:11:36. > :11:43.Immigration and cross-border crime, and child exploitation and online
:11:43. > :11:46.protection also becomes part of the National Crime Agency. In Northern
:11:46. > :11:51.Ireland, Sinn Fein and the SDLP blocked them from having full powers
:11:51. > :11:56.because of concerns it would upset a delicate pleasing balance and Labour
:11:56. > :12:00.claims there is no new money. This does not live up to the Home
:12:00. > :12:05.Secretary's hype. It is important, we wish it well, but its rebranding
:12:05. > :12:10.from existing organisations and, unfortunately, with a 20% budget
:12:10. > :12:14.cut. The government denies it's just the rebranding and is promising it
:12:14. > :12:18.will seize more proceeds of crime and be more innovative. Not just
:12:18. > :12:22.prosecuting criminals, but relentlessly destructing their
:12:22. > :12:26.activities as well. That's why it's a new approach which says we will
:12:26. > :12:29.use all the tools available to ensure we fight against organised
:12:29. > :12:37.crime, which is a national security threat. The body is replacing worked
:12:37. > :12:40.in the semi secrecy. No signs outside its offices. The new agency
:12:40. > :12:45.is moving into the same offices with a different approach. Like the FBI,
:12:45. > :12:48.it wants to build a public reputation and to be publicly judged
:12:48. > :12:51.on its successes and failures. There has been a fresh wave of violence
:12:51. > :12:55.across Egypt this morning with a string of attacks on the Egyptian
:12:55. > :12:58.Security forces. A car bomb went off at their headquarters in Sinai near
:12:58. > :13:03.the northern port city of Ismailia killing five soldiers. Yesterday
:13:03. > :13:05.more than 50 people were killed in clashes between police and the
:13:05. > :13:14.supporters of the ousted president Mohammed Morsi. Jim Newell reports.
:13:14. > :13:19.The explosion badly damaged the Mohammed Morsi. Jim Newell reports.
:13:19. > :13:24.security building. There were fears casualties could rise as more people
:13:24. > :13:27.are pulled from the rubble. Attacks by Islamist militants in Sinai are
:13:27. > :13:31.veritably common but mainly in the north. This one in the South, will
:13:31. > :13:38.do nothing for tourism at nearby resorts. At Ismailia, gunmen opened
:13:38. > :13:41.fire on soldiers killing five or six. And, in Cairo, grenades were
:13:42. > :13:47.fired at a communication centre wounding several people. Despite all
:13:47. > :13:51.that, Cairo itself was calm and it was business as usual for many this
:13:51. > :13:56.morning after a day of riots and killings that left more than 50
:13:56. > :13:59.people dead. With the Muslim brotherhood now largely driven
:13:59. > :14:05.underground, people on the streets have only harsh words for them. They
:14:05. > :14:08.want to bring the countries to its knees, and want to rivers and
:14:08. > :14:11.callous, but they can't, this man says, because the army and the
:14:11. > :14:15.police on the people are altogether. Yesterday 's violence was the worst
:14:15. > :14:19.since the security forces moved against the Muslim Brotherhood in
:14:19. > :14:22.August, killing hundreds and arresting their leaders. The
:14:22. > :14:28.movement is trying to stay behind by staging demonstrations against the
:14:28. > :14:34.military. Which ousted President Morsi in July. No more have died but
:14:34. > :14:40.they are promised further mope -- protests further in the week. Our
:14:40. > :14:43.top story this lunchtime. A leading charity brands the 15-minute flying
:14:43. > :14:53.care visits to elderly and disabled people are disgraceful. And still to
:14:54. > :14:58.come. The Olympic torch takes off in Russia covering 40,000 miles and
:14:58. > :15:05.will even go into space for the first time before arriving at the
:15:05. > :15:08.Winter games. Later on BBC London, as Spurs fans are arrested at
:15:08. > :15:12.yesterday 's match for using a word banned by the FA, and how children
:15:12. > :15:14.are getting the chance to study priceless works of art in the
:15:14. > :15:28.comfort of their own schools. One year ago this week, Pakistani
:15:28. > :15:32.teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taleban near her home in
:15:32. > :15:38.Pakistan as she travelled to school by bus. She was targeted because she
:15:38. > :15:42.had spoken out for girls' education. After the attack, which nearly
:15:42. > :15:46.killed her, she was flown to Britain for treatment, and she has stayed in
:15:46. > :15:50.Birmingham, where she has undergone a series of major operations. In her
:15:50. > :15:55.first interview since the attack, she told the BBC's Mishal Husain
:15:55. > :16:02.that talking to the Taliban is the only way to achieve peace.
:16:02. > :16:07.A day out in Birmingham for Malala Yousafzai. This 16-year-old's life
:16:07. > :16:12.was transformed by the attack that nearly killed her. Hello! One year
:16:12. > :16:16.on, I have been spending time with her and her family. Hello, Malala,
:16:16. > :16:19.how are you? What has been the her and her family. Hello, Malala,
:16:19. > :16:32.hardest thing about coming to Birmingham? The weather, of course!
:16:32. > :16:36.She is much better now than she was, Birmingham? The weather, of course!
:16:36. > :16:44.but your life changed in that one moment. In seconds, everyone's life
:16:44. > :16:48.changed in that moment. Malala was only 11 when she first
:16:48. > :16:56.spoke out for girls' writes to go to school. I would get my education, if
:16:56. > :17:02.it is in a home, school or anyplace. The world she knew was about to
:17:02. > :17:03.disappear, the whole valley of Swat came under the brutal rule of the
:17:04. > :17:18.Taleban. I was afraid of my future. I don't
:17:18. > :17:22.want to see any girl to be ignorant, and I don't want to see any girl to
:17:22. > :17:27.be illiterate in future, and I did not want my future to be just
:17:27. > :17:30.sitting in a room, to be imprisoned in four walls and just cooking and
:17:30. > :17:36.giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way. But
:17:36. > :17:40.her determination to speak out would come at a cost. On the 9th of
:17:40. > :17:42.October last year, she and her friends were travelling home on
:17:42. > :17:54.their school bus when it was stopped.
:17:54. > :18:02.Malala was shot in the head, deliberately targeted by the
:18:02. > :18:10.extremists. We know the Taleban never targeted a child. If not adult
:18:10. > :18:15.girls, but they never killed children. Swat today is a very
:18:15. > :18:21.different place from Howard was in Taleban times. In those days, this
:18:21. > :18:24.area was notoriously, because this was where they would display the
:18:24. > :18:28.bodies of those they had hanged. The locals know this area as Green
:18:28. > :18:36.Square, but in Taleban times they locals know this area as Green
:18:36. > :18:41.renamed it Bloody Square. A few streets away is Malala's old school.
:18:41. > :18:45.Where did she sit? Her class is full of bright,
:18:45. > :18:50.articular girls with high aspirations for the future. They
:18:50. > :18:56.tell me they miss their friend's competitive spirit. Are you still
:18:56. > :19:03.like that in your new school, competitive? Yes, I do like it, but
:19:03. > :19:06.I still miss my friends. The new school environment in Birmingham is
:19:06. > :19:10.very different to what she was used to.
:19:10. > :19:15.Do you think British girls take their education for granted, then?
:19:15. > :19:19.Yes, I believe that. I want to tell students of the UK to think that it
:19:19. > :19:27.is very precious, very prestigious. Go to school. Malala has made a
:19:27. > :19:34.remarkable physical recovery, and are major operations, including one
:19:34. > :19:39.to reattach her facial nerve. Now I can move my face, I can smile. It is
:19:39. > :19:44.getting better day by day. I want you to tell me when you can hear a
:19:44. > :19:48.tiny sound... And thanks to a cochlear implant, they're hearing
:19:48. > :19:53.has been restored. I am going to say the days of the week, Monday,
:19:53. > :20:02.Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
:20:02. > :20:10.Today Malala has become the face of the world's 57 million out-of-school
:20:10. > :20:14.children. She has an influence view other 16-year-olds can imagine, and
:20:14. > :20:22.yet she told me she still sees herself as an ordinary teenager.
:20:22. > :20:23.And you can watch that interview in a special Panorama programme this
:20:23. > :20:35.evening. Home Secretary Theresa May is to be
:20:35. > :20:39.questioned by MPs over white one of the world's most wanted Al-Qaeda
:20:39. > :20:44.terror suspects, captured by US special forces this weekend in
:20:44. > :20:48.Libya, was given asylum in Britain. According to reports, Abu Anas
:20:48. > :20:51.al-Liby arrived in Britain in the mid-1990s and lived in Manchester
:20:51. > :20:57.after being granted political asylum. Frank Gardner is here, so
:20:57. > :21:05.what more do we know about him and why was he granted asylum here? Abu
:21:05. > :21:09.Anas al-Liby is a nickname. He came to this country in the mid-1990s as
:21:10. > :21:14.one of several political dissidents from Libya, fleeing the Gaddafi
:21:14. > :21:18.regime, and at the time he was seen as somebody who had a right to free
:21:18. > :21:24.speech in this country. He was part of the movement, even though we went
:21:24. > :21:31.to live in Manchester, with many Libyans, he was part of a movement
:21:31. > :21:35.of people that were opposing quite to spotting, unpleasant regimes in
:21:35. > :21:40.the Middle East. He, though, went on to do other things. He joined a big
:21:40. > :21:43.organisation, Al-Qaeda, and the extraordinary thing is that one year
:21:43. > :21:47.after the East African embassy bombings that he is accused of
:21:47. > :21:51.helping to mastermind, he was reportedly picked up by the police
:21:51. > :21:54.but let go. Now, lots of calls have gone into Whitehall from lots of
:21:54. > :21:57.news organisations today to try to get some answers out of them. This,
:21:57. > :22:02.of course, was a previous government, in the late 1990s, so
:22:02. > :22:06.firing questions at Theresa May will only go so far. But I think they
:22:06. > :22:10.probably learnt their lessons. They are much tighter on the sort of
:22:10. > :22:16.people they allowed to proselytise and plan from the UK.
:22:16. > :22:19.People with severe mental illness are more likely to be victims of
:22:19. > :22:23.crime than the general population, according to a new study. It found
:22:23. > :22:28.that men were five times more likely to experience assault and severely
:22:28. > :22:33.mentally ill women work ten times more likely to be assaulted. Dominic
:22:33. > :22:37.Casciani reports. Your chance of being a victim of
:22:38. > :22:42.crime is far lower than 20 years ago, but if you suffer from a mental
:22:42. > :22:46.illness, it is a different story. Research by academics and the
:22:46. > :22:51.charities Victim Support and Mindset that people at these conditions you
:22:51. > :22:56.experience crime are often let down. Lydia Hodges was the victim of a
:22:56. > :22:59.rape that left suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. She
:22:59. > :23:03.says her visible anxiety made her the target for further crimes. She
:23:03. > :23:06.volunteered to talk openly about how the police reaction to her illness
:23:06. > :23:15.hampered her chances of getting over mugging. I would have liked to have
:23:15. > :23:20.got justice, but it is very... I think going through a trial would
:23:20. > :23:26.have been very difficult, because of dealing with the police's reaction
:23:26. > :23:30.to my mental health issues, that was the more difficult bit. Today's
:23:30. > :23:34.report looks at victims of crime who have mental illnesses. It says these
:23:34. > :23:38.victims are three times more likely to experience crime than anyone
:23:38. > :23:43.else. Women with severe mental illness are ten times more likely to
:23:43. > :23:46.be assaulted. Campaigners say the police often dismiss these victims
:23:46. > :23:50.when they should be giving them more support. These people are far more
:23:50. > :23:53.vulnerable than the general population, and they therefore find
:23:53. > :24:00.it harder to process the risks that they put themselves into, and the
:24:00. > :24:02.risks that other people present to them. And those people could be
:24:02. > :24:04.members of their own family or people that they know well. The
:24:04. > :24:07.Associaton of Chief Police Officers says it except the recommendations
:24:07. > :24:10.in the research. There is a public perception that mental health
:24:10. > :24:16.patients commit crimes, but this report shows how they are more
:24:16. > :24:21.likely to be victims. Now, the longest ever journey for an
:24:21. > :24:26.Olympic torch is under way in Moscow today. It will travel 40,000 miles
:24:26. > :24:30.from the capital, across Russia, on its way to next year's Sochi Winter
:24:30. > :24:35.games, and for the first time the Olympic flame will journey into
:24:35. > :24:40.space. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports.
:24:40. > :24:47.At the Kremlin today, a fanfare for a flame. With pomp and plenty of
:24:47. > :24:52.pom-poms, Russia sent the Olympic torch on its long journey to Sochi
:24:52. > :24:58.and the Winter Games. Although this synchronised swimmer looks like she
:24:58. > :25:03.might drown in the sea of streamers. So the Olympic flame is on its way
:25:03. > :25:08.at the start of a marathon journey, 40,000 miles across the biggest
:25:08. > :25:12.country in the world. Along the way, the torch will travel by nuclear
:25:12. > :25:18.icebreaker to the North Pole. It will plunge to the bottom of a lake
:25:18. > :25:23.and blast into space, for an historic Olympic spacewalk. Back on
:25:23. > :25:28.earth, there have been problems, though. This was the Kremlin
:25:28. > :25:34.yesterday. A good job he was on hand with his lighter. There has been
:25:34. > :25:38.controversy, too. Gay rights groups have called for a Western boycott of
:25:38. > :25:44.the games in protest at a Russian law that restricts the spread of
:25:44. > :25:47.information about homosexuality. But these Olympic volunteers near red
:25:47. > :25:58.Square today were upbeat about the Sochi games. It is a chance for the
:25:58. > :26:07.whole world to see what Russia is, what is Russia? We will surprise the
:26:07. > :26:10.world. Big country, big show! And a big journey before the flame finally
:26:10. > :26:18.reaches Sochi next February. From the Olympics to the
:26:18. > :26:22.Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year, and it has been announced that
:26:22. > :26:33.the army of volunteers enlisted to help during the 2014 games will be
:26:33. > :26:37.known as Clydesiders, and more than 50,000 people registered to become
:26:37. > :26:39.volunteers. This morning the process of informing the successful
:26:39. > :26:44.applicants and telling them which events they will be working at has
:26:45. > :26:49.begun. On Wednesday the Queen will launch the bat and relay or the
:26:49. > :26:54.Glasgow game from Buckingham Palace as it started its journey of almost
:26:54. > :26:58.120,000 miles to every Commonwealth nation and territory before arriving
:26:58. > :27:02.back in Scotland in June. You can watch the launch of the baton relay
:27:02. > :27:10.on Wednesday morning, we will be at Buckingham Palace from 10:45am.
:27:10. > :27:13.Talking of Buckingham Palace, it has hosted garden parties, children's
:27:13. > :27:17.parties, concerts and many royal ceremonies, but this afternoon for
:27:17. > :27:21.the first time the gardens are being turned into a football pitch for a
:27:21. > :27:32.match between England's oldest amateur clubs, Polytechnic SC and
:27:32. > :27:40.team-macro FC. Nicholas Witchell is there.
:27:40. > :27:42.Yes, one better than Wembley! Here we are in the back garden of
:27:42. > :27:47.Buckingham Palace with a full-sized football pitch marked out for what
:27:47. > :27:51.will be the first fully competitive football match staged in the ground,
:27:51. > :27:52.all in aid of the 150th anniversary of the Football Association, of
:27:52. > :27:56.which Prince William is the of the Football Association, of
:27:56. > :27:59.president, and a short time ago he welcomed the two teams and their
:27:59. > :28:03.supporters and some of the volunteers who do so much to make
:28:03. > :28:08.the game a success. I cannot tell you how excited I am
:28:08. > :28:13.that later today we will be playing football on my grandmother's lawn.
:28:13. > :28:21.One warning, though - if anyone breaks a window, you can answer to
:28:21. > :28:25.her! In fact, Her Majesty, who has been the proud patron of the FA for
:28:25. > :28:30.61 years, Sensor regrets that she cannot join you today. One small
:28:30. > :28:33.silver line to Her Majesty not being presence today is that they should
:28:33. > :28:41.not be any corgis running onto the pitch. Laugh a minute! Prince
:28:41. > :28:44.William, I think, is just being introduced shortly to the two
:28:44. > :28:52.teams. The kick-off is in a couple of minutes from now, a game between
:28:52. > :28:58.two amateur sides, Civil Services FC, one of the teams which formed
:28:58. > :29:01.the FA, and Polytechnic SC. Whether this carefully nurtured ground which
:29:01. > :29:03.has been marked out with the assistance of Wembley groundstaff,,
:29:04. > :29:08.quite how it is done to bear this afternoon with 22 players running up
:29:08. > :29:14.and down it, we will have to see. I am sure the Queen will be delighted
:29:14. > :29:16.that it is being staged here. Let's have a look at the weather now
:29:16. > :29:23.with Nina Ridge. Some fine weather at the moment,
:29:23. > :29:28.sunshine in places, decent temperatures as well, so the rest of
:29:28. > :29:30.the afternoon, sunshine, bright spells at times and it will feel
:29:30. > :29:32.the afternoon, sunshine, bright quite warm once again. A little bit
:29:32. > :29:35.more cloud further west, and at quite warm once again. A little bit
:29:35. > :29:39.times for parts of South West England we cannot rule out the odd
:29:39. > :29:43.spot of rain, but for most it should be dry throughout the afternoon with
:29:43. > :29:47.cloud coming and going, highs of 17 or 18 degrees. The rest of the
:29:47. > :29:51.afternoon, Wales is mostly dry, one or two light showers perhaps.
:29:51. > :29:59.North-west England is more overcast, and through parts of
:29:59. > :30:01.Northern Ireland some heavier rain sitting to the north-west. The
:30:01. > :30:04.north-west corner of Scotland sees rain continuing to be quite
:30:04. > :30:06.persistent, and at times heavy, but through the Moray Firth, with some
:30:06. > :30:10.shelter, warm sunshine, we will pick up that sunshine again through
:30:10. > :30:13.north-east England, I run the Wash, part of Lincolnshire, East Anglia
:30:14. > :30:16.and the south-east corner. -- around the Wash. There is the potential for
:30:16. > :30:20.and the south-east corner. -- around temperatures to get into the low
:30:20. > :30:23.20s, maybe 21 or 22 by the end of the day. Through the night, the
:30:23. > :30:27.weather front is moving its way south, bringing with it a little
:30:27. > :30:32.more cloud, patchy rain, heavy at times, but most of it fairly light.
:30:32. > :30:39.Still some showers moving into the north-west of Scotland. Another mild
:30:39. > :30:41.night with that blanket of cloud, those of 13-15 degrees. A grey
:30:41. > :30:44.starts tomorrow morning, and with that week weather front, more
:30:44. > :30:49.overcast in the south with one or two showers. But behind that, bright
:30:49. > :30:52.spells once again, showers moving into the north-west corner of
:30:52. > :30:55.Scotland. Temperatures still in the high teens across the country,
:30:55. > :31:00.although more cloud in the south, still maybe around 20 degrees. But
:31:00. > :31:02.there are some changes, and around the middle part of the week we start
:31:02. > :31:07.there are some changes, and around disease and fronts moving south, and
:31:07. > :31:13.that means a change in damages. -- we start to see cold fronts. Behind
:31:13. > :31:16.that, with the cold air setting in, a strong wind where the temperatures
:31:16. > :31:20.that, with the cold air setting in, are really tumbling away, 10-12
:31:20. > :31:24.degrees with frequent and heavy showers, which may be wintry across
:31:24. > :31:28.higher ground of Scotland. For the last of the mild air clearing away
:31:28. > :31:33.on Thursday, the whole country is sitting underneath the blues, so the
:31:33. > :31:37.daytime temperatures by then, 10-13, a strong northerly wind will make it
:31:37. > :31:41.feel even colder. At least there will be a little bit of sunshine
:31:41. > :31:45.around, although for eastern areas we will still have the risk of
:31:46. > :31:49.showers. Be warned, if you have got used to 20 degrees, it will come as
:31:49. > :31:51.a bit of a shock by the end of the week.