:00:09. > :00:23.huge fall in unemployment. It fell by 167,000 to just over 2.3 million,
:00:24. > :00:26.the biggest fall since 1997. The dramatic fall in the jobless rate
:00:27. > :00:28.from 7.4% to 7.1% is the big surprise, and prompts questions
:00:29. > :00:31.about interest rates going up. Also this lunchtime: Angry exchanges as
:00:32. > :00:35.Syrian peace talks get underway in Switzerland.
:00:36. > :00:38.The former England footballer Stan Collymore accuses Twitter of not
:00:39. > :00:41.doing enough to stop death threats and racist abuse online.
:00:42. > :00:44.At least three people have died in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, as the
:00:45. > :00:49.violence between police and protesters grows.
:00:50. > :00:52.A court hears that Coronation Street actor William Roache told police
:00:53. > :01:01.that rape was against his nature and he was a very peaceful person.
:01:02. > :01:07.And Andy Murray is out of the Australian Open, as Roger Federer
:01:08. > :01:11.takes his place in the semifinals. Later on BBC London: Campaigners
:01:12. > :01:16.lose their Supreme Court battle against the proposed HS2 rail link.
:01:17. > :01:19.And London's getting younger, as more families choose to stay in the
:01:20. > :01:40.capital. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:41. > :01:43.BBC News at One. The Bank of England says there is no rush to raise
:01:44. > :01:49.interest rates, despite a dramatic fall in unemployment, down to 2.32
:01:50. > :01:52.million. The jobless rate now stands at 7.1%, just above the 7% mark at
:01:53. > :01:57.which the bank said it would consider raising interest rates from
:01:58. > :02:01.their current all-time low. The latest figures show that the number
:02:02. > :02:10.of people in work also grew by a record amount. Here is our chief
:02:11. > :02:13.economics correspondent, Hugh Pym. Companies like this are on the
:02:14. > :02:18.move, and that is why unemployment is falling fast. This high-tech
:02:19. > :02:23.business in Derby makes carbon fibre components for industries like car
:02:24. > :02:27.manufacturing. It started up just six years ago, and already has more
:02:28. > :02:32.than 40 staff, one reason why Derby saw the biggest fall in its jobless
:02:33. > :02:37.total of any area last year. Aaron and his father Keith have both been
:02:38. > :02:43.taken on recently, and it has given them a new lease of life. It was
:02:44. > :02:50.horrible being out of work. It was a great feeling to get the job. When I
:02:51. > :02:54.got the call, it was overwhelming. Local training providers do their
:02:55. > :02:58.bit. At Derby College, they work with employers who are recruiting
:02:59. > :03:00.and help people out of a job prepare for interviews. The head of the
:03:01. > :03:05.programme said that whereas most jobs used to be in retailing, there
:03:06. > :03:09.is now a broader spread. There has been a change in opportunities, more
:03:10. > :03:13.warehouse distribution, more engineering, more travel and
:03:14. > :03:20.tourism. That is something else for the area. I think the process we
:03:21. > :03:23.have put into place has helped many people into jobs. Better than
:03:24. > :03:28.expected news on jobs is a major issue for the Bank of England. Under
:03:29. > :03:31.the forward guidance policy, it says it will start thinking about raising
:03:32. > :03:37.interest rates when the unemployment rate comes down to 7%. When the
:03:38. > :03:41.policy was unveiled by the governor, Mark Carney, last August, the
:03:42. > :03:45.jobless rate was 7.8% of the workforce. The bank thought it would
:03:46. > :03:50.stay above seven for at least three years. But by December, the reported
:03:51. > :03:56.rate had fallen to 7.4%, and today we learnt that it has fallen again
:03:57. > :03:59.to 7.1. When the Bank of England first set up its forward guidance
:04:00. > :04:02.system, they said they would not raise until the middle of next year.
:04:03. > :04:05.Now, the speed of improvement in the activity and employment data suggest
:04:06. > :04:10.that they may have to consider raising rates this year. Most hearts
:04:11. > :04:14.of the UK saw a fall in unemployment. There was a small
:04:15. > :04:17.increase in Northern Ireland. We also learned today that while more
:04:18. > :04:22.people are in work, average pay rises are still running at less than
:04:23. > :04:23.half the rate of inflation. The squeeze on consumer budgets has not
:04:24. > :04:29.gone away. And Hugh is here. Sorry dramatic
:04:30. > :04:32.fall in unemployment figures come in but questions now about interest
:04:33. > :04:36.rates and when they could go up? Yes, a much bigger fall in
:04:37. > :04:40.unemployment and analyst habit spectacle. It is now at the lowest
:04:41. > :04:44.level since early 2009. The number of vacancies out there in the
:04:45. > :04:50.economy is at the highest since 2008, so a much stronger picture
:04:51. > :04:55.than people expected. So what does it mean for interest rates? As you
:04:56. > :04:57.have been hearing, it is this 7% threshold at which the Bank of
:04:58. > :05:02.England has said it will start considering rate rises. The minutes
:05:03. > :05:07.of its latest meeting suggest that even if unemployment does get to 7%,
:05:08. > :05:10.it is in no rush to raise interest rates at all. It will sit back and
:05:11. > :05:15.consider other things. That reflects some of the Bank of England
:05:16. > :05:20.recently, that the 7% does not in any way immediately trigger a rate
:05:21. > :05:23.rise. Inflation remains low at 2%. They will not be in a hurry. But
:05:24. > :05:27.there is a communication issue here, because the markets certainly think
:05:28. > :05:31.the rate rise has been brought forward as a result of today's
:05:32. > :05:33.figures, and the bank will have a job to be negating its thinking over
:05:34. > :05:38.the next month or so. Our chief political correspondent,
:05:39. > :05:44.Norman Smith, is in Westminster. Prime Minister's Questions ended a
:05:45. > :05:48.short time ago. The reaction there? I think it was very revealing,
:05:49. > :05:52.because you could sense the buoyancy on the conservative benches. It
:05:53. > :05:58.seems to me that our American cousins often refer to what they
:05:59. > :06:03.call the big momentum, and you just sense that politically, on the
:06:04. > :06:05.economy, momentum is now coming behind the coalition, not just
:06:06. > :06:10.because of today's falling unemployment, but because we have
:06:11. > :06:15.had a steady diet of better economic news, be it on inflation, growth or
:06:16. > :06:18.car sales, you name it. The point about the big Mo is not just the
:06:19. > :06:22.psychological lift it gives to a government, but also that it can
:06:23. > :06:26.make life extremely difficult for an opposition. For the moment, Ed
:06:27. > :06:32.Miliband and labour are sticking with their cost of living crisis
:06:33. > :06:38.narrative. But it is becoming a hard argument to make. The prime minister
:06:39. > :06:44.taunted Mr Milan in the Commons of now casting around for something
:06:45. > :06:47.critical to say. -- Mr Miliband. We had the banking problem. Then we
:06:48. > :06:50.had the deficit problem, and now we have the cost of living problem.
:06:51. > :06:53.He's like an arsonist who goes round setting fire after fire, and then
:06:54. > :06:56.complains when the fire brigade aren't putting out the fires fast
:06:57. > :07:01.enough! Why doesn't he start with an apology for the mess that he left
:07:02. > :07:04.us? SPEAKER: Mr Ed Miliband! He comes here every week and does his
:07:05. > :07:08.Bullingdon club routine, and all he shows, and all he shows, is that he
:07:09. > :07:13.has absolutely no understanding of the lives of people up and down this
:07:14. > :07:21.country. That is the reality. Ordinary families are working
:07:22. > :07:26.harder, for longer, for less. The help of Mr Miliband will be that
:07:27. > :07:31.beneath the headlines, many families are still finding things
:07:32. > :07:35.extraordinarily difficult. But it seems to me that the flip side of
:07:36. > :07:40.the big Mo is the big slow. And the real danger for Labour, as they
:07:41. > :07:43.begin slowly, but remorselessly, to lose traction on their core cost of
:07:44. > :07:47.living argument. Talks aimed at ending three years of
:07:48. > :07:50.civil war in Syria have begun in Switzerland. The Syrian government
:07:51. > :07:53.and the main opposition groups are attending the summit, along with
:07:54. > :07:55.international allies. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon told
:07:56. > :07:58.delegates that they faced a "formidable challenge", but there
:07:59. > :08:02.was a chance to "make a new beginning". Our Middle East
:08:03. > :08:11.correspondent, Paul Wood, is at the talks in Montreux.
:08:12. > :08:16.It is not the obvious choice of venue to end a war, but hotels near
:08:17. > :08:20.the UN's Geneva headquarters were full with the watchmakers'
:08:21. > :08:23.convention. Instead, the pretty lakeside town of Montreux played
:08:24. > :08:30.host to the bitter enemies of Syria's civil war. So, face-to-face
:08:31. > :08:34.for the first time, Syria's government and the opposition
:08:35. > :08:38.seeking to overthrow President Assad. Crucially, they are not
:08:39. > :08:43.talking directly to each other yet. Now is the time for speeches, each
:08:44. > :08:47.aimed at their own domestic constituencies. The Syrian
:08:48. > :08:50.government will brook no talk of Mr Assad's future. Instead, they want
:08:51. > :08:57.help to suppress the armed rebellion. TRANSLATION: They are
:08:58. > :09:01.carrying out terrorist attacks, although they claim to be fighting
:09:02. > :09:05.terrorists. The media are lauding these people, these terrorists, by
:09:06. > :09:11.claiming they are moderate, although they know full well that they are
:09:12. > :09:14.extremist than terrorists. As he went over time, the UN
:09:15. > :09:19.Secretary-General tried to cut him short. You live in New York, I live
:09:20. > :09:22.in Syria, he angrily told Ban Ki-Moon. After three years of
:09:23. > :09:29.suffering, I have the right to speak. One sentence, just to keep
:09:30. > :09:35.your promise. It was a bad tempered exchange, with the newly -- usually
:09:36. > :09:37.mild-mannered Mr band. It was a sign of the intractable nature of the
:09:38. > :09:40.problem here. The opposition only came here because they were promised
:09:41. > :09:46.they would be able to discuss the end of the regime. TRANSLATION: We
:09:47. > :09:50.need a quick and serious cooperation to reach a solution. This needs the
:09:51. > :09:53.full conviction of all parties, not only giving authority to a new
:09:54. > :09:58.transitional government, but also the departure of Bashar al-Assad.
:09:59. > :10:02.There is no way, no way possible in the imagination, that the man who
:10:03. > :10:08.has led the brutal response to his own people could regain the
:10:09. > :10:12.legitimacy of government. One man and those who have supported him can
:10:13. > :10:18.no longer hold an entire nation and a region hostage. There seems a
:10:19. > :10:21.fundamental divergences of views over whether or not this conference
:10:22. > :10:27.is about regime change. What progress is possible with the two
:10:28. > :10:31.sides so far apart? At the end of this week, how should we measure
:10:32. > :10:35.success or failure at these talks? I think at the end of this week, it
:10:36. > :10:41.will just be that they are going on. I really don't want to raise
:10:42. > :10:47.expectations about what we achieved this week. It has been an immense
:10:48. > :10:51.effort to bring the Syrian regime and opposition together at all, so
:10:52. > :10:58.no one should expect a breakthrough this week. Meanwhile, the war goes
:10:59. > :11:01.on, with 130,000 head by one count. President Assad has survived in the
:11:02. > :11:07.face of many predictions of his demise, but he cannot win an
:11:08. > :11:10.outright victory, and neither can the rebels. The hope of this
:11:11. > :11:15.conference lies in both sides recognising that fact, and beginning
:11:16. > :11:18.a dialogue here in Switzerland. Almost 2.5 million people have fled
:11:19. > :11:22.Syria since the fighting began in 2011. More than one million have
:11:23. > :11:26.gone to neighbouring Lebanon, many of them sheltering in the north of
:11:27. > :11:30.the country, which now has more than 200 refugee camps. Our
:11:31. > :11:38.correspondent, Jim Muir, is at one of them, the UN refugee centre in
:11:39. > :11:43.Zahle in the Bekaa Valley. It seems a long way from the 5-star
:11:44. > :11:48.hotels of Switzerland, where the fate of these refugees is ultimately
:11:49. > :11:52.being decided. At this registration centre at Zahle in the Bekaa Valley,
:11:53. > :11:57.about a thousand refugees are being enrolled every single day. It is a
:11:58. > :12:01.lengthy process. The pressure of numbers is so great that some of
:12:02. > :12:05.these people have already waited several months before getting an
:12:06. > :12:10.appointment to come and register. There are people here from all over
:12:11. > :12:15.Syria. Every one of them has a story to tell of violence and destruction
:12:16. > :12:22.and lives disrupted. This man was just talking to us when there was a
:12:23. > :12:28.sudden interruption. A car tyre exploding caused a moment of panic,
:12:29. > :12:31.but these people have all been through far worse. They are aware of
:12:32. > :12:39.the talks in Switzerland, but nobody seems optimistic. TRANSLATION:
:12:40. > :12:43.Geneva is just a photo opportunity. The outside countries don't want a
:12:44. > :12:47.solution. Meanwhile, the Syrians are dying and no one cares. If there is
:12:48. > :12:51.a solution now, of course we would go home. But anything that leaves
:12:52. > :12:57.Bashar al-Assad or any of his regime in power would be impossible.
:12:58. > :13:01.Meeting all the needs of all the refugees is clearly impossible. All
:13:02. > :13:07.the relief agencies are chronically short of funds, and the problem is
:13:08. > :13:12.getting bigger every day. All I can do is try to continue to communicate
:13:13. > :13:16.the great misery that this conflict continues to have on the lives of
:13:17. > :13:20.refugees, those who have been displaced within Syria and those who
:13:21. > :13:26.have been displaced as well, and also the enormous challenges for
:13:27. > :13:29.hosting countries like Lebanon. A generation of children are having to
:13:30. > :13:33.be cared for here, growing up in exile. Any Lebanese are now
:13:34. > :13:36.wondering about the implications for them if there is no solution to
:13:37. > :13:46.allow the huge number of Syrians to go home.
:13:47. > :13:48.Let's go back to Switzerland and those talks.
:13:49. > :13:52.Our Middle East correspondent, Paul Wood, is in Montreux. We heard
:13:53. > :13:55.William Hague saying earlier that it was an immense effort just to get
:13:56. > :14:01.these talks going. What hope is there of achieving anything?
:14:02. > :14:05.Firstly, nobody should worry that the real issues here would be
:14:06. > :14:10.obscured by the diplomatic niceties. As we saw in the news package, there
:14:11. > :14:13.were some direct exchanges. Right at the start, Ban Ki-Moon appeal to the
:14:14. > :14:17.delegates to use constructive language, not to be inflammatory.
:14:18. > :14:22.Then, we had from the Syrian Foreign minister what some have described as
:14:23. > :14:24.a diatribe . He called the opposition foreign agents and
:14:25. > :14:30.terrorists. And then, looking around the table at some representatives of
:14:31. > :14:33.other Arab governments, he said some had used petrodollars to finance the
:14:34. > :14:37.overthrow of his government. One of the governments on the receiving end
:14:38. > :14:42.of those remarks, Saudi Arabia, accused Mr Assad and the Syrian
:14:43. > :14:44.regime of having blood on its hands. This is about the fundamental
:14:45. > :14:48.problem at the opposition thinks it is here on the basis that it is all
:14:49. > :14:52.about regime change, whereas for the regime and the delegation that Mr
:14:53. > :14:57.Assad has and, the discussions are about anything but that. The hope
:14:58. > :15:02.resides in Friday's meeting, when they will meet face to face behind
:15:03. > :15:05.closed doors. Perhaps the posturing . And they will get down to
:15:06. > :15:08.practical issues like cease-fire and access for humanitarian aid, small
:15:09. > :15:15.steps which might improve the situation for people in the middle
:15:16. > :15:18.of this civil war in Syria. And you can keep up to date with
:15:19. > :15:22.those talks throughout the afternoon on the BBC News Channel.
:15:23. > :15:24.The former England footballer, Stan Collymore, has criticised Twitter
:15:25. > :15:27.for not doing enough to combat abusive messages after he received
:15:28. > :15:31.death threats and racist abuse on the social networking site. Police
:15:32. > :15:33.are investigating the messages which were posted after Collymore
:15:34. > :15:35.suggested that the Liverpool striker Luis Suarez dived during Saturday's
:15:36. > :15:58.game against Aston Villa. Sarah Campbell reports.
:15:59. > :16:14.Dive from Luis Suarez. Comments made by Stan Golem or. He dived like a
:16:15. > :16:23.toddler, not a professional athlete. There have been ten or 15 foul
:16:24. > :16:29.messages of racial abuse. But also threats of murder. I would suggest
:16:30. > :16:34.that is a serious crime. If that happened on the street, there would
:16:35. > :16:42.be action. Twitter are taking no action. With 400 million tweets
:16:43. > :16:50.being sent worldwide every day, monitoring them is a huge task. The
:16:51. > :16:56.online abusers are known as trawls. As will be shown on Crimewatch this
:16:57. > :17:06.evening, the police are taking the issue seriously. We are talking
:17:07. > :17:11.about three hours between something being seen on Twitter and is
:17:12. > :17:17.knocking on the person's door. There have been convictions. This woman
:17:18. > :17:25.was subjected to sustained abuse on Twitter after campaigning to have
:17:26. > :17:30.Jane Austen only ?10 note. The people who have been found represent
:17:31. > :17:34.the tiniest drop in the ocean. We are in a bad situation. I really
:17:35. > :17:44.hope this latest flare-up will force Twitter to take some proper steps so
:17:45. > :17:49.that everyone is protected. Tom Daley has been a frequent target for
:17:50. > :17:56.abuse on social network websites. When ever I have had problems with
:17:57. > :18:00.Twitter it has been sorted out quite quickly. I can't comment on what
:18:01. > :18:06.they are doing behind-the-scenes. Twitter abuse is against rules on
:18:07. > :18:11.Twitter. The police say the police say they are liaising with them
:18:12. > :18:17.following Stan Collymore's complaint.
:18:18. > :18:20.Our top story this lunchtime: No rush to raise interest rates says
:18:21. > :18:24.the Bank of England despite a huge fall in unemployment.
:18:25. > :18:25.And still to come, we hear from the wife of the Briton murdered on their
:18:26. > :18:32.boat in the Caribbean. Later on BBC London:
:18:33. > :18:35.A world first. Blackfriars Bridge shows off its new roof, complete
:18:36. > :18:39.with 4,000 solar panels. And from acting to acrobatics. Why
:18:40. > :18:46.Sadie Frost hopes to be flying high at Camden's Roundhouse.
:18:47. > :18:54.The violence has escalated in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. This
:18:55. > :18:59.morning two people died during running battles between police and
:19:00. > :19:02.demonstrators. They are the first fatalities since protests began in
:19:03. > :19:05.November at the government's closer ties with Russia and its rejection
:19:06. > :19:12.of a planned treaty with the EU. Our correspondent Daniel Sandford is in
:19:13. > :19:18.Kiev. The hill near the parliament in
:19:19. > :19:21.Ukraine was a battle ground again this morning. As most people were
:19:22. > :19:27.eating breakfast, young men were throwing petrol bombs and rocks at
:19:28. > :19:31.police lines. There had been a lull of 24 hours. When the police try to
:19:32. > :19:38.clear some of the barricades, anger exploded again. Several times, we
:19:39. > :19:42.saw officers firing on protesters when they got too close. They are
:19:43. > :19:48.using plastic bullets, but this morning the first efforts were
:19:49. > :19:55.confirmed by the police. In hospital, I found a retired military
:19:56. > :20:06.man from Crimea who lost one of his eyes on Monday. TRANSLATION: I was
:20:07. > :20:10.near the riot police when I was hit with a bullet. I removed it with my
:20:11. > :20:17.hand. I was taken to hospital by ambulance. I had surgery
:20:18. > :20:22.straightaway and my eye was removed. At times this morning, hundreds of
:20:23. > :20:30.riot officers charged out beyond their lines, forcing everyone to
:20:31. > :20:34.scatter. The police have now driven down the street where the protesters
:20:35. > :20:39.have been for the last few days. They have cleared the streets and
:20:40. > :20:41.are chasing the protesters back down towards the main square where
:20:42. > :20:47.demonstrations have been going on for the last two months. The Prime
:20:48. > :20:52.Minister today described the young fighters as terrorists. The
:20:53. > :21:00.prosecutor general said they are a threat to national security. The
:21:01. > :21:07.protesters called the president criminals. More peaceful
:21:08. > :21:11.demonstrators sang the national anthem at the front line. This began
:21:12. > :21:16.as a protest in favour of joining the European Union. As the
:21:17. > :21:19.government has clamped down and introduced harsher laws, this small
:21:20. > :21:31.part of the city has descended into chaos.
:21:32. > :21:34.The jury in the trial of the Coronation Street star William
:21:35. > :21:38.Roache has heard how he told police that rape was against his nature and
:21:39. > :21:40.he was a very peaceful person. The actor said he was absolutely
:21:41. > :21:43.surprised and amazed when the police first arrested him. And he
:21:44. > :21:46.questioned whether the allegations had been made for a moment of fame.
:21:47. > :21:49.Mr Roache denies two rapes and five indecent assaults between 1965 and
:21:50. > :21:56.1971. Judith Moritz reports from Preston Crown Court.
:21:57. > :22:00.William Roache arrived for the seventh day of his trial flanked by
:22:01. > :22:04.his daughter on the right and his son on the left. His children have
:22:05. > :22:10.been in the public gallery throughout the hearing is. Today the
:22:11. > :22:14.court heard about the moment last May when William Roache was arrested
:22:15. > :22:24.at his home in Cheshire on suspicion of two rapes. He told detectives he
:22:25. > :22:29.was surprised and amazed. The prosecution claims that in 1967 the
:22:30. > :22:35.Coronation Street actor raped a teenage girl twice. One of the
:22:36. > :22:42.incidents happened at a bungalow that the actor had had built. After
:22:43. > :22:46.his arrest, William Roache denied raping her. Asked why the allegation
:22:47. > :22:52.might have been made, he told the police, it is the climate of what is
:22:53. > :22:56.happening at the moment. A lot of people coming out to accuse
:22:57. > :23:03.celebrities of alias things for various reasons. I don't know what
:23:04. > :23:12.the motivation is. Perhaps a moment of fame. I am horrified by the whole
:23:13. > :23:16.thing. You repeatedly denied the accusations of rape. You told the
:23:17. > :23:21.police here is a peaceful and gentle person. I would never do anything to
:23:22. > :23:39.offend or upset anybody. The 81-year-old actor is charged on five
:23:40. > :23:43.counts of abusing girls. He denies all the charges.
:23:44. > :23:46.Ministers have vowed to press ahead with the HS2 high-speed rail link
:23:47. > :23:49.after winning a key legal victory in the Supreme Court. Objectors had
:23:50. > :23:51.accused the Government of cutting corners to push through the fifty
:23:52. > :23:54.billion pound project, saying they were in breach of European
:23:55. > :23:56.environmental laws. But judges at the UK's highest court dismissed the
:23:57. > :23:59.accusations. The economist Vicky Pryce who was
:24:00. > :24:01.jailed for lying to police over speeding points received by her
:24:02. > :24:04.ex-husband, the MP Chris Huhne, has returned to her role as a government
:24:05. > :24:07.adviser. She resumed her unpaid position after serving her sentence
:24:08. > :24:11.for perverting the course of justice.
:24:12. > :24:15.A study confirming a link between pollution and the risk of a heart
:24:16. > :24:18.attack has prompted experts to call for tougher clean-air targets in
:24:19. > :24:23.Europe. Researchers found that the longer people are exposed to air
:24:24. > :24:26.pollutants, the greater the risk. And the effects were seen at levels
:24:27. > :24:31.below current safety limits, as our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes
:24:32. > :24:36.explains. The evidence that air pollution can
:24:37. > :24:42.increase the risk of heart attacks is growing. Across the European
:24:43. > :24:46.Union, there are already laws designed to reduce pollution. Now a
:24:47. > :24:50.new report suggests people might experience harm even below those
:24:51. > :24:54.levels. A study in five countries looked at the link between pollution
:24:55. > :25:00.and heart attacks. It forward 100,000 people with no history of
:25:01. > :25:05.heart problems. It found that as pollution increased, so did the
:25:06. > :25:15.likelihood of a heart attack. We are talking about the size of particles
:25:16. > :25:22.in diesel. You breathe in these particles and they go from your long
:25:23. > :25:29.into your bloodstream. Then they can have effects throughout the body.
:25:30. > :25:32.Experts stress the risk to the individual is relatively small. High
:25:33. > :25:39.blood pressure or smoking still cause a much greater danger. If
:25:40. > :25:43.people are being harmed even within the pollution limits of the EU,
:25:44. > :25:48.experts say that even tougher regulation might be needed to.
:25:49. > :25:51.Five men have been arrested for the murder of the British tourist Roger
:25:52. > :25:54.Pratt who was attacked in the Caribbean. A postmortem examination
:25:55. > :25:56.has revealed he was hit over the head aboard his yacht, Magnetic
:25:57. > :26:03.Attraction, before being drowned on the island of St Lucia, from where
:26:04. > :26:07.Michelle Fleury reports. This is the bay where Magnetic
:26:08. > :26:12.Attraction was murdered, on the southern tip of the Caribbean
:26:13. > :26:15.island. But that can't was brutally shattered. For Roger Pratt and his
:26:16. > :26:22.wife Margaret, it should've been the trip of a lifetime. Late on Friday,
:26:23. > :26:25.thieves burst onto their boat. The attack them and fled. Speaking for
:26:26. > :26:31.the first time since her husband 's death, Margaret Pratt told the Saint
:26:32. > :26:39.Lucia and government they had felt safe here. We had enjoyed our time
:26:40. > :26:46.on St Lucia. We felt safe until those tragic events. We have had
:26:47. > :26:53.considerable kindness from many people. But kindness is continuing.
:26:54. > :26:56.Roger Pratt and his wife had called the sport home for the last six
:26:57. > :27:03.months. Now it is a crime scene. The police have gathered evidence and
:27:04. > :27:16.they are waiting for Margaret Pratt to come and collect it. The cause of
:27:17. > :27:23.death was asphyxia due to trauma. We believe it was physical force with
:27:24. > :27:26.no weapon. Five young men have now been arrested in connection with the
:27:27. > :27:33.murder and are cooperating with police. The couple had been planning
:27:34. > :27:37.this trip for a young time. But it ended abruptly. Their voyage to
:27:38. > :27:43.celebrate the milestone birthday ending in heartache.
:27:44. > :27:46.Andy Murray has been knocked out of the Australian Open in the quarter
:27:47. > :27:49.finals by Roger Federer. At one point, when he was two sets down,
:27:50. > :27:52.the British number one threatened a dramatic comeback. But in the end it
:27:53. > :27:59.wasn't to be. Federer now faces Nadal in the semi-finals. Here is
:28:00. > :28:04.our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss. He had yet to be tested in
:28:05. > :28:08.Melbourne, but Andy Murray knew that was about to change. His opponent,
:28:09. > :28:13.only the most successful man in tennis history, but one still it
:28:14. > :28:18.seems with a point to prove. Last year, Roger Federer looked like
:28:19. > :28:24.yesterday's man. But you he was back to his fluent and flawless test.
:28:25. > :28:33.Soon he had a two set lead. Murray was flailing only recently having
:28:34. > :28:43.discovered from -- recovered from back surgery. But he claims the
:28:44. > :28:49.third set tie-break. Then just when it mattered federal rolled back the
:28:50. > :28:59.years. In a flash, it was over. On this form, and 18th Grand Slam title
:29:00. > :29:01.could yet beckon for federal. For Andy Murray, dog display but
:29:02. > :29:06.ultimately disappointing for him. Andy Murray, dog display but
:29:07. > :29:13.The weather today is not looking so bad. By the end of the week, a
:29:14. > :29:17.completely different story. Cloudy with some sunshine today. Quite wet
:29:18. > :29:23.night last night. The cloud and rain is well out to see just now. The
:29:24. > :29:27.thickest of the cloud is over the North Sea. Some sunshine poking
:29:28. > :29:35.through. Not completely dry day because have some showers over many
:29:36. > :29:39.western parts. More to come, especially over the north-west of
:29:40. > :29:45.the UK. The showers will be getting into the western half of Scotland.
:29:46. > :29:51.You will probably need your umbrella in Northern Ireland as well. For the
:29:52. > :29:55.bulk of the UK, this afternoon will be not too bad. Frilly overcast with
:29:56. > :30:04.some brightness poking through. Not too cold. Probably a degree or two
:30:05. > :30:10.above average for the time of year. A decent end to the afternoon for
:30:11. > :30:14.most of us. Tonight, more showers to come, many of them heavy and wintry
:30:15. > :30:24.especially over the north and north-west of the country. This band
:30:25. > :30:31.of rain will mean snow over many of the Scottish hills. Amassed a rush
:30:32. > :30:40.hour over the Rowlands. -- a nasties rush hour over the lowlands. That
:30:41. > :30:44.will sweep through late on and then the sun will come out. Thursday not
:30:45. > :30:51.a bad day. Quite brisk. Temperatures will be down. Still some wintry
:30:52. > :30:58.showers to come over the North of Scotland. On Friday, it is not
:30:59. > :31:02.looking too great. The weekend is not looking great. This is early in
:31:03. > :31:11.the morning. Rain and strengthening winds. The rain and wind will splash
:31:12. > :31:17.its way through Friday night, so it looks as though you will be winning
:31:18. > :31:24.in a number of areas on Friday evening. Gale force winds over the
:31:25. > :31:29.north-east of Scotland. Saturday, we might get away with it. Could be
:31:30. > :31:33.some sunshine around. Sunday is the day when the winds will pick up and
:31:34. > :31:42.the rain will arrive. Looking quite next. -- mixed.
:31:43. > :31:44.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime: