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A political war of words as Labour accuses the government of misleading | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
people over the economy. The government insists most workers have | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
seen an increase in real take-home pay. Labour says its figures are | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
selective. We will be assessing those claims and looking at people | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
suffering a cost of living crisis. After three years of conflict Siri | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
APPLAUSE First formal peace talks are on | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
APPLAUSE verge of collapse before they have | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
even begun. Lawyers call for full disclosure of | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
a report into allegations of sexual assault by the MP Mike Hancock. Five | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
dead and 31 unaccounted for after a fire destroyed a care home in | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Canada. Extreme temperatures hampered recovery. And how does a | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
first-time astronaut prepare for his first foray into space? Later on BBC | :01:04. | :01:16. | |
London: After allegations of fraud, Tower Hamlets Council issues the | :01:17. | :01:42. | |
first toughest election regime. Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
News at one. Labour is accusing the government of misleading people | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
after publishing figures saying most workers have seen their take-home | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
pay rise in real terms. Ministers say it all but the richest 10% of | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
earners saw a rise of 2.5%. The opposition says the figures are | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
highly selective and accused the Prime Minister of being out of touch | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
with reality. Our business correspondent has more. It is a | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
battle over the state of British household finances, whether spending | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
power is recovering and when families will have to content with | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
higher interest rates. Rising prices have heard budgets most, but the | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
government surprised many by asserting pay after tax has started | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
to rise faster than the cost of living. We can just start to see | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
with a record rise of the number of people in jobs and the fact the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
deficit is falling and now the fact take-home pay is going up a little | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
bit more than inflation, we can take-home pay is going up a little | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
start to see that things are starting to improve. Figures issued | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
by the Treasury showed that while the consumer prices index rose by | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
2.4%, the take-home pay of all but the wealthiest income groups went up | :03:01. | :03:13. | |
by more than that, from 2.5% up to 4.8%. Labour responded that the | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
buying power of 4.8%. Labour responded that the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
current government came in has 4.8%. Labour responded that the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
fallen by ?1600 a year. They do not include in their figures the impact | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
on the in work benefit changes they have made. They do not include the | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
huge tax cut they had given to people earning millions of pounds, . | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
So do people feel they have more in their pockets? Maybe David Cameron | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
has, but certainly not me. Benefits get cut and people are losing child | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
benefits. We are spending more on energy. It is a key question with an | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
election looming next year. Household may be a little bit better | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
off than they are now, but Household may be a little bit better | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
be worse off than average than they were before the recession. The other | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
big factor affecting whether people feel they have money to spend at all | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
is the cost of mortgages and the crucial thing is when the bank of | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
England decide it is time to raise interest rates to choke | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
England decide it is time to raise threat of a house price bubble and a | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
new boom and bust. Last night, threat of a house price bubble and a | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
bank of England governor said he did not see an immediate need | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
bank of England governor said he did rates and future increases would | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
come in small steps. We would expect any adjustment to be very gradual | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
because the important thing is to set monetary policy in a fashion | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
that is going to so that the economy is sustainably better. The bank of | :04:41. | :04:48. | |
England denied speculation it wanted to restrict the government was back | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
house to buy scheme. Another example of how the cost of living and the | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
cost of houses in has become very sensitive. Ian Watson is in | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
Westminster and we are going to hear more claims like this over the | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
economy. We certainly are. Today we are seeing a battle for political | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
territory ahead of the general election. For a while Labour has | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
been going on about a cost of living crisis saying average wages have | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
fallen by ?1600 a year. For a while the government did not have a dog in | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
its bite. But today they have come back and they are saying wages rose | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
faster than prices at least for one year of their government. They are | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
faster than prices at least for one trying to say they are going to get | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
involved in hand to hand combat with Labour in their territory, making | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
sure that every single claim Ed Miliband makes from now on is going | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
to be challenged. Labour are not ceding this territory very easily. | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
They are going to be saying, never mind the statistics, do you feel | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
better off? If people do not feel better off, they will claim David | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
Cameron is out of touch. Former peace talks on Syria are underway in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Geneva but with both sides refusing to sit in the same room. The | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
opposition says the government has to make a written undertaking on the | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
transfer of power. They accuse the opposition of making an inflammatory | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
speech yesterday and have threatened to quit the talks. Paul Wood reports | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
from Geneva. Things are not exactly going according to plan at the Syria | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
peace talks. So far there have been no talks. The regime and the | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
opposition were supposed to have met face to face by now. Neither side | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
can stomach being in the same room. A speech last night by the | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
opposition leader was too much for the government. TRANSLATION: You all | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
saw a direct confrontation between us and the criminals in Syria. He is | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
talking about the opening session of the conference. The UN's mediator | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
with the regime 's side. The opposition will not meet them until | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
they accept there will be a transfer of power, Geneva one as it is known. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
The Syrian Foreign Minister is threatening to go home if there is | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
no meeting. The fact we are here means we accepted some of Geneva one | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
because this is not a Bible. We came here with Syria and the Syrian | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
people on our mind only. They came here with position and posts on | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
their minds and satisfying the interests of some parties who have | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
nothing to do with Syria. One very senior Western diplomat told me the | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
object of today was simply to stop both sides from walking out. It is a | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
very ambitious measure of success and shows how intractable the issues | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
are, an agreement which would alleviate the suffering in Syria | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
seems further away than ever. So far the talks seem irrelevant to events | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
on the ground. This is Aleppo. The regime has made gains as the rebels | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
turn on each other. It was hoped Geneva would bring a cease-fire | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
here, but the competence is pursuing their names on the battlefield, not | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
at the negotiating table. Paul joins us from Geneva. What hope for the | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
talks to be salvaged? Given the bile on display at the opening conference | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
on Wednesday nobody expected things to go easy here, but they did not go | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
according to plan. The plan was for a face-to-face meeting. We are | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
getting soothing noises by British and American officials in briefings | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
saying it was always going to be difficult and these things take | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
time. But to give you one example, there was a fist fight on the lawn | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
behind me between members of the Syrian state television party and | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
members of a television company that they accused of supporting the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
opposition. Although it is not relevant to the talks, it shows the | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
kind of atmosphere in which they are taking place. There are frantic | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
efforts by the UN to stick things back together. The Syrian Foreign | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Minister is prepared to take the whole delegation back to Damascus | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
tomorrow if there are not any substantive meetings. As things | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
stand these talks are absolutely on the knife edge. . The Liberal | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Democrat leader Nick Clegg has defended his handling of allegations | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
of sexual assault by a former Lib Dem MP. Mike Hancock was suspended | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
on Wednesday after a report of allegations of sexual impropriety | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
were credible. Mr Hancock has always denied the claims. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
After four decades serving as a local councillor, Mike Hancock is no | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
longer a member of the Liberal Democrats on Portsmouth Council. He | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
has also been an MP 4/19 years, but voluntarily resigned his party whip | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
at Westminster last year to conduct allegations of sexual impropriety. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
But on Wednesday he was suspended following the leak of a report into | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
the allegations of a female constituent. She initially | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
approached the MP but then said she was overwhelmed by his visits to her | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
house and text messages. She described a feeling of helplessness. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
The things he had asked me to do and because he is in a position of | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
trust, he has overstepped the mark and I just feel like no one has | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
listened to me for three years. His alleged victim will be at the High | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Court later demanding to see a copy of the report carried out by an | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
eminent QC. The counsellor argues it is not necessary or appropriate to | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
release the findings, but this is increasing pressure on the Liberal | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
Democrat leader, Nick Clegg. Critics say he should have acted much more | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
quickly. My first reaction is to be appalled by the seriousness of these | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
allegations and my instinct was to react immediately, which is why it | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
was looked into and which is why Mike Hancock ceased to be a Liberal | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
Democrat MP and has now been suspended altogether. A police | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
investigation into the claims found that no further action should be | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
taken. This comes after a difficult week for Nick Clegg. He has faced a | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
split in his party over allegations over the format Chief Whip Chris | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
Rennard. It is thought the party must introduce a new culture when it | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
comes into the treatment of women. Four people have died in a car | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
bombing near police headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo. More | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
than 70 people were injured. The attacks come on the eve of the third | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
University of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
This attack this morning was directed at the heart of the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
security establishment, the police headquarters which was hit by that | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
car bomb. It should have been one of the most secure locations in the | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
city. Instead when we arrived we could see the damage for ourselves. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Parts of the front of the building had been peeled away and the Islamic | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Museum opposite had also suffered damage. There were angry crowds at | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
the scene and they were chanting their support for the Army, but also | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
the opposition to the Islamist 's of the Muslim Brotherhood. Many are | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
putting the blame on the Muslim Brotherhood, although there has been | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
a claim of responsibility from an Al-Qaeda inspired group. Large | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
numbers of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have taken to the streets | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
and are clashing with police and local residents. | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
31 elderly people are still unaccounted for in Canada after a | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
fire destroyed their residential home in Quebec province. At least | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
five people are known to have died and the Prime Minister Stephen | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
five people are known to have died Harper says the loss of life is | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
expected to be considerable. Most of the residents were over 75 years old | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
expected to be considerable. Most of and rescue attempts have been town | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
hampered by temperatures of -22 degrees. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
A night from hell says the local fire chief. Fires, high winds and | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
deepfreeze temperatures are a cruel combination. Flames tore through | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
this old peoples home where most depended on wheelchairs or walking | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
frames. About 20 people got out, but more are missing. This is what | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
remains. -20 Celsius freezes water in seconds. It is hard to anyone | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
trapped inside surviving. One man tried to save his mother and climbed | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
trapped inside surviving. One man a ladder, but he realised he could | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
not get close. TRANSLATION: I feel I would have liked to save her, I | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
could not. I wasn't able to. Canada's emergency services say they | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
could hope that some of those were awake visiting their family. A lot | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
of water was used to put out the flames and the water was frozen. A | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
3-storey building collapsed and for us it is very important to go over | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
it very delicately because we want to preserve any potential victims | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
inside the blaze. Questions are being asked about fire protection in | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
the largely wooden building amid suggestions only part of the home | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
had a sprinkler system. One minister says the government will now | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
consider making sprinkler is compulsory in the aftermath of this | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
tragedy in the depths of winter. Our top story: The Government | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
insists most workers have seen an increase in their real take-home | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
pay. They The Says its figures are selective. Still to come: I am here | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
on the Jurassic Coast, where the recent storms have revealed hundreds | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
of new fossils. Experts say the wave of amateurs | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
that have come here to find them may be damaging these ancient specimens. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
On BBC London, we speak to the stars of the musical Dirty Rotten | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Scoundrels. And we preview the FA Cup fourth round, with five London | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
teams in action. In 2009 a former army officer and | :15:56. | :16:05. | |
helicopter pilot, Major Tim Peake, became Britain's first official | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
astronaut. Since then he has been in training, taking him two and a half | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
years to prepare for a six month mission to the International Space | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
Station. But how on earth do you prepare for an adventure in space? | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Station. But how on earth do you Pallab Ghosh has been finding | :16:24. | :16:24. | |
The International Space Station. Next year, it will be home to | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Britain's first official astronaut, Tim Peake. But how was he preparing | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
for his six-month mission? I'm at the European Astronaut Centre in | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
Cologne. As you can see, there are the European Astronaut Centre in | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
life-size replicas of parts of the International Space Station. It's | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
here that Tim Peake is going to learn how to live and work in space. | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
Tim, nice to see you. Tim told me he wants all of us to be part of his | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
ground control team. We will get people even designing the name of | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
the mission and the patch for the mission. But also things like design | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
a meal for an astronaut for a day. That is something you will eat? | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Absolutely. Something that will actually get cooked and actually get | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
sent to the space station, and I'll eat it on board. He has | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
sent to the space station, and I'll zero gravity in an aeroplane, but | :17:22. | :17:21. | |
sent to the space station, and I'll only for a few seconds at a time, as | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
the plane plummets. To learn how to work in space, he needs to train | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
underwater. Hi, Tim. So, you're obviously training for zero-G. How | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
similar is it, as far as you know, to the real thing? | :17:39. | :18:03. | |
Come and have a look where he will be sleeping. This is Tim Peake's | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
bedroom. You can see clean socks, headphones and a sleeping bag, but | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
no bed. And that's because Tim will be asleep floating in space. One of | :18:18. | :18:17. | |
no bed. And that's because Tim will the best things about | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
no bed. And that's because Tim will International Space Station is the | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
view. Take a look through this window. There is Planet Earth, | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
directly below us. The first step is to unlock the latches and remove the | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
casing. Now for the science training. At | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
casing. Now for the science learning how to basically put one of | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
the scientific modules into a cartridge. Of course, that all has | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
to be done in this glove box, which makes it harder to deal with. When | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
the Apollo astronauts set off to the makes it harder to deal with. When | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
moon, people thought that we'd soon live and work on other planets. The | :18:55. | :18:54. | |
ultimate aim is future exploration live and work on other planets. The | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
of the solar system and to get to Mars on a manned mission, so | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
of the solar system and to get to we have a | :19:03. | :19:02. | |
of the solar system and to get to want to aim for eventually. Once in | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
of the solar system and to get to space, Tim Peake will be a national | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
of the solar system and to get to hero and a role model for children. | :19:09. | :19:09. | |
He knows full well the potential for hero and a role model for children. | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
his mission to inspire the nation. Opposition leaders in Ukraine have | :19:13. | :19:24. | |
called on anti-government protesters to stop the violence, while | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
negotiations continue with President Yanukovych to try to resolve the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
political crisis. Until now the protests had been focused solely on | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Kiev, but protesters have now stormed government buildings in at | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
least five other cities, as Daniel Sandford reports from Kiev. | :19:39. | :19:40. | |
Last night, the clashes in Ukraine spread to regions far beyond the | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
capital, Kiev. This was Cherkasy, to the south-east, where protesters | :19:51. | :20:00. | |
stormed government offices. This, Lviv, to the west, where they also | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
occupied the buildings of the regional administration. The front | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
line in Kiev itself was quiet. Moderate opposition leaders have | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
asked the violent protesters to hold fire while talks continue with | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
President Viktor Yanukovych. It's a fire while talks continue with | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
time of fire while talks continue with | :20:23. | :20:23. | |
preparations for the next stage of the battle. | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
preparations for the next stage of cobblestones, ready to be hurled | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
across the lines at the police defending the national parliament. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
By the front line I found Dahlia. She's 51 and helping the more | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
violent protesters to keep their barricades in order. She supports | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
the use of force because she thinks it's the only way to remove | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
President Yanukovych from power. I want my children to have a better | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
life. It's become impossible here. I have three children who all have | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
university degrees. We have two have jobs. There's future here. Living | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
100 metres from where the worst battles where this week, I found | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
this woman in her apartment block. Everyone has fled apart from her and | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
an elderly neighbour. She was in her flat on the morning two protesters | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
died in clashes with police. TRANSLATION: The house was shaking | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
from the explosions. I saw everything out of the window. People | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
were running into the yard. This morning, protesters added the | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
agriculture ministry to their portfolio of seized property in the | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
capital and said they needed it for people to sleep. In the freezing | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
temperatures. The Jurassic coast in Dorset has long been a favourite | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
haunt of fossil hunters, and the recent storms have eroded large | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
parts of the coastline revealing previously hidden dinosaur relics. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
But tensions are mounting between amateur fossil hunters and | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
researchers, with claims that day-trippers are interfering with | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
delicate and rare finds. day-trippers are interfering with | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
Kennedy is in Charmouth in Dorset. Even in the middle of this winter | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
storm, this place has a bleak beauty to it. As you said, all these storms | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
are creating Cliff falls producing dozens of fossils, and hundreds of | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
fossil finders. The experts are saying that's absolutely fine, but | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
some of them are causing more damage than good. Some are calling it | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
fossil frenzy. With numbers looking to pick up a number of prehistory, | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
double the normal January levels. But others are taking it to extreme | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
lengths. This man is scaling fresh mudslides beneath a fragile Cliff to | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
find the fossils. It feels soft. Do you think you could get stuck in it? | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
I don't think so. You could lose your shoes. Professional fossil | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
hunters save the storms have brought a wave of our tours that could | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
damage the ancient deposits. We were with him when he confronted this | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
man. Who has been digging the stones out? I don't know. It turns out he's | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
local and was concerned about the number is now turning up. It's very | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
hard because there's so many people in this part of the country looking. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
Academics are now worried that the well-intentioned fossil seekers are | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
damaging the newly revealed treasures. | :23:39. | :23:48. | |
People have come up with piles rocks in the hands which is very | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
important, but they have smashed it to pieces. This fossil was found on | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
Boxing Day, one more reason they have increased here, despite the | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
dangers. A small number of people climb onto the cliffs and there are | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
two hazards. One is falling rock. There is also mudslides and | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
quicksand. We do end of rescuing quite a few people. There maybe | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
goodies amid the gloop. But dangers as well. It is awash with history, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
but getting at and safeguarding it requires skill and respect. We have | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
found ourselves a fossil in the time we have been here. The experts are | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
saying, please look after these. we have been here. The experts are | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Above all, look after yourself. Vincent Van Gogh's sunflower | :24:38. | :24:46. | |
paintings are some of his most recognisable and best loved works. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Now, two of the original masterpieces will be shown together | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
in London for the first time in more than 60 years. The paintings, worth | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
an estimated ?100 billion each, are expected to attract huge crowds as | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
visitors to the National Gallery get a rare chance to compare and | :25:04. | :25:05. | |
contrast the men side-by-side. A reunion of masterpieces. Van | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
Gogh's Sunflowers were painted a frenzy of work in 1888. Today, five | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
in the series survive. Now the National Gallery one has been joined | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
by one on loan from Amsterdam, allowing visitors to play spot the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
difference. The positioning of the flowers is very similar. But the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
stylisation of forms, particularly in the stems, is carried further. | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
The vase, which is a rounded form in the London picture, becomes a flat | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
pattern in the Amsterdam picture. It is under x-ray that very subtle | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
differences start to show. When looking at the flowers hanging down | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
from the edge of the vase. In London, they are light on the x-ray. | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
In Amsterdam, they are dark. What that tells us is that Vincent | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
painted these flowers as an afterthought. He painted them over | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
the background. Hence the paint is more thicker and it appears white. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
It means that the Amsterdam picture follows the design of the London | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
picture. They may have been painted only five months apart, but over | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
that time the artist's mood had shifted dramatically. The National | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Gallery painting was painted to welcome his friend to his studio in | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
the South of France. The welcome his friend to his studio in | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
one was created after he had cut off his ear and his friend had left in a | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
huff. Side-by-side for the first time in six decades, visitors to the | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
National Gallery can take a new look that one of Van Gogh's most | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
celebrated creations. After nine consecutive defeats, and | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
a tour of Australia which has been described as the worst ever, | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
England's cricketers have finally described as the worst ever, | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
won a match. They'd already lost the described as the worst ever, | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
series but in Perth they beat Australia by 57 runs in the fourth | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
One Day International. down under since October, England | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
finally beat Australia just before February. After Alistair Cook | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
insisted he is desperate to remain captain, three England players got | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
past 50. Josh Butler's 71 came off just 43 balls and the total of 316 | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
was England's second highest ever in Australia in this form of cricket. | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
They couldn't lose - could they? Australia had rested several stars | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
for this match ut Aaron Finch built a century quickly. England had to | :27:42. | :27:50. | |
get rid of him, and they did. 189-5, when Broad clung onto the catch. And | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
James Faulkner can hit boundaries at will - out for just two. Australia, | :27:55. | :27:54. | |
230-7. Surely? Ben will - out for just two. Australia, | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
wickets and no last-minute stumble from England this time. Australia, | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
259 all out. Like a drop of rain in a desert, catch it and enjoy it | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
because it had seemed like it would never come again. | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
Let's take you to the weather now. A change of weather over the next few | :28:16. | :28:25. | |
days, I'm afraid, and that means spells of rain. The satellite | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
picture shows a lot of cloud piling from the Atlantic. It is rain | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
bearing cloud, but most of it has been up towards the west. I think | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
bearing cloud, but most of it has all of us will see a fair bit of | :28:39. | :28:40. | |
cloud through the afternoon. There will be a spell of unwelcome rain | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
again in the far south-west. As you can see, while there is | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
again in the far south-west. As you rain across western areas, a little | :28:48. | :28:47. | |
bit of snow over rain across western areas, a little | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
In the south-west, Somerset Levels in particular, even modest amounts | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
of rainfall can only worsen the ongoing flood situation. It's | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
actually quite mild and great with that rain in the south-west. 11 | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
degrees in Plymouth, with four or so that rain in the south-west. 11 | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
in Norwich. A bit of a breeze, cloud rolling in. A grey day across | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
England. Further north and west, we have the rain to contend with. Not a | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
doesn't afternoon in Northern Ireland. Quite windy and there is a | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
little bit of snow to be found in the Grampians. That rain continues | :29:21. | :29:22. | |
its journey ever eastwards through this evening. Eventually it will get | :29:23. | :29:30. | |
into northern England and through the latter part of the night it will | :29:31. | :29:30. | |
into northern England and through be into East Anglia and the far | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
south-east. Most of it is dawn. There are still dribs and | :29:36. | :29:35. | |
drabs. By this stage, showers going dawn. There are still dribs and | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
into northern Scotland. A lot of dawn. There are still dribs and | :29:41. | :29:41. | |
cloud around to start the day, but that should help to | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
cloud around to start the day, but temperature is a | :29:46. | :29:45. | |
cloud around to start the day, but freezing. Orlando, a day of sunny | :29:46. | :29:46. | |
spells and blustery showers. Sunday, it goes downhill with wind | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
and rain. Saturday, a great start for England and Wales, a lot of low | :29:54. | :29:55. | |
cloud. The southern half of for England and Wales, a lot of low | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
a reasonable sort of day. Further north, a lot of showers around in | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
Scotland and northern Ireland. Single digit temperatures in the | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
north, but we should get into double figures in the south. Eventually, | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
the showers will slip south across England and Wales on Saturday | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
evening. Then it turns cold and dry. Sunday is all about this area of low | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
pressure. Loads of isobars on the chart. Severe gales across the hills | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
in the West. Some pretty wet weather chart. Severe gales across the hills | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
as well. Not just rain to contend with, further snow across Scottish | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
hills. On the subject of cold weather, it could turn colder next | :30:32. | :30:32. | |
week. Before we leave you, a reminder of | :30:33. | :30:38. | |
our main story. The Government insist that most workers have seen | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
an increase in their real take-home | :30:44. | :30:44. |