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student Meredith Kercher say they are still on a journey to the truth. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Raffaele Sollecito is now in custody after the murder verdicts against | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
him and Amanda Knox were reinstated. I'm going to fight this until the | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
very end and it's not right and it's not fair. Why bring the other | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
stories making the headlines this lunchtime. Why are some police | :00:31. | :00:53. | |
forces are so bad at dealing with allegations of rape. No meeting of | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
minds at the UK from summit on changing Britain's relationship with | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
the EU. And six Nations Rugby returns to Wales at the weekend. Can | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
they make it an historic three championships at the role? Five men | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
who stabbed a teenager to death in Pimlico are being sentenced at the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Old Bailey. And figures suggest a rise in new homes being built in | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
London but is it enough? A very good afternoon and welcome to | :01:24. | :01:49. | |
the BBC News that one. The sister of Meredith Kercher has said the family | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
still on a journey to the truth, following the reinstatement of | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
guilty verdicts against Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
student's murder. An Italian court has ruled that Knox should serve an | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
increased sentence of 28 years for the killing in Perugia in 2007. Ms | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Knox, who refused to leave America to appear in court, can launch an | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
appeal against the sentence. She said she was saddened and frightened | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
by the verdicts. Her co-defendant, Raffaele Riva Sollecito, is already | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
in custody. Luisa Baldini reports. They have done this twice before, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
after the previous two trials and once again today Meredith Kercher's | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
brother and sister faced the media in Italy to give their reaction to | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
last night's verdicts. We are still on the journey to the truth and it | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
may be the fact we don't ever really know what happened that night, which | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
is obviously something that we will have to come to terms with and as | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
you asked before about the repetition and the length that is | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
also hard to deal with. Meredith's brother has now called on the | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
American authorities to extradite Amanda Knox, who has been in the | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
United States since her acquittal two years ago. If an extradition | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Lurex this -- exists, and I don't see why it wouldn't, I imagine it is | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
a difficult president of the United States since her acquittal two years | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
ago. If an extradition Lurex this -- exists, and I don't see why it | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
wouldn't, I imagine it is a difficult president if a country | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
such as the US did not when extraditing convicted criminals. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Within the last half an hour, Knox has spoken live on American | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
breakfast television. She has reiterated that she would have to be | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
caught and taken the King and screaming back to prison in Italy. I | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
will never go willingly back to the place where... I'm going to fight | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
this until the very end and it's not right and it's not fair and I'm | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
going to do everything I can. Granted, I need a lot of help. I | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
can't do this on my own and I can't help people understand this on my | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
own. She also spoke about Meredith's family of their ordeal. | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Just the very fact that they don't know what happened is horrible. Her | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito, who was in court before but not during | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
the verdicts, is considered a flight risk and has had his passport and | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
driving licence confiscated. The verdicts uphold the -- the original | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
convictions from the first trial. They were found guilty in 2009, | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
after prosecutors said Knox, Sollecito and a third man, Rudy | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Guede, who is still in prison for the murder, tried to involve | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Meredith Kercher in a sex game. Meredith had been in Italy for just | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
two months when she was sexually assaulted and stabbed in her own | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
bedroom in November 2007. When Amanda and Raffaele Sollecito were | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
seen kissing within hours of her body being found it was deemed | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
suspicious and they became the focus of attention. At first Knox | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
implicated an innocent local barkeep and said she had covered her ears | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
while him murdered Meredith, but she changed her story and said she was | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
then with her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The prosecution said her | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
DNA was on the knife they believed to be the murder weapon and | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
Sollecito's DNA was on Meredith's bra clasp, though that DNA evidence | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
was highly contested. Now the Kerchers, Knox and Sollecito have to | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
await a report which will be published in 90 days to find out the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
exact reasons for the judge's decision. They will bent almost | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
certainly be an appeal. You can find background information | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
on the trial and in-depth analysis on the BBC website. Storm battered | :05:54. | :06:03. | |
parts of Britain bade -- bracing themselves for another pounding as | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
more rain, high winds and high tides of that to hit the south and west. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
The Met office is warning of heavy rain in southern England including | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
the already flooded Somerset Levels as well as South Wales and parts of | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Northern Ireland. The Environment Agency has issued numerous flood | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
warnings and says that many coastal areas will be affected by high tides | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
in the coming days. In a minute we will get the latest on the situation | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
in Wales. First, to Clare Marshall, who is in Somerset for us. | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
You can see what it is like here. It had been looking better a couple of | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
hours ago. The river levels were dropping. The Environment Agency | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
said we are pumping out the water as fast as we can, then about an hour | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
ago the weather front started moving in. It is relentless here. The | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
people are tired of it all. The wettest winter here in a century | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
and the effort to shift well over 1 million tonnes of water goes on. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
Now, more urgent than ever. We have got more pumps operating than we | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
have before. Pumping the equivalent of an Olympic swimming pool every 90 | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
seconds. Even with no rain it would take weeks? Even with no rain it | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
would take weeks and that was the experience in 2012. These could be | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
coming in handy, bales of used tyres. This company just down the | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
road is in urgent talks with the local council. They can be laid out | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
to make a road which normal cars can drive on. No more tractors and | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
boats. Imagine we are in the flood waters here, how come these help? | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
These are about one metre high and they will lift the access about over | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
the water level and have track way on top so that people can access | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
their homes. So you can drive on top of these? Drive straight over them | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
with access track on top and they free draining so the road will dry. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
As the government calls get more emergency COBRA meetings, those | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
living on the saturated Somerset Levels wait to see what the weather | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
does next. The flood waters have been sitting here for about a month | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
now and they are stagnant and horrible. Just look at the kind of | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
things washed up. The pumps are pumping and they are doing what they | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
can, but the rain is starting to fall again. There is a spring tide | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
coming this weekend. The wind is picking up. The army is on stand-by. | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
You can see those differences here. They are a lot higher than the last | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
time this was flooded, so they are better prepared, but the people here | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
are fed up the reaction has been too little, too late. Over the last hour | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
the BBC understands the government now says that it will grab this | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
problem by the scruff of the neck. Whatever that means, people here are | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
waiting to see. Now over to Aberystwyth. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Yes, whether winds have really started to pick up in the last few | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
minutes and while it is low tide and we can be on the beach safely at the | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
moment the concern is over what the elements will bring tonight at high | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
tide and tomorrow through the weekend. You may remember a few | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
weeks ago Aberystwyth took a real battering. There is still a hole in | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
the sea on the beach. They have been trying to rebuild the historic | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
front. There is work ongoing. But there is fear that while they have | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
to spend thousands and thousands of pounds making repairs, that work may | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
be undone by the conditions yet to come. Already pre-emptive action has | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
taken place this morning. We have seen around 600 students being | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
moved, with the student halls being evacuated and some 400 or so being | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
moved other locations. 200 have taken up the very generous offer of | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
a free Thame ticket -- freak train ticket home to see their parents and | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
relatives, as long as they are safe and dry out of these conditions. | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
Both of you, thanks very much indeed. There is much more on the | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
latest storm to hit the UK throughout the afternoon on the BBC | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
News channel. You can keep up-to-date with events in your area | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
on BBC local radio. New figures show wide variations in | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the way that police record and classify rape allegations in England | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
and Wales. The Inspectorate of Constabulary said in some areas, | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
where the number of recorded rapes is far lower than average, as | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
victims may be unwilling to come forward because they feel they will | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
not be believed. Our home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger reports. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
A specialist medical Centre, where victims of rape can find help before | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
they decide to report the crime to police. But what happens after | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
police get involved varies widely from force to force across England | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
and Wales. The number of recorded rapes of adults is below average in | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
29 out of 43 Constabulary is. Depending on where you live, as few | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
as 3%, or as many as 33% of reported rapes are later designated as no | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
crime by the police. And in some forces there may be a culture of | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
disbelief of rape allegations. It does cause me are concerned there | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
are inconsistencies because my priority is picked in confidence to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
come forward and report of the police and those inconsistencies | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
could have victims causing concerns. There is increasing doubt about | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
crime figures. A whistle-blower told MPs that forces were fiddling them | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
to meet targets. This would finish up with trying to persuade a victim | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
they were not raped, for example? Effectively, yes. You are nodding at | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
this. The UK Statistics Authority questioned the numbers recorded by | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
police. Campaigners are particularly concerned about how many rape | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
allegations are being struck off the recorded figures. The no crime | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
levels have been an issue for some time now. Previous reports have | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
highlighted this as an issue. When we know that's oof -- so few | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
survivors of sexual violence report to the police, we know -- we need | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
some reassurance these figures will be scrutinised and investigated. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Morph people are reporting rape allegations to the police. The | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
government says the assumption in every case should be that the crime | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
has been committed until proven otherwise. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
The United Nations mediator leading the Syrian peace talks in Geneva | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
says they made a modest beginning towards ending the conflict, | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
provided both sides have the political will to do so. Speaking on | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
the final day of the first round of negotiations Lakhdar Brahimi | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
announced they were expected to resume on February the tense. | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Differences have emerged between David Cameron and the French | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
President Francois Hollande about the future of the European Union. | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
The two men have been holding talks at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Mr Hollande citywide -- while he wanted improvements in the wake of | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the EU was run, he couldn't see the need to revise the treaty is at | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
present, but Mr Cameron said he would achieve in -- he said he would | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
achieve a change in Britain's relationship with the EU. Carole | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
Walker reports. It was an occasional or official escort is only though | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
President Hollande must have known there would be no escaping the | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
questions over his split from the former First Lady. The relationship | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
with David Cameron is not exactly easy either but the socialist | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
president and Conservative Prime Minister know how important it is to | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
ensure the Entente remains cordiale. So they have released -- reached new | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
deals to cooperate on defence, nuclear power and space, a two-year | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
project to develop a new armed drone, joint military exercises and | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
investment in new nuclear reactors. David Cameron is under real pressure | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
from many of his own MPs to win back significant powers from Europe | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
before the referendum he has promised by the end of 2017. Bids to | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
do that he needs the help of big players, like the French, but the | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
last thing they want is to open up EU treaties for renegotiation | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
allowing other member states to come up with all the demands and leading | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
to a lengthy wrangling over the way the EU is run. At their joint news | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
conference the differences were stark. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
TRANSLATION: Fans would like the eurozone to be | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
better coordinated, better integrated. And if there are going | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
to be amendments to the text, we don't feel that for the time being | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
they are urgent. We feel that revising the treaty is not a | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
priority for the time being. We want to see that renegotiation which will | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
involve elements of treaty change. And then there will be a referendum | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
in Britain before the end of 2017. That is an in out referendum. What | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
about other big issue? The British press don't share the French | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
reluctance to pry? Do you think your private life has made France an | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
international joke? Are you still having an affair and do you wish she | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
was here? TRANSLATION: In regard to your last | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
question, I decline to answer. There were lots of warm words sharing | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
their belief in a more competitive Europe when it comes to achieving | :15:28. | :15:36. | |
that, there is a difference. Norman Smith is at Brize Norton for us. I | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
think they are going to a pub lunch now but I don't figure will be | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
easier to get agreement over this whole reform of the European Union? | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
John, it's clear both men came here desperate to avoid a public falling | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
out over Europe so initially it was all first names, praising each | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
other, and there were deals on defence and energy policy, but as | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
soon as Europe came up, the gulf became clear with Mr Holland saying | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
David Cameron's plans for renegotiation when not urgent, not | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
urgent, the dramatic speak for a no-no. David Cameron says we want to | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
happen. It underlines the scale of the challenge Mr Cameron faces in | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
convincing key EU partners to hand back powers. One rather suspects Mr | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
Holland's lack of interest in this wasn't helped by the question about | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
his rather crowded home life. Mr Cameron has taken throb pub lunch | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
now. I think it will take more than a pint and a packet of salt and | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
vinegar to win Mr Holland over to Mr Cameron's approach to Europe. That | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
would be quite a picture to see them eating salt and bigger crisps | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
together. Some breaking news now. The BBC understands that the England | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
coach Andy Flower has stood down following England's disastrous Ashes | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
tour. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss has more. Tell us what we | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
know. Andy Flower 's's position has been under scrutiny ever since that | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Ashes whitewash in Australia. It wasn't just the result but the man | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
of the defeat, as well, with England showing no real sign of fight. This | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
was a series they went into as red-hot favourites, remember. There | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
were problems off the pitch, too, with players returning home and talk | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
of a rift between Andy Flower and Kevin Peterson. After the series, | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
Andy Flower said he wanted to continue as England coach, he still | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
had the appetite, but he did have to have this curtains, he said, with a | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
new header dangerous cricket, Paul Downton, and it seems as though | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
those discussions have ended with Andy Flower losing his job as coach | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
although we are still waiting for official confirmation from England | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
and Wales Cricket board, but it is the end, it will at the end of one | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
of the most successful ever the cricket history. He took over in | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
2009, guided England to three Ashes victories, guided them to number one | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
in the world ranking. Ultimately, it seems that he may have paid the | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
price for the disastrous performance in Australia. OK, Andy, thank you | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
very much for that update. Our top story this lunchtime. After murder | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
convictions are reinstated against Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
the family of Meredith Kercher say all they want is the truth. And | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
still to come. Let the battle commence. Six Nations rugby returns | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
to Wales at the weekend amidst fears it risks being torn apart by | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
disputes. Later on BBC London, we meet the capital's rugby captains | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
trying to lead their countries to Nations glory. And Russell Toby | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
tells about his latest stage role playing a celebrity footballer | :18:52. | :18:52. | |
struggling to keep a secret. Six Nations rugby returns at the | :18:53. | :19:04. | |
weekend with Wales trying to win the championship for the third year in a | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
row. Something that has never happened before. But rugby union in | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Wales, the national game, risks being torn apart by division and | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
dispute, with deep concern for the future and talent draining away from | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Wales to France where the big money is. Our Sports Correspondent Joe | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
Wilson has more. Is this flattering to deceive? On the face of it, | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
Cardiff Castle seems just the right symbol of strength for Welsh rugby. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
Six Nations champions for the last two seasons, rock-solid am a | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
dominant. So why then would a player tried to escape? Leigh Halfpenny was | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
the man of the tournament last year, match-winning talent, a star, | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
and now off to earn big money Lane club rugby in France. Other Welsh | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
have already relocated. It hurts enormously. We want our icons, our | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
ambassadors, our role models, metaphors for a modern world, to be | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
walking around our villages and towns and cities, and that's why the | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
heart of Welsh rugby union's ambition in our discussions with our | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
partners is to say how do we retain our talent in Wales? The partners of | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
a four professional club teams in Wales, the regions, who feel they | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
must secure a better future somewhere. The red bee media has | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
overflowed with tales of Civil War. The four regions openly exploring | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
previously unthinkable notions like joining the English league. There's | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
professional rugby share, but the issue, basically, is money. I guess | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
the reality is our core product is rugby, rugby on the field, and right | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
now, we don't know who we are playing. When we're playing. And by | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
how much. In just five months time, beyond May. So, the reality is we | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
have absolutely no certainty of our revenues at all as a business. | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Meanwhile, the captain stands alone. Sam Robertson, the first | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
player who will be paid directly by the governing body, the Welsh union, | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
to stay in Wales. I think most players would consider those | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
options. I certainly considered the options of moving away. I stressed | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
from day one, preference would be to stay home. Worrying about those | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
external things won't help is so everybody is very focused on the job | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
ahead. Everyone in Wales expect Wales to beat every other country. | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
That seems like a simple bit. A British man accused of murdering his | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
wife while they were on honeymoon in Cape Town has lost his High Court | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
attempt to block his extradition to South Africa. Shrien Dewani claimed | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
he was unfit to stand trial because of his mental health problems. His | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
wife, Anni, was shot while in the back of a taxi in November 2010. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Angus Crawford has been following the case. Newlyweds, they seemed the | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
perfect couple. With an extravagant wedding, and the glittering future. | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
The days after this was taken, Anni was dead. Her body found in this car | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
on the outskirts of Cape Town. Their honeymoon was at a luxury hotel in | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
the city. They seemed relaxed and happy. But late at night, on the way | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
back from a restaurant, their taxi was hijacked. Anni was shot dead. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
The South African police became suspicious when CCTV showed Shrien | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Dewani meeting a taxi driver a couple of days later. Shrien Dewani | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
said he was giving him money for driving. But the taxi driver told | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
the court he was paid for arranging the killing. He has been jailed for | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
18 years. The South Africans have been trying to extradite Shrien | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Dewani ever since. His lawyers say he has severe depression and is too | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
ill. But today, the High Court decided he could be extradited. But | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
only if Victoria agrees to send him back after a year if he is still too | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
unwell to face trial. The South African authorities have two weeks | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
to make such an undertaking. And then, in theory, seven days after | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
that, Shrien Dewani could be on a plane to Cape Town. His legal team, | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
though, still have an option of an appeal to the Supreme Court. Members | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
of Anni's family were in court to hear the ruling today and gave a | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
cautious welcome. We have been waiting three years for this and it | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
just seems like we are a step closer to getting the extradition process | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
finalised, and getting justice for Anni, really. But all we wanted. | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Another small step on a legal journey which is far from over. The | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
number of people applying for university places has increased 4% | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
this year, and school leavers in England are now more likely to apply | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
for higher education than ever before. But the university | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
admissions service UCAS warns that young men are becoming a | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
disadvantaged group as they are far less likely to apply for courses | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
than women. Our Education Correspondent Gillian Hargreaves | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
joins me now. Just take through some of the statistics that stand out | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
from the support. Record numbers of people are now applying to | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
university, even though they are paying up to ?9,000 a year for an | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
undergraduate course. 580,000 applications so far this year. As | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
you said, that is a 4% rise on last year, so I think it shows people are | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
not being deterred by higher fees, they do think it's worth going and | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
getting a university degree, because their lifelong work prospects are so | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
much better. The other interesting thing is we are seeing a big gap | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
emerging between men and women applying to university. Many more | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
women, 87,000 more women have applied, this year than men. That is | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
a 7000 rise on last year. It is particularly acute in some | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
communities for the white working-class boys and black and | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
ethnic minority boys are not applying in the same sorts of | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
numbers that their female counterparts are. Why? Well, girls | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
have outperformed boys since the 1990s at GCSE and A-level is, doing | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
much better in most subjects, and I think they have got much more | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
confidence to apply for university. OK, Gillian, thank you very much. | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Now, with just hours to go until the football transfer deadline closes, | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
the Premier League has already beaten last year's spending record. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
With ten hours still to go, the combined transfer sum has already | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
passed the ?700 million mark for the first time, with spending currently | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
at a cool ?725 million. Let's cross to our Sports Correspondent Natalie | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
Pirks who's at Arsenal. Natalie, what a beanie eye-catching deals so | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
far? What are we expecting to come in these last few hours? Well, there | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
are no jaw-dropping deals, it has to be said, but is under ten hours to | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
go. Anything can happen, it often does. Arsene Wenger's handers been | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
forced due to injuries and suspensions to key personnel and he | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
said this morning he needs to bring a body in and we believe it to be | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
31-year-old Swedish midfielder Kim Kelstrum. He is already in London | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
trying to get that deal finished. Manchester United, they have loaned | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
back to Cardiff their deal from last January's transfer window, Wilfried | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Zaha, and no one else is coming in. They have done the big deal of | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
January transfer window so far last weekend, club record ?37.1 million | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
spent on Juan Mata, so the is therefore clubs. It just seems, | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
whatever the circumstances and the state of the economy, these Premier | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
League clubs have money to spend. They always seem to find the money, | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
don't they? 100 million spent in January. That is an increase on this | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
time last year where 120 was eventually spent in January, the | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
fourth biggest January window of all time. This window was loved by fans | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
for the drama but loathed by managers. Arsene Wenger reiterating | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
he just wants it to stop, they don't feel bad value for money but some of | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
the Premier League Mac boss biggest players like Luis Suarez have come | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
in in January and the teams know the players brought in by 11 o'clock | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
today, could make all the difference in May. OK, thank you. Time now for | :27:43. | :27:52. | |
a look at the weather. Those isobars looked very tightly packed. | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
I'm afraid we've been here before. This is something special. A very | :27:57. | :28:07. | |
deep area of low pressure. Sunbury Strong wind with some already, and | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
more to come on Saturday. We have an amber warning in place. Across the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
Somerset levels, we could have 40 million litres distinctive possible | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
across the high ground of Wales and the south-west. Very unwelcome news | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
indeed. Cold air further north which has implications. Perhaps you are | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
travelling later on today across the high-level routes, the top end of | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
the Pennines, southern parts of Scotland, north of the central belt, | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
there is a risk that rain converting into snowfall at higher levels. Best | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
to check if you're travelling later on today into the first part of the | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
evening and then later on tonight 's separate features away from the main | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
rain band which may drag that snow level down to quite low levels. You | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
could wake up to snow in the heart of Belfast and the heart of Glasgow. | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
Again, best to check before you travel. The skies clear overnight | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
and then we have a widespread ice problem across central and northern | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
and western parts of the British Isles on untreated surfaces. I'm | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
going to show the high tides. It's not something we tend to do but they | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
are -not as high as they were in the first part of January, but when you | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
combine it with this amount of wind, and the large waves it would | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
generate, there will be a problem around the channel and Irish Sea | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
coasts, with some localised flooding. So check that one. | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
Saturday, a blustery sort of day with the showers gathering together | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
to give rain across northern and western parts of the British Isles | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
and a little bit of sheltered towards East. And then, thankfully, | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
we get a Sunday, which is a brighter, drier day for many. The | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
wind coming from the south-west. Still quite a bit of it but nowhere | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
near the levels of Saturday, I suspect, so that'll be a quieter | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
day. Temporary relief, I have to say. Overnight, and the startling, | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
there could be a problem with snow in parts of Scotland and Northern | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
Ireland. And then, on Saturday, very strong wind, and in the southwestern | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
quarter we have those high tides, as well. A lot going on, of course. The | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
BBC weather website has the weather warnings and flood warnings to keep | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
you up-to-date through the rest of today and of course through the | :30:24. | :30:24. | |
weekend. Thank you very much indeed. Now a | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
reminder of our top story this lunchtime. After murder convictions | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
are reinstated against Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox, the | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
family of Meredith Kercher say all they want is the truth. I'm going to | :30:37. | :30:47. | |
fight this until the very end, and it's not right. And it's not fair. | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
Flood had parts of Britain are bracing themselves for a fresh | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
onslaught as another storm sweeps in from the Atlantic. In the last few | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
minutes, the BBC has learned Andy Flower will stand down as the | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
England cricket coach after their disastrous Ashes tour. That's all | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
from us. Now on BBC One it's time for the | :31:09. | :31:10. |