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Alex Salmond said attempts to dictate from on high are damaging | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
the democratic process. Scots, he said, don't like being bullied. To | :00:18. | :00:26. | |
be told there are things we can't do will certainly elicit a Scottish | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
response that is as resolute as it is uncomfortable to the no campaign. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
We'll be getting the latest in the increasingly bitter dispute with our | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Scotland editor. Also this lunchtime: | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
With 16 severe flood warnings still in place in England, the Prime | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Minister pledges more financial support for businesses and farmers. | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
We also need this ?10 million fund, money that will be distributed to | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
the local authorities that are affected, so they can help | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
businesses that have either been directly or indirectly hit by the | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
flood. Tourism bosses in the South West | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
urge half-term holiday-makers not to be put off by recent images of their | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
battered coastline. The moment a co-pilot hijacked his | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
own plane and flew it to Switzerland to claim asylum. | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
This is obviously one male who can be relied upon not to step on his | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
partner's feet. And the real robots of the future - | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
less like humans, more like insects. Later on BBC London: | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Despite the better weather, fears that river levels could rise again | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
this week. And four bus drivers a day are | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
attacked or verbally abused in London, according to new figures. | :01:41. | :02:00. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The war of words | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
over Scottish independence got hotter today as First Minister Alex | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Salmond hit back at claims that an independent Scotland wouldn't be | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
able to keep the pound. Last week the Chancellor, George Osborne, said | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
that if Scotland voted yes in September's referendum, it couldn't | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
keep the currency. But in a speech in Aberdeen, Mr Salmond insisted | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
that not sharing the pound would cost businesses south of the border | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
many hundreds of millions of pounds - and accused other parties of | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
bullying Scotland. Our Scotland correspondent Laura Bicker is in | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
Aberdeen. Well, now we know there is no plan B | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
when it comes to the Scottish Government's choice of currency for | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
an independent Scotland. Alex Salmond said today that the pound | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
was the best option and he said when all this campaigning stops, the | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
common-sense will start. Otherwise it will cost businesses across the | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
UK hundreds of millions of pounds. Now it was his turn. On his home | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
turf in Aberdeen, Alex Salmond chose to make a speech to supporters but | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
his message was for the Chancellor and his colleagues in Westminster. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
To be told that we have no rights to assets jointly built up is as | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
insulting as it is demeaning. To be told there are things we can't do | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
will certainly elicit a Scottish response that is as resolute as it | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
is uncomfortable to the no campaign. It is yes, we can. It would cost the | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
rest of the UK millions if an independent Scotland could not use | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
the pound, he said. A charge he dubbed the Georgian attacks. The | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Chancellor wants Scotland last week that if they walked away from the | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
union they walked away from the pound. A currency union, he said, | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
would not work. And the outgoing European Commission President Jose | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Manuel Barroso said it would be extremely difficult, if not | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
impossible, for an independent Scotland to join the European Union. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Alex Salmond today dismissed those remarks but opponents of | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
independence say the First Minister still has questions to answer on | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
both the pound and Europe. People don't want to be in a position where | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
they going to vote when they have no idea what the alternative is, what | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
the replacement for the pound would be. I think the argument about | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
currency is absolutely critical, just as critical as the European | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
argument, and the wheels are coming off the wide. It simply does not | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
stack up. So if it came to it, could an independent Scotland use the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
pound without agreement was not Why continuing to use the pound, it | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
would make nonexistent any exchange costs of going from north or south | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
of the border, both to businesses and households. There are good | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
reasons for wanting to use the pound. Alex Salmond was preaching to | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
the converted and these supporters believe the First Minister inspires | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
confidence. He reassured the business community that his plan is | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
the correct one. I don't think we need a plan B because we have the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
correct plan going forward and he answered all the questions that | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
business people were looking for the answers to and came out with a | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
positive message. And confidence will be key in this campaign. With | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
seven months ago, both sides are trying to convince voters that only | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
they have a clear vision of Scotland's future. It will be very | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
interesting to see how the last week plays out with voters. The yes camp | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
and Alex Salmond said today that voters who feel bullied by | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
Westminster are being pushed their way. Better Together says the last | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
week has shown Alex Salmond to be a man without a plan. Seven months to | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
go, seven months to decide. Thank you. In a moment, we'll be | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
live in Westminster but first a Glasgow and our Scotland political | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
editor Brian Taylor. There is no plan B but Alex Salmond says | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Westminster's so-called bullying is playing in his favour. I think there | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
is a destructive plan B, which is to continue to use the pound, much as | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Panama uses the dollar. -- a deep fact to plan B. Alex Salmond says | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
the UK government will claim all the assets and he says that in those | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
circumstances the liabilities and debts would also fall to the | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
remainder of the UK. Is he saying that is a good idea? No, he is not. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
He says Scotland wishes to sharing those debts but only as part of a | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
sterling zone. There is politics going on here as well as the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
statistics. George Osborne is making it clear he is against the idea of | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
sharing a currency postindependence. Why? A, because he is against it. B, | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
because it would be very hard to sell it to the people of England. It | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
would be a hard marketing deal and so he turns away from it. Alex | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Salmond's demeanour today was one of reassurance and calm, rather than | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the bombastic rhetoric he knows might appeal to the nationalists he | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
is trying to soothe and assuage. He says this can ultimately be sorted | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
out in the event that there is a vote for independence. Thank you. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Let's go to our chief political correspondent Norman Smith in | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Westminster. Is there any sense in the no team that this accusation of | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
bullying holds some weight? My sense is, talking to figures in | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
government, they believe that for the first time in this campaign, | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
Alex Salmond has been significantly and seriously forced onto the back | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
foot. Not just because of the arguments on whether Scots could | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
keep the pound or remain in the EU but because of who is making the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
arguments. The critical interventions have not come from | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
David Cameron or George Osborne or Ed Balls but from independent | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
officials, like the governor of the Bank of England, the president of | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
the European Commission. These figures who cannot be dismissed as | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
posh English Tory boys going north of the border to tell Scots what | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
they should think. It matters because these arguments address some | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
of the keeper lives of reassurance that Alex Salmond has sought to | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
create - to reassure Scots they would keep the Queen, remain in | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
NATO, keep the pound, stay in the EU. Two of those pillars are looking | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
decidedly wobbly. Lastly, this is personal. It's not just about | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
raising doubts about whether Scots would keep the pound or whether they | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
could stay in the EU, it's raising doubts about Alex Salmond himself | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
and whether he can be trusted. Thank you. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
The Prime Minister has been visiting people in more flood-hit areas this | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
morning. He's described the flooding as a tragedy and promised an extra | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
?10 million for businesses affected by the disaster. There's been a lull | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
in the recent bad weather but forecasters say more rain is on the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
way. 16 severe flood warnings are still in place and 3,000 troops have | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
been deployed to help in the flood relief effort. Our correspondent | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Sian Lloyd is in Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
Yes, David Cameron was here a couple of hours ago seeing for himself just | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
how this community is coping with the floods. It has the unenviable | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
record of being one of the most frequently flooded places in the UK | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
and the Prime Minister was here to spread the word on just how these | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
communities across the land will get help. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Swathes of land still submerged and the water levels show little sign of | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
receding. Homes and businesses along the banks of the River Thames have | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
been among the worst affected. The River Severn, too, has risen to | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
record levels. In Worcestershire, only one main route into | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
Upton-upon-Severn is open to normal traffic and the community is being | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
helped by the Army to get around. I think it's an excellent service. I | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
wouldn't personally come into town just to get a couple of bottles of | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
milk if I've got to go the long way round. But this was ideal. We can | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
stock up, help the local community. Brilliant. This morning, the prime | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
minister visited the market town. He heard concerns from local business | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
people about a drop in trade. The government has allocated ?10 million | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
to support businesses hit by the floods. We've announced that we're | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
going to have a grant system for up to ?5,000 for businesses that have | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
been flooded so they can better protect themselves in future but we | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
also need this ?10 million fund, money that will be distributed to | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
the local authorities affected, so they can help businesses that have | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
either indirectly or directly been hit by the flood. That is actually | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
helpful to businesses. Ralph Thomas's pub is not underwater but | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
he says customers are staying away. He isn't convinced about the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
government scheme. Am I going to see any of this ?10 million, like a | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
reduction in rates while the roads are closed? I really don't know. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Without these flood defences, Upton-upon-Severn would be under | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
feet of water. The ?4.5 million investment was completed just over a | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
year ago. In the past, the town suffered severe flooding. In 2007, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
we struggled to get to the site because the flooding was so bad. A | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
permanent defence is the best option if you can but, obviously, any | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
defence is better than nothing. This community has been flooded 80 times | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
in the last 40 years. The people here are well rehearsed in dealing | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
with the rising River Severn. The Prime Minister acknowledge that, | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
across the country, there are still lessons to be learned. And also, | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
David Cameron yet again defended the government's handling of these | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
floods against some criticism that has been levied at them during this | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
time. He praised the efforts of the Army and the volunteers who have | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
been helping in this community and right across the country. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
There are still 16 severe flood warnings in place in the Thames | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Valley, the South West and Central England. Ben Brown is in Old Windsor | :12:33. | :12:41. | |
in Berkshire. Thank you very much. Let's show you | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
where we are with the flood waters here because, actually, the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
situation has improved quite a lot. This is as high as they came, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
between knee height and waist height, but the flood waters here | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
are ankle-deep now so that is an improvement. The weather is dry and | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
that is encouraging people here but everybody from this little village | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
has left their homes. They've been evacuated. There is no one much | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
around. They've left their community is -- canoes, which is how they were | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
trying to get around. One of the concerns was the health situation. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
The water is contaminated with sewage and the fear is that although | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the water levels have dropped quite considerably, they could come back | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
up again because the Environment Agency is warning that maybe by | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Thursday they will be back up to where they were. All the rainwater | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
we had over the weekend has got to filter through the River Thames and | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
over the next few days, that will send the flood levels here shooting | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
back up. Now, for many schools across the | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
country this week is half term - and many people would normally take | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
breaks in the UK. But what effects will the recent storms - and the | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
images of the battered coastline - have on the tourism industry this | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
week? John Maguire has been to Cornwall to find out. | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
This is the video postcard from Cornwall that has been beamed around | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
the world in recent weeks. And as school half term gets under way, the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
county's tourism board has launched its wet weather programme. The way | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
it's reported, it is almost as if Cornwall is entirely shot off. I did | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
eight week the other day and said, "it's a lovely sunny morning and I | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
went for a swim". The coast is famed for its rugged beauty, a landscape | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Lodge and into shape by the Atlantic Ocean. Here in Bude, the businesses | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
that are open our stoic. The biggest problem we've got is that people | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
couldn't get to Cornwall, so trying to get the message across that the | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
motorway and the trunk roads are open has been the biggest challenge. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
It has reduced bookings but has made very little difference to those that | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
were already booked. We're heading to a village where resilience is | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
branded into the DNA. It's now ten years since Boscastle was shocked by | :15:08. | :15:17. | |
flash flooding. Sally runs a B and B and lives in a nearby village and | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
she realised they had to fight to recover the tourism business here. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Extreme events over recent years - what impact have they had on you and | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the business? Devastating. We had the foot and mouth crisis and the | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
flooding in Boscastle in 2004. After the flood, we realised that we must | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
work together as a community, promote the area, do things to bring | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
people out of season, and it has worked. As Cornish as the cream tea | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
is the desire to attract visitors in all weathers. This is never going to | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
be a make or break week for the tourism business but it does provide | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
a cherry on the icing of the cake for those businesses that are open | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
this early on in the season. What's that cherry worth? In Cornwall | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
alone, it equates to 90,000-100,000 visitors, spending ?30 million. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Easter may be the traditional start of the main tourism season but many | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
businesses stay open all year round, whether the weather is | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
fine... Or whether the weather is downright awful. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
And you can find out more about the awful weather conditions, on the BBC | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
News website. And there are, of course, updates on your BBC Local | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Radio station. Three former employees of Barclays | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
Bank have been charged in relation to the alleged manipulation of the | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
interbank interest rate. The men will appear at Westminster | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Magistrates' Court. In 2012, Barclays Bank paid fines of ?219 | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
million to settle charges -- 200 ?90 million. The Serious Fraud Office | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
says an investigation into the scandal is invest -- continuing. | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Rome this | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
morning, and flew it to Geneva, where he wanted to seek asylum. | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Swiss police say the co-pilot took control when the main pilot went to | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
the bathroom. He's now being questioned by the authorities, as | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
An airliner hijacked by the plain's and co-pilot, then diverted to this | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
runway in Geneva. Swiss police scramble to react this morning when | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
this Ethiopian airlines scheduled flight to Rome was diverted here. | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Flying over Italy, the co-pilot had waited for the pilot to go to the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
toilet, then locked himself inside the cockpit and alerted air traffic | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
control to what he was doing. This is the actual cockpit recording. | :17:57. | :18:21. | |
Through the open cockpit window, the hijacker let himself down the road | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
then gave himself up to the Swiss authorities. Around 200 passengers | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
and crew left the plane unharmed, then the Swiss convened a hasty | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
press conference. The co-pilot hijacker was born in 1983. He is of | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Ethiopian origin. His act was motivated by his claim that his | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
safety is threatened in his country and he wants to seek asylum in | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Switzerland. Ethiopian Airline say no weapons were involved in though | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
one was in danger, but just why the hijacker did not wait to disembark | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
in Rome is not clear. He now faces the prospect of up to 20 years in a | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
swish jail. -- Swiss jail. The time is 1:19pm. Our top story | :19:02. | :19:14. | |
this lunchtime: the war of words over independence hots up as Alex | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Salmond accuses Westminster on bullying Scotland over the pound. On | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
the 10th stage of the British curling teams. Can they qualify for | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
the semifinals at the Winter Olympics -- and a tense day. Later | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
on BBC London: Chaos for commuters this morning after flooding causes | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
delays and cancellations. And he's one of the greatest long-distance | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
runners of all-time. Haile Gebrselassie is announced as the | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
lead pacemaker for this year's London Marathon. | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
To many, this is still the image they have of a robot. A machine in | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
some kind of human form which, however gentle it appears, has | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
always felt a bit scary. But scientists say this isn't right, | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
that robots of the future are more likely to behave like insects. Our | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Science Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, is in Chicago and has gone to meet | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
some of them. Gigan is one male who could be | :20:03. | :20:16. | |
relied upon not to step on his part speed. This is how we imagined | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
robots would be in the future in the 1950s, but 60 years on this is how | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
they have turned out. It looks like a toy car, but actually it's an | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
intelligent robot that can see and learn. It is navigating its way | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
through this obstacle course or on its own. And here is the ant that | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
they are based on. The research team spent several weeks studying it in | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Spain, and based on what they learned, this is what they built. A | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
robot that can make its way through rough terrain. This is in and's eye | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
view of the world. The picture is coarse and simplified, but even so, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
it's an awful lot of visual data, and it has been a complete mystery | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
as to how a creature with the brain the size of a pinhead can process | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
that amount of information. If you have tried to build a robot | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
yourself, you can't help but be amazed when you look at an animal, | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
even a simple animal and how well it interacts with the world and how | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
many competencies it has, how compact is, how low powered it is, | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
how robust it is. We can't build anything like it, so there's a lot | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
to learn. In Chicago, researchers are developing robot fish. This | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
camera shows how it is avoiding the coloured obstacles. It uses electric | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
fields to sense its surroundings. In murky waters, it could be used to | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
assess damage in oil spills, assessed danger for divers or go | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
where cameras cannot see. It is a group of fish that live in the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
rivers of the Amazon, and those rivers are very, very murky. So as a | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
result, they have had to evolve a different way of sensing. It seems | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
increasingly that robot builders are drawing their inspiration from the | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
animal kingdom. So no robot servants to look after us in the foreseeable | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
future. And some might say, thank goodness. | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
17 people who were trapped in an abandoned gold mine east of | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Johannesburg have been brought to safety. South African police say | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
they face charges of illegal mining. An unknown number of miners are | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
still underground. It's thought they fear being arrested when they return | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
to surface. Our correspondent Nomsa Maseko is at the site east of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Johannesburg. What is happening there at the moment? At the moment, | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
rescue officials have confirmed in the last half an hour or so that | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
they have lost all communication with the gold-diggers, who are still | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
underground. About 11 of them have come out today, and 11 yesterday, so | :22:59. | :23:12. | |
in total, 22. They were treated full -- they were taken for medical | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
checkups and were found not to have sustained any injuries. They are | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
facing charges of illegal mining. Thank you very much for that update. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
The space thriller Gravity and the drama 12 Years a Slave were the two | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
big winners at last night's star-studded BAFTAs. Gravity won six | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
awards including Best British film, with Chiwetel Ejiofor being named | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
best actor for his portrayal of the slave Solomon Northup. Our | :23:38. | :23:38. | |
entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba was there. 12 Years A Slave. | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
It may not have won the most awards, but 12 Years A Slave took | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
the night's most prestigious prize, Best Film, as well as the best actor | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
award for Chiwetel Ejiofor. It felt so great to be supported in that | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
way, by your peers and friends and family. It was a really wonderful | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
feeling. I was thrilled. Its main rival, space thriller Gravity was | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
the winner of half a dozen awards, including best director. 1970s | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
comedy drama American Hustle took home three awards, including Best | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
supporting actress for Jennifer Lawrence. And other winners included | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
Cate Blanchett, best actress for Blue Jasmine. An unexpected | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
highlight was a musical performance where rapper tiny temper gave a high | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
five to the future King -- tiny temper. The recipient of this year | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
's Fellowship, I should probably call granny. Prince Philip was there | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
to award Helen Mirren with the Academy's highest honour. With | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
voting currently underway in America in the Academy Awards, 12 Years A | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Slave might be disappointed overall tonight, but they will be pleased | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
that they won the big one, Best Film. However, Gravity team will | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
still be hopeful that their six awards will help them exert a | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
significant pull on Oscar voters ahead of the ceremony in two weeks | :25:08. | :25:08. | |
time. It was a crucial day for Great | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Britain's curling teams today at the Winter Olympics. The men are | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
struggling to qualify for the semi-finals after losing their game | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
against Germany. -- China. They have one last chance to get through | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
tomorrow if they beat Norway. The women are guaranteed at least a | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
play-off spot after beating Russia 9-6 this morning. The weather | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
meanwhile has forced other events to be postponed. Our correspondent Andy | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
Swiss is in Sochi for us now. Yes, a huge day for Britain's | :25:36. | :25:47. | |
curlers in Sochi. They came here with high hopes but have sometimes | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
struggled over the first week, and they knew that today they simply had | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
to produce their best. For Britain's medal hopes, it was make | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
or break time. Curling is a sport of touch and tactics, the aim to slide | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
your stones into the target and knock out your opponents. Against | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
Russia, the women's team showed why they are amongst the favourites. | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
It's still all came down to the wire, the captain Eve Muirhead kept | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
her cool to secure the two points at the final end and victory. It means | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
if they win their last match later on, they are into the semifinals. | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
Really pleased with that. The girls played fantastic. It's one of those | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
games we knew we had to win, so there is always tension, but we went | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
out there and stayed relaxed and pulled off some great shots. The | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
British men will face a play-off tomorrow to see if they go through | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
to the semifinals after losing their final round robin match against | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
China. Meanwhile, Britain's freestyle skier role in Cheshire | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
tweeted this photograph of herself after spending the night in hospital | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
with concussion -- Rowan. Two snowboarders, including this | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Norwegian, also had to be stretchered off the slopes. But | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
organisers insist conditions here are no more dangerous than previous | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
games. At the moment, the figures are there is no difference at all, | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
no significant difference from Vancouver. Winter sport, snow | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
sports, they are not without their risks, but we don't see any | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
different -- difference between these Winter Olympics and the rest. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
In the mountains, heavy fog forced postponements. After the recent warm | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
weather, organisers were hoping for a bit of the white stuff, but not | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
quite like this. Tricky conditions in the mountains. To give you an | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
update on Rowan Cheshire, she is being released from hospital today, | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
and they will assess her condition over the next few days before | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
deciding if she can compete in her event on Thursday. | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
Warm weather there, but a record breaking snowstorm in Japan has | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
killed at least 12 people and injured more than 1,000 others. More | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
than a metre of snow fell in some areas, the sheer weight causing the | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
roofs of several buildings to collapse. It's also led to flight | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
cancellations, havoc on the roads and Toyota and Suzuki both say they | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
are having to shut production at several car plants. | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Here's Stav Danaos. There is some | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
snow here. Phenomenal amounts in the Scottish | :28:27. | :28:36. | |
mountains, but elsewhere it has been considerably mild across the UK this | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
winter. You could see, yesterday, Sunday's clear weather across the UK | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
brought us a gorgeous sunny day, but we are seeing more in the way of | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
cloud, and behind me looms the wind and rain on Thursday. More cloud | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
piling in today, so a cloudier and damp today than yesterday with | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
outbreaks of rain. Not very heavy for many areas, but it is pepping up | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
across western areas, particularly the South West and Wales where there | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
is a keen southerly wind. To the east, East Anglia and the | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
south-east, still dry, but the rain will arrive as we go through the | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
course of the afternoon. However, outbreaks of rain per Scotland, a | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
strong easterly wind and snow falling again over the mountains, | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
even in low levels. But for the Northern Isles, dry and bright, | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
Bocelli. Of rain for Northern Ireland. -- but Chile. Driver now in | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
the south-east, but turning wetter later on. The heaviest bursts across | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
Wales and the South West, but Western Cornwall will see some | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
sunshine, and that is the theme through the afternoon, some | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
brightness pushing in towards the south-west. Through the evening, the | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
band of rain spreads towards the east, reaching the eastern parts and | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
there are heavy bursts. Across northern areas, damp, misty, murky, | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
further rain and snow in the hills. Across the South West, heavy showers | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
pushing up. For most of us, it will be a frost free night apart from the | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
Northern Isles. Tomorrow looks like being a cloudy day, but more | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
sunshine than today. Sunny spells pushing into the West then the | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
Midlands. Heavy showers affecting central and southern parts of | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
England. Some of these containing hail and thunder, but for Scotland | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
and Northern Ireland, a grey day with outbreaks of rain continuing. | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
For Wednesday, nondescript day. A lot of cloud, some brightness, but | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
one or two spots of rain across western areas. Notice the | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
temperatures, ten or 11 degrees, so sticking with the mild theme. | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
Thursday we see the change, a mass of cloud comes in, tighter isobars, | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
and heavy rain. Nothing is stormy as we have seen over the past few weeks | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
though. Really, this week there will be some way -- rain around, but not | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
as windy, although the winds will pick up on Thursday and Friday and | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
into the weekend. And remaining on the mild side for many of us. Thank | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
you very much. Now a reminder of our top story this | :31:04. | :31:12. | |
lunchtime: the war of words over the Scottish independence referendum | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
hots up as Alex Salmond accuses Westminster of bullying the Scots | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
over the pound. That's all from us. Now | :31:18. | :31:18. |