:00:09. > :00:17.and anti-government protestors turn central Kiev into a battle ground
:00:18. > :00:22.once more. Violence erupts on the streets as police fire on
:00:23. > :00:26.protestors. Reports say at least 21 activists have been killed. This is
:00:27. > :00:30.the scene live in Independence Square in central Kiev. Urgent
:00:31. > :00:35.international talks get underway as the violence spreads across the
:00:36. > :00:38.country. We'll be getting the latest from our correspondent on the ground
:00:39. > :00:43.- and assessing the hopes for peace talks.
:00:44. > :00:46.Also this lunchtime: At the phone-hacking trial, Rebekah Brooks
:00:47. > :00:49.is acquitted of a charge that she authorised a reporter to pay for a
:00:50. > :00:51.picture of Prince William in a bikini. She still faces four other
:00:52. > :00:54.charges. The shocking number of under-18s
:00:55. > :00:59.with mental health problems in England who are being treated on
:01:00. > :01:03.adult psychiatric wards. WhatsApp at Facebook, as it spends
:01:04. > :01:13.more than ?11 billion on its biggest acquisition to date. Britain have
:01:14. > :01:17.won the bronze medal! And into the record books - Team GB
:01:18. > :01:24.equals its biggest-ever medal haul at the Winter Olympics with a bronze
:01:25. > :01:28.for the women's curlers. Words can't really describe it. I don't think
:01:29. > :01:31.it's sunk in. Fantastic. Later on BBC London:
:01:32. > :01:35.London's mayor is accused of failing to secure sponsorship money for the
:01:36. > :01:37.extension of his so-called Boris Bike scheme.
:01:38. > :01:39.And the Mafia boss who lived a double life in a west London suburb
:01:40. > :02:05.faces extradition. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:02:06. > :02:09.BBC News At One. There are ports of at least 21 activists being shot
:02:10. > :02:12.dead in the Ukrainian capital Kiev this morning, after a truce between
:02:13. > :02:17.the government and protesters unravelled. Video footage has
:02:18. > :02:21.emerged which apparently shows snipers firing on demonstrators who
:02:22. > :02:25.have been trying to retake their protest camp in Independence Square.
:02:26. > :02:32.Duncan Crawford is in Kiev for us this lunchtime.
:02:33. > :02:36.This situation is somewhat calmer here but still extremely tense. The
:02:37. > :02:41.Parliament and Cabinet buildings were evacuated earlier because of
:02:42. > :02:45.the violence. The Mayor of Kiev has resigned and there are reports of
:02:46. > :02:50.defections of a number of MPs from the ruling party so it appears as if
:02:51. > :02:58.President Yankovic may be losing some support. All this after the
:02:59. > :03:00.clashes broke out this morning. This is what a truce looks like in
:03:01. > :03:15.Ukraine. Independence Square, the centre of
:03:16. > :03:18.Kiev, once again a battle zone. Anti-government demonstrators tried
:03:19. > :03:24.to take cover and hide behind shields as shots come in. With
:03:25. > :03:28.running street battles breaking out with the riot police, even though
:03:29. > :03:34.President Yankovic last night declared an end to the violence. --
:03:35. > :03:39.Viktor Yanukovych pitch. This sound of gunfire rang out across the city
:03:40. > :03:44.and both sides accused each other of using live ammunition. Medics trying
:03:45. > :03:50.to treat protesters as bodies lay on the ground. TRANSLATION: They've
:03:51. > :03:54.announced a truce but now they threw grenades at us. This is what they
:03:55. > :04:00.mean by a truce. We don't trust them. There had been a stand-off in
:04:01. > :04:03.the square until this morning, when riot police moved back and protest
:04:04. > :04:09.as we claimed much of the territory they had lost. The government blames
:04:10. > :04:12.the violence on radicals. Hardline protest insist they will keep
:04:13. > :04:19.fighting until the president stands down. Demonstrators appeared to
:04:20. > :04:24.capture some riot police. TRANSLATION: It's very hard to
:04:25. > :04:28.control the situation now we can see that real combat has started. We
:04:29. > :04:33.don't want it. The main thing is to stop the bloodshed and minimise the
:04:34. > :04:38.victims. The number of fatalities has increased and doctors have
:04:39. > :04:42.struggled to help the injured. This hotel lobby has been turned into a
:04:43. > :04:45.makeshift hospital. Injured protesters have been brought here.
:04:46. > :04:51.Some of them have died. The situation is tense. People are angry
:04:52. > :04:54.and fearful, and it's difficult to see at the moment how the
:04:55. > :05:07.authorities are going to be able to DS can it the situation. --
:05:08. > :05:11.deescalate the situation. It's horrible. It's hard to understand
:05:12. > :05:15.how in the 21st century, people can just be shot directly and someone
:05:16. > :05:18.told them to shock people. Events are spiralling out of control and
:05:19. > :05:22.it's feared the country could be torn apart. Today had already been
:05:23. > :05:29.declared as a day of mourning for the dead but the number of those who
:05:30. > :05:32.lost loved ones continues to grow. Demonstrations have spread to other
:05:33. > :05:39.parts of the country, particularly in the West, which is traditionally
:05:40. > :05:41.more pro-EU, but also in the Russian speaking east, which has
:05:42. > :05:46.traditionally been a stronghold for the president. Reports of
:05:47. > :05:49.anti-government demonstrations there and reports that opposition
:05:50. > :05:53.headquarters have been ransacked by pro-government demonstrators. So the
:05:54. > :05:58.situation is tense across the country. In Independence Square,
:05:59. > :06:03.protesters are once again building up their barricades and preparing
:06:04. > :06:07.for more violence. With me now is our diplomatic correspondent Bridget
:06:08. > :06:12.Kendall. There are talks in Ukraine and at the EU but what hopes of a
:06:13. > :06:17.diplomat excision? Diplomacy is going to be very difficult. There's
:06:18. > :06:20.enormous alarm. The foreign office in London called in the Ukrainian
:06:21. > :06:25.Ambassador today to express their dismay at the violence in Kiev. But
:06:26. > :06:28.although there are three EU Foreign Minister is currently in Kiev
:06:29. > :06:34.meeting with the opposition and the president, and there will be this
:06:35. > :06:37.emergency meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels later, that
:06:38. > :06:42.may be relevant to the big question, which is there anything now which
:06:43. > :06:49.can stop the violence on the ground in Ukraine getting worse? It isn't
:06:50. > :06:52.just Kiev. That's the focus, but there are towns in the West where
:06:53. > :06:57.opposition forces seem to be in control. In the Crimea, which is a
:06:58. > :07:01.majority Russian speaking region, the head of the Parliament has gone
:07:02. > :07:06.to Moscow to say that if this goes on getting worse, they'll wonder if
:07:07. > :07:10.they want to stay in Ukraine. So there's an enormous amount at stake
:07:11. > :07:14.on both sides and the question is, does the President have those loyal
:07:15. > :07:21.to him, including the super purity services, who can impose some
:07:22. > :07:24.order? -- security services. Can they do it without bloodshed? That
:07:25. > :07:29.seems impossible at the moment. If not, can there be a way to stop this
:07:30. > :07:34.situation escalating? People have been worrying about using the phrase
:07:35. > :07:39.Civil War but that is a scenario people are beginning to wonder if
:07:40. > :07:41.it's moving towards. You can follow all the developers on
:07:42. > :07:46.the BBC News channel across the afternoon. -- developments.
:07:47. > :07:48.At the phone-hacking trial, the former chief executive of News
:07:49. > :07:51.International Rebekah Brooks has been cleared of one of the counts
:07:52. > :07:55.against her. She was acquitted of a charge that she authorised a Sun
:07:56. > :08:01.reporter to pay for a picture of Prince William in a bikini. Ms
:08:02. > :08:08.Brooks has begun giving evidence in her defence. She denies all the
:08:09. > :08:12.other charges. This mammoth trial has entered a new
:08:13. > :08:16.phase today. The prosecution handing the floor to the defence, and the
:08:17. > :08:20.defence of Rebekah Brooks started with detailed questions about her
:08:21. > :08:24.rise and rise to the top of the British newspaper industry. But
:08:25. > :08:27.first, there was that important development - the news that she has
:08:28. > :08:35.been acquitted of one of the charges that she faces. Rebekah Brooks has
:08:36. > :08:39.spent most of this trial's 62 days in court sitting in the dock,
:08:40. > :08:44.watched by the jury. But in all that time, they haven't heard a single
:08:45. > :08:49.word from her. Today, the moment came, as her barrister put it, for
:08:50. > :08:51.them to begin to listen to her so they can eventually work out if
:08:52. > :08:57.there's any truth in the allegations she faces. Rebekah Brooks had been
:08:58. > :09:00.accused of authorising a journalist to pay for a picture of Prince
:09:01. > :09:05.William in a bikini whilst studying at Sandhurst. After legal arguments,
:09:06. > :09:09.the judge said there wasn't enough evidence of that and the jury was
:09:10. > :09:14.ordered to acquit. Then, wearing a blue dress and a white cardigan,
:09:15. > :09:17.Rebekah Brooks took her seat in the witness box - is seat she is
:09:18. > :09:18.expected to occupy four days. The questioning began with her early
:09:19. > :09:30.years in the news business. Her first newsroom was at the
:09:31. > :09:41.Warrington Guardian, where she had typical apprenticeship. That
:09:42. > :09:45.enthusiasm led to a deputy editor's job at 27 and, eventually, the role
:09:46. > :09:50.of Chief Executive of News International, giving her the ear of
:09:51. > :09:52.the Royal family and prime ministers, including a close
:09:53. > :09:58.relationship, we heard yesterday, with Tony Blair. But her barrister,
:09:59. > :10:02.Jonathan Laidlaw QC, said she was facing charges because she was a
:10:03. > :10:05.tabloid editor, because you worked for Rupert Murdoch because of any
:10:06. > :10:14.political views. He told the jury...
:10:15. > :10:21.Before the lunch break, there was more detail about those early years.
:10:22. > :10:25.The big biopsy that the paper used to do, spending ?80,000, for
:10:26. > :10:29.example, on a story about Paul Gascoigne. Her early relationship
:10:30. > :10:32.with Rupert Murdoch, who used to call up every week to find out what
:10:33. > :10:37.was in the paper she was working for. The prosecution case has
:10:38. > :10:40.largely centred on the later years, when she was in charge of the News
:10:41. > :10:44.of the World and News International. The prosecution made the case that
:10:45. > :10:48.she must have known about phone hacking and illegal payments.
:10:49. > :10:52.These, and that she must have been masterminding the cover-up. She
:10:53. > :10:56.denies all four charges she still faces.
:10:57. > :10:58.The BBC has learned that hundreds of young people with mental-health
:10:59. > :11:01.problems are being treated in adult psychiatric wards in England -
:11:02. > :11:13.despite a promise six years ago that they would all be seen by specialist
:11:14. > :11:16.adolescent units. Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan
:11:17. > :11:20.reports. One in ten young people suffer a
:11:21. > :11:27.mental health problem but too many of the sickest children in England
:11:28. > :11:34.are being let down by the NHS. She understands what's happening. This
:11:35. > :11:39.woman's 12-year-old daughter, who we are not identifying, was sent to a
:11:40. > :11:43.hospital 130 miles from home. Visiting her was a regular and
:11:44. > :11:48.emotional. One time she got upset because she didn't want me to go and
:11:49. > :11:53.they had to prise her off me. They put her in a room and as I was
:11:54. > :12:03.leaving, she was shouting out of the window, "mummy, mummy, please don't
:12:04. > :12:06.leave me" . So, very distressing. Freedom of Information requests to
:12:07. > :12:11.mental health trusts show that children are travelling up to 275
:12:12. > :12:16.miles for a psychiatric bed. 350 young people have been treated on
:12:17. > :12:22.adult ward so far this year, some as young as 12. That's an increase of
:12:23. > :12:26.more than a third on last year. This is what every severely ill young
:12:27. > :12:32.person was promised by the NHS six years ago, a bed in an adolescent
:12:33. > :12:36.unit. It simply hasn't happened. This psychiatrist says his team have
:12:37. > :12:41.to make up to 100 calls each week to find a bed for a distressed child.
:12:42. > :12:45.It is undoubtedly getting worse. It's a consistent problem now with
:12:46. > :12:50.all child and adolescent mental health services, that they have
:12:51. > :12:55.young people misplaced in adult wards, getting inappropriate care.
:12:56. > :13:01.Nicola knows what poor care feels like. When she was 14, she was sent
:13:02. > :13:07.to a unit miles from home. Visitors were rare. It was very uncomfortable
:13:08. > :13:12.and unsettling because not being able to see a familiar face was
:13:13. > :13:18.really strange and I was in a strange place. It was just a scary.
:13:19. > :13:22.NHS England admit the system is quitting with a lack of beds and are
:13:23. > :13:27.working to resolve the problems. -- the system is creaking. For sick
:13:28. > :13:29.children forced to travel the country seeking help, the need for a
:13:30. > :13:32.solution is urgent. British Gas has reported a dip in
:13:33. > :13:37.profits, blaming warmer weather and higher wholesale energy costs. Its
:13:38. > :13:42.operating profit for 2013 was down 6% on the year before. Customer
:13:43. > :13:53.numbers were down too, falling 2% on the previous year.
:13:54. > :13:58.We all use energy and, as prices rose last year, it became ever
:13:59. > :14:05.harder to pay for it. But today, the UK's biggest supplier said it had
:14:06. > :14:09.had a tough year, as well, posting profits of ?571 million, down 6%. We
:14:10. > :14:14.really understand the difficulty that many households have, which is
:14:15. > :14:18.why we were the first company to actually reduce our prices. We
:14:19. > :14:24.reduced our prices on the 1st of January by ?53. We are one of the
:14:25. > :14:29.cheapest suppliers. British Gas announced in October that it would
:14:30. > :14:33.increase prices by more than 9%. But that subsequently became a 6% rise
:14:34. > :14:38.after the government agreed to cut back the green levies on our bills.
:14:39. > :14:41.That hasn't stopped the company from shedding customers - it's lost more
:14:42. > :14:46.than 350,000 of them over the past year. Neil Denison, a married father
:14:47. > :14:51.of three from Yorkshire, was one of them. It British Gas customer for 15
:14:52. > :14:57.years, he came to the conclusion his loyalty wasn't valued. It gradually
:14:58. > :15:00.became that they were taking advantage of existing customers and
:15:01. > :15:05.the prices were going up at higher rates than other companies. I
:15:06. > :15:09.decided that I had to stop being a moat and look at switching and see
:15:10. > :15:15.whether there was a way to bring the bills down. Energy soared up the
:15:16. > :15:19.political agenda last year when Ed Miliband announced plans to freeze
:15:20. > :15:23.prices. Today British Gas's parent company Centrica said that that had
:15:24. > :15:27.triggered a 20% fall in its shares. The company also dismissed the
:15:28. > :15:31.energy secretary's suggestion it has too much market power, but there are
:15:32. > :15:37.now calls for a full inquiry into the sector. There is still a
:15:38. > :15:41.suspicion that the very big suppliers, like Centrica British
:15:42. > :15:45.Gas, are selling themselves gas and electricity at a high price that is
:15:46. > :15:50.hitting consumers very hard, that this isn't a competitive market that
:15:51. > :15:54.works in the interest of consumers. Centrica says it has to make profits
:15:55. > :15:57.to secure the energy Britain needs but if that competition probe is
:15:58. > :16:03.confirmed, it could be the biggest loser. Now, how's this for making
:16:04. > :16:06.friends on Facebook? The company has just spent ?11.5 billion on the
:16:07. > :16:10.messaging service, WhatsApp. It's Facebook's biggest ever acquisition
:16:11. > :16:13.- and will give it access to 450 million people who use WhatsApp
:16:14. > :16:23.every month. Rory Cellan Jones reports.
:16:24. > :16:25.He is not yet 30 but Mark Zaika Burke has already built a global
:16:26. > :16:33.business with more than 1 billion users. Now his company Facebook is
:16:34. > :16:37.spending a huge sum to buy WhatsApp, a business that has grown even more
:16:38. > :16:42.regularly. It allows you to send messages or photos without paying a
:16:43. > :16:48.penny. I normally use WhatsApp to send pictures to my friends, because
:16:49. > :16:51.it costs through text message. It is less hassle than Facebook on a
:16:52. > :16:56.quicker and easier, we can get a group going and I generally have a
:16:57. > :17:09.read. Nobody uses text message any more, they all use WhatsApp. -- I
:17:10. > :17:13.generally prefer it. Mark Zuckerberg hopes WhatsApp will help his
:17:14. > :17:21.business to grow further. The founder of WhatsApp says one thing
:17:22. > :17:25.will not change. WhatsApp does have a huge global and youthful audience.
:17:26. > :17:31.450 million of them around the world. And it is growing very
:17:32. > :17:35.rapidly with 1 million new people joining every day. There are just
:17:36. > :17:39.around 50 staff, each of whom will be very wealthy indeed in the coming
:17:40. > :17:45.years. But do the sums really add up? Facebook has paid a lot for a
:17:46. > :17:54.business that earns very little. History shows that can work out two
:17:55. > :17:58.ways. Google's acquisition of YouTube looks good and cheap.
:17:59. > :18:07.Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, we can't answer about that yet.
:18:08. > :18:13.Facebook will wish to keep making money from WhatsApp. Around the
:18:14. > :18:16.world, people are using their phones to communicate in new ways and
:18:17. > :18:29.Facebook will pay any price to be the one that connects them all up.
:18:30. > :18:32.Our top story this lunchtime: In Ukraine, reports that at least 21
:18:33. > :18:36.protesters have been killed in renewed clashes with police in
:18:37. > :18:39.central Kiev after a truce agreed yesterday broke down.
:18:40. > :18:41.And still to come - the bumblebee under threat. With populations
:18:42. > :18:43.already suffering steep declines, now they're at risk from two new
:18:44. > :18:46.diseases. Later on BBC London:
:18:47. > :18:47.Coming on leaps and bounds - a new purpose built centre brings free
:18:48. > :18:51.running indoors. And branded "down and dirty" but
:18:52. > :18:52.does this paint a true picture of Europe's biggest estate? Residents
:18:53. > :19:02.hit back with a film of their own. To Sochi now and it was as tense as
:19:03. > :19:05.you can imagine, and down to the last stone, but Britain's women
:19:06. > :19:08.curlers have taken Britain into the record books - their bronze medal
:19:09. > :19:11.this morning means Team GB has already equalled its biggest-ever
:19:12. > :19:14.medal haul at the Winter Olympics. It brings the medal tally to three -
:19:15. > :19:19.the highest since 1936 - with a further medal guaranteed in the
:19:20. > :19:28.men's curling final tomorrow. Our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss, is
:19:29. > :19:32.in Sochi. What a Games this is turning out to be for Britain's
:19:33. > :19:36.curlers, the men are going for gold tomorrow, the women going for bronze
:19:37. > :19:41.today. After yesterday's defeat, this time there was a victory. The
:19:42. > :19:46.gold might have gone but a medal still late and rising the close. For
:19:47. > :19:50.Eve Muirhead's team, the challenge was to put yesterday's
:19:51. > :19:52.disappointment behind them and try to bring home the bronze. In
:19:53. > :19:57.Switzerland, they were up against the team who beat them early in the
:19:58. > :20:02.competition and Britain were soon trailing again, as the Swiss took an
:20:03. > :20:06.early lead. But Britain's Captain steadied the ship. Eve Muirhead's
:20:07. > :20:12.pinpoint precision ensured that by the halfway point it was all levels.
:20:13. > :20:19.The teams were locked at 5-5 going down the final end, but Eve Muirhead
:20:20. > :20:22.had the final stone. This, for an Olympic medal. An agonising, nerve
:20:23. > :20:31.shredding weight, but it was worth it. There is no chance to celebrate
:20:32. > :20:34.yet but the stone is going to get there and the brushes go in the air,
:20:35. > :20:39.and Britain have won the bronze medal. After yesterday 's heartache,
:20:40. > :20:43.this time the tears were of joy. It has been a difficult tournament but
:20:44. > :20:48.at last, they had their reward. Words can't really describe it, but
:20:49. > :20:52.fantastic. It was a great game, it could have gone either way. You
:20:53. > :20:56.would like to say we were chasing in the first half but when we stepped
:20:57. > :21:01.up, we had two and the girls were fantastic, and I could not have been
:21:02. > :21:06.happier. Outside, four very proud mums, their daughters are now
:21:07. > :21:09.Olympic medallists. Absolutely delighted for them all, they have
:21:10. > :21:16.worked so hard through the whole year so it could not be better.
:21:17. > :21:19.Another emotional day for British curling. With the men going for gold
:21:20. > :21:26.tomorrow, the celebrations could be only just beginning.
:21:27. > :21:30.With that men's final tomorrow, Britain is guaranteed at least four
:21:31. > :21:34.medals at these Games. Their best performance at a Winter Olympics
:21:35. > :21:36.since their very first one in 1924. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has
:21:37. > :21:40.acknowledged that the economic recovery remains "unbalanced".
:21:41. > :21:44.Speaking in Hong Kong, he said Britain was not importing or
:21:45. > :21:48.exporting enough. Meanwhile, house building slowed in England at the
:21:49. > :21:50.tail end of last year, although the picture across the whole year was
:21:51. > :21:58.better, as our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, reports.
:21:59. > :22:04.Rising house prices in most areas have focus the debate on supply. Are
:22:05. > :22:09.enough new homes being built to keep up with demand? Today's figures for
:22:10. > :22:13.England showed an increased last year. Ministers say the help to buy
:22:14. > :22:18.scheme played a part but the industry says there is still a way
:22:19. > :22:22.to go. We are building about 120,000 homes a year in total. Academic
:22:23. > :22:27.experts tell us we probably need to be building about 240,000. We are
:22:28. > :22:31.half what we should be, just to meet the growth on households. Last year
:22:32. > :22:36.the number of houses started in England was up ready 3%. Though in
:22:37. > :22:40.the last three months there was a fall of 1% on the previous quarter,
:22:41. > :22:45.and the number completed in the year was down. The latest news suggesting
:22:46. > :22:47.a rather mixed picture in the house-building industry comes at a
:22:48. > :22:52.time when the economy is growing. But there is a debate about how
:22:53. > :22:56.balanced the recovery maybe. Across different sectors of business and
:22:57. > :23:01.industry. In a speech in Hong Kong this morning, the Chancellor warned
:23:02. > :23:05.that the economic job was not done. The recovery is not yet secure and
:23:06. > :23:12.our economy is still too unbalanced. We cannot rely on chimeras alone for
:23:13. > :23:16.our economic growth, as we did in previous decades. Labour claimed the
:23:17. > :23:21.Chancellor was acknowledging his previous mistakes. He is finally
:23:22. > :23:25.recognising that the recovery is still unbalanced and unsustainable,
:23:26. > :23:29.even though he choked it off in 2010. Now we need the Chancellor to
:23:30. > :23:33.recognise there is a major cost of living set of pressures facing
:23:34. > :23:38.people in work. The stage is being set for the budget next month, with
:23:39. > :23:40.the debate focusing on how the UK should cement the recovery.
:23:41. > :23:43.The Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, has won a multi-million
:23:44. > :23:46.pound corruption case - even though the judge said he had bribed a
:23:47. > :23:49.German banker during the sale of shares in 2005. The High Court ruled
:23:50. > :23:53.that although the deal had been corrupt, there had been no financial
:23:54. > :23:55.loss to the German media group which had brought the case. Our chief
:23:56. > :24:01.sports correspondent, Dan Roan, is outside the Royal Courts of Justice
:24:02. > :24:05.in Central London. This will be a bittersweet victory for Bernie
:24:06. > :24:09.Ecclestone. His reputation called into question, his integrity called
:24:10. > :24:15.into question by a High Court judge. He was being sued by a German
:24:16. > :24:19.media company, because they said he had entered into a corrupt agreement
:24:20. > :24:23.coming bribed a German banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, in order to stay
:24:24. > :24:27.in control of the sport when it was sold in 2005, and that they lost out
:24:28. > :24:30.financially as a result because he deliberately undervalued it. The
:24:31. > :24:34.judge agreed with them on the first point, you said that he found
:24:35. > :24:39.Ecclestone and unreliable witness and that he had paid a bribe. But on
:24:40. > :24:45.the second point, she disagreed, saying they had not lost out. It was
:24:46. > :24:50.on those grounds that Ecclestone effectively won -- he disagreed.
:24:51. > :24:55.That will be a relief for him given the criminal trial he must stand in
:24:56. > :24:59.April but the remarks question his leadership of the sport.
:25:00. > :25:02.Dozens of families torn apart and separated by the Korean War have
:25:03. > :25:05.been reunited after 60 years. The emotional reunions, which took place
:25:06. > :25:08.in North Korea, are the first time many have seen their relatives since
:25:09. > :25:11.the war ended in 1953 - resulting in the split between North and South.
:25:12. > :25:14.Some were so frail they needed wheelchairs and ambulances to make
:25:15. > :25:24.the visits possible. Lucy Williamson travelled with the families and has
:25:25. > :25:31.sent this report. They came any way they could. Supported by helpers in
:25:32. > :25:35.wheelchairs -- supported by helpers, in wheelchairs, even
:25:36. > :25:38.ambulances. They came to hold their brothers, sisters and children and
:25:39. > :25:41.meet their North Korean grandchildren for the first time. It
:25:42. > :25:50.was the moment they had waited 60 years for. Too much for some. This
:25:51. > :25:56.man, 91 years old, began to cry at the touch of his nieces. The
:25:57. > :26:00.families only get 11 hours together, and there are restrictions on
:26:01. > :26:07.talking politics, or bringing in presence which break UN sanctions on
:26:08. > :26:14.North Korea. Lee Duyong is due to meet his elder brother, Sun-Yong.
:26:15. > :26:20.They were children the last time they met. Since then, 64 birthdays
:26:21. > :26:25.have come and gone. The guest that Mr Lee is taking his brother now are
:26:26. > :26:29.those for an old man, thermal underwear and chocolate biscuits. Mr
:26:30. > :26:35.Lee remembers him as being softly spoken and very kind. At the family
:26:36. > :26:42.has been apart so long that Sun-Yong got his little brother's name wrong
:26:43. > :26:45.on the application form. It is hard for people to understand what it is
:26:46. > :26:52.like when you have been separated so long. But it is a true miracle. I am
:26:53. > :26:56.elated to be reunited. All that was missing in my life was my brother.
:26:57. > :27:03.Now that I can see him again, I have no regrets whatsoever if I were to
:27:04. > :27:07.die tomorrow. For 60 years, this border has been closed and fiercely
:27:08. > :27:11.guarded. This was the closest that many separated families could get to
:27:12. > :27:16.there additives on the other side. And the ribbons pinned to the border
:27:17. > :27:23.fence behind me carry messages left there for them. And even the lucky
:27:24. > :27:26.few taking part in these reunions will soon have to return home. After
:27:27. > :27:33.a brief taste of the relationships they never had, the curtain that
:27:34. > :27:36.divides them will swing shut again. Scientists are warning of a new
:27:37. > :27:39.threat to the already beleaguered bumblebee. Research - published in
:27:40. > :27:42.the journal Nature - has found that diseases carried by commercial
:27:43. > :27:46.honeybees are spilling over into wild populations. Beekeepers are
:27:47. > :27:49.being urged to keep their hives as free from infection as possible, to
:27:50. > :27:53.try to stop more damage to a wild bee population that's already
:27:54. > :27:57.suffering. Rebecca Morelle, reports. They are a vital part of the
:27:58. > :28:00.countryside but bumblebees are in decline. The destruction of their
:28:01. > :28:04.habitat has caused numbers to plummet and now they face a new
:28:05. > :28:10.threat. Diseases carried by their distant cousin, the honeybee, have
:28:11. > :28:15.spread. Bumblebees are already doing badly, but tests carried out here
:28:16. > :28:20.show they have been hit by two new diseases, a virus and a fungal
:28:21. > :28:24.parasites. These deadly pathogens have already caused widespread
:28:25. > :28:28.losses of honeybees, and now scientists are worried that these
:28:29. > :28:31.insects could suffer the same fate. Scientists here at Royal Holloway
:28:32. > :28:36.University of London have discovered it affected bumblebees across
:28:37. > :28:44.England, Scotland and Wales. They found that the pathogens are cutting
:28:45. > :28:47.short the pollinator's lives. We are concerned about this, particularly
:28:48. > :28:52.because on bobbies are already in decline. We know they are being
:28:53. > :28:55.impacted by a number of different threats -- because bumblebees are in
:28:56. > :28:58.decline. It is worrying that there is a new threat and all of these
:28:59. > :29:03.things could be acting together to drive down wild bee populations. It
:29:04. > :29:08.is not just enough to bring back habitat, we need to think about
:29:09. > :29:14.these other threats. Researchers are calling on beekeepers to help. They
:29:15. > :29:18.say controlling diseases in hives could stop the thread, and
:29:19. > :29:23.conservationists say this is essential, with bumblebees playing a
:29:24. > :29:25.key roll in pollinating many crops and plants, any further losses could
:29:26. > :29:37.have a devastating impact. Time for a look at the weather. A
:29:38. > :29:40.boisterous spell of weather, feeling chilly in the wind, reasonable in
:29:41. > :29:44.the sunshine. The cloud which affected many eastern areas has been
:29:45. > :29:50.clearing away. More broken cloud following on, some hefty showers
:29:51. > :29:53.following on. It is turning wintry over higher ground, temperature is
:29:54. > :29:57.falling away despite some sunshine for many of us. Yes, some snow over
:29:58. > :30:01.the Highlands of Scotland. We have had a lot of snow here over the last
:30:02. > :30:06.few weeks. There will be sunshine to the east of the high ground. Some
:30:07. > :30:10.showers are probably getting across the Pennines, some are wintry over
:30:11. > :30:15.high ground. Much brighter than this morning across many parts of eastern
:30:16. > :30:20.England. Bright and breezy but the temperatures are sliding away, a bit
:30:21. > :30:23.of a nip in the air. A few showers across the south-west of England.
:30:24. > :30:27.Some hail and maybe a rumble of thunder. They will dash through
:30:28. > :30:30.quite quickly. There will be some sunshine following on, as there will
:30:31. > :30:37.be across parts of Wales. Seven or eight at best. Some sunshine for
:30:38. > :30:41.Northern Ireland, just six degrees, it will feel cold. Certainly a cold
:30:42. > :30:45.night this coming night compared to last night. A touch of frost where
:30:46. > :30:50.the skies remain clear. Most likely across central and eastern areas.
:30:51. > :30:57.Further showers buffeting the West. Significant snow for all --
:30:58. > :31:00.significant snowfall. That is a magical how cold it will feel first
:31:01. > :31:05.thing tomorrow morning. Some sunshine, the best across southern
:31:06. > :31:09.and eastern areas, further blustery showers rattling into the north and
:31:10. > :31:13.west and more snow over highly ground in northern Britain -- high
:31:14. > :31:21.ground. It will feel cold despite some sunshine, at best nine or 10
:31:22. > :31:25.degrees. When the showers, -- the showers will be heavy. It will be
:31:26. > :31:29.windy for all of us and we will see some wet weather heading into many
:31:30. > :31:32.western parts of the country. Perhaps a glancing blow from this
:31:33. > :31:36.frontal system but this is the main event as we start the weekend,
:31:37. > :31:41.dialling into the West. Make the most of early brightness, it won't
:31:42. > :31:45.last. Rain will eventually arrive, a reasonable day further south and
:31:46. > :31:48.east, bright and breezy after the chilly start, a touch of frost on
:31:49. > :31:55.Saturday night. Sunday is a different day. Cloudier and windy
:31:56. > :31:58.for all. Persistent rain arriving. Mild everywhere.
:31:59. > :32:02.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:
:32:03. > :32:04.In Ukraine, reports at least 21 protesters have been killed in
:32:05. > :32:07.renewed clashes with police in central Kiev - after a truce agreed
:32:08. > :32:10.yesterday broke down. That's all from us. Now on BBC One,
:32:11. > :32:12.the news where you