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