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enough to end the crisis? There's anger in the Ukranian Parliament - | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
chaos descended on the chamber as MPs try to debate the changes. The | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
stand-off continues - with protesters vowing to stay until | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
President Yanukovych stands down. This is the live scene in | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
Independence Square this lunchtime. Until he goes, these demonstrations | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
look set to go on and the anger and division in this country could | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
continue to grow. We'll be assessing whether the President's latest offer | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
goes far enough. Also this lunchtime: At the | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
phone-hacking trial, Rebekah Brooks appeared close to tears, and asked | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
for a break in proceedings, as she was questioned about her personal | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
life. Could all this have been prevented? | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Environmental experts tell the Prime Minister to learn lessons from the | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
flood crisis, to stop it happening again. | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
?300,000 a week for the next five and a half years - Wayne Rooney's | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
new deal with Manchester United. Just half an hour to go as Britain | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
goes for gold in the men's curling at the Winter Olympics. The | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
excitement is building here in Sochi. Can Team GB win their second | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
gold medal of these games? Later on BBC London: | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Police appeal for witnesses after dramatic CCTV emerges of an armed | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
raid on a convenience store in East London. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
And in Datchet, businesses start to return to assess the damage after | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
weeks of flooding. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:37. | :01:58. | |
BBC News at One. The President of Ukraine has announced a series of | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
concessions in a bid to defuse the deepening crisis there. President | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
Yanukovych has promised early presidential elections, and a | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
coalition government will be formed to run the country. In parliament, | :02:07. | :02:17. | |
there were angry scenes as MPs debated the changes, whilst on the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
streets, after the violence of the last few days, the 10th stand-off | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
continues. Our correspondent Duncan Crawford is in Kiev for us. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
It has been largely calm today, certainly in comparison to yesterday | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
when we had a running street battles. The latest death toll is | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
that at least 77 people have died since the violence began on Tuesday. | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
Diplomatically, though, we've had intense negotiations over night to | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
try to bring an end to the violence and we've had this announcement made | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
today by President Yanukovych - potentially a significant turning | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
point in this crisis, if the opposition agree and the protest and | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
accept this deal which he says has been made. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
-- the protest is accept. Reinforcements arriving at the | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
headquarters. Even as President Yanukovych was planning to offer his | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
biggest concessions yet to the protest was, a display of public | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
dissent against his rule. The flags and uniforms a reminder of how these | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
protests began in the first place. TRANSLATION: The situation in | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Ukraine is so bad we've come to Kenya to show our support for the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
protests. We all made the decision to come ourselves. TRANSLATION: We | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
will arrive immediately with weapons and give a professional | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
counterattack with weapons. Believe me, I can fight. I served in | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Afghanistan. Dozens of police on the west of the country have defected | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
and, this morning, arrived in Independence Square to back the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
fight against the government. After marathon talks overnight between EU | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
officials and the government, a possible deal has urged to try to | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
prevent more bloodshed. The president has promised a change to | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
the constitution with powers transferred from the presidency to | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
the Parliament and, perhaps most significant new, early presidential | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
elections. Protesters are cautious, though, and it's far from certain | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
whether the men manning the barricades will accept the plan. | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
These are petrol bombs. The protest as are clearly ready for a fight. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
What matters to them is whether President Yanukovych remains in | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
power. Until he goes, these demonstrations are set to go on and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the anger and division in this country could continue to grow. | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Those divisions are just as start in Parliament. The Thalia Klitschko, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
the boxer turned opposition leader and presidential hopeful, has been | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
involved in plenty of fights. -- Vic Talib Klitschko. The government | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
still blames the protest is for the violence. The country and the world | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
is focused on events in Independence Square and how the people across the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
country react will determine the fate of Ukraine. We're still | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
awaiting official reaction from the opposition leaders, including Vitali | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
Klitschko, to this deal put forward by President Yanukovych, which he | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
thinks is going to come in. We have had a reaction, though, from the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Polish Foreign Minister, who was involved in these talks overnight. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
He has tweeted that it's a delicate situation, a delicate moment, and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
says, "all must remember you don't get 100% in a compromise". So it | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
sounds as if the graduation is our continuing behind the scenes to get | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
all sides on board with this deal. Also, reports this lunchtime but | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Ukraine's deputy army chief has resigned from his position because | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the army, he says, is being drawn into a civil conflict. We haven't | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
had confirmation of that but that would be the latest ally of | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
President Yanukovych to stand down after the mayor of Kiev yesterday | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
and MPs from the ruling party. Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Kendall is here. President Yanukovych hopes this offer is | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
enough but can deal still done? The very fact he President Yanukovych | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
has come out in public and said he is prepared to do this means he's | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the one that is now feeling on the back foot. He wants a deal, some | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
people in the opposition say, to save his skin and gain immunity | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
because he knows he is losing support. The problem for the EU | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
negotiators and, if they're minded, opposition leaders, would be to say | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
to opposition supporters, "would you be prepared to compromise with this | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
man? " . It may now be too difficult to do that after the bloodshed | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
yesterday and you just sense that the political balance is too big. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The opposition are focused partly on Parliament. They want Parliament to | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
have more power but they've already passed a motion calling on trips to | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
go back to barracks. They'll be encouraged by the fact that there | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
have been these latest resignations, most recently from the | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
deputy chief of staff, saying he does want the Army used against the | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
people. With Western Ukraine in open revolt and those bits of the country | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
which traditionally were thought of as the stronghold of Mr Yanukovych, | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
they're not rushing to Kiev to support him. It does feel as though | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
the negotiations are bit unbalanced. What really matters is what the | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
opposition are prepared to accept. And you can follow all the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
developments on the BBC News Channel across the afternoon. | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
The former chief executive of News International Rebekah Brooks has | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
appeared close to tears, and asked for a break in proceedings, as she | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
was questioned about her personal life at the hacking trial. Ms Brooks | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
has also told the Old Bailey she was not made aware of a ?92,000 annual | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
contract the News of the World had with phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire, | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
during her editorship of the paper. Our home affairs correspondent Tom | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Symonds is at the Old Bailey for us. Yes, Simon, Rebekah Brooks was asked | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
questions on two very different subjects today. Firstly, the cold, | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
hard facts of the way the News of the World run its accounts. And | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
secondly, the intimate details of her personal relationships. Both, | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
the court has been told, are important to this case. | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
An actor, EastEnders star Ross Kemp. An editor, Andy Coulson. And a | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
racehorse owner, Charlie Brooks. Today, Rebekah Brooks was forced to | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
talk about her relationships with each of these men. The prosecution | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
made it a part of this case by introducing the suggestion earlier | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
in the trial that her closeness to Andy Coulson suggested she must have | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
known what he knew, must have known about phone hacking and illegal | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
payments for storing is. In the witness box, Rebekah Brooks seemed | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
close to tears as the questioning focused on her personal life. She | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
asked for a break but then described how she became close to Andy Coulson | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
in 1998 and had a relationship which involved periods of intimacy. In | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
February 2004, she wrote a letter in which she told Andy Coulson, "I tell | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
you everything, confide in you, seek your advice". She was asked about | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
this in court and said: But she never sent the e-mail. She | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
told the court: She denied their affair lasted six | :09:50. | :10:01. | |
years, as the prosecution has claimed. She has since married | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
Charlie Brooks, who is charged with helping her conceal evidence from | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
the police, and she described how, after years of fertility treatment, | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
a cousin agreed to be the surrogates for her baby daughter. She was asked | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
if she had known that phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire was being paid | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
?92,000 by the News of the World when she was editor. It was an | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
arrangement made by a senior journalist, the court heard, but she | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
said it was not brought to her attention. She denies four charges | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
against her. Rebekah Brooks is clearly a central | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
figure in this case and the jury has been given a very full picture of | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
her personal and professional life. She is expected to be in the witness | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
box the days to come. -- for days to come. | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust will find out today how much | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
it will be fined for failing to care for a woman who died in hospital in | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
2007. The trust pleaded guilty in October to failing to ensure the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
safety of diabetic patient Gillian Astbury. She was one of hundreds of | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
patients to endure what a public inquiry called terrible and | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
unnecessary suffering at Mid Staffs. Here's our health correspondent | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
Dominic Hughes. It has been nearly seven years since | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
her death but friends and relatives of Gillian Astbury may finally feel | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
justice is being done. In April 2007, staff at Stafford Hospital | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
failed to spot that the 66-year-old was diabetic so they didn't add | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
minister vital insulin injections. Gillian fell into a coma and died. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Last year at a court hearing, the trust pleaded guilty to breaches of | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
health and so deep legislation. Ron Street was Julian Bousquet grow long | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
time carer. He told the BBC last year that he would like to see | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
individual managers held to account. -- was Gillian's long-term carer. I | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
do think there is a case for accountability of the people | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
responsible who are no longer with the trust. The Mid Staffordshire | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
trust is losing about ?13 million a year and is on the verge of being | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
dissolved, having been declared no longer viable either clinically or | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
financially. That has raised questions about the wisdom of | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
defining an institution already on its knees. This is the slightly daft | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
situation where we've got one public body filing and public body and the | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
money is being recycled for no public benefit and, indeed, to the | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
detriment of the local trust. Campaigners who fought long and hard | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
to expose the terrible failings at Stafford Hospital have been | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
following today's court hearing with interest. It is likely the public | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
will be fined an awful lot of money and it will impact on patient care | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
once again. The trust has admitted care for Gillian Astbury fell a long | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
way short of the expected standards. Now it is waiting to see what kind | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
of penalty it will face. There was some unexpected weakness | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
in the public finances this month, with a lower surplus than predicted. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
January is usually a good month for the treasury coffers, as corporation | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
tax and self-assessed income tax are largely paid this month. But the | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
surplus was less than forecast and less than the previous year. Our | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym is here. | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
As you say, the tax revenue normally comes flooding in in January, so | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
government finances are usually in the black and they were at this | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
time. The actual surplus, if you look at that detail, was ?4.7 | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
billion in January. That sounds good but it was less than last January | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
when the surplus was ?6 billion. In other words, the public finances are | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
not as good as they were. But if you look at the year-to-date - ten | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
months of the financial year so far - you see that the government has | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
borrowed ?90.7 billion, which sounds a lot, but is heading for the | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
target, the forecast for the full year, which is ?111 billion. It | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
looks as though it will come in just under that. Is this good or bad news | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
for the Chancellor? He could have done without it ahead | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
of the budget but the government are saying that these tax revenues are | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
fairly volatile and people may miss the January target for | :14:25. | :14:26. | |
self-assessment and pay in the debris. | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
We need to look at the debris figures as well and it looks as if | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the deficit will come in below the forecast. -- February figures. But | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
he is still borrowing more than he said he would couple of years ago | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
and the public finances still remain a major challenge. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
This is the BBC News At One. Our top story: In the last few minutes, | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
protesters in Kiev have accepted a draft agreement to end the crisis, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
according to EU negotiators. Still to come: Can Team GB's men clinch | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
top spot in the curling at Sochi? On BBC London: A suspected crystal | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
meth factory is found in a quiet suburban street in Ealing. And | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
bringing back a shine to the silver screen - one of London's oldest | :15:16. | :15:16. | |
cinemas is to be restored. The They're images that have become | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
depressingly familiar over recent weeks - and according to the UK's | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
leading environment and planning experts - some of this flooding | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
misery could have been prevented. Members of the Landscape Institute | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
say better use of water management schemes could have helped reduce the | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
impact in parts of Southern England. The Government says they'll look at | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
any lessons to be learned. Duncan Kennedy is in Maidenhead. 17 experts | :15:47. | :15:59. | |
have written an open letter to David Cameron. They are apologists, | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
engineers, landscape gardeners, you name it. They say, we are the | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
experts, we know what we are doing, and if you listened more closely, | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
you may have avoided some of the flooding we have seen over the past | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
winter. The records show that there has never been a wetter winter or a | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
more controversial one, at least when it comes to the reasons why so | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
many people were flooded. Now a group of experts has written to the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Prime Minister, saying that some of this could have been avoided if | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
different techniques were used. They called for better flood alleviation | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
schemes, urban drainage, and only resilient houses on flood plains | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
should be built. We would like to see a long-term commitment through | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
this government to actually deal with this comprehensively. There is | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
no quick fix. The Jubilee River in Maidenhead is a good example of what | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
can go right and wrong with flood management. It diverts water from | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
the Thames around the town stop before this river, my house used to | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
flood every time, and it does not any more. I think it is a good use | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
of money and the river is a nice attraction for locals to walk down | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
and use. It is a benefit. Ten miles downstream, they hate the river. | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
When you pose the question... If somebody mention the Jubilee River | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
to you, what is your reaction? Horror and concern. The floods have | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
shown that there are winners and losers. Today's message to the Prime | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Minister is that it could lead more of the former and fewer of the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
latter. The government tell us this morning that they are spending 2.5 | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
year and pounds on flood management schemes and it has not been a knee | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
jerk reaction to the floods. The experts are saying that this is a | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
complex problem with many solutions and it is going to take a long time | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
to fix. -- 2.5 million pounds. Thank you. Well, many of you have faced | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
delayed or cancelled train journeys because of the flooding - but did | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
you know that you're often entitled to compensation? No? Well, you're | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
not alone. The Office of Rail Regulation says most people are | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
unaware of their rights or how to make a claim. Train companies are | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
now being told to do more to publicise the refunds available to | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
passengers as Simon Gompertz reports. Serious delays, as there | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
have been during the bad weather, and passengers can claim | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
compensation. Who knows their rights? Not a clue. As long as they | :18:57. | :19:08. | |
are getting money, they do not care. Sometimes you can get the | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
whole price of a ticket back. That is quite clever! I did not know | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
that. They do not tell you. Typically, you can get a 50% refund | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
for a 30 minute delay and 100% for more than an hour. 75% of passengers | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
do not know, and 74% complained about the lack of information. | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
Online, it is easy to find the information online. Announcements on | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
trains, information on the back of tickets, there is a lot that can be | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
done. Only one in ten who could claim comes to do it. ?10 million a | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
year is paid out which means that many millions each year are going | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
begging. A common complaint is that the refunds are made in vouchers | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
which have to be redeemed at a ticket office. More rail companies | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
are offering cash and working harder to publicise the compensation. We | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
are rolling out electronic tickets which tell people how to claim. We | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
have apps which allow people to claim in real-time, and we will roll | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
those out further. Exceptional weather can be an excuse four | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
companies to avoid paying. Passengers who suffer delays are | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
missing out on significant refunds. The private company which helps | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
decide whether sick and disabled people are eligible for benefits is | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
seeking an early exit from their Government contract, in part due to | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
death threats and abuse received by staff. ATOS claims that each month | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
it records approximately 163 incidents of abuse or assault on | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
staff carrying out work capability assessments. Our Political | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster. What is the government | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
reaction? You have talked about the abuse that ATOS staff have suffered. | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
There is another scrap going on behind the scenes because the | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
government are furious with ATOS for leaking information. They say that | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
this information should be commercially confidential. If ATOS | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
want to pull out early then other companies may pay less for taking | :21:40. | :21:51. | |
the work on. There were 144 separate demonstrations at the offices of | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
ATOS this week. There was the case of a 50-year-old man who was | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
asthmatic but was assessed as fit for labouring jobs. Four out of ten | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
cases that go to appeal are being upheld so ATOS are saying that these | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
tests are outdated and blame the nature of the test themselves. The | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
government is calling into question the performance of ATOS. There are | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
also personal independence payments which may not be called into | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
question at all. British holiday-makers are being advised by | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
the Foreign Office to avoid the Egyptian region of South Sinai after | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
an attack on a tourist bus. Four people died in the incident, which | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
happened last weekend. The warning however doesn't include the Red Sea | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheik - from there, our Middle East | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
correspondent Quentin Sommerville reports. Claire winter and Mike | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
Rogers were on holiday with when a tour group was attacked by militants | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
further north. The extra security Sharm el-Sheik has made them less | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
than worried. We have good security in our hotel. The checkpoints, on | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
the other hand, have a lot to answer for. There is a high presence but we | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
were not checked, our passports or anything. We have not seen any | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
vehicles stopped. Three tourists and their driver were killed in a recent | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
bombing. Terror attacks are on the rise in Egypt's Sinai. The beaches | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
would have been a lot busier here before the political turmoil. | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Another terror attack would not just be a disaster, it could also deal a | :23:42. | :23:51. | |
critical blow to Egypt's struggling economy. It is still safe to visit | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
Sharm el-Sheik, say the Foreign Office, but with terror attacks on | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
the rise, all tourists to Egypt's need to be more cautious these days. | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is expected to sign a new | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
contract at Manchester United as early as today. It's believed he's | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
reached an agreement with the club for a new five and a half year deal | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
which will see him earn around ?300,000 a week. Our sports editor | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
David Bond is with me now. There are some startling figures around this | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
new contract. The first is the five-year deal. That is significant. | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
He is 28 years old and it means he will spend the rest of his career at | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Old Trafford and with Manchester United. The other figure that we are | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
talking about is the wage. ?300,000 a week. That will make him the | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
highest paid player in premiership history and the highest paid player | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
in Britain. Wayne Rooney's contract was running out, he was within the | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
last 18 months of it. There was interest from a big rival in | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
Chelsea. Jose Mourinho did not hide his feelings for the big player. | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Manchester United stood firm and that is the reason why they needed | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
to pay this big money to keep him at Old Trafford. He will be talking at | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
a press conference in the next few minutes. It has been a difficult | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
season for Manchester United and this has been a significant | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
investment for them on and they will be hoping that Wayne Rooney is worth | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
every penny. Now, in just a few minutes' time, Team GB will be going | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
head to head with Canada - for gold in the final of the men's curling in | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Sochi. Britain are guaranteed at least a silver medal but skip David | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
Murdoch says his side are going to "fight to the absolute last". In a | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
moment we'll be speaking to our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon, | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
who's in David Murdoch's home town of Lockerbie. But first, our sports | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
correspondent Andy Swiss is in Sochi. Yes, we have already had the | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
bagpipes playing outside the curling venue. The last few fans are | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
arriving. It has been an extraordinary journey by the men's | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
curling team. They have struggled in the early stages but they have come | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
good when it matters, particularly their captain, David Murdoch, who | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
has been in stunning form in the last two matches where it came down | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
to the last stone. David Murdoch kept his cool to get Britain through | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
to the final. It is going to be a tough match. They are up against the | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
reigning Olympic champions, Canada. Canada reads Britain earlier in the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
tournament. It is going to be tough for team GB. -- Canada beat Britain. | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
It could get better for Team GB later on as there are more chances | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
in the speed skating. Britain are going for gold in the 1000 metres. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Over the next three hours or so, all eyes will be here on the curling | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
centre as Britain goes for gold. My colleague is in Lockerbie. That | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
match gets underway in a few minutes and the people of Lockerbie are | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
very, very excited. Three of the Olympians hail from this town. The | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
people turned out in force yesterday, and today they have come | :27:47. | :27:52. | |
out in a great number again. I think there are 200 people here, a good | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
number from the local secondary school. There was a huge cheer | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
yesterday when the women won their medal and they will be watching | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
today's match where do David Murdoch is. He started curling here on this | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
very ring when he was ten years old. He was coached by his mother, | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
Marian. They are confident here that the men will bring home goals, but | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
they will be incredibly proud of him what ever they achieved. -- bold. | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
This town, of course, is synonymous with tragedy when a plane crashed | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
many years ago, but now it is about the sport and they will be cheering | :28:41. | :28:49. | |
on the men's team. What does the weather have in store? He -- here is | :28:50. | :29:10. | |
John Hammond. Four or five metres of the white stuff, but when the sun | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
shines, it looks stunning. Rain on lower levels in Scotland. Gales will | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
batter the western coast but in the east there will be some sunshine. | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Some sharp showers over England's, but as you can see, a lot of dry | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
weather. It feels pretty pleasant but there will be only two that | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
breeze. Temperatures around eight or nine degrees. There will be some | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
sharp showers, hail and fund a mixed in as well. Across Wales there will | :29:41. | :29:49. | |
be some dry spells mixed in. Hail and thunder in Northern Ireland, and | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
very windy here. Through the evening and overnight, the strongest of the | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
winds will be over the north of Scotland. At the other end of the | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
UK, rain in the English Channel. In between, there is a lot of clear | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
weather and it will be cold with a touch of frost in rural areas. A | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
chilly start to the weekend, and this is the bigger picture. This | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
frontal system will play a major part of our weather over the | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
weekend. It will be dry and write for many, or some sunshine, a bit of | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
a breeze, but most of us will see some brightness, particularly across | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
eastern areas. Rain will head into Northern Ireland. Some dampness will | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
turn up across north west England and North West Wales. Further south | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
and east will hold onto brightness, and temperatures will recover quite | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
nicely. That rain will be of some concern and will become lodged into | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
Scotland, and we could see two inches of more across Scotland and | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
Wales. A rapid thaw of that snow across the Highlands, and the winds | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
will pick up to 60 or 70 mph. Further south and east, it stays | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
dry. Technically, a mild day on Sunday at 12 or 13 degrees. A bright | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
start for many, the winds, though, will increase through the weekend | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
and will turn wet across many western part. Much more detail can | :31:20. | :31:25. | |
be found online. John, thank you. A reminder of our top story this | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
lunchtime... Protesters in Ukraine agreed to the President's | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
concessions to end the | :31:34. | :31:34. |