:00:13. > :00:15.independence debate. Both David Cameron and his Cabinet and Alex
:00:16. > :00:28.Salmond and his, hold meetings a few miles apart in Aberdeen. We are
:00:29. > :00:31.top-10 economy and can afford the investment, the long-term structure
:00:32. > :00:34.necessary to make sure we can recover as much from the North Sea
:00:35. > :00:38.as possible and that's good for everybody. There's no point David
:00:39. > :00:41.Cameron saying to us, a country like Scotland couldn't handle oil and gas
:00:42. > :00:44.when we see the example of Norway, which has handled it much better
:00:45. > :00:47.than Westminster. Also this lunchtime. An arrest warrant is
:00:48. > :00:52.issued for Ukraine's ousted president, Victor Yanukovich, who
:00:53. > :00:55.went on the run last Friday. The disc jockey Dave Lee Travis is to
:00:56. > :01:01.face a retrial on two charges of sexual assault where the jury was
:01:02. > :01:06.unable to reach a verdict. And the not so special relationship. CNN
:01:07. > :01:12.axes Piers Morgan's chat show. Was he too British for American tastes?
:01:13. > :01:17.And coming up in the sport on BBC News, after Team GB matched its best
:01:18. > :01:21.performance at a Winter Olympics, UK Sport says it expects to increase
:01:22. > :01:39.their funding to prepare for the next Winter Games.
:01:40. > :01:44.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. Aberdeen finds
:01:45. > :01:47.itself at the heart of the Scottish independence debate this lunchtime
:01:48. > :01:52.with David Cameron and the British Cabinet meeting in the granite city
:01:53. > :01:54.for the first time. And just five miles away, Alex Salmond has
:01:55. > :01:59.gathered his team of ministers together as well. It's the future of
:02:00. > :02:06.the oil and gas industry that's at the heart of discussions. Both men
:02:07. > :02:09.say it is their plans that are best for the Scottish economy. Let's
:02:10. > :02:16.cross to Aberdeen and our Scotland Correspondent, James Cook. Aberdeen,
:02:17. > :02:21.Britain's oil capital, booming city at the heart of a heated debate
:02:22. > :02:24.about Scotland's future. It's here that the UK Cabinet will gather this
:02:25. > :02:31.afternoon, only the second time they've met in Scotland in 90 years.
:02:32. > :02:35.Just five miles down the road in Portlethan, Scotland's first
:02:36. > :02:38.Minister has been chairing his own cabinet meeting. Alex Salmond
:02:39. > :02:44.insists an independent Scottish Government would be the best
:02:45. > :02:47.custodian of the black gold. The problem is that Scotland has nabbed
:02:48. > :02:52.the real benefits. I can't think of any country in the world who've
:02:53. > :02:56.discovered oil and gas, but many people in the population have got
:02:57. > :02:59.relatively poorer, but that has been Scotland's fate under Westminster
:03:00. > :03:03.control. I think it could be very different and much better for
:03:04. > :03:09.Scottish people. With independence and control of our own resources.
:03:10. > :03:14.David Cameron meanwhile had flown out to the North Sea to inspect this
:03:15. > :03:19.BP platform. It was part of the blizzard of visits announcements and
:03:20. > :03:24.press releases by both governments. The Prime Minister insisted energy
:03:25. > :03:28.policy was safer in British hands. I think it makes a very strong
:03:29. > :03:32.argument about the United Kingdom and how the broad shoulders of one
:03:33. > :03:38.of the top ten economies in the world has really got behind this
:03:39. > :03:41.industry. We will continue to stay behind this industry so we get
:03:42. > :03:44.maximum benefit out of it. The maximum benefit for all of the
:03:45. > :03:46.United Kingdom, including Scotland. Because we are top-10 economy, we
:03:47. > :03:50.can afford the tax allowances, the investment, the long-term structure,
:03:51. > :03:53.necessary to make sure we recover as much of the North Sea as possible
:03:54. > :04:01.and that's good for everybody. And there is a huge prize at stake.
:04:02. > :04:06.Estimates vary but oil firms hope to extract between 12-24,000,000,000
:04:07. > :04:11.barrels of North Sea oil worth between one - ?2 trillion over the
:04:12. > :04:16.next 30 or 40 years. And there is now a new plan to squeeze out every
:04:17. > :04:20.last drop. It's been published today by one of the industry 's most
:04:21. > :04:25.respected figures and the UK and Scottish Government is competing to
:04:26. > :04:30.implement his recommendations. The island gas industry is a massive
:04:31. > :04:33.wealth producer for the UK and frankly, I think needs little bit
:04:34. > :04:39.more government attention than it had and I hope we get that. So the
:04:40. > :04:42.glory days of the North Sea may be behind us, but there is still a
:04:43. > :04:48.fight over the treasure beneath the waves. Well let's get more from
:04:49. > :04:52.James who's in Portlethan. And from our chief political correspondent,
:04:53. > :04:58.Norman Smith who is in Aberdeen. James, is Alex Salmond in anyway
:04:59. > :05:04.discomfited by the arrival of the British Cabinet or is he relishing
:05:05. > :05:08.the fight? Very much the latter, very much for Alex Salmond, who is
:05:09. > :05:12.in this church behind me taking questions from the public at the
:05:13. > :05:17.moment. He's not only could you pleased to see UK Cabinet here, but
:05:18. > :05:21.he would like to see them a lot more, close-up, particular the Prime
:05:22. > :05:24.Minister, David Cameron, in a head-to-head debate. Every time Mr
:05:25. > :05:28.Cameron comes up there, having said that the debate is one of the Scots,
:05:29. > :05:32.to be held amongst the people who will vote in this referendum, it
:05:33. > :05:35.does give Alex Salmond an obvious opportunity to say, if you're going
:05:36. > :05:39.to come up here and lecture us, why won't you come up here and debate
:05:40. > :05:42.which to mark of course, Mr Cameron doesn't see it like that and says he
:05:43. > :05:48.has a duty to be involved in this industry, but Alex Salmond has
:05:49. > :05:51.another reason why his happy. It enables him to contrast of
:05:52. > :05:55.experience in the North Sea with the Prime Minister's. And perhaps this
:05:56. > :06:00.is unfair on Mr Cameron, but Alex Salmond said today, when he was an
:06:01. > :06:04.oil economist in the 1980s, David Cameron was mucking about on the
:06:05. > :06:08.playing fields of Eton. That's the kind of line the first Minister of
:06:09. > :06:13.Scotland relishes. Then there was also the polls. Are these
:06:14. > :06:17.interventions making a difference for the campaign against
:06:18. > :06:23.independence by UK Government ministers? The answer so far seems
:06:24. > :06:26.to be no. We had George Osborne intervening on currencies adjusting
:06:27. > :06:29.their comes be a formal currency union between the rest of the United
:06:30. > :06:34.Kingdom and an independent Scotland. And the polls seem to suggest that
:06:35. > :06:38.it probably didn't make any difference. It might have caused a
:06:39. > :06:42.slight balance for the campaign in favour of independence, so for all
:06:43. > :06:45.these reasons, Alex Salmond and his cabinet are relishing this challenge
:06:46. > :06:52.would have been thrown their way by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet.
:06:53. > :06:55.Let's turn to Norman. Norman, a 2-part question. Are we going to see
:06:56. > :07:02.a lot more David Cameron doing this kind of thing in Scotland? Are there
:07:03. > :07:05.are risks involved him? The answer I think is yes to both, because it
:07:06. > :07:10.seems to me, if you know your cricket, what we're seeing here is
:07:11. > :07:15.what the line politics, an attempt by the UK Government to polls very
:07:16. > :07:21.hard, fast answers straight at Alex Salmond, bouncy number one came a
:07:22. > :07:23.couple of weeks ago with George Osborne raising questions about an
:07:24. > :07:28.independent Scotland keeping the pound, and number two came with the
:07:29. > :07:31.questions about whether an independent Scotland could stay in
:07:32. > :07:35.the European Union and here comes number three, what on earth is going
:07:36. > :07:39.to happen to North Sea oil in Scotland goes it alone? The answer
:07:40. > :07:42.from team Cameron, it's going to be a lot worse off because you don't
:07:43. > :07:48.have a broad base of the UK taxpayer to invest and encourage the North
:07:49. > :07:53.Sea oil industry. And that plays to a broader strategy from team
:07:54. > :07:56.Cameron, which seems to me to try to play to the purse strings of
:07:57. > :07:59.Scottish voters, rather than the heartstrings, to say thing about
:08:00. > :08:04.this because it may actually be a lot worse off. There is a risk, and
:08:05. > :08:07.the rest is, by pulling the Cabinet appear, the first time the UK
:08:08. > :08:12.Cabinet has been to the north-east since 1921, and dear old Lloyd
:08:13. > :08:18.George, David Cameron, the danger is, he could be saying to the Scots,
:08:19. > :08:24.warning them about going alone and they could struggle. Because they
:08:25. > :08:28.are so close, the two cabinets, just five miles apart, it surely sealed
:08:29. > :08:32.Alex Salmond's demands for a debate for some why can't they debate when
:08:33. > :08:35.they are so close? That's the one thing we won't hear from David
:08:36. > :08:40.Cameron because that's the one thing he thinks could be a game changer to
:08:41. > :08:43.Alex Salmond's advantage. Norman, James, thank you very much indeed.
:08:44. > :08:46.And you can get more analysis on Scottish independence and the future
:08:47. > :08:54.of the North Sea oil and gas industry on the BBC news website. A
:08:55. > :08:56.warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Ukrainian president,
:08:57. > :09:04.Viktor Yanukovych who's accused of mass murder over the clashes in Kiev
:09:05. > :09:06.last week in which 88 people died. There are unconfirmed reports that
:09:07. > :09:14.the former President was spotted this morning leaving the port city
:09:15. > :09:17.on the Black Sea, Sevastopol. Meanwhile, there's a flurry of
:09:18. > :09:19.diplomatic activity today because of international concerns that Ukraine
:09:20. > :09:23.could split in two, with one part forging closer ties with Russia, and
:09:24. > :09:32.the other with the European Union. Let's cross to our correspondent in
:09:33. > :09:37.Kiev, Duncan Crawford. There have been lots of rumours about the
:09:38. > :09:40.whereabouts of ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and this
:09:41. > :09:47.lunchtime, the hunt is very much on. The acting interior Minister has
:09:48. > :09:51.said that, apparently, Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev on Friday to
:09:52. > :09:57.the eastern city, and then went on to his home region of Donetsk, where
:09:58. > :10:02.he tried and failed to leave the country. He then went down to the
:10:03. > :10:07.South, to Crimea, where we are told a number of his bodyguards abandoned
:10:08. > :10:13.him before his last sighting was this morning, we are told, in the
:10:14. > :10:17.Crimean town of balaclava, where he was -- was seen driving off in a
:10:18. > :10:26.convoy of vehicles. He's a man on the run, and people in Kiev want him
:10:27. > :10:30.to be found. Mourning their heroes, in Kiev, the city centre fell
:10:31. > :10:34.largely silent on this morning, just the sound of crying and shuffling of
:10:35. > :10:41.feet, as people quietly paid their respects to the dead. Independence
:10:42. > :10:47.Square, a protest camp, then a battle zone, and is now a shrine to
:10:48. > :10:53.those who lost their lives. People here blame ousted president Viktor
:10:54. > :10:58.Yanukovych. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is now
:10:59. > :11:02.Ukraine's most wanted man. He should be captured as soon as possible and
:11:03. > :11:09.he should be put on trial. I think he should be brought here so people
:11:10. > :11:12.can look into his eyes to ask what they think about him. I think it
:11:13. > :11:19.should be arrested, although a lot of people have views which are much
:11:20. > :11:24.more radical. They think that perhaps capital punishment should be
:11:25. > :11:28.lamented in Ukraine again. The big question is, where is ousted
:11:29. > :11:32.President Yanukovych? Is certainly not here at the presidential palace,
:11:33. > :11:35.guarded by these protesters. They believe he's gone into hiding,
:11:36. > :11:43.possibly in the Russian speaking south or east of the country.
:11:44. > :11:46.Perhaps he is here in Crimea. There are still supports the man they
:11:47. > :11:53.insist is their democratically elected leader. People are
:11:54. > :11:58.demonstrating against what they view as a coup. They want to maintain
:11:59. > :12:05.close ties with Russia, which this region was part of, until 1954. A
:12:06. > :12:09.new interim president has been installed. He is pro-Western and
:12:10. > :12:13.pro-EU. But says he also wants to have good relations with Russia.
:12:14. > :12:18.Some are worried the tensions within this country could see it split
:12:19. > :12:22.between East and West. Our priority is to return to the European
:12:23. > :12:28.integration course. The fight began. We have to do return to the family
:12:29. > :12:33.of European countries and to understand the importance of
:12:34. > :12:37.relations with a Russian Federation. Reconciling Ukraine's past with its
:12:38. > :12:45.future, will be difficult. In Kiev, a woman blocks a man from defacing a
:12:46. > :12:48.money meant to the KGB. The Soviet Russian security service. Stability
:12:49. > :12:55.is far from certain. As is the unity of the country. It is calm here in
:12:56. > :13:00.Independence Square. There are thousands of people behind me once
:13:01. > :13:04.again just standing around listening to a service. Despite all the
:13:05. > :13:09.political upheavals of the last few days, you do get a sense that people
:13:10. > :13:15.are trying to return to their normal routines, but with the EU, the USA
:13:16. > :13:19.and Russia, all trying to influence events on the ground, the political
:13:20. > :13:24.situation in this country remains uncertain. OK, Duncan, thank you
:13:25. > :13:30.bring much indeed. There are reports of former president has been seen in
:13:31. > :13:34.the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Daniel Sandford is there for us.
:13:35. > :13:39.What more do we know about his whereabouts? It's all a bit of a
:13:40. > :13:43.mystery, but I'm standing at the spot where the trail runs cold. The
:13:44. > :13:49.acting interior Minister, said this is where this small suburb of
:13:50. > :13:54.Sevastopol, the famous historical Bay of balaclava, this is where
:13:55. > :13:58.President Yanukovych's bodyguards finally abandoned him. From here, he
:13:59. > :14:03.went on in a three-car convoy with a couple of bodyguards and one close
:14:04. > :14:08.aide of the rest of his official bodyguard team left him here,
:14:09. > :14:11.returned to Sevastopol and hand in their weapons and reported back to
:14:12. > :14:14.the Interior Ministry that this is where they left President
:14:15. > :14:19.Yanukovych. And, from here, the trail runs cold. He's been on the
:14:20. > :14:23.run for three days and left Kiev on Friday by helicopter, travelled
:14:24. > :14:30.through eastern Ukraine, down through Donetsk, and tried to get to
:14:31. > :14:34.the airport near Sevastopol. He feared a chap was waiting for him
:14:35. > :14:38.yet, so came here to balaclava, said goodbye to a security detail, and
:14:39. > :14:42.disappeared into the night, about midnight local time last night. The
:14:43. > :14:48.focus of our coverage has been on the unrest in Kiev or what level of
:14:49. > :14:51.support does Viktor Yanukovych enjoy another part of the country
:14:52. > :14:57.repeatedly in places like where you are now? I think if I'm honest about
:14:58. > :15:00.it, very little now. I think President Yanukovych was the man who
:15:01. > :15:05.stood up for Russian speaking Ukraine, for eastern industrial
:15:06. > :15:09.Ukraine, they saw him as their man, but as I have watched the country
:15:10. > :15:13.slowly deteriorate into chaos over the last three months, his support
:15:14. > :15:17.has seriously ebbed away and I find it difficult in eastern Ukraine to
:15:18. > :15:21.find many people who have much good to say about him, but that does not
:15:22. > :15:27.mean that people here have any love for the new government in Kiev.
:15:28. > :15:31.Here, there's a particular historical anomaly for the death was
:15:32. > :15:34.part of Russia, all the way back to the year of the Crimean War by the
:15:35. > :15:39.British were fighting on the hills around the Bay of balaclava, this is
:15:40. > :15:43.a Russian part of the world. In the 1950s, it was moved from Russia to
:15:44. > :15:47.being part of Ukrainian Republic in the former soggy at union and then
:15:48. > :15:50.when Ukraine gained independence, Crimea went with Ukraine. Many
:15:51. > :15:58.people here still feel Russian, their strongest allegiance is to
:15:59. > :16:00.Russia. The Black Sea fleet is in the harbour of Sevastopol at the
:16:01. > :16:03.moment and these people here are feeling very, very bitter about
:16:04. > :16:07.events in Kiev and the demonstrations are happening every
:16:08. > :16:11.day, violence every day, and this is a part of the world which is going
:16:12. > :16:15.to become a very big question, as negotiations continue about
:16:16. > :16:19.Ukraine's future in the last few months. Daniel, thank you bring much
:16:20. > :16:21.indeed for that. Let's talk more about those meetings with our
:16:22. > :16:30.diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. We have heard warnings
:16:31. > :16:34.about Russia getting involved from the US. We have heard sounds, I
:16:35. > :16:40.think, of anger in the sense of betrayal and bruising, frankly, from
:16:41. > :16:47.Moscow. They feel that they were betrayed by the opposition, now the
:16:48. > :16:53.emerging power in Ukraine. They felt they had signed a deal which would
:16:54. > :16:56.keep Yanukovych in power. There is feeling that this was an armed
:16:57. > :17:02.mutiny, and the dream ever death has said that Russia does not recognise
:17:03. > :17:06.the legitimacy of the emerging powers in Ukraine. -- Dmitry
:17:07. > :17:08.Medvedev. What is going on in Washington and London particularly
:17:09. > :17:14.is an attempt to soothe Russian feelings. As we speak, William Hague
:17:15. > :17:17.is beginning to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to try
:17:18. > :17:20.to put across the message that William Hague has already hinted at,
:17:21. > :17:25.that this does not need to be a one side wins and the other losers, that
:17:26. > :17:28.in fact a new Ukraine should be encouraged through trade equally
:17:29. > :17:32.with Europe, Western Europe through the European Union, and with Russia.
:17:33. > :17:35.But that is not a message that Moscow seems very inclined to listen
:17:36. > :17:40.to, because it thinks the United States is acting in bad faith and
:17:41. > :17:44.suggesting, making accusations that the Russians might deploy troops to
:17:45. > :17:48.Ukraine. Is it the policy of all sides that they want the integrity
:17:49. > :17:52.of the Ukraine to remain, so that it does not split in two with all the
:17:53. > :17:57.consequences that might flow from that? I do not think Moscow has been
:17:58. > :18:03.as explicit as bad, but no-one has an appetite for a divided Ukraine,
:18:04. > :18:07.so the argument now will be, how is Ukraine accommodated in such a way
:18:08. > :18:14.that Russia does not feel it wants to take retaliatory action.
:18:15. > :18:17.The former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is to face a new trial of
:18:18. > :18:22.allegations of indecent and sexual assault. Earlier this month, the
:18:23. > :18:26.68-year-old was found not guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault, but
:18:27. > :18:30.juror as were unable to reach verdict on two further charges. He
:18:31. > :18:34.will face a retrial on the outstanding counts. Our home affairs
:18:35. > :18:37.correspondent, June Kelly, has this report.
:18:38. > :18:42.For the past week and a half, Dave Lee Travis has been in legal limbo,
:18:43. > :18:46.acquitted on 12 charges, he came to court this morning to be told he
:18:47. > :18:50.will face a second trial on the two counts on which the jury could not
:18:51. > :18:57.reach verdicts. With his wife at his side, he was clearly upset. The
:18:58. > :19:04.nightmare is now going to go on. All I can say is that this whole thing
:19:05. > :19:10.started when I was 67, and I just hope it is going to end by the time
:19:11. > :19:14.I am 80. Thank you for your time. A couple of weeks ago, another famous
:19:15. > :19:19.name was in court facing historical sexual allegations. Coronation
:19:20. > :19:23.Street's William Roache was cleared of all charges. Speaking to the BBC
:19:24. > :19:28.about the whole this you, but before this morning's decision, the
:19:29. > :19:32.director of public prosecutions said that it was all about listening to
:19:33. > :19:35.complaints. I think since we have looked at recent cases and since we
:19:36. > :19:40.have looked at policy, people have been far more confident that they
:19:41. > :19:47.can come forward, and that is really good, and we don't want to knock
:19:48. > :19:50.that confidence. Now another jury will have to consider Dave Lee
:19:51. > :19:55.Travis's case. One of the council is facing goes back to the early 1990s
:19:56. > :20:00.when he was a big BBC name. The other allegation is from six years
:20:01. > :20:03.ago. Nearly 18 months after he was first arrested, the criminal
:20:04. > :20:07.proceedings against Dave Lee Travis continue. He will be back in court
:20:08. > :20:12.at the end of next month for a first hearing ahead of his new trial.
:20:13. > :20:17.June Kelly, BBC News, at Southwark Crown Court.
:20:18. > :20:20.The time is 20 past one. Our top story this lunchtime, the future of
:20:21. > :20:22.Scotland's oil and gas industry takes centre stage in the debate
:20:23. > :20:25.over independence. And still to come, the woman whose
:20:26. > :20:28.music saved her life in the concentration camp. The oldest known
:20:29. > :20:34.survivor of the Holocaust has died at the age of 110.
:20:35. > :20:36.Later on BBC London, the battle for the skies, wildlife campaigners
:20:37. > :20:42.speak out against the Boris Island airport proposal. And taking refuge
:20:43. > :20:45.in London, the story behind tens of thousands of Belgians who made the
:20:46. > :20:59.capital their home during World War I.
:21:00. > :21:05.A former Roman Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing
:21:06. > :21:09.children over more than two decades. Father Francis Cullen viewed seven
:21:10. > :21:13.children at churches in Derbyshire and Nottingham. He was arrested in
:21:14. > :21:18.1991 but went on the run before being arrested in Tenerife last
:21:19. > :21:21.year. Jon Brain, first of all, reminders about the background to
:21:22. > :21:25.this case. -- remind us.
:21:26. > :21:29.Although he appeared today as a frail 85-year-old who could barely
:21:30. > :21:37.stand in the dock, who have trouble hearing the proceedings, the court
:21:38. > :21:42.was told that Cullen was a serial abuser, five boys and two girls, a
:21:43. > :21:47.total of 21 counts he pleaded guilty to today in a very weak voice. The
:21:48. > :21:51.police believe there were many more victims who perhaps have not come
:21:52. > :21:54.forward. He was a parish priest both here in Derbyshire and in
:21:55. > :22:00.neighbouring Nottinghamshire. He used his position to carry out that
:22:01. > :22:04.abuse, many of which took place on Church promises. He fled the country
:22:05. > :22:08.more than 20 years ago, and police thought they had brought in to
:22:09. > :22:12.justice. He wants to Tenerife, where he made a new life for himself, but
:22:13. > :22:16.he was actually spotted going to regular Sunday Mass at the Catholic
:22:17. > :22:21.Church in Tenerife by a catholic safeguarding group. They told the
:22:22. > :22:24.police, and he was extradited in January to face these charges today.
:22:25. > :22:31.Take us through what happened in court this morning.
:22:32. > :22:36.In a very weak voice, he pleaded guilty to each of the charges as
:22:37. > :22:40.they were read out. As I say, he had difficulty hearing many of them. The
:22:41. > :22:45.sentencing has been adjourned until next month, but the judge told him
:22:46. > :22:50.he faces a very substantial prison sentence. His barrister said he is
:22:51. > :22:54.in poor health which has been deteriorating since he has been in
:22:55. > :22:59.custody in prison, so bearing in mind his age, the assumption is that
:23:00. > :23:05.he is likely to die in prison. Thank you very much indeed.
:23:06. > :23:08.Many of Jimmy Savile's victims were either ignored or laughed at when
:23:09. > :23:14.they tried to report his sexual abuse, the findings of an NSPCC
:23:15. > :23:21.interview with 26 people which found that many had blamed themselves for
:23:22. > :23:24.what had happened to them. What we heard from victims' testimony when
:23:25. > :23:28.they went to police in the past is the reluctance of the police to take
:23:29. > :23:34.on board what they had to say and to believe their allegations and to
:23:35. > :23:37.take the matter further. There was a more likelihood of their dismissal
:23:38. > :23:42.of their making allegations against adults who had celebrity status or
:23:43. > :23:46.had a significant role in the community. So that was very, very
:23:47. > :23:52.worrying. And today what we do know is that the police are more open to
:23:53. > :23:56.listening to victims, both on historical and current abuse, taking
:23:57. > :24:05.those matters more seriously and investigating them far more
:24:06. > :24:08.thoroughly. The Director of Public Prosecutions
:24:09. > :24:11.for England and Wales is to deploy specialist lawyers abroad to try to
:24:12. > :24:14.clamp down on criminals hiding their assets. They will be based in Spain
:24:15. > :24:17.and the United Arab Emirates, initially. It's hoped ?10 million
:24:18. > :24:24.can be recovered from convicted tax evaders, drug barons and corrupt
:24:25. > :24:27.businessmen. The talk show hosted by Piers Morgan
:24:28. > :24:31.on the cable network CNN has been axed because, as he put it, the
:24:32. > :24:33.audience had become tired of a British guy banging on about
:24:34. > :24:36.American issues. He'd taken over from Larry King three years ago, but
:24:37. > :24:40.he became a controversial host by wading into the debate on gun
:24:41. > :24:46.control in the US, as Nick Higham now explains.
:24:47. > :24:53.It was meant to be one of America off highest profile interview shows.
:24:54. > :25:00.You know you I have taken a strong stand on guns in America... That
:25:01. > :25:03.made some people very angry. 1776 will take place again if you try to
:25:04. > :25:06.take our firearms! We will not ruling which then, do you
:25:07. > :25:11.understand?! That is why you are going to fail, and the establishment
:25:12. > :25:15.knows, no matter how much propaganda, the Republic will rise
:25:16. > :25:20.again! It made for riveting television, but not riveting enough
:25:21. > :25:23.to attract viewers. It was not just opponents of gun control who did not
:25:24. > :25:27.warm to a man they saw as a patronising Brits who said he
:25:28. > :25:30.preferred cricket to baseball, soccer to American football. Piers
:25:31. > :25:34.Morgan himself told the New York Times, look, I am a British guy
:25:35. > :25:37.debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very
:25:38. > :25:41.polarising, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience
:25:42. > :25:45.who are tired of me banging on about it. But the real problem was
:25:46. > :25:48.ratings. CNN faces fierce competition from rival news
:25:49. > :25:54.channels. The audience for his high-profile prime-time show sank
:25:55. > :25:57.from 2 million when he started to just over 250,000. If you are
:25:58. > :26:02.looking for definition, and Fox hazard, and MSNBC has it, Piers
:26:03. > :26:05.Morgan taking a stand on gun control might have done it for you. That
:26:06. > :26:11.will not be the reason they have canned him, it will fold the
:26:12. > :26:15.mentally be ratings. He still has plenty of work, like his programme
:26:16. > :26:19.for ITV. He says he would like to do something similar for CNN, but his
:26:20. > :26:23.failure to win over America is remarkable for a man, although he
:26:24. > :26:31.may be British, as a cast-iron self confidence and self belief that is
:26:32. > :26:34.very American. The oldest known survivor of the
:26:35. > :26:37.Holocaust has died at the age of 110. In 1943, Alice Herz-Sommer was
:26:38. > :26:40.sent to the Theresienstadt camp in what's now the Czech Republic. More
:26:41. > :26:43.than 30,000 Jews died there, but she survived because she was an
:26:44. > :26:45.accomplished pianist and, as she put it, the joy of music kept her alive.
:26:46. > :27:00.Daniel Boettcher has more. My world is music. I am not
:27:01. > :27:04.interested in anything else. For Alice Herz-Sommer, music was not
:27:05. > :27:10.just her world, it helped during her darkest days. She was born in Prague
:27:11. > :27:15.in 1903 during the German occupation of Joburg Slovakia. She was sent to
:27:16. > :27:24.a concentration camp in raising staff. It was used in Nazi
:27:25. > :27:27.propaganda. -- Theresienstadt. Some prisoners were encouraged to put on
:27:28. > :27:31.performances, Alice Herz-Sommer would play the piano and believed it
:27:32. > :27:34.helped save her life. Her experience of using a music as a means to
:27:35. > :27:39.survival in the concentration camps was shared by others. I can say
:27:40. > :27:43.without hesitation that the cello saved my life, because I knew what
:27:44. > :27:48.was going on in Auschwitz, so I became a member of the orchestra,
:27:49. > :27:51.which was life-saving. As long as they wanted music, they could not
:27:52. > :27:59.put us in the gas chamber. There is a certain amount of logic in the
:28:00. > :28:05.Germans. I knew that we would play, and I was thinking, when we can
:28:06. > :28:15.play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! Music is in the
:28:16. > :28:19.first place of art. Her long life has been recorded in a documentary
:28:20. > :28:24.nominated for the Oscars, showing the journey of a woman described by
:28:25. > :28:28.her family as an inspiration, who survived the Holocaust but looked
:28:29. > :28:34.back at her life and loss without bitterness. Every day in life is
:28:35. > :28:39.beautiful. Every day. It is beautiful!
:28:40. > :28:46.Now, time for a look at the weather with Nick Miller.
:28:47. > :28:53.It is winter, but there is someone in the sunshine at the moment,
:28:54. > :28:56.temperatures have peaked in East Anglia and the south-east, 15 in
:28:57. > :29:01.London, the warmest day of the year so far. Not everybody sharing that
:29:02. > :29:04.story, we have a cloud and rain in Scotland and Balmoral is just five
:29:05. > :29:07.degrees at the moment, but an improving story through the
:29:08. > :29:11.afternoon as this area of cloud and rain begins to push away and
:29:12. > :29:15.brightens up a little bit. This narrow strip of cloud is going to
:29:16. > :29:18.erode some of the sunshine in the south-east as it continues to edge
:29:19. > :29:22.its way further east as the afternoon goes on, taking a narrow
:29:23. > :29:27.strip of rain with that. Better Together take a look at things at
:29:28. > :29:34.three o'clock this afternoon, cloud in Southampton, but in London
:29:35. > :29:39.starting to cloud over. -- let's take a look. In this narrow strip,
:29:40. > :29:43.some heavy bursts. Behind that, plenty of sunshine for the rest of
:29:44. > :29:46.the afternoon across the Midlands, some in northern England, but
:29:47. > :29:53.further Northmoor cloud, a little brighter, not clear blue sky but
:29:54. > :29:57.brighter and dryer. -- but further north, more cloud. It will not stay
:29:58. > :30:03.dry in Northern Ireland, rain coming in as the next Atlantic system shows
:30:04. > :30:07.its hand. Through Wales and south-west England, mainly dry. You
:30:08. > :30:12.will notice the breeze freshening again a head of the new system. Here
:30:13. > :30:16.we go, a band of rain moving through this afternoon, this evening and
:30:17. > :30:20.overnight, gales picking up in the Irish Sea. The good news is that
:30:21. > :30:24.area of rain is moving through quite quickly, so the rainfall totals do
:30:25. > :30:28.not start to pile up, we are not expecting the flooding to be made
:30:29. > :30:33.any worse by this. Temperatures stay up, a mild night. You may start with
:30:34. > :30:36.some rain first thing across eastern counties in the morning, then the
:30:37. > :30:39.system is gone, brightening up, and for many eastern parts we stay dry
:30:40. > :30:44.and bright apart from the odd shower. Showers do come into western
:30:45. > :30:53.parts on balance, heavy, accompanied by blustery winds, temperatures of
:30:54. > :30:57.around 8-12 degrees. -- on bands. A bright start continuing across much
:30:58. > :31:02.of England and Wales, a few showers across the northern part of the UK.
:31:03. > :31:06.Hiding behind me is another band of rain for Wednesday night, again
:31:07. > :31:11.moving through quite quickly. On Thursday, that clears to showers, a
:31:12. > :31:14.few still around on Friday, temperatures down towards the end of
:31:15. > :31:19.the week. Details on the website about weather warnings? Oh, there
:31:20. > :31:24.aren't any! A reminder of our top story this
:31:25. > :31:27.lunchtime: The future of the Scottish island gas industry has
:31:28. > :31:29.taken centre stage in the debate of