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independence debate. Both David Cameron and his Cabinet and Alex | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Salmond and his, hold meetings a few miles apart in Aberdeen. We are | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
top-10 economy and can afford the investment, the long-term structure | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
necessary to make sure we can recover as much from the North Sea | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
as possible and that's good for everybody. There's no point David | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Cameron saying to us, a country like Scotland couldn't handle oil and gas | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
when we see the example of Norway, which has handled it much better | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
than Westminster. Also this lunchtime. An arrest warrant is | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
issued for Ukraine's ousted president, Victor Yanukovich, who | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
went on the run last Friday. The disc jockey Dave Lee Travis is to | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
face a retrial on two charges of sexual assault where the jury was | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
unable to reach a verdict. And the not so special relationship. CNN | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
axes Piers Morgan's chat show. Was he too British for American tastes? | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News, after Team GB matched its best | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
performance at a Winter Olympics, UK Sport says it expects to increase | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
their funding to prepare for the next Winter Games. | :01:22. | :01:39. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News At One. Aberdeen finds | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
itself at the heart of the Scottish independence debate this lunchtime | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
with David Cameron and the British Cabinet meeting in the granite city | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
for the first time. And just five miles away, Alex Salmond has | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
gathered his team of ministers together as well. It's the future of | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the oil and gas industry that's at the heart of discussions. Both men | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
say it is their plans that are best for the Scottish economy. Let's | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
cross to Aberdeen and our Scotland Correspondent, James Cook. Aberdeen, | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Britain's oil capital, booming city at the heart of a heated debate | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
about Scotland's future. It's here that the UK Cabinet will gather this | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
afternoon, only the second time they've met in Scotland in 90 years. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Just five miles down the road in Portlethan, Scotland's first | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
Minister has been chairing his own cabinet meeting. Alex Salmond | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
insists an independent Scottish Government would be the best | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
custodian of the black gold. The problem is that Scotland has nabbed | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the real benefits. I can't think of any country in the world who've | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
discovered oil and gas, but many people in the population have got | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
relatively poorer, but that has been Scotland's fate under Westminster | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
control. I think it could be very different and much better for | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Scottish people. With independence and control of our own resources. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
David Cameron meanwhile had flown out to the North Sea to inspect this | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
BP platform. It was part of the blizzard of visits announcements and | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
press releases by both governments. The Prime Minister insisted energy | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
policy was safer in British hands. I think it makes a very strong | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
argument about the United Kingdom and how the broad shoulders of one | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
of the top ten economies in the world has really got behind this | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
industry. We will continue to stay behind this industry so we get | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
maximum benefit out of it. The maximum benefit for all of the | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
United Kingdom, including Scotland. Because we are top-10 economy, we | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
can afford the tax allowances, the investment, the long-term structure, | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
necessary to make sure we recover as much of the North Sea as possible | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
and that's good for everybody. And there is a huge prize at stake. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
Estimates vary but oil firms hope to extract between 12-24,000,000,000 | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
barrels of North Sea oil worth between one - ?2 trillion over the | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
next 30 or 40 years. And there is now a new plan to squeeze out every | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
last drop. It's been published today by one of the industry 's most | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
respected figures and the UK and Scottish Government is competing to | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
implement his recommendations. The island gas industry is a massive | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
wealth producer for the UK and frankly, I think needs little bit | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
more government attention than it had and I hope we get that. So the | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
glory days of the North Sea may be behind us, but there is still a | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
fight over the treasure beneath the waves. Well let's get more from | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
James who's in Portlethan. And from our chief political correspondent, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Norman Smith who is in Aberdeen. James, is Alex Salmond in anyway | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
discomfited by the arrival of the British Cabinet or is he relishing | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
the fight? Very much the latter, very much for Alex Salmond, who is | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
in this church behind me taking questions from the public at the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
moment. He's not only could you pleased to see UK Cabinet here, but | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
he would like to see them a lot more, close-up, particular the Prime | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
Minister, David Cameron, in a head-to-head debate. Every time Mr | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Cameron comes up there, having said that the debate is one of the Scots, | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
to be held amongst the people who will vote in this referendum, it | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
does give Alex Salmond an obvious opportunity to say, if you're going | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
to come up here and lecture us, why won't you come up here and debate | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
which to mark of course, Mr Cameron doesn't see it like that and says he | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
has a duty to be involved in this industry, but Alex Salmond has | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
another reason why his happy. It enables him to contrast of | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
experience in the North Sea with the Prime Minister's. And perhaps this | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
is unfair on Mr Cameron, but Alex Salmond said today, when he was an | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
oil economist in the 1980s, David Cameron was mucking about on the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
playing fields of Eton. That's the kind of line the first Minister of | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Scotland relishes. Then there was also the polls. Are these | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
interventions making a difference for the campaign against | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
independence by UK Government ministers? The answer so far seems | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
to be no. We had George Osborne intervening on currencies adjusting | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
their comes be a formal currency union between the rest of the United | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Kingdom and an independent Scotland. And the polls seem to suggest that | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
it probably didn't make any difference. It might have caused a | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
slight balance for the campaign in favour of independence, so for all | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
these reasons, Alex Salmond and his cabinet are relishing this challenge | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
would have been thrown their way by the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Let's turn to Norman. Norman, a 2-part question. Are we going to see | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
a lot more David Cameron doing this kind of thing in Scotland? Are there | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
are risks involved him? The answer I think is yes to both, because it | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
seems to me, if you know your cricket, what we're seeing here is | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
what the line politics, an attempt by the UK Government to polls very | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
hard, fast answers straight at Alex Salmond, bouncy number one came a | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
couple of weeks ago with George Osborne raising questions about an | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
independent Scotland keeping the pound, and number two came with the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
questions about whether an independent Scotland could stay in | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
the European Union and here comes number three, what on earth is going | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
to happen to North Sea oil in Scotland goes it alone? The answer | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
from team Cameron, it's going to be a lot worse off because you don't | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
have a broad base of the UK taxpayer to invest and encourage the North | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Sea oil industry. And that plays to a broader strategy from team | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Cameron, which seems to me to try to play to the purse strings of | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
Scottish voters, rather than the heartstrings, to say thing about | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
this because it may actually be a lot worse off. There is a risk, and | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
the rest is, by pulling the Cabinet appear, the first time the UK | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
Cabinet has been to the north-east since 1921, and dear old Lloyd | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
George, David Cameron, the danger is, he could be saying to the Scots, | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
warning them about going alone and they could struggle. Because they | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
are so close, the two cabinets, just five miles apart, it surely sealed | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Alex Salmond's demands for a debate for some why can't they debate when | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
they are so close? That's the one thing we won't hear from David | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Cameron because that's the one thing he thinks could be a game changer to | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Alex Salmond's advantage. Norman, James, thank you very much indeed. | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
And you can get more analysis on Scottish independence and the future | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
of the North Sea oil and gas industry on the BBC news website. A | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Ukrainian president, | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Viktor Yanukovych who's accused of mass murder over the clashes in Kiev | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
last week in which 88 people died. There are unconfirmed reports that | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
the former President was spotted this morning leaving the port city | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
on the Black Sea, Sevastopol. Meanwhile, there's a flurry of | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
diplomatic activity today because of international concerns that Ukraine | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
could split in two, with one part forging closer ties with Russia, and | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the other with the European Union. Let's cross to our correspondent in | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
Kiev, Duncan Crawford. There have been lots of rumours about the | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
whereabouts of ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and this | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
lunchtime, the hunt is very much on. The acting interior Minister has | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
said that, apparently, Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev on Friday to | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
the eastern city, and then went on to his home region of Donetsk, where | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
he tried and failed to leave the country. He then went down to the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
South, to Crimea, where we are told a number of his bodyguards abandoned | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
him before his last sighting was this morning, we are told, in the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Crimean town of balaclava, where he was -- was seen driving off in a | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
convoy of vehicles. He's a man on the run, and people in Kiev want him | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
to be found. Mourning their heroes, in Kiev, the city centre fell | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
largely silent on this morning, just the sound of crying and shuffling of | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
feet, as people quietly paid their respects to the dead. Independence | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
Square, a protest camp, then a battle zone, and is now a shrine to | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
those who lost their lives. People here blame ousted president Viktor | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Yanukovych. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is now | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Ukraine's most wanted man. He should be captured as soon as possible and | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
he should be put on trial. I think he should be brought here so people | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
can look into his eyes to ask what they think about him. I think it | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
should be arrested, although a lot of people have views which are much | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
more radical. They think that perhaps capital punishment should be | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
lamented in Ukraine again. The big question is, where is ousted | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
President Yanukovych? Is certainly not here at the presidential palace, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
guarded by these protesters. They believe he's gone into hiding, | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
possibly in the Russian speaking south or east of the country. | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
Perhaps he is here in Crimea. There are still supports the man they | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
insist is their democratically elected leader. People are | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
demonstrating against what they view as a coup. They want to maintain | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
close ties with Russia, which this region was part of, until 1954. A | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
new interim president has been installed. He is pro-Western and | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
pro-EU. But says he also wants to have good relations with Russia. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Some are worried the tensions within this country could see it split | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
between East and West. Our priority is to return to the European | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
integration course. The fight began. We have to do return to the family | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
of European countries and to understand the importance of | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
relations with a Russian Federation. Reconciling Ukraine's past with its | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
future, will be difficult. In Kiev, a woman blocks a man from defacing a | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
money meant to the KGB. The Soviet Russian security service. Stability | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
is far from certain. As is the unity of the country. It is calm here in | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
Independence Square. There are thousands of people behind me once | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
again just standing around listening to a service. Despite all the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
political upheavals of the last few days, you do get a sense that people | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
are trying to return to their normal routines, but with the EU, the USA | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
and Russia, all trying to influence events on the ground, the political | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
situation in this country remains uncertain. OK, Duncan, thank you | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
bring much indeed. There are reports of former president has been seen in | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Daniel Sandford is there for us. | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
What more do we know about his whereabouts? It's all a bit of a | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
mystery, but I'm standing at the spot where the trail runs cold. The | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
acting interior Minister, said this is where this small suburb of | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Sevastopol, the famous historical Bay of balaclava, this is where | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
President Yanukovych's bodyguards finally abandoned him. From here, he | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
went on in a three-car convoy with a couple of bodyguards and one close | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
aide of the rest of his official bodyguard team left him here, | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
returned to Sevastopol and hand in their weapons and reported back to | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
the Interior Ministry that this is where they left President | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
Yanukovych. And, from here, the trail runs cold. He's been on the | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
run for three days and left Kiev on Friday by helicopter, travelled | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
through eastern Ukraine, down through Donetsk, and tried to get to | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
the airport near Sevastopol. He feared a chap was waiting for him | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
yet, so came here to balaclava, said goodbye to a security detail, and | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
disappeared into the night, about midnight local time last night. The | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
focus of our coverage has been on the unrest in Kiev or what level of | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
support does Viktor Yanukovych enjoy another part of the country | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
repeatedly in places like where you are now? I think if I'm honest about | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
it, very little now. I think President Yanukovych was the man who | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
stood up for Russian speaking Ukraine, for eastern industrial | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Ukraine, they saw him as their man, but as I have watched the country | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
slowly deteriorate into chaos over the last three months, his support | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
has seriously ebbed away and I find it difficult in eastern Ukraine to | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
find many people who have much good to say about him, but that does not | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
mean that people here have any love for the new government in Kiev. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Here, there's a particular historical anomaly for the death was | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
part of Russia, all the way back to the year of the Crimean War by the | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
British were fighting on the hills around the Bay of balaclava, this is | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
a Russian part of the world. In the 1950s, it was moved from Russia to | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
being part of Ukrainian Republic in the former soggy at union and then | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
when Ukraine gained independence, Crimea went with Ukraine. Many | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
people here still feel Russian, their strongest allegiance is to | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
Russia. The Black Sea fleet is in the harbour of Sevastopol at the | :15:59. | :16:00. | |
moment and these people here are feeling very, very bitter about | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
events in Kiev and the demonstrations are happening every | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
day, violence every day, and this is a part of the world which is going | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
to become a very big question, as negotiations continue about | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Ukraine's future in the last few months. Daniel, thank you bring much | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
indeed for that. Let's talk more about those meetings with our | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. We have heard warnings | :16:22. | :16:30. | |
about Russia getting involved from the US. We have heard sounds, I | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
think, of anger in the sense of betrayal and bruising, frankly, from | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
Moscow. They feel that they were betrayed by the opposition, now the | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
emerging power in Ukraine. They felt they had signed a deal which would | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
keep Yanukovych in power. There is feeling that this was an armed | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
mutiny, and the dream ever death has said that Russia does not recognise | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
the legitimacy of the emerging powers in Ukraine. -- Dmitry | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Medvedev. What is going on in Washington and London particularly | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
is an attempt to soothe Russian feelings. As we speak, William Hague | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
is beginning to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to try | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
to put across the message that William Hague has already hinted at, | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
that this does not need to be a one side wins and the other losers, that | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
in fact a new Ukraine should be encouraged through trade equally | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
with Europe, Western Europe through the European Union, and with Russia. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
But that is not a message that Moscow seems very inclined to listen | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
to, because it thinks the United States is acting in bad faith and | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
suggesting, making accusations that the Russians might deploy troops to | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
Ukraine. Is it the policy of all sides that they want the integrity | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
of the Ukraine to remain, so that it does not split in two with all the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
consequences that might flow from that? I do not think Moscow has been | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
as explicit as bad, but no-one has an appetite for a divided Ukraine, | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
so the argument now will be, how is Ukraine accommodated in such a way | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
that Russia does not feel it wants to take retaliatory action. | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
The former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is to face a new trial of | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
allegations of indecent and sexual assault. Earlier this month, the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
68-year-old was found not guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault, but | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
juror as were unable to reach verdict on two further charges. He | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
will face a retrial on the outstanding counts. Our home affairs | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
correspondent, June Kelly, has this report. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
For the past week and a half, Dave Lee Travis has been in legal limbo, | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
acquitted on 12 charges, he came to court this morning to be told he | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
will face a second trial on the two counts on which the jury could not | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
reach verdicts. With his wife at his side, he was clearly upset. The | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
nightmare is now going to go on. All I can say is that this whole thing | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
started when I was 67, and I just hope it is going to end by the time | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
I am 80. Thank you for your time. A couple of weeks ago, another famous | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
name was in court facing historical sexual allegations. Coronation | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Street's William Roache was cleared of all charges. Speaking to the BBC | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
about the whole this you, but before this morning's decision, the | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
director of public prosecutions said that it was all about listening to | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
complaints. I think since we have looked at recent cases and since we | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
have looked at policy, people have been far more confident that they | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
can come forward, and that is really good, and we don't want to knock | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
that confidence. Now another jury will have to consider Dave Lee | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
Travis's case. One of the council is facing goes back to the early 1990s | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
when he was a big BBC name. The other allegation is from six years | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
ago. Nearly 18 months after he was first arrested, the criminal | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
proceedings against Dave Lee Travis continue. He will be back in court | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
at the end of next month for a first hearing ahead of his new trial. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
June Kelly, BBC News, at Southwark Crown Court. | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
The time is 20 past one. Our top story this lunchtime, the future of | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
Scotland's oil and gas industry takes centre stage in the debate | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
over independence. And still to come, the woman whose | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
music saved her life in the concentration camp. The oldest known | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
survivor of the Holocaust has died at the age of 110. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
Later on BBC London, the battle for the skies, wildlife campaigners | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
speak out against the Boris Island airport proposal. And taking refuge | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
in London, the story behind tens of thousands of Belgians who made the | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
capital their home during World War I. | :20:46. | :20:59. | |
A former Roman Catholic priest has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
children over more than two decades. Father Francis Cullen viewed seven | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
children at churches in Derbyshire and Nottingham. He was arrested in | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
1991 but went on the run before being arrested in Tenerife last | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
year. Jon Brain, first of all, reminders about the background to | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
this case. -- remind us. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Although he appeared today as a frail 85-year-old who could barely | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
stand in the dock, who have trouble hearing the proceedings, the court | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
was told that Cullen was a serial abuser, five boys and two girls, a | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
total of 21 counts he pleaded guilty to today in a very weak voice. The | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
police believe there were many more victims who perhaps have not come | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
forward. He was a parish priest both here in Derbyshire and in | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
neighbouring Nottinghamshire. He used his position to carry out that | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
abuse, many of which took place on Church promises. He fled the country | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
more than 20 years ago, and police thought they had brought in to | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
justice. He wants to Tenerife, where he made a new life for himself, but | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
he was actually spotted going to regular Sunday Mass at the Catholic | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
Church in Tenerife by a catholic safeguarding group. They told the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
police, and he was extradited in January to face these charges today. | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Take us through what happened in court this morning. | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
In a very weak voice, he pleaded guilty to each of the charges as | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
they were read out. As I say, he had difficulty hearing many of them. The | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
sentencing has been adjourned until next month, but the judge told him | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
he faces a very substantial prison sentence. His barrister said he is | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
in poor health which has been deteriorating since he has been in | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
custody in prison, so bearing in mind his age, the assumption is that | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
he is likely to die in prison. Thank you very much indeed. | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Many of Jimmy Savile's victims were either ignored or laughed at when | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
they tried to report his sexual abuse, the findings of an NSPCC | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
interview with 26 people which found that many had blamed themselves for | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
what had happened to them. What we heard from victims' testimony when | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
they went to police in the past is the reluctance of the police to take | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
on board what they had to say and to believe their allegations and to | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
take the matter further. There was a more likelihood of their dismissal | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
of their making allegations against adults who had celebrity status or | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
had a significant role in the community. So that was very, very | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
worrying. And today what we do know is that the police are more open to | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
listening to victims, both on historical and current abuse, taking | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
those matters more seriously and investigating them far more | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
thoroughly. The Director of Public Prosecutions | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
for England and Wales is to deploy specialist lawyers abroad to try to | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
clamp down on criminals hiding their assets. They will be based in Spain | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
and the United Arab Emirates, initially. It's hoped ?10 million | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
can be recovered from convicted tax evaders, drug barons and corrupt | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
businessmen. The talk show hosted by Piers Morgan | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
on the cable network CNN has been axed because, as he put it, the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
audience had become tired of a British guy banging on about | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
American issues. He'd taken over from Larry King three years ago, but | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
he became a controversial host by wading into the debate on gun | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
control in the US, as Nick Higham now explains. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
It was meant to be one of America off highest profile interview shows. | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
You know you I have taken a strong stand on guns in America... That | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
made some people very angry. 1776 will take place again if you try to | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
take our firearms! We will not ruling which then, do you | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
understand?! That is why you are going to fail, and the establishment | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
knows, no matter how much propaganda, the Republic will rise | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
again! It made for riveting television, but not riveting enough | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
to attract viewers. It was not just opponents of gun control who did not | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
warm to a man they saw as a patronising Brits who said he | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
preferred cricket to baseball, soccer to American football. Piers | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
Morgan himself told the New York Times, look, I am a British guy | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
debating American cultural issues, including guns, which has been very | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
polarising, and there is no doubt that there are many in the audience | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
who are tired of me banging on about it. But the real problem was | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
ratings. CNN faces fierce competition from rival news | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
channels. The audience for his high-profile prime-time show sank | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
from 2 million when he started to just over 250,000. If you are | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
looking for definition, and Fox hazard, and MSNBC has it, Piers | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
Morgan taking a stand on gun control might have done it for you. That | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
will not be the reason they have canned him, it will fold the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
mentally be ratings. He still has plenty of work, like his programme | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
for ITV. He says he would like to do something similar for CNN, but his | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
failure to win over America is remarkable for a man, although he | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
may be British, as a cast-iron self confidence and self belief that is | :26:24. | :26:31. | |
very American. The oldest known survivor of the | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Holocaust has died at the age of 110. In 1943, Alice Herz-Sommer was | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
sent to the Theresienstadt camp in what's now the Czech Republic. More | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
than 30,000 Jews died there, but she survived because she was an | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
accomplished pianist and, as she put it, the joy of music kept her alive. | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
Daniel Boettcher has more. My world is music. I am not | :26:46. | :27:00. | |
interested in anything else. For Alice Herz-Sommer, music was not | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
just her world, it helped during her darkest days. She was born in Prague | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
in 1903 during the German occupation of Joburg Slovakia. She was sent to | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
a concentration camp in raising staff. It was used in Nazi | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
propaganda. -- Theresienstadt. Some prisoners were encouraged to put on | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
performances, Alice Herz-Sommer would play the piano and believed it | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
helped save her life. Her experience of using a music as a means to | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
survival in the concentration camps was shared by others. I can say | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
without hesitation that the cello saved my life, because I knew what | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
was going on in Auschwitz, so I became a member of the orchestra, | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
which was life-saving. As long as they wanted music, they could not | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
put us in the gas chamber. There is a certain amount of logic in the | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
Germans. I knew that we would play, and I was thinking, when we can | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! Music is in the | :28:06. | :28:15. | |
first place of art. Her long life has been recorded in a documentary | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
nominated for the Oscars, showing the journey of a woman described by | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
her family as an inspiration, who survived the Holocaust but looked | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
back at her life and loss without bitterness. Every day in life is | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
beautiful. Every day. It is beautiful! | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Now, time for a look at the weather with Nick Miller. | :28:40. | :28:46. | |
It is winter, but there is someone in the sunshine at the moment, | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
temperatures have peaked in East Anglia and the south-east, 15 in | :28:54. | :28:56. | |
London, the warmest day of the year so far. Not everybody sharing that | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
story, we have a cloud and rain in Scotland and Balmoral is just five | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
degrees at the moment, but an improving story through the | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
afternoon as this area of cloud and rain begins to push away and | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
brightens up a little bit. This narrow strip of cloud is going to | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
erode some of the sunshine in the south-east as it continues to edge | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
its way further east as the afternoon goes on, taking a narrow | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
strip of rain with that. Better Together take a look at things at | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
three o'clock this afternoon, cloud in Southampton, but in London | :29:28. | :29:34. | |
starting to cloud over. -- let's take a look. In this narrow strip, | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
some heavy bursts. Behind that, plenty of sunshine for the rest of | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
the afternoon across the Midlands, some in northern England, but | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
further Northmoor cloud, a little brighter, not clear blue sky but | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
brighter and dryer. -- but further north, more cloud. It will not stay | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
dry in Northern Ireland, rain coming in as the next Atlantic system shows | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
its hand. Through Wales and south-west England, mainly dry. You | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
will notice the breeze freshening again a head of the new system. Here | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
we go, a band of rain moving through this afternoon, this evening and | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
overnight, gales picking up in the Irish Sea. The good news is that | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
area of rain is moving through quite quickly, so the rainfall totals do | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
not start to pile up, we are not expecting the flooding to be made | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
any worse by this. Temperatures stay up, a mild night. You may start with | :30:29. | :30:33. | |
some rain first thing across eastern counties in the morning, then the | :30:34. | :30:36. | |
system is gone, brightening up, and for many eastern parts we stay dry | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
and bright apart from the odd shower. Showers do come into western | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
parts on balance, heavy, accompanied by blustery winds, temperatures of | :30:45. | :30:53. | |
around 8-12 degrees. -- on bands. A bright start continuing across much | :30:54. | :30:57. | |
of England and Wales, a few showers across the northern part of the UK. | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
Hiding behind me is another band of rain for Wednesday night, again | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
moving through quite quickly. On Thursday, that clears to showers, a | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
few still around on Friday, temperatures down towards the end of | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
the week. Details on the website about weather warnings? Oh, there | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
aren't any! A reminder of our top story this | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
lunchtime: The future of the Scottish island gas industry has | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
taken centre stage in the debate of | :31:28. | :31:29. |