:00:17. > :00:24.with his Russian counterpart as the international community urges Russia
:00:25. > :00:27.to negotiate with Ukraine. It's also very welcome that there is such a
:00:28. > :00:31.clear and unified voice going out from this house to say to the
:00:32. > :00:34.Russian government, what you have done is wrong, it should not be
:00:35. > :00:37.allowed to stand. But in Ukraine, the standoff in Crimea continues as
:00:38. > :00:40.Russia says it can't order what it calls self-defence forces back to
:00:41. > :00:44.their bases. We'll have the latest from Paris and Crimea.
:00:45. > :00:47.Also this lunchtime: A boxer tells the Oscar Pistorius murder trial the
:00:48. > :01:01.athlete fired a gun in a restaurant under the table - then asked someone
:01:02. > :01:03.else to take the blame. The government has denied
:01:04. > :01:05.suppressing a report that overstates the impact of immigration on British
:01:06. > :01:07.workers. Cross-examined in court - former
:01:08. > :01:09.News International boss Rebekah Brooks denies she covered up
:01:10. > :01:12.phone-hacking. Three months after the first floods
:01:13. > :01:19.of this winter - a special report on the lasting impact of Britain's
:01:20. > :01:22.devastating storms. Later, train companies accused of prehistoric
:01:23. > :01:28.practices as toilet waste is dumped on tracks at busy stations. And free
:01:29. > :01:44.schools are offered this industrial site.
:01:45. > :01:50.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Diplomatic efforts
:01:51. > :01:52.to ease tensions in Ukraine are intensifying as US Secretary of
:01:53. > :01:57.State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prepare to
:01:58. > :01:59.hold crucial talks in Paris. The US wants independent observers in the
:02:00. > :02:10.flash point region of Crimea and direct talks between Kiev and
:02:11. > :02:12.Moscow. But Russia insists that it's 'self-defence forces', not Russian
:02:13. > :02:16.troops that are in control of Crimea and so it can't call them back to
:02:17. > :02:18.their bases. There is some flash photography in this report from our
:02:19. > :02:23.world affairs correspondent Nick Childs.
:02:24. > :02:28.Diplomatic big guns have been gathering in Paris. This was planned
:02:29. > :02:37.as a meeting on the middle Middle East. The resulting new deep in
:02:38. > :02:42.East-West relations. Initial Western efforts to get the Russians to sit
:02:43. > :02:45.down at the same table as the new Ukrainian representatives for talks
:02:46. > :02:54.failed. Those efforts continue, but what prospect of success remains
:02:55. > :02:56.unclear. And what then? The Prime Minister and President Obama has
:02:57. > :03:00.made clear that there must be significant costs to Russia of
:03:01. > :03:08.violating its international obligations in this way. Of course
:03:09. > :03:12.we would refer to make diplomatic progress, but in the absence of that
:03:13. > :03:17.progress, there will be costs to Russia. In Spain, and is way to
:03:18. > :03:22.Paris, the Russian Foreign Minister again underlined the diplomatic
:03:23. > :03:25.challenge and the Dolphin perceptions between the West and
:03:26. > :03:31.Moscow over the stand-off and the Russian presence in Crimea.
:03:32. > :03:35.TRANSLATION: I would like to understand what you understand by
:03:36. > :03:40.pro-Russian forces. These are policies of self defence, created by
:03:41. > :03:45.residents of Crimea, they did not get any orders from us. If there is
:03:46. > :03:52.no meeting of debris democratic minds, options were limited. The
:03:53. > :03:55.could include travel bans on Russian officials, a squeeze on trade and
:03:56. > :04:02.other economic links and moves to isolate Moscow, excluding Russia
:04:03. > :04:07.from the G7. There are differences across the Atlantic and in Europe on
:04:08. > :04:11.what to do. The Americans have talked toughest on targeted
:04:12. > :04:16.sanctions but France has important military contracts with Russia.
:04:17. > :04:20.Germany is nervous about its gas imports and Britain and others are
:04:21. > :04:25.worried about Russian investments. In Crimea, the signs are of Russian
:04:26. > :04:28.and pro-Russian forces consolidating their grip. Even if they diplomatic
:04:29. > :04:33.dialogue takes hold, will it simply be to prevent a further escalation
:04:34. > :04:38.of events or CDs Russian forces withdraw?
:04:39. > :04:44.As diplomatic efforts intensify - the situation on the ground remains
:04:45. > :04:50.tense. Ben Brown is in Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea.
:04:51. > :04:52.We have come to the Ukrainian naval headquarters here, where there are
:04:53. > :04:57.volunteers from the self-styled Russian defence Force, effectively
:04:58. > :05:03.besieging this base, along with unidentified Russian soldiers as
:05:04. > :05:09.well. They won't even let us go from here, the few yards to those gates,
:05:10. > :05:15.to try to talk to or interview the Ukrainian naval staff who are
:05:16. > :05:20.inside. At first, they didn't even want us to film, I Russian Cossack
:05:21. > :05:26.pushed his whip into our camera but then he agreed to give us his point
:05:27. > :05:32.of view. TRANSLATION: The commanders came and told us they were loyal to
:05:33. > :05:38.the police used power in Kiev, but we think that Yanukovych is the
:05:39. > :05:40.legitimate president. Behind the gates, the naval personnel are
:05:41. > :05:46.refusing to switch allegiances, however much pressure they come
:05:47. > :05:49.under. Their wives have arrived to bring them food and clothes but the
:05:50. > :05:56.Russians laying siege to displace refused to let them deliver their
:05:57. > :06:02.supplies. A retired naval, and who is pro-Ukrainian told me it is tense
:06:03. > :06:10.but peaceful. Only one way, this is peaceful coexistence will stop these
:06:11. > :06:14.four coexistence, that's it. Because it is like a barrel with powder. But
:06:15. > :06:20.right now, everyone could understand, war is not the case,
:06:21. > :06:23.it's not the choice of people. No one doubts the very real dangers of
:06:24. > :06:30.this stand-off, but it's also beginning to look like a stalemate
:06:31. > :06:33.that could last some time. In a moment we'll get the latest on
:06:34. > :06:36.those talks from out diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall in
:06:37. > :06:39.Paris, but first our chief political correspondent Norman Smith is in
:06:40. > :06:45.Westminster. Not surprisingly, Ukraine dominating today? Also, I
:06:46. > :06:48.think we saw a determined effort by the Prime Minister to try and
:06:49. > :06:53.toughen up the British position, to try and add a bit of spine and
:06:54. > :06:58.backbone into the West's position ahead of that crucial EU summit
:06:59. > :07:03.tomorrow. Certainly in terms of his language and tone, and those MPs on
:07:04. > :07:06.the hawkish wing of his party were in no doubt, there has been a shift
:07:07. > :07:11.in their direction, with the prime minister saying nothing was off the
:07:12. > :07:14.table, the status quo was unacceptable, and flagging up that
:07:15. > :07:18.Britain will not go ahead with the G8 summit in Russia in June, saying
:07:19. > :07:25.it was hard to see how that could proceed. Mr Cameron also confirmed
:07:26. > :07:29.that ministers will not be going to the Paralympics, Downing Street has
:07:30. > :07:34.said that there will be a review of arms export licences stop the
:07:35. > :07:39.difficulty is the diplomacy. Their Mr Cameron will be speaking to
:07:40. > :07:43.Chancellor Angela Merkel, that may be the crunch moment, with
:07:44. > :07:49.government insiders warning that she is much more cautious about such a
:07:50. > :07:54.robust response. How diplomatic correspondence is in Paris. These
:07:55. > :08:00.talks, expected to take place today, what chance do they have of success?
:08:01. > :08:05.Everybody here seems to be playing down the chance. It feels as though
:08:06. > :08:08.it is diplomacy on the hoof, and they are just making a stab at
:08:09. > :08:12.seeing whether, given that the Russian Foreign Minister was he to
:08:13. > :08:17.be in Paris for a Middle East conference, they can have a go at
:08:18. > :08:21.face-to-face talks, to see what the mood is from Moscow, whether it's
:08:22. > :08:25.prepared to start a dialogue. William Hague told us this morning
:08:26. > :08:30.that he wasn't optimistic. They had a go at trying to get the Russians
:08:31. > :08:31.to come to a meeting with the new Ukrainian Foreign Minister,
:08:32. > :08:37.surprise, surprise, that didn't work. But there will be more
:08:38. > :08:44.meetings later today, at least a meeting between Mr Lavrov and the US
:08:45. > :08:50.Secretary of State. But what the British and Europeans want to do is
:08:51. > :08:53.arrange for a confrontation or consultation in the afternoon, maybe
:08:54. > :08:58.even proximity talks between the Russians and Ukrainians. They are
:08:59. > :09:01.not in the same room, but they are shuttling between them. At the
:09:02. > :09:04.moment it is improvisation. And you can get continuous live coverage and
:09:05. > :09:13.analysis on the situation in Ukraine on the BBC's website:
:09:14. > :09:18.A South African boxer and friend of Oscar Pistorius has told his murder
:09:19. > :09:21.trial that the athlete fired a shot under a table in a restaurant in
:09:22. > :09:24.Johannesburg, and then asked the friend to take the blame for it. The
:09:25. > :09:27.incident happened in January last year - just weeks before he killed
:09:28. > :09:29.his girlfriend. Oscar Pistorius denies all charges. Our Africa
:09:30. > :09:41.Correspondent Andrew Harding is outside the court in Pretoria. Yes,
:09:42. > :09:46.four witnesses in court today but three of them, focusing on this
:09:47. > :09:49.incident in Johannesburg restaurant, where Oscar Pistorius apparently
:09:50. > :09:53.accidentally fired a gun. The prosecution, keen to show him as a
:09:54. > :10:01.reckless young man. I should warn you there may be flash photography
:10:02. > :10:05.in this report. More orderly entrant into court this morning as this long
:10:06. > :10:10.trial starts to find its rhythm. The prosecution, still building its case
:10:11. > :10:13.against Oscar Pistorius. For the first time today, a witness agrees
:10:14. > :10:21.to be filmed giving evidence in the court room. It could happen if a
:10:22. > :10:25.charity, I was shocked... The prosecution wants this box to show
:10:26. > :10:29.that Oscar Pistorius was trigger-happy, reckless, and so he
:10:30. > :10:33.described an incident at this restaurant a month for the shooting
:10:34. > :10:37.of Reeva Steenkamp, when Pistorius fired a gun under the table and
:10:38. > :10:47.allegedly asked a friend to take the blame. I remember him apologising,
:10:48. > :10:50.and saying, is everybody OK? I do remember him saying, please, just
:10:51. > :10:56.say it was you, I don't want any tension around me. Earlier the focus
:10:57. > :11:00.was on the night that Reeva Steenkamp died, Pistorius's lawyer
:11:01. > :11:05.tried to prove that a couple living nearby must have been wrong to say
:11:06. > :11:08.they heard a woman scream followed by gunshots. It was instead, he
:11:09. > :11:15.said, Pistorius shouting and trying to break down the door. It's a man's
:11:16. > :11:22.life at stake and in all fairness, saying, let's look at other
:11:23. > :11:27.possibilities. My lady, I'm certain I heard gunshots. I'm familiar with
:11:28. > :11:31.the sound of them. Pistorius sat quietly, busy taking notes. More
:11:32. > :11:41.neighbours are expected to testify against him soon. Some interesting
:11:42. > :11:46.evidence from the restaurant there. But I think the longer term
:11:47. > :11:51.significance may be the defence, this morning, managing to pick some
:11:52. > :11:53.important holes in the evidence of some of the prosecution witnesses,
:11:54. > :11:59.the neighbours who lived around Oscar Pistorius's home and what they
:12:00. > :12:03.heard the night Reeva Steenkamp died.
:12:04. > :12:06.Downing Street has denied suppressing a report which suggests
:12:07. > :12:09.that immigration has had a lower impact on British jobs than first
:12:10. > :12:12.feared. Ministers had said that every 100 new arrivals left 23
:12:13. > :12:15.British people without a job - a figure that is now thought to be
:12:16. > :12:18.overstated. The government is promising to publish the report once
:12:19. > :12:21.the data has been "reviewed" but Labour and the Liberal Democrats are
:12:22. > :12:28.calling for it to be released now. Our political correspondent Carole
:12:29. > :12:32.Walker reports. What is the effect on British jobs
:12:33. > :12:37.of migrants who come here from outside the EU? In 2012, the
:12:38. > :12:43.migration advisory committee said that for every additional 100
:12:44. > :12:46.migrants, 23 UK workers were unemployed. But new research
:12:47. > :12:51.commissioned by the government suggests the impact of immigration
:12:52. > :12:55.is much lower. The new figures, due to be published shortly, and the
:12:56. > :13:01.government has denied suppressing the assessment. When it's complete,
:13:02. > :13:04.of course it should be published because people have a lot of
:13:05. > :13:10.questions about how immigration works and what it does and doesn't
:13:11. > :13:14.do for Britain as a whole. That is what credible research needs to be
:13:15. > :13:17.in the public domain. But the latest statistics show that the recent
:13:18. > :13:22.increase in net migration is caused mainly by more people coming into
:13:23. > :13:28.the UK from within the EU, they are entitled to do so under the EU rules
:13:29. > :13:32.on the free movement of people. All the studies look at non-EU
:13:33. > :13:36.migration, that has declined, it isn't the issue. The issue is EU
:13:37. > :13:40.migration. I would ask the Home Office, please produced figures that
:13:41. > :13:45.tell us how many British workers have had their jobs displaced? The
:13:46. > :13:49.benefits and costs of immigration and our membership of the EU will be
:13:50. > :13:54.central to the debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, which will
:13:55. > :13:57.take place on BBC television on April two. A confrontation between
:13:58. > :14:03.two leaders with starkly opposing views. Neither the Conservatives nor
:14:04. > :14:07.Labour will take part. New research suggests migrants who have set up
:14:08. > :14:12.their own businesses help boost the British economy. According to a ink
:14:13. > :14:18.tank, one in seven companies in the UK are set up by the nearly half a
:14:19. > :14:23.million migrant entrepreneurs who have launched businesses here. 14%
:14:24. > :14:28.of jobs in small and medium enterprises are created by migrant
:14:29. > :14:32.founded companies. There are tensions within the Coalition on
:14:33. > :14:36.this, too, with the Lib Dems keen to highlight the benefits of
:14:37. > :14:38.immigration and our membership of the European Union, whilst the
:14:39. > :14:43.Conservatives are keen to stress their efforts to cut net migration
:14:44. > :14:47.and renegotiate our relationship with Europe. Party differences will
:14:48. > :14:58.be laid bare in the run-up to the European elections in two months
:14:59. > :15:02.time. Our top story: Diplomatic efforts to resolve the stand-off
:15:03. > :15:08.between Russia and Ukraine intensify with high-level talks in Paris. And
:15:09. > :15:11.still to come... How a British 14-year-old became the youngest
:15:12. > :15:15.person in the world to build a nuclear fusion reactor in their
:15:16. > :15:23.school laboratory. Later on BBC London, a boost in funding in the
:15:24. > :15:27.fight against brain cancer. Aquatic acoustics. The concert that is held
:15:28. > :15:35.under water. It is three months today since the
:15:36. > :15:40.first winter storms began battering Britain. On December fifth, towns
:15:41. > :15:44.along the east coast were flooded after a massive tidal surge
:15:45. > :15:49.overwhelmed coastal defences. That was just the start of the wettest
:15:50. > :15:53.winter on record. In the run up to Christmas, many other parts of the
:15:54. > :15:55.UK began to take a battering. The Somerset Levels, one of the worst
:15:56. > :15:58.hit areas, were inundated with around 16,000 acres underwater.
:15:59. > :16:00.Coastal storms then spread throughout the UK in January and
:16:01. > :16:06.February, causing massive destruction, including the main rail
:16:07. > :16:09.line linking Devon and Cornwall. Then, in February, the Thames burst
:16:10. > :16:17.its banks after peaking at its highest level for 60 years. As we
:16:18. > :16:20.look at the impact of the storms and floods, let's go back to where it
:16:21. > :16:28.all started - the east coast. Ed Thomas sent this report from Boston
:16:29. > :16:33.in Lincolnshire. The 5th of December 2013. The day many on the east coast
:16:34. > :16:39.will never forget. On the banks of the Humber, this village was
:16:40. > :16:46.surrounded, devastated by the floods. It was about basically that
:16:47. > :16:50.high. Three months on, Michelle and her family returned to the place
:16:51. > :17:05.they call home. They lost everything and life is not getting any easier.
:17:06. > :17:15.I have not really cried. This is the first time she has cried. Some of me
:17:16. > :17:23.says I want to come back and half of me says, I do not want to. Some here
:17:24. > :17:30.have been left living in caravans. Skips get followed by the day.
:17:31. > :17:35.Abandoned homes have been looted. People are coming into people 's
:17:36. > :17:41.empty homes and stealing? Metal pipes, copper pipes. This councillor
:17:42. > :17:45.now patrols the streets. She believes this village has been
:17:46. > :17:52.traumatised. She set up an appeal fund to help. People are so angry
:17:53. > :17:57.about what has happened. They are worried about money and their jobs.
:17:58. > :18:04.Some local businesses have had no trade. There is a lot of anxiety
:18:05. > :18:11.about. The lot of fear for the future. Fine Mac or do you want a
:18:12. > :18:17.drink with that? Before the storm surge, these best friends used to
:18:18. > :18:25.play together most days. They now live miles apart. You see all over
:18:26. > :18:32.the news and you never think it is going to happen here. That Dave
:18:33. > :18:40.reminds me of devastation. What you missed them -- missed the most?
:18:41. > :18:45.Playing out. Playing out is the best. I do not like to think about
:18:46. > :18:49.the future and, if it happens again, what it will be like the second time
:18:50. > :18:59.around. I am not sure what it would be like if it happened again. This
:19:00. > :19:04.is a time of repair. The rebuild of this pub will cost thousands of
:19:05. > :19:12.pounds. There is no way we can walk away from it. We employ 20 of
:19:13. > :19:17.members of staff. A lot of them have stayed with us. They are working,
:19:18. > :19:22.decorating the bedrooms. They are very loyal to us. We cannot put 20
:19:23. > :19:28.people out of work. There is still plenty to do, not just here but all
:19:29. > :19:35.along the east coast. So many lost so much. One of the worst hit areas
:19:36. > :19:40.has been the Somerset Levels. In the last few minutes, the BBC has seen
:19:41. > :19:43.details of a new ?100 million plan to try to prevent more severe
:19:44. > :19:46.flooding there over the next 20 years. Sarah Ransome is in the
:19:47. > :19:53.village of Curload in the Somerset Levels. What are they proposing? I
:19:54. > :19:58.am here in the heart of the Somerset Levels. You might be able to see
:19:59. > :20:01.that very little has changed in the last few weeks. The water levels
:20:02. > :20:07.have dropped a foot and a half in some places but life is on hold. The
:20:08. > :20:10.Environment Minister, when he came to see all of this for himself, back
:20:11. > :20:15.at the beginning of the year, he asked for a planned Dash it 20 year
:20:16. > :20:21.plan dashed to be put forward to trying to vent all of this
:20:22. > :20:27.happening. The BBC has seen some of those proposals, draft proposals, at
:20:28. > :20:31.this stage. They include dredging of rivers, also proposals to look at
:20:32. > :20:35.existing flood defences and to improve on them. There are also
:20:36. > :20:46.ambitious plans contained within that, I wish list if you like.
:20:47. > :20:50.Perhaps to raise some of the more honourable roads. They are
:20:51. > :20:55.suggesting wrote like that should be raised to prevent them flooding.
:20:56. > :21:01.There are also proposals in this plan suggesting that a tidal barrier
:21:02. > :21:05.around the nearby town of Bridgwater should also be brought forward and
:21:06. > :21:11.built. Clearly, they cost a lot of money to be put forward. About ?11
:21:12. > :21:14.million has already been found by central and local government. You
:21:15. > :21:20.will find the rest has yet to be decided. We believe these draft
:21:21. > :21:28.proposals will go to Owen Paterson tomorrow, when he eventually get
:21:29. > :21:31.sight of them. The former chief executive of News International,
:21:32. > :21:36.Rebekah Brooks, has denied covering up the extent of phone hacking while
:21:37. > :21:39.she was editor of the Sun. Under cross examination, she was accused
:21:40. > :21:42.of knowing for years that there were far more victims of hacking than her
:21:43. > :21:46.company had admitted. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds,
:21:47. > :21:52.was in court. Glenn Mulcaire shortly before his conviction for phone
:21:53. > :21:57.hacking in 2006. Along with the royal editor, Clive Goodman. It is
:21:58. > :22:02.said they had the phones of the group of famous people and will aid.
:22:03. > :22:07.There were more victims, many more. In her ninth day giving evidence,
:22:08. > :22:11.Rebekah Brooks said she had met the police in 2006 and been told by a
:22:12. > :22:17.senior officer there were up to 110 victims. The prosecutor questioned
:22:18. > :22:21.her closely about whether that meeting meant that in the following
:22:22. > :22:25.years she had known phone hacking went much wider and that the whole
:22:26. > :22:28.truth had not emerged. She said the meeting was off the record, a
:22:29. > :22:33.discussion about the number of victims needed for the original
:22:34. > :22:37.prosecution. For two years after that meeting that Rebekah Brooks had
:22:38. > :22:43.with the police, the position of News International was that phone
:22:44. > :22:48.hacking was the work of a single reporter. That position was
:22:49. > :22:52.abandoned in 2009. Five journalists have now pleaded guilty to phone
:22:53. > :22:58.hacking. Rebekah Brooks is accused of covering the whole thing up. She
:22:59. > :23:05.denies that accusation. The QC asked:
:23:06. > :23:30.her cross-examination is expected to last several days. The Bank of
:23:31. > :23:32.England has suspended a member of staff after investigating the
:23:33. > :23:35.potential rigging of the Foreign Exchange market. Our business
:23:36. > :23:48.correspondent, Simon Gompertz, is here. What can you tell us? The city
:23:49. > :23:52.of London is the centre of the world upon -- the world 's foreign
:23:53. > :23:56.exchange trading. It is about trade is getting together to share
:23:57. > :23:59.information which was supposed to be confidential and to rig exchange
:24:00. > :24:03.rates used by people around the world. The Bank of England is a
:24:04. > :24:06.regulator. It has been hit by a claim in a news report that
:24:07. > :24:11.officials had a meeting with traders, in which they endorse some
:24:12. > :24:17.of this activity. The banks had an internal enquiry. It says there is
:24:18. > :24:20.no evidence of collusion. It has suspended a staff member for not
:24:21. > :24:24.following its rigorous internal control processes. We do not know
:24:25. > :24:28.whether that refers to bad record-keeping or more than that. It
:24:29. > :24:33.is highly embarrassing for the bank. They are planning on with their
:24:34. > :24:36.investigation. This issue over foreign exchange has been compared
:24:37. > :24:42.with the scandal over the attempted rigging of the interbank interest
:24:43. > :24:47.rate, over which banks have been fined billions of pounds around the
:24:48. > :24:51.world. If traders face accusations in the foreign exchange trade world,
:24:52. > :24:55.they might refer to this regulation and say they perhaps knew something
:24:56. > :25:01.about it even though the bank denies it. Labour has written to the
:25:02. > :25:05.Cabinet Secretary to raise concerns over the arrest of a senior Downing
:25:06. > :25:12.Street aide over allegations of possessing child porn. Patrick Rock
:25:13. > :25:16.has not been charged. He was working on government policies to rig the
:25:17. > :25:19.internet of child abuse. The BBC has been unable to speak to him to get
:25:20. > :25:22.his response to the allegations. Birmingham City Council is to sell
:25:23. > :25:24.off the company which runs the National Exhibition Centre. The
:25:25. > :25:27.council, which is facing a ?1.1 billion bill for equal pay
:25:28. > :25:31.settlements, says that it wants to ensure the NEC Group is preserved as
:25:32. > :25:33.it is vitally important to the West Midlands economy, bringing in ?2
:25:34. > :25:49.billion a year and supporting around 29,000 jobs. A 13-year-old boy has
:25:50. > :25:53.become the youngest person ever to build a nuclear fusion reactor. And,
:25:54. > :25:56.this morning, Jamie Edwards showed if off for the first time and proved
:25:57. > :26:01.that it really worked. Our correspondent, Danny Savage, was
:26:02. > :26:05.there. A school classroom in Preston is not the first place you would
:26:06. > :26:13.expect to find a nuclear reactor. But, yes, this is a 13-year-old who
:26:14. > :26:22.has built one. Jamie Edwards today attempted to become the youngest
:26:23. > :26:26.Fusiliers in the world. Can I ask you all to leave? It is not without
:26:27. > :26:36.risk, so the broom was cleared. We did leave the camera running. After
:26:37. > :26:41.a few minutes... I heard the Geiger counter going up. I thought, what
:26:42. > :26:47.was that? Then the neutron counter was right up of the scale. I
:26:48. > :26:52.thought, we must have done it. I cannot believe it. Radiation is
:26:53. > :26:56.measured with a geiger counter. He spent all his Christmas money on
:26:57. > :27:01.buying a geiger counter. He has become the youngest Fusiliers in the
:27:02. > :27:06.world. The previous record was held by 14-year-old in America. Jamie
:27:07. > :27:12.turns 40 this weekend, so you have to get it done today. And, for his
:27:13. > :27:24.next trick, he plans a mini hadron Collider. Sydney was hit by a severe
:27:25. > :27:29.storm is huge clouds rolled in over Sydney harbour, bringing lightning
:27:30. > :27:33.and rain. Commuter travel was disrupted as the storm structuring
:27:34. > :27:38.the peak hours, causing delays in public transport out of the city.
:27:39. > :27:41.Wind gusts exceeding 50 kilometres an hour were also recorded in parts
:27:42. > :27:44.of the south Wales on the coast, that is according to local media.
:27:45. > :27:54.Time for a look at the weather. Some warmer weather is set to
:27:55. > :27:59.arrive. Very chilly out there this morning across England and Wales. In
:28:00. > :28:03.the winter, it was wet, windy and very mild. Since the weather has
:28:04. > :28:14.calmed down a little, we have seen more frost. It got down to minus
:28:15. > :28:17.for. It is not quite as cold this morning in Scotland and Northern
:28:18. > :28:21.Ireland where there is cloud. There are also outbreaks of rain
:28:22. > :28:25.developing. That will turn steady and heavy in the West of Scotland.
:28:26. > :28:29.For many parts of England and Wales, many places will be dry.
:28:30. > :28:33.Still quite bright. The cloud is fairly thin in those places. The
:28:34. > :28:38.best of the sunshine disease Midlands, East Anglia and parts of
:28:39. > :28:42.the South East. The cloud may thicken and lower across north west
:28:43. > :28:46.Wales and north-west England. Most of the rain will be further north.
:28:47. > :28:50.Patchy rain across Northern Ireland with heavy rain coming over the
:28:51. > :28:56.western hills of Scotland. Much drier and sheltered eastern areas.
:28:57. > :29:01.That may lead to localised flooding. Wet this evening across Scotland and
:29:02. > :29:04.Northern Ireland. The rain band will sink slowly southwards. It will
:29:05. > :29:09.bring patchy rain into northern England, Wales and later the South
:29:10. > :29:12.West. Chilly in the North West of Scotland. Temperatures will fall
:29:13. > :29:16.quickly this evening in the south-east but it will not be as
:29:17. > :29:19.cold as it was last night. There could be a bit of sunshine and it
:29:20. > :29:24.will be bright in the North of Scotland. A lot of cloud elsewhere.
:29:25. > :29:31.Further rain or drizzle with hill fog. The main rain band will push
:29:32. > :29:36.into Scotland and Northern Ireland. For most of us, double figures. We
:29:37. > :29:40.could get 14, 15 degrees in the south-east. That could be the
:29:41. > :29:44.warmest it has been all year. Further north, the rain will turn
:29:45. > :29:50.more heavy overnight in Scotland and Northern Ireland. It will become
:29:51. > :29:55.much weaker on Friday and the rain will fizzle out. Very little will
:29:56. > :29:59.arrive in the South East. After that, brighter skies and sunshine.
:30:00. > :30:04.Wintry showers in Scotland and quite a wind blowing here in the cold air.
:30:05. > :30:11.As we move into the weekend, we get a southerly wind. Temperatures will
:30:12. > :30:18.live to 17, 18. It'll be as warm as Malaga. On Sunday, the weather front
:30:19. > :30:21.would be very weak. An area of high pressure will move in from mixed
:30:22. > :30:26.week, bringing some much-needed try whether after all the rain from the
:30:27. > :30:31.winter. -- dry weather. Now a reminder of our top story this
:30:32. > :30:35.lunchtime... Diplomatic efforts to resolve the stand-off between Russia
:30:36. > :30:40.and Ukraine intensify with high-level talks in Paris this
:30:41. > :30:42.afternoon. That is all from us. You can keep up to date with all the
:30:43. > :30:43.latest news throughout the