:00:10. > :00:13.sign of the Malaysia Airlines plane that's disappeared with 239 people
:00:14. > :00:16.on board. The search area has been widened with rescue helicopters and
:00:17. > :00:19.ships scouring the sea for the Boeing 777, as relatives wait
:00:20. > :00:22.desperately for news. The authorities say two passengers
:00:23. > :00:30.travelling on stolen passports were not Asian-looking men. We'll have
:00:31. > :00:33.the latest. Also this lunchtime: Oscar Pistorius is sick in court as
:00:34. > :00:37.graphic evidence from the postmortem on his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is
:00:38. > :00:40.read out. Labour pledges to fund a
:00:41. > :00:44.back-to-work scheme for young unemployed, but the Conservatives
:00:45. > :00:46.say the figures don't add up. Battered by the storms - Britain's
:00:47. > :00:54.dramatically changing coastline is revealed. Great Britain's first-ever
:00:55. > :00:57.Paralympic Gold at the Winter Olympics, as Kelly Gallagher and her
:00:58. > :00:59.guide triumph in the women's visually-impaired super-G.
:01:00. > :01:03.Later on BBC London: Claims that stopping dredging of the River
:01:04. > :01:05.Thames made last months flooding even worse.
:01:06. > :01:08.And gearing up to become "mini-Holland". The councils set to
:01:09. > :01:27.share millions to make cycling safer.
:01:28. > :01:34.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The search for the
:01:35. > :01:37.missing Malaysian Airlines plane has been widened across a huge area as
:01:38. > :01:42.officials say they are 'perplexed' by its disappearance. The Boeing
:01:43. > :01:47.777, which was bound for Beijing, disappeared on Friday night with 239
:01:48. > :01:50.people on board. A short time ago the authorities said they'd been
:01:51. > :01:54.studying CCTV footage of two passengers who were travelling on
:01:55. > :01:57.stolen passports. They said they were not Asian looking men and they
:01:58. > :01:58.had been through security screening before they boarded. Jonathan Head
:01:59. > :02:10.has the latest from Malaysia. Ten countries are now involved in
:02:11. > :02:16.this search. This maritime rescue plane is Vietnamese. The missing
:02:17. > :02:19.airliner may have gone down inside Vietnam's's territorial waters. But
:02:20. > :02:26.with no clues, no distress calls, all they can do is scan the vast
:02:27. > :02:31.expanse of the South China Sea. The multinational flotilla of ships is
:02:32. > :02:34.visible far below. But the lack of progress is beginning to cause some
:02:35. > :02:42.frustration. Not least in China, where most of the passengers
:02:43. > :02:47.originated. We have a responsibility to demand and urge the Malaysians
:02:48. > :02:52.side to increase search efforts. Start an investigation as soon as
:02:53. > :02:58.possible, and provide relevant information to China, correctly and
:02:59. > :03:03.in a timely manner. China is deploying seven ships to the area.
:03:04. > :03:08.Some, like this one, with specialist roles in marine search and rescue.
:03:09. > :03:14.It is also seeking answers about the two men on board who were travelling
:03:15. > :03:17.on stolen passports. Malaysia says it has identified one of them and a
:03:18. > :03:23.sharing intelligence with all the countries involved in the incident.
:03:24. > :03:30.The features of those two passengers, we have looked at the
:03:31. > :03:40.video, and the photographs, and it is confirmed that they are not Asian
:03:41. > :03:43.looking men. At the mosque in Kuala Lumpur's government quarter, they
:03:44. > :03:50.are holding special prayers everyday for the passengers of flight MH 370.
:03:51. > :03:54.With no news of the plane, there is not much else they can do. For all
:03:55. > :04:00.the resources and effort being put into this church -- search from
:04:01. > :04:06.around the world, one disturbing question remains. How can a 200
:04:07. > :04:08.tonne airliner with 239 people on board simply vanish without a trace?
:04:09. > :04:15.Jonathan head, Kuala Lumpur airport. So as the mystery surrounding the
:04:16. > :04:18.missing plane intensifies, our transport correspondent Richard
:04:19. > :04:19.Westcott has been looking at how an aircraft could just disappear
:04:20. > :04:31.without trace. It is one of the world 's safest
:04:32. > :04:34.airliners. Made to the highest standards, full of electronic
:04:35. > :04:39.equipment that tells the ground where it is. So how could an
:04:40. > :04:46.aircraft like this simply vanish without trace. It is not an -- it is
:04:47. > :04:49.very unusual for an aircraft like this do disappear without trace. We
:04:50. > :04:53.would expect the emergency beacon to help us find it, or the bleeping
:04:54. > :04:59.unit attached to the black boxes and the recorder 's helpers locate the
:05:00. > :05:04.aircraft, so it's very unusual brick to disappear quickly. The search
:05:05. > :05:08.goes on but everything points to a catastrophic and southern break up
:05:09. > :05:12.in midair. It was cruising at more than 30,000 feet, but if both
:05:13. > :05:16.engines failed it can glide for more than 100 miles, giving pilots time
:05:17. > :05:23.to call in a Mayday. In fact, most problems should leave a clue. Even
:05:24. > :05:26.with a serious malfunction, you can normally got time. The first thing
:05:27. > :05:31.you do is concentrate on flying the aircraft and making sure the flight
:05:32. > :05:35.path is safe. The new look where you are going. But soon after you will
:05:36. > :05:40.be looking to get some communication to get help from the ground station
:05:41. > :05:44.or other aircraft -- then you look. It revives memories of another
:05:45. > :05:48.tragedy, the Air France flight which disappeared over the sea five years
:05:49. > :05:52.ago. The clues were eventually found years later more than two miles
:05:53. > :05:56.underwater. A combination of mechanical issues and pilot error
:05:57. > :06:00.caused that crash, and it could be months, or even years before we know
:06:01. > :06:05.what has happened to this Malaysia Airlines flight. Our correspondent
:06:06. > :06:09.John Sudworth is in Beijing. The authorities were giving more detail
:06:10. > :06:16.a short time ago. What more can you tell us about these two passengers
:06:17. > :06:21.they have now seen on CCTV? We have heard the Malaysia authorities have
:06:22. > :06:26.identified one of these men. We don't have much detail released.
:06:27. > :06:31.They say he is not a Malaysians citizen. They have not told us what
:06:32. > :06:36.nationality he is, and they also say he is not of Asian appearance.
:06:37. > :06:40.Interestingly though, the Financial Times is carrying an interview with
:06:41. > :06:44.the travel agent who said she booked the tickets for these two men, and
:06:45. > :06:49.she said she was asked to book the cheapest available route to Europe,
:06:50. > :06:54.which just so happened to be this flight, via Beijing, then on to
:06:55. > :06:57.Amsterdam. If that is true, it suggests they did not deliberately
:06:58. > :07:00.choose this particular aircraft, which you might expect to be the
:07:01. > :07:05.case of something sinister was at work. But the truth is, at the
:07:06. > :07:08.moment, we really don't know very much. Very little more than we did
:07:09. > :07:13.on Saturday morning when the plane first disappeared. You follow the
:07:14. > :07:14.latest on the search for the missing airliner on the BBC News website.
:07:15. > :07:25.That's at bbc.co.uk/news. The Olympic athlete, Oscar
:07:26. > :07:28.Pistorius, threw up in court this morning as graphic detail was heard
:07:29. > :07:31.about the postmortem carried out on his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The
:07:32. > :07:33.judge banned the media from broadcasting the evidence live
:07:34. > :07:37.because it was feared it may cause undue distress. Oscar Pistorius, who
:07:38. > :07:41.says he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for a burglar, denies murdering her on
:07:42. > :07:44.Valentine's Day last year. Our correspondent Andrew Harding was in
:07:45. > :07:51.court and joins me now from Pretoria. Oscar Pistorius extremely
:07:52. > :08:00.upset about all of the evidence he was hearing this morning.
:08:01. > :08:06.Apologies, we seem to have a problem with the line to Pretoria, and we
:08:07. > :08:09.will go back shortly. Meanwhile, Labour has pledged to fund a
:08:10. > :08:11.guaranteed job scheme for the young unemployed throughout the lifetime
:08:12. > :08:15.of the next government, if it wins the 2015 election. Those who have
:08:16. > :08:17.been out of work for a year or more will be offered a
:08:18. > :08:20.taxpayer-subsidised job lasting six months. But if they turn it down,
:08:21. > :08:24.they risk losing their benefits. Labour says it would pay for this by
:08:25. > :08:26.taxing bank bonuses and changing tax rules for the pensions of high
:08:27. > :08:29.earners. But the Conservatives say the sums "don't add up". Our
:08:30. > :08:34.political correspondent Ben Wright reports.
:08:35. > :08:41.It is the first major plank of labour's next manifesto. Young
:08:42. > :08:44.people out of work for a year would be offered a six-month job and
:08:45. > :08:48.training. The scheme would also apply to all adults over 25 who have
:08:49. > :08:56.been unemployed for more than two years. But the deal is this. Take a
:08:57. > :09:01.tax payer funded job or lose your benefits. We need an economy that
:09:02. > :09:06.doesn't just work for a few banks, but for all working people. We have
:09:07. > :09:10.56,000 young people in our country who have been unemployed for more
:09:11. > :09:14.than 12 months. A Labour government would tax banker bonuses and put
:09:15. > :09:17.young people back to work. Labour had planned to fund the scheme for
:09:18. > :09:23.one year but now it will do it for five. The ?1.9 billion cost for the
:09:24. > :09:32.first year will be raised by a tax on bank bonuses. ?900 million per
:09:33. > :09:34.year will come from cutting pension relief for people earning over
:09:35. > :09:37.?150,000. Labour also plans to use money it says can be saved by
:09:38. > :09:41.cutting the benefit bill. 80% of the jobs will come from the private
:09:42. > :09:45.sector, but the private sector is not so sure. Businesses really don't
:09:46. > :09:49.want these apprentice schemes. Businesses want people when there is
:09:50. > :09:53.consumer demand for them, and businesses are the best people to
:09:54. > :09:57.know when to hire people rather than the government. This is a big
:09:58. > :10:00.spending pledge by the Labour Party. Since the election they have talked
:10:01. > :10:04.about using funds from a tax on bank bonuses to pay for all sorts of
:10:05. > :10:10.things, including 25,000 new homes. Now it says it will use all the
:10:11. > :10:13.money it raises from the bonus tax to pay for its new job scheme. The
:10:14. > :10:17.Tory Treasury minister said the scheme would cost far more Labour
:10:18. > :10:21.thinks. Their proposals on taxes won't get the revenue they are
:10:22. > :10:25.talking about. This is yet again Labour Party policy that will result
:10:26. > :10:28.in more borrowing. Benefits will be cut for people who don't take the
:10:29. > :10:33.jobs. A calculation that the Labour Party will convince voters as it
:10:34. > :10:37.builds up an offer for next year's election.
:10:38. > :10:41.The British Chambers of Commerce believes that the size of the
:10:42. > :10:43.economy will return to pre-recession levels this summer, earlier than
:10:44. > :10:47.previously thought. The BCC says that from July onwards GDP will be
:10:48. > :10:50.higher than it was at the start of 2008, just before the financial
:10:51. > :10:54.crisis. But it also warns of an "unacceptably high" level of youth
:10:55. > :11:04.unemployment. Our Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym is here. How
:11:05. > :11:07.good a barometer is the BCC? It's a pretty reasonable representation of
:11:08. > :11:11.business, with lots of members across UK industry and the forecasts
:11:12. > :11:14.are taken seriously. The significance today is that it is
:11:15. > :11:18.saying that the UK will get back to where it was in 2008 at some stage
:11:19. > :11:22.in the next few months, because a lot of experts say that is the key
:11:23. > :11:26.barometer, are you back to where you work? You might have had growth, but
:11:27. > :11:29.if you're not back to where you were before the recession there still an
:11:30. > :11:33.important step to take. The only problem is that the UK will get
:11:34. > :11:37.there after the US and Germany, major competitors who have moved
:11:38. > :11:44.beyond that point. The BCC has other encouraging singles -- signals.
:11:45. > :11:47.Growth is up from 1.8% last year and says real wages, that is wages
:11:48. > :11:50.growing faster than inflation. Picking up in the middle of this
:11:51. > :11:55.year. It's been the other way round for the last couple of years with a
:11:56. > :11:59.big squeeze on consumers, so some relief there. It also says that the
:12:00. > :12:02.UK recovery is not balanced enough. There is too much consumer spending
:12:03. > :12:06.and not enough investment in exports, and it needs to kick him to
:12:07. > :12:11.be really convincing in terms of recovery, and that is the issue that
:12:12. > :12:16.George Osborne will want to be addressing in the budget next week.
:12:17. > :12:20.A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a soldier
:12:21. > :12:24.was discovered at an army barracks. The 32-year-old soldier was from the
:12:25. > :12:28.1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. The Ministry of Defence
:12:29. > :12:32.says the body was found at a barracks in Shropshire on Saturday.
:12:33. > :12:38.A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Two senior
:12:39. > :12:44.Scottish politicians have entered the debate on Scottish Independence
:12:45. > :12:46.today. The former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Liberal
:12:47. > :12:48.Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell both say that Scots want greater
:12:49. > :12:51.devolution rather than full independence. The referendum on
:12:52. > :12:54.Scotland's future will take place on September 18th. Our Scotland
:12:55. > :12:59.correspondent James Cook is in Glasgow.
:13:00. > :13:04.That's right. We have been hearing in the building behind me from
:13:05. > :13:09.Gordon Brown, in a speech in which he says he wants to see radical
:13:10. > :13:12.reform of the United Kingdom and its constitutional settlement. In
:13:13. > :13:16.particular, setting up half a dozen ways that that could be achieved,
:13:17. > :13:20.notably with devolution of more powers to the Scottish parliament in
:13:21. > :13:25.Edinburgh. In particular, unemployment, welfare, rail, land
:13:26. > :13:29.and on a couple of other issues as well, and he also talks about
:13:30. > :13:33.devolving more tax powers to Edinburgh. At present the Scottish
:13:34. > :13:37.parliament raises about 12% of its own taxes and that will rise to
:13:38. > :13:43.around a third. He says it should go up to 40%. This is what the former
:13:44. > :13:46.Prime Minister has been saying. These six constitutional changes
:13:47. > :13:49.make for a new relationship between Scotland and Britain. We set out the
:13:50. > :13:53.purpose of the United Kingdom, we make it clear that the Scottish
:13:54. > :13:57.parliament is permanent, we make it clear that there is a new division
:13:58. > :14:01.of powers which makes sense of our commitment to the UK as a framework
:14:02. > :14:08.within which we pooled and share resources. He is no longer Prime
:14:09. > :14:12.Minister, but this prompted one wag in the Scottish National party to
:14:13. > :14:15.suggest if only he had been able to deliver these policies he now
:14:16. > :14:19.wants. That is essentially the same response we have heard from the
:14:20. > :14:23.Deputy First Minister of the Scottish Government, Nicola
:14:24. > :14:25.Sturgeon. Gordon Brown was Prime Minister for a number of years, and
:14:26. > :14:30.in government for more than ten years and did not deliver the powers
:14:31. > :14:34.he is now saying he thinks Scotland needs. That underlines the point
:14:35. > :14:38.that the only way we can secure new powers, and the new powers Scotland
:14:39. > :14:44.needs to meet the challenges we face is to vote yes on the referendum and
:14:45. > :14:47.support independence. We have also heard from the former leader of the
:14:48. > :14:53.Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, also proposing some kind
:14:54. > :14:57.of change. All of this is basically coalescing into an argument about
:14:58. > :15:01.what is being called devolution max, the alternative to the
:15:02. > :15:05.proposals which are being put forward by the SNP. We will hear
:15:06. > :15:08.from the Conservatives later in the year, but whether all of these
:15:09. > :15:14.parties can agree and how much the voters are able to weigh up the
:15:15. > :15:16.sides in terms of what the Scottish Government is offering will be a
:15:17. > :15:22.difficult matter at the polls in September.
:15:23. > :15:26.A woman who was allegedly indecently assaulted by the celebrity publicist
:15:27. > :15:30.Max Clifford has told a court she thought she was going to be raped
:15:31. > :15:33.when he "lunged" at her in his car. The woman, who cannot be named, was
:15:34. > :15:36.14 in 1966 when she said Mr Clifford offered her a lift home. The
:15:37. > :15:41.publicist faces 11 counts of indecent assault. He denies all of
:15:42. > :15:48.the charges against him. Richard Lister is at Southwark Crown Court.
:15:49. > :15:52.What more was said in court? We have been hearing all morning from this
:15:53. > :15:56.witness, the first prosecution witness in this trial. She said she
:15:57. > :16:00.met Max Clifford when she was 14, they boast used to hang out at the
:16:01. > :16:06.same bar in south London. One afternoon after school, he offered
:16:07. > :16:09.her a lift home, she said. She said she reluctantly agreed. She said he
:16:10. > :16:14.was insistent that he wanted to show her something. Once in his car, she
:16:15. > :16:18.said he started taking her away from her house, and she started to get
:16:19. > :16:21.worried. She said he then showed her a photo album with lots of
:16:22. > :16:25.celebrities and asked which one she would like to meet. He said, I can
:16:26. > :16:29.arrange a meeting, but this is what you have got to do. She then said he
:16:30. > :16:36.tipped her seat back and lunged on her, fondling her. She said, it was
:16:37. > :16:44.quite obvious what he wanted to do...
:16:45. > :16:49.But the QC for the defence suggested that she could not remember any
:16:50. > :16:54.details about the car that was allegedly involved, something she
:16:55. > :16:57.admitted to. He said that was a surprise, given that it was
:16:58. > :17:01.something that was clearly so important in her life. He suggested
:17:02. > :17:07.that in 1966, Max Clifford did not have access to a car. He said to
:17:08. > :17:13.her, are you jumping on the bandwagon? No, Gestede, I have been
:17:14. > :17:20.telling people about this for 30 years. Max Clifford denies all the
:17:21. > :17:23.allegations against him. Our top story this lunchtime... The
:17:24. > :17:25.search area has been widened with rescue helicopters and ships
:17:26. > :17:30.scouring the sea for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. And still
:17:31. > :17:33.to come - a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, a blood test
:17:34. > :17:42.could be developed to detect the onset of the disease.
:17:43. > :17:46.Coming up on BBC London, thousands of homeowners are promised ?1000 a
:17:47. > :17:51.year off their council tax if Gatwick gets a second runway.
:17:52. > :17:56.Abseiling down the BT Tower for sport relief.
:17:57. > :18:00.Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter with one storm
:18:01. > :18:03.after another. Some areas have suffered the equivalent of seven
:18:04. > :18:09.years of erosion in just three months. Now the National Trust has
:18:10. > :18:13.called for a re-think on how Britain defends its coastline. It argues
:18:14. > :18:16.some locations may have to be sacrificed because the sea can no
:18:17. > :18:24.longer be stopped. Duncan Kennedy has been finding out more.
:18:25. > :18:41.It was only really a matter of time before all this, and this, led to
:18:42. > :18:45.this. Birling Gap in Sussex, just one of the places where the gap just
:18:46. > :18:49.got bigger. Those pictures are pretty spectacular, and to give you
:18:50. > :18:52.an idea of just what has gone on here this winter, the National Trust
:18:53. > :19:00.tell us that they have had seven years' worth of erosion here in just
:19:01. > :19:04.two months. The cliff collapse has made this spot even more popular
:19:05. > :19:08.with visitors. Good for a photo, less good for safety. The BBC has
:19:09. > :19:13.been shown this map, revealing that it is just one of 70 sites around
:19:14. > :19:19.Britain now identified as being in critical danger of erosion, ranging
:19:20. > :19:26.from Cayton Bay and Orford Ness in the East to Birling Gap and Wembury
:19:27. > :19:30.in the South, to Woolacombe and other places in the West. All places
:19:31. > :19:36.where man-made defences may no longer work. Defences we have come
:19:37. > :19:39.to rely on in the past will not be plausible for everywhere in the
:19:40. > :19:43.future. Adaptation is something we will need to be looking at. The
:19:44. > :19:48.National Trust says this winter has been a wake-up call. Whether it is
:19:49. > :19:53.here in Hastings, or here in Bournemouth, buttons cliffs have
:19:54. > :19:58.been crumbling. And it is not just through waves and wind power.
:19:59. > :20:01.Brand-new research at Southampton University has revealed
:20:02. > :20:09.unprecedented amounts of water, surging off the land, rummaging our
:20:10. > :20:12.coasts and estuaries. -- damaging. In the last few weeks we have seen
:20:13. > :20:16.three times the amount of fresh water coming into the estuary that
:20:17. > :20:21.we would normally see in a wet period. So, it is not just wet, it
:20:22. > :20:26.is phenomenally wet. The amount of fresh water coming in is
:20:27. > :20:30.unprecedented over the last 30 years according to our measurements. Old
:20:31. > :20:36.photos show erosion to our shores this is Sussex 100 years ago, 20
:20:37. > :20:41.years later, and finally, now. This winter has quickened the pace but
:20:42. > :20:49.you cannot put a concrete wall around Britain, so what do you do?
:20:50. > :20:54.Going back now to South Africa, and the trial of Oscar Pistorius, the
:20:55. > :20:58.Olympic athlete who threw up in court this morning during evidence,
:20:59. > :21:05.when graphic details were given about his girlfriend, who was shot
:21:06. > :21:07.dead last year. Andrew Harding is there. Oscar Pistorius was really
:21:08. > :21:14.visibly very distressed this morning? He was indeed. I think he
:21:15. > :21:18.knew what was coming today. He was hugging his sister in the dock just
:21:19. > :21:22.before the pathologist took the stand and gave very graphic evidence
:21:23. > :21:27.about what had happened to Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius put his
:21:28. > :21:30.head in his hands, slumped forwards and repeatedly, during more than an
:21:31. > :21:34.hour of testimony, retched into a bucket at his feet. At one point it
:21:35. > :21:39.seemed he had his fingers in his ears to try to block out the noise.
:21:40. > :21:42.The judge ruled today that we could not broadcast the evidence live, but
:21:43. > :21:50.you are able to give a summary of what was said? Exactly. We heard
:21:51. > :21:55.about three main bullet wounds, one to her head, one to her pelvis,
:21:56. > :21:59.another to her arm. I think the two key points which are stuck out for
:22:00. > :22:02.me were the fact that Oscar Pistorius had used a special type of
:22:03. > :22:09.bullet, one designed, as the pathologist said, to cause maximum
:22:10. > :22:12.tissue damage. So, the wounds on Weaver steam camp were particularly
:22:13. > :22:16.extensive. The second fact which I think the prosecution will seize on
:22:17. > :22:20.is that it appears Reeva Steenkamp had eaten something about two hours
:22:21. > :22:24.before she was killed, so, at about one o'clock in the morning, that
:22:25. > :22:26.despite Pistorius saying they had gone to bed at around nine o'clock
:22:27. > :22:33.and nothing more had happened. The Chinese President has called for
:22:34. > :22:36.all sides involved in the Ukrainian crisis to act with "calm and
:22:37. > :22:39.restraint" in order to avoid an escalation of tensions. The call
:22:40. > :22:42.adds to the mounting pressure on the interim government in Kiev - less
:22:43. > :22:44.than week before the southern province of Crimea holds a
:22:45. > :22:49.referendum on whether to join the Russian Federation.
:22:50. > :22:53.The trial of the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
:22:54. > :22:57.Nigel Evans is getting under way at Preston Crown Court. Mr Evans, who
:22:58. > :22:59.is the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire, is accused of eight
:23:00. > :23:02.counts of indecent and sexual assault, and one of rape. These
:23:03. > :23:07.alleged offences are said to have happened between 2002 and last year
:23:08. > :23:10.- and involved seven men. He denies all nine charges.
:23:11. > :23:15.A witness in the trial of a man accused of murdering PC Keith
:23:16. > :23:18.Blakelock in 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riots says he saw
:23:19. > :23:21.the defendant carrying a knife in a group of people who were surrounding
:23:22. > :23:26.PC Blakelock. Nicholas Jacobs, who was 16 at the time, denies murder.
:23:27. > :23:31.PC Blakelock was stabbed to death as he tried to protect firefighters.
:23:32. > :23:40.Daniel Boettcher is at the Old Bailey.
:23:41. > :23:46.The court heard today from a witness known as John Brown, which is a
:23:47. > :23:50.pseudonym. He was giving evidence behind a curtain, his voice was
:23:51. > :23:53.electronic leak altered to help protect his identity. The court
:23:54. > :23:57.heard that John Brown had been in prison on charges of affray and
:23:58. > :24:03.burglary, in connection with the riots on Broadwater Farm estate. The
:24:04. > :24:06.wit this describe the events of the 6th of October 1985, speaking of a
:24:07. > :24:12.group trying to rush police lines, and things being thrown, including
:24:13. > :24:15.petrol bombs. He said he saw an officer being dragged to the
:24:16. > :24:20.ground. Earlier in his evidence he had admitted that he himself had
:24:21. > :24:23.kicked PC Keith Blakelock around ten times when he had been on the
:24:24. > :24:27.ground. He was then asked about those in the group closest to the
:24:28. > :24:33.officer, and among those he named was the defendant, Nicholas Jacobs.
:24:34. > :24:37.The witness was asked by the QC for the prosecution coming he said, did
:24:38. > :24:42.you see Nicholas Jacobs with a weapon? To which he replied, yes, I
:24:43. > :24:47.did. He was asked what sort of weapon, and he said it was like a
:24:48. > :24:50.curved blade, like a machete. He described the policeman on the
:24:51. > :24:55.ground trying to curl up into a ball to protect himself, and screaming
:24:56. > :24:58.for help. He was asked what he saw Nicholas Jacobs doing, and he spoke
:24:59. > :25:04.about blows to the shoulder of the officer, between two and four
:25:05. > :25:07.times, he says. Nicholas Jacobs denies murder, and this afternoon,
:25:08. > :25:10.the witness will be gross examined by the defence.
:25:11. > :25:12.Researchers in the United States say they have developed a blood test
:25:13. > :25:16.which could accurately predict the onset of Alzheimer's. It is hoped
:25:17. > :25:19.the test, which looks at fat levels in the blood, could lead to improved
:25:20. > :25:22.treatment of the disease by detecting it earlier. Experts said
:25:23. > :25:28.the results needed to be confirmed, but such a test would be a "real
:25:29. > :25:34.step forward". Our health correspondent James Gallagher is
:25:35. > :25:38.here. It sounds like a significant development? And in theory, it could
:25:39. > :25:41.be. If you had a blood test which could predict Alzheimer's disease,
:25:42. > :25:45.it would be a revolutionary moment in terms of treating it, but we are
:25:46. > :25:49.not there yet. This is the very early stages. They have taken one
:25:50. > :25:53.first step towards that treatment, but they need much bigger trials in
:25:54. > :25:56.order to get to a point where they can say they have a blood test which
:25:57. > :26:01.could be used by GPs to help with treatment. They are nowhere the year
:26:02. > :26:04.that stage yet. I suppose the big question is, would you actually want
:26:05. > :26:08.to have that test, would you want to know that years down the line, you
:26:09. > :26:13.could get Alzheimer's? At the moment there is no quick and at the end of
:26:14. > :26:20.the day if you did know. However, the real benefit could be in medical
:26:21. > :26:23.research. Alzheimer's disease starts at least a decade before you are
:26:24. > :26:28.ever diagnosed. So, the theory is, you can get drugs to act much
:26:29. > :26:29.earlier, so the drugs could prevent brain cells dying before the
:26:30. > :26:35.symptoms even emerge. It is Great Britain's first ever
:26:36. > :26:37.Paralympic gold medal - the skier Kelly Gallagher, who is
:26:38. > :26:42.visually-impaired, and her guide Charlotte Evans have made history by
:26:43. > :26:45.winning the Super-G in Sochi. The 28-year-old from County Down, who
:26:46. > :26:48.didn't take up skiing until she was 17, said the race was nerve-wracking
:26:49. > :26:58.but they were delighted with their medal, as Andy Swiss reports.
:26:59. > :27:05.Standing on the brink of sporting history, 28-year-old Kelly Gallagher
:27:06. > :27:09.and her guide, Charlotte Evans. What followed was a test of talent, trust
:27:10. > :27:16.and teamwork. Allegory was born with a visual impairment. She can only
:27:17. > :27:20.see Evans' orange babe and hear her guidance fire a headset. But they
:27:21. > :27:26.hurtled down the mountain at nearly 90mph. The pair had been tipped for
:27:27. > :27:29.a medal, but in the downhill on Saturday, they finished last, and in
:27:30. > :27:36.tears. Today was a glorious contrast. The first pair down, they
:27:37. > :27:42.had clocked a testing target. The question now was, could anyone catch
:27:43. > :27:45.them? Their own team-mates, Jade Etherington and Caroline Powell,
:27:46. > :27:50.came close. They claimed bronze, to go with their silver on Saturday.
:27:51. > :27:55.But soon, British gold was confirmed when the final pair failed to
:27:56. > :28:02.finish. Gallagher and Evans had done it. Britain's first ever Winter
:28:03. > :28:06.Paralympic champions. I dreamt so hard about being in the centre on
:28:07. > :28:10.the podium. We had always been second and third, all of the time.
:28:11. > :28:15.And then this season we started winning more races. So today, we get
:28:16. > :28:20.to stand in the centre, and with some other British girls on the
:28:21. > :28:24.podium as well. And for the first time in Paralympic or Olympic
:28:25. > :28:29.history, Britain have champions on snow. Gallagher and Evans, under
:28:30. > :28:33.golden skies, a glittering day for British sport.
:28:34. > :28:41.Time for a look at the weather, with Nina Ridge. For most of us, it will
:28:42. > :28:45.be a fairly good week this week. We are talking about high pressure, so
:28:46. > :28:49.we are confident that that will bring plenty of dry conditions
:28:50. > :28:53.across the country, with most places in seeing light winds. It will be a
:28:54. > :28:58.little bit breezy around the coast at times. But it brings with it some
:28:59. > :29:01.problems as well, as far as the forecasting is concerned. Quite how
:29:02. > :29:09.much cloud we are going to see, versus sunshine, we cannot be sure
:29:10. > :29:12.about. That has a big impact on temperatures. Already so far today,
:29:13. > :29:17.we have had a bit of a problem, with a weak front and using a little bit
:29:18. > :29:27.more cloud across the Midlands, down towards East Anglia. The high
:29:28. > :29:32.pressure has brought an improved day to the north, with some sunshine,
:29:33. > :29:35.and most places and staying dry. A little bit breezy across the western
:29:36. > :29:40.Isles. Moving further south, we are picking up a little bit more cloud,
:29:41. > :29:43.and with the breeze coming in off the North Sea, feeling cooler across
:29:44. > :29:52.parts of Lincolnshire and towards the Midlands. Where we have got more
:29:53. > :29:58.cloud towards London and into parts of the east Midlands, we are in
:29:59. > :30:09.around 11-12 for the rest of the afternoon. That area of cloud stays
:30:10. > :30:22.with us tonight. In between those two areas, we have got clearer
:30:23. > :30:26.skies. Tomorrow morning, another dry day, with some good spells of
:30:27. > :30:38.sunshine, for northern areas. Further south, we have got cloud
:30:39. > :30:42.cover. That could be holding even into the afternoon. That will be
:30:43. > :30:45.keeping temperatures down. A little bit warmer in the south on
:30:46. > :30:49.Wednesday, with increased sunshine. Still staying dry and bright for
:30:50. > :30:54.much of Scotland and Northern Ireland. A subtle change on
:30:55. > :30:57.Thursday, as a with a front looks like it could brush past the
:30:58. > :31:02.north-west of the UK. The breeze will be picking up here, with the
:31:03. > :31:06.potential for a little bit of drizzle. Meanwhile, further south,
:31:07. > :31:15.any missed an fault should be clearing. -- any missed and fog.
:31:16. > :31:21.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime... The search area for the
:31:22. > :31:23.missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been widened, with rescue
:31:24. > :31:26.helicopters and ships scouring the sea. That's all from us - now on BBC
:31:27. > :31:27.One, it's time