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sign of the Malaysia Airlines plane that's disappeared with 239 people | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
on board. The search area has been widened with rescue helicopters and | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
ships scouring the sea for the Boeing 777, as relatives wait | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
desperately for news. The authorities say two passengers | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
travelling on stolen passports were not Asian-looking men. We'll have | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
the latest. Also this lunchtime: Oscar Pistorius is sick in court as | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
graphic evidence from the postmortem on his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
read out. Labour pledges to fund a | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
back-to-work scheme for young unemployed, but the Conservatives | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
say the figures don't add up. Battered by the storms - Britain's | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
dramatically changing coastline is revealed. Great Britain's first-ever | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
Paralympic Gold at the Winter Olympics, as Kelly Gallagher and her | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
guide triumph in the women's visually-impaired super-G. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Later on BBC London: Claims that stopping dredging of the River | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Thames made last months flooding even worse. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
And gearing up to become "mini-Holland". The councils set to | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
share millions to make cycling safer. | :01:09. | :01:27. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The search for the | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
missing Malaysian Airlines plane has been widened across a huge area as | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
officials say they are 'perplexed' by its disappearance. The Boeing | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
777, which was bound for Beijing, disappeared on Friday night with 239 | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
people on board. A short time ago the authorities said they'd been | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
studying CCTV footage of two passengers who were travelling on | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
stolen passports. They said they were not Asian looking men and they | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
had been through security screening before they boarded. Jonathan Head | :01:58. | :01:58. | |
has the latest from Malaysia. Ten countries are now involved in | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
this search. This maritime rescue plane is Vietnamese. The missing | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
airliner may have gone down inside Vietnam's's territorial waters. But | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
with no clues, no distress calls, all they can do is scan the vast | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
expanse of the South China Sea. The multinational flotilla of ships is | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
visible far below. But the lack of progress is beginning to cause some | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
frustration. Not least in China, where most of the passengers | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
originated. We have a responsibility to demand and urge the Malaysians | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
side to increase search efforts. Start an investigation as soon as | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
possible, and provide relevant information to China, correctly and | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
in a timely manner. China is deploying seven ships to the area. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
Some, like this one, with specialist roles in marine search and rescue. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
It is also seeking answers about the two men on board who were travelling | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
on stolen passports. Malaysia says it has identified one of them and a | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
sharing intelligence with all the countries involved in the incident. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
The features of those two passengers, we have looked at the | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
video, and the photographs, and it is confirmed that they are not Asian | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
looking men. At the mosque in Kuala Lumpur's government quarter, they | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
are holding special prayers everyday for the passengers of flight MH 370. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
With no news of the plane, there is not much else they can do. For all | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the resources and effort being put into this church -- search from | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
around the world, one disturbing question remains. How can a 200 | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
tonne airliner with 239 people on board simply vanish without a trace? | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
Jonathan head, Kuala Lumpur airport. So as the mystery surrounding the | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
missing plane intensifies, our transport correspondent Richard | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Westcott has been looking at how an aircraft could just disappear | :04:19. | :04:19. | |
without trace. It is one of the world 's safest | :04:20. | :04:31. | |
airliners. Made to the highest standards, full of electronic | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
equipment that tells the ground where it is. So how could an | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
aircraft like this simply vanish without trace. It is not an -- it is | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
very unusual for an aircraft like this do disappear without trace. We | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
would expect the emergency beacon to help us find it, or the bleeping | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
unit attached to the black boxes and the recorder 's helpers locate the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
aircraft, so it's very unusual brick to disappear quickly. The search | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
goes on but everything points to a catastrophic and southern break up | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
in midair. It was cruising at more than 30,000 feet, but if both | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
engines failed it can glide for more than 100 miles, giving pilots time | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
to call in a Mayday. In fact, most problems should leave a clue. Even | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
with a serious malfunction, you can normally got time. The first thing | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
you do is concentrate on flying the aircraft and making sure the flight | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
path is safe. The new look where you are going. But soon after you will | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
be looking to get some communication to get help from the ground station | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
or other aircraft -- then you look. It revives memories of another | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
tragedy, the Air France flight which disappeared over the sea five years | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
ago. The clues were eventually found years later more than two miles | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
underwater. A combination of mechanical issues and pilot error | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
caused that crash, and it could be months, or even years before we know | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
what has happened to this Malaysia Airlines flight. Our correspondent | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
John Sudworth is in Beijing. The authorities were giving more detail | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
a short time ago. What more can you tell us about these two passengers | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
they have now seen on CCTV? We have heard the Malaysia authorities have | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
identified one of these men. We don't have much detail released. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
They say he is not a Malaysians citizen. They have not told us what | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
nationality he is, and they also say he is not of Asian appearance. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Interestingly though, the Financial Times is carrying an interview with | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the travel agent who said she booked the tickets for these two men, and | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
she said she was asked to book the cheapest available route to Europe, | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
which just so happened to be this flight, via Beijing, then on to | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Amsterdam. If that is true, it suggests they did not deliberately | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
choose this particular aircraft, which you might expect to be the | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
case of something sinister was at work. But the truth is, at the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
moment, we really don't know very much. Very little more than we did | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
on Saturday morning when the plane first disappeared. You follow the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
latest on the search for the missing airliner on the BBC News website. | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
That's at bbc.co.uk/news. The Olympic athlete, Oscar | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
Pistorius, threw up in court this morning as graphic detail was heard | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
about the postmortem carried out on his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
judge banned the media from broadcasting the evidence live | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
because it was feared it may cause undue distress. Oscar Pistorius, who | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
says he mistook Reeva Steenkamp for a burglar, denies murdering her on | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Valentine's Day last year. Our correspondent Andrew Harding was in | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
court and joins me now from Pretoria. Oscar Pistorius extremely | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
upset about all of the evidence he was hearing this morning. | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
Apologies, we seem to have a problem with the line to Pretoria, and we | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
will go back shortly. Meanwhile, Labour has pledged to fund a | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
guaranteed job scheme for the young unemployed throughout the lifetime | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
of the next government, if it wins the 2015 election. Those who have | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
been out of work for a year or more will be offered a | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
taxpayer-subsidised job lasting six months. But if they turn it down, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
they risk losing their benefits. Labour says it would pay for this by | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
taxing bank bonuses and changing tax rules for the pensions of high | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
earners. But the Conservatives say the sums "don't add up". Our | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
political correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
It is the first major plank of labour's next manifesto. Young | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
people out of work for a year would be offered a six-month job and | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
training. The scheme would also apply to all adults over 25 who have | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
been unemployed for more than two years. But the deal is this. Take a | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
tax payer funded job or lose your benefits. We need an economy that | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
doesn't just work for a few banks, but for all working people. We have | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
56,000 young people in our country who have been unemployed for more | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
than 12 months. A Labour government would tax banker bonuses and put | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
young people back to work. Labour had planned to fund the scheme for | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
one year but now it will do it for five. The ?1.9 billion cost for the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
first year will be raised by a tax on bank bonuses. ?900 million per | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
year will come from cutting pension relief for people earning over | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
?150,000. Labour also plans to use money it says can be saved by | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
cutting the benefit bill. 80% of the jobs will come from the private | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
sector, but the private sector is not so sure. Businesses really don't | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
want these apprentice schemes. Businesses want people when there is | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
consumer demand for them, and businesses are the best people to | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
know when to hire people rather than the government. This is a big | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
spending pledge by the Labour Party. Since the election they have talked | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
about using funds from a tax on bank bonuses to pay for all sorts of | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
things, including 25,000 new homes. Now it says it will use all the | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
money it raises from the bonus tax to pay for its new job scheme. The | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Tory Treasury minister said the scheme would cost far more Labour | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
thinks. Their proposals on taxes won't get the revenue they are | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
talking about. This is yet again Labour Party policy that will result | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
in more borrowing. Benefits will be cut for people who don't take the | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
jobs. A calculation that the Labour Party will convince voters as it | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
builds up an offer for next year's election. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
The British Chambers of Commerce believes that the size of the | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
economy will return to pre-recession levels this summer, earlier than | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
previously thought. The BCC says that from July onwards GDP will be | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
higher than it was at the start of 2008, just before the financial | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
crisis. But it also warns of an "unacceptably high" level of youth | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
unemployment. Our Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym is here. How | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
good a barometer is the BCC? It's a pretty reasonable representation of | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
business, with lots of members across UK industry and the forecasts | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
are taken seriously. The significance today is that it is | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
saying that the UK will get back to where it was in 2008 at some stage | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
in the next few months, because a lot of experts say that is the key | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
barometer, are you back to where you work? You might have had growth, but | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
if you're not back to where you were before the recession there still an | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
important step to take. The only problem is that the UK will get | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
there after the US and Germany, major competitors who have moved | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
beyond that point. The BCC has other encouraging singles -- signals. | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Growth is up from 1.8% last year and says real wages, that is wages | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
growing faster than inflation. Picking up in the middle of this | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
year. It's been the other way round for the last couple of years with a | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
big squeeze on consumers, so some relief there. It also says that the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
UK recovery is not balanced enough. There is too much consumer spending | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
and not enough investment in exports, and it needs to kick him to | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
be really convincing in terms of recovery, and that is the issue that | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
George Osborne will want to be addressing in the budget next week. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a soldier | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
was discovered at an army barracks. The 32-year-old soldier was from the | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment. The Ministry of Defence | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
says the body was found at a barracks in Shropshire on Saturday. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Two senior | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Scottish politicians have entered the debate on Scottish Independence | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
today. The former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and the Liberal | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell both say that Scots want greater | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
devolution rather than full independence. The referendum on | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Scotland's future will take place on September 18th. Our Scotland | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
correspondent James Cook is in Glasgow. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
That's right. We have been hearing in the building behind me from | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
Gordon Brown, in a speech in which he says he wants to see radical | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
reform of the United Kingdom and its constitutional settlement. In | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
particular, setting up half a dozen ways that that could be achieved, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
notably with devolution of more powers to the Scottish parliament in | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Edinburgh. In particular, unemployment, welfare, rail, land | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
and on a couple of other issues as well, and he also talks about | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
devolving more tax powers to Edinburgh. At present the Scottish | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
parliament raises about 12% of its own taxes and that will rise to | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
around a third. He says it should go up to 40%. This is what the former | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Prime Minister has been saying. These six constitutional changes | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
make for a new relationship between Scotland and Britain. We set out the | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
purpose of the United Kingdom, we make it clear that the Scottish | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
parliament is permanent, we make it clear that there is a new division | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
of powers which makes sense of our commitment to the UK as a framework | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
within which we pooled and share resources. He is no longer Prime | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
Minister, but this prompted one wag in the Scottish National party to | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
suggest if only he had been able to deliver these policies he now | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
wants. That is essentially the same response we have heard from the | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
Deputy First Minister of the Scottish Government, Nicola | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
Sturgeon. Gordon Brown was Prime Minister for a number of years, and | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
in government for more than ten years and did not deliver the powers | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
he is now saying he thinks Scotland needs. That underlines the point | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
that the only way we can secure new powers, and the new powers Scotland | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
needs to meet the challenges we face is to vote yes on the referendum and | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
support independence. We have also heard from the former leader of the | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, also proposing some kind | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
of change. All of this is basically coalescing into an argument about | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
what is being called devolution max, the alternative to the | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
proposals which are being put forward by the SNP. We will hear | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
from the Conservatives later in the year, but whether all of these | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
parties can agree and how much the voters are able to weigh up the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
sides in terms of what the Scottish Government is offering will be a | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
difficult matter at the polls in September. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
A woman who was allegedly indecently assaulted by the celebrity publicist | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
Max Clifford has told a court she thought she was going to be raped | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
when he "lunged" at her in his car. The woman, who cannot be named, was | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
14 in 1966 when she said Mr Clifford offered her a lift home. The | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
publicist faces 11 counts of indecent assault. He denies all of | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the charges against him. Richard Lister is at Southwark Crown Court. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
What more was said in court? We have been hearing all morning from this | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
witness, the first prosecution witness in this trial. She said she | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
met Max Clifford when she was 14, they boast used to hang out at the | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
same bar in south London. One afternoon after school, he offered | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
her a lift home, she said. She said she reluctantly agreed. She said he | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
was insistent that he wanted to show her something. Once in his car, she | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
said he started taking her away from her house, and she started to get | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
worried. She said he then showed her a photo album with lots of | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
celebrities and asked which one she would like to meet. He said, I can | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
arrange a meeting, but this is what you have got to do. She then said he | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
tipped her seat back and lunged on her, fondling her. She said, it was | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
quite obvious what he wanted to do... | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
But the QC for the defence suggested that she could not remember any | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
details about the car that was allegedly involved, something she | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
admitted to. He said that was a surprise, given that it was | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
something that was clearly so important in her life. He suggested | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
that in 1966, Max Clifford did not have access to a car. He said to | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
her, are you jumping on the bandwagon? No, Gestede, I have been | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
telling people about this for 30 years. Max Clifford denies all the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
allegations against him. Our top story this lunchtime... The | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
search area has been widened with rescue helicopters and ships | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
scouring the sea for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. And still | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
to come - a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, a blood test | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
could be developed to detect the onset of the disease. | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
Coming up on BBC London, thousands of homeowners are promised ?1000 a | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
year off their council tax if Gatwick gets a second runway. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Abseiling down the BT Tower for sport relief. | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Britain's coastline has taken a battering this winter with one storm | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
after another. Some areas have suffered the equivalent of seven | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
years of erosion in just three months. Now the National Trust has | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
called for a re-think on how Britain defends its coastline. It argues | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
some locations may have to be sacrificed because the sea can no | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
longer be stopped. Duncan Kennedy has been finding out more. | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
It was only really a matter of time before all this, and this, led to | :18:25. | :18:41. | |
this. Birling Gap in Sussex, just one of the places where the gap just | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
got bigger. Those pictures are pretty spectacular, and to give you | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
an idea of just what has gone on here this winter, the National Trust | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
tell us that they have had seven years' worth of erosion here in just | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
two months. The cliff collapse has made this spot even more popular | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
with visitors. Good for a photo, less good for safety. The BBC has | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
been shown this map, revealing that it is just one of 70 sites around | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Britain now identified as being in critical danger of erosion, ranging | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
from Cayton Bay and Orford Ness in the East to Birling Gap and Wembury | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
in the South, to Woolacombe and other places in the West. All places | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
where man-made defences may no longer work. Defences we have come | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
to rely on in the past will not be plausible for everywhere in the | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
future. Adaptation is something we will need to be looking at. The | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
National Trust says this winter has been a wake-up call. Whether it is | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
here in Hastings, or here in Bournemouth, buttons cliffs have | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
been crumbling. And it is not just through waves and wind power. | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
Brand-new research at Southampton University has revealed | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
unprecedented amounts of water, surging off the land, rummaging our | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
coasts and estuaries. -- damaging. In the last few weeks we have seen | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
three times the amount of fresh water coming into the estuary that | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
we would normally see in a wet period. So, it is not just wet, it | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
is phenomenally wet. The amount of fresh water coming in is | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
unprecedented over the last 30 years according to our measurements. Old | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
photos show erosion to our shores this is Sussex 100 years ago, 20 | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
years later, and finally, now. This winter has quickened the pace but | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
you cannot put a concrete wall around Britain, so what do you do? | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
Going back now to South Africa, and the trial of Oscar Pistorius, the | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
Olympic athlete who threw up in court this morning during evidence, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
when graphic details were given about his girlfriend, who was shot | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
dead last year. Andrew Harding is there. Oscar Pistorius was really | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
visibly very distressed this morning? He was indeed. I think he | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
knew what was coming today. He was hugging his sister in the dock just | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
before the pathologist took the stand and gave very graphic evidence | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
about what had happened to Reeva Steenkamp. Oscar Pistorius put his | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
head in his hands, slumped forwards and repeatedly, during more than an | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
hour of testimony, retched into a bucket at his feet. At one point it | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
seemed he had his fingers in his ears to try to block out the noise. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
The judge ruled today that we could not broadcast the evidence live, but | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
you are able to give a summary of what was said? Exactly. We heard | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
about three main bullet wounds, one to her head, one to her pelvis, | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
another to her arm. I think the two key points which are stuck out for | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
me were the fact that Oscar Pistorius had used a special type of | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
bullet, one designed, as the pathologist said, to cause maximum | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
tissue damage. So, the wounds on Weaver steam camp were particularly | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
extensive. The second fact which I think the prosecution will seize on | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
is that it appears Reeva Steenkamp had eaten something about two hours | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
before she was killed, so, at about one o'clock in the morning, that | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
despite Pistorius saying they had gone to bed at around nine o'clock | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
and nothing more had happened. The Chinese President has called for | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
all sides involved in the Ukrainian crisis to act with "calm and | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
restraint" in order to avoid an escalation of tensions. The call | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
adds to the mounting pressure on the interim government in Kiev - less | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
than week before the southern province of Crimea holds a | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
referendum on whether to join the Russian Federation. | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
The trial of the former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
Nigel Evans is getting under way at Preston Crown Court. Mr Evans, who | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
is the MP for Ribble Valley in Lancashire, is accused of eight | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
counts of indecent and sexual assault, and one of rape. These | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
alleged offences are said to have happened between 2002 and last year | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
- and involved seven men. He denies all nine charges. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
A witness in the trial of a man accused of murdering PC Keith | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Blakelock in 1985 during the Broadwater Farm riots says he saw | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
the defendant carrying a knife in a group of people who were surrounding | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
PC Blakelock. Nicholas Jacobs, who was 16 at the time, denies murder. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
PC Blakelock was stabbed to death as he tried to protect firefighters. | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Daniel Boettcher is at the Old Bailey. | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
The court heard today from a witness known as John Brown, which is a | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
pseudonym. He was giving evidence behind a curtain, his voice was | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
electronic leak altered to help protect his identity. The court | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
heard that John Brown had been in prison on charges of affray and | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
burglary, in connection with the riots on Broadwater Farm estate. The | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
wit this describe the events of the 6th of October 1985, speaking of a | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
group trying to rush police lines, and things being thrown, including | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
petrol bombs. He said he saw an officer being dragged to the | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
ground. Earlier in his evidence he had admitted that he himself had | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
kicked PC Keith Blakelock around ten times when he had been on the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
ground. He was then asked about those in the group closest to the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
officer, and among those he named was the defendant, Nicholas Jacobs. | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
The witness was asked by the QC for the prosecution coming he said, did | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
you see Nicholas Jacobs with a weapon? To which he replied, yes, I | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
did. He was asked what sort of weapon, and he said it was like a | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
curved blade, like a machete. He described the policeman on the | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
ground trying to curl up into a ball to protect himself, and screaming | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
for help. He was asked what he saw Nicholas Jacobs doing, and he spoke | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
about blows to the shoulder of the officer, between two and four | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
times, he says. Nicholas Jacobs denies murder, and this afternoon, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
the witness will be gross examined by the defence. | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
Researchers in the United States say they have developed a blood test | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
which could accurately predict the onset of Alzheimer's. It is hoped | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
the test, which looks at fat levels in the blood, could lead to improved | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
treatment of the disease by detecting it earlier. Experts said | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
the results needed to be confirmed, but such a test would be a "real | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
step forward". Our health correspondent James Gallagher is | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
here. It sounds like a significant development? And in theory, it could | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
be. If you had a blood test which could predict Alzheimer's disease, | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
it would be a revolutionary moment in terms of treating it, but we are | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
not there yet. This is the very early stages. They have taken one | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
first step towards that treatment, but they need much bigger trials in | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
order to get to a point where they can say they have a blood test which | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
could be used by GPs to help with treatment. They are nowhere the year | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
that stage yet. I suppose the big question is, would you actually want | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
to have that test, would you want to know that years down the line, you | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
could get Alzheimer's? At the moment there is no quick and at the end of | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the day if you did know. However, the real benefit could be in medical | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
research. Alzheimer's disease starts at least a decade before you are | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
ever diagnosed. So, the theory is, you can get drugs to act much | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
earlier, so the drugs could prevent brain cells dying before the | :26:29. | :26:29. | |
symptoms even emerge. It is Great Britain's first ever | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Paralympic gold medal - the skier Kelly Gallagher, who is | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
visually-impaired, and her guide Charlotte Evans have made history by | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
winning the Super-G in Sochi. The 28-year-old from County Down, who | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
didn't take up skiing until she was 17, said the race was nerve-wracking | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
but they were delighted with their medal, as Andy Swiss reports. | :26:49. | :26:58. | |
Standing on the brink of sporting history, 28-year-old Kelly Gallagher | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
and her guide, Charlotte Evans. What followed was a test of talent, trust | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
and teamwork. Allegory was born with a visual impairment. She can only | :27:10. | :27:16. | |
see Evans' orange babe and hear her guidance fire a headset. But they | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
hurtled down the mountain at nearly 90mph. The pair had been tipped for | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
a medal, but in the downhill on Saturday, they finished last, and in | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
tears. Today was a glorious contrast. The first pair down, they | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
had clocked a testing target. The question now was, could anyone catch | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
them? Their own team-mates, Jade Etherington and Caroline Powell, | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
came close. They claimed bronze, to go with their silver on Saturday. | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
But soon, British gold was confirmed when the final pair failed to | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
finish. Gallagher and Evans had done it. Britain's first ever Winter | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
Paralympic champions. I dreamt so hard about being in the centre on | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
the podium. We had always been second and third, all of the time. | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
And then this season we started winning more races. So today, we get | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
to stand in the centre, and with some other British girls on the | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
podium as well. And for the first time in Paralympic or Olympic | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
history, Britain have champions on snow. Gallagher and Evans, under | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
golden skies, a glittering day for British sport. | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
Time for a look at the weather, with Nina Ridge. For most of us, it will | :28:34. | :28:41. | |
be a fairly good week this week. We are talking about high pressure, so | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
we are confident that that will bring plenty of dry conditions | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
across the country, with most places in seeing light winds. It will be a | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
little bit breezy around the coast at times. But it brings with it some | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
problems as well, as far as the forecasting is concerned. Quite how | :28:59. | :29:01. | |
much cloud we are going to see, versus sunshine, we cannot be sure | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
about. That has a big impact on temperatures. Already so far today, | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
we have had a bit of a problem, with a weak front and using a little bit | :29:13. | :29:17. | |
more cloud across the Midlands, down towards East Anglia. The high | :29:18. | :29:27. | |
pressure has brought an improved day to the north, with some sunshine, | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
and most places and staying dry. A little bit breezy across the western | :29:33. | :29:35. | |
Isles. Moving further south, we are picking up a little bit more cloud, | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
and with the breeze coming in off the North Sea, feeling cooler across | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
parts of Lincolnshire and towards the Midlands. Where we have got more | :29:44. | :29:52. | |
cloud towards London and into parts of the east Midlands, we are in | :29:53. | :29:58. | |
around 11-12 for the rest of the afternoon. That area of cloud stays | :29:59. | :30:09. | |
with us tonight. In between those two areas, we have got clearer | :30:10. | :30:22. | |
skies. Tomorrow morning, another dry day, with some good spells of | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
sunshine, for northern areas. Further south, we have got cloud | :30:27. | :30:38. | |
cover. That could be holding even into the afternoon. That will be | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
keeping temperatures down. A little bit warmer in the south on | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
Wednesday, with increased sunshine. Still staying dry and bright for | :30:46. | :30:49. | |
much of Scotland and Northern Ireland. A subtle change on | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
Thursday, as a with a front looks like it could brush past the | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
north-west of the UK. The breeze will be picking up here, with the | :30:58. | :31:02. | |
potential for a little bit of drizzle. Meanwhile, further south, | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
any missed an fault should be clearing. -- any missed and fog. | :31:07. | :31:15. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime... The search area for the | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
missing Malaysia Airlines plane has been widened, with rescue | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
helicopters and ships scouring the sea. That's all from us - now on BBC | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
One, it's time | :31:27. | :31:27. |