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suddenly at the age of 52. Tributes pour in from shocked friends and | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
adversaries after Bob Crow who led the Rail, Maritime and Transport | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Union passed away in the early hours. This was a guy who really | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
fought for his members and stuck up for his point of view. Obviously I | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
didn't always agree with what he had to say, but I think that together | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
with other union members, Bob Crow unquestionably helped to drive | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
forward huge progress. You have got to be shocked. Even his enemies, | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
people who never agreed with him when they were alive, Bob would be | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
laughing his head off that they are finding these great words about him. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Also this lunchtime: No apparent terrorist links - Interpol says two | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Iranians who boarded the missing Air Malaysia plane using stolen | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
passports were probably asylum seekers. | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
The chief executive of the Co-operative Group offers his | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
resignation claiming that the business has become ungovernable. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
The first alleged victim in the sexual assault trial against the | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
former deputy speaker Nigel Evans begins giving evidence. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
And they're off - as the Cheltenham Festival gets under way, almost a | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
quarter of million people expected at a packed week of racing. On BBC | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
London, more on the death of Bob Crow, described as a fighter. Boris | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
Johnson has been criticised for trying to attract more foreign | :01:39. | :01:39. | |
investors to London. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:40. | :01:56. | |
BBC news at one. Bob Crow, one of Britain's best known union leaders, | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
has died suddenly at the age of 52. He had been general secretary of the | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Rail, Maritime and Transport Union since 2002 and was involved in a | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
number of high profile industrial disputes, including the recent | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
strike by London Underground workers. Tributes to him have been | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
pouring in from both sides of the political spectrum, as our Industry | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
Correspondent John Moylan reports. All we want is the opportunity to | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
express a point of view... This was Bob Crow last month, at the height | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
of the strike in London underground's tube, he hijacked a | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
phone in with Boris Johnson. There is a table to be sat round. The men | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
hadn't spoken in years, today the London mellowed the tributes. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Obviously I didn't always agree with what he had to say but I will say | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
this - together with other union members, Bob Crow unquestionably | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
helped to drive forward progress on London Underground and he leads a | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
massive legacy behind. Bob Crow spent his working life in the rail | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
industry, often on the picket line. He described himself as a Communist | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Socialist and as leader of the RMT he was instrumental in ending its | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
affiliation with the Labour Party. Regarded as an effective and | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
pragmatic union boss, for years he campaigned against privatisation of | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
the rail industry. The Government should be saying to these | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
companies, give back some of the profits they have been making over | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
the last seven years and give that back to the workers. News of his | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
death came in this short statement from his union: | :03:48. | :03:59. | |
Even his enemies, the people who never agreed with him when he was | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
alive, Bob would be laughing his head off that they are now finding | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
these great words about him. Everybody knows he was incredibly | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
good at his job. Today there were tributes to Bob Crow from across the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
political spectrum. The Labour leader Ed Miliband said that while | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
he didn't always agree with him politically, he respected his | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
tireless commitment for fighting for the men and women in his union. When | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
Bob would go around the streets and you would see him on trains, people | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
gave him a warm reception. They liked the fact that he said what he | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
thought, and they recognised, even when they were inconvenienced by a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
strike, that he had done rather well for his members. A lot of people at | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
work were thinking, why isn't someone standing up for me? Bob Crow | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
was 52, he will be remembered for his hardline brand of trade unionism | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
that often lead to the pay deals that were the envy of other workers. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Let's talk to our chief political correspondent, Norman Smith. Just 52 | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
years old, the news is a big shock but it is notable how many tributes | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
have been pouring in. Bob Crow was arguably Britain's most successful | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
modern-day union leader, and in many ways he was unique because at a time | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
when trade union influence was waning, when their leaders are | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
relative unknowns, Bob Crow booked every one of those trends. He was a | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
household name, probably better known than half the Cabinet. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Everyone knew Bob Crow with his flat cap, East End, Millwall supporter, | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
gruff demeanour and he was hugely successful. He nearly doubled the | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
membership of his union, he repeatedly won better pay and | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
conditions for his members, and he was an unashamed socialist at a time | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
when trade unions by and large have become more managerial and | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
professional and consensual, Bob Crow described himself as a | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
communist socialist. It was prepared to fight for working people. -- he | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
was. It would be a mistake to view him either as his critics do as some | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
sort of pantomime villain, or as his supporters do as some latter-day | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
working-class hero. He was an incredibly widely, astute, media | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
savvy operator. He was a deal-maker and that probably explains why he | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
was such a successful trade union leader. Thank you. | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
Two men who boarded the missing Air Malaysia flight using stolen | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
passports have been identified as Iranians who were probably asylum | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
seekers not terrorists. The mystery surrounding the passenger plane | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
continues and the search area has been widened again amid reports from | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
the Malaysian military that the plane may have turned back during | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
the flight. Jonathan Head is in Kuala Lumpur. | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
Ever since that airliner went missing, much of the focus has been | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
on the two men who passed through passport control behind me using | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
stolen passports, as to whether they played a role in the downfall of the | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
plane. Today I have been to meet a man in Kuala Lumpur who knew one of | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
them well, and according to him they were simply people seeking a better | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
life in Europe. For four days, these Vietnamese aircraft had been going | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
through the same ritual, scanning and empty seats, finding nothing. So | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
the search has been expanded, right over to the other side of the Malay | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
Peninsula. At least one mystery has been solved, the identity of two | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
passengers travelling on stolen passports. Mohammed is a young | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Iranian living in Kuala Lumpur. He has asked to keep his identity | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
hidden. The men came to stay, he said, the night before they left. Be | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
found me on Facebook, he found that I live in Malaysia. He said, I am | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
coming to Malaysia tomorrow. He said he was here for three or four days. | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
After that, he is going to Frankfurt in Germany, he wanted to go to his | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
mother. He told me they flew in from Iran to Malaysia and booked their | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
tickets through an agent. They received them by e-mail. Muhammad | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
printed them out three hours before the flight. We went together to the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
print shop and we printed the ticket. After that, I saw the ticket | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
and I said, this is not your name. Then he said, I have another | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
passport. After that I don't want to continue the story, I just said OK. | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
Is there any possibility in his mind that his friend could have had | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
anything to do with the disappearance of the plane? They | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
work the same as my age. The other guy was so nice, so quiet. I saw | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
there are back and suitcase, it was open. So when Pouria said he was | :09:47. | :09:57. | |
seeking asylum, that seemed normal to you? He wanted a better life. One | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
of the questions in this extraordinary case has more or less | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
been answered but that leaves many others unanswered, in particular, | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
where was the plane when it went down? It disappeared over the South | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
China Sea from the radar but sources say they believe the plane may have | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
switched off its signalling equipment, and comebacks. That is | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
why they have moved the surge over to the other side of the Malay | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
balance you'll. Still no sign of the plane anywhere. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The chief executive of the Co-operative Group, Euan Sutherland, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
has offered his resignation, saying the business is ungovernable. He is | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
said to have offered to go on a point of principle, warning that he | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
would only return to his post if sweeping changes to the Co-op's | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
structure were approved. Our personal finance correspondent, | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
Simon Gompertz, reports. One day he is thrust into the limelight for a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
new pay package worth more than ?3.5 million a year, then Euan Sutherland | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
is threatening to resign, the latest act in a pantomime which is the | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Co-op. First the banking arm was brought to the brink of failure | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
after a ?1.5 billion black hole was found in its finances. It was | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
rescued by the rest of the Co-op and big investors but then the banks's | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
former chairman was arrested for alleged offences over drugs. Once | :11:30. | :11:44. | |
the CEO has threatened or in a sense offered his resignation, it creates | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
a question about whether the board could continue to challenge that CEO | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
going forward, and we want them to challenge so it is a very difficult | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
situation to see going forward. Listen to make Hillyer on the left, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
a Labour MP backed by the cooperative movement. He is jumping | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
the gun, ignoring this. The bank is owned by its members and that is a | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
fundamental part of what the cooperative movement is about. In | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Rochdale, shoppers were disappointed. I don't think you | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
should abandon ship, and put things right for the future. They have | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
given millions of pounds to top dogs and that is defeating the purpose of | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
the Co-op. Is this just a case of a frustrated boss throwing his toys | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
out of the pram, or is it something that could jeopardise the future of | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
the Co-op? He has backing from within the cooperative movement but | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
there is a question over whether the changes he wants can easily be | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
made. The shake-up would probably need to be approved by the annual | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
members meeting which isn't due for another two months. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
The ousted Ukrainian president has criticised the west for supporting | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
what he called the bandits who seized power in a coup last month | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
and said he will return to Kiev soon. His warning comes as American | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
and EU officials meet in London to discuss possible sanctions in | :13:25. | :13:33. | |
response to the crisis in Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces consolidated | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
their grip on Ukraine's Crimean and insular. This convoy, presumably | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Russian, was outside the port city of Sevastopol. Pro-Russian Cossacks | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
are among the self-defence forces manning checkpoints. There are also | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
patrols at the main Crimean airport in the capital, Simferopol, where it | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
seems flights from Kiev have all been cancelled. The only planes | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
landing now come from Russia. And they are getting ready for the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
referendum on Sunday, hastily arranged to endorse a plan to break | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
away from Ukraine and join Rocher, a step that has been welcomed in | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
Moscow but loudly condemned as illegal in Western capitals. Today a | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
copy of the ballot paper was on display, giving two choices, join | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
Rocher today or possibly later. In southern Russia the ousted Ukrainian | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
President Viktor you can bitch has made another appearance to scotch | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
rumours that he had suffered a heart attack and had announced fascists he | :14:44. | :14:56. | |
claims have seized power with the backing of Western leaders. I would | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
like to ask the western masters of these dark forces, have you gone | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
blind? Have you lost your memory? Have you forgotten what fascism is? | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
As for Ukraine's new authorities in Kiev, they are continuing to brace | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
themselves, calling for veterans to help the reserves to defend the | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
country. Perhaps the most worrying is the ratcheting up of tensions | :15:22. | :15:34. | |
between Russia and the west. So, as Ukrainian troops dig in on their | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
side of the Crimean border, the scene is set for further escalation | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
with the west is now debating targeted sanctions against Russia to | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
be imposed within days if nothing changes. The jury in the trial of | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
former Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons Nigel Evans has been | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
hearing evidence from an alleged victim who said Mr Evans assaulted | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
him whilst on a night out in Soho. The MP for Ribble Valley in | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Lancashire, denies one count of rape, two of indecent assault and | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
six of sexual assault. Our Correspondent Danny Savage is at | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Preston Crown Court. Sophie, yesterday the jury in this trial | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
ahead the overview of the case but today the evidence began. And what | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
they heard is coming, logical order, evidence about Cantone, alleged to | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
have been an indecent assault carried out by Nigel on a younger | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
man in a bar in Soho in central London more than a decade ago -- | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Cantone. Day two of the trial of Nigel Evans MP. Today he heard | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
first-hand from one of his alleged victims. The former Deputy Speaker | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
sat making notes as he listened to the evidence from a 38-year-old man | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
who, exclaimed, he indecently assaulted in a London bar about 11 | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
years ago. The alleged victim said Mr Evans had a reputation. Facing | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
the jury, the Westminster worker said: | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
Adding that the attention was unwelcome, he thought: | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
But under cross-examination, the alleged victim admitted that he and | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
Mr Evans had later treated the incident like a bit of a joke, | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
referring to it as life in crazy, crazy Westminster. The man added, | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
not in a million years did he think the incident would end up in court | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
and told the jury, "I regard Nigel Evans as being a friend, but one who | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
overstepped the mark that night. It's something I forgave him for". | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Nigel Evans, a lifelong Conservative, has been an | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
independent MP since the allegations came to light. And he stepped down | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
from his role as Deputy Speaker. His trial could last for up to five | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
weeks. The victim in this case that we've heard from today basically | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
says Nigel Evans sidled up to reminisce bar and deliberately | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
touched, but you're so sad, when I heard he had been arrested for | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
rape, I couldn't believe it and he also said the jury today, he didn't | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
consider himself to be a victim of crime as a result of the allegations | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
being talked about in court today. Nigel Evans denies one count of | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
rape, two of indecent assault and six of sexual assault and the trial | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
continues here, safety. Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
Tributes pour in for one of Britain's best known union leaders. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Bob Crow has died suddenly at the age of 52. And coming up, fancy | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
risking life and limb for around ?20,000 a year? That's the job of | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
horse racing's jump jockeys. I will reflect on the risk and reward as | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
the famous festival begins here at Cheltenham. Later on BBC London, | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
researchers find children and teenagers in the capital are | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
exceeding adult sized portions of salt. And we are at the Centre for | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
excellence for the big top way you can study a degree in circus and | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
learn the art of trapeze. It's three years since Japan was hit | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
by a massive earthquake and tsunami, which triggered a nuclear leak. Now | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
doctors are warning that a second silent disaster is unfolding. In the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
area around Fukushima, the number of evacuees who have died since the | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
disaster has exceeded the number killed in the initial earthquake and | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
tsunami. Many of the deaths have been linked to suicide, depression, | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
and illness as Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports. This is the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
dead zone. In the little towns around the Fukushima nuclear plant, | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
time stands still. The destruction wrought by the earthquake lies | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
unrepaired. But what has happened to the people who once lived here, | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
forced to flee the radiation? Forced to abandon all they owned? Three | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
years after the disaster, there are now some very serious questions | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
about its aftermath that need to be answered. Firstly, has the threat of | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
radiation to people's health here actually been greatly overstated by, | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
for example, the media and by anti-nuclear campaigners? And | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
secondly, is the fear of radiation now actually turning out to be much | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
more lethal than the radiation itself? | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
At a private clinic 60 kilometres from the plant, a little boy is | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
having his thyroid gland examined. His mother is scared. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
TRANSLATION: At Chernobyl, children were diagnosed many years after the | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
disaster. Children here may be fine now, but if there is any risk, I | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
want to find out as soon as possible. But child cancer experts | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
say Fukushima cannot be compared with Chernobyl. The 33 cases | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
discovered so far are not connected to the nuclear disaster. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
The radiation released from Fukushima was much less than at | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
Chernobyl, he says. Children here got a much smaller dose. But once | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
you start using sensitive equipment to check for thyroid cancer, you | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
will find more cases. That is why we are seeing an increase. Not because | :21:27. | :21:27. | |
of the disaster. But the Fukushima disaster is taking | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
lives. This woman has come to pray at her father's grave. She says his | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
health collapsed after he was forced to abandon his farm and his animals. | :21:44. | :21:51. | |
Within two years, he was dead. TRANSLATION: I blame the power | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
company for his death. They took his dreams, his hope. They took his land | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
and scattered his family far from home. Nothing will ever bring those | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
back. No one has died from radiation in Fukushima. But, unable to return | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
home and rebuild their lives, a growing number of evacuees are dying | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
from anxiety, from suicide and from losing the will to live. | :22:16. | :22:30. | |
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has been questioned by | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
MPs this morning. He was asked by the Treasury Select Committee about | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
allegations that officials at the bank turned a blind eye to warnings | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
of price rigging in the foreign exchange market. Last week the bank | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
revealed it was conducting its own internal inquiry. Our Chief | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym reports. The Bank of England | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
governor was questioned over how much his officials knew about | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
allegations the currency markets were being rigged. Mark Carney was | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
asked when he and the bank 's ruling body found out last year that their | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
staff are known from while about problems in the markets. A member of | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
the bank first became aware of allegations relating to the issue we | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
are disgusting on the 16th of October. I was informed them. I | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
informed the chair on that day. We convened governors and launched an | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
investigation within 48 hours and began a very thorough systematic | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
relentless investigation. Allegations that foreign exchange | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
markets were being rigged emerged in the middle of last year. More than | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
20 traders and the number of global banks had been suspended as my guide | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
has examined records of online conversations. Investigations are | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
focusing on the setting of key currency and marks known as the | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
London fix, as each day, at 4pm, average currency rate over a | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
one-minute period are calculated. It is possible banks could secretly | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
agreed to trade at certain levels over that time to manipulate the | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
rates of the aim being to boost bank profits. So what do the Bank of | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
England no minutes published last week revealed that the issue was | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
known about eight years ago. One official at the bank has been | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
suspended while an enquiry is underway. The subcommittee used to | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
meet at upmarket restaurants like this one in the city of London. The | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Bank of England staff joined senior players in the foreign-exchange | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
markets to discuss the latest of elements. At one meeting at this | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
restaurant in July 2006, the minutes say it was noted there was evidence | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
of attempts to move the market around popular fixing times. The | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
governor and his colleagues faced further questions about those | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
minutes and Mark Carney suggested an independent review of the banks | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
conduct would be appropriate. There is continued speculation that the | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
foreign-exchange rigging allegations could be as serious as the Libor | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
four London as a financial centre. A friend of the South African athlete, | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
Oscar Pistorius, has been telling the jury at his murder trial about | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
an occasion when the Olympian fired his gun from a car without any | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
warning. He told the court that Oscar Pistorius had a big love for | :25:08. | :25:09. | |
weapons. The athlete denies murdering his girlfriend at his home | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
last year. Andrew Harding is outside the court in Pretoria. Tell us more | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
about what was said in court. Yes, it was another awkward day for Oscar | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
Pistorius though he kept his calm, his composure, unlike yesterday. I | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
close friend of hers gave evidence and talked about two specific | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
incidents, one where Oscar Pistorius allegedly shot a gun in the through | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
the roof of the car, right next to his ear, causing to lose hearing | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
here for some time. And then, separately, in a restaurant, where | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
apparently, according to him, there was a mishandling of a gun under a | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
table, and Oscar Pistorius fired that gun accidentally. The defence | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
tried to pick Cole in his evidence didn't succeed. Earlier, it was the | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
same with the State pathologist who spoke yesterday about how Reeva | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
Steenkamp had certainly got up and eaten a meal about two hours before | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
she died at about 1am. That contradicts what we have heard | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
earlier from Oscar Pistorius. Today, his defence tried to find | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
some room in there, suggesting she had got up earlier than that. The | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
state pathologist stuck to his ground and insisted that Reeva | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
Steenkamp must've eaten about two hours before she was killed. So, in | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
the middle of the night, so not a good day all in all, for Oscar | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
Pistorius. Andrew, thank you. Now, the event they call the world | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
championship of jump racing begins today. It's the first day of the | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
Cheltenham Festival and the big race, the Champion Hurdle, carries | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
almost half a million pounds in prize money. There will be a frenzy | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
of excitement but some moments of reflection too. Our Sports | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
Correspondent Joe Wilson is there. Yes, in just a few minutes, we'll | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
hear the huge draw which signifies the resumption of the Cheltenham | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
Festival. A great many people it's a key part of the sporting landscape, | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
essentially, because it's so exciting. But this little more than | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
ever before. The horses will attract over 200,000 people to Cheltenham | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
this week. The festival is expanding. A ?45 million | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
redevelopment will soon begin. However sophisticated facilities, | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
the spectacle still depends on the simple bravery of horse and jockey. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Jason Maguire was supposed to be riding here today but instead is in | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
hospital after major surgery following a fall yesterday. Last, | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
John Thomas McNamara suffered a terrible fall at Cheltenham. He | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
remains in hospital severely paralysed for the absent but | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
admired. This is his cousin, Brian Fulton once they against each other. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
He still recovering after his own fall last year, when he was in a | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
coma. He would give anything to be riding in Cheltenham this week. It's | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
unbelievable to walk out into the paddock and get onto your horse. | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
Hopefully we will remember John Thomas and will be nice to stop from | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
42 and think about him. For most jockeys, the reward which comes with | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
the risk is still modest. One faith made their expensive, on average a | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
document in around ?22,000. A year. I think that compares with an | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
average 10 million players weekly salary. And they are followed around | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
by any number of ambulances when they are racing. And they will fall | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
once in roughly every ten rides. For jockeys, Cheltenham is vital. Barry | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
Geraghty won three races last and earned ?50,000 in a matter of | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
minutes, all jump jockeys know their sport lies can change very quickly. | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
Barry Geraghty has a reasonable chance this year but most eyes will | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
be on hurricane fly, who is trying to win the race for the third time | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
but is under pressure from younger contenders including appropriately | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
enough, the new one. Jo, thank you. Time now for a look at the weather. | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
Fine and dry weather for the rest of this week. Some sunshine but for | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
others, little bit more cloud around. If we do get the brightness, | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
, temperatures around 12 degrees, but it does mean, by night, it will | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
turn pretty chilly. We started at -3 across north-east England. The | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
sunshine is getting to work, clearing the mist and fog away. | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
Further south, however, more cloud around and through the rest of this | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
afternoon, the overcast skies will held for southern counties. When the | :29:56. | :29:59. | |
ad on the chilly north-easterly breeze, it will feel fairly cooler. | :30:00. | :30:03. | |
As we had further west, a few breaks across parts of West Cornwall, and | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
Wales. The best of the brightness across North Wales. Temperatures | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
around 12 - 13. North-west England, a bright and sunny afternoon after a | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
misty foggy start. Things are brightening up nicely throughout the | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
afternoon in Northern Ireland. 10 degrees. I the bulk of Scotland, | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
fine and dry but as we head up towards Stornoway and the Northern | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
Isles, breezy and more overcast. Through the central lowlands, | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
temperatures, 8-9. Yet again, glorious blue skies sitting across | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
much of Yorkshire. But it will lead to a chilly night tonight where we | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
have breaks in the cloud. At high pressure system is shifting around | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
slightly so the cloud will move, too. It's becoming more extensive | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
across southern areas with mist and fog. Still a risk of fog further | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
north by dawn where temperatures will start just above freezing. Not | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
as chilly further south, but we have a great start to the day. Quite a | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
bit of cloud across England and Wales tomorrow morning. That a | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
better chance of some of the breaking cloud by the afternoon. | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
Certain across southern counties, get more sunshine. The exception | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
around coastal areas where it could be cold and cloudy for much of the | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
day and more cloud tomorrow moving into the north-west corner, as well | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
with temperatures into double figures but we could see highs of 15 | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
in the south. Brightness for Cheltenham in the next couple of | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
days but fair amounts of cloud here. At least compared to last year. A | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
big improvement. We will keep the high pressure for many places for | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
the end of the week, but there was a weather front moving into the | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
Northwest thickening up the cloud and a bit of rain to come on | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
Thursday. Still some brightness in the South. 15 degrees. Now a | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
reminder of our top story this lunchtime. Friends and adversaries | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
have paid tribute to one of Britain's best known union leaders, | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
Bob Crow who's died suddenly at the age of 52. That's all from us. | :31:59. | :31:59. |