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after possible debris from the missing plane is spotted. The | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
satellite images show two objects in the sea around 1,500 miles off the | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Australian coast - officials says it's probably the best lead so far. | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
The largest image I have seen is assessed as being 24 metres. There | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
is another that is smaller than that. We'll hear from a reporter on | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
board the first plane to search the remote area. We'll have the latest | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
as the hunt for MH370 intensifies. Also this lunchtime: | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
The Chancellor dismisses fears pensioners could blow their pension | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
pot under reforms he unveiled. The death of a deportee - three | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
security guards face manslaughter charges after Jimmy Mubenga died on | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
a flight to Angola. The fashion retailer Next looks set | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
to overtake M for the first time in its history - as it announces | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
bumper profits. And the royal protection officer | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
shot three times - 40 years ago today - during an attempt to abduct | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Princess Anne. Later on BBC London: | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Fragmented and unravelling - the verdict of a report into the NHS in | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
London. And 44,000 mobiles a year are stolen | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
in London. The Met joins forces with Europe to target thieves. | :01:23. | :01:40. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Aircraft and ships are scouring a remote part of the Indian Ocean | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
after Australian satellite images appear to show two large objects | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
floating in the sea. The location is more than 1,500 miles south-west of | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Perth in remote waters that often are stormy. The largest item is | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
thought to be 24 metres in size but authorities are warning it may be | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
unrelated to the missing plane. Australian officials say the first | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
plane to reach the area this morning was unable to locate the debris | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
through clouds and rain, but other planes will continue the hunt for | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
MH370, which went missing almost two weeks ago with 239 people on board. | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
Our first report is from Nick Higham - who has the latest on the search. | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
To the untrained eye they could be anything. Two objects, one is 24 | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
metres long, one is five metres, floating in the ocean. In Australia | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
they were taking these latest satellite pictures seriously. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Following specialist analysis of this imagery, two possible objects | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
related to the search have been identified. Four Australian military | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
aircraft are now searching for the debris in one of the remotest spots | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
on earth, where winter is approaching and the waves are up to | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
17 metres high. The first plane on the scene could see nothing through | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
the clouds and rain. Unfortunately with the weather conditions, we are | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
unable to locate any wreckage or debris. Other aircraft are | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
continuing the search. Today's search area is in the southern | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Indian Ocean, more than 2000, to south-west of Perth. Yesterday they | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
searched a wider area at the extreme end of the missing plane Rose | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
wrench, but the debris will have drifted hundreds of calamitous since | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
the pictures were taken. Australian officials are cautious. This is a | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
lead, probably the best lead we have right now but we need to get there, | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
find them, see them, assess them, to know whether it is meaningful or | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
not. I caution again, they will be difficult to find. They may not be | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
associated with the aircraft, and we have plenty of experience of that | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
is. This Norwegian container ship is the first vessel to reach the search | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
area. An Australian Navy ship is two days away. A British survey ship is | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
also on its way. What if it is the plane? You're talking about the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
great Southern Ocean, very wild seas. You are talking about a depth | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
of about 10,000 feet. It will probably be the most difficult | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
recovery of an aeroplane ever, if that is what it turns out that is | :04:24. | :04:33. | |
where it is. It is now 13 days since flight MH370 went missing on its | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
fight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. We know it turned west back over the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
Malaysian peninsular after most comedic case and systems were | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
switched off. After that -- communication systems were switched | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
off. Why it travelled where it did still remains a total mystery. 29 | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
aircraft and 18 ships are involved in the wider search area, stretching | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
from the shores of Burma to the far south. Since the plane went missing, | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
oil slicks and debris have been spotted several times but | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
discounted. These latest images may also be a full salaam. -- false | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
alarm. The search area is a three hour | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
flight away from Perth - on board the first plane to get there today | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
was a reporter from ABC News, David Wright. We are on board a US Navy | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
search and rescue vessel. The callsign for this flight is rescue | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
74. We are headed towards the South Pole, almost juice out of Kuala | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
Lumpur. What we are being told by the flight crew is they have some | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
intelligence that there is some sort of debris in the water. They are not | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
clear what. We will be the first plane on site. We are descending | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
through the clouds right now. This plane has some of the highest | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
technology available, much of it classified. If anybody is likely to | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
find something down there, this plane has a very good opportunity to | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
do so. It is a serious enough sighting of debris that not only is | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
this plane heading into the area, but two Australian planes are also | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
heading this way. They will be combing the waters for several | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
hours, looking visually from the plane and also with all of the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
high-tech that they have on-board, to see what this might be in the | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
water. It may be a false alarm but they seem to be treating it as a | :06:32. | :06:40. | |
very promising sign. David Wright on board a search plane. Desperate | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
relatives are still having to wait for information, almost two weeks | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
after the plane went missing. Jonah Fisher reports from Kuala Lumpa. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
The wait has been frustrating, the news is likely to be devastating. In | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Beijing, meetings between airline officials and the relatives of the | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
Chinese officials on board have turned into daily shouting matches | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
-- Chinese passengers on board. Some greeted the satellite images with | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
disbelief. This man's son was on the plane. He said he won't believe the | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
plane crashed until it has been officially confirmed. Why should I | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
believe my family is gone, he says? Why should I believe they are under | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
the sea? In these desperate times, many had been holding out hope that | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
MH370 had been hijacked. And just might have landed somewhere. These | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
were the sad scenes yesterday here in Kuala Lumpur, when a Chinese | :07:47. | :07:59. | |
family demanded some answers. It looked bad, but with few facts to go | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
on, the Malaysians have been in and -- and almost impossible situation. | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
The one piece of information that we want most, that they want most, is | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the information that we do not have, the location of MH370. The | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Malaysians are now constantly briefing the families, in Kuala | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Lumpur and also Beijing. The next update may mark the start of some | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
sort of closure. After almost 13 days of anguish and uncertainty. | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
You can keep up to the date with all of the latest developments on our | :08:40. | :08:40. | |
website. The Chancellor - George Osborne - | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
has dismissed fears that pensioners could "blow" their pension pots | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
under reforms announced in the Budget. The Shadow chancellor, Ed | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Balls, has questioned whether there'd be proper protections and | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
financial education so pensioners don't make the wrong choices. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Radical pension changes were among a series of measures that Mr Osborne | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
has unveiled. Here's our political correspondent, Chris Mason. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Move over, Bob the builder, George is here. The Chancellor is rather | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
partial to a spot of bricklaying and wandering around building sites. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
They are fluorescent yellow backdrops that scream the economy is | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
growing again. What is Mr Osborne talking up from the Budget? An | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
extension of the Help to Buy scheme to boost the construction industry, | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
being able to save ?15,000 a year tax-free, and pensioners will have | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
far greater control over their pension pot. I want to do help | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
people who have worked hard and save time. These pension changes and the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
support for savers throughout their lives, they are all about building a | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
stronger, more resilient economy. As you would expect, the Budget was | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
laden with economics but also groaning with politics with local | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
and European elections coming up, the general election just over a | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
year away. There was a captivated pitch from George Osborne to try to | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
woo back people who may have drifted to Labour or the UK Independence | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Party. But enter Grant Shapps and a tweet from the Conservative Party | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
chairman about the halving of bingo tax and the penny off a pint of | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
beer. He uses the word "they" to describe hard-working people, | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
something that George Osborne's Lib Dem deputy among others said was | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
patronising. How has this gone down with workers at this types factory | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
in Dub ship? People don't play bingo all day and single day. There are a | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
lot more things they could have looked down. I smack in Derbyshire. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
Labour were criticised for having nothing to say on the Budget. The | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
Shadow Chancellor was not tongue tied this morning. The idea working | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
people can be fobbed off and patronised because they like things | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
like bingo and beer, the Conservative Party, it is of the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
past, it shows how out of touch they are. Of the past budgets George | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Osborne has needed a political hard hat to survive the issues. If this | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
is as bad as it gets this year, you will be able to live with that. The | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
Institute for fiscal studies has been crunching the numbers since the | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Chancellor unveiled his budget yesterday. And they're giving their | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
assessment now on what it all means. Our Chief Economics Correspondent, | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
Hugh Pym is there now. What is their verdict? The briefing has just | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
begun. We have got the headline from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
They emphasise what others have been saying, that these changes are | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
radical and dramatic and because of that alone, the budget will reveal | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
remembered almost more than any other -- will be membered almost | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
more than any other of George Osborne's Budgets. People who want | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
to continue with annuities will find the whole thing more expensive. On | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
the broad thrust of the budget they say we don't learn much more about | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
the extent of the austerity that will be required. It is not always | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
totally clear where the money is coming from. This is where the -- | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
what the IFS director Paul Johnson had to say. The Chancellor has tried | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
to pay for some permanent tax cuts, Herman and spending increases, by -- | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
permanent spending increases by one or two small things that are | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
bringing money forward a bit, or look a bit less permanent. The | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
long-running effect of yesterday's budget will be to have a small but | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
negative impact on the public finances. | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
One final headline from the IFS, they say the number of higher rate | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
taxpayers will rise above 5 million next year, up from just over 3 | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
million in the year after the general election. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
European leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss new sanctions | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
against Russia following its seizure of Crimea. The German Chancellor, | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
Angela Merkel, told the German parliament that Russia's actions in | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
Ukraine meant the G8 group of nations - of which Russia currently | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
holds the presidency - no longer existed. Our Europe correspondent, | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Matthew Price, reports from Brussels: this is the worst crisis | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Europe has faced since the end of the Cold War. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
A crisis that is shaking the very foundations of the international | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
order. In Berlin today, Germany's leader suggested her initial | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
reluctance to punish Russia is weakening. That leading | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
industrialised countries will shut Russia out of their club of eight. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
TRANSLATION: It is obvious, as long as the boat or context for such an | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
important format like the G8 does not apply, as political context. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
-- the G8 does not exist any more. So to Brussels, where the EU will | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
likely put in place more sanctions against EU officials -- against | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Russian officials. It will also likely consider more serious | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
long-term economic and trade measures against Moscow. The most | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
important of those is in the energy sector. Russia supplies a third of | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Europe's gas needs. What we are likely to see today is the first | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
phase of what some believe will be a seismic shift in EU - Russian | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
relations. It is going to take years, not days, and yet if the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
leaders are serious, they will start to wean the Europe of its reliance | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
on Russian energy, they will start to reassess its whole partnership | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
with Moscow. They have been here before. After the brief Russian - | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
Georgian war in 2008, the EU toyed with similar ideas. They never | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
followed through. Will they this time? Yet in parts of the U, with | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
large ethnic Russian populations, there is concerned this is all too | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
late. -- in parts of the EU. In the Baltic states especially, they fear | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
if Russia is not punished properly now, they could be picked off next. | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
Our correspondent is in Moscow. Be you is probably bad top trading | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
partner. How worried are they about the impact of possible sanctions? | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
We've just had a speech from the Russian Foreign Minister in which he | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
has referred to the sanctions. He is trying to say sanctions imposed by | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
the West are illegal because they can only be imposed by the UN | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Security Council. What he is saying is fairly legally dubious but it may | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
point to the fact that Russia is getting worried about these | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
sanctions. It is not so much the current sanctions targeting | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
individuals. They are being described as an inconvenience. What | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
they are worried about are the trade and financial sanctions which could | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
have a devastating impact on the economy. One analyst said it could | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
tip the Russian economy, which is already weak, into recession. | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
Three men who worked as custody officers for the security firm G4S | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
will face charges following the death of a man being deported. This | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
was not just the tragic death of a father of five. An inquest found he | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
had been unlawfully killed when he was forcibly restrained on that | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
British Airways plane by three security guards working for G4S, | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
which was contracted by the Home Office. There had already been | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
long-running criticism at the time by campaigners about the way force | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
was being used. Jimmy Mubenga had spent years living legally but | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
because he was convicted of assault the decision was being made to | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
deport him. His widow says she welcomes the decision to charge | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
these men with manslaughter. Those security guards will appear in court | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
on April the 7th. Their lawyer says they will vigorously defend | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
themselves against the Chargers. There is insufficient evidence to | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
prosecute their employer, G4S. That employer today released a statement | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
saying they believed they had acted appropriately at all times. | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
Our top story this lunchtime: Search planes and ships are scouring a | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
remote part of the Indian Ocean after possible debris from the | :18:07. | :18:08. | |
missing Malaysia Airlines plane is spotted - around 1,500 miles off the | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
Australian coast. And still to come... A rare | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
interview with the bodyguard who was shot three times while preventing | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
the abduction of Princess Anne 40 years ago. She was called, calm and | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
collected. In fact, she did everything we would tell people to | :18:26. | :18:37. | |
do. She didn't panic. And London's first community land | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
trust development brings affordable homes to the east of the capital. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
And on show to the world. We join the Household Cavalry as it builds | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
up for one of its busiest years ever. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
For the first time in its history, Next looks set to overtake its | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
high-street rival Marks Spencer - after reporting a big increase in | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
its annual profits. They're up by 12% to nearly ?700 million. It's now | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
firmly on course to make more money than M for the first time since | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
its launch in 1982. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson reports. | :19:10. | :19:21. | |
It used to be king of the high street. It still is -- sells more | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
clothes than anyone else. But when it comes to making more money, Next | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
is emerging as the winner. What is it cigarette? One fashion editor | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
told me it is simple. They absolutely know their customer. They | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
produce the clothes that they will love and they will buy. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Interestingly, this is the area Marks Spencer have been struggling | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
in recently. It may not be cutting edge, but it is popular. It's good | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
quality and they have things the children. M is classed as | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
old-fashioned, though it's not. The business only started in the early | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
1980s but managed to tap into a new generation of aspirational shoppers, | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
adapting to their every need. Here is what has been preventable -- | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
pivotal, the directory. It was ground-breaking and it meant that | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
when the business moved online, that know-how came in handy. Next has | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
powered ahead. All did tonight, get it delivered tomorrow. Logistics | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
certainly gave Next an edge over Christmas. That sort of investment | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
takes a lot of forward thinking and planning. That is the beautiful | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
thing about Next. The forward-thinking from management | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
really stands them in good stead. So, what next for Next? It doesn't | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
like to shout about its success. It doesn't have too, especially as it | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
is making so much money it is handing millions of pounds to | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
shareholders this year. A man who claims he was raped by the | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
former Commons Speaker Nigel Evans has been cross-examined. He's told | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
the jury that he woke up to find the MP on top of him. But Mr Evan's | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
barrister alleged that the incident - said to have taken place last year | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
after a dinner party at Mr Evan's home - had been consensual. Nigel | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
Evans denies all the charges. Danny Savage reports from Preston Crown | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Court. He came to court to listen to the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
man who claims the MP braked him. The witness, who are legal reasons | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
cannot be seen, has already described how he was allegedly | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
sexually assaulted at the bed of the MP, and later woke up with the | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
former deputy speaker on top of them. The 22-year-old had been | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
drinking champagne, wine and Jane in the MP's local pub and home in his | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
constituency, before getting into bed with him. The openly gay man | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
said he left the bedroom and number of times during the night, but | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
returned each time. This morning, he was cross-examined by the defence | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
barrister. He said, you made a conscious decision to get into bed | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
with him. Yes, the man admitted. Having got into bed, it became clear | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
to you that there were sexual overtures being made towards you. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
You have not said no, you have not said leave me alone, you have not | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
said, I don't want to do this. The witness agreed that was the case but | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
said he had rolled away from the MP. He also admits he missed an | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
opportunity to go and sleep in a different room when they retired to | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
bed that night. Nigel Evans sat in the dock making notes and listening | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
to be evidence. He denies all the charges. But the witness said he did | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
not willingly engage in sexual activity with Mr Evans. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Police in Greater Manchester are hunting thieves who dug a 50-foot | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
tunnel under a Tesco store to steal a substantial sum from a cash | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
machine. Officers say the gang may have spent months digging the | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
"complex structure". They're appealing for witnesses who may have | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
seen anyone "covered in soil" in Salford between midnight and 6am on | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Friday. The Japanese firm Hitachi is moving | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
the headquarters of its global rail business to Britain. The company won | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
a multi-billion pound contract last year to build new intercity trains | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
and will open a plant at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham next year, | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
employing 750 workers. The government called the move a huge | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
vote of confidence in Britain. Here's our industry correspondent, | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
John Moylan. It is the company that brought the | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
bullet train to Britain. Shipped from Japan, they run on the | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
high-speed link in Kent. Now, Hitachi is going further and moving | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
its headquarters here. Europe is the biggest market in the world. So we | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
want to move our decision-making closer to the marketplace. Clearly, | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
the UK is important to us. We are investing a huge amount of money in | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
County Durham to in -- to build trains not just for Britain but | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
Europe. Construction started last year. The first locomotives will | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
leave the planned in 2016. This building in central London is where | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Hitachi runs its European operations and will now become its global | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
headquarters. From here, the company will go after lucrative contracts | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
for trains and rolling stock right across Europe, but particularly in | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Britain. Hitachi is already advising on the HS2 project. It wants to take | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
on Europe's big rail giants. In the wake of the row about bombarding a | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
witch faces closure after losing out on a major contract, it knows moving | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
its headquarters will boost its British credentials. We like to see | :24:59. | :25:09. | |
companies producing here. They used to be imported, we are changing | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
that. I want to see more British procurement. Hitachi is creating 750 | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
jobs to build these new trains. More are expected to follow. An industry | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
which almost fell off the rails looks like it is back on track. | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
40 years ago today, there was a failed attempt to kidnap Princess | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Anne. In a rare interview, the former royal protection officer | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Inspector Jim Beaton has spoken about what happened that day as she | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
was being driven along the Mall. Here's our Royal correspondent, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
Nicholas Witchell. It was one of the most audacious | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
threats to a member of the Royal family. The night an armed man | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
attempted to kidnap the princess from her royal limousine, if you | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
hundreds meters from Buckingham Palace. A threat ported notably by | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
the courage of this man, inspected Jim Beaton. He was the Princess's | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
police God -- bodyguard. He was shot three times. The whole thing was | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
very quick. I didn't have time to think, which is just as well, | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
because thinking is not one of my specialities. In the 40 years since | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
the incident here, Jim Beaton has seldom spoken publicly about what | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
happened. He became the only royal protection officer in recent memory | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
to be forced to draw his firearm, to try to protect a member of the Royal | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
family from an armed attack. The royal limousine had been driving up | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
the mole -- the Mall. Jim Beaton thought it was an angry motorist and | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
got out to investigate. Just as I came out, he shot at me. Until then, | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
nothing had been further from my mind. Even then, I had to think | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
twice about what had happened. I went back behind the car and took my | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
gun out. I was authorised to carry a gun on duty and I tried to shoot at | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
him but because I'd already been hit in the chest, which was not very | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
painful but obviously made my arm flopped a bit, I wasn't able to hit | :27:24. | :27:31. | |
him. I thought, well, there is a proper method, using two hands. I | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
tried to lands, but the gun jammed. He was shot twice more as he tried | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
to protect the Princess. The attacker attempted to drag her out | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
of the vehicle. His plan was to hold the Princess for ransom. One of the | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
things she was saying was, why do you want me? And he said something | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
to the effect of two or ?3 million. Her actions were very good. She was | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
cool, calm and collected and she did everything we would tell people to | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
do now. She spoke to him, she didn't panic or scream wash-out. Other | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
police arrived at the scene and he was overpowered. At his trial, you | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
was ordered to be in danger -- he was ordered to be detained | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
indefinitely. For those actions that night, Jim Beaton received the | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
highest civilian award for bravery, George Cross. | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
Dame Vera Lynn - "the forces' sweetheart" - is to release a new | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
album at the age of 97. Dame Vera, who celebrates her birthday today, | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
already holds the record as the only artist over the age of 90 to top the | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
UK album charts. The new collection will contain unreleased songs which | :28:52. | :28:52. | |
have recently been discovered. Now, a look at the weather. It | :28:53. | :29:16. | |
depends where you are in relation to this weather front. We have quite a | :29:17. | :29:22. | |
number of ice bars on the charts, there have been gusts of up to 70 | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
miles an hour. We're looking at easily ten or 20 millimetres of rain | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
higher ground. It is on the move though, so if you had it first | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
thing, as you did in Northern Ireland and Scotland, it will be | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
brighter in the afternoon. Look at those temperatures though. A cooler, | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
fresh appeal across the northern end of the British Isles with a mixture | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
of showers. Increasingly across Wales and the South West of England, | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
a wet spell of weather here. Difficult driving conditions given | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
the strength of the wind as well. So the roads through Devon and Cornwall | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
will be quite tricky. Fine weather towards the south-east and East | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
Anglia. Make the most of the temperatures here as they will not | :30:15. | :30:24. | |
last. The cold air already lurking across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
eventually head south across the rest of the British Isles. There is | :30:27. | :30:32. | |
the mechanism for change. In the small hours it does push onto the | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
continent. The hind, look at the wintry showers in Scotland. Some ice | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
on higher roots and there are some weather warnings about that. A cold | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
night, less perhaps in the south-east who just hold onto McLeod | :30:46. | :30:53. | |
and rain for a bit longer. Some quite heavy showers on Friday with a | :30:54. | :31:03. | |
rumble of Bunder. -- thunder. Only the favoured few will see | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
temperatures into double figures, let alone teens. On Saturday, | :31:07. | :31:13. | |
showers for the western portion of the British Isles and on Sunday it | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
is the ease that sees the bulk of the rainy activity. So the weekend | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
will be chilly in the day with wintry showers, and some frosty | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
nights to come as well. That goes on into the start of next week. | :31:28. | :31:34. | |
A remote part of the Indian Ocean is being searched for the missing plane | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
after new satellite | :31:40. | :31:41. |