:00:10. > :00:14.could be wreckage from the missing plane. The objects, some big and
:00:15. > :00:23.brightly coloured, were spotted by French satellites 1,500 miles off
:00:24. > :00:28.the coast of Perth. We will report from Western Australia where they
:00:29. > :00:32.are coordinating the search. Also this lunchtime. The energy firm SSE
:00:33. > :00:35.becomes the first of the Big Six to freeze prices - but the move means
:00:36. > :00:38.job cuts. Thousands of children off school in England and Wales as
:00:39. > :00:41.teachers strike over pay and pensions.
:00:42. > :00:44.The publicist Max Clifford takes the stand at his trial for indecent
:00:45. > :00:47.assault against seven women and girls.
:00:48. > :00:49.And after ten years of marriage, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
:00:50. > :00:57.announce they've separated calling it a "conscious uncoupling".
:00:58. > :01:00.Later on BBC London: An inquest into the death of Russian billionaire
:01:01. > :01:03.Boris Berezovsky hears his legal battle left him a "broken man". And
:01:04. > :01:22.Thames Water are accused of not operating on a long term and
:01:23. > :01:27.sustainable basis. Good afternoon and welcome to the
:01:28. > :01:31.BBC News at One. French satellites have spotted 122 objects in the
:01:32. > :01:34.southern Indian Ocean. The images were taken three days ago and show
:01:35. > :01:39.brightly coloured objects, one measuring up to 23 metres long.
:01:40. > :01:43.Search planes have been back in the skies again today - after
:01:44. > :01:52.yesterday's bad weather. And ships continue to scour the seas. But the
:01:53. > :01:55.search area remains huge - more than 600,00 square miles. And time is
:01:56. > :01:58.running out to find the black box which could shed light on what
:01:59. > :02:10.happened to flight MH 370 and its 239 passengers and crew. Jonathan
:02:11. > :02:15.Head reports. It was a day last to bad weather yesterday at this
:02:16. > :02:18.airbase but today we have seen the operation in full swing. Six
:02:19. > :02:27.countries are contributing. They have been out over the ocean where
:02:28. > :02:32.pieces of the missing a learner -- a learner have been spotted.
:02:33. > :02:39.Photographs have been supplied by the French showing potentially 100
:02:40. > :02:44.objects. That will give them some hope of success identified items
:02:45. > :02:51.that can be picked up in the next few days. -- identifying. The skies
:02:52. > :02:54.over Western Australia clear today and planes were in the air once
:02:55. > :02:59.again, heading out over the Indian Ocean. Earlier in the week they did
:03:00. > :03:04.the possible debris but that whether prevented ships from reaching it.
:03:05. > :03:12.Now they have another lead. One area of the ocean measuring some 400
:03:13. > :03:18.square kilometres, we were able to identify 122 objects. Some objects
:03:19. > :03:24.were one metre in length, others as much as 23 metres in length. The
:03:25. > :03:29.area where these new images are taken is still large, around 200
:03:30. > :03:32.square miles. And they were taken on Sunday. But finding so many
:03:33. > :03:37.apparently man-made items in these desolate sees is unusual and pilots
:03:38. > :03:45.today are already reporting some sightings. We had some possible
:03:46. > :03:51.man-made objects to be verified. We passed on the position to a nearby
:03:52. > :03:56.warship and aircraft. These latest satellite images may be the best
:03:57. > :04:01.lead yet in this long and difficult search. But it will not be until
:04:02. > :04:05.these aircraft have pinpointed where those objects are and they can be
:04:06. > :04:10.collected by ships, that we will no whether or not they are indeed parts
:04:11. > :04:15.of the missing airliner. For Chinese ships are now in the search area.
:04:16. > :04:23.Spotting floating objects in these cities is very tough. We will make
:04:24. > :04:27.full use of different observing methods such as radar, sonar and
:04:28. > :04:34.night-vision devices and focus on floating object and people in the
:04:35. > :04:39.sea. It could still be days before a debris field is identified. That is
:04:40. > :04:44.when this American underwater locator which arrived today in Perth
:04:45. > :04:51.could be deployed to track the airliner was my flight recorders. It
:04:52. > :04:56.is state of the art. But it will be operating in the most challenging
:04:57. > :04:59.conditions imaginable. Our correspondent Paul Adams is in Kuala
:05:00. > :05:06.Lumpa, where the authorities have been giving updates about the search
:05:07. > :05:11.for the plane. And the most credible leads so far, they have been saying.
:05:12. > :05:15.What else have they said today was like the keyword is the word
:05:16. > :05:20.potential. You heard that used by the acting transport Minister.
:05:21. > :05:23.Clearly there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that all
:05:24. > :05:27.points in the same direction. Several sightings both from the air
:05:28. > :05:31.and satellite and of course the Inmarsat data which pointed to the
:05:32. > :05:36.plane disappearing more or less in that area. But no one has talked
:05:37. > :05:42.about a debris field. There is the hope here that we may be able to
:05:43. > :05:47.identify that soon. But we are not there yet. And in the meantime the
:05:48. > :05:53.Malaysians are still dealing with this torrent of criticism from the
:05:54. > :05:56.Chinese, from those relatives who are convinced that they are being
:05:57. > :06:00.lied to by the Malaysian authorities. The minister went out
:06:01. > :06:07.of his way today to say that in his words, history will judge as well.
:06:08. > :06:12.He said no other country could point to such success in gathering 26
:06:13. > :06:15.countries together to mount such a concerted search and rescue
:06:16. > :06:20.operation. The Malaysians feel they're all they can. They are
:06:21. > :06:24.somewhat bristling at the criticism coming from Beijing. And I think
:06:25. > :06:28.they feel, although there are too cautious to say so, that we could be
:06:29. > :06:33.on the verge of being able to say that is the plane, that is the
:06:34. > :06:36.wreckage. And there's plenty more information on the search for the
:06:37. > :06:39.plane on the BBC website where there's a special page with live
:06:40. > :06:47.updates. The address is bbc.co.uk/missingplane.
:06:48. > :06:52.One of the Big Six energy firms has announced it's freezing domestic gas
:06:53. > :06:55.and electricity prices until 2016. SSE says it hopes the move will
:06:56. > :07:00.offer their ten million customers "peace of mind". But the move comes
:07:01. > :07:04.at a cost. 500 jobs are expected to go. And the company is also shelving
:07:05. > :07:13.three planned offshore wind farm developments. Our Industry
:07:14. > :07:19.Correspondent John Moylan has more. It is written's second biggest
:07:20. > :07:22.supplier with around 8 million gas or electricity customers. Now it is
:07:23. > :07:27.promising them what it claims is the longest price guarantee ever
:07:28. > :07:32.offered. We are prepared to take a drop in profits especially in 2015,
:07:33. > :07:35.it could be up to ?100 million. And between all those things we can then
:07:36. > :07:42.give the customer what they want, a price freeze right through until
:07:43. > :07:48.2016. SSE increased its average prices back in the autumn by 8.2%.
:07:49. > :07:54.It finally reduced prices by 3.5% this week at becoming the last of
:07:55. > :08:00.the friends to pass on the government's ?50 cut in green
:08:01. > :08:05.levies. That left the dual fuel Bill at around ?1186 per year. That is
:08:06. > :08:11.still a big chunk of most family budgets. But today in Glasgow the
:08:12. > :08:17.price freeze was broadly welcomed. Anything that can save money at this
:08:18. > :08:21.point is a good thing. The energy costs have gone through the roof in
:08:22. > :08:25.the last few years. Everyone wants the best value for money. We would
:08:26. > :08:30.have to look at the best deal for us as a family. I wish they would all
:08:31. > :08:35.do it. I wish ScottishPower and Scottish gas would do it as well.
:08:36. > :08:39.The move comes at a crucial time for the industry. Tomorrow is Bob at the
:08:40. > :08:43.energy regulator and competition authorities will published their
:08:44. > :08:48.review of the energy market. It is widely anticipated that will trigger
:08:49. > :08:54.a broader full-scale investigation would could take up to two years. --
:08:55. > :08:59.which could. SSE appear to be that enquiry today, saying it would
:09:00. > :09:03.legally separated wholesale and retail arms. They will also shelled
:09:04. > :09:08.three out of four of its proposed offshore wind farms. But does the
:09:09. > :09:14.price freeze suggest that the energy market is finally working? This move
:09:15. > :09:18.by SSE chose it is possible for companies to reform and split up
:09:19. > :09:22.their retail and wholesale businesses. But we cannot rely on
:09:23. > :09:27.them doing that voluntarily. This has echoes of Labour's flagship
:09:28. > :09:31.energy policy. Now embraced by one the biggest suppliers.
:09:32. > :09:36.Our Chief Political Correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. The
:09:37. > :09:38.price freeze has dominated PMQs this lunchtime, both Labour and the
:09:39. > :09:45.Conservatives claiming credit for it. There has been an unseemly
:09:46. > :09:50.scramble, Mr Cameron claiming that it was the coalition by encouraging
:09:51. > :09:55.us to shop around but led to the price freeze. But my sense is that
:09:56. > :10:00.the price freeze decision today was an absolute gift from the gods for
:10:01. > :10:05.Ed Miliband. Because if you had to think of just one keynote Labour
:10:06. > :10:10.policy, it would be the price freeze. So the decision by SSE
:10:11. > :10:14.enabled Ed Miliband to say today that that policy had credibility,
:10:15. > :10:20.had been vindicated. It enabled him to throw back some of Mr Cameron's
:10:21. > :10:25.quotes about the idea of a freeze being unworkable. Perhaps a
:10:26. > :10:30.Communist plot. But he needed this gift today because Mr Miliband is
:10:31. > :10:34.going through a few difficult days. The gift could also be short lived
:10:35. > :10:39.up SSE was the first energy company to put up bills and now is the first
:10:40. > :10:43.to freeze them. If others follow then what is the point in Ed
:10:44. > :10:48.Miliband having a standout policy pledging to freeze energy bills went
:10:49. > :10:54.all the energy companies have already done it? The government says
:10:55. > :10:57.it has reduced the national debt by almost ?800 million through the sale
:10:58. > :11:02.of the second tranche of Lloyds shares. The sale cuts the
:11:03. > :11:06.government's holding in the Lloyds Banking Group to just under 25%,
:11:07. > :11:11.down from an original 39%. The Chancellor said the sale represented
:11:12. > :11:14.good value for the taxpayer and was another step toward repairing the
:11:15. > :11:17.banks. Thousands of pupils across England
:11:18. > :11:20.and Wales are off school today because of a teachers' strike by one
:11:21. > :11:23.of the main unions. Members of the NUT have walked out as part of the
:11:24. > :11:27.continuing dispute about pay, pensions and workload. Unions say
:11:28. > :11:30.the strike is a "last resort" but the Department for Education said it
:11:31. > :11:36.was disrupting parents' lives and holding back children's education.
:11:37. > :11:42.Here's Sarah Campbell. For parents this is the third
:11:43. > :11:45.national walk-out since June 2011 that they have had to deal with.
:11:46. > :11:48.They have been separate regional strikes in between. Today some
:11:49. > :11:54.schools have closed, others remained open but only partially. We had
:11:55. > :12:00.quite short notice and I had to rearrange my days at work. My
:12:01. > :12:04.employer locally is flexible. Not good. I was struggling this morning.
:12:05. > :12:07.They have to do what they have to do. If they're not happy with
:12:08. > :12:12.conditions they have to see what happens. This industrial action is
:12:13. > :12:17.part of a long-running battle between teachers and the government
:12:18. > :12:21.over pay, pensions and conditions. Negotiations between the two sides
:12:22. > :12:26.are ongoing and one of the two main teaching unions decided not to take
:12:27. > :12:29.part in the strike today while talks continue. This walk-out involves
:12:30. > :12:34.members from just one teaching union, the NUT. But with more than
:12:35. > :12:39.300,000 members, collectively they are able to cause widespread
:12:40. > :12:46.disruption in schools across England and Wales. I am sorry that we are
:12:47. > :12:51.inconveniencing parents today but actually there is a big problem in
:12:52. > :12:54.teaching and there are problems in government policy for parents and
:12:55. > :12:59.their children. Like the fact that teachers will not have to be
:13:00. > :13:02.qualified and the changes in the curriculum. As part of the BBC's
:13:03. > :13:06.global board project the schools that Mr was interviewed in advance
:13:07. > :13:12.of the strike today. What are you going to do to persuade teachers not
:13:13. > :13:15.to strike so I can be at school? Lot of things that have been
:13:16. > :13:19.controversial with teachers about pension reforms and pay, I believe
:13:20. > :13:23.strongly that they are necessary. We have been protected in schools and
:13:24. > :13:28.the school budget much more than most other areas of government
:13:29. > :13:31.funding. The Department for education estimates that less than a
:13:32. > :13:36.quarter of the 24,000 schools in England are closed today but many
:13:37. > :13:44.more will have been disrupted putting pupils and parents at the
:13:45. > :13:47.centre of this dispute. The publicist Max Clifford has begun
:13:48. > :13:50.giving evidence at his trial. He has contradicted allegations from one
:13:51. > :13:53.woman who says he indecently assaulted her in his car in 1966. Mr
:13:54. > :13:57.Clifford told the court he couldn't drive and didn't have a car at the
:13:58. > :14:00.time. The 70-year-old is facing 11 counts of indecent assault against
:14:01. > :14:03.seven women and girls. He denies all the charges. Our Correspondent
:14:04. > :14:11.Richard Lister is at Southwark Crown Court. Max Clifford took the stand
:14:12. > :14:16.an hour ago. What else has he been saying? That is right. He has been
:14:17. > :14:21.speaking for little more than an hour, mostly about his early life
:14:22. > :14:25.and career. He has been giving an account of how he set up Max
:14:26. > :14:29.Clifford associates and came to be involved in show business. His
:14:30. > :14:34.barrister said he intends to spend more time on that before getting to
:14:35. > :14:38.the substance of questions. But he said the jury should bear in mind
:14:39. > :14:42.that up until now they have only heard one side of the story. The
:14:43. > :14:44.struggle well says he will show evidence that all the allegations
:14:45. > :14:49.against Mr Clifford of force. If there is one of the reasons he can
:14:50. > :14:53.say this so precisely is that he believes that once the Civic set of
:14:54. > :14:57.allegations are completely contradictory. Namely the size of
:14:58. > :15:04.Max Clifford's genitalia. He said all the witnesses so far have
:15:05. > :15:07.provided contradict the accounts of that. He says he will produce
:15:08. > :15:11.evidence that they are all wrong and will produce diaries written by Max
:15:12. > :15:16.Clifford and put into storage. He says he did not have access to them
:15:17. > :15:22.while he was being spoken to by police. And he was not aware of them
:15:23. > :15:26.until relatively recently. He said he will -- these will shed new light
:15:27. > :15:32.on these allegations. Mr Clifford denies all 11 of the allegations
:15:33. > :15:36.against him. Our top story this lunchtime. French satellite pictures
:15:37. > :15:38.show 122 objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean - the
:15:39. > :15:44.authorities call it the strongest lead yet in the search for the
:15:45. > :15:46.missing plane. And still to come. An extraordinary escape for a
:15:47. > :15:55.construction worker trapped on the top floor of a blazing building.
:15:56. > :15:57.Later on BBC London: The multi-million pound rebuild of
:15:58. > :16:01.London Bridge Station - we get a look at how it is being transformed.
:16:02. > :16:03.And from TV talent show to West End musical - the new show having fun at
:16:04. > :16:14.the X Factor's expense. The painstaking search for victims
:16:15. > :16:19.of a massive landslide in the north-west of America is continuing.
:16:20. > :16:24.The mud is 20 feet deep in places, and hope of finding anyone alive in
:16:25. > :16:28.the small town of Oso is fading. At least 24 people are believed to have
:16:29. > :16:34.died on Saturday, but around 170 are still unaccounted for. Our North
:16:35. > :16:41.America correspondent, David Willis, reports.
:16:42. > :16:45.Little by little, officials are getting a sense of what lies beneath
:16:46. > :16:49.the thick layer of mud that enveloped this picturesque corner of
:16:50. > :16:56.the American north-west on Saturday. It is not a pretty
:16:57. > :17:01.picture. Such was the speed and ferocity of the mudslide that it
:17:02. > :17:07.appears many in Oso were unable to escape, and ended up being buried
:17:08. > :17:13.alive. We are finding that these vehicles are twisted into pieces. I
:17:14. > :17:22.saw a car out there and I saw one piece of a car, and it was just all
:17:23. > :17:26.twisted. It is amazing, the magnitude and the force that this
:17:27. > :17:31.slide has created and what it has done. Almost as troubling as the
:17:32. > :17:35.rising death toll, the revelation that a government scientist warned
:17:36. > :17:40.of the catastrophe of precisely this kind as long ago as 1999. Yet still,
:17:41. > :17:47.people were allowed to build homes here. Officials insist that the
:17:48. > :17:50.mudslide was completely unforeseen, and are suggesting that a small
:17:51. > :17:55.earthquake in the area if you days earlier could have been to blame. As
:17:56. > :17:59.the death toll rises here, officials are warning that the rescue and
:18:00. > :18:06.recovery operation could be a long one. They vow to find all the
:18:07. > :18:10.victims, but concede that that could take weeks, if not months. David
:18:11. > :18:12.Willis, BBC News, in Washington state.
:18:13. > :18:15.When Richard Durkin signed a credit agreement for a laptop in 1998,
:18:16. > :18:20.little did he know it would result in a 16 year legal battle. Despite
:18:21. > :18:24.returning the computer the next day, he was told to continue making
:18:25. > :18:30.payments and was placed on a credit blacklist. Today, the Supreme Court
:18:31. > :18:37.ruled in his favour. Our legal correspondent, Clive Coleman, is
:18:38. > :18:41.here to explain more. Let's start with why he returned the computer?
:18:42. > :18:45.He returned it because it did not have an in-built modem, which was
:18:46. > :18:50.what he wanted. So he took it back to the store and terminated the
:18:51. > :18:53.contract of sale. However, HFC bank said he had to continue making his
:18:54. > :18:58.payments under the credit agreement. They also ended up
:18:59. > :19:02.putting a default notice on his credit files. He said that
:19:03. > :19:08.annihilated his credit rating. He could not buy a house and was very
:19:09. > :19:14.upset. He sued and won ?116,000 in damages, but he did not think that
:19:15. > :19:19.was enough. So he appealed that decision and lost, so the ?116,000
:19:20. > :19:22.but dramatically reduced. So he took his case the whole way to the
:19:23. > :19:27.Supreme Court and in a judgement which is great victory for consumers
:19:28. > :19:32.but a hollow one for him, he won a ruling which says in effect that if
:19:33. > :19:37.you reject goods in a valid way, by implication you are also terminating
:19:38. > :19:42.the credit agreement. That is potentially very good for consumers.
:19:43. > :19:45.Also, if a credit company, a bank or other organisation offering credit,
:19:46. > :19:50.if they want to blacklist you, they have to be certain that you are
:19:51. > :19:54.genuinely in default. They owe you a duty to carry out investigations.
:19:55. > :19:59.They did not do so in this case. So credit companies will have to be a
:20:00. > :20:03.lot more careful now in carrying out due diligence. If they don't get it
:20:04. > :20:06.right, they can be sued for negligence and damages. Sadly for Mr
:20:07. > :20:10.Durkin, the technical legal reasons, the Supreme Court cannot we
:20:11. > :20:14.assess damages, though he is now left with just ?8,000. He did have
:20:15. > :20:17.116,000! President Obama is meeting leaders
:20:18. > :20:20.of the European Union and NATO in Brussels this lunchtime to discuss,
:20:21. > :20:28.amongst other topics, the Ukraine crisis. Our correspondent, Matthew
:20:29. > :20:30.Price, is in Brussels. This is about renewing ties, but it is also about
:20:31. > :20:36.discussing article issues like reducing your's dependence on Russia
:20:37. > :20:40.for energy? Very much so full of when this summit was first conceived
:20:41. > :20:46.of over a year ago and spoken about several months ago, they did not
:20:47. > :20:50.know Ukraine would be an issue. So we will not get major decisions made
:20:51. > :20:56.her about what to do about Russia. We will not get more announcements
:20:57. > :20:59.of EU or US sanctions. We may well have a restatement of some of the
:21:00. > :21:04.sorts of things which are at the and others have been saying in recent
:21:05. > :21:11.days about Russia, but nothing new in practical terms. However, it is
:21:12. > :21:14.important to look out for, amongst talks about closer ties between
:21:15. > :21:18.Europe and the United States, most specifically regarding a trade
:21:19. > :21:22.agreement which would form the world's largest trading block if it
:21:23. > :21:27.comes into existence, which they have been negotiating for several
:21:28. > :21:31.months now - as part of that, there are talks about energy. Energy is
:21:32. > :21:35.crucial in the way the European Union deals with Russia, because it
:21:36. > :21:40.gets so much of its gas from Russia. So are there going to be new
:21:41. > :21:44.deals spoken of here for the United States to supply the European Union
:21:45. > :21:49.with gas? Are they going to talk about the practical ways of building
:21:50. > :21:54.infrastructure to do that? A second quick thought on NATO - Barack
:21:55. > :21:57.Obama, after he had met European Union leaders here, will head off to
:21:58. > :22:01.see the NATO secretary general. There has been a lot of talk from
:22:02. > :22:05.the White House about the need to show Eastern European countries who
:22:06. > :22:09.feel threatened by Russia that NATO has their back. I am sure there will
:22:10. > :22:12.be trying to add to some of the practical measures they have in
:22:13. > :22:15.place to do that. MPs are about to vote on plans to
:22:16. > :22:18.introduce an overall cap on the amount the UK spends on welfare each
:22:19. > :22:20.year. Welfare spending, excluding the state pension and some
:22:21. > :22:24.unemployment benefits, would be capped next year at just over ?119
:22:25. > :22:31.billion, under proposals set out in the Budget. The Labour leader Ed
:22:32. > :22:36.Miliband supports the cap, but some party backbenchers are expected to
:22:37. > :22:39.vote against the plan. A construction worker in Texas has
:22:40. > :22:45.had a very lucky escape after he was rescued from a burning building just
:22:46. > :22:48.before the roof collapsed. Dramatic pictures show how the man became
:22:49. > :22:52.stuck on a ledge of the apartment complex, which was being built in
:22:53. > :22:55.Houston. Amateur video footage filmed by witnesses in neighbouring
:22:56. > :23:07.buildings captured the drama as it unfolded. Lisa Hampele reports.
:23:08. > :23:11.He has escaped to the top ledge and in the building opposite, they can't
:23:12. > :23:16.believe what they are seeing. Oh, God, oh, God. The winds fanned the
:23:17. > :23:23.rooftop fire, which was getting closer. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Rescue
:23:24. > :23:27.workers brought the ladder towards him. The fire started as workmen had
:23:28. > :23:35.been welding on the roof. They need to get him! A glass window pane just
:23:36. > :23:39.misses him. Oh, Jesus. The high-rise building was under construction in
:23:40. > :23:43.the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. All this began with a small
:23:44. > :23:51.blaze. Hell, he could jump on there. It was another difficult
:23:52. > :23:56.decision. They need to move that truck up. Oh, my God. The heat was
:23:57. > :24:03.intense, the danger palpable. We should be going. The winds were
:24:04. > :24:09.gusting at 20 mph. Hell, yes. Oh, thank Jesus. 200 firefighters fought
:24:10. > :24:13.the blaze. People in neighbouring buildings were evacuated, and for
:24:14. > :24:23.this man, there was more to come. Oh, my God. Oh, no! He was carried
:24:24. > :24:30.away over the tops of the trees to safety. Everyone was amazed. Oh,
:24:31. > :24:34.Jesus. I think it is time for us to go. They were thankful that the
:24:35. > :24:39.drama had ended with no one even injured. Lisa Hampele, BBC News.
:24:40. > :24:41.The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, and Nigel Farage, leader of
:24:42. > :24:45.the UK Independence Party, are going head to head in a live broadcast
:24:46. > :24:48.about Britain's membership of the EU tonight. They will try to win over
:24:49. > :24:52.the public in the first of two debates between "the party of in and
:24:53. > :24:54.the party of out". The debates are being staged in the run-up to the
:24:55. > :25:00.European Parliament elections in May. Our political correspondent,
:25:01. > :25:07.Chris Mason, reports. It all started with this. I will
:25:08. > :25:12.challenge Nigel Farage to a public, open debate about whether we should
:25:13. > :25:16.be in or out of the European Union. That is now the choice facing this
:25:17. > :25:21.country, and he is the leader of the party of out. I am the leader of the
:25:22. > :25:27.party of in. Nigel Farage said, about time! It is a good platform
:25:28. > :25:31.for the majority of British people, who want our relationship to be
:25:32. > :25:35.based on trade, but wants no part of a political union. Those who have
:25:36. > :25:41.felt like this have had their views brushed under the carpet. It is not
:25:42. > :25:45.under the carpet now. The debate is on. Looking forward to it
:25:46. > :25:48.enormously. I have waited 20 years to have a proper debate on national
:25:49. > :25:54.media about whether we should be a member of the European Union, so I
:25:55. > :25:58.am delighted. Tonight will be like a mini version of this, one of the
:25:59. > :26:01.leaders' debates before the last general election. Each leader will
:26:02. > :26:04.make an opening statement. They will debate with one another and take
:26:05. > :26:08.distance from the audience. You might think it is a bit odd that the
:26:09. > :26:12.two big parties in there, the Conservatives and Labour, are not
:26:13. > :26:15.taking part tonight. In its own way, Europe is a bit awkward for them
:26:16. > :26:21.both . But for pro-European Nick Lake and Eurosceptic Nigel Farage,
:26:22. > :26:24.they will hope to capitalise on the clarity of their own views -- Nick
:26:25. > :26:31.Clegg. The topic later boils down to this. Are these institutions a good
:26:32. > :26:38.thing for the UK or not? It is over to Messrs Clegg and forage to slug
:26:39. > :26:41.it out, and over to you to decide. -- Messrs Clegg and Nigel Farage.
:26:42. > :26:44.And the BBC News Channel will have live coverage of that debate between
:26:45. > :26:45.Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage from 7pm.
:26:46. > :26:48.One of the world's most famous celebrity couples has announced that
:26:49. > :26:51.they are splitting up. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay singer
:26:52. > :26:56.Chris Martin are separating after ten years of marriage. In a post
:26:57. > :27:00.titled "conscious uncoupling" on her blog, the actress said they had made
:27:01. > :27:09.the decision "with hearts full of sadness". Here is Lizo Mzimba.
:27:10. > :27:14.Chris Martin and Quinn Paltrow have long been seen as one of the
:27:15. > :27:18.world's was high-profile couples -- winner Paltrow. Now after ten years
:27:19. > :27:21.of marriage, they are separating. The joint announcement, made on
:27:22. > :27:24.Gwyneth Paltrow's blog, said the decision was made with hearts full
:27:25. > :27:29.of sadness, but we are closer than we have ever been, but that they had
:27:30. > :27:34.decided to split. The web post was titled "conscious uncoupling" . The
:27:35. > :27:40.same title was referred to in an accompanying 2000 word essay. What
:27:41. > :27:43.does it actually mean? It is taking a life that to this point has been
:27:44. > :27:47.lived together on the same path, and separating it in such a way that you
:27:48. > :27:51.are valuing yourself, valuing the other, honouring your life together
:27:52. > :27:55.and your future life, and you are being accountable for your own
:27:56. > :28:03.emotional reality and whatever it is that is fuelling you to move forward
:28:04. > :28:09.so that you can both evolve. They both enjoyed huge success in their
:28:10. > :28:18.careers. Martin's band Coldplay has won eight Brit awards, seven Grammys
:28:19. > :28:21.and sold 70 million records. Her acting career has ranged from her
:28:22. > :28:27.Oscar-winning 1998 the drama Shakespearean love... To last
:28:28. > :28:34.year's biggest box office hit, Ironman three. Six months ago, ship
:28:35. > :28:37.managed on American TV that there are difficulties in long-term
:28:38. > :28:41.relationships. It is not easy to be married for ten years. We definitely
:28:42. > :28:45.have big ups and downs. In their separation statement, they said that
:28:46. > :28:49.as they consciously uncouple and co-parent, they still saw their role
:28:50. > :28:52.first and foremost to be father and mother to their two children.
:28:53. > :28:59.Now the weather. The weather will feel a bit on the
:29:00. > :29:04.cult site of the next couple of days. It is a triple whammy of below
:29:05. > :29:09.average temperatures. Not a great deal of sunshine, and there will be
:29:10. > :29:13.a cold easterly breeze. But that combination of weather is not set to
:29:14. > :29:15.last and it will turn warm as we head into this weekend. This
:29:16. > :29:23.afternoon's weather comes all the way from the Baltic as it moves
:29:24. > :29:29.across Denmark. Then it moves towards the British Isles. This is
:29:30. > :29:33.rain bearing cloud. We have also got a strip of cloud affecting Northern
:29:34. > :29:36.Ireland and bringing spots of rain. This afternoon, we are looking at
:29:37. > :29:42.bursts of rain, continuing to move in. It could be a lengthy spell of
:29:43. > :29:47.rain, with heavy downpours here and there. The South West England and
:29:48. > :29:50.Wales, not too many showers. Not feeling too bad. Across the
:29:51. > :29:58.Midlands, temperatures are on the way down. Feeling chilly. Northern
:29:59. > :30:01.Ireland will brighten up a bit of a bit the County Antrim and County
:30:02. > :30:04.Down. Scotland has a glorious afternoon, the warmest place in the
:30:05. > :30:09.country in the Highlands of Scotland. Overnight, the showers
:30:10. > :30:13.will continue to feed in and as the air gets colder, we will start to
:30:14. > :30:22.see some snow falling on some of the hillier areas. We could see a few
:30:23. > :30:29.flakes of snow, and the potential for some frost patches. Thursday
:30:30. > :30:33.starts off on a cloudy note, showers from the word go, particularly
:30:34. > :30:36.across the south-west of the British Isles. As the heat builds, the
:30:37. > :30:41.showers become more widespread as we head into the afternoon. Again, the
:30:42. > :30:47.showers could be heavy, with some hail mixed in. Temperatures are
:30:48. > :30:52.still disappointing. Those cold winds will still be with us on
:30:53. > :30:54.Friday, but there are signs that the temperatures are beginning to edge
:30:55. > :30:58.up. As we look towards the weekend, this area of pressure in the
:30:59. > :31:04.Atlantic will dive southwards towards Portugal, bringing somewhat
:31:05. > :31:07.weather towards us. But at the same time, there will be milder
:31:08. > :31:11.southeasterly winds across the British Isles. Look at how the
:31:12. > :31:17.temperature map lights up as we go towards Sunday. Warmer weather comes
:31:18. > :31:23.from France and Belgium. But for many of us, temperatures will be
:31:24. > :31:26.rising. It is just across north-eastern coast is that we could
:31:27. > :31:29.be stuck with some chilly weather, but it is not looking too bad.
:31:30. > :31:32.A reminder of our top story this lunchtime: a further 122 objects,
:31:33. > :31:34.potentially from the missing Malaysian plane, have been
:31:35. > :31:40.identified by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean.
:31:41. > :31:41.That's all from us. Now on BBC One, time for