:00:13. > :00:24.take extra care when they are outdoors. Reduce the amount of
:00:25. > :00:29.strenuous physical activity you do outdoors, and be aware that you may
:00:30. > :00:31.need to use your inhalers more on this had polluted days.
:00:32. > :00:36.Several people have been killed in Chile after an earthquake with a
:00:37. > :00:39.magnitude of 8.2 hits the country. Seconds out, round two - the stage
:00:40. > :00:44.is set for Farage versus Clegg, the rematch.
:00:45. > :00:47.Nervous neighbours - the Baltic states on Russia's doorstep look to
:00:48. > :00:59.NATO to help safeguard their borders. This aircraft can be
:01:00. > :01:03.scrambled within minutes, but it is not just about reassuring the Baltic
:01:04. > :01:05.states, it is also about sending a clear message to Russia as well.
:01:06. > :01:09.And two hugely valuable paintings by Gauguin and Bonnard stolen in London
:01:10. > :01:15.over 40 years ago have turned up in a pensioner's flat in Sicily.
:01:16. > :01:21.On BBC London: House prices in the capital are up by 18% in one year.
:01:22. > :01:43.And former Ford employees take their pension campaign to Westminster.
:01:44. > :01:48.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Parts of England
:01:49. > :01:52.are being warned about abnormally high levels of air pollution today.
:01:53. > :01:56.It's being caused by a combination of dust blown over from the Sahara
:01:57. > :01:58.and vehicle exhaust emissions, and is expected to move across southern
:01:59. > :02:05.England and the Midlands, with East Anglia at the highest possible
:02:06. > :02:08.threat level. People with lung or heart conditions are being told to
:02:09. > :02:17.take special care if they're outside. Here's our Science
:02:18. > :02:23.Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. As the sun rose, people in parts of
:02:24. > :02:29.England will want to expect a very high levels of air pollution. --
:02:30. > :02:33.people were warned. The government has a ten point scale for measuring
:02:34. > :02:38.air quality, with one meaning a low risk of pollution and ten being very
:02:39. > :02:43.high. Levels hit the maximum of ten in north-west Norfolk yesterday, and
:02:44. > :02:47.it is still thought to be a hotspot today. The purple areas are forecast
:02:48. > :02:53.to be the most polluted. Dark red indicates a likelihood of poor air
:02:54. > :03:00.quality, with green being the best. Experts said it is an unusual
:03:01. > :03:04.event. It is a combination of several factors, none of which in
:03:05. > :03:09.themselves is particularly unusual, but it is the combination of four
:03:10. > :03:13.individual factors, some of which are to do with chemistry, some with
:03:14. > :03:18.emissions and some with air quality. They have all combined to give us
:03:19. > :03:22.what we are experiencing. Cars and lorries are one of the main causes
:03:23. > :03:26.of poor air quality. Although they are much less polluting than they
:03:27. > :03:34.used to be, there are much more of them on the road. And here is
:03:35. > :03:36.another cause. High winds have whipped up sand from the Sahara
:03:37. > :03:43.desert, and it has been blown directly over the UK, making its
:03:44. > :03:47.mark as it rained earlier this week. Sand and dust from the Sahara comes
:03:48. > :03:51.to the UK a few times a year, but on this occasion, the effects have been
:03:52. > :03:57.particularly bad. They have combined articles that have won over from
:03:58. > :04:01.Europe and air pollution has been particularly bad in the UK. For some
:04:02. > :04:07.of us, it has meant sore throats and sore eyes, but those with throat and
:04:08. > :04:13.lung diseases have been asked to take particular care. People with
:04:14. > :04:16.asthma or conditions of that sort, where doing strenuous activity
:04:17. > :04:21.outdoors, you may notice an increase in your symptoms, so you may need to
:04:22. > :04:24.reduce the activity you take outdoors if you are in one of the
:04:25. > :04:29.highest polluted areas. And you may need to use your inhalers more than
:04:30. > :04:34.usual. Pollution levels are expected to peak today and disappear by the
:04:35. > :04:37.end of the week. But campaigners say the high levels highlight the fact
:04:38. > :04:42.that most local authorities don't meet that target. In February, the
:04:43. > :04:46.European Commission launched legal proceedings against the UK for
:04:47. > :04:55.failing to improve air quality. Let's get more from our environment
:04:56. > :04:59.analyst, Roger Harrabin. Roger, how bad is bad? How does the air in
:05:00. > :05:04.London compared to Delhi or Beijing? At the moment, we are in a
:05:05. > :05:07.particularly bad episode. We have this strange combination of the
:05:08. > :05:12.Saharan dust, plus severe local pollution, plus pollution from the
:05:13. > :05:17.continent. Assorted groups of heart and lung patients are angry, because
:05:18. > :05:22.although we cannot affect the Saharan dust, we can affect what
:05:23. > :05:25.happens on our own shores. The government is 15 years behind in its
:05:26. > :05:30.efforts to meet a directive from the European Union to improve air
:05:31. > :05:34.quality. London has some of the worst air quality in Europe, and so
:05:35. > :05:37.to do a lot of other native cities. But making the comparison you just
:05:38. > :05:43.made with Beijing or Delhi, for instance, we are suffering a bad
:05:44. > :05:48.episode now, but generally speaking, much lower levels than those. And
:05:49. > :05:54.the Saharan dust does bring some benefit? It has a bizarre benefit. A
:05:55. > :05:58.large proportion of the Atlantic is fertilised by nutrients in it, and
:05:59. > :06:02.it blows right away over the Atlantic and over to Brazil and
:06:03. > :06:05.fertilisers parts of the rainforest, so it is an ill wind
:06:06. > :06:08.that blows nobody any good. Six people have died after a
:06:09. > :06:11.powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Chile. Thousands more were
:06:12. > :06:14.told to leave their homes because of fears that the quake might have
:06:15. > :06:16.triggered a tsunami. Those warnings have now been relaxed. The quake,
:06:17. > :06:19.which had a magnitude of 8.2, followed days of powerful tremors
:06:20. > :06:27.across the region. Here's our world affairs correspondent, Emily
:06:28. > :06:31.Buchanan. 8:50pm. Last-minute shopping before
:06:32. > :06:35.dinner, and then suddenly, the terrifying tremors. The ground shook
:06:36. > :06:42.as people ran out of the supermarket. The shelves were
:06:43. > :06:53.shaking so violently that good is were thrown onto the floor.
:06:54. > :06:59.Nearby in the port city of Iquique, the moment of the quake. All one
:07:00. > :07:03.woman could do was pray as her house shook precariously. Outside, you
:07:04. > :07:15.could hear the sound of walls and windows breaking. Then the lights
:07:16. > :07:20.went out. The pitch darkness in this district was broken only by a huge
:07:21. > :07:25.fire. People were desperate to flee the area, but they faced mayhem in
:07:26. > :07:31.the streets. If you had been killed by collapsing walls or from heart
:07:32. > :07:36.attacks. It was very strong and it went on a long time, this woman
:07:37. > :07:43.cried. Another said, the police have told us to leave. But it was hard to
:07:44. > :07:48.find shelter. The hospitals themselves were being cleared of
:07:49. > :07:54.Haitians. The government has declared a state of emergency --
:07:55. > :07:57.hospitals were cleared of patients. Some inmates escaped from a women's
:07:58. > :08:03.prison full of Chile's president missed that she would continue to
:08:04. > :08:08.work to confront the emergency and protect people and their families.
:08:09. > :08:11.Chile has escaped relatively lightly. A large tsunami did not
:08:12. > :08:16.materialise, although dangerous waves could hit countries across the
:08:17. > :08:20.Pacific. But scientists warn of more big quakes to come. Emily Buchanan,
:08:21. > :08:23.BBC News. Tonight sees the rematch between the
:08:24. > :08:26.Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage,
:08:27. > :08:29.in the debate over Britain's future in Europe. Tonight's debate is
:08:30. > :08:31.likely to see Mr Farage questioned on his views about Vladimir Putin,
:08:32. > :08:37.having described the Russian President as the leader he admires
:08:38. > :08:47.most. Here's our chief political correspondent, Norman Smith.
:08:48. > :08:50.So, now we move to round two of the televised tussle between Messrs
:08:51. > :08:55.Clegg and Farage. Last time, the UKIP man was judged the winner, at
:08:56. > :08:58.least in the polls, although many in the Westminster village thought that
:08:59. > :09:05.actually, Nick Clegg had done better. Both men have had a solid
:09:06. > :09:09.week to hone their key arguments, although we already know many of
:09:10. > :09:15.their big pitches. We should not sacrifice a single job just to
:09:16. > :09:21.fulfil this dogmatic view that we should turn our backs on the rest of
:09:22. > :09:24.the world. The debate is between a tired status quo, defending a
:09:25. > :09:30.crumbling European Union that frankly is not working any more, and
:09:31. > :09:34.a fresh approach which says, let's be friendly with Europe and trade
:09:35. > :09:38.with them, but not be governed by their institutions. So, what will be
:09:39. > :09:42.the key crunch points? Obviously, the referendum. Last time, Mr
:09:43. > :09:45.Farage's message was that we need one because you can't trust the
:09:46. > :09:50.politicians. This was Nick Clegg's riposte. You have referenda in our
:09:51. > :09:55.democracy when there is an important question to answer, when new powers
:09:56. > :10:00.are being transferred to our country to the European Union. That is when.
:10:01. > :10:04.It should not be done by government, it should be done by you in a
:10:05. > :10:12.referendum, and I and the government of which I am part have guaranteed
:10:13. > :10:18.that in law. Another cringe -- crunch point - immigration. Nick
:10:19. > :10:23.Clegg said not to exaggerate it. This was Nigel Farage's reply. We
:10:24. > :10:27.need to operate a system of work permits in terms of the shortages we
:10:28. > :10:33.have and skills others may want to bring to us. But perhaps the real
:10:34. > :10:36.crunch point could come with a slip or a gaffe or an unexpected
:10:37. > :10:43.question, because no matter how much the two men have repaired the
:10:44. > :10:44.tonight, there is no hiding place in a live, televised, face-to-face
:10:45. > :10:51.debate. And we can talk to Norman now. So
:10:52. > :10:54.you talked about Europe and immigration. What else might we look
:10:55. > :10:58.forward to tonight? My sense is that we could be facing a real humdinger
:10:59. > :11:03.of a debate tonight, because both men are promising a more competent,
:11:04. > :11:07.combustible contest. Team Clyde are saying there will be less facts and
:11:08. > :11:13.figures on their man, less Mr sensible, and more passionate about
:11:14. > :11:18.the case for Europe. And team Farage are saying their man is "ready to
:11:19. > :11:24.Rumble". We have already had some pre-match sparring over the issue of
:11:25. > :11:29.president Putin, with Mr Farage's claim last time that the EU had
:11:30. > :11:34.blood on its hands. This morning, Mr Farage was absolutely standing by
:11:35. > :11:38.his remarks. I was asked a couple of months ago which world leader I
:11:39. > :11:41.admire, and I said Vladimir Putin, as an operator, particularly with
:11:42. > :11:45.the way he managed to stop the West getting militarily involved in
:11:46. > :11:49.Syria. But I don't like him and I would not want to live there. I am
:11:50. > :11:54.sure there will be a ding-dong over that. I think simply to regard the
:11:55. > :12:00.bloodshed in Syria as a game I'm aware he admires blood amid Putin's
:12:01. > :12:04.role in that, just shows how irresponsible his view is of the
:12:05. > :12:07.world. This is the real world. You need to make serious decisions,
:12:08. > :12:13.particularly in the face of a terrible human Terry and disaster
:12:14. > :12:17.such as in Syria -- humour disaster. Despite all the fighting talk, it
:12:18. > :12:20.seems that both men could yet stagger from the ring victorious and
:12:21. > :12:23.the real losers could be Messrs Miliband and Cameron, who are not
:12:24. > :12:29.taking part tonight, risking accusations that they are afraid to
:12:30. > :12:34.enter the fray and afraid to risk exposing divisions within their own
:12:35. > :12:37.parties over the issue of Europe. A reminder that you can watch the
:12:38. > :12:47.debate live on BBC Two from seven o'clock this evening. David Dimbleby
:12:48. > :12:49.is hosting and you can watch it live on BBC Two and the BBC News
:12:50. > :12:51.Channel. And there's all the build-up
:12:52. > :12:52.throughout the afternoon, and then the reaction and analysis afterwards
:12:53. > :13:09.on the BBC News Channel. The gap between house prices in
:13:10. > :13:13.London and the rest of the country has risen to record levels. London
:13:14. > :13:18.prices are now on average more than double those elsewhere, according to
:13:19. > :13:22.the nationwide building society. Property values are increasing
:13:23. > :13:25.almost everywhere, with the average house costing 9.5% more than a year
:13:26. > :13:28.ago. The jury at the Hillsborough inquest
:13:29. > :13:30.has been told their task is to inquire "fully, fairly and
:13:31. > :13:35.fearlessly" into the deaths of the 96 people who died in the disaster.
:13:36. > :13:38.The judge said part of that would be to determine whether police amended
:13:39. > :13:42.some of their statements in order to put the blame on the crowd and
:13:43. > :13:44.deflect criticism from themselves. Our correspondent, Judith Moritz,
:13:45. > :13:54.has been at the inquest this morning.
:13:55. > :13:57.Yes, that's right, and the Hillsborough disaster happened on
:13:58. > :14:02.the 15th of April 1989, when the terraces at the Sheffield ground
:14:03. > :14:07.became overcrowded. In the intervening 25 years, there has been
:14:08. > :14:12.a catalogue of enquiries and investigations. This morning, the
:14:13. > :14:18.coroner began by telling the jury about some of that history.
:14:19. > :14:22.For the families of those who died at Hillsborough, coming to court
:14:23. > :14:27.each day is starting to feel like a routine. Today, they came to hear
:14:28. > :14:31.the coroner finishes opening speech. He spoke about the previous inquest
:14:32. > :14:37.which were quashed and make way for this new hearings. He explained that
:14:38. > :14:41.the last coroner had decided only to hear evidence from before 3.15 on
:14:42. > :14:42.the afternoon of the disaster. It meant that the emergency response
:14:43. > :14:57.was not examined. The court also heard about the
:14:58. > :15:01.police statements which were made by South Yorkshire officers after the
:15:02. > :15:02.disaster. The jury was told that a large number had been amended. The
:15:03. > :15:21.coroner said: Tomorrow, the court will begin
:15:22. > :15:25.hearing the stories of the 96 men, women and children who died at
:15:26. > :15:28.Hillsborough. Their relatives have asked to speak about their
:15:29. > :15:35.characters and personalities. I am hoping I will be brave enough to do
:15:36. > :15:38.it. It is the last tribute I can give to my brother. I have done
:15:39. > :15:42.loads of things over the 25 years, and that is probably one of the most
:15:43. > :15:47.fickle. To keep it reasonably short, but to get the essence of the person
:15:48. > :15:51.across, or in our case two people across, it is extremely difficult
:15:52. > :15:55.and a few people have said it is very moving. The families will now
:15:56. > :16:04.prepare themselves for the emotional experience of making their
:16:05. > :16:07.statements over the coming days. Finishing his speech, the coroner
:16:08. > :16:11.gave the jury selection of different topic areas that he suggests they
:16:12. > :16:15.consider during this inquest, which could last for around a year. He
:16:16. > :16:19.suggested they may want to think about questions such as whether more
:16:20. > :16:22.could have been done to prevent the overcrowding and look at the
:16:23. > :16:27.emergency response. Good more have been done by the police and
:16:28. > :16:28.ambulance services? Judith in Warrington, thank you very
:16:29. > :16:36.much. Our top story this lunchtime: There
:16:37. > :16:38.are warnings of severe pollution warnings across some parts of
:16:39. > :16:40.England because of vehicle emissions and dust blown over from the Sahara
:16:41. > :16:44.desert. And still to come: Is it time to
:16:45. > :16:53.stub out the e-cig? Wales considers a ban in public places.
:16:54. > :16:54.Later on BBC London: Picking up the baton, the new move to encourage
:16:55. > :17:09.more women to take the musical lead. The political crisis in Ukraine is
:17:10. > :17:14.having repercussions way beyond its borders. Other countries bordering
:17:15. > :17:22.on Russia are looking nervously at their larger neighbour following its
:17:23. > :17:25.annexation of the Crimea. In the Baltic states, all now members of
:17:26. > :17:27.NATO, that's meant stepping up air patrols along their borders with
:17:28. > :17:30.America sending extra warplanes to bolster their defences. Our defence
:17:31. > :17:31.correspondent, Jonathan Beale, has been to Lithuania to watch NATO's
:17:32. > :17:40.forces on exercise. Every moment of every day NATO
:17:41. > :17:45.warplanes are on alert. This is an exercise, but here in Lithuania, it
:17:46. > :17:48.really matters. The Baltic states are increasingly nervous about the
:17:49. > :17:58.behaviour of their big neighbour Russia. I can't say Cold War because
:17:59. > :18:01.it is a very hot war. The Russians have occupied part of Ukraine and
:18:02. > :18:09.concentrated their forces and I think we should be ready to defend
:18:10. > :18:13.our states if this continues. These F15s can be scrambled within minutes
:18:14. > :18:19.and it is not just about reassuring the Baltic states. It is also about
:18:20. > :18:26.sending a clear message to Russia, too.
:18:27. > :18:31.The Baltics don't have much of an air force, so they rely on NATO
:18:32. > :18:35.partners to take turns patrolling their skies. Normally, there are
:18:36. > :18:38.just four warplanes, but this time the Americans have sent ten and
:18:39. > :18:46.there are offers of more planes, too. NATO has a great responsibility
:18:47. > :18:51.across the entire spectrum of its airspace. Maintaining sovereign
:18:52. > :18:56.airspace is very important to any nation. When you are part of the
:18:57. > :19:01.strongest alliance in history of the world, our sovereign airspace, that
:19:02. > :19:07.is where it all begins. Have you had the chance to see any Russian planes
:19:08. > :19:10.up there? I have the same answer. I can't comment on operational
:19:11. > :19:13.specifics of the mission. But at one of NATO's command centres, they have
:19:14. > :19:18.seen increasing Russian military activity. At this base, they can
:19:19. > :19:20.track every aircraft from the Alps to northern Norway, and practically
:19:21. > :19:26.every week they are spotting Russian warplanes that appear without
:19:27. > :19:34.warning. We have seen a slow increase over the years consistent
:19:35. > :19:37.with Russian ambition, if you like. Their air forces now receive more
:19:38. > :19:42.money and we know that everybody knows that and so we see more
:19:43. > :19:47.activity. Does that worry you? I would say it is not worrying but we
:19:48. > :19:50.need to be sure we are aware of it, yes. This is still a modest military
:19:51. > :19:53.response and NATO officials are playing down talk of a new Cold
:19:54. > :19:56.War. But out on the Eastern front, the Alliance's smaller members are
:19:57. > :20:06.looking for assurances and a stronger show of force. Jonathan
:20:07. > :20:08.Beale, BBC News, Lithuania. The Malaysian authorities say
:20:09. > :20:10.they've ruled out any passenger involvement in the disappearance of
:20:11. > :20:13.the airliner which vanished more than three weeks ago. Police are now
:20:14. > :20:16.focusing on the crew after concluding that the flight path was
:20:17. > :20:19.probably altered by someone on board. A Royal Navy submarine has
:20:20. > :20:25.now arrived in the southern Indian Ocean to join the search operation.
:20:26. > :20:27.The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has called the current
:20:28. > :20:33.outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa an unprecedented
:20:34. > :20:37.epidemic. So far more than 80 people have died in Guinea and four in
:20:38. > :20:43.Liberia. Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge has
:20:44. > :20:49.the latest. Ebola, now in West Africa for the
:20:50. > :20:53.first time, is one of the world's deadliest diseases. It can kill up
:20:54. > :20:57.to 90% of those that become infected and the threat to health workers
:20:58. > :21:01.dealing with patients means they must wear fully protective
:21:02. > :21:05.clothing. The World Health Organisation is shipping extra
:21:06. > :21:08.supplies to Guinea and sending in more personnel. Top priorities are
:21:09. > :21:15.to stop the disease spreading further and to chase contact with
:21:16. > :21:23.those already infected. Evo laptop breaks are already of high concern.
:21:24. > :21:28.-- Ibo virus outbreaks are all ways of high concern. It can never be out
:21:29. > :21:33.of control until 40 days have passed since the last case. This outbreak
:21:34. > :21:41.in the democratic Republic of Congo in the mid 1990s killed 200 people
:21:42. > :21:45.before it was over. It was 20 years previously that the disease first
:21:46. > :21:52.appeared in Sudan, with a similar outcome. The disease can be caught
:21:53. > :21:57.from both humans and animals such as the fruit bat. The poorer the
:21:58. > :22:02.country affected, the greater the challenges, but as the battle to
:22:03. > :22:08.contain this outbreak intensifies, any's President has called on his
:22:09. > :22:12.people not to panic. Wales could become the first part of
:22:13. > :22:15.the UK to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in public places.
:22:16. > :22:18.Ministers say they're responding to concerns that the devices which can
:22:19. > :22:20.contain nicotine make smoking appear normal and undermine the smoking
:22:21. > :22:26.ban. Here's our Wales correspondent Hywel Griffith.
:22:27. > :22:30.A harmless puff in public or a gateway to greater harm? In pubs and
:22:31. > :22:36.cafes once filled with clouds of smoke, the vapour of an e-cigarette
:22:37. > :22:42.is now the new norm. For these users, the idea of a Government ban
:22:43. > :22:49.is unthinkable. It has got nothing to do with them, has it? If you want
:22:50. > :22:55.to smoke, you smoke. I think I would still smoke. I wouldn't go back to
:22:56. > :23:00.cigarettes. I would still stick to the vapour. The potential risks of
:23:01. > :23:03.using vaporisers like these are still being investigated, but the
:23:04. > :23:07.Welsh Government says it is certain they cause harm. We are fearful that
:23:08. > :23:10.e-cigarettes are a gateway to real cigarettes, that once people get
:23:11. > :23:12.used to using those, and they are nicotine products which are highly
:23:13. > :23:20.addictive, then that will make it easier for them to move onto real
:23:21. > :23:23.cigarettes. The growth in the e-cigarette industry has been
:23:24. > :23:25.enormous in the last few years, with shops like this one popping up on
:23:26. > :23:32.every High Street, serving an estimated 1.3 million users across
:23:33. > :23:35.the UK. Retailers argue many of those are people trying to improve
:23:36. > :23:44.their health by swapping smoke for vapour. I would say 95% of people
:23:45. > :23:50.use it as a gateway to exit smoking regular cigarettes. I would have to
:23:51. > :24:07.say that we don't get any people coming in saying, "I am thinking of
:24:08. > :24:10.taking up the habit". A ban on sales to under 18-year-olds is likely to
:24:11. > :24:13.come in across the UK, but by pushing even further, the Welsh
:24:14. > :24:16.Government is sending out a signal that it knows what is best for
:24:17. > :24:24.public health. Hywel Griffith, BBC News, Cardiff.
:24:25. > :24:26.Six people have died in bomb blasts in the run-up to the presidential
:24:27. > :24:32.elections in Afghanistan this weekend. Hamid Karzai is standing
:24:33. > :24:37.down as President and for the first time there is a real possibility
:24:38. > :24:39.that a woman could become the country's Vice President, a major
:24:40. > :24:44.change in a country with an international reputation for its
:24:45. > :24:49.lack of women's rights. Our Afghanistan correspondent David Loyn
:24:50. > :24:52.reports from Kabul. Handing over a box of toys, Habiba Sarabi is
:24:53. > :24:54.campaigning to become the most powerful woman in Afghanistan, as
:24:55. > :24:57.vice-presidential candidate in one of the three teams that stand a
:24:58. > :25:01.chance of winning. This politician trained as a doctor and has been
:25:02. > :25:04.seeing for herself the plight of malnourished children in hospital.
:25:05. > :25:10.She knows that Afghan women have a long way to go. We have to work very
:25:11. > :25:15.hard for the other women who are at the village level. Convince them
:25:16. > :25:21.that they are human beings like others and they have to promote
:25:22. > :25:24.themselves. Dr Sarabi became prominent as the reformist governor
:25:25. > :25:29.of Bamiyan in the centre of the country. She is from the Hazara
:25:30. > :25:39.community, where women have relatively more equality than in
:25:40. > :25:42.other places. Another woman candidate, Safia Siddiqui, is a
:25:43. > :25:45.Pashtun, the same as the Taliban, and has had a harder struggle. She's
:25:46. > :25:48.used to being in meetings where she's the only woman, but has not
:25:49. > :26:02.heard criticisms when she's been campaigning this time. Even from the
:26:03. > :26:04.Taliban side, I haven't heard that. It does mean that people are
:26:05. > :26:09.accepting the woman's presence even at high level. This is one part of
:26:10. > :26:13.the issue. But for the other side, if the women cannot come forward to
:26:14. > :26:16.vote, then there is no need for a women to be in the high level.
:26:17. > :26:19.Intimidation and the threat of violence could prevent women voting,
:26:20. > :26:22.even if there are now women to vote for. On a Kabul street on a normal
:26:23. > :26:26.busy morning, there are hardly any women among the people bustling to
:26:27. > :26:29.and fro. Life for too many women remains very pinched. They remain
:26:30. > :26:34.property in the view of many Afghan men. 13 years after the fall of the
:26:35. > :26:40.Taliban, so many promises were made but so little has changed for
:26:41. > :26:44.women's rights in Afghanistan. And these few women who are aiming for
:26:45. > :26:49.the top could begin to make a change for the better. David Loyn, BBC
:26:50. > :26:51.News, Kabul. Police in Italy say they've
:26:52. > :26:57.recovered two French masterpieces stolen in London 44 years ago. The
:26:58. > :27:02.works by Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard were taken from a house in
:27:03. > :27:05.Regent's Park in 1970. Police in Italy showed off the artworks at a
:27:06. > :27:08.press conference this morning and revealed they'd been found in the
:27:09. > :27:20.home of a pensioner in Sicily. Sarah Campbell has the story.
:27:21. > :27:24.Thought to have been lost four decades after they disappeared, two
:27:25. > :27:31.masterpieces are back on display. They still life by Paul go again is
:27:32. > :27:37.worth an estimated ?8.5 billion. This work was stolen from a private
:27:38. > :27:40.address in London in 1971. According to Italian police, they were left on
:27:41. > :27:45.a train at one point and bought for a fraction of their real value by an
:27:46. > :27:50.Italian worker. It was his son who spotted they could be genuine
:27:51. > :27:54.artworks and alerted the police. The potential financial rewards from a
:27:55. > :28:02.successful heist can be staggering. In 2008, in Switzerland, pieces by
:28:03. > :28:04.money, Van Gogh and Cezanne with a total value exceeding ?80 million
:28:05. > :28:10.were taken in a robbery lasting minutes. All were eventually found,
:28:11. > :28:16.as was The Screen, one of the most famous thefts in recent years. It
:28:17. > :28:19.had suffered damage but was able to be put on display. As countless
:28:20. > :28:23.thefts have shown, as long as artworks retain their multi-million
:28:24. > :28:29.pound price tag is, they will be targeted by gangs who see their
:28:30. > :28:33.value purely in financial terms. Time for the weather. We are
:28:34. > :28:37.normally concerned about the temperature but I suspect today it
:28:38. > :28:42.is about air quality. Yes, we start with pollution levels. We are
:28:43. > :28:46.expecting pollution levels to reach a high through the course of today,
:28:47. > :28:50.particularly through the East Midlands and into East Anglia, but
:28:51. > :29:00.it is for today only, as we had through the week, the pollution
:29:01. > :29:03.levels will drop. This area of low pressure is gathering force in the
:29:04. > :29:11.Atlantic, and we have wings coming off the near continent. -- winds. A
:29:12. > :29:16.band of rain has been spreading North, heavier in northern England.
:29:17. > :29:22.By the middle part of the afternoon, it should lie across northern
:29:23. > :29:25.England and one or two getting into the South East. Largely dry in the
:29:26. > :29:31.South East and warmer temperatures already peaking at 21 in Kent. It
:29:32. > :29:34.will be warm across southern areas but more cloud in the South West
:29:35. > :29:38.with some showers through the afternoon. Similar picture for Wales
:29:39. > :29:43.with most showers into North Wales and pushing towards the Isle of Man
:29:44. > :29:46.at four o'clock this afternoon, and getting into southern parts of
:29:47. > :29:49.Northern Ireland as well. In Scotland, an east-west split with
:29:50. > :29:57.glorious sunshine in the West but more low cloud and a chilly breeze
:29:58. > :30:02.in the East. That is how big is looking in the afternoon. Overnight,
:30:03. > :30:05.that band of rain will continue to advance North with showers following
:30:06. > :30:10.behind. Rumbles of thunder with that. In the South West, the next
:30:11. > :30:14.batch of rain pushes into the South West and it could be heavy. Mild in
:30:15. > :30:19.the South and quite chilly in the North, especially in North East
:30:20. > :30:24.England. The morning will be damp and misty, especially in eastern
:30:25. > :30:27.Scotland and North East England. The rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland
:30:28. > :30:35.and Wales and the South West of England was the heavy, persistent
:30:36. > :30:40.rain, thundery at times. -- will see heavy rain. In the South East, with
:30:41. > :30:45.warm air, we could see 18 or 19. On Friday, we see the main change. The
:30:46. > :30:50.rain becomes confined to Scotland and we lose the southeasterly winds,
:30:51. > :30:53.which will be replaced by the Atlantic south-westerly feeding in
:30:54. > :30:58.sunshine and showers. A snapshot of the weekend, looking cooler and
:30:59. > :31:04.fresher with the winds and an improvement for South East England.
:31:05. > :31:08.Rain at times and some sunny spells, so not a wash-out by any means.
:31:09. > :31:13.Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: Pollution is that story.
:31:14. > :31:18.Air quality over parts of southern and eastern England is expected to
:31:19. > :31:20.deteriorate through the day because of dust from Sahara and polluted air