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Around 300 people, many of them school children, | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
are missing after a ferry capsized off the coast of South Korea. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
A major rescue operation was launched, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
but the ferry sank within 90 minutes, | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
and it's feared many passengers were trapped beneath deck. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The announcement told us that we should stay still, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
and there were a lot of students who did not get out of the ship. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
More than 150 people were rescued - they've been taken to a gym | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
on a nearby island, where they're being looked after. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
We'll have the latest on the search-and-rescue operation | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
Also this lunchtime, for the first time in four years, wage increases | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
overtake the rise in the cost of living and unemployment falls again. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
The former Co-op Bank boss Paul Flowers has been charged | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
with possession of drugs, including cocaine. | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
Tesco announce falling profits for the second year in a row. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
And a sunny welcome for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as they arrive | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
in Sydney with their son at the start of their tour of Australia. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
a record number, 100,000 children apply for primary-school places. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
And how a stolen hat inspired a grieving mum | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC's News At One. | :01:17. | :01:40. | |
after a ferry capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
But at least three people are known to have died, | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
and it's feared that number will rise considerably. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Almost two thirds of those on board were school children | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
for the 14-hour journey to the tourist island of Jeju. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
was three hours from its destination when distress calls were made. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Lucy Williamson reports from South Korea. | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
They had been clinging on for half an hour when rescue came - students | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
on a school trip to South Korea's holiday island. Each tiny figure | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
emerging from the crippled Hal, a lifeline for one parent, brother or | :02:29. | :02:40. | |
sister waiting on shore. -- hull. But as they were being asked to | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
rescue boats, the ship beneath them began to sing. Within the hour, it | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
was almost gone. The worry for rescuers and parents is that some of | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
the passengers were still inside. Those who were picked up by rescuers | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
have arrived on shore and begun to tell their stories, how they felt a | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
third before the ship began to tilt, how some students were told to jump | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
into the water before it went down and some were told to stay. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
TRANSLATION: The announcement told us we should stay still, but the | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
ship was already sinking, and there were lots of students who did not | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
get out of the ship. TRANSLATION: It was very tense, the ship was tilted | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
more than 45 degrees, and it was very tense. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
For survivors, the reunions have already begun. The full horror of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
what might have been giving way to tearful relief. For now, they are | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
the minority. With so many of those on board still unaccounted for, the | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
demands of their parents and others here on shore are growing | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
increasingly desperate. TRANSLATION: I felt like my heart stopped, I | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
cannot describe the feeling with one word. I was too shocked, I cannot | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
even talk about it. Many more families are waiting for | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
news of those still missing and demanding answers. What happened on | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
this routine journey, they are asking, why did this very sink, and | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
where are our children? Lucy Williamson, BBC News on the South | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Korean coast. We can get the latest from the South | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Korean capital, Seoul, Martin Patience is there. Unimaginable | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
scenes for the parents waiting to find out if their children are | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
alive, what is the latest on the search and rescue operation? The | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
latest figures are that four people are confirmed to have died in his | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
accident, although the death toll is expected to rise with almost 300 | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
people still missing. This massive search and rescue operation has been | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
under way now for more than 12 hours, it is now dark in South | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Korea, and that of course will complicate efforts. The fear is that | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
many of the missing are trapped in the hull of this very, which of | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
course sank. We know that dozens of divers have been sent down to be | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
submerged vessel in order to try and find any of the survivors. As we | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
have been hearing, most of the passengers on board were high school | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
students on a trip to a holiday island. For their families, for the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
families of the missing, it is a desperate weight as the search | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
continues. Martin, thank you. After four years | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
of falling living standards, wage increases have finally risen | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
above the rate of inflation. Weekly pay, including bonuses, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
went up by 1.7% in February, according to the Office | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
for National Statistics. It comes as new figures show | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
that unemployment fell by 77,000 in the three months to February, | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
to just under 2.25 million, Our chief economics correspondent, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Hugh Pym, reports. The economic wheels are turning, | :05:47. | :06:00. | |
companies like this one are expanding, and that is better news | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
for jobs and wages. This firm supplies materials for household | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
kitchens and flooring. It started life in the recession and has grown | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
fast, but only now is the boss able to start offering wage rises. We are | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
increasing the level of pay for the staff at the moment, and we are | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
going through the process because we want to retain the excellent staff | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
that we already have, and the state of the economy is now allowing us to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
pay a higher wage, whereas turn the clock back a couple of years, it | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
would have been different. Across the economy, the gap between pay and | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
price increases has closed. Inflation picked up rapidly from | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
2010, but it has fallen back a lot in the last few months. Average wage | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
rises were running well behind inflation but have now caught up. So | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
on paper at least the long squeeze on spending power is over. The news | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
was welcomed by ministers but with an acknowledgement that it would be | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
a while before the recovery was complete. There is still a very long | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
way to go, both to ensure our economy is fully recovered and that | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
living standards are growing in a sustainable way. That is why we | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
absolutely have to stick to the plan we have laid out that has got us | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
this far in terms of economic growth. And some economists argue it | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
could take some time for people's living standards to get back to | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
where they were before the recession. We have to remember we | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
have been through the biggest squeeze on spending power and real | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
incomes since the 1920s, so it will take a number of years, probably | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
five, possibly ten, before that spending power is fully restored. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Labour argued that, for many, the cost of living problem had not gone | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
away. There is still an awful lot more to do to tackle rising prices, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
especially gas and electricity bills, and do more to ensure that | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
wages start to increase, particularly for people in part-time | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
jobs, zero hours contracts, who are struggling to make ends meet right | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
now. With more jobs being created in the economy and the unemployment | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
rate falling below 7% of the workforce, there is no doubting | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
there is a brighter outlook in the labour market. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
You is with me now, we have been waiting for this, a significant | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
moment? Indeed, Sophie, we have got figures suggesting bonuses and wages | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
were up 1.7% in the year leading up to February, and then in March, as | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
we discovered yesterday, inflation dipping to 1.6%. So the end of the | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
cost of living squeeze on paper, which has gone on for several | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
years. So significant in the economic and political debate. One | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
important factor, as we lent more about today, is that the economy is | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
creating more jobs. That means employers have to pay a bit more to | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
retain and recruit people. Good news for workers and good news for the | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
economy, and obviously the unemployment rate falling below 7%, | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
that is another important milestone. The Government on the | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Bank of England have set 7% as the threshold to review interest rates. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
He has moved on to a different way of assessing it, and unemployment | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
has fallen faster than he expected, down to 6.9% of the workforce. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
Positive news on jobs. One slight issue is that quite a lot of the new | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
jobs have been self employment, people who are self-employed rather | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
than fully employed, and what we don't know was whether they want to | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
be doing that or whether they possibly there because they have | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
lost jobs elsewhere. To Westminster now for political reaction, our | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
chief political correspondent, Norman Smith, is there. As he was | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
saying, a significant moment economically but also politically, | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
how much pressure does this put on Labour? It is an important moment | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
politically, but there is a paradox here in that while it is important | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
politically, it will not make a blind bit of difference for most | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
people. Most people will still be facing pay freezes, benefit curbs, | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
rising fuel prices and pressure on their living standards for years to | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
come. Politically, it is symbolically critical for the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
Government. They can at long last say, your pay is beginning to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
outstrip prices. More than that, the earnings figures coupled with the | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
big fall in unemployment following on from yesterday's inflation | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
suggests the recovery is taking hold much faster and more strongly than | :10:19. | :10:27. | |
many people suspected, and certainly well before the general election, | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
giving the Government month after month in which they can say to | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
people, you are slowly getting better off. As for Labour, they are | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
not going to run up the white flag on the cost of living argument, but | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
they will not be saying, you are going to be worse off by the next | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
election than compare to the last election. There will be a brief | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
frame in, a shimmy and a shift in their core argument. They will say | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
it is also about job security, about their children's prospects, about | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
getting full-time work, and the reason for that is because today's | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
figures tell us although there is an awful long way to go, the tide is | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
now turning on the cost of living. Norman, thank you. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
says Russia has started to export terrorism to Ukraine | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
and wants to destroy the country's independence. | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
entered the eastern town of Kramatorsk | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
to recapture areas seized by anti-government separatists. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
However, they were blocked by civilians, | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
and it's unclear whether they have any control of the town. | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Armoured vehicles passing checkpoints on their way into the | :11:26. | :11:42. | |
eastern city of Sloviansk. The forces are welcomed by men carrying | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
guns and cheering crowds. Heavily armed, these troops are flying the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
Russian flag, and they looked ready for a fight. This soldier claims | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
some of them are from the Ukrainian army. We have switched sides, he | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
says. It is not entirely clear whether these men have truly | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
defected or who they are. Either way, it is a sign that the Ukrainian | :12:09. | :12:23. | |
government faces a serious fight to regain control of buildings occupied | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
by pro-Russian activists. Earlier, in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian soldiers | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
tried to move in but didn't get very far. Crowds and pro-Russian militia | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
surrounded their armoured personnel carriers, questioning why they were | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
there. These troops are meant to be part of what Kiev has called an | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
anti-terrorist operation. It doesn't seem to be going according to plan. | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
In Donetsk, pro-Russian activists have taken control of another | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
building. The mayor's offers. They met no resistance but did not seem | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
happy about being filmed. Outside, their supporters demanded more | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
autonomy from Kiev. This man says they want a referendum on more local | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
powers. The Ukrainian military build-up continues in the east, with | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
helicopters and tanks on the move, possibly preparing for an assault. | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
An assault on people who say they are not going to give ground. Duncan | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
Crawford, BBC News, Donetsk. We can get the latest from Donetsk, James | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Reynolds is there, the situation remains very unclear. It does, but I | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
think there is one thing we can say at the moment, and as far as we can | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
tell, Kiev has not taken back any of the lost ground that it gave up two | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
pro-Russian occupiers over the last week. Its large anti-terrorist | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
operation, as it calls it, is under way, but it has yet to have anything | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
to show for it, and that will be a source of major disappointment in | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Kiev. I was on the ground earlier today in Kramatorsk, and I saw a | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
crowd surrounded convoy of Ukrainian vehicles, and then suddenly | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
pro-Russian activists, well armed, also surrounded it. It was difficult | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
to see how that stand-off ended. We have also had reports of convoys | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
carrying Russian flags, we are still checking those out. And NATO has | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
reacted in the last hour, suggesting it will reinforce its presence in | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Eastern Europe, in the Baltic and in the eastern Mediterranean, a sign of | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
how tense the situation is. James, thank you very much. | :14:22. | :14:23. | |
after a pile-up involving at least four vehicles this morning. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Six people have been taken to hospital | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
after two lorries, a car and a van collided | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
at around 9:30 this morning, closing both lanes of the motorway. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Police have told motorists to avoid the area, and they say the motorway | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
is likely to remain closed until at least the early evening. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Paul Flowers, the former chairman of the Co-operative Bank, | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
has been charged with possession of drugs. | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
Mr Flowers stepped down as head of the bank last summer | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
amid claims of illegal drug use and inappropriate expenses payments. | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Danny Savage is at Stainbeck police station in Leeds. | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
Sophie, Paul Flowers has been on bail in relation to these charges | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
since November last year, so we came to answer bail again today. He found | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
the door locked when he arrived and told waiting journalist that they | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
were vultures. He eventually got inside, was interviewed by | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
detectives for an hour or so, and then his solicitor came out to say | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
that Mr Flowers had been charged with two counts of possessing Class | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
A drugs, including cocaine, and one count of possessing a class see | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
drug, known as testament. The next stage in the process will be that he | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
will have to appear before magistrates in Leeds on me the | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
seventh. He came to prominence in November last year when, as the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
former chairman of the Co-op Bank, revelations were made about his | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
private life in a Sunday newspaper. Those charges that have been put to | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
him relate to that time in November last year, so he has now been | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
charged. The next stage is the magistrate appearance, that will | :15:59. | :16:11. | |
take place next month. Sophie. At least 300 people have died and many | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
are missing after a ship capsized off the coast of South Korea. A | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
search is under way for survivors. Coming up: We'll be live in Orkney, | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
where there is a campaign for greater powers for the islands, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
whether or not Scotland votes for independence. | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
The film he almost forgot - Terry Jones tells us | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
about his new work ahead of the Monty Python reunion this summer. | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
can we keep it for the rest of the Easter break? | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Britain's supermarkets have been engaged in a price war | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
for the last few years as they battle it out for customers. | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Discount retailers like Aldi and Lidl are piling on the pressure | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
and more and more people are doing their weekly shop online. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
And it seems that it's taking its toll. | :17:01. | :17:01. | |
The UK's largest retailer, Tesco, has announced that profits have | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Here's our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz. | :17:05. | :17:18. | |
The profits are still colossal but the direction of travel, downward, | :17:19. | :17:27. | |
is causing alarm. So much so that Tesco's chief executive faced | :17:28. | :17:29. | |
questions today over whether he would keep his job. I intend to see | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
this job through. We're in the middle of a very big change. I'm | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
going to make Tesco better for customers and that's how, | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
ultimately, we will be measured. It's the invasion of the UK by | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
cut-price competitors that is putting Tesco and other competitors | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
to flight. Aldi's sales have jumped 35% in a year, Lidl's are up 17% and | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
at the top end, Waitrose has gained nearly 5% and Tesco has just | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
revealed a 1.4% crop in sales. The discounters say they are winning | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
over middle-class shoppers, like fleas in Bournemouth, who are no | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
longer embarrassed to be seen in their stores. I find Tesco a bit | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
dearer for most things so you go where you think the bargains are, | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
don't you? Some of the establishments can be a little | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
high-handed in the way they treat their customers. They say it's a | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
bargain but when you look closely, it's not. Just as internet shopping | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
is shaking up the grocery business as never before, loyalty to Tesco is | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
slipping away. Tesco today isn't any more value. It also isn't quality. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
It's just everywhere. That's a very different offered to customers and | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
it's partly of their own making. They've been increasing prices way | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
too fast over the last five years. Tesco's convenience stores have done | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
better. It's revamping hundreds of other supermarkets. It says it's | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
reducing prices and coming up with new ways to deliver to online | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
customers. But as the biggest player, in the middle of the market, | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
it is the target for all the others. If ever Tesco needed a little help, | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
it's now. It's being urged to bring in more discounts, but that would | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
deal a another blow to profits. The former editor of the News | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
of the World Andy Coulson has revealed for the first time that he | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
did listen to private voicemail messages relating to former home | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
secretary David Blunkett in 2004. He told the phone hacking trial | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
at the Old Bailey that one of his senior reporters had played | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
him excerpts of the messages left But Andy Coulson said it was | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
the first and last time messages Our home affairs correspondent | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Tom Symonds is at the Old Bailey. Sophie, this was new evidence. Andy | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
Coulson said that in 2004 he was on holiday in Italy when his chief | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
reporter phoned up and said he had voice mail messages of David | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Blunkett, from his phone, which suggested he was having an affair | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
with the publisher Kimberly Quinn. Mr Colson told the court he was | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
angry about this and said, "what do you think you are doing?" But when | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
he came back to Britain, he told the court that the reporter played him | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
part of those messages and that resulted in Andy Coulson going to | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
David Blunkett and saying that the newspaper had evidence they were | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
having an affair. But he didn't - and the tape was played to the jury | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
- tell Mr Blunkett that that evidence came from phone hacking. Mr | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Coulson said he felt that was a mistake and she should have laid | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
that in front of Mr Blunkett, the Home Secretary at the time. It may | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
have brought the whole thing to ahead, he said, and he said it may | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
have ended in police action. The context of this is that two years | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
before he told the court yesterday phone hacking was just something | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
that journalists gossiped about. Today he said that in 2004 he knew | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
one of his reporters had hacked messages. But it wasn't until 2007 | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
that Andy Coulson resigned because of phone hacking. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
British commanders must bear a degree of responsibility | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
for breaches at Camp Bastion in two years ago, which left two | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
American servicemen dead and eight British personnel wounded. | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
That's according to MPs on the Defence Select Committee. | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
They say when Taliban fighters attacked the camp, | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
troops were exposed to unnecessary risk, | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
partly because more than half the guard towers were unmanned. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Here's our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Set in the middle of the Helmand desert, far from any town, | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Camp Bastion was seen as impregnable. | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
Suicide bombers had never breached the perimeter fence | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
and MPs now say the forces inside - British, American and Afghan - | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
But in September 2012, a Taliban attack took everyone by surprise. | :21:41. | :21:49. | |
This training video, released at the time by insurgents, | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
allegedly showed how they planned to get into the camp. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Something 15 Taliban fighters managed under cover of darkness, | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
the gun battle lasting into the next day. | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
The insurgents killed two US Marines and injured eight British troops | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Six US Harrier jets were destroyed in the attack at a cost | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
The RAF Regiment and others helped fight insurgents and killed all | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
The defence committee's report found that arrangements for | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Fewer than half the towers were manned. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Insufficient attention was given to the need to defend the camp and MPs | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
say British commanders must bear their share of the responsibility. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
It's absolutely essential that the Ministry | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
of Defence learns proper lessons from the events that happened here | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
and doesn't display the complacency that we say did get displayed here. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
You must not underestimate the enemy and you must put in place | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
The Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the MoD was not complacent and | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
always sought to capture and learn lessons from current operations. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
British forces are well aware today that as they prepare to leave | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Camp Bastion and Helmand by the end of the year, vigilance remains | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
As the people of Scotland consider whether or not | :23:18. | :23:29. | |
to vote for independence, a campaign for greater powers is gathering pace | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
Campaigners say they want to see more control at a local level - | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
whatever the result of September's referendum. | :23:39. | :23:39. | |
Our Scotland correspondent James Cook is in Kirkwall in Orkney. | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
Yes, Sophie. Often the debate about independence happens in black and | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
white terms - a simple yes or no to the vote in September. But here in | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Orkney, it's more interesting, with this campaign mounting for greater | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
control on the islands of their own affairs. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Orkney looks, feels and sounds different. | :24:10. | :24:10. | |
There's a respect for old traditions here, a slower pace of life | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
But scratch the surface and opinions are strong. | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
the yes campaign are offering us more future and more positivity than | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
the fearmongering negative campaign. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
I'm probably the same as 95% of the islanders here, | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Although I do know that Edinburgh's closer to Orkney than London. | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
But these islands have strong Scandinavian connections and some | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
feel that choosing between Edinburgh and London is beside the point. | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
The debate about Scotland's future is very different here in Orkney. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
"We're either ruled from a long way away or a longer way away." | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
And so the islanders have come up with a plan. | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Orkney has joined Shetland and the Outer Hebrides | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
pushing for local control of local issues such as fishing, | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
These islands should be more empowered to look | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
after their own future, to make their decisions about the | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
Because we're islanders, we have a mindset that means we | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
like to fix things ourselves, sort things out ourselves. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
The Scottish Government and the Labour Party are both enthusiastic. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
So too is the UK Government, whose Secretary of State for Scotland | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
and as Secretary of State for Scotland, | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
I've been quite determined that there should be more power and | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
more influence coming from Westminster direct to | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
It feels like a campaign on the move. | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Whatever happens to Scotland in September, | :25:57. | :25:57. | |
these islands are hoping for a brighter future. | :25:58. | :26:09. | |
Well, there is certainly some vocal support for independence here and a | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
lot of quiet opposition, as well. But both sides, in large part, agree | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
that they want more powers and I think the momentum is now with them. | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
They're moving towards it. The Scottish Government, Labour and the | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
UK government all back them. I think they feel that this will happen. | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
Thousands of people have lined the steps of Sydney Opera House to | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to Australia. | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
The couple, with eight-month-old Prince George, | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
had arrived in the country after ten days in New Zealand. | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
Our royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell was there. | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
Another airport arrival, this time in Australia, and another appearance | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
by George, once again carried down the aircraft's steps by his mother, | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
who had chosen bright yellow for her debut in Australia. For his, George | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
found himself shaking a few of the VIP hands being held out to him. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
There was a change of carrier from Mum to diet, followed by a vigorous | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
bout of bouncing. Then it was one of those hunches of flowers which | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
people keep giving to mum to inspect stop all becoming part of a day's | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
work for this particular eight-month old. William and Katherine headed | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
into central Sydney. Most of the city carried on its day as normal. | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
There was no ceremony or public welcome. But at the Opera house, by | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Sydney Harbour Bridge, a few thousand had gathered in the autumn | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
sunshine to welcome them. Inside the Opera house, William spoke about his | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
family and the deep regard it feels for Australia. His own, he said, had | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
been learned directly from the Queen. The affection my grandmother | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
has for Australia is infectious. George has no idea what Australia | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
is, of course, but at the weekend, he is due to meet a bill be, a small | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
furry animal, when they visit Sydney zoo. I suspected that George's word | :28:04. | :28:17. | |
might be bilby because koala is hard to say. The message is clear that | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
Australia matters to the Royal family and as they arrived in the | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
country, there was a sense that Republican feelings may have been | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
stemmed. The front-page headline in the morning newspaper is, " as the | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
Royals arrive, the Republicans recede". They say that support for a | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
republic has slumped to its lowest level in more than three decades. A | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
poll had found 51% wanting to keep the monarchy, 42% favouring a | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
republic. For the moment, monarchy seems to be winning the day. | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
Time for the weather now with Nick Miller. | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
All eyes on the Easter weather. A promising start but I'll get to that | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
but in a moment. Some cloud is rolling in through Scotland and | :29:08. | :29:10. | |
Northern Ireland but still plenty of dry weather around this afternoon. | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
Still some bright sunny spells coming through the cloud but there | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
is a of rain around. The far north-west of Scotland could see | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
spit and spots and the same in the West of Northern Ireland. But to 70 | :29:23. | :29:29. | |
degrees in northern England but for some, turning a bit hazy as the | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
afternoon goes on. We will keep crystal clear blue sky across the | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
West of England and Wales but towards the south coast, a | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
noticeable southeasterly wind. You've got the sunshine but there is | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
a breeze and a bit of a chill in the breeze, so temperatures held down | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
into low double figures. Lots of sunshine across Wales as well. | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
Turning hazy to the North. 15 degrees near Rhyl. For Northern | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
Ireland, not quite as warm as yesterday but eastern parts called | :29:57. | :30:00. | |
on to some bright skies. If you spots of rain and it continues to be | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
wet in the far north-west of Scotland. Elsewhere, despite the | :30:04. | :30:08. | |
cloud, mainly dry. The weather front bringing the rain moves south | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
tonight, heading through western parts of Scotland and across | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Northern Ireland. By the end of the night across northern England and | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
North Wales. Blustery showers in northern Scotland. Clear spells in | :30:21. | :30:28. | |
southern England. A touch of ground frost tomorrow morning to stop | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
cloudier skies tomorrow for England and Wales but the rain of the | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
weather system dying away. We'll hold onto some sunshine across the | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
south coast and Southern counties and it will be a warmer day than | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
today. Showers and the wind easing and it will feel decidedly fresh in | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
Scotland. Southern areas could see 18, 19 and maybe 20 degrees. This is | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
the start of the long Easter weekend. Lots of sunshine on Good | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Friday but a chilly start with a touch of frost and thanks to high | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
pressure, Saturday will continue in a similar vein. Then Easter day, an | :31:04. | :31:09. | |
area of low pressure comes into England and Wales with some rain | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
coming in. A cold day. Scotland and Northern Ireland will stay dry. | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
We'll keep you updated on the fine detail. A fine start this Easter but | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
later in the weekend, and increasing threat of rain as it turns | :31:24. | :31:24. | |
unsettled. At least four people have died and | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
300 - many of them schoolchildren - are missing after a ferry capsized | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
off the coast of South Korea. | :31:34. | :31:37. |