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'Manifestly dysfunctional' - the damning verdict on The Co-op Group | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
in a new report. A former city minister calls for | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
widespread reform, and says the group's board was "still stuck in | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
denial over a near ruinous failure of governance". I think it's only | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
through strong language that I can get the message through to the eight | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
million members that radical and fundamental change is required. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
We'll be hearing from Lord Myners, who wrote that report. | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
Chaotic scenes outside court as the former chairman of The Co-op Bank | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Paul Flowers pleads guilty to drug offences. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Also this lunchtime: police are investigating whether a violent | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
criminal struck again. The trial of veteran broadcaster | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Stuart Hall hears claims that he repeatedly raped two girls in his | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
dressing room at the BBC. And who says there's no politics at | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Eurovision? Russia's entry is booed as it reaches the final in | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Copenhagen. Later on BBC London: A woman walks | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
free from court after killing her husband in a failed suicide pact. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
And anger at The Met after police hold a teenager with Down's syndrome | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
for nine hours. Good afternoon and welcome to the | :01:20. | :01:41. | |
BBC News At One. There's a warning today that the | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
future of The Co-op Group could be in danger unless it makes radical | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
changes to the way it is run. The former Labour minister Lord Myners | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
has published a report in which he says the current management | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
structure isn't fit for purpose. He's recommending the creation of a | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
much smaller governing board made up of people with more business | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
experience. Simon Gompertz has more. It comes on the day the former | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
chairman of the bank Paul Flowers was charged with drug possession. | :02:11. | :02:24. | |
It is The Co-op calamity. The running of all its assets condemned | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
in one of the most condemning report ever produced on a British | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
business. It is from the former minister and M chairman Lord | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Myners who says the board is not up to the job. I would say the | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
competency level of the regional level directors is very low by the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
standard of what is required. Some of them understand -- struggled to | :02:45. | :02:55. | |
understand basic financial concepts. The Co-op was the heavyweight food | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
retailer in the 1950s, but recently it has lost ?3.5 billion of its | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
value. Lord Myners says it's structure of local committees | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
electing to regional ones and then a large board does not work. He wants | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
a smaller, professional board, a nominations committee to bet | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
directors who would be elected, bypassing it is, plus a national | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
membership committee to handle ethics. Much damage has been caused | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
by the near collapse of the Co-operative Bank, but despite the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
dire situation, there is opposition from so -- from some co-op regions. | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
What he needs is the current members of The Co-operative Group to be able | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
to vote for significant changes. It does not help if they are being | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
criticised as they happened today. By issuing such a damning report on | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
the leadership of The Co-op, Lord Myners is damning -- piling the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
pressure on members to approve the sort of professional board he wants | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
to see. Otherwise, he warns the very existence of the group could be | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
under threat. The Co-op has stated it is committed to far reaching and | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
fundamental reform. Decision time comes at the annual general meeting | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
in ten days when it votes on its future. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
Meanwhile, the former chairman of The Co-op bank, Paul Flowers, has | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
appeared in court charged with drugs possession. He was arrested last | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
November after newspaper allegations that he'd been involved in a drugs | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
deal. He'd stepped down from The Co-op six months earlier over | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
concerns about his expenses. Ed Thomas is outside Leeds Magistrates' | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
Court. There was absolute chaos as Paul | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
Flowers arrived. He was surrounded by journalists. He refused to answer | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
any questions. Inside was much more calm. His barrister said he was full | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
of remorse, and a man of good character. This report has flash | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
photography. Paul Flowers came to court | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
prepared, three minders by his side, ready to admit his guilt and | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
to face justice. But justice wasn't ready for him. The doors were locked | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
and there was nowhere to go. So, he waited, and told reporters exactly | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
what he thought of them. It was those same vultures who published | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
this. Secret filming of the former co-operative bank chairman buying | :05:37. | :05:37. | |
cocaine, methamphetamine and kept on. Films by a man who thought the | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
former chairman was a hypocrite. And then, there was this, his disaster | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
of a performance in Parliament, in front of MPs, about the near | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
collapse of the Co-operative Bank. Roughly, what is your total asset | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
value? Just over 3 billion. I am talking about the assets. I am as | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
well. Your annual accounts showed them at 47 billion. Today, he left | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
court surrounded by chaos. His criminal case is over. What do you | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
say to your former colleagues? But he is a free man. Before he left, he | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
said, don't add me any questions, because you won't get any answers. | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
You still get the sense there are some questions that need and spring. | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
The main one is, how did you get to the very top of the co-operative | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
Bank and stay there for so long? Police are investigating whether | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
there is any link between an armed robbery and the escape of a | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
convicted armed robber known as the Skull Cracker. Armed police were | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
sent to the scene at 10:20am after reports of an armed robbery. Surrey | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
Police say they are cooperating with Kent Police who are leading the hunt | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
for the 55-year-old Skull Cracker who absconded from a prison in Kent | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
over the weekend when he was serving 13 life sentences for robbery. The | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
last confirmed sighting of him was in Twickenham on Monday evening, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
that is six miles from where this armed robbery took place this | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
morning, so it is a natural line of enquiry. But police are being | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
cautious about saying it is any more than that. It is an early stage of | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
the investigation. They have asked anyone who may have seen anything | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
around that building society at 10am to contact them. | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
The trial of Stuart Hall has heard that the veteran broadcaster groomed | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
two young girls, then repeatedly raped them in his BBC dressing room | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
in Manchester in the 1970s. The jury heard that one of the girls was aged | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
between ten and 12 when she was first raped - the other was as young | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
as 12. The court's also been told that Stuart Hall does not dispute | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
that he had sexual intercourse with the girls, but that he denies that | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
it was rape, and will say it was consensual. Judith Moritz has been | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
listening to the morning's proceedings. | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
That's right, the jury were told that last year Stuart Hall was | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
convicted of these sexual abuses of 13 girls. In the wake of the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
publicity surrounding that case, two women have come forward also | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
alleging that they were abused by the former broadcaster in the late | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
1970s. Abuse which includes, they say, multiple counts of rape. The | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
jury were told some of the detail of that today, but Stuart Hall's | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
barrister also told them that, whilst his client admits having | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
sexual intercourse with the girls in the 1970s, he will say was | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
consensual. He said to the jury, you will have to decide whether or not | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
he is a rapist. My report contains some flash the geography. | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Stuart Hall was brought to court again this morning from prison, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
where he is serving a 30 month sentence for child sex offences he | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
was convicted of last year. Today, the new trial against him began. He | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
listened to proceedings through headphones as the prosecution opened | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
its case. Peter Wright QC told the jury that Stuart Hall braked and | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
indecently assaulted two girls in the 1970s when they were younger | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
than 16. He said, these were young, impressionable teenagers being | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
groomed by a sexual predator into satisfying his sexual requirements. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
He took advantage of the influence he held over them. Now, all these | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
years later, their silence has been broken. The court heard that the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
girls were raped in his dressing room at the former BBC studios in | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Manchester. One girl says it happens so often she lost count, but | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
estimates at least 30 occasions. The jury was told Street -- Stuart Hall | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
admits to having sex with the girls, but will argue they consented. He | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
denies 15 charges of rape and five of indecent assault. The case | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
continues. The jury have begun to hear from the | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
first witness in the case, the first of the women who alleges she was | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
abused as a child. She's been telling them about a situation when | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
she was in a swimming pool would Stuart Hall as a young girl and she | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
says that he groped her. She said, I remember feeling very uncomfortable | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
with the scenario. He kept holding me all the time like an invasion of | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
your space. The trial continues. The Nigerian government has offered | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
a reward of ?175,000 to help find the schoolgirls kidnapped by the | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram. A team of American experts, | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
including military advisers, is being sent to the capital Abuja to | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
help in the search for the girls. From Nigeria, Tomi Oladipo sent this | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
report. It has been three weeks since the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
girls were adopted. So far, the Nigerian government has appeared | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
powerless to rescue them. This has caused outrage on the streets of the | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Nigerian capital, Abuja, with protests growing every day. These | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
feelings are being echoed around the world. If the world does nothing and | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
they get away with it then we set this horrible precedent, so I think | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
it is extremely important something is done to try to find these girls | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
and bring them home. God forbid we can't, we still have to bring these | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
men to justice. The US is now sending in a team to help. This | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
organisation has been one of the worst local terrorist organisations | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
in the world. We have long sought to do with Nigeria in dealing with them | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
and we will do everything we can to assist them in their recovery of | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
these young women. Looking at what is on offer, the US operates a base | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
nearby. From there, it can send drones to fly over the dense forests | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
where the girls are thought to be capped. Military and forensic | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
experts are also expected to be deployed. The focus in Nigeria | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
should have been on the World Economic Forum looking at regional | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
growth, but it has been overshadowed by this painful news. Nigeria has | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
grown to be the largest economy in Africa, and that is the picture they | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
would want the world to see. But it is different to ignore the ongoing | :12:58. | :13:09. | |
security issues which have cost thousands of lives in recent years. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
For the families of the kidnapped girls, the agony continues. They're | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
been reports of eight more girls being taken by Boko Haram. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Here, David Cameron called the abductions an act of pure evil. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
During Prime Minister's Questions, he also confirmed that a British | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
military training team was already in the country, and that the UK was | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
ready to help in any way it could. Let's speak to our chief political | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith. These were Mr Cameron's first words | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
on the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls and he said as a father | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
of two daughters who could only imagine the pain that the families | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
were going through. But it is clear there is a degree of frustration in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
government circles about the response of the Nigerian authorities | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
so far. Mr Cameron said that had been repeated offers of help after | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
the girls were kidnapped three weeks ago. There is already a team of | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
British military trainers in Nigeria, there are counterterrorism | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
officers on-site, but my understanding is that so far there | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
have been no requests for assistance from the Prime Minister. It is not | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
just the humanitarian fact about is prompting British government in | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
patience. There is also a concern that this goes way beyond Nigeria. | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Mr Cameron's view is that there is that this affects the whole world, | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
it is about Islamic extremism. This is an act of pure evil, it has | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
united people across the planet to unite with Nigeria and to find these | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
children and return to their parents. The British government made | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
repeated offers of help to the Nigerian government and I will be | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
speaking to the leader this afternoon. We stand ready to provide | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
any assistance and to work closely with the US. We already have a | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
British military training team in Nigeria, the Foreign Office have | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
counterterrorism experts. We should be proud that we are playing a role | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
in helping to educate a thousand Nigerian children. This is not just | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
a Nigerian issue, it is a global issue. There are extreme Islamists | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
around our world who are against education and progress, equality. We | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
must fight them on and take them on. That is perhaps another reason why | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
there is this irritation, frustration, I think, in government | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
circles. Not just the backed of the humanitarian horror of the situation | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
and the need to confront this Islamist extremism, but because | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
through British government aid we supply 600,000 places the | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
schoolgirls in Nigeria. In Syria, it looks like the siege of Homs could | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
be over. It had been known as the capital of the revolution. Now, the | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
two sides have reached an agreement which will see more than 1000 rubble | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
troops pulling out of the city. Our correspondent has been monitoring | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
events from Beirut. -- rebel troops. This is very significant | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
symbolically and strategically. This place was called by the opposition | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
in the capital of the revolution, and now they are abandoning it. The | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
rebel fighters that we saw looked utterly demoralised. We spoke to | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
people by Skype who were extremely bitter about, in their view, being | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
abandoned by the outside world and by their own political leadership in | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
Turkey, and by the other rebel fighters, just outside Homs. This | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
was a very painful decision for them, no mistake. It was one which | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
divided deeply the rebel forces inside Homs. It took several months | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
for them to agree to this withdrawal. The Islamists Nusra | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Front, linked to Al-Qaeda, wanted to stay and carry eight Campana line of | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
suicide bombings to break the siege. In fact, they started to do that. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
But it did not work in the face of air strikes. It is not a complete | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
surrender, because they have been allowed to leave with their weapons, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
but they have now abandoned this very important place. The upshot is | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
that President Assad is looking stronger than ever. Our top story | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
this lunchtime - a report says the Co-op group is in danger of | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
disappearing because its management structures are not fit for purpose. | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
Still to come, move aside, Tyrannosaurus rex, here is Pinocchio | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
rex. Later on BBC London News, digging deep to bring communities | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
together, can Gardening help people feel less lonely? And could it be | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
the end of the line for this steam engine? Younger volunteers are | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
needed to keep it running. South Africans go to the polls today | :17:55. | :18:06. | |
in the first vote since the death of Nelson Mandela. The ruling African | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
National Congress is favourite to win the election, but its campaign | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
has been hit by concern over high unemployment and corruption. Here's | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
our Africa correspondent, Andrew Harding. They began queueing here | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
before dawn. Many are still loyal and grateful to the party which | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
helped to liberate South Africa and has been in power ever since. | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Freedom of speech, better roads, better facilities, and we are no | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
longer treated like slaves, like they used to treat us like slaves, | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
long ago. So you will be voting today for... ? For the legacy of the | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
old man. For the ANC. No doubt about it. Which explains why Jacob Zuma | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
will almost certainly keep his job, despite being accused of | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
corruption. That the ANC is the army was brought into this impoverished | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
township after riots yesterday. In troubled communities like this one, | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
the optimism of 20 years ago has evaporated, to be replaced by | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
cynicism, frustration and increasingly, by violence. These | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
teenagers say they took part in yesterday's protests. At the heart | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
of all young South Africans, the so-called porn frees, are struggling | :19:30. | :19:43. | |
to find work. -- Born Frees. He has done nothing but corruption. So I do | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
not think the ANC should lead any longer. A new party should begin a | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
chance to lead us. And there are plenty of parties vying for power, | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
splitting the opposition vote. Some are promising an end to corruption, | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
others are complaining that too much of the economy remains in white | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
hands. Here, we found plenty of frustrated ANC supporters who were | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
considering a protest vote today. By not voting them today, I am sending | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
assigned to them that I am your supporter, but the thing is, I am a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
bit frustrated with what you are doing to our people. And that is a | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
common view here, that the ANC is losing its way, but it may not be | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
beyond redemption. A 77-year-old man has died after his | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
car was hit by a train at a level crossing in North Yorkshire. The | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
incident happened at around a quarter past nine this morning. No | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
passengers were injured but the train driver was treated for severe | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
shock. The author Leslie Thomas, best known | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
for his novel about national service The Virgin Soldiers, has died. The | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
83-year-old also worked as a journalist, covering the trial of | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. He died at his home near | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Salisbury in Wiltshire after a lengthy illness. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
The care industry needs to make sure that their workers have a basic | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
grasp of English before they are allowed to work with vulnerable | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
people in their homes. That's according to a government advisor | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
who says that poor language skills could lead to the bad care and abuse | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
of patients and racial abuse towards carers. Here's our social affairs | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
correspondent Michael Buchanan. Allowing a stranger into your home | :21:20. | :21:32. | |
can leave many people feeling vulnerable. Carers are often asked | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
to carry out basic tasks such as cooking, cleaning and bathing, so, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
being able to understand each other is crucial. Many workers from | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
outside the European Union already have to prove they can speak basic | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
English. Now, this government adviser says it is time for care | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
agencies to make sure their employees from within the EU also | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
have good language skills. It is the core of the care work, | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
communication. And also, interpersonal relationships. If you | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
do not have the necessary skills to build that on, it may cause further | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
problems, further misunderstanding and a stress. The care industry | :22:10. | :22:19. | |
relies heavily on foreign workers. 20% of the UK's carers are migrants. | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
In the major cities, it can be 50%. These two Hungarian women used to | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
work as carers. Even though they both speak good English, they still | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
had problems. I did not know the word hoist, or I did not know the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
word gravy, what you put in chicken stew! Care agencies accept good | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
communication skills are essential, but they say paying for more | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
training could be difficult. Social care is dramatically underfunded in | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
the UK. We need to make sure that local authorities, who purchased the | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
majority of care, our funding care properly. One of the biggest risks | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
is the training, including training in English language, suffers if care | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
is underfunded. As the population ages, more carers will be required. | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Those looking after us will need the right skills to make The Appeal | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Court has ruled that the sentence given to a man who killed another | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
man with a single punch was not "unduly leniant". | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
Russia says there is no point in holding a new round of talks on | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary is in Kiev today. There should be no doubt | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
that the Russian government is trying to orchestrate conflict and | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
provocations in the east and south of Ukraine, and that the immediate | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
goal is the destruction of elections on the 25th of May. Although of | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
course, they might also be trying to provide a pretext for intervention. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
Our correspondent is in Kiev. The situation is already tense, this | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
would appear to make it even more so? That's right. We also spoke to | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
the Foreign Secretary one on one, and in addition to what is going on | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
right now, we asked what the long-term consequences of this | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
crisis could be. William Hague told us that it could be very serious. He | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
said although the West would continue to work with Russia on | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
international issues, he said that Russia is obviously not sharing our | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
values. He said ten years ago there was hope that Russia shared our | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
values, but this was not the case. I asked him if this meant that this | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
could be a Cold War stand-off. He said he would not describe it as a | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Cold War, but he said, I would say we have to be ready for a different | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
state of relations with Russia, in the next ten years. So, obviously, | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
this is not just something which affects Ukraine and the The Green | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
Party has launched its local election campaign in the West | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
Midlands today. West, but it is something which is going to be | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
affecting the West and relations with Russia for some time to come. | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
There were clashes of a different kind last night between supporters | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
of Ukraine and Russia, this time it was on the stage, for the Eurovision | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
Song Contest. When the Russian act went through to the final, the | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
audience left judges and viewers in no doubt about how they felt about | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
current events in Ukraine. Lizo Mzimba has the story. With the | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
continuing political tension between Russia and Ukraine, many were | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
waiting to see how it might affect the annual contest celebrating | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
musical unity. Ukraine's semifinal performance from Maria Yaremchuk was | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
well received. She went on to qualify for the final. Russia's | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
entry from the teenage Tolmachevy Twins song about the world showing | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
some love. But when it was announced that they would be one of the | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
countries competing in the final on Saturday, there were boos in the | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
arena. COMMENTATOR: Russia have a 100% | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
success rate in qualifying for the final. Oh, the audience do not seem | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
to like that... I am from Russia, I have Ukrainian roots, but here, I am | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
only here for music. There is politics, and this is music summer | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
so we are glad that Russia gets through as well. The UK | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
automatically qualifies for the final, but whoever wins on Saturday | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
could end up being overshadowed by Russia and Ukraine. | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
More than 60 million years ago, it was this fearsome beast, | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Tyrannosaurus rex, that ruled the Earth. Well scientists from | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
Edinburgh say they've discovered a new species in China, uncovered by | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
workers digging on a construction site. It's slightly different from | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
other finds, with a longer snout, which has led the scientists to | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
nickname the dinosaur Pinocchio rex. Jon Brain reports. You wait 66 | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
million years to be rediscovered, and when you are, all anybody wants | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
to talk about is how big your nose is. Step forward Qianzhousaurus | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
sinensis, nicknamed Pinocchio rex on account of his extraordinary long | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
snout. The remains of the skull were discovered in southern China. | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
Researchers from Edinburgh University examined them and | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
identified a previously unknown species of dinosaur. Pinocchio was | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
actually related to our more familiar friend Tyrannosaurus rex. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
They would have shared the same toothy grin. The T-rex was more | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
fearsome looking, with thicker teeth and a more powerful jaw and a much | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
smaller snout. But despite his comical appearance, you would not | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
have wanted to meet Qianzhousaurus sinensis in a dark alley. He would | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
have looked funny with these little horns sticking out from his nose, | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
but it would've been a deadly animal. It was not as big as T-rex, | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
but hardly anything was. This guy would have been eight or nine metres | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
long, it would have weighed about a tonne, you would have run from it! | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
Scientists say they expect more species to be discovered. It is a | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
doubt any of them would be a match for T-rex himself. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
mix of sunny spells and showers. Coming further south, we start to | :28:32. | :29:19. | |
lose the showers. It has been quite sunny up to now. But a bit more | :29:20. | :29:34. | |
cloud feeding in in the afternoon. Reasonable temperatures. Let's go | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
back to the rain as we head back into northern England. Not a | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
pleasant end to the day. Not too much rain getting across to the | :29:47. | :29:49. | |
eastern side of the Pennines until later on. We will keep the breeze | :29:50. | :29:58. | |
going, and quite a bit of cloud, except in northern Scotland, which | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
will have some clearer spells. You might have noticed some more rain | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
heading in behind me, thanks to this weather system. It is going to be a | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
little bit messy, in terms of the amount of rain, and how far north it | :30:15. | :30:23. | |
gets. Not a pleasant day as you come into Northern Ireland and across the | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
rest of England and Wales. Never reliably dry, really. Quite a breezy | :30:28. | :30:38. | |
day as well for Friday. This time more of a mix of sunshine and | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
showers. If you catch a shower, you will know about it. They will be | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
quite heavy, I think. Looking ahead to the weekend, it is not a pretty | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
picture, to be honest. Saturday in particular looking wet for many of | :30:54. | :30:55. | |
us. Call blowing in as well. Our main headline... There has been | :30:56. | :31:16. | |
a warning that the Co-op Group could diminish into insignificance if it | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
does not make radical changes to the way it is one. That is all | :31:21. | :31:21. |