:00:00. > :00:10.Barclays announce huge job losses - many of them in the UK. 14,000 jobs
:00:11. > :00:13.are being axed this year alone, half of them in Britain, as Barclays
:00:14. > :00:17.tries to steamline its global operations. Also this lunchtime...
:00:18. > :00:20.The kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls - Nigeria's president
:00:21. > :00:26.says it could be the turning point in the fight against Islamist
:00:27. > :00:29.extremists. Calls for clearer packaging after it emerges that some
:00:30. > :00:38.supermarkets are selling halal meat - without labelling it. The
:00:39. > :00:41.kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls - the president of
:00:42. > :00:48.Nigeria says it could be a turning point in the fight against
:00:49. > :00:52.extremists. I wonder if there are creatures like as our there. And the
:00:53. > :00:55.British scientist Professor Colin Pillinger, famous for his efforts to
:00:56. > :01:03.find life on Mars, has died at the age of 70.
:01:04. > :01:08.On BBC London, radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza claimed he worked with MI5
:01:09. > :01:22.to keep London safe in his trial in New York.
:01:23. > :01:27.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. Barclays has
:01:28. > :01:32.announced it is cutting 19,000 jobs over the next three years - 7,000 of
:01:33. > :01:36.them will go in the UK this year. The jobs are being cut as Barclays
:01:37. > :01:39.tries to streamline its operations and reduce the size of its
:01:40. > :01:43.investment banking arm. Shares in the bank rose after the
:01:44. > :01:52.announcement. Our business correspondent Simon Gompertz has
:01:53. > :01:56.more. The swashbuckling survivor of the financial crisis which ripped
:01:57. > :01:59.through its rivals has become a allt tightening bank. Barclays'
:02:00. > :02:05.investment business carried it through the bad time, but now it has
:02:06. > :02:08.stalled, and staff will bear the brunt. Back in figure it, Barclays
:02:09. > :02:15.said up to 12,000 jobs will go this year. Now, the figure has gone up to
:02:16. > :02:23.14,000. It says a further 5000 jobs will be cut in 2015 and 2016, so the
:02:24. > :02:27.total is now 19,000 jobs to go, just over half of them in the UK.
:02:28. > :02:33.Barclays has a new chief executive, who has been bracing his workforce
:02:34. > :02:37.for a big change of direction. We have two recognise that we operate
:02:38. > :02:42.in very different times today. We need to run the bank in a way which
:02:43. > :02:45.is focused and more simple and will deliver the returns sought by our
:02:46. > :02:50.shareholders. The biggest investments bought and sold by bank
:02:51. > :02:55.traders are bonds issued by companies and governments who have
:02:56. > :02:59.to borrow. Hot money which boosted this trade has more than halved in
:03:00. > :03:03.the last few years, the mark-ups are lower, and there is little prospect
:03:04. > :03:09.of the prophets flipping back. It has positioned itself with staff as
:03:10. > :03:14.an all singing, all dancing, investment bank. Now, it will be
:03:15. > :03:22.saying that industry conditions have changed, and therefore we must
:03:23. > :03:25.change. Barclays is targeting families
:03:26. > :03:30.buying homes and stashing away their savings to fill the gap. Its staff
:03:31. > :03:34.are sweating on the wheel of basic banking, no longer masters of the
:03:35. > :03:39.universe, conjuring profits from betting on markets. It is the bank
:03:40. > :03:45.which brought you the LIBOR scandal over attempts to rig interest rates
:03:46. > :03:49.and was criticised by shareholders over bonuses paid to high-flyers.
:03:50. > :03:52.Now, that risk taking side of Barclays, which pushed the
:03:53. > :04:00.boundaries, stands to lose the most jobs. And Simon is with me now.
:04:01. > :04:05.Drastic cuts, but as we heard the boss saying, these are different
:04:06. > :04:08.times? Yes, you have two look back to the credit crunch and the
:04:09. > :04:12.aftermath of the financial crisis. At that time there were billions,
:04:13. > :04:16.trillions of pounds winging their way across the globe, people trying
:04:17. > :04:19.to find safe homes for their money, a lot of trading going on with banks
:04:20. > :04:24.like Barclays which were masters of this sort of trade, in what were
:04:25. > :04:28.called bondss. There was a lot of money to be made because of the
:04:29. > :04:31.uncertainties in pricing. Barclays made massive profits, which brought
:04:32. > :04:37.it through the financial crisis. Now, it is boring for the financial
:04:38. > :04:41.markets, there is much less trading going on, interest rates are low,
:04:42. > :04:46.margins are lower, there just is not so much going on, less money to be
:04:47. > :04:50.made, fewer people needed for it. They are having to focus more on
:04:51. > :04:55.boring old retail banking and trying to make money out of that. Just a
:04:56. > :04:59.quick word about branches, because people will have heard that hundreds
:05:00. > :05:03.of those are likely to close. No actual announcement about that
:05:04. > :05:06.today. But there are jobs likely to go in the branches as well, and we
:05:07. > :05:12.will hear more about that in the coming months and years. A woman who
:05:13. > :05:16.claimed she was repeatedly raped by the broadcaster Stuart Hall in his
:05:17. > :05:20.dressing room at the BBC more than 35 years ago has told a court she is
:05:21. > :05:24.not a gold digger looking for compensation. She is one of two
:05:25. > :05:28.women allegedly sexually assaulted by the former TV presenter in the
:05:29. > :05:34.late 70s and early 1980s. Stuart Hall, it can pick paedophile, has
:05:35. > :05:40.pleaded not guilty to all 20 current allegations. Our correspondent is
:05:41. > :05:45.outside the court. In the dock, Stuart Hall sat with his head down,
:05:46. > :05:50.just yards away from both of the women who had come this morning to
:05:51. > :05:54.the whip despots to tell the jury about the abuse they claim happened
:05:55. > :06:01.to them more than 30 years ago. -- to the witness box. Making the daily
:06:02. > :06:05.trip from prison to court, Stuart Hall knew that today the court would
:06:06. > :06:09.hear more about claims that he raped two girls in the 1970s. The
:06:10. > :06:12.84-year-old sat in the dock listening to the evidence through
:06:13. > :06:18.headphones. The jury has heard that his first alleged victim has sought
:06:19. > :06:22.to claim ?20,000 compensation. QC defending asked her if that was her
:06:23. > :06:27.motivation for contacting the police. She answered, if I was
:06:28. > :06:31.purely after compensation, do you honestly think I would have put
:06:32. > :06:35.myself through this? You are making me sound like a gold digger. Well,
:06:36. > :06:40.there are easier ways to make money. The prosecution say the woman was
:06:41. > :06:44.around 14 when she was first raped by Stuart Hall at the BBC's former
:06:45. > :06:48.studios in Manchester, and that he went on to rape her at his dressing
:06:49. > :06:53.room in another building at least 30 times. The court has been told that
:06:54. > :06:59.the TV presenter admits having sex with the girl, but denies rape,
:07:00. > :07:04.claiming that she consented. The prosecutor asked her if the sex had
:07:05. > :07:08.been consensual. She answered, when I think of somebody being raped, I
:07:09. > :07:11.think of them being attacked in an alleyway. But there are different
:07:12. > :07:14.forms of rape. It is quite a strong word, isn't it, rape? Even though I
:07:15. > :07:18.did not put up a fight, he knew I word, isn't it, rape? Even though I
:07:19. > :07:23.was in a very vulnerable position. I just think he took full advantage of
:07:24. > :07:27.it. Stuart Hall is also charged with raping a second girl, who may have
:07:28. > :07:31.been as young as ten when she was abused. The court has begun hearing
:07:32. > :07:38.evidence from her. The former broadcaster denies all the charges.
:07:39. > :07:42.In the last few minutes, that second woman alleging rape has been
:07:43. > :07:46.speaking about the attack she says happened when she was a young girl.
:07:47. > :07:50.She was asked whether she had done anything about it. She said, I did
:07:51. > :07:56.not say a word, I did not fight, I did not do anything. I was just
:07:57. > :07:59.there, like a rag doll. She was asked whether she had told anybody
:08:00. > :08:04.since until recently coming forward. She said, I did not want my father
:08:05. > :08:08.to be ashamed of me. You feeling credibly dirty, ashamed, confused
:08:09. > :08:10.and very frightened. The court will continue to hear from that woman for
:08:11. > :08:17.the rest of the afternoon. Campaigners and faith leaders have
:08:18. > :08:19.called for meat products to be labelled clearly after revelations
:08:20. > :08:22.that four of the UK's biggest food retailers have sold halal meat
:08:23. > :08:25.without describing it as such. The group Compassion in World Farming
:08:26. > :08:27.says consumers need more information about how animals are slaughtered.
:08:28. > :08:36.Our correspondent Sian Lloyd reports. In this butcher's in
:08:37. > :08:41.Birmingham, all the meat sold is halal. It has been slaughtered in
:08:42. > :08:48.accordance with Islamic religious beliefs. Halal meat basically is
:08:49. > :08:52.when the animal is slaughtered with a sharp knife, there is as little
:08:53. > :08:59.suffering as possible, and before it is performed, they say a blessing
:09:00. > :09:04.three times, and the animal is slaughtered. This butcher follows
:09:05. > :09:05.the strictest of principles and chooses an abattoir where animals
:09:06. > :09:11.are not stunned before slaughter. chooses an abattoir where animals
:09:12. > :09:15.believe it should not be stung because there is a possibility that
:09:16. > :09:22.the animal could be killed whilst it is stunned, which is not halal. But
:09:23. > :09:25.90% of halal meat in the UK does come from animals which have been
:09:26. > :09:30.stunned. That does not go far enough for some, though. British law
:09:31. > :09:33.already makes it compulsory for animals to be stunned when they are
:09:34. > :09:38.being slaughtered, except for religious exemption, and I would
:09:39. > :09:41.like to see the Government remove that exemption, so that all animals
:09:42. > :09:46.can be treated humanely when they are being slaughtered. But that is
:09:47. > :09:50.unlikely to happen. The Government says it would prefer animals to be
:09:51. > :09:54.stunned, but it says it has no intention of banning religious
:09:55. > :09:59.slaughter. For retailers, selling halal meat can be attractive, as it
:10:00. > :10:05.can be eaten by Muslim and not Muslim customers. But that is not
:10:06. > :10:32.always spelt out so, what our customers buying? Morrisons said...
:10:33. > :10:38.The Government says that it is important that customers do know
:10:39. > :10:44.what they are buying. It has been taking part in a European study
:10:45. > :10:49.which could lead to the compulsory labelling of halal and kosher meat.
:10:50. > :10:56.Does anybody really know what we are eating from supermarket foods? No, I
:10:57. > :11:02.do not think we do. I do not mind if it is halal or not. Once again, the
:11:03. > :11:08.meat industry in the UK is a cause for debate.
:11:09. > :11:11.The Bank of England has kept interest rates at an historic low
:11:12. > :11:16.for another month. It has been held at half of 1% for more than five
:11:17. > :11:21.years. Worries about rising house prices have intensified the debate
:11:22. > :11:25.over when rates might increase. With me is our chief economics
:11:26. > :11:31.correspondent, Hugh Pym. It is house prices which are worrying people?
:11:32. > :11:35.Yes, in policy-making circles, the housing market is becoming an
:11:36. > :11:38.increasingly big talking point. Figures from the Halifax today said
:11:39. > :11:46.average prices fell slightly in April but they are still up Barrett
:11:47. > :11:50.the house-builder said today it has presold 25% of the homes it is going
:11:51. > :11:54.to build next year. That is up a lot on recent years. The OECD has said
:11:55. > :12:00.there is a danger of the UK housing market overheating. And we have had
:12:01. > :12:06.three former chancellors saying the current Chancellor, George Osborne,
:12:07. > :12:12.should pull back on the help-to-buy scheme. What can be done about it by
:12:13. > :12:15.the Bank of England? On the Help to Buy scheme, the Chancellor has said
:12:16. > :12:20.that it is up to the Bank of England to tell the Treasury at one point it
:12:21. > :12:24.is time to rein it back. That might involve bringing down the top of the
:12:25. > :12:28.ceiling, from ?600,000 to a lower level. Or it could involve
:12:29. > :12:32.intervening to tighten up the criteria which are used to assess
:12:33. > :12:34.whether someone can afford a mortgage. It is really down to the
:12:35. > :12:39.Bank of England, under current legislation. That has got a major
:12:40. > :12:46.meeting of its important committee in June.
:12:47. > :12:52.A large explosion in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has destroyed
:12:53. > :12:57.a hotel and several other buildings, according to reports. Rebel fighters
:12:58. > :13:03.are believed to have placed a bomb beneath the Hotel near the city's
:13:04. > :13:05.medieval citadel. Opposition activists said government troops
:13:06. > :13:13.were based there, and the number had been killed. The British scientist
:13:14. > :13:18.Colin Pillinger, who was best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft
:13:19. > :13:22.on Mars, has died, aged 70. Professor Pillinger built the probe
:13:23. > :13:25.to try to search for Martian life. He named it Beagle 2 after Charles
:13:26. > :13:28.Darwin's HMS Beagle. It was supposed to land on the planet on Christmas
:13:29. > :13:34.Day but vanished without a trace. Our science correspondent Pallab
:13:35. > :13:39.Ghosh looks back at his life. He was a man with a mission, to Mars.
:13:40. > :13:45.Professor Colin Pillinger built and designed a British probe to search
:13:46. > :13:50.for life on the Red Planet. With his bushy sideburns and Victorian air,
:13:51. > :13:54.he was a modern-day Charles Darwin. If we could find just a glimmer of
:13:55. > :13:58.some life on Mars, then you could make this quantum leap of realising
:13:59. > :14:04.that we are not the only living species in the universe. Through the
:14:05. > :14:08.sheer force of his personality, determination and charisma, he
:14:09. > :14:16.persuaded the European Space Agency to launch his spacecraft, Beagle 2,
:14:17. > :14:20.in the summer of 2003. It was supposed to have landed on Christmas
:14:21. > :14:27.Day. There was no signal from the spacecraft. Professor Pillinger did
:14:28. > :14:31.not give up hope. On this mission, our faith has been unshakeable that
:14:32. > :14:34.the mission would go ahead, and we have crossed a lot of bridges to get
:14:35. > :14:41.this far, so we will keep the unshakeable faith. This photograph,
:14:42. > :14:47.of what might be the wreckage, suggests that Beagle 2 had probably
:14:48. > :14:50.crash landed. He was often argumentative, but always, always
:14:51. > :14:58.inspirational and able to bring people round to his way of
:14:59. > :15:00.thinking. In 2005, Professor Pillinger was diagnosed with
:15:01. > :15:06.multiple sclerosis. But he continued his efforts, poking and prodding
:15:07. > :15:13.space agencies to back another plan of his to land on Mars. It is mostly
:15:14. > :15:17.about meetings, and I can always reach you with a crutch if I need to
:15:18. > :15:24.prod you, you see! So I have got some advantages! Although Professor
:15:25. > :15:29.Pillinger was not successful in landing Beagle 2 on Mars, his
:15:30. > :15:31.efforts inspired the nation and infused the new generation in the
:15:32. > :15:36.wonders of science and space travel. He reached for the stars,
:15:37. > :15:46.and persuaded others that they could, too.
:15:47. > :15:51.Our top story this lunchtime. Barclays has announced it is cutting
:15:52. > :15:57.19,000 jobs over the next three years, 7000 in the UK this year. And
:15:58. > :16:00.still to come from the channel to the Amazon jungle, a special report
:16:01. > :16:07.from Frank Gardner on the new weapon in the fight against drugs. It is
:16:08. > :16:12.part of a training exercise and they are hoping it will give them the
:16:13. > :16:17.edge in their fight against drugs traffickers. Later on BBC London,
:16:18. > :16:21.the families of children who contracted E. Coli after cop
:16:22. > :16:26.visiting a Surrey farm say not as -- not enough is being done to stop it
:16:27. > :16:28.happening again. Concerns about the number of students taking
:16:29. > :16:36.prescription drugs to help them stay awake.
:16:37. > :16:40.It is almost a month since more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped at
:16:41. > :16:44.gunpoint from their school in north-east Nigeria. They were taken
:16:45. > :16:47.by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Nigeria's government has been
:16:48. > :16:51.heavily criticised for not doing enough to find them, but now the
:16:52. > :16:56.president, Goodluck Jonathan, has pledged to track them down. He says
:16:57. > :17:00.it could be a turning point in Nigeria's long-running battle
:17:01. > :17:04.against the Islamist extremists. Nick Childs reports.
:17:05. > :17:08.A wave of helpless anguish. These new images of the moment when the
:17:09. > :17:12.families of the abducted schoolgirls flooded desperately into the
:17:13. > :17:16.wrecked, burnt out shell of their school. And now, news of the new
:17:17. > :17:20.wave of hundreds more killings in this troubled region. Adding to
:17:21. > :17:25.people's grief and to the pressures on the beleaguered Nigerian
:17:26. > :17:29.authorities. Nigeria's president had hoped this week to be focusing on
:17:30. > :17:31.the country's economic progress. Instead his government has been
:17:32. > :17:36.defending its response to the campaign by the violent Islamist
:17:37. > :17:39.group Boko Haram, while visiting Chinese Premier is the latest
:17:40. > :17:43.international leader to offer Nigeria help over the kidnappings.
:17:44. > :17:49.The government of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and
:17:50. > :17:54.France, have also spoken with me and I have expressed our commitment to
:17:55. > :18:01.help us resolve this crisis in Nigeria. I believe that the kidnap
:18:02. > :18:07.of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria.
:18:08. > :18:09.Certainly a swelling high-profile social media campaign has reflected
:18:10. > :18:15.global revulsion over the kidnappings. Among the latest to
:18:16. > :18:18.join, the American First Lady. Plenty of security on show in the
:18:19. > :18:23.capital to protect the World Economic Forum. But
:18:24. > :18:25.capital to protect the World were slow to respond to the
:18:26. > :18:28.kidnappings and seem unable to stem the broader
:18:29. > :18:31.kidnappings and seem unable to stem Haram. But part of the international
:18:32. > :18:34.alarm has been the claim from the group's leader that the
:18:35. > :18:42.alarm has been the claim from the girls would in effect be sold as
:18:43. > :18:43.alarm has been the claim from the wealthy businessmen, traditional or
:18:44. > :18:47.religious leaders in wealthy businessmen, traditional or
:18:48. > :18:51.That means that they are additional to the four wives permitted under
:18:52. > :18:59.Islam. They the fifth wife, slave wife. For now though, the focus
:19:00. > :19:04.remains on what if anything can still be done to rescue these
:19:05. > :19:08.families' missing children. More than 1 million families in the
:19:09. > :19:13.UK are struggling with problem debt, which means they are behind with at
:19:14. > :19:16.least one bill or credit commitment. The Children's Society
:19:17. > :19:18.and StepChange Debt Charity is say on average these households owe
:19:19. > :19:23.almost than -- ?3500 on average these households owe
:19:24. > :19:28.out loans to pay for basics. The charity said children in debt ridden
:19:29. > :19:35.households suffer particularly badly. Michael Buchanan reports.
:19:36. > :19:37.A major damp problem was the start of the difficulties for this woman
:19:38. > :19:41.and her family. Fixing it led of the difficulties for this woman
:19:42. > :19:46.racking up thousands of pounds worth of debts. As charges on interest
:19:47. > :19:50.were added to her loans, as are many problems worsened, so did her family
:19:51. > :19:54.life. It got to a point where I would not leave the property. I
:19:55. > :19:57.could not go out. My daughter missed loads of nursery. She was getting
:19:58. > :20:02.could not go out. My daughter missed upset as well. She was asking if we
:20:03. > :20:07.could go to places, like Peppa Pig world and you have to say, you can't
:20:08. > :20:12.go. Debt is a significant problem for many UK families, according to
:20:13. > :20:15.the report. The charity has found nearly 2.5 million children are
:20:16. > :20:21.living in families who are behind on at least one household bills. On
:20:22. > :20:25.average, they owe nearly ?3500. Nearly 3 million other families with
:20:26. > :20:29.children are on the brink of financial problems. Children are
:20:30. > :20:33.living in families which are arguing about debt, which are under
:20:34. > :20:36.pressure, and we find one in five kids are being bullied at school
:20:37. > :20:41.because their families are in debt. These children are growing up in an
:20:42. > :20:45.environment where they have got low aspirations, low hope for the
:20:46. > :20:50.future. Borrowing money has in many ways never been easier, with plenty
:20:51. > :20:53.of lenders on high streets and all over the Internet. Getting money
:20:54. > :20:57.from short-term loan companies can be useful for some people. But
:20:58. > :21:00.others find the repayment is difficult to meet and what was a
:21:01. > :21:05.small debt can quickly become unmanageable. When this family's
:21:06. > :21:10.credit card bills spiralled, Mum felt lonely. Her daughter,
:21:11. > :21:16.embarrassed. I did not feel like an equal of the kids. People at school
:21:17. > :21:21.have money they were flashing about. I did not say much. I felt I had to
:21:22. > :21:26.keep myself to myself for my family's sake. Families need more
:21:27. > :21:28.help, say the charities. They want the government to work with
:21:29. > :21:33.creditors to create a scheme that would give struggling households
:21:34. > :21:38.more protection from default charges on enforcement action.
:21:39. > :21:41.Scotland Yard is calling it the world's biggest pilot scheme. It
:21:42. > :21:46.involves police using portable cameras attached to their uniforms.
:21:47. > :21:49.500 cameras will be distributed to officers, who will be expected to
:21:50. > :21:53.use them when dealing with stop and search operations and violence. It
:21:54. > :21:57.is hoped it will bring speedier justice for victims. This report
:21:58. > :22:03.from a home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger contains images you may
:22:04. > :22:09.find disturbing. Police respond to a report of
:22:10. > :22:15.domestic violence. Get away from me. The evidence from a police body
:22:16. > :22:19.camera is undeniable. Of our children here? Where are your kids?
:22:20. > :22:25.The attacker pleaded guilty. His victim was birds are further ordeal
:22:26. > :22:29.of attending court -- spared the further ordeal. Sometimes victims
:22:30. > :22:36.are so terrified they cannot bring a prosecution. This is evidence and we
:22:37. > :22:40.can put it before a court and as importantly for me, as you will see
:22:41. > :22:44.in that footage, you see the terror. This trial will establish how
:22:45. > :22:48.effective body cameras. Officers say they have boosted the number of
:22:49. > :22:51.guilty pleas and helps avoid costly trials. They say they are also
:22:52. > :22:57.seeing fewer complaints about police behaviour. The reasoning behind
:22:58. > :23:00.these body cameras is simple. If the criminal knows there is recorded
:23:01. > :23:04.evidence of their wrongdoing, then they are more likely to plead guilty
:23:05. > :23:10.early. And if somebody knows that they are being filmed, they are less
:23:11. > :23:15.likely to be violent. He is walking over, that one. Camera use will
:23:16. > :23:18.focus initially on reports of violence and stop and search. But
:23:19. > :23:24.there are concerns that officers may abuse the power to stop and start
:23:25. > :23:28.recording. Clearly there is a risk that if an officer recognises the
:23:29. > :23:31.situation is arising and does not want it recorded, that that officer
:23:32. > :23:35.can turn the camera off. If that does happen and evidence is not
:23:36. > :23:41.created, the Met police have got to crack down on that very hard,
:23:42. > :23:44.otherwise the public. Seeing this as reassuring and theatres are
:23:45. > :23:51.one-sided surveillance technology. The Met predicts that in London
:23:52. > :23:56.alone, 10,000 - 20,000 body cameras will eventually be in use and many
:23:57. > :24:00.more across the UK. Labour to call a vote in the Commons
:24:01. > :24:04.in an attempt to ban letting agents charging fees to tenants. The
:24:05. > :24:08.party's leader Ed Miliband says people who buy a house are not
:24:09. > :24:12.charged fees by agents, but people who read our. Mr Miliband is
:24:13. > :24:15.spending the day visiting communities in Manchester and
:24:16. > :24:20.Dewsbury. Let's get more from Norman Smith.
:24:21. > :24:23.I have been out and about with the Labour leader this morning and what
:24:24. > :24:27.is clear is the extent to which Mr Miliband is using these elections as
:24:28. > :24:32.a dress rehearsal to test run his cost of living campaign ahead of
:24:33. > :24:36.next year's general election, which is why he has announced he is to
:24:37. > :24:40.force a vote next Tuesday, which would have the effect of banning
:24:41. > :24:44.estate agents from charging tenants of the simply for the privilege of
:24:45. > :24:50.renting a property for them. These fees can cost a lot of money, up to
:24:51. > :24:53.?500. Mr Miliband told me while sitting a sure start Centre in
:24:54. > :24:59.Manchester that if this vote was passed the ban could come into force
:25:00. > :25:03.before the next election. David Cameron seemed to be warming to
:25:04. > :25:07.Labour's policy on rents. Now he has a chance to vote for it on Tuesday
:25:08. > :25:11.and Conservatives and Liberal Democrats now has to answer the
:25:12. > :25:15.question, do they stand up for generation rent? 9 million people in
:25:16. > :25:19.this country, they will want to know from Conservative MPs and Liberal
:25:20. > :25:23.Democrat MPs this weekend, we can ban these fees, we can ban letting
:25:24. > :25:28.agents and charging fees. That is an immediate financial benefit to
:25:29. > :25:33.people who rent their homes. Let's get it done and do what is in the
:25:34. > :25:35.national interest. The Association of residential letting agents have
:25:36. > :25:39.attacked the move, saying you get rid of these fees, landlords will
:25:40. > :25:44.put up their rents. But it is an awkward one for Mr Cameron because
:25:45. > :25:47.while he doesn't want to be seen to being blown around by Mr Miliband on
:25:48. > :25:51.the cost-of-living ended -- issue, neither does he want to be seen to
:25:52. > :25:55.be on the side of landlords and estate agents against people simply
:25:56. > :25:59.trying to find a home. Yesterday, when challenged, Mr Cameron did not
:26:00. > :26:04.dismiss out of hand or Mr Miliband's ideas on helping
:26:05. > :26:05.so-called generation rent. You can get full coverage of the
:26:06. > :26:17.local and European elections online. They used to be a familiar sight
:26:18. > :26:21.going back and forth across the Channel, but now hovercraft were
:26:22. > :26:25.phased out. Now, they are making a comeback in the Amazon jungle of all
:26:26. > :26:30.places. British hovercraft, built in Southampton, are being used as a new
:26:31. > :26:35.weapon against Colombian insurgents and cocaine traffickers. Frank
:26:36. > :26:38.Gardner reports from the remote Amazon settlement of Puerto
:26:39. > :26:42.Leguizamo. Deep in the jungle of southern
:26:43. > :26:48.Colombia there is something new on the river. They are fast, heavily
:26:49. > :26:52.armed and they can reach places ordinary boats can't get to.
:26:53. > :26:54.armed and they can reach places British built combat hovercraft have
:26:55. > :26:59.been brought all the way from Southampton to the Amazon jungle and
:27:00. > :27:02.the Colombian navy is helping -- is hoping it will give them a crucial
:27:03. > :27:07.advantage chasing drugs smugglers and insurgents here in the heart of
:27:08. > :27:10.the world's cocoa industry. We watched them practice the river
:27:11. > :27:15.borne assault on a mocked up rebel camp. In this part of Colombia, they
:27:16. > :27:21.are operating in areas where much of the jungle is infiltrated by the
:27:22. > :27:27.main rebel group. The Fox-macro movement. Both sides in this
:27:28. > :27:30.conflict have committed human rights abuses. They have also -- there have
:27:31. > :27:34.been allegations of corruption in the military, even collusion with
:27:35. > :27:40.drugs traffickers. With no cease-fire signed, the war goes on.
:27:41. > :27:44.TRANSLATION: These hovercraft are going to change
:27:45. > :27:47.the whole dynamics of the war. Because up until now, we have only
:27:48. > :27:51.been able to operate for half the year. From October to January, we
:27:52. > :27:56.can't move because the river level stop so far our boats hit the rocks.
:27:57. > :27:59.These hovercraft don't stop so far our boats hit the rocks.
:28:00. > :28:06.water, so now we can cut off the rebels' supply lines. I flew west
:28:07. > :28:11.with the military to see one of rebels' supply lines. I flew west
:28:12. > :28:19.border with Ecuador, where they are facing a deadly scourge. Mines. This
:28:20. > :28:23.was a controlled explosion. But the Marines said they have had to clear
:28:24. > :28:28.dozens here, placed by the rebels and drug traffickers to defend their
:28:29. > :28:32.illegal coca crops. Peace talks with the FARC are under way, but there
:28:33. > :28:38.was no cease-fire and if a deal is signed will that mean an end to
:28:39. > :28:41.Columbia's drug problem? We have to be realistic. We should expect as we
:28:42. > :28:47.have seen in the past that some crimes and some criminal bands might
:28:48. > :28:51.pop up, right appear in some areas, trying to keep the kind of business.
:28:52. > :28:57.The new hovercraft are unlikely to change that overnight. But they will
:28:58. > :29:01.add to the mounting pressure on insurgents and drug traffickers to
:29:02. > :29:09.end the violence that is -- that has plagued Colombia for so long.
:29:10. > :29:13.Time for a look at the weather now. The next views is not that great for
:29:14. > :29:16.hovercraft, we have strong winds across the South in particular
:29:17. > :29:23.through the INGRES channel. It is not just wind. A lot of rain. The
:29:24. > :29:26.radar picture shows bright colours, indicating heavy downpours through
:29:27. > :29:30.Wales and England. The heaviest is pushing out into the North Sea. We
:29:31. > :29:35.are seeing showers moving in as the afternoon wears on. There are the
:29:36. > :29:40.wind averages. Touching gale force at times along the gale -- along the
:29:41. > :29:43.Dover Straits. The best of the sunshine across the Northern Quarter
:29:44. > :29:48.of Scotland as we head into the afternoon, including the Northern
:29:49. > :29:50.Isles. We could see heavy downpours. Further south, rather cloudier
:29:51. > :29:54.affair for much of central Further south, rather cloudier
:29:55. > :29:59.thicker cloud There will be some brightness
:30:00. > :30:02.particularly for the East of Northern Ireland and perhaps east of
:30:03. > :30:10.any high ground for Wales and England. Always a lot of around.
:30:11. > :30:13.Temperatures, highs of 13-16dC. That is the afternoon. Into the evening
:30:14. > :30:17.Temperatures, highs of 13-16dC. That period and overnight, we see the
:30:18. > :30:22.heaviest showers moving to the North Sea. Drier interlude for a time for
:30:23. > :30:26.England and Wales. The next crop of showers moving around dawn. These
:30:27. > :30:30.could be heavy. We have the wind, blustery showers and it should not
:30:31. > :30:35.be too cold, 8-11 Celsius in the South. We start Friday morning
:30:36. > :30:37.rather showery, heavy showers clearing away from eastern areas
:30:38. > :30:43.through the course of the morning. Tomorrow, a better day in regards to
:30:44. > :30:46.more sunshine. Far more sunshine across England and Wales. Scotland
:30:47. > :30:52.and Northern Ireland seeing heavy, slow moving and thundery downpours
:30:53. > :30:59.at times. Feeling Warburg -- warmer, particularly in the south-east, 18
:31:00. > :31:02.or 19 Celsius. For the weekend, a low pressure area which is deep for
:31:03. > :31:07.the time of year. Fairly breezy or windy throughout the weekend. Windy
:31:08. > :31:11.particularly near the coast. Rain followed by sunshine and showers.
:31:12. > :31:15.Not a wash-out. Not a pretty start the day for Saturday. Heavy rain
:31:16. > :31:20.around, strong winds across the South. Pushing into the East. A day
:31:21. > :31:25.of blustery showers and some sunny spells. The showers could be heavy
:31:26. > :31:30.in the West, top temperatures mid to high teens Celsius. On Sunday,
:31:31. > :31:34.cooler. West north-westerly wind, feeding into some heavy showers at
:31:35. > :31:37.times interspersed with sunshine. On Monday, we continue with sunshine
:31:38. > :31:40.and showers into the start of the new week.
:31:41. > :31:41.and showers into the start of the new Unite that is