Browse content similar to 24/07/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
The UN's humanitarian chief expresses "extreme concern" | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
at what she calls the dire situation in Gaza - describing | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
More than 700 Palestinians and 35 Israelis have been killed - | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
and Baroness Amos says residents in Gaza are running out of food. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
The Foreign Secretary says both sides must stop. | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
Israel has the right to defend itself and its citizens, but we are | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
gravely concerned by the ongoing heavy level of civilian casualties. | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
We'll have the latest from Gaza and from Jerusalem. | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Calls for tighter security at the Air Malaysia crash site - | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
as more victims are flown to Holland, eyewitnesses describe | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
They went too far - the undercover police who spied on | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
the families of 18 bereaved families - including Stephen Lawrence, Ricky | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
I'm here in Glasgow as the Commonwealth Games are | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
Shock for Team England as Olympic star Mo Farah pulls out of the Games | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
- after failing to recover from a recent illness. | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
And Jodie Stimpson has just won gold in the women's triathlon. | :01:24. | :01:36. | |
Alleged child rapes in the capital rise - a report finds police | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
And the company responsible for this waste mountain says that if it's | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:50. | :02:08. | |
The United Nations says it's struggling to cope with the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
increasingly desperate situation faced by Palestinian civilians | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
in Gaza as Israel's offensive against militants there continues. | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
The UN's humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said that | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
in the last couple of days the equivalent of one Palestinian | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
At a meeting with Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond the Israeli Prime | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he regretted civilian casualties - | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
but that it was grotesque that Israel had been condemned by the | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Our correspondent Yolande Knell sent this report. | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
Trying to feel at home in a school. These are the faces of Gaza's | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
growing humanitarian crisis. Most families here have seen their homes | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
partly or fully destroyed. This woman and her family lived near the | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
eastern border. Their house was flattened by Israeli tanks. They | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
left with no money and just the clothes on their backs. I don't know | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
what to do, she tells me. When there is a cease-fire, where will we go? | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
There are 17 others, including little kids. Nobody can accommodate | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
us all. More than 1000 people who fled the fighting off staying at | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
this school. It is one of dozens of UN buildings across the Gaza Strip | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
that is being used as a shelter and the UN says it is struggling to cope | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
with so many displaced families. Officials say the priority should be | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
protecting the most vulnerable. We have over 118,000 people sheltering | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
in UN schools. We have schools unable to be used for education. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
People are running out of food. But there was no end to the violence. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
These residential areas were hit by the latest Israeli air strikes. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Israel says its soldiers are targeting Palestinian militants who | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
try to attack its civilians. Today, the Foreign Secretary was in | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
Jerusalem for talks with Israeli officials. Britain has been very | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
clear that Israel has the right to defend itself and its citizens. But | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
we are greatly -- we are gravely concerned by the ongoing heavy level | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
of civilian casualties. We want to see a cease-fire quickly agreed. So | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
far, international diplomacy has not come up with a cease-fire | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
arrangement that satisfies both sides in this conflict. For ordinary | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
people suffering here, each day makes a deal more urgent. We can | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
speak to our correspondent, Quentin Sommerville, who is in Tel Aviv. | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Listening to the Israeli Prime Minister, he was very angry? That is | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
right. The rockets from Gaza continue to fall here in Israel. | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
Here at about 11 o'clock there was another barrage of rockets came | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
over. Most of them were intercepted. Israel has said from the beginning | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
they will match quiet with quiet, but the cease-fire efforts have | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
stalled in the past. The longer this goes on and the higher the body | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
count and Palestinians are certainly bearing the brunt in those terms, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
the more difficult it becomes for both sides to pull back. There is a | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
momentum building that says, if we have lost so many lives, either on | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the Palestinian side or among Israeli soldiers, something has to | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
be won here to make that worthwhile. More victims of the | :05:51. | :06:06. | |
Malaysia Airlines disaster in Ukraine are being flown to | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
the Netherlands this afternoon. About two thirds of | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
the 298 people who died were Dutch. At the crash site itself there are | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
renewed calls for tighter security - after some reports it had been left | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
abandoned. The Ukrainian president, | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Petro Poroshenko, has declared a 25-mile radius | :06:20. | :06:20. | |
ceasefire to protect the area. Another Dutch military transport | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
plane leaves with more remains. It is expected more than 70 bodies will | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
be brought here today to be flowing to Holland and formally identified. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
But there are increasing concerns a significant number of bodies have | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
yet to be found. The crash site in the Donetsk region, which is rebel | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
held territory, is wide open. No one protecting it, no sign of any | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
investigation getting under way. This morning, the BBC saw human | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
remains still lying near the road. The Australian Prime Minister Tony | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Abbott has announced he has sent 50 police officers to London, ready to | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
go to Ukraine to secure the site, so there can be a proper search. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Exactly under what circumstances Australian police will be deployed | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
is yet to be determined, but the police are pre-deployed to London. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
They are ready to go into Ukraine. We want them to go into Ukraine as | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
part of an international team. Under the authority of the United Nations, | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
to do this vital job, to ensure that operation bring them home is | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
successfully concluded. But at the moment it is not clear how the | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
pro-Russian rebels would react if foreign police officers arrived | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
here, and whether they would need to be armed. Details have yet to be | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
worked out. The bodies that have been found so far have been brought | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
to the Dutch city of Hilversum. For relatives now in mourning over the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
loss of loved ones, there could be an agonising wait before finding out | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
if there remains have been found. We can speak to our correspondent in | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Eindhoven, Anna Holligan. The agony for the families goes on. | :08:19. | :08:26. | |
Absolutely. In just a few hours' time, those military planes are | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
expected to land here at Eindhoven airbase. Just like the first 40 | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
officers arrived here yesterday, these 70 will receive the same | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
ceremonial homecoming. The planes will come to a standstill beside | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
each other, a bugler will pay the last post -- play the last post and | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
there will be a minute's silence. We are expecting the relatives of many | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
of those 298 passengers who were on board the Malaysia as light to be | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
here, to watch, as coughing after coughing is placed -- was coffin | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
after coffin is placed here and identification can take place. | :09:11. | :09:25. | |
Algeria's national airline, Air Algerie, says it has lost | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Early reports suggested that the plane, an MD83, disappeared | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
There are reports of severe weather in the region. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
With me is our correspondent, Richard Lister. | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
It was flying to waggler Dudu to Algiers, and was supposed to arrive | :09:42. | :09:52. | |
at five o'clock this morning. Contact appears to have been lost | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
over northern Mali. The BBC has been told by a senior military source on | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
the ground in Mali that the plane came down between the north-eastern | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
towns in Mali, although a search and rescue operation is now under way. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
The fate of the aircraft is unclear. The question is what brought it | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
down. There will be speculation in the wake of the shooting down of the | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine that may the jihadists in | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
northern Mali were involved. It seems unlikely, given that they are | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
not thought to have that kind of weaponry that could bring a plane | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
down. A far bigger threat is almost certainly the weather. There were | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
reports of a sandstorm overnight and reports that the pilot asked air | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
traffic control to divert his route shortly before the wreck -- shortly | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
before before the plane vanished from the radar screens. We do not | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
know who was on board. The French Foreign Ministry has said a number | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
of French nationals are likely to be on board, but this is early days. | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
The plane has not been found. The search goes on. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
A report has revealed undercover police officers at Scotland Yard | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
gathered information on 18 bereaved families campaigning for justice. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
The cases included the high-profile campaigns surrounding the deaths | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
of Stephen Lawrence, Ricky Reel and Jean Charles de Menezes - | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
who was shot dead by police who mistook him for a suicide bomber. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
These were deaths in police custody is all murders, and information from | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
the families was covered by undercover officers working for a | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
unit known as the Special Demonstration Squad. Or the FTS. It | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
was part of Special Branch at Scotland Yard and has been | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
disbanded. This report makes no criticism of the individual | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
officers, but it is blistering about the management. It says there was a | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
complete failure to manage this squad. A senior officer said here | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
said he regretted enormously what had happened to these families. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
This week saw the ninth anniversary of the death of Jean Charles de | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Menezes. He was the young Brazilian electrician shot dead by police | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. The day before police killed | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
him there had been a failed terrorist attack on the London | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
transport system. It was two weeks after 7/7 and the atmosphere was | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
free trial. John Charles's parents came from Brazil to London and | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
visited the underground station where their son died. His death | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
provoked a massive campaign, which involved some of his relatives | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
living in the UK. Now it has emerged that intelligence was gathered on | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
his family by undercover police. The family feel it distressed and upset | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
to hear they have been spied upon full stop it feels like a violation | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
of privacy at a time when they were seeking answers to find out what | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
happened after the death of a loved one. They want to know why the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
police were doing this, what information was being gathered and | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
our lawyers will take this forward. Many years before, Ricky Reel, a | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
young Asian student was found dead in the River Thames. His parents | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
wanted the police to investigate his death as murder. Officers said it | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
was probably accidental. His family were also targeted by undercover | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
officers, they gathered intelligence on his mother. If someone follows | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
someone, it is spying. My understanding is police officers spy | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
on criminals, right? I am thinking, what crime did I commit? It was the | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
revelation that the family of the murdered black teenager Stephen | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Lawrence had been spied on by the police which led to the catalogue of | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Revelations. Once again, Scotland Yard is in dock over its behaviour | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
towards bereaved families who had committed no crime. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
On that point, what emerged this morning was that the SDF was such a | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
secret unit that even some of the top brass did not know it existed. | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
What was said here this morning was that if those officers were still | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
serving and these are very senior officers, they could be facing the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
misconduct hearings because they had behaved negligently and with | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
complacency. The UN's humanitarian chief | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
expresses 'extreme concern' at what she calls the 'dire' situation in | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Gaza - describing a ceasefire there Still to come: Better news for power | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
customers, compensation is going up. The housing expert calling | :14:48. | :15:04. | |
for older people to move into flats And the iconic image | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
of the 2012 Olympic games is going After the excitement of last night's | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
opening ceremony when the Queen declared the Commonwealth Games open | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
in front of a 40,000 strong crowd - actual competition got underway this | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
morning with the gold of the games going to England's Jodie Stimpson | :15:24. | :15:38. | |
in the women's triathlon. But Team England has suffered | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
a blow with Mo Farah, who won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
at the London Olympics, pulling out of the competition, | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
saying he needs more time to For more on that - | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
and the other day's events here's Welcome to Strathclyde Country Park | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
just outside Glasgow where the Commonwealth Games have well and | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
truly got underway this morning. In total there are 20 gold medals up | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
for grabs and just a short time ago England's Jodie Stimpson won the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
first gold of these games in a thrilling finish in the women's | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
triathlon. We will have more on that in a moment but as you say there was | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
huge shock and disappointment as Mo Farah, the Olympic champion, | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
announced this morning that he was pulling out of Glasgow 2014. Andy | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
Swiss reports. He was meant to be one of the star attractions of these | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
games. Mo Farah, the double Olympic champion a double world champion, | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
aiming for two more titles. A fortnight ago Mo Farah was taken ill | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
with stomach pains. He had hoped to recover but today he took what he | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
called the tough decision to withdraw from the games. Another | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
incredible performance! In a statement Mo Farah said: | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
It is incredibly disappointing for Mo and for the event as well. He is | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
one of the big stars and he will be a big miss that it is a big miss for | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
him. The Commonwealth Games is a massive competition for him. And | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
athletes in their careers look to win the Olympics, the World | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
Championships and the Commonwealth Games. But as one big-name withdrew | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
another name made his entrance, Sir Bradley Wiggins back on the track | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
for the first time in six years in the team pursuit. Wiggins has never | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
won a Commonwealth gold for England and his presence seemed to inspire | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
his team. Guaranteed at least a silver they will race for gold this | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
afternoon. The most powerful unit possible! And the hosts had plenty | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
to cheer as para- cycling made its Commonwealth baby. Aidan McGlynn and | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
Louise Haston one of the fastest qualifiers in sprint tandem. For the | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
fans here it is still flourishing. -- Commonwealth debut. Great | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
excitement and tears for England's Jodie Stimpson in the last few | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
minutes as she won the first gold in the women's triathlon at Strathclyde | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Country Park. It is a great setting, great weather and huge crowds but | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
even more people are expected this afternoon when the roundly brothers | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
compete in the men's triathlon. The opening ceremony may have been | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
quintessentially Scottish but the first medal race of the games had a | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
cosmopolitan feel. Sport plus sunshine equals happy customers. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Just loving the Scottish sunshine here and looking forward to the | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
race. And the hospitality. Fantastic. Scotland is always like | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
this. Strathclyde Park had an issue before the Games, high levels of | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
blue green algae were given or NISAs headaches ahead of the 1500 metre | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
swim that there were no slippery issues in the calm waters for | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
England's Lucy Hall and Jodie Stimpson who were in the first pack | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
out of the water. This area is called transition as the athletes | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
jump out of the lock and onto their bikes. The clock keeps on ticking. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
There are a number of rules they have to follow so speed is of the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
essence but remembering those rules is crucial. The 40 kilometre bike | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
ride is a tough test of injuries, and in some cases the pain | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
threshold. Goodness me! We have got one down followed by another! With | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Wales missing two key medal hopes England went into battle in front | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
pack of ten but tactics were in play and no one was willing to make the | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
break on the unforgiving hills. That was until Lucy Hall decided to go | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
and the gap was yawning. But her lead was not enough and in the ten | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
kilometre run Jodie Stimpson made her move. The highest ranked athlete | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
in the field was controlling the pace. Team-mate Vicky Holland, | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
though, sticking with her all the way but when Stimpson kicked it | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
became clear she would win the first gold of the games with Holland | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
taking bronze. Their compatriots, the Brownlee Brothers, will hope for | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
similar success when they race this afternoon. | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
In the pool there are big hopes for Scotland today with the poster boy | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Michael Jamieson and Anna Miley both competing and have both been in | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
action already today and arc respondent Chris McLauchlan is | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
there. How are they doing? Here at Tollcross Team Scotland are hoping | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
their summers can provide them with a golden start of these games. It | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
has been an interesting morning as you can see in the build-up. All of | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
the attention has been on the 200 metres breaststroke performer | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
Reichel Jamieson. 200 metres breaststroke semifinal, silver medal | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
sorry, at London 2012 and he hopes to go one better here in Glasgow. He | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
says it will be the most important race of his career. Our stash | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
Michael Jamieson. Earlier on in the heat he came second to Ross | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Murdoch, his countryman, who set a new games record in the pool and | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
also setting a new games record Hannah Miley, his fellow Scot, in | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
the 400 metres medley. He will be up against England's Aimee Willmott | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
later this evening -- she will be. We will also see Liam Tang clock, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Robbie Renwick. But given some of the times we have seen so far in the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
pool this morning you would not bet against world records going. The | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
hopes will be on home boy Michael Jamieson. He learned to swim here at | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Tollcross earlier in his career and all of the attention will be on him | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
at 9pm this evening. It is a great atmosphere at Strathclyde Park. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Colours about the atmosphere there. We saw Hannah Miley tweet about the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
amazing support she was getting there. I spoke to her after her race | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
and she described the atmosphere as awesome. Her father is her coach and | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
he told me earlier in the week that she is in the best condition of her | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
career. You should have heard the atmosphere when Michael Jamieson | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
took to the stage and when Hannah Miley took to the stage as well. We | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
are expecting something special at Tollcross this evening. Thank you | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
for joining us. Well with is Andy Hunt the former | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
chef de mission of Team GB at the London Olympics and now ivolved | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
with England's Commonwealth team. What has happened to Mo Farah? It is | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
hugely disappointing for Mo Farah given he has had this illness. It | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
has been all over the media, in terms of the disappointment for him | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
and for the team. That is the nature of sport. People drop out just | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
before competition whether it is through injury or illness and I'm | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
sure Mo Farah was coming here to win. If he felt he couldn't win he | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
had a difficult decision to make. Great scenes you saw a short time | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
ago at Strathclyde Park with Jodie Stimpson crossing the finish line | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
first and she dissolved into tears as she did so. What an achievement | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
for the 25-year-old. An amazing achievement for Jodie and Vicky | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
Holland. You cannot get a better start. I remember being there at | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
2012 for the first medal, such an important moment, it is the | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
beginning and the start of everything and beginning to Runrig | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
are fast as people chase those medals. There are some big names | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
like Mo Farah who sadly will not be here. There are lots of people who | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
really come through at events like these. It is disappointing when big | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
names go out but the Commonwealth Games is full of great athletes and | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
some that we don't know about yet but will go on and perform for Team | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
GB in Rio in 2016. There are tonnes of them. There are the Brownlee | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
brothers this afternoon who I'm sure will make us very proud in this | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
country. We have got Michael Jamieson tonight. We have got all | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
kinds, Sir Bradley Wiggins, adding Jimmy Lee, gosh, we have got the | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
England netball team, the England rugby sevens team. I could go on and | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
on, Laura Trott. Plenty of sports that don't get the Olympic limelight | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
like squash for example and lawn bowls which is getting a lot of | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
attention. For certain sports like netball and squash this is a real | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
pinnacle and very important. People talk about them being the friendly | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
games but I will tell you what, the athletes are here to win. You | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
experienced London 2012 and you were at the heart of it. You are getting | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
your first taste of Glasgow 2014. It is a hard act for Glasgow to follow | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
in many ways but they seem to be doing an incredible job. I'm so | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
impressed at the quality of what they are delivering here. The | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
athlete experience and the spectator experience, I hope that is coming | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
across four people viewing this from afar but it is amazing what they | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
have put on. The opening ceremony did Scotland and Glasgow crowd last | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
night and we are going to season really top-quality sport over the | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
next ten days. Let's hope so. Andy Hunt, thank you for joining me. That | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
is all from us at Strathclyde Park. Plenty more action and excitement | :25:21. | :25:22. | |
this afternoon when the Brownlee brothers compete later on. But for | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
now, back to you, Simon. After last year's storms more than 1 million | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
people were left without power and many customers were frustrated at | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
the length of time it took to get reconnected and at the level of | :25:36. | :25:36. | |
compensation they received. Well, now the energy regulator, | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Ofgem, says it's more than doubling the minimum payment | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
for consumers who lose power Our business correspondent | :25:44. | :25:52. | |
John Moylan has the details. Cutting down trees in the summer to prevent | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
power cuts in the winter. In Hampshire this week the energy giant | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
SSE has dozens of teams out clearing trees away from overhead lines. It | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
is spending almost ?30 million to try and prevent blackouts across its | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
network. In order to be able to work safely here today they have had to | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
cut off the power in the high-voltage line. There is a | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
consequence of that, about 100 local households and businesses will today | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
we be without power for a few hours but that is a lot better than the | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
much longer power outages that some households experienced last winter. | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
As storms battered Britain over Christmas almost 1 million homes | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
were left without electricity. For some, the power cuts lasted days | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
leading to intense criticism of the network firms. Today SSE and UK | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
power networks agreed payments of ?8 million for failing to reconnect | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
customers and keep them informed. We want them to be better prepared. We | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
want them to communicate more with their customers about what is | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
happening, get more staff trained and get social media strategies | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
working and get their websites up-to-date so customers know when | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
they can be reconnected. This pub in Kent lost power on December 23. It | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
did not come back until Boxing Day evening. We were off for three days | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
and some parts of the village will offer five days and other parts were | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
off for a few hours. UK power networks should have known as soon | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
as it became daylight that the power was not going to be restored | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
quickly. In the aftermath of the firms were hauled in front of MPs. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Today one of the companies that faced the grilling said that it had | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
overhauled its operations. I'm proud of the way we dealt with it but | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
recognise this had a major impact on customers, and we have to learn and | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
we have to move forward and we are making improvements for the future. | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
The higher compensation pay-outs should ensure the firms are better | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
prepared. The Rhyl test will come later this year. -- the real test. | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
Time for a look at the weather. Those storms seem a long time ago. | :28:01. | :28:13. | |
Temperatures heading towards 24, 20 5 degrees in Glasgow. That is the | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
case are much much -- across much of the UK. A bit of cloud here and | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
there, case are much much -- across much of | :28:24. | :28:23. | |
the UK. A bit of cloud here most notably across eastern Scotland and | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
North East England but even here it is thinning out. In the south-west | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
it is a bit different to recent days, we have some cloud producing | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
one or two showers. They are offshore at the moment but will | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
drift in across parts of Devon and Cornwall this afternoon, so one or | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
two heavy downpours possible but temperatures still getting up to the | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
mid to high 20s between those. That is the story across most other | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
areas. Nice breeze coming in across East Anglia and southern England | :28:49. | :28:51. | |
tempering the heat a little bit but once things get up to 30 degrees and | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
maybe the odd shower in western parts of Northern Ireland but look | :28:57. | :28:58. | |
at the contrast across Scotland. We're getting close to 30 in the | :28:59. | :29:03. | |
north-west Highlands, the mid-teens in the north-east coast where the | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
mist is lingering. They will spread inland across eastern Scotland and | :29:07. | :29:09. | |
eastern parts of England as the night wears on. Otherwise we have | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
clear skies. Air temperatures looking like this, the mid-to high | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
teens but your house is probably still warmer than that. The heat has | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
been building up over the last few days which is why it feels rather | :29:21. | :29:23. | |
uncomfortable for sleeping. Tomorrow we go through the same process, mist | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
and low cloud burning back to the coasts in the east, otherwise a dry | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
day or most everywhere and long spells of hot sunshine. Temperatures | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
much the same as they have been in the last few days, made to high 20s | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
but again in the north-east that little bit cooler with that mist and | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
low cloud coming off the sea. That is a trend we will all seek over | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
this coming weekend. There will be some sunshine and a scattering of | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
showers turning up, but gradually it will turn cooler from the | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
north-west. We start to see the change coming in across north-west | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland during Saturday. Some outbreaks of rain | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
heading in. Ahead of that another hot day and southern Scotland and | :30:03. | :30:04. | |
particularly England and Wales with similar temperatures to recent days. | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
The change coming across all areas as we go into the second part of the | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
weekend with a north-westerly breeze, a few showers around most | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
notably in the north-west but southern parts could see a few | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
showers but still plenty of dry weather in between those. | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
Temperatures across Scotland and Northern Ireland are about 10 | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
degrees down on what we have at the moment so you will feel the | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
difference here and a fresher feel to things further south as well, | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
which should continue into next week. If you are not a fan of the | :30:31. | :30:34. | |
weather the heat is on its way out to some extent but still decent | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
weather around into next week. Our top story this lunch time: | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
The UN's humanitarian chief expresses 'extreme concern' at what | :30:48. | :30:50. |