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President Obama condemns as repulsive and barbaric | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the beheading of a second American journalist by Islamic State. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
Steven Sotloff, who was 31, was kidnapped | :00:13. | :00:13. | |
President Obama promised that justice would be done. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
We will not be intimidated, their horrific acts only unite us | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
as a country and stiffen our resolve against these terrorists. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
The Prime Minister chairs an emergency meeting to discuss | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Islamic militants' threat to kill a British hostage. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Let me be very clear, this country will never give in to terrorism. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Our opposition to Isil will continue at home and abroad. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
We'll be asking what this means for western strategy in the region. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The parents of five year old Ashya King freed from prison | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
and now heading to his hospital, desperate to see him. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
William Pooley, the British nurse who caught the | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, is discharged from hospital. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
Filthy and unsafe - a damning inspection of | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
And warnings of a teacher crisis in the captain - we face | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:18. | :01:40. | |
President Obama has condemned as repulsive and barbaric the beheading | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
of the American journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamic State militants. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
He said justice would be served and that America's aim was to | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Mr Sotloff is the second US journalist in two weeks to be | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
murdered - a video of his death was again released online. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
With concern now growing over the fate of a British hostage seen | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
in the video David Cameron says the only way to defeat Islamic State | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
He said Britain would never give in to terrorism. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
Our first report is by our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner. | :02:09. | :02:19. | |
A thoughtful US journalist with a passion for the Middle East and a | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
taste for adventure, Steven Sotloff had lived in Yemen and spoke Arabic. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
But last night Jihadist posted a video of them beheading him. For | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
President Obama, this is a direct channel by the -- challenge by the | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
extremist group. Whatever these murderers think they will achieve by | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
killing innocent Americans like Stephen, they have already failed. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
They have failed because like people around the world, Americans are | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
repulsed by their barbarism and we will not be intimidated. The | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
mililants have bought or captures numerous western hostages. Several | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Europeans have been released, reportedly for ran ransoms. We have | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
been asked not to name a British hostage. Last night the Government | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
held a meeting of emergency committee chaired by the Prime | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Minister. The whole country will condemn the sickening and brutal | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
murder of another American hostage and share our shock and anger that | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
it appears to have been carried out by a British citizen. Our thought | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
are with the hostage and his family. Islamic state fighters have cut a | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
swathe across the Middle East. Seizing control of much of Syria and | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
Iraq, killing hundreds of captives in cold blood. But US air strikes | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
have allowed Iraqi and Kurdish forces to halt their advance. Those | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
air strikes are hurting them. Yet one expert believes Islamic state | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
wants to drag in western ground troops. They're aching for a fight | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
with the west. They want to turn this into the west against Islam. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
They're considering themselves to be the Islamic caliphate and want to | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
fight a superpower. Caught up in this was Stephen Sotloff, described | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
by friends as cautious. He kept his finger on the pulse of where he was | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
going. He didn't just wander into a place. He lived in Libya for a while | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
and he was aware of what he was doing. He was very professional. He | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
came to report on a conflict that is tearing a region apart. It was a | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
decision that cost him his life. With a British hostage now in | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
immediate danger, David Cameron is coming under increasing pressure to | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
come up with an effective strategy Here's our political | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
correspondent Ben Wright. Another brutal murder by Islamic | :05:07. | :05:19. | |
state and another emergency meeting. What is your response to the latest | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
behead something the Defence Secretary joined the Cobra meeting, | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
chaired by the Prime Minister, who said the beheading was despicable. A | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
serve MP on the intelligence committee said there should be no | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
quick military response. We have got to be patient. It won't be turned | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
around in a matter of weeks or months. Just go for air strikes or | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
arming people isn't going to be the answer to this. It needs patient | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
work as well. In the commons, the two sides I yoo nighted in | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
condemnation. A country like ours will not be cowed by these killers. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
If they think we will weaken they're wrong. This is a pattern of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
murderous behaviour by Isil of the innocent. Christians, Yazidis, | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Muslims, anyone who does not agree with their vile ideology. I agree | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
with the Pic, this must strengthen our resolve and he can be assured of | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
our support. Over this is the memory of protests against plans to bomb | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Assad's regime last year and its defeat in Parliament. Labour opposed | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
action then, but now some MPs want air strikes in Syria. Isn't the | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
truth that Isil won't be beaten without air strikes in Syria as | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
well? And if that means engaging with the Assad regime and Iran and | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
the Saudies. It is a crisis with no easy answers. Some MPs want the UK | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
Government to toughen its response, Islamic state fighters claim | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
American air strikes justify the beheading and now a British hostage | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
is threatened. Revulsion is clear, but less certain is what can be done | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
to stop them. Let's talk to Norman Smith in Westminster. There were | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
strong words from David Cameron, but is it clear what he can do? Well, | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
despite the deliberately defiant language from Mr Cameron, those in | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Government have been clear there won't be an immediate strike for the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
beheading and the seizure of a British hostage. To do so it is | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
argued would creed the initiative to the terrorists and the Prime | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Minister's view is we are involved in a long struggle and can't respond | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
to every atrocity. But there is a sense we are moving closer to the | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
option of joining in air strikes. The Foreign Secretary was asked | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
about this today and he said that he was considering them. Neither Nick | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Clegg nor Ed Milliband has ruled them out and in the Commons the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Prime Minister seemed to indicate if other countries in the region were | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
to sign up to air strikes and the Baghdad Government and the Kurdish | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
authorities were to request them, we would look to do more. Although the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
atrocity that was carried out last night, the seizure of a British | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
hostage has not of itself prompted British military action, my sense is | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
we are moving closer in that direction. Thank you. | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
The parents of five-year-old Ashya King, who's seriously ill with | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
a brain tumour in a hospital in Spain, have spoken of their relief | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
They were detained at the weekend on a European arrest warrant | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
for taking their son from a hospital in Southampton. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has now said they will face | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
In an exclusive BBC interview Ashya's father, Brett, | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
said he was desperate to see his son and to help with his care. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Well, our correspondent Tom Burridge is at the hospital in Malaga. | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
Brett and Naghemeh King are expected to arrive at the hospital any moment | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
now. For that moment they have been waiting for - to be renewted with | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
their son, Ashya. They spent several days in custody in a case which has | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
caused outrage at home and sympathy from the Prime Minister and the | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
police force which launched the search which led to their arrest in | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Spain. After a dramatic turn around they were released from prison last | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
night and today they sat down with my colleague for an exclusive | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
interview:. How are you? I'm very tired. I was with about yashgs I | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
have been in hospital in Southampton for six weeks. I was with him 234 | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
hours a day, changing his nappies, doing everything. Staying awake for | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
treatment. That is my responsibility as a mother and I was happy to do | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
it. But when we left the hospital and we were arrested, I couldn't do | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
that. I have been missing him for over three days and I want to get | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
back with him. Brett, how are you after the ordeal? I'm still shaking, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
because it is not just going to prison, that is just me suffering, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
but while I was away, it was the the thought my son, because they didn't | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
allow anybody into the room, so no one was moving his legs or helping | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
him in any way to improve. Soifs worrying about that all the time and | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
my heart was aching. The doctors said my heart is beating too fast | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
when they examined me. I said I can't relax, my son, it is hurting | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
my heart to think he is by himself. But we are feeling better now. What | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
do you make of the fact that this happened, you took him from the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
hospital, you were then pursued to Spain, arrested, put in prison, | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
separated from him and then told actually you can go. You're free. | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
What do you make of the situation? It is not real to be honest with | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
you. Because we just thought, you see in the hospital, they knew that | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
we were going to get Proton therapy. I told them the doctor himself that | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
I'm going to go for Proton therapy and I'm paying for it myself. But I | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
need to sell my house. I said to him, I'm going, that you're not | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
going to pay, the NHS is not going to pay, I have got to sort this out. | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Did you tell them that you were going to take him away last | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
Thursday. Did they know you were elevening - leaving then? I couldn't | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
tell the day. They had threatened me. When I asked the cancer bgs is | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
there any alternty, they said if I ask any more questions, the right | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
for me to make a decision would be taken from me and they would get a | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
court paper to say they have right over my child. From that moment I | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
had so much fear to mention anything to them. Because they could have | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
stopped my son getting any treatment and just forcing this strong | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
treatment on him. From that moment on, I had to keep everything quiet. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
But I told them over and again I wrote to them and sent e-mails, | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
which he never responded to, to say I'm taking my son to get better | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
treatment. But I couldn't tell me when, otherwise they would have | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
stopped me. I was in fear. When you realised you were being chased, that | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
you were arrested, what did you think? We just wanted to go down to | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
where our holiday home is and spend some time there, sell our apartment | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
and then go on our way to the Czech Republic. When I saw the police | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
outside, we panicked and didn't know what to do and we went to Malaga, my | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
wife said there is a good hospital there, let's stop there and work out | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
what to do. That is what we did. But I never thought they would been | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
serious. My children were at the swimming pool and we were trying to | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
enjoy ourselves. Somebody said to us that someone's called the police. I | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
said OK, we are not going to run. How angry are you? I wouldn't say | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
angry, I'm just missing my son so much. My heart is aching for my son. | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
Anger can't come in, because I have feelings that I have got to see my | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
son. I wash his mouth, because he can't drink through his mouth. I | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
want to turn him every 15 to 20 minutes. I want to do the things I | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
was doing in Southampton. As a mother, who spent so much time in | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
hospital with him in Southampton, to be separated from him by hundreds of | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
miles and put behind bars, can you explain what that has been like? | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Well all I was doing all the time, just crying and praying so I could | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
be reunited. We have learned Ashya could have a matter of months to | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
live. He is with a nurse here 24 hours a day and his parents seemed | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
very calm last night. But there is the question how did a British | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
couple end up in a Spanish prison separated from their very ill young | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
son? Thank you. Well the hospital where Ashya was | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
a patient has been defending Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
is at Southampton General. What do the hospital have to say? | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
Well this is the first time we have heard from the hospital. And they | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
have contradicted everything the King family have been saying. In | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
particular, they deny that Ashya was blocked from going to Prague to | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
receive that therapy. In fact they say discussions were still going on | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
with the family when he was taken last Thursday. I think can I | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
understand that they were upset, yes. I don't think it is ever in a | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
child's best interest to be taken from a place of safety, when the | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
risks of being taken out were known. And without any one knowing they | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
were leave from within the medical profession. The hospital speak of | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
the family being irresponsible. But what happens to Ashya? She needs two | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
rounds of of chemotherapy before he can go to Prague. The question is | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
where does he get it. Relations between the family and the doctor | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
are so bad President Obama condemns | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
as repulsive and barbaric the beheading of a | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
second journalist by Islamic State. David Cameron chairs | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
an emergency meeting discuss Why plans protect wildflower to | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
meadows may had have Later, the capital could get to | :16:08. | :16:31. | |
cycling routes would some names separated by traffic. And the movie | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
based on the true story of a tragedy, seemed to appear at the BFI | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
film Festival. William Pooley, | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
the British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
has left hospital this morning, saying he feels "wonderfully lucky" | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
to have survived. Mr Pooley, who's 29, was flown back | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
to the UK last month for treatment in a special isolation unit at | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
the Royal Free Hospital in London. He thanked staff at the hospital for | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
the "world-class care" he received. Here's our health correspondent | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Branwen Jeffreys. The basic in hospital in | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
Sierra Leone where Will Pooley saw first-hand the horrors | :17:12. | :17:11. | |
of Ebola. He may never know how he | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
too became infected. Today, clear of the virus, | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
he describes the moment It is a bit disturbing to get that | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
diagnosis, but I suppose I was half expecting | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
it, because I'd been feeling sick. I was worried I was going to die, | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
I was worried about my family. To reach the plane home, | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Will travelled to 160 miles When I was brought onto | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
the runway and saw the plane waiting for me and a big | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
team of Brits, it was just amazing. In the isolation unit in London he | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
was nursed day and night Will avoided the worst symptoms, | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
unlike friends he's The contrast... On the one hand, | :18:08. | :18:20. | |
I've only got praise for the level Just amazing, the level of skill, | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
professionalism and compassion Of course, | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
it's not the same in West Africa. Will Pooley has made a complete | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
physical recovery thanks to the But to get over the trauma | :18:44. | :18:57. | |
of what he saw in West Africa and then of being infected himself | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
with the Ebola virus could take Ukraine's Prime Minister has branded | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Russia a terrorist state that is solely to blame for the conflict | :19:07. | :19:18. | |
in the east of his country. Arseny Yatseniuk said Moscow | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
would bear responsibility Speaking on the eve of a NATO | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
summit, he re-affirmed his countrys Speaking on the eve of a NATO | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
summit, he re-affirmed his country's Our correspondent Chris | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Morris sent this report. President Obama has come to a | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
NATO member state that was once ruled from Moscow as part | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
of the Soviet Union. The message | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
and the symbolism is clear - you are Russian aggression | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
in Ukraine has made the three Baltic As the President began | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
his official business, conflicting reports of a cease-fire | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
in eastern Ukraine came and went, but one demand is constant - Russia | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
has to change course and assistance We have consistently supported | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
the effort of the President to achieve a meaningful cease-fire that | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
can lead to a political settlement. And there is a concern here | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
about what President Putin may be Two hours to be East, | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
this is Nova, and the river forms the border between Russia over | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
there and Estonia over here. In fact, we are closer to St | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
Petersburg than we are to Tallinn. 90% of this town's population | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
are ethnic Russian. and in particular | :20:47. | :21:03. | |
on what is happening in Ukraine. You do think about that, because you | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
cannot not think about that when you But I don't think we worry much yet. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
There is nothing to worry about. But, you know, it's a good time | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
for Obama to come here. I don't know how the rest | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
of the world is seeing as, but we've In eastern Ukraine, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
pro-Russian separatists have made NATO is certain that would not have | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
happened without direct Russian That's why President Obama said it | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
was important to impose costs on Russia as long as Moscow continues | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
to violate international law. The relationship, he said, between | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
NATO and Russia has clearly changed. President Obama is using this | :21:39. | :22:03. | |
occasion to send a strong message to Russia, isn't he? Yes, we have heard | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
this message before. They want to have a good relationship with | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Russia. He said, our hope is for a strong, productive Russia, but what | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
we've seen recently is aggression and appeals to nationalism, which is | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
a cause for concern. I think at the NATO summit we will certainly see | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
the ranks closing, support for Ukraine and so forth. But over here, | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
the issue is this - they would like to see the permanent basing of NATO | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
troops in the Baltic states. According to NATO, that would | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
violate previous treaty commitments between NATO and Russia, but the | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
argument here is that Russia has already by late of those commitments | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
and that the circumstances have changed and NATO has to change to | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
take account of that. Obama says, yes, the relationship is clearly | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
changing, but I'm not sure within NATO there is a unanimous view that | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
basing people here permanently and upping the anti-with Russia is in | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
anyone's interest at the moment. There have been calls | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
for the entire membership of Rotherham Council to resign | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
after a heated public meeting. Local people expressed anger | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
after a report published last week revealed that 1,400 children had | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
been abused over a 16-year period. During the meeting it emerged that | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
several members of the council are under investigation | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
- as Danny Savage reports. Attention today turned to Rotherham | :23:31. | :23:44. | |
town hall. It looked calm on the outside ahead of a local council | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
meeting to focus on the disgraceful events in the town. But that can't | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
did not last long, once the public were invited to ask questions. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
People should be allowed to express their opinion. We are very angry and | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
we don't know why all of you have not resigned. Our children were | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
being raped and abused and you are telling me as a counsellor you can | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
sit there and barefaced tell me that you wouldn't say anything? But the | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
councillors were going anywhere. In a formal statement, the authority | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
partly blamed for this scandal gave its own apology. It is with a deep | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
sense of regret we are here today to discuss the past as a council. We're | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
badly let down people and families we were supposed to protect. But | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
that was is not enough is in a public gallery who eventually walked | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
out. They are too scared to say it is Pakistani men who were doing it. | :24:53. | :25:00. | |
I don't think anything will happen. There wasn't a huge turnout from the | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
public, about 40 people in all. But they asked plenty of relevant | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
questions and showed how angry they were, repeatedly calling for the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
whole council to resign. Some have gone already, others are being | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
suspended and investigated. The sexual abuse of 1400 children in one | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
town will have many consequences for this council yet. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Conservationists and local residents are furious that | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
European plans to protect endangered wildflower meadows like these may | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
According to a report for the nature watchdog | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Natural England, it's led the rate of meadow-loss to actually increase, | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
as farmers rushed to plough meadows up before the additional | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin has more. | :25:41. | :25:53. | |
Here is an increasingly rare sight - a meadow like the ones | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
Still a delight for the next generation. | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
Orchids are common, too, alongside a flower that makes | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
Like you used to have when you were a baby | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Rattle. It's a yellow rattle. | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
Around 90% of meadows like this have been dug up | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
as farmers came under pressure to increase food production. | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
And the speed of loss of meadows has recently intensified. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
We're seeing between 20 and 30% loss of the sites since 2005. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
It's a massive issue for us and we are very concerned. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
A battle is currently underway over this meadow near Coventry. | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Locals loved it, but the farmer said it wasn't good | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
for wildlife, and the authorities gave him permission to spray it with | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Locals say the meadow was rich in wildlife, and are trying to prove | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
Before the farmer sprayed weedkiller, it was green and lush. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
I feel a real sort of relationship to the field, | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
We just can't really believe it has happened. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
Whatever the rights or wrongs of this issue, it is clear policy to | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Ministers warned farmers there may be new rules safeguarding meadows. | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Some farmers responded by ploughing up their meadows as quickly | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
The number of Meadows destroyed has actually increased. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
The Coventry farmer was later filmed by locals as he ploughed the meadow. | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
He didn't want to talk to us, but wildlife groups say | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the episode proves nature protection isn't tight enough. | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
We've made promoting wildlife diversity a major priority | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
in the way we implement the new farming rules. | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
We are looking to increase habitats for rare species to help farm | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
and bird populations recover, so this is very much at the top | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
of our agenda when it comes to implementing these new rules. | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
Our children's children will inherit places like this, | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
But its nature watchdog Natural England warns that, unless | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
its policies are changed, wildlife will continue to disappear. | :28:14. | :28:29. | |
Hello. The weather remains and nine, this is the satellite picture. You | :28:30. | :28:45. | |
can see a lot of cloud around at the start of the day, but that have been | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
some good breaks, allowing sunshine. Through this afternoon, most places | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
will at least be dry, with variable amounts of cloud and glimmers of | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
sunshine from time to time. That's all thanks to this area of high | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
pressure driving our weather pattern. There is an much motion to | :29:04. | :29:12. | |
the atmosphere, which is why we're seeing so much cloud. For the | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
afternoon, you conceive variable amounts appearing, with the odd | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
sunny spell. I think the sunshine will be limited across Scotland and | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
could be big enough for the odd spot of rain in the Western and Northern | :29:25. | :29:34. | |
Isles. Temperatures in Northern Ireland are around 18 or 19 | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
Celsius. Any sunshine in England and Wales could nudge temperatures up to | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
22 Celsius, so feeling quite warmer in the sunshine. This evening and | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
overnight, we start to see that cloud rolling back in. Most places | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
will be pretty cloudy, with the best of any breaks across the south-west | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
corner, towards Wales and western Scotland. Here, it could be quite | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
cool with mist and fog around and temperatures in the mid-single | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
figures. Into those day, very little change. High pressure continues to | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
dominate but we start to see this weather front across the North West | :30:12. | :30:16. | |
slowly encroaching towards western Scotland and Northern Ireland | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
through the day. Elsewhere, another dry day with variable amounts of | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
cloud and glimmers of sunshine. Pleasantly warm in that sunshine, up | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
to 22 or 23 Celsius. A bit cooler in the north and why we have the cloud. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
On Friday, that weather front continues its journey south, so | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
outbreaks of rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland. England and Wales | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
are dry, again feeling warm and the sunshine. Subtle changes for the | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
weekend. Again, for many it is variable amounts of cloud and | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
sunshine. A bit of rain will continue to move south but will | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
fizzle out as it reaches southern areas. Behind it, turning cooler. | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime. | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
President Obama condemns as barbaric the beheading | :31:09. | :31:10. | |
of a second American journalist by Islamic State - David Cameron chairs | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
an emergency meeting to discuss the threat to a British hostage. | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
That's all from us - now on BBC One, it's time | :31:17. | :31:20. |