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Tony Blair urges Britons to rise up against the decision to leave the EU | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
- he says people voted without knowing the real terms. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
The former Prime Minister says it's his mission to encourage people | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
to speak out against what he called the government's drive | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
The people voted without knowledge of the terms of Brexit. As these | :00:18. | :00:32. | |
terms become clear, it is their right to change their mind. We heard | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
all these arguments last year. Not a thing has changed. I think it really | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
is insulting the intelligence of the electorate to say that they got it | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
wrong. We'll have the latest | :00:46. | :00:46. | |
live from Westminster. President Trump's choice | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
for his new national security Retail sales fall unexpectedly - | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
some analysts say it's the beginning of a long-anticipated slowdown | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
in the economy. Brain power required - | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
scientists appeal for more people to donate their brain, | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
so they can do more research And Arsene Wenger says | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
he will still be a football manager next season - | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
even if that isn't at Arsenal. And coming up in the sport on BBC | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
News: Watford are commissioning a statue of Graham Taylor | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
at Vicarage Road, to honour their most successful manager, | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
who died last month. Good afternoon and welcome | :01:28. | :01:51. | |
to the BBC News at One. Tony Blair has said it is his | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
mission to persuade Britons to "rise up" and change their mind | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
about leaving the European Union. Speaking in the City of London, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
the former Prime Minister claimed that people had voted in last year's | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
referendum without knowing His comments have been described | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
as arrogant and undemocratic by the Conservative MP Iain Duncan | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Smith. Meanwhile, Theresa May has written | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
in a French newspaper that Britain won't try to cherry pick which parts | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
of EU membership it wants to keep, The Prime Minister meets her French | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
counterpart, Bernard Cazeneuve, A former Prime Minister putting | :02:24. | :02:39. | |
himself back in the debate full stop yes, the people voted for Brexit, | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
said Tony Blair, but... It's their right to change their mind. Our | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
mission is to persuade them to do so. This was a rallying cry. Britain | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
faced an economic cliff edge, he said, and those who oppose Brexit | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
should speak up. They will say leaving is inevitable. It isn't. | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
They will say, we don't represent the people. We do. Many millions of | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
them. And with that did had -- and with determination, many millions | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
more. This is not the time for retreat, indifference or despair. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
But the time to rise up in defence of what we believe. The former | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Labour Prime Minister had frank words for his party, seeing the bill | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
through Parliament. The debilitation of the Labour Party is the | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
facilitation of Brexit. I hate to say that, but it's true. His | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
opponents are armed with an awesome political argument, that they are | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
carried out what people voted for. Mainz can be changed, he said. He | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
faces another obstacle that will be exploited by his critics, the person | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
who is delivering its. This is the guy who dragooned the United Kingdom | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
into the Iraq war on a completely false prospectus, so I respectfully | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
say to Tony Blair, those who call the British people to rise up | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
against Brexit, I urge the British people to rise up and turn off the | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
TV next time Blair comes on with his condescending campaign. But it | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
wasn't only Brexit campaigners who questioned Mr Blair's speech. One | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
former boss of the official Remain campaign told me it might lead to | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
more division. Tony Blair isn't speaking for the whole of those on | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
the Remain side of the argument. There are lots of different views, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
lots of people disappointed by the outcome, but the idea you tell | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
people you need re-educating and we are not listening is wrong and | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
patronising. Theresa May told Britain wouldn't try to cherry pick | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
the best parts of EU membership when outside. With only weeks until the | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
likely start of the Brexit process, the debate is intensifying. The | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
speech from Tony Blair, tough in tone and uncompromising, has raised | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
the temperature once again. Tom Bateman, BBC News, Westminster. | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Our political correspondent Carole Walker is in Westminster. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
More than six months have passed. The result of the vote can't be | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
changed. What is Tony Blair's thinking here? What Tony Blair has | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
seen is the way the debate has gone, the way the government's policy has | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
evolved. He says the government is vexed with Brexiters claims the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
whole process is being driven by ideologues, those strongly connected | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
to the process of taking Britain out of EU, and doing so by leaving the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
single market, probably leaving the customs union as well. And he | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
believes that the Labour Party is failing to provide any adequate | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
opposition to the way the process is unfolding so how is he going to | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
bring about this change of mood from the British people? Well, he | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
wouldn't commit to a second referendum, though it seems that is | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
the only way this could possibly be reversed. But what he's doing is | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
setting up this institute to try to, as he puts it, reposition the whole | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
debate. Now it's perhaps no surprise that there has been an absolutely | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
scathing reaction from pro-Brexit campaigners, accusing him of being | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
arrogant, of being undemocratic, of treating the British people as mugs, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
dismissing them and saying they didn't understand what they were | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
voting for, but what's interesting is as you heard in that report | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
there, even some of those who wanted to remain inside the EU now say | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
look, we've had that did vote in the referendum, we now need to accent it | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
and move on. I think Tony Blair is hoping that his intervention will | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
mobilise a very different tide of public opinion, but of course too | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
many people he is quite a toxic figure and many doubt that he will | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
make a huge difference to the course of our process out of the European | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Union. Carole Walker, thank you. The former naval Admiral | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
chosen by President Trump to be his national security advisor | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
has turned down the job, in another Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
was widely tipped for the post, after Donald Trump fired | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Michael Flynn on Monday. But Harward decided to reject one | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
of the most important positions in the Cabinet, | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
just hours after Mr Trump denied his At a news conference, the President | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
said his team is operating Donald Trump is a president | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
like no other. Critics say he governs | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
and goes about his business like he's tearing up the rule book, | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
lurching from crisis to crisis. But barely a month into his | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
presidency, the billionaire businessman turned reality TV star, | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
turned leader of the free world, insists things couldn't be | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
going any better. I turn on the TV, open | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
the newspapers, and I see This administration is running | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
like a fine-tuned machine. But even as the president spoke, | :07:44. | :07:58. | |
Vice Admiral Robert Harward, his preferred pick as the new national | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
security adviser, was turning down The former Navy SEAL reportedly | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
dissuaded by the power struggles and demands of the President's | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
inner circle. Evidence, say Mr Trump's opponents, | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
that he's struggling to keep the ship steady in the face | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
of a raging storm. Every new administration has | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
its growing pains, but consider his. He had to dismiss his | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
acting Attorney General. He faced an executive order | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
which was rejected by three different federal courts, | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
and then he had to take the resignation of his | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
national security adviser. That's never happened to any | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
president in history. Fine-tuned machine, off | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
to a pretty rough start. It's not hard to decipher | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
who the president blames for creating an atmosphere of chaos | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
that he says doesn't actually exist. The press has become so dishonest, | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
that if we don't talk about it, we are doing a tremendous | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
disservice to the American people, His principal targets | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
are the established giants of the US media, the New York Times, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
CNN, but even some commentators on the normally supportive Fox News | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
channel have their issues This president keeps telling untrue | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
things and he does it every single time he's in front | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
of the microphone. It's demonstrable, I can | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
rewind the tape for you. Some of them are not really big, | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
but they are coming from But Mr Trump is on a mission | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
to rebuild America. His supporters say no amount | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
of misplaced criticism from the established media | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
will derail them. We are going to continue to do | :09:47. | :09:47. | |
what we did so very, very successfully and the thing that | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
put the former real estate billionaire into the White House, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
which is to break your sense The mainstream media no longer | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
gets to monopolise news, and we are going to go straight | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
to the audiences, whether it's through Twitter, whether it's | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
through YouTube, it doesn't matter. Indeed, as he signed away | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
environmental regulations, keeping a campaign promise | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
to support coal-mining to appoint a new hard-line head | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
of environmental protection, Mr Trump says he is getting | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
on with the business of government. Not to the liking of liberal | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
and media elites perhaps, Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
is in Washington. He says it's business as usual. We | :10:27. | :10:41. | |
are certainly hearing more about some other appointments, Gary? We're | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
hearing as replacement for national security adviser that he was hoping | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
to announce, Bob Harward, doesn't want the job. So we still don't have | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
a national security adviser, after losing Michael Flynn at the | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
beginning of the week. We are expecting later today for Scott | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Pruitt to be confirmed as the head of the environmental protection in | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
the. That's the sort of Cabinet level job and an incredibly | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
controversial job in this country. There's a lot of lobbying against | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
the environmental protection agency, a lot of concern amongst Democrats | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
that he is not a friend of the environment and has taken that a lot | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
of cases as Attorney General in Oklahoma against the environmental | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
protection agency, but that should go through. But still, we don't have | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
a full cabinet. This is weak four, just ending today, of the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
presidency. He doesn't have a full cabinet, and he doesn't have a lot | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
of those posts in place at the second tier in the various | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
departments, deputy secretaries and assistant secretaries. So it's an | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
administration that is running on half a tank at the moment, despite | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
the president saying it's finely tuned. Gary O'Donoghue in | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
Washington, thank you. The pound has fallen further | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
against other currencies, including the dollar and the euro, | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
after official figures showed the UK's retail sales took | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
an unexpected tumble last month. Some analysts think the figures | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
suggest that the slowdown predicted in the wake of a vote to leave | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
the EU has now begun. Simon Gompertz has been taking | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
a look at what's put the squeeze Despite the early sales, the January | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
sales and now the late sales, have people become tired of shopping | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
and wary about the future? I'm a self-employed carpenter | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
and I think people are closing I'm not getting the work | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
I was getting before Brexit as people don't | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
know what's happening. I think people are expecting | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
the worst so they're holding back until they know a bit more | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
about the future. So maybe they've got the money, | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
they're just not spending it. Personally I've spent more | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
after Christmas, I think! I probably shouldn't but I think | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
most of my mates are still shopping. The drop in retail sales in January | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
sounds small, at 0.3%, but a rise was expected, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
and it comes after a 2.1% decline Officials say higher prices for food | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
and fuel are partly to blame. If people really have | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
closed their wallets, zipped up their purses, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
that could be crucial for the coming year because it's the British | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
shopper keeping spending who's kept the economy growing | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
despite the uncertainties The drop in the value of the pound | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
after the referendum means imports like technology and cars | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
as well as food are more expensive. That's off-putting and if people do | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
buy, it means they have Only a week or so ago the Bank | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
of England told us they expect the economy to grow by 2% this year, | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
the same as last year, but this is an abrupt wake-up call | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
that the economy could be slowing down and we may not achieve | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
that sort of growth. The pound faltered again today, | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
because of these worries The retail sales figures | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
are highly volatile, like the pound itself, | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
so it is possible that The US food giant Kraft has said | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
Unilever, which makes goods from Marmite to PG Tips, | :14:08. | :14:20. | |
has turned down a takeover offer. Although Unilever has rejected the | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
initial approach, Kraft Heinz says it looks forward to working to reach | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
an agreement. Let's find out more from our business correspondent, | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Jonty Bloom. How significant is all of this? Let's put this in context. | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
Unilever is the company in the UK overall. It has 400 brands around | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
the world, 13 of which, brands like Magnum and Lipton, sell more than ?1 | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
billion worth every year, and it employs about 170,000 people. It's | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
one of the most important companies in the world. Heinz Kraft are trying | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
to buy it for something like ?112 billion. What happens next? Unilever | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
have rejected this original offer but that's the start of the dance, | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
so to speak. Heinz could come back with a bigger offer, we probably | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
expect them to do that. It will depend on whether you decides that's | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
a good enough deal to recommend to shareholders and accept the | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
takeover, or whether to fight it. Then there's the issue of | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
regulation. You are talking about two of the largest food and | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
household products companies in the world potentially merging. They | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
spend a lot on TV and control a lot of products. Would governments | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
around the world be happy, having all that spending power and products | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
in one company? Jonty Bloom, thank you. | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
samples from his family to confirm his identity. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
Kim Jong-nam died at Kaula Lumpur airport on Monday. | :16:00. | :16:01. | |
Malaysia says it will not release the body of the half-brother | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, until it receives DNA | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
samples from his family to confirm his identity. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Pakistan's security forces have carried out raids | :16:13. | :16:13. | |
across the country, killing and arresting dozens | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
of suspected militants, following yesterday's suicide attack | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
at a famous Sufi shrine in the south of the country. | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
The attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State. | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
Our Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani reports. | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
The shrine was packed with men, women and children for the special | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
devotional services that take place here on Thursday nights. | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
Jihadists believe Muslims who attend shines like this are heretics | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
Today the families of the dead began to bury their loved ones. | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
This woman's 13-year-old son was among those killed. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
His uncle expressed the family's sorrow. | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
TRANSLATION: He only wanted to pay his respects at the shrine. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
I raised him like my own child as I don't have any children. | :17:03. | :17:14. | |
He was my own child and they took him from me. | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
There have also been angry scenes close to the shrine where locals | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
have clashed with police, who they blame for not having done | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
We have been telling the police and other officials | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
that there was no security and that anything could happen any time | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Security has been stepped up at religious sites considered | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
possible targets like this Sufi shrine. | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Paramilitary forces say they have killed dozens of suspected militants | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
in raids carried out across the country today | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
but Pakistan has now suffered five attacks in five days carried out | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
One faction of the Pakistani Taliban has vowed to unleash | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
It's not known whether this latest attack by IS is linked to that | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
but many here now fear that after a recent significant | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
reduction in violence, the security situation | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair urges Britons to rise up | :18:12. | :18:27. | |
against the decision to leave the EU. | :18:28. | :18:28. | |
He says people voted without knowing the real terms. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
How a man's search for food in rubbish bins has led to wedding | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
Arsene Wenger will make a decision on his Arsenal future in March | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
or April but won't be retiring this summer. | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
The Frenchman says, "I will manage next season whether it is here | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
Scientists are appealing for more people to donate their brain | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
In particular, they need to carry out research on the brains of people | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
who suffered illnesses such as depression and post-traumatic | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
stress disorder, in order to develop new treatments. | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh reports from one | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
of the largest brain banks in the world, in Boston, | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Inside it is as beautiful as it is complex. | :19:21. | :19:34. | |
It is the wiring that changes and grows as we do. | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
It is a physical embodiment of our behaviour and who we are. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
That is why they are stored in brain banks like this one. | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
They are donated so that scientists can study them | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
to discover what happens when our brains go wrong. | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
3,000 brains are stored here at one of the world's largest brain banks. | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
Most of them are from people with some form of mental | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
They are now used by researchers to try and find new treatments | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and a whole host of | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Researchers here at McLean Hospital, just outside Boston, | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
and in brain banks across the world, do not have enough specimens | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
In particular, they are lacking donations from people who had | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, because they are thought | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
of as being psychological and not due to changes in the brain. | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
If people think there are no changes in the brain of someone suffering | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
major depression or post-traumatic stress disorders, | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
-- major depression or post-traumatic stress | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
reason to donate their brain for research because there | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
This conception is radically wrong from a biological point of view. | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
I was so glad to donate my mother's brain. | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
Caroline has decided to donate her brain for medical research, | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
She hopes her donation will help researchers find a cure. | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
And she is urging others to do the same. | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
And how are we going to find out if we don't do the research | :21:10. | :21:26. | |
on the brain which is where it is starting, | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
Scientists say that new treatments for many mental and neurological | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
diseases are within their grasp but it is a lack of brain tissue | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
Princess Cristina of Spain has been cleared of tax fraud. | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
If found guilty, she could have been jailed for up to eight years. | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
The 51-year-old sister of the Spanish king was the first | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
royal in Spain to face criminal charges since the restoration | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
But her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, has been sentenced to six years | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Events are being held to mark the centenary of the sinking | :22:04. | :22:16. | |
of a troop ship in the Channel during the First World War, with | :22:17. | :22:19. | |
Most of those who died were black labourers from South Africa who'd | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
been conscripted to help British forces during the conflict. | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
The disaster is little known, as Tim Muffett reports. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
Private Daniel Mafika, Private Daniel Nkonyama. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
The names of more than 600 killed in one of the UK's | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Yet, most have never heard of the sinking of the SS Mendi. | :22:42. | :22:53. | |
They have become the unremembered men of the First World War. | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
The SS Mendi was sailing from Cape Town to northern France when, | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
in thick fog, near the Isle of Wight, she accidentally | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
More than 800 members of the South African Native Labour | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
They were labourers needed to support the British Army | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
They built railway lines, they built roads. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
The discrimination experienced by many members | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
of the South African Labour Corps in life continued in death. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
The sinking of the SS Mendi was barely mentioned in official | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
The few that were are now buried in Portsmouth. | :23:39. | :23:50. | |
Tennyson, Sibonisa and Natalia are direct descendants of men | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
who died on the Mendi and they have travelled from South Africa | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
They did get on-board that ship because they were patriotic. | :23:57. | :24:05. | |
They were seving both the union of South Africa and the King. | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
It is an emotional event coming here. | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
It is only now, after the new tone of South Africa, that SS | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
The South African Navy band have also travelled | :24:23. | :24:35. | |
Victims of a largely forgotten tragedy at sea | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
English football's current longest-serving manager, | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
Arsene Wenger, says he will definitely still be | :24:48. | :24:49. | |
a manager next season, whether at Arsenal or elsewhere. | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
It's the first time the 67-year-old has hinted that he may be prepared | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
to leave the Gunners after 21 years in charge, and comes after his team | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Our reporter David Ornstein was at Arsene Wenger's news | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
Arsenal have lost 5-1 in Munich, this type over before the second | :25:08. | :25:22. | |
leg. -- this tie. Is this the lowest moment for one | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
of English football's After 21 years in charge, | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
is Arsene Wenger preparing to bid Today, for the first time, he hinted | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
that the end could be nigh. No matter what happens, you do not | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
stay somewhere the 20 years and walk out of a defeat like that... I have | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the strength and experience to respond to that. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
In 1996, Arsene Wenger arrived to headlines | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
Soon he silenced the critics by collecting trophies. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
A pioneer on and off the pitch, he turned the likes of Thierry Henry | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
invincibles, going an entire league season unbeaten. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
Among his achievements, three Premiership titles and six FA Cups. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
Arsene Wenger hasn't just managed this club but transformed it. | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
The team, their new stadium and even this state of the art training | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
Defeat in the 2006 Champions League final to Barcelona a particular | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
blow, while an increase in supporter unrest this season has | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
What is important is the club makes the right decisions for the future. | :26:35. | :26:46. | |
I do not work here the 20 years not to care about this club. I have had | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
many opportunities to go somewhere in that period. It is very important | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the club is always in safe hands. Arsenal are still in 3Com petitions. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
If his comments are anything to go by, this could well be his last | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
crack at each. He will hope a final piece of glory is not out of reach. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
A couple who have been nicknamed The Lady and The Tramp are making | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
the final preparations for their wedding this weekend. | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
Joan Neininger met Ken Selway more than 40 years ago | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
when he was sleeping rough on the streets of Gloucester. | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
Our correspondent Jon Kay takes up their story. | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
Back on the street where they first met. | :27:30. | :27:38. | |
Appropriate that it began here in a bookshop. | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
Joan ran the little shop in the centre of Gloucester | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
with her husband, and one day in 1975 she saw Ken | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
That's the bin where I used to go and look for food. | :27:55. | :28:08. | |
So Joan gave Ken a cup of tea that day and sketched | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
He was a shy man who'd suffered a head injury | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
He developed schizophrenia and ended up sleeping rough. | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
He always looked as if he didn't belong on the streets. | :28:24. | :28:25. | |
Joan invited Ken to move into her family home, and she helped him | :28:26. | :28:35. | |
Over the years, he became part of the household, | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
Although Joan's relationship with Ken was purely platonic, her | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
But, as the decades passed, the three of them | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
Then, in 1983, Joan's husband Norman died. | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
Ken and Joan are back to marry, 42 years after that first cup of tea. | :28:58. | :29:14. | |
How much of a difference has Joan made to your life? | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
I was on the street, it was terrible. | :29:17. | :29:25. | |
At times, Ken's mental health problems have been severe. | :29:26. | :29:35. | |
But Joan has helped him, and together they have tried | :29:36. | :29:38. | |
There were voices in my head which would have | :29:39. | :29:48. | |
It was Joan who proposed to Ken with the full support | :29:49. | :30:10. | |
What about the future, what does it have in store for you? | :30:11. | :30:32. | |
Well, there won't be babies and there won't be | :30:33. | :30:34. | |
A lot of cloud and mild weather or cold? It is February. It will be | :30:35. | :31:01. | |
mild for the next few days. Potentially very mild next week. It | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
will come with a lot of cloud. You can see a lot of cloud across the | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
country, the best of the sunshine in eastern areas and southern parts as | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
well. We have a weak weather front juicing | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
thicker cloud and outbreaks of rain, mostly confined to western areas. | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
Central and eastern parts turning dry. | :31:24. | :31:30. | |
Temperatures are up to 30 degrees across central and southern England. | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
This evening, staying damp across western areas, and north-west | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
England, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Drive for Wales | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
and the South of England. In the cities, it will be mild with | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
that blanket cover. Quite breezy for the North west | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
corner of the UK at the start of the weekend. A weather front will move | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
southwards. Wetter weather in parts of Wales in the afternoon. Blustery | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
showers behind in Scotland. Some sunshine. Stained bright in the | :32:06. | :32:12. | |
south-east and mild. Up to 14 Celsius. | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
-- Staying bright. That wet weather clears away on Saturday night. | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
Continuing with winds feeding in moist air from the tropics which is | :32:22. | :32:25. | |
why it is so mild. Again, a lot of cloud on Sunday. | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
Eastern Wales and Central and eastern arts of England mild. | :32:32. | :32:41. | |
Double-figure values. Notice the deep orange colours from the | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
Atlantic on Monday. It is not expected to be wall-to-wall | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
sunshine. A lot of cloud around, still some rain and breezy. | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
In the sunshine, highs of 17 Celsius. Still way off the February | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
record of 20. Outbreaks of rain on Monday, the | :33:04. | :33:10. | |
rain heavily in north-west Scotland. This is what textures will be like | :33:11. | :33:17. | |
on Monday, mid teens. You can keep abreast of all the | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
weekend whether online. A reminder of our main | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
story this lunchtime. Tony Blair has urged Britons to rise | :33:22. | :33:43. | |
up and speak out against the except of the | :33:44. | :33:44. |