:00:00. > :00:09.India and Pakistan mark 70 years of independence from Britain -
:00:10. > :00:12.a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest mass
:00:13. > :00:28.At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps India will awake to
:00:29. > :00:29.freedom. But the optimism quickly gave way
:00:30. > :00:42.to widespread violence which left I'm right in Pakistan where despite
:00:43. > :00:43.a violent birth the nation is celebrating with people filling the
:00:44. > :00:44.streets. Strong condemnation of white
:00:45. > :00:47.supremacists after the violence in Virginia as the US Vice President
:00:48. > :01:07.gives a statement that goes much We have no tolerance for hate
:01:08. > :01:09.violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK.
:01:10. > :01:11.Arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at UK airports
:01:12. > :01:14.or on flights see a 50% rise in the past year.
:01:15. > :01:17.A worrying rise in rural crime - insurers say brazen thieves
:01:18. > :01:22.are forcing farmers to turn their farmyards into fortresses.
:01:23. > :01:25.And Big Ben's bongs will fall silent next week for nearly four years
:01:26. > :01:33.And coming up in the sport on BBC News.
:01:34. > :01:35.The British team claim a successful World Athletics Championships
:01:36. > :01:37.after reaching their medal target with five in the final
:01:38. > :02:02.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:02:03. > :02:05.This week - India and Pakistan mark 70 years
:02:06. > :02:08.of independence from Britain - a moment of freedom that came
:02:09. > :02:13.amid one of the largest mass migrations the world has ever seen.
:02:14. > :02:15.The Muslim-majority state of Pakistan was created to both
:02:16. > :02:18.the west and the east of India, with Muslims travelling
:02:19. > :02:21.in one direction, Hindus and Sikhs in the other.
:02:22. > :02:23.Around 12 million people are thought to have fled
:02:24. > :02:26.the violence that erupted, with communities
:02:27. > :02:30.A million people are thought to have died.
:02:31. > :02:33.Reeta Chakrabarti is in the Pakistani city of Lahore
:02:34. > :02:49.You can see the crowds behind me and hear the call to prayer from the
:02:50. > :02:52.mosque. It is a big day of passivity here with people taking to the
:02:53. > :02:59.streets to celebrate the end of colonial rule in Pakistan and also
:03:00. > :03:01.its creation as a new state independent of India. India
:03:02. > :03:07.celebrating its own independence tomorrow. But partition in 1947
:03:08. > :03:08.brought mass migration and widespread bloodshed as our
:03:09. > :03:11.correspondent James Robbins reports. 70 years ago, Britain pulled out
:03:12. > :03:14.of India, seen as the jewel British rule, the British Raj,
:03:15. > :03:20.had been unravelling in the 1940s Lord Louis Mountbatten,
:03:21. > :03:27.India's last Viceroy, worked to transfer power
:03:28. > :03:30.as quickly as possible. The British even brought
:03:31. > :03:32.forward the deadline India then was home to almost
:03:33. > :03:37.400 million people. Hindus were in the majority,
:03:38. > :03:39.Muslims made up about But no way could be agreed to keep
:03:40. > :03:52.them in a single, undivided nation. So independence also
:03:53. > :03:54.meant partition. Creating not one but two
:03:55. > :04:08.self-governing countries. At the stroke of the midnight hour
:04:09. > :04:11.when the bold Street India will awake to life and freedom.
:04:12. > :04:13.The new Borders were drawn up in just five weeks.
:04:14. > :04:17.On the 14th of August 1947 British India was heading to its end.
:04:18. > :04:25.Over the course of two days, partition was also launched.
:04:26. > :04:27.A new largely Muslim state of Pakistan was born
:04:28. > :04:29.while the new India was celebrating its independence.
:04:30. > :04:31.But millions of people, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, found themselves
:04:32. > :04:34.on what they regarded as the wrong side of the new borders.
:04:35. > :04:37.12 million or more refugees fled from one newly created
:04:38. > :04:39.Fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns,
:04:40. > :04:44.Independence has not yet brought peace.
:04:45. > :04:48.Rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning.
:04:49. > :04:51.The new governments were ill-equipped to deal with such
:04:52. > :04:53.a panicked mass migration, one of the largest in history.
:04:54. > :05:03.There was a wave of massacres, each one sparking a revenge attack.
:05:04. > :05:05.Whole villages divided on sectarian lines, tens
:05:06. > :05:07.of thousands of women abducted, many raped.
:05:08. > :05:09.Between half a million and a million people
:05:10. > :05:12.BBC correspondent Winford Vaughan Thomas witnessed
:05:13. > :05:23.What we saw was a town soaked with stench of death.
:05:24. > :05:26.We came to a row of one-storey houses, I simply shut my eyes.
:05:27. > :05:29.Lying on the pathway and over the furniture and in the rooms,
:05:30. > :05:37.After the optimism of independence, the upheaval and violence that
:05:38. > :05:42.followed cast a long shadow over the next 70 years.
:05:43. > :05:44.Borders drawn in haste by the British Government have
:05:45. > :05:50.repeatedly been a source of tension between neighbours.
:05:51. > :05:52.Relations between India and Pakistan have never recovered from the trauma
:05:53. > :06:10.As James Robbins said there was a great spirit of optimism following
:06:11. > :06:16.independence appears to come after that were difficult. I have been to
:06:17. > :06:19.the city of Karachi to speak to the people there. It was the first
:06:20. > :06:20.capital of the country following independence and the birthplace of
:06:21. > :06:24.its founding father Mohammed Jinnah. It is Pakistan's birthday,
:06:25. > :06:26.and at every street corner But its 70 years have
:06:27. > :06:33.been very mixed. It was founded as a democracy
:06:34. > :06:36.but has had military rule and people argue whether its founder
:06:37. > :06:39.Mohammed Jinnah wanted a secular I went to one of Karachi's
:06:40. > :06:43.universities to ask students what they think of Mohammed Jinnah
:06:44. > :06:47.and Pakistan today. Mohammed Jinnah, it is the biggest
:06:48. > :06:50.name for Pakistan and even every nation of the world,
:06:51. > :06:52.he is like a father, And do you think Mohammed
:06:53. > :06:57.Jinnah would be happy He would be happy, he would be
:06:58. > :07:01.really happy seeing Pakistan today progressing every
:07:02. > :07:05.day, every second. On this 70th anniversary of
:07:06. > :07:07.independence, the country is doing And I hope it will get more
:07:08. > :07:17.prosperous day by day. And Mansour, do you think that
:07:18. > :07:19.Mohammed Jinnah would be happy Basically he had seen the basic
:07:20. > :07:26.needs of the people, and they are not being
:07:27. > :07:28.fulfilled right now. Much of the problem
:07:29. > :07:30.lies in religion. Because people nowadays,
:07:31. > :07:32.they're not tolerant. Crowds come to Jinnah's mausoleum
:07:33. > :07:45.to pay their respects. The country he founded
:07:46. > :07:47.was rocked again last month when the Prime Minister was forced
:07:48. > :07:50.to resign over corruption charges. Finding political stability remains
:07:51. > :07:57.one of Pakistan's many challenges. In a moment we can hear
:07:58. > :08:00.from our India Correspondent Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi -
:08:01. > :08:15.but first Scunder Kermani What do you think people are
:08:16. > :08:21.celebrating today, independence from the UK or splitting from India? This
:08:22. > :08:25.is a question that I put to a number of Pakistanis and many seem to
:08:26. > :08:33.believe it is independent from both Britain and India. A great deal of
:08:34. > :08:37.Pakistanis especially in the younger generations who have no first-hand
:08:38. > :08:41.recollection of life under colonial rule set primarily as independence
:08:42. > :08:45.from India. That is because people from a young age or taught that
:08:46. > :08:51.whilst Hindus and Muslims live together side under British rule and
:08:52. > :08:56.indeed long before that, in fact they were separate nations and so it
:08:57. > :08:59.was necessary to create Pakistan to ensure a Muslim minority in the
:09:00. > :09:06.subcontinent would not be oppressed by a Hindu majority. Partition so
:09:07. > :09:11.horrific amount of violence that maybe no one anticipated. But it was
:09:12. > :09:16.something that many Indian Muslim leaders had campaigned for. Nowadays
:09:17. > :09:20.it is quite common to hear in Pakistan the point of view that
:09:21. > :09:26.India is trying to sabotage Pakistan is a kind of punishment for breaking
:09:27. > :09:29.away. The legacy of bitterness that was created by partition is
:09:30. > :09:38.something that still continues to have modern repercussions. And India
:09:39. > :09:46.celebrates Independence Day tomorrow, how big occasion will that
:09:47. > :09:51.be? In just a few hours from now you can already see the building behind
:09:52. > :09:56.me being lit up, that is the parliament building where the First
:09:57. > :10:01.Minister made historic speech that we had in the fort from James
:10:02. > :10:03.Robbins. There's a sense of excitement and anticipation but also
:10:04. > :10:08.subdued celebration at the same time. It is not seen such a big
:10:09. > :10:13.occasion apart from the fact that it is a public holiday. India today is
:10:14. > :10:19.very different from the India of 1947. It is now a booming economy
:10:20. > :10:25.and in 1947 the per capita income was about ?20 and now it is ?5,500.
:10:26. > :10:31.One of the fastest-growing economies in the world. At the same time a lot
:10:32. > :10:35.of people thought in 1947 that India might break up as a nation because
:10:36. > :10:40.there were so many different sap nationalities in the country, it was
:10:41. > :10:44.so diverse. But in fact it has endured and as a democracy and it
:10:45. > :10:50.handled that part of its politics quite well. Many of the conflicts
:10:51. > :10:54.that existed at the time of partition, the differences with
:10:55. > :10:58.Pakistan over the Muslim majority state of Kashmir, the huge religious
:10:59. > :11:02.differences between the minority Muslim community and the majority
:11:03. > :11:12.Hindu community which was the cause of partition persists even today.
:11:13. > :11:16.Thank you both very much. Pakistan is a country that often feels that
:11:17. > :11:21.it gets a bad press internationally and there are major challenges here
:11:22. > :11:26.with security, political instability and also religion in the state. But
:11:27. > :11:27.there is also optimism especially amongst younger people and that is
:11:28. > :11:32.very much in evidence today. The US Vice President, Mike Pence,
:11:33. > :11:35.has specifically condemned far-right groups when asked to respond
:11:36. > :11:37.to the violence over A woman was killed and 19 people
:11:38. > :11:44.were injured when a car was driven into a crowd protesting
:11:45. > :11:45.against a far-right rally President Trump has been criticised
:11:46. > :11:49.for not identifying any specific group when he condemned the trouble
:11:50. > :12:04.- as our correspondent After the violence, the vigils.
:12:05. > :12:08.Across America people showed their support for the young anti-fascism
:12:09. > :12:12.protester killed in Charlottesville and they condemn what they saw as
:12:13. > :12:21.the newly confident white supremacy movement. It has not melted away. In
:12:22. > :12:26.Seattle group calling itself Patriot prayer was quickly surrounded. The
:12:27. > :12:29.violence on Saturday in Charlottesville has become a
:12:30. > :12:33.defining moment in the Trump presidency. The gathering of
:12:34. > :12:40.hundreds of white supremacists was for many shocking enough. But then
:12:41. > :12:43.this. A car driven into a group of counter protesters. These new
:12:44. > :12:53.pictures show the terror and chaos that followed. Oh, my God, people
:12:54. > :12:57.are badly hurt. 19 people were injured. 32-year-old Heather Heyer
:12:58. > :13:03.was killed. Donald Trump condemned what he called the violence on many
:13:04. > :13:07.sides. But did not mention the far right hate groups involved. That was
:13:08. > :13:14.left to the vice president last night. We have no tolerance for hate
:13:15. > :13:24.and violence. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, or the KKK. These
:13:25. > :13:28.dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in
:13:29. > :13:33.the American debate and we condemn them in the strongest possible
:13:34. > :13:35.terms. But many in the president was wrecked own party are angry at his
:13:36. > :13:41.reluctance to specifically condemn the far right. It is un-American,
:13:42. > :13:46.there are domestic terrorists and we need more from our president on this
:13:47. > :13:50.issue. The media attacking our president... But President Trump is
:13:51. > :13:57.trying to switch the focus of the nation, his team releasing this at
:13:58. > :14:01.portraying him as the victim. But in Charlottesville they're not ready to
:14:02. > :14:04.change the conversation. We need to spread love all day and every day
:14:05. > :14:07.and not just when something like this happens, when a tragedy
:14:08. > :14:12.happened. Everyone wants to come together and we will be there for
:14:13. > :14:15.Heather. She would want us to be there all the time. That is what
:14:16. > :14:17.we're going to do. Richard Lister, BBC News.
:14:18. > :14:26.Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington.
:14:27. > :14:30.Mike Pence unequivocal in condemnation, is this going to
:14:31. > :14:34.increase pressure on Donald Trump and will he give further comment on
:14:35. > :14:43.this now? To some extent I think that the damage is done. We have had
:14:44. > :14:46.a raft of people including Vice President and the President was
:14:47. > :14:51.wrecked on daughter coming out and using the words of the present
:14:52. > :14:54.failed to use, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, take your pick. That
:14:55. > :15:00.is the problem and whatever is said now he will have a problem I think
:15:01. > :15:05.putting it right. The difficulty of course is that for one third of the
:15:06. > :15:08.population, for perhaps a bunch of those people who voted for Donald
:15:09. > :15:12.Trump, some of them and only some of them, will have liked what they
:15:13. > :15:18.heard on we see that reflected on some of the ultra-right websites,
:15:19. > :15:24.applauding Donald Trump for not condemning them. Not singling them
:15:25. > :15:27.out. That is the problem here, that people in Charlottesville will find
:15:28. > :15:34.it very hard to move on from this. To bring the country together after
:15:35. > :15:35.these things have happened. The president is not naming this thing
:15:36. > :15:40.for what it is. Gary, thank you. China will stop some imports
:15:41. > :15:43.from North Korea following agreement to fully enforce sanctions agreed
:15:44. > :15:45.against the regime in the country. Coal and iron imports will be
:15:46. > :15:48.suspended after the UN and the United States put pressure
:15:49. > :15:50.on Beijing to do more The move comes after
:15:51. > :15:53.South Korea's President said he was confident the US would act
:15:54. > :15:56.reasonably and peacefully Moon Jae-in said "There must be no
:15:57. > :16:06.more war on the Korean Peninsula." The number of arrests of passengers
:16:07. > :16:12.suspected of being drunk at UK airports and on flights has risen
:16:13. > :16:15.by 50% in the past year, that's according to an investigation
:16:16. > :16:18.carried out by the BBC's Critics of the airline industry say
:16:19. > :16:21.a voluntary code on alcohol sales isn't working,
:16:22. > :16:23.and want the Government And it seems to be leaving
:16:24. > :16:37.passengers and crew with a hangover. An investigation by BBC Panorama has
:16:38. > :16:39.revealed that arrests of those suspected of being drunk at UK
:16:40. > :16:42.airports and on flights have risen Half of the 4,000 cabin
:16:43. > :16:53.crew who took part in by Panorama and Unite the union said
:16:54. > :17:00.they had either experienced or witnessed verbal, physical,
:17:01. > :17:02.or sexual abuse by drunk passengers People just see us as
:17:03. > :17:17.barmaids in the sky. They would touch your breasts
:17:18. > :17:20.or touch your bum and your legs. I mean, I have had hands
:17:21. > :17:23.going up my skirt before. Phil Ward, the managing director
:17:24. > :17:25.of low-cost airline Jet2, has already banned alcohol sales
:17:26. > :17:28.on flights before 8am. And wants the industry
:17:29. > :17:30.to take tougher measures. Do you think airports
:17:31. > :17:32.are doing enough? I think the retailers
:17:33. > :17:41.could do more as well. Two litre steins of beer in bars,
:17:42. > :17:44.mixers and miniatures which can only be
:17:45. > :17:49.there for one reason. But the Airport Operators
:17:50. > :17:51.Association insists that their code I don't accept that the airports
:17:52. > :17:55.don't sell alcohol responsibly. The sale of alcohol
:17:56. > :17:57.per se is not a problem. It is the misuse of it and drinking
:17:58. > :18:02.to excess and then behaving badly. Earlier this year, a House of Lords
:18:03. > :18:04.committee called for airport licensing to be brought into line
:18:05. > :18:08.with pubs and bars. A Government decision
:18:09. > :18:11.on whether to call time on early morning drinking at airports is now
:18:12. > :18:28.expected in the autumn. And you can see that Panorama
:18:29. > :18:32.investigation, Plane Drunk, Our top story this lunchtime: India
:18:33. > :18:36.and Pakistan mark 70 years of independence from Britain -
:18:37. > :18:39.a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest mass
:18:40. > :18:42.migrations the world has ever seen. 50 years after pirate radio
:18:43. > :18:46.ships were outlawed, we look at how they changed
:18:47. > :18:52.the sound of the airwaves. Coming up in the sport,
:18:53. > :18:55.Cristiano Ronaldo could face a ban of up to 12 matches after pushing
:18:56. > :18:58.referee Real Madrid's Spanish super The world Player of the Year
:18:59. > :19:11.was reacting to being sent off. A rise in crime committed
:19:12. > :19:14.in the countryside has been described as deeply worrying
:19:15. > :19:17.by a rural insurer. Latest figures from NFU Mutual show
:19:18. > :19:19.claims have risen by more than a fifth in the first half
:19:20. > :19:25.of the year. The insurer says thieves
:19:26. > :19:27.are targeting items such as Land Rovers, tractors and quad
:19:28. > :19:29.bikes, despite increased Farming nearly 800 acres of arable
:19:30. > :19:36.land in North Yorkshire means Tim Rogers is all too aware
:19:37. > :19:43.of rural crime. We've had items such as these parts
:19:44. > :19:47.here stolen in recent days. Less than two weeks ago,
:19:48. > :19:50.thieves broke into his barn and stole thousands of pounds'
:19:51. > :19:51.worth of machinery. It puts an enormous amount of stress
:19:52. > :19:56.on the farming community. I know of farmers who are terrified
:19:57. > :19:58.about the current situation, It is the down time
:19:59. > :20:11.and the stress it is causing. It will no doubt in time put some
:20:12. > :20:14.people out of business. Figures from insurer NFU Mutual
:20:15. > :20:16.suggest the cost of rural theft was over ?39 million last year,
:20:17. > :20:20.but they also point to a 20% rise in the first six months of this
:20:21. > :20:23.year compared to last. These figures show an alarming rise
:20:24. > :20:26.of over 20% in the cost of claims in the countryside in the first half
:20:27. > :20:30.of this year, and we are very concerned there's a new wave
:20:31. > :20:33.of brazen and very determined thieves attacking farms
:20:34. > :20:35.and rural properties, and as a result farmers are having
:20:36. > :20:39.to turn their farmyards into fortresses to prevent
:20:40. > :20:45.themselves from becoming a victim. Some of the security measures
:20:46. > :20:48.farmers like Roger have had to There are six covert ones
:20:49. > :20:53.covering this farm to help Concrete blocks, tree trunks
:20:54. > :20:57.and ditches to try to stop people Tracker devices on tractors,
:20:58. > :21:00.and of course the big steel North Yorkshire Police
:21:01. > :21:07.says its dedicated task force is proactive in tackling rural
:21:08. > :21:09.crime, and that it works closely with farmers and residents to gather
:21:10. > :21:16.intelligence to disrupt criminals. Armed officers in the UK's largest
:21:17. > :21:24.police force are to be issued with head-mounted cameras
:21:25. > :21:27.in an attempt to address concerns over the transparency of operations
:21:28. > :21:30.around armed officers. They'll be attached to the caps
:21:31. > :21:33.and protective helmets of members of the Metropolitan Police's
:21:34. > :21:35.firearms units, as our home affairs More than 17,500 body worn cameras
:21:36. > :21:42.have now been rolled out by the Met Police,
:21:43. > :21:44.and now it's the turn And it's been decided that the best
:21:45. > :21:49.place for them to have their cameras With me is Chief Superintendent
:21:50. > :21:53.Martin Hendy and one Chief Superintendent Hendy,
:21:54. > :21:57.can you just talk us through how OK, so the officer you can see
:21:58. > :22:03.wearing a camera here has effectively got a device on his body
:22:04. > :22:06.armour there, that is effectively a battery pack and a means
:22:07. > :22:09.of switching it on very quickly. But the key bit for us
:22:10. > :22:11.is the actual camera mounted Because we think it is critical
:22:12. > :22:16.that it captures the eye line of the officer,
:22:17. > :22:19.so it can capture what they are actually seeing
:22:20. > :22:21.as a scenario unfolds. So as you see, the officer dressed
:22:22. > :22:23.there, he will be wearing If he was to put a ballistic helmet
:22:24. > :22:29.on, it would attach to the side. Very quickly attach
:22:30. > :22:31.to the side of the helmet. And as I said, we believe that gives
:22:32. > :22:34.the best chance of capturing exactly what it is the officers are seeing
:22:35. > :22:37.as the scenario unfolds. You've tested them in trials,
:22:38. > :22:40.both out in operations and also Yes, we have, we've been trialling
:22:41. > :22:44.it for, broadly speaking, And we've also trialled
:22:45. > :22:48.it within the range. And we think it's
:22:49. > :22:50.particularly effective. It has taken us a while to get
:22:51. > :22:54.to this position because of course we wanted to make sure
:22:55. > :22:57.they were mounted in the right place and make sure we have the right kit,
:22:58. > :23:00.and the right ability to download it and therefore capture
:23:01. > :23:02.the best evidence. But yes, we think the trials
:23:03. > :23:04.have proved this is It's hugely popular amongst
:23:05. > :23:10.the officers and my great hope is it will increase public confidence
:23:11. > :23:12.in armed policing, accountability, transparency, but also support those
:23:13. > :23:17.people that volunteer to perform a firearms role and potentially make
:23:18. > :23:22.some very difficult decisions. Chief Superintendent Hendy,
:23:23. > :23:24.thank you very much indeed. Around 140,000 vulnerable
:23:25. > :23:31.children in England have potentially dangerous home lives
:23:32. > :23:33.but are not receiving the help they need because they're not deemed
:23:34. > :23:38.to be at crisis point. That's the warning from the charity
:23:39. > :23:41.Action For Children, which says the youngsters are stuck in what it
:23:42. > :23:43.calls a revolving door Debbie has been working
:23:44. > :23:50.in children's services for 16 years and helps families with anything
:23:51. > :23:52.from behavioural problems But she says it's become harder
:23:53. > :23:58.to provide the support they need. Across the sites I run, I've got
:23:59. > :24:01.just under 2,500 under fives So, as much as we do,
:24:02. > :24:07.there's a lot that we cannot possibly do because we can't
:24:08. > :24:10.be everywhere at once. So you know, we're already aware
:24:11. > :24:12.of families that we are not A Freedom of Information request
:24:13. > :24:23.to local authorities found that last year 184,500 assessments
:24:24. > :24:25.of children's needs were closed because they fell short
:24:26. > :24:33.of the criteria for support. The charity Action For Children says
:24:34. > :24:36.only around one in four families were referred for early help
:24:37. > :24:38.services such as children centres We know from too many cases
:24:39. > :24:44.that if we're not able to help children early, that there
:24:45. > :24:47.are strong likelihoods that For example in serious case reviews,
:24:48. > :24:51.70% of the time we know there had been early warning signs
:24:52. > :24:56.of the outcomes. But we also know that if we give
:24:57. > :24:59.children and families the tools to help themselves much earlier,
:25:00. > :25:02.they're much more likely to not need Another issue highlighted
:25:03. > :25:06.is the differing thresholds help might be provided in one area
:25:07. > :25:12.but in a neighbouring borough, We have been hit by a double whammy
:25:13. > :25:19.of major government cuts to funding. At the same time as we are seeing
:25:20. > :25:21.a big increase in demand What reports show like this
:25:22. > :25:25.is the real human cost of the massive funding pressures
:25:26. > :25:27.facing local government The Department of Education says
:25:28. > :25:31.it's taking action to support vulnerable children by reforming
:25:32. > :25:33.social care services and better protecting victims
:25:34. > :25:38.of domestic violence and abuse. It says councils spent almost
:25:39. > :25:40.?8 billion last year on children's social care, but it wants
:25:41. > :25:43.to help them do more. It's 50 years ago today
:25:44. > :25:53.since Britain's pirate radio In the '60s, they had changed
:25:54. > :26:00.the face of broadcasting. continuous music and launched
:26:01. > :26:03.the careers of Tony Blackburn, But Harold Wilson's government
:26:04. > :26:06.introduced the Marine Offences Act, Tim Muffett looks back to a pivotal
:26:07. > :26:17.era in broadcasting. In the early 1960s, the BBC
:26:18. > :26:20.played hardly any pop. By broadcasting from
:26:21. > :26:25.international waters, pirate stations like Caroline,
:26:26. > :26:27.Radio London, and Swinging Radio This was Radio Caroline's London HQ,
:26:28. > :26:34.where Tony Blackburn Did you have any sense of what a big
:26:35. > :26:40.deal this was going to be I really thought this
:26:41. > :26:45.was going to be the start Broadcasting pop music from ships
:26:46. > :26:53.like this out at sea, the pirate But on land, they weren't just
:26:54. > :26:59.winning over millions of fans, they also faced a powerful enemy
:27:00. > :27:07.- the government. The pirates are a menace and I don't
:27:08. > :27:11.believe at all that the public wouldn't support action
:27:12. > :27:16.to enforce the law. At midnight on the 14th
:27:17. > :27:18.of August 1967, the Marine It was now illegal for
:27:19. > :27:21.British citizens to work Many pirate stations packed up,
:27:22. > :27:27.but Caroline continued broadcasting It anchored further
:27:28. > :27:32.into international waters This ship, the Ross Revenge,
:27:33. > :27:39.was its studio throughout the 1980s. What we wanted to do is return
:27:40. > :27:46.the ship to a useful Because while we dine
:27:47. > :27:50.out on our nostalgia, which is our selling point,
:27:51. > :27:53.we also want to now Having been streamed online
:27:54. > :28:06.since the late '90s, the station has just been granted
:28:07. > :28:11.a new AM broadcast license. 50 years after the law
:28:12. > :28:13.that tried to ban them, Britain's pop pirates are back
:28:14. > :28:16.on the water. The chimes of Big Ben will be heard
:28:17. > :28:29.for a final time next week, before major conservation work
:28:30. > :28:32.begins on the Westminster tower The clock won't resume its regular
:28:33. > :28:35.time-keeping duties until 2021 although specialist clock makers
:28:36. > :28:38.will ensure that Big Ben can still bong for important national
:28:39. > :28:40.events such as New Year's Eve Our political correspondent
:28:41. > :28:51.Leila Natthoo has the story. We are right at the top
:28:52. > :28:53.of the Elizabeth Tower, all 14 tonnes of the great bell that
:28:54. > :29:00.rings out every hour. And here are the four
:29:01. > :29:02.smaller quarter bells too. It's absolutely deafening
:29:03. > :29:05.at this close range. They have given us protective
:29:06. > :29:08.headphones to be this close to it, but from next Monday the bells
:29:09. > :29:11.will fall silent to allow It's not actually the bells
:29:12. > :29:21.themselves that need repairing, it's the mechanism that causes
:29:22. > :29:24.the clocks to tick and the hammers And there's also a wider programme
:29:25. > :29:32.of renovation under way already on the tower itself,
:29:33. > :29:34.dealing with issues like damp so the silence is really
:29:35. > :29:38.for the workmen too. So, in the coming weeks and months,
:29:39. > :29:41.scaffolding will be going up right But it's hoped that at least one
:29:42. > :29:45.clock face will be visible and working at all times,
:29:46. > :29:48.and the bells will still ring out on special occasions
:29:49. > :29:49.like New Year's Eve But next Monday afternoon at noon
:29:50. > :29:54.will be the last time for some time to gather to hear
:29:55. > :29:56.those regular sounds. And for us here in Westminster,
:29:57. > :29:58.a strange silence will descend in the absence of such familiar
:29:59. > :30:10.and reassuring sounds. A rare white moose has been captured
:30:11. > :30:12.on camera in Sweden. The animal is one of just 100 white
:30:13. > :30:16.moose in the country. They aren't actually albino but grow
:30:17. > :30:39.white fur due to a genetic mutation. Good afternoon. Sunshine is going to
:30:40. > :30:44.feature in our forecast this week but it won't always be easy to find.
:30:45. > :30:49.You don't always know where to look for it, and the menu includes some
:30:50. > :30:54.sunshine but also some generally cool weather and outbreaks of rain
:30:55. > :30:58.at times. We had rain for this weather watcher in Northern Ireland,
:30:59. > :31:02.County Antrim this morning. Some spots of rain, and along this rope
:31:03. > :31:07.of cloud you can see on the satellite picture there are various
:31:08. > :31:12.pulses of wet weather. One moving across Scotland, one across the
:31:13. > :31:15.Midlands, Wales and the south-west, then further pulses of heavy rain
:31:16. > :31:20.will push across Wales and the south-west of England later this
:31:21. > :31:24.afternoon. Here is a closer look across Scotland this afternoon at
:31:25. > :31:30.four o'clock, a lot of cloud and some outbreaks of rain. Northern
:31:31. > :31:34.Ireland, a mixture of sunny spells and heavy, thundery downpours. A
:31:35. > :31:37.window of mostly fine weather for Northern England through the
:31:38. > :31:41.afternoon, and across East Anglia and the south-east where we hold
:31:42. > :31:45.onto the brightness we could see temperatures reaching 25 degrees.
:31:46. > :31:51.For the Midlands and the south-west of England, some outbreaks of rain.
:31:52. > :31:55.Heavier pulses of rain will swing in across the south-west and Wales,
:31:56. > :31:59.into northern England throughout the night. Some clear spells up to the
:32:00. > :32:03.north-west, that will allow it to get chilly, and later in the night
:32:04. > :32:12.we are likely to see a fresh plot of downpours across the far south-east
:32:13. > :32:17.of England. Some rain to start tomorrow morning but it will clear
:32:18. > :32:21.off smartly to leave a day of sunshine and showers. Some showers
:32:22. > :32:25.will be thundery, but equally some places will avoid the showers and
:32:26. > :32:33.stay dry all day long. Not a bad day in balance. As this little bulge of
:32:34. > :32:37.high pressure builds its weight in during Tuesday night into Wednesday,
:32:38. > :32:41.it will turn chilly and as the high holds on in eastern areas on
:32:42. > :32:45.Wednesday, here it will be largely dry day with spells of sunshine. Out
:32:46. > :32:52.west, strengthening winds, rain working erratically in the western
:32:53. > :32:55.fringes of Wales later in the day. Sunshine and showers again on
:32:56. > :33:01.Thursday, Friday looks like it could bring some wet weather for some and
:33:02. > :33:04.some windy weather as well. There is some sunshine to be found in the
:33:05. > :33:06.forecast this week but you will need to know where to look for it.
:33:07. > :33:12.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime...
:33:13. > :33:18.India and Pakistan marks 70 years of independence from Britain, a moment
:33:19. > :33:20.of freedom that sparked one of the largest mass migrations to the world
:33:21. > :33:21.has ever seen. That's all from the BBC News at One
:33:22. > :33:24.so it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join the BBC's
:33:25. > :33:27.news teams where you are.