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