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The Home Secretary says
the attempted murder of a former | 0:00:03 | 0:00:05 | |
Russian spy using nerve gas
is an outrageous crime. | 0:00:05 | 0:00:12 | |
Amber Rudd told Parliament Sergei
and Yulia Skripal remain | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
in a critical condition in hospital,
and the police officer | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
who went to their aid
is in a serious condition. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:23 | |
The use of a nerve agent on UK soil
is a brazen and reckless act. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
This was attempted
murder in the most | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
cruel and public way. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:34 | |
We'll have the latest
on the counter-terrorism | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
investigation into where the nerve
agent came from. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:38 | |
Also this lunchtime... | 0:00:38 | 0:00:40 | |
A passenger tells a court
how her hair caught fire when a bomb | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
went off on a London underground
train last September. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:48 | |
Domestic abusers could be
electronically tagged or banned | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
from drinking alcohol,
in a new crackdown proposed | 0:00:52 | 0:00:54 | |
by the Government. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:57 | |
Longer waits in A&E and fewer
non-urgent operations - | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
new figures make grim
reading for the NHS. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:06 | |
And, going for gold -
Britain is hoping for a record medal | 0:01:06 | 0:01:09 | |
haul at the Winter Paralympics. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:14 | |
And coming up in the
sport on BBC News... | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
Eddie Jones makes three changes
for England's Six Nations clash | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
with France this weekend. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
Captain Dylan Hartley
misses out through injury. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:26 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
The Home Secretary has described
the attempted murder of a former | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
Russian spy and his daughter
as an outrageous crime. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
Speaking in the House of Commons,
Amber Rudd said the use of a nerve | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
agent on UK soil was a brazen
and wreckless act. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
She also said it was highly likely
that the police officer | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
taken ill at the scene
in Salisbury was exposed | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
to the same nerve agent
as Sergei and Yulia Skripal. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:12 | |
Counter terrorism officers
are trying to identify | 0:02:12 | 0:02:13 | |
the source of the toxin. | 0:02:13 | 0:02:14 | |
Richard Galpin reports. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:21 | |
Much of the investigation now is
focusing on who carried out the | 0:02:23 | 0:02:27 | |
attempted murder here in Salisbury
last Sunday. In which the Russian | 0:02:27 | 0:02:31 | |
double agent Sergei Skripal and his
daughter Yulia ingested deadly nerve | 0:02:31 | 0:02:39 | |
agent. But at the local hospital, it
is now clear the policeman who was | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
also contaminated after rushing to
help them when they collapsed is | 0:02:45 | 0:02:49 | |
recovering. The police are working
closely... In Parliament this | 0:02:49 | 0:02:53 | |
morning the Government promised a
robust response once it is clear who | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
was behind the attack. The use of a
nerve agent on UK soil is a brazen | 0:02:57 | 0:03:03 | |
and reckless act. This was attempted
murder in the most cruel and public | 0:03:03 | 0:03:10 | |
way. People are right to want to
know who to hold to account. But if | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
we are to be rigorous in this
investigation, we must avoid | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
speculation and allow the police to
carry on their investigation. The | 0:03:18 | 0:03:24 | |
horrifying effects of a nerve agents
have been seen in several parts of | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
the world in recent years, even
though their use is banned. Hundreds | 0:03:28 | 0:03:33 | |
suffocated to death in this sarin
gas attack in the rebel held areas | 0:03:33 | 0:03:37 | |
of Syria in 2013. Last year another
nerve agent, VX, was used by the | 0:03:37 | 0:03:48 | |
Korean regime. Generally it is only
governments which develop and store | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
nerve agents. Making nerve agents is
not the sort of stuff you can knock | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
up in your back shed, it needs a
sophisticated laboratory, highly | 0:03:59 | 0:04:05 | |
trained and experienced scientists
that only we really find in | 0:04:05 | 0:04:09 | |
state-run institutions. So for those
investigating the attack in | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
Salisbury, the range of likely
culprits has narrowed significantly, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
with Russia probably now the prime
suspect. The British authorities | 0:04:17 | 0:04:22 | |
will be looking for substantive
proof of a link between the use of | 0:04:22 | 0:04:25 | |
this agent and the Russians in
particular. It's not only | 0:04:25 | 0:04:29 | |
governments who use this sort of
thing, sarin was | 0:04:29 | 0:04:39 | |
thing, sarin was used in the Tokyo
Metro a few years ago, nevertheless | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
the high probability is it is the
Russians. There is much still to be | 0:04:42 | 0:04:44 | |
uncovered in the investigation, but
for the family... Sergei Skripal's | 0:04:44 | 0:04:53 | |
brother died in Russia and the
family believe the deaths are | 0:04:53 | 0:04:58 | |
suspicious. | 0:04:58 | 0:04:59 | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Leila
Nathoo is outside Sergei Skripal's | 0:04:59 | 0:05:01 | |
house in Salisbury. | 0:05:01 | 0:05:09 | |
I am at Sergei Skripal's house and
there has been a flurry of activity | 0:05:13 | 0:05:17 | |
in the last hour or so, the most
activity we have seen to days. We | 0:05:17 | 0:05:22 | |
had a number of ambulances turning
up here, and an incident response | 0:05:22 | 0:05:26 | |
team. Police have set up a large
tent here, there are also tends in | 0:05:26 | 0:05:32 | |
the driveway and back garden too so
it looks like there will be a | 0:05:32 | 0:05:36 | |
lengthy operation here. As far as
Salisbury city centre goes, there | 0:05:36 | 0:05:46 | |
Salisbury city centre goes, there is
a police tent near the bench where | 0:05:46 | 0:05:49 | |
Sergei Skripal and his daughter was
found, Zizzi restaurant is cordoned | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
off, so a number of sites of
interest here. Wiltshire Police is | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
saying the officer who was
hospitalised after being one of the | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
first on the scene to response to
the call-out, he is now described as | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
being in a serious but stable
condition. He is conscious, talking | 0:06:00 | 0:06:06 | |
and engaging. Sergei Skripal and
Yulia are said to be critical but | 0:06:06 | 0:06:14 | |
stable. The police are putting a
timeline together of their | 0:06:14 | 0:06:19 | |
movements, having lunch at Zizzi
restaurant at 1:30pm, then going | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
into the pub, later found slumped
and collapsed on the bench. When did | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
they get exposed to this nerve
agent? How was it ingested, was it | 0:06:27 | 0:06:33 | |
airborne? Who was administered by?
And how did it get into Salisbury | 0:06:33 | 0:06:39 | |
city centre the country? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:40 | |
Our Science Editor
David Shukman is here. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
In terms of the substance, what are
investigators looking for, David? | 0:06:43 | 0:06:49 | |
There is a huge amount we don't know
but the phrase nerve agent covers a | 0:06:49 | 0:06:55 | |
lot of possibilities. It points to
the fact this was manufactured | 0:06:55 | 0:07:00 | |
probably in some state institution.
These are not something you can cook | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
up in the kitchen. In Japan some
people succeeded but it took a long | 0:07:03 | 0:07:08 | |
time and it is hazardous. We also
know nerve agents attacks the | 0:07:08 | 0:07:12 | |
nervous system by definition, that
is what they do, and the symptoms | 0:07:12 | 0:07:17 | |
eyewitnesses describe match that,
namely convulsions, difficulty | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
breathing, frothing at the mouth,
all pointing to the use of these | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
nerve agents. I think beyond that,
we are into a phase where there is | 0:07:26 | 0:07:32 | |
detective work into trying to find
out where the substance came from. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
There is a rather weird branch of
science that does this, looking for | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
what they called markers in the
chemical, little clues that might | 0:07:40 | 0:07:47 | |
indicate where the substance was
made. There are clues that can be | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
found that point to a particular
government or a particular source. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Whether they can do that this time,
I don't know. OK, for now thank you. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:03 | |
Our Chief Political Correspondent
Vicki Young is in Westminster. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:06 | |
We heard strong words from the Home
Secretary, will we have more than | 0:08:06 | 0:08:10 | |
words at any point? That was
certainly what MPs were calling for. | 0:08:10 | 0:08:15 | |
It was striking the difference in
tone from Amber Rudd today to that | 0:08:15 | 0:08:20 | |
of Boris Johnson a few days ago when
he spoke directly about Russia | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
saying they were a malign and
disruptive force. Amber Rudd being | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
more careful with her language, she
was keen to say that if there was | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
evidence and proof Russia was behind
this, then the UK would be ready to | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
act. When pushed on this, she said
in other cases the UK has been | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
outspoken in its criticism of Russia
and will go further if we need to do | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
so, which begs the question what
exactly might she be thinking about? | 0:08:48 | 0:08:54 | |
Where were outspoken words from a
Conservative MP who said what was | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
going on here was a brazen act of
war by Russia, he said it was | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
humiliating our country. There are
many people who agree with that but | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
it is much more likely we will see
an extension of sanctions, of | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
stopping visas for some people come
into this country, freezing of | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
assets. The likelihood of cutting
off diplomatic ties though, I don't | 0:09:14 | 0:09:20 | |
think that will happen. Thank you.
The rest of the day's news now. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:26 | |
A commuter has been describing
to a court how her hair caught fire | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
when a bomb went off on a London
underground train last September. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Ahmed Hassan, who's 18,
denies attempted murder and causing | 0:09:32 | 0:09:34 | |
an explosion likely to endanger
life, at Parsons Green station. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
June Kelly is at the Old Bailey. | 0:09:36 | 0:09:44 | |
Some very dramatic and distressing
evidence here at the Old Bailey this | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
morning as passengers who were on
that train last September describe | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
what happened. The first witness we
heard from gave her evidence from | 0:09:52 | 0:09:58 | |
behind a screen and she is remaining
anonymous. She was badly burned, she | 0:09:58 | 0:10:02 | |
suffered burns to her face, hands
and legs, and she said that during | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
her evidence that her coat was
burning and her tights actually | 0:10:07 | 0:10:12 | |
melted. She broke down in tears
during her evidence and had to pause | 0:10:12 | 0:10:16 | |
at one point. She said she had seen
the defendants a short time before | 0:10:16 | 0:10:21 | |
on the train and seen this bag he
had with him which she thought | 0:10:21 | 0:10:27 | |
looked odd. The prosecution say that
in that bag was born with a bucket. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:33 | |
Another witness called Amy Colville
described how her hair caught fire. | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
She said, there was a loud, cracking
bang, then a wall of glass came past | 0:10:37 | 0:10:43 | |
me, and flames were passing over
her. Another witness was very upset, | 0:10:43 | 0:10:50 | |
she sobbed throughout her evidence.
She said her hair was coming out in | 0:10:50 | 0:10:54 | |
chunks and her face was burning.
Another witness said his face was | 0:10:54 | 0:10:59 | |
burned and he lost his eyebrows and
eyelashes. Throughout all of this | 0:10:59 | 0:11:04 | |
evidence the defendant sat in the
dock with his eyes closed and his | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
head down. Thank you. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
Two 17-year-old boys have died
and seven people have been injured | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
in an accident involving three cars
near Thirsk in North Yorkshire. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
Police say the vehicles
collided on the A61 shortly | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
before 9.30pm last night. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
Five adults and two children
were taken to hospital. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:25 | |
Police have appealed for anyone who
saw what happened to contact them. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
Two 18-year-old men have been
arrested, after a student | 0:11:28 | 0:11:30 | |
at Nottingham Trent University said
she was subjected to racist abuse | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
through the door of her room. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
Rufaro Chisango said people chanted
"we hate the blacks" | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
and she posted a video
of what happened on social media. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:45 | |
Suspected domestic abusers could be
electronically tagged or banned | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
from drinking alcohol,
under new Government proposals | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
for England and Wales. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
Draft legislation has been put out
for public consultation, | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
as Lucinda Adam reports. | 0:11:55 | 0:12:03 | |
Euleen Hope suffered a decade of
abuse at the hands of her | 0:12:05 | 0:12:09 | |
ex-partner, emotional but also
physical. She ended up in hospital | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
more than a dozen times. She says
she used to grow her fringe long to | 0:12:13 | 0:12:19 | |
cover her black eyes. Some people
say to me, why didn't you get out | 0:12:19 | 0:12:24 | |
sooner? If you leave a relationship,
do you want to be looking over your | 0:12:24 | 0:12:28 | |
shoulder? That person could be still
after you because he already told | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
me, he will say when it is over.
Then he | 0:12:32 | 0:12:44 | |
threatened me and told me he would
organise for someone to throw acid | 0:12:46 | 0:12:49 | |
in my face. In 2015 the man was
eventually jailed for grievous | 0:12:49 | 0:12:51 | |
bodily harm and assault after her
sister called the police. Today the | 0:12:51 | 0:12:54 | |
Prime Minister and Home Secretary
met just a few of the 2 million | 0:12:54 | 0:12:56 | |
people, mostly women, who suffer
domestic abuse each year. What we | 0:12:56 | 0:12:59 | |
are proposing today is a really
ambitious sea change in people's | 0:12:59 | 0:13:05 | |
approach to domestic abuse, really
bringing it out from where it has | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
been hidden. This is not just about
the really nasty attacks that take | 0:13:09 | 0:13:12 | |
place but it's about building on the
work we have already done on | 0:13:12 | 0:13:17 | |
coercive control and introducing new
forms of abuse to be considered by | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
the judges. Among the proposals,
broadening the legal definition of | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
domestic abuse to include physical,
psychological, sexual and emotional | 0:13:24 | 0:13:30 | |
but also economic abuse. Tougher
sentences the cases involving | 0:13:30 | 0:13:36 | |
children, and protection orders that
could see abuses electronically | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
tagged or banned from drinking
alcohol. We are pleased to see the | 0:13:39 | 0:13:44 | |
spotlight on financial and economic
abuse, this can be anything from | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
having your wages taken away from
you by your partner to committing | 0:13:47 | 0:13:51 | |
benefit fraud in your name. The
consultation period for the proposed | 0:13:51 | 0:13:57 | |
new laws will last 12 weeks. | 0:13:57 | 0:14:02 | |
More people in England had
non-urgent operations postponed | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
by the NHS in January compared
to the same period last year. | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
Waiting time performance in A&E
departments has also hit its lowest | 0:14:07 | 0:14:10 | |
level since targets were introduced. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:11 | |
Our health correspondent
Adina Campbell is with me. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:13 | |
Talk us through the figures. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:20 | |
We all know that the winter period
puts more pressure on the NHS but it | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
is now clear just how much of an
impact it has had on routine | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
operations so if we take a look at
the number of routine operations | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
which had to be postponed in January
this year, that was down by 23,000 | 0:14:32 | 0:14:37 | |
compared to the same period last
year. Why is this happening? There | 0:14:37 | 0:14:43 | |
are number of reasons, we've got to
take into account the cold weather | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
but also things like flu and
norovirus as as the ongoing | 0:14:47 | 0:14:52 | |
pressures such as social care with
some older patients stock in beds in | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
hospital rather than getting the
right kind of care at home. We've | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
also had figures through for A&E
performance in England as well and | 0:15:00 | 0:15:04 | |
that is at its lowest level for 14
years. The target is 95% of patients | 0:15:04 | 0:15:10 | |
being seen in A&E within four hours
but in February this year that was | 0:15:10 | 0:15:15 | |
down by 85%, the lowest on record.
We have seen the pictures of | 0:15:15 | 0:15:21 | |
patients being left in corridors
waiting to be seen and the pressures | 0:15:21 | 0:15:25 | |
on Ambulance Services as well so
this combined with an ageing | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
population, staff shortages, as well
as our own lifestyle choices with | 0:15:29 | 0:15:32 | |
things like our diet and smoking,
all of this puts the NHS under | 0:15:32 | 0:15:37 | |
incredible pressure. | 0:15:37 | 0:15:41 | |
Our top story this lunchtime: | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
The Home Secretary says
the attempted murder of a former | 0:15:43 | 0:15:46 | |
Russian spy and his daughter
using a nerve agent | 0:15:46 | 0:15:48 | |
is an outrageous crime. | 0:15:48 | 0:15:52 | |
And still to come: | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
Why the recent freezing weather
means drivers will have to contend | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
with even more potholes. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:00 | |
Coming up in sport: | 0:16:03 | 0:16:04 | |
"I thought I was in trouble." | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
Snowboarder Owen Pick says "it's
amazing" after being named | 0:16:06 | 0:16:08 | |
as Paralympics GB flagbearer
for the opening ceremony | 0:16:08 | 0:16:10 | |
in South Korea on Friday. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:17 | |
Brexit is distracting the Government
from making changes needed | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
to help boost the economy -
that's a warning from business | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
leaders, as they gather
at the annual British Chambers | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
of Commerce conference. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
The group's Chairman says
the government can do more | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
than one thing at once,
and has called for | 0:16:33 | 0:16:35 | |
stronger leadership. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
Nina Warhurst has been visiting
companies in Staffordshire, | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
where voters overwhelmingly
backed Brexit. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:44 | |
Staffordshire is home
to a million people, | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
for the manufacturers,
the service industries | 0:16:47 | 0:16:48 | |
and the trades men and women,
the Brexit count down is on. | 0:16:48 | 0:16:54 | |
A drop in the pound has
brought a big boost | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
for export sales in Hixon. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
Two thirds of electrics they build
and the metal they shape go abroad. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
But that could change. | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
This piece of machinery puts
all the safety edges | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
on and the folds very
consistently very quickly. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
Do they stay mainly in the UK? | 0:17:10 | 0:17:11 | |
Yes, absolutely. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
Talk of tariffs means they're
building their British client-base | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
and mass production for the eurozone
will be made in Romania. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
Fewer borders means more
predictable profits. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
Those changes, are they as a result | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
of Brexit directly? | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
No, I wouldn't say directly. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:31 | |
We have been sort
of doing this anyway. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:33 | |
What this has allowed us to do
with the uncertainty of Brexit | 0:17:33 | 0:17:36 | |
is focus our mind a bit more
in transferring goods. | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
So Brexit has made you think
in a different way would you say? | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
Absolutely. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:42 | |
Staffordshire is a county
with a rich industrial heritage | 0:17:42 | 0:17:47 | |
and you look to the future
and the Chamber of Commerce says | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
they can grow the local
economy here by 50% over | 0:17:50 | 0:17:52 | |
the next three years. | 0:17:52 | 0:17:56 | |
But some businesses say
it is impossible to make any | 0:17:56 | 0:17:59 | |
predictions until they know
the exact terms of the Brexit deals. | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
We head south to Weeping Cross,
a community which relies | 0:18:03 | 0:18:05 | |
heavily on this business. | 0:18:05 | 0:18:10 | |
Here they say a fluctuating pound
and not knowing the final deal makes | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
importing uncertain. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:17 | |
It can mean that patients
go without medication. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:19 | |
You would say that has happened,
because of Brexit someone has gone | 0:18:19 | 0:18:22 | |
without their medication? | 0:18:22 | 0:18:23 | |
I can't necessarily link it
to Brexit, but it does have a link | 0:18:23 | 0:18:27 | |
to currency fluctuations. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:28 | |
And do you worry that
because of that ambiguity, | 0:18:28 | 0:18:30 | |
we will see a time where you can't
be certain with patients | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
about the supply of medication? | 0:18:33 | 0:18:34 | |
Very much so. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
One county, 33,000 businesses -
Staffordshire is edging closer | 0:18:36 | 0:18:39 | |
to seeing how their past decision
will impact their financial future. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
Nina Warhurst, BBC News. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:48 | |
John Lewis staff will see
their bonus cut for the fifth | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
consecutive year, after the retail
chain revealed a fall in profits. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:54 | |
The John Lewis Partnership -
which is owned by John Lewis | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
and Waitrose employees -
announced that this year's bonus | 0:18:56 | 0:18:59 | |
will be 5% of annual salary,
down from 6% last year, | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
with 85,000 staff sharing
a pot worth £74 million. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:10 | |
The public spending watchdog has
warned that many councils in England | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
face becoming financially
unsustainable because of the | 0:19:18 | 0:19:19 | |
increasing demands of social care. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
The National Audit Office calculates
that the money local authorities | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
receive from central government has
been cut by nearly 50% since 2010. | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
Alison Holt reports. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:33 | |
It is lunch time at think day centre
in Surrey. Here, people with brain | 0:19:33 | 0:19:41 | |
injuries and other conditions can
socialise and take part in | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
activities. Many have their care
paid for by the county down till. -- | 0:19:44 | 0:19:49 | |
council. We like its legs. The legs
are brilliant. The report says local | 0:19:49 | 0:19:54 | |
authorities now spend more than half
of their budgets on providing social | 0:19:54 | 0:19:58 | |
care. Sue, who has multiple
sclerosis, describes the centre as a | 0:19:58 | 0:20:02 | |
lifeline. I come here only twice a
week. I would come more if there was | 0:20:02 | 0:20:09 | |
the funding for it. But apart from
that, it is amazing. Councils like | 0:20:09 | 0:20:20 | |
Surrey have duty to support people
who are older and disabled as well | 0:20:20 | 0:20:25 | |
as providing children's services.
Across the board, demand is | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
increasing. But the National Audit
Office report says 2010 the money | 0:20:29 | 0:20:36 | |
English councils have got from
central Government has been cut by | 0:20:36 | 0:20:41 | |
nearly 50%. Services like bin
collections and roads and libraries | 0:20:41 | 0:20:44 | |
have had funding reduced by nearly a
third over the same time. And with | 0:20:44 | 0:20:48 | |
councils using their savings to
balance the books, one in ten will | 0:20:48 | 0:20:54 | |
have exhausted their reserves within
three years. We are calling for a | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
plan for the long-term financial
sustainability of sector. What we | 0:20:59 | 0:21:03 | |
want local Government to do and fund
them for that or make funding | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
available. Alongside that social
care needs a funding solution as | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
well. In Surrey, one of wealthiest
parts of country, as well as raising | 0:21:10 | 0:21:18 | |
Council Tax and making more cuts to
services like bins and roads, the | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
local authority is dipping into its
reserves again. You see what the | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
snow has done. The council leaderer
knows they have to change. It has | 0:21:26 | 0:21:32 | |
been difficult to make sure we could
come in this year with a budget with | 0:21:32 | 0:21:39 | |
the minimum tax level increases that
we had to do. We had have to use 24 | 0:21:39 | 0:21:45 | |
million of our reserves and 15
million of our capital receipts to | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
help. The Government said a new
council funding settlement has been | 0:21:49 | 0:21:56 | |
approved to help keep services
running and that will mean a real | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
terms increase in the money they
get. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
The recent cold weather will lead
to an increase in potholes, | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
according to motoring experts. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:07 | |
The RAC say pressures on council
spending means roads | 0:22:07 | 0:22:09 | |
across the country were already
plagued by potholes | 0:22:09 | 0:22:11 | |
and that freezing water in road
cracks has accentuated the problem. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
Charlotte Gallagher reports. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:21 | |
The severe weather over the past
week has been causing misery for | 0:22:24 | 0:22:29 | |
drivers. And the bad news is the
elements are now causing even more | 0:22:29 | 0:22:34 | |
problems. The RAC is warning the
freezing weather is leading to more | 0:22:34 | 0:22:42 | |
potholes on your roads. Some
campaigners have had enough and are | 0:22:42 | 0:22:46 | |
taking matters into their own hands.
In Oxfordshire some residents are | 0:22:46 | 0:22:53 | |
planting flowers in potholes to
raise awareness. We have had a lot | 0:22:53 | 0:22:57 | |
of people doing it. Loads of
comments on Facebook. And there has | 0:22:57 | 0:23:00 | |
been a couple that have been filled
in. Badly but they have been filled | 0:23:00 | 0:23:05 | |
in. The cold weather makes potholes
even worse. Because water gets into | 0:23:05 | 0:23:11 | |
the cracks on the road, freezes and
then expands, further weakening the | 0:23:11 | 0:23:16 | |
road surface. The Department for
Transport says knows people are | 0:23:16 | 0:23:22 | |
concerned about it giving councils
just under £300 million to fix | 0:23:22 | 0:23:27 | |
potholes. And the rise in potholes
is bad for drivers' wallets too with | 0:23:27 | 0:23:35 | |
bills runs to hundreds of pounds.
Tyres, broken wheels, in some cases | 0:23:35 | 0:23:44 | |
broken wish bones, parts on cars
that have been forced back because | 0:23:44 | 0:23:47 | |
of the impact and in some cases it
is written cars off. The RAC warns | 0:23:47 | 0:23:54 | |
the problem isn't going away. A bad
impact, but we feel it will get | 0:23:54 | 0:24:00 | |
worse and we may see more potholes
in spring than daffodils. The local | 0:24:00 | 0:24:09 | |
Government said councils are fixing
a pothole every 19 seconds. The cold | 0:24:09 | 0:24:14 | |
snap will make that job even harder. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:21 | |
After Team GB's most successful
Winter Olympics ever, | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
attention now turns to Paralympians
as the games get | 0:24:24 | 0:24:26 | |
underway in Pyeongchang. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:27 | |
The British team will be led
at tomorrow's opening ceremony | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
by their flagbearer,
the Snowboarder Owen Pick - | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
who lost his leg while serving
with the army in Afghanistan. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
Kate Grey has been speaking to him. | 0:24:35 | 0:24:39 | |
Soldier turned snowboarder,
Owen Pick is familiar | 0:24:39 | 0:24:41 | |
with the prestige of
carrying his country's flag. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:47 | |
After losing his leg in Afghanistan,
he has been on quite | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
a journey to now lead his country
at a Paralympic Games. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
I didn't expect it, it was very
much a surprise to me. | 0:24:52 | 0:24:56 | |
And, yeah, it does mean a lot,
obviously the flag and victory's | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
super-important us to. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
So it is nice to be given
the opportunity to carry | 0:25:00 | 0:25:02 | |
it out here. | 0:25:02 | 0:25:05 | |
Owen is one of three
snowboarders who will be | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
representing Britain
at the Paralympics for | 0:25:07 | 0:25:08 | |
the first time ever. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
And for the IPC President,
Andrew Parsons, it will be his | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
first games in charge. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:15 | |
One of his biggest challenges has
been dealing with the | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
Russian doping scandal. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 | |
So the situation has
changed, has progressed, | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
we are now in the situation
where we can say with a | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
degree of confidence
that those who are competing | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
here are as clean as any athlete. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
So it is difficult, but you know
taking it seriously in a very | 0:25:29 | 0:25:32 | |
consistent way, open with dialogue,
it makes a little less difficult. | 0:25:32 | 0:25:38 | |
And the weather is another
thing to overcome. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:42 | |
During the Olympics,
it was high speed winds and freezing | 0:25:42 | 0:25:45 | |
temperatures. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:46 | |
Now it's the unusually snowy
conditions which could | 0:25:46 | 0:25:48 | |
prove disruptive. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:51 | |
We are not worried. | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
Of course we have
Plans B and C, so we | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
have different scenarios. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
We have a lot of snow
today and probably this | 0:25:57 | 0:26:00 | |
evening, so we had to see how this
affects the opening ceremony for | 0:26:00 | 0:26:03 | |
example, which is in
an outdoor stadium. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:06 | |
In the last few days some training
has been cancelled as a | 0:26:06 | 0:26:08 | |
result of snow. | 0:26:08 | 0:26:16 | |
Regardless of the conditions,
the British team believe | 0:26:16 | 0:26:18 | |
they're the prepared ever been ahead
of a Winter Paralympics, | 0:26:18 | 0:26:20 | |
with 17 athletes set to compete
across five sports. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
All hoping to turn the years
of planning and preparation into | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
Paralympic glory. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:31 | |
It is just after 10am and the snow
has eased off. In the last hour we | 0:26:31 | 0:26:36 | |
have received news from the
international Paralympic committee | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
that after long negotiations, the
decision has been made that North | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
Korea and South Korea will march
separately at the opening ceremony. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:54 | |
The IPC suggested was because it was
North Korea's first Paralympics. The | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
IPC respect the decision made by the
North and South Korean delegations. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:06 | |
Thank you very much. Enjoy the
competition. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
One of Paralympics GB's
big hopes for the games | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
is the wheelchair curling team. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:14 | |
Nikki Fox went to the
national curling centre | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
in Stirling to meet them. | 0:27:16 | 0:27:24 | |
Final day of training before
heading to South Korea. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:30 | |
It's not the team's first
Winter Paralympics - four of the | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
five members won bronze
in Sochi four years ago. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:35 | |
But it's all new for Hugh,
or Shugg as his team-mates | 0:27:35 | 0:27:37 | |
like to call him. | 0:27:37 | 0:27:38 | |
He is making his Paralympic debut. | 0:27:38 | 0:27:40 | |
He was 24 when he was diagnosed
with multiple sclerosis. | 0:27:40 | 0:27:44 | |
When I got diagnosed with MS
and you start losing your | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
functions and your abilities,
your confidence goes and I became | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
more or less house-bound. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
Getting into curling,
confidence just grew and | 0:27:53 | 0:27:55 | |
putting everything into it
and just going for it. | 0:27:55 | 0:27:59 | |
It's taken some adjustment
for Hugh to get this far. | 0:27:59 | 0:28:01 | |
His first sport was rugby. | 0:28:01 | 0:28:04 | |
I'd stepped back
before my diagnosis, I | 0:28:04 | 0:28:05 | |
wasn't playing as much, but I always
had it in my mind that I could | 0:28:05 | 0:28:09 | |
go back. | 0:28:09 | 0:28:10 | |
In my mind, I was like,
I could be the greatest! | 0:28:10 | 0:28:13 | |
Mentally it is very much
more demanding, you're | 0:28:13 | 0:28:16 | |
constantly thinking and looking
for different shots, | 0:28:16 | 0:28:17 | |
different angles the whole time. | 0:28:17 | 0:28:19 | |
Can I have a go? | 0:28:19 | 0:28:21 | |
How do you actually direct it? | 0:28:21 | 0:28:22 | |
How do you get it in
the right position? | 0:28:22 | 0:28:27 | |
So ideally you're pointing your cue,
the delivery stick, but also the | 0:28:27 | 0:28:30 | |
head that's on this cue
helps with rotation. | 0:28:30 | 0:28:36 | |
We don't have the use of sweepers,
once we let the stone go, | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
there is nothing we can
do to influence it. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:42 | |
It's going off to the right. | 0:28:42 | 0:28:43 | |
This is very difficult. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:44 | |
This is so difficult. | 0:28:44 | 0:28:47 | |
Fire away. | 0:28:47 | 0:28:48 | |
Ooh! | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
Although it is not
an easy sport, it is one | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
of people of any age
and any | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
disability to get into. | 0:28:55 | 0:28:57 | |
The team hopes that
its performance in | 0:28:57 | 0:28:58 | |
Pyeongchang will inspire
others to take it up. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:00 | |
Sign me up now! | 0:29:00 | 0:29:02 | |
Curling is more about
inclusion than exclusion. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
All disabilities are
able to play the sport. | 0:29:05 | 0:29:08 | |
Do you feel like
ambassadors for the sport? | 0:29:08 | 0:29:12 | |
Definitely feel proud to be part
of the British squad. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:14 | |
For me, it's excitement
and looking forward to | 0:29:14 | 0:29:16 | |
getting out there. | 0:29:16 | 0:29:17 | |
We have been watching
the member and the women | 0:29:17 | 0:29:20 | |
and that inspires us and we are just
keen to get out there on the | 0:29:20 | 0:29:23 | |
ice ourself. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
The team is aiming to win every
game, but the initial focus is | 0:29:25 | 0:29:28 | |
the round robin stage,
with the first match | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
against Norway on Saturday. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:31 | |
Nicky Fox, BBC News, Stirling. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:37 | |
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have
been visiting Birmingham, | 0:29:37 | 0:29:39 | |
to launch a project to mark
International Women's Day, | 0:29:39 | 0:29:42 | |
aimed at inspiring female students
to take up careers in science, | 0:29:42 | 0:29:44 | |
technology and
engineering industries. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:48 | |
The royal couple spoke
to crowds outside the event - | 0:29:48 | 0:29:50 | |
some of whom had waited for several
hours to see them on the latest leg | 0:29:50 | 0:29:54 | |
of their tour of the country,
in advance of their wedding in May. | 0:29:54 | 0:30:02 | |
Now the weather forecast again. Snow
again for some people? | 0:30:04 | 0:30:11 | |
Now the weather forecast again. Snow
again for some people? No it won't | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
leave us. This is a weather watcher
scene in Yorkshire, which was badly | 0:30:13 | 0:30:20 | |
hit with several centimetres of snow
causing disruption. Other areas | 0:30:20 | 0:30:25 | |
started the day milder with sunshine
and a few rain showers. For the rest | 0:30:25 | 0:30:30 | |
of today, it is an improving
picture, certainly in the north-east | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
of the country. The snow and the
rain clearing off into the North Sea | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
A lot of sunshine for many places
this afternoon. Lighter winds in the | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
south. But still gusty in East
Anglia for a while. Temperatures up | 0:30:42 | 0:30:48 | |
to 10 degrees. And there will be
further showers in Scotland, these | 0:30:48 | 0:30:52 | |
falling as snow over the hills.
Further showers in western areas | 0:30:52 | 0:30:56 | |
tonight and the odd heavy one. But
most places will be dry with clear | 0:30:56 | 0:31:01 | |
skies and it will be another cold
one with some frost and ice where we | 0:31:01 | 0:31:05 | |
have had showers and some freezing
fog patches. The far south-west of | 0:31:05 | 0:31:09 | |
England, thicker cloud and
temperatures falling no lower than | 0:31:09 | 0:31:15 | |
four or five. We have low pressure
coming from the south-west bringing | 0:31:15 | 0:31:21 | |
milder air and strengthening winds.
We start off with a chilly note. | 0:31:21 | 0:31:26 | |
Some sunshine around. Northern
Ireland and central and southern | 0:31:26 | 0:31:30 | |
Scotland and northern and central
England. Some showers in northern | 0:31:30 | 0:31:34 | |
Scotland. Further south it will be
turning wet we are the rain pushing | 0:31:34 | 0:31:39 | |
through the south and into parts of
Wales as well. But the temperatures | 0:31:39 | 0:31:43 | |
will be coming up as the rain moves
north. It bill a wet weekend at | 0:31:43 | 0:31:50 | |
times and there is likely to be some
snow on the leading edge of the | 0:31:50 | 0:31:55 | |
front during Friday night and
Saturday across Scotland. Elsewhere | 0:31:55 | 0:32:00 | |
it will be wet, but given some
sunshine following behind in the | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
south, we could see temperatures up
to 14 or 15 Celsius. That is much | 0:32:04 | 0:32:10 | |
milder than what we have been used
to. That weather front continues to | 0:32:10 | 0:32:16 | |
move north on Sunday. You can see
this feature on the east coast, it | 0:32:16 | 0:32:19 | |
may bring some rain. But we have
another area of low pressure moving | 0:32:19 | 0:32:28 | |
into the south. Elsewhere apart from
some cloud we should see some | 0:32:28 | 0:32:31 | |
sunshine and it should be dry.
Milder further north into Scotland, | 0:32:31 | 0:32:36 | |
ten degrees there through the
central belt. But given sunshine in | 0:32:36 | 0:32:38 | |
the south we could see 14 degrees
again. Good news for those fed up | 0:32:38 | 0:32:46 | |
with the cold. Thank you. | 0:32:46 | 0:32:47 | |
again. Good news for those fed up
with the cold. Thank you. Raise | 0:32:47 | 0:32:50 | |
A reminder of our main
story this lunchtime. | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
The Home Secretary says
the attempted murder of a former | 0:32:52 | 0:32:54 | |
Russian spy and his daughter
using a nerve agent | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
is an outrageous crime. | 0:32:56 | 0:33:01 | |
The use of a nerve agent is a brazen
and reckless act. This was a | 0:33:01 | 0:33:07 | |
attempted murder in the most cruel
and public way. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:12 | |
That's all from the BBC News at One
so it's goodbye from me - | 0:33:12 | 0:33:15 |