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Stephen Lawrence's best friend in tears as he tells the court about | :00:03. | :00:08. | |
the fatal attack. Duwayne Brooks said he heard racist remarks before | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
the brutal assault. He broke down as he remembered how confused | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Stephen was as he tried to run away from the scene. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Also on tonight's programme: The nationalised bank Northern Rock | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
sold to Virgin Money. Taxpayers lose hundreds of millions on the | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
deal but it's defended by the Government. We are going to have a | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
powerful new presence on the high street, offering better deals to | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
families and real choice and competition. It is also good for | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
British taxpayers. We are getting some of the money back. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
The NHS in England is told to treat those on a hidden waiting list. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
250,000 patients could benefit. And whatever happened to our golden | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
age of engineering? The Queen gives her name to a prize to find new | :00:56. | :01:03. | |
talent. I will be he with a Sportsday later | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
in the hour, including more on Martin Johnson's resignation as his | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
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former captain said he should have Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
News at Six. 18 years on from the fatal attack on Stephen Lawrence, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
his best friend, Duwayne Brooks, broke down in court as he | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
remembered what happened that night. He told the jury about the racist | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
remarks he heard and the brutal assault that followed. Mr Brooks | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
said Stephen Lawrence was bleeding and confused. Our home affairs | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
correspondent has returned to the scene of the crime in south-east | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
London. Yes, George, in this case we have | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
heard from a number of people who have stood at that bus-stop, who | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
caught a glimpse of what happened to Stephen Lawrence that night, but | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
we have not yet heard from Duwayne Brooks, who was walking with | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Stephen a long this at Bath when they were attacked. That evidence | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
came today -- along this a footpath. It was difficult for Duwayne Brooks | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
to remember. This report contains a racially aggressive form of words | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
that were said in court. We are reporting it as it was said. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
Duwayne Brooks met Stephen on the first day at secondary school. His | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
description of their relationship: Stephen was my best friend. Facing | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
the court and the media would have been daunting on the best of days | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
but Duwayne Brooks's father died last night. He told the judge he | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
wanted to give his evidence nonetheless. The jury heard an | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
emotional description of Stephen's last minutes. It focused attention | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
on Eltham, south London, and on the night of the killing. That two had | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
been waiting for a bath. The service had been disrupted. They | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
went to the corner to see if it was Duwayne Brooks told the court they | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
gang shouted, using racially abusive language, "What, what, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
nigger". The other had what looked like an iron bar. Duwayne Brooks | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
He showed a jury how the weapon was raised and bore down upon his | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
friend. After the gang ran off, Stephen struggled to his feet. They | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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both ran past watching passengers At this point in court, Duwayne | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Brooks was in tears. He was asked if he wanted to take a break. No, | :04:00. | :04:09. | |
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he said, I want to say what Stephen had managed to make it more | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
than 200 yards. He was later found to have two knife wounds. Today, a | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
simple memorial marks the spot where Stephen Lawrence died. For | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Stephen's father and his mother, Doreen Lawrence, it was another | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
difficult day of evidence. David Norris, on the left, and Gary | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Dobson, both deny murder. The court heard this eyewitness evidence will | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
be the start of the case. Duwayne Brooks gave a graphic account of | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
the attack but it was clear that he could not identify the attackers | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
and so much of the rest of this case will focus on forensic | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
There was some questioning of Duwayne Brooks's evident in court. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
A police officer, the first on the scene, was told she said by Duwayne | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Brooks that he did not see the attack, that his view was | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
obstructed. Perhaps that is why this is not because built on | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
eyewitness evidence, it will be BUILT on forensic. The forensics on | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
to come in the weeks that follow -- it will be a case of built on | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
forensics. Northern Rock, the collapsed bank | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
that was nationalised by the Government nearly four years ago, | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
has been sold to Richard Branson's Virgin Money. The taxpayer could | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
stand to lose �400 million on the deal but the chancellor, George | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
Osborne, said it was the best one available. Robert Peston reports on | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
the bank that came to symbolise the start of the financial crisis | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
forced of Northern Rock, whose near-collapse and nationalisation | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
became a symbol of the global financial crisis. | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
It is becoming part of Virgin Money. At the same as Northern Rock brand | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
dies, is there a bright new dawn for British banking? We have been | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
following Northern Rock for nearly four years, says the crisis of the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
2007, and we have kept focused on it and the reason for that is | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
because it has got so much that it can bring alongside Virgin Money to | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
increase competition in UK banking. Virgin Money is buying Northern | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
16 billion of savings, a 14 billion of mortgages, and it has said the | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
headquarters will be based in Newcastle. There will be no more | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
compulsory redundancies for at least three years of. Really good | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
news for the region. Whatever Richard Branson touches turns to | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
gold. It is very good news, particularly for the North East, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
when so many jobs are going. So why did the Chancellor decide to sell | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
We hired independent advisers, we looked carefully at all the figures | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
and it was clear that this was the best deal for the British taxpayer. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
We were getting more back than any other deal on that table. So what | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
1.4 billion of taxpayers' money has gone into the Northern Rock. That | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
is much more than the 747 million that Virgin Money will pay when the | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
deal is completed. Virgin could pay a further �280 million if the Bank | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
performs well but even so, taxpayers will end up losing | :07:31. | :07:39. | |
between �373 million and �653 The question the Chancellor will | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
need to explain is why he has chosen now to make the sale when it | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
still means a loss to the taxpayer. We need to look in detail at this | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to make sure the taxpayer is getting value for money. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
September 2007, the queues outside branches like this told the world | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
of the looming banking disaster so dull but Northern Rock's | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
privatisation means there are better times around the corner? | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Maybe, but what is striking is that the Chancellor has chosen to sell | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
the Northern Rock now and generate a substantial loss rather than wait | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
for the better times, which may mean that he fears that no | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
significant recovery in markets or the economy is given to happen | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
anytime soon. Of course, Northern Rock was not the only bank rescued | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
by taxpayers in the last crash. We also had to bail out Lloyd's and | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
the Royal Bank of Scotland to the tune of �65 billion, and unlike | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Northern Rock, the time for getting any of that back his many years | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
away. Robert is with me now. Picking up | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
on that last point, where do you not think we will get the money | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
back from the other banks soon? Well, as I said, we put �65 billion | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
into the Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyd's when we built them out. If | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
you look at the current market price of those banks, were we to | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
sell those stakes now, I hope you are sitting comfortably, the loss | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
for taxpayers would be a staggering �40 billion. Totally unaffordable! | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
There is not the faintest chance of George Osborne trying to privatise | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
the stakes for years and years and years. In that context, a few | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
hundred million that we will lose from Northern Rock does not look | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
too bad and actually, some of that loss is to do with the fact that | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
this is a business losing money at the moment. If you look at the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
price that Richard Branson is paying compared to the net assets | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
of this bank when the deal closes, in my view the price does not look | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
too bad. A Tory MP has said that Richard Branson is getting this | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
business for a steel. I am not sure this is exactly prove that. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Two British soldiers from 1st The Queen's Dragoons Guards have been | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
killed in a roadside bomb attack in Helmand Province in Afghanistan | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
today. Their families have been informed. Yesterday, another | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
soldier was also killed by an explosion in Helmand province. He's | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
been named as 25-year-old Lance Corporal Peter Eustace, from 2nd | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Battalion The Rifles. His commanding officer said he was an | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
utterly professional rifleman who served on two very demanding tours | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
of duty. Earlier today, the body of a | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
Territorial Army soldier killed last week in Helmand was | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
repatriated to the UK. Private Matthew Thornton, from 4th | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment, was killed by an improvised | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
explosive device. His commanding officer described him as a fine | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
soldier and an even finer man. The NHS has been told to tackle | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
what ministers are calling a hidden waiting list in English hospitals. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
They are currently doing well at meeting the target for treating | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
most patients within 18 weeks. But about a quarter of a million | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
patients are having to wait longer than that. Our health correspondent, | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
Branwen Jeffreys, is here. How important is this? | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
Waiting times for treatment is one of those issues that really matters | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
to patients. In the last ten years in England, they have fallen | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
dramatically. That's partly due to tough targets. For most patients, | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
that means a wait of less than 18 weeks between the GP deciding to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
send them to hospital and treatment beginning. Hospitals can be fined | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
for treating patients later than 18 weeks. So there is no incentive for | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
them after that point, leaving some patients feeling they have been | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
forgotten. For a farmer like David Evans, | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
there is not much time to be ill. He needed an operation to repair a | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
hernia. Damaged muscles in his stomach meant his organs are not | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
being held in properly. After waiting more than 18 weeks, the NHS | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
still haven't given him a date. One delay after another meant David | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
struggled on for almost a year before finally being treated. | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
got increasingly were so that up to three times a day, the intestine | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
would come out and I would have to hold it to get back indoors until I | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
could use the ultrasound scanner that I had four scanning my sheep | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
in order to have and look to see what had come out and get it back | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
properly. Some cases are not straightforward. One reason why | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
delays can happen. Not everyone can be treated quickly. But not all of | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
the long waits can be explained away. The target now just counts | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
patients who have already been treated so in September, that was | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
just under a million people. From next year, all the patients waiting | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
will also be looked at. In September that was around 2.5 | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
million people. And from next year, most of this group will also have | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
to be treated within 18 weeks. So how has the NHS in England been | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
This graph shows the number of patients waiting more than a year. | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
You can see a big drop from four years ago. But some hospitals are | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
treating patients very quickly, so of that 20,000, one big life is | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
down to just one hospital Trust. St George's in south London has more | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
than 5,000 patients waiting for If I was in charge of pith and | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
trying to do something, I would target the particular hospitals | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
which are contributing to the long waiting lists and I would try to | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
solve the problem at a local level. Whichever way you look at it, this | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
is a new waiting target for the NHS. In the past, targets really helped | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
cut waiting. This is more modest but it will help tackle a group of | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
patients who have been overlooked. Our top story tonight: Stephen | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
Lawrence's best friend Duwayne Brooks breaks down in tears in | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
court as he recalls the night he was killed. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Coming up: Bringing back that loving feeling. Why the hug could | :14:00. | :14:10. | |
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I am not back to this, I am sorry! Later on the news channel, the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Virgin on the Rocks. Virgin Money buys Northern Rock from the | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
government. And we ask Donatella Versace what | :14:23. | :14:33. | |
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she makes of the economic crisis in The Queen has given her name to a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
new �1 million prize for Engineering, funded by industry. It | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
will be awarded every two years and people from around the world will | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
qualify. The idea is to encourage a new generation into the profession. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
Organisers hope it will eventually achieve the status of the Nobel | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
Prize. So, whatever happened to Britain's golden age of | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
engineering? As the birthplace of the Industrial | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
Revolution, Britain was the great pioneer. In everything from steam | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
travel, to dramatic constructions like the Clifton Suspension Bridge, | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
spanning the Avon gorge. Engineers like Isambard Kingdom Brunel were | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
leaders in new technology. Logie Baird and the first television. | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
Recently, British Engineering has slips from the public imagination. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
Today, to rekindle that enthusiasm, a rare show of unity. The Prime | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition, | :15:38. | :15:48. | |
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together, launching a new �1 A photo opportunity to push the | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
message. David Cameron, on the McLaren assembly line. Just the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
kind of world-leading technology committee says, that Britain needs | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
more of. Is there a risk of another Wimbledon, a British contest, but | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
never a British winner? I think it is right to open it to the world. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
This is not just about inspiring scientists and engineers in Britain, | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
it is about saying something to the world about Britain's respectful | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
silence -- science. Amid this gleaming technology, it is obvious | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
that Britain has the ideas and the expertise. The problem is a | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
desperate shortage of the people with the skills to do this kind of | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
work, just as other countries, China, Japan and Germany are | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
forging ahead. The key is attracting new recruits. Yeah, and | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Little Formula One Stardust to enthuse. Jenson Button and Lewis | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Hamilton see a model car powered by a mousetrap. It is a start to a | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
life in engineering. I would say to kids looking into it, I think they | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
would take a serious consideration for it. It is good fun and you can | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
come and work for us, which is not a bad job to half. The country that | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
bought you the mini and the inventor of the World Wide Web is | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
trying to get back into the lead. Is that really possible? A what is | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
really good is that the leaders of the political parties were here | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
today. The problem is, none of them have set out a strategy and a | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
vision to show how Engineering will be at the heart of the British | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
economy in 20 years' time. Ambition for a bright new future in | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
engineering is one thing. Delivery is quite another. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
They have been some of the most distressing stories we have | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
reported on. Now, the children's minister in England says that the | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
courts need to be more sympathetic and understanding to victims of | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
child sexual exploitation. Tim Loughton has said that changes to | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
the legal process must be made. Late at night in Burnley, the | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
police are checking houses. Their primary concern is the safety of | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
vulnerable children. Officers have found girls who they believe are at | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
risk of sexual exploitation here before. This visit raises familiar | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
worries. She is talking about a couple of nights ago, a high risk | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
girl was picked up in a car by a 25-year-old male. That is a real | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
worry for you guys? Yes. Similar work, specifically trying to | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
prevent grooming, is not being done in every part of the UK. Some | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
police forces have even indicated that they don't believe sexual | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
exploitation is a problem in area. It's difficult to say exactly what | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
goes on in other forces. I would say until four or five years ago, | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Lancashire turned a stone over, we didn't know the scope of the | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
problem. I think it is endemic across all society. The Government | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
agrees. Next week, the coalition will publish an action plan, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
putting pressure on all forces and safeguarding children bought to do | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
more. Saying it is not a problem around here is not an excuse, it is | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
an admission that somebody is not doing their job properly. I don't | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
want to be alarmist, but it is happening in every part of the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
country. I am lucky for your brother. -- looking for your | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
brother. The police can keep watching suspects they know about, | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
but they say they need people to come forward with information about | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
those involved. That doesn't always happen. Jane was 12 when she was | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
groomed by a 21-year-old man. you stood there in front of that | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
person and you are testifying against them, all it takes is one | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
luck and then they are, like, no, he didn't. You are scared of that | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
person, but you are also scared to lose that person. There have been | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
high profile trials that have collapsed and other cases that | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
never made it to court. The problem for the police is that they are | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
often relying on the evidence of victims. Ministers are concerned | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
that the legal process is putting too much pressure on vulnerable | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
children. We need to change the courts. The courts are there to | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
nail perpetrators, not to intimidate the victims. The | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
Attorney-General has been part of the working group to see if we can | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
make court processes simpler and more sympathetic. I think you are | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
quite vulnerable. You are out on the streets. No parent wants to | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
think their child will put themselves at risk. But the action | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
plan will make clear that they need to be protected, just in case. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
There has been heavy security in new York's financial district as | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters took to the streets. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
There were several scuffles as police tried to arrest people | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement. In London, the deadline | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
has passed for protesters at St Paul's Cathedral to leave. Eviction | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
orders obtained by the Corporation of London gave them until 6:00pm | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
this evening. Jeremy Cook is there. What is happening? Well, the clock | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
on St Paul's Cathedral says that it is exactly 6.20, 20 minutes past | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
the deadline on which these protesters were supposed to start | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
packing up and moving on. That tonight is simply not happening. | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
But the clock is now taking on a legal process that could eventually | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
mean forced eviction, with all of the potential for confrontation | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
that goes with that. As soon as the legal notices were posted, they | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
were ripped down. A clear statement of intent by the activists, who say | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
their anti-capitalist protest is here to stay. Certainly in the | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
kitchen, nothing has changed. The meals keep coming and nobody is | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
packing up. It looks like the kitchen is here to stay? Of course, | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
we had everything, food, we are not putting up, no. We are not going | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
nowhere. We are here to stay. Welcome to the Democratic Republic | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
of kitchen! Here they are. Most of the men -- land is publicly owned. | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
The City of London's legal notice says that all tents must be removed. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Some are on the pavement and it is not clear if those are subject to | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
legal proceedings. A handful of protesters are parked on church | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
owned land, which has ruled out taking any eviction action. That | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
has led to speculation that some protesters could move on to church | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
property. The Corporation of London has said that the demonstrators | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
have made a point and should go. They have raised issues which are | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
resonating with the public and which we are very happy to look at. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
But a permanent campsite is not the place, it is not the time and it is | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
not the way to do it. The church itself is in a potentially | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
uncomfortable position. It said it would not sign up to any eviction. | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
But if the main bulk of protesters do move on to church land and | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
effectively close down St Paul's, as we approach Christmas, they | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
would come under severe pressure. The atmosphere here is chilled out. | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
In any case, if they evict us, it will not change anything. We will | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
grow bigger and bigger. I know that. I am sure. You really believe in | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
this, you believe in what you're doing here. Yes, 100%. There is no | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
immediate prospect for forced eviction. That would take a legal | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
process that would probably take months and could cost millions of | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
pounds. Well, some of the protesters here | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
tonight have told us they are determined to stay here for months | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
to come. If that happens, we can only expect the legal battle to | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
escalate even further. Now, it is a simple gesture. But | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
apparently it can mean a lot. Today, hundreds of people queued up in | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
London to receive a hug. The woman giving them is Amma, known as the | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Divine Mother. She is an Indian spiritual leader who, for the last | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
:24:11. | :24:11. | ||
30 years, has been offering what I cannot describe how you feel. | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
Blissful. There is, in this hug, something unusual. Very comfortable, | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
very warm, very loving. She is known as The Hugging Saint, Amma. | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
It is claimed that she has given 30 million hugs in her lifetime. | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
not back to this world yet, sorry! And who was here? Hindu, Christian, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
believers, non-believers, the slightly curious. I watched a | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
documentary with Louis Theroux. I wanted to see what it was like. | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
he has had a hug, where it began in Amma's home, where she defied | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
taboos by offering a hug to those in need. She now travels the world, | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
attracting huge crowds. Richard Gere and Sharon Stone have joined | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
the huggers. Over the last three days, 10,000 people have queued up | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
waiting for their hug from Amma. But is there an explanation? What | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
is going on here? For Georgina, who you can see receding hair hug, it | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
:25:36. | :25:38. | ||
was all rather overwhelming. -- I am crying because off the love. I | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
felt this overwhelming feeling of love. It was so beautiful. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
science behind the hug is actually a burgeoning area of research. It | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
has revealed some startling chemical reactions. Boxy toxin in | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
the brain. In turn, that activates our fight and flight fear response. | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
It reduces fear and increases Trust. How was your hug? Good. The crowds | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
here were certainly feeling something. The Amma effect, the hug, | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
:26:31. | :26:32. | ||
Well, we will not be hugging each other to keep warm over the next | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
few days. It is a mild outlook. The satellite pictures show a huge heap | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
of cloud pushing to the West. There is very heavy rain now a cross- | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
party Scotland, particularly in the West. Windy as well, gales across | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
the Irish Sea. All the while, further east across the UK, it will | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
stay dry. The bit of mistiness, but any fog will not be widespread and | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
it will not be cold. No problems with Frost or anything like that. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
It will be a dumb start to the day across northern and western areas. | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Some regional detail, which I will talk about later. The further east | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
and south you go, it will be drier, brighter and mild. Mid-afternoon, | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
let's get into that detail. In south-west England, just the odd | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
spot of rain. With some shelter, for instance the north coast of | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Devon and Somerset, some brightness. It at a brightness across parts of | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Wales, with dribs and drabs of rain across western areas on and off. | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
For Northern Ireland, a fair bit of cloud. A hint of brightness in | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
eastern areas, rain threatening in the West. For Scotland it is | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
complicated, so bear with me. Along the Moray coast it should be | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
reasonably bright. For the south and west, the southern Highlands, a | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
whole dollop of rain. For central and eastern parts of England, it | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
should be dry with some reasonable spells of sunshine. Mild, 14 or 15 | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
degrees, the wind is not too strong. That is good news. What about the | :28:02. | :28:08. | |
weekend? It stays mild virtually nationwide. Some places are seeing | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
a lot of cloud, other places seeing quite a lot of sunshine. Check out | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
the new weather website. It is full of facts, features and forecasts, | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
including an explanation about just how dry and warm it has been this | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
The main news: Stephen Lawrence's best friend, Duwayne Brooks, breaks | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
down in tears in court as he recalls the night he was killed. I | :28:34. | :28:38. |