:00:09. > :00:13.Unprecedented violence even for Afghanistan. For the first timebomb
:00:13. > :00:19.attacks across the country target Muslims at prayer on one of their
:00:19. > :00:22.holiest days. Nearly 60 killed, Shia Muslims were
:00:22. > :00:30.commemorating their holiest day. Many were women and children.
:00:30. > :00:33.It is the first time on such an important religious day in
:00:33. > :00:36.Afghanistan, terrorism of that nature is taking place.
:00:36. > :00:39.We'll look at what lies behind this deadly new development.
:00:39. > :00:42.Also on tonight's programme: Trapped in a box and buried in this
:00:42. > :00:47.woodland. The harrowing story of a woman attacked by the man she had a
:00:47. > :00:48.child with. The boss of British Airways, one of
:00:48. > :00:53.Britain's most influential businessman, launches a wide-
:00:53. > :00:58.ranging attack on the Government's economic policy.
:00:58. > :01:03.This is a huge opportunity lost as a result of the actions of the
:01:03. > :01:05.chancellor. It is It is making the UK uncompetitive.
:01:05. > :01:11.Manchester Police carry out their biggest one-day drugs raid and they
:01:11. > :01:14.invite local people to watch them do it.
:01:14. > :01:17.It gives you the opportunity to see what they are doing and to let
:01:17. > :01:20.people they are dealing with it. They are tackling drugs.
:01:20. > :01:30.The destructive power of the volcano and the high tech sonar
:01:30. > :01:32.
:01:32. > :01:42.images that reveal what's going on Coming up, it is a make or break
:01:42. > :01:55.
:01:56. > :01:59.night for Chelsea in the Champions Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:59. > :02:06.News at Six. It has been a day of unprecedented violence in
:02:06. > :02:09.Afghanistan. For the first time, civilian worshippers were the
:02:09. > :02:12.targets, leaving at least 58 people dead and hundreds injured. The
:02:12. > :02:16.victims were Shia Muslims, who make up a minority in Afghanistan, and
:02:16. > :02:19.they were commemorating their holiest day. There were two attacks,
:02:19. > :02:29.a massive explosion in the capital, Kabul, and another in the northern
:02:29. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:44.city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Quentin Afghan Shias in Kabul beat
:02:44. > :02:50.
:02:50. > :03:00.themselves in a traditional A massive explosion from a suicide
:03:00. > :03:01.
:03:01. > :03:09.bomber tears through the crowd. It is chaos. Hundreds are hurt. Dozens
:03:09. > :03:16.dead. The dying and injured are piled up in trucks. At a city
:03:16. > :03:22.hospital, they struggled to hope with wave after wave of victims.
:03:22. > :03:27.And on the pavement outside, a mother mourns for her lost son. "my
:03:27. > :03:37.heart is broken "she cries. Desperate and in despair, more
:03:37. > :03:42.gathered for news of missing family and friends. This is a a day of of
:03:43. > :03:47.mourning, say this man. It is an attack against humanity and attack
:03:47. > :03:53.against Islam. It was part of a co-ordinated
:03:53. > :04:00.attack against Shias. A bomb exploded in Mazar-i-Sharif, but the
:04:00. > :04:05.Kabul attack was bigger in the heart of the city. The people here
:04:05. > :04:12.are angry. There has been tensions between Afghanistan's Sunnis and
:04:12. > :04:16.Shias, but this violence on this scale, is unprecedented.
:04:16. > :04:21.In Germany, President Karzai had just finished attending a summit
:04:21. > :04:26.when -- on his country's future. This is the first time on an
:04:26. > :04:33.important religious day in Afghanistan, terrorism of that
:04:33. > :04:37.horrible nature is taking place. We all wish the best for those who are
:04:37. > :04:41.injured and quick recovery and patience to the families of those
:04:41. > :04:45.who have lost their dear ones. As the injured were being treated,
:04:45. > :04:51.the Taliban issued a statement saying they hadn't carried out the
:04:51. > :04:54.attack. The Government says they are lying. These attacks turn this
:04:54. > :05:02.Muslim day of mourning into a day of terrible loss, bringing a new
:05:02. > :05:05.kind of suffering to this already We can talk to Quentin Somerville
:05:05. > :05:09.in Kabul now. Are we any closer to knowing who is behind these
:05:09. > :05:15.unprecedented attacks as you call them?
:05:15. > :05:18.George, let me tell new the last few moments we have heard President
:05:18. > :05:22.Karzai cancelled his planned trip to the UK to return here to
:05:22. > :05:26.Afghanistan. We don't know yet who is behind these attacks. President
:05:26. > :05:31.Karzai and his Government thinks it is the Taliban. Who is it that
:05:31. > :05:34.might benefit from introducing this new strain of violence? There are
:05:35. > :05:38.plenty of militant groups, many of them based across in the border who
:05:38. > :05:44.would benefit from an unstable Afghanistan.
:05:44. > :05:48.A mother who was buried alive in a cardboard box has told Leeds Crown
:05:48. > :05:51.Court she was attacked with a stun gun, bound and gagged and taken to
:05:51. > :05:54.the countryside where she was dumped. Michelina Lewandowska said
:05:54. > :05:59.her partner told her he had hated her for four years before allegedly
:05:59. > :06:08.carrying out the attack with another man. Both men deny
:06:08. > :06:13.attempted murder. Ed Thomas is in Huddersfield now. Yes, Michelina
:06:13. > :06:17.Lewandowska spoke only in Polish as she gave her evidence today, but
:06:17. > :06:20.she described the moments she was tasered before being buried alive a
:06:20. > :06:25.few hundred meters from where we are now. She also told the court
:06:25. > :06:34.how she used her engagement ring to scratch away at the box she was in
:06:34. > :06:40.and she also spoke about how she Michelina Lewandowska lived here
:06:40. > :06:44.with her son Jacob and his father, Marcin Kasprzak, the man she
:06:44. > :06:49.accuses of firing a taz irat her inside the house and trying to bury
:06:49. > :06:53.her alive. Speaking in court from behind a screen to protect her
:06:53. > :06:59.identity, today she told the jury, "I was trying to push him away. He
:06:59. > :07:04.was using this Taser. He knelt down. He pressed my ribs with his knee
:07:04. > :07:09.and continued to use this Taser." The prosecution say this man,
:07:09. > :07:14.Patryk Borys, was also there that night and helped carry Michelina
:07:14. > :07:20.Lewandowska out of the house in a computer box, up these steps and
:07:20. > :07:24.into a car. The jury heard how she was taken here, before being
:07:24. > :07:30.carried to the top of the hill. Once the men reached the top of the
:07:30. > :07:34.hill, the court was told how they dug a hole using two shovels and
:07:34. > :07:39.placed the box with Michelina Lewandowska into the ground. The
:07:39. > :07:44.prosecution say they covered her with soil before placing a branch
:07:44. > :07:49.on top. But she managed to escape and she told the court, "I started
:07:49. > :07:53.to tear the box apart. I was focusing on the owning I had made.
:07:53. > :07:57.Soil was getting in. My face was getting dirty. I could see black
:07:57. > :08:02.sky and leaves. I was so exhausted.". Michelina Lewandowska
:08:02. > :08:06.then said she staggered on to the road and managed to flag down a car.
:08:06. > :08:11.The prosecution claim what happened inside this house was well planned
:08:11. > :08:20.because her boyfriend wanted to get rid of her and start a new life
:08:20. > :08:24.The prosecution also claim Marcin Kasprzak was getting bored with the
:08:24. > :08:29.mother of his child and wanted to start a new life. But both he and
:08:29. > :08:32.his co accused, Patryk Borys, deny attempted murder. We expect to hear
:08:32. > :08:42.more evidence tomorrow from Michelina Lewandowska about what
:08:42. > :08:42.
:08:42. > :08:46.she says happened to her here in In the last hour the Prime Minister
:08:46. > :08:55.has said he is prepared to veto a new EU treaty designed to save the
:08:55. > :08:58.single currency if it goes against Britain's interests. David Cameron,
:08:58. > :09:01.who is heading to Brussels for a summit of EU leaders later this
:09:01. > :09:03.week, said any new agreement would need safeguards. What I'm saying if
:09:03. > :09:07.and eurozone countries need to come together and do need to do more
:09:07. > :09:10.things together, if they choose to use the European treaty, Britain
:09:10. > :09:15.will be insisting on safeguards too. As long as we get those then that
:09:15. > :09:19.treaty can go ahead. If we can't get those, it won't.
:09:19. > :09:22.David Cameron was talking to Nick Robinson. We can talk to him now.
:09:22. > :09:26.Is this line in the sand moment for David Cameron, do you think?
:09:26. > :09:29.Well, it is supposed to beted Prime Minister -- to be the Prime
:09:29. > :09:33.Minister sending out a signal, a signal that says, Britain, he, will
:09:33. > :09:38.not stand around while the 17 eurozone countries make up their
:09:38. > :09:41.minds what to do to get not just themselves out of the economic mess
:09:41. > :09:45.they are in, but everyone else who is affected by it. That is why he
:09:45. > :09:49.is saying that today. Now, it is a signal meant to be heard not just
:09:49. > :09:53.in European capitals, but to be heard here in Westminster as well,
:09:53. > :09:56.where many Euro-sceptics, many Conservative backbench MPs are
:09:56. > :10:01.saying to the Prime Minister, "Look, if Europe wants something from us,
:10:01. > :10:05.we should demand something fundamental from them." Namely a
:10:06. > :10:09.renegotiation of Britain's entire membership of the European Union.
:10:09. > :10:13.Now the Prime Minister has not specified exactly what he thinks
:10:13. > :10:18.Britain's national interests are, except for two things - what he
:10:18. > :10:21.said is he wants to protect London as the centre of financial services
:10:21. > :10:25.in Europe and another thing, he wants to make sure that those 17
:10:25. > :10:28.eurozone countries can't club together in order to change the
:10:28. > :10:32.rules of the so-called single market that affect British
:10:32. > :10:42.companies. So it is a threat of a veto. It will produce headlines
:10:42. > :10:43.
:10:44. > :10:46.tomorrow. Will he use it? My bet, The boss of British Airways, Willie
:10:46. > :10:49.Walsh, has attacked the Government's economic policy. Along
:10:49. > :10:59.with other airline chiefs Mr Walsh has been highly critical of a
:10:59. > :11:06.
:11:06. > :11:09.proposed rise in air passenger duty. The row between airlines and the
:11:09. > :11:14.Government has been ticking over for a while, but today it gained a
:11:14. > :11:18.lot more momentum. The boss of BA, has accused ministers of harming
:11:18. > :11:22.economic growth by imposing a steep increase in Air Passenger Duty.
:11:22. > :11:28.This is a huge opportunity lost as a result of the actions of the
:11:28. > :11:32.chancellor. It is making the UK uncompetitive. It is making it
:11:32. > :11:36.impossible for us to compete on a global scale and it is damaging the
:11:36. > :11:40.UK economy. It is damaging job creation and it is the wrong thing
:11:40. > :11:44.to do. The duty will increase by 8% in
:11:44. > :11:50.April next year, after a freeze this year. BA says it will now
:11:50. > :11:54.scale back a planned 800 job creation programme to 400 and it
:11:54. > :11:58.will postpone bringing an extra Boeing 747 into service.
:11:58. > :12:01.The announcement by BA comes at an awkward time for the Government
:12:01. > :12:05.because it is on the same day that ministers have been launching the
:12:06. > :12:12.latest phase of the growth strategy with more than �100 million for
:12:13. > :12:18.investment in manufacturing. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable,
:12:18. > :12:22.was visiting a Birmingham based company, it makes components for
:12:22. > :12:28.the aerospace industry. He was unveiling the Government plan to
:12:28. > :12:31.encourage more investment in hi- tech UK suppliers. I put to him
:12:32. > :12:35.BA's accusation that other Government policies might be damage
:12:35. > :12:39.to go growth. We have got to raise revenue as
:12:39. > :12:44.well as deal with public spending. Of course, we have passenger duty
:12:45. > :12:47.as do many other countries, but they don't pay value-added tax on
:12:47. > :12:51.their flights and nor do they pay fuel duty.
:12:51. > :12:56.The head of the CBI was on the tour with the Secretary of State. He
:12:56. > :12:59.welcomed the new manufacturing initiative, but came down on BA's
:12:59. > :13:03.side over Air Passenger Duty. I think the Government has got to
:13:03. > :13:06.be careful with its tax raising measures. We know it needs to bring
:13:06. > :13:10.in tax, even with the deficit reduction cuts it is making. It has
:13:10. > :13:15.got to balance the books, but Air Passenger Duty is a tax on travel.
:13:15. > :13:20.It is paid for by the passengers. It weakens the the airline's
:13:20. > :13:24.ability to service the economy and I hope the the Chancellor will
:13:25. > :13:29.think again. With the latest figures from the
:13:29. > :13:36.high street revealing subdued spending, the Government won't find
:13:36. > :13:42.it easy to boost growth across the 200 jobs are to go at Kraft Foods.
:13:42. > :13:48.The company which bought Cadbury say the job losses will be made
:13:48. > :13:53.through redeployment and voluntary redundancies.
:13:53. > :13:57.Kraft Foods was criticised for closing the factory near Bristol
:13:58. > :14:05.Bristol after having previously said they would keep it open.
:14:05. > :14:10.Police in Manchester have had their largest big raid and they envited
:14:10. > :14:14.the public to come and see them do Judith Moritz reports, there were
:14:14. > :14:17.dozens of arrests. 6am this morning and 1,000 police
:14:17. > :14:21.officers are on the move whilst Manchester sleeps, they are ready
:14:21. > :14:28.for action. The plan, to spring the city's drug
:14:28. > :14:32.dealers from their beds. Mary Murphy and lee Ann are along for
:14:32. > :14:35.the ride, two of 150 local residents invited to watch. The
:14:35. > :14:40.minibus takes them on a rare guided tour to the home of a suspected
:14:40. > :14:45.drug dealer. Police.
:14:45. > :14:47.Early morning drugs raids like this are not particularly unusual for
:14:47. > :14:52.Greater Manchester Police and what is different is is having a coach
:14:52. > :14:55.load of local residents along to watch. A suspected dealer wasn't at
:14:55. > :15:01.home, but the women were impressed by what they saw.
:15:01. > :15:03.The whole work they had to do and preparation, and coming to the
:15:03. > :15:07.property and having to go in, it was dramatic.
:15:07. > :15:10.It was amazing being up and seeing those officers and the great
:15:10. > :15:17.community people from across Manchester coming out because they
:15:17. > :15:22.care enough to see what the police are doing.
:15:22. > :15:24.Operation Ar day shus was designed to be high-profile. Thoughts of it
:15:24. > :15:30.all all being a publicity stunt were dismissed.
:15:30. > :15:34.We have had 70 plus arrests today. That's significant. If that's
:15:34. > :15:37.publicity, I mean some of these people won't be spending Christmas
:15:37. > :15:42.at home. The police authority will take account of the operation today.
:15:42. > :15:47.We will also then examine the sustainability of operations such
:15:47. > :15:53.as this. The force helicopter was in use foo
:15:53. > :16:00.too and -- too and whilst the police wouldn't discuss how much
:16:00. > :16:09.the operation had been cost, but said a major shock had been
:16:09. > :16:13.Bomb attacks in Afghanistan have targeted Muslims at prayer, nearly
:16:13. > :16:18.60 people were killed. Coming up, rare access to the
:16:18. > :16:21.journals and letters from Captain Scott's polar exhibition. --
:16:21. > :16:24.expedition. Later on the BBC News Channel,
:16:24. > :16:28.could a threat of a credit downgrade be enough to spur Europe
:16:28. > :16:38.into action? And the high street sees its
:16:38. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:44.weakest growth in retail sales This is a view of what is happening
:16:44. > :16:49.up to four miles beneath the surface of the ocean, in what is
:16:49. > :16:53.known as the Pacific Ring of Fire. These images showed huge volcanoes
:16:53. > :16:57.being slowly drag, one by one coming to a great ravine in the
:16:57. > :17:01.seabed. They were taken by a joint project by the universities of
:17:01. > :17:11.Oxford and Durham, aimed at better understanding the risk to the
:17:11. > :17:16.region from earthquakes and Volcanoes erupting in the Pacific
:17:16. > :17:24.Ocean. This was in Tonga two years ago. One of the most volatile
:17:24. > :17:28.regions on earth. This is the second wave... Nearby, a tsunami
:17:28. > :17:34.sweeps a sure on so Mark, the result of an earthquake also two
:17:34. > :17:37.years ago -- sweeps ashore on Samoa. It is often violent and we don't
:17:37. > :17:42.know much about it. A British research team went to investigate
:17:42. > :17:45.last summer, using the latest sonar technology, they built up an
:17:45. > :17:50.unprecedented picture of the sea bed and the huge forces at work.
:17:50. > :17:54.The research was in part of the so- called Pacific Ring of Fire, the
:17:54. > :18:00.fault-lines and volcanoes circling the ocean. It focus to the north of
:18:00. > :18:04.New Zealand. He are those volcanoes near Tonga, and here is Samoa,
:18:04. > :18:08.where that tsunami struck. All highly active, with the Pacific
:18:08. > :18:12.tectonic plate moving westwards, colliding with the in though
:18:12. > :18:16.Australian plate. The researchers wanted to know what happened when
:18:16. > :18:20.this long line of underwater volcanoes approaches that fault-
:18:20. > :18:25.line. Each is several miles high and ahead is one of the deepest
:18:25. > :18:29.chasms on the planet. Now for the first time, they have captured how
:18:29. > :18:33.these huge mountains are destroyed as they fall into the abyss. The
:18:33. > :18:37.chasm is nearly seven miles deep. Mount Everest would easily fit
:18:38. > :18:42.inside. The researchers from the universities of Oxford and Durham
:18:42. > :18:46.say the next volcano doesn't stand a chance. Its ultimate fate is to
:18:46. > :18:52.be carried down into that trench you can see here, and carried deep
:18:52. > :18:56.down into the earth. It can't avoid that? It cannot avoid it. Once that
:18:56. > :19:01.one has gone, there is another one in the line and that will be next.
:19:01. > :19:06.A close-up image of the volcano that is right on the edge, about to
:19:06. > :19:11.be destroyed. This is a mountain several miles five. This is the one
:19:11. > :19:16.that is right on the lip, going down into the trench. You can see
:19:17. > :19:22.the way it is getting sliced up, these parallel fractures going in,
:19:22. > :19:27.cutting up this immense mountain as though it were a loaf of bread.
:19:27. > :19:30.This matters anywhere that tsunamis could strike. The great wave that
:19:30. > :19:33.hits Japan last March was the result of an underwater earthquake.
:19:33. > :19:41.The more they are understood, the better the chance of early warning
:19:41. > :19:46.Hundreds of people have defied the Russian authorities and taken to
:19:46. > :19:51.the streets in Moscow, protesting that this weekend's elections were
:19:51. > :19:55.rigged in flavour -- favour of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's
:19:55. > :20:01.party. Dozens of people have been arrested. I know you have been out
:20:01. > :20:05.and about with these demonstrators. What was it like? For a second
:20:05. > :20:10.night, protesters have come onto the streets of Moscow. They shouted,
:20:10. > :20:14.down with Putin, freedom to political prisoners. It is unclear
:20:14. > :20:18.how many there were but it there was a massive police presence.
:20:18. > :20:22.Hundreds of riot police and Interior Ministry troops, who were
:20:22. > :20:26.determined not to let the protesters get through to one of
:20:26. > :20:33.the city's central squares. Around 200 people were detained at the
:20:33. > :20:35.protest. Yesterday, 300 people were arrested at what was one of the
:20:35. > :20:40.largest anti-government demonstrations Moscow has seen in
:20:40. > :20:44.years. This will be a major concern to Vladimir Putin, the Russian
:20:44. > :20:49.Prime Minister. His popularity has been falling. In three months' time,
:20:49. > :20:51.he wants to get elected as Russia's next president.
:20:51. > :20:56.The National Audit Office has warned there is a danger that next
:20:56. > :20:59.summer's Olympic Games in London will exceed the �9.3 billion budget.
:20:59. > :21:03.They have called for rigorous action to control costs, and say
:21:03. > :21:06.there is a real risk that additional funding will be needed.
:21:06. > :21:09.The Olympics Minister, Hugh Robertson, insists the game will be
:21:09. > :21:13.delivered under budget. He's got his government has
:21:13. > :21:17.announced a programme to improve road and rail links and build
:21:17. > :21:20.schools and hospitals -- the Scottish Government has. The SNP
:21:20. > :21:25.administration wants to spend �60 billion over the next 20 years but
:21:25. > :21:27.the projects are dependent on it being able to borrow the money.
:21:27. > :21:31.The government has rejected suggestions that a leading lobbying
:21:31. > :21:34.firm was able to exert undue influence on policy. Undercover
:21:34. > :21:40.reporters secretly recorded conversations with the managing
:21:40. > :21:44.director, in which he spoke of his close links with the Prime Minister
:21:44. > :21:48.and the chancellor, George Osborne. The past few minutes, the world
:21:48. > :21:52.gunman's budget has been passed, after Labour struck a deal with
:21:52. > :21:58.Liberal Democrats -- the Welsh government's budget. Opposition
:21:58. > :22:02.parties say it is a budget that lacks any real urgency. Whales
:22:02. > :22:06.editor has been to Newport to see what people think of the spending
:22:06. > :22:10.plans -- our Wales editor. It prides itself on being the
:22:10. > :22:13.gateway city to Wales. Experts predict grim reality will it
:22:13. > :22:17.Newport. The Welsh Labour government says it wants to speed
:22:17. > :22:23.up the economy, but can only spend the �14 billion it is given by
:22:23. > :22:28.Westminster. It can't vary taxes, 0 borrow. It says that by putting
:22:28. > :22:32.�272 million on the ground, to skills and job creation, will come
:22:32. > :22:37.back coalition cards. For the boss of this local food praising --
:22:37. > :22:40.processing business, it is welcome but nowhere near enough. If the was
:22:40. > :22:44.government was really serious, I think they should ask for more
:22:44. > :22:49.devolved power, especially on taxation. We are so close to
:22:49. > :22:57.England, what we need to do is make our little country more business-
:22:57. > :23:01.friendly. In two big spending areas, the was government calls the shots.
:23:01. > :23:06.Of the �14 billion budget, more than �4 billion goes on education
:23:06. > :23:10.and skills. The biggest slice of all, over �7 billion, is spent on
:23:10. > :23:13.health and social services. A huge part of the overall budget, but
:23:13. > :23:20.ministers argued they can't afford to fall in line with the rest of
:23:20. > :23:24.the UK, and protect health spending. Jane leads a team of the city's
:23:24. > :23:32.district nurses, but accepts ring- fencing health spending would lead
:23:32. > :23:37.to fierce cuts elsewhere. If we take a cut in education but
:23:37. > :23:43.protecting health, our generations coming up would be able to take on
:23:43. > :23:46.board responsibility for their own health -- it won't be able to take.
:23:46. > :23:52.Students know that was university students get a good deal in today's
:23:52. > :23:56.Budget, but there dad is not happy that �600 less per head is spent on
:23:56. > :24:01.pupils like them, than in England. My boys are having to do without
:24:01. > :24:04.something. There is no way you can expect �600 less to be invested in
:24:04. > :24:14.children in Wales and for them to have the same results as children
:24:14. > :24:19.
:24:19. > :24:23.There is agreement that cities like England cricketer Alastair Cook was
:24:23. > :24:26.presented with an MBE by the Queen today, for his outstanding
:24:26. > :24:31.performance against Australia during the Ashes. Among those
:24:31. > :24:36.joining him to be honoured was Dame Jenni Murray, host of BBC Radio 4's
:24:36. > :24:39.Woman's Hour, who was made a Dame Commander for services to radio
:24:39. > :24:43.broadcasting. It is almost 100 years since
:24:43. > :24:47.Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the Antarctic ended in the
:24:47. > :24:49.deaths of five men on their way back from the south pole. A new
:24:49. > :24:53.expedition in -- exhibition in Cambridge has brought together
:24:53. > :24:59.papers and journals, most of which have never been seen by the public
:24:59. > :25:07.and which give a vivid record of the daily life of the expedition.
:25:07. > :25:14.Miserable, utterly miserable. We are camped in the slough of despond.
:25:14. > :25:18.The words were written on December 6th, it was the beginning of the
:25:18. > :25:22.end, the final push by Scott and his four companions to reach the
:25:22. > :25:28.South Pole. We know that story in extraordinary detail, because of
:25:28. > :25:33.this. The letters they wrote, their final words, that were discovered
:25:34. > :25:37.after their deaths. Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of
:25:37. > :25:42.the hardy good, endurance and courage of my companions, which
:25:42. > :25:49.would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes,
:25:49. > :25:54.and our dead bodies, must tell that tail. There are also drawing. This,
:25:54. > :25:59.the ice cave where one team lived for 21 months. A line drawn to
:25:59. > :26:04.separate the men from the officers. There are even cartoons. But it is
:26:04. > :26:08.the words that are most affecting. They were starving, racked with
:26:08. > :26:11.frostbite, yet the handwriting is perfect. Letters written for both
:26:11. > :26:18.their families and history, a history that has veered between
:26:18. > :26:24.Scot, a tragic hero, and Scott, the stiff upper-lip bungler. 100 years
:26:24. > :26:28.on, what do these letters suggest? What is coming out of some of the
:26:28. > :26:31.less well known manuscript material, you get the sense of him having
:26:31. > :26:35.this public persona of being a buttoned-up Edwardian, and then you
:26:35. > :26:40.read his letters to his wife and you realise he he's a man of real
:26:40. > :26:44.passion. 100 years on, the first public display of the private
:26:44. > :26:54.letters, the words that turned the icy remains of history into a human
:26:54. > :26:55.
:26:55. > :26:59.Time for the weather now. Wintry mix for many of us overnight,
:26:59. > :27:02.particularly across the North. Rain for many places but a spell of
:27:03. > :27:06.sleet and snow moving across Scotland, than the wind starts to
:27:06. > :27:14.pick up. There is also the risk of eyes again, particularly in
:27:14. > :27:19.Scotland. The band of sleet and snow moves in, the skies Clear and
:27:19. > :27:28.then the showers come packing into the West. It could be quite I see
:27:28. > :27:33.overnight, into the rush-hour, in Scotland. Fife, Lothian, Tayside --
:27:33. > :27:38.quite icy overnight. Turning windy in Northern England, showers
:27:38. > :27:42.blowing on to the Pennines, largely dry in the east. A bit of rain
:27:42. > :27:46.overnight, long gone by the morning. It should starts chilly but nice
:27:46. > :27:50.and bright and sunny. Some high temperatures for the south-west of
:27:50. > :27:54.England. Showers continuing overnight, these will be of rain.
:27:54. > :27:57.The showers in Wales, mainly affecting the west and north, will
:27:57. > :28:00.also be of rain. The wind will be strengthening and it will be a
:28:00. > :28:05.windy start in Northern Ireland, showers mainly towards the north
:28:05. > :28:10.coast. Quite a windy day for most of us. It will feel pretty cold in
:28:10. > :28:14.the wind. Not many showers, mainly coming into the western areas. A
:28:14. > :28:22.good chance of staying dry. I think we will find more sunshine than
:28:23. > :28:28.today. It will if feel cold but in the wind, colder still. The winds
:28:28. > :28:31.strengthen again. A south-westerly wind for a time blowing in milder,
:28:31. > :28:36.wetter weather. The rain doesn't last long, gone by the end of