:00:12. > :00:15.The Prime Minister hints that a re- think of plans to cut child benefit
:00:15. > :00:21.for better off families. He acknowledges it may be unfair for
:00:21. > :00:26.some. That is echoed by parents who find themselves just over the
:00:26. > :00:33.threshold. As my husband earns just over �45,000, we are looking to
:00:33. > :00:37.lose it all. Where as the friends we have earning �35,000 each, will
:00:37. > :00:42.have double what we have and will get child benefit into the future.
:00:42. > :00:47.Also, new fears for the eurozone tonight. France braces itself amid
:00:47. > :00:52.reports its credit rating may be downgraded. A British student is to
:00:52. > :00:57.be extradited to America for his website which helped people watch
:00:57. > :01:02.films for free. The Grayrigg train crash in Cumbria, five years on
:01:02. > :01:06.Network Rail is to be prosecuted. Behind the scenes of a major
:01:06. > :01:11.exhibition by the man dubbed Britain's greatest livering artist.
:01:11. > :01:15.On Sportsday, a boost for the Khan campaign after the WBA promises the
:01:15. > :01:25.Bolton boxer a rematch, after his controversial defeat to Lamont
:01:25. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:41.Good evening. Welcome to BBC News at Six. The Prime Minister has
:01:41. > :01:47.hinted there may be a re-think of controversial plans to stop child
:01:47. > :01:51.benefit for higher rate taxpayers. He acknowledged there is potential
:01:51. > :01:57.unfairness to some families. George Osborne has insisted the principal
:01:57. > :02:02.of axing the benefit for better off parents is rights.
:02:02. > :02:06.Our UK affairs correspondent reports.
:02:06. > :02:10.For generations, families have regarded child benefit as a right.
:02:10. > :02:15.Money given to every parent to help raise every child. From next year
:02:15. > :02:20.that is due to change and the plans have been controversial. A couple
:02:20. > :02:29.with three children would lose �2,000, if one parent evens just a
:02:29. > :02:35.few pounds over the �43 -- of the 40% tax threshold. Another couple,
:02:35. > :02:41.where both earn just under that sum and enjoy a total income of just
:02:41. > :02:45.over �80,000 would keep all the benefit. There are indications that
:02:45. > :02:49.having walked the tightrope of balancing the needs for cuts with
:02:49. > :02:54.the middle classes T coalition is looking at the plans again and
:02:54. > :02:59.insisting they are not backing down. We have not set out how we will
:02:59. > :03:04.implement it. The principal that it is not fair to ask someone who is
:03:05. > :03:08.earning �20,000 or �25,000 to pay for someone on �80,000 to get child
:03:08. > :03:13.benefit is one that is very important. But at this Manchester
:03:13. > :03:18.play centre, details of the previous plans haven't gone done
:03:18. > :03:22.well with many. Laura does not work. Her husband is the breed winner,
:03:22. > :03:27.earning about �45,000 a year. They will lose all their child benefit.
:03:27. > :03:31.She thinks that is deeply unfair. We are looking to lose it all,
:03:31. > :03:34.whereas the friends earning �35,000-�40,000 each, who are
:03:34. > :03:39.earning double what we have will keep on getting child benefit into
:03:39. > :03:43.the future. It does not make any sense to me. Across the room are
:03:44. > :03:48.Sarah and Ed. They both work earning a total of �50,000 between
:03:48. > :03:52.them. They could keep their child benefit. They say they need it.
:03:52. > :03:55.Anybody are taking it away from, if they rely on it, then I think it's
:03:55. > :03:58.unfair to take it away. With concerns about what the
:03:59. > :04:02.Government's new plans will be, Labour insist the coalition is
:04:02. > :04:06.scrambling around to come up with alternatives. They should have
:04:06. > :04:10.thought this through properly at the outset. Honestly to get this
:04:10. > :04:14.late in the day without properly thinking through what exactly are
:04:15. > :04:20.the tax rules going to be is beyond belief. I think they have to
:04:20. > :04:24.quickly go back to the drawing board, come up with fresh proposals
:04:24. > :04:28.and let us see what they will do. If the Government is trying to come
:04:28. > :04:33.up with different proposals, it's a sign that MPs are well aware that
:04:33. > :04:38.certain attempts to cut the deficit could scare off voters and leave
:04:38. > :04:41.the opposition to paint them as anything but family-friendly.
:04:41. > :04:45.Let's talk to our political correspondent, who is in Downing
:04:45. > :04:49.Street. Ian, how likely is it there will be changes to these proposals
:04:49. > :04:53.to cut child benefit? Well, the Prime Minister has been under
:04:53. > :04:58.sustained political pressure from some of his backbenchers who think
:04:58. > :05:02.taking away child benefit from higher rate taxpayers in one fell
:05:02. > :05:06.swoop is a guaranteed vote-loser. The Prime Minister was using an
:05:06. > :05:10.interview in a magazine, designed for an audience of MPs to signal he
:05:10. > :05:14.understands their worries. The key question is, what will he do about
:05:14. > :05:19.it? Don't expect there to be a big Government U-turn. High rate
:05:19. > :05:22.taxpayers are likely to lose that entitlement to child benefit. What
:05:22. > :05:26.the Prime Minister has been doing is asking the Treasury to look at
:05:26. > :05:31.some of the problems of the margin, for example, is it fair people who
:05:31. > :05:37.only just fall into the higher tax bracket lose 100% of their benefit?
:05:37. > :05:41.He will look at the decision -- he will leave the decisions to the man
:05:41. > :05:44.next door, to the Chancellor. I think what has happened tonight is
:05:44. > :05:47.this, the Prime Minister has identified the big political
:05:47. > :05:53.problem here. The country's financial problems may prevent him
:05:53. > :05:58.from solving it. Thank you. The value of the euro
:05:58. > :06:02.has fallen, with more bad news for the eurozone. France is braced for
:06:02. > :06:07.the possibility that its credit rating may be downgraded by
:06:07. > :06:11.Standard & Poor's. Fears over the European debt crisis have been
:06:11. > :06:17.heightened with talks between Greece and the banks it owes money
:06:18. > :06:21.to, breaking down. 2011 was a year to forget for the eurozone and the
:06:21. > :06:26.health of the single currency. There were riots in Greece, as the
:06:26. > :06:30.Government tried to impose deep spending cuts. There were tensions
:06:30. > :06:34.over how to safeguard the euro. Now another blow to the French
:06:34. > :06:38.President is looming. If France is downgraded, it will
:06:38. > :06:48.raise the cost of borrowing that France has to pay to markets above
:06:48. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :06:53.that of countries such as Germany. Well, let's talk to our Europe
:06:53. > :06:57.editor who is in Paris. Gavin, is this downgrading of France's credit
:06:57. > :07:04.rating likely to happen? If it does happen, how serious is it? Well,
:07:04. > :07:10.Fiona, here in Paris, in Government circles tonight, there is clearly
:07:10. > :07:13.the expectation that later today there will be the announcement of a
:07:13. > :07:17.down-grade. If it happens it is a major blow for France and for
:07:17. > :07:23.President Sarkozy, who is just about to begin his re-election
:07:23. > :07:26.campaign. What will it mean? It will mean an increase in French
:07:26. > :07:31.borrowing costs. What the French Government will say, America had a
:07:31. > :07:35.down grade and the impact there has been fairly marginal. Perhaps, in
:07:35. > :07:39.terms of the eurozone, it will be on the eurozone's main bail out
:07:39. > :07:46.fund. This, if it happens, will weaken the fire power of that bail
:07:46. > :07:49.out fund at a pretty critical moment. It is dependant on France's
:07:49. > :07:54.AAA rating. During this week there have been signs of calm in the
:07:54. > :08:00.markets in relation to the eurozone. Tonight, not only with an tis
:08:00. > :08:06.paited down grade here in France, but -- anticipated downgrade here
:08:06. > :08:10.in France, but it is true to say the eurozone crisis is back with us.
:08:10. > :08:14.Let's talk more about that crisis with the talks between Greece and
:08:14. > :08:19.the banks it owes money to breaking down. The talks have been postponed
:08:20. > :08:25.at the moment. Is that likely to be resolved? Well, I think they have
:08:25. > :08:30.gone into some big difficulties. What they are trying to do there in
:08:30. > :08:36.Greece is for those investors to essentially force them to take
:08:36. > :08:40.losses of up to 50%. What this will mean is that Greece's debt mountain
:08:40. > :08:45.is reduced by 100 billion. This is seen as crucial to sorting out the
:08:45. > :08:50.problems in Greece. It is also part of the package which Greece is
:08:50. > :08:54.dependant on if it is to move beyond March without defaulting. If
:08:54. > :08:57.they have run into big problems and I understand there are significant
:08:57. > :09:03.problems there in the negotiations between the Greek Government and
:09:03. > :09:07.the banks, I think that will have, arguably, as big, if not bigger an
:09:07. > :09:11.impact on the eurozone than what will be happening, potentially,
:09:11. > :09:16.here in France tonight. Thank you.
:09:16. > :09:20.Apologies for a technical glitch in that report just now. A 23-year-old
:09:20. > :09:25.university student is facing extradition to America on charges
:09:25. > :09:30.of copy right infringement. Richard O'Dwyer from Derbyshire
:09:30. > :09:35.allegedly earned thousands through his website which helped people
:09:35. > :09:38.watch American shows for free. This report contains some flash
:09:38. > :09:43.photography. Richard O'Dwyer's journey to London this morning was
:09:43. > :09:47.an anxious one. In a few hours a British judge would decide whether
:09:47. > :09:51.a website he created would lead to his extradition to the US. At the
:09:52. > :09:57.moment we are banking on that the judge agrees that the site was
:09:57. > :10:02.legal in the UK. If it is legal you cannot extradite someone.
:10:02. > :10:08.website, TVShack, allowed people to free films and programmes for free.
:10:08. > :10:14.The US Government closed it under copy right laws. Richard O'Dwyer's
:10:14. > :10:18.lawyers said his website amounted to other links, like a Google page.
:10:18. > :10:21.As such he had not broken the law. They said because the British
:10:21. > :10:25.authorities had not brought charges against him there were no grounds
:10:25. > :10:28.to extradite him to the United States, but the judge disagreed.
:10:28. > :10:32.Richard O'Dwyer's mother condemned the decision and the extradition
:10:32. > :10:38.treaty behind it. Very disappointed.
:10:38. > :10:42.In fact, disgusted. I'd hoped from better -- for better from the judge.
:10:42. > :10:46.Disappointed with this Government for signing us up to this treaty,
:10:46. > :10:49.which has opened the floodgates to America to come and seize British
:10:49. > :10:54.citizens without having stepped foot out of this country. That
:10:54. > :10:58.extradition law needs fixing, fast. Critics say the extradition rules
:10:58. > :11:05.favour American prosecutors. A review last year said they were
:11:05. > :11:08.fair. Of 130 American requests between 2004 and 2011, Britain
:11:08. > :11:12.refused seven. The US authorities agreed to all of Britain's 54
:11:12. > :11:17.requests. I am sure the family are very
:11:17. > :11:20.disappointed. Many, including myself certainly feel it should be
:11:21. > :11:24.in operation, which would agree in appropriate cases, where the facts
:11:24. > :11:28.take place, mainly in this country, for any trial to take place here.
:11:28. > :11:32.This would have been one case where there would have been compelling
:11:32. > :11:36.arguments for that to happen. Richard O'Dwyer has two weeks to
:11:36. > :11:43.appeal. If convicted in the United States
:11:43. > :11:48.he'll face up to ten years in prison.
:11:48. > :11:53.Network Rail will be prosecuted for the crash at Grayrigg back in 2007.
:11:53. > :11:58.One passenger died. 28 people were seriously injured when a Virgin
:11:58. > :12:03.train careered off the line. Earlier investigations reveal the
:12:03. > :12:10.derailment was caused by poorly maintained points.
:12:10. > :12:14.The Grayrigg rail accident left the carriages of a Virgin Pendolino
:12:14. > :12:17.train from London to Glasgow scattered across an embankment it
:12:17. > :12:22.had been travelling at 90 miles per hour when it derailed. One
:12:22. > :12:27.passenger was killed. More than 80 others were injured. Now Britain's
:12:27. > :12:37.rail safety regulator is bringing charges against Network Rail. A
:12:37. > :12:41.
:12:42. > :12:49.84-year-old Margaret Masson died in the crash. The lawyer representing
:12:49. > :12:53.her daughter has welcomed today's development. It seems to me that
:12:53. > :12:58.the prosecution of Network Rail, as an appropriate consequence, given
:12:58. > :13:02.the evidence which came out at the inquest in Kendal last year.
:13:02. > :13:06.has it taken five years to bring any charges? The rail regulator
:13:06. > :13:10.said it had to wait until after the inquest into the death of Margaret
:13:10. > :13:15.Masson. That finished late last year, concluding that the badly-
:13:15. > :13:19.maintained set of points in this cutting here caused the crash.
:13:19. > :13:22.Network Rail said it has not hidden from its responsibilities and it
:13:22. > :13:27.accepted quickly that it was a fault that caused the accident.
:13:27. > :13:37.Five years on the points have been removed from the track here. The
:13:37. > :13:38.
:13:39. > :13:45.A bereaved father who called for calm at the height of the summer
:13:45. > :13:49.riots has denied causing grievous bodily harm during an alleged road
:13:49. > :13:54.range incident. Tariq Jahan made an emotional appeal for calm. The
:13:54. > :14:02.charges relate to an alleged incident in the Handsworth area of
:14:02. > :14:05.the city last July. The wife of Steven Rawlings, an Oxford
:14:05. > :14:10.University lecturer says she believes his death was a tragic
:14:10. > :14:14.accident. Dr Devinder Sivia was arrested on suspicion of murdering
:14:14. > :14:18.Professor Rawlings, but has since been released on bail. It is the
:14:18. > :14:22.world's top oil producer, a partner to Britain on counter-terrorism and
:14:22. > :14:27.a big customer for British weapons, Saudi Arabia has welcomed David
:14:27. > :14:32.Cameron on a visit to meet the Saudi king. It comes at a time of
:14:32. > :14:36.rising tension in the region. David Cameron's first visit to
:14:36. > :14:43.Riyadh as Prime Minister is not before time, say the Saudis. He's
:14:43. > :14:46.been getting to know the king in his late 80s. On the table, talk of
:14:46. > :14:49.strengthening a strategic partnership in trade, security and
:14:49. > :14:54.counter-terrorism. Britain has probably the fifth biggest defence
:14:54. > :14:58.industry in the world, so it's a natural place to look. Britain has
:14:58. > :15:02.a long-standing security relationship with the Persian Gulf,
:15:02. > :15:08.not just Saudi Arabia but other states in the area. So, it's a sort
:15:08. > :15:11.of natural choice, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has long been a huge
:15:11. > :15:19.customer for British arms exports. It is Britain's biggest trading
:15:19. > :15:25.partner in the Middle East. The Saudis are once again on a spree.
:15:25. > :15:30.Saudi Arabia feels it is surrounded by threats. In Egypt the Arab
:15:30. > :15:35.Spring protest move has removed President Mubarak. Down in its
:15:35. > :15:39.southern parter Yemen risks becoming a failed state. Saudi
:15:39. > :15:44.Arabia's eastern province has seen violent clashes with Shi'ites. Iran
:15:44. > :15:50.is now flexing its military muscle. The Saudis are expected of stoking
:15:50. > :15:54.unrest in the Arab world. Last year, Saudi Arabia sent 1,000 troops into
:15:54. > :15:59.neighbouring Bahrain to bolster the Government there as it put down
:15:59. > :16:03.protests by Shi'ites. The troops have stayed. Domestic unrest in
:16:03. > :16:06.Saudi Arabia has been confined to the Shi'ite minority. Another
:16:06. > :16:15.protestor died last night. It is raising ethical concerns over human
:16:15. > :16:18.We may see the sale of arms which could be used to put down unrest
:16:18. > :16:22.within Saudi Arabia or other countries. Downing Street says
:16:22. > :16:27.sales of arms and warplanes like these were not the focus of today's
:16:27. > :16:32.talks. But if bilateral trade is to continue growing, while at the same
:16:32. > :16:36.time Britain pushes for democratic reform, David Cameron will have to
:16:36. > :16:39.navigate a delicate middle course. Our top story tonight:
:16:39. > :16:44.Downing Street hints at a rethink of plans to cut child benefit for
:16:44. > :16:47.better-off families. Coming up:
:16:47. > :16:57.A world surrounded by junk - new concerns about the hardware lost in
:16:57. > :16:57.
:16:57. > :17:01.space. Coming up on Sportsday at 6:30pm,
:17:01. > :17:11.Arsene Wenger accuses the Premier League of selling its soul and its
:17:11. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:17.The Royal Academy is preparing for a major exhibition of the landscape
:17:17. > :17:20.work of the British artist David Hockney. It's a show that includes
:17:20. > :17:26.enormous canvases, drawings and films displayed on banks of video
:17:26. > :17:29.screens. And it's all inspired by the landscape to the East Yorkshire.
:17:29. > :17:39.Our arts editor went to meet the man described as Britain's greatest
:17:39. > :17:44.living artist, and heard his views on art, life and fly-tipping.
:17:44. > :17:48.David Hockney's new exhibition is called A Bigger Picture, because
:17:48. > :17:52.the pictures get bigger. There is one that is 10 metres wide. And the
:17:52. > :17:56.artist wants us to step back and think about a bigger picture. The
:17:56. > :18:02.majority of the exhibition is recent work, almost all of which is
:18:02. > :18:09.of the same subject, the landscape of East Yorkshire. You have swapped
:18:09. > :18:16.the sunny climes of LA for East Yorkshire. Why? Were, it was not
:18:16. > :18:21.planned. I tell my friends in LA, and they said, when are you coming
:18:21. > :18:27.back? I said, well, I am on location, as they say in Hollywood.
:18:27. > :18:32.I began to realise there was a very good subject here. How much of
:18:32. > :18:37.Hollywood Hills are in these paintings? Member, California has
:18:37. > :18:42.marvellous light. That is why Hollywood is there. But East
:18:42. > :18:46.Yorkshire can have a wonderful light. It is not quite as intense.
:18:46. > :18:55.But there is more variety in it. you worry about things like wind
:18:55. > :19:05.farms? Yes and no. There is beauty in everything, even a wind farm.
:19:05. > :19:05.
:19:05. > :19:09.For instance, sometimes they dump rubbish. An old refrigerator.
:19:09. > :19:14.Sometimes I look at it and think, how could they do it? And at other
:19:14. > :19:21.times, I think, that looks rather good next to that tree. Rather
:19:21. > :19:26.absurd. It is not that bad. One of the things you have to live with
:19:26. > :19:32.nowadays is Monaco being -- the moniker of being Britain's greatest
:19:32. > :19:39.living artist. It does not bother me. I live in a remote place. I
:19:39. > :19:45.intend to stay in it. I am not very social. I am too deaf to be social.
:19:45. > :19:50.Deafness played a part in all this as well. LA is not too bad. New
:19:50. > :19:55.York is difficult. London, I find difficult. I love the quiet of East
:19:55. > :19:59.Yorkshire. First, there was Constable, then Turner. Now David
:19:59. > :20:06.Hockney is reinventing the way we look at the British landscape. Are
:20:06. > :20:11.you pleased with what you have got here? It is not a bad effort.
:20:11. > :20:14.Should it be easier for poorly performing teachers to be sacked?
:20:14. > :20:17.The Government thinks it should, and it is bringing in new rules for
:20:17. > :20:20.England from September. It is also looking at how it might stop
:20:20. > :20:30.schools "recycling" bad teachers - that is, just passing them on from
:20:30. > :20:34.one school to another. Improving the quality of teaching
:20:34. > :20:38.is a key government aim, and helping heads to remove pork
:20:38. > :20:42.teachers is central to their project. Amanda Phillips has dealt
:20:42. > :20:47.with bad teaching in her school already. Here in east London, she
:20:47. > :20:51.got one in six members of staff to leave, part of the challenge, she
:20:51. > :20:55.says, is getting people to be realistic. Those people have
:20:55. > :20:58.accepted that the profession is not the right place for them to be, and
:20:58. > :21:04.have also had conversations that have been helpful to them in terms
:21:04. > :21:08.of what might be a better organisation or type of area of
:21:08. > :21:14.work for them. To tackle underperforming teachers, heads
:21:14. > :21:17.will be allowed to speed up sacking, from around a year now to just a
:21:17. > :21:21.term. Teachers will get more observation by heads, not just
:21:21. > :21:26.three hours a year as now. And ministers are consulting on more
:21:26. > :21:30.honest references to ensure that teachers do not get employed by
:21:30. > :21:34.other schools. The Education Secretary Michael Gove cannot say
:21:34. > :21:39.for certain how wide the problem is, although Ofsted said 3% of schools
:21:39. > :21:44.it inspected last year had inadequate teaching. That is what
:21:44. > :21:48.he wants rooted out. Ultimately, I would like to see underperforming
:21:48. > :21:51.teachers raising their game. But if it is clear that a teacher is not
:21:52. > :21:58.performing and children are being harmed as a result of not being in
:21:58. > :22:01.a classroom with the best education, that teacher needs to be moved on.
:22:01. > :22:05.This is an issue that polarises the teaching profession, with head
:22:05. > :22:09.teachers welcoming the streamlined procedures, but teaching unions
:22:10. > :22:13.nervous that they could be open to abuse. It is not the right way to
:22:13. > :22:16.deal with people for teachers to be constantly worrying about their
:22:16. > :22:21.performance. They want to be improving their performance. It
:22:21. > :22:25.could be a bully's charter. sacking a poor teacher is being
:22:25. > :22:28.made easier, it is still up to head teachers to carry it out. The
:22:28. > :22:31.political will is there, but the question remains whether heads will
:22:31. > :22:34.comply. A man who buried his fiancee alive
:22:34. > :22:37.has been jailed for 20 years at Leeds Crown Court. Marcin Kasprzak
:22:37. > :22:42.stunned Michelina Lewandowska with a Taser before placing her in a box
:22:42. > :22:45.and burying her near their home in Huddersfield. She escaped by using
:22:45. > :22:55.her engagement ring to cut herself free. Our correspondent was in
:22:55. > :22:59.court. What did the judge had to say? The judge said Marcin Kasprzak
:22:59. > :23:04.had become unhappy and was bored with his former fiancee and wanted
:23:04. > :23:07.to start a new life with their three-year-old son. His way of
:23:07. > :23:10.starting their new life was to stun her twice with a Taser, bound and
:23:10. > :23:14.gagged her with tape, before placing her into a large cardboard
:23:14. > :23:19.box. She was then driven to woodland near Huddersfield and
:23:19. > :23:23.buried alive. Today the judge told him "the death you intended would
:23:24. > :23:29.have been long and slow, a death that is mind-numbingly awful to
:23:29. > :23:33.imagine". She said Michelina Lewandowska managed to escape by
:23:33. > :23:37.using her engagement ring. She scratched away at the tape around
:23:37. > :23:42.her ankles and arms before she found a small hole in the box and
:23:42. > :23:47.began to tear it apart. Marcin Kasprzak will serve ten years in
:23:47. > :23:51.prison, before being released on licence. Michelina Lewandowska has
:23:51. > :23:55.said that she still suffers from nightmares about what happened to
:23:55. > :24:05.her and that she hopes that one day, her former fiance will realise that
:24:05. > :24:09.
:24:09. > :24:11.what he did was wrong. The boxer Amir Khan has been
:24:11. > :24:14.granted a rematch with Lamont Peterson following Khan's
:24:14. > :24:16.complaints that judges might have been improperly influenced in last
:24:16. > :24:18.month's fight. The World Boxing Association said it ordered the
:24:19. > :24:21.rematch due to "questionable decisions" by the referee and
:24:21. > :24:23."apparent intrusion into the scoring process" at ringside. A
:24:23. > :24:26.date for the fight has yet to be announced.
:24:27. > :24:29.It was supposed to be heading to Mars to take rock samples from one
:24:29. > :24:32.of the planet's moons. But instead, the Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt
:24:32. > :24:36.is expected to come crashing back to worth some time this weekend
:24:36. > :24:42.following a serious malfunction. No one knows exactly when it will
:24:42. > :24:51.return, or more importantly, where it will land. But its imminent re-
:24:51. > :24:56.entry has focused attention on the increasing danger of space debris.
:24:56. > :25:00.A swarm of pots circling the earth. Some of them are working satellites,
:25:00. > :25:06.but 15,000 are all rockets and other junk. An orbiting rubbish
:25:06. > :25:09.dump, created after half-a-century of space flight. Last November, a
:25:09. > :25:13.Russian launch added yet another piece of debris. The mission was
:25:13. > :25:18.meant to fly to Mars. It did get off the ground, but then something
:25:18. > :25:24.went wrong and now the Russians believe their spacecraft will crash
:25:24. > :25:30.back into the Indian Ocean. But no one can be sure. From experience,
:25:30. > :25:35.it is almost impossible at this stage to predict where the object
:25:35. > :25:39.will come down. We do not believe they have control over the
:25:39. > :25:44.spacecraft. So what will happen to the strangely named Russian
:25:44. > :25:48.spacecraft? It is orbiting every 90 minutes between 51 degrees north
:25:48. > :25:52.and 51 degrees south, so it could land anywhere in between, most
:25:52. > :25:56.likely in the ocean. But these don't just includes southern
:25:56. > :26:00.England, below the M4 corridor. Most of the spacecraft will burn up
:26:00. > :26:04.before it falls to earth, but some components matter more than others.
:26:04. > :26:13.The tanks, filled with fuel for the long journey to Mars, should leak
:26:13. > :26:16.and burn off long before they reach the surface. The moment a European
:26:16. > :26:21.spacecraft blow up while falling to earth. Generally, there is little
:26:21. > :26:25.risk to anyone on the ground. The bigger danger is space junk
:26:25. > :26:30.damaging the satellites that we depend on. Anything even a small as
:26:30. > :26:33.a cherry going at 17,500 miles an hour, which they are going round at
:26:33. > :26:41.orbit, could be similar to the explosion of a hand grenade next to
:26:41. > :26:45.a satellite. The Russian spacecraft was designed to land on Phobos, a
:26:45. > :26:50.moon of Mars. There, it would create -- collect a sample and
:26:50. > :27:00.bring it back. That would have been a triumph. Instead, the world is
:27:00. > :27:00.
:27:00. > :27:04.Now the weather. Temperatures are falling sharply this weekend. They
:27:04. > :27:09.have been dropping sharply for the last few days. Temperatures were in
:27:09. > :27:17.double figures in the middle of the week, but that mild weather has
:27:17. > :27:23.been replaced. It will be a fine weekend with lots of blue sky, but
:27:23. > :27:28.at night, temperatures are tumbling. A cold night across England and
:27:28. > :27:33.Wales. The white patches are mist and fog. Temperatures in towns and
:27:33. > :27:41.cities will drop down to minus one. In rural spots, it could be as low
:27:41. > :27:46.as minus 8. A bit more cloud at times across northern Scotland. But
:27:46. > :27:53.for most, it will be a fine day on Saturday. The mist and fog may take
:27:53. > :27:56.a few hours to clear away, but then there should be plenty of blue sky.
:27:56. > :28:02.Just a bit of breeze blowing across parts of Devon and Cornwall.
:28:02. > :28:06.Further east, the winds will be light, so the fog could be more
:28:06. > :28:11.stubborn to clear away. If the fault does stick, areas like the
:28:11. > :28:17.Vale of York may struggle. A fine day across Northern Ireland. A fine
:28:17. > :28:20.day for much of Scotland. A bit cloudier in the far north.
:28:20. > :28:24.Temperatures tumble again sharply on Saturday evening. If you are
:28:24. > :28:30.heading out, be prepared for it to be pretty cold. Still that breeze
:28:30. > :28:36.blowing across western parts of the country. That may bring more cloud
:28:36. > :28:41.on Sunday and maybe a spot of rain in the Isles of Scilly. For most of