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Prince William flies into the Falklands and a diplomatic row | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
between Britain and Argentina. He's there as an RAF Search and Rescue | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
pilot, the Ministry of Defence insist it's a routine deployment. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
30 years since the UK and Argentina went to war. British forces say it | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
will not be allowed to happen again. We are in a very, very different | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
place to where we were 30 years ago. But my mission is to deter any | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
military aggression. We'll be live in port standly. Also | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
tonight. Funerals in Egypt for some of the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
74 killed in yesterday's football violence. And questions about who | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
was behind it. A decision within hours on whether | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne will be charged over allegations that | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
his wife accepted speeding points on his behalf. | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
And the Met Office issues an England-wide cold weather alert as | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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charities warn of health risks for the elderly. Welcome to the BBC | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
News at Six. Within the last hour, Prince William's flown into the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Falkland Islands amid the worst diplomatic row between Britain and | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Argentina since the two countries went to war. He's there as an RAF | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Search and Rescue pilot. But the Argentines say the deployment is a | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
provocative act. We can go straight to Port Stanley now and our Special | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
Correspondent, Alan Little. How is this deployment being viewed there? | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
I don't think anybody shares the view this is just another routine | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
deployment. It is after all the 30th anniversary of the conflict, | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
the war by Britain to reestablish British sovereignty in the islands | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
and he is after all the future King. The Argentines are furious, they | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
see it as a deliberate provocation. The islanders, not a very excitable | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
bunch, are quietly pleased by what they see as a symbolic | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
reaffirmation of Britain's long- standing commitment to their | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
British identity. Argentina's rhetoric does not panic | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
this place. The part-time soldiers of the Falkland Islands Defence | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
Force patrol their wet island home. No-one here fears another invasion. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Officially, he is here as plain old Flight Lieutenant Wales, not a | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Royal but a search and rescue helicopter pilot. That's not how | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
the world sees it. The Falkland Islanders welcome him as a | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
restatement of the bond with Britain. Argentina said he was here | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
in what it called the uniform of the conqueror. But the Falklands | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
are not spooked by the rhetoric. We are in a very, very different | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
place to where we were 30 years ago. But my mission is to deter any | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
military aggression to these islands or the other south Atlantic | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
overseas territories and it's only if that fails should I need to | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
defend this. I've got the capabilities to do that. | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
The islanders even so are glad of this, HMS Dauntless is one of the | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
knewest, most powerful in the flood, prepared to attack from the air. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Argentina says it's militarised the pursuit. Britain says it's a | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
deployment, not an escalation. The islanders defiance is shaped by | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
memory. For them, it's a living vital thing that men came from | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
9,000 miles away to win back their right to self-determination. | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
Many of them died for it. That experience underpins Britain | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
eetion position that whatever Argentina's claims to the islands, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
the right to the people here to choose their own destiny remains | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
non-negotiable. Port Stanley is as British as fish | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
and chips, Sussex in the south Atlantic, loyal to the crown | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
through generations. It is calmly defiant. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Argentinians have had many opportunities to have a | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
relationship with them, in terms of fishery, oil, trade, but it was | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
actually Argentina that pulled out of the talks. They walked away from | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
it, the Falkland Islands didn't. The bond with Britain causes great | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
confidence here. The Falklands are forging ahead with oil exploration, | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
to the fury of Argentina. No-one here cares much for Argentine | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
sensibilities. If they feel it's a provocation to | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
them, that's their view. The UK Government's got no doubt about | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Falkland sovereignty being British. I think it's not really an issue | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
that it's any of their business in our view. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
1982 casts a shadow. For what happened here made this distant | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
difficult place still more stead fast in its enduring Britishness. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
There is one other thing that helps bolster the islanders' confidence | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
here, that's that Argentina has changed. 30 years ago, it was a | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
right-wing military dictatorship looking for a way to stay in power, | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
today it's a democracy and keeps repeating that it seeks a peaceful | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
resolution to its dispute with Britain. Paradoxically, change in | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Argentina has itself helped make the Falkland Islands more securely | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
British, and that certainly bolsters confidence here too. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Thank you very much. Egypt's Parliament has held an | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
emergency session today after 74 people were killed in rioting at a | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
football match last night. The violence has fuelled political | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
tensions with the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
political movement, claiming that supporters of the former regime | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
planned the violence in Port Said. Today, in Cairo, hundreds of angry | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
fans gathered in Tahrir Square to demand those responsible are caught. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Our Middle East correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is there for | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
us now. George, the funerals have begun | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
this afternoon of some of those 74 mostly young people who were killed | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
last night in Egypt's worst ever football violence. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Today in Cairo, it's been a day of anger, disbelief and of deep, deep | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
suspicion on the part of many about who is really behind the violence | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
that killed so many. On the streets of Cairo this | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
afternoon, they already have their own theories. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
These football fans are convinced the attack was planned and | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
organised by Egypt's Security Forces. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
It's a crime done from the old regime. They stole money from the | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
people for 30 years and now they are spending the money to make | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
gangsters and corruption in Egypt because they don't want the | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
revolution to be succeeded. There is so far no evidence to | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
support that claim. These were the extraordinary scenes at Cairo | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
railway station early this morning as the train carrying survivors and | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
the dead from Port Said pulled in. Thousands and thousands of | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
supporters crammed the balconies and platforms, justice or death, | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
they chant. This man immediately blames the | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Head of Egypt's military junta for the deaths. Tantawi opened the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
doors so the thugs could attack our friends, he says. | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
As dawn breaks, another train pulls Anxious parents wait desperately | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
for news. TRANSLATION: My son's not answered | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
his phone since yesterday. Please, I beg you, help me find my son. | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
This is how it all happened on live television. As the game ends, fans | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
from the victorious Port Said team flood the pitch. The Cairo team | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
fled for their lives, but many of the fans were not so lucky. They're | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
overrun, beaten, bludgeoned and stabbed. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Today, the blood-smeared seats tell of the brutality of the attacks, | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
the piles of shoes show where bodies were crushed against locked | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
gates. The Head of Egypt's military junta | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
met with shaken players from the Cairo team. He promised the | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
culprits will be found and punished. TRANSLATION: With the results of | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
this investigation, each one will take his punishment and we'll know | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
why and who caused this tragedy. But with so many young people dead, | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
nothing will stop some here from believing that the old men who | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
ruled Egypt for so long somehow were responsible. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
You may be able to hear behind me here there are sirens going off. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
There is still protests taking place in Tahrir Square tonight. We | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
understand that tear gas has been fired in the last half hour or so. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The Government says that it's firing, it's going to sack rather | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
the governor of Port Said and it's sacked the whole board of the | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Egyptian Football Association. As I said in the piece, that doesn't | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
seem to be placating the anger and suspicion here. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Thank you very much. The energy and climate secretary, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Chris Huhne, will find out tomorrow morning if the Crown Prosecution | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Service is to press charges against him over claims his former wife | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
accepted penalty points on his behalf. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
In an unusual move, the Director of Public Prosecutions will make a | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
public statement on the decision. Mr Huhne has denyed the accusations. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Essex Police have been examining the allegations against Mr Huhne | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
dating back to 2003 for several months. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Let's get the latest with our Political Editor Nick Robinson. So | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
a decision tomorrow morning. Crucial hours for both Mr Huhne and | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
the Government? They are. It's not every day that | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Britain's top prosecutor, the Director of Public Prosecutions | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
summons the news cameras in order to make a statement which will seal | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
the fate of a senior Cabinet Minister, but that is what we now | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
have. Now, if we hear tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock that Chris | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Huhne is to be charged, it is clear to me that he will be speeding out | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
of the Cabinet. Even though he's always protested | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
his innocence, Nick Clegg, his party leader and the Deputy Prime | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Minister, signalled a while ago in a television interview that what | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
mattered is that Cabinet Ministers were seen to have the highest | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
standards of probity. He signalled too he'd been speaking to the Prime | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
Minister about it, but also to the Cabinet Secretary, Britain's top | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
civil servant, who is in these cases a kind of arbiter of the | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
necessary standards. Some people have concluded that the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
presence of the cameras, the presence of the Director of Public | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Prosecutions must mean that tomorrow's announcement will be one | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
that charges are going to be brought. I have to say, I would be | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
careful about jumping to any such conclusion. When there is an issue | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
of this sort which has huge public interest which makes its way on to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
the front-pages of newspapers and on to television bulletins, the | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
Crown Prosecution Service is always very keen that it's thinking very | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
clearly. Maybe there are to be no charges and they want to explain | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
exactly why. George, you have probably noticed that's a long | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
winded way of me saying I don't know what's going to happen | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
tomorrow morning, and normally we political journalists like to get | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
you a leak. The problem is, none of the people who ought to know do | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
know and so there's no leak to be had. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
All right Nick, thank you. The pharmaceutical giant | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
AstraZenica has announced it's to cut 7,300 jobs worldwide. The firm | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
employs 8,000 people in the UK. Unions claim up to 350 jobs are | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
expected to go at the company's Alderly Park site in Cheshire. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
A policeman who ill filtrated a group of environmental protesters | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
defied management instruction and was inadequately supervised a | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
review concluded. Mark Kennedy spent seven years undercover | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
amongst activists and caused a trial to collapse. The report | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
suggests an independent body may be required to authorise deployments. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
An inquiry has been ordered into the tax affairs of top civil | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
servants. It comes after an investigation by BBC Newsnight | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
revealed that the Chief Executive of the Student Loans Company, Ed | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Lester, was paid through his private company, which meant he | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
could avoid normal tax deductions. Our Deputy Political Editor, James | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Landale, has more. Civil servants in Whitehall paid | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
for by the taxpayer. But how much tax should they be able to avoid | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
paying themselves? Over the last two years, this civil servant's | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
been able to avoid paying tens of thousands of tax quite legally. In | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
2010, Ed Lester was appointed by the university's minister, David | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
Willets here on the right to head up the company that deals with | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
student loans. But it's now emerged that ministers and officials agreed | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
to pay Mr Lester �182,000 for his work here in Scotland. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
But it was paid into a company based at his home here on the | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Thames, a move that meant he could pay a lot less tax. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Today, the minister who signed off the salary, flanked by Mr Willets, | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
was forced to the Commons to eat humble pie. There's no place for | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
tax avoid answerance in Government. He said he will now pay tax and | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
national insurance like the rest of Mr Speaker, at a time when 'all | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
have to pull in same direction to tackle the financial problems, it's | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
essential we pay our null and fair share. That's why tief I've taken | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
this action to make sure Government departments do not support this. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
That wasn't good enough. Those working in the frontline of the | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
public sector will find these revelations obscene. At a time when | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
the economy is flatlinings, families are being squeezed and | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
students face a tripling of tuition fees, the news that ministers | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
approve the contract of a senior official which allowed tax and | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
national insurance to be avoided shows just how out of touch they | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
are. It's still not clear who approved | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Mr Lester's tax deal. Documents obtained by the BBC appear to show | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
that Mr Willets, the Universities Minister, was aware of the deal and | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
that he claimed that Mr Alexander here approved it. | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Mr Alexander says he wasn't aware of the tax benefits. Either way, | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
students were not impressed. hypocrisy of the idea that the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Government tell us they can't afford education maintenance | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
allowance and to fund our universities but they can come to | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
comfy arrangements with senior public servants to avoid tax, well | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
that's a real kick in the teeth for us. The Treasury's inquiry will | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
find out how many more officials in Whitehall have similar tax deals, | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
deals that are embarrassing for a Government trying to tackle tax | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
avoidance, a Government that claims we are all in this together. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
The time is 6.15. Our top story tonight: | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Prince William's tour of duty in the Falklands gets under way amid | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
rising tension between Britain and Argentina. Coming up: I'll find out | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
if this Central London Street really was the inspiration for | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
:15:57. | :16:01. | ||
Dickens when he was writing Oliver A multi-billion pound merger in the | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
business world - Xstrata and Glencore are talking. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
With winter's deepfreeze upon us, there are fears for the elderly | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
after the Met Office issued a serious England-wide weather alert. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Age UK has warned plunging temperatures can be a dangerous | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
time for the elderly with a greater risk of heart attacks and strokes. | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
In the high hills of the Pennines the snow has come and gone all | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
winter. Today was below freezing again. But in the Lowlands of | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
County Durham, people are concerned that it is going to get colder and | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
are worried about what could happen. I wouldn't dare go out because I | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
would be frightened I fell. I did fall years ago. Where I live, I'm | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
in a railway bungalow. They don't come to sweep the snow away. You | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
have to do it yourself. Every man for himself! That is what it is, | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
darling, every man for himself. are hoping for volunteers to clear | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the paths for the elderly people, to make it safer. We also have put | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
together some food parcels that we hope to distribute to anybody who | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
is housebound over the time. the temperatures have got so low | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
that the Met Office has issued its most serious cold weather alert of | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
the winter so far. Temperatures tonight could get as low as minus | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
10 and scenes like this are likely to become familiar to many of us | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
over this coming weekend. We are right on the edge of this really | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
cold weather across Europe. Our temperatures are struggling. The | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
problem for the weekend is we have milder air trying to come in. As | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
that bumps up against the cold air, we are likely to see some snow. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
Europe, the conditions are much harsher. Temperatures have dropped | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
to minus 32 Celsius in places and at least 160 people have died. | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Scores of communities in Eastern Europe have been cut off and in | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
places, even the sea has frozen. Back here, hill farmers are used to | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
these conditions, but still have to be prepared. We make sure that we | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
have plenty of fuel in for the stove in the house. I add a bit of | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
paraffin to the diesel in the tractors to make sure it doesn't | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
freeze up. With big bales, you can't start a tractor. It may be | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
late in coming, but it seems winter is finally here for a large part of | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
the UK. William Hague has called for more | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
action to tackle the terrorist threat from Somalia as he became | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
the first British Foreign Secretary to visit in 20 years. His arrival | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
in Mogadishu signals the start of a major diplomatic push to restore | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
stability in the country. He described Somalia as the world's | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
most failed state. The Tottenham manager has denied | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
telling his trial at Southwark Crown Court what he called "a "pack | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
of lies"". Mr Redknapp said the allegation had been an insult and | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
insisted he told the whole truth. He and Milan Mandaric deny two | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
counts of tax evasion. James Pearce was in court. There is some flash | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
photography in the report. Accused of setting up an offshore | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
bank account to avoid paying tax. Harry Redknapp arrived for a second | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
day in the witness box. He denies that a payment in Monaco was a | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
:19:45. | :19:45. | ||
bonus for the transfer of Peter Crouch. The court heard that Harry | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Redknapp had first found out about the allegations when he received a | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
phone call from a reporter at the News of the World. Redknapp claims | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
that in the recorded conversation which followed he lied to the | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
:20:09. | :20:18. | ||
There were lighter moments in court, too. Redknapp was asked about his | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
dog which had given its name to the Monaco account. "I loved Rosie" he | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
said. "I don't like ever calling her a dog. She was better than | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
that!" As the cross-examination drew to a close, once again the | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
atmosphere became heated. Redknapp was accused of telling a "pack of | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
lies". The Tottenham manager replied, "You think that I put my | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
hand on The Bible and told lies? That is an insult. Everything I | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
have told you has been the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
truth so help me God." The prosecution continued, "Mr Redknapp, | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
you have come to this court and twisted your account to get you and | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
Manda off the hook, haven't you?" The reply: "Absolutely not. Give me | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
The Bible back and I will put my hand back on it." The jurors were | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
told that they should be sent out to consider their verdicts on | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
Tuesday. Tomorrow the prosecution will give their closing arguments. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Tomorrow morning England's cricketers begin the Third Test | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
against Pakistan desperate to avoid the embarrassment of a 3-0 | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
whitewash. Having ended 2011 as the best team in the world, England | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
already face the prospect of losing that coveted position. | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
In the UAE, you will find United all - tallest, wealthiest and | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
fastest. Over 150mph, this is the quickest rollercoaster in the world. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Considered the most nerve-wracking experience in the UAE. Until we | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
watched England bat here! This week in Dubai England have been trying | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
to repair the confidence which was shattered in the Second Test when | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
they were bowled out for 72. England cricket team... It was only | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
in December when they were BBC Sports personal Team of the Year, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
unbeaten in 2011. How rapidly the feeling has changed. You get to | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
number one, now it is the tough stage. England have had it their | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
own way in terms of the way they have played for two years, they | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
have played great, but now it's a challenge. It's a test of | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
everyone's mentality, their togetherness as a team. England | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
have been undone by spin. With his much discussed action, Saeed Ajmal | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
makes the ball skip and skid. He won Pakistan the First Test. Then | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
Abdur Rehman, spinning it differently, tore England apart in | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
the second. This series has become a Pakistan revival. We work hard, | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
bowling line and length. Just focus on my bowling. When we finished | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
last game, they celebrate everywhere in Pakistan, we are | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
happy here and they are happy there. The same thing happening again is | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
what England are afraid of. Cricket's world rankings are | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
complex and competitive. England know if they lose here they risk | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
losing that number one status. As for the tallest, this building is | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
close to 3,000 feet so you reach the top. Where next? | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Now, he was the most famous writer of his time, a man whose novels | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
captured the Victorian era. 200 years since his birth, Charles | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
Dickens remains an iconic figure. Now, there is new evidence that | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Dickens lived closer to some of those characters than previously | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
thought. Charles Dickens is one of the great | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
writers. The academics are convinced and so are the public. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
His books have never been out of print. There are many reasons to | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
admire his work. The style, the characters, and the subject matter. | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Few authors have documented their time more incisively than Charles | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Dickens. Now a new book claims to reveal the full extent to which he | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
was influenced by his surroundings. This is a street in Central London | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
which the new book claims was Dickens' inspiration for Oliver | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
Twist. He did once live here. And he would have walked up-and-down | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
this road doing his favourite thing which was observing every day life | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
with his ear for dialogue and keen eye for detail. This building was a | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
work house when he lived in the street. The historian who | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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researched the book took me on a tour of the area. I found Dan | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
Wheller like Sam Wheller in Pickwick Papers. This series is set | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
on a fictional council estate in Manchester. It has social realism | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
at its heart. They know how to throw a party! No surprise then | :25:28. | :25:36. | |
that its writer is a Dickens fan. He was making the world want to | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
read about the state of the British underclass. He somehow, that is | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
what he did. That is an act of genius. You compel somebody to read | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
what they most don't want to read about. He stole the nation's hearts | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
through fiction. Fiction is one of the finest ways of telling the | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
truth. Please, Sir, I want some more. The author of a Dickens | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
biography agrees that was his great skill. He was a great reporter. Of | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
course, he began as a reporter. He combines, I think, the acute | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
perceptive eye of a reporter with a poetic imagination. He embroiders | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
upon reality through language and that is marvellous. And it is that | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
gift which has given Dickens his appeal to readers and writers alike. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
He exposed the universal truths of life that are still as relevant | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
today as they were when he was born today as they were when he was born | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
200 years ago this month. Now it is time for the weather with | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
Alex. We have had this alert. How is it playing out? We could have | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
some Dickensian winter scenes of our own with some snowfall. The | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
main focus has to be those temperatures falling sharply. We | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
already have a frost and that frost is only going to get worse. There | :26:59. | :27:07. | |
are one or two snow flurries across the eastern counties of England. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Temperatures in towns and cities will drop to minus three to minus | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
five. In rural areas we may be lower than that. As low as minus | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
nine or ten in the countryside. Yes, bitterly cold again on Friday. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
Essentially, another fine day with plenty of sunshine. There will be | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
some snow showers across parts of Kent and Sussex early in the day. A | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
bit more cloud through Northern Ireland and the cloud may increase | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
across parts of South West Scotland. Most places it will be a sunny day. | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
On Friday night, those temperatures will drop. There is a risk of some | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
snow flurries coming into parts of Kent. There could be a few | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
centimetres developing here during Friday evening. Then for the | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
weekend, the focus turns west. It is a bank of rain for Northern | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
Ireland and western Scotland. This weather system promises to give us | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
a few headaches. We have the mild air, we have been talking about the | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
battleground between the mild and the cold air. It looks as if the | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
cold air will stick across England and Wales. As that weather system | :28:12. | :28:17. | |
bumps in, it could provide some significant snowfall. Still some | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
uncertainty about where and how much. Northern, Central and Eastern | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
areas of England are the areas most at risk from a period of snow. Stay | :28:29. | :28:35. |