:00:22. > :00:25.In this country, we expect the police to get on with their job
:00:25. > :00:29.impartially. They didn't in this case. But at least they ordered a
:00:29. > :00:33.new inquiry which has shown the truth. We'll be asking if police
:00:33. > :00:38.officers were involved in a cover- up. Also tonight:
:00:38. > :00:42.Russia's Foreign Minister give an hero's welcome in Syria. But his
:00:42. > :00:47.presence fails to stop the carnage. British born and British educated.
:00:48. > :00:52.The Syrian President's wife on why she's standing by her man.
:00:52. > :00:56.The Islamist preacher due to be freed within days. Ministers attack
:00:56. > :01:00.the European court for banning his deportation.
:01:00. > :01:04.The right place for a terrorist is in a prison cell.
:01:04. > :01:09.The right place for a foreign terrorist is a foreign prison cell
:01:09. > :01:14.far away from Britain. Prince Charles leads the tributes to
:01:14. > :01:24.Charles Dickens, born 200 years ago. But his words are as vivid today.
:01:24. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:54.It's the light acoming, Sir. It is close at hand, hallowed be thy name.
:01:54. > :01:58.Welcome to the BBC's news at Six. The Metropolitan Police knew the
:01:58. > :02:01.names of people whose phones were hacked by the News of the World but
:02:01. > :02:05.refused to tell the victims. Today, for the first time, it's accepted
:02:05. > :02:07.that the failure to warn people like the former Deputy Prime
:02:08. > :02:11.Minister, Lord Prescott, was unlawful.
:02:11. > :02:15.A lawyer for several victims says the police officers' silence helped
:02:16. > :02:19.in the cover-up of the phone hacking scandal. Our Home Affairs
:02:19. > :02:24.correspondent, Matt Prodger, is at Scotland Yard.
:02:24. > :02:29.George, a police force which prides itself on enforcing the law was
:02:29. > :02:33.today in the humiliating position of having to finally formally admit
:02:33. > :02:38.that it had itself acted unlawfully and it was phone hacking, a crime
:02:38. > :02:41.which it initially failed to take seriously which has once again
:02:41. > :02:47.caused such serious harm to its reputation.
:02:47. > :02:50.Today, we call it phone hacking. But back in 2006, it was barely
:02:51. > :02:54.known. This is where today's police apology has its roots.
:02:54. > :02:57.An investigation that began and ended with a conviction of just two
:02:57. > :03:01.men, a reporter and private investigator working for the News
:03:01. > :03:05.of the World. But even then, the police knew of
:03:05. > :03:10.thousands of potential victims. They failed to tell them. They
:03:10. > :03:13.failed to investigate far enough. One of those victims was Brian
:03:13. > :03:19.Paddick who was himself a senior figure in the Met, another was
:03:19. > :03:27.Labour MP, Chris Bryant and a third, the former Deputy Prime Minister,
:03:27. > :03:34.Lord Prescott. Hi arrived at court today hear the
:03:34. > :03:38.Met admit it acted unlawfully by repeatedly telling him he was not a
:03:38. > :03:42.victim of hacking. That happened five years ago and I've been
:03:42. > :03:45.fighting to get the police to say they were wrong. The court got the
:03:45. > :03:49.police to apologise for not properly investigating and properly
:03:49. > :03:51.informing people of those that were involved in the phone hacking.
:03:52. > :03:56.In today's declaration, the Met admits that more should have been
:03:56. > :03:59.done by police in relation to those identified as victims and potential
:03:59. > :04:03.victims of phone hacking several years ago.
:04:03. > :04:10.Can I ask whether they... Chris Bryant's phone was hacked just
:04:10. > :04:14.months after he challenged former News of the World editor Rebekah
:04:14. > :04:19.Brooks. He's long argued the relationship between the police and
:04:19. > :04:21.elements of the media hindered the phone hacking investigation.
:04:21. > :04:24.relationship between journalists and senior police officers was so
:04:24. > :04:31.close, I think they just got confused in their head and in the
:04:31. > :04:35.end, they couldn't see clearly what their real legal obligations were.
:04:35. > :04:38.Two more victims were part of today's judicial review, a personal
:04:38. > :04:43.Assistant to the actor Jude Law and another man known in court
:04:43. > :04:48.documents by the initials HJK. The solicitor was damning in her
:04:48. > :04:53.criticism of the police. By failing to tell victims what had
:04:53. > :04:56.happened and investigate fully, News Group was able to put out
:04:56. > :05:00.statements from 2006 onwards claiming there was one rogue
:05:00. > :05:06.reporter and that everything had been dealt with. That wasn't true.
:05:06. > :05:10.So the effect of what happened in 2006 and on until more recently was
:05:10. > :05:14.to assist News Group to cover up the scandal.
:05:14. > :05:20.Six years ago, the Met met police had hoped to hear the end of phone
:05:20. > :05:25.hacking. Today, it hears of little else and it's far from over.
:05:26. > :05:29.Indeed, today, the Met confirmed it has 130 police officers working on
:05:29. > :05:33.the various inquiries which form the phone hacking investigation.
:05:33. > :05:37.Back in 2006 it says it simply didn't have the resources to fully
:05:37. > :05:40.investigate something that it considered to be a low priority
:05:40. > :05:45.crime. So it's something of an irony that it's taking up so many
:05:46. > :05:48.of those resources today at a time when it can ill afford to spare
:05:49. > :05:52.them. Thank you very much.
:05:52. > :05:55.At the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, the editor of the Times
:05:55. > :05:58.has apologised for an occasion when the paper hacked into a detective's
:05:59. > :06:04.e-mail. James Harding told the inquiry that he sorely regretted
:06:04. > :06:07.the intrusion and that people expected better of the Times.
:06:07. > :06:11.For the fourth day, the Syrian Army's been pounding the opposition
:06:11. > :06:16.stronghold of Homs. That's despite the presence of the Russian Foreign
:06:16. > :06:20.Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who's in the country for talks. Activists
:06:20. > :06:25.say up to 100 people have been killed in hoplgs in the last 24
:06:25. > :06:29.hours. Our Diplomatic Correspondent, Bridget Kendall, reports -- Homs.
:06:29. > :06:33.Thousands thronging the streets of Damascus waving Russian flag this
:06:33. > :06:37.is morning. It's not often a Russian Foreign Minister get this
:06:37. > :06:42.reception when his car arrives in town. But the Syrian government was
:06:42. > :06:45.making a point. Gratitude for Russia keeping UN pressure off
:06:45. > :06:49.President Assad. But look closely at the picture. At
:06:49. > :06:52.least one man seems to be organising and orchestrating the
:06:52. > :06:56.crowd. And not everyone looks as though
:06:56. > :07:01.they really know what is going on. Who knows what private message was
:07:01. > :07:04.brought from Moscow for the Syrian leader, but in public afterwards,
:07:04. > :07:08.the Russian Foreign Minister said President Assad had offered talks
:07:08. > :07:14.with the opposition, a new constitution and new elections and
:07:14. > :07:18.pledged to do all he could to bring about peace.
:07:18. > :07:22.TRANSLATION: We confirmed we are ready to do all we can to solve the
:07:22. > :07:26.crisis based on the Arab League's plan of November 2nd last year.
:07:26. > :07:29.President Assad gave his commitment to end the violence no matter where
:07:29. > :07:33.it's from. There was no mention of the Arab
:07:33. > :07:41.League's crucial call for President Assad to step aside and no sign on
:07:41. > :07:45.the ground that the Syrian Army's bombardment is about to stop.
:07:45. > :07:53.In Homs, the relentless shelling continued for a fourth day. This
:07:53. > :08:02.amateur video footage shows the BA BA amar district. The cameraman can
:08:02. > :08:06.be heard in Arabic appealing for international help -- babr Amr.
:08:06. > :08:09.Government tanks are now on street corners, some of them apparently
:08:09. > :08:17.Russian-made. The likely armed opposition
:08:17. > :08:21.fighters no math match for the Government's heavy weaponry.
:08:21. > :08:26.Every two minutes you can hear a rocket. Yesterday every two minutes
:08:26. > :08:31.you could hear five rockets landing, you could hear mortar bombs, shells,
:08:31. > :08:35.yesterday was terrible. In the street there are still bodies,
:08:35. > :08:39.there's destruction. Latest amateur pictures from Homs give a sense of
:08:39. > :08:45.the chaos and panic, desperate efforts to deal with the wounded.
:08:45. > :08:49.A snatched moment of calm apparently today to bury a body.
:08:49. > :08:56.Whatever the rhetorical pledges coming out of Damascus, the grim
:08:56. > :08:59.reality seems to be that this conflict, if anything, is getting
:08:59. > :09:04.more entrenched. She's British born, British
:09:04. > :09:07.educated and she's married to the Syrian President. Today, Mrs Asma
:09:07. > :09:11.Assad took the unusual step of writing to the Times newspaper to
:09:11. > :09:16.explain why she thought her husband was still the right person to lead
:09:16. > :09:19.Syria. The letter has caused a furious backlash among Syrian's
:09:20. > :09:24.living here. Our World Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Hawley,
:09:24. > :09:28.hack talking to those who knew Mrs Assad when she lived in Britain.
:09:28. > :09:33.Glamorous and gifted, Syria's First Lady once fated around the world
:09:33. > :09:38.and seen as a liberalising hope for the dictatorship her husband
:09:38. > :09:43.inherited. She's been curiously out of the spotlight since the uprising
:09:43. > :09:48.against Bashar Al-Assad again. Now with the slaughter in Syria
:09:48. > :09:58.intensifying, she's broken her silence to stand by her man. The e-
:09:58. > :10:06.
:10:06. > :10:10.This is the family home in Acton where Asma grew up, known to her
:10:10. > :10:19.school friends as Emma. The red paint is the result of a protest
:10:19. > :10:21.last year. This man played with her younger brother and now he's Editor
:10:21. > :10:26.in Chief of an opposition television station.
:10:26. > :10:32.On a personal level, I feel sorry for her because she's been put in
:10:32. > :10:35.this situation. I genuinely believe she's got a kind heart. From a
:10:35. > :10:39.political perspective, it's completely unacceptable, her
:10:39. > :10:43.standing by Bashar Al-Assad after all that's happened for the last 11
:10:43. > :10:47.months. She knows full well what's happening in the country.
:10:47. > :10:50.Nothing ins a mar Al-Assad's upbringing here in West London can
:10:50. > :10:54.have prepared her for the position she finds herself in now.
:10:54. > :10:58.This is the private school on Harley Street where Asma Al-Assad
:10:58. > :11:03.did her A-levels before a degree in computer science at Kings College
:11:03. > :11:09.London and a career in investment banking. Her father, a consultant
:11:09. > :11:14.cardiologist, has a clinic just up the road.
:11:14. > :11:19.But her family hails originally from Homs which has been freshusly
:11:19. > :11:23.pounded by Bashar Al-Assad's Army. Bangladesh ferociously. It's her
:11:23. > :11:27.fellow Sunni Muslims being killed. Homs has been at the centre of this
:11:27. > :11:31.uprising, not least in the last few days where we have seen a massive
:11:31. > :11:35.bombardment of this area of the city. But, simply, does she care
:11:35. > :11:39.about the city? Does it mean anything to her? Do we know
:11:39. > :11:44.anything about her inner emotions right now? The answer, I'm afraid,
:11:44. > :11:49.is no. Asma Al-Assad once seen as a PR
:11:49. > :11:55.asset for Syria, it's acceptable face, now defending an unacceptable
:11:55. > :12:00.and Britain says doomed regime. The Home Secretary, Theresa May,
:12:00. > :12:04.has said the Government is doing everything possible to deport the
:12:04. > :12:08.radical Islamic preach Erekat Qatada to Jordan where he's been
:12:08. > :12:11.convicted of terrorism offences. It follows a ruling yesterday that Abu
:12:11. > :12:14.Qatada should be released on bail despite the fact he's been
:12:14. > :12:17.described as a threat to national security. Our Political Editor,
:12:17. > :12:20.Nick Robinson, is at Westminster. Nick, what options does the
:12:20. > :12:24.Government have? The options that you might think
:12:24. > :12:27.they would want to have they don't have. They can't lock him up on the
:12:27. > :12:32.grounds there simply isn't enough evidence to do that, they can't put
:12:33. > :12:36.him on a plane to Jordan because the European Court of Human Rights
:12:36. > :12:39.says that would be a breach of his human rights. All they can do now
:12:39. > :12:43.is appeal against the judgment, go to a higher level, if you like,
:12:43. > :12:48.within theian court, that is being considered, or go to the Jordanian
:12:48. > :12:52.government and say, can you give us some new assurances? The Jordanians
:12:52. > :12:55.have already said to the British, we promise we won't torture him if
:12:55. > :12:59.you send him over here. The European court is saying, that is
:12:59. > :13:05.not enough, we need the assurance that if he's put on trial in Jordan,
:13:05. > :13:08.that the evidence that is used in that trial has not itself been
:13:08. > :13:12.obtained as a result of torture, so some Foreign Office minister now
:13:12. > :13:17.has to go to the Jordanians and say, can we have that assurance. That
:13:17. > :13:21.didn't impress many Tory MPs in the Commons today. Some said to Mrs May,
:13:21. > :13:25.the Home Secretary, you can be a national hero if you simply put him
:13:25. > :13:30.on the plane and damn the consequences. Briefly, how long has
:13:30. > :13:32.the Government got? How long can he be kept under the bail conditions?
:13:33. > :13:36.He's out next week but under the tough bail conditions, then three
:13:36. > :13:39.months later they go and they are a lot weaker, he can't use a mobile
:13:39. > :13:43.phone and the Internet under the bail conditions, after three months
:13:43. > :13:46.he can, under some restrictions. That's why there's so much pressure
:13:46. > :13:50.from the Labour Party too saying look, this Government's actually
:13:50. > :13:54.weakened what used to be known as control orders against terror
:13:54. > :13:57.suspects, so you get the Home Secretary now with a man she thinks
:13:57. > :14:02.is dangerous, she can't lock up, send away attack from the right and
:14:02. > :14:04.attack from the left. Not a very comfortable position, George.
:14:04. > :14:09.Thank you. Lloyds Banking Group's announced
:14:09. > :14:15.990 job losses which it says are part of a broader plan set out last
:14:15. > :14:19.year to cut 15,000 posts. Offices in Romford, Newcastle upon Tyne and
:14:19. > :14:24.Scunthorpe will close. The union, Accord, says Lloyds, partly owned
:14:24. > :14:28.by the taxpayer, has now shed more than 30,000 jobs since it took over
:14:28. > :14:33.HBOS three years ago. A Roman Catholic priest who abused
:14:33. > :14:36.vulnerable boys for 18 years has been convicted of a string of
:14:36. > :14:40.sexual offences. 58-year-old Alexander Bede Walsh was told to
:14:40. > :14:43.expect a lengthy prison sentence. Police said there may be further
:14:44. > :14:47.victims yet to come forward. The former First Minister of
:14:47. > :14:52.Northern Ireland, the Reverend Ian Paisley, remains in hospital under
:14:52. > :14:57.intensive care. Lord Bannside, who is 85, was takesen ill at his home
:14:57. > :15:00.on Sunday night. It's thought he's being treated for a heart condition.
:15:01. > :15:06.Sir Paul McCartney will be among those stars at the Jubilee concert
:15:06. > :15:08.to mark the Queen's 60 years on the throne. Other artists due to
:15:08. > :15:15.perform outside Buckingham Palace include Sir Elton John, Dame
:15:15. > :15:25.Shirley Bassey and the boy band JLS. Nick Witchell has more. There is
:15:25. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:33.some flash photography in this The national anthem, played from
:15:33. > :15:37.the Palace roof, the summer of the Golden Jubilee. Brian May and his
:15:37. > :15:47.guitar stole the opening of the show that there was no doubt who
:15:47. > :15:52.was the star. The Jubilee girl is here! Roll forward 10 years, and
:15:52. > :15:56.for the Diamond Jubilee a concert is being planned on an even bigger
:15:56. > :16:01.scale in 2012. This Jubilee concert will be out here with Buckingham
:16:01. > :16:05.Palace as the backdrop and a huge stage built around the Queen
:16:05. > :16:09.Victoria Memorial. This is how it will look with they area in front
:16:10. > :16:13.of the Palace turned into an open- air auditorium and the stage
:16:13. > :16:16.constructed and a transparent canopy around the memorial. The
:16:16. > :16:20.list of artists is still being drawn up but it will include
:16:20. > :16:24.performers from Britain, Canada, and the United States. Among those
:16:24. > :16:29.that have confirmed that they will be there are Elton John, Paul
:16:29. > :16:34.McCartney, Tom Jones, Cliff Richard and Shirley Bassey. For the under
:16:34. > :16:41.generation, JLS and Jessie J. For classical fans, Alfie Byrne.
:16:42. > :16:45.Pulling the show together with the BBC is a musical director, Gary
:16:45. > :16:49.Barlow. I won the whole world to be on that stage because the whole
:16:49. > :16:54.world will be watching the stage that night. This is a massive event
:16:54. > :16:57.on a worldwide basis and we are very excited. There are 5000 pairs
:16:57. > :17:04.of free tickets available for the concert. Applications for the
:17:04. > :17:14.ballot can be made online at the BBC website. If you cannot get a
:17:14. > :17:22.ticket, the concert will be broadcast by the BBC.
:17:22. > :17:25.Our top story tonight. The Metropolitan Police acted
:17:25. > :17:30.unlawfully by not telling victims they had been targeted by the News
:17:30. > :17:36.of the World in the phone hacking scandal.
:17:36. > :17:45.And the man who will fall to earth in the highest skydived in history.
:17:45. > :17:49.On the BBC News Channel: BP's profits rise.
:17:49. > :17:56.And will a new price comparison website make any difference to
:17:56. > :18:00.energy bills? It is 200 years to the day since
:18:00. > :18:03.the second child of a Portsmouth naval clerk was born into obscurity.
:18:03. > :18:08.Charles Dickens would become the most famous writer of the Victorian
:18:08. > :18:12.era, and one of literature's greatest novelists. Today
:18:12. > :18:16.celebrations have been taking place around the country to mark his life
:18:16. > :18:20.and work, including a ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
:18:20. > :18:24.The words of his characters are instantly recognisable. His books
:18:24. > :18:34.have never gone out of print. Charles Dickens has become a
:18:34. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:39.literary superstar. His life began in a modest terraced house close to
:18:40. > :18:42.Portsmouth dockyard. Today the street outside was crowded with
:18:42. > :18:48.well-wishers in the first of a series of celebrations which traced
:18:48. > :18:53.his career. In the London borough of Southwark, others followed the
:18:53. > :18:56.Charles Dickens trail, to an area that caused him painful memories.
:18:56. > :19:02.200 years later, it is still possible to find traces of the
:19:02. > :19:08.world that inspired his writing. This is the wall of the old present.
:19:08. > :19:15.At the age of 12, Charles Dickens saw his father locked up for debt
:19:15. > :19:19.here and he gained first-hand experience of what it was to be
:19:19. > :19:22.disadvantaged. At another former home, now the Dickens Museum, a
:19:22. > :19:26.royal audience for those that have helped to bring his stories to a
:19:26. > :19:32.new generation. His descriptions of characters and the state of being
:19:32. > :19:38.at that time in England, you know, it is part of our historical record
:19:38. > :19:42.of what it was like back then. Charles Dickens had 10 children. In
:19:42. > :19:46.Westminster Abbey's Poets corner the largest ever gathering of his
:19:46. > :19:52.descendants joined the congregation for an act of remembrance.
:19:52. > :19:55.As a member of the family you have a different opinion. When you see
:19:55. > :20:01.the explosion of interest in Charles Dickens for the bicentenary,
:20:01. > :20:06.it hits the family rather hard when we realise quite how special he was.
:20:06. > :20:10.This is an extract from Bleak House. Besides Charles Dickens's grave,
:20:10. > :20:19.Ralph Fiennes, working on a new Virgin of Great Expectations,
:20:19. > :20:24.reminded us of his storytelling brilliance. -- a new version.
:20:24. > :20:28.nobody here but you, Mr Woodcut. Charles Dickens had asked to be
:20:28. > :20:32.buried in Kent, the county he loved as a child. But the public demanded
:20:32. > :20:36.that he be allowed to join other literary figures in the abbey. A
:20:36. > :20:42.man who grew to enjoy the attention would probably have appreciated
:20:42. > :20:46.their efforts. Plans to introduce women bishops
:20:46. > :20:50.into the Church of England have been discussed by its ruling body,
:20:50. > :20:55.the General Synod. The plan allows parishes to opt for a male bishop
:20:55. > :20:59.instead. Reformers fear that could sideline future women bishops.
:20:59. > :21:03.Robert Pigott reports on what could be the church's most significant
:21:04. > :21:09.decision for 20 years. Women priests are poised to change
:21:09. > :21:12.the Church of England forever. As the General Synod began, more than
:21:12. > :21:18.200 marched their to demand equality with men in leading the
:21:18. > :21:23.church. I think it is well timed. I think that God is calling women to
:21:23. > :21:27.leadership in his church at all levels. I think God usually gets
:21:27. > :21:31.his own way. Bishops from North America came to support the
:21:32. > :21:36.campaign. There is consensus in the Church of England that women should
:21:36. > :21:41.be bishops. And also that traditionalist parishes should have
:21:41. > :21:43.access to a male alternative. What is alarming women clergy is a
:21:43. > :21:48.proposal being debated this week which would force future women
:21:48. > :21:52.bishops to allow male bishops into their diocese and give them equal
:21:52. > :22:00.power to deal with traditionalist parishes. Campaigners say that
:22:00. > :22:05.would create second-class women bishops. They are determined to
:22:05. > :22:10.stop it. Almost 4000 women priests already preside over the church's
:22:10. > :22:15.most sacred rituals. They reject any further limits being placed on
:22:15. > :22:19.the authority of women bishops. automatically send somebody to a
:22:19. > :22:22.different bishop of a different gender because they object to the
:22:22. > :22:26.authority of the woman is a nonsense, I think. I would rather
:22:26. > :22:31.not have women bishops at all than to have that. Traditionalist
:22:31. > :22:34.Anglicans insist that because Jesus was a man, he chose only meant to
:22:34. > :22:39.be his apostles, and men alone should lead the church. This senior
:22:39. > :22:45.woman cleric does want women to be bishops, but she says that
:22:45. > :22:51.preserving unity is vital. We need to show, as far as is absolutely
:22:51. > :22:56.possible, that we are church that can hold together differences, that
:22:56. > :22:59.we can learn to live alongside one another. But campaigners say that
:22:59. > :23:06.undermining women bishops is too high a price to pay for unity and
:23:06. > :23:11.they would rather wait than compromise any more.
:23:11. > :23:14.A woman thought to be the world's last surviving veteran of the First
:23:14. > :23:20.World War has died. Florence Green from King's Lynn was just two weeks
:23:20. > :23:26.away from her 111th birthday. She joined the Women's Royal Air Force
:23:26. > :23:30.in 1918 when she was 17. You have got to have a head for
:23:30. > :23:34.heights for this one. Austrian Felix Baumgartner is planning to
:23:34. > :23:39.jump from close to the edge of space. He is hoping to break the
:23:39. > :23:47.record for the highest skydived in history. The jump from 23 miles up
:23:47. > :23:53.is fraught with danger. The earth, from 20 miles up. Then
:23:53. > :23:59.this happens. Captain Joe Kissinger jumps from a balloon to test new
:23:59. > :24:02.parachute systems for the US Air Force. There was a leak in his
:24:02. > :24:08.right glove and he temporarily lost the use of his hand. Somehow he
:24:08. > :24:13.managed to deploy his parachute and he landed safely, but only just.
:24:14. > :24:19.That was more than 50 years ago. Now this man, Felix Baumgartner, is
:24:19. > :24:23.hoping to break his record. This is the ultimate skydived. It is scary
:24:23. > :24:30.but on the other side I have a lot of courage, which is bigger than my
:24:30. > :24:33.fear. That is why I am going there. I want to find out how it looks.
:24:33. > :24:38.Felix Baumgartner will be falling from a height that only astronaut
:24:38. > :24:43.have been to before. Let's see how I that is. IoS mountain is Mount
:24:44. > :24:49.Everest, over five miles high. -- the highest mountain. Passenger
:24:49. > :24:53.jets go up to eight miles. Felix will have to go much higher, 23
:24:53. > :24:58.miles, where the atmosphere end and space begins. He will be taken up
:24:58. > :25:03.all that way by balloon inside the capsule. When he jumps out, all
:25:03. > :25:10.that will protect him is a pressurised suit. If the suit leeks,
:25:10. > :25:13.at this altitude his blood will begin to boil and he will pass out.
:25:13. > :25:20.So engineers have developed an advanced pressure suit to protect
:25:20. > :25:26.him. The team has carried out its final tests, and say it is now
:25:26. > :25:30.ready for the jump. Some experts say there will still be risks. As
:25:30. > :25:34.he falls through the atmosphere, although the temperature is very
:25:34. > :25:40.low at that altitude, as he falls through the atmosphere the friction
:25:40. > :25:43.against the air itself may well have a heating effect on the suit.
:25:43. > :25:47.All of that has to be considered in the design and operation of the
:25:47. > :25:51.life-support system. Felix Baumgartner will fall so fast that
:25:51. > :25:57.he may break the sound barrier. That is the moment that the new
:25:57. > :26:05.technology in his suit will be pushed to the limit.
:26:05. > :26:12.Now the weather, and what is all this about the coldest night of
:26:12. > :26:15.winter coming up? Could be. The riskiest thing that you can do
:26:15. > :26:24.tonight is leave your feet hanging out of the duvet because there will
:26:24. > :26:28.be frost across most of the country. We could get down to minus ten in
:26:28. > :26:32.East Anglia and the South East before temperatures lift later.
:26:32. > :26:36.Possibly minus 15 in central and northern England. Frosty in
:26:36. > :26:40.Scotland, too. Apart from the far west and Northern Ireland, which
:26:40. > :26:44.will remain free from frost. That is because cloud will build with
:26:44. > :26:49.outbreaks of rain and the breeze picking up as well in the morning,
:26:49. > :26:53.it so a rainy day to come. It will be bright in Glasgow, none of the
:26:53. > :27:00.mist and fog of the past 24 hours. Bright but cold to start in
:27:00. > :27:04.northern England. More cloud in the Midlands and eastern England. If
:27:04. > :27:08.you are in part of East Anglia and the South East, there could be a
:27:08. > :27:13.dusting of snow first thing in the morning, which will only compound
:27:14. > :27:17.the ice risk for the morning commute. Most of England and Wales
:27:17. > :27:21.will have a dry day with varying amounts of brightness. Western
:27:21. > :27:25.Scotland will be cloudy and windy with outbreaks of rain and across
:27:25. > :27:31.the Highlands of Scotland it will fall over high ground so there will
:27:31. > :27:35.be and ice risk. For many temperatures will only just creep
:27:35. > :27:40.above freezing in the afternoon. The sum will remain below. If you
:27:40. > :27:47.are in the South East and on the South coast, the wind-chill will
:27:47. > :27:52.make it feel more like minus seven. The winds will ease tomorrow into
:27:52. > :27:55.Thursday. Another cold night with another severe frost. Scotland and
:27:55. > :28:03.Northern Ireland will have a different story. Cloud and
:28:03. > :28:10.outbreaks of rain, not heavy. That will move to the South, with
:28:10. > :28:14.temperatures lifting. In England and Wales we stick with the cold
:28:14. > :28:20.weather, struggling to get above freezing. There is also a risk of
:28:20. > :28:26.snow and we will keep you updated on the BBC weather website.