:00:13. > :00:20.Rupert Murdoch confirms plans for a new paper saying the Sun on Sunday
:00:21. > :00:26.will launch very soon. He tells his staff he's proud of the paper's
:00:26. > :00:33.heritage but insists illegal behaviour won't be tolerated.
:00:33. > :00:36.Critics say Rupert Murdoch has made the wrong move. This is ludicrously
:00:37. > :00:42.premature, deeply cynical. They say they're trying to drain the swamp.
:00:42. > :00:52.I don't see how the swamp can bring forth a new creature we want to see
:00:52. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:01.on our streets. The battle to deport Abu cat add that.
:01:01. > :01:05.The pond where a woman and her daughter drowned. This is a pond
:01:05. > :01:11.where people feed the ducks. The accident might have happened like
:01:11. > :01:18.that. The strong start to 2012's High Street. But retailers are
:01:18. > :01:21.braced for a tough year. The film star and his FBI files -
:01:21. > :01:31.documents reveal how Charlie chaplain was under investigation on
:01:31. > :01:51.
:01:52. > :01:56.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. Rupert Murdoch
:01:56. > :02:00.warns staff at the Sun newspaper today he won't protect inch found
:02:00. > :02:03.to have broken the law but has also pledged support for the paper
:02:03. > :02:07.saying a Sunday edition will be launched very soon. That would fill
:02:07. > :02:12.the gap left by the closure of the News of the World last year. The
:02:12. > :02:17.Sun has been rocked by nine arrests of current and former staff in
:02:17. > :02:27.recent weeks as a police corruption probe continues. Our Home Affairs
:02:27. > :02:31.
:02:31. > :02:37.Correspondent Tom Symonds reports from East London.
:02:37. > :02:42.Let's go live to Tom Symonds where News International is based.
:02:42. > :02:45.We have Rupert Murdoch launching a Sunday edition of the Sun. How will
:02:45. > :02:48.that affect the ongoing investigation do you think?
:02:48. > :02:52.Tomorrow is of course Saturday. On Saturday in recent weeks we have
:02:52. > :02:59.seen police raids on the homes of journalists around the home
:02:59. > :03:02.counties. We have seen baling bags of their -- bags of their personal
:03:02. > :03:07.belongings taken out by teams of detectives. There is a feeling this
:03:07. > :03:12.isn't over yet. We don't know for example whether the management and
:03:12. > :03:15.standards committee at News Corporation have been able to find
:03:15. > :03:21.more evidence they have passed on to polices. That was hanging over
:03:21. > :03:30.Rupert Murdoch's visit to the UK today and the Sun newsroom today.
:03:30. > :03:35.Tabloid newspaper might have called it rupeertes red top rescue. Mr
:03:35. > :03:39.Murdoch landed last late last night in London. He had had a night to
:03:39. > :03:45.consider how he'd boost morale at the Sun newspaper. By this morning,
:03:45. > :03:47.news crews were waiting for him, besieging every entrance to News
:03:47. > :03:51.International's headquarters. Rupert Murdoch was driven into the
:03:51. > :04:00.building at speed to avoid them. He must have known what to expect -
:04:00. > :04:04.the hax were hacked off with Murdoch. Nine senior Sun
:04:04. > :04:09.journalists past and present were arrested. Information has been
:04:09. > :04:13.passed to the police by a committee set up by News Corporation. Perhaps
:04:13. > :04:17.to boost morale before stepping into the Sun newsroom here, Rupert
:04:17. > :04:21.Murdoch gave staff two pieces of news - firstly, arrested staff who
:04:21. > :04:25.had been suspended would be able to return to work, and secondly, a new
:04:25. > :04:30.Sun on Sunday would be published soon.
:04:30. > :04:35.He also sends an e-mail message to staff - the Sun is part of me, he
:04:35. > :04:40.said. But he added, "We will obey the law. Illegal activity simply
:04:40. > :04:45.will not and cannot be tolerated." But he stressed, "Everyone is
:04:45. > :04:50.innocent until proven guilty." The journalists' union said that would
:04:50. > :04:53.not placate staff. I feel completely and utterly
:04:53. > :04:59.betrayed. They feel like they have been thrown to the wolves that this
:04:59. > :05:03.is a company who sat on placating the anger and the growing hostility
:05:03. > :05:07.amongst the American investors and that this is another cynical act of
:05:07. > :05:12.damage limitation in precisely the same way the closure of the News of
:05:12. > :05:17.the World was. Rupert Murdoch's e- mail played on his 43-year history
:05:17. > :05:20.with the Sun, the paper that brought him into Britain's media
:05:20. > :05:24.market. Murdoch watchers believe he's committed to defending and
:05:24. > :05:28.extending the Sun. I am not surprised about launching the Sun
:05:28. > :05:33.on Sunday. I don't think there was ever any question that on the basis
:05:33. > :05:37.of what has been discovered so far of the Sun being closed in a
:05:37. > :05:42.dramatic move like the News of the World. But there was this reaction
:05:42. > :05:45.from one hacking victim. This is ludicrously premature, deeply
:05:45. > :05:49.cynical. News International themselves say they're trying to
:05:49. > :05:52.drain the swamp. I don't see how the swamp can bring forth a new
:05:52. > :05:57.creature we all want to see on our streets. Rupert Murdoch play be
:05:57. > :06:00.here gripping the issue, but with protests, angry staff and a
:06:01. > :06:05.circling police investigation, his tabloid troubles aren't over yet.
:06:05. > :06:10.And one thing we didn't hear today is when this new Sun on Sunday will
:06:10. > :06:15.be published, what it will look like, what it will contain. Rupert
:06:15. > :06:18.Murdoch may be accused of simply recreating the News of the World in
:06:18. > :06:21.another format. That's for another time. He's going to stay in Britain
:06:21. > :06:27.to continue managing this situation, we're told, for now.
:06:27. > :06:33.Thank you. The Home Secretary, Theresa May is
:06:33. > :06:37.to travel to Jordan to discuss the deportation of extremist cleric Abu
:06:37. > :06:42.Qatada. Britain wants to deport him because he's considered a threat to
:06:42. > :06:45.national security. But the extradition has been blocked by the
:06:45. > :06:50.European Court of Human Rights. Let's get more from Matt Prodger.
:06:50. > :06:53.What kind of signal do you think the Government is signaling by the
:06:53. > :06:57.fact May will go to Jordan herself? There are two ways of interpreting
:06:57. > :07:02.it - the first, she's going on there to build on success that's
:07:02. > :07:05.already been made and to cement a deal with the Jordanians. The
:07:05. > :07:09.second interpretation is progress hasn't been made and she's being
:07:09. > :07:13.sent out there as a top gun to salvage any kind of agreement. What
:07:13. > :07:19.they're seeking is aaust assurance from the Jordanians that he will
:07:19. > :07:22.receive a fair trial. The European Court has blocked his deportation
:07:22. > :07:26.to Jordan because it believes evidence through torture may be
:07:26. > :07:30.used against him, and as a result of that a British judge released
:07:30. > :07:33.him because it said it couldn't detain him indefinitely. He could
:07:33. > :07:39.still challenge any agreement that may be made, and that means that he
:07:39. > :07:44.could remain in the UK for months or even years to come. Matt, thank
:07:44. > :07:48.you. A 71-year-old woman and her six-
:07:48. > :07:52.year-old grandson have been found dead in a pond in Lincolnshire. The
:07:52. > :07:56.alarm was raised by the boy's mother. The bodies were discovered
:07:56. > :08:00.in a duck bond in a village. Let's go live there and join our
:08:00. > :08:06.correspondent Ben Ando. What more can you tell us about this? Well,
:08:06. > :08:09.Michelle, a day with granny is a treat that's looked forward to by
:08:09. > :08:12.both grandparents and grandchildren ablie, yesterday at this
:08:12. > :08:16.picturesque pond in south Lincolnshire, such a treat turned
:08:16. > :08:20.through reasons that are not entirely clear yet from treat to
:08:20. > :08:23.tragedy. Still, but dangerous water in a
:08:23. > :08:29.sleepy Lincolnshire hamlet - last night the body of a 71-year-old
:08:29. > :08:32.woman was recovered from this pond in the early hours of this morning.
:08:32. > :08:35.Divers found her six-year-old grandson nearby. Police were called
:08:36. > :08:39.by the child's mother last night. He'd gone to stay with his
:08:39. > :08:43.grandmother but had not returned. The police called at the home, but
:08:43. > :08:47.there was no reply. A major air and land search was launched, and the
:08:47. > :08:52.bodies were found. Police say at the moment they're not sure what
:08:52. > :08:55.happened, but they do not suspect foul play. We're working on lots of
:08:55. > :08:59.hypotheses. This pond is a location where people often come and feed
:08:59. > :09:03.the ducks, and the accident might have happened out of something like
:09:03. > :09:07.that but we're keeping an open mind, but what I can say for certain - at
:09:07. > :09:10.this stage we're not treating this as a suspicious incident. Local
:09:10. > :09:14.people say the deaths were a huge shock. The woman was popular, well
:09:14. > :09:18.known and well liked in the village. It was a complete shock. It was
:09:18. > :09:21.just - you don't expect anything like that to happen around here,
:09:21. > :09:25.and it is just a tragedy for somebody to be out in a local area
:09:25. > :09:31.and something so horrible happen to you. It's just that I hope they
:09:31. > :09:37.find out like what happened and my condolences to the family that's
:09:37. > :09:40.left behind. Port mortem examinations will be carried out in
:09:40. > :09:43.due course. The police say they will continue their investigations
:09:43. > :09:47.into exactly what caused the deaths of two generations of the same
:09:47. > :09:51.family. Well, one other thing I should tell
:09:51. > :09:56.you is I put my hand into the water here, and the water is very cold,
:09:56. > :10:00.so if perhaps the little boy did get into the water and granny went
:10:00. > :10:02.in after him it is very likely they would have been overcome very
:10:02. > :10:07.quickly indeed. Ben, thank you, in Lincolnshire.
:10:07. > :10:11.Retailers have enjoyed a surprisingly good start to the year.
:10:12. > :10:18.New figures out today show sales rose unexpectedly, up 0.9% last
:10:18. > :10:21.month. Shoppers made the most of discounted prices and sales of
:10:21. > :10:24.furniture and sportswear were strong, but as our business
:10:24. > :10:29.correspondent reports, many still think the High Street is facing
:10:30. > :10:34.another difficult year. You'd think after the excesses of
:10:34. > :10:40.Christmas, we might be reining back - no. We're still shopping despite
:10:40. > :10:50.all the pressures on our wallets. Here in Rochdale today, people were
:10:50. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:55.out and showing us what they'd bought. Birthday cards - woops. A
:10:55. > :11:00.plant box, things like that, you know? Getting ready for spring
:11:00. > :11:05.really. I bought a headband that matches my shoes and yogurt, jelly
:11:05. > :11:07.beans, orange juice. I could have spent �20 at a garden centre, but I
:11:07. > :11:11.have looked around to get something that little bit cheaper because you
:11:11. > :11:16.just don't have the same amount of money to throw about. So what's
:11:16. > :11:20.been driving the rise in sales? Well, according to the Office for
:11:20. > :11:26.National Statistics survey, in January electrical goods were up -
:11:26. > :11:30.so too was hardware and furniture, big-ticket items for consumers.
:11:30. > :11:34.The boss of some of our biggest High Street chains says it's all
:11:34. > :11:37.down to heavy discounts. January has been a sale month, so everybody
:11:37. > :11:41.has been exceptionally aggressive, so I think we have to take that in
:11:41. > :11:45.the context of the marketplace, so hopefully that means we've all got
:11:45. > :11:51.rid of all the goods we wanted to get rid of. Now we get to a new
:11:51. > :11:53.season. Those sales are still going on mid-February, a sign that
:11:53. > :11:57.retailers are finding the going tough. They're cautious at the
:11:57. > :12:00.moment. They've been too optimistic too often in the past, and the
:12:00. > :12:06.economic outlook is still bad. I think they're going to continue to
:12:06. > :12:12.be cautious, and I think that's the right way to be. There is one real
:12:12. > :12:15.bright spot, though, internet sales are rising fast. Take Boden, the
:12:15. > :12:18.up-market clothing retailer. They say sales last month were better
:12:18. > :12:22.than expected. They are a retail success story, and business is
:12:22. > :12:26.still growing, but here at HQ, they have to fight for every order, but
:12:26. > :12:32.at least they don't have the headache of paying rent on hundreds
:12:32. > :12:36.of shops. So they came in January, tempted by
:12:36. > :12:42.promotions. The question is, will sales continue to move in the right
:12:42. > :12:46.direction? The price of diesel has reached a
:12:46. > :12:52.record high, prompting calls for an official investigation into fuel
:12:52. > :12:59.prices across the UK. The retail motor industry says the average
:12:59. > :13:02.pump price of �1.40 a litre is a disaster for motorists. It's asked
:13:03. > :13:08.the Office of Fair Trading to look into unfair pricing tactics by
:13:08. > :13:11.supermarkets and oil companies. More than 2,800 women in England
:13:11. > :13:15.who received potentially faulty breast implantss have been referred
:13:15. > :13:19.to the NHS because private clinics have failed to help. The Government
:13:19. > :13:23.says it will remove the implants for free and try to recover the
:13:23. > :13:27.costs from the clinics. It hasn't been the easiest of times
:13:27. > :13:30.for relations between Britain and France, but today David Cameron
:13:30. > :13:33.said cooperation hadn't been better since the Second World War. He has
:13:33. > :13:39.been meeting Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris and said the relationship
:13:39. > :13:47.remained strong despite the UK's refusal to sign up to a fiscal
:13:47. > :13:51.treaty. It wasn't so long ago that the
:13:51. > :13:55.French President advised David Cameron to shut up and called him
:13:55. > :14:01."obstinate". Today's meeting was a time for smiles and complements.
:14:01. > :14:05.David Cameron began by wishing the man he called his friend "all the
:14:05. > :14:09.best with his re-election campaign." I admire Nicolas
:14:09. > :14:13.Sarkozy's leadership, his courage. I think he's achieved great things
:14:13. > :14:16.for his country. Not quite an endorsement, but President Sarkozy
:14:16. > :14:19.too was in a generous mood. TRANSLATION: I speak from the heart
:14:19. > :14:23.when I say that I wish to pay tribute to the courage of the Prime
:14:23. > :14:26.Minister. The Prime Minister said the
:14:26. > :14:30.country's enjoyed the closest relationship since World War II,
:14:30. > :14:35.with new deals on civilian nuclear power and military projects. The
:14:35. > :14:40.issue, of course, that complicates this relationship and occasionally
:14:40. > :14:43.turns it tetchy is Europe. President Sarkozy saying today he
:14:43. > :14:47.understood that the British have red lines over Europe, and David
:14:47. > :14:52.Cameron saying he believed the relationship was strong enough to
:14:52. > :14:56.get over the occasional "bump in the road," as he put it. Back in
:14:56. > :15:00.December, there had been frostiness between the two leaders after David
:15:00. > :15:05.Cameron used his veto in Brussels, but Dade President Sarkozy conceded
:15:05. > :15:11.he would have defended Britain's interests in exactly the same way.
:15:11. > :15:14.TRANSLATION: I have always been of the view that Europe needs Britain.
:15:14. > :15:18.The strength of a relationship is when you can have disagreements,
:15:18. > :15:24.but actually then be able to go on working together on all the areas
:15:24. > :15:28.that you agree. The two leaders have been allies over Libya, and
:15:28. > :15:32.David Cameron gave President Sarkozy a warship shell from that
:15:32. > :15:36.operation, but today the two leaders expressed their frustration
:15:36. > :15:40.that they couldn't do more over Syria. I am not satisfied that we
:15:40. > :15:45.are taking all the action we need to. The message to the Syrian
:15:45. > :15:50.opposition was that if they united, it would be easier to help them.
:15:50. > :15:53.TRANSLATION: Tell us how we can help you, and that's what we'll do.
:15:53. > :15:57.Both leaders made clear, however, that the conditions were not right
:15:58. > :16:02.for foreign intervention in Syria. It is part of the British-French
:16:02. > :16:04.relationship that there will be occasional rows and tiffs, but this
:16:04. > :16:08.meeting underlined a deepening relationship between the two
:16:08. > :16:11.Our top story tonight: Rupert Murdoch announces he's
:16:11. > :16:13.launching a Sunday edition of The Sun newspaper to fill the void left
:16:14. > :16:23.by the defunct News of the World. Coming up:
:16:24. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:29.Getting into gear at the Olympics 5th 5th of coming later in sport,
:16:29. > :16:39.we will have the latest sport including the latest from Rangers
:16:39. > :16:41.
:16:41. > :16:46.who went into administration He was the silent movie star famous
:16:46. > :16:49.for his hat and cane. But Charlie Chaplin was also a star under
:16:49. > :16:52.surveillance. Newly released documents have revealed that he was
:16:52. > :16:57.under investigation by the FBI and MI5 throughout the 1950s, as they
:16:57. > :17:04.tried to establish whether he was a Communist sympathiser. Our security
:17:04. > :17:13.correspondent, Gordon Corera, has He was the world's first Hollywood
:17:13. > :17:18.superstar. Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous men in the world
:17:18. > :17:23.in his time. Why did Britain's security service MI5 open a file on
:17:23. > :17:29.him? A file which looked not just into his political views, but also
:17:29. > :17:34.a mystery surrounding his origins. Chaplin had left his native Britain
:17:34. > :17:40.for America in 1910. In Hollywood his slapstick style made him the
:17:40. > :17:44.star of the silent movies. If I had my way, they would all be sent back
:17:44. > :17:47.to Russia. By the early 50s American politicians were
:17:47. > :17:52.investigating communism in Hollywood and chaplain came under
:17:52. > :17:57.suspicion. Back comes Charlie Chaplin after an absence of twenty-
:17:57. > :18:07.one years. Her when he came to London the US banned him from
:18:07. > :18:11.
:18:11. > :18:15.returning and American intelligence For the British it is all about
:18:15. > :18:20.whether he is a security risk. Whether he is a member of the party
:18:20. > :18:24.or not. They find no proof of that and they also find no proof he is a
:18:24. > :18:28.security risk. But there was another question the FBI wanted
:18:28. > :18:32.answered. Was Charlie Chaplin really he said he was? Winnowed
:18:32. > :18:36.Charlie Chaplin grew up in this street in south-east London. But
:18:36. > :18:40.where was he born? A birth certificate has never been found
:18:40. > :18:50.and the FBI seemed to think he was using a false name and wanted to
:18:50. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:03.get to the truth. But in all its Surely you are not a communist.
:19:03. > :19:08.have to be a communist to read Karl Marx? His son, seen here in one of
:19:08. > :19:11.his father's political films, said Charlie Chaplin may have been born
:19:11. > :19:17.in a gypsy caravan and his tough early days shaped his views.
:19:17. > :19:26.would always tell us that he had a very hard childhood. He grew what
:19:26. > :19:30.on the streets. That made him very sympathetic to socialism in general.
:19:30. > :19:33.His great comic creation was the tramp, an underdog, and every man,
:19:33. > :19:43.and it is for that rather than the politics that he will always be
:19:43. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:49.remembered. For many years, Glasgow has been
:19:49. > :19:52.known as the knife-crime capital of the UK. But in recent months, the
:19:52. > :19:54.Scottish government has been cracking down with tougher prison
:19:54. > :19:57.sentences for those found carrying a knife. The number of crimes
:19:57. > :20:00.involving weapons has fallen by 10% in Scotland, but campaigners say
:20:00. > :20:03.more needs to be done to tackle what they call a 'culture of
:20:03. > :20:04.violence'. From Glasgow, our UK affairs correspondent Chris Buckler
:20:04. > :20:08.reports. Beaton, bloodied and left lying on
:20:08. > :20:12.the ground. This was the sudden end to this teenagers night out, a
:20:12. > :20:16.victim of violence on the streets of Glasgow. There were five or six
:20:16. > :20:24.people coming from that side and five or six from that side and they
:20:24. > :20:32.had poles and bats. They started hitting each other. He felt -- he
:20:32. > :20:36.fell. Beside the police car, one of the planks of wood. Officer and
:20:36. > :20:40.save bricks, bottles and everything else found in the street can be
:20:40. > :20:46.used in such a tax, but knives are one of their main concerns. These
:20:47. > :20:53.are some of the weapons seized in Glasgow in recent months. There was
:20:53. > :20:57.one at 2am and somebody slapped me. I was just asking for directions.
:20:57. > :21:03.These are former gang members. They now work for a community group
:21:03. > :21:11.trying to tackle the trouble they were once a part of. I got a
:21:11. > :21:18.punctured lung. And a bid/mark across my face. I have seen people
:21:18. > :21:21.stabbed. I have been in jail for things I have done. It is
:21:21. > :21:26.horrendous, some of the things I've seen. Strathclyde police's violent
:21:26. > :21:31.crime in its area has fallen by almost a 5th, but across Scotland,
:21:31. > :21:36.there is concern that more than 60% of homicides involving knives or
:21:36. > :21:39.sharp objects, significantly higher than the percentages for England,
:21:39. > :21:42.Wales and Northern Ireland, and recent figures suggest almost 80%
:21:42. > :21:50.of people accused of those homicides were under the influence
:21:50. > :21:56.of drink or drugs. People end up drinking too much alcohol. They get
:21:56. > :22:00.in and have an argument in the kitchen, pick up a kitchen knife
:22:00. > :22:03.and then stab somebody. That happens very, very quickly. There
:22:03. > :22:09.are campaigners who believe only harsher sentences will make a
:22:09. > :22:12.difference. John's son Damion was stabbed and killed by a stranger.
:22:12. > :22:20.He says everyone found in possession of a knife should go to
:22:20. > :22:25.jail. The man who killed my son was out on two serious charges. One for
:22:25. > :22:29.attacking a person with a knife. Why was he on the streets? A six-
:22:29. > :22:35.week crackdown on knife crime has just come to an end. The courts in
:22:35. > :22:38.Scotland were told to take knife crime particularly seriously. But
:22:38. > :22:42.there is pressure on the politicians to find a longer term
:22:42. > :22:45.solution to the twin problems of drink and violence.
:22:45. > :22:48.The former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield has been sentenced to
:22:48. > :22:51.four months in jail. The 23-year- old is the first English cricketer
:22:51. > :22:54.to be prosecuted for spot-fixing. Last month, he pleaded guilty to
:22:54. > :23:00.taking �6,000 after deliberately bowling badly so he would concede
:23:00. > :23:10.runs. The corruption took place in a county game between Essex and
:23:10. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:14.Durham. So the countdown is well and truly
:23:14. > :23:17.on for the Olympics, with just 161 days to go. Cyclists have been in
:23:17. > :23:20.action at the Velodrome for the first time today. It's a sport
:23:21. > :23:24.dominated by Britain's men and women and there are high hopes for
:23:24. > :23:27.what they will achieve this year. Live now to our sports editor David
:23:27. > :23:32.Bond, who's at the Velodrome. What is the atmosphere like today?
:23:32. > :23:36.Intimate, intimidating and when Britain's cyclists are on the track,
:23:37. > :23:40.very, very noisy. Outside this fella drone, large parts of the
:23:40. > :23:48.Olympic Park are still very much a building site. But with 6,000
:23:48. > :23:54.people in here, it could be July and the Olympics already. This is
:23:54. > :23:56.the major test event on the road to 2012, but it is also a level of the
:23:56. > :24:00.expectation around Britain's cyclists.
:24:00. > :24:05.He London's Olympic Velodrome, already viewed by many as the
:24:05. > :24:09.iconic venue of the 2012 at games. Today the first chance to see
:24:09. > :24:14.competitive action in what is billed as the fastest track in the
:24:14. > :24:18.world. Britain's biggest names are under big pressure to win this
:24:18. > :24:27.summer, but the sport has an unrivalled track record. How did we
:24:27. > :24:31.get so good? Scientists, nutrition, physios. They are all very
:24:31. > :24:35.experienced and very their lead in their field. Getting those people
:24:35. > :24:39.together and supporting the team, it has always been a wonderful
:24:39. > :24:44.advantage because you can't do it by yourself. I have tried but you
:24:44. > :24:49.can't! You need people behind you. But all of this can't be done
:24:49. > :24:53.without cash. More than �26 million has been given to British Cycling
:24:53. > :24:58.By UK Sport to fund the team's preparations for 2012. That is 10%
:24:58. > :25:02.of all the funding given to the 26 Olympic sports. But it is a
:25:02. > :25:07.strategy which has delivered success. 22 medals since the Sydney
:25:07. > :25:11.Games in 2000, including 11 gold medals. Like cycling, the other so-
:25:11. > :25:16.called sitting down sports like sailing and rowing have also been
:25:16. > :25:20.prioritised to great effect. In London, however, the ambition is to
:25:20. > :25:24.win more medals in all sports. That ambition has been made much harder
:25:24. > :25:30.following funding cuts to some small sports. Table tennis has
:25:30. > :25:36.received just �1.2 million in the build-up to London, down 48% on
:25:36. > :25:42.Beijing. It is a similar story with shooting, just �2.4 million for
:25:42. > :25:47.London, down by almost half. Those in charge of Team GB no elite sport
:25:47. > :25:52.is a ruthless business. You can't just rely on the government because
:25:52. > :25:56.it may not always be there. You have to say that if government
:25:56. > :26:03.funding is reduced, we will still carry on. That is what leadership
:26:03. > :26:07.is about. It was Britain's leadership on the track that was in
:26:07. > :26:12.question today. Chris Hoy's sprint team failing to make tonight's
:26:12. > :26:16.finding that final. A sign perhaps that even the best sports can't
:26:16. > :26:19.guarantee gold. Chris Hoy and his team-mates will
:26:19. > :26:23.say that this doesn't really matter and during the summer when it
:26:23. > :26:28.really counts, they will deliver, but it was a reality check, a shock
:26:28. > :26:32.to the crowd. There was better news for Victoria Pendleton and Jessica
:26:32. > :26:35.Varnish, they qualified for the women's sprint final against
:26:35. > :26:39.Australia and it is the re- emergence of Australia which is
:26:39. > :26:43.posing the biggest questions for Britain's cyclists and posing the
:26:43. > :26:47.big questions as whether they can continue their success in front of
:26:47. > :26:51.his very enthusiastic home crowd his very enthusiastic home crowd
:26:51. > :26:54.this summer. Let's have a look at the weather
:26:54. > :27:02.forecast. Tell me the snow is over!
:27:02. > :27:10.For most of us, yes, but for some of us, no. Much of the UK will have
:27:10. > :27:16.Frost this weekend. The cold air is coming behind a cold front, which
:27:16. > :27:19.will spread wet and windy weather dealt Scotland and Northern Ireland.
:27:19. > :27:23.It will get into north-western parts of England and Wales later in
:27:23. > :27:28.the night. Ahead of that, largely dry and mild. Behind that weather
:27:28. > :27:33.front, Frost across the far north of Scotland. It will turn
:27:33. > :27:36.increasingly wintry with blizzards setting in across the Highlands and
:27:37. > :27:42.Grampians. The rain will sweep down through Wales, it will not last
:27:42. > :27:49.long, but squally winds and heavy rain. That will make its way down
:27:49. > :27:52.towards the south-east. By 2pm, it will turn wet for a tie.
:27:52. > :27:56.Technically, temperatures still doing pretty well, but with the
:27:56. > :27:59.wind and rain in will not feel pleasant. When the rain clears, the
:27:59. > :28:06.sun will come out, but the temperatures will fall away during
:28:06. > :28:08.the afternoon. Wales, bright and chilly. Across the Irish Sea and
:28:08. > :28:17.into Northern Ireland, showers developing and they will turn
:28:17. > :28:22.wintry. The North of Scotland looks quite nasty if you're heading into
:28:22. > :28:26.the hills. The central belt probably staying dry. Tomorrow
:28:26. > :28:30.night, further snow showers in Scotland. Northern Ireland could
:28:31. > :28:35.also see snow. For most of us, Frost is the story on Sunday
:28:35. > :28:38.morning. A bright, crisp, sunny start. A few wintry showers across