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The six soldiers killed in Afghanistan are named, victims of | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
the deadliest single attack on British troops since 2001. Five of | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
them were 21 or under. Their sergeant was 33. They had been in | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Helmand for less than a month. Brothers in arms - a tribute from | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
members of the Yorkshire Regiment, as the families of the men talk of | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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their grief. It is just such a massive loss. Just taken away so | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
quickly. We will be asking what impact their | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
deaths could have on the Afghan mission. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
Also tonight: The great railway shake-up - but | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
could some commuters end up paying even more? I am shocked by how much | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
rail travel is costing in this country. Frankly, it is simply not | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
worth it. Leicester kicks off the royal | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
jubilee tour. The Queen will travel the length and breadth of Britain | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
over the next few months. It is almost a year since the | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Japanese tsunami. One family remembers the mother they lost and | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the home that disappeared. Coming our way - the largest solar | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
storm in five years. Warnings about power supplies and navigation | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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Coming up on the BBC News Channel, more problems for Rangers. The | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
Scottish Football Association has ruled that the chairman, Craig | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
White, is not a fit and proper person to hold a position in | :01:36. | :01:46. | |
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Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
The six soldiers killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
have been named. Five of them, from 3rd Battalion, the Yorkshire | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Regiment, were 21 or under. Their sergeant was 33 and from 1st | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. Three of the soldiers | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
were from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. Their families have been | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
talking about their loss this evening. Our correspondent Ed | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
Thomas reports from Huddersfield. The faces of the six British | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The First Battalion, the Duke of | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
Lancaster's Regiment, has lost a 33-year-old Sergeant Nigel Coupe. | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
The 3rd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment, has lost Corporal Jake | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Hartley. Two days short of his 21st. 20-year-old Private Anthony | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Frampton, described by a former teacher today as caring and | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
compassionate. The youngest of the six, 19-year-old private Kershaw. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
20-year-old Private Daniel Wade from Warrington, and Private Daniel | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
Wilford, the 21-year-old who was just 16 when he first enlisted. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Today, some of the soldiers' families from West Yorkshire wanted | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
to talk about those they had lost. Like the family of Jake Hartley. He | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
joined the Army when he was 17. was kind, generous, heart of gold, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
and absolutely wicked sense of humour. He loved his family and | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
friends. He had such a big group of friends, both in the Army and in | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
civilian life. And it is just such a massive, massive loss. And then | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the family of Anthony Frampton, the son, brother and nephew who they | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
used to call Anton. He was a legend to us. And to all who knew him. We | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
are heartbroken. He was a lovely lad and he loved life, and it is an | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
absolute tragedy that someone who loved life so much and gave so much | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
to other people, and so much happiness to other people, his life | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
has been cut short at 20 years old. Their base may have been in | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Wiltshire, but it is hearing Huddersfield where three of those | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
who were killed called home. -- here in Huddersfield. This is | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Golcar on the edge of Huddersfield. Anthony Frampton was recruited from | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
here. His death, and two of his colleagues from this town, is a lot | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
for people here to taking. This morning, the first book of | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
condolence was opened to all six who died, at St Peter's in | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
Huddersfield. I am sure most of the families have great, great pride in | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
their sons and grandson's and brothers and sisters, and that is | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
balanced with the great pain of their loss. Not far from St Peter's, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
you reach the home of Private Daniel Wilford. Here, too, friends | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
spoke of the pride they had in the soldier they called wealth. It is | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
just too soon. It has not sunk in. He has been there four weeks. It is | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
not long enough. He did not even get to fire his weapon, hideout. | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
All six were killed in a massive explosion that destroyed their | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Warrior armoured vehicle. The Taliban have told the BBC they | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
carried out the attack and are proud of it, and words difficult to | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
understand thousands of miles away in Yorkshire. Anthony Bradley is | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
the captain of Huddersfield army cadets. His grandson is serving in | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Afghanistan. He is proud, but he believes it is time for British | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
troops to now come home. Every time we hear of a death, male or female, | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
it is here, one of our own. And I do think now it is actually time we | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
came out. Troops will come back in 2014. Tonight, at their base in | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Wiltshire, flowers and a final salute for the six who lost their | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
lives in Afghanistan. Let's go to our correspondent | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Quinten Somerville, at the British Army base in Lashkar Gah in | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Afghanistan's Helmand province. What effect, if any, could this | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
have on the mission in Afghanistan? George, you can see the effect on | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
the men here, it is written on their faces. The mood here has been | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
very grim. But you can also see the determination of the soldiers, that | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
it will make no operational difference. That means they | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
continue to go out on missions, they continue to look for Taliban, | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
to try to disrupt the supply routes, just as those soldiers did. So that | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
business, the business of fighting a war against the Taliban, | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
continues. Eventually, there will be fewer British patrols. Not | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
because of this loss, but because, increasingly, more control will be | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
handed over to Afghan troops. And British troops will draw back to | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
their bases, like Lashkar Gah, and give training and support to those | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
Afghan troops, before returning home at the end of 2014. Thank you. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
The Prime Minister has confirmed within the last hour that an | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
operation to rescue a British man who had been kidnapped in Nigeria | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
has failed. Chris McManus was killed along with an Italian | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
hostage, Franco Lamolinara. They were murdered by their captors. | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Both were engineers working for an Italian construction company. The | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
men were seized in Kebbi, a state in the north-west of the country, | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
last May. In the last half-hour, the Prime Minister, David Cameron, | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
gave this reaction. Preparations were made to mount an operation to | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
rescue the men. Together with the Nigerian government, today I | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
authorised it to go ahead, with UK support. It is with great regret | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
that I have to say that both Chris and Franco have lost their lives. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
We are still awaiting confirmation of the details, but the early | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
indications are clear, that both men were murdered by their captors | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
before they could be rescued. get reaction from our security | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
correspondent, Gordon Corera. What do we know about this operation? | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Well, since the men were taken hostage last May, there has been an | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
intensive effort to try to locate them and to try to rescue them, if | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
that was the best option. There was some intelligence which came in | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
recently which suggested both a location for them and a sense that | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
maybe there was growing danger to their lives. On that basis, the | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
operation was authorised to go ahead. A Nigerian operation, but | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
with British support. We do not know the nature of that support yet, | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
but clearly it failed tragically, leading to the deaths of the | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Italian and the Briton at the hands of their captors. Their captors, I | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
understand, belonged to the group Boko Haram, a Nigerian jihadi Group, | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
perhaps a splinter sale of that group, with potentially links to | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Al-Qaeda. But a group that have been increasingly violent in | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Nigeria in the last few years, which may have been seeking money, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
in this case to finance their violent activities. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Ambitious plans for the future of rail travel have been published | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
today. Ministers say they want to end "inflation-busting fare rises" | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
by cutting �3.5 billion a year from the rail budget. They also want to | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
ease congestion at the busiest times, and that could mean some | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
commuters travelling at the peak of the rush hour facing another rise | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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It costs too much and the UK rail network should deliver a better | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
deal for passengers and taxpayers - that was the Government's claim | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
today, as it called annual savings of �3.5 billion to ensure a | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
brighter future for the network. is not about throwing the jigsaw | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
pieces up in the air again. It is about making sure the pieces fit | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
together better and we challenge the industry to step up to the | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
plate and start working to get rid of this huge inefficiency that has | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
been identified. It is costing taxpayers and fare payers, and I do | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
not want to see it continue. Ministers want some savings used to | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
keep the lid on fares, and an end to inflation-busting increases | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
within the next few years. Some peak-time fares might rise, while | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
others will fall, to try to spread demand. Fare levels are certainly | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
controversial with passengers. shocked by how much rail travellers | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
costing in this country. Frankly, it is simply not worth it. I think | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
they need to look at what transport means for the economy of this | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
country, and whether, like other countries, we see it as a public | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
good, rather than a profit-making machine. Other changes anticipated | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
by the Government include fewer ticket offices, with more scope to | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
buy tickets elsewhere, for example post offices. Smart ticketing will | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
see greater use of pre-paid swipe cards, and they could be fewer | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
train guards, as operators cut costs. People who work on stations | :11:14. | :11:23. | |
could lose jobs. Passengers will be faced tickets. All of these are | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
major concerns. One of the aims of the policy is to develop more | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
joined-up management of the rail system. For example, getting train | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
operators to work more closely with a Network Rail managers in their | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
area to try to ensure there is minimal disruption for passengers | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
in the event of engineering work. But delivering the changes, which | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
applied to England, Wales and reads between England and Scotland, will | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
not be easy. One of the main unions says the policy is vandalism, | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
claiming 12,000 jobs are at risk, and it has warned of industrial | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
action. The Queen began her Diamond Jubilee | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
tour of the UK with a visit to Leicester today. Crowds lined the | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
streets to welcome Her Majesty, who was accompanied by the Duke of | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Edinburgh and the Duchess of Cambridge. Over the next four | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
months, she will travel right across the UK. This report from | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Nicholas Witchell contains some flash photography. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
10 years ago, the Golden Jubilee got off to a comparatively slow | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
start. That was not the story today. The people of Leicester, a | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
culturally diverse city in the heart of England, came out in their | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
thousands to launch the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and to welcome her | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
guest companion for the day, the Duchess of Cambridge. It is that | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
cultural diversity that made Leicester the place to begin the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Diamond Jubilee visits. Few cities demonstrate better the changes that | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
have occurred in British society over the 60 years of her reign. At | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
Leicester Cathedral, the Queen attended a special service at which | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
representatives of the different faith communities joined Christian | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
leaders. In a special addition to the programme, prayers were said | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
for the six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. We pray for those | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
who died in Afghanistan yesterday from the Yorkshire and the Duke of | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
Lancaster's Regiment. There were prayers, too, for the Queen, in a | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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Jubilee year. Your gift of love and joy and peace. Outside the | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
cathedral, the Queen and the duchess stood side-by-side to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
receive flowers. The fact that the Queen invited the Duchess to join | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
her today is a public endorsement of Kate's importance to the Royal | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
Family now. At times, they worked as a Queen, the Queen taking one | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
side of the crowd, the Duchess the other. -- they worked as a team. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
They went together to a fashion show at the Montfort University. | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
The relationship appears to be an easy one, with the younger woman | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
leaning across to chat. And then in the city centre, the Queen hoping | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
perhaps that the new, will absorb some lessons. But there is perhaps | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
something more to the Duchess' presence today. It is a subtle | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
signal that, after 60 years, the Queen recognises the importance of | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
bringing on someone who will be so central to the monarchy of the | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
future. There was no doubt, though, who is still the star of the show. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Not everyone is a monarchist, that is for sure, but this monarch | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
appears to be as popular as ever. She's Our Queen of our country and | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
I am proud of her. Coming to Leicester as part of the Jubilee | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
tour, it is fantastic. It is an awesome moment, to celebrate it | :14:46. | :14:53. | |
with her. The Palace's view on the day, it had been a welcome way | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
Our top story tonight. Tributes from the families of the six | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
British soldiers killed in Afghanistan as they are named by | :15:02. | :15:12. | |
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The magic of Messi. What makes the Barcelona player so special. | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
In the business news, Greece edges closer to a dealer with private | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
creditors to avoid a default and interest rates stay at the historic | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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One year ago this Sunday, a huge earthquake shook the seabed 40 | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
miles off the coast of Japan. The country is still struggling to deal | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
with the consequences. 15,000 people were killed in the tsunami | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
that followed, with thousands more still unaccounted for. Our | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
correspondent Damian Grammaticas has been back to Yuriagger on | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Japan's east coast to speak to one family who were caught up in the | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
disaster. Shadows of the landscape. That's | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
all that's left of this place, a void full of memories. For Tatsuya | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Suzuki, it's the memory of the smile his wife gave him in their | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
two-storey house as they left what work. I just wish I could go back | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
in time, he said, to that day. If only I could have saved her. He is | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
burdened by guilt that he survived and his wife did not. As the Singh | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
army swept in a, he managed to get their children to safe places. | :16:44. | :16:53. | |
Seconds later, she was carried away by it. Today, his daughter, seven, | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
and her little brother, four, are laughing again. It has taken a year, | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
he says. Sometimes they cry out in their sleep. When I see the sadness, | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
I struggle to know what to say. My heart aches. Alongside him, the | :17:09. | :17:17. | |
Singh army killed 1,000 of their 7,000 people. One year on and the | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
government is now burning the little that remains of this place. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
They have to build this Town Again and for hundreds of miles along the | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
coast, it's the same story, dozens of communities which were raced | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
planning to start anew. The first priority, though, is the unfinished | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
task of accounting for everyone. More than 3,000 are still missing. | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
At this school in Okawa, 70 children were swept away and four | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
have not been found. This woman's mother disappeared along with them. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Nothing moves on, he says, I have been following police teams like | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
this all year but I can't find any trace of her. This pay used to be | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
inseparable from their money. -- mother. They are doing well in | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
their new school but their father feels trapped by the past. Even | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
though a years gone by, nothing has really changed. Time has stopped | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
for me. I'm still grieving. children never want to live here | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
again but one day, he says he will move back. This place still feels | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
like home. Labour says it's prepared to work | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
with the government to introduce a mansion tax. But the Shadow | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
Chancellor Ed Balls insists any money raised should be spent on | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
halting cuts to working families tax credits and not on scrapping | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
the 50p income tax rate. Speaking to the BBC, he said that with | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Britain's economy growing more slowly than its competitors, this | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
month's Budget needs to stimulate growth. Here's our Political Editor, | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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Nick Robinson. Ed is here today for a reason. They | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
may not understand, their mums and dads certainly will. This is | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
getting very messy. The polite way to describe Labour's view of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
government plans to cut tax credits for 200,000 families who work part- | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
time. The shadow chancellor says, from next month, they would be | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
better off not working at all. do 16 hours and after increase them | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
to 24 hours to find eight more hours. To supply going and say, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
give me a two more hours, they won't do it, and I suspect they | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
will not work so we will lose it. The reality is, some people are | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
better off not working. I left my work to look after her. But the | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
cost to reverse the cut to tax credits is high, half a billion | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
pounds a year. Where would Labour find the money? He's a great job to | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
have here. On a visit to a factory in Birmingham Ed Balls insisted | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
cutting less would help the economy grow more and therefore cut the | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
deficit. What's more, he told me, he would back the Lib Dems idea for | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
a new tax. Do you like the idea of a mansion tax on the most expensive | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
properties? I supported it in the past. I think we need to look at it | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
carefully. If the Chancellor want to go down that road, I will | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
support him, but the issue is, what is the purpose? If the purpose is | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
to help families facing higher VAT, fuel bills, for example boosting | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
their tax credits, yes, but if the priority is to use the mansion tax | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
only to help people on the highest incomes over �150,000, I say it's | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
out of touch. Jeer at this factory, Ed Balls was told the company can | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
see each green shoots of recovery and he says, though, thanks to | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
government austerity, the country is not growing fast enough and | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
strongly enough. Britain still needs a stimulus. I think it is | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
essential right now, George Osborne has cut too far and too fast. The | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
VAT rise hit confidence, we are borrowing more and his idea | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
stimulus means more borrowing it is economic nonsense. Unless we get | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
growth and unemployment falling, we will be borrowing more in the | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
future. Are you saying the country can afford to cut VAT, and avoid | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
the cuts you don't like in tax credits and in child benefit and | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
deal with fuel duty? People will say, where will he find the money? | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Do you can do the tax credit James by closing stamp duty above | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
properties above �1 million. Manton tax could pay for tax credits. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
There is a big economic issues. Growth has flat land, unemployment | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
has gone up. �158 billion has been borrowed because everybody knows | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
the economy is not growing, unemployment is rising. Ed Balls | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
and Ed Miliband used to help Gordon Brown writers budgets and now, they | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
can only wait and see what surprises the Chancellor has in | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
store. The Bank of England has kept | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
interest rates on hold again at 0.5%. They have now been at that | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
level for three years. Analysts say rates are likely to remain | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
unchanged for months. Good news for home owners and borrowers, but bad | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
for savers. The best ever performance by a | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
player in a top class game of football. That's how Lionel Messi's | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
manager described his five goal, five star performance for Barcelona | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
in the Champions League last night. Our Sports Correspondent Tim Franks | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
has been looking at what makes Messi so magical. | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Lionel Messi is 5 ft 6, his stature is immense. This was goal No. 1 | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
against Bayer Leverkusen. It certainly feels that way. Goal two | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
involved high-speed tiptoeing. Go free, listen to the crowd of. Not a | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
:23:38. | :23:39. | ||
roar so much as a moan of pleasure. Goal for, an impossible angle. They | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
worship him on the terraces. They worship him in the dug-out. He is | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
the best, said his manager. I am lucky to be his trainer. He is a | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
unique player. This is how you measure it. Barcelona in his last | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
contract inserts a buy-out clause of 250 million euros. His last 211 | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
games, he scored one and an 86 goals and perhaps the most | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
startling fact of all, he's still only 24. So where will history | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
place in? So far, the only flaw in his record is the lack of World | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
Cups. Pele won three. Diego Maradona or lead his country to the | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
World Cup and England players to an embarrassment. He bears comparison. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
The way he evades tackles, going at speed with the ball seemingly tied | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
to his toe is quite incredible. It shows bravery, he makes passes at | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
the right time and to score goals. It's an end product. Which takes us | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
to his 5th goal of the night, unprecedented in the Champions' | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
League, and he still should have more than half his career ahead of | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
him. Divine. There are warnings of disruption to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
satellite navigation systems and power grids tonight. A powerful | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
solar storm is due to reach earth this evening. It's caused by | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
eruptions on the surface of the sun called solar flares. There were two | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
earlier this week, the largest of their kind. Here's our Science | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. A storm on the surface of our sun. | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
The most intense in five years. It was triggered by two giant solar | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
flares earlier this week. And the continued activity could soon have | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
an effect on earth. Which is why US government agencies are monitoring | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
the situation closely. We are at least able to tell you that this is | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
coming towards us. Beware, keep watching, don't get hysterical. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
hysterical they got. This from the US news networks. Good morning | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
America and breaking news, a massive solar storm targeting the | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
planet. How worried should we be? The sun is throwing a gigantic | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
sheets of charged particles and often does this but the difference | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
this time is they may be on a collision course for the earth. We | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
will be protected by the Earth's magnetic field but the Solar Storm | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
can electrify the upper atmosphere. And so cause power surges | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
underground. In the past, surges have been so strong it entire | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
cities have been plunged into darkness. And there could be | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
disruption to the planets satellites. Which, in turn, could | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
affect navigation computer and telecommunications systems. It is | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
taken extremely seriously. We are moving towards a solar maximum, and | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
expect these things to increase and we are already co-operating with | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
the Americans on this. The Prime Minister and Barack Obama signed an | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
agreement for co-operation in May last year. There are no reported | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
incidents so far of power failures or communications problems. But | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
there is a chance of a storm of might light up the Earth's | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
atmosphere. And many people in northern Britain may be able to see | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
an aurora in the night sky. Let's take a look at the weather | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
You can only see it if you have got clear skies and sadly I think this | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
could be the closest many of us get to see the aurora. Tonight, a lot | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
of cloud of the northern half of the country. A chance of seeing it | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
it it makes an appearance. More breaks in the cloud of tomorrow | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
night perhaps. You can see the clouds swamping its way across the | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
country. The cloud is thickest in the north-west of Scotland where it | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
continues to bring outbreaks of rain through much of the night. | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
Drizzly conditions elsewhere. And the coast of Wales, but for most, a | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
dry night. No where near as cold as it is last night. 5-6 degrees | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
across England and Wales. The rain increases in the night and this | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
area will make for a soggy morning in north-west Scotland. Slowly | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
heading towards Glasgow and Northern Ireland. England and Wales, | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
much more cloud than today. Foremost, it will be a dry day, and | :28:13. | :28:20. | |
things should dry up in the north- west Scotland. 15 degrees in | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
Aberdeen. A damp afternoon in Glasgow. Not reaching Belfast until | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
later that day, the rain. Drizzly conditions over the Pennines and | :28:31. | :28:37. | |
the hills and coasts of Wales, but for most of England, dry and cloudy. | :28:37. | :28:44. | |
Brightness, 12-13 Celsius. We keep a lot of cloud on Saturday, too, | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
although we should get a few more breaks across eastern areas, so | :28:48. | :28:54. |