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Crime figures for England and Wales are the lowest for more than 30 | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
years. Whether it's murder, anti- social behaviour or burglary, there | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
is less of it. Youth crime is down too. Is that because youngsters are | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
spending more time on social media than on the streets? There is | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
evidence to show that when people are bored they are more likely to | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
get into trouble and do something that is antisocial or minor crime. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Also: David Cameron makes another big speech, this time its on tax | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
dodgers. He can't get away from questions about that EU referendum. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
The Libyan city that led the uprising against Gaddafi, now | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Benghazi is too dangerous for British citizens. A Foreign Office | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
warning to get out. Two cars carrying four members of the same | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
family crash into a river. The father dies while the mother and | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
children escape. A kick that left a ball boy in pain and a Chelsea | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
player sent off has sparked a row that has divided football. And | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
coming up later on the BBC News Channel. All the sport, including | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
the man waiting in the final. World Number One, Novak Djokovic will | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six o'clock. The overall | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
level of crime in England and Wales has dropped to its lowest level for | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
more than 30 years. There are two sets of figures out today, a survey | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
of the public and the number of crimes reported to the police. Both | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
sets of figures show a drop across most categories, whether it's | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
murder or Antony social behaviour. As Mark Easton reports, experts are | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
struggling to work out what is driving this decrease in crime. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Crime has been a profound concern for generations with many people | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
still believing that it's rising. Today's figures for England and | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Wales reveal something remarkable. The chance of being a victim of | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
crime is now at its lowest level since we started measuring, more | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
than 30 years ago. By asking people about their actual experience of | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
crime, it has been calculated that overall crime has fallen 8% in a | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
year, a significant drop. Violent crime down 12%, household crime | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
down 7%, vandalism down 14%. The survey suggests crime has actually | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
halved since 1995, 10 million fewer crimes a year. Crimes reported by | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
police have also fallen, although the Office for National Statistics | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
suggests police figures may sometimes overstate the reduction | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
because of inconsistent recording systems. All the data though tells | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
a story of crime at historically low levels. The great crime mystery | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
of our times is why? One theory is that a number of anti-crime | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
measures have cipbted. Improved locks and security means cars are | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
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harder to steal, homes more difficult to burel. --burgal. | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
has been an improvement in science and DNA detection. There might be | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
wider changes that are taking place in society about the way that | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
people behave towards each other. Another theory is that the internet | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
is playing a part. Bored youngsteres who might once have | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
hung around on the street getting into trouble are more likely to be | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
online or on their mobile. They spend as much time on the web as | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
they do on TV. What we don't know is exactly what impact that has on | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
youth crime. We do know that when young people are bored there is | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
evidence to show when they are bored they are more likely to get | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
into trouble. Another theory is a ban on lead in petrol and paint. A | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
number of respected stud yisz have found strong correlations between | :04:26. | :04:34. | |
exposure and violent crime rates. Why has crime been falling in every | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
developed nation over the same period regardless of economic or | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
crime policies. It may be that the answer is technological, not | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
political. Mark is with me now. Most of the time we think that when | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
times get tough, crime goes up. This seems to suggest the opposite? | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Go back to 2008, I remember clearly the Crime Minister stating it was | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
blindingly obvious as the economy went down, crime would go up. | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Preparing us for the worst. That is not what happened. Crime continued | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
to fall through those years. In the last year it has been falling even | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
faster. It's not just a story in the UK. As I suggested in that | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
report, it's happening all over the world. It doesn't seem to matter | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
what the economic situation has been or indeed what crime policies | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
countries have. We will have to rewrite those criminology textbooks. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Thank you. David Cameron says it's high time governments around the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
world tackled the problem of tax dodging by multinational companies. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
The Prime Minister was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davox, | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Switzerland. He's met several European leaders there, including | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Germany's Angela Merkel. As our economic editor, Stephanie Flanders | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
reports, questions about his pledge to give the British people a | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
referendum on EU membership were high on the agenda. We will bring | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
you that story in a moment. A quarter of schools and colleges in | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
England failed to produce any pupils with the top A-level grades | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
needed to get into the country's leading universities. Figures | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
collated by the BBC showed that nearly 600 schools and colleges had | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
no-one achieving the two A grades and the B in the subjects preferred | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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by the so-called Russell Group of universities. There is a long way | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
to go with pupils limiting their options by choosing the wrong | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
subjects. The figures show that nearly a quarter of the 2,500 | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
schools and colleges teaching A- levels no pupils achieved the 2A | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
and one B grades in the subjects sought by the top universities. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
think the Government in everything that they are doing are | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
concentrating on the top 20%. The Government need to remember there | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
is a range of students out there with a wide range of abilities and | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
disabilities. We need to cater for all of them. A-level students in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
England study a wide variety of subjects, everything from religious | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
studies to biology. The Russell Group of leading universities, | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
including Bristol, York and Nottingham, say they most commonly | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
look for high grades in subjects like maths, physics, modern or | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
classical languages. Other subjects may be acceptable or even desirable | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
according to the course, but sometimes only in combination with | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
at least two of the others. These are the subjects that enable you to | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
keep your options open. They prepare you well for a wide range | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
of subjects. It's important that students take advice and it's | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
important that many of them study at least some of those facilitating | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
subjects. The new data also shows that over 200 schools failed to | :07:58. | :08:04. | |
reach a new Government target which requires them to have 40% of pupils | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
achieving five good GCSEs or show significant improvement. The | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Department for Education says whether students take an academic | :08:14. | :08:23. | |
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or vocational route or mix of both, standards must be high. More | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
details of the school league tables for England can be found on the BBC | :08:28. | :08:35. | |
News website: We can go back to that story about David Cameron who | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
says it's time governments around the world tackle the problem of tax | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
dodging by multinational companies. There are statesmen at Davenport | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
and there are salesmen. Today, the Prime Minister was trying to be | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
both, a day after a speech that raised big questions about | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
Britain's place in Europe. He is chairing the G8 this year, Mr | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Cameron said he wanted to use that to make sure big global companies | :09:05. | :09:15. | |
were paying their fair share of tax. I'm low-tax Conservative, I'm not | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
that companies should pay no tax Conservative. In the last 24-hours | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
you have told any business thinking about investing in the UK that we | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
might not be in the European Union in five years' time and this | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
morning you have told them that if they do come to the UK, they will | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
be put under enormous moral and public pressure to pay more tax? | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
you look at the 55 very major business leaders who have written | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
to the Times this morning say, they say this is a sensible approach. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
You are quite right to raise this issue about tax avoidance and some | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
of the moral issues attached to it. Part of the reason for raising this | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
at the G8-level is this is a problem for all countries, not just | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
for Britain. You might expect the boss of Goldman Sachs to be | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
interested in all this. The investment bank got into bother | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
when it considered delaying some staff payments to help them avoid | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
paying the top 50p rate. He said the public pressure had helped to | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
change their mind. There is a limit. Are you going to hold people to | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
public opinion because a house they could have sold in January, instead | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
they sell in May because there was a profit to be made on that house | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
because the selling price was higher than the purchase price? If | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
you do that, you are going to criminalise every right thinking | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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person who organisationers her affairs in a sensible way. Some of | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
the business leaders who maybe read about the speech for the first time | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
this morning were bewildered by it and many were concerned about the | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
uncertainty it would bring and the effect it might have on the UK | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
economy. At least one head of a major company with a lot invested | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
in the UK told me David Cameron was right, the uncertainty was already | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
there. I think UK in EU has been a good thing for everyone and will | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
continue to be. I'm for it. I don't like uncertainty, but suppressing | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
uncertainty is not the same thing as resolving it. The Prime Minister | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
met privately with the German, Dutch, Italian and Irish leaders | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
today for the first time since his speech. The general feeling here in | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Davenport is that the worst of the crisis is over, but Europe has a | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
difficult few years ahead of it. David Cameron may feel the same way. | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
The Foreign Office has told all UK nationals to leave the Libyan city | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
of Benghazi immediately. Officials said they were now aware of a | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
"specific and imminent threat" against westerners. The city, which | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
was the birthplace of the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi, has since | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
become a dangerous place for foreign nationals. Today -- today's | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
warning comes days after the end of the hostage crisis in neighbouring | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Algeria. Gordon Corera joins me now. What do we think lies behind this | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
warning? The Foreign Office have been advising against all travel to | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Benghazi. In the last few days they received intelligence of a | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
significant and immediate threat to westerners. They have told Britons | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
to leave. Not just Britons are being targeted. It it is Europeans, | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
Germans and the French and Dutch have asked their citizens to leave. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
It is a broader threat. In September the US Consulate was | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
attacked and the US ambassador to Libya was killed, Chris Stevens. In | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
the last few weeks we have seen the hostage crisis and the deaths of | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
many in Algeria. There is not thought to be a direct link to | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
Algeria. It is not thought to be the same group behind the | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
alAlgerian attack. There are a large number of terrorist groups | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
operating across North Africa who are a threat. The Libyan | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
authorities tonight have said that they are unhappy at this warning. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
They are surprised by it. It came out of the blue to them. They don't | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
know what it is based on. Immigration inspectors say they | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
have uncovered a backlog of 16,000 cases which haven't been dealt with | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
by the UK Border Agency. Most were requests to settle through marriage | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
and include people waiting a decade to hear if their partner had | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
permission to live in the UK. The Chief Inspector of immigration, | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
John Vine, described the situation as "unacceptable". An Irish nanny | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
living in Boston charged with violently assaulting a one-year-old | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
baby, who later died, could now be charged with her murder according | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
to prosecution lawyers in America. Aisling McCarthy Brady has denied | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
assaulting Rehma Sabir, whose father is British. Flowers outside | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
the home of Rehma Sabir, a little girl who had turned one. She died | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
after an alleged assault by her own nanny. This is 34-year-old Aisling | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
McCarthy Brady, wh comes from Ireland and had been living in | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
America illegally looking after children. The diagnosis for the | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
injuries is abuse of head trauma, consistent with a violent shaking | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
of a child. Prosecutors have described the severe injuries the | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
child suffered. In her room officers found bed clothes and baby | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
wipes stained with blood. A neighbour had heard what was | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
described as "extreme crying." when the police arrived they found the | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
girl breathing, but unconscious. She died in hospital two-days' | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
later. She did nothing wrong. It's a horrible tragedy for everybody, | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
the parents, the family. A sad day. Aisling McCarthy Brady came to | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
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America in 2002. She was permitted to stay for a period of time. | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
was always attentive to the children in her care. The case | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
awakens memories of the British nanny found guilty 16 years ago of | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
killing a baby boy. She was freed after her murder conviction was | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
reduced on appeal. The family of Rehma Sabir have asked for privacy. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
The girl's father was born in Britain. After pleading not guilty | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
to assault, the accused nanny was remanded in custody with bail set | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
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The changing face of war - the change allowing American women to | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
fight on the frontline. In the business news - a game of | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
two halfs. Latest figures show that bank lending on mortgages has gone | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
up, while personal loans are down. The IMF has warned Britain to ease | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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Jordan has called for emergency international aid to help deal with | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
an influx of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees T Foreign Minister | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
said it is struggling to cope with an unprecedented exodus of people | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
fleeing the Syrian conflict. Our correspondent has been to the | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
border, where every day thousands more men, women and children arrive | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
looking for help. This report does contain some upsetting images. | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Small figures in a vast crisis. Every night they come in their | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
thousands. Most are women and children, terrorised by war. And | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
for the children, how frightening is it - the war? They keep on | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
screaming. They can't sleep. They cry all the time. In the distance, | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
in the country behind them, smoke rises from an explosion. On this | :17:25. | :17:35. | |
side of the border, they meet soldiers who try to help, not kill. | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
At each border crossing our forces are there to receive them - I am | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
told. We take them somewhere safe, to restore their sense of security. | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
This is the place of safety - Zatari camp where refugees are | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
being cared for by the Jordanian Government and the UN. All day | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
people are continuing to arrive here. Some 3,000 in the past 24 | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
hours. We are told there are tens of thousands more waiting on the | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
other side of the border. All of this is putting a huge strain on | :18:10. | :18:19. | |
the resources of the camp. There are 50,000-60,000 ready to cross | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
into Jordan. We know we've done as well as we can, given the resources | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
we've got. Which is we've no resources any more. We need money | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
to expand this camp as well as open two others. So far, the UN has | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
raised just 3% of what it needs to care for the refugees in Jordan | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
over the next 12 months. Help of all kinds is needed. This woman | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
cares for her severely disabled nephew. | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
Her own husband was killed in Syria. People do what they can to create | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
some dignity in their surroundings. Among many of the refugees there's | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
a sense the world beyond the camp has abandoned them. This is a | :19:03. | :19:11. | |
disaster. A disaster. There's no value for a | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
child, for a human being. No value at all. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Where's the humanity? These are images of one day in the life of | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
Zatari camp. The new comers struggle with flinty | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
ground. The young learn quickly the burdens | :19:33. | :19:41. | |
of an adult world in turmoil. The men mourn a three-month-old | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
baby who died a few days after arriving here. It was a tragedy | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
that might easily have happened in home in Syria, but to bury their | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
child in exile deepens the grief. At twilight the people keep coming | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
by any means they can. We watched as families boarded boats on the | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
Syrian side. With their numbers growing and scant international aid | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
promised, for how much longer can A father has died after two cars | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
carrying four members of the same family crashed into a river at | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Buxton. Our correspondent is at the hospital in Stockport, where the | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
family were taken. Judith, what more do we know about what | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
happened? Well, George, this is a terribly sad story. An 11-year-old | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
girl and her nine-year-old brother were being taken to school this | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
morning in two separate cars. Incredibly both of the cars came | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
off the road at Buxton and went into the river. The whole family | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
were airlifted here to Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, where | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
the mother and children were released. Very sadly, the | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
children's father died. These two cars skidded into the | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
river near Buxton just after 8.30am. They were being driven by parents | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
who left the same house in convoy to take their two children to | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
different schools. Father and daughter came off the road first. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Then the car being driven by mother and son drove into the water. The | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
mother and children managed to escape. For 40 minutes the father | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
was stuck in the freezing water. People from further up the road, | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
who live nearby the family gave assistance. Entered the water to | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
try and get the gentleman out of the vehicle. When the police and | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
Fire Service came, they went into the water and managed to release | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
the gentleman that was still in the vehicle. The 42-year-old man was | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
airlifted to hospital in Stockport, but was pronounced dead there. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Conditions in the area today were treacherous. An investigation has | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
been launched to find out how the accident happened. With the weather | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
conditions, quite a lot of standing snow and ice on the roadway. At | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
times it does get very close, the road to the river edge. It looks as | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
though at this stage there's been a very low speed disappearance of the | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
vehicle from the road as it has gone around one of the bends. | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
cars were pulled out of the water and will be examined into why a | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
daily school run turned into such tragedy. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Women in the United States military are to be allowed to serve in | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
combat roles after the Pentagon said it would overturn a rule | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
preventing their deployment. It could open hundreds of front-line | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
positions for women. Could it happen here? Thousands of women in | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
the US military have been facing daily dangers in the frontline in | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Iraq and Afghanistan. When it comes to the fighting, it has mostly been | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
done by men. Women have been trained to kill, but prevented from | :23:11. | :23:19. | |
joining infantry units,. Women are fighting, they are dying. They have | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
shown they have great skills. As the services look at this, the one | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
thing they will probably look at is not changing training standards to | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
accommodate women. Now President Obama wants to | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
overturn the ban. He's got the backing of US military chiefs to | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
break down all barriers, already being contested in the courts. And | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
for this woman who's done two tours of Afghanistan, says it is not | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
about gender. I want to make the point we're not looking to reserve | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
spots for women. We are giving people a chance to compete. Some | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
women definitely can't do it like some men can't. Now it means they | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
will have a chance to prove themselves. Here in London the | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
Ministry of Defence says the vast majority of Britain's armed forces | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
have been opened up to women, but there is still one significant | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
exception - women continue to be barred from what's called close- | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
combat roles. In the British armed forces women are flying fighter | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
jets, they are also serving on warships and soon be allowed on | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
submarines. On the ground they are working as bomb disposal experts. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
In Afghanistan, three British service women have already lost | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
their lives. This is one retired general who does not believe they | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
will ever be equal in battle. cannot afford to have anything but | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
the strongest, the fittest, the most determined people engaging the | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
enemy. I would reject -- regret the day when we find ourselves lowering | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
standard to be and I realise it's not the right expression, to be | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
nice and correct and not sexist to people. America is opening the way | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
for woman to serve in combat. In Britain, the MoD says it has no | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
plans to follow, it will be hard to ignore the changes of its closest | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
ally. Chelsea's Eden Hazard may face | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
further punishment after being sent off for kicking a Swansea City ball | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
ball. Eden Hazard since apologised but the FA are reviewing the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
incident. Officially in football, the ball | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
boy is neutral, but his role can be tactical. When the home team is on | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
top, time is running out. 17-year- old Charlie Morgan had it. | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
Chelsea's Eden Hazard wanted it - situation resolved by a boot to the | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
ribs. Hazardous indeed! The boy just put his whole body on | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
to the ball. I tried to kick the ball. I have apologised. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
There was no appearance from the ball boy in Wales today. No comment | :26:11. | :26:17. | |
for the hopeful media near his home. Outside Swansea City, measured | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
sympathy. I can see why Chelsea are angry over it. These things happen, | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
don't they? I thought that the ball boy was out of order. Hazard should | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
never have done that. Chelsea, the European champions, desperately | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
needing positive headlines. Their players have been involved in | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
controversies recently. There are some who feel that Eden Hazard was | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
the injured party at swn sea. The -- Swansea. The billion boy's | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
job is to give the ball back. I think his behaviour is disgraceful. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
The FA are reviewing the incident. Hazard faces a three-match ban. As | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
for Charlie Morgan, he admitted on Twitter that time wasting is part | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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Wintry and wet. Certainly wintry for the next 24 hours. We have got | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
an amber warning in force for heavy snow. It is for the second half of | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
tomorrow. It is worth bearing in mind it will be tricky to travel | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
before this cold snap ends. Ahead of that, fairly cold tonight. A | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
wide-spread frost. There'll be ice around once again. Snow into the | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
far north-west of Scotland. This is all rain out west. Temperatures | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
will start to rise by the start of the day tomorrow. Six Celsius in | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
Plymouth w rain approaching. Head further north and east, you are | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
back into the cold weather again. Minus five and minus six Celsius in | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
parts. Four or five Celsius and rain in Northern Ireland at this | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
time of the day. That snow will melt very, very quickly. The rain | :28:09. | :28:15. | |
will edge in across Scotland - it is hitting cold air so turning into | :28:15. | :28:21. | |
snow. It is across Scotland we will see the effects oh that snow. | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
-- of that snow. Western areas - temperatures rising | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
all the while. Head further east and it is chilly. | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
It will feel raw through the afternoon. With that cold air in | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
place though, this weather front continues to move eastwards, we get | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
that snow piling in for a time during Friday evening. If you have | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
got travel plans, the earlier you can travel the better to avoid that | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
snow. It clears through, but there is likely to be travel disruption | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
for a time during Friday and Friday night. The travel pages of the BBC | :28:56. | :29:00. |