13/09/2013 BBC News at Six

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Police in Leicester say

they're treating the deaths of a woman and her three teenage children

in a house fire in the middle of the night as murder. Emergency crews

fought to save the family, but all four were found dead in their

bedrooms. Only the father has four were found dead in their

survived, he was away working in Ireland. Detectives say it may have

been a revenge attack linked to the murder of a man nearby several hours

earlier. Our reporter Sian Lloyd is at the scene.

A mother who was in her 40s and were found in I could see the house was

on fire. I could see a blazing up and went and you could see the

staircase. The door was open, the staircase was fire. If you were

upstairs, there was no way to get down. In the mosque, from home

during the week at a hospital in Ireland. It is understood he

returned to Leicester on being told of I saw people, helping a lot of

told to keep away from him. Give him some time so we can sort out the

issues and community members. Three days of mourning will be held by the

local religious community who are struggling to understand why this

family forensic officers are carrying out their work and a

fingertip search of the neighbourhood is also underway.

Police don't yet know what caused the blaze. But what happened on this

nearby road yesterday could hold a clue. A 20-year-old man was attacked

last night. And later died in hospital. Police say they are not

ruling out a possible link between the two crimes. I can't confirm here

and now it is a revenge attack. It may be or it may not be bad lines of

enquiry will certainly get to the may be or it may not be bad lines of

bottom of that. What happened here this morning is still unclear.

Police say they need the help of the community in Leicester to piece

together why a quiet studious family were the subject of an arson attack.

Community leaders are meeting police officers this evening. There was a

great deal of controversy tonight. Local people have a clearer picture

of what happened and will emerge over the coming days. The location

of all children's homes in England has been revealed for the first

time, showing that nearly half of youngsters in care are in places far

from their home and family. A new Department for Education report also

reveals some councils are placing all their children outside their own

local authority areas. The Education Secretary described the practice as

indefensible. Reeta Chakrabarti reports. For this young man, the

term care home is a contradiction in terms because he says he received no

care. Between the ages of 11 and 16, terms because he says he received no

he was moved eight times, far from his family home in London and on one

I hated the world and that was because of the way I felt I was

raised. I did not feel Love from anyone. I did not feel care from

anyone and that made me angry. And I showed it to people. I was itching

anyone and that made me angry. And I for fights. I spent suicidal. He

won't use his childhood as an excuse for spending time in prison for

robbery but wonders what life might have been like otherwise. That

experience might not be uncommon. Figures released today for 2012 show

that, outside their area. The government collected the data after

the jailing last year of nine men from Rochdale and old for child

sexual exploitation. One of the victims was in a home having been

relocated from Essex local authorities they sometimes are good

reasons for sending children away. Councils will often look to place

children away from home to break the cycle of abuse, to get a child away

from someone like a paedophile, who may be grooming them, drugs gang who

could be trying to draw them in. By moving them away from that, can give

them a chance for a fresh start. Ministers accept that but say

councils and others have failed to be clear about who was in their

councils and others have failed to homes and where they are. The

Secretary of State Michael Gove said homes and where they are. The

he met with a wall of silence because of what he called

he met with a wall of silence rules preventing these details from

being shared. How society shares the rules preventing these details from

information of vulnerable children came under scrutiny authorities of

hiding to provide examination of how children Time and time again in this

area, the rules which are there to protect children's identity are

being used and distorted by the public authorities who do not want

scrutiny of their own actions and they are not properly accountable to

the taxpayer, who is spending a fortune. Some have left the care

system and been scarred by it. The government says, armed with a new

data, it will try to improve life for those 12 men have been arrested

for an alleged plot to steal millions of pounds from Santander

bank by taking remote control of a computer. Officers say they believe

a bogus workman intended to fit a device inside a branch computer

which would have enabled the thieves to download reams of customer data.

Ben Geoghan reports. This bank is in the target of what police say was a

sophisticated and audacious plot. There was no physical break-in, nor

a man with a gun at the counter. Instead, criminals tried to connect

a device to a computer inside the bank which could have allowed them

to steal they used a gadget similar to this one. It is the keyboard

video mask device. The gang hoped it would give remote access to details

of customers accounts, which they could then used to commute that

commit fraud. Yesterday afternoon, man came to this bank lending to be

a maintenance engineer. He tried to fit the device to one of the

computers inside but was unsuccessful. Staff became

suspicious and raise the alarm. Today, the bank said no money was

ever at risk. There have been warnings the UK is a

prime target for so-called cyber criminals. The Metropolitan

Police's a central unit have arrested Santanderthere have been

warnings the UK is a prime target for so-called cyber criminals. The

Metropolitan 's a central unit have arrested 12 people connected with

the plot. PoliceSearchers have been carried out in at least six

locations. Some other gangs may not be technical at all but what they

hiring people to help them please save the most significant case of

hiring people to help them please its kind ever come across which

could have led to the loss of a very large Four men who raped and

murdered a student on a bus in Delhi have been sentenced to death. The

attack on the 23-year-old woman led to days of violent demonstrations in

India. This morning the judge rejected pleas for lighter sentences

saying the case fell in the rarest of rare category. How to secure

Syria's chemical weapons and put them beyond use was the focus of a

second day of talks between Russia and America. Speaking in Geneva, the

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the talks had been constructive

and could lead to a wider initiative to end the conflict. But the details

of how to dispose of Syria's entire chemical arsenal will not be easy to

resolve.This report from James Robbins contains flash photography.

It's been a long day 's talking. We glimpsed Russia's Foreign Minister

It's been a long day 's talking. We Sergei Lavrov on the phone in a

break from the search for common ground with his American

counterpart. John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov are said to get on well and

have even been looking ahead with a top UN official to the possibility

of wider peace talks but first I have to reduce differences over the

chemical weapons issue, not least have to reduce differences over the

the right to the ministry -- strikes. I think a constructive

conversation regarding that but those conversations are continuing

and both of us want to get President Putin has been meeting leaders in

Central Asia as architect of the armament plan, he sounds bullish.

TRANSLATION: The initiative to establish control over Syrian

chemical weapons is underway and wheat attach much significance to.

Hope for positive results which should lead to a peaceful or at

least create conditions for a peaceful settlement the crisis. And

are still big undersold tensions between the USA and Russia at these

talks. Quite apart from that, behind me the right chemical weapons

experts from both countries working together to devise a safe and

practical ways of dealing with President Assad's chemical arsenal,

if he does keep to his word. America and Britain are amongst countries

were to dispose of chemical weapons. The USA spent many years and

billions of dollars destroying its own stocks. Getting rid of Syrian

chemical is likely to be a. Syria's docs thought to contain nerve agents

like this, mustard gas and believed to be held at 50 sites across the

country. Scientists stress the enormous complexity of disposing of

the shells and their content. Disposal could involve separating

high explosives, neutralising the liquid inside with other chemicals,

and burning them in special furnaces. The empty shells

themselves may end the destruction of these weapons will take some

time. We're not talking about weeks but months, and it will depend on

the complexity, whether the chemical is stored in bulk, precursor

chemicals that he mixed together to make the chemical weapon, and

whether you have got munitions with the chemicals in. An even bigger

prize, of course, would need to bring an end to all this. The daily

killing with conventional weapons in Syria. The War crimes on both sides

are accused of even if most are blamed on government forces. Ending

the agony of Syria's Civil war remains a much Well Britain has

pledged to lead the world in its humanitarian response to the crisis.

Other countries including Germany are accepting refugees from Syria,

but the government here says there are no plans to do the same. The UK

is however committing £400 million to provide help. And many British

charities have been raising funds for those most in need. Our

correspondent Jeremy Cooke has spent the day with one of them in

Nottingham. All of this stuff, the baby milk, the nappies and the boxes

of children's clothes have all been donated by the British public but

it's all be the Syrian community who are desperate to do something, to do

anything, as this humanitarian crisis continues to unfold. , mum

Tracey from Yorkshire, the father from Syria. The girls are growing up

in both countries. And now they are he was outside Damascus and I

believe they over Arabic tea, the talk is not so much of chemical

weapons and diplomatic manoeuvring, for them, it's about so many they

need help desperately, they need for them, it's about so many they

something now, not later. Now. It's happening. On isn't one thing, they

have heard David Cameron's promised to lead the there may be these

extensions for Syrians already in the UK but no plans to match

Germany's commitment to it needs to follow Germany's lead and if they

say they care, they need to do something about it, and stop talking

about it. They can do it, so why not act now when is not all about the

government. The UK's Assyrian community is doing all it can,

especially for they are sat in Syria, waiting for their turn, am I

going to get food, and I don't get my baby some milk? So when the day

came and we saw the we the desperate need is for information. But the

Internet is down. And the What we do know is that all of this is so badly

needed. Over the weekend it will be loaded into a container and driven

over land to be in Syria within the next couple of weeks is.

Our top story: A mother and her three children are

killed in a house fire in Leicester. The police say it is murder.

Coming up: Critics claim it is dangerously hot

and must be moved to winter, but the man behind the Qatar World Cup says

the tournament will go ahead, whatever the weather.

And coming up in Sportsday, all of the football and we hear from

Jessica Ennis-Hill on her nightmare year and why she will not have

Achilles surgery. It has revolutionised parts of the

internet to become a global cultural force in its own right. Twitter

famously allows users to post messages on the web of 140

characters or less. That happens 500 million times every day. It makes

the site a big draw for advertisers. Now it is to be floated on the stock

exchange, valued at an estimated six point £3 billion. Our technology

correspondent has the details. -- 6.3 billion.

Many people have decided a tweet is the best way to speak to the world,

publicise your latest album, or to announce an impending birth. Even

the Pope now uses Twitter, sending messages to almost 3 million

followers. It is their instant news channel to spread the word about

what they are doing. It allows them to connect to their fans, to build a

huge fan base following, and ultimately to sell stuff. Twitter

has also become the way kinds of news breaks. When a plane landed on

the Hudson River, the first photo was tweeted by a witness. As the

hunt for Osama Bin Laden reached its conclusion, a tweet in Pakistan was

the first to tell the world what was happening. But now, as Twitter

prepares to float on the New York Stock Exchange, the question is,

what makes this free service a valuable business? Here is how it

started in 2006 with the first tweet and the first typo by one of the

founders. For years, they just concentrated on growing the audience

from that one user. By 2008, there were 1 million of them, and that has

now reached 200 million. Only recently has Twitter thought about

making money, and this year it is on course to earn £380 million in

revenue. John Campbell shows companies how to use Twitter to

promote their products. Twitter have been clever in that the advertising

is very subtle. Many users do not know there is Twitter there, which

is one of the appeals to consumers and advertisers. Increasingly that

will change and perhaps advertising will become slightly more intrusive.

But as it stands, it is a platform many people enjoy using because of

the apparent lack of advertising. Twitter has been under fire over

offensive behaviour by some users. Now, the plan for a share sale,

announced in a tweet, means more pressure to behave like a grown-up

company. Thousands of people have been warned

to evacuate parts of Colorado to escape what officials have described

as a 100 year flood. Storm rains have killed at least three people,

with rescue crews struggling to reach stranded communities.

The roads have come rivers, and canyons are overflowing, as the

record downpour in the Rocky Mountains has forced thousands of

people to flee their homes. Flash floods caught motorists unaware.

Some tried to make their way on foot. This woman battled the

powerful flow of the water before finally being helped to safety. Late

summer and a normally brings relief from intense heat, but unusual

weather patterns brought half a year of rain in just a few hours. Homes

have been washed away. This man desperately tried to signal for

help. Rescuers have been trying to reach those caught in rising

floodwaters. This man was trapped for an hour. He found a pocket of

air and he was just sitting there breathing in that pocket of air

until the dive team could get to him. The weather forecasters say

there is more to come, as all-time rainfall records continue to be

broken. Annual house price rises should be

capped at 5%, amid concerns the UK could be heading for another housing

bubble, according to a group of leading surveyors, who claimed the

proposed limit would prevent buyers getting too deep into debt. It

follows the business Secretary's comments earlier this year that a

government help to buy a scheme could fuel a -- and unsustainable

rise in house prices. Home to Kings, colleges and

cathedrals, Winchester is also location, location, location for

some of the highest property prices in Britain. For sellers and buyers

like Rachel and Ian, the idea of capping price rises brings a mixed

response. Ian is a first-time buyer and he says price caps are good

idea. Just something to stop prices from spiralling out of control. I am

trying to buy a place and everything is so expensive, so I would be up

for it. But Rachel has just put her house on the market, and she says

price caps are the wrong way to go. I want to maximise the price I can

get for my house, so I can buy the next home for our family. I

appreciate it is difficult for next home for our family. I

first-time buyers but I think the market has to work everybody. You do

not have to look far for house -- high house prices here. This one is

worth £1.1 million. This one is selling at £1.2 million, and this

one is £1.7 million. And this one is selling at £1.2 million, and this

worth £1.2 million. The whole idea of rice capping is to stop these

fluctuations of recent years. -- price capping. Six years ago, prices

were rising by 10%, then they dropped 20%, and now they are up

again, 3.5% in some places. To cap price rises would mean there is

curbs on mortgage lending, but what works in Winchester might not work

in Leeds. Those in the housing industry say limiting mortgages, or

loan to value ratios, is not the way forward to help buyers or sellers. I

do not think there are enough householders moving at the moment.

Prices are not moving as much as people think they are, judging

purely on London. Until we get that happening, it is going to slow down

the market. With so many property markets around the country, price

caps may be ahead of their time. The priority now is recovery, not

restrictions. The leader of the Green Party,

Natalie Bennett, has told supporters at their annual conference in

Brighton that the Greens are the only alternative to the

indistinguishable big Westminster parties. She used her opening speech

to attack the government's welfare reforms and also condemned the

involvement of private firms in the Royal Mail and the NHS. The NHS is a

national jewel that must be grabbed back from the jewel thieves. It must

be polished and set back again in pride of place. The profit motive

has no place in the health care system, and we will not rest until

we have expelled every last corporate bloodsucker from our NHS.

The man in charge of that 2022 football World Cup in Qatar insists

his country is the right place for the competition despite concerns

about extreme temperatures during the tournament. It is now expected

to be staged in winter months to avoid the heat, but that is not

satisfied some critics. Our correspondent went to meet

Hassan al-Thawadi at the world 's oldest football club, Sheffield

city. The 2022 World Cup is Qatar. Nearly

three years after being unexpectedly awarded the World Cup, Qatar are

fighting back against critics. In his first major interview on his

country's plans, the head of Qatar's World Cup told me, having

won the bid, they will not be giving it up. Somebody's gain to take the

World Cup away from us? No, absolutely not. There is no reason

for it. Every promise we have provided during the bidding stage,

we have worked very hard to ensure we are within the rules of the

bidding and the hosting agreement. But concerns are mounting. This

week, the head of world football, set blatter, said that holding the

tournament during the summer is not the right thing to do. Greg Dyke,

chairman of the football Association, said they have two

choices, they can move the time or to another location. And the Premier

League Chief Executive believes an awful lot of chaos would be caused

across world football if it got moved.

Those views stem from the extreme heat that the Gulf state experiences

in June and July, but Qatar insists it can welcome the world at any time

of year. I would like to assure everybody that is not impossible to

host the World Cup in the summer, absolutely not. Everybody seems to

think it is impossible. The 50 degrees number seems to be plastered

on. That is the extreme. Whether it is in June, July, November,

December, May, January, February, any moment in time, we are ready to

host it at any time. As the first World Cup in an Islamic state, many

fans will experience different social attitudes in Qatar. Hassan

al-Thawadi must now deliver a successful event. You ring a visit

to the world 's oldest football club, the newest football club in

the game agreed to meet supporters to answer their questions. Even as a

fan wanting to visit, what are the issues with alcohol? Alcohol is

available. Not as readily available as anywhere in England, because it

is not part of our culture and tradition. The current laws in Qatar

are such that gay men are not allowed to be themselves if they

want to come to the World Cup. We have our own beliefs, but it does

not been we will judge anybody or restrict anybody. -- it does not

mean. Qatar may be small in size but it is big on ambition. There is a

desire to dazzle and exceed expectations. The World Cup brings

football together, but a tournament that is still nine years away is

threatening to divide the game. You can hear that interview in full

at 7pm on Radio five Live. Time for the weather. It is looking good for

some and terrible for others. I will summarise what is heading our

way at the top of the forecast. Saturday is the quiet day, OK. Gales

and rain for many across northern Britain on Sunday, and some of that

bad weather will last right into Monday. So a spell of pretty

unpleasant weather on the way. Here and now, there is rain across the

southern part of the UK, probably lashing against your windows. That

will last in some areas until the early hours of Saturday morning.

North-west Scotland will be quite clear through the night and quite

chilly as well. The forecast for tomorrow is not bad. The weekend is

not a complete write-off. There will be some sunshine. But the big change

comes as we head into Sunday. This area of low pressure that we have

been forecasting four days, the first autumn storm, heading our

way. Lots of strong wind. We are not forecasting gales everywhere. They

will be reserved to coasts and hills. Inland, wet, which -- windy,

and there could be some disruption for the ferry crossings across the

Irish Sea and around Scotland. Also, if you are travelling on

exposed roots there could be some branches and the odd tree could

fall. The trees have lots of leaves, so big resistance against the wind.

And lots of rain heading our way. Plenty of rain for the great North

run. Very strong wind blowing from the south-west. And you know what,

it will not be great heading into Monday. Gales could even strengthen

for a time across northern Britain, particularly through the low land of

Scotland. To the south, it should quieten down over time we get to

Monday. Autumn is knocking on the door.