:00:13. > :00:25.concern is growing. We need to look at the wide range of possibilities
:00:26. > :00:29.of what might have happened. It is of grave concern that such a young
:00:30. > :00:30.child has been missing for such a long time.
:00:31. > :00:34.Mikaeel Kular has been missing since Wednesday night when his mother put
:00:35. > :00:36.him to bed. Officers say there was a possible sighting of him yesterday
:00:37. > :00:40.morning but it's not confirmed. Also tonight, Ed Miliband pledges to
:00:41. > :00:43.break up the big high street banks if Labour wins the next election.
:00:44. > :00:46.The pensioner who might have lived if he hadn't been left waiting over
:00:47. > :00:49.40 minutes for an ambulance. The otter pups and other wildlife
:00:50. > :00:53.struggling to survive, as flooding continues to devastate parts of the
:00:54. > :00:57.UK. And the Japanese soldier who refused
:00:58. > :00:58.to believe World War II was over, and fought on for 29 years, has
:00:59. > :01:05.died. On BBC London: Thousands of
:01:06. > :01:08.commuters are left stranded after disruption to services in and out of
:01:09. > :01:11.St Pancras. And the legal row which has blocked
:01:12. > :01:32.the government turning a school into an academy.
:01:33. > :01:37.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.
:01:38. > :01:39.Hundreds of police officers on foot, on horseback, with sniffer dogs and
:01:40. > :01:41.helicopters, all helped by local volunteers, are searching for the
:01:42. > :01:47.missing three-year-old Mikaeel Kular. The police say they are
:01:48. > :01:52.investigating the possibility he may have gone missing following what
:01:53. > :01:55.they call a "criminal act". There has been a potential sighting of the
:01:56. > :01:59.boy at 8.30 yesterday morning, but it's not been confirmed as him. The
:02:00. > :02:02.police have praised the local community spirit but say they are
:02:03. > :02:06.deeply concerned. There has been no confirmed sighting of Mikaeel since
:02:07. > :02:10.he was put to bed by his mother two days ago at their home in Edinburgh.
:02:11. > :02:13.In the hunt for the little boy, all police forces have been put on alert
:02:14. > :02:23.across the UK. Our Scotland correspondent Lorna Gordon has the
:02:24. > :02:28.very latest for us in Edinburgh now. A countrywide alert, but the focus
:02:29. > :02:32.of that search still remains very much centred on the area around
:02:33. > :02:39.Mikaeel's home in the north of Edinburgh, and police are adamant
:02:40. > :02:45.that community help here is vital. Dei two in the search for Mikaeel
:02:46. > :02:50.Kular. Hundreds of volunteers responded to an appeal for help. The
:02:51. > :02:55.young, those with families, mothers with their prams. If that was
:02:56. > :02:59.yourself, you would hope that everybody else would be doing the
:03:00. > :03:05.same for you. With mums, it really hits home when kids go missing.
:03:06. > :03:09.Searchers, standing shoulder to shoulder, dressed for the weather.
:03:10. > :03:15.Some doing their job, others donating their time and energy.
:03:16. > :03:20.Police have organised locals into this systematic search of the
:03:21. > :03:24.Edinburgh shoreline. It was checked carefully for clues yesterday, but
:03:25. > :03:29.once again they are sweeping the area, slowly, carefully, looking for
:03:30. > :03:35.any signs, any indication as to where Mikaeel has gone. On one
:03:36. > :03:38.side, the city, and the other, the fourth. Fanning out across the
:03:39. > :03:46.foreshore, searching shrub land and trees. I will stay as long as I am
:03:47. > :03:53.needed to might. To find the little boy. Side. What do we know so far?
:03:54. > :03:57.Mikaeel Kular was last seen when his mother put into bed at nine o'clock
:03:58. > :04:01.on Wednesday evening. The next morning, he had vanished. Police
:04:02. > :04:05.began searching for him shortly afterwards and by yesterday
:04:06. > :04:10.afternoon a UK -wide appeal for information was issued. Police are
:04:11. > :04:14.investigating claims that a child matching Mikaeel's description was
:04:15. > :04:17.seen on this street on the morning he disappeared, and they are keeping
:04:18. > :04:23.an open mind about why he went missing. It is, however, entirely
:04:24. > :04:29.possible that Mikaeel has become the subject of a criminal act. And our
:04:30. > :04:34.investigation has been established as a twin track, to ensure that that
:04:35. > :04:41.eventuality is being and will be fully explored. At Mikaeel's
:04:42. > :04:46.Nursery, parents expressed their shock. He is in my son's class. I
:04:47. > :04:52.can't imagine going through that, getting up and not finding him
:04:53. > :04:56.there. It is just awful. It seems surreal, observed that a little boy
:04:57. > :05:00.could walk out of the house. My son is the same age and there is no way
:05:01. > :05:04.he could get his coat and his shoes on. From fliers handed out locally
:05:05. > :05:09.to digital billboards across Britain, Mikaeel's images
:05:10. > :05:14.everywhere. There is grave concern that this little boy has now been
:05:15. > :05:18.missing for almost 48 hours, and his family are desperate to get him
:05:19. > :05:21.home. With the police talking about the
:05:22. > :05:27.possibility of a criminal act, does this mark a change in emphasis in
:05:28. > :05:30.the investigation? I think more information is slowly coming from
:05:31. > :05:34.the police but they are keen to emphasise that they are keeping an
:05:35. > :05:37.open mind. There is nothing to confirm either way why Mikaeel has
:05:38. > :05:43.gone missing. Their priority, of course, is to find them -- the
:05:44. > :05:46.little boy. They are also trying to work out whether someone else was
:05:47. > :05:51.involved in his disappearance. He is just three years old, two feet tall.
:05:52. > :05:54.They will be trying to ascertain whether he has the strength to open
:05:55. > :05:59.the door in the secure building behind me, where he lived, with a
:06:00. > :06:01.secure entry system. They will be trying to work out whether he could
:06:02. > :06:05.have left of his own accord, or whether someone else was involved.
:06:06. > :06:09.Some more details on the timeline this evening. They say Mikaeel has
:06:10. > :06:13.not been seen at his nursery since Christmas because of a poorly chest.
:06:14. > :06:16.So we know a little more about the past couple of weeks. It is what has
:06:17. > :06:20.happened over the past 48 hours that they are now trying to work out.
:06:21. > :06:23.The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has outlined his plans to break up
:06:24. > :06:26.Britain's high street banks if his party wins the next election. He
:06:27. > :06:29.says it's time for a "reckoning" with the industry, and that a Labour
:06:30. > :06:32.government would create at least two so-called "challenger banks", by
:06:33. > :06:34.forcing some of the Big Five to sell off branches. The government says
:06:35. > :06:40.it's done that already. Our political editor, Nick Robinson,
:06:41. > :06:46.reports. Please welcome Ed Miliband. A movie
:06:47. > :06:51.star entrance for the Labour leader today, staged a party determined to
:06:52. > :06:58.present him as man enough to stage a showdown with Britain's vested
:06:59. > :07:03.interests. We need a reckoning with our banks, not for retribution, but
:07:04. > :07:06.for reform. That word, reckoning, is the one that they use in the movies
:07:07. > :07:13.when there is a list of misdeeds to avenge. Misdeeds that Ed Miliband
:07:14. > :07:19.listed. Insecure jobs, house prices out of reach, bills too high, thanks
:07:20. > :07:21.not serving the real economy, and David Cameron and George Osborne one
:07:22. > :07:26.congratulations how well they are doing. The return of economic
:07:27. > :07:31.growth, he said, would not solve those problems. If they really
:07:32. > :07:35.believe that a few months of better statistics are going to solve the
:07:36. > :07:39.cost of living crisis, they only go to show they have absolutely no clue
:07:40. > :07:46.about the scale of the problem, or the scale of the solutions required.
:07:47. > :07:52.And today's big Labour solution is a plan to break up Britain's August
:07:53. > :07:59.banks. In Britain, 85% of the small-business lending market is
:08:00. > :08:02.controlled by just format the banks. -- by just four banks. That is one
:08:03. > :08:06.of the most concentrated patterns of ownership in the world. So what is
:08:07. > :08:11.his plan for the reckoning with the big banks? A Labour government, he
:08:12. > :08:15.said, would order an immediate enquiry by competition authorities.
:08:16. > :08:21.A new cap would come on the size that any bank could reach. The aim
:08:22. > :08:24.would be to create two big new competitor banks, challenger banks.
:08:25. > :08:29.Watching the Labour leader in Essex, the boss and the workers of a small
:08:30. > :08:34.IT firm which struggled to raise the funds they needed to expand their
:08:35. > :08:37.business. He talked a lot of sense today, as to what he would do, and
:08:38. > :08:43.tackling the banks and tackling lending to small businesses is
:08:44. > :08:47.crucial. Very crucial. I think a lot of it could be rhetoric, just giving
:08:48. > :08:52.us what we want to hear. And I am quite sceptical. The Prime
:08:53. > :08:56.Minister, and a visit to a road scheme in Norfolk insisted that the
:08:57. > :09:02.coalition was already acting to produce more banking competition. We
:09:03. > :09:09.have been clearing up the mess made by balls and sorting out our banking
:09:10. > :09:16.system, and it is much stronger than Labour. What really need is a whole
:09:17. > :09:21.new plan. I certainly agree we need competition to support business in
:09:22. > :09:24.the recovery, but he is not reinventing the wheel. We have
:09:25. > :09:29.already created two challenger banks out of RBS and Lloyds. At this
:09:30. > :09:33.London brewery, Ed Miliband heard a welcome for his banking plan.
:09:34. > :09:36.Tonight, perhaps he will raise a glass to one more eye-catching
:09:37. > :09:42.policy announcement which he will hope the electorate like the taste
:09:43. > :09:46.of. Great, really nice. Given the anger of many voters, the next
:09:47. > :09:49.election is sure to be what they call it the movies a day of the
:09:50. > :09:53.canning. The fight is over who it will be with. Will it be, as the
:09:54. > :09:58.Labour leadership hope, with the powerful banks and the energy
:09:59. > :10:02.companies, or as the Tories wish, with Labour's record?
:10:03. > :10:05.A woman who accuses the Coronation Street actor William Roache of
:10:06. > :10:09.raping her has told Preston Crown Court she was so humiliated she kept
:10:10. > :10:12.it a secret. She told the jury that the actor, who is 81, raped her
:10:13. > :10:17.twice at his homes in Lancashire in 1967. Mr Roache denies two counts of
:10:18. > :10:22.rape and five counts of indecent assault. The trial continues.
:10:23. > :10:24.A soldier who killed his 20-month-old daughter after
:10:25. > :10:29.surviving an attack in Afghanistan in which five of his fellow soldiers
:10:30. > :10:32.died has been jailed for six years. Lance Corporal Liam Culverhouse, who
:10:33. > :10:43.was a Grenadier Guardsman, admitted causing the death of Khloe Abrams at
:10:44. > :10:47.an earlier hearing. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale joins
:10:48. > :10:52.me from outside the court. This is a deeply distressing case, and one in
:10:53. > :10:59.which the judge said Post traumatic stress disorder played a part. Yes,
:11:00. > :11:03.Liam Culverhouse's lawyer said he had never properly been treated for
:11:04. > :11:07.that. That said, the judge when he was sentencing made the point that
:11:08. > :11:11.despite his injuries, mental and physical, from Afghanistan, he was
:11:12. > :11:16.still culpable for the death of baby Khloe. We heard that Liam
:11:17. > :11:20.Culverhouse had a violent temper, but also expressed concern about
:11:21. > :11:24.being left alone with his children. Baby Khloe was taken to hospital at
:11:25. > :11:28.seven weeks old, suffering from multiple fractures to her skull, her
:11:29. > :11:35.limbs and her body. And we now know that she is somebody who died in
:11:36. > :11:38.that incident. Now, we are told there is a serious case review going
:11:39. > :11:42.on at this moment which will seriously ask some of those
:11:43. > :11:46.questions about why the warning signs weren't picked up earlier.
:11:47. > :11:50.Thank you very much. An inquest has heard that a man who
:11:51. > :11:52.died after waiting 42 minutes for an ambulance to arrive might have
:11:53. > :11:55.survived if paramedics had reached him earlier. 74-year-old Fred Pring,
:11:56. > :11:59.from Flintshire, lay dying while his wife called 999 four times. It's
:12:00. > :12:03.emerged an ambulance had been stuck at the local hospital for nearly
:12:04. > :12:11.five hours waiting to drop off a patient. Our correspondent Sian
:12:12. > :12:15.Lloyd reports. Fred Pring was described as a quiet
:12:16. > :12:20.family man who had to leave the gardening job he loved when his
:12:21. > :12:22.health began to fail. He had a serious heart condition but still
:12:23. > :12:27.enjoyed going out and about. They were good times, although they did
:12:28. > :12:32.not last long enough, because obviously that was the last couple
:12:33. > :12:36.of years of his life. In the early hours of the 21st of March last
:12:37. > :12:41.year, he suffered severe chest pains and his wife called for an
:12:42. > :12:44.ambulance. It was awful watching him in such pain and struggling for
:12:45. > :12:50.breath. And he kept telling me to get them to hurry up, which, you
:12:51. > :12:57.know, it's just sort of not much you can do except ring. And they just
:12:58. > :13:00.didn't come. The inquest heard recordings of four calls Mrs Pring
:13:01. > :13:06.made to the Welsh Ambulance Service. In the first call, the operator told
:13:07. > :13:10.Mrs Pring, we are organising help. Ten minutes later, Mrs Pring sounded
:13:11. > :13:15.very anxious. The operator said, they are coming as quickly as they
:13:16. > :13:23.can. Mr Pring's groans of pain could clearly be heard. His wife said, he
:13:24. > :13:27.is in agony. At 1:38am, Mrs Pring phoned again. He is barely
:13:28. > :13:31.breathing, she said. The operator replied, I am organising help for
:13:32. > :13:36.you. It will be there as soon as it can. At 1:51am she made the final
:13:37. > :13:41.call. It's too late, he's gone, she said. The chief executive of the
:13:42. > :13:44.Ambulance Service told the inquest it had underperformed and promised
:13:45. > :13:49.it is making improvements. He has previously apologised to Mrs Pring.
:13:50. > :13:54.We can't give a comment today because we haven't had the verdict
:13:55. > :14:00.from the coroner. We'll see his report and we will comment on
:14:01. > :14:06.Monday. The Welsh Ambulance Service said because of delays in getting
:14:07. > :14:08.patients out of ambulances and into A units, including this one in
:14:09. > :14:13.Wrexham, they simply did not have enough ambulances to get to Mr Pring
:14:14. > :14:18.on time. Six vehicles were waiting outside the hospital. One suffered
:14:19. > :14:25.almost a five-hour delay. Other crews were on non-disturber bull
:14:26. > :14:31.meal breaks. In Wales, patient transfer times into a and E are the
:14:32. > :14:33.longest in the UK. The Ambulance Service has constantly struggled to
:14:34. > :14:37.meet its target of responding to calls within eight minutes. The
:14:38. > :14:44.coroner will record its findings on Mr Pring's death on Monday.
:14:45. > :14:47.Our top story this evening. As hundreds join the search for the
:14:48. > :14:50.missing three-year-old Mikaeel Kular, police say he may have gone
:14:51. > :14:53.missing following a criminal act. A new manager for the England
:14:54. > :14:54.women's football team. We go behind the scenes at their winter training
:14:55. > :15:00.camp. Later on BBC London. A claim that
:15:01. > :15:02.disabled passengers struggle to access the Tube because of staff
:15:03. > :15:06.shortages. And London's only hope in Europe. We
:15:07. > :15:18.join Saracens in training for their Heineken Cup clash this weekend.
:15:19. > :15:23.Now to the bad weather which has battered the country over recent
:15:24. > :15:26.weeks. The storms have left local councils struggling to repair the
:15:27. > :15:33.damage to roads. They've estimated the bill at ?400 million in England
:15:34. > :15:35.and Wales alone. And there's no let up, it seems. There was more misery
:15:36. > :15:40.for commuters this morning. These drivers in Essex were struggling
:15:41. > :15:43.through flood water. Now the BBC has seen the first major study, by the
:15:44. > :15:47.Environment Agency, of the impact on some of Britain's most important
:15:48. > :15:52.wildlife habitats. 48 sites of special scientific interest have
:15:53. > :15:55.been severely affected. It's thought it's the worst damage ever recorded.
:15:56. > :16:05.Our science editor, David Shukman, explains.
:16:06. > :16:11.Seal pups in a rescue centre, separated from their mother by a
:16:12. > :16:15.violent tidal surge. Now cared for by the RSPCA, these pups are lucky
:16:16. > :16:23.survivors. An unknown number were swept away. Baby otters, find --
:16:24. > :16:27.found on a road, also believed to be victims of flooding. And on the
:16:28. > :16:32.Norfolk coast, the RSPB filmed one of the many birds that didn't get
:16:33. > :16:37.away. What's emerging is how wildlife has suffered in this winter
:16:38. > :16:40.of storms. This is worse than anything we have ever seen before.
:16:41. > :16:46.This tidal surge was the highest ever recorded in many parts. The
:16:47. > :16:51.impact these wildlife sites is, in some cases, devastating. Up and down
:16:52. > :16:57.the coast, nature reserves have been ruined. Sea water now flows through
:16:58. > :17:01.breaches in the flood defences. This wrecked embankment is just one of
:17:02. > :17:07.countless examples of the damage. Even now, the full extent isn't
:17:08. > :17:11.known. This is one of many places where the sea has just punched a
:17:12. > :17:17.hole right through the defences. Salt water now lies in what used to
:17:18. > :17:22.be a freshwater habitat. There are hundreds of breaches like this
:17:23. > :17:29.around the country, so tough choices lie ahead about where to repair and
:17:30. > :17:35.where to give up. A nature reserve like this depends on freshwater to
:17:36. > :17:40.survive. So where sea water has flooded in, plants, insects and fish
:17:41. > :17:44.that make up the ecosystem are all put at risk. The big worry is what
:17:45. > :17:49.this means for the famous bird life here. Some birds can adapt, but
:17:50. > :17:54.others rely on the food chain provided by freshwater. It's not
:17:55. > :17:59.just about losing some invisible insects. It is about losing the base
:18:00. > :18:03.of a pyramid that includes all the other species as well. Nature has a
:18:04. > :18:12.way of bouncing back, but we will not know for sure just how quickly.
:18:13. > :18:17.Repairs to a broken barrier. This is to guard houses, not wildlife.
:18:18. > :18:21.There's a limited budget, and not everything can be protected. Marie
:18:22. > :18:26.Strong is the County Council for the area and she said that the priority
:18:27. > :18:31.for flood defences are clear. The first priority has to be homes and
:18:32. > :18:38.businesses, because that is people's livelihood. But so does the
:18:39. > :18:43.wildlife. Around here, that has an effect on tourism, so that does has
:18:44. > :18:46.to follow. Wildlife can be resilient, but the challenge this
:18:47. > :18:50.winter has been exceptional, and it's not over yet.
:18:51. > :18:54.President Obama has announced changes to the way the US gathers
:18:55. > :18:57.its intelligence. In a speech in Washington, he said surveillance had
:18:58. > :19:00.helped America repel threats for decades, but there needed to be
:19:01. > :19:04.checks and balances to make sure the liberties of ordinary people were
:19:05. > :19:07.not sacrificed. He said US agents should no longer be able to store
:19:08. > :19:17.details about millions of calls, texts and emails.
:19:18. > :19:21.The bottom line is that people around the world, regardless of
:19:22. > :19:26.their nationality, should know that the United States is not spying on
:19:27. > :19:32.ordinary people who don't threaten our national security. We take their
:19:33. > :19:36.privacy concerns into account in our policies and procedures. This
:19:37. > :19:38.applies to foreign leaders as well. And our North America editor, Mark
:19:39. > :19:42.Mardell, joins me from Washington. This is presumably President Obama
:19:43. > :19:49.trying to draw a line under the concerns about America's spying?
:19:50. > :19:54.Well, he's trying to, but rather than put a lid on it, he's given the
:19:55. > :19:59.pot of vigorous star. He's trying to be balanced and judicious. He's
:20:00. > :20:03.saying the US must try to carry on collecting this huge amount of
:20:04. > :20:08.information for its national-security. There haven't
:20:09. > :20:13.been abuses, he says, but he can see why people are not happy. So he's
:20:14. > :20:18.going to stop the current programme, and replace it by... Well, that's
:20:19. > :20:23.the bit he didn't get to. He's given his Attorney-General 60 days to come
:20:24. > :20:27.up with some fresh ideas. Then it will go to Congress. This whole
:20:28. > :20:32.debate will carry on. In the meantime, he does hope that people
:20:33. > :20:36.will be reassured by his general tone, saying that privacy is
:20:37. > :20:39.important. But we haven't got the actual details yet.
:20:40. > :20:42.Prince Harry is to take up a new role in the army as a staff officer,
:20:43. > :20:44.after completing his current attachment flying attack
:20:45. > :20:47.helicopters. He'll be based at Horse Guards in London. Captain Wales' new
:20:48. > :20:49.responsibilities will include helping to organise major ceremonial
:20:50. > :20:58.events such as state visits and Trooping the Colour.
:20:59. > :21:02.Now to women's football, where England have their first new manager
:21:03. > :21:05.for 15 years, and are hoping for a fresh start. They've played their
:21:06. > :21:07.first match under their new boss, Mark Sampson, drawing 1-1 against
:21:08. > :21:10.Norway in Spain. Our sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks, has
:21:11. > :21:17.been with the squad at their training camp in La Manga.
:21:18. > :21:21.A New Year, a new dawn for England's within. This is the first
:21:22. > :21:27.chance Mark Sampson has had to meet all his new players, to get to know
:21:28. > :21:32.them, to set out his specific vision of how his lionesses should act.
:21:33. > :21:36.With great passion, pride, commitment. These things are
:21:37. > :21:41.non-negotiable. We are at the start of a really exciting journey. We are
:21:42. > :21:48.looking forward to the challenges we know we're going to face. Last
:21:49. > :21:53.summer's European championship was a challenge to far for Hope Powell.
:21:54. > :21:56.For 15 years, she ruled over the women's team, but when they failed
:21:57. > :22:03.to win a single game in the tournament, she was gone. Women's
:22:04. > :22:11.football had moved on, and left England trailing in its wake. The FA
:22:12. > :22:14.have put over ?8 million into women's football, to make sure
:22:15. > :22:28.England are at the level of other nations. The support over in America
:22:29. > :22:31.is on another level. It's a different life. Those girls are
:22:32. > :22:35.number one in the world, and they get great coverage. They are like
:22:36. > :22:40.rock stars. Young girls have these role models out there, and I hope
:22:41. > :22:44.England can get towards that. I hope to help do that. Most of her
:22:45. > :22:50.team-mates must still work and study elsewhere to get -- to make ends
:22:51. > :22:56.meet, even taking time of two travel with England. As the game evolves,
:22:57. > :23:04.that is starting to change. Nice and brave. Let's go! Their training camp
:23:05. > :23:09.ended with a friendly against last year's European finalists. But even
:23:10. > :23:14.as late Norwegian equaliser couldn't stop Sampson leaving Spain happy,
:23:15. > :23:17.happy that the commitment looked in safe hands.
:23:18. > :23:20.A Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after the end of World War
:23:21. > :23:24.Two and spent 29 more years continuing the fight alone has died
:23:25. > :23:27.aged 91. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda finally accepted the war was over in
:23:28. > :23:30.1974, but only after he was persuaded to come out of the
:23:31. > :23:39.Philippine jungle by his former commanding officer. Rupert
:23:40. > :23:49.Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo. This is the moment, in March 1974,
:23:50. > :23:52.when lieutenancy wrote in odour -- lieutenants Hiroo Onoda finally
:23:53. > :23:58.walked out of the Philippine jungle. 29 years after the end of World War
:23:59. > :24:02.Two. For nearly three decades, he had resisted all attempts to
:24:03. > :24:07.persuade him the war was over. Leaflets were dropped from the air,
:24:08. > :24:11.messages broadcast over megaphones, all to no avail. Finally, his
:24:12. > :24:16.wartime commander flew to the Philippines, walked into the jungle,
:24:17. > :24:24.and ordered Lieutenant Governor odour to -- Lieutenant Onoda to come
:24:25. > :24:29.out of the jungle. He explains why it took him so long. I was ordered
:24:30. > :24:36.to conduct gorilla warfare and not to die. I had to follow orders. In
:24:37. > :24:41.Tokyo, Lieutenant Onoda was met by cheering crowds. At the bottom of
:24:42. > :24:48.the steps, his elderly parents. The last time they'd seen their son he
:24:49. > :24:51.was 22 years old. Now he was 52. The surrender made headlines around the
:24:52. > :24:57.world, and he was welcomed home as a hero. But the Japan he'd returned to
:24:58. > :25:03.had completely changed. The emperor was no longer the god he'd promised
:25:04. > :25:07.to die for, and Tokyo had become a massive metropolis of 20 million
:25:08. > :25:12.people. He didn't like it at all. A year later, he headed to Brazil,
:25:13. > :25:19.where he bought a cattle ranch. But he came back to Japan often, and 90,
:25:20. > :25:25.he was still teaching schoolchildren his secrets of. Lieutenant Onoda was
:25:26. > :25:31.the last relic of a lost age. To some fanatics, and to many more, a
:25:32. > :25:37.hero. Time for a look at the weather.
:25:38. > :25:43.The heavy showers that brought the flooding earlier are fading away,
:25:44. > :25:48.but instead, we are looking at this cloud in the west, and this cloud
:25:49. > :25:52.coming up from northern France to bring some rain overnight. As that
:25:53. > :25:57.cloud moves northwards, we will not get too much rain in the south-east,
:25:58. > :26:01.but as the night goes on, the rain in Wales and the South West will
:26:02. > :26:05.develop more widely and will turn heavy. Ahead of that advancing cloud
:26:06. > :26:13.and rain, the northern half of the UK could see some frost, missed and
:26:14. > :26:16.ice. Rain continues on and off for most of the day in Wales and the
:26:17. > :26:21.South West of England. It will be quite wet in Northern Ireland. The
:26:22. > :26:26.eastern side of England will turn dry in the afternoon. The rain sets
:26:27. > :26:30.in through the afternoon across central and southern parts of
:26:31. > :26:34.Scotland, and some heavy rain at times in Northern Ireland. After
:26:35. > :26:39.some patchy rain moves northwards across the eastern side of England,
:26:40. > :26:43.the afternoon will be dry but rather cloudy. Rain on and off across Wales
:26:44. > :26:49.and the south-west. We could get over an inch of rain, which could
:26:50. > :26:52.lead to some localised flooding. The rain clears away to Northern
:26:53. > :26:57.Ireland, then we will see this belt of rain pushing eastwards overnight,
:26:58. > :27:02.bringing clearer skies for Wales, the west Midlands and the West
:27:03. > :27:08.Country. The rain by Sunday is sitting in the north-east of
:27:09. > :27:11.Scotland. We will see a view sharp showers in Wales, Northern Ireland
:27:12. > :27:16.and the far south-west, but for many, a brighter day. Could well be
:27:17. > :27:21.the best day of the weekend. Saturday, the risk of some heavy
:27:22. > :27:25.rain, particularly in the western side of the UK. Sunday, some
:27:26. > :27:31.sunshine and a few showers out to the west.
:27:32. > :27:36.Just time to bring you up-to-date on our top story, and the continuing
:27:37. > :27:40.search for the missing Edinburgh three roles, Mikaeel Kular. Robert
:27:41. > :27:48.Hall is at the police station where the search is being co-ordinated.
:27:49. > :27:52.On the one hand, you have a search for a missing person. You saw these
:27:53. > :27:56.hundreds of volunteers today, who turned up after an appeal by the
:27:57. > :28:01.police this morning. Perhaps more than the police would have wanted.
:28:02. > :28:05.They spent the day in very difficult conditions, alongside professional
:28:06. > :28:11.teams, searching near Mikaeel Kular's home. Then you have the
:28:12. > :28:16.growing intensity of more resources coming in. The deputy Chief
:28:17. > :28:19.Constable talking tonight about the possibility of criminality. Up until
:28:20. > :28:25.now, they said they had no evidence of a criminal act. They are bringing
:28:26. > :28:29.in more detectives, more uniform search teams. We have a collective
:28:30. > :28:34.effort and will to achieve a breakthrough here, but as yet,
:28:35. > :28:42.despite all that, the news that they want has eluded both the police and
:28:43. > :28:44.Mikaeel Kular's community. That's all