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:00:14. > :00:19.crisis. The jury sees an e-mail from Rebekah Brooks in which she says

:00:20. > :00:24.that Mr Blair spoke for an hour and told her to take sleeping pills and

:00:25. > :00:29.topped up. Today, Mr Blair said he was just offering informal advice.

:00:30. > :00:34.Also tonight, 26 people killed in the overnight violence in the

:00:35. > :00:39.Ukraine. EU leaders consider sanctions at an emergency meeting.

:00:40. > :00:43.Another drop in the number of people out of work. Down by 125,000. Offer

:00:44. > :00:50.some, it is still a struggle. I was looking everywhere, newspapers,

:00:51. > :00:57.online. I was struggling to find anything, really. It was quite a

:00:58. > :01:01.relief when iPhone Center Parcs. The parents of the six-day-old baby

:01:02. > :01:06.apparently attacked by a pet dog say that they will cherish the short

:01:07. > :01:08.time they spend with her. And Britain's men are through to the

:01:09. > :01:15.curling finals at the Winter Olympics.

:01:16. > :01:19.And coming up on BBC News, Arsenal welcome Bayern Munich to the

:01:20. > :01:41.Emirates later in the last 16 of the Champions League.

:01:42. > :01:47.Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at six. The phone hacking

:01:48. > :01:50.trial has heard that Tony Blair had an hour long conversation with

:01:51. > :01:53.Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World, just days

:01:54. > :01:56.before she was arrested in July 2011. The jury was shown an email in

:01:57. > :01:59.which Ms Brooks said the former Prime Minister offered to give

:02:00. > :02:03.unofficial advice to the Murdoch family, major shareholders of News

:02:04. > :02:09.International. Mr Blair issued a statement today saying he was simply

:02:10. > :02:17.giving informal advice. Let's join Matt Prodger at the Old Bailey.

:02:18. > :02:23.Today, the jury was taken back in time to July 11, 2011. The News of

:02:24. > :02:27.the World had just collapsed beneath the weight of the phone hacking

:02:28. > :02:31.scandal. The former editor, Rebekah Brooks, was six days away from

:02:32. > :02:34.arrest by police. According to evidence this morning, she was

:02:35. > :02:40.taking advice from the former Prime Minister himself.

:02:41. > :02:44.Tony Blair and Rebekah Brooks, back in the days when he was Prime

:02:45. > :02:50.Minister and she was editor of Britain's bestselling newspaper. Ten

:02:51. > :02:55.years on, she is standing trial. And the court was today told that at the

:02:56. > :03:00.height of the media storm over the phone hacking scandal, she sent Mr

:03:01. > :03:04.Blair -- said Mr Blair offered his help as an unofficial adviser will

:03:05. > :03:05.stop in 2011, she sent an e-mail to her boss, James Murdoch, discussing

:03:06. > :03:23.the situation. She said: The Hutton report was the official

:03:24. > :03:26.enquiry a decade ago into the death of the government scientist, Doctor

:03:27. > :03:30.David Kelly. It exonerated Tony Blair and other

:03:31. > :03:37.officials of any involvement in the dodgy dossier about weapons of mass

:03:38. > :03:40.destruction. Rebekah Brooks went on to say that Tony Blair had told her

:03:41. > :03:50.to keep strong and definitely sleeping pills.

:03:51. > :04:07.Tony Blair's office tonight said that he had simply been giving

:04:08. > :04:11.informal advice over the phone. He had made it absolutely clear to miss

:04:12. > :04:15.brooks that it was essential to have a transparent and independent

:04:16. > :04:19.process to get to the bottom of what had happened.

:04:20. > :04:25.Rebekah Brooks left court with her husband, Charlie, also standing

:04:26. > :04:28.trial. Of the seven defendants, she faces the most charges. Conspiracy

:04:29. > :04:33.to intercept voice mails, bribe public officials, and perverted the

:04:34. > :04:37.course of justice. All the defendants say that they are

:04:38. > :04:42.innocent. Today marked the end of the

:04:43. > :04:46.prosecution case. The halfway point of the trial. From here on in, the

:04:47. > :04:54.defendants give their version of events. Rebekah Brooks' defence

:04:55. > :04:57.begins tomorrow morning. There is a tense stand-off between

:04:58. > :05:01.protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital tonight. It

:05:02. > :05:04.follows the worst violence since thousands took to the streets last

:05:05. > :05:07.November to protest a government decision to reject a deal with the

:05:08. > :05:13.EU in favour of closer ties with Russia. The number of people killed

:05:14. > :05:18.in overnight clashes has risen to 26. Today, in Kiev, all schools, the

:05:19. > :05:22.Underground network and many shops are closed. An emergency meeting of

:05:23. > :05:25.European Union foreign ministers has been called with some demanding

:05:26. > :05:31.sanctions. Our correspondent, Daniel Sanford, reports from Independence

:05:32. > :05:38.Square in Kiev, at the heart of the protests.

:05:39. > :05:45.Lunchtime today in the heart of a major European city. And riot police

:05:46. > :05:49.hurled rocks and tear gas at the protesters they have been fighting

:05:50. > :05:55.for more than 24 hours. Faced with a low-level revolution, they have

:05:56. > :06:01.resorted to firing plastic bullets and shotgun pellets. There have been

:06:02. > :06:04.hundreds of injuries. The anger of the protesters is now matched by the

:06:05. > :06:09.anger of the riot police who now understand the risks involved.

:06:10. > :06:14.Several of their colleagues were killed in the fighting yesterday.

:06:15. > :06:19.This is the worst violence Ukraine has seen since independence. 26

:06:20. > :06:27.people were killed yesterday and overnight. The anger started in

:06:28. > :06:29.November when President Viktor Yanukovych signalled a move away

:06:30. > :06:38.from the European Union and back towards Russia. And it has

:06:39. > :06:43.intensified week by week. Today, the president turned on moderate

:06:44. > :06:47.opposition leaders. TRANSLATION: They crossed the line when they

:06:48. > :06:50.encouraged people to take up arms. It is a grave violation of the law

:06:51. > :06:57.and those who broke the law must face trial. This morning, the

:06:58. > :07:01.aftermath of the worst fighting was everywhere. What had been the

:07:02. > :07:07.opposition headquarters was a burnt shell. At this one central Kiev

:07:08. > :07:13.hospital, they took in 150 injured people overnight, including this

:07:14. > :07:22.man, who told me that riot police beat him unconscious. TRANSLATION:

:07:23. > :07:28.We fight for Ukraine and freedom. We would like to see Ukraine as an

:07:29. > :07:34.independent country, freedom for our families. But this dictator makes us

:07:35. > :07:38.nervous. As the women of Independence Square appeared for

:07:39. > :07:47.another night of violence, the Telly Klitschko, the world's champion

:07:48. > :07:50.boxer turned opposition leaders said the president Yanukovych alone was

:07:51. > :07:54.responsible for the killing of his people. -- said that President

:07:55. > :07:58.Yanukovych. Exhausted police officers know they are going into

:07:59. > :08:02.battle again soon. Russia says this is an attempted coup against

:08:03. > :08:06.illegitimate government while the European Union, the other side of

:08:07. > :08:08.this double Matic tug-of-war, has threatened targeted sanctions

:08:09. > :08:15.against those responsible for the violence.

:08:16. > :08:20.Here, the number of people out of work as phone again, adding to signs

:08:21. > :08:26.of a continued recovery in the economy. The number of unemployed

:08:27. > :08:30.fell by 125,000 in the last three months of 4013. The latest estimates

:08:31. > :08:33.show 2.3 million people are now out of work, according to the office for

:08:34. > :08:40.National statistics. Youth unemployment has also fallen, now

:08:41. > :08:45.standing at just over 900,000. Its lowest level since the spring of

:08:46. > :08:50.2011. Our chief economic correspondent, dupe them, looks at

:08:51. > :08:53.what the figures mean on the ground. -- Hugh Pym. Economic growth is

:08:54. > :08:57.governing omentum, which means more jobs, including near where the

:08:58. > :09:02.holiday business, Center Parcs, is building a new site. 1500 workers

:09:03. > :09:05.are needed to run the centre. They have had 11,000 applications and the

:09:06. > :09:10.lucky ones are breezed to get in break. Why was not aware of the

:09:11. > :09:14.competition for jobs at the time. You focus on the jobs you are

:09:15. > :09:18.interested in. After coming on board, I discovered how much

:09:19. > :09:23.accommodation there was. I've found getting a job very difficult. I was

:09:24. > :09:30.looking everywhere, newspapers, online. I was struggling to find

:09:31. > :09:34.anything. It was quite a relief when iPhone Center Parcs. Ministers said

:09:35. > :09:37.the fall in the jobless total was further proof that the economic plan

:09:38. > :09:42.was working. Labour argued that although youth unemployment has

:09:43. > :09:46.fallen to its lowest in three years, there was still one in five young

:09:47. > :09:51.people out of work. Taking a closer look at the growth of Britain's

:09:52. > :09:55.workforce reveals varying trends. The total number employed by an

:09:56. > :10:00.organisation was 25.5 million in the three months to December, up 0.2% on

:10:01. > :10:04.the previous three months. The number self-employed was 4.4

:10:05. > :10:10.million, up by a much larger proportion, 4.1%.

:10:11. > :10:15.One of those who has joined the ranks of the self-employed, working

:10:16. > :10:19.from home, is Roger. He lost his job at a technology business but

:10:20. > :10:22.welcomes the chance to go it alone, refurbishing bungalows. He knows it

:10:23. > :10:26.might take time to develop a steady income. Until the business is up and

:10:27. > :10:28.running, you do not know what costs will be or what the market is

:10:29. > :10:31.running, you do not know what costs will be like will stop you do not

:10:32. > :10:35.know whether you are going to be successful so it is a step into the

:10:36. > :10:39.unknown. At times, it can be a little bit scary. Some argue that

:10:40. > :10:42.the growth in self-employment suggests the jobs market is more

:10:43. > :10:46.uncertain than it looks. On one hand, we have people who may have

:10:47. > :10:50.been forced to be self-employed, people who have lost their jobs and

:10:51. > :10:55.have decided to not stay on welfare but create a new business. On the

:10:56. > :10:56.other hand there is increasingly entrepreneurial spirit, people

:10:57. > :11:02.taking you risk who have good ideas. Unemployment is not falling

:11:03. > :11:05.as fast as it was. In Northern Ireland, there was a slight

:11:06. > :11:09.increase. Through a statistical quirk, the UK's jobless rate is

:11:10. > :11:13.higher than reported last month but there was Roger news for those in

:11:14. > :11:17.work with a slight pick-up in wage increases.

:11:18. > :11:25.Norman Smith is in Westminster for us. Inflation yesterday, jobs today.

:11:26. > :11:26.It all adds up to music in the government's ears.

:11:27. > :11:30.At first glance, the figures are hugely encouraging for ministers

:11:31. > :11:35.with unemployment down by a big chunk. Difficult areas like

:11:36. > :11:40.long-term unemployment and youth employment are down. But I suspect

:11:41. > :11:44.there is still a nagging fear in the pit of ministerial stomachs, and it

:11:45. > :11:48.is this. Time. Is there no one of time ahead of the next election for

:11:49. > :11:51.the recovery to release a cold so that people feel better off. Because

:11:52. > :11:56.if you look at page, yes it is gradually clawing its way back to

:11:57. > :12:04.overtake inflation, but it may only do so a few months and head of the

:12:05. > :12:06.next election and ministers need a chunky six-month period where

:12:07. > :12:10.earnings outstrip prices if they are to feel a feel-good factor. The

:12:11. > :12:13.politics of the economy have become all about timing. No one doubts the

:12:14. > :12:21.recovery is taking place but ministers really need the pace of

:12:22. > :12:24.that recovery to pick up. The parents of a six-day old baby

:12:25. > :12:28.girl thought to have been killed by the family dog say they will cherish

:12:29. > :12:33.the little time they had with her. Elisa Maynor Lane from Ponta very

:12:34. > :12:38.died yesterday. Police have yet to confirm the cause of the death. An

:12:39. > :12:46.Alaskan malamute dog, not a banned breed, has been taken away.

:12:47. > :12:55.A baby girl whose parents say brought joy into their lives. Sharon

:12:56. > :13:12.John -- and Patrick Mullane said today:

:13:13. > :13:18.The baby died just before 830 yesterday morning. Papers who tries

:13:19. > :13:22.to help save that all eyes are made's mother is distraught. I don't

:13:23. > :13:29.think she knew whether she was coming or going. She was walking

:13:30. > :13:34.around in a daze. She hadn't got a clue what you was doing. I don't

:13:35. > :13:36.think she took it all in. I don't think she understood what had

:13:37. > :13:40.happened. Police have spent a second day here carrying out a detailed

:13:41. > :13:44.forensic examination of the house. They are anxious not to add to spec

:13:45. > :13:47.elation over exactly how this baby died but it is clear that what

:13:48. > :13:53.happened with the family dog is their main line of investigation.

:13:54. > :13:57.The dog was an Alaskan malamute, a breed that is growing in popularity

:13:58. > :14:03.in Britain. Experts warn that they may not always suit a young, growing

:14:04. > :14:08.family. I see clients whose dogs have changed during the pregnancy.

:14:09. > :14:12.The dogs are aware, they have very acute senses and they are aware that

:14:13. > :14:18.the owner is pregnant. Underdog can start to change its personality in

:14:19. > :14:22.response to that. -- and the dog. Tonight, the family is still being

:14:23. > :14:32.supported by the police. They and the community around them remain in

:14:33. > :14:38.deep shock. Our top story this evening: The hacking trial is told

:14:39. > :14:42.Tony Blair advise News International's Rebekah Brooks on

:14:43. > :14:47.handling the scandal just days before her arrest. And still to

:14:48. > :14:49.come: The men are through to the curling finals, but disappointment

:14:50. > :14:56.for the women at the Winter Olympics.

:14:57. > :15:00.Later on BBC London, accused of financial mismanagement, the college

:15:01. > :15:05.that claimed nearly ?1 million for students it could not prove it had.

:15:06. > :15:19.The pop-up pub that scientists have created to find out why we drink to

:15:20. > :15:22.get drunk. Anyone who's been forced to leave

:15:23. > :15:34.their homes because of the floods should not have to pay council tax.

:15:35. > :15:37.That's the pledge from Number Ten. ?4 million has been set aside to

:15:38. > :15:41.refund local councils in England to cover the cost of rebates. River

:15:42. > :15:43.levels may be slowly falling but the Environment Agency still have two

:15:44. > :15:46.severe flood warnings in place in Somerset. And after last weekend's

:15:47. > :15:49.storms Network Rail now say damage to the main rail route to Cornwall

:15:50. > :15:54.at Dawlish will not be repaired until mid-April.

:15:55. > :15:57.The Prime Minister said today his Government is at the heart of a vast

:15:58. > :16:01.national effort to deal with the situation. James Landale reports.

:16:02. > :16:07.Four days, they have been up and down the road, wellies on, diaries

:16:08. > :16:10.torn up. Politics now is about flooding and very little else. Today

:16:11. > :16:14.the Prime Minister was supposed to be in the Middle East. Instead he

:16:15. > :16:22.was in the South West, announcing more help for flood victims. If you

:16:23. > :16:26.are flooded out of your house, you don't have to pay the council tax

:16:27. > :16:31.when you are out of your house and central Government will be funding

:16:32. > :16:43.that or local Government. Political crises can make or break political

:16:44. > :16:48.reputations. Gordon Brown did well when David Cameron did not. But

:16:49. > :16:51.flooding can pay dividends. The German Chancellor turned his

:16:52. > :16:57.election fortunes around by donning wellies faster than his rival. He

:16:58. > :17:01.showed people that he cares and it gave him the belief that he could

:17:02. > :17:06.try and actually win that election six weeks later. So speed matters.

:17:07. > :17:12.David Cameron may not have chaired his first Cobra meeting until this

:17:13. > :17:16.month, but he has visited 18 flood areas including the damaged track at

:17:17. > :17:21.Dawlish. The damage is so bad they will not repair the line until

:17:22. > :17:24.mid-April. All the visits, press conferences and meetings, opinion

:17:25. > :17:28.polls suggest many people think the Government could and should have

:17:29. > :17:31.done more and faster. They feel like in the areas where the Government

:17:32. > :17:36.has control in terms of forward planning and support that people

:17:37. > :17:41.need, they are failing and not doing enough. Here in Winchester, people

:17:42. > :17:53.praise the local authorities for keeping some floods at bay by

:17:54. > :17:56.diverging water into fields. But even here, views are mixed. At first

:17:57. > :17:59.we were told to by Aaron sandbags and things, which we did, and then

:18:00. > :18:03.since David Cameron said money was no object, I have not had to buy

:18:04. > :18:10.sandbags. There was a lack of planning and dealing with rows of

:18:11. > :18:14.wires at -- reservoir. A lot of people are in serious difficulty and

:18:15. > :18:17.we will see if they get help. National crises give Prime Minister

:18:18. > :18:23.is a chance to appear prime ministerial, calling up the army and

:18:24. > :18:28.so on. But they also pose risks, test of leadership and confidence.

:18:29. > :18:34.The waters may be receding but the political consequences may linger

:18:35. > :18:37.longer. The prosecutor investigating the

:18:38. > :18:40.murders of a British family in the French Alps says the arrest of an

:18:41. > :18:43.ex-policeman does not mean the case is solved and that there is no

:18:44. > :18:47.obvious link between the man detained and the killings. Police in

:18:48. > :18:50.Annecy have taken a second person in for questioning this morning as part

:18:51. > :18:53.of the investigation into the deaths of Saad al-Hilli, who was killed

:18:54. > :18:56.along with his wife, her mother and a French cyclist. Our correspondent,

:18:57. > :19:04.Christian Fraser, has just sent this report from Annecy.

:19:05. > :19:11.The new suspect, character who soon, 48-year-old Frenchman, who

:19:12. > :19:19.works as a security guard. He bears a striking resemblance to this

:19:20. > :19:23.artist's impression of a motorcyclist seen on the road. He

:19:24. > :19:27.lives near the crime scene with his wife and two children. Forensic

:19:28. > :19:30.police have been scouring the garden with metal detectors. His next-door

:19:31. > :19:35.neighbour told me they had removed one of two motorbikes that he owns.

:19:36. > :19:45.Last night they came to start a search the roof. In a sea, the

:19:46. > :19:49.prosecutor confirmed he is being held on suspicion of weapons

:19:50. > :19:53.trafficking. They found Beluga pistol in his possession but not the

:19:54. > :19:57.Swiss version used in the murders. Could he have been there that day, I

:19:58. > :20:01.asked? His mobile phone signal was picked up in a location that meant

:20:02. > :20:06.he could have been at the murder scene at the right time, he replied.

:20:07. > :20:11.So now they are trawling his background. The houses he has lived

:20:12. > :20:15.in, where he worked. His best round was also taken into custody today on

:20:16. > :20:20.suspicion of arms trafficking. The man they have in custody is known by

:20:21. > :20:25.pretty much everyone here. That is because he was their village

:20:26. > :20:29.policeman for some 15 years. That is until he was sacked last June for

:20:30. > :20:34.the misuse of public funds, said one official. I am also told that for 12

:20:35. > :20:38.years he was a reservist in the French gendarmerie, the military

:20:39. > :20:44.police. The prosecutor told us tourists had complained he was

:20:45. > :20:49.aggressive, even racist, a sentiment echoed by this former councillor. He

:20:50. > :20:56.was very strange. At certain moments he would get angry. He was seriously

:20:57. > :21:00.moody. Police urge caution. It certainly there is an intriguing

:21:01. > :21:05.profile. He had collected grenades and World War II weapons. He is a

:21:06. > :21:09.keen motorcyclist. The scooters they have removed is different to the one

:21:10. > :21:14.that was seen. Then there is the helmet in the picture. Unusual. Only

:21:15. > :21:18.8000 were made but they were issued to police. They have not yet found

:21:19. > :21:29.it. The obvious question is why would he be involved? No link has

:21:30. > :21:37.yet been established between him and the victims. So far there is no

:21:38. > :21:41.weapon and no motive. The partner of a former Guardian

:21:42. > :21:43.journalist, who was held for nine hours at Heathrow Airport under

:21:44. > :21:45.anti-terrorism laws, has lost his High Court claim that he was

:21:46. > :21:48.detained unlawfully. David Miranda was stopped last August as he

:21:49. > :21:50.changed planes while carrying material leaked by the former US

:21:51. > :21:56.intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. Our Home Affairs

:21:57. > :22:04.correspondent June Kelly reports. David Miranda and Glenn Greenwald,

:22:05. > :22:07.regarded by the UK authorities as espionage suspects. At their home in

:22:08. > :22:11.Brazil, they learned of the legal ruling from London and the

:22:12. > :22:18.journalist Glenn Greenwald was contemptuous. The judgement today is

:22:19. > :22:21.completely inconsequential. Fortunately for the world, the

:22:22. > :22:25.British Empire collapsed a long time ago. This ruling has a fact within

:22:26. > :22:31.the small borders of this single country. We are not going to

:22:32. > :22:35.remotely make judgements about our journalism based on the intimidation

:22:36. > :22:41.of threats of the British Government. Visible partner denied

:22:42. > :22:46.claims he had been used as a mule to transport secret documents. I would

:22:47. > :22:52.do it again and not for a second I regret that. I was not being used. I

:22:53. > :22:57.was very aware of what I was doing at that time. At the root of this

:22:58. > :23:03.case is the disclosure of classified information relating to both

:23:04. > :23:08.America's National Security Agency, the NSA, and the British counterpart

:23:09. > :23:13.GCHQ. The former contractor Edward Snowden had leaked thousands of

:23:14. > :23:17.documents to the then Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald. When

:23:18. > :23:21.David Miranda, with 58,000 confidential files, came through

:23:22. > :23:25.Heathrow, the police used terrorism powers to stop him and that proved

:23:26. > :23:28.controversial. While David Miranda's lawyers argued that his

:23:29. > :23:33.detention had been unlawful, the judges here said they had to strike

:23:34. > :23:36.a balance between press freedom and national security. So they came down

:23:37. > :23:41.in favour of the Government and the police. We believed that he was

:23:42. > :23:46.carrying highly classified documents. If those had reached the

:23:47. > :23:49.public domain, we believed it would be very damaging to national

:23:50. > :23:54.security, and indeed that people's lives would be put in danger. Last

:23:55. > :23:58.summer as the Guardian started publishing details of the leaked

:23:59. > :24:03.documents, the paper described how it had come under public pressure to

:24:04. > :24:05.hand them over. As Glenn Greenwald continues his investigative work,

:24:06. > :24:12.his partner is planning an appeal against the ruling. Jim Kelly, BBC

:24:13. > :24:15.News. Members of the Russian protest group

:24:16. > :24:17.Pussy Riot have been attacked by Cossack patrol men at the Winter

:24:18. > :24:21.Olympics in Sochi. The group said they were attacked with pepper spray

:24:22. > :24:24.and beaten as they tried to perform a song. Yesterday two of the group

:24:25. > :24:26.were released after being held on suspicion of theft. They had

:24:27. > :24:30.previously served prison sentences for an anti-government protest in a

:24:31. > :24:33.church in Moscow. But at the Games, Great Britain's

:24:34. > :24:37.curling teams were in action. Both the men and the women were hoping to

:24:38. > :24:39.reach the finals and guarantee themselves a medal. The women went

:24:40. > :24:49.first against an unbeaten Canada, losing a tight match on the final

:24:50. > :24:56.stone. And in the last few minutes, the men have triumphed over Sweden.

:24:57. > :25:00.Andy Swiss reports. It was a day a touch of Scotland came to Sochi. A

:25:01. > :25:06.bagpipe welcome for the British fans as they arrived to cheer on their

:25:07. > :25:11.curlers. Two Olympic finals in tantalising reach. They have been

:25:12. > :25:19.one of the top teams for years now, so hopefully just play to form. My

:25:20. > :25:23.mates are all watching it, even those that don't like curling. They

:25:24. > :25:27.were up at five o'clock, screaming their heads. First the women's team.

:25:28. > :25:31.Eve Muirhead and players faced unbeaten Canada and from the start,

:25:32. > :25:36.it seemed the curling gods were against them. Eve Muirhead's Stone

:25:37. > :25:41.had deviated off as stray brush hair, a tiny detail which had a huge

:25:42. > :25:45.impact. It allowed Canada to take the lead which they never

:25:46. > :25:49.relinquished and coolly and clinically, they broke British

:25:50. > :25:55.charts. A six - four defeat means Eve Muirhead's team play for bronze

:25:56. > :25:59.tomorrow with their hopes of gold now over. I am proud of the girls.

:26:00. > :26:03.We gave it 110% and played the best we could play as a team. We will

:26:04. > :26:07.give it our all tomorrow for that bronze medal because we don't want

:26:08. > :26:12.to go home and he handed. British attention then turned to the man,

:26:13. > :26:15.against Sweden. What followed was predictably tents. With the teams

:26:16. > :26:23.level at two all, Swedish mistake put Britain ahead. But by the final

:26:24. > :26:27.stone of the final end, David Murdoch's team were trailing 5-4.

:26:28. > :26:31.Once again it was down to the captain. Could heap or offer another

:26:32. > :26:39.extraordinary turnaround? Unforgettably, gloriously, he did.

:26:40. > :26:45.-- could heap pull off? A place in the Olympic final for Britain on

:26:46. > :26:50.what has turned into an incredible day. Yes, what result for Britain's

:26:51. > :26:54.men. They will play in the final on Friday. They are of course now

:26:55. > :26:59.guaranteed a medal. That means that with three medals, this is already

:27:00. > :27:06.Britain's best Winter Olympics since 1936. All in all, quite a day.

:27:07. > :27:10.Thanks very much. Now it is time for the weather.

:27:11. > :27:15.Hello. Not particularly exhilarating today, it has to be said. Big cloud

:27:16. > :27:19.coming in now with some wind and rain on the way. For most of us, it

:27:20. > :27:23.will happen through the night and for a time tomorrow morning, so that

:27:24. > :27:29.tomorrow afternoon will be a little bit drier and brighter. Let's see

:27:30. > :27:34.what is coming our way. This cloud is coming in from the Atlantic by

:27:35. > :27:38.this area of low pressure. The cloud is biggest across western areas

:27:39. > :27:44.where we have the rain. The winds are strengthening to gale force

:27:45. > :27:49.across the South and southwestern coasts. Any rainfall is not welcome

:27:50. > :27:53.in the flooded areas, especially across the South and South West. For

:27:54. > :27:58.most it will be dribs and drabs, no more than that. Very mild, seven to

:27:59. > :28:03.eight degrees, with strong winds and rain for a time for many of us

:28:04. > :28:07.tomorrow morning. It may last until lunchtime in the extreme East and

:28:08. > :28:12.the South East. The broad message is that the afternoon tomorrow is going

:28:13. > :28:16.to be a bright one. Occasionally interrupted by one or two heavy

:28:17. > :28:21.showers. Maybe Hale and thunder as well, so take your umbrella as well.

:28:22. > :28:27.The end of the week looks pretty unsettled once again. A big area of

:28:28. > :28:31.low pressure. Nothing to be alarmed about. Just wind and rain once again

:28:32. > :28:37.through the course of Friday. Yes, gale force winds along the coast.

:28:38. > :28:41.Again, one or two showers but no more severe than that, you will be

:28:42. > :28:45.pleased to know. Come the weekend, the winds are going to pick up again

:28:46. > :28:48.and it could be very windy in western areas of the UK. The weather

:28:49. > :28:55.on Saturday, out of the two, will be better. On Sunday, there should be

:28:56. > :28:59.rain on the way but it is not certain when and where. There will

:29:00. > :29:02.be some rain around on Sunday. Thank you.

:29:03. > :29:03.That is all from the