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an early election. But as the dead are carried through the central | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
square in Kiev, the protesters show no sign of leaving. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
We'll be asking if this deal, brokered by the EU, really can bring | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
an end to Ukraine's political crisis. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Also tonight: At the hacking trial, former News International boss | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Rebekah Brooks reveals for the first time details of what she called her | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
"car crash" private life. Under water - the farmers who say | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
they're struggling to survive after the wettest winter on record. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Crushed by the Canadians - Britain's men's curlers have to make do with | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
silver at the Winter Olympics. And ?300,000 a week - Rooney signs a | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
new deal with Manchester United. Criticism of the Mayor as he fails | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
to spend millions of pounds allocated for affordable homes. | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
And an appeal for witnesses after a robber shoots a shop owner. | :01:09. | :01:31. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
The Ukrainian President and opposition leaders have signed a | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
deal to try to end the battles between police and protesters that | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
have killed dozens of people and left hundreds more injured. Under | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
the plan, a presidential election will be held three months early, in | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
December this year, presidential powers will be limited within 48 | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
hours, and a coalition government will be formed within ten days. The | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
question now is whether the thousands of protesters camped | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
outside in the centre of Kiev will accept the agreement and return | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
home. Daniel Sandford is in Kiev for us tonight. | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
Yes, it has been a momentous day in the Ukraine. A president who seemed | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
to be able to act at Will three months ago has been humiliated. It | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
was the horrendous death toll this week that led to his downfall but it | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
was touch and go until the end. The Polish Foreign Minister had to warn | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
protest leaders that there could be martial law and they could all be | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
killed in order to get them to accept the compromise. My report | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
contains distressing images of violence. | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Entering the heavily guarded presidential buildings in Kiev this | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
afternoon, the European Union Foreign Minister is who led | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
negotiations. This was the moment they came back to say the deal had | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
been done. For the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, who | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
has presided over his country's descent into chaos, a humiliating | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
defeat. He has had to give up many of the powers he took in | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
controversial changes to the constitution and he will be gone by | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
the end of the year. In the meantime, his party and the | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
opposition will form a power-sharing government. I am satisfied it is the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
best agreement that could be had, and that it gives Ukraine a chance | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
to return to peace, to reform and to hopefully resume its way towards | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
Europe. The trouble is that any deal needs to be approved by these young | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
men on the front line, men who only yesterday saw their comrades gunned | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
down on this very spot. It was a slaughter. Some 50 people died in | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
the gunfire, most of them protesters who charged forward as the police | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
retreated. It is unclear if these highly motivated fighters will | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
accept anything less than the immediate wreck -- resignation of | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
President Yanukovych. On the front line today I met a 35-year-old | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
father of two and former policeman. He rushed to Kiev yesterday and says | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
he is prepared to die to get a better future for his kids. I want | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
to build Europe in Ukraine, not to go to Europe. I want to build Europe | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
in Ukraine. This famous old Kiev cathedral that has opened its doors | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
to injured protesters became drenched in blood at the height of | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
the fighting. Some of those most seriously injured yesterday with | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
gunshot wounds were brought here to the old monk dining room which has | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
been turned into a makeshift operating theatre. It was here that | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
volunteers battled to save the lives of men shot by police wielding | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
automatic rifles. I am a plastic surgeon of head and neck. And | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
usually I make people smile and beautiful. And it is not normal for | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
me to save lives after gunshot. This evening, parliament voted in favour | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
of the release of Yulia Tymoshenko, the jailed opposition leader and | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
long-time enemy of President Yanukovych. Then, tonight, the | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
coffins of some of those killed yesterday were paraded through the | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
main square. They have been hailed as heroes. Certainly, their deaths | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
have accelerated the downfall of the President. | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
Our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall is here with me now. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Thousands and thousands of protesters still packed into | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Independence Square tonight. Is this deal going to be enough for them? I | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
think the next few days are going to be absolutely crucial. If you are | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
one of the people on that square, being shot at yesterday, how hard is | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
it the very next day to agree to a power-sharing deal with the same | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
leaders? That is the challenge for the opposition leadership, to try to | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
persuade their supporters that even if President Yanukovych is not going | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
to resign, which is what they have been calling for, he will be a lame | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
duck president, very weakened. As Daniel said, this is symbolically, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
sort of, his downfall. But it has to be tested. An important role is | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
being played by the parliament, passing decisions in favour of the | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
opposition, calling for troops to be withdrawn to barracks, calling for | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
the interior minister to be sacked. They have asked for Yulia Tymoshenko | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
to be released. We'll President Yanukovych agree to that? That is a | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
test. There will be a tricky part to the deal, which also says the | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
squares are supposed to be cleared and people are supposed to leave | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
occupied buildings and give back weapons. Many people on the street | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
will feel that people power is their leveraged and they will not want to | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
give it up immediately. It will depend on who is in government, who | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
is in local governance in the west of the Ukraine. But it does feel as | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
though President Yanukovych has been fatally weakened by this | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
confrontation. There was not that much support on his side. There were | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
resignations in the army and police. He does not seem to have had many | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
people rallying to him. He is just holding onto power but will probably | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
be a lame duck. The former chief executive of News | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
International, Rebekah Brooks, has spoken of her "car crash" personal | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
life at the phone hacking trial. Mrs Brooks denied having a six-year | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
affair with Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, but | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
admitted to "periods of intimacy". She also said she knew nothing about | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
the paper's contract with the phone hacker Glenn Mulcaire while she was | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
editor. Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds is at the | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
Old Bailey. During 11 hours in the witness box, | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Rebekah Brooks has told the jury about her struggles with budgets, | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
editorial headaches and a personal life she described at times as being | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
like a roller-coaster. And that just covers the three-year is she was | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
editor of the News of the World. There are days of this to come. | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
An actor, EastEnders star Ross Kemp, an editor, Andy Coulson, and a | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
racehorse owner, Charlie Brooks. Today, Rebekah Brooks was forced to | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
talk about her relationships with each of these men. The prosecution | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
made it part of the case I suggesting that her closeness to | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
Andy Coulson meant that she knew what he knew. -- by suggesting. And | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
that she must have known about phone hacking and illegal payments for | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
stories. At one point in the witness box she was close to tears and asked | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
for a break. She told the jury her relationship with Andy Coulson began | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
in 1998, was at times intimate but had not been the six-year affair | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
described by the prosecution. In February, 2004, she composed a | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
letter to Andy Coulson in which she said, I confide in you, I seek your | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
advice. Asked about it in court she said, you come home with a few | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
glasses of wine, you probably should not get on a computer but that is | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
what I did. I wrote my feelings down at that moment. The letter was never | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
sent, but she told the court, Andy and I were incredibly close during | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
that time. He was my best friend. Rebekah Brooks later married Charlie | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Brooks, who is also charged with concealing evidence. She seemed most | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
emotional when speaking about her struggle to have children, which | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
ended when a cousin agree to act as a sorrow that mother and their | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
daughter was born. Earlier, she denied knowing that confessed phone | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
hacker Glenn Mulcaire was being paid ?92,000 by the News of the World | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
when she was editor. But she was directly involved in this story, | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
obtained by secretly filming Sophie, Countess of Wessex, making a | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
series of indiscreet Cummins. The paper was criticised and Rebekah | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Brooks e-mailed colleagues. We have to maintain a high standard in order | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
to be able to hit back when people say these things. Today, Rebekah | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Brooks defended the use of subterfuge in that story and the use | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
of private detectives to track down paedophiles, another of the paper's | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
campaigns. But she denies being involved in phone hacking and | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
illegal payments to public officials for stories. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
The private company ATOS, which has been running the government's tests | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
to decide whether sick and disabled people are eligible for benefits, | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
says it wants an early exit from the contract, partly because its staff | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
have received death threats. The firm has been strongly criticised by | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
disability campaigners and MPs over its fitness for work tests. Reeta | :10:43. | :10:54. | |
Chakrabarti reports. The private company delivering a | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
controversial government policy wants to get out. For years, ATOS | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
has felt the full brunt of public anger, with campaigners insisting | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
they are not up to running assessments of whether people are | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
fit to work. It says it now wants an early end to the ?500 million | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
contract, partly because staff are being routinely abused. One example | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
is this general threat posted on Twitter. If you know anyone from | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
ATOS, kill them. The company said of the contract with the government, in | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
its current form it is not working for claimants, for the Department | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
for Work and Pensions, or for ATOS health care. For months, we have | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
been endeavouring to agree an early exit from the contract. It went on. | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
Despite the ongoing discussions we will not walk away from a front-line | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
service. Jean is someone who feels that ATOS got her case completely | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
wrong. She was assessed as being fit for work despite her saying she is | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
still recovering from long-term sickness, including paralysis, | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
depression and memory loss. She appealed against the findings six | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
months ago but has not heard. They are not going about it the right | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
way, how to ascertain the truth from people. I feel as though the real | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
people that have problems are not getting recognised, and they are | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
getting penalised for it. The controversial scheme is known as | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
work capability assessments, introduced six years ago to decide | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
who should get sickness benefits. In the past year, 39% of claimants were | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
judged fit for work and denied benefits, but last year MPs said 38% | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
of appeals were successful, and blamed poor decision-making by the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
assessors. Inevitably, such cumbersome, slow, bureaucratic | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
process is delivery problems on the ground. Even if the department gets | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
new providers in to deliver the assessments, many of the problems | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
are still going to be there. They are to do with the nature of the | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
assessment and the complexity of the task the government has set itself. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
The government says that those who can work should work, but the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
relationship with ATOS is under increasing strain. Last summer it | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
said it was bringing in other private companies to carry out the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
work. No minister was available for comment, but Whitehall sources | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
criticised ATOS as unprofessional for saying it wanted an early | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
except. ATOS is hoping to limit further damage to its name but the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
blame game between company and government looks set to continue. | :13:27. | :13:35. | |
They had high hopes of gold but in the end it wasn't enough. Great | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Britain have won a silver medal in the men's curling at the Winter | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
Olympics in Sochi after losing out to Canada in the final. But it's the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
first medal for the men in 90 years and it means Team GB has equalled | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
their best ever medal tally at a Winter Games. Andy Swiss has been | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
watching the action. It is a sport and a team that has | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
captured the country's imagination. As British fans flocked to the | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
arena, the feel-good factor was plain to see. David Murdoch and his | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
players had reached the final by a series of cliffhangers, but now they | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
faced the toughest of tests. Canada were the reigning Olympic champions | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
and they were soon showing why. In a flash, Murdoch's men were 5-1 down, | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
already with a mountain to climb. Murdoch, so unflappable until now, | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
was suddenly making mistakes. A shot to get Britain back in it went | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
horribly wrong. By the tiniest of margins, another one to Canada. The | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
captain's face said it all. There was simply no way back. After so | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
many final stone thrillers, this one did not get to the final end. With | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
two to go, and trailing by six points, Murdoch conceded. Canada, | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
once again, champions. Britain, beaten but proud of their | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
achievement. It has been a lot of hard work, a lot of training. There | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
have been many dark days. This is a good day, a silver medal. It is | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
incredible, something I have chased for a long time. Although it has | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
been a bit of a kick in the teeth today, I am proud of these guys. | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
After such high hopes, not the result the British fans came for. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Still a fantastic achievement, but they had hoped for even better. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
After the women's bronze, a second medal completes an excellent Games | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
for British curlers, and a day when disappointment came with a silver | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
lining. And in the last half-hour, more | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
dramatic news about Britain's speed skater Elise Christie. She was | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
disqualified from her first two events here today. Today was her | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
main event, the 1000 metres. She looked be heading through to the | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
final when another skater crashed into her. The British team thought | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
she would be reinstated but she was not and was in fact penalised, so | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
she is out. For a third time here in Sochi, heartache for British speed | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
skater Elise Christie. Our top story this evening. Ukraine's president | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
and opposition leaders have signed a deal for an early election, but | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
thousands of protesters remain in the centre of Kiev tonight. Still to | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
come... How Britain's Olympic curlers have inspired a new | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
generation to take to the ice. On BBC London, the parking signs which | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
give motorists 20 minutes to load, so why are they getting tickets | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
after five? And the ferries gear back from Sochi. Chemmy Alcott on | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Team GB's successful Winter Olympics. | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
More could have been done to stop some of the flooding that has hit | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Britain this winter. That's the conclusion of a group of experts who | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
are calling on the Prime Minister to adopt a clear strategy to reduce the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
risk in the future. Farmers have been particularly hard hit. Some say | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
they're struggling to survive, with their crops still underwater and | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
livestock moved into barns. And that's on top of a bad year in 2012, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
again because of wet weather, when total income fell 14% in real terms. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
This year will be much worse. The Government says it's set aside ?10 | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
million to help restore farmland as quickly as possible. But farmers say | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
that's not nearly enough. Jeremy Cooke is in Bridgewater in Somerset | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
for us now. Jeremy. This is the livestock market, where | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
some of the farmers flooded out on the Somerset Levels brought their | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
doctor says Dave and dry. Many of those same farmers will find | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
themselves agreeing with this open letter from experts to the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Government, essentially saying that what is needed is a better and more | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
coordinated response to the increasing threat of flooding. | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
Beneath the floods, the crops are dying. Much of this oilseed rape has | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
been underwater since December. Not only is it covered in silt, but it's | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
starting to die as well. In the Thames flood plain they expect this, | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
but not for weeks on end. Already the loss in this field alone is | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
running at ?40,000. Simon agrees with the experts who told the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Government that more flood prevention work is urgently needed. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
It is basically maintenance. Making sure that there's not vegetation in | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
the rivers. On sand bars, that there aren't trees allowed to grow, the | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
banks are proper maintained and desoldering in areas where there are | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
pitch points. So to dredge the whole river would be money not wisely | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
spent. For all farmers whose land is under water the floods mean lower | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
production. Most will simply absorb the loss and Buffon. But many are | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
facing an increasingly predictable future. Adding to the stress the | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
fact that some farms are flooded for the second year running. One in 100 | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
year weather events are impossible for any business to absorb. The | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
financial impact of this, as farmers go to the future and look forward, | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
is going to be substantial. Brian Franklin and his grandchildren are | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
feeding his cattle on Hake at last summer. But it's hard to see where | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
this year 's crop is coming from. Brian's grassland is six feet under | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
and the entire herd may have to go. Disaster. It's just ruined | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
everything. It will cost me a fortune, well, my livelihood really. | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
My livelihood and probably my grandchildren's livelihood. That's | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
heartbreaking. That's terrible, to think those kids could have had a | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
future. What future have they got? The Government says it will cost me | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
a fortune, well, my livelihood really. My livelihood and probably | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
my grandchildren's livelihood. That's heartbreaking. That's | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
terrible, to think those kids could have had a future. What future have | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
they got? The Government says it's better that Macs pending a record | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
2.4 million -- in pounds. The best way to target the money needs to be | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
found out for businesses and farms, too. Despite the upturn in the | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
economy and falling unemployment, there's been some disappointing news | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
for the Chancellor on the state of Britain's public finances. It comes | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
just a month before the budget. Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
Pym, is here. So the public purse isn't looking as healthy as | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
expected? Usually the tax revenues come flooding in in January because | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
companies pay tax and there a self-assessment deadline for income | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
tax, so usually there is a surplus. Indeed, in January this year there | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
was a surplus of ?4.7 billion. It sounds good, but if you look at the | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
previous January there was a surplus of more, ?6 billion. So even with a | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
growing economy the surpluses down a bit, which is not looking good ahead | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
of the budget. That being said, if you look at the borrowing across the | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
first ten months of the financial year, that is below the previous | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
year and most experts are still saying he's going to be on target | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
for the full year. Government sources are saying with | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
self-assessment tax you sometimes get it paid a bit late, so it might | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
help the February figures. But Labour are saying all of these | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
billions are a lot more than George Osborne says he originally needed to | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
borrow. It shows deficit reduction is not that easy. ?300,000 a week. | :21:33. | :21:44. | |
That's how much Wayne Rooney will be earning after signing a new | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
five-and-a-half-year deal with Manchester United. It brings an end | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
to months of speculation about his future. And also makes him the | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
highest paid footballer in Premier League. Here's our sports editor, | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
David Bond. He is already English football's top player. Today, Wayne | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Rooney became the best paid, too. The header forced to Rooney. The BBC | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
understands the 28-year-old striker has pledged his future to Manchester | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
United in a new five and a half year deal worth ?300,000 a week. Speaking | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
ahead of any official announcement, the club's manager explained why | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
they couldn't afford to let him go. Everybody knows he's a terrific | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
football player. If we can get it done, that will be great. Since | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
David Moyes took over from Sir Alex Ferguson, United have lost their air | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
of invincibility. They are already outsiders in the title race and face | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
a struggle to qualify for next season's Champions League. Many say | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
the team needs a complete overhaul. After such a difficult season here | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
at Old Trafford, Wayne Rooney's record-breaking new Deal is a major | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
boost for Manchester United. But with the wages paid to top players | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
continuing to rise, it also tells us something significant about the | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
financial state of English football. Just look at how players salaries | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
have exploded in the last 20 years. In 1994, Blackburn's Chris Sutton | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
became the first player to be paid ?10,000 a week. In 2001, Sol | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
Campbell became the first star to break the ?100,000 a week barrier. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Now Wayne Rooney is the first player in England to earn a ?300,000 a | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
week. It is all down to the huge growth in television income, with BT | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
Sport not taking an Sky for the best live rights, the economic boom is | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
unlikely to end soon. At is all this wage inflation good for the game? | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Players certainly believe that they are the ones who generate the | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
revenue for the clubs, the league and make it an exciting product for | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
people to buy. At the same time, there is a question whether this is | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
sustainable in the long run. Rooney's record-breaking new Deal | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
has certainly giving him and Manchester United something to | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
celebrate. The big challenge for the player now is to prove he's really | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
worth all that money. French police say they are not going to charge a | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
man they arrested in connection with the shooting of a British family in | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
the Alps. Saad al-Hilli, his wife and mother-in-law were shot dead on | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
a remote forest road near Lake Annecy in 2012. 48-year-old Eric | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
Devouassoux, who's a former police officer, was arrested on Tuesday. | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
Prosecutors say they can't establish a direct link between him and the | :24:27. | :24:34. | |
murders. Finally, curling. It has been one of the surprise hit of the | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Winter Olympics. In the town of Lockerbie, when three members of the | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
British team grew up, their success has inspired a legion of new | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
players. Lorna Gordon joined friends and fans this afternoon at the rink | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
in Lockerbie where the Olympic curlers played as children, to watch | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
the final match. In Lockerbie they like their curling, and the town | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
turned out in force to cheer the men's team on. Skip David Murdoch | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
hails from here, many know him. And there were nerves and hope and pride | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
when he and his team conceded the gold. It was heartbreaking, but | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
they've done so well. Nerve wracking. They've got a silver, | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
they've brought it back to Lockerbie, it's amazing. Most Sochi | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
ringside seat for his wife, she watched the family from -- watched | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
the action from the family sofa, but was behind her husband all the way. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
I couldn't be more proud. I can't wait to see Dave on the podium | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
tomorrow. I'm so excited. Three of the Sochi curling medallists started | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
out here on the rink in Lockerbie. This sport will be hoping for a | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
surge in popularity as a result of their success. For these youngsters, | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
David Murdoch and his fellow curlers are an inspiration. Brilliant | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
player. He's played some really good shots. I think he's fantastic. He | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
got them into the semis, brilliant. Curling is hundreds of years old | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
and, in places like Lockerbie, as popular as ever. Here, and Olympic | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
curling medal, whatever its colour, is a huge achievement. | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
Quite a blow we weekend for many others, particularly in the West. | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
Windy, gales on the way. Some rain in the forecast, but I don't think | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
it will spoil the weekend for all of us. In East Anglia, you might get | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
away with a dry weekend. At least most of the time it will be dry. | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Now, some showers around through the course of this evening. The chance | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
of a number of the showers affecting the southeastern coastline. | :26:57. | :26:58. | |
Eventually it will be a clear night for a number of us. Clear enough for | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
maybe a touch of grass frost, maybe a frost in a couple of places. Then | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
the area of low pressure will be nearing us as we head into the early | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
hours of Saturday morning. This will upset the weather across western | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
areas. This is how we start Saturday. Lots of bright weather | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
across the bulk of the country, wind increasing all the time. Also, rain | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
will eventually get into Belfast and Glasgow as we head into the | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
afternoon. England at least should stay bright and breezy. We are | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
talking about temperatures of around 12 in London, eight in Edinburgh. As | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
we head into the second half of the weekend, this area of low pressure | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
will swing into the general neighbourhood a bit closer. This | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
weather front will be stuck across western parts of the UK, wet weather | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
around across the Cumbrian fells, the north-west of England, hills of | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
Wales, too. Very strong winds. In eastern areas, from Portsmouth, | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
London and into Norwich and maybe Hull, it should stay mostly bright. | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
The weekend is looking mixed, but we've had a lot worse this winter. | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
A reminder of our main story. Thousands of protest to remain in | :28:18. | :28:27. |