:00:10. > :00:17.They call it a living hell, desperate people in this bombed out
:00:18. > :00:26.neighbourhood in Damascus, just 60 packets of food made it through
:00:27. > :00:30.today. Look at the faces, they tell the story of Yarmouk, a people,
:00:31. > :00:35.thousands of people, living under siege for months upon months. As the
:00:36. > :00:39.UN tells the refugees the world will not forget them, we ask how much
:00:40. > :00:42.longer they have to wait for help. Also tonight, the future for North
:00:43. > :00:47.Sea oil, David Cameron and Alex Salmond disagree as the debate over
:00:48. > :00:51.Scotland's independence intensifies. Dave Lee Travis says his nightmare
:00:52. > :00:55.goes on, he'll face a retrial on charges of indecent and sexual
:00:56. > :00:57.assault. An 82-year-old dog breeder is
:00:58. > :01:03.arrested on suspicion of murder after two women and four dogs were
:01:04. > :01:05.shot dead in Surrey. After the revolution, as Ukraine
:01:06. > :01:08.remembers its dead, Moscow issues its toughest statement yet on the
:01:09. > :01:15.crisis, saying there's a real threat to Russian citizens and interests.
:01:16. > :01:18.Call me annoying, irritating, nosy, intrusive... And is the American
:01:19. > :01:22.dream over for Piers Morgan as CNN cancels his talk-show?
:01:23. > :01:24.On BBC London, criticism of a mental-health unit as figures reveal
:01:25. > :01:29.the number of patients, including convicted killers, who've absconded.
:01:30. > :01:50.And record passengers at Heathrow renew calls for expansion.
:01:51. > :01:55.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. For almost a year,
:01:56. > :01:58.they've been living under siege on the outskirts of Damascus, trapped
:01:59. > :02:02.by the Syrian war in the suburb of Yarmouk. More than 20,000 people
:02:03. > :02:09.who've lived in this Palestinian refugee camp for decades have no way
:02:10. > :02:12.out. They call it a living hell. They've been cut off by government
:02:13. > :02:15.forces and other militia for months, with little food or medical supplies
:02:16. > :02:18.allowed in. Our correspondent Lyse Doucet, who's reported on the Syrian
:02:19. > :02:22.conflict for the past three years, says she's never witnessed a scene
:02:23. > :02:28.of such distress and destruction. This is her special report.
:02:29. > :02:38.It could be the scene of a natural disaster. But this is manmade. Not
:02:39. > :02:43.much is left in Yarmouk, but this tide of people. Armed men struggled
:02:44. > :02:51.to contain the crowds, but they couldn't hold back the emotion.
:02:52. > :02:55.Just look at the faces, they tell the story of Yarmouk, a people,
:02:56. > :02:58.thousands of people, living under siege for months upon months,
:02:59. > :03:03.without access to another food or medical assistance. Absolutely
:03:04. > :03:12.desperate, desperate for help, desperate to get out.
:03:13. > :03:21.I'm so tired, so tired, this woman cries. Another woman stops us,
:03:22. > :03:29.pleading - please, please, take us out, we're dying here.
:03:30. > :03:35.But only a tiny amount of food, 60 parcels, were distributed today.
:03:36. > :03:40.More than 20,000 people are struggling to survive here. Most of
:03:41. > :03:45.them couldn't even reach this distribution point. A camp which
:03:46. > :03:53.once provided refuge is now a prison. People are frantic to
:03:54. > :03:54.escape. Very few do. Including this woman, reunited with her father
:03:55. > :04:09.after a year. We've been living with hunger and
:04:10. > :04:17.humiliation, she tells me. But where should we go now? This is our home.
:04:18. > :04:28.13-year-old Kifar tries to put on a brave face. Everything was normal
:04:29. > :04:33.here, he begins. And then he says, there was a little bit of hunger, no
:04:34. > :04:44.bread. And it was all too much. It's like that for everyone here.
:04:45. > :04:47.Lyse Doucet, BBC News, Yarmouk. With me now is our diplomatic
:04:48. > :04:50.correspondent, James Robbins. James, harrowing pictures, why is it
:04:51. > :04:56.proving so difficult to get aid in for these desperate civilians? It is
:04:57. > :05:01.proving so difficult because Yarmouk has been under siege formal than a
:05:02. > :05:05.year now by a combination of Syrian government forces and sympathetic
:05:06. > :05:09.militias, and it is part of what the American State Department has
:05:10. > :05:11.previously called a despicable policy of targeting civilians,
:05:12. > :05:18.including women and children, a policy which the Americans call
:05:19. > :05:24.kneel or starve, trying to force those in the camp to give up, and
:05:25. > :05:27.opposition fighters who got into the camp. The Syrian government reject
:05:28. > :05:32.all of that and says security is their prime concern, and they cannot
:05:33. > :05:36.allow more supplies in, but the UN says it has more than enough in
:05:37. > :05:40.warehouses in Damascus to feed all of the people of Yarmouk. It employs
:05:41. > :05:44.over 3000 staff in Syria to make sure the Palestinians do not suffer,
:05:45. > :05:48.to make sure all refugees do not suffer, but it simply says it is
:05:49. > :05:51.unable to complete its work. It's hoping that the Security Council
:05:52. > :05:54.resolution passed at the weekend on humanitarian access might give it
:05:55. > :05:59.some more leverage, but it has not been less than a full, sustainable
:06:00. > :06:01.access will help feed and support these people. James, thank you very
:06:02. > :06:04.much. Aberdeen found itself at the heart
:06:05. > :06:07.of the Scottish independence debate today with the future of North Sea
:06:08. > :06:10.Oil the major battle ground. David Cameron and his Cabinet met in the
:06:11. > :06:13.city for the first time, while seven miles down the road, Scotland's
:06:14. > :06:18.First Minister, Alex Salmond, gathered his team of ministers. Both
:06:19. > :06:21.sides say they hold the key to ensuring that offshore oil and gas
:06:22. > :06:30.continue to pump billions into the economy. From Aberdeen, here's our
:06:31. > :06:34.political editor, Nick Robinson. Deep below the North Sea lies what
:06:35. > :06:39.fuels demands for Scottish independence, oil is what makes many
:06:40. > :06:44.Scots believe they can, they should go it alone. Which is why David
:06:45. > :06:51.Cameron's latest high visibility plea to keep the UK together was
:06:52. > :06:55.made today 150 miles off the coast of Aberdeen. The broad shoulders of
:06:56. > :06:59.one of the top ten economies in the world has really got behind this
:07:00. > :07:04.industry and will continue to stay behind this industry so we get the
:07:05. > :07:09.maximum benefit out of it. Back on shore, the First Minister of
:07:10. > :07:12.Scotland had arrived in town with a message of welcome for the Prime
:07:13. > :07:16.Minister of the United Kingdom. There is a difference between
:07:17. > :07:19.jetting into and out of Scotland and having a real democratic debate
:07:20. > :07:24.about the future of the country. You know how it is, you wait for years
:07:25. > :07:29.and then not one but two Cabinets turn up at the same time. That is
:07:30. > :07:34.what a referendum does for you. David Cameron brought his ministers
:07:35. > :07:38.year to Shell HQ in the European oil capital, and Alex Salmond brought
:07:39. > :07:42.his... How was Cabinet this morning? Excellent. To a rather more modest
:07:43. > :07:49.church hall five miles down the road. Aberdeen's wealth is based on
:07:50. > :07:53.what was once seen as black gold, but in recent years North Sea oil
:07:54. > :07:57.and as production, and the taxes they generate, have been falling.
:07:58. > :08:01.Scottish Nationalists blame Westminster and say they could get
:08:02. > :08:05.the money flowing again. If production continues to fall, if tax
:08:06. > :08:09.revenues continue to fall, are you saying an independent Scottish
:08:10. > :08:13.economy can cope? The Prime Minister says it can't. Well, there is more
:08:14. > :08:17.to come in value terms from oil and a banner over the last 40 years,
:08:18. > :08:21.because we heard all this from the Tories before. They told us 30 years
:08:22. > :08:25.ago it wasn't worth anything, that is what Bernard Ingham used to do
:08:26. > :08:28.for Margaret Thatcher, and we are hearing the same old song from a
:08:29. > :08:33.discredited Conservative government who have been very happy to accept
:08:34. > :08:38.the proceeds of Scottish resources over the last 30 years, but they
:08:39. > :08:43.have introduced the poll tax and the bedroom tax. The message to voters
:08:44. > :08:46.that have little time for the Tories could scarcely be clearer -
:08:47. > :08:52.independence is the only route, he is saying, to a Cameron free zone.
:08:53. > :08:56.Alex Salmond says that you are the greatest advertisement for
:08:57. > :08:59.independence, a Southern, English Tory who has come here and doesn't
:09:00. > :09:04.want to have a debate with him. Well, people, I think, in the end
:09:05. > :09:07.will vote on the argument and issues, not on personalities. I'm
:09:08. > :09:11.making an unremittingly positive case for our family of nations to
:09:12. > :09:15.stay together. I think it would be tragic for all of us, including the
:09:16. > :09:19.English, the Welsh and the Northern Ireland, if the Scots were to leave.
:09:20. > :09:25.FOI decade it has been or let has fuelled because for Scottish
:09:26. > :09:29.independence. -- FOI decade. The debate is a simple one, has Scotland
:09:30. > :09:31.been robbed of their independence? Or does she need the support of a
:09:32. > :09:37.much bigger economy to exploit what still lies out in the North Sea?
:09:38. > :09:40.Nick Robinson, BBC News, Aberdeen. So what is the future of North sea
:09:41. > :09:44.oil and gas? Our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, has been
:09:45. > :09:49.looking at the figures. The North Sea has boosted the UK
:09:50. > :09:52.economy for decades. The key question now is what part it'll play
:09:53. > :09:56.for Scotland if there's a vote for independence in September. UK oil
:09:57. > :10:00.and gas production, most of which is in the North Sea, has fallen a lot
:10:01. > :10:04.in recent years, partly because of ageing equipment and low levels of
:10:05. > :10:08.investment. In 2000, 4.5 million barrels per day were produced.
:10:09. > :10:13.That's using a standard measure covering oil and gas production. By
:10:14. > :10:18.last year, that had plunged to 1.4 million barrels per day. But the
:10:19. > :10:23.industry expects output to pick up, reaching about 1.7 million barrels
:10:24. > :10:26.by 2018. Since the Queen switched on the first onshore pipeline in the
:10:27. > :10:29.1970s, the North Sea has needed big flows of money for exploring and
:10:30. > :10:35.developing new fields, and getting more from existing ones. UK offshore
:10:36. > :10:38.investment has been subject to ups and downs, partly driven by
:10:39. > :10:42.predictions of future oil prices and revenues. In 2010, ?6 billion was
:10:43. > :10:48.invested in new development, picking up from a relatively low level. But
:10:49. > :10:52.last year a record 14 billion was invested, and this year the level of
:10:53. > :10:58.investment won't be far off that, around ?13 billion.
:10:59. > :11:01.The challenge is to keep that investment flowing to retrieve the
:11:02. > :11:03.tens of billions of barrels of North Sea oil and gas believed to be
:11:04. > :11:09.untapped. Hugh Pym, BBC News.
:11:10. > :11:13.Scotland political editor Brian Taylor is in Aberdeen for us this
:11:14. > :11:18.evening, explain why there is such a political focus on North Sea oil and
:11:19. > :11:22.as at the moment. The intriguing thing is that from the very earliest
:11:23. > :11:25.days of North Sea discoveries oil has been politically contentious,
:11:26. > :11:29.and from those very early days the SNP have regarded it as a totemic
:11:30. > :11:34.issue for them. The early slogan was, it is Scotland's oil, and a
:11:35. > :11:39.broadly still campaign up on that basis. David Cameron is confronting
:11:40. > :11:42.therefore, directly confronting an SNP homeland issue, an issue they
:11:43. > :11:46.regard as one of their own, one of their key messages to the people of
:11:47. > :11:51.Scotland. David Cameron is saying the oil may be in Scotland's waters,
:11:52. > :11:54.but it is British investment and the British tax base that smooths out
:11:55. > :11:58.the volatility of oil prices. In response to that, Alex Salmond
:11:59. > :12:03.says, don't just take my word for it, look at Norway, where a small
:12:04. > :12:07.country has coped and thrived with the availability of oil. This is a
:12:08. > :12:10.core issue, a court factor in the referendum, and a core factor which
:12:11. > :12:15.will influence the way that people vote.
:12:16. > :12:18.Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis is to face a retrial over allegations
:12:19. > :12:23.of sexual abuse. Earlier this month, the 68-year-old was found not
:12:24. > :12:26.guilty of 12 charges of indecent assault but jurors were unable to
:12:27. > :12:31.reach verdicts on two further charges. Home affairs correspondent
:12:32. > :12:35.June Kelly reports from Southwark Crown Court.
:12:36. > :12:40.Dave Lee Travis had been in legal limbo, acquitted nearly a fortnight
:12:41. > :12:44.ago on 12 charges. Today he was told he would have to stand trial again
:12:45. > :12:49.on the Council on which the jury couldn't agree. With his wife
:12:50. > :12:55.Marianne, he faced the cameras. The nightmare is now going to go on. All
:12:56. > :13:01.I can say is that this whole thing started when I was 67, and I just
:13:02. > :13:07.hope it is going to end by the time I am 80. Thank you for your time.
:13:08. > :13:10.Welcome to Top Of The I am 80. Thank you for your time.
:13:11. > :13:13.Welcome to Top Pops one allegation is from the early 1990s when, as a
:13:14. > :13:16.big BBC name, he was in panto. is from the early 1990s when, as a
:13:17. > :13:22.big BBC name, he was The other is more recent, from 2008. Before
:13:23. > :13:26.today's hearing, speaking generally about historical cases, the Director
:13:27. > :13:31.of Public Prosecutions told the BBC there could be no special treatment
:13:32. > :13:35.for celebrity suspects. Why should anyone have a sort of better status
:13:36. > :13:39.or immunity from prosecution just because of who they are? We are here
:13:40. > :13:43.to be independent in our decision-making, to make sure that
:13:44. > :13:47.we look at the evidence, there is a realistic prospect of conviction or
:13:48. > :13:51.not, and then we decide the case according to that, not according to
:13:52. > :13:56.do the potential defendant is. So nearly 18 months after he was first
:13:57. > :13:59.arrested, the criminal proceedings against Dave Lee Travis continue. He
:14:00. > :14:04.will be back in court at the end of next month for a first hearing ahead
:14:05. > :14:09.of his new trial. June Kelly, BBC News, at Southwark Crown Court.
:14:10. > :14:13.And 82-year-old dog breeder is being questioned after two women and four
:14:14. > :14:15.dogs were shot dead at a house in Surrey. Police were called to the
:14:16. > :14:23.house in fine yesterday after shots were heard. Our correspondent
:14:24. > :14:27.Daniela Relph is there for us now. Police continue to question the
:14:28. > :14:30.82-year-old man into this evening as postmortems are carried out on the
:14:31. > :14:36.bodies of the two women found dead here yesterday. This house behind
:14:37. > :14:42.me, it's large grants, -- it's large grounds, kennels, is now a major
:14:43. > :14:46.crime scene. The ramshackle house where the
:14:47. > :14:50.bodies were found. Forensic teams are now searching the property and
:14:51. > :14:53.its substantial grounds. Police officers were called here around ten
:14:54. > :14:59.o'clock yesterday morning. They found the body of one woman, in his
:15:00. > :15:02.60s, inside the house. The body of another, younger, in her 40s,
:15:03. > :15:08.discovered outside at the back of the property near its many kennels.
:15:09. > :15:12.An 82-year-old man was arrested at the scene. Neighbours have named him
:15:13. > :15:18.as John Lowe, the owner of the house and a dog breeder who has lived in
:15:19. > :15:23.the area for many years. In 2004, he was the subject of an investigation
:15:24. > :15:27.by the BBC's Inside Out programme, which claimed that he was breeding
:15:28. > :15:32.scores of dogs and selling puppies in poor condition. But at this
:15:33. > :15:37.stage, the police will not confirm the identities of any of those
:15:38. > :15:43.involved. All the parties were known to each other, we believe the two
:15:44. > :15:46.ladies were related. At the moment, although we have family liaison
:15:47. > :15:53.officers in contact with the family, we still haven't confirmed
:15:54. > :15:56.the identification. A long barrelled shotgun has been recovered at the
:15:57. > :16:00.house, and the police are now trying to establish if it was legally
:16:01. > :16:04.owned. Forensic teams are likely to be on-site all week. They will be
:16:05. > :16:09.piecing together the events of yesterday morning that led to the
:16:10. > :16:18.death of two women. Daniela Relph, BBC News, Farnham in Surrey. Our top
:16:19. > :16:22.story this evening: The crisis in Syria - pleas for help from 20,000
:16:23. > :16:25.people trapped for a year in a bombed out suburb of Damascus.
:16:26. > :16:28.And still to come, the show is over for Piers Morgan, as the CNN host
:16:29. > :16:32.admits that the American audience was getting "tired" of him.
:16:33. > :16:35.Later on BBC London: Forced from their school after the floods - why
:16:36. > :16:40.these primary pupils are now going to university.
:16:41. > :16:44.The woman whose music saved her life in a concentration camp. The oldest
:16:45. > :16:52.known survivor of the Holocaust dies at the age of 110.
:16:53. > :16:55.The Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, says the turmoil in
:16:56. > :17:01.Ukraine has created a "real threat" to Russia's interests and to the
:17:02. > :17:03.lives of its citizens. In one of Moscow's strongest statements since
:17:04. > :17:05.President Yanukovych was ousted, Russia's prime minister questioned
:17:06. > :17:11.the legitimacy of Ukraine's new leadership. In Ukraine, an arrest
:17:12. > :17:20.warrant has been issued for Mr Yanukovych. Our Europe editor, Gavin
:17:21. > :17:26.Hewitt, reports from Kiev. Ukraine, and the first week after
:17:27. > :17:29.the ousting of a president. There are many groups still on the
:17:30. > :17:31.streets, demanding justice. These protesters, who want prisoners
:17:32. > :17:39.released, gathered outside Parliament, where the newly powerful
:17:40. > :17:44.opposition leaders were meeting. The markets were open, fruit and
:17:45. > :17:48.vegetables piled high. But few people were buying. Traffic was
:17:49. > :17:51.flowing, but at the checkpoints were the self-defence militias of the
:17:52. > :17:59.opposition, with police in the background. In the main square, they
:18:00. > :18:06.were queueing to join self-defence groups, and no one seemed ready to
:18:07. > :18:09.end the protests. For us now to get out of here and to go to our working
:18:10. > :18:20.places and other stuff, we have to be sure that we won't have to come
:18:21. > :18:23.out here again. Investigators were gathering evidence that might help
:18:24. > :18:30.bring to justice those who had opened fire, killing 88 protesters.
:18:31. > :18:32.A warrant was issued for the arrest of the ousted president, Viktor
:18:33. > :18:40.Yanukovych, for mass murder, but he remains on the run. At the
:18:41. > :18:45.Parliament, they were trying to set up a government of national unity.
:18:46. > :18:48.Of growing concern to the new leadership here at the Parliament in
:18:49. > :18:51.Kiev are comments coming out of Russia. The Russian prime minister,
:18:52. > :18:54.Dmitry Medvedev, is quoted as questioning the legitimacy of the
:18:55. > :19:03.new authorities here, saying they came to power through armed mutiny.
:19:04. > :19:06.Inside the parliament, the talk was of needing a financial rescue, a
:19:07. > :19:14.massive $35 billion, to stave off default. The interim president,
:19:15. > :19:21.Oleksander Turchynov, warned that the Ukraine economy was heading into
:19:22. > :19:26.the abyss. The international community, including Britain, stands
:19:27. > :19:29.ready to help. The details have yet to be worked out, but a donor
:19:30. > :19:33.conference may be convened within two weeks. As for the country, it
:19:34. > :19:42.remains in shock at lives lost and uncertain about its future. Gavin
:19:43. > :19:46.Hewitt, BBC News, Kiev. So Viktor Yanukovych is now the most
:19:47. > :19:50.wanted man in a country he once ruled. His whereabouts are unknown,
:19:51. > :19:55.although he is believed to be hiding in a Russian speaking area of
:19:56. > :19:57.Crimea. Our correspondent, Daniel Sandford, reports from the town of
:19:58. > :20:03.Balaclava, where the president was last seen.
:20:04. > :20:09.The historic fishing village of Balaclava. Home to the British fleet
:20:10. > :20:16.during the Crimean War, and now the last place where former president
:20:17. > :20:19.Viktor Yanukovych was seen. He had been travelling for three days
:20:20. > :20:22.through his old heartland in eastern Ukraine. He had been blocked from
:20:23. > :20:27.leaving the country, finally ending up in Crimea yesterday. Here in
:20:28. > :20:33.Balaclava, most of President Yanukovych's official bodyguards
:20:34. > :20:36.abandoned him. He climbed into a three-car convoy with one of his
:20:37. > :20:42.closest aides, and disappeared into the night. Viktor Yanukovych is now
:20:43. > :20:51.a wanted man, wanted by the new government for the mass murder of
:20:52. > :20:55.protesters last week. He fled east because it used to be his heartland.
:20:56. > :20:58.When the riot police returned to the Crimea from iev this weekend, they
:20:59. > :21:06.were cheered after months of fighting protesters. There has been
:21:07. > :21:12.anger here too, as people boiled over after months of listening to
:21:13. > :21:20.anti-Russian protesters in Kiev. In fact, the Crimean city of Sevastopol
:21:21. > :21:25.is more Russian than Ukrainian. It is still home to Russia's Black Sea
:21:26. > :21:28.fleet. It's a Russian military port that happens to be in Ukraine after
:21:29. > :21:33.the break-up of the Soviet military union. This evening, crowds had
:21:34. > :21:35.barricaded the local government offices, and were calling on police
:21:36. > :21:44.to set up roadblocks around the city. Only Russian flags were being
:21:45. > :21:48.waved. TRANSLATION: I am Crimean. Let them give Crimea back to me, and
:21:49. > :21:52.I will be Russian and Crimea will be Russian. Although the fugitive
:21:53. > :21:57.president Yanukovych may still be near, people here are no longer
:21:58. > :22:01.interested. They are more worried about the future, and what it may
:22:02. > :22:12.mean to be a Russian in the new Ukraine. Daniel Sandford, BBC News.
:22:13. > :22:15.Sevastopol. The deputy Labour leader, Harriet
:22:16. > :22:18.Harman, has condemned claims that she once had links to a group
:22:19. > :22:20.campaigning for paedophile rights as a "politically-motivated smear
:22:21. > :22:26.campaign." Let's speak to our deputy Political Editor James Landale.
:22:27. > :22:30.James, what's this all about? For the last few days, the Daily Mail
:22:31. > :22:34.has run a series of articles alleging that senior Labour figures
:22:35. > :22:37.in the 1970s, through their jobs, had linked to a paedophile
:22:38. > :22:43.organisation. The people involved, the deputy Labour leader Harriet
:22:44. > :22:47.Harman, her husband Jack Dromey, Labour MP and also former Cabinet
:22:48. > :22:52.minister Patricia Hewitt. They all worked in the 1970s for the National
:22:53. > :22:57.Council of civil liberties. In 1975, that organisation was
:22:58. > :23:01.affiliated to something called the Paedophile Information Exchange. In
:23:02. > :23:06.1976, the National Council for Civil Liberties did argue strongly for
:23:07. > :23:12.substantial reduction of the age of sexual consent, potentially to as
:23:13. > :23:14.low as ten. After the last few days, there was silence in response to
:23:15. > :23:19.these allegations. Harriet Harman has issued a statement denying the
:23:20. > :23:24.horrible and untrue allegations that she had been an apologist for child
:23:25. > :23:28.sex abuse. Jack Dromey said the allegations are untrue and that he
:23:29. > :23:30.repeatedly condemned and campaigned against this paedophile
:23:31. > :23:38.organisation. The Labour leader Ed Miliband has also said he sets no
:23:39. > :23:44.store by these allegations. But none of the statements have any threat of
:23:45. > :23:47.legal action. The actor writer and director Harold
:23:48. > :23:52.Ramis has died in Chicago. He was one of Hollywood's most successful
:23:53. > :23:54.film-makers, known as films such as Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day,
:23:55. > :23:58.which he co-wrote with star Bill Murray. He died peacefully at his
:23:59. > :24:01.home after a long illness. He was 69.
:24:02. > :24:07.He went to America in a blaze of glory. But just three years later,
:24:08. > :24:10.Piers Morgan, the journalist and broadcaster, has been told his prime
:24:11. > :24:15.time talk show on CNN is being dropped. He took over from the
:24:16. > :24:18.veteran broadcaster, Larry King, but ratings have fallen from two million
:24:19. > :24:20.when he started to just over 250,000. From New York, Nick Bryant
:24:21. > :24:22.reports. Piers Morgan. I love interviews to
:24:23. > :24:26.be provocative. Brash and opinionated, the sort who would not
:24:27. > :24:32.just cross the road for an argument, but cross the Atlantic. Piers Morgan
:24:33. > :24:36.could almost have been invented with prime-time American cable in mind.
:24:37. > :24:39.Did you see that? Alas, most didn't, and the British host never developed
:24:40. > :24:44.a special relationship with American viewers, especially those angered by
:24:45. > :24:49.his support for tougher gun control. 1776 will commence again if you try
:24:50. > :24:52.to take our firearms! Doesn't matter how many lemmings you get on the
:24:53. > :24:58.street, begging for them to have their guns taken. We will not
:24:59. > :25:01.relinquish them. Do you understand? He never lived up to his hype, and
:25:02. > :25:04.while his show initially attracted two million viewers, the audience
:25:05. > :25:15.dwindled to just 270,000. He told the New York Times:
:25:16. > :25:21.He seemed pushy and desperate sometimes, so I kind of stopped
:25:22. > :25:27.watching. I don't know anything about Piers Morgan. At all. Who is
:25:28. > :25:30.Piers Morgan? Piers Morgan always said he would have to be taken out
:25:31. > :25:33.of CNN kicking and screaming, but the response on his Twitter feed
:25:34. > :25:37.this morning to the cancellation of his show? A link to Monty Python's
:25:38. > :25:41.Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. He's got one of the biggest
:25:42. > :25:44.egos in American broadcasting, but it attracted only a tiny audience.
:25:45. > :25:56.Nick Bryant, BBC News, New York. Time for a look at the weather.
:25:57. > :25:59.Here's Susan Powell. A lot of sunshine across the British
:26:00. > :26:04.Isles today. We had our warmest day of the year so far. 15 Celsius was
:26:05. > :26:08.the high around the outskirts of London in St James' Park. Tonight,
:26:09. > :26:13.it is all change again after the dry day. A wet and windy night, the rain
:26:14. > :26:20.quickly piling into Northern Ireland. There will be a strong wind
:26:21. > :26:26.as well, with severe gale force gusts around the Irish Sea. But by
:26:27. > :26:29.the end of the night, it has whipped away eastwards quickly. Across the
:26:30. > :26:35.east of England, the rain will be much lighter. By tomorrow morning,
:26:36. > :26:39.if you have a lion, you might not know much about that band of rain.
:26:40. > :26:43.But the southern England and South Wales, there be showers through the
:26:44. > :26:48.morning, even with some hail and thunder. A lot of sunshine across
:26:49. > :26:50.England and Wales. Scotland fares England and Wales. Scotland fares
:26:51. > :26:55.well in terms of the early sunshine as well, but Northern Ireland will
:26:56. > :26:58.pick up heavier showers and persistent rain through the early
:26:59. > :27:02.part of the day. Those showers should quickly move across into
:27:03. > :27:06.western Scotland, so Northern Ireland should brighten and keep
:27:07. > :27:11.some showers for the afternoon. Western Scotland will get heavier
:27:12. > :27:13.outbreaks of rain. And for the south-west of England and the South
:27:14. > :27:20.Midlands, the risk of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Eastern England
:27:21. > :27:25.looks set to remain largely fair. A little cooler than today, but still
:27:26. > :27:29.mild. For Wednesday, a lot of Fairweather for England and Wales
:27:30. > :27:38.again. Further north, some hefty showers across Wales and Scotland. A
:27:39. > :27:42.little cooler again. This week does feature a bit of springlike weather.
:27:43. > :27:44.All of us should get a good look at the sun at some stage. Not a bad
:27:45. > :27:54.picture. A reminder of our main story: the
:27:55. > :27:56.crisis in Syria - pleas for help from 20,000 people trapped for a
:27:57. > :27:59.year in a bombed out suburb of Damascus.
:28:00. > :28:03.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC
:28:04. > :28:04.One, we now join the BBC's news teams where you