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to persuade Russia to back down over Ukraine. Russian, American and EU | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
foreign leaders meet for the first time since the crisis began. Today | :00:14. | :00:23. | |
we are trying to use every diplomatic opportunity to bring | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Russia and Ukraine into direct contact with each other at a senior | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
level. In Crimea, Ukrainian sailors are stranded on their ships, | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
desperate families send in food supplies. We'll bring you the latest | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
on the talks in Paris and the situation on the ground in Crimea. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Also tonight, the EU law that may force RBS and Lloyds to relocate to | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
London if Scotland becomes independent. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
While many on the Somerset Levels still battle the floods, a ?100 | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
million plan to prevent it happening again. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
New guidelines on how much sugar we should be eating, less than the | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
equivalent of a can of coke a day. And it's fast, it's dangerous and | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
she can hardly see - the British Paralympic skier hoping for a medal | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
at Sochi. Tonight on BBC London: The free schools struggling to find | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
suitable sites. This head's been told to open on an industrial | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
estate. And anger towards the police over a man with learning | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
difficulties who was allegedly assaulted by officers. | :01:19. | :01:38. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. It's been a day of | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
intense diplomacy over Ukraine as ministers from the US and Europe all | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
try to persuade Russia to back down. As the diplomats met in Paris for | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
the first direct talks since the crisis began, the European Union | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
offered a multi-billion aid package to Ukraine. On the ground in eastern | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Ukraine, pro and anti-Russian demonstrators have been tussling | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
over control of the main government building in Donetsk. In Crimea, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Russia has tightened its grip on key military facilities. Ukrainian | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
troops are barricaded inside. Sailors from the Ukrainian navy | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
based in Sevastopol are being prevented from leaving their ships | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
and tonight some are running out of supplies. Our correspondent Daniel | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
Sandford sent this report. The first sign that the Russians | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
were tightening further their stranglehold on Ukraine's small | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
navy. Russian troops taking up new positions overlooking a Ukrainian | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
military dock. We climbed down to see what was happening and found two | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
of Ukraine's most sophisticated fighting ships blockaded in the Bay | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
and overlooked by a Russian sniper. On the dock, we found a tearful | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
woman talking on the phone to her husband just 20 metres away. The | :03:05. | :03:17. | |
ship do not come closer in case it is stormed by the Russians. | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
TRANSLATION: On the commander of the fleet came to the ship and said he | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
would storm hit, it was a bit frightening. War is a very | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
frightening thing. On these heavily armed ships, the sailors have | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
resorted to the medieval methods of defending themselves. You can see | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
the Ukrainian sailors have put mattresses over the railings to stop | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
the Russians throwing grappling irons and boarding the ship. The | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
entire Ukraine AV is stuck in the harbour, the sailors have to watch | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
Russian warships coming and going at will. What would happen if you've | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
tried to leave the harbour? There could be a clash between the ships, | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
navigation accident which could result in casualties. Then two men | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
in black coats arrived. They remonstrated with the officers on | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
the ship for a Ukrainian navy statement which had called the | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
Russian president a liar. The Ukrainians stood their ground and | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
complained about the armed men surrounding them. I am the only one | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
who has a weapon, said the most senior officer. I have given up | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
everything else. I have the one pistol to protect the crew. This | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
evening a small boat came ashore to resupply the ships. Blockaded in | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
their own harbour at the Ukrainians are preparing for a long siege. The | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
key diplomatic meetings have been taking place in Paris this afternoon | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
and our diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall is there for us now. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Is there any sign the talks are going to bring this crisis to an end | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
any time soon? Not any time soon. This is a bit of a gamble today. It | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
is the first time these Western powers, the US, Britain, France and | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Germany were able to have the foreign ministers meet the Russian | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov since the crisis got so momentous and | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
turned into a full-blown international crisis. The good news | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
is they met and they had proper talks. They met at lunchtime and the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
US Secretary of State and the Russian Foreign Minister Bernard had | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
their own talks. There may be more talks going on now possibly into the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
evening. The not so good news is that in the words of one diplomat, | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
it has been a very difficult conversation. What the Western | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
powers wanted was ideally to get the Russians to agree to talk to the new | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Ukrainian government directly. The new Ukrainian Foreign Minister was | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
here in Paris just in case. That did not happen. It seems on other issues | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
too pulling Russian troops back in the Crimea, it has been very slow | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
progress. The BBC has learned that both Royal Bank of Scotland and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Lloyds may be forced to move their headquarters to London if Scotland | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
votes for independence. It's all because of a European Union | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
directive which stipulates that companies must locate their head | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
offices where the bulk of their business is. Let's talk to our | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
business editor Robert Peston. Tell us more. What I have discovered is | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
that banks and regulators have only recently become aware of a very | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
interesting EU law that was passed in 1995. As you say, what it | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
stipulates is that banks have to have their homes where they run | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
themselves, where their head offices are and where the bulk of their | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
operations. Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds have their homes in | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Scotland. But the bulk of their operations are in England. The EU | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
law probably means that within hours of a yes vote they would have to | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
move their homes from Scotland down to London. The interesting question | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
for me is what effect it will have on the battle over Scotland's | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
future. Those in favour of the UK staying together will argue that | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
independence means that some highly skilled and valuable jobs would | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
automatically move away from Scotland, were the Scots to vote for | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
independence. But I do not think it is all bad news for Alex Salmond who | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
was very much in favour of independence. There are enormous | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
liabilities attached to these banks. They have balance sheets of ?1.9 | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
trillion, something like 15 times the value of the Scottish economy, | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
is GDP. It means that were these banks to get into trouble again, | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
they could not really be bailed out by Scottish taxpayers. That is no | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
longer a worry for Alex Salmond because they are definitely going to | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
be, according to the EU, our responsibility in England, not a | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Scottish response political if Scotland goes for independence. A | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
?100 million draft plan seen by the BBC has been drawn up to prevent a | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
repeat of the severe flooding of the Somerset Levels. The proposals from | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
the county council, Environment Agency and local residents include | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
raising a number of vulnerable roads and building a tidal barrier near | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
the town of Bridgewater. Jon Kay is on the Somerset Levels for us now. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Jon. Yes, six weeks ago when the flood | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
water was at its deepest and the political blame game was at its | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
height, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson stood here and gave | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
the local people six weeks to come up with a plan to save the Somerset | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Levels for the future. Tomorrow he will get the plan on his desk. I | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
have seen it and it is long and expensive, a wish list, basically. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
What people want to know is how much of it will actually be put into | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
effect? Ten weeks on and the road is still a river. Villagers still | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
relying on military vehicles and boats to get them in and out. Two | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
hours to get a bottle of milk. Yes, that is it. As he heads home from | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
the shops, Nigel is glad to hear that the 20 year plan includes a | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
proposal to raise the road here to stop it flooding again. Make the | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
rail -- it would make a real difference. Shuttling backwards and | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
forwards, spending hours a day buying a pint of milk. Raising the | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
road is just one of dozens of proposals in the document ministers | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
will receive tomorrow. It aims to prevent a repeat of this winter's | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
crisis. 40 square miles of Somerset were swamped and 150 homes flooded. | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
The plan proposes more pumps as well as dredging the rivers and even a | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
barrage to protect the town of Bridgwater. Heartbreaking. This home | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
was one of those that flooded and today the repair work began in his | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
cottage. He welcomes all of the ideas in the 20 year plan but he | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
wonders if they will ever come to anything. Next year will be a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
different government. It might be the same party, but it will be | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
different people. Will they stick to whatever has been promised? Who | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
knows. The plan is basically a wish list. If ministers rubber-stamp the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
whole thing it would cost more than ?100 million and there is little | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
detail in it over who would play. 250 miles away they also had major | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
flooding before Christmas, they hope any public money will be shared and | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
Somerset will not get special treatment. I need it -- they need it | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
but we need it as well. It is for everybody. As I say, they are in a | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
worse state than us. The 20 year plan for the Somerset Levels will be | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
on the Prime Minister's desk tomorrow morning. Last month he said | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
money would be no object in helping Britain recover from the floods. | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
This ?100 million wish list will test his commitment. | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
The former boss of News International, Rebekah Brooks, has | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
denied covering up the extent of phone hacking at the News of the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
World. In court, Mrs Brooks admitted knowing since 2006, when she was | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
editor of the Sun, that there were many more victims of hacking than | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
her company had admitted. But she told the trial that, at the time, | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
she had no reason to believe hacking had been carried out by anyone other | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
than a single rogue reporter. Mrs Brooks denies all the charges. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
A South African boxer has told the Oscar Pistorius murder trial that | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
the athlete fired a loaded gun in a restaurant last year and then asked | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
him to take the blame. The incident happened in January last year, just | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
weeks before Mr Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
claims he mistook her for an intruder. Andrew Harding's report | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
contains flash photography. Relatives gardening Oscar Pistorius | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
on his way into court this morning as the prosecution continues to | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
build a case against him -- guarding. This professional boxer | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
Kevin Arena, the first witness to appear on camera. -- Kevin Lerena. | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
He described an incident at a restaurant a month before Oscar | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
Pistorius shot dead Reeva Steenkamp. The athlete fired a friend's gun | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
under one of these tables, seemingly by accident. Then allegedly he asked | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
the friend to take the blame. I remember him saying, apologising, is | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
everybody OK? I remember him saying, please, say it was you, I do not | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
want any attention. Said it was you. This is a murder trial so it | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
may seem strange to be discussing a separate comparatively minor | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
incident. It gives the prosecution a unique opportunity to raise | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
questions about his character. Discharging a gun under the table, | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
trying to ask his friends to be compromised in the process, they are | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
painting a picture of Oscar Pistorius. It was not all bad for | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
Oscar Pistorius today. His lawyer picked holes in the vital evidence | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
of two neighbours. It is nonsense. They said they heard a woman scream | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
before the gunshots, contradicting Oscar Pistorius's version of events. | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
It is a man's life at stake. Let us look at other possibilities. | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
Today's restaurant revelations may prove damaging to Oscar Pistorius | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
but his team has shown signs of the formidable research it has done to | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
prove he did not mean to kill Reeva Steenkamp. Our top story this | :14:28. | :14:40. | |
evening. Russian blockades strand Ukrainian sailors in Crimea as the | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
high levels talks to resolve the crisis continue. Still to come... | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
The 13-year-old Preston schoolboy who's carried out a nuclear | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
experiment. On BBC London. More of the world's | :14:48. | :14:57. | |
super rich are coming to the capital and buying houses like this. And | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
designer Vivienne Westwood joined a protest in south London over people | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
being told they can no longer stay in a council homes. | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
Eating too much sugar can lead to obesity, heart disease, cancer and | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
other health problems. Now the World Health Organisation is changing its | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
guidance on the maximum amount of added sugar we should have in our | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
diet. Until now, its experts said that no more than 10% of a person's | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
daily food intake should be in the form of added sugars. Today it's | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
suggested the limit should be halved to 5%. For an adult, that's the | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
equivalent of less than one can of coke. So how would that work in | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
practice, and could we stick to it? Our health correspondent, Dominic | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
Hughes, has more details. The amount of sugar in our food has become one | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
of the most controversial issues in health, and it's not just the | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
obvious sugary snacks either. Added sugar is found in all sorts of food | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
you don't expect. The World Health Organisation's proposals will mean a | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
drastic cut in the recommended amount of sugar we consume every | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
day. Why does this matter? Well, the World Health Organisation is an | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
incredibly influential body, setting the benchmark for different | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
government's health policies across the globe. But for all of us, doing | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
the right thing when it comes to food is not always as easy as it | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
should be. Charlotte Simpson is a busy mum who wants to give her two | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
children a healthy diet. She prepares most of the family meals, | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
but sometimes time is against her. So she resorts to tens and jars. She | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
wants the manufacturers to be much more honest about what in their | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
products. If I was cooking this myself, would I put sugar in? If | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
it's a cake, yes. If it's pasta sauce, no, I'm not putting sugar in | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
it. I want them to make what I would make at home if I had time. I want | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
them to put in ingredients that are normal wholesome ingredients and not | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
fill it up with junk. The point about added sugar is in most cases | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
it just isn't necessary. Experts say it is simply extra calories that | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
feeds growing levels of obesity. And there are some simple ways to cut | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
down on our sugar intake by going back to basics. The obvious things | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
are cut -- to cakes, biscuits, sweets, soft drinks. Having real, | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
fresh food, cooking your own, like great grandmother used to live. | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Leading supermarkets and food producers have signed up to the | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Government's responsibility deal, voluntary agreements to cut calories | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
in their products. The UK's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, says it | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
has already done a lot, putting sugar in soft rings and offering | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
low-calorie products. Its chief executive admits much more needs to | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
be done. We need a level playing field. Everybody needs to raise | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
their game to a certain standard. We've got the responsibility deal | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
and have signed up to more of the conditions than anybody, but I think | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
we don't want to just wait for legislation, we've got to act now. | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
Health campaigners saved cutting our sugar intake can be done. They point | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
to the success in reducing levels of salt in food. Now sugar is in the | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
firing line. Dominic Hughes, BBC News. The BBC is to axe its digital | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
channel BBC Three. It's the first time the BBC has moved to cut an | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
entire channel as part of its drive to cut costs. Many of the | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
programmes, which are aimed predominantly at a younger audience, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
will be shown on BBC iPlayer instead. Our media correspondent, | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
David Sillito, has more. Hello, welcome to BBC Three for another | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
wild evening of telly. Is it a Welsh thing? Gavin Stacey was a ratings | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
and critical hit. Sergeant Wilson carried his boss on board. Our war | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
about soldiers in Afghanistan was award-winning. What about this? | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
Good. And where else would you find something like this? But cuts are | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
needed. BBC Three as a TV channel is facing close down. Behind this | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
decision, and need to cut ?100 billion. However, even if you cut | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
all the programmes on BBC Three, that would still only be 90 million. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
The plan is to shift the brand to the iPlayer. But the problem is that | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
the station reaches parts of Britain that the rest of the BBC struggles | :19:29. | :19:37. | |
to reach, especially young people. One in four young adult watches BBC | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Three, and they are watching on television. Only around 4% | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
viewership is done at the moment through iPlayer. Young people, | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
though, are watching less and less television, a drop of 20% over the | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
last four years. They are turning to other devices. So is this the | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
answer, make fewer, better programmes and show them where the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
young are, online? If you were to pick any service that you could | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
safely move online without losing the audience it is probably this | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
one, because in so far as the audience are young, they are much | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
more likely to follow that format. And there are shows that some older | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
and more conservative BBC viewers and staff really think the | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
corporation should not be making. But when it comes to reaching big | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
young and less affluent, BBC Three scores well will stop cutting | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
production and shifting its best programmes online may save money but | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
it's a gamble with an important part of the audience. Downing Street has | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
denied suppressing a report which apparently suggests that immigration | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
has less of an impact on British jobs than first feared. Ministers | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
had said that every 100 new arrivals from outside the European Union left | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
23 British people without a job. That number is now in dispute. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Labour and the Liberal Democrats are calling for the report to be | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
published. Our deputy political editor, James Landale, is in Downing | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
Street. This is potentially rather embarrassing, what more can you tell | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
us? Economists have argued for years over the impact of immigration on | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
jobs, and they don't always agree. A couple of years ago, the Home | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
Secretary, Theresa May, seized on the conclusions of one particular | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
group of independent experts who estimated that when the economy is | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
struggling, every time 100 immigrants come here from outside of | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
the EU, about 23 Brits don't get a job as a result. But there's a new | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
bit of analysis doing the rounds in Whitehall that challenges that | :21:41. | :21:41. | |
analysis. According to at least one source, it shows there is relatively | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
little evidence of any impact of UK workers losing their jobs as a | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
result of immigration. That report has not been published. Labour and | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
the Lib Dems are accusing the Government sitting on it because | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
they believe will be unhelpful and undermine the Government's | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
rationales for tough economic curbs. Downing Street had said they are not | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
sitting on it and it will be published shortly. The Home Office | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
has challenged the idea that this new report in any way threatens the | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
original analysis. This tells us that immigration remains a hugely | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
sensitive issue for the coalition and both sides are now fighting hard | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
over what the latest data shows. The Winter Paralympics get under way in | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
Sochi this Friday and the British Paralympic team will be hoping for | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
their first ever gold medal. 28-year-old Kelly Gallagher, from | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
Bangor, Northern Ireland, is one of the team's brightest hopes. She is | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
visually impaired and skis with the help of her guide, Charlotte Evans. | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
As Kate Grey, herself a former Paralympian, reports, it may look | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
terrifying but the pair are full of confidence. Skiing down an icy | :22:41. | :22:48. | |
mountain at 60 mph is scary enough, but Kelly Gallagher does it blind. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
And with guide, Charlotte Evans, she is dreaming of Paralympic gold. | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
Sometimes we are skiing so high in the mountains that it is all white. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
When Charlotte comes into my frame of view, all I see is the orange and | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
I chased down the mountain. The relationship between skier and guide | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
is crucial. Technology also plays its part, the pair communicate by a | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
microphone on the slopes. But success depends on trust. So for the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
guide in particular there is a lot of responsibility. There's no room | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
for error. It's going to fast and there's too much happening for error | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
to happen, so I have to make sure I've got it down and sorted. Kelly | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
and Charlotte are competing in five events in Sochi over the technical | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
slalom and ski disciplines. Their recent performances suggest they | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
represent Britain's best chance of a first medal on the snow in 20 years. | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
She has put in a gutsy performance... Four years ago in | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
Vancouver, Kelly came fourth and sixth with a different guide. But | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
with Charlotte, the medals have come thick and fast. They won their first | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
world title last year in Sochi and in January added another three World | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Cup gold. Now the focus is on a successful return to Russia. Every | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
season has had a different goal. Sometimes we reached it and | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
sometimes it's taken a bit longer, but we are feeling pretty good about | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
it. We've put our heart and soul into this and will continue to do | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
with that in Sochi. The challenge for the Paralympics is to continue | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the momentum established in London. For the British team, their aim is | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
to follow the success of their Olympic counterparts, with Kelly | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
Gallagher and Charlotte Evans leading the way. Conducting nuclear | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
experiments is not something you'd normally associate with 13-year-old | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
school boys. But Jamie Edwards, from Penwortham Priory Academy in | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
Preston, has done exactly that, becoming the youngest person ever to | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
carry out the task. Our correspondent Danny Savage was there | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
and lived to tell the tale. A school classroom in Preston isn't the first | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
place you'd expect to find a nuclear reactor but, yes, this is a | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
13-year-old who's built one. Jamie Edwards today attempted to become | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
the youngest person ever to smash two hydrogen atoms together, making | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
helium through nuclear fusion. Folks, can I ask you to leave? It's | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
not without its risks, so the room was cleared, although we did leave | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
the camera running. And after a few minutes... I heard the geiger | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
counter rapidly go up and thought, what is that? I looked over and the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
neutron counter was up of scale nearly. I thought, it must have done | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
it, that is neutrons, I can't believe it! His mum watched on from | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
outside, hoping practical science didn't turn into horrible histories. | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
Relief that he's safe and all right and he's achieved what he wanted to | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
achieve. Feeling really relieved at the moment. Radiation is measured | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
with a geiger counter. A couple of Christmases ago, Jamie spent all his | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Christmas money on buying a geiger counter. He has since gone on to | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
develop this project to become the youngest fusioneer in the world. The | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
previous record was held by a 14-year-old in America. Jamie turns | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
14 this weekend, so he had to get it done today. And for his next trick, | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Jamie plans are many Hadron Collider. Danny Savage, BBC News, | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
Preston. Time for a look at the weather. We must have missed that | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
class, nuclear fusion! The weather is set to change for the | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
better. We've been looking back at the appalling last three months' | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
weather we've had, but finally settled weather is on the way. We've | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
got a big area of high pressure moving in. It will sit right across | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
the UK for a good part of next week. It will be dry and at times quite | :27:01. | :27:13. | |
warm. Ahead of that, we do have some rain coming. Quite misty on the | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
hills. Temperatures holding up underneath that cloud but dipping | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
away at the end of the night across northern Scotland and dipping for a | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
time early in the night under clear skies across the south-east. At 8am | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
tomorrow, it's a grey affair for Wales, south-west England and much | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
of the Midlands. Outbreaks of rain in the West, a glimmer of brightness | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
in the far South East. Really dull, dismal and damp across Northern | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Ireland, much of northern England, southern Scotland, too. Further | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
north and you have some early brightness for the Northern | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
Highlands. The temperatures close to freezing in places. The rain moves | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
northwards across Scotland through the day. Turning heavy at times | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
across western parts. Rain is on and off all day for Northern Ireland, | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
western England and Wales. But a glimmer in the south east once | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
again, where temperatures will reach 13 or 14 degrees. A brief incursion | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
of cold air for many of us on Friday, but it doesn't last. Watch | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
this. As we go into the weekend, lovely, warm air pushing in from the | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
south across most of the UK. Temperatures in some places up into | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
the mid-teens. All the signs are we've got some fine weather to come | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
next week. Russian blockades are stranding | :28:34. | :28:43. | |
Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
crisis continue. | :28:48. | :28:49. |