:00:00. > :00:07.Unrest spreads across eastern Ukraine as the government in Kiev
:00:08. > :00:11.calls for UN peacekeepers to be sent in.
:00:12. > :00:15.As protesters ransack another police station, Britain accuses Russia of
:00:16. > :00:19.fomenting the violence. There is very little doubt, there
:00:20. > :00:25.can't really be any real doubt that this is something that has been
:00:26. > :00:28.planned and brought about by Russia. The government in Ukraine has
:00:29. > :00:31.offered the possibility of a referendum to try to restore peace
:00:32. > :00:40.in the country. We will bring you the latest.
:00:41. > :00:43.Also tonight: The investigation into an alleged plot by hardline Muslims
:00:44. > :00:45.to take over schools in Birmingham now extends to 25 schools.
:00:46. > :00:48.The robotic submarine that will search the ocean floor to try to
:00:49. > :00:51.find any trace of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
:00:52. > :00:56.The Oscar Pistorius trial - a hug outside court, but unrelentingly
:00:57. > :01:08.hostile cross-examination within. Why are you getting emotional now? I
:01:09. > :01:13.did not fire at Reeva! And William, down under, tries to
:01:14. > :01:16.bowl his maiden over. Tonight on BBC London: Exposing the
:01:17. > :01:20.shopkeepers prepared to trade in stolen smartphones - we go
:01:21. > :01:23.undercover. And tributes to the 60-year-old
:01:24. > :01:27.woman found dead after a gruesome attack at her home in Hackney.
:01:28. > :01:29.And they work and dies after a building collapses in Mayfair. - man
:01:30. > :01:46.a work man dies. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:47. > :01:49.News at Six. As pro-Russian activists in Ukraine attack more
:01:50. > :01:52.official buildings in the east of the country, the government in Kiev
:01:53. > :02:01.has issued a plea for UN peacekeepers to be deployed in the
:02:02. > :02:04.region. Russia and the West are accusing each other of fomenting the
:02:05. > :02:07.crisis, which has now spread to at least ten cities. Our correspondent,
:02:08. > :02:14.Daniel Sandford, begins his report in the city of Sloviansk.
:02:15. > :02:19.A moment of extreme tension in Sloviansk today, as the morning
:02:20. > :02:24.shoppers emerged from their homes. Gunmen suddenly took up defensive
:02:25. > :02:27.positions. There was a rumour that government forces were about to
:02:28. > :02:32.attack the rebellious town in eastern Ukraine. But in the end, the
:02:33. > :02:37.attack never came. Despite the threat of what the Kiev government
:02:38. > :02:43.called an anti-terrorist operation, the people here have remained
:02:44. > :02:48.resolutely in place, and the barricades are still standing. I
:02:49. > :02:52.asked the men manning the defence as if they were not worried about a
:02:53. > :02:55.possible attack. TRANSLATION: Of course we are worried, because
:02:56. > :03:02.people here are peaceful, but we stand up for our principles. Then,
:03:03. > :03:05.as we wove through the checkpoints, came news that pro-Russian militia
:03:06. > :03:12.were storming another police headquarters. This was the scene at
:03:13. > :03:17.Horlivka, where activists smashed windows, threw rocks and quickly
:03:18. > :03:22.took over the building, erecting a Russian flag outside. The chief of
:03:23. > :03:28.police ended up in hospital with a broken skull. And so even on the day
:03:29. > :03:31.that the Kiev government had threatened to start attacking those
:03:32. > :03:37.in the East who were taking over police stations, they have taken
:03:38. > :03:41.another one. Inside, we found some of the police still at their desks,
:03:42. > :03:48.now apparently loyal to the new power in town. Then these pictures
:03:49. > :03:52.emerged in which a man who claimed to be a lieutenant colonel in the
:03:53. > :03:58.Russian army addresses some of the police after the raid. The same man
:03:59. > :04:01.can also be seen on mobile phone footage, addressing the crowd
:04:02. > :04:07.outside the building, fuelling concerns that Russia is organising
:04:08. > :04:11.these protests. But in the crowd of supporters, we found many people
:04:12. > :04:17.with genuine grievances against the Ukrainian government. TRANSLATION:
:04:18. > :04:23.On the 23 years that Ukraine has been in charge here, they have been
:04:24. > :04:27.stealing. It was all further evidence that Kiev is struggling to
:04:28. > :04:30.control the rebellious East, although the number of people
:04:31. > :04:33.actively supporting the uprising is still quite small. Daniel Sandford,
:04:34. > :04:36.BBC News. European foreign ministers have been
:04:37. > :04:38.meeting in Luxembourg to discuss the situation in Ukraine. The Foreign
:04:39. > :04:42.Secretary, William Hague, says he has no doubt the unrest in the east
:04:43. > :04:44.of the country is being planned and brought about by Russia. Our
:04:45. > :04:53.diplomatic correspondent, Bridget Kendall, looks now at the evidence
:04:54. > :04:57.to back up that claim. A dangerous new phase in Ukraine's
:04:58. > :05:00.crisis. Already, blood has been shared during the unrest in the east
:05:01. > :05:05.of the country, but the deadline for surrender has been ignored and
:05:06. > :05:08.instead of sending in the army, as it threatened yesterday, the
:05:09. > :05:14.Ukrainian government is now calling for UN peacekeepers to restore
:05:15. > :05:18.control. Outside the parliament in Kiev, pro-Western protesters, with
:05:19. > :05:25.placards to accuse their government of a failure of nerve. Inside, the
:05:26. > :05:30.acting president admits he has not been able to rely on police in the
:05:31. > :05:36.east to obey orders. In an effort to appease those rebelling in the East,
:05:37. > :05:38.he today signalled that he would not be against a nationwide referendum
:05:39. > :05:47.next month if it helped calm the situation down. In Luxembourg, EU
:05:48. > :05:51.foreign ministers mould new sanctions against Russia. Once
:05:52. > :05:54.agreed, sanctions take time to bite. The only other pressure is rhetoric,
:05:55. > :05:59.accusing Russia of deliberately fuelling the unrest to weaken Kiev
:06:00. > :06:04.and show that it lacks support in the East. There cannot be any real
:06:05. > :06:09.doubt that this is something that has been planned and wrote about by
:06:10. > :06:13.Russia. I don't think denials of Russian involvement have a shred of
:06:14. > :06:16.good ability. So what is the evidence of Russian involvement?
:06:17. > :06:22.Well, it is more circumstantial than hard-core proof. There are lots of
:06:23. > :06:27.local protesters, clearly angry with Kiev, but more suspicious are the
:06:28. > :06:31.masked men, kitted out in camouflage and protective clothing, heavily
:06:32. > :06:35.armed with Russian weapons, seizing buildings in a quarter noted and
:06:36. > :06:43.professional way. And a few, like the kernel we had earlier, openly
:06:44. > :06:45.admit he is from the Russian army. It is ominously reminiscent of the
:06:46. > :06:48.armed men who took over Crimea, raising fears that the same thing
:06:49. > :06:55.could happen again. At Russia flatly denies it. TRANSLATION: As for the
:06:56. > :06:58.hypothetical question, what would lead to Russian military
:06:59. > :07:02.intervention, I don't even want to speculative. We do not meddle in the
:07:03. > :07:06.internal affairs of Ukraine. It is against our interests and we don't
:07:07. > :07:08.have any agents there, either from military intelligence or the
:07:09. > :07:13.security services. But across the border from Ukraine, tens of
:07:14. > :07:18.thousands of Russian troops still stand ready to move if needed.
:07:19. > :07:23.Moscow says they are only training, but President Putin today said he
:07:24. > :07:27.was watching developments with great concern. He said appeals were
:07:28. > :07:32.pouring in from eastern Ukraine, asking him to intervene. This crisis
:07:33. > :07:35.may be on the brink, but it has not yet tipped over. Talks between
:07:36. > :07:39.Ukraine, Russia and the West are still banned for Thursday, but it is
:07:40. > :07:41.unclear whether either side will back down. Bridget Kendall, BBC
:07:42. > :07:47.News. Daniel Sandford is in Donetsk, in
:07:48. > :07:50.eastern Ukraine, for us now. Let's talk about the options for the
:07:51. > :07:53.government in Kiev. The deadline for the pro-Russian activists to get out
:07:54. > :07:58.of official buildings has passed. That was ignored. Now it has offered
:07:59. > :08:05.a possible referendum and is also asking for UN peacekeepers. What
:08:06. > :08:09.options are left? In truth, they are running out of options. The threat
:08:10. > :08:12.to use force did not work because the protesters called their bluff,
:08:13. > :08:16.knowing it would be a huge decision to use force and would open the Kiev
:08:17. > :08:19.government up to accusations that they were just as bad as the
:08:20. > :08:23.government they replaced. If they can limp through to the presidential
:08:24. > :08:26.elections at the end of May, the Kiev government have a chance if
:08:27. > :08:30.they can get a reasonable mandate from people in the East for a new
:08:31. > :08:33.president. That is something that might be all right. But at this
:08:34. > :08:39.stage, it is not even clear that they will get that far. That brings
:08:40. > :08:44.us to negotiations. That will depend on what Russia really wants. It
:08:45. > :08:47.would be possible, if what Russia wants is a federal Ukraine which
:08:48. > :08:53.they can then influence through support in the East, and the Kiev
:08:54. > :08:58.government can negotiate that. But if Russia wants to divide Ukraine,
:08:59. > :09:02.there is nobody in Kiev could negotiate that. To give you an idea
:09:03. > :09:07.of the tensions in this region at the moment, last week, a US naval
:09:08. > :09:12.destroyer came into the Black Sea, just south of here. We have now
:09:13. > :09:17.heard that on Saturday, a Russian fighter jet made multiple low passes
:09:18. > :09:22.over that US destroyer, flying just 150 metres above the sea, just 1000
:09:23. > :09:28.metres away from one of the US Navy's finest warships.
:09:29. > :09:31.The former editor of the News Of The World, Andy Coulson, has told a jury
:09:32. > :09:34.at the Old Bailey that his affair with his colleague, Rebekah Brooks,
:09:35. > :09:37.was wrong and shouldn't have happened. It's the first day of his
:09:38. > :09:40.defence at the phone hacking trial at the Old Bailey. Mr Coulson, who
:09:41. > :09:42.also worked as David Cameron's head of communications, denies
:09:43. > :09:46.allegations of conspiracy to hack phones and to commit misconduct in
:09:47. > :09:51.public office. Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports
:09:52. > :09:56.from the Old Bailey. This report contains flash photography.
:09:57. > :10:01.Once editor of Britain's test selling Sunday newspaper, then the
:10:02. > :10:05.man trusted to defend the reputation of the prime minister. It is doing a
:10:06. > :10:08.half years since Andy Coulson was arrested, and he said next to
:10:09. > :10:14.nothing publicly in his defence, until today. Today, there were
:10:15. > :10:19.admissions and denials. Andy Coulson admitted damaging those close to him
:10:20. > :10:25.by his affair with Rebekah Brooks. That revelation came from
:10:26. > :10:27.prosecutors keen to prove they were so close that they must have
:10:28. > :10:36.discussed the so-called dark arts of Fleet Street, including phone
:10:37. > :10:45.hacking. The, Mr Coulson said this. -- of the affair. He resigned as
:10:46. > :10:49.David Cameron's communications director in 2011, but admitted today
:10:50. > :10:53.that they and their families then spent a weekend together at
:10:54. > :10:56.Chequers, a prior arrangement. I have not spoken to the prime
:10:57. > :11:01.ministers since, said Mr Coulson. The former editor was being
:11:02. > :11:05.questioned today by his barrister, Timothy Langdale. He asked if Mr
:11:06. > :11:08.Coulson had known the name of the private investigator, Glenn
:11:09. > :11:12.Mulcaire, before he had been convicted of phone hacking into
:11:13. > :11:18.thousand six. Mr Coulson denied it. He told the court he thought Glenn
:11:19. > :11:22.Mulcaire's company looked for people and possibly did surveillance. But
:11:23. > :11:27.he said he was not interested in that. He was a former show business
:11:28. > :11:31.reporter, and he never used private investigators. He and Rebekah Brooks
:11:32. > :11:35.wanted to modernise the News Of The World, Mr Coulson said. He worried
:11:36. > :11:40.back then about what he called the paper's destructive competitive
:11:41. > :11:45.culture. Today's evidence was setting the scene. He could we in
:11:46. > :11:48.the witness box for three weeks. Andy Coulson denies three charges of
:11:49. > :11:53.phone hacking and making illegal payments to public officials. Tom
:11:54. > :11:56.Symonds, BBC News, at the old daily. Nigerian officials say at least 70
:11:57. > :11:59.people have been killed by two huge explosions at a crowded bus station
:12:00. > :12:02.on the outskirts of the capital, Abuja. Over 120 people have been
:12:03. > :12:04.injured. No one has admitted planting the devices, but the
:12:05. > :12:09.Nigerian president has suggested that the Islamist militant group
:12:10. > :12:12.Boko Haram is to blame. An investigation into allegations of
:12:13. > :12:15.a plot by hardline Muslims to take over schools in Birmingham and
:12:16. > :12:21.introduce Islamic practices is being widened to include 25 schools.
:12:22. > :12:24.Birmingham City Council says it has appointed a new chief adviser to
:12:25. > :12:32.handle at least 200 complaints. Sian Lloyd has more details.
:12:33. > :12:36.These are some of the primary and secondary schools across Birmingham
:12:37. > :12:40.who are facing questions about the way they are run. The individual
:12:41. > :12:45.allegations vary, but there is a common theme by that a small group
:12:46. > :12:50.of so-called hardline Muslims are trying to impose their religiously
:12:51. > :12:55.conservative views, ousting non-Muslim headteachers in the
:12:56. > :12:59.process. We have referred some allegations to the police. So it is
:13:00. > :13:03.not unrealistic to expect that if they find substance to those, we
:13:04. > :13:07.could see criminal proceedings at one end of the spectrum. But
:13:08. > :13:09.equally, we would like to use regular policies and procedures to
:13:10. > :13:14.make sure there is good governance in schools. That includes making
:13:15. > :13:19.appointments properly to governing bodies and to school teaching staff.
:13:20. > :13:23.The council is so concerned about potential abuse of the recruitment
:13:24. > :13:27.process that it has currently imposed a freeze on appointing new
:13:28. > :13:32.school governors. It is six months since the council first received an
:13:33. > :13:36.anonymous letter warning of a plot called Operation Trojan Horse. It
:13:37. > :13:41.suggests that agitators can turn parents against the headteacher and
:13:42. > :13:45.the leadership team by alleging that schools are corrupting their
:13:46. > :13:49.children with sex education, teaching about homosexuality,
:13:50. > :13:55.Christian prayers and organising mixed swimming and sport. Parkview
:13:56. > :13:58.academy is one of the schools named in the Trojan horse letter. It has
:13:59. > :14:04.been alleged that a senior Al-Qaeda figure was praised during school
:14:05. > :14:08.assembly and that boys and girls are segregated during lessons. But when
:14:09. > :14:12.we have spoken to some parents here before the Easter break, they did
:14:13. > :14:16.not raise any of these concerns, and wanted to praised the school for its
:14:17. > :14:21.academic achievements. The chair of governors has strenuously denied all
:14:22. > :14:26.the claims. These are ridiculous assertions, meant to serve the
:14:27. > :14:34.frenzy that has been generated in the media, which actually is a kind
:14:35. > :14:39.of witch hunt. Ofsted recently inspected this school and 14 others
:14:40. > :14:43.across Birmingham. The council's investigation is due to report by
:14:44. > :14:47.July. Education officers say they want to get to the bottom of what is
:14:48. > :14:54.happening in some of the city's schools before the end of the
:14:55. > :14:59.academic year. Our top story this evening: Unrest
:15:00. > :15:02.spreads across eastern Ukraine is the government in Kiev calls for UN
:15:03. > :15:08.peacekeepers to be sent in. Sadiq Khan: making the medals for the
:15:09. > :15:13.Commonwealth Games, with 100 days to go.
:15:14. > :15:17.Later on BBC London News a fantastic day tinged with sadness. Marathon
:15:18. > :15:18.organisers pay their respects as a runner who died on the finish line
:15:19. > :15:24.is named. And claims that a fund manager.
:15:25. > :15:33.Britain's biggest fare dodger paid his way out of persecution.
:15:34. > :15:37.Teams looking for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane are to use
:15:38. > :15:41.a robotic submarine to search the floor of the southern Indian Ocean.
:15:42. > :15:43.Bluefin will travel to depths of 4,500 metres to determine whether
:15:44. > :15:49.signals detected last week were from the plane's black box. The last
:15:50. > :15:52.signal, or ping, was received nearly a week ago. It's feared the
:15:53. > :15:56.batteries may now have run out. The submarine will spend 16 hours a day
:15:57. > :16:00.on the ocean floor searching for any wreckage. But the task isn't easy
:16:01. > :16:01.and is agonisingly slow. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has the latest from
:16:02. > :16:10.Perth. This hi-tech yellow torpedo is now
:16:11. > :16:16.the last hope of finding Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Tonight, it is
:16:17. > :16:20.being dispatched into the depths of the Indian Ocean, close to where the
:16:21. > :16:28.four pings, thought to be from the missing plane, were detected last
:16:29. > :16:30.week. I would caution you against raising hopes and the deployment of
:16:31. > :16:38.the autonomous underwater vehicle will result in the detection of the
:16:39. > :16:41.aircraft wreckage. It may not. However, this is the best lead we
:16:42. > :16:49.have and it must be pursued rigorously. The depth it must go to
:16:50. > :16:54.is breathtaking, nearly three miles deep. Far deeper even than the wreck
:16:55. > :16:57.of the Titanic. Once down there, the Bluefin-21 will cruise backwards and
:16:58. > :17:05.forwards just above the ocean floor, its side scanning sonar mapping the
:17:06. > :17:09.bottom. This is an actual image of a shipwreck from the previous mission.
:17:10. > :17:15.The challenges this time are much greater. It has to travel that depth
:17:16. > :17:19.before it starts travelling along the track. It will only go at six
:17:20. > :17:23.kilometres an hour, walking pace. The sonar range is only about 600 m
:17:24. > :17:27.either side, it is like mowing the lawn 600 m one-way, turning around
:17:28. > :17:33.and then 600 m the other way. It is a long operation. When they picked
:17:34. > :17:36.up the sound of the pingers last week there was a real sense of
:17:37. > :17:39.expectation that they were about to find the plane. The pings stopped
:17:40. > :17:43.and they have heard nothing for the last six days. Now they have no
:17:44. > :17:49.choice but to start the long, laborious process of mapping the
:17:50. > :17:55.ocean floor using sonar. It could take weeks, months or even years.
:17:56. > :18:08.After 30 days of scanning the ocean surface and finding nothing, today
:18:09. > :18:13.they found a small oil slick. -- oil slick. It may still turn out to be
:18:14. > :18:17.nothing but if it is aviation fuel, it could be more evidence they are
:18:18. > :18:20.at least searching in the right area. The South African athlete,
:18:21. > :18:23.Oscar Pistorius, has been accused in court of concocting his evidence
:18:24. > :18:26.about the night he shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The
:18:27. > :18:30.prosecution suggested there was a row and Miss Steenkamp wanted to
:18:31. > :18:32.leave. In another tense and highly emotional day of testimony and cross
:18:33. > :18:39.examination, Mr Pistorius again denied murder, saying he thought
:18:40. > :18:42.there was an intruder in the House. Our correspondent, Andrew Harding,
:18:43. > :18:45.reports from Pretoria. Back in court, and some well-wishers waiting
:18:46. > :18:50.for Oscar Pistorius. He shrugged aside the balloons, the hug was
:18:51. > :18:53.harder to escape. In court, there was no hint of sympathy from the
:18:54. > :19:00.athlete from the prosecutor they dubbed the pit bull. Your version is
:19:01. > :19:06.so improbable that it cannot be reasonably possibly true. The focus
:19:07. > :19:08.again today, the circumstances of Reeva Steenkamp's death, the
:19:09. > :19:18.prosecutor looking for holes in Pistorius's story, insisting the
:19:19. > :19:26.couple had a row. I am saying that she wanted to leave and that you
:19:27. > :19:34.weren't sleeping. You were both awake. That is not correct. It is
:19:35. > :19:38.untrue. And that there was an argument. Then, Pistorius was asked
:19:39. > :19:41.again about his movement from the bedroom to the bathroom where, he
:19:42. > :19:52.says, he feared intruders had broken in. I screamed. I said, get the
:19:53. > :19:59.BLEEP out of my house. Get the BLEEP out of my house. But Nel was
:20:00. > :20:01.sceptical. At one point he got a policeman to sit in the toilet
:20:02. > :20:06.cubicle, reconstructed in court with the original door, to show where
:20:07. > :20:09.Reeva Steenkamp might have been. Under relentless pressure, Oscar
:20:10. > :20:11.Pistorius struggled badly today. Sometimes evasive, sometimes
:20:12. > :20:14.changing his evidence, as the prosecutor kept asking him how it
:20:15. > :20:22.was possible he had fired four times through this door without checking
:20:23. > :20:30.who was on the other side. You fired at Reeva. The other versions of
:20:31. > :20:37.yours cannot work. That is not true. Why are you getting emotional now?
:20:38. > :20:46.I did not fire at Reeva. This was a tough day for the athlete who, as
:20:47. > :20:49.usual, was not shown on the court cameras. His evidence has been shown
:20:50. > :20:56.to be incomplete and, at times, inconsistent.
:20:57. > :21:01.There are just 100 days to go before the start of the Commonwealth Games
:21:02. > :21:04.in Glasgow and the organisers have unveiled the new specially designed
:21:05. > :21:15.medals. Our correspondent, Lorna Gordon, was there. Lorna... Some of
:21:16. > :21:20.those medals will be competed for and won here at the velodrome on the
:21:21. > :21:27.very first day of Commonwealth competition. Each medal is
:21:28. > :21:31.handmade. That means each one is ever so slightly different. The
:21:32. > :21:36.designer says every single medal is a work of art. The other medals,
:21:37. > :21:44.competitors at this summer 's Commonwealth Games will be hoping to
:21:45. > :21:49.win, bronze, silver and gold. Every single one made by hand in the city
:21:50. > :21:55.where they will be handed out. A small team has been working long
:21:56. > :22:00.hours to handcraft medals, close to 1400 will be awarded. It was trying
:22:01. > :22:07.to do something that reflected Glasgow but also having a feel of
:22:08. > :22:16.movement. Is it a labour of love? Exactly. There is blood, sweat and
:22:17. > :22:21.tears in these medals. To the Auckland games and the medals of
:22:22. > :22:28.Delhi just four years ago, they all have a very different look and feel.
:22:29. > :22:32.Medals for this summer 's games are inspired by Glasgow 's heritage,
:22:33. > :22:39.shipbuilding on the Clyde, the buildings designed by Mackintosh.
:22:40. > :22:43.One of Britain 's greatest ever sportsman says the medals are worth
:22:44. > :22:49.more to him than their weight in gold. It is just a hunk of metal on
:22:50. > :22:55.a bit of ribbon. But it's not what counts. It represents everything you
:22:56. > :23:04.put into it, achievement, hard work, highs and lows. The Glasgow games
:23:05. > :23:09.have encountered difficulties. Protest and concerns over safety of
:23:10. > :23:15.demolition of the flat has been cancelled. Looking at the type of
:23:16. > :23:20.opposition, it would be beyond regular debate. We were looking at a
:23:21. > :23:26.commemorative action as part of the ceremony, not to enhance protest.
:23:27. > :23:31.Organisers are hoping the controversy will not tarnish the
:23:32. > :23:48.event. The last few medals are now being completed. The games get under
:23:49. > :23:52.way in 100 days' time. Mumsnet says it has 10 million visits a month and
:23:53. > :24:02.it believes cyber thieves may have obtained sparse words and personal
:24:03. > :24:05.messages before this was fixed. -- passwords. People in Cheltenham
:24:06. > :24:08.believe they have been paid a secret visit by the street artist, Banksy.
:24:09. > :24:11.A mural has appeared on a wall, depicting three 1950s-style spies,
:24:12. > :24:13.wearing trench coats and trilby hats, using devices to tap into
:24:14. > :24:16.conversations at a telephone box just a few miles from the
:24:17. > :24:19.Government's GCHQ surveillance centre. There has been no
:24:20. > :24:21.confirmation on Banksy's website. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:24:22. > :24:25.have been visiting the city of Christchurch in New Zealand to meet
:24:26. > :24:28.the families of people who died in the earthquake of 2011. The couple
:24:29. > :24:29.also took part in an impromptu cricket match with William
:24:30. > :24:35.demonstrating some potentially lethal bowling. From Christchurch,
:24:36. > :24:39.our royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, reports.
:24:40. > :24:44.He returned to a city which has picked itself up from tragedy, and
:24:45. > :24:47.this time he was accompanied by his wife. William and Catherine spent
:24:48. > :24:52.several hours at Christchurch, the scene three years ago of a major
:24:53. > :24:57.earthquake. William visited Christchurch soon after it happened.
:24:58. > :25:02.He was shown the devastation. It made a deep impression on him. This
:25:03. > :25:06.is Christchurch today. Some parts are still in ruins and are gradually
:25:07. > :25:10.being demolished, but much of the city has already been rebuilt. 185
:25:11. > :25:14.people were killed in the earthquake. William and Catherine
:25:15. > :25:19.met bereaved families and heard accounts of the day the earthquake
:25:20. > :25:29.struck. In a speech, William paid tribute to the city. What has struck
:25:30. > :25:32.me on this visit, three years on, is the resilience and adaptability of
:25:33. > :25:35.Christchurch. Despite the daunting job ahead of you, life continues
:25:36. > :25:40.with classic Kiwi humour, creativity, innovation and
:25:41. > :25:44.determination. Then a sharp change of mood. Next year, Christchurch
:25:45. > :25:48.will be one of the cities hosting the Cricket World Cup. Good reason,
:25:49. > :25:52.then, to invite these sporting guests to have a quick game. No
:25:53. > :25:57.matter that she was hardly dressed for the occasion. Catherine took to
:25:58. > :26:03.the crease. The bat was grasped, and advice was taken. A batting stance
:26:04. > :26:04.of sorts was adopted. At the bowler's end, William, his first
:26:05. > :26:15.delivery a full toss. The crowd gasped. Catherine wagged
:26:16. > :26:19.her finger. A wide was signalled. She survived three more deliveries,
:26:20. > :26:25.then retired not out. The crowd loved it. Over the past week,
:26:26. > :26:28.William, Kate and not forgetting baby George, certainly appear to
:26:29. > :26:32.have endeared themselves to this country. In coming days, we will see
:26:33. > :26:39.whether they can do the same in Australia.
:26:40. > :26:50.Time for a look at the weather. Autumn in New Zealand, spring back
:26:51. > :26:56.home. It has been a beautiful day. On the satellite, we have had
:26:57. > :27:00.predominantly blue skies. The cloud is starting to dissolve away and it
:27:01. > :27:04.will turn into a clear night. Temperatures will fall away from
:27:05. > :27:09.here on in. It will turn particularly cold in the early
:27:10. > :27:13.hours. In towns and cities we will get into single figures. In the
:27:14. > :27:21.suburbs and more rural areas, we should get down close to freezing or
:27:22. > :27:29.even below. A cold start to another fine and predominantly Sunni day. No
:27:30. > :27:33.two days are the same. There will be some subtle variations. There will
:27:34. > :27:39.be compiled, particularly across it Yorkshire. The wind will be in a
:27:40. > :27:44.different direction. It will be a warm day. The North Coast of
:27:45. > :27:50.Northern Ireland and on the coast of North Wales, it would be up into the
:27:51. > :27:54.mid teens. Conversely, some of us will be cooler today. Notably along
:27:55. > :28:00.some southern and eastern coasts of England. Here we will have an
:28:01. > :28:06.onshore breeze. Tomorrow, right on the coast, perhaps no more than ten
:28:07. > :28:10.or 11. A chilly breeze but do not be fooled. The sun is particularly
:28:11. > :28:16.strong. High UV levels at the moment. If you are out in the
:28:17. > :28:21.sunshine for any length of time, do put on some sunscreen. There will be
:28:22. > :28:27.some rain around, particularly in the far north. Some sunshine. Easter
:28:28. > :28:32.looks like being try to start with. What happens thereafter is open to
:28:33. > :28:35.question. We will keep you updated. A reminder of our main story...
:28:36. > :28:38.Unrest spreads across Eastern Ukraine as the Government in Kiev
:28:39. > :28:41.calls for UN peacekeepers to be sent in. That's all from the BBC News at
:28:42. > :28:42.Six. So,