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A ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine - as pro-Russian rebels and Ukrainian | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
forces reach a deal. It follows a day of intense fighting | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
as rebels pushed forward into one of the region's biggest cities. | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
Throughout the morning we have heard the sound of heavy shelling. In the | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
distance there are rebels, using rocket fire. We have seen Ukrainian | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
jets and heard outgoing artillery. There's a show of force at the NATO | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
summit and a hardline message for Moscow despite the ceasefire. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
There has been a clear message sent to Russia that what Vladimir Putin | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
is doing is indefensible and wrong. 1,000 British troops will | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
join a new NATO rapid reaction force. | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
We'll have the full details. Also tonight: | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Warnings over e-cigarettes - they should be stubbed out, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
say researchers who believe they do more good than harm. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Migrants march in Calais, amid claims of police brutality, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
as hundreds continue to try and cross the Channel. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
And Root hits India for six as England save some face | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
in the one-day Test series. Tonight on BBC London. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
The grief of a local community after a woman is beheaded | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
in her garden in Edmonton. And police shoot dead a man who was | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
threatening a woman with a knife at a house in Islington. | :01:30. | :01:46. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
After almost five months of fighting in Eastern Ukraine and more than | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
2,500 deaths, a ceasefire between pro-Russian | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
rebels and Ukrainian government forces has been declared. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
End to end fighting was due to end 2 hours ago - | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
though there were reports of some shelling after the deadline. | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
The Ukrainian government said it was a | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
"preliminary deal" amid scepticism about whether the deal would hold. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Earlier there had been heavy shelling at the port of Mariupol. | :02:14. | :02:30. | |
If this was the last morning of war, the opposing forces seemed | :02:31. | :02:39. | |
determined to spend their fury. These men from a far-right Ukraine | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
militia, defending Mariupol. From the apartment blocks, the | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
soldiers watched rebel movements. Below them children played on, as if | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
oblivious to the unfolding battle. While the civilians then watched the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
smoke rise from the explosions. Throughout the morning we have been | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
hearing the sound of heavy shelling. In the distance now you can hear | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
rebels, using rocket fire and we have also seen Ukrainian jets | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
overhead and heard outgoing artillery. It seems with the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
ceasefire hours away, both sides are trying to gain as much military | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
advantage as they can. In this ambulance, wounded civilians for | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
whom a ceasefire came too late to save them from tragedy. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Among them a woman whose young grandchildren were killed hours | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
before the peace deal was signed. This woman saw her granddaughter, | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
aged six, and disabled grandson, aged ten, cut down by an explosion. | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
She said when she held her granddaughter, that the whole left | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
side of her was sledded. She was in shock. The little boy was in his | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
wheelchair and it was really difficult, there was blood all over | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
his wheelchair. She doesn't know how to survive | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
this. The images in front of her eyes. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Despite the promise of peace, some families are still fleeing. | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Value entira is a widow who is too afraid to stay any longer. But they | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
have promised a ceasefire, do you not believe in that? God willing | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
that it will happen. If it does we will come back. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
As they wait to see if the ceasefire endures, the people of the East know | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
that the next hours and days are crucial. After all that they have | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
suffered only the test of time will convince them that peace is really | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
coming. Well events | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
in Ukraine have dominated the NATO summit in Wales today. | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Leaders have agreed to set up a rapid reaction force rapid | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
reaction force - partly in response to events in Ukraine. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Britain will contribute 1,000 troops. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
New members And NATO said it's door remains open to new members despite | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
EU sanctions. Separately, leaders said European Union | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
sanctions against Russia would go ahead despite the ceasefire. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
Our Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall sent this report. | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
Britain's Red Arrows, here this morning. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
. Theres have discussions about the dangers posed by Russian aggression | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
here. So news of the ceasefire agreement has been met with hope and | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
trepidation. Confirmation coming from the Ukrainian President | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
himself. A guest here, lobbying for NATO protection, even though the | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Ukraine is not a member. Once the news came through that the Russians | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
and the rebels in Belarus had concluded a deal, he took immediate | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
action. I have given an order to the chief | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
of my military to declare a ceasefire in half an hour. Though | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
some details of the agreement are sketchy, he is hoping for a swift | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
implementation. We are expecting in the very near | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
future to release the hostages. Most probably it should happen tomorrow. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
We are ready for providing the significant steps including the | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
de-centralisation of power. Part of the deal, it seems, is the | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
withdrawal of heavy weaponry, the humanitarian corridors and the | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
presence of foreign observers. It sounds good but it is not clear that | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
there is agreement on the future of the eastern Ukraine, the key to the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
conflict. Without that it must all be precarious. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
It is the fierce fighting on the ground in the east of the Ukraine up | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
to the last-minute that made everyone wary. So NATO is only | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
giving a cautious welcome. Warning Russia that new Western sanctions | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
are still on the table. We should be clear that the | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
sanctions that we agreed last Saturday in Brussels, that would go | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
ahead, they will go ahead, they will be put in place. But of course, if a | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
ceasefire and a proper peace plan is put in place then it will be right | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
to look and see how the sanctions could be potentially removed if the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
proper milestones are reached. NATO is beefing up its presence in | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Eastern Europe. Holding exercises here in Estonia and stationing a new | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
rapid reaction force in Poland to the clear irritation of Russia. A | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
ceasefire in the Ukraine may anybody the offing but the deeper rift | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
between Russia and NATO is now going to be hard to reverse. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
Our Political Editor Nick Robinson is at the NATO summit. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
This summit was billed as the most important | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
in NATO's history, with the Ukraine and Islmaic state dominating the | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
agenda, how successful has it been? | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
As the jets were screaming overhead, inside the leaders were able to | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
watch pictures of the fighting continuing in the eastern Ukraine. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Then hours later on, this golf course in Newport, you get the Petro | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Poroshenko, marching out to declare, that the fighting will end, that | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
there will be a ceasefire. What is intriguing is what they put it down | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
to. Behind me there is the military hardware, about the talk of | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
supporting Eastern Europe, sending troops to the area to give NATO | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
commitment to protect it and yet President Obama and David Cameron | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
insist it is economic, not military power, that forced Vladimir Putin to | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
blink. If that is, he really has blinked. He has crossed many red | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
lines before, including sending his own troops into a neighbouring | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
sovereign country. The worry that they have is that when he thinks | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
attention is elsewhere, that he aabandons the promise of a | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
ceasefire. That is the test of the summit. With President Obama now | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
saying that his mission on leaving Newport is to create an | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
international coalition to degrade and destroy the forces of the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
so-called Islamic State, can these NATO leaders concentrate on two huge | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
tasks at the same time? Can they live up to the words they have | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
issued at the end of this summit? . Some of Britain's top experts | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
in smoking and addiction say thousands of lives | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
could be saved every year if smokers switched to electronic cigarettes. | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
Their advice contradicts recommendations from the | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
World Health Organisation which said last week that e-cigarettes should | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
be banned indoors. As our Health Editor Hugh Pym | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
reports, it's left many smokers confused. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Getting a clear picture in the debate is not getting easier. Last | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
week health chiefs warned of the dangers of E-cigs, now it is said | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
that is misleading and they are safer than cigarettes. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
No surprise that they are popular among the staff at this | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
Lancashire-based E cigarette business, Totally Wicked. Some | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
smokers are switching to session session as they have nicotine. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
And experts backing session session say that tens of thousands of | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
unnecessary deaths can be avoided. If people are to switch completely | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
to session session and even if they carried on using them for the rest | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
of their live, we are looking at cutting the number to no more than a | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
few thousand and at worse. A huge potential public health gain. | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
In less than a decade, the suggestion session have gone from a | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
standing start to a ?1. 8 billion global business. But last week's | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
report say that the use of session session reports amongst | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
adolescencents had doubled globally. That is why some argue there is a | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
danger of enticing younger people into a habit that they may later | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
regrechlt The worry is that the cigarettes may | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
be used to get a bunch of young people into the nicotine habit. High | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
addictive. We need more information and regulation. The beginning of a | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
new surge with session session but we don't know enough about them yet | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
to say thumbs up. With mixed messages coming from the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
medical profession. Perhaps it is not surprising that businesses are | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
taking differing views. In pubs like this one you are allowed to use | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
session session in the bar. But here they are banned. Management | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
at this bar say it is too difficult for the staff at busy times to work | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
out who is smoking tobacco and who is using suggestion session. | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
-- E cigarettes. There is a big marketing push as the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
major tobacco companies have been buying up leading brands. Another | :12:21. | :12:30. | |
twist in the often confusing story. It is vapour, not tobacco smoke. | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
The Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf has replaced Lady Butler-Sloss | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
as head of the government's inquiry into historical child abuse. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
She'll lead an inquiry panel which will include child abuse experts | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
and at least one victim of abuse. Well, our Home Affairs correspondent | :12:45. | :12:45. | |
Tom Symonds is with me. How has the appointment been | :12:46. | :12:55. | |
received? A mixed reaction. She has no experience of child protection. | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
She said that made her ideal as a chair for the inquiry. But some | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
victims of child abuse are saying she is too much a part of the | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
establishment. She is the Lord Mayor of a City of London, an office that | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
dates back to 1189. They say she is not a good person to judge if the | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
establishment covered up allegations of child abuse. Perhaps with that in | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
mind, the Home Office was quick to announce the panel to work with her. | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
Including a victim of child abuse, somebody that chaired the deputy | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
chair of the National Children's Bureau and a well-regarded | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
barrister, experienced in criminal law. But the enquiry will take a | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
long time. Suggested two years. It is said that they want as much as | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
possible in public. Gordon Brown says he will lead a | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
drive for Scotland to gain powers in the United Kingdom if the Scots | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
reject a referendum this month. Telling the BBC that the "no" vote | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
was not a vote for things to stay the same. Nicola Sturgeon urged | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
voters to back independence, saying there may not be another chance. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Raring to go today? Yes. In two weeks' time we will know. The | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
polls are tight. Today the two campaign, "yes" and "no", continue | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
to scour Scotland for everlast vote. One question not on the ballot paper | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
is whether Scotland should get more powers from Westminster. And 400 | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
miles south, that is what this former Prime Minister promised if | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
Scotland votes to stay in the UNNing. Gordon Brown told me he | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
would lead the drive here to give more powers to Scotland. | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
People will know that the majority party in Westminster, in Scotland, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
the Labour Party, it is determined to deliver the powers and when the | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
referendum is over, the issue will not go away. We will ensure on the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
floor of the House of Commons we push for the timetable and delivery. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
A rare Westminster appearance by Gordon Brown, a cornerstone of the | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
"no" campaign. Labour thinks what that then | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
supporters are tempted to vote for independence as they don't trust | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
politicians in Westminster to give Scotland what it wants, if the votes | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
are a "no". All the three main parties have sketched out plans for | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
more tax and social policy to be devolved. But it does not convince | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
the campaigners for independence who say that Gordon Brown failed to give | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
powers to Scotland when he was the Prime Minister. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
What I believe is that this is the only guaranteed opportunity that we | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
have to win our independence. That is why I say to people out there, if | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
you are more convinced than not, because a few people are 100% | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
convinced about anything but if you are more convinced than not, vote | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
"yes". A campaign that is felt remote from | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Westminster for months is gripping MPs. And the party leaders. Labour | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
knows that their vote could be decisive. | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
After months of fighting, a ceasefire in Ukraine, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
but Europe could still impose further sanctions against Russia. | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Catch of the day - a spectator gives England a lesson in fielding. | :16:15. | :16:28. | |
Later on BBC London, the academy that is one of the top ten | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
competence of schools in the country. And an exclusive tour of | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
the new London Irish training camp ahead of the rugby season. | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
The high street, often used as a barometer for the economy, | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
New research from 650 towns across England, Scotland and Wales | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
suggests the number of empty shops is coming down. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
The latest figures show just over 13% of shops are empty. | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
That's the lowest number for four years and it means 1500 shops are | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
As Emma Simpson reports, it's good news for many towns | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
The empty shops are slowly being re-let. Sid cup is on the up. An | :17:09. | :17:27. | |
empty supermarket is now a gym, in a high street that has been spruced | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
up. This affluent town lost its way, competing against the big | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
out-of-town shopping mall 's. But it is finding new ways to bring people | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
back. The traditional high-street probably is dead, but you have to | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
look at a different way. We are bringing gems onto the high Street, | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
adult education, training centre, little shops to enable businesses, | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
young entrepreneurs to train and move on for the future. This | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
entrepreneur has made a difference. First, she turned an empty store | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
into a thriving cafe. Then she revived this business. And she also | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
bought the empty shop next door. So why invest so much on her | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
high-street? I know this place has a lot of potential and many residents | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
have money to spend, and let's keep it here. Here is another vacant unit | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
that is being refurbished. This town is being turned around. Three years | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
ago, one in five shops were empty. Now, it is just one in 20. And this | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
is not the only place where things are looking up. Today's research | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
suggests the overall picture on high streets is improving. We have 400 | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
more filled shops than in previous months, but we also have significant | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
polarisation up and down the country. Not all the towns are | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
getting better. The majority are stable or improving but a | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
significant number are continuing to get worse. That means we still have | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
way too many of these. And with billions of pounds worth of shop | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
leases coming up for renewal, further challenges lie ahead for the | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
high Street. Around 200 migrants have marched | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
through Calais this afternoon demanding their "human rights and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
freedom" amid allegations of poor Extra officers have been deployed | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
in the town to cope with the increase in the number of migrants | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
trying to get to Britain illegally. Our correspondent Duncan | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Crawford is there. A day of protest by the migrants. | :19:35. | :19:48. | |
They are just getting some food from a local charity. Security has been | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
stepped up in and around the port because of earlier this week the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
storming of a ferry. And tonight it is being reported that 300 migrants | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
were discovered in 69 different lorries in just one day in Calais. | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
That underlines how many people are desperate to get to the UK. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
On the road to Calais, more migrants arrive, hoping to reach a better | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
life in Britain. Police say they have recently become more bold, | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
trying in ever greater numbers to sneak onto lorries and cars. For | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
many returning holiday-makers, the port crossing is now anything but a | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
relaxing experience. You have to watch and you see loads of people | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
trying to climb in. They are on the side of the road. We said, you look | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
in that mirror and I will look in mine. You have to keep an eye out | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
because they try to get into your vehicle. It is worrying. Today, | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
hundreds of migrants demonstrated in the town, calling for better living | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
conditions. They also complained about the way they have been treated | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
by police. People here say they are in a desperate situation. Many of | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
the migrants come from East Africa. They have told me they have left | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
their homes to escape poverty and persecution. Almost all of them have | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
repeatedly tried to enter Britain. And every week, more migrants come | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
to Calais hoping to make that journey. This man comes from Saddam. | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
He paid 1000 euros to go by boat from Libya to Italy before arriving | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
here last month. He says he has already risked his life seven times | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
trying to reach Britain. Sometimes inside the truck. But most success. | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
More than 100 people died under the trucks, and some refugees broke a | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
hand or a leg, even a head. Extra police patrol the port. Ferry | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
companies have welcomed the increase in security but say it is up to the | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
European Union to do more. I am reassured that there is enough | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
police force to tackle the issue. But surely the EU could possibly | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
sort out the problem where it originates. At a nearby truckstop, | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
drivers check for stowaways. More migrants will almost certainly try | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
to cross into Britain tonight. It has been going on for years and the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
authorities are no closer to finding a solution. | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
The Green Party is calling for a wealth tax on the top 1% | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
of earners in an effort to rebalance the economy. | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
The party's leader, Natalie Bennett, said the Greens' general election | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
manifesto would also include a guaranteed income for every adult | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
and child in Britain, including asylum seekers and prisoners, as our | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
political correspondent Ross Hawkins reports | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
Selling the Greens isn't easy. Even here in Solihull, outside | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
Birmingham, where they are the second biggest party on the council. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
But now, they say they can put money in your pocket. The pitch includes | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
pounds for a ?10 per hour minimum wage by 2020, a wealth tax for | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
people worth over ?3 million, and a guaranteed taxpayer funded income | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
for every man, woman and child, whether they are in work, or not. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
Adults would get ?80 per week each, replacing several benefits. But do | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
voters like the idea? Yes, but what if people are not working and | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
staying at home, compared to people that are working? Very good. Paid | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
for by the taxpayer? That is not good. Some in the Green Party dream | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
of seizing the attention of voters on the left in the same way that | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
UKIP has managed on the right. The party knows it has a long way to go. | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Down the road at their conference, they think they have to be bold, | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
with policies like a guaranteed income aimed at nothing less than | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
restructuring society. I am thinking of visiting a food bank, and the | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
staff were telling me about a father of two young daughters who arrived, | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
and they were worried about the state he was in. His benefits had | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
been sanctioned through no fault of his own and he had no food to put on | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
the table. In the sixth richest country in the world in 2014 we need | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
to say, enough. Would prisoners get the money as well? Yes. They are | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
members of our society. I would expect you would see some kind of | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
charge, in the same way that food and lodgings, some sort of charge | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
would take most of it back. She accepts many will not like the idea | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
but hopes enough will embrace it for the Greens to hold onto their one | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
seat in the House of Commons and challenging others next year. | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
Cricket - England have managed to avoid | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
a whitewash by winning the last game of the one day series against | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Questions still remain about Alistair Cook's captaincy, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
however, after what is England's fourth consecutive home series loss | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
Like a some are waiting for a barbecue to ignite, four months, | :25:01. | :25:14. | |
cricket watchers have been looking quizzically at Alastair Cook. If | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
one-day cricket is a sprint these days, the leader should be a | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
pacemaker. He hit two fours in the first over and made 46. But when the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
captain was out, the run rate was stalling towards four per over, and | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
England stuck in the cycle which brought them one win in the previous | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
seven matches. But Joe Root hit an exceptional century. As England | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
walloped 170 in the last 20 overs. Jos Buttler helped. These are | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
critical times. The 50 over World Cup is looming and England have | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
never won it. Are they serious contenders? England supporters love | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
a surprise. England are not that far away. A bit of mystery in the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
bowling attack but they are not that far-away. For people to say, get rid | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
of the captain, three months before the World Cup, you might as well not | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
go. There is no point going. If you don't think we can win the World | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
Cup, making stupid decisions like that would be crazy. Chasing 294, | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
England were all out 41 runs short. Rush India were all out. But they | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
had a ready won the series with ease. Cause for English | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
encouragement? You can guess which interpretation Alastair Cook might | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
choose. A look at the weekend weather now. | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
choose. A look at the weekend weather now. | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
It is not looking bad. This picture sums it up pretty well. Some | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
sunshine on the way but dark clouds on the horizon, so it will not be a | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
completely dry weekend but for most of us, most of the time, it will be | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
dry and quite bright with some sunshine. Today, you will notice on | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
the satellite picked sure, it has been a varied cloud cover across the | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
country. This is the weather front which has been bringing rain to | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Through Friday night and into | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Saturday, it will be sinking further south, so places like Newcastle, the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Lake District, further south into Yorkshire and northern parts of | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
Wales will have some rain. Towards the south, areas of cloud, some mist | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
and fog as well but not cold. A little bit colder in Scotland. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
Through Saturday morning, some rain across northern parts of England, | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
Eastern counties as well. Through the afternoon, the mixture of | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
sunshine between the clouds and maybe the odd shower, but for most | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
of us, most of the time, it should be fine. Sunday, another area of low | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
pressure develops in the North Sea, swinging back into Scotland. Here, | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
it will not be quite so good with some rain around. But for the vast | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
majority of the UK it is looking fine. In Newcastle yesterday we were | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
advertising fine weather for the Great North Run, and that remains | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
the case. Some sunshine there, although the morning might be a bit | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
chilly. By the afternoon, around 16 or 17 degrees. Next week, | :28:11. | :28:17. | |
high-pressure anchoring -- anchoring its self across the UK, which means | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
mostly dry weather. There will be some sunshine around, but the nights | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
are getting longer, so with clearer skies at night it will be a bit | :28:27. | :28:27. | |
colder. Our main story: | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
After months of fighting, a cease-fire in Ukraine, but Europe | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
could still impose further sanctions against Russia. Now, time for the | :28:44. | :28:44. |