:00:00. > :00:00.At least 58 people are dead, and many more injured,
:00:07. > :00:13.after a suspected chemical bombing raid in Syria.
:00:14. > :00:15.It happened in the rebel-held province of Idlib, with the UN
:00:16. > :00:19.Clinics struggled to cope with the injured.
:00:20. > :00:21.Witnesses claim many of the victims were choking, fainting,
:00:22. > :00:25.What we understood, it was a chemical attack
:00:26. > :00:34.The Syrian and Russian governments deny any involvement in what's
:00:35. > :00:46.Russian investigators say the explosion on the St Petersburg
:00:47. > :00:48.Metro was the result of a suicide bombing.
:00:49. > :00:51.A man who sexually assaulted a woman with learning disabilities,
:00:52. > :00:53.keeping her a prisoner for eight years, has been jailed
:00:54. > :00:57.New tax and benefits changes will affect millions,
:00:58. > :01:02.And the sieve that can make sea water, drinkable,
:01:03. > :01:10.and it's all down to the wonder material, graphene.
:01:11. > :01:12.Coming up in Sportsday later in the hour on BBC
:01:13. > :01:13.News, we'll look ahead tonight's Premier League fixtures
:01:14. > :01:16.including Manchester United's match against Everton, as Jose Mourinho's
:01:17. > :01:19.team try to stay in touch Good evening, and welcome
:01:20. > :01:43.to the BBC News at Six. At least 58 people have died,
:01:44. > :01:45.with many more injured, in a suspected chemical weapons
:01:46. > :01:48.attack in Syria. Eyewitnesses say victims
:01:49. > :01:50.were left choking, fainting and frothing at the mouth,
:01:51. > :01:55.and many of the dead are children. The UN claims the attack came
:01:56. > :01:58.from the air, and the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says
:01:59. > :02:00.if chemical weapons were used, then President Assad
:02:01. > :02:03.is guilty of a war crime. Syria and Russia deny
:02:04. > :02:05.any involvement. The attack happened
:02:06. > :02:07.in the north-west of the country, UN war crimes investigators say
:02:08. > :02:13.they've opened an inquiry. Our diplomatic correspondent
:02:14. > :02:14.James Robbins reports. There are distressing
:02:15. > :02:29.images from the start. He is alive but he is struggling to
:02:30. > :02:35.breathe. Around him, other children are already on oxygen. All of them
:02:36. > :02:39.victims of gas. Other pictures, too graphic to broadcast, show Fire
:02:40. > :02:41.crews in the streets of Khan Sheikhoun, spraying adults and
:02:42. > :02:50.children where they fell, many of them clearly among the dead.
:02:51. > :02:53.TRANSLATION: I lost my son, my children, my neighbours, my
:02:54. > :03:01.daughter. They are all gone. I only have God left. TRANSLATION: All are
:03:02. > :03:08.wounded, some are dead, there are many suffocation cases. We couldn't
:03:09. > :03:11.enter Khan Sheikhoun city because the systematic shelling. Then as a
:03:12. > :03:18.searing activist was filming in one hospital treating victims, this
:03:19. > :03:22.happened. And apparent air strike. -- a Syrian activist. This whole
:03:23. > :03:27.rebel held area in north-west Syria, a last opposition stronghold, has
:03:28. > :03:31.been under heavy bombardment by pro-government forces. There is a
:03:32. > :03:35.history of chemical attacks in Syria's six year-long civil war.
:03:36. > :03:40.President Assad's government had known stocks and was widely accused
:03:41. > :03:43.of this attack in August 20 13. That appeared to cross a red line which
:03:44. > :03:49.had been drawn by President Obama but Britain and the US pulled back
:03:50. > :03:53.from military action. Instead, the Assad regime, under pressure, agreed
:03:54. > :03:58.to surrender its known stocks by the middle of 2014. But later, a UN
:03:59. > :04:02.commission found evidence of chemical weapons being used in
:04:03. > :04:08.attacks in Idlib, both in 2014 and 2015. Government supporters are
:04:09. > :04:12.blaming today's poisoning on the rebels, accusing them of storing gas
:04:13. > :04:16.in a factory which exploded close to the town. But the UN's Syria envoy,
:04:17. > :04:23.while cautious, did not appear to back that account. What we have
:04:24. > :04:28.understood, it was a chemical attack and it came from the air. We have
:04:29. > :04:32.been and we will be stimulating or those who have the capacity of
:04:33. > :04:36.finding out technically what happened. Efforts are already being
:04:37. > :04:39.made to gather forensic evidence in the hospitals where today's victims
:04:40. > :04:43.are being treated but it seems clear war crime has been committed. The
:04:44. > :04:49.use of chemical weapons is banned under international law, a law which
:04:50. > :04:50.appears to have been violated once again in Syria today. James Robbins,
:04:51. > :04:52.BBC News. Our Middle East editor
:04:53. > :05:00.Jeremy Bowen is here. The White House says this attack is
:05:01. > :05:03.reprehensible and it cannot be ignored but realistically, what can
:05:04. > :05:08.anyone do if it is proved that the Syrians and Russians are behind
:05:09. > :05:13.this? Is 2013 is anything to go by, not a great deal. As you heard,
:05:14. > :05:17.their stocks were taken out, or be declared stocks that the Syrians had
:05:18. > :05:21.were taken out and destroyed. Did they have some left over? We don't
:05:22. > :05:26.know, we don't know who did this. There's another issue, back in 2013,
:05:27. > :05:30.President Obama had sketched out a red line and said, "You used these
:05:31. > :05:34.weapons, though over the red line and you will get attacked", but he
:05:35. > :05:41.decided against doing it and after that, President Assad and his
:05:42. > :05:43.regime, I was there at the time and you could see them growing in
:05:44. > :05:46.confidence. They could not believe they have got through this crisis.
:05:47. > :05:49.2013, the US administration threatened military action but did
:05:50. > :05:53.not do it. We don't know where President Tromp's red lines are, if
:05:54. > :05:58.they exist. Will he take military action against the regime it is
:05:59. > :06:04.proved that the regime did this? I wonder, frankly. So I think that if
:06:05. > :06:07.you say President Assad was behind all of this and his people were
:06:08. > :06:10.behind all of this, I think it is a sign at the moment of the utmost
:06:11. > :06:11.confidence that they can get away with a lot. Thank you for joining
:06:12. > :06:15.us. Jeremy Bowen. Russian investigators say
:06:16. > :06:17.yesterday's explosion on the St Petersburg metro,
:06:18. > :06:19.was possibly caused 14 people died in the attack,
:06:20. > :06:22.and 50 were injured. Steve Rosenberg reports
:06:23. > :06:25.from St Petersburg. This is what chaos
:06:26. > :06:30.looks like underground. This mobile phone footage was shot
:06:31. > :06:33.seconds after the bomb. There is a mad scramble to get
:06:34. > :06:38.out of the train alive. "Smash it, break it
:06:39. > :06:42.down", says a voice. Some passengers were
:06:43. > :06:46.helped to safety. At that moment, somebody
:06:47. > :06:57.cries, "Mum, mum!" "I was just sitting
:06:58. > :07:08.there", she says. And here is the station today,
:07:09. > :07:12.wreckage cleared, service back. It is astonishing how quickly
:07:13. > :07:21.a scene of chaos and carnage can be As you can see, the Metro is up
:07:22. > :07:29.and running again today. But look over here, and you see
:07:30. > :07:32.a reminder of yesterday's drama. People are normally
:07:33. > :07:34.rushing by in the Metro. More Metro stations were shut today
:07:35. > :07:49.because of bomb threats. Still, Aksana, who witnessed
:07:50. > :07:52.yesterday's chaos, "They want to divide us,
:07:53. > :08:00.the terrorists do", she says. "But all this does to
:08:01. > :08:05.Russians is unite us". One hero from this tragedy
:08:06. > :08:08.is the driver of the bombed train, for keeping calm and not stopping
:08:09. > :08:12.in the tunnel. "I was just doing my job",
:08:13. > :08:17.Alexander Kaverin says. Russian investigators now say that
:08:18. > :08:22.yesterday's attack on the train was carried out by a 22-year-old man
:08:23. > :08:25.from Central Asia who had been They are searching for
:08:26. > :08:32.clues to explain why. That is a question the people
:08:33. > :08:36.of St Petersburg are asking. This has been a day of mourning
:08:37. > :08:39.here, a day for paying respects to the victims,
:08:40. > :08:43.to the passengers of a Metro Steve Rosenberg, BBC
:08:44. > :09:02.News, St Petersburg. Well, the main suspect has been
:09:03. > :09:05.named as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a 22-year-old man who was born in
:09:06. > :09:09.Kurdistan in Central Asia but had been living in St Petersburg and
:09:10. > :09:12.although Russian investigators have not used the term suicide bomber,
:09:13. > :09:15.they have made it clear they believe it was his bomb which blew up the
:09:16. > :09:19.train and that he was killed in the blast.
:09:20. > :09:21.Steve, many thanks. Steve Rosenberg reporting.
:09:22. > :09:24.A married couple in County Armagh have been jailed for the sexual
:09:25. > :09:27.abuse of a woman they held captive for eight years.
:09:28. > :09:28.The victim had severe learning difficulties,
:09:29. > :09:30.and when she was discovered by police, weighed just six stone.
:09:31. > :09:33.Keith Baker was sentenced to 15 years, while his wife Caroline
:09:34. > :09:41.Chris Buckler's report does contain some harrowing testimony.
:09:42. > :09:44.For almost a decade, this estate in Craigavon housed
:09:45. > :09:51.Inside their home and hidden from view, Keith and Caroline Baker
:09:52. > :09:55.kept a woman with severe learning disabilities a virtual prisoner.
:09:56. > :10:01.During those eight years, Keith Baker and his wife repeatedly
:10:02. > :10:04.raped and indecently assaulted her, and she wasn't his only victim.
:10:05. > :10:11.He was raping me for 13 years and I couldn't
:10:12. > :10:22.tell anybody about it, and it was hurting.
:10:23. > :10:23.Mandy Highfield lived with the couple and she's
:10:24. > :10:26.the mother of some of Keith Baker's children.
:10:27. > :10:28.She says she didn't know that the Bakers were sexually
:10:29. > :10:30.abusing the vulnerable woman held captive in their house,
:10:31. > :10:32.but she eventually contacted the police because of the squalid
:10:33. > :10:39.She was 45 and that, but she was like a 12-year-old.
:10:40. > :10:50.There was no light bulb in the light, no carpet on the floor,
:10:51. > :10:57.They were sick people, just really sick people.
:10:58. > :11:01.When the police found the woman, inside an unlit bedroom
:11:02. > :11:04.in the house, she weighed just six stone and the court was told
:11:05. > :11:15.Neighbours said Keith Baker seemed controlling of his wife but they had
:11:16. > :11:25.no idea what was happening behind the doors. I just thought she was in
:11:26. > :11:29.a situation of domestic violence with an abusive husband who was
:11:30. > :11:33.controlling. But it was very, very quiet.
:11:34. > :11:36.The woman had been reported missing by her husband
:11:37. > :11:38.in England in March 2004, when the Bakers took her
:11:39. > :11:42.to Northern Ireland, supposedly on holiday.
:11:43. > :11:45.But it wasn't until December 2012 that she was discovered in this
:11:46. > :11:47.house, along with videos of the Bakers abusing her.
:11:48. > :11:50.The whole case is extremely upsetting, it's horrific and it's
:11:51. > :11:52.depraved and the suffering of this woman, over a period
:11:53. > :11:54.of around eight years, can only be imagined.
:11:55. > :12:00.The dark truth of what happened in this house may now have been
:12:01. > :12:03.exposed, but authorities on both sides of the Irish Sea face serious
:12:04. > :12:06.questions about how she ended up in the hands of a couple
:12:07. > :12:09.who abused her under the pretence of offering her a home.
:12:10. > :12:19.Theresa May is in Saudi Arabia for talks on trade and security,
:12:20. > :12:22.saying it's in the national interest to maintain good relations,
:12:23. > :12:24.despite the Kingdom's controversial human rights record.
:12:25. > :12:28.A Saudi-led coalition has been accused of abuses
:12:29. > :12:31.in Yemen's two-year civil war, but Mrs May says engagement
:12:32. > :12:33.is the best way to raise what she called "hard issues".
:12:34. > :12:36.Our deputy political editor John Pienaar is travelling
:12:37. > :12:45.A warm welcome for Theresa May, and this time no-one
:12:46. > :12:55.Her day started with a visit to this UK-supported secondary school
:12:56. > :12:58.in Oman, where these children, Jordanians and Syrian refugees,
:12:59. > :13:01.learn and dream, some told her, of becoming doctors.
:13:02. > :13:04.The smiling face of British policy in the region.
:13:05. > :13:11.Next stop, Saudi Arabia and down to business, boosting trade,
:13:12. > :13:17.Earlier, she'd brushed aside those who say it's wrong to support
:13:18. > :13:20.and sell weapons to a country so criticised for its
:13:21. > :13:29.Well, the important thing for the United Kingdom, when we meet
:13:30. > :13:32.people and we want to raise issues about human rights is if we have
:13:33. > :13:37.the relationship with them, then we are able to do that.
:13:38. > :13:39.So rather than just standing on the sidelines and sniping,
:13:40. > :13:42.War across the border against rebels in Yemen
:13:43. > :13:52.British weapons sales to Saudi Arabia were worth over
:13:53. > :13:55.?3 billion in the first year of the fighting up to last March.
:13:56. > :13:57.Planes, arms and target training - Britain's contribution
:13:58. > :14:03.There's famine, mounting civilian casualties.
:14:04. > :14:05.Britain joins the aid effort while supporting its Saudi ally.
:14:06. > :14:11.What is the May doctrine of foreign policy?
:14:12. > :14:14.Well, the May doctrine of foreign policy is that everything we do
:14:15. > :14:19.It is in our British national interest to have good
:14:20. > :14:21.relations around the world, so we can trade around
:14:22. > :14:23.the world, that brings jobs and prosperity to the UK.
:14:24. > :14:26.It's also in our national interest to ensure that we are working
:14:27. > :14:30.with others around the world to maintain our safety
:14:31. > :14:35.and security and, yes, it is in our national interest
:14:36. > :14:38.to ensure that the values that underpin us as Britons are values
:14:39. > :14:42.that we promote around the world, and that's what we do.
:14:43. > :14:44.So today she was a house guest at a Saudi palace,
:14:45. > :14:46.meeting the Crown Prince, the kind of relationship
:14:47. > :14:50.she's keen to cultivate for post-Brexit Britain.
:14:51. > :14:54.The Prime Minister needs to strengthen political and trading
:14:55. > :14:56.links beyond Europe if Britain is to remain a strong,
:14:57. > :15:04.No-one knows how well Britain will come out of its EU divorce.
:15:05. > :15:07.A committee of MPs said today that ministers had no idea and needed
:15:08. > :15:11.to work out the cost of Brexit if negotiations end up with no deal.
:15:12. > :15:16.I'm confident that we can get a good deal with the European Union.
:15:17. > :15:18.I'm confident, not just because that would be good for us,
:15:19. > :15:21.but it'll be good for them, as they have acknowledged.
:15:22. > :15:24.Maybe, but that deal's for the future and her mission
:15:25. > :15:32.She dropped by the Saudi stock exchange too.
:15:33. > :15:34.She's been busy, but ahead of Brexit,
:15:35. > :15:45.At least 58 people have been killed and many more injured in a suspected
:15:46. > :15:55.Researchers in Manchester have found a new way of turning sea water into
:15:56. > :15:58.drinking water. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News
:15:59. > :16:01.in the next 15 minutes: The latest on the ice hockey row
:16:02. > :16:04.that could see a very second rate tournament
:16:05. > :16:18.at the Winter Olympics next year. Millions of people will be affected
:16:19. > :16:20.by new changes coming into force this week,
:16:21. > :16:22.on taxes and benefits. The measures include child benefit
:16:23. > :16:25.being limited to two children, a freeze on some working tax credits
:16:26. > :16:28.and a rise in the living wage. Our home editor, Mark Easton,
:16:29. > :16:40.has been to Blackburn to assess Blackburn is going to be more
:16:41. > :16:43.affected by this week's welfare tax and wage changes than almost
:16:44. > :16:48.anywhere else in the country. More than half the town's children live
:16:49. > :16:55.inle low income, working households receiving tax credits, help being
:16:56. > :17:00.progressively cut in real terms. Child benefits frozen for the next
:17:01. > :17:02.three years and parents who have a third or or subsequent child won't
:17:03. > :17:07.receive any additional State support. How does that go down with
:17:08. > :17:13.this mum, pregnant with her third baby? In this day and age you should
:17:14. > :17:19.be able to get the help regardless and be free to expand your family
:17:20. > :17:24.and always have that support. Third child is a luxury. A luxury, you
:17:25. > :17:27.think? Is Well, I just mean, I wouldn't have a third child because
:17:28. > :17:32.I know I couldn't afford to have a third child. As things stand, the
:17:33. > :17:37.tax and welfare changes will see a low earning couple with two
:17:38. > :17:41.children, living here in Blackburn, losing around ?450 a year by 2020.
:17:42. > :17:47.For some families it will be seven times that. Overall, the welfare
:17:48. > :17:52.reforms will take ?50 million a year out of the fragile local economy.
:17:53. > :17:55.But the Government argues public spending misbe reduced and the
:17:56. > :17:59.changes will encourage people to become less reliant on the State.
:18:00. > :18:02.It's wrong people have to go out to work. We go out to work, you have to
:18:03. > :18:06.come home and look after your kids and people get paid to sit at home
:18:07. > :18:10.and do nothing. That is wrong. Families are struggling. They are
:18:11. > :18:14.struggling with food as it is now. The cost of living is going up, the
:18:15. > :18:18.benefits are staying more or less where they are. They are cutting
:18:19. > :18:24.them more. I think it's wrong. One in eight of Blackburn's workers earn
:18:25. > :18:28.the minimum wage. Many in the health and social care sector. Michelle
:18:29. > :18:32.will gain in this week's increase in the national living wage but loses
:18:33. > :18:36.for the freeze on her working tax credits. I'm in favour of the
:18:37. > :18:39.reform. We go out to work to earn money provide for our children and
:18:40. > :18:42.our families. Ideally, that is where we want to go so we are earning
:18:43. > :18:46.income without relying on the Government. Your tax credits will be
:18:47. > :18:52.frozen. You are feeling a bit of it? I don't mind it. My wage is going
:18:53. > :18:55.up. Michelle's boss warns that wage levels set in Whitehall may not make
:18:56. > :19:00.sense for an economy like Blackburn? A lot of companies are working with
:19:01. > :19:05.fine profit margins. There is a trend to go towards ?9 by 2020 if
:19:06. > :19:08.people aren't able to charge more and people aren't able to pay more
:19:09. > :19:12.that will be difficult for companies. Businesses could go
:19:13. > :19:15.under? They could. The economy here is precarious. How Blackburn
:19:16. > :19:21.responds to this week's reforms will have a profound impact on the lives
:19:22. > :19:25.of many. Mark Easton, BBC News, Blackburn.
:19:26. > :19:27.A breast surgeon, accused of carrying out unnecessary
:19:28. > :19:30.operations, has told a jury that none of his patients
:19:31. > :19:31.are "liars", even though he rejects their allegations.
:19:32. > :19:34.Ian Paterson is on trial for allegedly causing grievous
:19:35. > :19:36.bodily harm to several women, over a 14-year period.
:19:37. > :19:43.Sima Kotecha is at Nottingham Crown Court.
:19:44. > :19:50.Sima, take us through what happened today? Well, 59-year-old Ian
:19:51. > :19:56.Paterson was being cross examined by the prosecution for the second time
:19:57. > :20:01.today. He told the court, "I care about my patients. " When asked if
:20:02. > :20:08.he disputed what an alleged victim accused him off he said, "aim I'm
:20:09. > :20:11.not call any of these patients liars I'm just think they remember what
:20:12. > :20:16.they remember now, ten years after the fact" he is accused of carrying
:20:17. > :20:21.out several operations unnecessarily on ten patients. We heard from some
:20:22. > :20:26.of the alleged victims over the last few weeks, including from one man
:20:27. > :20:33.who said he had a double mastectomy when the surgeon told him he was on
:20:34. > :20:34.the way to developing cancer. Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of
:20:35. > :20:41.wrong-doing. Thank you. Eight people, including
:20:42. > :20:43.a 15-year-old boy, have appeared in court in relation to an attack
:20:44. > :20:45.on a teenage asylum Reker Ahmed, a Kurdish-Iranian boy,
:20:46. > :20:51.was chased and subjected to a "brutal attack" in Croydon
:20:52. > :20:53.on Friday night. A total of 13, all aged between 15
:20:54. > :20:57.and 24, have been charged The computer scientist who invented
:20:58. > :21:03.the worldwide web has marked the receipt of a prestigious award
:21:04. > :21:06.by condemning official attempts Sir Tim Berners Lee said
:21:07. > :21:11.it was human right to communicate without governments
:21:12. > :21:28.snooping on individuals. He also described any plan
:21:29. > :21:31.to undermine or break encryption Ken Livingstone's future
:21:32. > :21:34.in the Labour Party will be decided The former Mayor of London will find
:21:35. > :21:39.out whether he's to be expelled after claiming that Hitler supported
:21:40. > :21:41.Zionism in the 1930's. He's been attending a Labour Party
:21:42. > :21:43.disciplinary hearing and our political correspondent,
:21:44. > :21:48.Alex Forsyth, is there for us now. Alex, fill us in on the background
:21:49. > :21:51.to all of this? Well, Ken Livingstone is a big figure in the
:21:52. > :21:53.Labour Party. He has been a member for many years, a former London
:21:54. > :21:55.Mayor, a colourful character, but also no stranger to controversy.
:21:56. > :21:59.This latest one steams from comments he made last year. He was giving an
:22:00. > :22:05.interview to a BBC Radio station. He was defended a Labour colleague from
:22:06. > :22:13.claims of anti-Semitism when Ken Livingstone said at one time Hitler
:22:14. > :22:19.had supported Zionism. It was that comment which provocked an angry
:22:20. > :22:22.backlash. Some Labour MPs accuse Ken Livingstone himself of being
:22:23. > :22:29.anti-Semitic. Others say said what he said was highly offensive. He has
:22:30. > :22:32.stood by his comments. He said they were a matter-of-fact and were
:22:33. > :22:36.misreported and taken out of context. He was suspended from the
:22:37. > :22:39.Labour Party and a dis-Palestinary panel, meeting behind me, will
:22:40. > :22:43.decide his fate. Whether or not he should be expelled from from the
:22:44. > :22:47.party for bringing it into disrepute. We are expecting the
:22:48. > :22:52.result any minnow. Ken Livingstone said if he's kicked out of Labour,
:22:53. > :22:54.he will challenge that decision. Alex, many thanks. Alex Forsyth
:22:55. > :22:58.there. The world's most expensive diamond
:22:59. > :23:00.has been sold at auction, The 59.6 carat stone,
:23:01. > :23:04.called the Pink Star, took just five minutes to sell
:23:05. > :23:06.after a bidding war between three It was bought by a local jewellery
:23:07. > :23:11.company and broke the record sale price set last year for diamond,
:23:12. > :23:21.of ?35 million. Scientists in Manchester have made
:23:22. > :23:23.a remarkable discovery, creating a sieve that can make
:23:24. > :23:28.sea water drinkable. The discovery involves graphene
:23:29. > :23:31.and raises the tantalising prospect of helping millions of people around
:23:32. > :23:34.the world who don't have easy Well, our science correspondent,
:23:35. > :23:48.Pallab Ghosh, is at the National Pallab. Clive, Manchester is one of
:23:49. > :23:53.the world's leading centres for graphene research. It was here that
:23:54. > :23:57.the material was first isolated in 2004. It was here that researchers
:23:58. > :24:02.won the know bile prize for developing the technology in 2010.
:24:03. > :24:09.Now, they've made yet another big step forward in tackling a problem
:24:10. > :24:15.that's left 663 million people without clean drinking water.
:24:16. > :24:18.It's three times the strength of steel and incredibly flexible,
:24:19. > :24:20.and that's not all - graphene has been described
:24:21. > :24:27.Here in Manchester, graphene oxide has been used to create a filter
:24:28. > :24:34.The aim is to convert sea water into a form that's drinkable.
:24:35. > :24:37.The potential of this technology is giving clean water to millions
:24:38. > :24:40.of people around the world and we're sure that this technology will be
:24:41. > :24:44.available in a couple of years' time to sell to people around the world.
:24:45. > :24:46.Like any sieve, this graphene paper has tiny holes in that
:24:47. > :24:53.lets the water through, but not the salt.
:24:54. > :24:55.In the past though, it's not worked properly.
:24:56. > :24:57.That's because the graphene weakens and the holes get bigger.
:24:58. > :25:00.So the researchers here have coated it with a chemical that stop
:25:01. > :25:08.So the water here is completely salt-free.
:25:09. > :25:14.According to the UN, drinking water will be scarce
:25:15. > :25:27.It's hard to believe that countries don't have water at the moment.
:25:28. > :25:29.If you don't have it, it compromises everything that you do -
:25:30. > :25:32.your health and the ability to educate your children.
:25:33. > :25:34.A lot of things rest on this basic human right,
:25:35. > :25:38.so this is why we focus a lot on this.
:25:39. > :25:40.Current desalination plants, such as this one
:25:41. > :25:44.It costs ?270 million to build and they use a lot of energy,
:25:45. > :25:50.The graphene based filter could be a much cheaper and greener solution,
:25:51. > :25:53.but the big question is whether it works just as well in real
:25:54. > :25:56.Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, at the National Graphene
:25:57. > :26:09.Time for a look at the weather, here's Jay Wynne.
:26:10. > :26:15.Spring hasn't disappeared quite yet? No. It's looking good over the next
:26:16. > :26:21.few days. We have a weak weather front to the south-east through the
:26:22. > :26:26.day today. We have a big area of high pressure. That will settle down
:26:27. > :26:29.over the next few days. Question marks about cloud amounts. Some
:26:30. > :26:34.places had a lovely day today. This is the view from one of our weather
:26:35. > :26:39.watchers in Cumbria. There's not been a great deal of rain, but there
:26:40. > :26:42.has been some. A good slice of sunshine from the south-west of
:26:43. > :26:48.England, through Wales and into northern England with showers in
:26:49. > :26:51.northern Scotland. It will be windy here, 70mph with frequent showers.
:26:52. > :26:54.Elsewhere it will be a dry story with increasing amounts of cloud
:26:55. > :26:57.drifting down from the north. It will help to keep temperatures up,
:26:58. > :27:01.but in the south-west, where winds are light and skies are clear, it
:27:02. > :27:05.will turn chilly, particularly in rural spots. Across northern
:27:06. > :27:08.Scotland it will be windy with showers moving through on the
:27:09. > :27:14.breeze. The eastern side of Scotland will get away with a dry start. A
:27:15. > :27:17.shower or two in Northern Ireland, but northern England will have a lot
:27:18. > :27:22.of dry weather. Further south we head into the sunshine, there will
:27:23. > :27:27.be a chill in the air, but winds will be light. As you go through the
:27:28. > :27:30.day the cloud will drift southwards, clouding over in East Anglia and
:27:31. > :27:36.into the south-east. The south-west should hang on to sunshine into the
:27:37. > :27:41.afternoon and the eastern side of Scotland doing as well as well. A
:27:42. > :27:48.few showers to the far north and west. 10 degrees in Aberdeen, 14 in
:27:49. > :27:52.London. Through the evening the dry weather will continue. Thursday and
:27:53. > :27:56.Friday look like similar days. Chilly first thing. A fair bit of
:27:57. > :28:00.cloud around, spells of sunshine as well and temperatures should be in
:28:01. > :28:10.the range of 10-11 to 14 degrees. Clive, back to you. Not too bad.
:28:11. > :28:11.Many thanks for that. Our top story this evening:
:28:12. > :28:13.At least 58 people have been killed, and many more injured,
:28:14. > :28:15.in a suspected chemical attack in Syria.
:28:16. > :28:20.So it's goodbye from me, and now on BBC One, let's