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French police investigating the killing of a British family in the | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Alps start searches at the couple's home in Surrey. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
As forensic teams move in, the police say the inquiry will be long | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
and complex. French prosecutors confirm more | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
details about how the victims were killed. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
TRANSLATION: Each of the four people who died suffered two shots | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
to the head. A new Health Minister calls the | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
existing laws on assisted dying ridiculous and appalling. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
No controversy this time, Oscar Pistorius storms to gold in the 400 | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
metres. And can Andy Murray win his first | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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Grand Slam title? He books a place Good evening. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
French and British police investigating the shooting of a | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
family in the Alps have spent the day searching the couple's home in | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Surrey. As the forensic work was going on, prosecutors in France | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
confirmed that each of the victims was shot twice in the head. More | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
than 40 French police officers are working on the case helped by | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
detectives here in Switzerland and in Italy. Our first report tonight | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
is from Tom Symonds. The focus of an international murder | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
investigation now rests on the smart suburban house where the al- | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Hilli family lived. Perhaps inside answers will be found to the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
questions who carried out the seemingly cold-blooded murder of | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
four people and why? The family house is almost being | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
treated as a scene of crime itself. Taped off by the police, a tent | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
over there, hiding the entrance and inside British search officers | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
working through each room. If police have a lead, they are not | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
saying, but they are certainly focusing on Mr Al-Hilli's personal | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
affairs. Last night, senior French police officers arrived in London | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
to meet officers of the Surrey force, handling the case in the UK. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
This afternoon, there were hand shakes and warm words. | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
TRANSLATION: What I can tell you is our co-operation is very good and | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
the British police are make an effort in human and technical terms. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
I thank the British police for its great support. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
I want to place the emphasis on the victims of this tragic incident and | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Surrey Police working with our French colleagues are ensuring that | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
all those who need support will get the support specifically Surrey | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
Police deployed specially trained family liaison officers both here | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
in the UK and abroad in France. They will support family members | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
who have travelled to France to be with the two surviving daughters. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
With no clear eyewitness accounts a much more complicated investigation | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
is required. The French prosecutor has said all members of the al- | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Hilli family will be questioned. They will have to examine the | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
family's finances, the BBC was told Saad al-Hilli was involved in a | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
property dispute with his brother. Something the brothers denied. And | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
British police directed by a French senior officer will be looking at | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Mr Al-Hilli's friends, business contacts, computer and phone | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
records. At the house, throughout the day, well-wishers have brought | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
flowers as these murders continue to shock on both sides of the | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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English Channel. In France Relatives of the two | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
girls who survived the shooting have arrived in France to be with | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
them. Four-year-old Zeena al-Hilli is being looked after by the French | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
authorities. Her seven-year-old sister, Zainab remains in a | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
medically-induced coma in hospital. From Annecy our correspondent, Jon | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Kay, reports. On this Alpine campsite there is one abandoned | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
caravan. The al-Hilli family left their pitch for a day-trip, but | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
never return. Police have finished searching their vehicle, looking | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
for anything that could explain why the parents were shot dead in front | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
of their children. After such an extraordinary crime, | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
what strikes you here is just how ordinary this setting is, a family | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
campsite. Inside the awning you can see a little girl's pink bicycle. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Inside the caravan a DVD of cartoons. | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
The oldest daughter, seven-year-old zab ab, is -- Zainab is still in | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
hospital. Her little sister, Zeena, who is only four, wasn't physically | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
hurt, but is being cared for by psychiatrists. It is three days | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
since their parents and what is believed to be their grandmother | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
was shot dead in their car in a remote forest lay-by. Two relatives, | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
a man and a woman have now arrived in France to support the young | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
sisters. But it might be sometime before they are allowed to see them. | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
TRANSLATION: The local prosecutor said the aim was for the girl to be | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
back in the the arms of their family. But he said that would have | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
to be done sensitively and without compromising the investigation. He | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
added that for security reasons he could say no more. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
The police are are investigating whether the family was deliberately | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
targeted and new details suggest the killer was determined and maybe | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
professional. "we know the victims were shot in | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
the head twice", he says. But a hired hitman is just one of | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
many possibilities and tonight, this investigation is becoming | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
wider. The authorities now looking beyond this part of rural France, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
not just to to Britain, but also to Switzerland and Italy, checking | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
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border records and camera footage The Ministry of Defence has named a | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
soldier who died from injuries sustained in Afghanistan as | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Guardsman Karl Whittle. The 22- year-old was from the Queen's | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
Company, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards and had been wounded in | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Helmand Province, last month. His family said that Karl was the | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
Syrian activists say government air strikes have destroyed a main | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
pipeline supplying water to the city of Aleppo during a day of | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
intense bombardment. Government forces were also reported to have | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
regained control of a barracks in the city. Activists say about 100 | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
people have been killed in the latest violence across the country. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
The British Medical Association has repeated its opposition to changing | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
the law on assisted dying. It comes after a newly appointed Health | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
Minister described the laws on assisted suicide as "ridiculous and | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
appalling". In a newspaper interview, Anna Soubry said people | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
seeking help to die should not have to go abroad. Our political | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
correspondent, Robin Brant, reports. It was the case of Tony Nicklinson | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
who suffered from locked-in syndrome that brought ed suicide | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
into the spotlight. A few weeks ago, he lost his bid to change the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
murder laws which could have allowed doctors to allow him die | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
without facing prosecution. Days later he died of natural causes. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
Anna Soubry doesn't support the changes his family want. But days | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
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into her job, the Health Minister Some Britons have gone to clinics | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
in Switzerland to get help to die. It is a criminal offence to assist | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
a suicide in the UK, but prosecutors look at it case by case. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
The Department of Health said Anna Soubry's remarks were her personal | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
views, but another new Health Minister echoed her opinions. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
There is a case for looking at reform. This is an individual | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
decision of conscience. There is not a Government policy on it, but | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
I certainly think that we should debate it. The positives and | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
negatives about reform, but I certainly personally think there is | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
a case for looking at this. The Ministry of Justice said there | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
were no plans to change the law. The doctors' organisation, the BMA | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
reiterated its view that they should not help to kill patients. | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
The issue has been debated four times by British parliaments and on | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
every occasion it was rejected on the grounds of public safety. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Some Tories promised to fight any review. The MP Mark Pritchard told | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
the BBC to expect a row. The new man in charge, the Health | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
Secretary, wouldn't have wanted his first few days to be on the area of | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
helping the ill to kill themselves. The courts made it clear that it is | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
for Parliament to decide and the pressure maybe building for another | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
review of the law. A search operation has been taking | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
place to find a boy who was swept into a river in county Durham. | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
Colin Dodds is thought to have fall noon the river this -- fallen into | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
the the river this afternoon. In the last full day of competition | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
at the Paralympics, Oscar Pistorius won gold. His only individual gold | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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medal of the Games. Oscar Pistorius's nickname is the | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
Blade Runner. But he has been named the Blade Xainer. Next to him was | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
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Alan Oliveira who beat him. It was a last night of competition | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
and the South African was waiting for his first individual gold medal. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
He lost at the shorter distances but this was at the 400 meters. | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
Nobody was going to take this title off him. Oscar Pistorius was back | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
to his best. After Olympics and Paralympics, at last he was a | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
London 2012 individual champion. The perfect ending to the Games to | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
the best known Paralympian, over at Aquatics Centre, there wasn't a | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
finale that another of the crowd's favourites was hoping for. | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
Ellie Simmonds went into the 100 meters freestyle as the under dog. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
The American post add world record time in the heats, if Ellie | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Simmonds was to have a chance, she knew she would have to swim faster | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
than before. She did, but it wasn't enough. Ireland took more than a | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
second off the world record. Silver for Ellie Simmonds to go | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
with her two golds and a a bronze and the 17-year-old will be back | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
for more in Rio. David Stone was the only Gold | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
Medallist today. Stone defended the road race title he won in Beijing. | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
That was Britain's eighth cycling gold of the Games. Less than half | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
the 17 won four years ago, but ahead of any other country. There | :11:56. | :12:04. | |
was disappointment for David Smith. He had to settle for silver. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Britain have slipped from second to third in the med medals table. | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
In the six weeks since the Olympic opening ceremony, eleven million | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
tickets have been sold and four million people visited the Olympic | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
Park. But the process of dismantling some of the buildings | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
is about to begin and it is not a small task. There are 200,000 | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
temporary seats. Robert Hall has been taking one last look. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
It has been a festival which drew us all in. A celebration of sport, | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
of cultures and of music or of just a celebration. | :12:42. | :12:49. | |
This weekend, the prommen add are - - prom promenades are packed, but | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
the curtain is coming down. Out on the park, visitors are | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
navigating their way between venues which will change or disappear | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
altogether. The giant stadium has yet to | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
acquire new owners, but it will remain a key venue for athletics. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
The two river bank arenas will be dismantled. They were never | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
intended to be permanent structures. The velodrome, that will combine | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
with the BMX track to form the Velopark, a new centre for local | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
and national cycle training. And the basketball arena, known | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
around the world as the Giant Mattress, that that will disappear | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
to be used elsewhere. From the beginning we knew this was | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
a long-term project. The Games have been like a punctuation mark on | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
this route and now the Legacy Corporation will be working hard to | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
get this open and in phases from next summer. Before all that, the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
goodbyes. Michael Stratford, born in 1948, the year of the last | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
British Games is one of the 70,000 volunteer Games makers. He believes | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
many of his colleagues will find it hard to return to life outside the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
Games bubble. There will be some lonely people | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
after this experience. They will have very little - it is actually | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
people who are out of work. If we can just harness these people, | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
they're here. They are doing a fantastic job. We should be able to | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
harness them. All too soon, the park will fall | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
silent to be reborn as part of the Olympic legacy. Those who are part | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
of the Olympic family take with them experiences which will long | :14:39. | :14:49. | |
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outlive the London flame. Sport now and for a full round up | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
of all the day's action, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram at the BBC | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
Sport Centre. Thank you very much. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Andy Murray is into his second Grand Slam final of the year after | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
beating Tomas Berdych at the US Open. It will be the fifth major | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
final of Murray's career as he attempts to add a first Grand Slam | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
title to his Olympic Gold medal. Andy Swiss reports from Flushing | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
Meadows. It was a day which began with a tornado warning at Flushing | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
Meadows. Wimbledon eat your heart out! While the rain did relent for | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Andy Murray, this would be a battle against the elements as much as | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
Tomas Berdych. The wind was ferocious. One early point had to | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
be replayed after Murray's cap blew off and the storm clouds were | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
circling the British number one. Tomas Berdych powering to the first | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
set 7-5. Was another Murray Grand Slam dream about to be blown away? | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
Murray came roaring back taking control of the second set in style. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
The conditions were boardering on farcical, the court invaded by | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
equipment, but Murray kept his focus and before long it was 1-1. | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
After struggling with the win, Murray was harnessing it. His | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
opponent had no answer. Murray raced to the third set and took the | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
lead in the fourth. The match seemed as good as over. Out of | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
nowhere, back came Tomas Berdych to Norse a tie-break. Finally, Murray | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
was through. The relief was plain to see. A fifth Grand Slam final | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
for Andy Murray and after a gold medal winning summer, what a golden | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
opportunity for that elusive major title. | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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Murray will face face face Novak Djokovic. | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Action from Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Serbia follows | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
this programme on BBC Scotland, so please leave the room for a moment | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
if you don't want to know the result from today's game. Well, | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Scotland missed the chance to get their Brazil 2014 campaign off to a | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
winning start after playing out a goalless draw. Craig Levein's side | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
were booed off at Hampden Park and the pressure is now on them to win | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Tuesday's match against Macedonia. England head to Sri Lanka later | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
this month aiming to retain their World Twenty20 title, but today's | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
match against South Africa won't have filled them with confidence. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
England suffered a heavy seven wicket defeat in the first game of | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
the Twenty20 series. They set a modest target of 119 runs for | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
victory which South Africa passed comfortably with an over to spare. | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix on | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
pole position ahead of McLaren Thank you very much. | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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Well, that's just about it. Good evening. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
Big changes coming up next week, but it is quiet out there at the | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
moment. A bit of mistiness forming as we go into the night across | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
parts of the of the West Country. Basically, a dry and quiet night. | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
Rural spots are getting down into single figures, but for most towns | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
and cities, temperatures down to 11 Celsius to 15 Celsius. A bit of fog | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and it will be a fine start with sunshine to come across central and | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
eastern parts of the UK. Further west, thickening cloud and rain | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
spilling in across Northern Ireland as we head towards lunch time and | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
that will be making its way into western parts of Scotland. Some | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
brightness hanging on further east. Some rain pushing across the Irish | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
Sea, knocking on the door of Cumbria. For West Wales, we will | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
see the cloud thickening. A few showers ahead of the possibly, | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
but most of central and Eastern England will have a fine and warm | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
day. For the closing ceremony, I am hopeful the showers will stay away. | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
There is a risk, but it should stay dry. | :19:00. | :19:04. |