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Good evening. The body of Nelson Mandela has been taken to its final | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
resting place, his childhood village of Qunu, where he will be buried | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
tomorrow. The coffin was flown to the Eastern Cape, where large crowds | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
turned out to pay their respects. World affairs editor John Simpson | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
reports. Solemnly, the coffin carrying the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
body of the man who transformed this country was brought to Waterkloof | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
airport for the ANC's farewell to him. For his widow, Graca Machel, | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
this was the most emotional public moment so far. Friends say she has | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
taken his death had. It has been a difficult time politically for Jacob | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
Zuma, the president has had to endure public criticism and | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
humiliation. But here he could speak without being heckled. Madiba had | :01:15. | :01:23. | |
something powerful. He had the capacity to persuade... The guests, | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
made up a varied gathering, including Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
in Ireland, a man who also talked peace with his former enemies. But | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
they did not include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mandela's long-term | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
friend. He says he has not been invited to the funeral. The ANC, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
with whom he does not see eye to eye, insists he has been. And then | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
it was time to start the journey home. Nelson Mandela was leaving the | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
region where, in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, he had | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
achieved his greatest successes. He was heading back to the poorer but | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
even more beautiful territory of the Eastern Cape. You might have | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
expected the crowds along the road to his birthplace, Qunu, to be sad | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
and quiet. On the contrary. This is such a sad day, and yet | :02:23. | :02:36. | |
everybody is happy, why is that? It is so painful that he is dead, but | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
now we have the chance to celebrate. So you are celebrating his life and | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
showing your gratitude? CROWD: Yeah! And then down the road, the | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
procession accompanying the herds with Nelson Mandela's body. Once he | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
tended farm animals in the fields around here, just as children still | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
do. Now the one-time shepherd boy had the full panoply of the state to | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
bring him back home. Africa correspondent Andrew Harding | :03:06. | :03:16. | |
is in Qunu now, where the funeral service will take place tomorrow, so | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
many big events this last few days, but tomorrow is going to be | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
enormous. It is, Nick. You have just missed a | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
spectacular sunset here, and it will be an early start tomorrow, the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
coffin taken from Nelson Mandela's house in the valley to a marquee in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the garden and then to a private burial plot. It will be a hybrid | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
ceremony-events tomorrow, there will be an ox slaughtered in keeping with | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
local traditions, there will be a Christian service. It will be on one | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
level and intensely private family event, so no cameras at the actual | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
burial, but it is also a state funeral, so 4000 guests, including | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and a number of African leaders, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
although not, as John was mentioning, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
There is some confusion there. We were told he was very upset that he | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
had been left off the guest list and did not want to gate-crash, but then | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
the government insisted it was not a snub, because there was frequent | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
criticism of the ruling party, but a misunderstanding and he was welcome | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
to come. We will wait to see if he manages to get here in time. In the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
meantime, the forecast for tomorrow is rain, but apart from that, | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
everything seems to be going very smoothly. As John suggested, the | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
mood is very joyful here. In other news, china's ambitious | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
space programme took another giant leap today, successfully landing an | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
unmanned spacecraft on the moon. It is the first landing in 37 years | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
following the United States and the former Soviet Union. From Beijing, | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
Damian Grammaticas reports. 250,000 miles from earth and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
descending to the moon, live coverage of the mission was beamed | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
across China. Computer animations were used to show the unmanned moon | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
lander manoeuvring carefully into place. 100 metres above the lunar | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
surface, an board cameras began sending still images of the landing | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
site, a lava plain known as the Bay of Rainbows. Computers on the probe | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
controlled its final moments. Four metres from the surface, it | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
hovered, then cut its engines, a perfect soft landing, one giant step | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
for Chinese ambition. This is a feat only two countries have achieved | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
before. Just as, for America and the Soviet Union, with their moon | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
missions 40 years ago, China's is a showcase, a statement of national | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
prowess. It stokes national pride and, after this, China wants to | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
bring back samples from the moon, and one day maybe send a Chinese | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
astronaut their plans. The robotic rover will spend the next few months | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
exploring the service, but for this rising nation, the science is less | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
important than the symbolism as it reaches for the moon. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Jayden Parkinson in | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Oxford just say they are now treating it as a murder inquiry. The | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
17-year-old has been missing for nearly two weeks. A man and a | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
17-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police say | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
nobody has found but they want to speak to a man who was seen with a | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
suitcase in a field near Upton village. | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
A witness has come forward to say that, in the early hours of Monday | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
the 9th of December, at about 2am, they saw a man with a large suitcase | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
in that rural area. The suitcase was large, it was heavy, it was | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
difficult to manage. NHS England is to announce plans to | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
improve care for patients at weekends with more senior staff on | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
duty following concerns that people treated on Saturday and Sunday | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
supper worst medical outcomes and higher death rates than those | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
admitted during the week. -- suffer. Dissident republicans opposed to the | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
peace process a they carried out a bomb attack in Belfast last night. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Police say the explosion could have killed or caused serious injury in | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
an area packed with people. Claire Savage reports. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
It was supposed to be a big night out for Belfast, with many relaxing | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
at the end of the week, enjoying Christmas parties. Instead, hundreds | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
had to be evacuated from the city's Cathedral Quarter. This photograph | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
was taken moments after the bomb went off. It only partially | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
detonated, and no-one was injured. A warning had been received, but it | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
gave the wrong location. This was the bag in which the bomb was | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
placed. The scene of the blast was cleared this morning with barely a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
sign of the explosion. Dissident republicans have claimed | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
responsibility for the attack, which police say could have killed. This | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
device was fully functional. It could have injured or killed members | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
of the public. And it has similarities to previous devices | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
used by dissident republicans. Yesterday's attack was the latest in | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
a string of dissident attacks. Last month, a car bomb partially exploded | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
near a police station, also in the city centre. The political | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
settlement has transformed life in Northern Ireland, it is not going | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
back to the dark days of the past, and that is illustrated by the | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
universal condemnation of what went on last night in Belfast city | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
centre. It was business as usual today for | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Belfast shoppers, and a sense of defiance. It would not put we off, | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
because it is isolated. I am not going to be put off by things like | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
that. Hopefully they will stop what they are doing and let everyone get | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
on with their lives in peace. It is one of the busiest shopping days of | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
the year and a busy night for Belfast, so police have ramped up | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
security measures in the cities and and have urged the public to keep an | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
eye out for anything suspicious. Belfast may be accustomed to | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
disruptions of this kind, but there is still in these in the city | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
tonight that normal life has once again been disrupted by a bomb. -- | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
there is still an ease. The cricket now, and English hopes | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
of holding onto the Ashes are a knife edge. They two of the crucial | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
Third Test in Perth concluded with England on 180 - four. -- they two. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
There is still something to fight over in the Ashes, England had | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
finished the Australian Ashes fairly promptly and felt themselves in | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
pursuit of 385. 85 on the board when Carbury miscalculated, ball off back | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
onto stumps, and so Joe Root. The filed by a decided eventually that | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
he had edged the ball to the wicketkeeper. Joe Root said no, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
review. If the conclusion was inconclusive, the decision stayed it | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
was, gone for four. Alastair Cook forced to 72 and unleashed a shot to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
David Warner. Australia had worked hard to restrain Kevin Pietersen, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
hoping for just this kind of thing. A wonderful catch by Mitchell | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Johnson, bowler Peter Siddle and the whole Australian team celebrated the | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
success of a plan coming together again. England will resume 205 | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
behind and four wickets down, still time for them to make a meaningful | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
contribution with the bat, but that time is now or never. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
That is it, I will be back with our next bulletin | :11:06. | :11:06. |