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Nearly a billion pounds are released for Libya as the new | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
leadership rejects an international peacekeeping force. People are on | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
the streets of the capital to mark the first Eid since the fall of the | :00:16. | :00:25. | |
Gadaffi regime. The fighters have been told there will be a pause in | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
their operations for a few days. That's partly because of the Eid | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
holiday, but it is mainly to give a chance to peace talks which are | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
taking place with tribal leaders in Sirte. I'll be reporting live from | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Tripoli where people are still celebrating day and night even | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
though the war is not quite over and the revolution, not quite | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
complete. The other headlines this lunch time: | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
The banks are accused of creating panic in an attempt to delay reform | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
by the Business Secretary Vince Cable. $NEWLINE A teenager who | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
survived the Norway polar bear attack tells us how the animal had | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
his head in its jaws. I was punching it because it was biting | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
my head. Just wanted to get it off me. That was the only way to get it | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
off me, really. Facing eviction: 80 families wait | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
to hear whether they'll be moved out of the country's largest | :01:22. | :01:31. | |
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illegal travellers site. And the end of an era for the people of | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Wooton Bassett, the end of Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the BBC News at 1.00pm. The UK is to release nearly a | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
billion pounds of Libyan assets which were frozen during the fight | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
to oust Colonel Gaddafi from power. The European Union is also expected | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
to lift sanctions against the country by Friday. In Libya, people | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
have been out celebrating their first Eid Al Fitr since the fall of | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
the Gaddafi regime. My colleague Ben Brown is in Tripoli. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Ben? Yes, the victorious rebels here have rejected the idea of the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
United Nations sending peacekeepers or military observers. They say | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
they don't need foreign troops on the ground to help them with the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
transition to a post-Gaddafi modern democracy, but this is still a | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
country somewhat in dimbo. Not only is Colonel Gaddafi still at large, | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
but his hometown, Sirte is still in the hands of his loyalists. Even so, | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
people here in Tripoli are celebrating the liberation of the | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
capital, but also the holy festival of Eid, which now under way. Wyre | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Davis reports. The people of Tripoli have reclaimed their | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
capital. Martyr Square was bursting at the seams this morning as | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
thousands celebrated the Muslim Eid Al Fitr holiday. Days ago, some of | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
these men were fighting. This emotional gathering of free Libyans | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
was almost as much political as it was spiritual. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
After prayers, the party. For years, these people have been | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
unable to express themselves. Now catching up after decades of fear | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
and oppression, some, like Omar, have only just been released from | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Gaddafi's jails. I think it's going to be hard in the beginning, but | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
after that, I'm sure - I am 100% sure that the Libyans will prove | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
themselves to the world and show all the world that the Libyans that | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
succeed in this revolution did a really good job and will surprise | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
the world. This city and this country are being transformed. In | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the very square where Colonel Gaddafi was due to celebrate his 42 | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
years in power, his once-suppressed people are now marking their holy | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
holiday and celebrating their freedom. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Children who have known nothing but the dark days of Gaddafi can expect | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
better times. But the new Libya is beset by many problems - a shortage | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
of basic services, factionalism within the interim council and far | :04:36. | :04:43. | |
too many guns on the streets. Tripoli can still be a dangerous | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
place. Five people died when explosives went off in this car | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
today - probably an accident, but there are still fears of reprisals | :04:51. | :05:01. | |
by Gaddafi loyalists. Well, a key battleground is now | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Sirte, about 400 kilometres east of here, Colonel Gaddafi's hometown | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
and stronghold where his loyalists are holding out. Rebels have moved | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
towards Sirte from both east and west and given an ultimatum to the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
Gaddafi loyalists there - surrender by Saturday or face the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
consequences. Our correspondent Paul Wood is on the road outside | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
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Sirte. Eid prayers in the hamlet of this | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
town - fighters and villagers mingling easily. | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
This place changed hands a few days ago. The latest stop in the rebel | :05:44. | :05:53. | |
advance to the town of Sirte. The Imam angrily denounces the Gaddafi | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
forces who had been there. "They beat people. They destroyed | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
things," he says. Colonel Gaddafi's troops have fled now, and the | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
rebels say they don't want any fighting during the holiday. The | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
fighters have been told there will be a pause in their operations for | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
a few days. That's partly because of the Eid holiday, but it is | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
mainly to give a chance to peace talks which are taking place are | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
tribal leaders in Sirte, but after Saturday, loyalist forces in the | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
town have been told if they don't surrender, the rebels are coming in. | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
The fighters still hope it won't come to that. They say they have no | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
appetite for revenge. My brothers - they're my brothers. Gaddafi has | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
finished now. We have to go to Sirte. After Sirte, we go to | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
Misrata. With our fighting, God willing. A few miles outside the | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
village, rebel scouts try to locate loyalist positions. Gaddafi forces | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
fired ground rockets at them this morning, they say. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
"Allah, Akbar!" There is no Eid ceasefire, and so far, no peace | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
deal. There are a few more days to secure one before the battle for | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
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Let's go live now to our correspondent John line in Benghazi | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
where the National Transitional Council still have their | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
headquarters. How do you assess the rebels' military strategy now? | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
they're still talking about trying to get a surrender at Sirte. I | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
don't think anybody is optimistic. There are two options - either | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
we're going to have this huge battle in Sirte, and the opposition | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
have put massive amounts of firepower in that town, and there | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
are loyalist Gaddafi fighters inside, or when that ultimatum | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
expires on Saturday, it could be that then the Gaddafi forces see | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the writing on the wall, and they then do a rapid flight out of Sirte, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
and they then head down to the south of the country. Whichever way | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
it goes, we see the opposition looking more like a conventional | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Army. They have an awful lot more kit there, heavy arms, tanks, heavy | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
artillery and communications. It's only going one way, conventional, | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
but it's a matter of how many lives are lost in the mean time. John, to | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the idea of the UN sending in peacekeepers or observers, the | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
answer seems to be thanks, but no thanks. This issue is very | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
sensitive here, although it might be seen as useful in some ways, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
this country is a country that fought colonial oppression from | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
Italians until quite recently - and you sometimes see the leader of | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
that resistance all over in people's cars and in posters, so I | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
think the new Government will currently be the opposition. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
They're very sensitive to the idea of being told, you have liberated | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
the country only to hand it over to foreigners. They want help and | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
advice from the United Nations, but they don't want any foreign police | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
force or foreign soldiers with their boots on the ground. Many | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
thanks indeed. Here in Tripoli, there are pretty severe shortages, | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
for example, the UN saying 60% of residents in Tripoli still don't | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
have water or sanitation. It's one of the reasons the Transitional | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Council want to get funds flowing pretty quickly. They want Libyan | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
assets that have been frozen unfrozen. They say they want to get | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
oil pumping quickly too in the next few weeks because they're aware | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
people are being patient at the moment, but that ultimately their | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
patience could run out. Back to you. Thank you, Ben Brown. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Banks have been accused by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
spreading panic, in an attempt to delay reforms - which are aimed at | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
avoiding another multi-billion pound bailout funded by taxpayers. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
The Independent Commission on Banking is due to deliver its final | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
report in two weeks' time, and is expected to recommend that the | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
riskier investment arms of banks be ring-fenced - to protect their | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
retail operations. Let's talk a little bit more about | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
this with our political correspondent Norman Smith. What is | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
Vince Cable saying, first? Well, Vince Cable is fighting back | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
against a fairly vigorous lobbying operation by the banks against | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
reforms expected to be unveiled next week, which will suggest that | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
banks should be split up internally within their retail operation, | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
which is their bog-standard High Street banking and their much | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
riskier wins which involve much more exotic jigry pokery which got | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the banks into trouble in the first place, and the banks are adamant | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
they don't want this to happen. They're saying to the Government, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
if you go down this road it will make us uncompetitive against non- | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
British bank and make it harder to deter to non-British business and | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
potentially damage the recovery, and it could potentially lead to | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
banks relocating outside the UK. Vince Cable regards that as special | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
pleading by the banks and has accused them of trying to create | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
panic and does insist that the Government intends to press ahead | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
with these sort of reforms. likely, though, is legislation | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
given all of that? Well, my impression is that the Government | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
is listening very closely to what the banks are saying because you | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
cannot afford for British banks to be made uncompetitive. You have to | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
ensure they keep lending to business, and so my impression is | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
that the Government is listening very, very closely indeed, which | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
means that the prospect of any immediate change in the structure | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of banks I think is increasingly remote, and what I'm hearing is | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
while there may indeed be legislation to introduce these sort | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
of reforms before the next legislation, the changes may not | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
actually have to come into effect until after the election, so it's | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
clear that Ministers are listening very clearly to the concerns of the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
banks and may actually delay these reforms. Interesting. Thank you | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
very much, Norman Smith, at Westminster. | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
An elderly traveller living on an illegal site in Essex is at the | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
local dois try to stop eviction. 80 families have been told to leave | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
Dale Farm, a former scrap yard which is classed as green belt. The | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
people there don't have planning permission for their caravans and | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
chalets. Mark Worthington is there for us. Mark. There is teans | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
atmosphere here inside Dale Farm, and you can see some of the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
preparations under way for the arrival of the bailiffs, but as | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
that last gasp legal attempt gets under way in London, for those | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
people who have made Dale Farm their home, they're beginning to | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
count down the hours until their notice to leave expires. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
From the air, it's clear why Dale Farm is the UK's largest | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
traveller's site. Along the pot- holed roads, caravans and chalets | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
fill separate plots, but more than 80 families have set up home on | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
land classed as green belt, and they have been given until the end | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
of the day to leave. This make- shift gateway marks the entrance to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the illegal half of Dale Farm, and on the top, there is a simple | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
message - a banner saying, "We won't go." Marian McCarthy has | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
lived at Dale Farm for ten years and has no plans to leave before | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
the bailiffs come. How can you just ask someone to leave their home | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
peacefully? Would you? No way. You've got to be an awful coward if | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
you didn't put up a fight, and there's no cowards there. This, in | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
July, a sign of what may lie ahead - a show of defiance by the women | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
of Dale Farm, angry at the prospect of being forced out when they say | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
they have no-where else to go. And, as the deadline approaches, | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
others have added their voices in opposition. If you were ill or you | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
had babies or children going to school, would you agree that you, | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
minus your wife and children, would be sent to some bricks-and-mortar | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
place, have your grandmother sent to an old-people's home? For some | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
living nearby, clearing the site is long overdurtion but if there is | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
trouble, it could cost as much as �18 billion and Basildon Council is | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
preparinged to pay half to see it done. It's still unclear when the | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
bailiffs may move in. The eventual costs to the council depends on | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
If the injunction is successful, it means that what has already been a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
ten-year battle will be far from over. If not, it may only be a | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
matter of days before barricades like this come into play. | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
A teenager who survived an attack by a polar bear has been speaking | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
about his escape. A 17-year-old, Horatio Chapple, died in the attack | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
during an expedition in Norway. Patrick Flinders managed to fight | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
the bear of, even though it had his head in its jaws. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
Patrick Flinders had looked forward to a great adventure. A trip 700 | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
miles inside the Arctic Circle. But as he and the other 12 members of | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
his party slept in their attempts, a polar bear entered the campsite. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
Minutes later he was fighting to save his life and those of his | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
companions. I just remember the bear ripping through the tent. | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
Everybody screaming. Looking at my sleeping bag, just seeing people | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
really scared, seeing the polar bear. It grabbed my arm, grabbed my | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
head, biting it. 17-year-old Horatio Chappell, who had been | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
sleeping next to him, was killed in the attack. I know it seems harsh, | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
but I am just glad that it wasn't me sleeping there. Every couple of | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
nights, we swapped around where we were sleeping. I was thinking, if I | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
was sleeping there that night, it could have been made. Another | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
student and two expedition leaders were seriously injured. One of them | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
managed to shoot the bear. All of the survivors have undergone | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
hospital treatment. Patrick was left with fragments of the bear's | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
teeth in his skull. But his thoughts are with a friend that he | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
lost. He was a really nice fellow. A really nice guy to be with. He | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
just reminded me of some of my friends. Back in Jersey, Patrick's | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
injuries are healing. But he and his family know that the memories | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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of the night will take far longer Our top story: Millions of pounds | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
of frozen assets are released to the new Libyan government as people | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
there celebrate their first Eid festival without Colonel Gaddafi in | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
power. If coming up: In from the cold. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
The forgotten heroes of the wartime Arctic convoys are remembered at a | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
ceremony in Russia. Coming up in sport on BBC News, | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
better late than never. Andy Murray finally gets his US Open campaign | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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under way against India's Somdev This has become one of the defining | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
images of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the last four | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
years, thousands of people have lined the High Street in Wootton | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
Bassett in Wiltshire, to pay their respects to the 345 men and women | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
whose bodies have been returned to the UK through the town. But that | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
tradition comes time end today because of the closure of the | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
nearby base at RAF Lyneham. John Kay has reported on numerous | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
repatriations. He is in Wootton Bassett now. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
It is a military tradition that a sunset ceremony is held at the end | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
of the day. People here thought it was entirely appropriate that they | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
would hold their Rhone sunset ceremony tonight to mark the end of | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
military repatriation through this town. Tonight they will gather here, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
as they have so many times before. This time there will be no coffins. | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
Instead, they will watch the Union Flag, next to the war memorial, be | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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What started as a small, impromptu gathering on Wootton Bassett high | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
street has become a mass event. People have stood in silence like | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
this so many times. Nearly 400 military coffins have passed | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
through the town. Now, after four years, the ceremony itself is | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
coming to an end. Tonight, at sunset, there will be one final act | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
of respect. The town's Union Flag, which has flown on so many | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
occasions, will be lowered and blessed, taking to the local church | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
where it will lie on the altar overnight. Wootton Bassett's duty | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
will be done. Yes, we have done a good job. People are thankful to us. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
I don't think that is foolish pride. I don't think it is a lack of | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
humility. I think it is appropriate to say, well done. Tomorrow morning, | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
the flag will be brought here, to Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
it will fly in a purpose-built garden of remembrance. From now on, | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
repatriation flights will return to this airbase instead. Local people | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
have promised to continue the tradition that Wootton Bassett | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
began. Next week they will gather here for the first time, when the | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
body of a Royal Marine is flown home from Afghanistan. In Wootton | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Bassett, they will never forget the fallen the or the four years that | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
have brought them international recognition. Next month, the town | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
becomes Royal Wootton Bassett, in honour of everything people here | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
have done. We wish the people of Oxfordshire every success. I'm sure | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
they will do the right thing. We are not the story, the servicemen | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
are the story. The people of Wootton Bassett want repatriations | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
here to end as they began, with restraint and quiet dignity. Then | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
this Wiltshire market town can return to normal after four years | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
of paint and pride. -- pain and pride. We have reported here so | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
many times over the last four years, you start to recognise a lot of the | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
people here. I've spotted a member of the Royal British Legion, | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
talking to a former mayor about what they are going to do tonight. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
People like that have been working closely over the last few months | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
with the people living near Brize Norton, to make sure there is an | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
easy and successful transition between these two very different | :21:20. | :21:29. | |
An 11-year-old boy from Romford has become the youngest person to be | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
convicted of taking part in the riots in London. The boy, who | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
cannot be named for legal reasons, was given an 18 month | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
rehabilitation order for stealing a waste bin from a Debenhams store | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
Now, the secret to protection from sunburn could lie beneath the ocean | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
waves. Scientists have discovered that coral in the Great Barrier | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Reef has built-in protection against ultraviolet light. They | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
think they may be close to taking that natural defence and turning it | :22:00. | :22:10. | |
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Good afternoon. How would it work? Well, basically, what we have found | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
out is that for about 25 years we have known that Coral has produced | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
the sunscreen compounds to protect themselves from ultraviolet light. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
We have never really known how they make the compounds until relatively | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
recently. What my Laboratory has been doing, in collaboration with | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
groups in America and Australia, its cloning the genes from the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
coral that make the sunscreen compound. We would like to clone | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
them into simple cells, a simple bacteria, so that we have a | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
sustainable supply of sunscreen compounds. You think you could work | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
it into a tablet that any of us could take to protect ourselves | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
against the Sun? This is what we are hoping. If you look at what | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
happens on the Great Barrier Reef, small fish will eat coral. Larger | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
fish will eat the smaller fish. We can trace the sunscreen compounds | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
up the food chain. We can find them in light-sensitive tissues in fish, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
on their skin and in their eyes. Rather than just making a suntan | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
lotion, why don't we just formulate a capsule which, if we can put it | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
in our mouths and swallow it, maybe the compounds will find their way | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
to while eyes and skin. That is potentially fantastic. But we all | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
need some son, don't we? How do you strike a balance? Of course, you | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
would not be taking the tablets all the time. It would just be as a | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
back-up, an alternative to normal sun protection you would be taking. | :23:45. | :23:54. | |
Perhaps we will speak again a bit Now, it is deadline day in football | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
transfer markets'. The wheeling and dealing is well and truly under way. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
The top clubs are in the market to try to pick up a bargain, if there | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
is such a thing, and strengthen their squads. No one more than | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
Arsenal, after their dismal start to the season. Let's go to the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Emirates Stadium and trying Dan Roan. -- join. | :24:16. | :24:24. | |
The nail-biting Countdown has truly begun. Managers have until 11pm to | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
conclude frenetic transfer activity. Such is the money in the sport now, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
with so much at stake, where re signing can be the difference | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
between staying in the Premier League or relegation, that a sense | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
of hysteria and frenzy accompanies the last few hours of the summer | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
transfer window. It's important for all clubs, of course, but | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
especially at Arsenal. They have about �80 million to spend, but | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
just a few hours to spend it. has been, surely, the lowest | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
experienced of all his near 15 years of Arsenal manager. It was | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
the defeat that tend transfer deadline day into Arsene Wenger's | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
very own day of reckoning. Arsenal's humiliation at the hands | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
of Manchester United let the manager with just three days to | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
replenish his depleted squad. At the Emirates, Arsenal fans were | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
hoping for some much-needed retail therapy to help save their season. | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Arsenal fans are looking for the "wow" signing. A couple of world | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
class planes that will come in, make a difference, and give us new | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
heroes to replace people like Fabregas and Nasri. Arsenal have | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
lost prized assets Cesc Fabregas, Samia Nasri and Gael Clichy. Coming | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
in, Korean Sue Young Park, German Per Mertesacker and Brazilian Andre | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
Santos. The fans want more to be spent and fast. Perhaps the most | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
eye-catching deal of this deadline day promises to centre on this man. | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Injury-prone former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
recently tried to prove his fitness by posting videos of himself on | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
YouTube. It seems to have paid off, with a shock move to Manchester | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
City likely to go through this afternoon. He's a great player. A | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
different type of midfield player to what we have had. I think we all | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
hope, as England players and fans, that one day he will get back to | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
his best. I hope he does that. Meanwhile, back at the Emirates | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Stadium, Arsenal fans wish that time could stand still, on a day | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
that could define their season and even the future of their manager. | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
Football continues to appear to be recession-proof. Already, �20 | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
million more has been spent in its window than the same one last year. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
In the last hour, Joe Cole has announced he has made a loan move | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
to Lille from Liverpool. Managers now have less than 10 hours to | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
conclude their business until the window slams shut. | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
Now, Winston Churchill called it the most dangerous journey in the | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
world. Today is the 70th anniversary of the first convoy | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
trip from the UK to Soviet Russia during World War II. Between 1941 | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
and 1945, 3000 sailors were killed, taking supplies to the beleaguered | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
USSR. Today, a group of British war veterans is taking part in | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
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celebrations in the northern Russian city of Acre and gas. -- | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Arkhangelsk. For Winston Churchill called it the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
worst journey in the world, through thick fog and freezing cold, under | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
attack from German U-boats and fighter-bombers, the Arctic convoys | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
travelled to and from Russia. For four years, British ships helped | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
keep the Soviet Union supplied with fuel, food, tanks and warplanes. | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
More than 100 Allied ships were lost. 3000 sailors were killed. | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
were on the convoys. We thought, this is hell. This is absolute hell. | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
I don't ever want this to happen again. I looked back and I thought, | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
that was one of the proudest moments of my life, you know? To | :28:10. | :28:16. | |
have done such a thing. 70 years on, some British veterans of the Arctic | :28:16. | :28:22. | |
convoys have returned to Arkhangelsk. They have been given a | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
hero's welcome. Russia says it will never forget how these men risked | :28:26. | :28:33. | |
their lives to hop the Soviet war effort. But back in the UK, retired | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
naval commander William Grenfell believes that Britain hasn't done | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
nearly enough to honour those that sailed to Russia. He is leading a | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
campaign for veterans of the Arctic convoys to be awarded medals, which | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
he believes is long overdue. Nobody ever thinks of the graves in the | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
snow-covered cemeteries. There are graves of 16-year-old boys up there. | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
Forgotten. Forgotten by a government that should be admiring | :28:58. | :29:06. | |
them. They don't. The Government doesn't. Some have described the | :29:06. | :29:11. | |
Arctic convoys as suicide missions, such were the dangers. They are not | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
only provided Britain's ally in the East with supplies, but with hope. | :29:15. | :29:25. | |
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That helped Russia defeat Nazi Now, we will turn our attentions to | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
the day's weather prospects. You probably noticed over the past | :29:31. | :29:34. | |
couple of weeks that there has been a distinct lack of sunshine across | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
the UK. Provisional figures suggest exactly that. But will 29th August, | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
just 76% of the average August sunshine. Even if you take into | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
account today, the figures are not set to change a great deal. A lack | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
of sunshine, little in the way of brightness. For most of us it is a | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
cloudy day. Here is the satellite picture. You can see across the | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
United Kingdom that there's been a fair amount of cloud. It has broken | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
in the past, of hours across Wales and south-west England. By no means | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
guaranteed for the rest of the afternoon. Here is the picture at 4 | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
o'clock. The best prospect for brightness and sunshine will tend | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
to be across South Wales, south- western parts of England. | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
Pleasantly warm if you get the sunshine. 18 or 19 degrees. Across | :30:19. | :30:22. | |
North Wales, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, fairly cloudy | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
skies. Fairly cool, highs of 15 or 16. Further north London to | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
Scotland, large amounts of cloud. One or two showers across the | :30:32. | :30:35. | |
northern half of the country. Nothing more than that. Many places | :30:35. | :30:41. | |
are set to stay dry. For northern parts of England, East Anglia and | :30:41. | :30:46. | |
the South, a lot of cloud. If you are lucky, you might catch one or | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
two glimpses of brightness. Through the see me and overnight, we keep a | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
lot of cloud across the northern half of the UK. The odd spot of | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
rain here and there. Cloud will tend to break for southern parts of | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
England and Wales. It could turn misty and won a two spots. Chilly | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
for rural areas. For many areas, eight or 13 will be the overnight | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
low. Once again, a fairly cloudy start to the day on Thursday. | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
Eastern Scotland and north-east England are keeping TARDIS dies for | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
much of Thursday. For the rest, better prospects. The cloud will | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
break up. There will be pleasant spells of sunshine coming through. | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
Higher temperatures, 20 or 21. For Thursday, overnight and into Friday, | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
high temperatures hold on into England and Wales. The weather | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
front is starting to move into England and Wales. That means it is | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
a very unsettled day for Friday, for the northern half of the UK. | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland, the breeze picks up. Add bits of rain | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
moving in. Feeling cool, a top temperature of 17 or 18 degrees. | :31:51. | :31:56. |