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The sharp tongue of the Blade Runner - Oscar Pistorius criticises | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
the artificial legs worn by the man who beat him to the gold medal. He | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
apologies for the timing of his comments but says there are still | :00:16. | :00:24. | |
issues over the use of technology. Reshuffle on the cards - David | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
Cameron prepares to name his new Cabinet in the next 24 hours. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
55 new free schools to open this autumn. Parent power in action says | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
the Government. A waste of public money say Labour. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Seven years on, an inquiry opens into the death of a man shot dead | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
by police in London. Royal descent - Prince Andrew | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
abseils down Europe's tallest building for his Outward Bound | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
charity. Later on BBC London: Disabled | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
groups in the capital hope for a sporting legacy from the 2012 | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Paralympics and border agency staff in dawn raids to crackdown on child | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. One of the biggest | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
names in the Paralympics, Oscar Pistorius, has apologised for the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
timing of his remarks in which he questioned the fairness of the | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
men's 200 metre final in which he came second. The South African | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
criticised the International Paralympic Committee, saying the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
winner - the Brazilian Alan Oliveira - used blades which were | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
too long. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports. | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
One of the Paralympics greatest shocks followed by one of its | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
greatest controversies. In lane four Oscar Pistorius, the Blade | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Runner, unbeaten over 200 metres in nearly a decade, it looked like | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
another victory parade. But then rocketing through on his outside | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
the Brazilian Alan Oliveira, a seering finish and extraordinary | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
upset. The crowd was stunned and so was | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Oscar Pistorius, a shake of the head and then a blast of criticism. | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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Oliveira's blades were too long, he So did Oliveira have an unfair | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
advantage? Not so, according to the Paralympic authorities. Under the | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
rules of IPC atletics, the blades here are all legitimate and within | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
limits. We have specific rules on how long the blade can be, all | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
athletes are measured prior to competition here and all last night | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
were found to be OK. This morning Oscar Pistorius apologises for the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
timing of his comments here last night, that was Alan's moment, he | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
said, raising my concerns immediately as I stepped off the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
track was wrong. But he says he still believes there is an issue | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
over the length of some athletes' blades. Oscar Pistorius spent much | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
of his career refuting claims blades gave him an advantage over | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
able-bodied athletes, he had to battle for trite compete at this | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
year's Olympics and now within Paralympics circles the question of | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
what is fair is getting louder. It's an interesting debate because | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
some of the things that have been levelled at Oscar about, is it fair, | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
is there an advantage, he is now widening that debate to other | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
athletes and actually for me, the bottom line is that Oscar's opened | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
up this massive opportunity for other leg amputees to run as fast | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
as he is running and it's a debate that's going to keep going and | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
going. Oscar Pistorius looked subdued at | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
the medal ceremony, but he's already reignited one of sport's | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
most contentious debates on whether prosthetic blades can guarantee a | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
level playing field. Andy joins us now from the Olympic | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
Park. As you said in your report this is a man whose career has been | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
dogged by that question of the use of blades and potential advantage | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
from technology. It's now been brought into the spotlight again, | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
but by him this time. It's interesting, Oscar Pistorius so | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
used to having to defend himself against complaints but now he is | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
the one actually doing the complaining. The first thing to say | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
is most people will welcome his apology, whatever his tkpwhraoef -- | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
grievance it probably wasn't the right time to raise it. It is an | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
interesting debate. The debate before he competed at the Olympics | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
was whether his blades gave him an unfair advantage. The question here | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
is about the length of those blades because obviously longer blades can | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
mean a longer stride pattern and that can mean faster speed. What he | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
is saying is the likes of Alan Oliveira are simply getting taller | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
and taller. The one thing we should say is what Alan Oliveira has done | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
is entirely within the rules. Oscar Pistorius says those rules need to | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
be tightened, otherwise competition will be distorted. The | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
International Paralympics Committee say they will meet with Oscar | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Pistorius once the emotion has died down after the Olympics. This goes | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
right to the heart of sport, because what people want to see and | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
know is when they turn up somewhere like the Olympic Stadium they want | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
to know that what they're watching is a fair contest on a level | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
playing field. Thank you. MPs return to Westminster after | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
their summer break today amid much speculation of a cabinet reshuffle | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
in the next 24 hours. Our political correspondent Norman Smith is at | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
Westminster for us. First potentially radical overhaul to the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
team since taking office, what's likely? Trying to read a cabinet | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
reshuffle is like trying to read the tea leaves, it's not a hugely | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
exact science but two things we can say, one is it will almost | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
certainly be tomorrow. Why? Because the Prime Minister does not want | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
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any more dither and delay. Tomorrow will be the day. The big beasts | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
will not move, the they stay in post, so no movement for George | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
Osborne, William Hague, Theresa May. Possible names suggested as being | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
shuffled along, maybe Ken Clarke, maybe the party chairman. But the | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
big shake-up may come down in the middle Ministerial ranks amongst | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
people most voters have probably never heard of but in party | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
management terms absolutely crucial for Mr Cameron in promoting the | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
able and talented and also calibrating the political balance | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
within the party. It's a difficult balancing act for those moved could | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
it be seen their policies have failed? Yeah, I have no doubt it is | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
going to be an extraordinarily difficult reshuffle. Why? You have | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
to think of the balance within a coalition, you have got to think of | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
the balance of women in the cabinet, but also for a very simple human | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
reason. For everyone prow moat, there's someone you demote. In | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
other words, for everyone going around with a smile on their face | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
there's someone going around in the almost almighty cream puff, with | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
resentment. We simply do not know whether Mr Cameron will be any good | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
at a reshuffle. They can provide a political balance, they can also be | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
a political banana skin. Thank you very much. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
55 new free schools are opening across England this autumn, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
tripling the number already in existence. According to the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Government it shows how popular the idea is becoming with charities, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
parents, and other bodies who are able to set up the schools which | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
remain state funded but outside local authority control. Critics | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
says the programme doesn't target areas with the greatest need for | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
more school places. Plans for a new school in Bradford have been put on | :07:56. | :08:04. | |
hold. Our correspondent, Chris Buckler, is there. Why have things | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
stalled there? It comes down to a simple matter of numbers. Free | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
schools in order to be viable have to attract the support of parents | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
and pupils and in the case of this one it simply didn't happen. That's | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
led to severe criticism of the 200,000 of public money that's | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
already been spent on the project. Stkpwhrp. The start of the new | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
school year, marks a new beginning for dozens of free schools. One was | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
planned for this converted sports shop in the shadow of Bradford's | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
football stadium but days before doors were due to open the | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Government withdraw the funding for the One in a Million school. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Leaving parents and pupils looking for a place elsewhere. Bringing all | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
our hopes up and then crashing them, smashing them. It's like all kids | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
here were probably definitely wanting to come here. But like me | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
as well. At least for now all the plans for this school have been put | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
on hold. The Department for Education has thanked One in a | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
Million for the charity's hard work but it says conditions were not met. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
They had promised 50 pupils but only 30 were due to start here next | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
week. Free schools are state funded. They | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
can be be set up bay range of groups including charities, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
businesses, visionary teachers or committed parents and while the | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
education must be balanced and broadly based, they don't have to | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
follow the national curriculum. And meet the man who is firmly | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
behind the idea. The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has faced | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
criticism over the amount of money spent on projects that have run | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
into difficulties. But visiting one of the new wave of free schools in | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Birmingham, he insisted they offered choice. It is the case that | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
there have been one or two free schools that we hoped might open | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
this September that haven't quite made the grade but we hope that | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
they will open in the future. However, with 55 new schools | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
opening and 24 schoolss having opened last year already | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
oversubscribed then we are seeing a real change. But Labour says the | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Government must recognise the failures alongside the successes. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
There's been a lot of waste in this programme. We have seen two school | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
projects cancelled at the very last minute. There isn't always local | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
parental support. In many parts of the country there aren't enough | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
primary school places and this programme has not focused enough on | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
that. They're putting finishes touches to | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
these two new free schools in Bradford. They'll offer music and a | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
longer school day for pupils. not sure parents have expressed a | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
demand for competition and choice, I think what parents do believe, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
though, is they shouldn't have to send their child to a school they | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
really don't want to. The future of every free school | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
depends on parents buying into their ideas and ethos. But the | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Government clearly believes the policy is laying the foundations | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
for the future of education in England. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
In the months and years ahead, critics will be watching closely, | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
not just the amount of money spent on free schools but also where | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
they're set up. Are they in places where there is a need for school | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
places? Of course, the Government has made clear it is firmly | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
committed to this process. They want to push ahead with this, 55 | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
free schools may be set up this September, but they say more than | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
100 have already been approved to open after next September. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, will be speaking in the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Commons this afternoon. Our political correspondent Iain Watson | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
has more on that. It's his first day of work, of course, he has | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
rather a lot in his in-tray. policies are going to come under | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
close examination this afternoon in over an hour's time. MPs will be | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
questioning him and Labour in particular are keen to ask | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
questions about the recent GCSEs English English exam row. From | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
their point of view they're saying we already know that it's much more | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
difficult for pupils to get a C grade in those exams if they sat | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
them in June rather than January. But the education regulator, Ofqual, | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
are saying pupils won't automatically be regraded, they'll | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
have to resit those exams if they're disappointed with the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
results. Labour are saying the Education Secretary should spwr | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
convenient and -- intervene and save children from the prospects of | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
having to do exams in November. He won't intervene in decisions taken | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
by exam boards. What is likely to say is that if he did so, he would | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
be accused of political interference, political meddling by | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
the opposition. But he's also got to try to turn this row to his own | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
advantage and make bigger points. The GCSE system in England is | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
discredited, what's needed stphou overhaul of that system something | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
he's been committed to doing. He may argue that but I don't think he | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
will be necessarily be able to get away from row over results because | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
in a few days MPs in a cross-party group, education experts will | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
decide whether to launch their own inquiry into the system. The key | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
message from the Education Secretary today will be, there | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
might be some disappointment over these results this year, but in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
future we make these exams more robust so parents and pupils are | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
going to have to get used to a simple truth, don't expect results | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
to go up year on year any longer. Thank you. | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
The former chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks, has | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
appeared before magistrates in London. She's charged with | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
conspiring to intercept phone messages. The case has now been | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
passed to the crown court. Here's our home affairs correspondent, Tom | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
Symonds. Another day in court for the woman | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
who once headed News International. And more cameras to face as she | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
arrived to begin the process that is likely to result in her trial by | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
jury for phone hacking. A legal note pad in her hands, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Rebekah Brooks stood alone in the dock watched by journalists across | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
the courtroom. She confirmed her name and after a pause her date of | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
birth. The main charge against the former | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
chief executive is this she conspired to intercept telephone | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
communications, phone hacking, between 2000 and 2006. | :14:14. | :14:22. | |
The prosecution says there were at least 600 victims, mainly famous | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
faces. She is charged with conspiring to access messages of | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Milly Dowler, the schoolgirl murdered in 2002 as well as the | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
formerification union lead -- former fire brigades leader. She | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
has denied being involved. It was a short hearing. Rebekah Brooks was | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
told her case was being passed to to Southwark Crown Court for a | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
hearing on 26th September. There, she will join seven other reporters | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
and executives from the News of the World. They are all charged with | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
phone hacking. They include the former News of the | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
World editor, Andy Coulson, who appeared here last month, along | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
with colleagues from the Newsroom. It appears that all their cases, 19 | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
charges in total, will be dealt with by the Crown Court together. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Their trials are unlikely to begin until next year. Rebekah Brooks is | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
also being prosecuted for perverting the course of justice, | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
the allegation, that amid the fevered atmosphere at News | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
International last year she misled the police at the height of the | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
An inquiry has been shown video footage of the moment armed | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
officers surrounded a car in north London and shot one of the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
passengers dead. Azelle Rodney was hit by six bullets and died | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
instantly when the vehicle was stopped in north London seven years | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
ago. Three guns were found in the car. A judge-led inquiry is being | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
held into Mr Rodney's death rather than an inquest because sensitive | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
evidence is being heard. June Kelly is at the inquiry in Central London. | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Kate, this footage was filmed by a Scotland Yard officer who was in | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
the police convoy. You don't see the shooting, but you hear the | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
shots ring out. The inquiry also saw highly distressing images of | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
the aftermath of the shooting, the blood soaked seat where Azelle | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Rodney had been sitting his mother chose to leave the court when when | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
those images were shown. Azelle Rodney was was 24 when he | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
was shot dead by police. One officer fired eight bullets, six | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
hit him in the head and body, for his mother, this inquiry is the | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
start of the first public hearing into his death. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
REPORTER: Can we ask what you are hoping for today? For seven years | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
she has been fighting to find out why her son was shot. The Crown | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
Prosecution Service said in in 2006 there was insufficient evidence to | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
bring charges against any police officer. The following year, a | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
coroner said an inquest couldn't take place because he wasn't aloud | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
access to sensitive information. This inquiry was set-up, which will | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
hear some of the intelligence evidence. In April 2005, firearms | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
officers were following a car in North London. They believed the | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
three men inside were on their way to rip off a gang of suspected | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
drugs dealers at gun point. There were four police cars involved and | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
they carried a hard stop on the car. Azelle Rodney was sitting in the | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
back. It was an officer known as E 7 who fired the the fatal shots. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
The police car he was in had stopped and he was in the passenger | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
seat. His window was on the level of one of the windows in the Golf | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
and it was from that position that he opened fire. Today counsel to | :17:43. | :17:53. | |
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Firearms were found in the car, but Azelle Rodney didn't have a weapon | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
in his hand when he was shot. The marksmen who killed him will be | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
among those to testify in the Well, that officer will give | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
evidence from behind a screen amongst the others to testify will | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
be the two men who were in the car with Azelle Rodney when he was shot. | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
They were later jailed for firearms The time is 1.18pm: | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
Oscar Pistorius is to meet Paralympics organisers after | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
apologising for the timing of his comments about the sprinter who | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
beat him into second place. I am live at Greenwich where Great | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
Britain won another gold medal. In fact, it is a second gold and a | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
second world record for young On BBC London, the 15 century | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
building which may not open as a free school in time for the new | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
term this week. The Games maker fulfilling her | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
dream to volunteer during the Police in Northern Ireland have | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
described the tactics used by rioters in North Belfast last night | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
as "savage". Nearly 50 police officers were hurt during hours of | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
rioting overnight. Four of them were taken to hospital. Trouble | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
began in the north of the city when loyalists turned out to protest at | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
a Republican parade. Police were attacked with bricks, bottles and | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
fireworks. Our Ireland correspondent, Mark Simpson, | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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Sunday afternoon in Belfast. The police tried to keep rival loyalist | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
and republican gangs apart. After clashes broke out during a | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
republican parade along one of the main roads in the north of the city. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
47 police officers were injured. The violence continued through the | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
evening and into the early hours of the morning. The police described | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
the tactics used by the rioters as "savage.". Violence in which we saw | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
in excess of 34 petrol bombs. Hundreds of fireworks. Huge pieces | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
of masonry and even lasers used against this community's police | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
officers. Used against public servants who on a Sunday afternoon | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
went out to deliver policing on behalf of this community. Among the | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
buildings hit by bricks and bottles during the riot was a a nursing | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
home. Thousands of pounds of damage was caused. Last night, this part | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
of the north Belfast was a battle zone. Today, the violence has | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
stopped, the police have gone and normality has returned. The | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
question is - for how long? Another parade is due to take place | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
in the area at end of this month. Work will begin soon to try to | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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The UN envoy to Syria says his task of negotiating a peace plan for the | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
country is "nearly impossible". Lakhdar Brahimi, who is Algerian | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
and a seasoned UN diplomat, replaces Kofi Annan who stood down | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
last month. Kofi Annan stood down last month. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
I know how difficult it is. How nearly impossible. I can't say | :21:39. | :21:47. | |
impossible. Nearly impossible it is. I am I am scared of the weight of | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
the responsibility. People are already saying, you know, people | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
are dying, what are you doing to help? | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
Indeed we are not doing much. That in itself is a terrible weight. | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
The new UN envoy. Police vo been searching a river | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
after a girl was found alone on a boat in the Norfolk Broods | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
confirmed two bodies were those of the girl's mother and her mother's | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
partner. A section. Section of the river was closed. Police say the | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
deaths are treated as unexplained. A couple have been arrested after | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
two suspected burglars were shot at their home in Leicestershire. Four | :22:40. | :22:49. | |
men have been detained on suspicion of ago aggravated burglary. Police | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
say the wounded mens injuries are The Green Party have elected a new | :22:58. | :22:59. | |
leader for England and Wales. Australian-born journalist Natalie | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Bennett replaces Caroline Lucas, the party's only MP, who chose not | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
to stand. In her opening speech, Ms Bennett criticised the government's | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
cuts and said Green Party policies were the only "viable way forward" | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
for Britain and the world. deeply honoured by being given this | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
great responsibility. It is a big task to lead the Green Party, | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
particularly stepping into the shoes of Caroline Lucas, not that | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
she is going anywhere, but I know up and down the country, across | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
England and Wales, there are thousands of Green Party members | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
who will be with me. This is very much a team effort. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Great Britain has taken another gold at the Paralympics. 22-year- | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
old Natasha Baker has won the Grade 2 freestyle equestrian event. It is | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
her second gold at these Games. And this afternoon her team-mate Lee | :23:56. | :24:02. | |
Pearson could equal the British record of 11 gold Paralympic medals. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson is at Greenwich Park. | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
Congratulations to Natasha Baker too. | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
Absolutely, Kate. There has never been a Paralympic equestrian | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
anything like this. We have had a record crowd and also a record | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
score. Natasha Baker on board the horse JP has risen to the challenge. | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
Today and and tomorrow, we are in the freestyle section where riders | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
can choose their music. It is more important to please the judges. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Natasha set her routine to a classical melody. The judges loved | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
it. 82.8%. That's a Paralympic record. It is a second world record | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
and it is a second gold medal. It is outstanding when you consider, | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
it is her debut. She is just 22 and before the Games she was considered | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
the weakest member of the British team. Everyone knows about Lee | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
Pearson's record. As you were saying, he has been beaten for the | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
first time ever in the Paralympics, but if he win this is afternoon he | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
will have the 11 gold medals which will leave him level with Tanni | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Grey-Thompson and Dave Roberts. For now, we should wallow in the glory | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
of Natasha Baker. Although she contracted spinal issues when she | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
was just a baby, she like many Paralympians were told nothing | :25:35. | :25:44. | |
should be impossible. At over 300 meters tall, the Shard | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
is Europe's tallest building, how would you fancy abseiling down it? | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
That's what 40 people have been doing for charity. Among them | :25:51. | :26:00. | |
Prince Andrew. Jeremy Cooke watched. High above the Met trop lis, | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
something extraordinary is happening. Yes, that's The Queen's | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
son and yes, he has just stepped out of the 87th floor of Europe's | :26:09. | :26:17. | |
tallest building. It is all the Duke of York's idea, abseiling down | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
the 300 meter Shard raising money for the Outward Bound Trust. Today | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
he has been leading by example. Prince Andrew has been making | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
excellent progress. For many of us, this would be a terrifying ordeal, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
the Duke of York seems to be take the whole thing in his stride. Back | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
on the the ground, relief and congratulations. A promise | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
fulfilled. This is not about me. This is about | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
the Outward Bound Trust. This is about what we want to do for young | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
peemg. We -- people. We want to change people's lives, but do it in | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
a way that that gives them a challenging environment and a | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
learning environment so they can understand leadership and team work. | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
Duke was among 40 abseilers to take on the Shard. They are on target to | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
raise �1 million for the Outward Bound Trust and the Royal Marines | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
charity trust. The troops here maybe used to such extreme | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
challenges, for most though, clinging to the edge of a slippery | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
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glass building meant summoning up Let's take the weather now with | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
Louise Lear. It is lovely out there. I suspect | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
many of the farmers will be gathering in the harvest this week | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
as the weather stays dry and sunny, but the irony will not be lost on | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
the teachers and the children unfortunately heading back to | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
school. Let's look at satellite picture. A little bit of fair | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
weather cloud across England and Wales. More significant cloud up | :27:51. | :27:56. | |
into the far north and west. A lovely slice of sunshine across | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
Eastern Scotland and to the east of Belfast and across England and | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Wales. It is a lovely afternoon to follow. By the middle of the | :28:02. | :28:09. | |
afternoon, you can see across northern eng England and the | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Midlands 23 Celsius. We could see highs of 23 or 25 | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
Celsius in the London area. That cloud cloud well, it will continue | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
to break up across the south-west. A promising afternoon in prospect | :28:23. | :28:30. | |
with 18 Celsius, 19 Celsius the high. Some lovely sunshine on offer | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
across Wales. If you are lucky, towards Belfast you will keep the | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
brightness, but the cloud gathers ahead of the rain. Some of the rain | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
will be significant, but more importantly, the strength of the | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
wind is a cause for concern. We will see gusts of wind up to 65mph | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
possible likely in the extreme north-west of Scotland. The rain | :28:52. | :28:58. | |
heavy for a time, but as it it pushes south and east, it will | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
weaken substantially. Further south of that, it is a quiet night to | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
come with patchy mist and fog. Not a cold night. | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
Fog first thing maybe in Weymouth for the Paralympic sailing. | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
Hopefully by the afternoon a sea breeze will pick up and move things | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
along, but winds could be an issue with the sailing. We start off with | :29:22. | :29:27. | |
a good slice of sunshine in the South East. There will be the odd | :29:27. | :29:32. | |
spot or two of rain. To the north of it, a good clearance and lovely | :29:32. | :29:38. | |
sunshine and a few isolated showers. Highs likely of 18 18 Celsius to 22 | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
Celsius. By Wednesday, the high pressure gathers strength and moves | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
in across the country. Hardly an isobar through the country which | :29:48. | :29:52. |