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Murdered in France - three members of a British family are found shot | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
A four-year-old girl is discovered after eight hours, hiding under her | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
mother's body. An eight-year-old is fighting for her life in hospital. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
Er. In Annecy, a major investigation is under way. In the | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
last hour police have named the father as Said Al-Hili from Surrey. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The Government plan to boost the economy by getting planning | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
officers "off people's backs." on and build. Provide the houses. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
We'll take the obligation away from you. I want private houses built. I | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
want social houses built. I want to get Britain building. Both those | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
things will happen. A furious reaction as a Crown Court | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
judge told a convicted thief it takes a huge amount of courage to | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
burgle someone's house. One man's private prosecution | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
against suspected terrorist Baba Ahmad which means he may now stand | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
trial here in the UK. Full speed ahead for Britain's | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Johnny Peacock, who runs in tonight's 100m final against "Blade | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
Runner" Oscar Pistorius on day eight of the London Paralympics. On | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
BBC London, an exclusive report on claims kilos of food are being | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
wasted every day at the major games caterer and the mayor thanks some | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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of the volunteers who helped during Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
BBC News at 1.00pm. A murder hunt is underway near Lake Annecy in | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
France after the bodies of three British family members were | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
discovered inside their car. A four-year-old girl was discovered | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
alive in the car eight hours after the crime was reported. An older | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
girl from the family was found shot outside the car. She's seriously | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
injured in hospital. A local cyclist was killed nearby. | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Jon Sopel is in Annecy for us. Jon, what's the latest? | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
Well, Simon, in the past few moments under a heavy police escort | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
the prosecutor arrived here at the Palais De Justice. There is going | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
to be a news conference to update people on the investigation so far. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Now, what's emerge ed in the last hour or so is the name of the | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
father who was killed. He's Said Al-Hili, 50 or so. He was | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
originally from Baghdad but was working in satellite and aviation | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
industries and was believed to be living in the Claygate area. Surrey | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Police have confirmed they're assisting the French police with | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
their inquirys, but not saying anymore than that at this stage, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
but everyone here in this very quiet region of France, whether | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
they're a tourist or a local, has been shocked by the brutality of | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
the killings. Nothing like this has happened here. | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
This morning, hearses arrived to remove the bodies of mother, father | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
and grandmother from their BMW estate car and the passing cyclist | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
who was also gunned down, a family holiday in this most peaceful | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
corner of France that's come to a macabre, terrible end. A four-year- | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
old who hid under her dead mother's body was finally found eight hours | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
after the shooting. TRANSLATION: We discovered a little | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
four-year-old girl that no-one noticed earlier because she wasn't | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
moving, probably terrified. She was completely immobile among the | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
bodies. She was later examined, and she's doing OK. The family had been | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
saying on this camp site for the previous three days in the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
foothills of the Alps. The older daughter is in a serious but stable | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
condition after being shot three times. Other holiday-makers are | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
understandably shocked at what has happened. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
TRANSLATION: It's hard to understand what happened. Were they | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
on an excursion? It's hard to understand especially in a holiday | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
place like this. What could have happened? The prosecutor is due to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
give more information about last night's events shortly. What | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
happened is clear. Why is still utterly bewildering. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Well, of course, a lot of attention is going to be focused on how it | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
was that the four-year-old girl was allowed to spend a night in that | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
car - can you imagine - with her parents dead and her grandmother | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
dead and that the police, when they came to the scene of the crime, | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
were so concerned that they wouldn't disturb the kind of | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
forensic scene so that the ballistics experts could look at | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
what had happened there that they just didn't see the four-year-old | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
little girl, and she's spent the night in that car with her dead | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
parents, and there will be some questions asked about that | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
undoubtedly, but of course central to all of this was is there any | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
kind of motive at all that could possibly explain the violence that | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
unfolded here last night? And hopefully, we're going to get some | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
answers to those questions shortly in that news conference which we | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
can go to now which is just getting under way and is being conducted by | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
the prosecutor Eric Mailland. information - we'll try to answer | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
your questions, and totally, we will spend one hour with you so | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
that we can give you the maximum information. We'd - I'd like to | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
thank you, Mr Eric Mailland, for your presence. The mayor will go to | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
meet the British ambassador who is coming from Monaco and I thank you | :05:53. | :06:02. | |
for being here, and you are looking after the site of the logistics. | :06:02. | :06:12. | |
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The head of research unit is responsible for this investigation. | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
And capitalane, sorry. I forgot your name. -- capitalan, sorry. I | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
forgot your name. He's the commandante of this unit which is | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
part of the National Institute for Criminal Research. He came from | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
Paris and throughout the night he was overlooking the technical issue | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
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of the operation. To summary, you can ask me afterwards - these | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
dramatic events started yesterday after an SOS to the firefighters by | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
a witness at 15.48, to be precise, local time. We received a phone | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
call from a British psych -- cyclist who was practicing his | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
favourite sport. He was cycling at the right rhythm, then he was | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
overtaken by another cyclist. He carried on on his path, and he went | :07:22. | :07:32. | |
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to this tarmacked road, which leads to a parking in the forest which | :07:35. | :07:43. | |
actually forms the departure point for ramblers and holiday-makers and | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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picnic people. He saw a BMW car, and the engine was still on. The | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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engine was still on. He saw a little girl advancing towards that | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
car, which was about to faint before his eyes. He put her on the | :08:16. | :08:25. | |
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ground, and he alerted the firefighters and jondo mbri was | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
alerted as well. The cyclist, after having raised the alarm, discovers | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
the cyclist who he overtook a short while ago. His bicycle cuss thrown | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
away in the corner of the parking, and the cyclist was on the ground. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
He looked dead. He looked at him, and he thought he was dead. He | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
walked around the car. He broke the window of the driver's seat. And it | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
was a British car, so the driver's seat was on the right. He saw three | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
persons inside the car who looked dead - one in the driving seat and | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
two in the backseat. One woman was older than the other one, who was | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
younger. OK. Well, let's leave that news conference there which is | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
still unfolding, giving the grisly details of what happened in this | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
camp site - near this camp site last night where in a car park we | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
just heard they were about to start ramming. Obviously, more details | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
coming from the prosecutor. We'll be back to give you a digest about | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
what we've learnt about the investigation so far, but for now, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Simon, back to you in the studio. Jon Sopel in and answer, thank you | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
very much. Planning laws in England are to be | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
relaxed in a Government attempt to encourage more building and revive | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
the economy. We have this report now from Michael Sergeant. | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
The Government wants to get the diggers moving and revive house | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
building. On a visit to a development this morning David | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
Cameron and Nick Clegg said they were pulling out all the stops to | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
deliver tens of thousands of new homes. But we're saying to the | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
house builders who are sitting on plots of land with planning | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
permission but who aren't building, we're saying to them get on and | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
build. Provide the The houses. We'll take the obligations away | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
from you. I want private houses built. I want social houses built. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
We want to get Britain building. Both of those things can happen. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Builders like Mark Turner welcome any move to encourage construction. | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
He's just finishing off this house extension in Wapping, East London. | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
I think the industry needs all the help it can get, and I welcome it, | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
to be honest. I do, however, think it needs to be tied with a serious | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
look at the VAT threshold because that for us is the real killer. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
package announced today includes the temporary offer of home | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
extensions without the need for planning permission. Guarantees are | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
confirmed for the loans of housing associations, making it cheaper for | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
them to build, and extra money is promised for affordable housing. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
For every development like this one that's nearing completion, there | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
are thousands of others where progress is stalled, and the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Government thinks the burdens of the planning system have been | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
holding back house building. Some expressed fears that requirements | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
for builders to include a percentage of affordable housing in | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
big developments would be dropped altogether. They haven't been, but | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
some of the deals with councils on the mix of social and private | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
housing will be renegotiated. held on to the core idea that if | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
you're building new homes, a proportion of them have to be | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
affordable. That's the only way that we provide homes for everyone | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
right across the economy. But many experts say the big increase in | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
overall house building that's needed will only come when the | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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economy recovers. The Prime Minister promised that | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
the easing of those planning restrictions would help get rid of | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
unnecessary bureaucracy and "get the system off people's backs." But | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
Labour's insisting that the Government is "kidding itself" that | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
the housing package can shake the UK economy out of its malaise. Our | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
political correspondent Ross Hawkins has more. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
On one thing, at least, the politicians agree - it is all about | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
the economy. Persuade the voters that they've won the argument about | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
how to make Britain better off, and they might just win an election, so | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
this was Labour's response to today's announcements. | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
Conservative extension up to eight metres into a garden which is what | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
the Government is announcing today, does not represent an economic plan. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
It's his job to make them laugh at David Cameron's ideas, of course, | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
but if Eddie Jordan were in -- Ed Miliband were in charge, what would | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
he do? Not the same things his former boss did when he was in | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Government. Gordon Brown gave people money back through tax | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
credits. Today a man who was once an advisor to Gordon Brown said if | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Labour returned things would have to be different. Whoever wins the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
next election would still have a deficit that needs to be reduced. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
The redistribution of the last Government relied on revenue, at | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
least in part, which the next Labour Government will not enjoy. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
Instead, he says he wants an economy with higher wages and | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
better skills, where a Government wouldn't need to top up incomes, | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
and yet even as the politicians were out making their announcements, | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
the forecasting group the OECD said it expected the British economy to | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
get 0.7% smaller this year. It was gloomier about Britain's prospects | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
just as it was about most of the other global economies. The | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
question then for Government and opposition alike is, in the face of | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
all of that are their plans big enough or good enough? The | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Government is cutting business taxes and says its schemes will | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
make it easier for businesses to borrow, but not everything happens | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
quickly like agreeing where to build new runways, for instance. | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Changing the economy can take time and prove expensive. You can do | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
short-term things which cost money in terms of short-term tax breaks. | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
You have to pay that back later on. Costless ways of proving growth are | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
pretty hard to come by. Voters want results fast, though, and | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
politicians know when they go to the polls, they'll be thinking hard | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
about whose economic plans will deliver for their own finances. | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
As we've just heard, the eurozone crisis is continuing to dampen the | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
prospects for recovery in the UK economy. The President of the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
European Central Bank Mario Draghi is expected to give more detail on | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
his plans to save the euro shortly. Our chief economics correspondent | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
Hugh Pym is here. The hope is that he delivers on the | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
rhetoric that we've already heard from him. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Yes, Simon. Once again, all eyes on the European Central Bank. They are | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
seen as very much the institution which can deal with the eurozone | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
crisis, particularly in terms of Spain and its soaring borrowing | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
costs. Expectations were raised sky high at the end of July when the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
president, Mario Draghi, made a very forthright statement in a | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
speech in London. This is what he said. Within our mandate, within | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
euro. And, believe me, it will be enough. He followed that up in | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
early August by sketching out an action plan whereby the ECB would | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
come in and buy up bonds for countries like Spain and Italy | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
which were struggling as long as they applied to the bail-out fund | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
for a bail-out. So there's a lot of detail still needed on that, and I | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
think the markets are very hopeful that that detail will be | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
forthcoming in his media conference which begins in about 20 minutes. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Of course, today a big day on interest rates. Yes, the ECB has | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
left its rate unchanged at 0.5% and the Bank of England has left its | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
rate unchanged again at 0.5%, and there is no more quantitative | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
easing. That's the plan to pump more money into the economy, so | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
very much on hold there, but I think there is an expectation that | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
the Bank of England may have more to say come to move when -- | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
November when the bank gets its David Cameron has taken issue with | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
a judge who said it required courage to carry out a burglary. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
The judge, Peter Bowers gave a suspended prison sentence to a man | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
who burgled telehomes. There have been complaints about the judge's | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
comments. It has been confirmed he is to be investigated. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Yes, he is -- His Honour, Peter Bowers, may be facing this | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
investigation, but today he is in Courtroom No4, but it is the case | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
of the burglar who he described as having "courage." This is the man | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
who burgled three homes in five days. He was allowed to walk out of | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
court. Here is the judge that sentenced | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
him, Peter Bowers. He could have jailed Richard Rochford, but he | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
instead said that the burglar had courage and that prison did little | :17:21. | :17:29. | |
good for anyone. This is the reaction on one of the places that | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Richard Rochford carried out his burglaris. | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
It is disgusting. People have worked hard for what they have, be | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
it a lot or a little. That is it with the world today, there is not | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
enough punishment for crimes that they know they are doing wrong. | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
good are done, the bad get away with things. | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
The judge's comments were picked up by the Prime Minister. Today he | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
called burglars cowards. Burglary is a despicable and | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
hateful crime. I have been boringled twice. You feel violated | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
when you find that someone has smashed their way into your house. | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
It is clear that people who burgle should be sent to prison. | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
But Richmond upon Thames was horded to carry out 200 hours of unpaid | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
work and warned to stay off drugs. But some agreed. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
We have to answer the deeper questions about why prison is not | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
working. Tougher sentences do not lead to safer streets. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Richard Rochford was told he would face jail if he burgled another | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
house. Some on this street wanted more from the justice system. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
There are sentencing guidelines, but judges can depart from them, | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
but in this case, with a two-year supervision order and 200 hours of | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
unpaid work, it is not as if Richard Rochford walked here as a | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
free man. He will have to behave, but it is the comments from the | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
judge about burglars having courage that has upset many. That is why | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
the judge, Peter Bowers, is to now face an investigation. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
Thank you very much. The top story: | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Three members of a British family have been found shot dead in their | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
car in southern France. A four- year-old girl was discovered hiding | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
under her mother's body. An eight- year-old girl is seriously injured | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
in hospital. Coming up: Full speed ahead for | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
Johny Peacock. He runs in the 100m final against Oscar Pistorius. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
We look at whether the changes and the planning rules will help to | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
build homes in London on BBC London. As we head to what hopes to a warm | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
weekend, we have a full weather forecast. | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
All to come in 15 minutes' time. A campaigner against the UK's | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
extradition laws want to stop the transfer of two British terrorism | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
suspects to the United States by launching a private prosecution on | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
them on the same charges that they face in America. The men are | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
accused of running one of the world's most important jihadist | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
websites based in London. This is Baba Ahmad, held for eight years | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
without a trial, a record for a British citizen. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
He faces extradition to the United States where he is accused of | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
running a website in London that cad kalised young Muslims in the | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
west. Earlier he' paled to be prosecuted in the UK. | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
The right place for me to respond is in a court of law. That is why I | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
call upon the Crown Prosecution Service to mutt my heart at rest | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
and everyone else's and to please put me on trial in this country. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
British prosecutors have never charged Baba Ahmad, they vefr never | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
seen the evidence. So this man wants to do it for them. To | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
privately prosecute Baba Ahmad and another man, Hassan Nasrallah. | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
He says that the -- talla has n. These guys should face the full | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
weight of the UK judicial system. We should not be sub-contracting it | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
in any way shape or form to the Americans. | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
A private prosecution can be brought by anyone, providing they | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
can prove there is a case to answer. The Crown Prosecution Service could | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
take over the case or discontinue it if it is not in the public | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
interest. Could this work? I don't think that the magistrates will | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
issue a summons to the men. Bearing in mind that the magistrate's court | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
sent the case in extradition terms to the Secretary of State who | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
ordered the extradition. The European Court giving a final | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
ruling soon, but campaigners know that this plan is the last chance | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
to stop the extraditions. Barack Obama has been formerly | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
nominated as the Democratic candidate for this yore's American | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
presidential election. In a rousing speech in North Carolina, Bill | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Clinton said he was endorsing Barack Obama for a second term as | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
he prevented the US economy from sliding into a depression. | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
Please, welcome, President, Bill Clinton. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Live and unleashed, the man that the Democratics call the Big Dog. | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
Bill Clinton is more popular than ever. He announced to put forward | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
the name of President Obama for re- election. | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside... CHEERING AND | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
APPLAUSE.... But who burns for America on the inside. | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. Now, are we where we want to be today? No. Is | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
the President satisfied? Of course not. But are we better off than we | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
were when he took office? There theirs is a wary allowance, but he | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
praised the younger man for hiring his wife, handicap, even after the | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
bruising prime Aries four years ago. He said there was a stark choice to | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
face. When we vote in this election we | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
are deciding on what kind of country we want after the election. | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
If you want a winner take all in your society, you should support | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
the Republican ticket, but if you want a country of shared | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
opportunities, a "we're all in this together", you should vote for | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
Barack Obama and Joe Biden. When it ended the nominee appeared, | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
embracing the man whose star dust he hopes to catch. Bill Clinton is | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
the only living President who can speak with authority about job | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
creation, economic growth and balanced budgets. | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
But Barack Obama, the outlook for him is as unpredictable as him as | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
the Carolina summer that forced the organisers to move his speech | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
tonight from a 70,000-seater football stadium into a smaller | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
conference hall. In some ways, moving to a more | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
modest venue may benefit a President who is sometimes accused | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
of being too showbiz. What the voters are looking for is substance, | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
a plan to bring America back. It is a big day for the Paralympics | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
GB with Sarah Storey going for her fourth Gold Medal of the Games. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
Tonight, the eyes are on the final much the T44 men's 100m. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
We have the latest. This morning, it was basking in the | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
sunshine, but this evening, the Olympic Stadium will be under an | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
even brighter spotlight. The biggest final in Paralympic history, | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
perhaps the arrival of a new British superstar. | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
Johny Peacock going well. Last night, Johny Peacock was the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
fastest qualifier for the 100m final for the leg amputees. The 19- | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
year-old from Cambridge is the world recordholder. He has the | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
chance to claim the most famous scalp of all. Oscar Pistorius, who | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
claimed the first gold of the Games in the relai, ahead of Livingston, | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
the man that Oscar Pistorius said had unfair blades after he was | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
beaten by him in the 200m. Stand by for the fireworks and the race in | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
these Games. Tonight sees David we're going for | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
his third Gold Medal. He is to start his favourite for the 800m. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Before then, the British fans could have something else to celebrate, a | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
piece of Paralympic history. Over a 20-year career, Sarah Storey has | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
won ten Gold Medals. One more this afternoon in the road race, she | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
will equal the modern-day British record shared by Baroness Mark | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Thompson. She is after the perfect race and | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
perfection. That is the same, it does not matter in what sport or | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
job you are doing, everyone is after perfection. | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
So does Sarah share that desire. And the desire from Hannah | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
Cockcroft, blasting her way through to the 200m final. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
Now more on the fatal shootings involving a British family in | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
France. Let's go to Jon Sopel. I have come from the news | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
conference that is taking place and some of the grisly details are | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
beginning to emerge as to what happened. It seems three of the | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
four people killed, the cyclist, the grandmother and the father were | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
killed by bullet shots to the head it makes it sound like a marksman | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
operating. 15 rounds were fired at the scene, at least, but there must | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
be a full forensic operation before they can establish the cause of | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
death. On the four-year-old it was when they went back to the campsite, | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
others said that there were two children with the family. Then they | :27:28. | :27:36. | |
went back to the car and found her under the seat, curled in a ball | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
under the legs of her mother. She has been taken to a psychiatric | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
hospital. Jon Sopel, thank you very much. | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
Now to catch up with the weather Now to catch up with the weather | :27:49. | :27:50. | |
with Peter. If you are basking in the sunshine, | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
it will continue for the rest of the afternoon, you may be surprised | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
to hear there is a gale blowing and the rain pouring down in another | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
part of the UK. You can see why, this massive cloud over Scotland | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
has been pouring down. The winds gusting up to 100 miles an hour | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
over the top of the Cairngorms. The rain is sinking into the south. So | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
later on patchy rain in Northern Ireland, brisk winds here too. The | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
rain easing in the far north of Scotland. The western Highlands | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
looking wet right through to the latter part of the afternoon. | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
Glasgow is just 14 Celsius. Heading to England and Wales so the rain | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
will not make it across the border. More wind than yesterday over | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
northern England and the Midlands. Light winds in the south allowing | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
temperatures to get up to about 21 Celsius. | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
That will feel warm. The lightest winds in the south-west of England. | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Around the coast, the temperatures are levelling off at the high teens. | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
A similar story in Wales, but the breeze is a little more noticeable | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
in the west-facing coasts. This evening the winds are easing over | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
Scotland. The rain easing off too, but pushing southwards, so northern | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
England getting patchy rain. More cloud and more of a breeze tonight | :29:13. | :29:19. | |
so the temperatures holding higher. Down in single figures for the | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
southern most counties of England. That clearing tomorrow. England and | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
Wales get the best of the deals as far as the sunshine is concerned. | :29:28. | :29:32. | |
North-west England staying cloudy and damp, the south-west, hanging | :29:32. | :29:39. | |
on to patchy rain, but drier and brighter in the north of Scotland. | :29:39. | :29:42. | |
The temperatures as high as 16 Celsius in the south-east. That | :29:42. | :29:48. | |
sets the scene for the weekend. A bit of warm sunshine around in the | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
weekend. The temperatures climbing more in the brighter spots. Not | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
everywhere will see the sunshine, but where you get the sunshine, | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
possibly up to 26 Celsius, and higher still in the brighter | :30:04. | :30:09. |