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No boots on the ground - the Prime Minister says any British | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
David Cameron says keeping people in the UK safe is his top priority, | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
and the mission ahead is clear. Britain is not going to get involved | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
in another war in Iraq. We are not going to be sending in the British | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Army. and the mission ahead is clear. | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
We'll be getting the latest on the situation on the ground in Iraq. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Also this lunchtime: ?I'll be out soon? - Julian Assange | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
says he's considering leaving the London Embassy where he's been | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
avoiding extradition for two years. The US National Guard is called | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
in after protests escalate over the police shooting | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
of an unarmed black teenager. A month to go - both sides | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
in the Scottish independence debate hold events marking | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
the closing weeks of campaigning. A time-stopping and heart-stopping | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
moment, as cleaners get to work on the world's most famous clock face. | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
On BBC London, escaping gang culture, how a job centre scheme is | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
trying to take London youngsters away from trouble. And people who | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
claim they are being tricked into paying parking fines on a private | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
estate. Good afternoon | :01:23. | :01:37. | |
and welcome to the BBC News at One. David Cameron says Britain will not | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
get involved in another ground war in Iraq. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
However, it's been confirmed that the UK's military forces are now | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
doing more than just delivering humanitarian aid to refugees. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
Meanwhile, Kurdish forces in Iraq have told | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
the BBC that they've re-taken control of a strategically important | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
dam near the city of Mosul. We'll be live there in a moment but | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
first our political correspondent Sean Curran on the Prime Minister's | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
insistence that there'll be no more British boots on the ground. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
On Tuesday night I gave the order for British forces... It was one of | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
the most controversial political decisions of recent years. Hundreds | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
of thousands of people took to the streets to oppose military action | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
against Iraq, as MPs prepared to debate on an invasion to remove | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Saddam Hussein. The British experience in Iraq means any | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
military intervention is a sensitive political issue. Last summer, the | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Prime Minister recalled parliament from its summer break only to lose a | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
vote when MPs rejected possible UK military action against Syria, | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
following a suspected chemical weapons attack. Now UK forces are | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
back in Iraq. This time the role is limited with a focus on delivering | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
aid in the face of a humanitarian crisis. Britain is not going to get | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
involved in another war in Iraq. We are not going to be sending in the | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
British Army. Yes, we should use all the assets we have, our diplomacy, | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
our political relationships, our military prowess and expertise we | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
have to help others. We should use these things as part of a strategy | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
to put pressure on Islamic State and make sure this terrorist | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
organisation is properly addressed. But it is not just a humanitarian | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
mission. RAF planes are now carrying out surveillance and gathering | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
intelligence on the extremists of Islamic State, or ISIS. Visiting an | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
RAF base in Cyprus, the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon made it | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
clear that the British military could be involved in Iraq for some | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
time. It is important to understand the nature of the mission, that | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
British forces are now engaged in, does that remain primarily focused | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
on the humanitarian effort? What is the nature of the work being | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
undertaken directly with the Iraqi government and international allies? | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
I think there is a case for clarity being bought -- brought. The Prime | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
Minister says it is important to halt the progress of ISIS to prevent | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
violence on British streets. The UK could an militia forces as the next | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
step. British boots on the ground. | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
More now on those reports that Kurdish troops have re-taken | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
a dam near the city of Mosul with the help of American warplanes. | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
Our Middle East correspondent, Jim Muir, is in the city of Irbil. | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
This was the biggest operation the peshmerga forces have embarked | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
upon. The Kurds see it as a sensitive and vital installation | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
which cannot be allowed to stay in the hands of the militants. The | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Americans clearly feel the same, over the weekend they conducted 25 | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
air strikes in support of the Kurdish air forces. They send their | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
jets and unmanned drones hit more than 30 Islamist vehicles. Mosul is | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
Iraq's second city, the dam to the north of it holds back the lake, but | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
in the wrong hands it could be used to trigger a massive disaster, one | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
reason why the Americans intervened. In a letter to Congress yesterday, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
President Obama said: There have been worries about the | :05:45. | :06:03. | |
dam for many years because its structure is thought to be on sound. | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Environmentalists warn that in radical hands it could be used | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
deliberately to cause massive damage. This dam was entered -- | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
essentially a weapon of mass destruction and it is a ticking time | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
bomb. It is the most dangerous dam in the world, it would be like a | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
tsunami being released. The waves could reach Baghdad within three or | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
four days. British military jets have joined the Americans in | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
expanding their role over Iraq though they haven't become involved | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
in combat, just reconnaissance so far, but pilots have been told they | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
may be needed for weeks or even months to come as their mission goes | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
beyond the humanitarian. It will take years for Iraq to cope with the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
existing calamity facing it, coping with the fallout from so many people | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
displaced. The last thing it needs is the kind of massive human | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
disaster that the breaching of the Mosul Dam would cause. | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
Our correspondent is at the Mosul Dam in Iraq. Has it actually been | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
retaken? Kurdish special forces say they are in the dam complex but | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
moving slowly to deal with car bombs and booby-traps. I am on the lake | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
now, and at the other end of the lake, that is where the dam complex | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
is. We have seen explosions going over and almost certainly air | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
strikes on what seemed to be the end of the dam where the complex is. It | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
could be that they are hitting villages either side of it. We | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
understand the Islamic state forces are trying to come up to stop them | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
moving and stop them reaching the dam complex itself. We went to the | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
front line about ten miles down the road and watched the Kurdish forces | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
fire multiple launch rocket system. About two miles further on, there | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
was a boom in the distance, perhaps another air strike... About two | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
miles on there was a village in flames which the Kurds so it was the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
result of jihadist fighters retreating and setting it alight as | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
they went. They also said the Islamic state fighters are | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
retreating. Although the Kurds may say they have the dam complex, this | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
is a very wide area, fighting is taking place across it and it is too | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
early yet to save the Kurds have won the battle. Is there clear evidence | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the American air strikes are a difference? I think they have is to | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
make a difference. There were 14 of them yesterday, very effective in | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
destroying the jihadist advantage. They seized some 300 armoured | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
vehicles with heavy machine guns, some tanks, that gave them a | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
tremendous advantage even over the Iraqi government forces. This is the | :09:18. | :09:27. | |
Americans even in things up. This is a relatively easy battle. There are | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
few Islamic State forces here, it is open ground. Going to a city like | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
Mosul will be a different story. For more analysis, visit our website. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
You can find an interactive guide that explains how the fighters from | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
Islamic State have become such a powerful source. | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
The State Governor of Missouri says he's sending in the National Guard | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
to help restore order in the town of Ferguson, where there's been more | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
than a week of violence after police shot dead an unarmed black teenager. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Police have been criticised for a heavy handed response to | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
the violence. But they say it's because officers | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
have come under fire and properties have been looted and vandalised. | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
Mike Wooldridge reports. These were the scenes that prompted | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the calling in of the National Guard to restore order. Another peaceful | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
protest deteriorating into violence. The police using tear gas and smoke | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
canisters in their efforts to disperse the crowds. There has now | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
been one week of violent clashes on the street, this latest eruption | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
according to the police was premeditated, criminal acts designed | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
to provoke a response. Sunday started with prayers and message of | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
peace and justice. It took a very different turn after dark. Molotov | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
cocktails were thrown, there were shootings, looting, vandalism, and | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
other acts of violence. The state governor justified the deployment of | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
the National Guard on the grounds that there have been what he called | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
deliberate, coordinated and intensifying violent attacks on | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
lives and property. The trouble followed the shooting of an unarmed | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
18-year-old, Michael Brown. Police released this video purporting to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
show he had taken part in a convenience store robbery. With the | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
stand-off between police and protesters continuing, Michael | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Brown's mother has been speaking within the past hour on American | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
television. How can peace be restored? With justice. What is | :11:49. | :11:58. | |
justice to you? Arresting this man and making him accountable for his | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
actions. And in Ferguson, one of America's leading civil rights | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
campaigners pitched the tensions between the predominantly black | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
local community and the mainly white police department as a challenge for | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
the nation. Ferguson and Michael Brown Junior will be a defining | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
moment on how this country deals with policing and the rights of its | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
citizens to redress how police behave in this country. But the | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
state's governor argued today that the violence was a disservice to the | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
family of Michael Brown and his memory. | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
Mike Wooldridge reports. The WikiLeaks founder, Julian | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Assange, says he plans to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London soon. | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
He's been there for more than two years, after seeking asylum | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
because he's wanted by police in Sweden over allegations of | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
sexual assaults against two women. Caroline Hawley reports. | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
It has been two years and counting, the police operation has cost the | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
taxpayer here around ?7 million. No wonder there has been intense | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
speculation about the next moves of Julian Assange. There were rumours | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
he had health problems and was about to give himself up, and suggestions | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
that he would be leaving the embassy at last. I am leaving the embassy | :13:28. | :13:44. | |
soon. But perhaps not for the reasons that the Murdoch press and | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Sky News are saying at the moment. So how did he come to be in the | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
Ecuadorian Embassy? In 2010 WikiLeaks published thousands of | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
secret diplomatic documents, he says he fears being extradited to the US | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
to stand trial. That year at allegations of sexual assault were | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
made by two women in Sweden, which he denies. Sweden issued an | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
international arrest warrant and he made a series of appeals against | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
extradition, which he lost. In 2012 he took asylum in the Ecuadorian | :14:18. | :14:30. | |
Embassy. The man who made his career out of exposing state secrets was | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
less than forthcoming when asked direct questions about himself. No | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
one is any of the wiser of how this extraordinary saga will end. He was | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
evasive, even about his health. It is an environment in which any | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
healthy person would find themselves soon enough with certain | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
difficulties that they would have to manage. Both Ecuador and Britain say | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
they want a diplomatic solution to the stand-off. It is difficult to | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
see how they will manage to find one. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
Our legal correspondent Clive Coleman is with me. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
If he walks out, nothing has changed, he will be arrested by | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
police. If he has a health issue, he will be taken to hospital under God. | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
He will be extradited after a being arrested within ten days. It could | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
be a little bit longer. But the reason nothing has changed is two | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
years ago, his appeal went to the Supreme Court. A number of issues | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
fell away and it came to one simple point, he argued the Swedish | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
prosecuting authorities were not a judicial authority under the | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
European arrest warrant legislation on which his legislation was being | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
placed under. Nothing has been lost bashing a thing has changed since | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
that time. This will not open up a new avenue of arguments or appeals, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
if he comes out of the embassy, he will be arrested. | :16:12. | :16:22. | |
David Cameron rules out sending ground troops into Iraq, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
but said Britain would step up its military involvement. | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
And still to come: How new players, a new culture, | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
and a The Canon who has seen the fear of | :16:30. | :16:39. | |
Iraqi Christians first-hand and he is urging the government to offer | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
asylum. And breaking their silence, how London's set -- statues have | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
been given a voice. One month from today, the | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
United Kingdom could change forever, when four million people answer | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
the simple, six-word question: "Should Scotland be an independent | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
country?" And as the referendum approaches, | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
the search for vote is stepping up a gear. Our Scotland correspondent | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
James Cook has been on the road with the yes and no campaigns. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Glasgow, cradle of the Labour movement and at the heart of a | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
struggle. And's soul. 6,000 people call this place home, making it the | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
key battle ground in the referendum. These Labour Party activists are | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
trying to stop natural supporters drifting towards a Yes vote. A | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
couple of questions about the referendum. I am committed to the | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Yes vote. This is the Scottish Labour Party. Campaigning for the | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Scottish independence referendum. I am just saying No. That is what we | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
would like to hear! Labour is running a very traditional campaign, | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
doorstep to doorstep, methodical rather than flashy. We split up into | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
groups, we just I see if they have mind up -- if they have made their | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
mind, how they are voting, they are voting. If they are not decided, we | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
will give them our newsletter and leaflet. A month today, every vote | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
everywhere will count. This is Murray, SNP territory, but the | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
campaign here feels less parted political. People are flashing | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
lights, thumbs up, sounding horns. Chris is touring Scotland in his | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
fire engine carrying materials from 16 different groups fighting for a | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
Yes vote. People in Scotland react to each other well and they want to | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
talk to each other. I would like to answer their questions to the best | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
of my ability. Campaigners for independence say this is to become | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
of their campaign. A quirky idea and one which is engaging with | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
grassroots across the country. Swinging towards Yes. What is making | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
you feel like Yes? Just the future of these two. I am not voting Yes | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
because we would never make it on our own, everything that is in | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Scotland has been taken away. I hope we can change your mind. No, you | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
won't. So the campaigns are contrasting and soon we will know | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
which worked. Here in the as country and across Scotland, a final act is | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
approaching. Two people are still missing | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
after a tourist boat sank off the Indonesian coast on saturday night. | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
Twenty-three people have been rescued, including two Britons. | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
The boat was on its way from Lombok island to Komodo island when it is | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
thought it struck a reef. Many of the survivors had to swim | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
for hours before being found. An Italian woman | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
and a Dutch man are still missing. Karishma Vaswani is in Jakarta. | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
A dream holiday turned into a torturous ordeal. Imagine heading | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
off on a picturesque sailing trip through the Indonesian islands and | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
swimming for seven hours to save your life. Tired, traumatised, but | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
relieved, these shipwreck survivors are back on solid ground. Injured | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
and roost, all they want now is to go home. Very tired. Looking forward | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
to going home. -- roost. I will stay for a day to recuperate. I will try | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
to rearrange my flight to get back to New Zealand. The foreign tourists | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
were first picked up a local fisherman and handed over to your | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
varieties. That vote ran into a Coral wreath and started leaking, | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
forcing them to run into the ocean. -- reef. They were travelling from | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
Lombok island to Komodo island, a journey that can take up to three | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
days. Search and rescue teams are still looking for two other foreign | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
tourists who have yet to be found. An inquest into the deaths | :21:09. | :21:21. | |
of two medical students stabbed in Borneo starts here in the UK today. | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Neil Dalton, from Derbyshire, and Aidan Brunger, who was from Kent, | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
were killed after a row in a bar. They were both 22 years old and | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
working at a A mother, who only found out last | :21:30. | :21:41. | |
year that the son she had given up for adoption was killed | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, has made an emotional visit to | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
the spot where he died. Carol King Eckersley travelled from | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
the United States to pay tribute to her son Kenneth, one of the 270 | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
people killed when Pan Am Flight 103 was blown out of the sky. | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
Our correspondent, Glenn Campbell, has the story. | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
It is a story of love and loss. As a young unmarried woman, | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
Carol King Eckersley gave birth to a boy and gave him up for adoption. | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
For decades, she longed to know how his life turned out. | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
But when she searched for him online last year, she found | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
his name on a memorial website. I just said, my God. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
My baby is dead. Her heartbreaking story prompted | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
some who knew Ken to share their memories of him with Carol. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
That is a cracking picture. Isn't that wonderful? | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Mike Nicholas, who took this picture, was one of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Ken's best friends at high school. We would stay up all night talking. | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Whether it was music or jazz, I don't know if any | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
of us needed sleep. Meeting people who knew her son | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
means a great deal to Carol. It makes him real. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
And when you have a real person, you can really grieve. | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
And when you have a real person, you can really grieve. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
When Pan Am flight 103 was blown up over Southern Scotland, Ken Bissett | :23:05. | :23:05. | |
was one of 270 people killed. Carol is the last person | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
in the world to learn of a loved one lost here in Lockerbie. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
And now she has come to the town to see the spot where her son fell. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
A local police officer called out on the night | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
of the disaster is her guide. This was an area where many | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
of the passengers kind of fell. In Lockerbie's remembrance garden, | :23:29. | :23:44. | |
Carol is able to pay a tribute for the very first time. | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
Flowers for her long-lost son, found again. | :23:48. | :24:04. | |
Glen Campbell, BBC News, Lockerbie. It is the most famous clock face | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
in the world and, today, it is time for a clean. | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
Big Ben will still be ringing out its world-famous chime, | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
but the hands will be stuck at midday until the work is finished. | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
Arif Ansari watched the operation get under way. | :24:16. | :24:16. | |
Abseil is descended on time, just after ten o'clock this morning, they | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
began cleaning Big Ben. -- abseil is. Washing 310 individual pieces of | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
glass. No wonder this delicate operation will take at least four | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
days. Very methodical and the Opal Glass has to be cleaned very | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
carefully because it is very then so a lot of caution is taken and making | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
sure it is in good condition when they have finished. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
The great clock tower at Westminster which houses the world's most famous | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
now Big Ben is a sight to the coronation crowds can hardly mess so | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the four enormous bases are having a wash up... | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
In 1953, so Winston Churchill was Prime Minister, the clock was being | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
cleaned for the coronation and health and safety was less of a | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
concern. Each face takes about three map -- | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
about three days to be washed and you can take it on the Queen as they | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
are glad they do the job more than once. | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
It is one of the world's most like chronic ill doings and tourists | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
photograph the others but tower, Big Ben as the bell inside and it is the | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
four faces getting a face-lift. The hands have been closed to 12 | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
o'clock to keep them out of the way. This will allow the internal | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
workers to work on the inside of the clock. | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
This is certainly extreme cleaning. Hinde me, they are at a height of at | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
least 60 metres on the country's most precious clock ensuring it | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
tells the time clearly for at least another four years. | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
Cricket, and England are finally back to winning ways. | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
After the humiliation of a five-nil whitewash in Australia | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
and a narrow home defeat against Sri Lanka, England are celebrating | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
a convincing 3-1 win against India. a convincing 3-1 win against India. | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
So what's behind the turnaround? Here is our sports correspondent, | :26:14. | :26:14. | |
Joe Wilson. The Oval, covered up and resting. He | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
asked Ashley bashes here next year will be a test. Against India, turn | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
your back and you missed a wicket. England are still driven by James | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
Anderson and big Stuart Broad but with significant support. Gary | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Ballance scored over 400 runs in the series. Yesterday, England swept to | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
their third consecutive test mass victory after almost a year without | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
winning one anywhere. Last month, things seemed rock bottom so what | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
made the Captain carry on? The support I had from my wife. You | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
convey yourself quite often to Alice and she is good at getting me back | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
on the straight and narrow and that is what I needed most. As India | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
rediscovered themselves, India seems to lose interest. England laid | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
ruthless cricket. The Indians have been pathetic. -- England played. To | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
be bowled out in 29 overs, it is nothing short of pathetic. At the | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Oval, there is still a reminder of England's outsider. Kevin Pietersen | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
has used heavily for publicity and he sometimes plays for Surrey and | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
England can say that without him, they have moved on. After the misery | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
of the winter, the challenge for England was to find new men to play | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
and few -- to play on the field and to play the cult -- and to change | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
the culture and the environment, which rested with the coaches. We | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
have seen younger players coming in and doing well over the summer which | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
is great. In the second half, we have seen the merging of 18. New | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
players like Chris Jordan and Moeen Ali combining for the final wicket | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
yesterday, led by a captain who would not quit. | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
England's World Cup winning rugby team are arriving back in the UK, | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
after three successive defeats, they beat Canada in Paris last night to | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
lift the women's Rugby World Cup. They will hold a news conference in | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
London later this afternoon. Time to have a look at the weather. It felt | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
like water was here. You said it! It is my fault! | :28:28. | :28:29. | |
Exactly! We will be stuck with this all week. | :28:30. | :28:40. | |
There is a nagging breeze. There is an edge to that breeze. It will feel | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
cool because of the positions of highs and lows. A big blow over | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
Scandinavia and a big high with the dry weather in the Atlantic. And the | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
winds will come from the North. Temperatures likely to be just a | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
couple of degrees below average for the time of year. With showers, it | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
has been pretty miserable around Liverpool, Manchester, Cheshire. But | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
we are now starting to see showers developing elsewhere and they are | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
going to migrate East. So hopefully, it should become drier for a while | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
in Northern Ireland. Showers across northern Scotland and Southern | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
Scotland seeing less showers. Only 15 degrees here. An improvement | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
across the North West of England, Manchester and Liverpool, and | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
increasing sunshine in Wales and the south-west of England is the showers | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
are moving into the Midlands and eventually eastern England, some of | :29:38. | :29:40. | |
those could be heavy and possibly thundery. 19, 20 degrees at the | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
best. No showers will continue over the evening. The next showers will | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
arrive in the North West, the degree across Northern Ireland, and they | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
will cross the Irish Sea overnight. Where the winds drop, it could turn | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
quite chilly, three or four degrees in some places. Tomorrow starts work | :30:02. | :30:07. | |
across North West England, showers in Wales and the south-west, and | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
those will push into eastern areas allowing a scattering of showers and | :30:13. | :30:15. | |
sunny spells across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures still | :30:16. | :30:21. | |
disappointing tomorrow for the time of year. And they will drop further | :30:22. | :30:28. | |
overnight, temperatures in towns and cities nine, ten. By Wednesday | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
morning, it could be three, four degrees. Cos the winds will have | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
dropped, lighter winds by Wednesday. Other than that, sunny spells and a | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
scattering of showers and temperatures still slightly below | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
average for the time of year. Toward the end of the week, another area of | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
low pressure will bring in more cloud and more widespread showers on | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
Thursday and Friday. A limited amount of sunshine, the top | :31:00. | :31:00. | |
temperature only 20 degrees. Now a reminder | :31:01. | :31:10. | |
of our top story this lunchtime: David Cameron rules out sending | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
ground forces into Iraq, but said Britain would step up | :31:14. | :31:14. | |
its military involvement. Britain is not going to get involved | :31:15. | :31:21. | |
in another war in Iraq, we are not putting boots on the ground, we are | :31:22. | :31:25. | |
not setting -- sending in the British Army. | :31:26. | :31:26. |