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A muslim convert admits killing soldier Lee Rigby in London and | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
tells the Old Bailey this is a war. Michael Adebolajo from Essex says he | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
targeted Lee Rigby because of the UK's foreign policy, claiming his | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
actions would save other lives. We'll get the latest from the Old | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Bailey. Also tonight. Ambulances forced to queue outside A How | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
some patients are waiting hours to be admitted. The football fixing | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
allegations spread. Police consider if this booking was deliberate. | :00:33. | :00:40. | |
Remembering Mandela. Last-minute preparations for tomorrow's memorial | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
service as his daughter speaks of the moments before he died. | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
Everybody called everybody here who want to see him and say goodbye. It | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
was the most wonderful day for us because the grandchildren were | :01:03. | :01:03. | |
there. We were there. And Ashes angst for England as | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Australia celebrate winning the second Test in Adelaide. | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
Coming up, David Moyes says he takes complete responsibility for | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
Manchester United's results. Back-to-back home defeats have left | :01:27. | :01:27. | |
and ninth in the Premier League. Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:28. | :01:48. | |
News at Six. One of the men accused of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby on | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the streets of London in May has been describing how he chose his | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
victim and then killed him. 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo, a | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Muslim convert from Essex and a father of six, told the Old Bailey | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
he was a soldier of Allah and blamed Lee Rigby's death on UK foreign | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
policy. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is at the | :02:07. | :02:16. | |
Old Bailey now. June. Sophie, I am a soldier and this is war, the words | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
of Michael Adebolajo today. From the witness box. He described Lee | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Rigby's death as an act of war and said he planned to Martin self by | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
running at police officers and hoping they would shoot him dead. -- | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
martyr himself. This report contains some distressing details. Day six of | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
this trial and the start of the defence case. The men in the dock | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
are accused of the murder of Lee Rigby. They are also facing charges | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
of conspiring to murder and attempting to murder a police | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
officer. They are pleading not guilty to everything. Michael | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo have said they want to be referred to by | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
their Muslim names. In the witness box, surrounded by security guards, | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
Michael Adebolajo laid out his political and religious beliefs. He | :03:11. | :03:11. | |
told the jury: he described how he had been brought | :03:12. | :03:26. | |
up as a Christian and had converted to Islam when he was at university. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
He took part in demonstrations, angry at British foreign policy | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
pulls up today he spoke of the war in Iraq. And said it was the | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
treatment of Muslims which led him to kill. Of events in Woolwich, he | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
admitted trying to decapitate Lee Rigby and said, as a soldier, he has | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
an obligation to fight, despite having a wife and six children. His | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
youngest child was just four days old when he took a soldier's life. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
He said it was Allah who told him to kill Fusilier Lee Rigby. He and | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Michael Adebowale were looking for a soldier and went for Lee Rigby | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
because he was carrying a military rucksack. He told the court, : | :04:08. | :04:24. | |
this was Michael Adebolajo running towards officers armed with a meat | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
cleaver. Police shot him. Today he said he wanted to die. Lee Rigby's | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
sister, being comforted by her mother at the family left court this | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
evening, after sitting through his testimony. He has now completed his | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
evidence and the rest of the defence case is due to be heard tomorrow. | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
Michael Adebolajo was asked about Lee Rigby's family and says he has | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
no bad feelings towards them and said every soldier has a family who | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
loves him. And then he went on, my family didn't stop loving me the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
moment I became a soldier. June, thank you very much. Some patients | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
who are taken to NHS hospitals by ambulance are being held in a queue | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
outside for far longer than they should be. Patients should be | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
admitted to accident and emergency within 15 minutes of arriving. But | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
data released to the BBC, under the Freedom of Information Act, shows | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
many patients in England, Wales and Scotland are waiting longer. One was | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
kept waiting in an ambulance for more than six hours. Our Health | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports. Gerald 's mother is in | :05:28. | :05:40. | |
hospital for the business than a week was called for the 85-year-old | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
by a GP worried was becoming seriously ill. But the A was | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
overloaded so Marion spent four hours waiting outside in the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
ambulance. It's unacceptable. No one in this country, this civilised | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
society, should have to wait that long to have medical treatment. She | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
was sent by her doctor to hospital to have specific medication. The | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
average hand over time is just 50 minutes but the figures obtained by | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the BBC revealed some shocking delays. Wales has some of the worst | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
but one case of over six hours. Overall, England was better. But | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
still had long waits, up to five hours. Scotland had no weights about | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
length. The longest was under two hours. And Northern Ireland has one | :06:27. | :06:35. | |
weight of more than three hours. This morning, 69-year-old Judith | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
came in after a fall. Her care handed on to A staff within | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
minutes. At the Royal Glamorgan, they no longer keep ambulances | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
waiting. The decision we made was we would rather have a patient in the | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
department where we can see them and assess them, rather than sitting on | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
an ambulance in the car park and not know what is there. So we felt the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
save the decision was to bring them into hospital, even if that meant | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
the department was very crowded. The A is running smoothly here. But | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
there are concerns elsewhere. Wales has struggled with ambulance | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
handover times for several years. Although the situation has improved | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
slightly, there are still some areas where patients are waiting for up to | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
five or six hours before being taken into the care of A The ambulance | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
service said it's trying to get similar progress elsewhere. Long | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
handovers during this winter could make it hard answer urgent calls. It | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
shouldn't be happening. It's not beneficial to patients. It's not | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
good for staff, and it doesn't help ambulance response times when they | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
are delayed outside hospitals. Handover times are one sign of | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
pressure on emergency care. Something the NHS around the UK says | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
it is working hard to improve. As part of the BBC's NHS Winter | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
Project we're launching a website which lets you see the latest weekly | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
statistics for every major A department in England. Go to | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
bbc.co.uk/nhswinter and enter your postcode to find out how your local | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
hospital is coping. Investigators have found no evidence | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
of engine or gearbox failure in the police helicopter which crashed | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
killing nine people in Glasgow ten days ago. However a preliminary | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
report found the main rotors and tail blades had stopped rotating | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
moments before impact. It also said the helicopter had about 95 litres | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
of fuel when it crashed into the Clutha pub. The singer and former X | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
Factor judge Tulisa Constavalos has been charged with supplying class A | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
drugs. The charges relate to claims that she sold cocaine to an | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
undercover journalist following an investigation by the Sun newspaper | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
earlier this year. The Blackburn Rovers striker DJ Campbell is one of | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
five players who have been released on bail in connection with | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
allegations of fixing in football matches. A sixth is still being | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
questioned. They were all arrested yesterday after the former | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Portsmouth player Sam Sodje told a reporter he could arrange for | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
players to be booked or sent off in exchange for cash. Andy Swiss | :09:13. | :09:13. | |
reports. He has been a striker at the highest | :09:14. | :09:25. | |
level. Highlighted here in the red shirt, this was DJ Campbell playing | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
for Blackburn last week. The left of the picture comedy brings down one | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
of his Ipswich opponents and picks up a yellow card. It's a challenge | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
which the Sun newspaper claims is under the spotlight. Yesterday, the | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
sun on Sunday released undercover footage of the former Portsmouth | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
player Sam Sodje claiming he once deliberately got sent off in | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
exchange for ?70,000. He also said he could get other players involved | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
in fixing. Allegations that have shocked supporters. If you want your | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
team to win, obviously, you wanted to be fair play. We don't want none | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
of that. If you want to see a game, you want to see real effort going in | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
there. You want to see the real team come out and win. Before arriving at | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Blackburn, DJ Campbell played for several clubs in the Premier League. | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
He's a very familiar name to football fans are so these latest | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
allegations but the sport and even sterner scrutiny. Last week, two | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
players with a non-league side were charged after supper investigation | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
into claims of match fixing of non-league football. After this | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
latest enquiry by the National Crime Agency, some believe it's up to | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
players themselves to take a stand. If this whistle-blowing in | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
particular that you need to look at, modern organisations now have in | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
their tool bag of governments, this issue of getting employees to be | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
able to feel free to whistle-blowing without repercussions, so I think | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
that is essentially one of the areas they need to focus on. And this | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
investigation has involved high-profile players. Sam Sodje's | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
former club Portsmouth said they were saddened by allegations which | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
have once again cast a shadow over the integrity of Ingush football. | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
More than ?40 million has been written off by the government on a | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
computer system for one of the biggest benefit changes, the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
Universal Credit scheme. But the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Duncan Smith, who was appearing before MPs this afternoon, has | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
rejected claims that his flagship welfare policy is a debacle. Our | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
political correspondent Carole Walker has the story. How to | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
construct a benefit system which installs you are better off in | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
work, merged six different benefits into one, and moved 7 million people | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
onto the new Universal Credit. Today, the minister in charge denied | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
the whole thing was Ada Barker. The point I was making was, within the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
timescale and budget, we are delivering a solution that a | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
debacle. You tell was in September it was | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
working. We are now told it isn't working. No, it is working. You are | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
talking about too many issues here. So who is getting Universal Credit? | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
The latest figure from September shows just 2150 were claiming it. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
The target for April 2014, set two years ago, was 1 million. The | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
department say that as an old timetable and no new figure has been | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
set. By 2015, the time of the next election, an estimated 400,000 will | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
be claiming it according to the independent office the budget | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
responsibility. Labour support the principle of Universal Credit but | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
say the scheme is in chaos. The Labour Party, and National Audit | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
Office and others have all said that this project was off-track for | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
months now and Iain Duncan Smith failed to listen and get a grip. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
This is about his leadership because he has staked his application on the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
Universal Credit and we now know that flagship policy lies in | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
tatters. Though the minister in charge insists his big programme is | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
on track, there's no doubt various targets and timetables have been | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
abandoned. Perhaps he's just calculate it but accusations of | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
delays and mismanagement are less damaging than moving people onto a | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
system which can't cope leaving vulnerable people without their | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
benefit payments. The complex computer system is at the heart of | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the problem. What has been most depressing about the Universal | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
Credit IT is that what we have learnt is it is repeating failures | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
which have been highlighted and we have been told by this and previous | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
governments that those failures have been learned from and rectified. The | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
government says step-by-step, it will build a system which works but | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
it is a very long way from delivering the central plank of its | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
welfare reforms. Universal Credit. Our top story this evening. Michael | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Adebolajo admits killing soldier Lee Rigby and tells the Old Bailey he's | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
at war because of British foreign policy. Still to come. Bowled, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
beaten and bothered. England's Ashes woes continue down under. Coming up | :14:21. | :14:30. | |
in sports day, on BBC News, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Ribery are short listed for this year 's awards. Ronaldo is the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
favourite for the award. In Johannesburg final preparations | :14:39. | :14:52. | |
are being made for tomorrow's official memorial service for South | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
Africa's former President, Nelson Mandela. More than 100 leaders from | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
around the world, including four British Prime Ministers past and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
present, will join tens of thousands who will on hoR his life. -- who | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
will honour his life. Over to George in Soweto. Thank you. Good evening. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
We are just outside a stadium here in Soweto, where there will be that | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
service for Nelson Mandela. It promises to be probably the biggest | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
sippingle event of this week of national mourning. -- single event | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
of this week of national mourning. Tens of thousands will gather, but | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
many more will gather at various sites around the country, where they | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
are erecting scenes for the public to watch. Today, Nelson Mandela's | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
eldest daughter, Makeziwe, has been speaking to the BBC. It's her first | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
broadcast interview and as our reporter Andrew Harding reports, she | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
has been describing Nelson Mandela's final day, surrounded by his | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
children and grandchildren. The stage is not quite set, but world | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
leaders are on their way and tomorrow they'll join the crowds | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
here at the World Cup stadium, to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela. | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
Today, his daughter described his last days and moment, in her first | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
broadcast interview since his death. Every day for the - I don't know how | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
many past months - I would say, "I'm coming to see you tomorrow." Maybe | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
he would open his eyes for just a second and close those eyes. So, for | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
me, I think that until the last moment he was happy. Many of the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
family were at his bed side last week, when the doctors warned them | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
he was slipping away. They told us in the morning that there was | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
nothing they could do. And said to me, "Make a call." That people | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
should come and say goodbye. It was the most wonderful day for us. That | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
positiveness seems to have gained traction across the countriment | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
people are flocking to his old house in Soweto in Johannesburg. It was at | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
the nearby stadium in 1990 that he addressed a turbulent nation, | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
immediately after emerging from 27 years in prison. Now, the stadium | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
has been rebuilt and no up to a point, has South Africa. Perhaps | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
there have been bigger and grander sent-offs than this one, but not | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
many. In the modern era, it's very difficult to think of anyone more | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
widely loved than Nelson Mandela. This is going to be a very special | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
gathering. But a few miles away, the freedom he helped bring has proved a | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
disappointment to some. This remains a profoundly unequal society. Yes, | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
we do have our freedom and our rights, but we are abusing our | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
rights. You are stuck in poverty? We are still stuck in poverty and I | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
don't think poverty is going anywhere. It's not going anywhere, | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
any time soon. If you few hold against Nelson Mandela himself. | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
They'll be toasting him here tomorrow, even in this nation is | :18:26. | :18:35. | |
still a work in process. When Nelson Mandela became South | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
Africa's first black President he said himself -- set himself one task | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
above all others - to reconcile black and white South Africans. | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
Throughout his presidency he used the sport ng aR reign Na -- arena to | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
achieve his goals. Never more so when South Africa reached the rugby | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
World Cup final in 1995. He walked into the stadium wearing the | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
Springbok jersey and it was a hated symbol in those days of white | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
supremacy. In a fare tale ending Francois Pienaar's team won that | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
game and I've been speaking to him about that day. A presidency that | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
had its fair share of momentous occasions this was perhaps one of | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
the most electrifying. Francois Pienaar, captain of the team, | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
remembers a knock on the changing room door on that day. In walked Mr | :19:28. | :19:43. | |
Mandela. I was incredibly emotional, because - We can take some time. | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
Thanks. When he walked into the dressing room, wearing the Springbok | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
on his heart, it was just wow. He just stood there and he said, "Good | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
luck, boys." He turned around and my number was on his back. That was me, | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
I couldn't sing because I knew I would end up crying. I was just so | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
proud to be a South African at that time. Do you think Nelson Mandela | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
made a calculated move in deciding that he was going to adopt rugby in | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
this way? He understood the power of sport. He said that, that it's | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
incredibly powerful and it can unite people in a way that little else | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
does. And it had, because he understood the importance, but he | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
really cared. He was genuine and it means a lot to a lot of people like | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
you and you have a sense when people are real and when they are not and | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
he's real. There are people who say he has already been failed and that | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
South Africa is unequal and in fact it's become more unequal in the last | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
two decades. I see that. Often we debate that. As South Africans. I'm | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
not a politician. We have some fantastic leaders in the ANC, but | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
also we have leaders who are not doing a great job NC and -- ANC and | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
corruption is unacceptable and we need to stamp that out. What it | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
tells me is that it's as if the nation were built on the shoulders | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
of one man. That now that he's gone people are going to start panicking | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
and saying, "Well, can we make it?" They respected the man, but | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
respected his presence pels and they -- principles and they reflect on | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
his leadership. We had him for such a short time, so there is that | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
respect and I think hope that the leaders that follow in his footsteps | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
would have the same moral compass and values and energy and love for | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
the country that Nelson Mandela had. Francois Pienaar speaking to me | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
earlier. I've just been given a programme for tomorrow's service. It | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
turns out that President Obama will be giving a speech and so too, the | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
Cuban President. It's a testiment to Nelson Mandela's reach. He's a man | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
who will be mourned by this one nation, but he will also be missed | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
by a world. It from us here. Back to you, Sophie. | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
George, thank you. They are three of the most divisive | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
issues in Northern Ireland. Politicians have been told to treat | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
talks over flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles with a sense | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
of urgency. The American diplomat, Richard Haas, who is leading | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
negotiations, flew into Belfast today and he has until Christmas to | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
find answers to the problems. Every evening in North Belfast there's a | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
loyalist parade. It's costing ?50,000 a day to police. This | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
dispute is over a decision to prevent Orangemen from walking | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
passed the mainly nationalist area and started in the height of summer. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
Protests are still taking place on a nightly basis throughout winter. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Parading's just one of the issues Richard Haas is trying to solve. I | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
think it's a Mission Impossible. Expecting him to come in for a | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
six-month period and solve all the problems in Northern Ireland. I | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
don't think the guy's a magician. Richard Haas wants to find an | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
agreement. But the Christmas deadline is hard to ignore. I've | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
heard some say I'm optimistic. Others have described us as | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
ambitious. I can live with both of these descriptions. In a place where | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
flags can be the source of conflict, he's already asked a controversial | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
question - should there be a new plaG to represent Northern Ireland? | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
We are asking you to try and design a flag and we asked students at | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Queen's University to come up with ideas. This was one suggestion. I | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
don't think there's going to be one in the feature that everyone could | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
get behind. Who think a new flag would be a good idea? That says a | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
lot. We've got enough to argue about. The other challenges dealing | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
with the legacy of violence and many are determined to ensure that | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
victims are not forgotten. You wouldn't turn around to somebody who | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
had been a victim of child abuse and say, "Well, that happened 40 years | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
ago, so it shouldn't really effect you." We take it seriously. It's not | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
just the past. Last week near this protest, distent Republicans shot at | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
police, a reminder of how important it is to deal with long-held | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
divisions. Cricket now and England are now 2-0 down in the Ashes series | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
after Australia made quick work of finishing off their remaining | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
batsmen to win by 218 runs. It's no good arriving at the fifth day in | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
Australia and expecting the weather to come to your rescue. Drizzle | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
delayed play for ten minutes. England lasted less than an hour. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
The more obvious Australia make the trap, the more determined some | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
players are to jump into it. So much for Stuart Broad. Out in the first | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
over. Matt Prior played himself back into some form. There was a match to | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
save? Batting is the connection of thought process and technique, is | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
often in Adelaide the English thinking seemed scrambled. In truth, | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
the cause had been lost days before. Matt Prior out for 69. Another ball | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
into Australian hands. 312 all out when Panesar fell. Making runs | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
should not be left to the tail end as it begins with the bantsmen and | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
right at the top with England's captain. I need to score more runs. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Simple. We all do. But that first, there's only so many times you can | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
do it. I'm now at the top of the order and these last two I haven't | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
been scoring enough. After two defeats, is England's golden Ashes | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
era coming to a calamitous halt? It's all beginning to unravel. And | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
we have had three series we have won comfortably and we'll get | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
annihilated in this one. Their mind isn't right and there's no team. The | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
next Test starts on Friday, 13th, in Perth, where England have a grim | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
record. Sound encouraging? It could be 3-0 and then the Ashes really | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
will be done. Time for a look at the weather. | :27:00. | :27:13. | |
Beautiful picture there. As far as this week's concerned, I don't think | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
it's going to be all clear skies. In fact, there will be a lot of cloud, | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
but it will be mild. It will be mostly dry. Some spots of rain | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
around and breezy. On the big picture, you can see the cloud | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
streaming from the south and moving north. They normally move from west | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
to east. They are trying to, but they can't. Why? Because there is a | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
big area of high pressure. It's sitting over us and blocking the | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
weather systems from piling through, so they sort of skirt around the UK, | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
so that's why around Northern Ireland, the Western Isles of | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Scotland and the northern isles, there will be spots of rain and with | :27:53. | :27:54. | |
the southerly flow it will be quite mild. Temperatures overnight around | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
eight or nine. The exception and the extreme where we could see a touch | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
of frost in the south-east. As far as tomorrow goes, it's more of the | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
same because the high pressure is still there. It's not going away. | :28:07. | :28:09. | |
Again, we have the cloud and bits and pieces of rain across western | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
areas and the further east and south you are, the brighter the weather is | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
going to be. There's no big freeze across Europe. It's fairly settled | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
and lots of sun around. The really cold temperatures are in Moscow. | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Back home, first thing on Wednesday morning, I'll point out there's | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
going to be a lot of dense mist and fog around the east and south. That | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
should clear. Then, on Wednesday, it's the sunny day right across | :28:40. | :28:44. | |
almost the country. Not necessarily across Scotland and northern | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
England. It looks like there is light rain. It will be damp across | :28:48. | :28:58. | |
the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. Goodbye from | :28:59. | :28:59. |