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Tonight at Six I'm in Glasgow on the final few days | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
of campaigning before the referendum on Scottish independence. | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Competing visions from Alex Salmond and David Cameron who's | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
on his last scheduled visit before voters go to the polls. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
There's no going back from this. No re-run. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
This country with its enormous natural and human resources can | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
build a more prosperous economy and also has that dimension | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
And with many yet to make up their minds- I've been speaking to | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
students here at Glasgow University who've yet to decide. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
More than 30 countries pledge to unite to fight Islamic State - | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Britain says it's still not clear what role it will play. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
Mobile retailer Phones 4U goes into administration - | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
Two British tourists are murdered in a popular beach resort in Thailand. | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
And how do you land on a comet travelling 34,000 miles per hour? | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
The spacecraft hoping to make history by doing just that. | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
A lucky escape for a delivery driver - now energy bosses face questions | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
And abused at work - the thousands of frontline staff | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
Good Evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:27. | :01:52. | |
There are now just three days to go before Scotland votes | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
The question on Thursday is a simple one - should | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Both the First Minister and the Prime Minister were | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
Alex Salmond was focusing on the economy at a meeting with | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
While David Cameron was in Aberdeen - his message is Thursday's vote is | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
Will Scotland prosper? It took 35 years to build a this wholesale | :02:20. | :02:36. | |
business in Glasgow but the boss says times have been tough recently | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
and independence would herald a boom. In independence we would be | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
better off. We had more natural resources than anywhere in Europe in | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Scotland. We would be much better off as a country and I want to leave | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
a legacy behind for the next generation to come so they will | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
prosper. Earlier today, other business leaders joined Alex Salmond | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
at Edinburgh airport. The message that not all firms are worried of | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
the yes vote. We are demonstrating with some of the more serious | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
business people in Scotland, businesses creating tens of | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
thousands of jobs that there are groups who say there is an | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
opportunity from an independent Scotland. The battle for business is | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
in full swing as both sides try to persuade voters that vision for the | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
economy is the strongest. This evening, the Prime Minister arrived | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
in Aberdeen to hammer home his message, warning independence would | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
mean the end of writ -ish pensions, passports and the pound. Making a | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
plea to Scottish voters about the consequences of voting yes. It would | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
be the end of a country that launched enlightenment, abolished | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
slavery, defeated fascism. The end of a country that people around the | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
world respect and admire. The end of the country that we call home. And, | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
in the shipyards on the Clyde, where the British Empire was launched, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
many workers are worried. Scottish it loading has been sustained by | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Royal Navy orders and these staff fear for their jobs in Scotland says | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
yes. We have a plan of what will happen in the no vote. We have | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
revitalise ship Golding. In the wake of the yes vote, we will be staring | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
into the abyss. Very soon, all will be calm. It will all be over and the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
people of Scotland will quietly make their choice. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Ever since the agreement two years ago that set Thursday's referendum | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
in place both sides have been laying out competing visions of Scotland, | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
presenting their arguments on key areas such as the economy, national | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Our Correspondent, Lorna Gordon, has been looking at some | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
of the most important issues dividing the Yes and No campaigns. | :05:05. | :05:16. | |
Scotland, a nation of over 5 million people. From the Borders to the | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
Highlands and Islands, its urban conurbations and the hills. A land | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
mass covering nearly a third of the UK, its people on the verge of a | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
momentous decision. Under devolution and the Scottish parliament was | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
given control in areas of health, education, policing, criminal | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Justice and others. Holyrood has no powers to legislate on defence, | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
foreign affairs, wider economic and fiscal policy, welfare including | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Social Security and broadcasting. What would independence mean? The | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
power to make more decisions within Scotland on a host of areas where it | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
does not have control. In practice, how much power that would entail | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
would depend on both the negotiations over independence, the | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
settlement reached with the UK and also some regulations and rules of | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
play at the European Union level also. What are the main issues? | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
There is the economy and two different narratives have emerged | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
over what could happen should Scotland voted for independence. The | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
No campaign and business leaders warned banks may relocate their | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
headquarters and prices might rise if people vote for independence. The | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
Yes campaign and other business people say it is scaremongering and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
an independent Scotland would be one of the wealthiest countries in the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
world. Then there is the currency. Supporters of independence says | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
Scotland would use the pound. The three prounion Westminster parties | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
say a currency union would not happen. And there is dispute over | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
the oil of how much is left and what it is worth in taxes. The yes | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
campaigners say they want a fairer society and a narrowing of the gap | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
between rich and poor. Those campaigning for a no vote, social | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
justice is better received as part of the union to guarantee pensions. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Then of course there is national identity. What sort of country | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
people here want Scotland to beat. Do Scots want to be in charge of | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
their own destiny as an independent nation? Should all decisions be made | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
in Edinburgh, or can the identity flourish as part of the union? In | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
three days Scotland faces a big decision. Once in a generation | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
opportunity say those campaigning for independence, but one that is | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
irreversible who say those who want the union to continue. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
With just three days to go polls still suggest there are around half | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
A poll of polls collated by the website What Scotland Thinks | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
based on six recent polls suggests that of those who expressed | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
a view 51% are against independence with 49% in favour. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
This afternoon I spoke to some students here at Glasgow University | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
who have yet to decide which way they'll vote. | :08:20. | :08:31. | |
Freshers week at the University of Glasgow. A noisy welcome or the you | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
students arriving for the start of their new lives in the week Scotland | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
decides its future. This ancient university, founded in the 15th | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
century is home to more than 17,000 undergraduates, most of them from | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Scotland, but many from other parts of the UK. Yes or no, it has been | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
debated for months, but some are still struggling to decide. Like | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
Scott Dallas from grad -- Glasgow, a third year student. Over the next | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
few days, I want somebody to come out and say, this is what we will | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
do. No one has come out and said, OK, this is the plan and this is | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
what will happen. Lyle Stuart, like all Scottish students who live here | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
has his fees paid for by the Scottish Government and is looking | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
for long-term guarantees for generations to come. Education is | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
the most important thing but country to be sustainable in the long term. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
I would need confirmation tuition fees will be paid for more than the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
foreseeable future. Kate is from Manchester but she lives here so can | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
vote. She has listened to both sides and must choose. People are running | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
around screaming from the rooftops. I need to think about it in what I | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
would like for the future of Scotland. Whether they will get the | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
answers they want in the days left is unsure, but talk of the | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
referendum is on everybody's lips. In a moment I'll be speaking to | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
our Scotland Political Editor, Brian Taylor, but first Nick | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
Robinson is in Aberdeen for us. The Prime Minister has been speaking | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
in the last half an hour, what will people take away with what he has | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
said? The closer we get, the more you can detect watch each side in | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
this referendum fears are there week points. With his last appearance | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
here in front of hand-picked party supporters, he left Aberdeen and | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
Scotland, the Prime Minister made a plea not to tear up what he calls | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the family of nations. But he said, it is not about me, if you want | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
change you can still get it if you vote no. He knows the change many | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
want is from him, from his government, from his party. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
Therefore it has fallen to Gordon Brown in a speech in Edinburgh this | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
evening that he wants to guarantee Scots will get fairness and funding | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
for the health service, get a say in the future constitution of the UK | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
even if they vote no. It all allows Alex Salmond to say, non-abyss is | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
guaranteed, you'll only get real change if you vote for independence | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
and make decisions in Scotland. It is the only way you will get a | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
government you voted for and not a Conservative government in | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Westminster. But Alex Salmond showed his weakness, having an event about | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the economy, promising lots of opportunity in independence, but | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
revealing a fear those economic warnings are filtering through. The | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
closer we get to polling day, you can actually smell their anxiety. | :11:58. | :12:07. | |
Brian Taylor, a lot of passionate debate on both sides, are people | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
still listening to the arguments? Very much, I have never seen a | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
populace so engaged as the people of Scotland are in this debate. There | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
is a sense of an endgame and the messages are being repackaged on | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
both sides. But there is a velocity still to this debate as sides put | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
forward their messages. We heard from Nick Robinson talking about the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
Gordon Brown offer, a way of entrenching he believes, the powers | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
of the Scottish parliament in a revised UK. The response of those | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
who are supporters of independence say it cannot be guaranteed and will | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
be stuck in the treacle Westminster politics in the event of a no vote. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
But sides of putting forward a pitch in the prospect of the advantage of | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
independence and the risks as they see it from the other side of | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
maintaining and going with the third option. We had the student earlier | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
who said he wanted somebody to set out what will happen. But it will | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
not happen. There will be these two computing offers and people will | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
have to make up their minds, even if they do it at relaxed seconds as | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
they go into Mark their ballot paper. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
That's it from Glasgow but don't forget there's plenty | :13:28. | :13:28. | |
of analysis and latest developments on the BBC News website. | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Now, it's back to Fiona in the studio. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
Let's look at today's other top story and | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
foreign ministers from more than 30 countries have been meeting in Paris | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
to discuss building support for an international coalition against | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
The UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, said | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
a decision hadn't yet been taken about how the UK will contribute but | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
He also confirmed that British forces are unable to try to rescue | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
the former cab driver, Alan Henning, whom IS are threatening to kill | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
as it's not known where he's being held. | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
This report contains blast photography. | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
David Haines, murdered. James Foley, murdered. Stephen SOT cloth, | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
murdered. The recent beheading of these three Western hostages in | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
Syria has helped galvanise world leaders against action. They arrived | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
today from 30 countries Paris conference aimed at confronting all | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
aspects of Islamic state. But the Foreign Secretary is aware the life | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
of this British hostage, Alan Helling, hangs in the balance. We | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
have to do what we can to protect the individual in question. -- Alan | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
Henning. We cannot be deterred from our objective from crushing ISIS and | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
the ideology it is trying to impose on the region. The challenge of | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
those countries lining up against Islamic state is considerable. The | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
shaded parts of the map show the areas it now controls, over 6 | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
million people are believed to be living under IS's rule. Its strategy | :15:15. | :15:25. | |
has so far been lightening land grabs and then to consolidate its | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
power. The Iraqi government feels the one most threatened. | :15:29. | :15:48. | |
John Kerry has been racing around the Middle East forging an alliance. | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
The strategy involves not just Iraq and Syria, but the neighbouring Arab | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
states. They see IS as a threat to them as much as it is to the west. | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
They will be hosting bases for air strikes and possibly joining in | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
themselves and training Syrian rebels. Importantly, Arab | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
governments are waging an ideological campaign to try to | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
undermine IS and choke off their supply of funds and recruits. So how | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
will Islamic State react? They have been hurt by the air strikes, but do | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
they have a hidden plan? IS is trying to provoke the west into | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
taking further action, especially with boots on the ground and they | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
want to draw western involvement to bog them down. Caught up in this is | :16:46. | :16:55. | |
a kind hearted taxi driver from Salford. Alan henning was kidnapped | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
and Islamic State have threatened to behead him. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
With just three days to go before the Scottish referendum, Alex | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Salmond and David Cameron present rival visions of Scotland's future. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
How to land a spacecraft on a comet over 250 million miles from earth. | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Promising to revolutionise care for heart patients in the capital - | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
we're at Bart?s as it opens one of the biggest cardiac centres | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
And forget a life in the country - why apparently London is becoming | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
5,500 jobs are at risk after the mobile phone retailer | :17:30. | :17:44. | |
720 stores across the UK were closed today. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
The firm was plunged into crisis after two network operators - | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
EE and Vodafone - decided not to extend existing deals. | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
What is happening have you been told anything? | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
Arriving at work to shut up shop - that's what Phones 4U staff found | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
themselves doing this morning after their firm decided it | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
A worrying time for them and for customers, | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
despite the fact that contracts with phone networks should be honoured. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
This woman ordered the latest iPhone on Friday. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
They have taken the money from my account | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
and they have not put it back in yet. | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
I have had no e-mail or anything to let me know what's going on. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
So at the moment, I don't know where I stand. | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
The firm blames the phone networks for its collapse | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
after one by one they ended their deals with the chain. | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
It had bitter words for Vodaphone in particular, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
saying its behaviour has been designed to inflict maximum damage. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
But they put the blame on the phone retailer's debt problems. | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
The Phones 4U collapse could see over 5,000 jobs go and leave | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
The company reported profits of ?105 million last year. | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
But crucially the owners, BC Partners had effectively | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
mortgaged the business, running up ?505 million in debt. | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
The competition to sell these is getting more intense and | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
the profit margins for the mobile phone networks are getting slimmer. | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
They have all got their own shops on the high street, so they're not that | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
keen to share any profits they do make with the likes of Phones 4U. | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
The company's founder sold the business for ?1.5 billion in 2006 | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
One major business figure said we will miss its presence | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
There will be lack of competition if Phones 4U disappears. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
The internet has caused the demise of many high street retailers | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Staff at the firm's Staffordshire headquarters left with | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Now the administrators say they will try to find a buyer, but in the | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
meantime the stores will remain closed. | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
Politicians in Northern Ireland have been paying tribute to Ian Paisley, | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
whose funeral has been taken place in County Down. Sinn Fein's Martin | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
McGuinness and the DUP's Peter Robinson were among those who signed | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
the book of condolence at Stormont. A specialist cancer doctor has | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
admitted sexually assaulting sick children in his care - some | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
of whom were as young as eight. A court heard how Dr Myles Bradbury, | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
who worked in a specialist unit at Addenbrooke's Hospital, | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
carried out examinations on young cancer sufferers purely | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
for his own sexual gratification. Dr Myles Bradbury arrived at court | :20:39. | :20:52. | |
to plead guilty to abusing the trust of those he was supposed to care | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
for. Admitting committing sexual offences on boys as young as 11. | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
Some with leukaemia. Three-year-old Declan yeoman was treated for 14 | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
months by Myles Bradbury before he died. There is no suggestion he was | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
abused, but his mother says she is devastated by what has emerged. It | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
made me feel physically ill. Obviously, you think was your child | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
involved. Could you have noticed anything? Was there something you | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
missed? In court Myles Bradbury pleaded guilty to 25 offences. The | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
judge requested a full psychiatric report to understand how this | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
pattern of behaviour developed. Dr Myles Bradbury was a blood cancer | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
specialist at Addenbrookes Hospital. Today the trust apologised to the | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
victims and their families. . I would like to say to the patients | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
and family how sory we are and to reassure them they can continue to | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
rely on the children's services here at Cambridge University hospitals. | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Brad had little to say when he was released on bail. He will be | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
sentenced at a later date. Two British tourists have been | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
found murdered in Thailand. The bodies of a 24-year-old man | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
from Jersey and a 23-year-old woman from Norfolk were found | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
on a beach on the island of Koh Tao From the Thai capital Bangkok, | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Jonathan Head reports. A tropical beach and now a crime | :22:30. | :22:44. | |
scene. Police reinforcement s were rushed to the island to help | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
investigate what appears to be a brutal double murder. The bodies of | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
two young British tourists were found here this morning. At first | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
islanders tried to block people from leaving in the hope of finding the | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
perpetrator. But the police say they're looking to question a | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
tourist they believe left this morning. The two victims have been | :23:04. | :23:15. | |
identified. David Miller was 24 and Hannah Witheridge. The island is in | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
the gulf of Thailand and is popular with divers. It has a reputation of | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
being a quiet island. The British Embassy said it was seeking | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
information from the local authorities and that staff stand | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
ready to help friends and family. Violent crime here is relatively | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
uncommon in Thailand. But 13 British nationals have been murdered here | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
since 2009. The Foreign Office issued warnings about attacks on | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
holiday makers on beach resorts. The Thai authorities will put a lot of | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
effort into solving the case to reassure people the resorts are safe | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
and for the people who come here it is. But such incidents are a | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
reminder that there is a occasionally danger out there on | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
Thailand's beaches. Ten years ago the Rosetta spacecraft | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
was launched from a site in French Guiana - its mission to | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
explore a faraway comet described by In two months' time, a probe from | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
the Rosetta will attempt to make That's no easy task - it's | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
travelling at 34,000 miles an hour. Scientists today have been | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
explaining how they're going A strange barren world seen | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
in greater detail than before. But we are now closing to seeing | :24:37. | :24:45. | |
if that is true. The European Space Agency has mapped | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
this comet and picked Marked here as J, | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
with another site as back up. No one knows | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
if this is going to be possible. But the extraordinary feat | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
of touching down on a comet, first dreamed up 20 years ago, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
is now within sight. This mission is now | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
at a critical phase. Not only flying alongside the comet, | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
but now planning to send a lander on to it as well - | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
an incredible challenge. So let's take a closer look at | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the biggest danger - the surface. It's totally unknownment some parts | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
of it are extremely rough, It may turn out to be soft | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
like quick sand. And the plan is for the Rosetta | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
space craft, which is orbiting the comet, to release | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
a lander robot known as Philae. The hope is this will descend | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
and touch down on just the right Now to survive, the tiny craft will | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
need to get just enough sup light to charge up its solar panels, but too | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
much sun and it will overheat. If all goes well, scientists will | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
get the first chance to work out Whether they really did bring | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
the building blocks The landing site is thought | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
to be the safest there is. But it still is fraught with risk | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
and scientists say that after a ten year journey there is | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
now a rush to get ready. We have only just seen up close for | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
the last two weeks images of where we are going to land and had to make | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
the calculations so quickly. So this is the most difficult thing that | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
space scientists have ever tried to do. This animation makes it look | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
easy. It is meant to happen in November. If it works, we will get | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
the first pictures from the surface of one of the strangest objects in | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
the solar system and maybe learn something about our own origins as | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
well. Now the weather. For some of us a taste of late summer today. | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
Others more a taste of late autumn. If you were stuck under the cloud in | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
Scotland, only 14 degrees in the east. But in the south 22 degrees. | :27:08. | :27:16. | |
Some heavy showers through the Midlands an northern England. Some | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
rain later in the Northern Isles. But a lot of cloud tonight. Quite a | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
warm night. 13 degrees. But a lot of low cloud that means mist and fog. | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
So a grey start to tomorrow. It will take a long time for that mist, fog | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
and low cloud to lift. But we get some sunshine and it warms up and | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
more sunshine in the afternoon that will trigger some showers. We will | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
get a warmer day in Scotland. Away from the east coast. Some heavy rain | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
in Shetland and Orkney. Some showers in the west of Scotland and some in | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
Northern Ireland. For England and Wales, many places warmer than today | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
around 21. There will be a few showers. Any in the south could be | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
he heavy. But a lot of places will be dry. For Wednesday, we start off | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
grey and misty and this time it is more low cloud. The best sunshine in | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
western and the later southern areas. Eastern Scotland and | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
north-east England could stay grey all day with some showers. But a | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
warm day where you get the sunshine. Up to 24 or 25 degrees. This week | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
different to last week, we have some showers around. We will see sunshine | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
after some grey and misty mornings and it is a warming trend across the | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
south. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :28:41. | :28:42. | |
so it's goodbye from me and on | :28:43. | :28:46. |