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Less than three weeks to go and the Paralympic Games in Rio are scaled | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
back due to a financial crisis. One venue will be closed as part | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
of major budget cuts, and ten countries may not be able | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
to afford to attend at all. Never before in the 56 year history | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
of the Paralympic Games have The Paralympic budget has been | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
cannibalised to backfill gaps in the Olympic budget and that can | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
only have a negative affect Usain Bolt running away | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
from everybody. 19.79 - it's a gold, | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
his eighth gold. As Usain Bolt wins his eighth gold | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
medal, he sets his sight on the treble treble tonight - | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
three golds at three Olympic Games. To cheers from fans back home, | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Jade Jones wins her second We'll be looking at all the action | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
from Rio and talking to Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
Britain's greatest Paralympian, about the crisis in | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
the Paralympic Games in Rio. A three-year-old boy has died after | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
he was attacked by a dog in Essex. After the deaths of nearly 10,000 | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
people in Haiti from cholera, the UN admits it was involved | :01:16. | :01:16. | |
in the outbreak of the disease. And rare access to one of the UK's | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
high security psychiatric hospitals, home to some of the most violent | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
and disturbed offenders And coming in Olympic Sportsday | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
at half past 6 on BBC News. All the latest action from Rio, | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
including a strong start from Great Britain's Nick Skelton | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
in the showjumping final. Good evening, and welcome | :01:35. | :01:58. | |
to the BBC news at six. "Never before in the 56 year history | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
of the Paralympic Games have The words of the head | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
of the International Paralympic Committee, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
as a financial crisis and lack of ticket sales have placed | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
the Games in jeopardy, The IPC has this afternoon been | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
forced to announce major budget cuts, the closure of one venue | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
and ten nations may not be able to afford to come | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
to the Games at all. The Beijing and London Paralympics | :02:20. | :02:35. | |
were game-changer, generating not only unprecedented levels of | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
interest but a shift in attitudes. The hope was that Rio 2016 could | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
would continue the momentum buzz a financial crisis meant major cuts | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
have had to be made weeks before the action gets under way Never before | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
in the 56 year history of the Paralympic Games have we faced | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
circumstances like this. Clearly Brazil is in a far different | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
fogs the one it was in October 2009, when it won the right to stage both | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
games. The Paralympics and the Olympics. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
A raft of cuts were today announced, including the closure of one park, | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
the second largest of the four zone used for the Olympics, there will be | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
a downsizing of the workforce, the closure of media centres and cuts to | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
transport services. Funds meant for the Paralympics have | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
had to be diverted to resolve issues affecting the ongoing Olympics, | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
repairs at the Athletes' Village, security and the treatment of the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
green water at the Aquatic Centre, crucial travel grants almost three | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
weeks overdue meaning as many as 50 countries may not be able to afford | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
to send athletes. It is clear that the Paralympic budget has been | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
cannibalised to back fill gaps and that can only have a negative effect | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
on the blame, desperate disappointment for the athlete, | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
desperate disappointment for the people of Brazil this is the second | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
largest sporting event on the planet. This is no way to go about | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
organising it. This is no way to go about delivering it. Only 12% of | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
tickets for the Rio Paralympics have so far been sold and some who have | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
travelled here are disappointed. So sad to see the stadium not full. | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
This is one time in the life, and I think Brazil must be generous, and | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
open the doors. Today, at Rio 2016's main ticket | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
office Paralympic tickets could only be bought at one of these booths. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Olympics is much more popular than the Paralympic, but they should | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
come. They should support the athletes. Brazilians are left to do | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
in the day before, yes. They leave it late. Yes, leaving it late. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Exactly. The Olympics took as by risk coming here for the first time, | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
for the second great sporting event of the summer the stakes are hiring | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
still and the fear is lasting damage could be done to the Paralympic | :05:05. | :05:05. | |
movement. With me now is Dame Tanni | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
Grey-Thompson, one of Britain's greatest Paralympic athletes, | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
with 11 gold medals, They are saying this is no way to | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
run a Paralympic Games. You must agree He is right. We had high | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
expectations for Rio, they have strong teams, you know, they get the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Paralympic game, we thought this was going to be a step up from London, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
and I think we had the indication when the IPC said the travel money | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
hadn't been made available. They said there was three budget cut, | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
today we found out what they are and they are significant. These are | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
budget cuts on top of budget cuts that have taken place, what message | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
does this send, do you think about blame, given that Beijing and | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
London, you er, they were a high point. ? It sends out the message | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
the Paralympic Games doesn't mean as much to the organising committee. | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
But the British public care about it equally, the athletes care about it | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
equally. The competition will by a amazing but what they won't have is | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the added extras we were able to put on in London, and the crowd numbers | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
are really disappointing. They are low. You do step up your performance | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
when you are if front of big crowds. But the British team, where, we are | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
lucky, we have amazing support. The athletes are resilient. They don't | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
stay in five-star hotels, they are used to it. They will deal with what | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
is in front of them. In terms of the medal hopes I don't think they will | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
be diminished. But they may deal with what is in front of then but it | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
won't necessarily be the contender, ten country may not be able to | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
attend That is better than we expected two or three days ago, this | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
is where the richer nations need to step up, maybe the IOC, there can be | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
a way to make sure they get there and I think that is what we need to | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
look to do now. Well, thank you very much. | :06:57. | :06:56. | |
The fastest man in the world, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
has his sights set on the treble treble tonight - three gold medals | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
It's a feat never achieved in athletics before. | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
Earlier, he easily won his second gold medal in Rio in | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
Later this evening, he has the 4 x 100 metres relay, which could seal | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
From Rio, our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks reports. | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
As his competitors gathered their composure, Bolt looked | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
Playing to the Brazilian resilient crowd with a smile-fuelled Samba, | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
no man commands an audience quite like him. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
What history is written, what more does he have for us? | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
The world record was his for the taking, never has a man | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
Quiet please, Mr Bolt is about to start. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
At six foot five, he is a freak of nature in a sport suited | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
for shorter, more explosive athletes. | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
As he has been throughout his career! | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
But still, no-one could touch him as the fastest legs | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
in the sport carried him to a golden goodbye. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
But in his last 200 metre Olympic final, he couldn't hide his anguish | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
I ran hard out of the turn, but when I came into the straight, | :08:09. | :08:18. | |
my body would not respond to me, know what I mean? | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
It's just I'm getting older, I'm not as young and fresh. | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
I'm excited to get the gold medal and that's the key thing. | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
Age catches up with usall, but he still knows | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
It doesn't matter that type of camera, they all love him. | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
In a sport so tainted by drug cheats, Bolt proved it can | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
If this is it, what on earth are we going to do without him? | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
He's taken our sport to different levels. | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
There has been some great athletes who have been | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
known across the world, but none bigger than Usain Bolt. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
For Britain's Adam Gemili, the race was one of profound disappointment. | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
The 22-year-old was beaten to bronze by just three thousandths | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
of a second, the finish line photo showing just how agonisingly | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
I lost my form at the end, to get so close, it's heartbreaking. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
Bolt turns 30 on Sunday and his mum has been | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
Tonight, one last race could provide the fondest of farewells for | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
He has talk about retiring after the World Champions in London but before | :09:27. | :09:39. | |
that tonight, there is a the small matter of Olympic business to deal | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
with. He will run in the 4 x 100 metre relay, he is going for the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
treble treble. If Jamaica win he will become the first man in history | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
to have defended three Olympic titles at three game, what an | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
amazing achievement and what a way to say goodbye. | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
Jade Jones won in Taekwondo, she is a double Olympic champion and there | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
are further medal hopes adds the women's hockey take on the final | :10:15. | :10:15. | |
women's hockey take on the final this evening. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
The broadest of smiles, the bravest of talents. | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Jade Jones, nicknamed The Headhunter, and this is why. | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Those high-scoring head kicks are crucial in taekwondo | :10:26. | :10:26. | |
and they fired Jones to another gold. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
She celebrated in unusual style, a waltz with her coach. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
Today, she told me her achievement was still sinking in. | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
When the bell actually went, I was, like, "Oh, my God." | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
It was just undescribable, the feeling. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
When it all goes perfect on that one day, that's why I do it, | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
It was pretty good for her fans, too. | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
Back in her Welsh hometown of Flint, the roars could | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
And after Jones's taekwondo glory, could there be more to come? | :11:10. | :11:28. | |
Lutalo Muhammad, bronze medallist in London, | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
In the show-jumping, proof that there's no | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
58-year-old Nick Skelton, at his seventh games, into the final | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
He's jumped it, he's inside the time! | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
And, later on, a potentially historic day for the women's hockey | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
After their thrilling semifinal win, could it be a first Olympic title | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
But if there are celebrations, they'll do well to top this. | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
After wrestling gold, Japan's Risako Kawai | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
A partnership clearly head and shoulders above the rest. | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
Those medals have cemented Team GB's position in second | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
22 gold medals - two ahead of China in third. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
Now Team GB are hoping to try to match the achievements | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
of the London 2012 team, who won a record 65 medals | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
The American swimmer Ryan Lochte has apologised for the first time | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
for his role in a row about an alleged robbery | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
Brazilian police say Lochte and three of his team mates | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
lied about being mugged to cover up their vandalism | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
One member of the team has agreed to pay almost $11,0000 to charity. | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
The Mayor of Rio says he accepts their apology. | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
A three-year-old boy has died, after he was attacked | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Dexter Neal was playing at a property near his home | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
A 29-year-old woman has been arrested for allowing a dog to be | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
dangerously out of control and is in police custody. | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Our correspondent Ellie Price reports. | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
At 5:40pm last night, the little boy, who lived | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
just round the corner from | :13:29. | :13:29. | |
here, was viciously attacked by a dog. | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
Neighbours described hearing lots of screaming. | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Emergency services were called and Dexter | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
taken in an air ambulance to hospital, but he later died. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
Just had this terrible, terrible scream | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
and I just saw a man pulling out this very big, white dog, with its | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
I thought, OK, I need to call the police on this. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
police and describing what I'm seeing, I just see the mother coming | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
I only saw it for a moment, holding this very bloody child in | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
We understand she is still in custody. | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
She's been accused of allowing a dog to be dangerously out | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
This afternoon, police have confirmed it was an American | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Bulldog, not on the list of breeds banned here in the UK. | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
The Government introduced the Dangerous Dogs Act almost | :14:19. | :14:20. | |
It banned four breeds, including the pit bull terrier, | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
and made it an offence for owners to not control a dog | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
But latest figures suggest hospital admissions for dog bites or attacks | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
last year were up by 6.5% on the previous 12 months, | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
with children under ten more likely to be admitted. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
The local MP here says the legislation should | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
I think the last thing we should do now is any kind of | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
But we do need to look at the rules around dog ownership and also | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
about how dogs are looked after, particularly when there | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
This is the second time someone has been killed in a dog | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
As neighbours mourn the death of a little boy, police | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
will investigate exactly how a family pet cost the life | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Ellie Price, BBC News, Halsted. | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
With less than three weeks to go and the Paralympic games in Rio | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
are scaled back due to major budget problems. | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
They're one of our most endangered species - | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
now water voles are released into the wild in the Yorkshire Dales | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
Coming up in Olympic Sportsday on BBC News in the next 15 minutes. | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Can Team GB stay second in the medal table? | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
The womens hockey team play tonight and are guaranteed gold or silver. | :15:43. | :15:56. | |
They're home to some of the most violent | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
High security psychiatric hospitals, including Berkshire | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
and Ashworth on Merseyside, have housed prisoners including | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe and the Moors murderer Ian Brady. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Both of them will never be released, but many others who commit lesser | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan joined one of them | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
for a rare look inside Ashworth and he sent this report. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
You hear the bad things about the place and the perception | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
about here is that people are never going to get out. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Ashley Power spent nearly four years at Ashworth. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Convicted of robbery and burglary, 26 prisons failed to control his | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
It was like if someone was kicking off on the wing, | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
in the prison, they would be like, "You do that again, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Ashworth offered to save him, to stop him self-harming. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
It warranted me coming into a high secure hospital, so that | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Ashworth is home to some of the most dangerous people in Britain. | :17:01. | :17:30. | |
Moors Murderer Ian Brady has spent decades here, but despite | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the obvious security it is a hospital, albeit | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
And this is the seclusion room. | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
I had a fight in the day area, and when the alarms had gone off, | :17:44. | :17:56. | |
I was only here for an hour that time, just until - | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
it gave me a bit of time to calm down. | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
Drugs, intensive support, and personalised care all helped, | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
but the attitude of staff was most important. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
To see Ashley when he first got admitted and the crisis he was in, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
and to sit there and have a laugh with him today, and talk to him | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
and see him playing pool, and stuff like that, that's like, | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
What do they do to make you trust them? | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Treat me like a human being, which wasn't done before, | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
So what might be the thought you have about feeling paranoid? | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
At one point, eight nurses were dedicated solely to Ashley's | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
Such treatment is expensive. Each patient here costs on average | :18:50. | :19:04. | |
?175,000 a year, money that other overstretch mental health services | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
would dearly love. The reason it costs so much money | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
at Ashworth is because people are very complex who come here, | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
and so what they need is very Gone through the gate as patient | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
in a secure vehicle in handcuffs, and I've gone through one now, | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
where I say hello to people Think of where I was all them years | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
ago, you know, I've come out the hole, I've built a little | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
mountain on top of it and I am standing on top waving | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
down at everyone. Michael Buchanan, BBC News, at | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside. The UN has finally admitted | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
it was involved in the outbreak of cholera in Haiti six years ago | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
that's killed nearly 10,000 people. Researchers say the disease, | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
which came just months after a devastating earthquake, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
was introduced to Haiti's biggest river by inadequately treated | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
sewage from a base of UN But the United Nations has denied | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
responsibility for years and insists it has diplomatic | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
immunity from prosecution. So far, 800,000 have fallen ill | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
from the water borne And it's still killing | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
37 people a month. Our correspondent Nick Bryant | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
reports from New York. Haiti had been free | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
of cholera for 100 years. But the outbreak that has ripped | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
through the Caribbean country since 2010 has killed some 10,000 | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
people and infected 800,000 more, Scientific studies have repeatedly | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
indicated the disease was brought to the country by UN | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
peacekeepers from Nepal, whose human waste contaminated | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
local water supplies. But despite the overwhelming weight | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
of evidence, the UN has refused In partnership with the Haitian | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
government, the UN has been heavily engaged in cholera eradication | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
since the 2010 outbreak. But, over the past year, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
the UN has become convinced that it needs to do much more | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
and the suffering of those The change of heart at UN | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
headquarters follows a confidential report that found that cholera | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
would not have broken out but for the actions | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
of the United Nations. The report also called its response | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
morally unconscionable, legally indefensible | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
and politically self-defeating. Last night, a court in New York | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
rejected a compensation claim brought by Haitian victims, | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
upholding the UN's long-held position that it enjoys | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
diplomatic community. So while the organisation has | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
acknowledged its involvement in the outbreak, it still refuses | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
to accept any legal responsibility. For those on the ground in Haiti | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
still battling this disease, This has a huge impact | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
on the Haitian people. It's something that is not | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
indigenous to them, this is not It is a new threat | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
to their livelihoods, a new threat to their health | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
and a new threat to their economic And the UN is responsible for that, | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
they need to take action. The United Nations has worked | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
to eradicate the disease in Haiti But, to many, its refusal to pay | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
compensation is morally offensive, showing heartlessness | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
in a time of cholera. Nick Bryant, BBC News, | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
New York. Russia has denied that one | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
of its air raids was responsible for the dazed and bloodied Syrian | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
boy whose photograph has drawn Four-year-old Omran was rescued | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
from a destroyed building in Aleppo. The Russian Defence Ministry | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
said its planes operating in Syria never bombed settled areas | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
and suggested that the attack could have been carried | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
out by rebel forces. Pregnancy termination services | :22:35. | :22:49. | |
carried out at Marie Stopes have been suspended. An undercover | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
investigation found serious concerns with patient safety procedures. It | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
will mean 250 women a week will be diverted to other providers. | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
Postal workers have voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
The walk out is because of a row over post office closures, | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
The Communication Workers Union say the Post Office | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
is on the path to extinction, with many large town and city centre | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
post offices being moved into nearby retailers. | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
Around 100 water voles are being released into the wild | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
in the Yorkshire Dales, it will be the first time they have | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Best known as the inspiration for Ratty in the Wind | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
in the Willows, they were once commonly found in the British | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
countryside, but are now one of our most endangered species. | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
Judith Moritz went to Malham Tarn, England's highest freshwater lake | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
If you were born after the 1960s, chances are you won't have seen | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Water voles were nearly wiped out, numbers plummeting | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
But now they are being reintroduced to North Yorkshire. | :23:47. | :23:54. | |
They are not actually southern voles, though, | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
That's very important, because they are more able to cope | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
with the temperatures, the lower temperatures | :24:05. | :24:05. | |
More than 200 water voles will be brought here over | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
They have a lot more growing to do, and it is hoped they will start | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
to reproduce by next spring, playing an important part | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
They are being transferred in small batches, back into the tarn | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
Water voles disappeared from here in the 1960s. | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
As The National Trust have been managing this area, | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
we felt that it was humans who were the reason why | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
And so it should perhaps be humans to fix that. | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
The water voles will swim off next week, after getting used | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
to their surroundings at the waterside first. | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Inside this pen are the first of the species to be retained | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
here to Malham Tarn, the hope of being that one day | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
they will spread all across this area. | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
Judith Mortiz, BBC News, Malham Tarn. | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
Time for a look at the weekend weather. It has been dry for so long | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
for so many parts of the country, now a day of rain? | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
The gardeners will be happy, travel is probably not so. The rain has | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
been moving steadily northwards, tied in with this deep area of low | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
pressure to the west of Ireland. That will be crossing the north of | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
the UK over the next day or so. So, gradually, through the second part | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
of the weekend, things will improve. The rain moves north overnight, lots | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
of showers coming in from the West. Not cold, by any stretch, 14 or 15 | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
degrees by dawn. A very windy start, particularly on the southern flank | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
of this low pressure. Gales around the coast, large waves and high | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
tides. Gusts getting up to 50 or 60 mph. Quite nasty around some of the | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
coast and even inland, gusts of 40 mph. Not ideal. To go with a strong | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
wind in Northern Ireland and northern England, heavy rain through | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
the morning. Not such a bad start in central Scotland. In the Northern | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
Isles, particularly Orkney, it will be windy and wet. That windy and wet | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
weather will move towards Shetland. We are going to see the heavy rain | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
across Northern Ireland moving across northern England, southern | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
Scotland by the afternoon. A rush of rain in Wales. Temperatures | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
struggling, 7418 degrees. Through the evening, it stays very windy. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
Still lots of showers around. You can see the low, drifting into the | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
North Sea. By Sunday morning, temperatures around 14 or 15 degrees | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
for major towns and cities. Some improvements into Sunday has the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
main low goes into the North Sea. Still a blustery day, not as windy | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
Saturday. Still showers around, but not as many as Saturday. Some | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
improvements, and you might see the temperatures creeping up. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
A reminder of the main stories: major budget problems with the | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Paralympics means that one venue will close and ten countries may not | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
even be able to travel to the games. And the fastest man on earth, Usain | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Bolt, is hoping to make an historic travel -- treble treble. That is all | :27:36. | :27:43. | |
from the | :27:44. | :27:45. |