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Iraqi forces begin the decisive battle to drive the Islamic State | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
group from its stronghold in the country. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Troops and militias converge on the northern city of Mosul. | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
They are up against thousands of extremists. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
We're now at a distance of around 300 metres | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
British fighter jets have been in action - | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
the US led coalition is backing the operation | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The UN is warning of the worst humanitarian disaster in years. | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
25 years after Ben Needham disappeared in Greece, | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
police say he probably died in an accident. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Ukip's Steven Woolfe ended up in hospital | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
following a row with a colleague - he says the party is in a death | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
There is something rotten at the heart of Ukip. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
I don't think that, at this stage, Ukip is governable. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
A new NHS compensation scheme for babies injured during childbirth. | :01:03. | :01:11. | |
We hear from a family who fought a ten year legal battle. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
A Manchester reception fit for sporting heroes - | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
tens of thousands cheer Team GB's Olympic and Paralympic athletes. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Sam Burgess says he has no regrets about his ill-fated | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
spell in Rugby Union, as he is made captain | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:28. | :01:54. | |
British fighter jets have been in action today, supporting Iraqi | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
forces in what's being described as the most decisive battle yet | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
30,000 Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters are taking part | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
in the offensive on the northern city of Mosul, the last remaining | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Our correspondent Orla Guerin joined Kurdish fighters | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
here's her report from the front line. | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
At first light, the advance on so-called Islamic State. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
Zero hour had finally come, bringing an offensive that | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
could decide the fate of the extremists and, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
We joined Peshmerga fighters from the autonomous Kurdish region. | :02:38. | :02:45. | |
Their name means "those who face death", and they were ready | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Well, the offensive is now well under way. | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
The Kurdish forces have been moving forward steadily, and we've been | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
We are now at a distance of about 300 metres | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
But this is really just the first stage of what is expected | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
It could take months to drive the IS fighters | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
First, they have to be flushed out of the villages up ahead. | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
There were only a handful of IS remaining, but the Peshmerga | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Here's what happened when one attacker approached | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Before he could reach them, his vehicle exploded. | :03:41. | :04:04. | |
Two more attackers were stopped by air strikes from | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
The Peshmerga say they are fighting a global battle. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
They are not just fighting the Kurds or the Shia, says this Colonel. | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
We want to defeat them for everyone's sake. | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
And this is the territory IS has been forced to abandon. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Any civilians were already long gone. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
There was little enough resistance here, but it will be a very | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
The Kurds are supposed to clear a path to the city, | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
But as they drive out IS, they've been adding to their territory, | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
and what they have captured, they intend to keep - | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
just one of the ways in which the battle for Mosul | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, on the front line. | :05:03. | :05:19. | |
When so-called Islamic State overran Mosul in June 2014, it became a | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
symbol of its growing power. Its leader chose the city to proclaim a | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
caliphate. As our world affairs editor | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
John Simpson reports, liberating the city would have huge | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
implications for the Middle East - though the battle itself | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
could provoke a massive Back in June 2014, they seemed | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
unstoppable, driving a far bigger force of Iraqi soldiers out of | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Mosul. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced he was setting up a Muslim | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
caliphate, covering large parts of Iraq and Syria. But their extremism | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
quickly alienate it people, especially given the public | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
brutality of the constant executions they carried out, often for trivial | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
offences. These men were shot at the weekend. How serious is this for | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
so-called Islamic State? This was the area IS controlled at the start | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
of last year. Now, 21 months later, it is in retreat almost everywhere. | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
But because Mosul is Sunni dominated, the operation will be | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
extremely sensitive. Kurdish troops make up a sizeable proportion of the | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
attacking force. The Iraqi army has a Shia majority, and there's been a | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
history of bitter hostility between them and this Sunnis in the region. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
The force is being backed by Western air strikes against IS positions. | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
There are around 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops altogether against | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
between 3000 505,000 IS fighters. But the defenders have had time to | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
prepare. They have dug networks of tunnels and will have planted plenty | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
of booby-trapped bombs. They may have chemical weapons. Britain is | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
involved in the Mosul campaign. As recently as yesterday, our typhoons | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
and unmanned aircraft were attacking positions on the outskirts of Mosul, | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
and our army has been helping to train the Iraqi and Peshmerga | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
forces. We are not putting troops on the ground in this operation. The | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
real danger is the attack on Mosul could result in a humanitarian | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
disaster. 1 million inhabitants may need food and shelter, and be used | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
as human shields. If things go wrong, Mosul could turn into an | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Iraqi version of Aleppo, and Russia could then claim that its voracious | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
tactics there are entirely justified. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
It's taken 25 years, but now police investigating | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
the disappearance in Greece of toddler Ben Needham believe | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Speaking in Kos - where they've been carrying out an extensive search - | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
South Yorkshire Police say an accident remained "the most | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
probable cause" of Ben's disappearance. | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
Danny Savage recently spent time on Kos following the investigation | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
He was the little boy who vanished on a Greek | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
25 years on, police are now certain that Ben Needham was accidentally | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
For the last three weeks, British police have been conducting | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
a new search on Kos for any trace of him, working on the theory | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
that Ben was run over by a bulldozer and buried | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
It is my professional belief that Ben Needham died as a result | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
of an accident near to the farmhouse here in Iraklis, where | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
The police have unearthed a vital item, indicating | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
It is our initial understanding that this item was in Ben's | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
possession at or around the time that he went missing. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
The recovery of this item and its location further adds | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
to my belief that material was removed from the farmhouse | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
on or shortly after the day Ben disappeared. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
The last time I saw Ben, he was playing just | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Ben Needham's grandad telling reporters in 1991 about the last | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
The family searched for him for weeks. | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
I've just got to keep that hope, for Ben's sake, cos we love him | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
And so began a campaign that took over Kerry Needham's life, | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
but when police returned to Kos this time, she reluctantly accepted | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
I don't think the police would have given this information if it | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
The new leads in this investigation proved to be correct, | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
but this will shatter Ben Needham's family, who always hoped | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
It seems nearly certain now that Kerry Needham has endured 25 | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
14 teenage migrants from the so-called Jungle camp | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
in Calais have arrived in the UK under a new Home Office fast-track | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
The children - aged between 14 and 17 - | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
were taken to a visa and immigration centre in Croydon, where | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
they were to be assessed before being reunited with relatives | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
The Ukip MEP Steven Woolfe - a one-time leadership hopeful - | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
has told the BBC that he is leaving the party, saying it is | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
It follows an altercation with a Ukip colleague in Brussels. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
The party has been beset by controversy and infighting ever | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
since the vote to leave the European Union in June. | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
This was Steven Woolfe ten days ago, in hospital after an altercation | :11:12. | :11:26. | |
with a fellow Ukip MEP. He says he ended up here after a meeting in the | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
European Parliament became heated. He asked a colleague to step outside | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
to talk man-to-man, but he told me he never meant for it to get | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
physical. He he rushed at me, and a blow to my face forced me backwards. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
It was a blow that impacted me in the face, as medical reports will | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
show. I was pushed back into the room and hit my back head against | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the back of one of the walls that was there. Contrary to this account, | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
the other MEP involved, Mike Hookem, has denied assaulting Mr Woolfe, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
saying he didn't punch or hit him. He says he was defending himself. Mr | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Woolfe later collapsed. I had had two seizures. I'd been unconscious | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
for some time, and there was partial paralysis down the side of my face. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
You were in hospital for three to four days. What has this been like | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
for you? It's been a horror story. It's been quite emotional. First and | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
foremost, when your family have no idea what's happening to you and | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
they see a picture like that, you get the full impact of that. Prior | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
to this incident, you were the first person to say you wanted to be | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Ukip's next leader. What now for those hopes? There are no hopes. I | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
will be withdrawing my application to become leader of Ukip. I am | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
withdrawing myself from Ukip. I'm resigning from the party with | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
immediate effect, which fills me with a huge amount of sadness. Mr | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
Woolfe says infighting and is in factions makes Ukip ungovernable. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
There is something rotten at the heart of Ukip. Is it over for them? | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
I think they have a spiral, some suggested it was a death spiral, of | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
the rainmaking. Unless someone came very quickly and wrestled with the | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
issues they've got, we will see the loss of something I think shouldn't | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
be lost. The loss of the party? May be, their influence that they have | :13:40. | :13:46. | |
and the goodwill of the British public. They have let themselves | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
down. How are you feeling? I'm shattered. Emotionally, | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
intellectually it's been an incredible challenge. I feel that... | :13:58. | :14:09. | |
I had so much hope, I had so much expectation and inspiration to | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
achieve so much more. Mr Woolfe will now be an independent MEP, while the | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
party he is left behind seeks a new leader and a way to overcome its | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
inner turmoil. British fighter jets have been | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
involved as a major military offensive is underway to | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
drive so-called Islamic State And still to come - | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
it will be the world's most advanced and it was almost called | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Boaty McBoatface. And in sport on BBC News, | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
it's a big night at Anfield. Liverpool against Manchester United | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
with Jurgen Klopp preparing to lock for the first time | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
in the Premier League. Thousands of people have lined | :14:51. | :15:05. | |
the streets of Manchester to cheer on Great Britain's | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Olympic and Paralympic teams, Between them, the two teams | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
won a record 214 medals, both of them coming second | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
in the medal tables. Athletes will take part | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
in another celebration Our Sports Correspondent | :15:23. | :15:23. | |
Natalie Pirks reports. After a summer spent basking in the | :15:24. | :15:35. | |
Rio Sunshine, it seemed Manchester had got the weather memo. With the | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
fruits of their labours around their necks, photos were the order of the | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
day with the nation's stars. I'm loving every minute of it. It's been | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
a hard four years, training, injuries, it's been nice to stand on | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
the podium and think it was all for that moment. But this is Britain and | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
the weather was bound to play its part. The crowd in places not as big | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
as hoped. Those who made it had a simple message for the athletes. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
It's been hard to find your way around and not see people who are so | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
excited, wearing the flags. It's brilliant. It's amazing. And it got | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
me out of school. Supporters had done their maths. 140 medals had | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
come from Paralympics GB. Similarly, Team GB smashed Olympic records, | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
beating their London tallied by Bosse. The first team ever to do | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
that after home games. For some it was the first experience of a parade | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
and for others the last. Jessica Ennis-Hill retired last week after | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
winning heptathlon silver at the Rio Olympics. I knew this was the right | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
decision and the right time to do it but it's still very difficult to | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
make it public and say it. The messages and the support I've had | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
over the years has been incredible so I can't thank you all enough. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
It's been very special. For some, those experiences are still | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
beginning. Ellie Simmonds inspired GB's youngest medallist, friends | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
they may be but rivals to. She beat me in some of the races and I am not | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
happy about that but hopefully it will change in Tokyo but I support | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
my team-mates all the whole of Paralympics GB and Olympics GB. We | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
are a great team and proud to be British. Britain, it seems, is | :17:43. | :17:52. | |
equally proud. Manchester was chosen to reflect the contribution from all | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
over Britain but some locally trained stars couldn't be here | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
today, like Laura and Jason Kenny who won five golds between them in | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
Rio, they are still on their honeymoon. Tomorrow in Trafalgar | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Square there will be a parade for medallists. Then a reception at | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Buckingham Palace. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will be there. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
It's a more formal, dryer, way of saying thank you to the stars that | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
made history this summer. Thank you very much. | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
In her first interview, the new chair of the child sex abuse | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
inquiry has told the BBC she has no intention of reducing | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
Alexis Jay is the fourth chair of the inquiry, which was set up | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
to look into claims that institutions in England and Wales | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
She was speaking to our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
What went on here is one of the reasons for the public | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
So, this is what we are talking about... | :18:51. | :18:59. | |
He grew up in one of the houses making up Saint Leonard's | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
children's home in Essex, now occupied by families, | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
They used to pay visits to the children in the dormitories | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
But he is pessimistic that the public enquiry will ever | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
The way it is now, it is never going to come out to its final | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
10-15 years' time, ?150 million, of taxpayer's money, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
To find out most of the people you are going after are now dead. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
Its chair, Professor Alexis Jay, is under pressure | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
Today, she gave her first interview in this job and this response. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
We have no intention to propose that any aspect of the terms of reference | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
But we do intend to use different models and ways of working | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
That means fewer public hearings, like this one. | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
The details yet to come but it may anger some groups. | :20:06. | :20:17. | |
The enquiry occupies a floor of this London office block and is currently | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
made up of 13 mini enquiries and reports, covering | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
all of these topics, from churches to children's homes. | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
The enquiry has to act a bit like a court, questioning witnesses | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
and establishing facts but also like a therapist, | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
supporting victims as they give evidence and, like a think tank | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
There's so much to do that some of its critics say it should | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
I treat with some scepticism the calls to forget the past | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
because only by understanding the lessons we can learn from that | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
and the possible feelings and cover-ups that might have taken | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
place in certain institutions will we go forward with confidence. | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
But the enquiry is increasingly haunted by its own past problems. | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
The resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard, as chair in particular. | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Tomorrow, Alexis Jay will be questioned by MPs about that, | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
the end of this enquiry in 2020 at least, still looks | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
One person has died, six were injured and six are missing after an | :21:21. | :21:33. | |
explosion at a chemical plant in western Germany. A spokesman for the | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
company who run the site said the explosion happened after a pipeline | :21:40. | :21:40. | |
ignited at the plant this morning. A new system for awarding | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
compensation to parents in England whose babies die at birth | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
or face disability for life because of failings | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
in maternity care more than seven babies are either | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
born dead, or die soon afterwards. Compensation costs the NHS | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
half a billion pounds every year. Our Health Correspondent Sophie | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Hutchinson has been speaking to one mother who had to fight for a decade | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
to get compensation 14-year-old Felix Thompson-Bland | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
was permanently brain-damaged when he was just days | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
old in hospital after NHS staff It was six years before the NHS | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
accepted liability for the mistake made with Felix and then ten years | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
before you got the compensation. I slept with him every night | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
for about four or five years, getting about 20-40 | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
minutes sleep a night. As soon as we were able to get some | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
sort of package in place to support him, suddenly | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
we were able to employ what amounts to 14 members of staff who work | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
on a rota basis during the day and night to support | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
him and keep him safe. The government wants to set up | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
a new voluntary scheme that will speed up investigations | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
into alleged mistakes by NHS staff It says it wants to get away | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
from expensive legal battles. This is a new system | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
where we are going to give doctors and nurses a safe space to talk | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
openly about what happened To give parents an alternative | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
to the courts and take another step towards our ambition which is that | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
NHS care should be the safest, highest quality care of anywhere | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
in the world. But some are concerned about how NHS | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
staff will find the time to manage investigations into injured babies, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
alongside their other work. I'm not convinced that the NHS has | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
any idea about the amount of work involved in carrying out | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
investigations of that type. They already have a shortage | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
of 3500 midwives and, yet, they envisage this process | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
being carried out with And Felix's mother says she would be | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
concerned if cases settled too | :23:52. | :24:05. | |
quickly before the full extent of a child's | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
injuries were understood. We never anticipated that his degree | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
of brain damage and the agonising movements and spasms that causes him | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
would cause him such The government says the scheme | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
won't prevent families from taking legal action if they need to | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
but it hopes it will help reduce Sir David Attenborough has | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
a new accolade to add to the many he's notched up over a decades long | :24:27. | :24:40. | |
career in which he's brought the natural world | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
into our living rooms. He was guest of honour today | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, where construction | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
has begun on a research ship named after the | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
90-year-old naturalist. But as Victoria Gill reports - | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
the ship could have ended up Just reaching the | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
Antarctic is tough. But, at a time of rapid | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
environmental change, So, in a Birkenhead shipyard, | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
thousands of miles from the icy ocean, a polar research vessel | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
is under construction. News of this ?200 million UK | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
investment in polar science was almost eclipsed by the online | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
vote to name the ship with the public overwhelmingly | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
opting for the name Boaty McBoatface, despite that, | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
the vessel has been named Sir David Attenborough | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
in honour of Britain's If you have any knowledge | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
of Antarctic exploration, or Arctic exploration, or the Navy, | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
you can think of some very, very distinguished names | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
that have been carried by ships. That my name should be among them | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
now is a very humbling realisation. Sir David took part in a ceremony | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
today to begin the ship's construction winching a huge section | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
of its keel into place. But Boaty McBoatface | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
lives on - this is Boaty. It's a robotic submersible that | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
will be deployed from the deck of the vessel, carrying out | :26:11. | :26:19. | |
underwater investigations in places that would otherwise be inaccessible | :26:20. | :26:21. | |
for scientific research. With the first polar | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
mission scheduled for 2019, Sir David and Boaty will set out | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
to explore Earth's frozen Time for the weather now with John | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
Hammond. It's been a colourful day, as | :26:33. | :26:50. | |
confirmed by these pictures of rainbows. Sunny one moment, pouring | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
the next. Confirmation of the rash of showers that Manchester | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
experienced during the Olympic celebrations. We've got a cold front | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
pushing down from the North West bringing heavy, squally showers. | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
More northern parts of western England and Wales will be affected | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
overnight. By morning time, clearing up to some extent but some more | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
showers across western Scotland and a touch of Frost is possible in the | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
eastern glens of Scotland. There will also be showers elsewhere, into | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
Wales and parts of South West England. It could be a wet start | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
across the eastern counties. It won't hang around. Skies will | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
brighten but it will be colder tomorrow than today. You will notice | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
the difference despite some sunshine. Showery rain moving down | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
into parts of northern England. And Chile. Even further south, | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
temperatures down by four or 5 degrees in some places. Interwetten | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
state, a touch of Frost out west. There will be a few showers. Still | :28:08. | :28:18. | |
some coming in off the North Sea. It looks as though showers will | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
continue to affect as for the rest of the week. In places, look out for | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
some of Frost. Many thanks, John. A major military offensive is | :28:28. | :28:41. | |
underway to drive so-called Islamic State from its stronghold in Iraq. | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
British fighter jets are in action but there are fears for civilians | :28:48. | :28:48. | |
trapped in the city. That's all from the BBC News At Six | :28:49. | :28:49. | |
- so it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
the BBC's news teams where you are. | :28:54. | :28:54. |