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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
It was one the worst disasters in modern British history. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
This morning, a minute's silence was held in the Welsh village | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
of Aberfan at 9.15 - the exact moment 50 years | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
ago when 116 children and 28 adults were killed. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
They died when an avalanche of coal waste ? 150,000 tonnes of it - | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
slid down the hillside and engulfed the village primary school | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
Around the half the children at the school were killed. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Sian Lloyd has spent the day in Aberfan and joins us now. | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
Sophie, this is the entrance of the memorial garden where Pantglas | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
school once stood. There have been many visitors here today. It has | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
been difficult for some, but it has also been an opportunity for | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
bereaved families, survivors and rescuers to be reunited. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Early morning in Aberfan and a community coming together | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
to remember the disaster 50 years ago. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
The site of Pantglas School is now a memorial garden. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
At 9:15, the moment classrooms were engulfed, | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
And at the cemetery, high on the hillside. | :01:28. | :01:51. | |
This was a time to remember the 144 people who died in a man-made | :01:52. | :02:03. | |
disaster when liquefied coal waste slid down the mountainside. | :02:04. | :02:15. | |
Eight-year-old Gerald Kirwan was in the second year juniors. He was one | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
of the lucky ones, but his memories are still very raw. I could hear | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
like, a rumbling, thunder. Like a jet aeroplane. A hell of a noise, | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
didn't know what it was and we, like, looked up to the window and we | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
have seen, like, a black mass coming to the window. I remember being | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
pushed across the classroom to the back wall, the muck was up to my | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
chest. We were just waiting, wondering, what had happened to | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
cause the devastation we were trapped in. Where classrooms had | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
once stood, today the Prince of Wales planted a tree, a tribute to | :03:03. | :03:03. | |
the lost generation. No one should have to do bear the | :03:04. | :03:25. | |
losses you suffered, but no one could have borne those losses with | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
greater strength or greater courage. A balloon for each of the victims | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
and a moment for Gerald Kirwan to share with his granddaughter, after | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
keeping his emotions bottled up for half a century. We never, ever spoke | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
about it, to my mother and father, my brothers, nobody. Even the | :03:50. | :04:00. | |
children, there were only a few of us in that second year who survived. | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
It was like... It was like our little dirty secret. But it had been | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
a disaster that was waiting to happen. Coal waste had been dumped | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
in huge tips on top of streams and natural springs on murder mountain. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Local people were joined by miners in the search for survivors -- | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
Merthyr mountain. But as the hours passed, rescuers realised that the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
children they were now finding had all died. Many were looking for | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
their own own sons and daughters. David Goldsworthy lost his | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
ten-year-old brother that day. This is the first time he has returned to | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Aberfan on the anniversary itself from Canada, where he emigrated more | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
than 40 years ago. Daredevil. He would have been 60 this year, in | :04:57. | :05:07. | |
August. And the fact that I'd liked to have had a brother. No one was | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
ever prosecuted for the lives that were lost, although the National | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Coal Board was found to be to blame. I can go back to that class in | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
seconds. If I close my eyes, I'm there. And I don't imagine that will | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
ever go away. Jeff Edwards was also in Pantglas | :05:34. | :05:44. | |
school that day, in the same class as Gerald Kirwan. He was the last | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
child to be carried out alive and he has helped organise today's events. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
What has today meant for the community of Aberfan? This morning | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
at the cemetery was a very emotive thing for us and it always is. We | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
remembered those people who lost their lives on that particular day, | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
so always a very difficult time up at the cemetery, but at one o'clock, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
when the Prince of Wales came, the atmosphere was lightened | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
considerably. The Prince took his time to speak to everybody walking | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
down my road and he asked them what their involvement was in the | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
disaster and how they got over the disaster, and what were their | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
futures like? People started to speak openly about what happened on | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
that day and I think that has been very cathartic for people and it has | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
released a huge amount of emotion and energy and it has also brought | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
the community back together. There are people who visited today that we | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
haven't seen for 40 or 50 years and it has really gelled the community | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
back into a real community, a community that is looking forward | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
but also remembering the past and the terrible tragedy that took place | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
50 years ago today, on the 25th of October. Because for many years, | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
decades, Aberfan was a closed community to the outside world, | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
people didn't want to talk about it. We didn't want to speak about it at | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
all, really. I think that is one of the benefits of the Prince coming, | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
they have opened up and I think they will find it very useful in coming | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
to terms with the anxieties they have had over many years. So the | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
visit has been very beneficial. Obviously, he brought a letter from | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
the Queen of condolence to the community, which was very important | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
to us. He spoke up the courage of the community and the determination | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
of the community and that was an important message to give, but it | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
also reflected the nation's sympathy for us, and those condolences, and | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
that has helped us and supported us during this very difficult day | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
today. Thank you so much for talking to us. This has been the story of | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Aberfan, one of such tragic loss but also a spirit of survival. | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Sian Lloyd, thank you. A 19-year-old man has been arrested | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
under the Terrorism Act after a suspicious device was found | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
on a Tube train yesterday. Our home affairs correspondent | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
June Kelly is in North London Our home affairs correspondent | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
June Kelly is in north London Well, yesterday, there was a | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
security alert on the Underground system in south London and today, | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
and arrest Ian Holloway, north London, and this followed a | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
counterterrorism operation involving armed police -- in Holloway. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
The teenage suspect under arrest and being led away | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
It was early afternoon when they moved in on him on a busy | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
They had him just under where the bridge is, just there. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
This witness, who doesn't want his face shown, works close by. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
All of a sudden, I saw four or five men running towards this guy then | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
they put him on the floor, they were shouting, saying | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
And then I was looking from upstairs, they had him | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
on the floor and he was struggling, obviously. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Police used a Taser stun gun to overpower the 19-year-old. | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
He was struggling not to be arrested, but in the end, | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
they arrested him and they took him away. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
He's been detained after a security alert yesterday on the Tube network. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
A suspicious package was found on a train at North Greenwich | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
station and was detonated in a controlled explosion. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
It is now being forensically examined. | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
There are reports, unconfirmed by the police, that it contained | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Tonight, the suspect is being held on suspicion | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
of committing, preparing and instigating terrorist acts. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Theresa May has warned other European leaders | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
that she won't be sidelined during Brexit negotiations. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
She said that the UK would continue to "meet our rights | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
and responsibilities" as long as it's a member | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
The Prime Minister was speaking on the final day of the EU summit | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
from where our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Colour-coded documents tagged, ready for the talks. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
But after only a five-minute hearing at 1am can Theresa May | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Not just throw up their hands, or worse, gang up against Britain. | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
My aim is to cement Britain as a close partner with the EU | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
once we have left and the UK will continue to face | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
similar challenges to our European neighbours. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
We will continue to share the same values and so I want a mature, | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
cooperative relationship with our European partners. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Do you really expect all 27 countries in the European Union | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to keep listening to Britain when we are quitting? | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
Aren't they entitled, actually, to ignore us now? | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
But as long as we are members of the European Union, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
we continue to meet our rights and obligations as members | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
of the European Union and that has been welcomed and I think | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
that is the right spirit and approach to take in this. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
We will continue to play our role, as I have done, | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
I can assure you that I haven't been backwards | :11:20. | :11:29. | |
Just listen to the EU's top official. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
How did the evening go with Theresa May? | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
We had no special event with Theresa May yesterday. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
to stop influence draining away before we leave. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
She has all the experience, she knows the corridors, | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
how to talk on how to behave and what to expect from others, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
There's still business to do, on steel dumping, on Russia. | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
How did you get on with Theresa May last night? | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
..that the UK still deserves to have a voice. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
This is so tricky for the Prime Minister because Britain | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
has basically told the rest of the EU, we want a divorce, | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
but we won't move out for two years and we still want to call the shots. | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
Theresa May is keen to preserve as much influence as possible, | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
but that will be irritating to the rest of the EU. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
It's been a grumpy summit all round, with tensions between its leaders | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
on Brexit, and despite the Brussels' top brass's best efforts, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
an EU trade deal with Canada is being blocked by just one tiny part | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
an EU trade deal with Canada is being blocked by just one part | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
A taste of what might lie ahead for us. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
As meeting the EU's top official, the difficulties of escaping | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
As leaders left after 15 hours of talks out of 24... | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
More or less one hour left to Italian journalists. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
..not much is settled, but this - there is no guarantee continental | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
colleagues will heed Britain's demands to be heard. | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
No sense, even, that our wishes will be a priority. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
And the Prime Minister leaves under no illusion that quitting the EU | :13:07. | :13:16. | |
The newspaper journalist Mazher Mahmood - known | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
as the Fake Sheikh - has been jailed for 15 months, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
for tampering with evidence during the drugs trial of | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
A number of other celebrities who claim they were victims | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
of Mahmood's "stings" and jailed as a result are now trying to | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
The man with his face hidden behind the hood is Mazher Mahmood, | :13:36. | :13:45. | |
the Fake Sheikh, the king of the tabloid sting. | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
He would pose as an Arab sheik and lured dozens of people to do | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
or say things that made them front-page news. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Today, he was the one heading for jail, a 15 month sentence | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
for lying and manipulating evidence, trying to get the singer Tulisa | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Outside court, one of his former victims, the actor John Alford, | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
We now know that Mazher Mahmood is a manipulator of evidence | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
This goes to show no one is above the law. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Behind him, others who had been stung by the Fake Sheikh. | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
He's not a journalist, he is a nasty conman. | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
No, I never did, I never thought that we, the little people, | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
would ever get the truth out there and it's a great day for us. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
Now many of the criminal cases are under review. | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
Over the years, he's boasted about how many people he's | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
helped send to prison, sometimes based almost entirely | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
He has now been sacked by the Sun On Sunday | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
but some wonder why it didn't happen sooner. | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
It was 28 years ago that he left his job at the Sunday Times | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
He was soon back, a star of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
His former boss always felt there was something wrong. | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
The warnings were there, the warnings were there | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
for the police, who continued to assist him, the warnings | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
were there for News International, who continued to employ him, | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
and I find it astonishing that he wasn't found out soon. | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
And of course, all this follows the hacking scandal. | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
The Government said there would be a second part of the Leveson | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Inquiry, an investigation into the press and the police. | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
This conviction has only added to the demands for that inquiry | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Aberfan remembers, 50 years on from the disaster that killed 116 | :15:45. | :16:00. | |
children and 28 adults in the Welsh village. | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
Wonder Woman - the UN's new ambassador for the Empowerment | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
admits Stamford Bridge is no longer his lucky ground, | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
as he prepares to face his former team, Chelsea, this weekend. | :16:20. | :16:30. | |
A flotilla of Russian warships has passed | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
through the English Channel today - on its way to Syria. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
The vessels included the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
which was belching black smoke, as it passed | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
The flotilla, which is being viewed as a show of strength from Moscow, | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
was shadowed all the way by the Royal Navy. | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
Our correspondent Daniel Sandford watched as they passed | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
Cruising past Dover Harbour, beneath the iconic White Cliffs of Dover | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
and into the English Channel, Russia's only aircraft carrier | :17:02. | :17:03. | |
the Admiral Kuznetsov, a 30-year-old survivor | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
On its decks, the planes that will reinforce the Russian | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
Also in the flotilla, the battle cruiser, Peter the Great, | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
and the Russian ships were man marked as the Defence Secretary put | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
The type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan had sailed from Portsmouth to do | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
The type 23 frigate, the HMS Richmond has been | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
tracking the Russians all the way from Norway. | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
As we watched, all the ships were sailing west, straight down | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
It's been an extraordinary display of Russian military power, | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
just a few miles off the British coast. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
One Moscow newspaper called it 'an armada', | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
and its chosen route, straight down the English Channel, | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
is likely to have been chosen deliberately. | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
The warships could have gone round the north coast of Scotland, | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
but this was the route that sent a message. | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
The deployment itself is clearly directed, | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
in the immediate sense, toward Syria, but it has a side | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
benefit to the mentality of the present-day leaders | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
of Russia, of showing that they still have a navy | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
And the message to this country, in particular, is probably | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
that their navy is more extensive than ours now. | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
For ten years now Russia's been directing displays | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
This was an encounter off the coast of Scotland, | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
filmed by the crew of a Russian bomber as it was challenged | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
But today's Russian drive-by, on the way to prop up | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
President Assad in Syria, was one of the more | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
dramatic displays, so close that the warships | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
could be clearly seen from the White Cliffs of Dover. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News, in the English Channel. | :18:57. | :18:58. | |
In Iraq, government troops backed by Kurdish forces are inching | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
forward in their fight against so-called Islamic State. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Clashes near the city of Mosul have continued through the day with Iraqi | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
troops pushing in from the South and Kurdish fighters from the East. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Today, IS struck back launching an attack in Kirkuk | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
Our Middle East Correspondent Orla Guerin sent this report. | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Savouring freedom, civilians brought to safety by Kurdish fighters. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
They escaped the tyranny of so-called Islamic State, | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
and the dangers of coalition air strikes. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
IS targets north of Mosul being pounded again today, | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
This is the scene in the city of Kirkuk. | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
Security forces battling to regain control, after a daring | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
They hit multiple targets in and around the oil-rich city, | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
which is 100 miles from Mosul and had been considered secure. | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
Troops hunting for the militants who proved they can still strike | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
Back at the front line, bomb disposal experts arrived | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
They've already cleared 300 landmines along a stretch | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Troops are getting into position now for mine clearance. | :20:38. | :20:47. | |
This is absolutely crucial for the Peshmerga | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
The mines are slowing progress and they're claiming | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
lives, but the work has to be done with care. | :20:54. | :20:55. | |
Islamic State has laid mines in this area like a carpet. | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
There were fears it was a suicide bomber. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Nearby, civilians who had just fled, now safe from IS, but being screened | :21:05. | :21:17. | |
by Kurdish intelligence, they're trying to prevent militants | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
This man tells us they were forced to grow beards, and if IS caught | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
someone with a phone, they were beheaded. | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
He's rushed away before he can say more. | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
A new camp is now being raised here for the many others | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
who are expected to seek refuge from Iraq's latest war. | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
Orla Guerin, BBC News, north of Mosul. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
Emergency services are dealing with a possible chemical incident | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
at London's City Airport this evening. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
The Firebrigade says the airport has been closed, | :22:08. | :22:08. | |
and around 500 passengers were evacuated from the terminal | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
after a number of people reported feeling unwell. | :22:12. | :22:12. | |
Flights due into the airport are being diverted elsewhere. | :22:13. | :22:29. | |
A former police chief who won $375,000 in libel damages | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
from media accusing him of involvement with paedophiles has | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
today been found guilty of the historical sex abuse | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
Former Superintendent Gordon Anglesea - who's 79 - | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
worked in the Wrexham area and was convicted of four | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
charges of indecent assault involving two boys. | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
The funeral of the Irish Rugby Star, Anthony Foley, has taken | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
The Munster coach and former Ireland international was 42. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
He died in Paris from a build-up of fluid on his lungs | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Mr Foley was found in his hotel room where Munster were staying before | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
a European Champions Cup game on Sunday. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
She's a comic book superhero who became a TV star | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
in the 1970s, watched by millions here and around the world. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
But now in a story twist that may well have surprised even | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
the fictional superhero, the United Nations is making wonder | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
a UN Ambassador for Women and Girls. | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
It is a decision that has bewildered some and sparked | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
protest from others, as Nick Bryant reports | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
She can leap from tall buildings, she can also bend steel, but the | :23:22. | :23:37. | |
transformation of Wonder Woman into a UN Ambassador for Female | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
Empowerment has plunged this world body into the kind of storm that | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
would test even her superhuman powers. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
This is the modern-day face of Wonder Woman, and the actress | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Lynda Carter who brought her to life in the television series was also at | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
With a new film about to be launched, UN officials | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
hope the hero will help to reach younger audiences around the world. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
So Wonder Woman lives, do not doubt it. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
Wonder Woman helps bring out the inner | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
But staff at the UN today mounted a silent | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
"Real women deserve a real ambassador", read their signs. | :24:18. | :24:25. | |
There is also a real annoyance that the | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
superhero's leather boots might trample on cultural, religious and | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Hundreds of UN staff have added their names | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
to an online petition, complaining, and I quote, | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
"That a large breasted White woman of impossible | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
with an American motif and knee-high boots is not an appropriate | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
So what's been the reaction outside the UN? | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
I like what she stands for, I don't really | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
Although Wonder Woman is a great character, I think we can find | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
someone better to represent women, someone who is not so hyper | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
The UN hope this collaboration would be a PR coup, | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
but there are many senior figures here who view it | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
Time for a look at the weekend weather... | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
Thank you, fast approaching and it looks half decent. | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
Today's sunshine has been topping and tailing the country and in | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
between a fair amount of cloud. The best of the weather in Scotland and | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
the south-west. If you don't believe me, take a look at this picture from | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
the Shetland Islands and here, the south-west of Cornwall. Absolutely | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
glorious. As we move towards a weekend it does look as though we | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
will keep some decent weather for most of us. There will be some sunny | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
spells as well. Early morning fog and frost could be an issue, | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
particularly on Sunday, and most of the showers will be out to the east. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
Though showers continuing to spill in of the North Sea coast through | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
the night tonight. Further west, some clearer skies. That could lead | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
to some patchy fog in few places, and it will allow those temperatures | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
to fall away, the countryside pretty close to freezing. A bit of a chilly | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
start, a bit of a great, drab Saturday morning, but be patient, | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
condition should improve. We will see a few showers out to the east. | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
These may well just push a little further inland through the | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
afternoon, but generally speaking, not a bad afternoon. Those | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
temperatures will sit around where they have been throughout the week. | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
A little bit on the chilly side for this | :26:43. | :26:54. | |
time of year at around 10-15d. As we go through Saturday night into | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
Sunday morning, not much in the way of change. Fog could be an issue | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
perhaps first thing on Sunday morning. The wind will start to | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
strengthen because of this area of low pressure, but it won't arrive | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
and bring any significant rain until the end of the day on Sunday. Sunday | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
again, decent, dry with some sunny spells, a few isolated chows. When | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
the fog clears, highs of 9-14. Enjoy. | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
That's all from the BBC News at 6, so it's goodbye from me, | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :27:19. | :27:22. |