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This is a BBC News. The headlines. Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
executive of News International. She says she wants to concentrate | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
on clearing her name. As I said when I called her resignation 10 | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
days ago, this isn't about one individual but the culture of | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
organisation. Rupert Murdoch meet the family of | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
murdered teenager Milly Dowler. He gives what is described as a humble | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
apology. We will have the latest | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
developments in another dramatic day in the scandal. Also coming up: | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
an investigation into three suspicious deaths at Stockport | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
hospital. Police say solution was | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
deliberately tampered with. A strike at the BBC. News services | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
are disrupted as journalists take industrial action over compulsory | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
redundancies. Europe's biggest ever lottery winners celebrate landing | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
�161 million. We were tickled pink! The whole notion of winning so much | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
International. She faces allegation over her role in the phone hacking | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
scandal. And illegal payments to police officers. In a statement she | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
said Geller deep responsibility for the people who had been hurt. She | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
wanted to concentrate on defending a record. This afternoon, Rupert | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Murdoch apologised to the family of Milly Dowler. The revelations about | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
a can of her phone sparked the crisis. This report contains flash | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
photography. She is the most high-profile | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
casualties so far in the scandal which has spread to both sides of | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the Atlantic. For the past 10 days, she has been at the heart of the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
storm which has swept Rupert Murdoch media empire and remained | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
by his side. Today she decided to step down. In her statement she | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
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I am pleased that Rebekah Brooks has finally accepted responsibility | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
for what happened on her watch as editor of the News of the World, | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
backing of the phones of Milly Dowler for example. When I called | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
for her resignation 10 days ago, this isn't about one individual but | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
the culture of an organisation. man picked up to replace her is | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
already at his desk. He has been brought in from Sky TV in Italy. | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Writing to all at News International staff, James Murdoch | :03:10. | :03:20. | |
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thanked Rebekah books for 22 years -- Rebekah box. Not a view echoed | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
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in the House of Lords where she was referred to. She said she likes to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
be on the bridge. I was a seafarer for 10 years. I would like her on | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
the bridge if you didn't know what direction she was going in. That is | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
why she is gone, thank God. This afternoon, Rupert Murdoch acted to | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
underline the apology offered by his former chief executive. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Travelling across London to meet the family who lost their daughter | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
and who are amongst the alleged targets of his paper's phone | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
hacking. The shock expressed by Milly Dowler's family has fuelled a | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
sense of national outrage. Mr Murdoch emerged after one hour to a | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
barrage of questions. The lawyer eventually gave details of the | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
conversation. He was humbled to give a full and a sincere apology | :04:22. | :04:32. | |
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to the Dowler family. We told him that his papers should lead the way, | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
to set the standard of honesty and decency in the field, and not what | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
had gone on before. Tomorrow, Rupert Murdoch the signature will | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
appear on a further apology in every main national newspaper. The | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
News of the World was in the business of holding others to | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
account, he says. It failed when it came to itself. Rebekah Brooks may | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
have left the bridge but her role in this developing story and her | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
forthcoming appearance with her former employers at next week's | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
select committee will ensure she remains in the headlines. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Rebekah Brooks had worked for News International for 22 years before | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
becoming chief executive. She edited its most popular tabloid | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
titles. We look back at her career. Rebekah Brooks was closer to Rupert | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Murdoch and his own daughters, some said. She was close to his son, | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
James, who runs the UK business. Even at Rupert's patronage couldn't | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
save her. She took over the News of the World in 2000. She was | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Britain's youngest national editor at 32. Campaigns like Sarah's law, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
naming and shaming paedophiles, showed she was not afraid of | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
controversy. The papers are on the side of protecting children and not | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the rights of paedophiles, and I strongly believe the public are | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
behind us. A former colleague on the news of the World says she is | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
tough and talented. She got to the top because she is ambitious. Some | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
people might say ruthless. Others would say talented. She was | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
certainly a person that did stand out. Rebekah Brooks is a well- | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
connected woman, knowing its celebrities and politicians. Her | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
former husband is a Ross Kemp. She was on good terms with more than | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
one prime minister. Tony Blair. And the current Prime Minister, David | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Cameron. She would get on with Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Cameron. They know that she says what she believes. As opposed to | :06:41. | :06:51. | |
many people. Her friendships brought to access, influence and | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
stories. But she made mistakes balls-up this admission to a | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
parliamentary committee was one. have paid the police in the past | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
for information. That is against the law. Her successor resigned as | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
editor over the phone hacking scandal but Rebekah Brooks was | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
promoted to News International's chief executive, denying all | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
knowledge of wrong doing. Critics were not impressed. It is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
inexplicable to me that Rupert Murdoch has this strange | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
affiliation with her because she wasn't that a brilliant as an | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
editor. For example, she turned down a huge leak about the MPs | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
expenses on the grounds that there wasn't enough sex in it. Of course, | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
the Telegraph got the story. That's not very good. She seemed to think | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
every story had to be about sex. No. Now the woman who had become a | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
lightning rod for public anger has gone. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Tom Barton is at Westminster. Earlier, you were at at hotel where | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
the meeting between Rupert Murdoch and the Dowler family took place. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
It seems as though, overnight, Rupert Murdoch decided this was the | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
day of apologies. Yes, Chris Comber it is hard to know for sure what | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
led to this run of decisions by Rupert Murdoch and News | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
International, first the announcement this morning before | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
10am that Rebekah Brooks was stepping down as the chief | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
executive of News International. At some point this morning, but calls | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
also made from News International's lawyers to the lawyer for the | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Dowler family. They said Rupert wants to meet you. That meeting was | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
set up for this afternoon. An extraordinary meeting at the end of | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
an extraordinary 10 days. A meeting in which Mr Murdoch apologised to | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the Dowler family, he put his head in his hands several times, he | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
looked humbled and shaken according to the family lawyer, who was in | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
that meeting. That apology, of course, to be repeated tomorrow in | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
the national newspapers. Everyone in the country, to print that | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
personally signed apology by Rupert Murdoch. It has been an | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
extraordinary day. I think one in which the Murdoch family, News Corp, | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
News International will all be hoping they can begin finally to | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
draw a line under what has been the most astonishing 10 days about the | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
media. May be drawing a line under that but of course the questions | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
will be asked from Tuesday when they come face to face for a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
grilling. Absolutely it. No matter how hard they tried to draw the | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
line and the story, it seems that it keeps coming back. The sense | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
amongst MPs and Peers here in Westminster is that everything the | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Murdoch family do is too little too late. It almost feels, to many who | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
have been watching the story, who have been campaigning against the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Murdochs, and against the actions of the News of the World, they're | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
only doing things when it feels like they are forced to. They are | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
hoping this will draw a line under it but no matter how hard they hope, | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
there is no getting away from the fact, Tuesday next week, both James | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch, senior figures in News Corp, will be in | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
front of MPs facing the culture of Media and Sport Committee. There | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
will be Rebekah Brooks, because when she accepted that invitation | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
she was chief executive of News International. She is no longer | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
chief-executive of News International but has indicated she | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
will still appear and it will be fascinating to see if her leaving | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
the company, will in any way influenced what she has to say to | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
that committee. How she response to M Ps, under what will be, | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
inevitably, a very tough grilling. Tom, thank you. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Police are investigating the deaths of three patients at Stepping Hill | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Hospital in Stockport after staff discovered vials of saline had been | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
tampered with. A further 11 patients have been affected but are | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
not seriously harmed. John Williams has the story. | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Staff at the hospital contacted police on Tuesday after patients on | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
one ward were found to have unexplained low blood sugar levels. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Detectives believe they were wrongly given insulin after their | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
medication was tampered with. The police say someone had done so | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
deliberately. Over the past two days, our major incident team, | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
having now identified potentially three suspicious deaths, all | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
involving a 44-year-old woman, and two involving males in the | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
Seventies and Eighties. Detectives believe saline used to treat | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
dehydration, patients are not able to take food and liquid orally, had | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
been contaminated with insulin. Health service managers say the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
hospital is safe. It was the start who brought this matter to our | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
attention and I have asked them to be extra vigilant to help safeguard | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
patients. We have increased security in terms of access to the | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
hospital and to medicine and replaced all saline drips in the | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
hospital. Patrols at the hospital have been stepped up but at one | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
place, people should feel most cared for, police say. | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
A main opposition groups in Libya have been recognised as the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
country's legitimate government by America and the Alliance of | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
countries seeking the removal of its leader Colonel Gaddafi. The | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
announcement came at a special meeting in Istanbul of so-called | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
Contact Group's. Top officials for the US, Britain | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
and 40 countries and organisations meeting in Istanbul have reached a | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
historic decision. To formally recognise the Transitional National | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
Council, as the country's legitimate representatives. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
assurances they offered today reinforce our confidence that it is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
the appropriate interlock government for the USA in dealing | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
with Libya's present and future. That is why I announced earlier | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
that, until authority is in place, the USA will recognise the TMC as | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
the legitimate government authority for Libya. We will deal with it on | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
that basis. It came as NATO called for increased efforts to find and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
destroy Colonel Gaddafi's remaining weaponry. Britain is sending four | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
more tornadoes strike jets equipped with sophisticated sensor pods. | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
These can detect movement and weapons at some distance, allowing | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
them to be targeted. Britain's Defence Secretary denied that | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
NATO's campaign was running out of steam. We have been intensifying | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
our campaign against the Libyan regime. We have been selecting | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
targets to ram home the message that we are very serious, Colonel | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
Gaddafi needs to stop the violence he is inflicting on his own people. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
The international community has international law and military | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
capabilities but above all else, we have the resolve to see it through. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
Britain's Ministry of Defence says the additional tornadoes are a | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
temporary deployment lasting just one month. Few are prepared to bet | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
for certain that Colonel Gaddafi regime will be over in 30 days. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Let's go to Washington to talk to our Correspondent there. Colonel | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
Gaddafi has already dismissed the recognition, as expected, but how | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
significant is it? Very significant. It is the final step in what has | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
been a very slow evolution in the way the USA has dealt with the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
Libyan Transitional National Council, the rebel opposition group. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
It started with Washington a few months ago, acknowledging them as a | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
representative, of the Libyan people. It then moved on at some | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
point last month, to the USA saying they were the sole legitimate | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
representative of the Libyan people. And now we have this final step, | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
which is the USA saying and recognising them as the legitimate | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
governing authority and that is different from saying that they are | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
a legitimate government because the USA doesn't recognise governments | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
but States. It needs to find a way to boost the credibility of the T N | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
S C so it has chosen this wording of governing authority for this | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
interim period until Colonel Gaddafi steps down and is removed | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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from power. The Nato-led military Yes, there does not seem to be a | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
military outcome to this in the near future, unless we see some | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
sort of action on the ground in the coming weeks also. It is not clear | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
how this ends. It is probably why Washington has taken this | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
additional step in boosting the opposition in Libya, because this | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
step will allow, not only the United States, but other countries | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
around the world which deal with the TMC, to unlock frozen assets, | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
some $30 billion which were frozen after the war started. The money is | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
badly-needed to help the TMC boost their credibility in areas where | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
they are operating, where they have to provide services to keep people | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
fed and happy and enable them also to fight on the ground. We heard | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
Hillary Clinton speaking from the meeting earlier, we are aware that | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
America slipped back after the initial phase of the military | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
campaign in Libya, just how much notice are the American people | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
giving the campaign in Libya and how involved is the White House? | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
The White House is very involved. United States is a key NATO member, | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
but they have wanted to make sure that their NATO partners take | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
responsibility, take their fair share of the load when it comes to | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
fighting this war in Libya, to protect civilians. There is some | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
dispute about whether it is only about protecting civilians or only | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
about removing Colonel Gaddafi from power. The United States is coming | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
under criticism that it is not going all the way, that it is not | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
doing enough to move there so long. This is a country that is facing | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
increased economic crisis and it simply cannot put itself forward as | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
much as it did before and it wants its European allies to take a fair | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
share of the low does well. That means it is taking much longer that | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
-- than many people had anticipated. Thank you. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
The News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch has met the family of the | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
murdered teenager Milly Dowler, to say sorry to them personally about | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
the phone hacking. Tomorrow, a series of News | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
International advertisements will appear in the papers apologising | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
for what the Murdoch's call serious wrong doings that the News of the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
World. And Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
of News International. She says she feels a deep responsibility for the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
people hurt in the phone hacking scandal. | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Journalists at the BBC are taking part in a 24 hour strike in a | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
dispute over compulsory redundancies. The walkout began at | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
midnight and is affecting news services on television, radio and | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
online. The BBC says it is disappointed by the action. What do | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
want? Save our jobs. Pickets were outside the BBC in | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Cardiff today and at regional centres and local radio stations | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
across Britain. The National Union of journalists described the strike | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
as solid. Nobody wants to go on strike and lose a day's pay but | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
management have left us with no option. At Television Centre in | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
west London, managers and none striking staff worked to put out | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
news programmes but services were affected. Some programme guests | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
refused to cross picket lines. The strikes are over compulsory | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
redundancies at Bush House, the headquarters of the World Service | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
and the BBC Monitoring Centre at Caversham, brought on by government | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
cuts to their grants. The NUJ says no one should be forced to leave if | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
they do not want to. Management says that is not practical. In a | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
statement, the BBC said, we apologise to our audience for any | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
destruction this may cause. Industrial action will not alter | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
the fact that the BBC is faced with a number of potential redundancies. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Lucy Adams, the director of business operations said in an | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
email, no business of our size could commit to such a policy. The | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
NUJ has criticised the BBC for refusing to use the conciliation | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
service ACAS, to find a way forward. It calls the BBC stance stubborn. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Plans are being drawn up for big cuts across the organisation which | :20:52. | :20:59. | |
will mean more job losses and possibly, more strikes. | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
Eight European banks have failed tests to see how they would cope | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
with any future financial meltdown. 90 banks, including four from the | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
UK, had their finances examined in detail by the European Banking | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Authority. Five banks from Spain, two from Greece and one from | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Austria failed the test. All four UK banks were given a clean bill of | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
health. Charlie Gilmour, the adopted son of | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
the print -- Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, has been jailed for | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
violent disorder. He was arrested last year after protests against | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
student tuition fees. �15 million has been raised for | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
victims of the worst drought in East Africa for six decades. The | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Disasters Emergency Committee so that is not enough to help the | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
estimated 10 million people who are fighting famine and disease. Clive | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Myrie has been travelling through some of the worst affected areas in | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
northern Kenya from where he sent this report. | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
This is north-eastern Kenya, one of the poorest parts of the country, | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
the landscape parched, the allowance -- lives of the people | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
blighted by drought. In one hospital in the district of | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
Habaswein, we found three-month-old Umi, she weighs less than a bag of | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
sugar, less than half the weight of a healthy newborn child. The weight | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
of her mother meant she was weak at birth. My daughter is a live now | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
but I worry about how we take her home. We have so little. In the bed | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
opposite, another mother consumed by malnutrition. She gave birth | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
just before we arrived at the hospital but she is grieving. Her | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
son was buried an hour ago. Azumi clings to life. She is a source of | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
pride for a father. Later, he took us to a village and explained how | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
the drought had wrecked lives. All our animals are dead, there is no | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
grazing pasture, he said, because there is no rain. We have nothing. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
A short walk away, rotting animal carcasses bake in the sun. | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
This village is typical of so many communities of this part of rural, | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
north-eastern Kenya, reliant on livestock for everything, for milk | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
and fruit and if the animals are sold for an income. Normally, this | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
area would be teeming with cattle and goats but it is completely | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
empty. Dusty roads around here twist | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
through a land that has not seen rain for close to three years. We | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
found an outreach clinic in a village. This child is hot, tired | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
and underfed. This card says he is severely malnourished? He is | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
severely malnourished, yes. with the right food supplements, he | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
and so many others can survive. Already, the generosity of the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
British public means we are saving children's lives but we can address | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
the underlying causes. We can help the communities rebuild their lives, | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
harvest and build reservoirs when it finally rains. Help came too | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
late for baby Mohammed, buried at just 20 days old. The sharp twigs | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
around his grave are to stop hyenas digging up his body. But it is not | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
too late to save others, if the world acts now. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
You are watching BBC News. A couple from Falkirk have emerged as the | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
winners of the record-breaking Euromillions jackpot. Tuesday's | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
prize of more than �161 million was Europe's over -- biggest ever. This | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
report contains flash photography. They say they are just a normal | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
family, not flashy, not celebrities. But Colin and Chris Weir, a retired | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
TV cameraman and a former nurse are now one of Britain's wealthiest | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
couples. It was some hours after Tuesday's draw when Chris realised | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
she had the winning ticket. They were still checking the numbers | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
when the dawn broke. We could see the sun coming up and it was just | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
magical but we could not sleep, we were absolutely full of adrenalin. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
We even opened a bottle of wine and I do not drink! Here, those you | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
root millions results now! With morning came the confirmation that | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
they had won the jackpot, after weeks of rollover as. The wind | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
catapults the couple to 130th on the Sunday Times Rich List, still | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
some way behind the combined wealth of David and Victoria Beckham. They | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
would have preferred not to go public but did not think they could | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
keep their massive win secret but they want to enjoy it. We are not | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
scared of it. It will be fantastic and so much fun. They are | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
determined to do some good with their windfall. They do not plan to | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
move house but there is talk of foreign travel and maybe a new car. | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
I do not think we will be immediately swapping cars. If you | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
have got a reliable car, what is the point? I will be swapping cars! | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
And one of the first things they intend to buy? Eight ticket for the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
next draw. And that is a round-up of the day's | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
news here on BBC News. One more story to bring you. The | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Queen has paid tribute today to the code-breakers who worked at | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
Bletchley Park, the top secret cypher station which broke the | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
German Enigma codes in the Second World War. She unveiled a memorial | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
to the men and women who worked there and made such an important | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany. | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
They were some of the darkest days of the Second World War, when | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Britain's survival was in the balance. Out in the Atlantic, the | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
shipping convoys bringing essential supplies, the food without which | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
the population would staff, the munitions without which the war | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
effort would collapse, were being sunk by German submarines. The U- | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
boats which had a largely free rein to plunder convoys that will. Adolf | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
Hitler's Nazi Germany was in danger of winning. Britain desperately- | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
needed a breakthrough to survive. It happened here in the secluded | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
countryside 40 miles north of London. This is Bletchley Park, | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
quiet and rather overlooked now. 70 years ago, these prefabricated hut | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
were part of Britain's most vital establishment. It was here people | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
break the codes of the German military. The country's most | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
brilliant mathematicians, crossword experts and linguist were brought | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
together to solve the messages of this, the supposedly impenetrable | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
German cypher machine known as enigma. A British-built this. It | :28:26. | :28:31. | |
was called colossus and it is generally considered to be the | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
world's first computer. With it, codes which had taken the code- | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
breakers six days to crack by hand could now be broken in a matter of | :28:40. | :28:50. | |
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Hello, if you had the sunshine, make the most of it. There will be | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
spells of rain and showers and the temperatures will be coming down. | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
This does not look like a chart we would expect in mid- July. Because | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
of the low pressure, the wind will pick up. Tomorrow, the wettest | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
weather will be in southern and eastern England. A band of heavy | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
rain will move on three and elsewhere a rash of showers. By 4 | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
o'clock, we are into brighter, showery weather through North East | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
England, the Midlands and East Anglia. The last of the rain will | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
depart in the South East into Kent. Elsewhere along the south coast it | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
is blustery. Showers will be hit and miss it nature. Dry and bright | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
spells in between. Sunshine and between the showers in Wales and | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
north-west England. They are driven along by a brisk wind. The range of | :29:42. | :29:45. | |
not last too long. For Northern Ireland, the showers moved through | :29:45. | :29:52. |