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Tony Nicklinson, who lost the legal battle to allow a doctor to end his | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
life, has died. Paralysed from the neck down for seven years, his last | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
message to the world - goodbye, the time has come. Once, he was a | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
family man with a taste for adventure. He described his life | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
after a stroke as a living nightmare. He made people think, | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
what would it be like if that happened to me? What would I want | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
in those circumstances? He focused attention on these very difficult | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
end of life issues. We will be asking where this case leaves the | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
debate on euthanasia. Also tonight: Asil Nadir, guilty of a further | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
seven charges of theft - he stole nearly �29 million from his Polly | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Peck business empire. The mother and daughter murdered by | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
her ex-partner - an official report criticises Essex police. There is | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
anger from the family. More could have been done. Her life could have | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
been saved. A living it up in Las Vegas - | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Prince Harry caught in a controversy over what happened | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
after this pool party. Tyre tracks on Martian soil - | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
NASA's rover passes another crucial test on its mission of discovery. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, more fun times for | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
Frankel. The colt makes it a 13 wins from 13 races with a stunning | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
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Good evening. Tony Nicklinson, who last week lost the legal battle to | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
allow a doctor to end his life, has died. He was paralysed from the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
neck down since suffering a stroke in 2005 and described his ordeal as | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
a living nightmare. Mr Nicklinson, who had refused food from last week, | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
died from pneumonia. Branwen Jeffreys reports on how a man whose | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
any form of communication was blinking managed to ignite the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
debate on euthanasia. Just over seven years ago, Tony | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Nicklinson had everything a man could want - a happy family, his | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
career, his health. He had been married happily for years to his | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
wife Jane. Tony Nicklinson was an active and outgoing man. But his | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
life was changed abruptly by a devastating stroke. He was left | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
paralysed below the neck, unable to speak, living a life he described | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
as miserable and demeaning. Tony Nicklinson wanted a doctor to be | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
able to kill him legally. Last week, his distress was evident after the | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
High Court turned down his request. He stopped accepting food and | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
developed pneumonia. This morning, one of his daughter has posted a | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
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message on Twitter. Before he died, Today, the Dickinson family asked | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
for privacy. Their solicitor spoke for them to describe the last week. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
After Tony received the draft judgment on 12th August refusing | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
his claim, the fight seemed to go out of him. He said he was | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
heartbroken by the High Court's decision that he could not end his | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
life at a time of his choosing with the help of a doctor. No one could | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
lack sympathy for Tony Nicklinson's plight, but some also strongly | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
opposed the change he was asking for. With the help of his family, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
he used social media to which the public. He is personality shone | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
through. He made people think, what would it be like if that happened | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
to me? What would I want in those circumstances? He focused attention | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
on these very difficult end of life issues. The debate over the right | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
to die has intensified recently. They -- Debbie Purdy's case led to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
cases in legal guidelines around assisted suicide. Families helping | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
loved ones to travel abroad to die may not face prosecution. Tony | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
Nicklinson took things further with his court case in 2010. He wanted | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
doctors to be able to kill him in the UK, without facing a murder | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
charge. But High Court judges want Parliament to decide, because this | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
is a moral and ethical debate for society. His wife Jane said today | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
that she had lost the love of her life. Tony Nicklinson had planned | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
to carry on his legal battle. Instead, he was embraced by the | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
death he wanted, leaving his family to grieve the man only they really | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
knew. Branwen is with me now. Where does | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
this leave the debate on euthanasia? For a man that could | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
not speak, Tony Nicklinson had an incredibly loud voice in this | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
debate, really raising its public profile. But because the courts | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
pushed it back to Parliament, that is where we will see campaigners | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
focus their efforts. Both those that say that because of Tony | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Nicklinson's suffering, the law should change on voluntary | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
euthanasia, and those who are against that change, both some | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
medical organisations and disabled lobby groups who do not want any | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
change on that or assisted suicide. It is worth remembering that | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
attempts in Parliament to change the law in England and Wales before | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
have not been successful, and nor have more recent attempts in the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
Scottish parliament. Asil Nadir, the man who ran the | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
massive Polly Peck business in the 1980s, has been found guilty of a | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
further seven counts of theft. The jury at the Old Bailey heard that | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
he stole nearly �29 million from his own company. On Monday, Mr | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
Nadir was convicted of three charges and has been cleared of | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
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three others. Arriving at court, the man who once | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
reigned supreme over a vast business empire. Two days ago, he | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
was found guilty of three counts of theft amounting to nearly �6 | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
million. Today, another nine counts will be decided. Asil Nadir | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
remained impassive as the verdicts were delivered. Afterwards, he put | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
his hands together in front of his face, almost as if in prayer, as | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
the judge thanked the jury for their stamina in what has been a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
gruelling seven-month trial. The Serious Fraud Office's pursuit of | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Asil Nadir has finally been vindicated. We are pleased that we | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
were able to bring it to court and we are pleased with the result. Mr | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Nadir is an intelligent man, and he had a complex network of companies | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
and trusts in order to route the money out of the jurisdiction. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Leaving court, the toll telling on Asil Nadir's wife. I am not going | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
to comment. Will you appeal? Yes. Asil Nadir was found guilty of 10 | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
counts of theft amounting to around �29 million. He stole 1.3 million, | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
partly to pay for the Baggrave Hall, a stately home and farm in | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
Leicestershire, and 5 million which benefited his family. In 1980, he | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
paid nearly �300,000 for a stake in a small textile company called | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Polly Peck. Ten years later, it was worth �2 billion and had 200 | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
subsidiaries including the fruit giant De Monte. In 1990, following | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
raids by the Serious Fraud Office on his and Polly Peck's offices, he | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
was arrested and charged with theft on a vast scale. In May 1993, | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
months before his trial was due to start, he fled the UK for northern | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Cyprus. 17 years later, he returned to face justice, saying he finally | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
want to clear his name. The collapse of Polly Peck took | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
shareholders' like Robin hillier by surprise. I had a brilliant and | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
your report from the accountants, which gave you no reason to think | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
they would be bad, that it would suddenly go broke. A few days later, | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
complete collapse. When I spoke to Asil Nadir before the trial, he | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
remained defiant. Did you still that money? | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
Absolutely not. It makes you wonder, a man worth millions of pounds, | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
spending dozens of millions of pounds a year and charity, what | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
motive does you have? Asil Nadir's reputation is now in tatters. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Tomorrow morning, he will be sentenced. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Essex police have been severely criticised for the way they dealt | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
with a man who went on to kill his ex-partner and their daughter. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Christine Chambers had been complaining about violence from | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
David Oakes for two years before the murder. The Independent Police | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
Complaints Commission says the force's response was inadequate. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Many times during her daughter Shania's short life, Christine | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
Chambers has sought help from the police, fearful of the child's | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
father, she finally separated from him. Two months later, a custody | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
battle ended with both mother and child murdered at their home. | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Christine Chambers' elder daughter escaped by jumping out of a window | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
of the house in Braintree in Essex. After shooting his ex-partner and | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
child, David Oakes turned the gun on himself, but despite his | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
injuries, he survived. As those who knew Christine heard the news, one | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
man shouted, you knew it was going to happen again. Today her family | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
were critical of the Essex force. am so angry, because you are so | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
frustrated that more could have been done. Lives could have been | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
saved. Today's report by the Independent Police Complaints | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Commission contains a litany of failings by Essex police, among | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
them the evidence of David Oakes' violence tendencies was not taken | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
into account. Action taken to arrest him was inadequate, and | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Christine Chambers' reluctance to give evidence against him was a | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
sign that she was vulnerable. Although the police responded to | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
each of the calls and did invest resources in those responses, they | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
dealt with each incident as if it was isolated. They did not join the | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
dots and see the whole picture. force says it now has more officers | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
specialising in domestic violence. I met Mr and Mrs Chambers last week | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
and offered my condolences and apologies. We owe it to Christine | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
and Shania to learn from the lessons and recommendations of this | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
report. David Oakes is now serving a life term for events here last | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
year. The judge at his trial said he should remain in prison for the | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
rest of his life. Meanwhile, the police have to reflect on their | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
failings in this case. The report says it is impossible to say if | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
Christine and Shania would still be alive today if things had been done | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
differently. The UK's second largest energy firm, | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
SSE, is to increase its charges from October. The company blamed | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
the rise on wholesale energy prices. The move will see bills going up by | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
an average of 9%, hitting nearly 8.5 million customers with an | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
increase of just over �100 a year for a standard dual fuel bill. The | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
company says it will cap its bills until at least the second half of | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
next year. Other big energy suppliers are also expected to | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
increase prices this autumn. A series of high-level meetings | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
this week could once again expose the fault-lines at the heart of the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Eurozone crisis. The Greek Prime Minister is asking for more time to | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
implement the tough spending cuts imposed on the country. Today the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
head of the euro group of finance ministers said Greig was facing its | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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It's the latest act in this Greek drama. A plea for more time to | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
bring down the Government's borrowing. The economy's on its | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
knees. Unemployment is at nearly 25%. Empty shops tell their own | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
story and many feel their country can't take any more spending cuts | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
or tax rises. The Greek Prime Minister, Antonis | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
Samaras, today met the leader of the eurozone's lenders to ask for | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
breathing space with the austerity programme it. Includes 11.5 billion | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
euros of cuts over two years. Trans Sonic The only thing that this | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
government and the Greek people and reason want is to remove to | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
recovery as soon as possible. a deepening recession it is getting | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
harder for Greece to raise tax revenues. The International | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Monetary Fund predicts a 4.8% contraction this year and no growth | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
next year. Though many experts think that's too optimistic. | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
economy is almost dead and a lot of economists here, Samaras is one of | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
them, feel that if you just squeeze a little bit more, then that will | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
be the death certificate. Nothing will be moving any more. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Events in Athens and the latest developments in the Greek financial | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
crisis are being watched closely in Europe's financial markets. I think | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
the Greek situation is very serious today. This economist told me she | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
thinks Greece won't be able to meet the tough borrowing targets, set by | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
lenders, as part of the bailout deal. I don't think Greece will be | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
able to achieve the targets as they are set out today. I think | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
ultimately Greece will need more money but I think it's also a | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
decision that will come in the medium-term. If we are looking in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
the immediate issues for the euro area, there are other issue that is | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
need to be addressed but Greece will need more time, they will need | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
more money. As the Greek Prime Minister left today's meeting, he | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
was no clearer whether he'd get an extension on the deficit reduction | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
programme. He'll meet the German Chancellor on fri, and the next day | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
the French President. -- on Friday. Two key players, he really needs to | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
get on side. Coming up on tonight's programme: | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
On the highest peaks in the United Kingdom, lighting the Paralympic | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
flame, despite the weather. A website in the United States has | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
published photographs showing Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Hotel room. The pictures were apparently taken at a party with | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
friends in his hotel suite, during a private weekend break. St James's | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
Palace has confirmed the photos are of Harry but won't comment any | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
further. Please stand for His Royal Highness, | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Prince Henry of Wales, representing Her Majesty the Queen. He was last | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
seen in Britain at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, with | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
the world looking on, Prince Harry was there as the Queen's personal | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
representative. A few days later and a very different Harry was on | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
display, in Las Vegas in a swimming pool in a nightclub. He was there | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
with friends on what officials say was a short break from his military | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
duties. But what was what happened later, in his hotel suite that's | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
causing acute embarrassment to the third in line to the British throne. | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
An American gossip website published photographs of Prince | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
Harry, naked, apparently playing strip billiards. A woman companion | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
also appears to be naked. The mainstream media here in Britain | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
has so far chosen not to publish the photographs, mindful, no doubt, | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
that Lord Justice Leveson is currently writing his report on the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
British press. For Harry, the episode is an unfortunate reminder | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
of earlier times when his judgment was called into question. But more | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
recently the image of a partying Prince has been replaced by | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
something more level-headed. A caring Prince, fulfiling his | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
military duties and bringing a sense of fun to his work as a | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
central member of the Royal Family. Those who know Harry, say the | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
pictures are a real setback for him. It really undermines, you know, the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
work he has been doing in the last six months. His char constable work | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
in South Africa and even his military career. -- his charitable | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
work. And that has taken off in a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
fantastic direction. "Queen and much of her family trying to relax | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
up in Balmoral, it has been left with royal officials in London to | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
deal with the kind of attention the Royal Family could do without. | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
Nothing is being said here about the photographs. There's probably | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
very little that can be said. However it is being pointed out | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
that everyone should have a reasonable expectation of privacy | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
in their own hotel room. Friends of Harry say this was a | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
young officer, letting his hair down before returning to military | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
duty. But of course it's never as straightforward as that, when | :17:51. | :18:00. | |
thatster is third in line to the British throne -- when that officer. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
Amnesty International says there is evidence that civilians are facing | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
indiscriminate attacks in the battle for Aleppo and it is warning | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
of an increase in the Ilic treatment of soldiers. -- ill- | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
treatment of Today one of their tactics emerged. Filmed by New York | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Times journalists, it shows them trying to turn a captured soldier | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
into a suicide bomber. The battle a month old, with no end | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
in sight. These men form one of the many units fighting the Assad | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
regime in the city. The group's leader a former accountant, | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
prepares his men for battle and this film, shot by New York Times | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
reporters, who joined them for five days, shows how far they are | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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willing to G-force force The journalists show them rigging a 300 | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
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Kyle yo bomb. Inside there is a prisoner, said to be a member of | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
the government militia accused of massacres. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Rebels say one confessed to beatings and rape. | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
This man is offered significant relts and a shur and he is told he | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
will be released as part of a prisoner exchange -- he is offered | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
cigarettes and a shower. He is told all he has to do is | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
drive on to a government checkpoint. What he doesn't know and the | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
reporters say they didn't realise, is that he would be transferred | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
into the truck, carrying a bomb, which rebels plan it detonate | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
remotely as he approaches the checkpoint. He is being tricked | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
into being an unwitting suicide bomber. In the moment the rebel | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
fighters return disappointed, when they press the detonator, the bomb | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
failed to explode. What essentially is happening there, it seems, is | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the attempted murder of a captive which would be classed as war crime. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Certainly the scale of the abuses happening in Syria right now, by | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
the armed opposition, do not match the crimes against humanity | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
happening from the Syrian government. What this video does is | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
provide a new insight into some of the tactics employed in the pivotal | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
battle that's under way for Aleppo. Neither side can afford to lose, so | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
the tactics are becoming more extreme. It's here that the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Government has first started using fighter jets to bomb built-up areas | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
and it is also here that some rebel units have been accused of the | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
summary execution of prisoners. As the fighting continues, the level | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
of brutality is increasing. The Government responsible for the | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
lion's share but it is the civilians who are bearing the brub. | :20:54. | :21:04. | |
Tonight David Cameron has spoken to the US President, brak and the | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
French President, Francois Hollande, and Gordon joins me now. What has | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
emerged? The conversations? Well in conversations with the French and | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
American Presidents, the Prime Minister talked about how to build | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
on existing support to the opposition forces in Siria. It is | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
non-lethal support, so they are not supplying arms it the kinds of | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
rebel groups we saw in the report. The other thing that I think is | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
significant is that Downing Street said both David Cameron and the | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
American President ray greed that the use or threat of chemical | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
weapons was "kpwhreetly unacceptable" and would force them | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
to revisit their approach. -- "completely unacceptable." That | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
echos language that President Obama used when he warned the Syrians | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
about chemical weapons, it was a redline saying, that they were to | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
use the weapons, then perhaps their calculus about intervening might | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
change. In a seas' Mars Rover has made its first test drive, moving | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
just a few metres. -- NASA's Mars Rover. | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
Pallab Ghosh has the latest details on the mission. Tyre tracks on a | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
distant planet. Curiosity has just taken its first short journey on | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
the martian surface. The day began with a little wiggle of its wheel. | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
Then, at mission control, engineers sent instructions for the Rover to | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
roll. If this operation failed, the long journey to Mars would have | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
been in vain. Straight to the good stuff and put | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
up the image from today. The very beautiful image. I'm pleased to | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
report that Curiosity today had our first successful drive on Mars. | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
APPLAUSE And this is what Curiosity will be | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
exploring. Will - a vast crater who's rocks the Rover will spend | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
the next two years studying in incredible detail. Curiosity here | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
is the most sophisticated piece of equipment ever to have land on | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
another planet. Its laser can assess the chemical composition of | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
nearby rocks. It is the first Rover on the surface of Mars to be able | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
it drill and analyse samples. All this data can then be sent back to | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Earth, along with the most detailed images yet of the martian surface. | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
We will be driving only short bits in the beginning but eventually we | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
will be able to go maybe 100m each day. There will always be new | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
science targets and new questions coming up river time we stop the | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Rover and look around. The science can now begin. By studying the | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
crater, layer by layer, scientists hope to learn whether this now dead | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
planet could once have supported life, billions of years ago. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
A week to go before the biggest Paralympics ever get under way in | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
London, and the flames for the torch relay have been lit in poor | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
weather on the highest peaks of England, Scotland, Wales and | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
Northern Ireland. James Pearce reports from Snowdon. | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
Four flames lit on the highest peaks of the four nation up the | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
United Kingdom. Next week they'll be merged to form London's | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
Paralympic flame. At Snowdon, Lord Coe was lead big example, choosing | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
a three-hour climb, rather than a leisurely train ride to the top. I | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
might have wondered if he'd made the right decision, as the clouds | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
began to roll in. But eventually he and his team of scouts made it to | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
the top. A well-earned warm cup of tea. While Wales' Paralympic torch | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
was lit from the flame. Then, just a few does more steps to Snowdon's | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
summit. The contrast could hardly be | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
greater, with the sunshine of ancient Olympia for the lighting of | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the Olympic flame back in May but the symbolism is similar and the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
organisers hope the end result will be the same, one of the greatest | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
games ever staged. He was on top of Snowdon but after the success of | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
the Olympics, probably feeling on top of the world and now in | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
confident mood. We get the Paralympics in this country. You | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
know, a lot of our competitors are household names. This is just a | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
great way of really starting the flame on its journey to the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
Paralympic stadium. The weather was little better at the other | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
locations around the UK. This was the lighting at the top of Ben | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Nevis in Scotland. In Northern Ireland, there were numerous failed | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
attempts before eventual success. And in England, they had to use a | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
tarpaulin for shelter. It was pretty difficult. It did take a | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
little longer than expected. It did start hailing at one point and was | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
very windy but with a bit of tender, loving kai, we managed to get the | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
flame lit. -- loving care. Meanwhile, thousands of | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Paralympians arrived in London. More than three-quarterings of | :26:17. | :26:19. |