:00:26. > :00:28.A packed commuter train crashes outside Paris, killing at least six
:00:28. > :00:31.people. Dozens of others were injured, both
:00:31. > :00:34.on the train and at the station where it derailed.
:00:34. > :00:37.We'll be live at the scene with the latest on France's worst rail
:00:37. > :00:40.accident for over 20 years. Also tonight: New concerns over the
:00:40. > :00:42.Dreamliner after a fire on board an Ethiopian Airlines jet at Heathrow.
:00:42. > :00:45.Boeing says it's investigating. Remembering Lee Rigby, the soldier
:00:45. > :00:50.stabbed to death outside his barracks in Woolwich, is laid to
:00:50. > :00:53.rest. A call to arms in the struggle to go
:00:53. > :00:55.to school. The Pakistani teenager nearly killed by the Taliban speaks
:00:55. > :01:05.out at the UN. And the veteran broadcaster and
:01:05. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:23.one pair and can change the world. And veteran broadcaster and
:01:23. > :01:28.globetrotter Alan Wicker has died. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:28. > :01:38.News, more umpiring controversy in the opening Ashes test. This time in
:01:38. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:48.England's favour, as they lead Good evening.
:01:48. > :01:51.A huge emergency operation is underway in France after an
:01:51. > :01:57.intercity train derailed at high speed in a Paris suburb, killing at
:01:57. > :02:01.least six people. The packed train came off the rails as it approached
:02:01. > :02:05.the station of Bretigny-sur-Orge. President Francois Hollande said it
:02:05. > :02:15.was too early to know the cause and that now was a time to think of
:02:15. > :02:22.those killed or injured. Hugh Schofield is at the scene.
:02:22. > :02:26.Good evening. This is a small commuter town, about 20 kilometres
:02:26. > :02:30.south of Paris. It is idle to say that tonight the atmosphere is one
:02:30. > :02:35.of shock, horror and utter sadness. This is as close as we can get to
:02:35. > :02:40.the scene. About 100 yards in that direction as the railway line. Up
:02:40. > :02:43.there, the rescue teams are still working, sifting through the
:02:43. > :02:48.debris, and we think still looking for victims at the end of what we
:02:48. > :02:56.now know is the worst French rail accident since 1988.
:02:56. > :03:02.A commuter town south of Paris, 5:15pm. An InterCity train leaves
:03:02. > :03:06.its track and careers across the platform onto another line. The
:03:06. > :03:10.scene at the station, one of appalling devastation. The crashed
:03:10. > :03:14.train was full. For many it was the start of the summer holiday and at
:03:14. > :03:19.rush hour the platform was also crowded.
:03:19. > :03:25.TRANSLATION: I felt the coach was coming off the rails. Suitcases fell
:03:25. > :03:30.on top of people. People started screaming and completely panicked.
:03:30. > :03:38.We were on the platform. We heard a big explosion, saw a lot of smoke
:03:38. > :03:40.and then everybody was screaming. major emergency plan has been
:03:40. > :03:45.activated, with hundreds of rescue workers at the scene and the injured
:03:45. > :03:49.very to hospital, some by her. Heavy machinery has been called in to cut
:03:49. > :03:53.into the worst hit of the coaches, which was mangled in the crash, and
:03:53. > :03:58.where it is fear there may be more victims. As the horrifying details
:03:58. > :04:04.emerged, the president cuts short his scheduled to come and express an
:04:04. > :04:07.nation's solidarity. TRANSLATION: Let's think about the
:04:07. > :04:14.victims, the families and the injured. Let's thank the emergency
:04:14. > :04:18.services. The focus is on helping victims, but already questions are
:04:18. > :04:23.being asked. How could a train simply jumped the tracks? Experts
:04:23. > :04:28.say it is an extremely rare kind of accident. Some have spoken of the
:04:28. > :04:35.train almost bucking as it entered the station, before ploughing out of
:04:35. > :04:39.control. It is far too early to talk about causes, but one focus will be
:04:39. > :04:45.the news that in the last weeks there has been work on the line just
:04:45. > :04:47.north of here, where the train would have just passed through. It is far
:04:47. > :04:50.too early to know whether that is anything to do with it but it will
:04:50. > :04:54.be a focus of the investigation which has opened.
:04:54. > :04:55.There were dramatic scenes at Heathrow Airport today after a fire
:04:55. > :04:59.broke out on board a Boeing Dreamliner. The Ethiopian Airlines
:04:59. > :05:03.jet was parked on a stand at the time and no passengers were on
:05:03. > :05:05.board. The airport was closed for over an hour. The incident's renewed
:05:05. > :05:09.concerns about the safety of the Dreamliner fleet, which was grounded
:05:09. > :05:19.worldwide earlier this year because of fires caused by faulty batteries.
:05:19. > :05:21.
:05:21. > :05:25.Richard Westcott reports. The world's most advanced airliner,
:05:25. > :05:30.on fire again. You can clearly see the damage just in front of the tail
:05:30. > :05:36.after this Boeing Dreamliner caught fire on the ground at Heathrow. No
:05:36. > :05:42.one was on board at the time. It sparks memories of this. Six months
:05:42. > :05:46.ago a Dreamliner battery caught fire in Boston. And barely a week later,
:05:46. > :05:50.we had another Dreamliner forced into an emergency landing in Japan,
:05:51. > :05:55.again battery problems. The whole fleet was grounded for three months,
:05:55. > :06:02.while Boeing struggled to fix their battery. In the end, they sealed it
:06:02. > :06:06.in a steel box, designed to withstand an explosion. We are
:06:06. > :06:09.currently 15,000 feet above Ethiopian.
:06:09. > :06:14.Back in April, I flew on the very same plane that caught fire today.
:06:14. > :06:19.It was full of Boeing executives, telling me they were proud their
:06:19. > :06:23.star performer was back in the skies. We enclosed the battery in a
:06:23. > :06:29.stainless steel case to ensure that if there is a problem it is isolated
:06:29. > :06:32.and we can continue safe operation. Boeing's shares have fallen sharply
:06:32. > :06:37.to Mike, wiping billions of the value but one industry expert says
:06:37. > :06:41.it should not affect orders. Airlines have wanted this plane and
:06:41. > :06:46.have waited years because of delays in production. The plane has
:06:46. > :06:49.extremely good fuel economics, good comfort for passengers. There is
:06:49. > :06:53.nothing else available to compare. Because of the focus on high fuel
:06:53. > :06:58.prices, they need that plane now. There is nowhere else to go and I do
:06:58. > :07:03.not think they will cancel orders. This was not the only Dreamliner to
:07:03. > :07:07.have a problem today. A UK airline diverted one plane back home after
:07:07. > :07:11.what it called a technical issue, although it does not seem connected.
:07:11. > :07:15.Boeing has a lot riding on the Dreamliner, but it has been riddled
:07:15. > :07:21.with problems. We still do not know what caused today's fire. The plane
:07:21. > :07:26.was sitting empty, not due to far -- fly for another six hours. But if it
:07:26. > :07:33.was caused by the battery, Boeing's flagship, state-of-the-art airliner
:07:33. > :07:37.could be grounded once again. Thousands of people lined the
:07:37. > :07:43.streets of Bury today to pay their respects at the funeral of Fusilier
:07:43. > :07:49.Lee Rigby, the 25-year-old soldier killed outside his barracks in May.
:07:49. > :07:56.His family were joined by hundreds of comrades from his regiment.
:07:56. > :08:01.This was a military funeral. A Fusiliers remembered by the soldiers
:08:01. > :08:07.he fought alongside, and the Prime Minister. But for the's family,
:08:07. > :08:12.thoughts of a brother, a husband and a father. -- be's family. The
:08:12. > :08:21.youngest mourner was his two-year-old son, Jack. The message
:08:21. > :08:29.on his T-shirt, my daddy, my hero. Today, the family were not alone. In
:08:29. > :08:35.the July heat, strangers standing side-by-side. No cameras were
:08:35. > :08:43.allowed inside the church. But outside, people listened to stories
:08:43. > :08:47.of pride relayed to the crowd. we, his regimental family, salute a
:08:47. > :08:54.form -- fallen comrades, a talented soldier and musician, a
:08:54. > :09:00.larger-than-life character. That pride was not just felt by fellow
:09:00. > :09:04.soldiers, but also his family. was always so proud to put on his
:09:04. > :09:09.uniform and take part. It was something he always wanted to do. He
:09:09. > :09:17.said that when Jack got older, he would want to take him back down so
:09:17. > :09:27.that Jack could experience it as well. And in Woolwich, the place
:09:27. > :09:27.
:09:27. > :09:36.where he was murdered, colleagues stopped to show their respect.
:09:36. > :09:41.has become a hero. Whatever the intention was, it has backfired. The
:09:41. > :09:45.closet has made him into the hero and the martyr. We have had letters
:09:45. > :09:53.and cards from all over the world. We believe this will unite the
:09:53. > :09:57.country. And their hero was taken away for a private burial, for his
:09:57. > :10:06.family to remember not only the soldier, but the boy they called
:10:07. > :10:12.Riggers, and the father who was always smiling.
:10:12. > :10:15.West Midlands police say they are treating an explosion near a mosque
:10:15. > :10:20.in Tipton as a suspected act of terrorism. Homes were evacuated and
:10:20. > :10:24.streets sealed off following the blast. Jeremy Cooke reports.
:10:24. > :10:30.It is a quiet suburban neighbourhood, but this feels like a
:10:30. > :10:36.major incident. A loud explosion near to the mosque at 1pm, and with
:10:36. > :10:42.nails scattered across the area, it looks like a deliberate attack.
:10:42. > :10:47.People are terrified, very scared and shaken. I heard it about a mile
:10:47. > :10:53.away. So people could even hear that. I had a lot of friends
:10:53. > :10:57.telephoning me that there was a big blast. With streets cordoned off,
:10:57. > :11:03.bomb disposal teams moved in, sniffer dogs and anti-terrorist
:11:03. > :11:10.police. No casualties, not much damage, but police say it is gravely
:11:10. > :11:14.serious. Someone looked to cause serious arm or injury to people or
:11:14. > :11:19.property. -- harm. That leads us to have a working assumption at the
:11:19. > :11:25.moment, based on what we know now, that this is possibly an act of
:11:25. > :11:28.terrorism. It comes three weeks and five miles after a similar explosion
:11:28. > :11:33.at a mosque in Walsall. They are also treating that as a terrorist
:11:33. > :11:36.incident. Some have made the connection between this incident and
:11:36. > :11:42.today's funeral of Drummer Lee Rigby. The local MP thinks there may
:11:42. > :11:48.be a link. It is strange that it has happened on the same day as the
:11:48. > :11:53.funeral. A couple of weeks after the Walsall bombing. And the timing of
:11:53. > :11:58.it, at Ramadan, when people would normally be at prayer, there is a
:11:58. > :12:03.lot of links there. There is calm here tonight, but still plenty of
:12:03. > :12:06.questions, and a major police investigation already underway.
:12:06. > :12:09.There has been violence in parts of Belfast tonight following the annual
:12:09. > :12:16.12th of July parade. Water cannon was used on rioters in North Belfast
:12:16. > :12:23.after police were attacked with bricks and bottles. The Democratic
:12:23. > :12:25.Unionist party MP, Nigel Dodds, has been injured, according to a party
:12:25. > :12:29.spokesman. The police had made clear that they
:12:29. > :12:36.would not allow this parade to go any further, that they would enforce
:12:36. > :12:40.a ruling preventing it from passing a nationalist area in north Belfast.
:12:40. > :12:46.But many were determined to test that with violence. They attacked
:12:46. > :12:49.police lines and police officers. Several were injured and had to be
:12:49. > :12:54.carried away by colleagues, as rioters tried to force their way up
:12:54. > :12:58.the road. Last year, when the parade was allowed to go through, there was
:12:58. > :13:05.trouble involving Republicans. This year, it is lawyer lists responsible
:13:05. > :13:09.for the rioting. -- lawyer lists. There will be some people who have
:13:09. > :13:15.said that violence has stopped this road and we think violence will open
:13:15. > :13:19.it again. Let me finish. That does not excuse the violence here.
:13:19. > :13:24.the body that rules on contentious marching restricted the parade, the
:13:24. > :13:27.Orange Order said they had created a crisis. Police knew there was
:13:27. > :13:31.frustration and anger at the decision but they said violence was
:13:31. > :13:36.not inevitable. But it is very clear tonight, as bricks and bottles
:13:37. > :13:40.rained down, that some have arrived determined to cause trouble. Water
:13:40. > :13:48.cannon was used to try to disperse rioters, and officers also used
:13:48. > :13:53.batons rounds. My niece was hit with a ballistic bullet. Standing doing
:13:54. > :13:56.nothing. We were told we could stand here. The Orange order called for
:13:56. > :14:02.multiple protests and there has been trouble in other parts of Belfast as
:14:02. > :14:12.well. The 12th of July commemorates a battle. Tonight, any celebrations
:14:12. > :14:14.
:14:14. > :14:18.have been scarred serious trouble. Nine months ago, a Pakistani
:14:19. > :14:24.schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, was shot by the Taliban. She was
:14:24. > :14:27.targeted for being an outspoken campaigner for girls' education.
:14:27. > :14:33.Today, she addressed 500 people at the United Nations in New York,
:14:33. > :14:38.calling for better education around the world. In her own country,
:14:38. > :14:44.almost 5.5 million children are not in school. Locally, 57 million
:14:44. > :14:49.children have no access to education.
:14:49. > :14:53.It is a teenage takeover of the United Nations. Not the usual
:14:54. > :15:01.diplomats, but young people from across the globe, here to demand
:15:01. > :15:03.education for every child. Their inspiration is Malala Yousafzai, who
:15:04. > :15:13.celebrated her 60th birthday with a speech the Taliban never wanted her
:15:13. > :15:20.to make. -- 60 birthday. I am the same Malala. My ambitions are the
:15:20. > :15:24.same. My hopes are the same. And my dreams are the same. The Taliban
:15:24. > :15:27.tried to kill Malala in Pakistan because she was campaigning for
:15:27. > :15:34.girls to have an education. Incredibly, she survived and was
:15:34. > :15:42.flown to Britain for treatment. Now her campaign has gone global.
:15:42. > :15:51.child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. Education
:15:51. > :15:57.is the only solution. Education first. Thank you. For Malala's
:15:57. > :16:02.family, this was a proud day. conveyed her message in a very
:16:02. > :16:08.powerful way, in powerful words. I think it should be heard by the
:16:08. > :16:14.communities where women and children's lives are violated.
:16:14. > :16:19.teenagers gathered at the UN were energised by her words. She was not
:16:19. > :16:23.just telling her story, she was conveying the dreams of many
:16:23. > :16:30.children around the world. It makes me want to stand up for myself.
:16:30. > :16:34.Every word she said was powerful. Malala and the other teenagers here
:16:34. > :16:37.are two remind world leaders of their pledge to have every child in
:16:38. > :16:43.education by 2015. But there are 57 million children who are not in
:16:43. > :16:50.school. How will that goal be achieved? As children are in charge
:16:50. > :16:58.today, the BBC's School Report team questioned Gordon Brown. How do we
:16:59. > :17:03.help other Malalas out there? happy to go to Pakistan, India,
:17:03. > :17:09.Afghanistan and other places and say this is not good enough that so many
:17:09. > :17:13.girls and boys are not at school. What began as Malala's drive for
:17:13. > :17:20.education has become a global Reilly and cry. This teenager is a leader
:17:20. > :17:24.on the world stage. Two major proposals designed to
:17:24. > :17:27.improve public health have been shelved by the government. Plans to
:17:27. > :17:31.introduce standardised plain packaging for cigarettes have been
:17:31. > :17:37.postponed. It has also emerged that ministers are abandoning plans for a
:17:37. > :17:41.minimum price for alcohol in England and Wales. Campaigners have reacted
:17:41. > :17:46.with fury and disappointment. For decades, the government's
:17:46. > :17:52.message on smoking has been clear. When you smoke, the chemicals you
:17:52. > :17:57.inhale cause mutations in your body. Millions have been spent on
:17:57. > :18:02.campaigns encouraging us to quit. How far are ministers planning to
:18:02. > :18:07.go? The plan was to follow Australia where six months ago shocking images
:18:07. > :18:12.replaced company logos on all cigarette packages. The aim, to
:18:12. > :18:16.prevent young people from getting hooked in the first place. But here
:18:16. > :18:20.ministers postponed plans indefinitely. When we consulted the
:18:20. > :18:24.public, there were a huge number of responses but they were split down
:18:24. > :18:30.the middle. I think it is right that we take our time and get the right
:18:30. > :18:35.decision. But health campaigners are disappointed. They say the new rules
:18:35. > :18:39.on how cigarettes are displayed and the ban on smoking in public faces
:18:39. > :18:43.have saved lives. One campaigner said it was a day of shame for the
:18:43. > :18:47.government. Who would want to go back to smoking in restaurants? At
:18:47. > :18:50.the time there is a bit of an outcry but afterwards everyone says that is
:18:50. > :18:56.the right thing to do. It is about leadership and making a difference
:18:56. > :19:01.to people's lives. With less than two years until the next election,
:19:01. > :19:04.it seems conservative ministers have taken on board messages from David
:19:04. > :19:09.Cameron's key adviser. He says they should be concentrating on core
:19:09. > :19:14.issues which matter to voters, not things which could prove unpopular.
:19:14. > :19:17.Campaigners say in the process they have ditched public health. It has
:19:17. > :19:24.also emerged that a plan for a minimum price on alcohol has been
:19:24. > :19:30.dropped. Even though David Cameron previously backed the move. I said
:19:30. > :19:35.we need to get to grip 's with the problem that is fuelling violence on
:19:36. > :19:40.our street. I think minimum pricing is the answer.
:19:40. > :19:46.Labour have accused the Prime Minister of putting the interests of
:19:46. > :19:48.supermarkets and tobacco companies first. What we are seeing with this
:19:48. > :19:55.government is a series of flagship health policies height the dust.
:19:55. > :19:58.They are giving in to the interests of big business. Health groups say
:19:58. > :20:02.politicians have wasted an ideal opportunity and it will be years
:20:02. > :20:06.before these proposals are back on the agenda.
:20:06. > :20:10.The fugitive American intelligence worker Edward Snowden has decided to
:20:10. > :20:15.request political asylum in Russia. He has been stuck for three weeks at
:20:15. > :20:21.an airport in Moscow after fleeing Hong Kong where he revealed US
:20:21. > :20:24.surveillance secrets. Moscow Airport today looked more like Moscow
:20:24. > :20:30.Circus. They had been invited here by Edward
:20:31. > :20:36.Snowden, writers, activists, lawyers and an MP. In Russia, Mr Snowden has
:20:36. > :20:42.been dubbed the invisible man. Where his guests sure they were going to
:20:42. > :20:47.find him? I do not know. I got the e-mail signed by Edward Snowden
:20:47. > :20:53.inviting me to come and have a meeting. Pursued by the media, the
:20:53. > :20:57.delegation was led through the airport to the transit zone, which
:20:57. > :21:02.the fugitive intelligence analyst has made his own. For nearly three
:21:02. > :21:06.weeks there has been a media frenzy around Edward Snowden. Journalists
:21:06. > :21:09.have been scouring Moscow Airport for the slightest sign of him. Now
:21:09. > :21:17.we are led to believe he is behind this door but we are not allowed
:21:17. > :21:23.through. I had a family, a home in Paradise... This amateur video from
:21:23. > :21:30.the meeting is the first image of Edward Snowden since he fled to
:21:30. > :21:35.Russia, prove that he is still stuck at Moscow Airport.
:21:35. > :21:39.Meeting over, Mr Snowden's guests were back in the spotlight, to
:21:40. > :21:45.announce that the 30-year-old American was requesting asylum in
:21:45. > :21:51.Russia, but only temporarily. Eventually, he wants to travel to
:21:51. > :21:58.Latin America. Did he say which country? He kept saying Latin
:21:59. > :22:06.America. He is serious about Venezuela was my impression.
:22:06. > :22:11.Washington is unimpressed. Providing a platform to Edward Snowden runs
:22:11. > :22:15.counter to Russia's produced declarations of neutrality and that
:22:15. > :22:21.they have no control over his presence at the airport.
:22:21. > :22:25.The Kremlin knows that America wants him back but Russia has made it
:22:25. > :22:29.clear, it won't be handing Edward Snowden over.
:22:29. > :22:37.Cricket, and it was a good day for England in the first Ashes test at
:22:37. > :22:42.Trent Ridge. -- Trent Bridge. They had a leader of the Australians at
:22:42. > :22:47.the close but there is controversy over Stuart Broad as Joe Wilson
:22:47. > :22:52.reports. Friday night at Trent Bridge and this is Stuart broad
:22:52. > :22:59.walking. You can see that, obvious. It was
:22:59. > :23:06.not two hours earlier. Sometimes a dismissal is obvious. Australia kept
:23:06. > :23:11.making breakthroughs. They were held at primarily by Ian Bell. Stuart
:23:11. > :23:14.Broad was giving crucial support until he edged the ball to
:23:14. > :23:20.Australia's captain Michael Clarke. Except the umpire did not give him
:23:20. > :23:24.out and Stuart Broad stayed put. Australia have chances to ask for TV
:23:24. > :23:29.replays but they had already used them so while we watched images
:23:29. > :23:36.clearly showing broad was out, he stayed put. Australia were furious.
:23:36. > :23:41.Should a batsmen be honest and walk? They have two weight for the
:23:41. > :23:45.decision the umpire makes and you respect the umpire's decision. But
:23:45. > :23:55.there are issues about the spirit of the game. We played hard and fair.
:23:55. > :23:57.
:23:57. > :24:02.You make a judgement and wait for the umpire's position. With or
:24:02. > :24:07.without the spirit of cricket, this test match will continue but what
:24:07. > :24:12.about technology? TV replays were brought into cricket specifically to
:24:12. > :24:18.reduce the mistakes, howlers. Here, at a crucial stage, we have seen one
:24:18. > :24:21.of the biggest howlers anyone can remember.
:24:21. > :24:28.One of television's best-known figures, the veteran broadcaster
:24:28. > :24:31.Alan worker has died. He was 87. He travelled the world to report on the
:24:31. > :24:36.unusual and bizarre for his Whicker's World series, interviewing
:24:36. > :24:43.all sorts of people from the beautiful to be brutal dictator.
:24:43. > :24:47.David Sillitoe looks back at his life. In an age where the jet set
:24:47. > :24:57.really was an exclusive club, if you wanted to travel the world, you went
:24:57. > :24:58.
:24:58. > :25:02.with Alan worker. We are in tropical Australia, halfway up Cape York.
:25:02. > :25:07.brash, air-conditioned nightmare where we wait forever under neon for
:25:07. > :25:14.a jackpot that never turns up. style was debonair, the words, judge
:25:14. > :25:19.for yourself. Hello. They are charming, aren't they? If they are
:25:19. > :25:22.not, they jolly well ought to be because they are students at a
:25:22. > :25:26.London charm school. If it is a police -- place where the police
:25:26. > :25:32.have refused to come, I am not sure why I am here.
:25:32. > :25:36.The blazer, the easy charm, the son of an army officer lured his craft
:25:36. > :25:41.in an army film unit in the Second World War. That led to Fleet Street
:25:41. > :25:50.and in the 50s, the BBC Tonight programme. Whicker's World
:25:50. > :25:55.introduced us to to how dictators treat their generals. The president
:25:55. > :26:05.knows the form, knows how to keep them worried and at a distance.
:26:05. > :26:09.
:26:09. > :26:15.There goes his promotion. And when it came to fame, the Monty
:26:15. > :26:20.Python sendup was all the proof you needed. And Python and TV
:26:20. > :26:25.globetrotter Michael Palin today paid tribute along with Michael
:26:25. > :26:31.Parkinson, Stephen Fry and the TV executive Michael Grade who said he
:26:31. > :26:35.had a style often imitated but never equalled. It has been a lot of fun.
:26:35. > :26:40.The excitement, the unexpected characters, the occasional glass of