:00:00. > :00:08.President Trump finally condemns the racist violence
:00:09. > :00:11.in Virginia at the weekend which left one woman dead.
:00:12. > :00:14.He'd been criticised for not specifically denouncing
:00:15. > :00:16.the extremists after a car rammed into people protesting
:00:17. > :00:26.Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name
:00:27. > :00:28.are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis,
:00:29. > :00:39.A massive mudslide and flooding in West Africa kills at least 300
:00:40. > :00:42.people in Sierra Leone - the death toll is expected to rise.
:00:43. > :00:45.The Government is planning to push for a temporary customs
:00:46. > :00:47.union after Brexit to try to stop chaos
:00:48. > :00:51.Celebrations in Pakistan to mark the 70th anniversary
:00:52. > :00:53.of the country's creation - but it brings back memories
:00:54. > :01:03.of the violence that tore through communities.
:01:04. > :01:08.I'm in Lahore, and we will be asking whether 70 years on, Pakistan can
:01:09. > :01:09.claim to be a country at ease with itself.
:01:10. > :01:12.And the bongs of Big Ben - why they will fall silent
:01:13. > :01:20.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:01:21. > :01:22.Cristiano Ronaldo gets a five-match ban for pushing the referee
:01:23. > :01:44.who sent him off against Barcelona last night.
:01:45. > :01:51.President Trump has condemned the white supremacists and neo-Nazis
:01:52. > :01:54.who took part in the weekend's violent demonstrations in Virginia.
:01:55. > :01:56.One woman died when a car was driven into a group
:01:57. > :01:58.of people who were protesting against the far-right
:01:59. > :02:03.Donald Trump has faced criticism for failing to speak out
:02:04. > :02:06.in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
:02:07. > :02:10.But this afternoon, he said racism was evil and those who caused
:02:11. > :02:11.violence in its name were criminals and thugs.
:02:12. > :02:21.Our North American editor Jon Sopel reports.
:02:22. > :02:25.Vacation suspended, the president return to Washington this morning
:02:26. > :02:29.from his holiday to meet the director of the FBI and the Attorney
:02:30. > :02:35.General following the weekend violence in Charlottesville.
:02:36. > :02:38.Meanwhile in the University of Virginia town, there were scuffles
:02:39. > :02:43.outside the court where James Alex Fields appeared this morning on
:02:44. > :02:50.murder charges after a car ploughed into antiracism protesters. Oh my
:02:51. > :02:57.god, people are badly hurt. Oh, my God. The president "Everyone's to
:02:58. > :03:01.blame response" and silence until now lit a firestorm of criticism. So
:03:02. > :03:04.why has Donald Trump been so unusually tongue tied over this?
:03:05. > :03:09.Well, the number of fully paid-up white supremacists maybe small. The
:03:10. > :03:13.number who have sympathies is probably far larger, and they were
:03:14. > :03:16.among the most vociferous supporters of him last November. Certainly, his
:03:17. > :03:23.surrogates have condemned the far right, but Donald Trump reluctantly
:03:24. > :03:27.so today, 48 hours on, a dramatic shift in language from the embattled
:03:28. > :03:32.president. He sounded tents. There was no freewheeling as he gripped
:03:33. > :03:38.the lectern gripped every word on the autocue, his eyes barely moving.
:03:39. > :03:43.Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals
:03:44. > :03:48.and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and
:03:49. > :03:54.other hate groups that are pertinent to everything we hold dear as
:03:55. > :03:58.Americans -- they are repugnant to everything we hold dear. We are a
:03:59. > :04:02.nation founded on the truth, that all of us are created equal. We are
:04:03. > :04:09.equal in the eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law, and we are
:04:10. > :04:15.equal under our constitution. While he said the right things today, I
:04:16. > :04:19.say, did that come from his heart or from his staff telling him what they
:04:20. > :04:24.thought he should say? Ron Cristie was a senior adviser to John W Bush
:04:25. > :04:30.and is now a Republican strategist. Has the president repair the damage?
:04:31. > :04:34.No. He has hurt himself with people like me you look at his actions and
:04:35. > :04:39.words and deeds and say he didn't go far enough. He didn't measure the
:04:40. > :04:42.sensitivity of what was happening in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rice
:04:43. > :04:48.to the occasion. And one other person for whom this was too little,
:04:49. > :04:52.too late is Kenneth Frazier, the boss of one of America's biggest
:04:53. > :04:53.pharmaceutical companies, and he has resigned from the
:04:54. > :05:04.President'sindustry forum, saying: Within minutes, Donald Trump fired
:05:05. > :05:19.back, saying on Twitter: Mr President, can you explain why
:05:20. > :05:25.you did not condemn those hate groups? Donald Trump has bent to
:05:26. > :05:28.criticism, something that has not happened often, but why it has taken
:05:29. > :05:30.two days to name these groups - well, those that question still
:05:31. > :05:39.hangs. How much pressure was he undertook
:05:40. > :05:43.condemned the extremists today? It's hard to exaggerate the pressure the
:05:44. > :05:47.president has felt in the past 48 hours. You could almost see the
:05:48. > :05:52.tension as he gave that statement in the White House this afternoon. And
:05:53. > :05:57.also the chorus of criticism from across the Republican Party. Not
:05:58. > :06:00.just the usual suspects, far wider than that. So it became inevitable
:06:01. > :06:05.that Donald Trump had to say something today that would meet the
:06:06. > :06:08.concerns of those people. One other thing to note that was interesting
:06:09. > :06:14.was that what Donald Trump said on Saturday wasn't just an oversight,
:06:15. > :06:18.an omission. That had been carefully thought through and it was decided
:06:19. > :06:21.that he wouldn't say that. One other thing he didn't mention today was
:06:22. > :06:25.that this was an act of domestic terrorism, which is something the
:06:26. > :06:31.Attorney General and the vice president have both described the
:06:32. > :06:34.events in Charlottesville as being. The danger for Donald Trump is that
:06:35. > :06:38.on the one side, he has now offended the far right and he may not have
:06:39. > :06:43.done enough, maybe too little, too late for the centre ground. So that
:06:44. > :06:47.is the political danger. But events move at such a pace in Washington
:06:48. > :06:52.that I suspect that by the end of this week, we will have discussed
:06:53. > :06:53.about 15 other topics. Jon Sopel in Washington, thank you.
:06:54. > :06:57.At least 300 people are feared dead in West Africa after a massive
:06:58. > :07:02.Torrential rain caused a hillside to collapse
:07:03. > :07:05.on the outskirts of the capital, Freetown, burying houses in mud.
:07:06. > :07:07.The number of casualties is expected to rise,
:07:08. > :07:09.with hundreds of bodies thought to be still trapped
:07:10. > :07:18.Our correspondent Umaru Fofana is in Sierra Leone,
:07:19. > :07:21.Our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins reports.
:07:22. > :07:24.Snatched video on a mobile phone shows a torrent of mud and water
:07:25. > :07:27.carrying away everything in its path.
:07:28. > :07:30.This driver risked his life on a bridge all but overwhelmed
:07:31. > :07:36.Freetown is an overcrowded coastal city with few defences
:07:37. > :07:41.They come every year, but not usually with quite such ferocity.
:07:42. > :07:45.About 250 bodies have been recovered so far.
:07:46. > :07:48.The authorities fear there could be many more trapped
:07:49. > :08:00.I went down to the spot myself and you could see people
:08:01. > :08:06.using their bare hands, pulling up corpses from beneath the mud.
:08:07. > :08:11.The road itself to the disaster area is almost impassable with massive
:08:12. > :08:13.rocks, and this area, called Mount Sugarloaf, caved
:08:14. > :08:16.in in the early hours of this morning and it has covered literally
:08:17. > :08:18.dozens of houses and hundreds of people, according
:08:19. > :08:20.to the country's vice president who just spoke to me,
:08:21. > :08:27.There are some ambulances parked here, but it is now a recovery
:08:28. > :08:39.Many victims lived in the flimsiest of homes, little more than shacks,
:08:40. > :08:45.A British charity has been helping to build far stronger houses,
:08:46. > :08:47.and its head, back in Britain, explained today how
:08:48. > :08:52.it is the poorest in Sierra Leone who are often the most defenceless.
:08:53. > :08:54.People build houses all up the sides of cliffs,
:08:55. > :08:58.with inadequate materials because generally, people
:08:59. > :09:02.People are trying to reclaim land from the sea and then the water just
:09:03. > :09:05.Six out of ten people in Sierra Leone live
:09:06. > :09:10.Survivors often risk everything to salvage a few possessions,
:09:11. > :09:13.trying to hang on to whatever they can despite the rising waters.
:09:14. > :09:21.The Government is pushing for a temporary customs union to be
:09:22. > :09:23.put in place when Britain leaves the European Union
:09:24. > :09:25.to try to smooth the way for business and prevent chaos
:09:26. > :09:30.There have been warnings about the extra pressure that ports
:09:31. > :09:34.could be under if they face a big increase in bureaucracy for goods
:09:35. > :09:39.Tomorrow, the Government is publishing its proposals -
:09:40. > :09:42.the first in what are being called "future partnership papers" -
:09:43. > :09:51.to try to ensure an orderly exit from the EU.
:09:52. > :09:58.Our correspondent Adam Fleming reports.
:09:59. > :10:07.This is Europe's second busiest port, Antwerp. Needless to say the
:10:08. > :10:10.temporary deal will look a lot like the current one. Under the customs
:10:11. > :10:14.union, the EU has one external border for the import of goods from
:10:15. > :10:19.abroad. If import taxes, known as Paris, are paid, they are paid when
:10:20. > :10:23.that product enters that area. It can then move around between
:10:24. > :10:27.countries, with no further charges and very few checks. The British
:10:28. > :10:33.government wants something similar as possible to this arrangement for
:10:34. > :10:39.a temporary period after in March 2019. Because it also means products
:10:40. > :10:42.created inside the EU will remain tariff free, crucial for British
:10:43. > :10:46.businesses from cars to drinks. What we don't want is Brexited come up
:10:47. > :10:51.against any borders with this kind of thing, whether it is bureaucratic
:10:52. > :10:57.or imports. That could change the way we work with Europe. But how
:10:58. > :11:00.will the two sites were together further in the future? The
:11:01. > :11:04.government will propose two scenarios. The first option, it
:11:05. > :11:07.describes as a highly streamlined customs arrangement. In plain
:11:08. > :11:11.English, using as much technology and is little red tape as possible
:11:12. > :11:18.to speed the flow of goods between the UK and the EU. Easier said than
:11:19. > :11:23.done, according to the man who represents logistics firms here. You
:11:24. > :11:27.need more. This is a people's business. You can play technology is
:11:28. > :11:32.taking over everything, you can make agreements as much as you want, but
:11:33. > :11:37.there are still custom peoples who will be in the game as well, and
:11:38. > :11:42.they will have strict agreements on how it is going to happen. You can't
:11:43. > :11:48.give that to a computer or to a system. That is impossible. The
:11:49. > :11:51.second option, the government calls a new customs partnership. That
:11:52. > :11:54.would be an unprecedented deal between the EU and the UK, where
:11:55. > :11:58.both sides would agree to do virtually everything the same when
:11:59. > :12:03.it came to customs, which would mean there would be no need for a board
:12:04. > :12:07.of goods between the two. And throughout, the UK will seek the
:12:08. > :12:11.power to do something it can't as a member of the EU - clinch trade
:12:12. > :12:14.deals around the globe. But all of it needs the agreement of EU
:12:15. > :12:22.leaders. Likely? Just ask running the docker -- Ronnie the docker. It
:12:23. > :12:31.is going to be hard, I think. Do you think they want to punish the UK?
:12:32. > :12:36.No. Maybe they want security for the next guy, otherwise if you play it
:12:37. > :12:41.well, another country will say, oh, it is not bad to leave the EU. And
:12:42. > :12:48.one of the hardest to convince will be the Irish Taoiseach. When Brexit
:12:49. > :12:52.threatens to drive a wedge between north and south, or between Britain
:12:53. > :12:55.and Ireland, we need to build more bridges and fewer borders. The Irish
:12:56. > :13:00.say they can't accept anything that brings any kind of border back to
:13:01. > :13:06.the island of Ireland. This is just the start. The UK's reflections on
:13:07. > :13:09.what it once in the future. Pleasing everyone at home, in Antwerp and
:13:10. > :13:12.elsewhere will not be easy, and the EU doesn't even want to stop talking
:13:13. > :13:15.about this until other issues are settled first. Adam Fleming, BBC
:13:16. > :13:16.News, Antwerp. Our political correspondent
:13:17. > :13:18.Ben Wright is in Westminster. So why's the Government
:13:19. > :13:27.pushing this idea now? I think the government is straining
:13:28. > :13:30.to show that it does have a route map for Brexit, that ministers are
:13:31. > :13:34.broadly going in the same sort of direction on these big questions and
:13:35. > :13:37.not scrapping over the steering wheel. They're clearly have been
:13:38. > :13:41.differences within the Cabinet on the question of how an interim
:13:42. > :13:46.temporary customs arrangement with the EU will work on Brexit day in 18
:13:47. > :13:50.months' time. This is designed to show that thinking is being done,
:13:51. > :13:54.that there is a plan and political unity and clearly, it is intended to
:13:55. > :13:57.reassure businesses that there will not be chaos. That is what the
:13:58. > :14:01.government are aiming for but as Adam said, my many questions about
:14:02. > :14:05.how these plans can be put into effect, and that will depend on
:14:06. > :14:08.negotiations in Brussels. That is a second reason why the government has
:14:09. > :14:13.started to talk about customs proposals. They want to try and
:14:14. > :14:16.hustle EU negotiators into talking about trade and customs and the
:14:17. > :14:21.future relationship between the EU and the UK much sooner than Brussels
:14:22. > :14:27.intend, because Brussels thinks more progress has to be made on the
:14:28. > :14:30.narrow terms of divorce first, on the Brexit Bill Britain will have to
:14:31. > :14:33.pay and the rights of EU citizens. On the border between Northern
:14:34. > :14:38.Ireland and the Republic. And ministers he said that doesn't make
:14:39. > :14:41.sense, particularly on the Ireland question. They say you can't talk
:14:42. > :14:44.about how the border will work unless you have cracked some of
:14:45. > :14:49.these questions about customs and trade. That is why they are trying
:14:50. > :14:53.to subtly bring it on the table. Negotiations will resume at the end
:14:54. > :14:55.of August, and I think this is the UK Government trying to get on the
:14:56. > :14:59.front foot. Ben, thank you. Celebrations have been taking place
:15:00. > :15:02.in Pakistan as the country marks the 70th anniversary
:15:03. > :15:03.of its creation. At midnight on 14th August 1947,
:15:04. > :15:06.British colonial rule came to an end in India and the country
:15:07. > :15:09.was divided into two independent nations -
:15:10. > :15:12.India and Pakistan. The partition led to the movement
:15:13. > :15:16.of around 12 million people in one Many Muslims headed to west
:15:17. > :15:24.and east Pakistan, while millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed
:15:25. > :15:29.for India's new borders. It led to violent sectarian fighting
:15:30. > :15:32.in communities that had Reeta Chakrabarti is in
:15:33. > :15:48.Pakistan for us tonight. I am in Lahore and it has enjoyed
:15:49. > :15:52.one long St party today that has only just ended. Pakistanis have
:15:53. > :15:59.been celebrating the end of British colonial rule and the splitting off
:16:00. > :16:02.from India. Pakistan was a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, but
:16:03. > :16:08.there has been an ongoing debate about what kind of country it should
:16:09. > :16:12.be. I have been looking at the hopes of Pakistan's founding father and
:16:13. > :16:14.how differently his vision has been interpreted today.
:16:15. > :16:16.In Pakistan's former capital Karachi, Mohammad Jinnah's home is
:16:17. > :16:21.Jinnah led the creation of Pakistan, but today his legacy
:16:22. > :16:25.Just what sort of nation did he envisage?
:16:26. > :16:28.Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General.
:16:29. > :16:31.As the British left colonial India, Jinnah was desperate to secure
:16:32. > :16:37.The answer was a separate state, Pakistan.
:16:38. > :16:43.Our objective should be peace within and peace without.
:16:44. > :16:45.But peace seems often to have eluded this nation,
:16:46. > :16:50.Poverty and security remain major issues and the debate over
:16:51. > :16:58.For this leading politician, Jinnah's vision was for
:16:59. > :17:02.a secular Pakistan, one that hasn't been fulfilled.
:17:03. > :17:05.I think Mr Jinnah would still be looking at moving us forward
:17:06. > :17:12.He made it very clear, it tolerated all religions,
:17:13. > :17:16.but we haven't been exactly the epitome of total
:17:17. > :17:26.That's because others see Islam as central to Jinnah's vision.
:17:27. > :17:29.The constitution, they say, is Islamic in nature and successive
:17:30. > :17:33.governments have failed to implement it.
:17:34. > :17:37.What otherwise was the point they ask of creating Pakistan?
:17:38. > :17:42.TRANSLATION: Jinnah rebelled and struggled against secularism.
:17:43. > :17:45.There was secularism already in India with the Hindus
:17:46. > :17:50.and the British and Muslim identity was at risk.
:17:51. > :17:58.That is why he made Pakistan, an independent Islamic state.
:17:59. > :18:00.But others say Pakistan's real problem is not
:18:01. > :18:07.Its might is on display every evening at the border with India,
:18:08. > :18:09.with troops strutting and goose-stepping in a full-blooded
:18:10. > :18:15.Over a third of Pakistan's 70 years have been under military rule.
:18:16. > :18:23.The military were supposed to be a subordinate
:18:24. > :18:29.I think he never, never could have imagined that the military
:18:30. > :18:32.would have played such an important role and would have dominated
:18:33. > :18:40.He would be turning in his grave if he came to know that.
:18:41. > :18:42.The military was in ceremonial mode today with an airshow
:18:43. > :18:46.to mark the anniversary of Pakistan's creation.
:18:47. > :18:50.It is a public holiday and people were out in force in a mass show
:18:51. > :18:56.Jinnah's resting place is this magnificent mausoleum
:18:57. > :19:00.in Karachi, a fitting tribute to the first leader.
:19:01. > :19:02.He bequeathed to his people self-government and a democracy,
:19:03. > :19:05.but Pakistan still struggles with what its true
:19:06. > :19:20.Along with independence came partition with shocking violence on
:19:21. > :19:24.both sides. Our Pakistan correspondent has been speaking to
:19:25. > :19:29.those who fought, those who fled and those who gave shelter to potential
:19:30. > :19:30.victims of slaughter. A warning, his report contains some distressing
:19:31. > :19:34.In 1947 as British colonial rule ended, India was divided
:19:35. > :19:39.Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims who had lived in relative peace
:19:40. > :19:47.Amongst those involved in the violence was Muhammad Akram,
:19:48. > :19:52.He helped attack a Hindu politician who had been calling for calm
:19:53. > :19:59.TRANSLATION: Someone struck him on the head with a brick.
:20:00. > :20:04."Whoever doesn't hit him isn't a real man."
:20:05. > :20:07.Me and the rest of the crowd beat him to death.
:20:08. > :20:12.Do you ever regret your role in the killing?
:20:13. > :20:27.Up to 1 million people were killed in 1947,
:20:28. > :20:30.many of the most brutal attacks were on the trains carrying
:20:31. > :20:34.refugees into and out of Pakistan, across the divided
:20:35. > :20:43.Naseem Begam is the eldest of five generations of her family living
:20:44. > :20:49.The train she and her five-day-old baby were travelling on to Pakistan
:20:50. > :20:55.TRANSLATION: We hid under the luggage.
:20:56. > :20:59.They came on board slashing everyone, cutting their faces,
:21:00. > :21:05.There were piles and piles of bodies.
:21:06. > :21:13.Naseem lost almost all of her immediate family in the unrest.
:21:14. > :21:19.The horrors she witnessed continue to haunt her.
:21:20. > :21:25.I still clearly remember how they used to strip
:21:26. > :21:34.Even now I feel scared that any time someone might come and kill me.
:21:35. > :21:39.Atrocities were committed by both sides across the country,
:21:40. > :21:42.even here in these peaceful valleys north of Islamabad hundreds
:21:43. > :21:49.But amidst the horror there were heroes as well.
:21:50. > :21:52.Mehboob and his father secretly hid their Sikh neighbours
:21:53. > :21:58.TRANSLATION: One night there was a knock on our door,
:21:59. > :22:04.She said, "For the love of God save us.
:22:05. > :22:12.Mehboob is proud of what he and his family did.
:22:13. > :22:15.He remembers fondly the time when Sikhs and Muslims
:22:16. > :22:22.In Pakistan, though, many prefer to look to the future
:22:23. > :22:28.With each anniversary of partition there are fewer left
:22:29. > :22:45.There is optimism in present-day Pakistan, particularly among the
:22:46. > :22:49.young generation, but the challenges remain. Last month, the Prime
:22:50. > :22:54.Minister was forced to resign over corruption charges and security is a
:22:55. > :23:00.big issue, two big bomb attacks in recent weeks. Tomorrow night I will
:23:01. > :23:04.be reporting from Amritsar in India as that country celebrates its 70th
:23:05. > :23:07.For now from Lahore, it is back to you.
:23:08. > :23:10.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
:23:11. > :23:12.Ryanair is urging airports to do more to clamp down
:23:13. > :23:15.The call follows a BBC investigation which found
:23:16. > :23:18.the number of people arrested on suspicion of being drunk before
:23:19. > :23:22.or during their flight increased by 50% over the past year.
:23:23. > :23:26.A cyclist has gone on trial at the Old Bailey accused of running
:23:27. > :23:28.over and killing a pedestrian in February last year.
:23:29. > :23:31.Charlie Alliston, who was 18 at the time, was said to be
:23:32. > :23:33.going at nearly 20 miles per hour when he allegedly
:23:34. > :23:37.Mrs Briggs, who was 44 and a mother of two,
:23:38. > :23:40.suffered brain injuries and died in hospital days later.
:23:41. > :23:47.A ?200 million plan to build a bridge covered with trees over
:23:48. > :23:50.the River Thames in London has officially been abandoned.
:23:51. > :23:52.The Garden Bridge Trust said it failed to raise funds
:23:53. > :23:55.after the project lost the support of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
:23:56. > :23:57.More than ?40 million worth of taxpayers' money has already been
:23:58. > :24:09.A car has crashed into a pizzeria near Paris killing a young girl
:24:10. > :24:14.The incident happened in the town of Sept Sorts east of the capital.
:24:15. > :24:22.Our Europe Correspondent James Reynolds is in Paris for us tonight.
:24:23. > :24:26.France has been on high alert after a string of terrorist related
:24:27. > :24:37.A French Interior Ministry spokesman has told the BBC that the driver was
:24:38. > :24:43.a 32-year-old citizen, not previously known to the authorities,
:24:44. > :24:48.he is in detention, and there theory is he was trying to kill himself.
:24:49. > :24:53.That is from conversations with him and they are working on the
:24:54. > :24:57.understanding that his motive was personal and not political. That may
:24:58. > :25:01.change the scale of the reaction, but it will not do anything to
:25:02. > :25:07.lessen the fear and the grief of those caught up in his actions. This
:25:08. > :25:12.is a nervous time in France. Just last week a man drove a car into a
:25:13. > :25:16.group of soldiers in a Paris suburb. There is a national holiday coming
:25:17. > :25:18.up tomorrow and the entire country remains, as it has done for several
:25:19. > :25:21.remains, as it has done for several years, on alert.
:25:22. > :25:23.A rise in crime in the countryside is turning farmyards
:25:24. > :25:27.That's the warning from insurers after rural crime levels rose
:25:28. > :25:29.by a fifth in the first half of the year.
:25:30. > :25:31.Last year England bore the brunt of rural crime
:25:32. > :25:35.Next was Northern Ireland where countryside crime came
:25:36. > :25:43.Followed by Scotland with 1.6 million and Wales, ?1.3 million.
:25:44. > :25:46.Our Midlands Correspondent Sima Kotecha is at a farm
:25:47. > :25:51.on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border.
:25:52. > :25:54.For farmers, it's an added pressure - having to constantly think
:25:55. > :25:57.about their vehicles and animals being stolen by criminals targeting
:25:58. > :26:03.So this was the dome that was stolen.
:26:04. > :26:09.Just weeks ago, Will had his GPS systems stolen off his tractors,
:26:10. > :26:16.It makes you feel sick that someone has been in your shed.
:26:17. > :26:20.But they can just get in and take everything.
:26:21. > :26:23.And it is stolen to order as well, I would say.
:26:24. > :26:26.Because you're not going to sell it at your local car boot.
:26:27. > :26:29.Today's crime report says theft in rural parts of the country has
:26:30. > :26:31.been worse this year than in the first six
:26:32. > :26:36.We're seeing gangs of very well-organised thieves targeting
:26:37. > :26:40.tractors and equipment that's worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
:26:41. > :26:44.It is easily transportable to Europe.
:26:45. > :26:47.They can get there in a matter of hours, and also it is being
:26:48. > :26:53.As this form of crime increases, there are concerns that thieves
:26:54. > :26:59.And that is putting more pressure on farmers to remain one step ahead
:27:00. > :27:05.So now they are installing multiple CCTV cameras,
:27:06. > :27:09.electronic gates and, in some cases, they are using DNA
:27:10. > :27:13.markers on their sheep to protect them from rustlers.
:27:14. > :27:17.David is a dairy farmer who makes cheese.
:27:18. > :27:20.Last year, equipment was stolen from his workshop.
:27:21. > :27:23.Do you think farmers are doing enough to keep their farms safe?
:27:24. > :27:27.You shouldn't have to do so much, should you, but we are certainly
:27:28. > :27:31.I think we just need more police on the ground, really.
:27:32. > :27:34.And I know that is probably a tall order under the current climate.
:27:35. > :27:38.We can only protect ourselves to a certain extent.
:27:39. > :27:41.We have been broken into twice and we have had a horse trailer
:27:42. > :27:47.You know, how can you protect yourself against that?
:27:48. > :27:50.Ask any farmer and they will tell you life is tough.
:27:51. > :27:52.But the additional threat of theft makes that burden even
:27:53. > :28:05.Bernard Kenny, the man who tried to stop a right-wing extremist
:28:06. > :28:08.from murdering MP Jo Cox, has died.
:28:09. > :28:11.Mr Kenny - seen here in the middle at a memorial event -
:28:12. > :28:15.was stabbed when he tried to intervene.
:28:16. > :28:21.He was awarded the George Medal for his bravery.
:28:22. > :28:24.Next Monday, the bongs of Big Ben will fall silent for four years
:28:25. > :28:27.so that repairs can be carried out on its tower.
:28:28. > :28:30.It'll be the longest period its been silenced since it
:28:31. > :28:36.But Big Ben will still be heard during important national events
:28:37. > :28:40.such as New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday.
:28:41. > :28:43.Our political correspondent Leila Natthoo reports.
:28:44. > :28:49.These chimes have filled the Westminster air for more
:28:50. > :28:54.than a century and a half but soon, a four-year pause as the great bell,
:28:55. > :28:58.Big Ben, is silenced, so crucial repairs can
:28:59. > :29:03.If you can imagine running your car for 160 years nonstop,
:29:04. > :29:06.24 hours a day, it will need looking at, so that is what we are doing.
:29:07. > :29:10.We will be able to at this time, because it is such a long stoppage
:29:11. > :29:12.period, check absolutely everything on the clock.
:29:13. > :29:19.Still ticking, for now, but the clock mechanism needs attention.
:29:20. > :29:22.It is connected to the hammers that strike the bells.
:29:23. > :29:26.Piece by piece, it will be dismantled.
:29:27. > :29:32.And because the whole tower is being renovated, too,
:29:33. > :29:35.the construction workers cannot be subjected to the regular ringing.
:29:36. > :29:42.It's deafening to be at this close range without these
:29:43. > :29:47.But from next Monday, Big Ben and all the four smaller
:29:48. > :29:50.quarter bells will get a rest, depriving Westminster
:29:51. > :29:57.Repairs on the tower have already started and soon, the scaffolding
:29:58. > :30:02.Not quite the same sight to come and see.
:30:03. > :30:05.Big Ben is Big Ben and people want to see Big Ben,
:30:06. > :30:10.That would definitely be a bummer, for sure, to come all the way
:30:11. > :30:14.But you have to look at the advantages.
:30:15. > :30:16.If we are going to secure the tower for the future,
:30:17. > :30:18.for future generations, that far outweighs the inconvenience
:30:19. > :30:20.of having scaffolding up to two or three years.
:30:21. > :30:24.Big Ben will still be able to herald special events like the New Year
:30:25. > :30:26.and Remembrance Sunday, but in the long break
:30:27. > :30:29.from its constant ringing, a strange silence will descend here,
:30:30. > :30:32.in the absence of its reassuring sound.
:30:33. > :30:37.Leila Natthoo, BBC News, Westminster.
:30:38. > :30:53.Tonight more detail on the government's trade plans after
:30:54. > :30:56.Brexit. But can they sell them in Brussels? Join me now on BBC Two.
:30:57. > :30:59.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.