:00:00. > :00:00.The main suspect in the Barcelona terror attack
:00:07. > :00:12.22-year-old Younes Abouyaaquob is the man thought to have driven
:00:13. > :00:16.the van through the crowds on Las Ramblas, killing 13 people.
:00:17. > :00:19.Police say they found him in a village 25 miles
:00:20. > :00:26.from Barcelona, wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.
:00:27. > :00:28.They believe the terror cell behind the attacks was 12-strong.
:00:29. > :00:30.Eight suspects are dead and four are in custody.
:00:31. > :00:34.Millions of people see the first total eclipse to sweep
:00:35. > :00:40.From Oregon to North Carolina in 90 minutes, it wowed Americans
:00:41. > :00:49.The US Navy pauses operations worldwide after an American warship
:00:50. > :00:50.collides with a tanker near Singapore -
:00:51. > :00:56.The England striker who's accused the national team
:00:57. > :01:01.manager of discrimination gives her first TV interview.
:01:02. > :01:04.And crowds gather in Westminster as Big Ben chimes for the last
:01:05. > :01:10.time before four years of renovation work begins.
:01:11. > :01:13.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Wayne Rooney happy
:01:14. > :01:15.again in Manchester, but was his opener enough for
:01:16. > :01:39.Everton to take all three points from Manchester City?
:01:40. > :01:44.Police in Spain say they have shot dead the Moroccan man
:01:45. > :01:47.who is believed to have driven the van into the crowds in Barcelona
:01:48. > :01:51.The 22-year-old was found near a village about
:01:52. > :01:57.Younes Abouyaaquob was killed after he ran into a vineyard holding
:01:58. > :02:01.what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.
:02:02. > :02:05.The authorities in Spain say the 12 original suspects have
:02:06. > :02:11.all been killed or detained, but the operation is still ongoing.
:02:12. > :02:13.Our correspondent Tom Burridge is in Subirats where
:02:14. > :02:28.This is rural Catalonian wine country, 50 kilometres away from
:02:29. > :02:32.Barcelona. After running down 13 men, women and children on Las
:02:33. > :02:37.Ramblas and killing another man during his getaway, Younes
:02:38. > :02:46.Abouyaaqoub, the driver of the van, somehow made it here. But his flight
:02:47. > :02:50.from the security services came to a violent end.
:02:51. > :03:00.The hunt for a young man who murdered so many ended here. The
:03:01. > :03:06.normally tranquil part of Catalonian countryside, this afternoon swarmed
:03:07. > :03:11.with armed police. In the sky, officers checking for accomplices.
:03:12. > :03:22.But hunted for days, Younes Abouyaaqoub died out here on his
:03:23. > :03:31.own. The Catalan police have shot dead Younes Abouyaaqoub, driver of
:03:32. > :03:35.the van and the attack on Thursday causing the death of 13 people... It
:03:36. > :03:41.all happened in the hills above Barcelona.
:03:42. > :03:47.TRANSLATION: It is shocking for a terrorist to be in the village.
:03:48. > :03:50.Everyone knows each other here. Locals say Younes Abouyaaqoub was
:03:51. > :03:56.spotted by a woman this morning who tipped off police. He apparently
:03:57. > :03:59.then ran off into a field. In the space of nearly four days, Younes
:04:00. > :04:05.Abouyaaqoub had travelled out into the countryside here, tens of
:04:06. > :04:10.kilometres away from Barcelona. When confronted by police, he revealed he
:04:11. > :04:15.was wearing what appeared to be a suicide belts. One report said he
:04:16. > :04:19.shouted God is great in Arabic before officers shot him dead.
:04:20. > :04:25.Earlier today the manhunt moved up a gear. CCTV released of his movements
:04:26. > :04:29.after he drove a van indiscriminately down Las Ramblas.
:04:30. > :04:38.New images of a man motivated to kill as many as he could. We think
:04:39. > :04:44.this video, filmed by a local woman, shows the car he stole after the Las
:04:45. > :04:49.Ramblas attack. The owner was stabbed to death. He got out the
:04:50. > :04:54.vehicle with all of the dozens. Lots of police suddenly right on him in
:04:55. > :04:56.seconds. The police believe Younes Abouyaaqoub was part of a larger
:04:57. > :05:00.network which they have now dismantled. Five suspected members
:05:01. > :05:09.were shot dead when they try to carry out an attack last Thursday in
:05:10. > :05:21.the town of Cambrils. Four more have been arrested. Two were killed in an
:05:22. > :05:27.explosion including Abdelbaki Es Satty, an imam. The network's
:05:28. > :05:36.suspected ringleader. It was in the sleepy town of Ripoll that he
:05:37. > :05:41.preached, where it's believed he filled young minds with ideology and
:05:42. > :05:46.hate, among them Younes Abouyaaqoub. His murderous mission ended here.
:05:47. > :05:51.Born in Morocco, at 22 he became a killer in Spain.
:05:52. > :05:59.Our correspondences in Barcelona tonight. So the main suspect is dead
:06:00. > :06:03.but the investigation the police say continues. Do they think this is
:06:04. > :06:07.part of a bigger network? They believe they have got the network,
:06:08. > :06:11.they believed the 12 they have got means the network has been
:06:12. > :06:16.dismantled but that doesn't mean the investigations stop because they
:06:17. > :06:22.have so many more questions to ask. Was it just 12? Who did they know?
:06:23. > :06:26.Did they travel around Europe? They want to investigate the movements of
:06:27. > :06:32.the suspected ringleader who is now dead, the imam mentioned in Tom's
:06:33. > :06:36.report. Did he succeed in radicalising any other young sets of
:06:37. > :06:41.brothers? In the morning the four surviving members of this network
:06:42. > :06:44.will be driven to the authority of anti-terrorism investigators in
:06:45. > :06:49.Madrid who will seek answers to those questions. Tonight here at the
:06:50. > :06:52.top of Las Ramblas there will be some small, immediate relief that
:06:53. > :06:58.those responsible for the attack here and the attack in Cambrils have
:06:59. > :07:03.been taken off the street but the city know what the world has learned
:07:04. > :07:09.in recent years, the threat doesn't just stop because one particular
:07:10. > :07:10.network has been taken down. James, with the latest from Barcelona,
:07:11. > :07:11.thank you. The US Navy has ordered a pause
:07:12. > :07:14.in its worldwide operations to reassess safety measures
:07:15. > :07:16.after a collision between a US Ten sailors are still missing
:07:17. > :07:20.after the incident which happened The guided
:07:21. > :07:23.missile destroyer - the USS John S McCain -
:07:24. > :07:26.was sailing east of Singapore It's the second collision involving
:07:27. > :07:29.a US Navy ship in recent months. It then made it safely
:07:30. > :07:31.into dock in Singapore. From there our Asia Correspondent
:07:32. > :07:39.Karishma Vaswani reports. This is what happens
:07:40. > :07:41.when a massive oil tanker collides with a US warship -
:07:42. > :07:44.a gaping hole in the side of the USS John S McCain,
:07:45. > :07:49.an American destroyer with more It was on its way to Singapore when,
:07:50. > :07:57.just before dawn, it collided with this merchant vessel,
:07:58. > :07:59.the Liberian flagged Alnic MC, an oil and chemical tanker much
:08:00. > :08:06.larger than the warship. It's still not clear how
:08:07. > :08:08.the collision happened, but ten American sailors
:08:09. > :08:10.are still missing and five An international search and rescue
:08:11. > :08:16.operation is under way, involving the US, Singapore
:08:17. > :08:21.and neighbouring Malaysia. This is an international
:08:22. > :08:27.disaster for them. It's possible that a number, er,
:08:28. > :08:30.some combination of poor seamanship or some combination of things
:08:31. > :08:33.going wrong with the ship, actually physically wrong with the ship,
:08:34. > :08:38.that could have led to this. This collision couldn't have come
:08:39. > :08:41.at a more awkward time It's in the midst of its annual
:08:42. > :08:46.military drills with South Korea that was launched this week,
:08:47. > :08:48.and it follows another collision with another US warship earlier
:08:49. > :08:54.in the year with a merchant vessel. This trend demands
:08:55. > :08:58.more forceful action. As such, I've directed
:08:59. > :09:00.an operational pause be taken in all of our fleets
:09:01. > :09:06.around the world. I want our fleet commanders to get
:09:07. > :09:09.together with their leaders and their commands, to ensure that
:09:10. > :09:11.we're taking all appropriate immediate actions to ensure safe
:09:12. > :09:13.and effective operations And the US Defense Secretary,
:09:14. > :09:22.James Mattis, says there will be a wider investigation into US naval
:09:23. > :09:29.operations after the collision. The Chief of Naval Operations'
:09:30. > :09:31.broader enquiry will look at all related accidents,
:09:32. > :09:33.er, incidents at sea, He is going to look at all factors,
:09:34. > :09:41.not just the immediate ones, which will fall rightly under
:09:42. > :09:48.the Fleet Commander's investigation. All of this is raising questions
:09:49. > :09:51.about just how effective the world's most powerful navy is in this part
:09:52. > :09:54.of the world. Karishma Vaswani,
:09:55. > :09:59.BBC News, Singapore. Our correspondent Rupert
:10:00. > :10:12.Wingfield-Hayes is in Singapore, How embarrassing is this for the
:10:13. > :10:17.Americans? It is a huge embarrassment for the US. As you can
:10:18. > :10:22.tell from the response both from the Defence Secretary and from the Navy.
:10:23. > :10:25.The fact they are taking this operational pause across the globe
:10:26. > :10:29.is very significant of how seriously they are taking not just this
:10:30. > :10:33.incident off the coast of Singapore but there have actually been three
:10:34. > :10:38.incidents in the last two months. One here, one of the coast of South
:10:39. > :10:42.Korea and one of the coast of Japan in June where seven sailors were
:10:43. > :10:46.killed in a very similar incident to what happened here yesterday
:10:47. > :10:49.morning. Those investigations were looking to a number of different
:10:50. > :10:54.issues. They essentially want to find out if there is a systemic
:10:55. > :10:59.problem either in the training or operations of vessels in the region
:11:00. > :11:03.that's leading to these sorts of incidents happening. This is a very
:11:04. > :11:09.important region for the US Navy. Not only do we have the tensions on
:11:10. > :11:16.the Korean peninsula but we also have the US Navy facing off against
:11:17. > :11:20.the Chinese in the China Sea service has very serious implications for
:11:21. > :11:21.the credibility of the US Navy as it operates in east Asia and Southeast
:11:22. > :11:25.Asia. Rupert, thank you. For the first time in 99 years,
:11:26. > :11:28.a total eclipse has Millions of people watched
:11:29. > :11:37.as the moon passed in front of the sun, casting a deep
:11:38. > :11:39.shadow more than 60 miles It began on the west
:11:40. > :11:42.coast of America above Oregon, and in the space
:11:43. > :11:46.of about 90 minutes, swept across 13 Our science correspondent
:11:47. > :11:55.Pallab Ghosh joined the sky They came in their tens of
:11:56. > :12:03.thousands, like pilgrims, to the tiny town of Madras. They came to
:12:04. > :12:07.witness one of nature's greatest spectacles. It is quarter past ten
:12:08. > :12:11.in the morning but it seems like night-time, we are a few seconds
:12:12. > :12:17.away from the total eclipse. The moon has almost completely covered
:12:18. > :12:24.the sun, it looks like a smiling face in the sky. The sun DIMMs to an
:12:25. > :12:34.airy, pale light. Up above, a thin smile in the sky. And then a flash,
:12:35. > :12:38.a diamond ring, and then the moon blocks the sun's bright disc. Its
:12:39. > :12:44.atmosphere, normally washed away by the solar light, now appears as a
:12:45. > :12:57.halo around the moon. It seems like a shimmering black pearl, hanging in
:12:58. > :13:02.the sky. CHEERING. It was like a religious experience to me. I
:13:03. > :13:06.photographed it, I got some successful pictures, I cried. This
:13:07. > :13:10.is definitely something you have to see in person, you cannot describe
:13:11. > :13:16.it unless you have actually seen it. The eclipse crossed the entire US,
:13:17. > :13:22.ten states. A distance of 2500 miles in just 90 minutes. From
:13:23. > :13:30.coast-to-coast, it seemed everyone was interested. People were dazzled
:13:31. > :13:36.by the spectacle. The last time and eclipse crossed the country was
:13:37. > :13:43.nearly 100 years ago. Even American football pitches have been turned
:13:44. > :13:46.over to science. All across the US, at astronomers collected data they
:13:47. > :13:51.will send into Nasa. We would like to learn more about how these
:13:52. > :13:53.eclipses affect the planet and the atmosphere, if there's any
:13:54. > :14:00.atmospheric disturbance, if it's wind changes. For two incredible
:14:01. > :14:05.minutes, a tiny town became the centre of the universe as those he
:14:06. > :14:09.became the first in America to witness one of the great wonders of
:14:10. > :14:15.the solar system. Pallab Ghosh, BBC News, Madras.
:14:16. > :14:22.Although the great American eclipse is now over, because so many people
:14:23. > :14:28.were able to see it, it will live long in the American memory.
:14:29. > :14:31.Although the pictures show what an incredibly beautiful sight it is,
:14:32. > :14:37.you really have to be at a total eclipse to get the full impact of
:14:38. > :14:43.it. The light turns incredibly eerie, temperatures begin to fall,
:14:44. > :14:49.and then there's a flash and all of a sudden your whole world is turned
:14:50. > :14:53.upside down, as day turns tonight and you enter an almost dreamlike
:14:54. > :14:59.state. Someone here once described it to me that on a scale of one to
:15:00. > :15:03.ten, the experience is a million, but what's really incredible is that
:15:04. > :15:07.the moon is exactly the right size and exactly the right distance from
:15:08. > :15:13.the earth to block out only the bright part of the sun so you can
:15:14. > :15:19.see its shimmering atmosphere in all its glory. And so we can only see
:15:20. > :15:24.this awesome sight because of a remarkable cosmic coincidence.
:15:25. > :15:27.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:15:28. > :15:29.Nearly 800 people are now known to have died in recent floods
:15:30. > :15:33.triggered by monsoon rains in India, Nepal and Bangladesh.
:15:34. > :15:37.Aid workers are warning of severe food shortages
:15:38. > :15:42.The pharmaceutical giant Johnson Johnson's been ordered to pay
:15:43. > :15:45.$417 million to an American woman over links between its baby
:15:46. > :15:51.It's the largest payout yet awarded against the company,
:15:52. > :15:53.which is facing more than a thousand law suits.
:15:54. > :15:56.Johnson Johnson deny claims they've known about the links
:15:57. > :16:03.An England footballer who's accused the national team manager
:16:04. > :16:05.of discrimination has given her first TV interview.
:16:06. > :16:09.The striker Eni Aluko claims she was dropped after speaking
:16:10. > :16:13.out in what she thought was a confidential review
:16:14. > :16:15.about alleged "racial and prejudicial" remarks made
:16:16. > :16:21.He's been cleared of any wrongdoing in both an FA review
:16:22. > :16:29.Eni Aluko has been speaking to our sports editor, Dan Roan.
:16:30. > :16:31.She's one of her country's best-known female footballers,
:16:32. > :16:34.but last year, Eni Aluko raised serious concerns about the culture
:16:35. > :16:36.in the England setup, when asked to be part
:16:37. > :16:41.And in her first broadcast interview since the controversy
:16:42. > :16:44.began earlier this month, the striker told me she fears
:16:45. > :16:50.The fact is that a week before I was dropped from the England team,
:16:51. > :16:53.for the first time in 11 years, I had given my account
:16:54. > :16:56.of what I felt was discrimination towards me, what I felt
:16:57. > :17:02.So, whichever way you look at it, being part of that cultural
:17:03. > :17:09.potentially cost me my England career.
:17:10. > :17:12.England Manager Mark Sampson was the subject of Aluko's
:17:13. > :17:15.complaints and the man who dropped her from the squad,
:17:16. > :17:19.the timing of which the FA insists was purely coincidental.
:17:20. > :17:22.Both an internal inquiry and an independent investigation
:17:23. > :17:25.cleared him and his staff of any wrongdoing, and found no evidence
:17:26. > :17:28.of an alleged racial remark to another player.
:17:29. > :17:31.Sampson's vowed to improve his communication style, but Aluko -
:17:32. > :17:34.who's a qualified lawyer - has now gone public with an alleged
:17:35. > :17:39.incident involving the coach before a game in 2014.
:17:40. > :17:42.He asked me, "Who's coming to watch the game for you?"
:17:43. > :17:45.And I said, "Oh, I've got family coming in from Nigeria, actually.
:17:46. > :17:54.And he said, erm, "Make sure they don't come over with Ebola."
:17:55. > :17:57.When that was said, did you challenge him at the time?
:17:58. > :18:20.And again, I go back to the definition.
:18:21. > :18:23.I believe it was an unfavourable comment made to me, that made me
:18:24. > :18:25.feel completely shocked and intimidated, that was said to me
:18:26. > :18:32.Again, some will say, an offensive comment,
:18:33. > :18:41.The FA says while this claim was included in general
:18:42. > :18:42.correspondence last year, it was not raised as
:18:43. > :18:46.The BBC understands that Sampson strongly denies
:18:47. > :18:52.The FA refutes Aluko's suggestion the two investigations
:18:53. > :18:54.into her original complaints were flawed, pointing out
:18:55. > :18:57.she refused to participate in the independent inquiry.
:18:58. > :19:02.They say they reached a financial settlement,
:19:03. > :19:06.paying Aluko an amount understood to be ?80,000, to avoid disruption
:19:07. > :19:08.to the England team ahead of this summer's European Championships
:19:09. > :19:16.I feel that there's a lot of half-truths out in the public,
:19:17. > :19:18.and I think it's in the public interest now to understand
:19:19. > :19:22.To understand that this isn't something I decided
:19:23. > :19:29.This wasn't a bitter, impassioned revenge on the England Manager.
:19:30. > :19:31.This was something I was asked to do.
:19:32. > :19:34.Aluko has won 102 caps for her country, but she says
:19:35. > :19:36.she now fears her experience could deter other players
:19:37. > :19:48.In the last few minutes, it's been reported that
:19:49. > :19:50.an earthquake measuring 3.6 magnitude hit the island of Ischia,
:19:51. > :20:01.Several buildings have collapsed, and there are reports that some
:20:02. > :20:04.The island's hospital has been evacuated.
:20:05. > :20:07.In a few hours, President Trump will set out his strategy
:20:08. > :20:10.for Afghanistan, where security forces backed by foreign troops
:20:11. > :20:17.have struggled to halt advances by the Taliban.
:20:18. > :20:20.His plan is thought to involve sending more American troops.
:20:21. > :20:23.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, is in Washington for us.
:20:24. > :20:30.So what is he expected to say? Well, there is a huge amount riding on
:20:31. > :20:35.this and the decision-making process itself has been absolutely tortuous
:20:36. > :20:39.because within the White House, you have had the faction of the generals
:20:40. > :20:44.wanting to reinforce America's existing troop levels so that the
:20:45. > :20:47.Afghan army does not collapse and it has increased capability. On the
:20:48. > :20:51.other hand, you have had the nationalist wing, the populist wing,
:20:52. > :20:55.saying, let's get out of Afghanistan, there is no good
:20:56. > :20:58.staying there any longer. That faction was represented by Steve
:20:59. > :21:04.Bannon and there is no coincidence his resignation last Friday Commons
:21:05. > :21:09.as Donald Trump is about to announce the new policy today. So the
:21:10. > :21:12.expectation must be there will be additional troops sent first, and
:21:13. > :21:16.possibly as well involving Nato troops. So interesting to see if
:21:17. > :21:20.other troop levels from other countries like Britain go up as
:21:21. > :21:25.well. The two things Donald Trump has two avoid. He was so critical of
:21:26. > :21:29.Barack Obama, saying we have to get our troops of Gannon is done, we are
:21:30. > :21:34.wasting blood and treasure while they are there. So he has to make
:21:35. > :21:38.sure it is not a continuation of that policy, convincing the American
:21:39. > :21:42.people he is not just following in Barack Obama's footsteps. You say a
:21:43. > :21:47.huge amount is riding on this, how much is at stake for the President,
:21:48. > :21:51.given the events of the last few weeks? You have put your finger on
:21:52. > :21:58.it. If you look at the criticism in the wake of President Donald Trump
:21:59. > :22:01.since his intervention a couple of days ago in Charlottesville, he was
:22:02. > :22:04.criticised from all sides and the only support he got was from the far
:22:05. > :22:10.right and everybody said President did not seem presidential on the
:22:11. > :22:13.questions of the big moral judgments of the day, and he fell short. This
:22:14. > :22:20.is an opportunity for every set for Donald Trump and in previous foreign
:22:21. > :22:24.policy speeches, he has been warmly applauded across the board. Of the
:22:25. > :22:27.things he has said, and I think the White House is desperately hoping
:22:28. > :22:29.this will be the reboot that Donald Trump so badly needs. From
:22:30. > :22:32.Washington, thank you. Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi
:22:33. > :22:35.six years ago, Libya has been torn apart by the conflict
:22:36. > :22:38.between warring militias and tribes. In 2013, Benghazi -
:22:39. > :22:40.Libya's second city - Thousands were killed,
:22:41. > :22:47.and thousands more fled their homes. But earlier this summer,
:22:48. > :22:49.the Libyan National Army Their forces are now
:22:50. > :22:54.thought to control most HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur has this
:22:55. > :23:01.special report from Benghazi. Benghazi - a broken city,
:23:02. > :23:05.in a divided country. Jihadist fighters from so-called
:23:06. > :23:08.Islamic State were driven out Hundreds died, thousands
:23:09. > :23:15.lost their homes. Only now are a few,
:23:16. > :23:17.like Abdullah, venturing back. How do you feel now,
:23:18. > :23:22.when you look at it? When Colonel Gaddafi
:23:23. > :23:38.was overthrown six years ago, the leaders of Britain and France
:23:39. > :23:41.rushed to Benghazi to claim credit Colonel Gaddafi said
:23:42. > :23:49.he would hunt you down like rats, but you showed the courage of lions,
:23:50. > :23:53.and we salute your courage! Jihadist militants turned
:23:54. > :24:00.Benghazi into an annex This man rooted the jihadists out -
:24:01. > :24:12.Marshal Khalifa Haftar, once Gaddafi's favourite General,
:24:13. > :24:14.now commander of an army which has Marshal Haftar's army now controls
:24:15. > :24:25.Libya's key assets, oil and gas. There have been times over the past
:24:26. > :24:33.six years when it's looked like the the violence and political
:24:34. > :24:38.chaos in Libya could shut down this vital industry,
:24:39. > :24:42.but it has never quite happened. But as for the revenues
:24:43. > :24:50.being generated, well, much of the money is being creamed
:24:51. > :24:52.off by different You know now east of Libya
:24:53. > :25:03.completely controlled by... I think in the nearest future,
:25:04. > :25:10.all this problem will be solved. In pockets of Benghazi,
:25:11. > :25:15.it's tempting to believe Marshal Haftar has put an end
:25:16. > :25:20.to Libya's chaos. But then there's this -
:25:21. > :25:22.evidence, seemingly, of a mass execution of prisoners
:25:23. > :25:28.by Haftar's men. The International Criminal Court
:25:29. > :25:32.is investigating this as a war crime and has issued an arrest warrant
:25:33. > :25:37.for the officer in charge. 'As Haftar moved his forces back
:25:38. > :25:42.into Benghazi, there were egregious Er, these reports came out
:25:43. > :25:48.and he voiced his concern, and he said that he would address
:25:49. > :25:50.them by investigating these people who have
:25:51. > :25:53.been committing these, Have you seen those videos
:25:54. > :26:05.and pictures, Minister, of people being shot in the back
:26:06. > :26:08.of the head, bound hand Benghazi's young men have grown up
:26:09. > :26:16.with guns, militias and war. Marshal Haftar has promised
:26:17. > :26:20.them something better, but there are other sides in this
:26:21. > :26:23.crippled country and few believe And you can see the full
:26:24. > :26:34.version of Stephen's film - HARDtalk On The Road In Eastern
:26:35. > :26:36.Libya - from tomorrow, Football, and in tonight's
:26:37. > :26:43.Premier League game, Manchester City Wayne Rooney scored his
:26:44. > :26:48.200th Premier league goal for the visitors,
:26:49. > :26:50.but Manchester City equalised late on, despite having had Kyle Walker
:26:51. > :26:58.sent off in the first half. The nation's most famous
:26:59. > :27:07.bell won't chime again, except for on special
:27:08. > :27:09.occasions, until 2021. Major repair work is getting
:27:10. > :27:11.underway at the Houses of Parliament, but some MPs
:27:12. > :27:15.are unhappy at the length Our political correspondent,
:27:16. > :27:18.Ben Wright, joined As midday approached, a crowd
:27:19. > :27:26.swelled in Parliament Square. All eyes on the clock,
:27:27. > :27:30.waiting for the bell. There's about ten minutes to go
:27:31. > :27:34.until we hear it for the last time. Well, it's just part
:27:35. > :27:37.of being British, isn't it? You're around in London
:27:38. > :27:40.and it's one of those things To be a part of all this, erm,
:27:41. > :27:49.and it's gonna be the last time for four years,
:27:50. > :27:51.erm, a little bit sad. Protecting the hearing of workers
:27:52. > :27:58.renovating Elizabeth Tower is one reason Parliament decided Big Ben
:27:59. > :28:01.must not be struck for four years, except for Remembrance Sunday
:28:02. > :28:06.and New Year's Eve. But a few MPs are mourning,
:28:07. > :28:08.not applauding, badgering the Commons authorities
:28:09. > :28:11.to think again. Everybody's interested in what's
:28:12. > :28:15.happening across the world, so it just shows what a symbol
:28:16. > :28:18.of Britain Big Ben and the Palace These are the chimes of freedom,
:28:19. > :28:23.and they've got to be respected. Most MPs are not fretting
:28:24. > :28:28.about the infrequency of Big Ben's chimes,
:28:29. > :28:31.but a Commons Commission has said it will look again
:28:32. > :28:35.at the timetable for repairs. Trying to find a fix that
:28:36. > :28:39.would enable the bells to be struck on the same basis
:28:40. > :28:41.that they are currently, I think, It certainly would be a very,
:28:42. > :28:46.very expensive option. The crowds have thinned,
:28:47. > :28:51.the political rumpus will recede, and time,
:28:52. > :28:54.of course, carries on. The renovations are now
:28:55. > :29:19.beginning, and Big Ben... Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.
:29:20. > :29:25.A special report from the poll fray city of Mosul. Former residents want
:29:26. > :29:30.to go home, but with Isis fighters in the city and booby traps in the
:29:31. > :29:37.houses remaining, can people rebuild their lives? Join me now on BBC Two.
:29:38. > :29:42.But another look at today's spectacular eclipse from America.
:29:43. > :29:45.From everyone here, good night.