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Opposition activists accuse government troops of the largest | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
massacre so far in the conflict in Syria. They claim 250 bodies have | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
been found after soldiers retook an area on the outskirts of Damascus. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
The Roman Catholic church in Scotland steps up its campaign | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
against gay marriage. Priests read out a letter of objection at | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
hundreds of church services. Now there's a Paralympics tickets | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
row, after wheelchair users complain they're being | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
discriminated against when it comes to making bookings. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
And who's the daddy? After the arrival of twins, Mo Farrah shows | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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his class to win his first race Syrian government troops have been | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
accused of a massacre on the outskirts of Damascus, in an area | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
which the regime retook from rebels yesterday. Opposition groups say | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
250 bodies have been found in the town of Daraya. They claim many | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
were victims of execution-style killings. Syrian state television | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
claimed the town was being "cleansed of terrorist remnants". | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
The Foreign Office says if the reports are confirmed, the killings | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
would be "an atrocity on a new scale". Barbara Plett's report | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
contains disturbing images. This seems to show the beginning of | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
the ground assault on Daraya, although we haven't been able to | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
verify the footage. Troops searched house-to-house for rebels to return | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
to the area after being driven out last month. -- rebels who returns | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
to the area. This time the army wanted to deliver a killer blow, | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
showering the town for days before entering -- shelling the town for | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
days. Many shot at close range. Unverified images show what appears | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
to be a mass grave. The victims include women and children, some | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
apparently shot while fleeing. Some believe it has become not just a | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
man at -- matter of depleting the rebels but exacting revenge. | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
level of brutality has increased. We have seen it shootings that are | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
execution in style, they are not sparing women or children. Pro- | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
government television made it sound like the village had been liberated | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
from terrorists. For the past four days we have been surrounded by | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
armed terrorist groups. Only today they told us the army is back. We | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
are safe now. Further north near the city of Aleppo, the government | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
has been using warplanes. The fighting today what reported to be | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
the heaviest in the past week as the army continues his policy of | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
using overwhelming force to try to crush the resistance. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Barbara - who's in neighbouring Lebanon - joins us now. With the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
conflict now almost 18 months old, the opposition continues to claim | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
government troops are targeting civilians? -- in targeting rebels, | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
they are indiscriminately killing civilians. It looks that way. The | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
government is using heavy weapons to Shell and bomb rebel-held areas. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Because the fighting is in big cities, these are often residential | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
areas so civilians get caught up. It seems that the army see certain | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
areas as hostile. For example, the southern suburbs of Damascus, which | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
are Sunni, working-class and more sympathetic to the opposition. When | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
they have the ground assault and the troops go in, they don't | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
necessarily distinguish between residents and rebels. You get a lot | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
of men of fighting age killed, even if they are not actually fighters. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Priests in all 500 Roman Catholic parishes in Scotland have read out | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
a letter, criticising the devolved government's plans to introduce gay | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
marriage. Ministers announced proposals last month to make | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
Scotland the first part of Britain to make it legal. Our Scotland | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
correspondent, Colin Blane, reports. In every parish, the Catholic | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Church's message to the Scottish Government about gay marriage was | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
the same. We write to you, having already expressed are deep | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
disappointment that the Scottish Government has decided to redefine | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
marriage and legislate for same-sex marriage. The letter from all | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
Scotland's Catholic bishops went on Although the Catholic Church is not | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
alone in arguing against same-sex marriage, it has taken a lead in | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
making such a direct appeal. People who have the view that all people | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
through history have had, that marriages between a man and a woman, | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
will suddenly be told they are outside the law, they have to | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
accept a new definition of it. That is why it is so serious for the | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Church and why we are reassessing the teaching points again. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
Parishioners reflected on what they had heard. God created two people, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
a man and a woman, that is the way it should be. We should uphold | :05:26. | :05:35. | |
these values in Scottish society. I don't think we should be a tall | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
apologetic -- at all apologetic. support marriage but I also support | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
loving relationships between people of the same sex. In March this year, | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of Scotland's Catholics, described | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
gay marriage as a grotesque subversion. The language being used | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
is disappointing and unfortunate. Not only is it making ordinary | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Scots feel particularly disappointed with the way the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
debate has gone, but for the majority of Catholics, it is making | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
them feel slightly isolated from the church. It is clear that | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Cardinal Keith O'Brien is determined to keep up the pressure | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
on the Scottish Government over same-sex marriage. Last week, he | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
broke off personal discussions with Scotland's first minister, Alex | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Salmond, on the matter. Now his bishop's letter urges all Scottish | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Catholics to oppose the planned legislation. The Scottish | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Government still says its plans for same-sex marriage are the right | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
thing to do. The Westminster government is also considering | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
The Duke of Edinburgh has made his first public appearance since being | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
discharged from hospital on Monday. He accompanied the Queen at this | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
morning's service at Crathie Church, just a short drive from Balmoral. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Prince Philip has spent the last week recuperating from a bladder | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
infection. Tributes continue to be paid to the | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
astronaut Neil Armstrong, who's died at the age of 82. The man who | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
took "one giant leap for mankind" has been described as leaving an | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
indelible footprint on history. Let's speak to our correspondent | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
Alastair Leithead, who's in Los Angeles. Tributes have been pouring | :07:06. | :07:13. | |
in from all over the world. Very much so. It is one of those | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
defining events of a generation, that makes everybody say where were | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
you? We have had prime ministers, presidents, former colleagues, all | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
joining tributes from across the world for the first man to set foot | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
on the moon. John Glenn, the first man to orbit the Earth, recalled | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
his iron nerve. He was a test pilot before an astronaut. The current | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
NASA administrator said, as long as there are history books, Neil | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Armstrong will be in them. He wasn't a recluse but he rarely gave | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
interviews to the media. One indication of perhaps why comes | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
from his ex-wife, quoted in his biography. She said he felt guilty, | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
to get all the acclaim for an effort of tens of thousands of | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
people. Richard Branson, with Virgin Galactic, who is taking on | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
the mission to take people into space, he met Neil Armstrong and he | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
said that he made sure he stayed very grounded when he came back to | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
earth. Perhaps the most moving came from his family, in a statement | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
about his death. They said, the next time you walk out in a clear | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
night and see the moon smiling down on you, think of Neil Armstrong and | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
give him a wink. Paralympics organisers have been | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
accused of discrimination, for making wheelchair users call a | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
phoneline to book tickets. The London Organising Committee said it | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
was necessary to make special arrangements so that users can | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
discuss their individual access needs. That hasn't stopped the | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
system being criticised by a number of disabled people, who say they've | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
run up large phone bills only to be told there are no seats available. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
But as Jon Brain reports, the Culture Secretary has defended the | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
Just three days to go before the spotlight shines on some of the | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
world's greatest disabled athletes. But as a ceremonial cauldron was | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
being lit in Edinburgh this morning, a dispute was flaring up over the | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
treatment of disabled spectators. 11-year-old Rhys has cerebral palsy. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
His mother believes a trip to the Paralympics would prove | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
inspirational. But when she tried to buy tickets for wheelchair users | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
online, she was redirected to a business rate phone line. I just | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
don't think it is fair. When they say to you, we want everyone | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
involved, everyone should be able to do it the same way. We should be | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
able to do it for free as well. It is more expensive, always, being | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
the parent of a disabled child. It should be the same for everyone. | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
She has begun an internet campaign on behalf of race and claimed she | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
has been contacted by dozens of people with similar stories -- | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
campaign on behalf of her son. Since May, applicants have had to | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
book by phone. The government has defended the arrangements. We set | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
up a special line so that people who have particular issues about | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
how they attend the Games have got a dedicated line that they can call. | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
We obviously want that to work as effectively as possible and I think | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
it was the right thing to do. accept this will be the best ever | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
Paralympic Games, more people will see it than ever before and the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
organising committee have done a fantastic job. But there is | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
discrimination here and I think it is unacceptable. It was against | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
this background that athletes continue to arrive today. This was | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
the Belgian team who came in on the specially adapted Eurostar train. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Organisers of the Paralympics are hoping that the athletes coming to | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
London were not only put on a great games but could also improve | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
attitudes towards disabled people generally. That is why a row over | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
ticketing is particularly sensitive. Despite today's controversy, the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Games' organising committee said it is proud it has done more for | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
disabled spectators than any other sports event ever held in this | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
country. Tropical Storm Isaac is heading for | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Key West, the southernmost point of the United States. It's already hit | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
Haiti and Cuba. A state of emergency is in place in southern | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
Florida, with Isaac forecast to strengthen into a hurricane by the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
time it hits land. The start of the Republican Party convention in | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
Florida has been delayed because of the storm. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Lance Armstrong has been speaking for the first time since being | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by the US anti-doping | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
agency. He told reporters his decision not to continue fighting | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
allegations had left him "more at ease now than at any time in the | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
last decade". The decision to take away his titles, still has to be | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
ratified by cycling's world governing body. Karthi Gnanasegaram | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
has more. Back on a bike and at the But it is a world away from his | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
tour de France days. After revealing he would no longer | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
challenge the United States Anti- Doping Agency's allegations against | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
him, Lance Armstrong spoke to reporters for the first time at a | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
mountain biking event in Colorado. I don't have anything to worry | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
about, I am focused on the future. I have five great kids, a great | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
lady in my life, a wonderful foundation that is unaffected by | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
any... Any noise out there and we are going to continue. There were | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
clear signs that Armstrong still has a loyal following among some of | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
the site and community in the states, despite claims that up to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
10 former team mates are prepared to testify he used performance- | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
enhancing drugs. The USADA still has to submit its evidence to the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
International Cycling Union. Despite -- the US Cycling agency | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
He still seems relaxed as the controversy continues. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Now with the rest of today's sporting action, here's Lzzie | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
Greenwood-Hughes at the BBC Sport The most hotly anticipated Premier | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
League match of the season so far finished a short while ago, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Manchester City away to Liverpool and it did not disappoint. The | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
champions were keen to flex their muscles over home side still | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
looking for their first points. Brendan Rodgers may never walk | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
alone, but how much he enjoys the company may depend on how his | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Liverpool side progresses. What better way to impress than one of | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
his signings scoring against the champions? Fabio Borini was | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
agonisingly close. Carlos Tevez was closer still. The goal was | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
protected by an Anfield force-field. It seemed to repel the Reds forward, | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
and eventually into the lead. Martin Skrtel's header was as | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
convincing as Liverpool's first- half display. They were comfortable | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
at the start of the second, only to be unsettled at the wrong moment. | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
Yaya Toure, thriving. Luis Suarez's mind was not clouded a few minutes | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
later, placed exactly where he wanted it. If only Skrtel was in | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
similar command. He plotted city's pass back into the match, Tevez | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
finalised it. It finished 2-2 and the match indicative of Liverpool's | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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Are still bite yet to win or scored this season. -- Arsenal. John | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Waters's goal was ruled offside. The London club came close before | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the break with this Longport range effort but it was a disappointing | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
end of the day for Arsene Wenger in contrast to that of Tony Pulis, who | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
looked positively delighted with the result. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
There were two matches in the Scottish Premier League. Hearts | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
remain unbeaten in the SPL with a goalless draw away to Aberdeen. | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Motherwell missed out on going top of the table, conceding a goal to | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
draw at home to St Mirren. Rangers are searching for their | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
first away win after a 1-1 draw at Berwick in the Third Division. Andy | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Little gave the Glasgow side the lead with his 7th goal of the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
season before Fraser McClaren levelled. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Mo Farah was back on the track today just two days after his wife | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
gave birth to twins. Although the crowds at the Birmingham Grand Prix | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
were smaller than in London, they roared their hero to another | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
emphatic victory. It was not so much a race as a | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
victory parade, a deafening roar greeting Mo Farah after two weeks | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
of celebrations, back to the day- job. The last time he ran it was | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
for a double Olympic goal. This time it was lower key, over the | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
unusual distance of two miles. He had been hoping to break Steve | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Ovett's British record but the pace was not quick enough. The result | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
was never in doubt. Yet another win for Mo Farah and Another excuse for | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
his signature move. A summer which delivered two goal medals and two | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
daughters had released a dacha -- reached a glorious conclusion. | :16:09. | :16:18. | |
has been a hell of a year. I appreciate everyone's support. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
we should remind everyone that your wife gave birth. You will not have | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
had much sleep. I was worried because I have not done much | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
training. It has been a good race today and I am happy how everything | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
is going, I appreciate everyone's health. I want to thank the doctor | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
who delivered my two pretty girls. And of the other Britons in action, | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
Robbie Rabat continued his form to win the Haborak -- the high jump, | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
having broken the Olympic records last week. He was the only athlete | :16:51. | :16:56. |