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French police investigating the shooting of a British family in the | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Alps arrive in the UK. They spent the day searching the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
couple's home in Surrey as they try to establish a motive for the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
murders. French prosecutors confirm that | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
each of the victims was shot twice in the head. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Two newly appointed Health Ministers call for a re-think of | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
the laws on assisted suicide. Another gold for Paralympics GB as | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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David Stone wins the cycling road Good evening. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
French police investigating the shooting of a British family in the | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Alps have spent the day searching the couple's home in Surrey. As the | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
forensic work was going on, prosecutors in France confirmed | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
that each of the victims was shot twice in the head. Over 40 French | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
police officers are working on the case and it has emerged they are | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
being helped by colleagues from Switzerland and Italy. We'll have | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
the latest from France in a moment. First, this report from Tom Symonds. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
The smart house belonging to the al-Hilli family in Claygate Surrey | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
has been sealed off. A close forensic examination has begun. The | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
facts that British officers are now involved shows this has become an | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
international inquiry, straddling the English Channel. This evening, | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
British and French officers promised full co-operation. The | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Surrey force is offering the UK's specialist officers to help the | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
surviving daughters of the family. I want to place the emphasis on the | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
victims of this tragic incident and Surrey Police working with our | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
French colleagues are ensuring that all those who need support will get | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
the support specifically Surrey Police deployed specially trained | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
family liaison officers both in the UK and abroad in France. French and | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
British police have refused to say if there is a theory as to why the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
killings happened, but the possibility it resulted from a | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
family feud requires that all members of the al-Hilli family be | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
questioned as part of the investigation. | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
They will be combing Saad al- Hilli's finances. There were | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
suggestions he and his brother were involved in a property dispute. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Police say the brother denied that. They will be looking at Mr Al- | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
Hilli's friends, businesses. Senior officers arrived in London last | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
night, but co-ordinating an inquiry that may stretch across Europe | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
maybe tricky. It is a French inquiry so Surrey | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Police would not be wanting to do anything that would interfere with | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
anything the French will be doing. Surrey Police will have a | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
responsibility to inform the British coroner as to what happened | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
to British nationals abroad. Forensic work continues at the | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
house, but police are focusing on the life of this family and Mr Al- | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
Hilli in particular in the search Relatives of the two girls who | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
survived the shooting have arrived in France to be with them. Four- | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
year-old Zeena al-Hilli is being looked after by the French | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
authorities. Her seven-year-old sister, Zainab, remains in a | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
medically induced coma in hospital. Our correspondent, Jon Kay, is in | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
Well, Matthew, it is clear here tonight that this investigation is | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
getting much wider. Tom was describing the UK end of things. It | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
is based, the investigation, here in France, where the shootings | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
happened, but it is now questions being asked in neighbouring | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
countries in Europe, even in Iraq where its al-Hilli family came from. | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
But don't forget, this all comes down to what happened in a quiet | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
country lane not far from here where two little girls saw their | :04:05. | :04:14. | |
parents shot and they were shot On this Alpine campsite, there is | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
one abandoned caravan. The al-Hilli family family left their pitch for | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
a day-trip, but never returned. Police have now searched their | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
vehicle, for any clues about what happened, but all that's visible | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
are the handle bars of a little girl's bike and DVDs of cartoons. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
The older daughter, seven-year-old, Zainab is in a coma at this | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
hospital. Her little sister, Zeena, who is only four, wasn't physically | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
hurt, but she has been cared for by psychiatrists elsewhere. | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Family members have now arrived in France to support the young sisters | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
who saw their parents shot in the head in this lay-by. It is | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
understood a male and female relative arrived in the region | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
today, but it maybe sometime before they are allowed to see the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
children. This afternoon the local prosecutor | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
said the aim was for the girls to be back in the arms of their family. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Police said that would have to be done sensitively and without | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
compromising the investigation. He added that for security reasons, | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
he could say no more. There are no obvious signs of | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
police activity at the crime scene anymore. It seems the authorities | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
are now looking beyond this part of rural France, co-ordinating with | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
their counterparts in Switzerland and Italy, checking border records | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
and CCTV for any sign of a getaway Hundreds of thousands of tourists | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
from across Europe come come to this part of the world every year. | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
It is beautiful weather and it feels like the end of summer and it | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
is tinged by what happened in the last few days. And instead of the | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
mountains, the focus of where this inquiry is centred. | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
STUDIO: What are you hearing about how the French authorities are | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
planning to handle this investigation over the coming days? | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Well, they have made it clear, there is a lot more forensic work | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
to be done. There is more ballistic expertise to be done to work out | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
what firearm or firearms were used, what kind of bullets, what they can | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
learn about the assailants. The the difference and the change that we | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
will notice is we are going to get less information. It has been clear | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
to us today that the police are very, very very frustrated by the | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
speculation and by the coverage. They want to close this down, | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
concentrate on the job in hand and solve, they hope, what they have | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
described as this dreadful, horrible drama. | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
A newly appointed Health Minister has described the laws on assisted | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
suicide as "ridiculous and appalling". In a newspaper | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
interview Ann Soubry said people seeking help to die should not have | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
to go abroad. Another newly promoted Health Minister, Norman | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Lamb, has said he too believes there is a case for reform. Our | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
political correspondent, Robin It was the case of Tony Nicholson | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
who suffered from locked in syndrome which brought assisted | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
suicide into the spotlight. He lost his legal bid to change the law. | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
Which could have helped people end his life without facing prosecution. | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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Days later he died from natural It is a criminal offence to help | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
someone to die, but cases are looked at individually by | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
prosecutors. The Department of Health played down the controversy | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
saying Anna Soubry's remarks were her personal views. But another new | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Health Minister echoed her opinions. The Liberal Democrat, Norman Lamb, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
who is close to Nick Clegg said he agrees the law should be looked at | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
again. There is a case for looking at | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
reform. This is an individual decision of conscience. There is | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
not a Government policy on it, but I certainly think that we should | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
debate it. The positives and negatives about reform, but I | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
personally think there is a case for looking at this. | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Its Ministry of Justice said there was no plans to change the law. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Campaigners warned of a slippery slope which could threaten the | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
right to life. The issue was been debated four | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
times by British parliaments four four times since 2006 and it has | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
been rejected. Some Conservatives promised to | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
fight any review. Mark Pritchard told the BBC there would be a row | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
if the Government was to re-examine A suicide bomber in Afghanistan has | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
killed at least six people in the centre of the capital, Kabul. Some | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
of the dead are children. The blast happened close to the headquarters | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
of NATO-led international forces in the heavily guarded diplomatic | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
quarter. In Pakistan, a Christian girl accused of burning pages of | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
the Koran has been released after spending three weeks in prison. The | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
teenage girl, Rimsha Masih, was remanded in custody after a mob | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
accused her of blasphemy and demanded she was punished. A | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
Pakistani imam has since been arrested. He is alleged to have | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
planted the burned pages of the Koran in her bag. | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Paralympics GB have added another gold to their tally with a win by | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
David Stone in the cycling road race. Hopes are high that the | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
swimmer Ellie Simmonds will win another medal tonight in the final | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
of the 100 metres freestyle. She won her heat comfortably earlier | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
today. Our sports correspondent, James Pearce, is at the Olympic | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
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Park. Tonight she will go for gold for one final time at these Games. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
This morning, Ellie Simmonds had her heat for the 100 meters free | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
freestyle. This is her fourth event. She said she was tired and that was | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
hardly surprising, but it didn't show. She won her heat comfortably | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
and set a new Paralympic record. It will be tough tonight, her big | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
rival clocked a world record time in her heat. David Stone is the | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
latest Gold Medallist. Stone successfully defended the road race | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
title he won in Beijing. That was Britain's eighth cycling gold of | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
the Games. Less than half the 17 won four years ago, but ahead of | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
any other country. There was dispintment for -- | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
disappointment for David Smith. He to settle for silver. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
Tonight, we will see Oscar Pistorius, who has qualified | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
fastest for the 400 meters final. He has yet to win an individual | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
gold medal at these Paralympics. The men's 400 meter final will be | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
the last event and preparations will begin for tomorrow's closing | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
ceremony. London 2012 is coming to an end, but with Ellie Simmonds and | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
Oscar Pistorius in action, we could still have one of its best nights | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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Scotland face Serbia in a World Cup qualifier. Despite their hopes of | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
collecting all three points, the match ended in a goalless draw. The | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
pressure is on the national team to deliver their first win when they | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
face Macedonia on Tuesday night. Sir Paul McCartney has been | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
presented with one of France's most prestigious awards in recognition | :11:48. | :11:58. | |
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