:00:08. > :00:13.French police investigating the killing of a British family in the
:00:13. > :00:16.Alps start searches at the couple's home in Surrey.
:00:16. > :00:20.As forensic teams move in, the police say the inquiry will be long
:00:20. > :00:25.and complex. French prosecutors confirm more
:00:25. > :00:32.details about how the victims were killed.
:00:32. > :00:34.TRANSLATION: Each of the four people who died suffered two shots
:00:34. > :00:38.to the head. A new Health Minister calls the
:00:38. > :00:41.existing laws on assisted dying ridiculous and appalling.
:00:41. > :00:48.No controversy this time, Oscar Pistorius storms to gold in the 400
:00:48. > :00:58.metres. And can Andy Murray win his first
:00:58. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.Grand Slam title? He books a place Good evening.
:01:12. > :01:15.French and British police investigating the shooting of a
:01:15. > :01:19.family in the Alps have spent the day searching the couple's home in
:01:19. > :01:23.Surrey. As the forensic work was going on, prosecutors in France
:01:23. > :01:26.confirmed that each of the victims was shot twice in the head. More
:01:26. > :01:31.than 40 French police officers are working on the case helped by
:01:31. > :01:38.detectives here in Switzerland and in Italy. Our first report tonight
:01:38. > :01:44.is from Tom Symonds. The focus of an international murder
:01:44. > :01:47.investigation now rests on the smart suburban house where the al-
:01:47. > :01:51.Hilli family lived. Perhaps inside answers will be found to the
:01:51. > :01:54.questions who carried out the seemingly cold-blooded murder of
:01:54. > :02:00.four people and why? The family house is almost being
:02:00. > :02:04.treated as a scene of crime itself. Taped off by the police, a tent
:02:04. > :02:07.over there, hiding the entrance and inside British search officers
:02:07. > :02:12.working through each room. If police have a lead, they are not
:02:13. > :02:17.saying, but they are certainly focusing on Mr Al-Hilli's personal
:02:17. > :02:22.affairs. Last night, senior French police officers arrived in London
:02:22. > :02:26.to meet officers of the Surrey force, handling the case in the UK.
:02:26. > :02:36.This afternoon, there were hand shakes and warm words.
:02:36. > :02:38.TRANSLATION: What I can tell you is our co-operation is very good and
:02:38. > :02:40.the British police are make an effort in human and technical terms.
:02:40. > :02:44.I thank the British police for its great support.
:02:44. > :02:46.I want to place the emphasis on the victims of this tragic incident and
:02:47. > :02:53.Surrey Police working with our French colleagues are ensuring that
:02:53. > :02:57.all those who need support will get the support specifically Surrey
:02:57. > :03:00.Police deployed specially trained family liaison officers both here
:03:01. > :03:06.in the UK and abroad in France. They will support family members
:03:06. > :03:10.who have travelled to France to be with the two surviving daughters.
:03:10. > :03:14.With no clear eyewitness accounts a much more complicated investigation
:03:14. > :03:18.is required. The French prosecutor has said all members of the al-
:03:18. > :03:23.Hilli family will be questioned. They will have to examine the
:03:23. > :03:28.family's finances, the BBC was told Saad al-Hilli was involved in a
:03:28. > :03:32.property dispute with his brother. Something the brothers denied. And
:03:32. > :03:36.British police directed by a French senior officer will be looking at
:03:36. > :03:41.Mr Al-Hilli's friends, business contacts, computer and phone
:03:41. > :03:45.records. At the house, throughout the day, well-wishers have brought
:03:45. > :03:55.flowers as these murders continue to shock on both sides of the
:03:55. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:02.English Channel. In France Relatives of the two
:04:02. > :04:04.girls who survived the shooting have arrived in France to be with
:04:04. > :04:06.them. Four-year-old Zeena al-Hilli is being looked after by the French
:04:06. > :04:09.authorities. Her seven-year-old sister, Zainab remains in a
:04:09. > :04:11.medically-induced coma in hospital. From Annecy our correspondent, Jon
:04:11. > :04:17.Kay, reports. On this Alpine campsite there is one abandoned
:04:17. > :04:20.caravan. The al-Hilli family left their pitch for a day-trip, but
:04:20. > :04:24.never return. Police have finished searching their vehicle, looking
:04:25. > :04:29.for anything that could explain why the parents were shot dead in front
:04:29. > :04:33.of their children. After such an extraordinary crime,
:04:33. > :04:39.what strikes you here is just how ordinary this setting is, a family
:04:39. > :04:43.campsite. Inside the awning you can see a little girl's pink bicycle.
:04:43. > :04:50.Inside the caravan a DVD of cartoons.
:04:50. > :04:58.The oldest daughter, seven-year-old zab ab, is -- Zainab is still in
:04:58. > :05:02.hospital. Her little sister, Zeena, who is only four, wasn't physically
:05:02. > :05:05.hurt, but is being cared for by psychiatrists. It is three days
:05:05. > :05:10.since their parents and what is believed to be their grandmother
:05:10. > :05:14.was shot dead in their car in a remote forest lay-by. Two relatives,
:05:14. > :05:20.a man and a woman have now arrived in France to support the young
:05:20. > :05:29.sisters. But it might be sometime before they are allowed to see them.
:05:29. > :05:32.TRANSLATION: The local prosecutor said the aim was for the girl to be
:05:32. > :05:34.back in the the arms of their family. But he said that would have
:05:34. > :05:38.to be done sensitively and without compromising the investigation. He
:05:38. > :05:43.added that for security reasons he could say no more.
:05:44. > :05:49.The police are are investigating whether the family was deliberately
:05:49. > :05:54.targeted and new details suggest the killer was determined and maybe
:05:54. > :06:00.professional. "we know the victims were shot in
:06:00. > :06:03.the head twice", he says. But a hired hitman is just one of
:06:03. > :06:08.many possibilities and tonight, this investigation is becoming
:06:08. > :06:13.wider. The authorities now looking beyond this part of rural France,
:06:13. > :06:23.not just to to Britain, but also to Switzerland and Italy, checking
:06:23. > :06:24.
:06:24. > :06:27.border records and camera footage The Ministry of Defence has named a
:06:27. > :06:30.soldier who died from injuries sustained in Afghanistan as
:06:30. > :06:32.Guardsman Karl Whittle. The 22- year-old was from the Queen's
:06:32. > :06:37.Company, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards and had been wounded in
:06:37. > :06:45.Helmand Province, last month. His family said that Karl was the
:06:45. > :06:48.Syrian activists say government air strikes have destroyed a main
:06:48. > :06:52.pipeline supplying water to the city of Aleppo during a day of
:06:52. > :06:55.intense bombardment. Government forces were also reported to have
:06:55. > :07:01.regained control of a barracks in the city. Activists say about 100
:07:01. > :07:04.people have been killed in the latest violence across the country.
:07:04. > :07:08.The British Medical Association has repeated its opposition to changing
:07:08. > :07:11.the law on assisted dying. It comes after a newly appointed Health
:07:11. > :07:16.Minister described the laws on assisted suicide as "ridiculous and
:07:16. > :07:20.appalling". In a newspaper interview, Anna Soubry said people
:07:20. > :07:27.seeking help to die should not have to go abroad. Our political
:07:28. > :07:34.correspondent, Robin Brant, reports. It was the case of Tony Nicklinson
:07:34. > :07:38.who suffered from locked-in syndrome that brought ed suicide
:07:38. > :07:41.into the spotlight. A few weeks ago, he lost his bid to change the
:07:41. > :07:46.murder laws which could have allowed doctors to allow him die
:07:46. > :07:51.without facing prosecution. Days later he died of natural causes.
:07:51. > :08:01.Anna Soubry doesn't support the changes his family want. But days
:08:01. > :08:04.
:08:04. > :08:08.into her job, the Health Minister Some Britons have gone to clinics
:08:08. > :08:12.in Switzerland to get help to die. It is a criminal offence to assist
:08:13. > :08:15.a suicide in the UK, but prosecutors look at it case by case.
:08:15. > :08:19.The Department of Health said Anna Soubry's remarks were her personal
:08:19. > :08:24.views, but another new Health Minister echoed her opinions.
:08:24. > :08:30.There is a case for looking at reform. This is an individual
:08:30. > :08:36.decision of conscience. There is not a Government policy on it, but
:08:36. > :08:39.I certainly think that we should debate it. The positives and
:08:39. > :08:43.negatives about reform, but I certainly personally think there is
:08:43. > :08:50.a case for looking at this. The Ministry of Justice said there
:08:50. > :08:54.were no plans to change the law. The doctors' organisation, the BMA
:08:54. > :08:59.reiterated its view that they should not help to kill patients.
:08:59. > :09:03.The issue has been debated four times by British parliaments and on
:09:03. > :09:08.every occasion it was rejected on the grounds of public safety.
:09:08. > :09:14.Some Tories promised to fight any review. The MP Mark Pritchard told
:09:14. > :09:20.the BBC to expect a row. The new man in charge, the Health
:09:20. > :09:23.Secretary, wouldn't have wanted his first few days to be on the area of
:09:24. > :09:27.helping the ill to kill themselves. The courts made it clear that it is
:09:27. > :09:32.for Parliament to decide and the pressure maybe building for another
:09:32. > :09:37.review of the law. A search operation has been taking
:09:37. > :09:42.place to find a boy who was swept into a river in county Durham.
:09:42. > :09:50.Colin Dodds is thought to have fall noon the river this -- fallen into
:09:50. > :09:54.the the river this afternoon. In the last full day of competition
:09:54. > :10:04.at the Paralympics, Oscar Pistorius won gold. His only individual gold
:10:04. > :10:05.
:10:05. > :10:13.medal of the Games. Oscar Pistorius's nickname is the
:10:13. > :10:23.Blade Runner. But he has been named the Blade Xainer. Next to him was
:10:23. > :10:23.
:10:23. > :10:29.Alan Oliveira who beat him. It was a last night of competition
:10:29. > :10:33.and the South African was waiting for his first individual gold medal.
:10:33. > :10:41.He lost at the shorter distances but this was at the 400 meters.
:10:41. > :10:46.Nobody was going to take this title off him. Oscar Pistorius was back
:10:46. > :10:52.to his best. After Olympics and Paralympics, at last he was a
:10:52. > :10:58.London 2012 individual champion. The perfect ending to the Games to
:10:58. > :11:02.the best known Paralympian, over at Aquatics Centre, there wasn't a
:11:02. > :11:09.finale that another of the crowd's favourites was hoping for.
:11:09. > :11:12.Ellie Simmonds went into the 100 meters freestyle as the under dog.
:11:12. > :11:16.The American post add world record time in the heats, if Ellie
:11:16. > :11:23.Simmonds was to have a chance, she knew she would have to swim faster
:11:23. > :11:27.than before. She did, but it wasn't enough. Ireland took more than a
:11:27. > :11:32.second off the world record. Silver for Ellie Simmonds to go
:11:32. > :11:38.with her two golds and a a bronze and the 17-year-old will be back
:11:38. > :11:43.for more in Rio. David Stone was the only Gold
:11:43. > :11:47.Medallist today. Stone defended the road race title he won in Beijing.
:11:47. > :11:56.That was Britain's eighth cycling gold of the Games. Less than half
:11:56. > :12:04.the 17 won four years ago, but ahead of any other country. There
:12:04. > :12:10.was disappointment for David Smith. He had to settle for silver.
:12:10. > :12:14.Britain have slipped from second to third in the med medals table.
:12:14. > :12:18.In the six weeks since the Olympic opening ceremony, eleven million
:12:18. > :12:21.tickets have been sold and four million people visited the Olympic
:12:21. > :12:26.Park. But the process of dismantling some of the buildings
:12:26. > :12:33.is about to begin and it is not a small task. There are 200,000
:12:33. > :12:38.temporary seats. Robert Hall has been taking one last look.
:12:38. > :12:42.It has been a festival which drew us all in. A celebration of sport,
:12:42. > :12:49.of cultures and of music or of just a celebration.
:12:49. > :12:56.This weekend, the prommen add are - - prom promenades are packed, but
:12:56. > :13:00.the curtain is coming down. Out on the park, visitors are
:13:00. > :13:04.navigating their way between venues which will change or disappear
:13:04. > :13:08.altogether. The giant stadium has yet to
:13:08. > :13:15.acquire new owners, but it will remain a key venue for athletics.
:13:15. > :13:20.The two river bank arenas will be dismantled. They were never
:13:20. > :13:25.intended to be permanent structures. The velodrome, that will combine
:13:25. > :13:30.with the BMX track to form the Velopark, a new centre for local
:13:31. > :13:35.and national cycle training. And the basketball arena, known
:13:35. > :13:40.around the world as the Giant Mattress, that that will disappear
:13:40. > :13:45.to be used elsewhere. From the beginning we knew this was
:13:45. > :13:49.a long-term project. The Games have been like a punctuation mark on
:13:49. > :13:54.this route and now the Legacy Corporation will be working hard to
:13:54. > :13:58.get this open and in phases from next summer. Before all that, the
:13:58. > :14:03.goodbyes. Michael Stratford, born in 1948, the year of the last
:14:03. > :14:06.British Games is one of the 70,000 volunteer Games makers. He believes
:14:06. > :14:10.many of his colleagues will find it hard to return to life outside the
:14:10. > :14:15.Games bubble. There will be some lonely people
:14:15. > :14:19.after this experience. They will have very little - it is actually
:14:19. > :14:23.people who are out of work. If we can just harness these people,
:14:23. > :14:30.they're here. They are doing a fantastic job. We should be able to
:14:30. > :14:35.harness them. All too soon, the park will fall
:14:35. > :14:39.silent to be reborn as part of the Olympic legacy. Those who are part
:14:39. > :14:49.of the Olympic family take with them experiences which will long
:14:49. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:55.outlive the London flame. Sport now and for a full round up
:14:55. > :14:56.of all the day's action, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram at the BBC
:14:56. > :15:00.Sport Centre. Thank you very much.
:15:00. > :15:03.Andy Murray is into his second Grand Slam final of the year after
:15:03. > :15:06.beating Tomas Berdych at the US Open. It will be the fifth major
:15:07. > :15:09.final of Murray's career as he attempts to add a first Grand Slam
:15:09. > :15:12.title to his Olympic Gold medal. Andy Swiss reports from Flushing
:15:12. > :15:16.Meadows. It was a day which began with a tornado warning at Flushing
:15:16. > :15:19.Meadows. Wimbledon eat your heart out! While the rain did relent for
:15:19. > :15:24.Andy Murray, this would be a battle against the elements as much as
:15:24. > :15:28.Tomas Berdych. The wind was ferocious. One early point had to
:15:28. > :15:32.be replayed after Murray's cap blew off and the storm clouds were
:15:32. > :15:38.circling the British number one. Tomas Berdych powering to the first
:15:38. > :15:43.set 7-5. Was another Murray Grand Slam dream about to be blown away?
:15:43. > :15:48.Murray came roaring back taking control of the second set in style.
:15:48. > :15:55.The conditions were boardering on farcical, the court invaded by
:15:55. > :16:00.equipment, but Murray kept his focus and before long it was 1-1.
:16:00. > :16:03.After struggling with the win, Murray was harnessing it. His
:16:03. > :16:09.opponent had no answer. Murray raced to the third set and took the
:16:09. > :16:13.lead in the fourth. The match seemed as good as over. Out of
:16:13. > :16:18.nowhere, back came Tomas Berdych to Norse a tie-break. Finally, Murray
:16:18. > :16:22.was through. The relief was plain to see. A fifth Grand Slam final
:16:22. > :16:27.for Andy Murray and after a gold medal winning summer, what a golden
:16:27. > :16:37.opportunity for that elusive major title.
:16:37. > :16:40.
:16:40. > :16:42.Murray will face face face Novak Djokovic.
:16:42. > :16:45.Action from Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Serbia follows
:16:45. > :16:49.this programme on BBC Scotland, so please leave the room for a moment
:16:49. > :16:53.if you don't want to know the result from today's game. Well,
:16:53. > :16:55.Scotland missed the chance to get their Brazil 2014 campaign off to a
:16:55. > :16:59.winning start after playing out a goalless draw. Craig Levein's side
:16:59. > :17:03.were booed off at Hampden Park and the pressure is now on them to win
:17:03. > :17:06.Tuesday's match against Macedonia. England head to Sri Lanka later
:17:06. > :17:10.this month aiming to retain their World Twenty20 title, but today's
:17:10. > :17:13.match against South Africa won't have filled them with confidence.
:17:13. > :17:18.England suffered a heavy seven wicket defeat in the first game of
:17:18. > :17:21.the Twenty20 series. They set a modest target of 119 runs for
:17:21. > :17:23.victory which South Africa passed comfortably with an over to spare.
:17:23. > :17:32.Lewis Hamilton will start tomorrow's Italian Grand Prix on
:17:32. > :17:42.pole position ahead of McLaren Thank you very much.
:17:42. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:51.Well, that's just about it. Good evening.
:17:51. > :17:56.Big changes coming up next week, but it is quiet out there at the
:17:56. > :18:03.moment. A bit of mistiness forming as we go into the night across
:18:03. > :18:10.parts of the of the West Country. Basically, a dry and quiet night.
:18:10. > :18:15.Rural spots are getting down into single figures, but for most towns
:18:15. > :18:19.and cities, temperatures down to 11 Celsius to 15 Celsius. A bit of fog
:18:19. > :18:23.and it will be a fine start with sunshine to come across central and
:18:23. > :18:26.eastern parts of the UK. Further west, thickening cloud and rain
:18:26. > :18:29.spilling in across Northern Ireland as we head towards lunch time and
:18:29. > :18:32.that will be making its way into western parts of Scotland. Some
:18:32. > :18:39.brightness hanging on further east. Some rain pushing across the Irish
:18:39. > :18:44.Sea, knocking on the door of Cumbria. For West Wales, we will
:18:44. > :18:49.see the cloud thickening. A few showers ahead of the possibly,
:18:49. > :18:54.but most of central and Eastern England will have a fine and warm
:18:54. > :19:00.day. For the closing ceremony, I am hopeful the showers will stay away.
:19:00. > :19:04.There is a risk, but it should stay dry.