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Britain's summer of sport draws to an end with the closing ceremony of | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
the Paralympics. At the heart of the Festival of the | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Flame, the pledge for London 2012 to inspire a generation. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
The final day brought more gold medals for Great Britain, with | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
ParalympicsGB celebrating 120 medals in all. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Also, coming home, the girl who saw her parents murdered in France | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
returns to Britain. In racket erupts in a state of | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
sectarian violence as a tax across the country claimed more than 90 | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
lives. And, Lewis Hamilton heats up the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
race for the drivers' championship with victory in the Italian Grand | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
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Good evening. The closing ceremony of the | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Paralympics is under way, bringing to an end a memorable summer of | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
sport. The final event in the stadium showcases the Paralympians | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
themselves and hundreds of performers with disabilities. Over | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
the past 11 days, many events have been sold out, and more people have | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
watched disabled sport than ever before. After a Closing Ceremony | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
called the Festival of the Flame, how can it be kept alight? | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
The sun sets slowly over east London and, for the last time | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
during 2012, over the Olympic Stadium. More than 4000 athletes | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
took their places, the first time that the athletes have been present | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
throughout, at the heart of the action. They called it a festival | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
of flame, but it began with air. A battle involving wind machines and | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
the spirits of the Paralympics. The flames came later, fire to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
symbolise endings and beginnings, Air Festival because Britain is a | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
country famous for its festivals. Then, help for the Rose. They | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
tracked in a machine christened Human Endeavour. This Captain | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
climbed to hand the Union Jack from the top of the flagpole. Another | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
former servicemen celebrated the service -- spirit of the Games. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
celebrate that spirit, and although we have many differences, there is | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
one quality we all share. One thing all of us have in common. Human | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
spirit. Two that our most successful Paralympic athletes, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
David Weir and Sarah Storey, carried in the Union Jack together. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
This was also a national celebration. Like much of this | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
summer. A summer that began with the | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Queen's Diamond Jubilee and culminated in the Paralympics has | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
changed the way Britons think about their country, at least for now. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
The Olympics and Paralympics organisers hope for something more | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
permanent. Seb Coe will tell the closing ceremony that Britons will | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
never think the same way about sport or disability again. The | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Paralympians, he will say, have lifted the cloud of limitation. For | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
the next hour, the ceremony turned into a concert by Coldplay, | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
accompanied by a host of disabled performers. Disabled people have | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
never had so high a profile. Public attitudes have changed as a result. | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
The trickle to be ensured the Danes are not lost. The other will be to | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
ensure that the remarkable spirit of London 2012 supplied. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
-- survives. Great Britain ended in Paralympics | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
with another gold medal for David Weir in the marathon. Tomorrow, | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Paralympic and Olympic stars will take part in the athletes parade | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
through central London. In the longer term, a key test will be | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
whether they have inspired a generation. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
11 days of competition, which have left their mark on all who have | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
witnessed it. Everybody has agreed these have been the best | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
Paralympics ever, eight games impressed by the British public, | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
faces which have become some of the best known in the country. David | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
Weir wants Britain 34th and final gold medal. Large crowds in London | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
to a claimed one of the big stars as he won the marathon. He had | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
entered four events, he has four gold medals. He was greeted by his | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
son. He will hear stories about his father's extraordinary achievements. | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
Every time that we have seen a gold medal won or lost, it has been | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
about sport, not disability. That is the most fantastic thing. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Hopefully the wider public have embraced it and had their | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
inspiration taken from that, as well as our Olympic colics. It has | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
been at a fantastic six weeks of support. Tens of thousands of | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
disabled spectators have been to the Olympic Park. Many have spoken | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
of the positive impact the Paralympics has had. Others have | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
found themselves educated about disability. The views of those | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
watching the were overwhelmingly positive. It has changed my | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
attitude. You see them out as athletes, whatever their disability. | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
People might not stare so much, that must be a benefit. People will | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
not point out and think they are different. More than 2.5 people -- | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
2.5 million people had visited the Paralympics. Tomorrow, all of this | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
will just be a memory. There is no doubt that some attitudes have | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
changed, but the question is, for how long? It will not change things | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
overnight. The next 10 days will not be like the last 10 days, but | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
there is a real momentum. There has been so much discussion about | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
disabled people and the great things that they can do. This is an | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
exclusive gathering, all gold medallists. The British team summed | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
up their gains by stating that mission accomplished. The same can | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
be said of the whole London Paralympics, an event that has not | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
just entertain, but has inspired, and quite possibly changed us. | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
After a summer of sport like no other, can the Olympics and the | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
Paralympics build a lasting legacy? Six weeks of sensational sport, a | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
very hard act to follow. For the first time, the Paralympics have | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
emerged from the shadow of the Olympics. It is unprecedented that | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
there are four Paralympians among the list of favourites for Sports | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Personality of the Year, we have never seen this before. Many will | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
argue, when it comes to the principal ambition to inspire a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
generation, the Paralympians managed to do that in a way that | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
even the Olympians could not. That is the ultimate accolade. The | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
question is, well that transfer into a lasting legacy when it comes | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
to perceptions of disability, reducing discrimination and | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
improving accessibility to disabled sport? They are the challenges. | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Legacy was always part of the promise. How will we judge if the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
promises have been met? There is no denying the popularity of these | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
London Games. There will be hundreds of thousands on the | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
streets tomorrow. But when the nights draw in and the memories | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
fade, that is where the challenge will come. When it comes to what | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
exactly these games did, some will point to a new-found sense of pride, | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
it redefined nation, a confidence that Britain could deliver on grand | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
projects. Look at the Olympic Stadium. But the real challenge | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
will by then it comes to whether this will make Britain a more | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
sporting and healthier nation. That cannot be answered yet, that is for | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
these years to come. Seb Coe has been appointed ambassador for | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
legacy, but there are questions, school sports funding has been cut, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
school playing fields have been sold off. The real challenge lies | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
ahead. A seven-year-old girl injured in an | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
attack on her family in the Alps has been taken out of a medically | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
induced coma. Her sister has returned home to Britain, where | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
police have been searching the family home, and speaking to | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
relatives. The attack killed both of their parents and the woman, | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
believed to be their grandmother. For a second full day, police teams | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
searched the family home, but they have not said if they have found | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
anything significant. The family work a well-liked family here. This | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
community is shocked by the killings, and they had the first | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
piece of positive news in days. One of the young girls was back in the | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
UK, being looked after at an undisclosed location, and the other | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
was recovering. It is such good news, I am very pleased to hear | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
that she has come home. And that the other daughter will get better. | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
I am sure she is. I know that everybody in these houses will be | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
as thrilled as I am. It is very good news. The best so far. I hope | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
for a good recovery. The four-year- old hid under her mother's skirt as | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
her parents were killed. She was in the car for eight hours before | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
being found. Her sister were shot and beaten but is now out of a | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
medically induced coma. French police say theirs is likely to be a | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
long and complex investigation. Both girls will be deeply | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
traumatised by what happened. Police hope that one of them may | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
eventually be able to provide some information. It is unlikely that | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
either will be returning here in the near future. This house remains | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
an important focus of the police investigation. | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
A British opera has been killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. The | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
MoD said a member of the Light Dragoons died in the Nahr-e Saraj | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
district of Helmand province. His family have been informed. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
The series of car bombs have rocked the Iraqi capital Baghdad at the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
end of their date of widespread violence across the country. They | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
have been more than 20 separate sectarian attacks claiming the | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
lives of more than 90 people and wounding hundreds more. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
In Kirkuk, they were just coping with one car bomb. Then another | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
exploded. Wreaking havoc. The targets were police recruits | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
waiting in line for jobs with the state one oil company. Nobody has | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
claimed responsibility, but the local police commander blamed al- | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
Qaeda, which often targets the security forces. Elsewhere, the | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
bombings exposed Iraq's sectarian divide. A car bomb in a popular | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
market in Basra was clearly aimed at Shia Muslims. Sunny insurgents | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
who feel sidelined by the Shia Muslim dominated government are | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
often accused of being responsible for such attacks. TRANSLATION: It | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
took place in front of my shop, there was a soldier and a woman on | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
the ground. Many people were killed, our shops were damaged. The car | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
bombs hit Shia Muslim neighbourhoods. This is a usually | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
peaceful city. Two bombs exploded. One went off near the French | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
consulate, although none of the staff were hurt., automated spasms | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
of violence are becoming more regular. They expose the power | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
vacuum in Baghdad, where the government is deeply divided | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
between Sunni Muslim, a Shia Muslim and Kurdish factions. This is not | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
civil war, but neither is it the peaceful vision had four when the | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
American-led coalition forces left Iraq nine months ago. | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
Union leaders are warning of more co-ordinated strikes over pay as | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
the Trades Union Congress begins its annual conference in Brighton. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Many public sector workers currently have a pay freeze, with | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
the NUT voted to strike over pay and working conditions. Unions say | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
their private sector members are also feeling the pinch. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
Soaking up the last rays of summer, today, thousands of people took | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
time out from their busy lives and headed for Brighton beach. Joining | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
them briefly, Brendan Barber, who has led the TUC for the last decade, | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
and Frances O'Grady, who will become its first woman general | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
secretary later this year. It is all change, but the opposition to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the austerity measures remains. key message is that all austerity | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
is not working, the economy is flat lining, ordinary people are paying | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
the price with their living standards being squeezed, concerns | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
about their job security, we really needed change. Trade unions | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
mobilised more than 1 million workers to take strike action over | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
pension reforms. But this week at Congress, it is the issue of pay | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
which is likely to result in repeated calls for more co- | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
ordinated industrial action. Millions of people with jobs in | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
sectors including the health service and local government have | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
seen their income hit as a result of pay freezes. Now, the boss of | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
the biggest public sector union says it has to end. We will stick | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
to reach agreement and compromises, because that is what you do. If | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
there is no way forward, if we are blocked, we will have no | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
alternative but to move back to our members and seek a ballot for | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
industrial action by our members. This will be a ballot and | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
industrial action which we will not lose. Over the past five years, the | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
gap between public and private sector pay has widened. But that | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
gap is likely to narrow as pay restraint in the public sector | :14:38. | :14:47. | |
continues. The government insists pay restraint has save jobs, but | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
few here agree. Someone to step up the campaign against the Kurds and | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
even consider a general strike. -- against the cuts. | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
It Lewis Hamilton has won the Italian Grand Prix after dominating | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
from the start. He put the recent rumours about his possible switch | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
to Mercedes aside as he put himself back in contention for the drivers' | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
championship, moving up to second place in the standings, behind | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Fernando Alonso. Mercedes provide the engine for | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Lewis Hamilton's McLaren, but they want him to drive their car next | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
season, it is rumoured. He has been told by his boss to show total | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
commitment if he wants a new contract. He did just that, by | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
claiming the pole position and dominating from the start in Italy. | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Jenson Button could not stop Felipe Massa flying past him. But the | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
McLaren proved too quick to hold off. Sebastian Vettel took to the | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
grass here last year to get past Fernando Alonso, but this time, the | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
roles were reversed. For Rory felt the German had forced the Spaniard | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
off. It is very clear what happened. The stewards penalised the world | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
champion. Not long after, a problem saw Jenson Button's hopes evaporate. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Fernando Alonso moved up to second, but lost it to Sergio Perez. Then, | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
more trouble for Sebastian Vettel. We need to save the engine, stop | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
the car. There were no such problems for Lewis Hamilton, his | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
first win here, and his third of the season. Really fantastic job, a | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
great effort. I am so grateful for this opportunity. He is second in | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
the drivers' championship, and McLaren will want to keep him. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Andy Murray will face Novak Djokovic in the final of the US | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Open in New York tomorrow after the world No. To beat David Ferrer in | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
the semi-finals. Novak Djokovic had to come down from -- comeback from | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
a set down to win in four sets. The Serbian beat Andy Murray in | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
straight sets last time they met in a Grand Slam final, but Amara, Andy | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Murray will have the Scottish support team, including Sean | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Connery and Alex Ferguson. He feels this time he can win the first | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
grand-slam title. I am ready for the final. I know it | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
will be challenging, but I have had a really good summer, the best of | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
my career. I hope I can play well in the final. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
That is it from us for tonight, the Paralympics closing ceremony is | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
continuing behind me. Shortly, the flame will be extinguished. We | :17:29. | :17:32. |