:00:09. > :00:16.The most successful Paralympic Games in history draw to a close
:00:16. > :00:20.with more medals for Great Britain. David Weir claims his fourth gold
:00:20. > :00:27.medal of the Games - this time winning the marathon.
:00:27. > :00:29.Paralympics GB celebrate their medal haul with over 100 in total.
:00:29. > :00:37.Coming home - the four-year-old girl who saw her parents murdered
:00:37. > :00:44.in France returns to Britain. Iraq erupts in a day of sectarian
:00:44. > :00:47.violence as attacks across the country claim at least 60 lives.
:00:47. > :00:55.Cooling off in Brighton - but union leaders warn they'll be turning up
:00:55. > :00:58.the heat with more strikes over pay. And, Nice to see you Mr Bond - Andy
:00:58. > :01:08.Murray gets some home-grown support as he prepares to try and win his
:01:08. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:21.Good evening. The most successful Paralympic
:01:21. > :01:24.Games in history are drawing to a close after a final day of sport
:01:24. > :01:28.that brought more gold for Great Britain. Victory in the marathon
:01:28. > :01:31.made it four gold medals for David Weir, who's been one of the leading
:01:31. > :01:33.lights of these Games. He and fellow multiple gold medallist,
:01:33. > :01:38.Sarah Storey, will together carry the flag for Great Britain at
:01:38. > :01:40.tonight's closing ceremony. The Games have been a sell out,
:01:40. > :01:44.showcasing disability sport as never before in Britain and
:01:44. > :01:53.bringing a remarkable summer of sport to an end. James Pearce
:01:53. > :01:58.reports. 11 days of competition which have
:01:58. > :02:03.left their mark on all who have witnessed it. It is agreed these
:02:03. > :02:08.are the best Paralympics ever, embraced by the British public,
:02:08. > :02:12.faces which have become some of the best known in the country. David
:02:12. > :02:19.Weir won Britain's 34th and final Gold medal of the Games. Large
:02:19. > :02:25.crowds in London cheered him on as he won the marathon. He had entered
:02:25. > :02:29.four Avensis and his finishing with four gold medals. There was a
:02:29. > :02:34.silver medal for Shelly Woods in the women's race. The sun has shone
:02:34. > :02:39.on 2.5 million people who have visited, but the focus was on the
:02:39. > :02:43.ability rather than disability. But it will tomorrow will this be a
:02:43. > :02:49.memory? There is no doubt some attitudes have changed, but for how
:02:49. > :02:54.long? The views of those watching were positive. The it has changed
:02:54. > :02:59.my attitude. You see them now as athletes in their own right, what
:02:59. > :03:08.ever their disability. People won't stir so much. That must be a
:03:08. > :03:11.benefit for the people with disabilities are themselves.
:03:11. > :03:16.Applauded at ParalympicsGB House earlier. The flag bearers, eight
:03:16. > :03:21.gold medals between them. Every time we have seen a medal won and
:03:22. > :03:26.lost, it has been about sport and not about disability. Hopefully the
:03:26. > :03:31.wider public have embraced the games and have their inspiration
:03:31. > :03:38.taken from that, as well as our Olympic colleagues. It has been a
:03:38. > :03:43.fantastic six weeks of sport. wasn't just Coldplay playing tunes
:03:43. > :03:48.at the Olympic Park, others were getting in on the act. Happy,
:03:48. > :03:51.smiling faces is a site we have become familiar with.
:03:51. > :03:57.Paralympics one not change things overnight. The next 10 days won't
:03:57. > :04:00.be like the last 10 days, but there is a momentum. There has been so
:04:00. > :04:05.much discussion about disabled people and the great things
:04:05. > :04:10.disabled people can do. This is an exclusive gathering, they are all
:04:10. > :04:16.gold-medallist. They summed up their gains by stating, mission
:04:16. > :04:20.accomplished. The same can be said about the Paralympics, it has
:04:20. > :04:29.inspired and possibly changed us. 34 gold medals for Paralympics GB
:04:29. > :04:32.brought a top three finish in the China took the top spot with 95
:04:32. > :04:36.gold, followed by Russia and then Great Britain with 120 medals in
:04:36. > :04:38.all. That was up from the Beijing total but there had been hope of
:04:38. > :04:41.getting into second place. Well the Paralympics closing
:04:41. > :04:44.ceremony almost upon us, a chance to reflect on all that we've seen
:04:44. > :04:48.in the last nine days and on the Olympics before that. James Pearce
:04:48. > :04:55.is with me now. So many great moments, James, but the promise for
:04:55. > :04:59.the Games was always about more than the sport. That is the case
:04:59. > :05:04.for the Paralympics. Looking at the Paralympics and the Olympics, it
:05:04. > :05:09.could not have gone any better. There has hardly been a criticism.
:05:09. > :05:14.The reality will hit tomorrow, the venues will be empty, the clocks
:05:14. > :05:21.will go back and winter will set in. These games have tried to generate
:05:21. > :05:29.participation. But we are getting reports from all over the gate of
:05:29. > :05:32.numbers of children taking up sport. The greatest legacy, many will tell
:05:32. > :05:37.you it is the Paralympics that is the greater legacy. In China it
:05:37. > :05:41.changed the attitude towards disability. It seems that could be
:05:41. > :05:46.the case here as well. Thanks to James Pearce who has covered every
:05:46. > :05:48.step of London 2012. Away from the Olympic Park.
:05:48. > :05:52.The four-year-old girl who witnessed her parents being shot
:05:52. > :05:54.dead while on holiday in the French Alps has returned home to Britain.
:05:54. > :05:58.Zeena al-Hilli's father, Saad, was shot dead in the family car
:05:58. > :06:04.alongside his wife and a woman believed to be her mother. At the
:06:04. > :06:14.family home in Surrey, more police searches have been taking place.
:06:14. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:18.Mike Sergeant is there. What more can you tell us? FA second day,
:06:18. > :06:24.police have been searching the family home bar anything that might
:06:24. > :06:30.help with this investigation. The two young girls who survived will
:06:30. > :06:34.be deeply traumatised. Four year olds Zeena, who hid under her
:06:34. > :06:39.mother's skirt and was in the car for eight hours before the police
:06:39. > :06:43.discovered her, is, as you say back in the UK. For obvious reasons she
:06:43. > :06:49.won't be returning to the family home, she will be looked after by
:06:49. > :06:55.relatives. The better news from France is her older sister, Zainab,
:06:55. > :07:00.is improving. She is out of the medically induced coma but is still
:07:00. > :07:04.under sedation. When the French police talk to her, they will be
:07:04. > :07:13.hoping she can provide information that will help track down her
:07:13. > :07:16.parents' killers. In Iraq, more than 60 people have
:07:16. > :07:19.been killed in a wave of violence targeting the security forces. Over
:07:19. > :07:22.20 bomb and gun attacks struck at least 11 cities, with one of the
:07:22. > :07:25.worst incidents in the southern city of Amara, where two car bombs
:07:25. > :07:28.killed at least 14 people. In Dujail, north of Baghdad, officials
:07:28. > :07:37.say 11 soldiers died when their base was attacked by insurgents at
:07:37. > :07:43.dawn. Emily Buchanan reports. In Kirkuk, they were just coping
:07:43. > :07:46.with one car bomb, when another exploded, wreaking havoc. The
:07:46. > :07:50.targets were police recruits waiting in line for jobs with the
:07:50. > :07:55.state run oil company. No one has claimed responsibility, but the
:07:55. > :08:00.local police commander claimed Al- Qaeda, which often targets the
:08:00. > :08:06.security forces. Elsewhere, the bombings exposed Iraq's sectarian
:08:06. > :08:12.divide. A car bomb in a popular market in Basra was aimed at Shia
:08:12. > :08:16.Muslims. Sunni insurgents, who feel sidelined by the governments are
:08:16. > :08:19.often accused of being responsible for such attacks.
:08:19. > :08:24.TRANSLATION: And the explosion took place in front of my shop and there
:08:24. > :08:29.was a soldier and a woman on the ground. Many people were killed and
:08:29. > :08:34.our shops were damaged in the blast. The car bombs hit Shia
:08:34. > :08:39.neighbourhoods. This is the usual pleas for city of Nasiriya. Two
:08:39. > :08:45.bombs exploded killing many people. Bomb went off near the French
:08:45. > :08:49.consulate, bus and no staff were. Co-ordinated, spasms of violence
:08:49. > :08:54.are becoming more regulator and expose the power vacuum in Baghdad
:08:54. > :09:00.where the Government is divided. This isn't a civil war, but neither
:09:00. > :09:04.is it the peaceful vision hoped for when the American coalition forces
:09:04. > :09:08.left Iraq nine months ago. There has been continued violence
:09:08. > :09:12.in Syria this weekend with at least 160 people killed. There's been a
:09:12. > :09:15.second day of air strikes in the northern city of Aleppo. Unverified
:09:15. > :09:18.amateur video shows the aftermath of an attack on a residential
:09:18. > :09:22.district where it's said at least four were killed and dozens more
:09:22. > :09:24.injured. Here, dozens of organisations
:09:24. > :09:26.involved in implementing the Government's changes to the
:09:26. > :09:31.benefits system have warned that millions of claimants could be
:09:31. > :09:33.disadvantaged. Claimants will now have to go online to receive the
:09:33. > :09:36.new monthly universal credit payment and in documents seen by
:09:36. > :09:46.the BBC, many charities and local councils are concerned some lack
:09:46. > :09:49.
:09:49. > :09:54.the necessary access or computer skills. The people we are most
:09:54. > :09:59.concerned about are those financially disadvantaged, those
:09:59. > :10:03.living on the basic minimum they need to live. Asking them to access
:10:03. > :10:09.a technological system that can be expensive for people who don't have
:10:09. > :10:12.it set up at home, and don't have the means to set it up at home.
:10:12. > :10:21.Our political correspondent, Robin Brant, is in Westminster. Robin are
:10:21. > :10:24.these groups right to be concerned? Yes, it is interesting. There are
:10:24. > :10:30.plenty of organisations who broadly support what the Government is
:10:30. > :10:34.trying to do. The Ian Duncan-Smith, will come to Parliament in the week
:10:34. > :10:38.to update MPs about universal credit, about how far reforms are
:10:39. > :10:43.progressing. It is a significant change, perhaps the biggest the
:10:43. > :10:48.welfare system has faced since its inception. Many of these
:10:48. > :10:53.organisations supported, but they are worried about moving to Monty
:10:53. > :11:00.Panesar and making the system Basic debased around online access. --
:11:00. > :11:03.monthly payments. The scent of the Social Justice has told the BBC the
:11:03. > :11:09.governments should do more to provide help, services and training
:11:09. > :11:13.for budgeting. Also, try and get voluntary organisations, housing
:11:13. > :11:17.associations to go to people's houses with mobile computers to
:11:17. > :11:21.help them access these services. Even those who support Ian Duncan-
:11:21. > :11:25.Smith, thing more needs to be done in terms of the major transition
:11:25. > :11:28.coming this time next year. Union leaders are warning of more co-
:11:28. > :11:30.ordinated strikes over pay as the Trades Union Congress begins its
:11:30. > :11:33.annual conference in Brighton. Many public sector workers currently
:11:33. > :11:36.have a pay freeze, with the National Union of Teachers already
:11:36. > :11:40.voting to strike over pay and working conditions. Unions say
:11:40. > :11:49.their private sector members are also feeling the pinch. From
:11:49. > :11:54.Brighton, here's John Moylan. Soaking up the last rays of summer.
:11:54. > :11:59.Thousands of people took time out from their busy lives and headed to
:11:59. > :12:04.Brighton beach. Joining them is Brendan Barber, who has led the TUC
:12:04. > :12:08.for the past decade, and Frances O'Grady who will become its first
:12:08. > :12:14.woman secretary later this year. It is all change, but the opposition
:12:14. > :12:18.to the austerity measures remain. The key message is posterity isn't
:12:18. > :12:23.working, the economy is flat lining, millions of ordinary people are
:12:23. > :12:29.paying the price with their living standards squeezed. Concerns about
:12:29. > :12:32.job security. We need a change of course. Trade unions mobilise more
:12:32. > :12:37.than a million workers to take strike action over pension reforms.
:12:37. > :12:41.But at Congress this week, it is the issue of paid which is likely
:12:41. > :12:47.to result in repeated calls for more co-ordinated industrial action.
:12:47. > :12:50.Millions of people with jobs including the health service and
:12:50. > :12:55.local governments have seen their income hit because of pay freezes.
:12:55. > :13:00.Now the boss of the biggest public sector union says it has got to end.
:13:00. > :13:04.We will seek to reach compromises, because that is what you doing in
:13:04. > :13:09.talking. If there is no way forward, we will have no alternative but to
:13:09. > :13:15.move back to our members and seek a ballot for industrial action. This
:13:15. > :13:19.will be a ballot for industrial action, for which we won't lose.
:13:19. > :13:27.Over the past five years, the gap between public and private sector
:13:27. > :13:35.pay has widened from 5.3% in 2007, to 8.2% last year. That gap is
:13:35. > :13:40.likely to narrow as pay restraint in the public sector continues. The
:13:40. > :13:44.Government insists pay restraint has saved jobs, but few agreed.
:13:44. > :13:48.Some want to step up the campaign against the cuts and consider a
:13:48. > :13:51.general strike. Lewis Hamilton has pushed rumours
:13:51. > :13:54.about who he might be driving for next season to one side, sweeping
:13:54. > :13:57.to victory in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. The McLaren driver
:13:57. > :14:00.led from pole to flag ahead of Sauber's Sergio Perez and
:14:00. > :14:03.Championship leader, Fernando Alonso in his Ferrari. Hamilton's
:14:03. > :14:08.team-mate, Jenson Button, was in second place before a mechanical
:14:09. > :14:11.fault forced him to retire. Andy Murray will face defending
:14:11. > :14:17.champion, Novak Djokovic, in the US Open men's final at Flushing
:14:17. > :14:20.Meadows tomorrow. Djokovic has just beaten David Ferrer in four sets.
:14:20. > :14:23.Murray booked his place in his fifth Grand Slam final last night
:14:23. > :14:32.after beating Thomas Berdych. Our sports correspondent, Andy Swiss,
:14:32. > :14:35.reports from New York. After yesterday's storms, a calmer
:14:35. > :14:41.day at Flushing Meadows, particularly if you are Andy Murray.
:14:41. > :14:47.He was resting after his victory over Thomas Berdych. Still
:14:47. > :14:53.absorbing his post-match press conference invaded by his Scottish
:14:53. > :14:59.fan club. Enter, says Sean Connery and Sir Alex Ferguson. Andy Murray
:14:59. > :15:08.enjoyed it, but he is waiting for his first grand-slam title. I am
:15:08. > :15:12.ready for the final. I know it is going to be challenging. In his
:15:12. > :15:15.four Grand Slam finals, Andy Murray has tasted only disappointment. But
:15:15. > :15:21.he has had a great deal months - a Wimbledon final followed by the
:15:21. > :15:26.Olympic medal. His mental toughness has been hardened by Ivan Lendl,
:15:26. > :15:31.who like Andy Murray lost his first four Grand Slam finals, before
:15:31. > :15:36.winning his 5th. Could that be an omen? This looks like his best
:15:36. > :15:40.chance so far. The schedule has been good to him. While he has been