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