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Finally home - the body of Nelson Mandela is in the village where he | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
was born, where he will be buried early tomorrow. At the end of the | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
journey, cheering crowds celebrated the achievements of his long life. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
China lands its first probe on the moon - a giant leap forward for the | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
country's space programme. Hospitals are told to provide more | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
doctors at weekends. England's hopes of holding Joen to | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the ashes are balanced on a knife edge. | :00:43. | :01:00. | |
Nelson Mandela's family is holding an overnight vigil beside his body, | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
in his childhood home of Qunu, on the eve of his funeral. Earlier, a | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
military plane, escorted by fighter jets, had carried the casket from | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
South Africa's capital Pretoria to the Eastern Cape. In Mr Mandela's | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
home province, thousands of people lined the streets to pay their | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
respects and celebrate his life. Our world affairs editor, John Simpson, | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
reports. In the incomparable landscape in which Nelson Mandela | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
spent his childhood, they brought back his body on its last journey to | :01:35. | :01:46. | |
the family home. In the morning, the party he'd belonged to for 69 years, | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
the ANC, said its goodbyes to him at the airport near Pretoria. For his | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
widow, this was the most emotional public moment so far. Friends say | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
she's taken her husband's death very hard. President Jacob Zuma broke | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
into song, as he likes to do. He's got a good voice, but he's had a | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
tough time politically. Since the death of Nelson Mandela, he's been | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
criticised, heckled and booed. The guests were varied. They included | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Gerry Adams of Ireland's Sinn Fein, a man who also talked peace with his | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
former enemies. But one important figure was missing, Mandela's friend | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
and ally, the former Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He said he hadn't been | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
invited and didn't want to gatecrash. The ANC said he had been | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
invited and tonight he said he would be going after all. Finally, it was | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
time to start the journey home to the Eastern Cape. He was leaving | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
behind the big cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, where he had | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
achieved many of his greatest successes. There were big crowds | :03:15. | :03:28. | |
along the roads from the airport to Qunu, you might have thought they | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
would be silent and sad, but they weren't. This is such a sad day and | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
yet, everybody is happy. Why is that? It is so painful that he's | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
dead, but now, at least, we have the chance to celebrate. So you're | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
celebrating his life and you're showing his gratitude? Yes! | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
CHEERING Then down the road came the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
procession accompanying the hearse with Nelson Mandela's body. Once he | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
tended farm animals in the fields round here, just as children still | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
do. Now the one-time shepherd boy had the full panoply of the state to | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
bring him back home. For many people in Nelson Mandela's | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
homeland, the passing of his cortege was a final opportunity to say | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
farewell. Our correspondent, Nomsa Maseko, was among the crowds. | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
Nelson Mandela's home coming, they called it his send-off party. Now | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
that this day has come, do you think it's reality now? Do you think now | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
you can believe he's gone? Yes, we've got this feeling inside and | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
sorry. We have freedom just because of him. He mean everything to me. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
He's everything. It was a welcome fit for a hero. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
CHEERING This is the moment people have been | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
waiting for. They've been standing here for hours just to bid farewell | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
to Nelson Mandela. Most were happy, but some grumbled the procession | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
went by too fast. We were here very early in the morning, and Mandela | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
just passed by and stopped a little bit, but they never stopped. It was | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
just a glimpse of him. It was a day that parents will tell their | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
children about. One little girl summed it all up. I am proud of you | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
Mr Nelson Mandela for bringing us to freedom in our country and for | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
bringing peace in our land. I thank you. John Simpson joins us from | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
Qunu, where Mr Mandela's funeral takes place in the morning. John, | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
the last act in this great drama. Yes. I think it will be very simple, | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
actually, compared with what we've been seeing. I think it will be | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
quieter, a gentle and very sad business when Nelson Mandela's laid | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
to rest beside his three children, who've all died before him. That in | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
itself is going to be a source of sadness and sorrow. I think it will | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
be quite quiet actually. There is nothing like the number of people | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
that turned up last Tuesday at the memorial service in Soweto. In fact, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
I think Prince Charles is going to be just about the only A-lister | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
there, apart from some African presidents, but there's a lot of | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
vice-presidents and Prime Ministers from the Caribbean and so forth. It | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
won't be, it won't have the status that Tuesday's whole session had. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
That isn't in any sense a criticism of the planning. The planning here | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
seems to be pretty impressive, given the difficulties of getting | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
everybody here. It seems to be that as far as one can tell that | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
President Obama decided to jump the gun and make Tuesday rather than | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
tomorrow his big day and most people just followed suit. John, thank you. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
On to other news. China has become the third nation, after America and | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
the former Soviet Union, to land an unmanned space craft on the moon- | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
the first such mission for almost 40 years. A rover will now embark on a | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
three-month programme of exploration. As Damian Grammaticas | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
reports from Beijing, the mission is seen as underlining China's status | :07:49. | :08:00. | |
as an emerging world power. 250,000 miles from earth and descending to | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the moon. Live coverage of this mission was beamed across China. | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
Computer animation is used to show China's unmanned mooned lander | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
manoeuvring into place. 100 metres above the lunar surface, on-board | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
cameras began sending still images of the landing site, known as the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Bay of Rain bows. Computers on the probe controlled its final moments. | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Four metres from the surface, it hovered, then cut its engines, a | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
perfect, soft landing, one giant step for Chinese ambition. | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
TRANSLATION: This proves China is becoming a strong, big country. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
China now is in the front rank, right behind the United States. Just | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
as with America and the Soviet Union's moon missions 40 years ago, | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
China's now is a statement of The National Lottery Live prowess -- is | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
a statement of thenation's prowess. They want to one day sent an | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
astronaut there. A robotic Rover will spend three months exploring | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
the surface, looking for rare minerals and energy sources that | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
China could one day exploit. For this rising nation, the science is | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
less important than the sybolism as it reaches for the moon. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
The NHS is to announce plans to improve care for hospital patients | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
at weekends, with more senior staff on duty. It follows concerns that | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
patients treated on Saturdays and on Sundays suffer worse medical | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
outcomes and higher death rates than those admitted during the week. Our | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
political correspondent is here. What do we know about this? For the | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
past year, the medical director of the NHS in England has been looking | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
at improving patient care at weekends, precisely people could be | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
12% to 16% extra risk of death if admitted at the weekend. What he's | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
likely to recommend is that in future people will be seen within 14 | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
hours by a consultant, the most senior doctors and if they're | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
already in hospital, they'll be seen within 24 hours. He believes that | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
people shouldn't have to wait any longer for test results in hospital | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
simply because it's the weekend. If hospitals don't comply they're going | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
to face potentially very costly sanctions. He has been setting out | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
some of these ideas in the Sunday Times. What I'm not clear about | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
tonight is how it will be paid for. Perhaps on the Andrew Marr programme | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
tomorrow when he makes an appearance, he can tell us then. ? | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
Vment Thank you. Detectives searching for a missing | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
17-year-old from Oxfordshire have said they are now treating it as a | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
murder inquiry. Jayden Parkinson was last seen at Didcot railway station | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
on December 3.. A man and a 17-year-old youth have been | :10:54. | :10:54. | |
arrested. Philippa Thomas reports. Dissident republicans, opposed to | :10:55. | :11:07. | |
the peace process, say they carried out a bomb attack in Belfast last | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
night. Detectives say the device, which was hidden in a black holdall, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
could have caused death and serious injury. Police managed to evacuate | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
the immediate area before the bomb exploded. As relatives of those | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
killed in the Lockerbie bombing prepare to mark the 25th anniversary | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
of the tack, the anguish of one mother has only just began. Carol | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
King-Eckersley gave up her baby son for adoption. She recently | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
discovered he was killed in the attack, while, as a young student, | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
he was travelling home to the United States. | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
As the 25th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing approaches, they | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
remember their dead. 35 students are enrolled here in memory of the 35 | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
who were killed flying home from a term in London for Christmas, 1988. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
Kenneth Bissett's mother is attending this annual ceremony for | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
the first time, having only just learned of her loss. Even though I | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
didn't have him with me, physically, he was always in my heart. Carol | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
gave up her son for adoption at birth. As the daughter of a school | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
principal in 1967, she felt it would have been socially unacceptable for | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
her to keep him. There was always the hope and dream that someday | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
there would come a knock on the door and I would open it and there would | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
be this tall, handsome gentleman saying, "Hi. I guess you're my mum." | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Her dream of reunion died earlier this year, when she decided to | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
search for her son online. I looked and I said, my God, it's him. Why | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
are they only showing part of his life. That's not right. Finally, it | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
dawned on me that it was right. I just said, "My God. My baby's dead." | :13:14. | :13:22. | |
Kenneth Bissett was one of 270 people killed when a terrorist bomb | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
blew up the jet over Scotland. One day Carol King-Eckersley hopes to | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
come here to Lockerbie to see the place where her son fell. We love | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
you, sweet heart. Carol will join hundreds of others bereaved by the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
bombing at 25th anniversary events next weekend, to remember all those | :13:44. | :13:57. | |
who were lost at Lockerbie. And the programme Living with | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
Lockerbie will be broadcast on Monday just after 10.30pm on BBC | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
Scotland. Now here's all the sports news. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
Good evening. We will have the latest from the Ashes in a moment. | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
If you're waiting for Match of the Day, please look away now and turn | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
the sound down. There was an incredible match at the | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
top of the table, as Manchester City maintained their 100% record at home | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
in the league beating leaders Arsenal 6-3 at the Ethiad Stadium. | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
The news got worse for Arsenal, as Jack Wilshire could face a possible | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
ban after apparently making an abusive hand gesture towards the | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
crowd. West Brom have sacked their manager, Steve Clarke, after their | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
fourth defeat in a row. They lost to Cardiff. Chelsea are up to second, | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
just two points behind Arsenal. High winds caused some games to be | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
abandoned or postponed in Scotland, but only one Scottish Premiership | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
match was affected. The top five all completed their games and all came | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
away with victory. So Celtic remain seven points clear after their win | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
over Hibernian. Bottom side Hearts lost against Inverness and there | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
were wins for Aberdeen, Dundee United and Motherwell. In a few | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
hours, England will resume play in the third Ashes Test. This third day | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
could be a crucial one in the series with Australia 2-0 up, England must | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
get close to the hosts first innings total of 385. They're currently 205 | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
runs behind. Joe Wilson reports from Perth. The debris of a day's cricket | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
in Perth, eight hours seeking hydration in the shaless expanses of | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
a scorned old stadium. There is something left to fight over in the | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
Ashes, but the final decision may be looming. England had finished off | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
the Australian innings fairly promptly and found themselves in | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
pursuit of 385. It started well. Car berry and Cook started well. Then a | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
miscalculation, ball off bat into stumps. So Joe Root, the on-field | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
umpire decided he edged the ball. Root said no. Review. The replay | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
revealed nothing. The audio is played. Was that the sound of ball | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
on bat? If the conclusion was inconclusive, the decision stayed as | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
it was. Root gone for four. Cook fought to 72 and unleashed a shot | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
against Nathan Lyon to Darren Warner. -- David Warner. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
A wonderful catch by Johnson, and the Australian team celebrated the | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
success of a plan coming together, again. It's just Kevin Pietersen | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
being himself. There is still time for Bell, Stokes or Prior to make a | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
meaningful contribution with the bat. That time is now or never. That | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
is all from the BBC sports centre for now. | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
That's it. There will be a special programme on the funeral of Nelson | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
Mandela tomorrow morning, starting at 5. 30am, here on BBC One. The | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Andrew Marr Show will be on BBC Two at 9am. From me and the whole team | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
here, good night. ( Good evening. The latest satellite | :17:21. | :17:36. | |
sequence shows today's miserable weather now spreading south across | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
England and Wales. Some squally showers to follow across more | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
northern parts. For tomorrow, the next batch of wind and rain heading | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
to the north and west. For some of us | :17:48. | :17:48. |