:00:24. > :00:28.Good evening. The body of Nelson Mandela has been taken to its final
:00:29. > :00:33.resting place, his childhood village of Qunu, where he will be buried
:00:34. > :00:39.tomorrow. The coffin was flown to the Eastern Cape, where large crowds
:00:40. > :00:43.turned out to pay their respects. World affairs editor John Simpson
:00:44. > :00:46.reports. Solemnly, the coffin carrying the
:00:47. > :00:53.body of the man who transformed this country was brought to Waterkloof
:00:54. > :01:00.airport for the ANC's farewell to him. For his widow, Graca Machel,
:01:01. > :01:05.this was the most emotional public moment so far. Friends say she has
:01:06. > :01:12.taken his death had. It has been a difficult time politically for Jacob
:01:13. > :01:14.Zuma, the president has had to endure public criticism and
:01:15. > :01:23.humiliation. But here he could speak without being heckled. Madiba had
:01:24. > :01:31.something powerful. He had the capacity to persuade... The guests,
:01:32. > :01:35.made up a varied gathering, including Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein
:01:36. > :01:40.in Ireland, a man who also talked peace with his former enemies. But
:01:41. > :01:44.they did not include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mandela's long-term
:01:45. > :01:48.friend. He says he has not been invited to the funeral. The ANC,
:01:49. > :01:55.with whom he does not see eye to eye, insists he has been. And then
:01:56. > :02:01.it was time to start the journey home. Nelson Mandela was leaving the
:02:02. > :02:07.region where, in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, he had
:02:08. > :02:11.achieved his greatest successes. He was heading back to the poorer but
:02:12. > :02:20.even more beautiful territory of the Eastern Cape. You might have
:02:21. > :02:22.expected the crowds along the road to his birthplace, Qunu, to be sad
:02:23. > :02:36.and quiet. On the contrary. This is such a sad day, and yet
:02:37. > :02:41.everybody is happy, why is that? It is so painful that he is dead, but
:02:42. > :02:50.now we have the chance to celebrate. So you are celebrating his life and
:02:51. > :02:55.showing your gratitude? CROWD: Yeah! And then down the road, the
:02:56. > :02:58.procession accompanying the herds with Nelson Mandela's body. Once he
:02:59. > :03:03.tended farm animals in the fields around here, just as children still
:03:04. > :03:05.do. Now the one-time shepherd boy had the full panoply of the state to
:03:06. > :03:16.bring him back home. Africa correspondent Andrew Harding
:03:17. > :03:20.is in Qunu now, where the funeral service will take place tomorrow, so
:03:21. > :03:24.many big events this last few days, but tomorrow is going to be
:03:25. > :03:29.enormous. It is, Nick. You have just missed a
:03:30. > :03:33.spectacular sunset here, and it will be an early start tomorrow, the
:03:34. > :03:37.coffin taken from Nelson Mandela's house in the valley to a marquee in
:03:38. > :03:42.the garden and then to a private burial plot. It will be a hybrid
:03:43. > :03:46.ceremony-events tomorrow, there will be an ox slaughtered in keeping with
:03:47. > :03:51.local traditions, there will be a Christian service. It will be on one
:03:52. > :03:56.level and intensely private family event, so no cameras at the actual
:03:57. > :04:01.burial, but it is also a state funeral, so 4000 guests, including
:04:02. > :04:06.the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and a number of African leaders,
:04:07. > :04:10.although not, as John was mentioning, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
:04:11. > :04:15.There is some confusion there. We were told he was very upset that he
:04:16. > :04:19.had been left off the guest list and did not want to gate-crash, but then
:04:20. > :04:23.the government insisted it was not a snub, because there was frequent
:04:24. > :04:27.criticism of the ruling party, but a misunderstanding and he was welcome
:04:28. > :04:31.to come. We will wait to see if he manages to get here in time. In the
:04:32. > :04:36.meantime, the forecast for tomorrow is rain, but apart from that,
:04:37. > :04:44.everything seems to be going very smoothly. As John suggested, the
:04:45. > :04:49.mood is very joyful here. In other news, china's ambitious
:04:50. > :04:52.space programme took another giant leap today, successfully landing an
:04:53. > :04:56.unmanned spacecraft on the moon. It is the first landing in 37 years
:04:57. > :05:06.following the United States and the former Soviet Union. From Beijing,
:05:07. > :05:09.Damian Grammaticas reports. 250,000 miles from earth and
:05:10. > :05:15.descending to the moon, live coverage of the mission was beamed
:05:16. > :05:19.across China. Computer animations were used to show the unmanned moon
:05:20. > :05:23.lander manoeuvring carefully into place. 100 metres above the lunar
:05:24. > :05:27.surface, an board cameras began sending still images of the landing
:05:28. > :05:34.site, a lava plain known as the Bay of Rainbows. Computers on the probe
:05:35. > :05:38.controlled its final moments. Four metres from the surface, it
:05:39. > :05:45.hovered, then cut its engines, a perfect soft landing, one giant step
:05:46. > :05:50.for Chinese ambition. This is a feat only two countries have achieved
:05:51. > :05:55.before. Just as, for America and the Soviet Union, with their moon
:05:56. > :06:00.missions 40 years ago, China's is a showcase, a statement of national
:06:01. > :06:05.prowess. It stokes national pride and, after this, China wants to
:06:06. > :06:10.bring back samples from the moon, and one day maybe send a Chinese
:06:11. > :06:15.astronaut their plans. The robotic rover will spend the next few months
:06:16. > :06:19.exploring the service, but for this rising nation, the science is less
:06:20. > :06:26.important than the symbolism as it reaches for the moon.
:06:27. > :06:28.Detectives investigating the disappearance of Jayden Parkinson in
:06:29. > :06:32.Oxford just say they are now treating it as a murder inquiry. The
:06:33. > :06:37.17-year-old has been missing for nearly two weeks. A man and a
:06:38. > :06:40.17-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Police say
:06:41. > :06:43.nobody has found but they want to speak to a man who was seen with a
:06:44. > :06:48.suitcase in a field near Upton village.
:06:49. > :06:55.A witness has come forward to say that, in the early hours of Monday
:06:56. > :07:02.the 9th of December, at about 2am, they saw a man with a large suitcase
:07:03. > :07:08.in that rural area. The suitcase was large, it was heavy, it was
:07:09. > :07:11.difficult to manage. NHS England is to announce plans to
:07:12. > :07:16.improve care for patients at weekends with more senior staff on
:07:17. > :07:19.duty following concerns that people treated on Saturday and Sunday
:07:20. > :07:24.supper worst medical outcomes and higher death rates than those
:07:25. > :07:27.admitted during the week. -- suffer. Dissident republicans opposed to the
:07:28. > :07:33.peace process a they carried out a bomb attack in Belfast last night.
:07:34. > :07:36.Police say the explosion could have killed or caused serious injury in
:07:37. > :07:42.an area packed with people. Claire Savage reports.
:07:43. > :07:46.It was supposed to be a big night out for Belfast, with many relaxing
:07:47. > :07:50.at the end of the week, enjoying Christmas parties. Instead, hundreds
:07:51. > :07:56.had to be evacuated from the city's Cathedral Quarter. This photograph
:07:57. > :08:01.was taken moments after the bomb went off. It only partially
:08:02. > :08:05.detonated, and no-one was injured. A warning had been received, but it
:08:06. > :08:09.gave the wrong location. This was the bag in which the bomb was
:08:10. > :08:13.placed. The scene of the blast was cleared this morning with barely a
:08:14. > :08:16.sign of the explosion. Dissident republicans have claimed
:08:17. > :08:22.responsibility for the attack, which police say could have killed. This
:08:23. > :08:27.device was fully functional. It could have injured or killed members
:08:28. > :08:34.of the public. And it has similarities to previous devices
:08:35. > :08:38.used by dissident republicans. Yesterday's attack was the latest in
:08:39. > :08:43.a string of dissident attacks. Last month, a car bomb partially exploded
:08:44. > :08:48.near a police station, also in the city centre. The political
:08:49. > :08:52.settlement has transformed life in Northern Ireland, it is not going
:08:53. > :08:54.back to the dark days of the past, and that is illustrated by the
:08:55. > :08:59.universal condemnation of what went on last night in Belfast city
:09:00. > :09:04.centre. It was business as usual today for
:09:05. > :09:09.Belfast shoppers, and a sense of defiance. It would not put we off,
:09:10. > :09:13.because it is isolated. I am not going to be put off by things like
:09:14. > :09:18.that. Hopefully they will stop what they are doing and let everyone get
:09:19. > :09:21.on with their lives in peace. It is one of the busiest shopping days of
:09:22. > :09:25.the year and a busy night for Belfast, so police have ramped up
:09:26. > :09:31.security measures in the cities and and have urged the public to keep an
:09:32. > :09:35.eye out for anything suspicious. Belfast may be accustomed to
:09:36. > :09:38.disruptions of this kind, but there is still in these in the city
:09:39. > :09:43.tonight that normal life has once again been disrupted by a bomb. --
:09:44. > :09:47.there is still an ease. The cricket now, and English hopes
:09:48. > :09:55.of holding onto the Ashes are a knife edge. They two of the crucial
:09:56. > :10:00.Third Test in Perth concluded with England on 180 - four. -- they two.
:10:01. > :10:05.There is still something to fight over in the Ashes, England had
:10:06. > :10:11.finished the Australian Ashes fairly promptly and felt themselves in
:10:12. > :10:16.pursuit of 385. 85 on the board when Carbury miscalculated, ball off back
:10:17. > :10:20.onto stumps, and so Joe Root. The filed by a decided eventually that
:10:21. > :10:25.he had edged the ball to the wicketkeeper. Joe Root said no,
:10:26. > :10:30.review. If the conclusion was inconclusive, the decision stayed it
:10:31. > :10:36.was, gone for four. Alastair Cook forced to 72 and unleashed a shot to
:10:37. > :10:40.David Warner. Australia had worked hard to restrain Kevin Pietersen,
:10:41. > :10:44.hoping for just this kind of thing. A wonderful catch by Mitchell
:10:45. > :10:47.Johnson, bowler Peter Siddle and the whole Australian team celebrated the
:10:48. > :10:53.success of a plan coming together again. England will resume 205
:10:54. > :10:58.behind and four wickets down, still time for them to make a meaningful
:10:59. > :11:05.contribution with the bat, but that time is now or never.
:11:06. > :11:06.That is it, I will be back with our next bulletin