:00:08. > :00:12.Nearly a billion pounds are released for Libya as the new
:00:12. > :00:16.leadership rejects an international peacekeeping force. People are on
:00:16. > :00:25.the streets of the capital to mark the first Eid since the fall of the
:00:25. > :00:29.Gadaffi regime. The fighters have been told there will be a pause in
:00:29. > :00:34.their operations for a few days. That's partly because of the Eid
:00:34. > :00:40.holiday, but it is mainly to give a chance to peace talks which are
:00:40. > :00:43.taking place with tribal leaders in Sirte. I'll be reporting live from
:00:43. > :00:47.Tripoli where people are still celebrating day and night even
:00:47. > :00:50.though the war is not quite over and the revolution, not quite
:00:50. > :00:56.complete. The other headlines this lunch time:
:00:56. > :01:04.The banks are accused of creating panic in an attempt to delay reform
:01:04. > :01:07.by the Business Secretary Vince Cable. $NEWLINE A teenager who
:01:07. > :01:11.survived the Norway polar bear attack tells us how the animal had
:01:11. > :01:16.his head in its jaws. I was punching it because it was biting
:01:16. > :01:19.my head. Just wanted to get it off me. That was the only way to get it
:01:19. > :01:21.off me, really. Facing eviction: 80 families wait
:01:22. > :01:31.to hear whether they'll be moved out of the country's largest
:01:32. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:44.illegal travellers site. And the end of an era for the people of
:01:44. > :02:07.
:02:08. > :02:12.Wooton Bassett, the end of Hello. Good afternoon. Welcome to
:02:12. > :02:14.the BBC News at 1.00pm. The UK is to release nearly a
:02:14. > :02:17.billion pounds of Libyan assets which were frozen during the fight
:02:17. > :02:24.to oust Colonel Gaddafi from power. The European Union is also expected
:02:24. > :02:27.to lift sanctions against the country by Friday. In Libya, people
:02:27. > :02:33.have been out celebrating their first Eid Al Fitr since the fall of
:02:33. > :02:38.the Gaddafi regime. My colleague Ben Brown is in Tripoli.
:02:38. > :02:42.Ben? Yes, the victorious rebels here have rejected the idea of the
:02:42. > :02:45.United Nations sending peacekeepers or military observers. They say
:02:45. > :02:50.they don't need foreign troops on the ground to help them with the
:02:50. > :02:55.transition to a post-Gaddafi modern democracy, but this is still a
:02:55. > :03:00.country somewhat in dimbo. Not only is Colonel Gaddafi still at large,
:03:00. > :03:04.but his hometown, Sirte is still in the hands of his loyalists. Even so,
:03:04. > :03:09.people here in Tripoli are celebrating the liberation of the
:03:09. > :03:12.capital, but also the holy festival of Eid, which now under way. Wyre
:03:12. > :03:18.Davis reports. The people of Tripoli have reclaimed their
:03:18. > :03:21.capital. Martyr Square was bursting at the seams this morning as
:03:21. > :03:27.thousands celebrated the Muslim Eid Al Fitr holiday. Days ago, some of
:03:27. > :03:31.these men were fighting. This emotional gathering of free Libyans
:03:31. > :03:36.was almost as much political as it was spiritual.
:03:36. > :03:41.After prayers, the party. For years, these people have been
:03:41. > :03:46.unable to express themselves. Now catching up after decades of fear
:03:46. > :03:49.and oppression, some, like Omar, have only just been released from
:03:49. > :03:53.Gaddafi's jails. I think it's going to be hard in the beginning, but
:03:53. > :03:59.after that, I'm sure - I am 100% sure that the Libyans will prove
:03:59. > :04:02.themselves to the world and show all the world that the Libyans that
:04:02. > :04:08.succeed in this revolution did a really good job and will surprise
:04:08. > :04:12.the world. This city and this country are being transformed. In
:04:12. > :04:17.the very square where Colonel Gaddafi was due to celebrate his 42
:04:17. > :04:21.years in power, his once-suppressed people are now marking their holy
:04:21. > :04:25.holiday and celebrating their freedom.
:04:25. > :04:31.Children who have known nothing but the dark days of Gaddafi can expect
:04:31. > :04:36.better times. But the new Libya is beset by many problems - a shortage
:04:36. > :04:43.of basic services, factionalism within the interim council and far
:04:43. > :04:47.too many guns on the streets. Tripoli can still be a dangerous
:04:47. > :04:51.place. Five people died when explosives went off in this car
:04:51. > :05:01.today - probably an accident, but there are still fears of reprisals
:05:01. > :05:05.by Gaddafi loyalists. Well, a key battleground is now
:05:05. > :05:09.Sirte, about 400 kilometres east of here, Colonel Gaddafi's hometown
:05:09. > :05:14.and stronghold where his loyalists are holding out. Rebels have moved
:05:14. > :05:17.towards Sirte from both east and west and given an ultimatum to the
:05:17. > :05:21.Gaddafi loyalists there - surrender by Saturday or face the
:05:21. > :05:31.consequences. Our correspondent Paul Wood is on the road outside
:05:31. > :05:32.
:05:32. > :05:36.Sirte. Eid prayers in the hamlet of this
:05:36. > :05:44.town - fighters and villagers mingling easily.
:05:44. > :05:53.This place changed hands a few days ago. The latest stop in the rebel
:05:54. > :05:59.advance to the town of Sirte. The Imam angrily denounces the Gaddafi
:05:59. > :06:03.forces who had been there. "They beat people. They destroyed
:06:03. > :06:07.things," he says. Colonel Gaddafi's troops have fled now, and the
:06:07. > :06:10.rebels say they don't want any fighting during the holiday. The
:06:11. > :06:15.fighters have been told there will be a pause in their operations for
:06:15. > :06:19.a few days. That's partly because of the Eid holiday, but it is
:06:19. > :06:23.mainly to give a chance to peace talks which are taking place are
:06:24. > :06:31.tribal leaders in Sirte, but after Saturday, loyalist forces in the
:06:31. > :06:36.town have been told if they don't surrender, the rebels are coming in.
:06:36. > :06:43.The fighters still hope it won't come to that. They say they have no
:06:43. > :06:48.appetite for revenge. My brothers - they're my brothers. Gaddafi has
:06:48. > :06:53.finished now. We have to go to Sirte. After Sirte, we go to
:06:53. > :06:58.Misrata. With our fighting, God willing. A few miles outside the
:06:58. > :07:04.village, rebel scouts try to locate loyalist positions. Gaddafi forces
:07:04. > :07:09.fired ground rockets at them this morning, they say.
:07:09. > :07:13."Allah, Akbar!" There is no Eid ceasefire, and so far, no peace
:07:13. > :07:23.deal. There are a few more days to secure one before the battle for
:07:23. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:28.Let's go live now to our correspondent John line in Benghazi
:07:28. > :07:33.where the National Transitional Council still have their
:07:33. > :07:37.headquarters. How do you assess the rebels' military strategy now?
:07:37. > :07:40.they're still talking about trying to get a surrender at Sirte. I
:07:40. > :07:45.don't think anybody is optimistic. There are two options - either
:07:45. > :07:50.we're going to have this huge battle in Sirte, and the opposition
:07:50. > :07:54.have put massive amounts of firepower in that town, and there
:07:54. > :07:58.are loyalist Gaddafi fighters inside, or when that ultimatum
:07:58. > :08:03.expires on Saturday, it could be that then the Gaddafi forces see
:08:03. > :08:07.the writing on the wall, and they then do a rapid flight out of Sirte,
:08:07. > :08:11.and they then head down to the south of the country. Whichever way
:08:11. > :08:16.it goes, we see the opposition looking more like a conventional
:08:16. > :08:19.Army. They have an awful lot more kit there, heavy arms, tanks, heavy
:08:19. > :08:25.artillery and communications. It's only going one way, conventional,
:08:25. > :08:29.but it's a matter of how many lives are lost in the mean time. John, to
:08:29. > :08:35.the idea of the UN sending in peacekeepers or observers, the
:08:35. > :08:38.answer seems to be thanks, but no thanks. This issue is very
:08:38. > :08:42.sensitive here, although it might be seen as useful in some ways,
:08:42. > :08:46.this country is a country that fought colonial oppression from
:08:46. > :08:49.Italians until quite recently - and you sometimes see the leader of
:08:49. > :08:53.that resistance all over in people's cars and in posters, so I
:08:53. > :08:57.think the new Government will currently be the opposition.
:08:57. > :09:01.They're very sensitive to the idea of being told, you have liberated
:09:01. > :09:04.the country only to hand it over to foreigners. They want help and
:09:04. > :09:08.advice from the United Nations, but they don't want any foreign police
:09:08. > :09:11.force or foreign soldiers with their boots on the ground. Many
:09:12. > :09:15.thanks indeed. Here in Tripoli, there are pretty severe shortages,
:09:15. > :09:18.for example, the UN saying 60% of residents in Tripoli still don't
:09:18. > :09:23.have water or sanitation. It's one of the reasons the Transitional
:09:23. > :09:26.Council want to get funds flowing pretty quickly. They want Libyan
:09:26. > :09:31.assets that have been frozen unfrozen. They say they want to get
:09:31. > :09:35.oil pumping quickly too in the next few weeks because they're aware
:09:35. > :09:45.people are being patient at the moment, but that ultimately their
:09:45. > :09:48.patience could run out. Back to you. Thank you, Ben Brown.
:09:48. > :09:51.Banks have been accused by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, of
:09:51. > :09:53.spreading panic, in an attempt to delay reforms - which are aimed at
:09:53. > :09:56.avoiding another multi-billion pound bailout funded by taxpayers.
:09:56. > :09:59.The Independent Commission on Banking is due to deliver its final
:09:59. > :10:01.report in two weeks' time, and is expected to recommend that the
:10:01. > :10:06.riskier investment arms of banks be ring-fenced - to protect their
:10:06. > :10:08.retail operations. Let's talk a little bit more about
:10:08. > :10:12.this with our political correspondent Norman Smith. What is
:10:12. > :10:16.Vince Cable saying, first? Well, Vince Cable is fighting back
:10:16. > :10:21.against a fairly vigorous lobbying operation by the banks against
:10:21. > :10:24.reforms expected to be unveiled next week, which will suggest that
:10:24. > :10:32.banks should be split up internally within their retail operation,
:10:32. > :10:36.which is their bog-standard High Street banking and their much
:10:36. > :10:39.riskier wins which involve much more exotic jigry pokery which got
:10:39. > :10:42.the banks into trouble in the first place, and the banks are adamant
:10:42. > :10:47.they don't want this to happen. They're saying to the Government,
:10:47. > :10:52.if you go down this road it will make us uncompetitive against non-
:10:52. > :10:57.British bank and make it harder to deter to non-British business and
:10:57. > :11:01.potentially damage the recovery, and it could potentially lead to
:11:01. > :11:06.banks relocating outside the UK. Vince Cable regards that as special
:11:06. > :11:08.pleading by the banks and has accused them of trying to create
:11:08. > :11:12.panic and does insist that the Government intends to press ahead
:11:12. > :11:15.with these sort of reforms. likely, though, is legislation
:11:15. > :11:20.given all of that? Well, my impression is that the Government
:11:20. > :11:24.is listening very closely to what the banks are saying because you
:11:24. > :11:27.cannot afford for British banks to be made uncompetitive. You have to
:11:27. > :11:31.ensure they keep lending to business, and so my impression is
:11:31. > :11:36.that the Government is listening very, very closely indeed, which
:11:36. > :11:40.means that the prospect of any immediate change in the structure
:11:40. > :11:43.of banks I think is increasingly remote, and what I'm hearing is
:11:43. > :11:46.while there may indeed be legislation to introduce these sort
:11:46. > :11:49.of reforms before the next legislation, the changes may not
:11:49. > :11:54.actually have to come into effect until after the election, so it's
:11:54. > :11:59.clear that Ministers are listening very clearly to the concerns of the
:11:59. > :12:03.banks and may actually delay these reforms. Interesting. Thank you
:12:03. > :12:10.very much, Norman Smith, at Westminster.
:12:10. > :12:15.An elderly traveller living on an illegal site in Essex is at the
:12:15. > :12:20.local dois try to stop eviction. 80 families have been told to leave
:12:20. > :12:23.Dale Farm, a former scrap yard which is classed as green belt. The
:12:24. > :12:30.people there don't have planning permission for their caravans and
:12:30. > :12:33.chalets. Mark Worthington is there for us. Mark. There is teans
:12:33. > :12:37.atmosphere here inside Dale Farm, and you can see some of the
:12:37. > :12:41.preparations under way for the arrival of the bailiffs, but as
:12:41. > :12:44.that last gasp legal attempt gets under way in London, for those
:12:45. > :12:50.people who have made Dale Farm their home, they're beginning to
:12:50. > :12:55.count down the hours until their notice to leave expires.
:12:55. > :13:03.From the air, it's clear why Dale Farm is the UK's largest
:13:03. > :13:09.traveller's site. Along the pot- holed roads, caravans and chalets
:13:09. > :13:12.fill separate plots, but more than 80 families have set up home on
:13:12. > :13:16.land classed as green belt, and they have been given until the end
:13:16. > :13:20.of the day to leave. This make- shift gateway marks the entrance to
:13:20. > :13:28.the illegal half of Dale Farm, and on the top, there is a simple
:13:28. > :13:32.message - a banner saying, "We won't go." Marian McCarthy has
:13:32. > :13:38.lived at Dale Farm for ten years and has no plans to leave before
:13:38. > :13:43.the bailiffs come. How can you just ask someone to leave their home
:13:43. > :13:46.peacefully? Would you? No way. You've got to be an awful coward if
:13:46. > :13:52.you didn't put up a fight, and there's no cowards there. This, in
:13:52. > :13:56.July, a sign of what may lie ahead - a show of defiance by the women
:13:56. > :14:01.of Dale Farm, angry at the prospect of being forced out when they say
:14:01. > :14:07.they have no-where else to go. And, as the deadline approaches,
:14:07. > :14:12.others have added their voices in opposition. If you were ill or you
:14:12. > :14:19.had babies or children going to school, would you agree that you,
:14:19. > :14:25.minus your wife and children, would be sent to some bricks-and-mortar
:14:25. > :14:29.place, have your grandmother sent to an old-people's home? For some
:14:29. > :14:36.living nearby, clearing the site is long overdurtion but if there is
:14:36. > :14:41.trouble, it could cost as much as �18 billion and Basildon Council is
:14:41. > :14:46.preparinged to pay half to see it done. It's still unclear when the
:14:46. > :14:55.bailiffs may move in. The eventual costs to the council depends on
:14:55. > :14:59.If the injunction is successful, it means that what has already been a
:14:59. > :15:03.ten-year battle will be far from over. If not, it may only be a
:15:03. > :15:07.matter of days before barricades like this come into play.
:15:07. > :15:12.A teenager who survived an attack by a polar bear has been speaking
:15:12. > :15:17.about his escape. A 17-year-old, Horatio Chapple, died in the attack
:15:17. > :15:24.during an expedition in Norway. Patrick Flinders managed to fight
:15:24. > :15:28.the bear of, even though it had his head in its jaws.
:15:28. > :15:33.Patrick Flinders had looked forward to a great adventure. A trip 700
:15:33. > :15:37.miles inside the Arctic Circle. But as he and the other 12 members of
:15:37. > :15:41.his party slept in their attempts, a polar bear entered the campsite.
:15:41. > :15:48.Minutes later he was fighting to save his life and those of his
:15:48. > :15:54.companions. I just remember the bear ripping through the tent.
:15:54. > :16:01.Everybody screaming. Looking at my sleeping bag, just seeing people
:16:01. > :16:05.really scared, seeing the polar bear. It grabbed my arm, grabbed my
:16:05. > :16:09.head, biting it. 17-year-old Horatio Chappell, who had been
:16:09. > :16:14.sleeping next to him, was killed in the attack. I know it seems harsh,
:16:14. > :16:19.but I am just glad that it wasn't me sleeping there. Every couple of
:16:19. > :16:23.nights, we swapped around where we were sleeping. I was thinking, if I
:16:23. > :16:27.was sleeping there that night, it could have been made. Another
:16:27. > :16:30.student and two expedition leaders were seriously injured. One of them
:16:30. > :16:35.managed to shoot the bear. All of the survivors have undergone
:16:35. > :16:40.hospital treatment. Patrick was left with fragments of the bear's
:16:40. > :16:46.teeth in his skull. But his thoughts are with a friend that he
:16:46. > :16:51.lost. He was a really nice fellow. A really nice guy to be with. He
:16:51. > :16:54.just reminded me of some of my friends. Back in Jersey, Patrick's
:16:54. > :17:04.injuries are healing. But he and his family know that the memories
:17:04. > :17:06.
:17:06. > :17:10.of the night will take far longer Our top story: Millions of pounds
:17:10. > :17:14.of frozen assets are released to the new Libyan government as people
:17:14. > :17:17.there celebrate their first Eid festival without Colonel Gaddafi in
:17:17. > :17:22.power. If coming up: In from the cold.
:17:22. > :17:27.The forgotten heroes of the wartime Arctic convoys are remembered at a
:17:28. > :17:32.ceremony in Russia. Coming up in sport on BBC News,
:17:32. > :17:42.better late than never. Andy Murray finally gets his US Open campaign
:17:42. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:52.under way against India's Somdev This has become one of the defining
:17:52. > :17:55.images of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the last four
:17:55. > :18:00.years, thousands of people have lined the High Street in Wootton
:18:00. > :18:04.Bassett in Wiltshire, to pay their respects to the 345 men and women
:18:04. > :18:08.whose bodies have been returned to the UK through the town. But that
:18:08. > :18:13.tradition comes time end today because of the closure of the
:18:13. > :18:18.nearby base at RAF Lyneham. John Kay has reported on numerous
:18:18. > :18:22.repatriations. He is in Wootton Bassett now.
:18:23. > :18:26.It is a military tradition that a sunset ceremony is held at the end
:18:26. > :18:31.of the day. People here thought it was entirely appropriate that they
:18:31. > :18:37.would hold their Rhone sunset ceremony tonight to mark the end of
:18:37. > :18:41.military repatriation through this town. Tonight they will gather here,
:18:41. > :18:46.as they have so many times before. This time there will be no coffins.
:18:46. > :18:56.Instead, they will watch the Union Flag, next to the war memorial, be
:18:56. > :18:56.
:18:56. > :19:01.What started as a small, impromptu gathering on Wootton Bassett high
:19:01. > :19:05.street has become a mass event. People have stood in silence like
:19:05. > :19:12.this so many times. Nearly 400 military coffins have passed
:19:12. > :19:17.through the town. Now, after four years, the ceremony itself is
:19:17. > :19:22.coming to an end. Tonight, at sunset, there will be one final act
:19:22. > :19:28.of respect. The town's Union Flag, which has flown on so many
:19:28. > :19:32.occasions, will be lowered and blessed, taking to the local church
:19:32. > :19:39.where it will lie on the altar overnight. Wootton Bassett's duty
:19:39. > :19:44.will be done. Yes, we have done a good job. People are thankful to us.
:19:44. > :19:51.I don't think that is foolish pride. I don't think it is a lack of
:19:51. > :19:55.humility. I think it is appropriate to say, well done. Tomorrow morning,
:19:55. > :20:00.the flag will be brought here, to Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, where
:20:00. > :20:04.it will fly in a purpose-built garden of remembrance. From now on,
:20:04. > :20:07.repatriation flights will return to this airbase instead. Local people
:20:07. > :20:11.have promised to continue the tradition that Wootton Bassett
:20:11. > :20:16.began. Next week they will gather here for the first time, when the
:20:16. > :20:20.body of a Royal Marine is flown home from Afghanistan. In Wootton
:20:20. > :20:27.Bassett, they will never forget the fallen the or the four years that
:20:27. > :20:29.have brought them international recognition. Next month, the town
:20:29. > :20:33.becomes Royal Wootton Bassett, in honour of everything people here
:20:33. > :20:37.have done. We wish the people of Oxfordshire every success. I'm sure
:20:37. > :20:42.they will do the right thing. We are not the story, the servicemen
:20:42. > :20:49.are the story. The people of Wootton Bassett want repatriations
:20:49. > :20:53.here to end as they began, with restraint and quiet dignity. Then
:20:53. > :20:59.this Wiltshire market town can return to normal after four years
:20:59. > :21:03.of paint and pride. -- pain and pride. We have reported here so
:21:03. > :21:07.many times over the last four years, you start to recognise a lot of the
:21:07. > :21:10.people here. I've spotted a member of the Royal British Legion,
:21:10. > :21:13.talking to a former mayor about what they are going to do tonight.
:21:13. > :21:18.People like that have been working closely over the last few months
:21:18. > :21:20.with the people living near Brize Norton, to make sure there is an
:21:20. > :21:29.easy and successful transition between these two very different
:21:29. > :21:32.An 11-year-old boy from Romford has become the youngest person to be
:21:33. > :21:36.convicted of taking part in the riots in London. The boy, who
:21:36. > :21:40.cannot be named for legal reasons, was given an 18 month
:21:40. > :21:49.rehabilitation order for stealing a waste bin from a Debenhams store
:21:49. > :21:53.Now, the secret to protection from sunburn could lie beneath the ocean
:21:53. > :21:57.waves. Scientists have discovered that coral in the Great Barrier
:21:57. > :22:00.Reef has built-in protection against ultraviolet light. They
:22:00. > :22:10.think they may be close to taking that natural defence and turning it
:22:10. > :22:15.
:22:15. > :22:19.Good afternoon. How would it work? Well, basically, what we have found
:22:19. > :22:23.out is that for about 25 years we have known that Coral has produced
:22:23. > :22:26.the sunscreen compounds to protect themselves from ultraviolet light.
:22:26. > :22:31.We have never really known how they make the compounds until relatively
:22:31. > :22:35.recently. What my Laboratory has been doing, in collaboration with
:22:35. > :22:39.groups in America and Australia, its cloning the genes from the
:22:39. > :22:43.coral that make the sunscreen compound. We would like to clone
:22:43. > :22:48.them into simple cells, a simple bacteria, so that we have a
:22:48. > :22:52.sustainable supply of sunscreen compounds. You think you could work
:22:52. > :22:57.it into a tablet that any of us could take to protect ourselves
:22:57. > :23:01.against the Sun? This is what we are hoping. If you look at what
:23:01. > :23:06.happens on the Great Barrier Reef, small fish will eat coral. Larger
:23:06. > :23:11.fish will eat the smaller fish. We can trace the sunscreen compounds
:23:11. > :23:16.up the food chain. We can find them in light-sensitive tissues in fish,
:23:16. > :23:21.on their skin and in their eyes. Rather than just making a suntan
:23:21. > :23:25.lotion, why don't we just formulate a capsule which, if we can put it
:23:25. > :23:30.in our mouths and swallow it, maybe the compounds will find their way
:23:30. > :23:35.to while eyes and skin. That is potentially fantastic. But we all
:23:35. > :23:40.need some son, don't we? How do you strike a balance? Of course, you
:23:40. > :23:45.would not be taking the tablets all the time. It would just be as a
:23:45. > :23:54.back-up, an alternative to normal sun protection you would be taking.
:23:54. > :23:58.Perhaps we will speak again a bit Now, it is deadline day in football
:23:58. > :24:01.transfer markets'. The wheeling and dealing is well and truly under way.
:24:01. > :24:05.The top clubs are in the market to try to pick up a bargain, if there
:24:05. > :24:11.is such a thing, and strengthen their squads. No one more than
:24:11. > :24:16.Arsenal, after their dismal start to the season. Let's go to the
:24:16. > :24:24.Emirates Stadium and trying Dan Roan. -- join.
:24:24. > :24:27.The nail-biting Countdown has truly begun. Managers have until 11pm to
:24:27. > :24:30.conclude frenetic transfer activity. Such is the money in the sport now,
:24:30. > :24:34.with so much at stake, where re signing can be the difference
:24:34. > :24:37.between staying in the Premier League or relegation, that a sense
:24:37. > :24:41.of hysteria and frenzy accompanies the last few hours of the summer
:24:41. > :24:46.transfer window. It's important for all clubs, of course, but
:24:46. > :24:52.especially at Arsenal. They have about �80 million to spend, but
:24:52. > :24:57.just a few hours to spend it. has been, surely, the lowest
:24:57. > :25:01.experienced of all his near 15 years of Arsenal manager. It was
:25:01. > :25:04.the defeat that tend transfer deadline day into Arsene Wenger's
:25:04. > :25:07.very own day of reckoning. Arsenal's humiliation at the hands
:25:07. > :25:11.of Manchester United let the manager with just three days to
:25:11. > :25:15.replenish his depleted squad. At the Emirates, Arsenal fans were
:25:15. > :25:21.hoping for some much-needed retail therapy to help save their season.
:25:21. > :25:24.Arsenal fans are looking for the "wow" signing. A couple of world
:25:24. > :25:29.class planes that will come in, make a difference, and give us new
:25:29. > :25:33.heroes to replace people like Fabregas and Nasri. Arsenal have
:25:33. > :25:38.lost prized assets Cesc Fabregas, Samia Nasri and Gael Clichy. Coming
:25:38. > :25:46.in, Korean Sue Young Park, German Per Mertesacker and Brazilian Andre
:25:46. > :25:51.Santos. The fans want more to be spent and fast. Perhaps the most
:25:51. > :25:55.eye-catching deal of this deadline day promises to centre on this man.
:25:55. > :25:58.Injury-prone former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves
:25:59. > :26:02.recently tried to prove his fitness by posting videos of himself on
:26:02. > :26:08.YouTube. It seems to have paid off, with a shock move to Manchester
:26:08. > :26:15.City likely to go through this afternoon. He's a great player. A
:26:15. > :26:19.different type of midfield player to what we have had. I think we all
:26:19. > :26:25.hope, as England players and fans, that one day he will get back to
:26:25. > :26:29.his best. I hope he does that. Meanwhile, back at the Emirates
:26:29. > :26:34.Stadium, Arsenal fans wish that time could stand still, on a day
:26:34. > :26:38.that could define their season and even the future of their manager.
:26:38. > :26:42.Football continues to appear to be recession-proof. Already, �20
:26:42. > :26:47.million more has been spent in its window than the same one last year.
:26:47. > :26:50.In the last hour, Joe Cole has announced he has made a loan move
:26:50. > :26:54.to Lille from Liverpool. Managers now have less than 10 hours to
:26:54. > :26:58.conclude their business until the window slams shut.
:26:58. > :27:01.Now, Winston Churchill called it the most dangerous journey in the
:27:01. > :27:07.world. Today is the 70th anniversary of the first convoy
:27:07. > :27:12.trip from the UK to Soviet Russia during World War II. Between 1941
:27:12. > :27:16.and 1945, 3000 sailors were killed, taking supplies to the beleaguered
:27:16. > :27:26.USSR. Today, a group of British war veterans is taking part in
:27:26. > :27:27.
:27:27. > :27:31.celebrations in the northern Russian city of Acre and gas. --
:27:31. > :27:34.Arkhangelsk. For Winston Churchill called it the
:27:34. > :27:39.worst journey in the world, through thick fog and freezing cold, under
:27:39. > :27:44.attack from German U-boats and fighter-bombers, the Arctic convoys
:27:44. > :27:48.travelled to and from Russia. For four years, British ships helped
:27:48. > :27:55.keep the Soviet Union supplied with fuel, food, tanks and warplanes.
:27:55. > :27:59.More than 100 Allied ships were lost. 3000 sailors were killed.
:27:59. > :28:06.were on the convoys. We thought, this is hell. This is absolute hell.
:28:06. > :28:10.I don't ever want this to happen again. I looked back and I thought,
:28:10. > :28:16.that was one of the proudest moments of my life, you know? To
:28:16. > :28:22.have done such a thing. 70 years on, some British veterans of the Arctic
:28:22. > :28:26.convoys have returned to Arkhangelsk. They have been given a
:28:26. > :28:33.hero's welcome. Russia says it will never forget how these men risked
:28:33. > :28:38.their lives to hop the Soviet war effort. But back in the UK, retired
:28:38. > :28:40.naval commander William Grenfell believes that Britain hasn't done
:28:41. > :28:44.nearly enough to honour those that sailed to Russia. He is leading a
:28:44. > :28:50.campaign for veterans of the Arctic convoys to be awarded medals, which
:28:50. > :28:55.he believes is long overdue. Nobody ever thinks of the graves in the
:28:55. > :28:58.snow-covered cemeteries. There are graves of 16-year-old boys up there.
:28:58. > :29:06.Forgotten. Forgotten by a government that should be admiring
:29:06. > :29:11.them. They don't. The Government doesn't. Some have described the
:29:11. > :29:15.Arctic convoys as suicide missions, such were the dangers. They are not
:29:15. > :29:25.only provided Britain's ally in the East with supplies, but with hope.
:29:25. > :29:27.
:29:27. > :29:31.That helped Russia defeat Nazi Now, we will turn our attentions to
:29:31. > :29:34.the day's weather prospects. You probably noticed over the past
:29:34. > :29:40.couple of weeks that there has been a distinct lack of sunshine across
:29:40. > :29:43.the UK. Provisional figures suggest exactly that. But will 29th August,
:29:43. > :29:48.just 76% of the average August sunshine. Even if you take into
:29:48. > :29:52.account today, the figures are not set to change a great deal. A lack
:29:52. > :29:55.of sunshine, little in the way of brightness. For most of us it is a
:29:55. > :29:59.cloudy day. Here is the satellite picture. You can see across the
:30:00. > :30:04.United Kingdom that there's been a fair amount of cloud. It has broken
:30:04. > :30:07.in the past, of hours across Wales and south-west England. By no means
:30:07. > :30:11.guaranteed for the rest of the afternoon. Here is the picture at 4
:30:11. > :30:14.o'clock. The best prospect for brightness and sunshine will tend
:30:14. > :30:19.to be across South Wales, south- western parts of England.
:30:19. > :30:22.Pleasantly warm if you get the sunshine. 18 or 19 degrees. Across
:30:22. > :30:28.North Wales, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, fairly cloudy
:30:28. > :30:32.skies. Fairly cool, highs of 15 or 16. Further north London to
:30:32. > :30:35.Scotland, large amounts of cloud. One or two showers across the
:30:35. > :30:41.northern half of the country. Nothing more than that. Many places
:30:41. > :30:46.are set to stay dry. For northern parts of England, East Anglia and
:30:47. > :30:50.the South, a lot of cloud. If you are lucky, you might catch one or
:30:50. > :30:53.two glimpses of brightness. Through the see me and overnight, we keep a
:30:53. > :30:57.lot of cloud across the northern half of the UK. The odd spot of
:30:57. > :31:03.rain here and there. Cloud will tend to break for southern parts of
:31:03. > :31:08.England and Wales. It could turn misty and won a two spots. Chilly
:31:08. > :31:13.for rural areas. For many areas, eight or 13 will be the overnight
:31:13. > :31:16.low. Once again, a fairly cloudy start to the day on Thursday.
:31:16. > :31:20.Eastern Scotland and north-east England are keeping TARDIS dies for
:31:20. > :31:23.much of Thursday. For the rest, better prospects. The cloud will
:31:23. > :31:29.break up. There will be pleasant spells of sunshine coming through.
:31:29. > :31:34.Higher temperatures, 20 or 21. For Thursday, overnight and into Friday,
:31:34. > :31:38.high temperatures hold on into England and Wales. The weather
:31:38. > :31:42.front is starting to move into England and Wales. That means it is
:31:42. > :31:46.a very unsettled day for Friday, for the northern half of the UK.
:31:46. > :31:51.Scotland and Northern Ireland, the breeze picks up. Add bits of rain
:31:51. > :31:56.moving in. Feeling cool, a top temperature of 17 or 18 degrees.