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The wife of a Chinese politician is given a suspended death sentence | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
for killing a British businessman. Gu Kailai admitted poisoning Neil | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Heywood last year. She said her sentence was just. | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
The Duke of Edinburgh thanks staff after being discharged from | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
hospital today in Aberdeen. The man behind Top Gun, the | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
British-born director Tony Scott has died after jumping off a bridge | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
in Los Angeles. Footage of fighting in Afghanistan | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
is released by the Ministry of Defence. British soldiers speak of | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
the bravery of their colleagues in Helmand. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Even after all that had happened, he'd managed to say he'd got the | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
back of me neck and pulled me down and said thank you. So, even the | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
state he was in, he was still thinking of others rather than | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
himself. The lottery win couple who were | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
initially told they hadn't won a thing. A shop worker has been | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
sentenced for claiming their ticket was his. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Later on BBC London: Police broaden the search for two masked men who | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
robbed and tortured this grandmother in her home. And, up to | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
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18 months in prison for owners Good afternoon. Welcome to the BBC | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
News at One. A Chinese court has handed down a suspended death | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
sentence to the wife of one of China's leading politicians for | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
murdering the British businessman, Neil Heywood. Gu Kailai, wife of | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
the politician Bo Xilai, admitted poisoning Mr Heywood whose body was | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
found last November. She said she thought the sentence was just. Our | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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Beijing correspondent Damian China today put on a show of | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
justice. Gu Kailai's lawyer arrived knowing the verdict was never in | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
doubt. She was brought to court having already confessed to | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
murdering Neil Heywood. The Communist Party enmeshed in scandal | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
and on the verge of a leadership transition wants to show that even | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
the powerful aren't above the law here. Neil Heywood was poisoned by | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
Gu Kailai, the wife of one of China's most high profile | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
politicians. She lured him to a hotel, got him drunk and poured | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
cyanide in his mouth. They had fallen out over a failed property | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
deal. The court found her guilty. They were careful to be lenient to | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
her. She didn't the get the full death sentence. The judge accepted | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
she had a mental break down and was not in control of her actions. She | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
should serve a minimum of 14 years. Gu Kailai thanked them saying the | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
verdict was just and showed respect for the law and for life. A | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
premeditated murder in China often means the firing squad. The | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Communist Party this was case closed, neat and tidy. What this | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
trial did not address, though, were the most sensitive questions raised | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
bit death of Neil Heywood. It triggered China's biggest political | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
scandal in years because of the light it's throne on skrupgs and | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
abuse of power at the top of the party. Did her husband have any | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
lirving to the -- link to the crime? He was one of China's most | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
powerful politicians but he's vanished, detained bit party, held | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
in secret. He was hoping to join the ranks of these men, the top of | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
the political bureau, who run China. Many believe they've dictated the | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
outcome of this race. British diplomats were in court today. The | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
embassy said the UK had not wanted the death penalty applied. Then the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
lawyer representing Neil Heywood's family emerged. Is this a result | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
that will please the Heywood family? I don't know, he answered. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
It leaves the impression justice here still favours the powerful and | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
China's priority is to contain the fallout from this affair so the | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Communist Party can press ahead with its leadership change. We can | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
speak to Damian who's outside the court. What has been the response | :04:49. | :04:58. | |
to this case in China, both from the public and the authorities? | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
rain has just started falling here outside the court here. What we've | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
seen are two different things. The authorities have come out and give | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
a bit of explanation about the verdict. What they said from the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
court was that they believe that Neil Heywood had not posed any | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
threat to Gu Kailai's son and that's the reason she had given for | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
suffering the mental break down. They accepted she was not in full | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
control of her own actions, that she had been through some sort of | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
mental break down and therefore they had given a suspended death | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
sentence. That has caused a bit of a public outcry. On the internet | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
here there's censorship around this issue because it's so sensitive in | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
China. Many people have found ways to post messages on Chinese equiff | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
lents of Twitter and the like. What many of them are saying is that | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
they don't believe Gu Kailai has been given the sentence she should | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
have done. They said she's escaped the firing squad, which many | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Chinese would have got for a similar crime because of her | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
powerful political connections, because of her husband, Bo Xilai, | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
because she herself comes from a rich and powerful background. There | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
is real sense that there is a lot of anger about the outcome of this | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
trial, at least on the internet here. Her husband once tipped for a | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
position at the top of China's Communist Party, what happens to | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
him now? Well, very good question. That is the big problem facing the | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
party. He was tipped for one of those very top jobs, to be one of | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
the nine people who really run China, when it reshuffles its | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
leadership later this year. He's vanished. He's been suspended. He's | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
under party investigation. His hopes of one of the top jobs seems | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
to have gone. He has a strong following. He has faction that's | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
back him. This has created fissures within the party, which the party | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
has to overcome before that leadership transition. We don't | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
know what it's going to do about him. We haven't heard from him in | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
months. The party has to sort out this political problem to move | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
ahead with the leadership change. That -- is the real damaging change | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
of the scandal, the light it's thrown on the way the party has | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
divisions and corruption at the highest levels. Thank you. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
The Duke of Edinburgh has been discharged from Aberdeen Royal | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Infirmary after being treated for recurrence of a bladder infection. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
He spent five nights at the hospital. Lorna Gordon reports. A | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
low-key departure from hospital, just as the Duke of of Edinburgh | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
would have wanted. Looking well, he was smiling and joking with some of | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
the doctors and nurses involved in his treatment. One of those doctors | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
describing him as an excellent patient. As he was driven away, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Prince Philip greeted well wishers who heard he was being discharged. | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
The Duke was admitted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by ambulance on | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Wednesday afternoon. His manner of leaving, decidedly more relaxed. | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
The 91-year-old has had a busy summer. His stay in hospital for | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
treatment for the recurrence of a bladder infection was preskreeded | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
by this trip to Cowes last week. Alongside the Queen, he was at the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics and was a presence at some | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
of the events. And a rare garden party for 3,000 guests at the Royal | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Family's private estate, Balmoral, on royal Deeside. It is here that | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
the Queen has remained throughout the Duke's stay in hospital. Just | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
yesterday attending the weekly service at the local church Cath y | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Krathie parish church. Buckingham Palace describe his stay in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
hospital as a precautionary measure. It's believed he was treated with | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
antibiotics. Doctors ordered him to rest. While the Royal Family and | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
the Queen were said to be in constant touch with him by phone, | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
there were no visitors, as he focused on getting better. Arriving | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
back at Balmoral a short time ago, that recuperation will now continue, | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
as the Duke of Edinburgh gets to enjoy a well deserved summer break. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Tributes have been paid to the British film director Tony Scott, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
who's died after jumping from a bridge in Los Angeles harbour. He | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
was 68. Tony Scott started in advertising before the move into | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
films, which included Top Gun, Days of Thunder, and True Romance. | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Fellow director Ron Howard said his death marked a tragic day. From LA, | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
here's Alistair Leithhead. Tony Scott was born in North Shields, | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
but made his name in Hollywood. Top Gun launched him into the top | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
flight as a well respected action movie director in 1986, working | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
with Tom Cruise again on Days of Thunder. There were rumours Top Gun | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
II might soon go into production. Denzel Washington was another A- | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
list actor he often worked with. From Crimson Tide, to The Taking of | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
Pelham 123. He produced that in 2009. And it was producing he had | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
focused on in recent years, often working with his elder brother | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
Ridley Scott, another famous director and producer in Hollywood. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
The Scotts have a great association with the region. From here, their | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
family's all from here. They trained here before they went to | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
art school in London and off to Hollywood. Big connections with the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
North East. The legacy for Tony is as one of the great action | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
directors of the last 30 years. Tony Scott parked his car on a well | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
known suspension bridge in Los Angeles. Witnesses said he jumped | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
to his death into the harbour below. The Coroner said he left a note in | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
his car and added there was nothing to suggest this wasn't suicide. | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
There were many tributes to his life and work in the industry. On | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Twitter, some well known named left accolades. Stephen Fry was deeply | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
saddened to hear about the news. A fine film maker and the most | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
charming, modest man, he said. The American director Ron Howard | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
similarly said, "No more Tony Scott movies. Tragic day." | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
And there were many more tributes to him. From Hollywood and around | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
the world. He was always known as someone who really took Hollywood | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
on on its own level, on its own terms and created some fantastic | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
action pictures. I mean, it's a real shock for everyone in the film | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
industry. Tony Scott was married and had twin boys. | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
He was 68 years old. The British film director Tony | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
Scott, who died yesterday. We're joined by the film critic, James | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
King, who is in our central London studio. James, clearly a terrific | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
shock to the film industry, how best will Tony Scott be remembered? | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Well it's like it was said in that piece, as an action movie director. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
What he brought to action movies was a really visceral experience. | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
When you went to watch a Tony Scott movie you didn't sit back and let | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
it wash over you. You were really immersed in the action because of | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
the way he shot things, because of the way he edited things. It was | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
really energetic film making. had a very diverse career, started | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
in advertising and went to films. He had a good television career as | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
well Yeah, as a TV producer he was making hit TV shows. As a film | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
producer, he was producing things as well as being behind the camera. | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
In terms of style as well, he was diverse. We remember Top Gun, his | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
biggest film as the archetypal 80s movie. Then ten years later he made | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
True Romance, very much a 90s movie. He moved with the times and adapted | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
his style. James, thank you. Councils and Housing Associations | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
in England should sell off their most expensive houses and reinvest | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
the money in building cheaper homes, according to the think-tank Policy | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
Exchange, which has close links to the Conservative Party. It says | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
social tenants shouldn't live in better homes than most people can | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
afford. Critics say the least well off will be forced into new ghettos. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
Mike Sergeant reports. Many people on benefits or low | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
incomes still live on expensive streets. You can find social | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
housing in some of the most desirable postcodes. The Policy | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
Exchange think-tank says this amounts to a vast untapped resource. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
What we're arguing is that there's a certain number of expensive | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
social properties up and down the country. As those become vacant | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
they should be sold off and the proceeds used to build four, five | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
or six decent quality family homes. From an economic perspective that | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
might seem attractive. The Policy Exchange says there's �159 billion | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
worth of expensive social housing. Selling a slice of it every year | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
could fund up to 170,000 affordable homes in cheaper areas and create | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
up to 340,000 jobs. But anyone attempting it would face determined | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
opposition from Housing Associations. If you strip out all | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
of the social housing in an area, then you create different parts of | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
the city, one part that's all wealthy people, one that's all poor | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
people. London, Manchester, Birmingham, the great cities of our | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
nation, they work because they are so mixed. This is not something | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
that we should tamper with and seek to change. Here in Notting Hill, a | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
two bedroom flat can cost well over �500,000. Out of reach for many who | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
work nearby. People who are working and can't a -- afford these areas, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
it seems unfair that people on social housing should live in such | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
areas. It's quite a good thing here because otherwise it would feel too | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
restricted in social class. It gives a good mix of people. | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Ministers say councils and Housing Associations already have the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
freedom to sell in expensive areas like this and build more affordable | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
homes in cheaper locations. They say it's common sense for them to | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
use their housing stock efficiently. But what doesn't seem to be on the | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
cards is a much wider attempt to force a sell-off. | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
Downing Street is, though, encouraging councils to look at | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
this idea and explore other ways to build more houses and boost the | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
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A shop worker who tried to claim a prize has been sensed to prison. He | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
told Maureen Holt that she had won nothing when she canned her | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
EuroMillions ticket at a store in Oldham. He later phoned the hotline | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
to say he had bought the winning ticket. Over to Nick in Manchester | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
now. Maureen Holt and her husband had been on holiday in Spain | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
celebrating his 80th birthday, while they were there they had | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
missed the draw, so when they got back, she went to the corner shop | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
to check whether hereticet had come up. Behind the counter was | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
FarakNazar. The kiosk flashed up that Maureen had been a winner, but | :16:43. | :16:49. | |
he told her she had won nothing. He kept hold of the ticket and rang | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
the hotline to try to claim the prize as his own. The National | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
Lottery organiser, Camelot, became suspicious when he was unable to be | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
clear about which shop the ticket had been bought at. While Maureen | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
and her husband eventually got to enjoy the winnings which were | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
rightfully theirs, which they said would give them the secure | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
retirement they had not had, the police started investigate. He | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
admitted the offence and today at Manchester Crown Court a judge told | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
him he had taken advantage of a vulnerable elderly woman, who knew | :17:26. | :17:36. | |
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and trusted him. He was jailed for 30 months. Our top story this | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
lunchtime - the wife of a Chinese politician is given a suspended | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
death sentence for killing a British businessman. | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
Coming up, in cricket England are chasing 346 runs to win the final | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
Test against South Africa. Later on BBC London - the new restrictions | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
aimed at changing the way charities collect money on our high streets. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
And, the legacy of stoke Mandeville, we look at the rise in popularity | :18:05. | :18:15. | |
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of the paralympic Games. The BBC has been given exclusive access by | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
the Ministry of Defence to thousands of hours of footage | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
filmed by British soldiers in Afghanistan, showing some of the | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
fiercest fighting of the war. The material shows men of Arnhem | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Company, from the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, who | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
were sent into enemy territory in Helmand province, to flush out the | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
Taliban in 2010. Our defence correspondent, Caroline Wyatt | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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reports. During one of the toughest summers of this long war, the men | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
of around ham Company were sent on a daring three-day mission in | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Helmand, into enemy territory. The sergeant was filming it all on his | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
headcam. We didn't think it would be as hard as it was. The Taliban | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
were to prove a tenacious enemy. started walking over to get my | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
pants off the washing line and then it sounded like a twig snapping. I | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
had time to think, this can't be happening. I shouted there was a | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
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grenade. It's on the side of the wall. On the other side of the | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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wall! In the fire fight, one soldier was fatally wounded. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Another wads grazed by a bullet, but had a miraculous escape. One of | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
those leading some of the men was Captain Andrew Griffiths, the son | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
of the colonel of the regiment. spoke to him as they were preparing | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
to go out and he said, "We're going on another big one. This could be | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
really hard." That was all he said, because he couldn't say any more. | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
He didn't want to worry us any more. He only told that to me. He | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
wouldn't have told it to his mum. The next day, around ham Company | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
moved to a new compound. They didn't know that buried within it | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
were several Taliban home-made bombs. Andrew Griffiths stepped on | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
one of them, setting it off. His comrades did their best to save him. | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
They called the medics in, and there was a sandstorm, but they | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
moved him with huge ris to be their own lives. Even -- risk to their | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
own lives. Even after all that, he pulled me down by the back of my | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
neck and said thank you. So, even the state he was in, he was still | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
thinking of others, rather than mim self. -- himself. Andrew was flown | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
home and 12 days later he died with his family at his bedside. The one | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
thing we found most difficult was we got him back for 12 days. Broken | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
and battered, if he had lived, he would have had a great life with | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
the support we would have given him. I feel in a way I've been cheated. | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
That, I think, I personally, as a soldier and as a father, find most | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
difficult. You shouldn't ever have to bury your son or daughter, but | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
sadly, too many have to. Brigadier Mike Griffiths ending that report. | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
Caroline Wyatt reporting on the footage of the fighting in | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
Afghanistan. You can see more on that tonight, in Our War on BBC 3 | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
at 9:00pm. The owners of a South African platinum mine, where 34 | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
striking workers were shot dead by police, have told staff to return | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
to work or face the sack. Many miners said to end the strike would | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
be an insult to those killed. The company said a limited number of | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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men turned up for their shifts today. Navdip Dariwal reports. | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
Operators at one of the world's largest platinum mines are standing | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
firm, rush or face dis missal. Lonmin claim 25% have returned, but | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
weren't clear if they were among the original strikers. Despite the | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
company's ultimatum, it's pretty clear from the people here, more | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
people are arriving, that the workers are refusing to simply go | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
back to work, without some of the demands being met. It's hoped that | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
a peaceful resolution will be found to the dispute as union members are | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
due to arrive and Cabinet ministers will hopefully speak to the workers. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Police gunned down 34 minuters after claims they charged them with | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
weapons. The President has declared a week of national mourning. South | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Africa is looking to a judicial review to shed light on why what | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
should have been a relatively minor dispute escalated to one of the | :23:20. | :23:29. | |
worst scenes of violence since apartheid. Hopes are fading for a | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
four-year-old boy who went missing in Somerset yesterday. Police have | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
named him at Dylan Cecil from Kettering in Northamptonshire. The | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
coastguards say the search for him is continuing, but the operation | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
has now turned into a recovery mission. Dylan's parents tried to | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
rescue him, but were unable to reach him. Tougher sentences come | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
into force today in England and Wales for people convicted of | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
offences involving dangerous dogs. Owners who attack and injure face | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
up to 18 months in prison. Those who own a banned breed could be | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
sentenced to six months. Cricket, and England's position as the | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
world's number one Test nation seems to be slipping away. They are | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
chasing 346 runs to win the final Test against South Africa at Lord's, | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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but have already lost two wickets this morning. England on the ropes. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
If not a knockout blow, the loss of both openers hardly inspired | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
confidence. It showed early on. South Africa played on the nervous | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
tension. Ian Bell caught out for the second time of asking by Graeme | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
Smith. Then Philander was the architect of the dismissal again. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
The tourists were not in the mood to give away cheaply. Pressure it | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
lead you to do all manner of strange things. James Taylor | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
thought there was a run when there clearly wasn't. It's been that sort | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
of series. The world number one status is slipping away without a | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
fight. Jonathan Trott had to put that disaster to the back of his | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
mind and get on with the job in hand, however unlikely. He needed a | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
lot of luck too. He got a bit when for once the tourist's ruthless | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
streak last. Jonny Bairstow the only man to start with the bat and | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
picking up where he left off in the first innings. A change in momentum | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
mean a win is still possible, but getting more unlikely by the wicket. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Now to something that was must-see. They were It was must-see | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
television in the 80s and now it's back. Dallas is returning to our | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
screens after 21 years with many of the original cast, including Larry | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Hagman and Linda Gray. In its heyday it attracted huge audiences. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
21 million viewers in the UK tuned into the Who shot JR? Episode. But | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
can the new series be as good as the old one? Lizo Mzimba has been | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
talking to some of the cast. Throughout the 1980s this was one | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
of the most familiar sights on television. Now, after more than 20 | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
years, Dallas is back with a glossy updated version of the show. Along | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
with the new cast, key characters from the old series are also back, | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
most notably Larry Hagman. His motivation for returning not a | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
million miles away from those of his screen alter ego, JR. Money. | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
That's always good. What is it about the approach, how they wanted | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
to attack the series? They wanted to look at the children and make | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
them acceptable and interesting and that will be the main focus of it | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
I'm sure eventually. I would like to be dragged kicking and screaming | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
into another 30 years. First hitting the screen in 1978, Dallas | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Dom indicated television for close to a decade. Storylines like who | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
shot JR attracted an audience of 100 million and triggered an | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
immediate frenzy when the tapes revealing the would-be killer's | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
identity arrived in the UK. This is my son, John Ross. The new series | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
continues the themes of the old - oil, wealth, greed and feuding | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
families. This time, it's the ambitions of JR's son that's at the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
centre of the drama. The actor playing him knows there's a lot of | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
expectation resting on his shoulders. How much pressure do you | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
feel? When I got the show, you know, it was - I was excited, but also | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
intimidated in bringing back a show that was such a big deal and so | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
well perceived. I knew it was also probably a lot of expectation as to | :27:52. | :28:01. | |
who was JR and Sue-Ellen's son now. I will get it back. Oil was my | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
birthright. There have been plenty of attempts to revive successful | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
shows. The team behind this will hope it will satisfy fans from the | :28:08. | :28:16. | |
80s and well as attracting a new audience of loyal followers. | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
Dallas is back next month. Dallas is back next month. | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
Now the weather. What's happening? It was a little misty and murky and | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
quite a bit of cloud to start with, but things have been brightening up. | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
More sunshine around, although there is cloud across the south- | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
east. That should clear though. Well-broken cloud further north, | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
but that hides the showers. We have some not too far away from Belfast. | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
A short time ago you could see the cloud across Belfast, but for many | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
there will be a bit of sun to be enjoyed throughout the day. Into | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
the detail. I mentioned showers and quite a lot across the north and | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
west of Scotland. Some could be heavy. Maybe thundery. Fewer as we | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
head further south. In between the showers, with sunshine temperatures | :29:00. | :29:08. | |
around 18. Not too showers across northern England. -- not too many | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
showers across northern England. There may be showers into East | :29:12. | :29:16. | |
Anglia too. But they are clearing away. Things will brighten. Humid | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
in the south-east, with temperatures in the mid-20s. We | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
have top temperatures around the south coast of around 22. For | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
south-west England, through the afternoon, it's dry and fine. We | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
have sunshine. Again, temperatures at around 22. Much of Wales should | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
be dry and bright through the afternoon. The showers in Northern | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
Ireland are quite well scattered this afternoon. Here, they will | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
clear through the evening, so quite a fine end to the day. We keep the | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
showers going for a little bit longer across Scotland, but for | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
most it's dry and some clear spells. Allowing the return of patchy mist | :29:54. | :29:59. | |
and fog to form and quite a warm night. Any mist and fog should lift | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
during the first couple of hours of the day. We are going to see quite | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
a bit of cloud to the south-east corner, more than through the day. | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
Further north, the return of the showers. Tomorrow afternoon they | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
are likely to be widespread and heavy and slow moving. We'll keep | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
an eye on them. Some occasional brightness in between. Still some | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
showers in the forecast for Wednesday. Not quite as intense. | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
More well scattered. The best of fi dry, bright weather further south | :30:27. | :30:35. | |
and -- of any dry, bright weather further south and east. As we look | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
to the end of the week, we begin with high pressure, so Thursday | :30:39. | :30:48. | |
starting off dry and fine. There is low pressure just sitting across my | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
shoulder for the weekend and that shoulder for the weekend and that | :30:52. | :30:59. | |
shows us things may be more unsettled. Our top story - the wife | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
of a Chinese politician is given a suspended death sentence for | :31:04. | :31:07. |