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Labour has joined Sir Richard Branson in urging the Government to | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
delay the signing of a new contract to run the West Coast Mainline. | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
They say MPs should be given time to scrutinise the decision toward | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
the franchise to a new operator. Two boys die, a girl is critical in | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
hospital and the search resumes for a man after their canoe capsizes. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
Opposition forces claim to have shot down a Syrian Army helicopter. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
And police in Essex warn residents that a lion may be on the loose | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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Good afternoon. The Government is facing calls to | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
delay the signing of a new contract to run the West Coast Mainline | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
until Parliament's had time to scrutinise the deal. Labour's | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
joined Sir Richard Branson to demand that MPs be given a chance | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
to consider the decision to take the franchise from Virgin Trains | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
and award it to First Group who has again stated that the bid is | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
deliverable and the best deal for taxpayers. Our Political | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Correspondent, Ross Hawkins, has more. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Often seen celebrating conspicuous success, time is running out for | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Richard Branson to overturn a defeat. The Government is set to | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
sign a contract tomorrow that will see Virgin Trains replaced by First | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
Group on the West Coast Mainline. Virgin is lobbying hard for a delay | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
and has offered to run the franchise for free while ministers | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
have a rethink. We are not letting this drop because we have spent 15 | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
years creating what we believe to be the best train network in the UK. | :01:58. | :02:07. | |
We don't want to see that ruined. So we will fight very hard to try | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
to defend our rights to continue to operate. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
But it's First Group that's set to run the operations now. Its critics | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
fear it won't be able to afford the �5.5 billion it offered in its | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
successful bid. In a statement this morning though, First Group's Chief | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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This isn't just a row between two companies fighting for their own | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
commercial interests. More than 130,000 people have signed an | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
online petition urging the Government to think again and | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Labour says the process should be put on pause so politicians can | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
have another look. This is a deal that's going to last, | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
not for the next Parliament, but for the next three Members of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Parliament. It seems that if the Secretary of State signs it in the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
recess, having announced it in the recess, MPs and they represent many | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
whens affected by this, won't have a Hans to debate it. That's wrong. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
A spokesman for the Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, said | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the bidding had been run faurly. There is no sign yet of her giving | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
way, but Richard Branson, still lobbying hard to stay in the race, | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
knows there are just hours to go before the fate on Virgin on the | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
West Coast line could be decided for good. | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Two boys, aged five and two, have died in hospital after a canoe | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
capsized on a sea loch in the north-west Highlands. Six people | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
were on the boat when it overturned in Loch Gairloch on Sunday | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
afternoon. A man in his 30s is missing. Let's go to our | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
correspondent James Cook who is there at the scene for us. Give us | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the latest. Well, what's happening at the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
moment is that a search is still continuing for the missing man, | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
although we've been told that that is a recovery operation, that is to | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
say he is missing, presumed dead. The search was called off last | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
night with no sign of his body at all and so they are now just trying | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
to find it and bring it ashore basically. What we know about what | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
happened out here yesterday afternoon is, we are now told that | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
it was a pretty lovely afternoon really. It was calm, sunny, with | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
people sunbathing on the beach. These two families who were | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
involved in the accident were staying at a caravan park a short | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
distance up the beach here when they got into trouble in an open- | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
decked Canadian canoe which capsized out there perhaps several | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
hundred metres offshore. Exactly why that happened is not clear. We | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
are told that the children involved were wearing life jackets but the | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
adults were not. What we know is that basically, one family survived | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
this accident, a man in his 30s, an eight-year-old girl and five-year- | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
old girl who's seriously ill in hospital, while the father from the | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
other family and the two boys, believed to be aged five and two, | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
were the ones who died. Thank you very much. | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Now, opposition forces in Syria say they've shot down a helicopter | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
during an attack on rebel fighters in a suburb of the capital Damascus. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
State television's confirmed that a helicopter crashed naer a mosque | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
but didn't say whether it was actually brought down -- near a | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
mosque. Barbara Plett reports from Beirut in neighbouring Lebanon. | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
A dramatic development in the battle for the state of Damascus. A | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
helicopter crashed. Rebels claim to have shot the | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
helicopter down. This unverified footage peers to show the | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
smouldering car bus. There is no sign of the pilot. -- car kus. | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Fighting has raged in the capital for over a week with the Army | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
trying to drive out rebels who've regrouped in the outlying suburbs. | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
These pictures are said to show a fire ignited by random shelling. | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
The district worst hit was the one which ground troops entered on | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Sunday after a siege. 300 people are believed to have been killed. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
This unverified video of a mass grave is just one of many said to | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
be of victims. In another part of Syria, the town | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
of Maria, opposition fighters take a break from the war, but they're | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
angry about being left alone to face a far superior Army. The rebel | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
commander says the world needs to wake up. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
I have seen horrible things. I'm not talking to the people inside | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Syria, I'm addressing the world. Can you not see the shelling, the | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
destruction, the children that are being vaugtered -- slaughtered? Is | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
this not enough proof for the world. The world should proside us with | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
safe havens. At least for refer gees who gather on the border of | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
Turkey. -- provide us with safe havens. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Afghan officials have accused the Taliban of killing 17 people, | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
including two women in southern Afghanistan. One local Governor | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
said they gathered to listen to music and watch the women dance | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
when the party was attacked. Another official disputed that. | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
Let's go to Quentin Somerville in Kabul. Tell us more? | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
Matthew, this was an astonishingly brutal attack, 17 individuals | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
including two women, all of them civilians, either had their throats | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
slit or they were beheaded. It may have been a dispute over a party | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
taking place, singing and dancing, which these Taliban commanders | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
objected to, or local officials say the Taliban commanders were | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
fighting over the affections of two women. The reason it's taken so | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
long for this information to come out and the reason why it's been so | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
difficult to get to the bottom of this attack is because this is | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Taliban controlled territory, a local police chief says he cannot | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
get near the area and has not even seen the bodies. There have been | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
two other attacks in Afghanistan today, serious attacks. Tell us | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
about those? It's a reminder of the ferocity of this war, the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
continuing ferocity. Afghan soldiers were killed when a massive | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
attack by the Taliban, over 200 attacked the checkpoint and killed | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
them. The Taliban say they then took over the checkpoint. The | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
Government say it's back in their hands. There are no international | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
sources available to support that attack. | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
An Afghan soldier turn his gun on those who we believe are Americans. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
Thank you very much. Shares in the Korean electronics | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
company Samsung have fallen after the company lost a legal dispute | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
with its American rival Apple. The price dropped 7.5% on the Seoul | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Stock Exchange. It's been ordered to pay $1 billion in compensation | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
and noif withdraw some products from the US market. | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
The authoritys in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
declared a state of emergency as they brace themselves for the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
arrival of tropical storm Isaac. Currently in Mexico, the storm is | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
expected the strengthen to a hurricane by the time it reaches | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
land either tomorrow or by Wednesday. It's already brought | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
strong winds and heavy rains to Florida, as Steve Kingston now | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
reports. An unwanted guest touching down in | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Florida. Isaac hit as a tropical storm, not quite at hurricane | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
strength but still packing winds of 65mph. | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Before long, the storm surge brought localised flooding. Earl | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
euro, many heeded the official warnings, boarding up and getting | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
out -- earlier. The Republican Party Convention in Tampa is not | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
directly in the storm's path but it's close enough for organisers to | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
have put it off until tomorrow. The building with the flags is | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
where Mitt Romney will be formally nominated for the presidency. As | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
the weather turns, you can see why Republicans have delayed things. | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
Look how close it all is to the downtown waterfronts in one of | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
America's most flood-prone cities. The forecasts say Isaac will pick | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
up wind speed in Mexico before making hand fall as a hurricane | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
midweek. Emergencys have been declared in four gulf states. | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
Communities prepares for the worst include New Orleans which lived | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
through the nightmare of Katrina seven years ago this week. | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
Make sure you have got a game plan, make sure you follow the advice | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
from your local leaders, make sure you are paying attention to the | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
changing weather conditions. The storms can change, we have seen the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
change in the last few days. With hundreds of flights already | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
cancelled, schools closed and homes scarred, this is now a waiting game | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
to see where Isaac will strike next and with what force. Golf now and | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
the European Ryder Cup Captain has announced his team for this year's | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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competition, the Englishman Ian Poulter and the Belgian Nicholas | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
Colsaerts were picked. Police in Essex are investigating | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
reports that aly-on has been spotted in the field near Clacton- | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
on-Sea. The alert was raised by a member of the public who spotted an | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
animal resembling a lion in a field last night. Let's two to our | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
reporter Lisa Hampele. What more are police saying about this? | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
Police got a very unusual call last night. They are taking it seriously. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
They've cordoned off the area behind me and earlier, he want | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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kolers joined the search. -- helicopters. Last night, armed | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
police were called in after people staying in a caravan on farmland | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
had seen what they thought was a lion. We believe we saw a large cat, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
looking at a tree, thought it was going to go up the tree because we | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
were talking to the police at the time. It didn't go up the tree, it | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
turned, sat, I believe it could be hearing us from the other side of | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
the field and it just sat there looking at us. It was very | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
impressive, a nice sight to see. A circus that was recently nearby | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
did not have any lions and Colchester Zoo doesn't have any | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
missing. Experts there have seen a photo but say it's hard to tell if | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
it's the real thing. It's a picture of a blurry sandy | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
coloured animal at a distance. I wasn't prepared to say really one | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
way or the other as to what it could be. | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
Essex Police initially advised people to stay indoors. That's now | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
been relaxed but some are worried. I think it's quite concerning. If | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
it's true and there's a large cat out there, then it's quite a | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
worrying thing, but we do have a lot of fields around us here so | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
there's men toif places for the animal to hide. -- plenty of places | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
for the animal to hide. Many are worried the King of the jungle is | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
hiding here, but the police can't afford not to take the sightings | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
soariously. It's been 18 hours now since the | :13:53. | :13:57. |