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The Prime Minister is challenged to decide if he is man or mouse on the | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
A senior Conservative MP urges David Cameron to act, saying the | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
expansion is needed to boost the economy and the environmental | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
objections are disappearing. Young people who smoke cannabis run | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the risk of a "significant and irreversible" reduction in their IQ | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
according to a major study. The search resumes for the body of | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
a father who's thought to have drowned in a canoeing accident in | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
which his two sons and another child died. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Bearing down on New Orleans - millions prepare for the arrival of | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
tropical storm Isaac due to hit land later today. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
And on the eve of the Paralympics, we'll be at Stoke Mandeville | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Hospital where it all began more than 60 years ago. On BBC London on | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
the day before the Paralympics, passenger groups call for a | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
transport legacy for disabled users, and a new scheme to stop London's | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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young people going straight from Good afternoon, and welcome to the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
BBC News at 1.00pm. David Cameron came under pressure today to change | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
his mind and back a third runway at Heathrow Airport. A senior | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Conservative and former Environment Minister Tim Yeo challenged the | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Prime Minister to decide whether he was a "man or a mouse" over the | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
expansion. So far, though, the Government shows no sign of budging. | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports. The Prime Minister | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
has been buffeted by a period of political turbulence. The economy | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
is back in recession. He's behind in the polls, and sop of his | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
backbenchers are drawing restless trying to force him to change | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
course. Before the election David Cameron said no if's, no, but's, no | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
third runway at Heathrow Airport but now a Conservative backbencher | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
and environmental campaigner is urging him to leave this commitment | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
behind. Writing in a Conservative publication, the Conservative MP | :02:31. | :02:41. | |
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I think there is a terrific turnt now for him to show strong | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
leadership on the front and to set out clearly what his vision of | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Britain is going to be in 2020. I think we'd like some clarity on | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
that. The Transport Secretary was | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
extolling the -- she opposes the third runway and says the Prime | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
Minister won't backtrack either. It's clear cut we have a coalition | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
agreement not to have a third runway we're planning to stick to. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
There is cross-party consensus. Even the Labour Party have accepted | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
their push for a third runway was wrong. All of this isn't just a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
debate about transport policy. Here at Westminster Conservative | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
backbenchers have been pushing the Government to do more to boost | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
economic growth. Some see the runway as a powerful symbol of the | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Government's ability to not show Britain is open to business. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
This MP says the Government shouldn't back a third runway in | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
this Parliament but should say what they'd do instead. For the sake of | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
the country and the economy, we need a long-term answer to our | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
chronic shortage of airport capacity. Let's hope they come up | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
with a good answer soon. David Cameron is likely to reshuffle his | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
team soon despite the speculation his Chancellor's job is safe. Some | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Conservatives say it's not a change of personnel that's needed but | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
change of policy, firmer plans to boost the economy they say will | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
also boost the party's political fortunes. | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Let's speak to our political correspondent Robin Brant who has | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
been with the Transport Secretary in Boxley in Kent on this Heathrow | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
issue. Firstly, on the Heathrow issue, there is a coalition | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
agreement which rules out any expansion before the next election. | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Could the economic and environmental arguments start to | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
tip the balance? From her point of view, no. Justine | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Greening came here to kept today to talk about high-speed rail, be it | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
is planes, not trains, that are dominating. What's interesting in | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
her defence of her position, which is no third runway, she's chosen to | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
make it about an issue of trust for this Government and specifically | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
personally for the Prime Minister when in that interview she said he | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
has made a decision, a pledge on no third runway. He articulated that | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
in the campaign, and he'll stick to it, so for her it's not just about | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the broader issue of a third runway. It's about trust in politicians, | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
trust in David Cameron, but in the last hour, we see fresh evidence of | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
the pressure the Government is under. The Institute of Directors | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
say the Government must stop delaying, so there is pressure from | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
outside on very senior members of the Government to change tact, but | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
a U-turn on Heathrow would be very, very significant. Also, there is | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
pressure on the Government to allow this company FirstGroup ownership | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
of Britain's biggest railway. I mean, I think what's clear this | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
morning is there is going to be no delay despite pressure from Virgin, | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Richard Branson on Parliament to at least have some scrutiny over the | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
deal it's huge deal - 13 years. It could mean �1 billion a year | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
possibly for the Government in revenue. There has been pressure | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
from Virgin, who have lost out on the deal, for Parliament to at | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
least juteinise it. Justine Greening saying no deal. They'll | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
push ahead. They believe the process has been transparent. They | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
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believe it has been a good deal for passengers but from what I fruns | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
Virgin, they'll head to the courts and seek some sort of review. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
you. Young people who smoke cannabis | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
regularly are risking permanent damage to their intelligence and | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
memory. That's the conclusion of a study of more than a thousand | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
people which found persistent cannabis users before the age of 18 | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
suffered an eight-point drop in their IQ, on average, by the time | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
they were adults. Our health correspondent Dominic Hughes | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
reports. For some years heavy cannabis use | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
has been linked to an increase to developing mental illnesses like | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
schizophrenia but now an international team of researchers | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
found that young people who smoke it regularly, more than four times | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
a week, risk a reduction in IQ, the way intelligence is measured. For | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
this significant study into cannabis and IQ, researchers | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
followed the lives of a thousand people from Dunedin in New Zealand | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
over 20 years. They assessed them as children then reinterviewed them | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
repeatedly up to the age of 38. Those who persistently used | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
cannabis, up to 5% of those involved in the study, suffered a | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
decline in their IQ. Of those we studied, 75% of them used cannabis | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
at some point, and most of those people had no difficulty with their | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
cognitive abilities. It was only the smaller group, about 5% of the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
population, who started using cannabis regularly - most days a | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
week when they were teenagers, who showed that cognitive decline. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Around ten, two, million people in the UK are thought to smoke | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
cannabis. Half of all 16 to 29- year-olds have tried it at least | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
once. One former heavy user says young people need to be aware of | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
the risks that go along with heavy cannabis use. I think it's just | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
really another danger sign for any young person that's thinking of | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
taking cannabis that not only is it illegal, not only is it bad for | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
your health and can cause psychosis, but it can also affect your IQ as | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
well, so the more messages we can get out there just warning people | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
of the dangers of it, then hopefully the happier lives people | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
will lead. It is the most widely used illegal drug in the United | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
Kingdom, but this study shows those who smoke large quantities while | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
they're still adolescents are putting their, qui, at risk, and | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
there is nothing to say that that IQ can be restored. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Police are continuing to search the shoreline of Loch Gairloch for a | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
man who's presumed to have drowned alongside his two young sons in a | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
canoeing accident. Ewen Beaton is missing, presumed dead. The bodies | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
of his sons, Ewen and Jamie, were found after their canoe overturned. | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
A little girl aged five, Gracie Mackay, died yesterday in hospital. | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
James Cook reports. The pictures are now all the more | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
precious - eight-year-old Callie Mackay survived Sunday's accident | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
but her little sister Gracie Mackay, who was five, did not. She was | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
pulled from the water face down and unconscious and died in hospital | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
yesterday. Ewen Beaton, who was five, and his little brother Jamie, | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
who was two, also died when the Canadian canoe capsised in a flat | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
calm. Their father, also Ewen, is still missing. On the windy shores | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
of Gairloch, they're still searching for Ewen Beaton, V, but | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
any sense of urgency has faded. They're combing the coastline | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
looking for the body which may have been washed north by the strong | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
currents. It's devastating for the families involved, and no words can | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
describe what they'll be experiencing right now. The Beatons | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
are well known in Beauly to the west of Inverness where the young | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
boy's grandfather is the local postman. The tragedy has shaken | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
this little town. Unbelievable that a tragedy like this could happen. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
It's a beautiful beach. It's a safe beach normally - been there on many | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
occasions. Police are giving few details about exactly what happened | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
in these waters, but it seems clear the life jackets the children were | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
wearing did not do enough to keep their heads above water when the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
canoe capsised. A full inquiry will of course follow, but it can bring | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
no solace to the families. The mother of an American activist | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza has | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
said she's "deeply saddened" and troubled to have lost a | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
compensation claim. A court rejected the family's claim | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
that Israel was to blame for Rachel Corrie's death nine years ago | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
during a demonstration. Jon Donnision reports from the court in | :10:41. | :10:51. | |
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Haifa. Rachel Corrie on the day she died - a human shield trying to | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
stop the Israeli Army from demolishing Palestinian property in | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
Gaza. The tactics seen here being used by other pro-Palestinian | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
activists was clearly risky. For Rachel Corrie, it cost her her life, | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer. Nine years later, her | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
parents, Cindy and Craig, arrived in court today looking for what | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
they could call justice - seeking to sue the Israeli Ministry of | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Justice -- Defence for damages. They were to be disappointed. The | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
judge ruled the 23-year-old's death was an accident, that the bulldozer | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
driver hadn't seen her and that she'd taken a risk going into what | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
was in effect a war zone. The judge said the activists were protecting | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
terrorists, Palestinian militants, operating in the area. For Rachel | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
Corrie's family, tough to accept. think it's outrageous. I think we | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
brought a lot of material to court, a lot of evidence, and of course, | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
we demanded that the Israeli Government bring evidence to court, | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
and some of that they simply did not bring, that you can go out on | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
television and to a cinema-tech and find information that the Israeli | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
Government said did not exist. family have already spent hundreds | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
of thousands of dollars fighting the case, but their struggle is not | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
over. They've already said they'll appeal today's ruling to Israel's | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Supreme Court. New Orleans is bracing itself for | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
another hurricane exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
brought devastation to the city. Tropical Storm Isaac is gathering | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
strength as it heads across the Gulf of Mexico, and authorities say | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
they expect it to become a hurricane by the time it hits land | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
later today or tomorrow. Already, President Obama has declared a | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
state of emergency in Louisiana. Alastair Leithead reports from New | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
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They know how to prepare for storms here in New Orleans. It was seven | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
years to the day that people were doing a similar thing, as Hurricane | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Katrina was approaching across the Gulf of Mexico. The city was | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
woefully unprepared back then. The levies, which were built to protect | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
the people, failed. Much of the city flooded. More than 1,800 died | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
here and along the Gulf coast. Since then, the levies very | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
strengthened. The storm is not expected to be as powerful, but | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
they were still putting the finishing touches to the city's | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
defence as Isaac approached. Isaac is to00 miles across and heading at | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
10mph strengthening over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters. It's | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
expected to strike land somewhere along the coast as a category 2 | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
hurricane with winds two-thirds the strength of Hurricane Katrina. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
We're staged. We're battle ready. We're in battle rhythm, and we'll | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
be prepared to handle what comes our way. In Mississippi, the calm | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
was deceptive. The winds will soon pick up as the squalls reach the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
coast but a surge in the tide could also cause wide-spread flooding, | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
and in Alabama, people were stocking up and preparing to batten | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
down for the storm. Some were leaving, but many have decided to | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
sit this one out and hope for the best. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
The widow of Tony Nicklinson, who died last week days after he lost a | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
legal battle to change the laws on euthanasia, says she hopes his | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
campaign will continue. Jane Nicklinson said it was a shame her | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
husband, who had locked-in syndrome after a devastating stroke, had not | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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been able to die the way he had He had described his life as a | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
living nightmare. The devastation felt by Tony nick | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
Lyn son when he lost the battle to allow a doctor to end his life was | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
clear. After fighting for years, this was | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
the point his wife Jane believes he gave up. Within a week, he died of | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
pneumonia after refusing to eat. He was just absolutely devastated. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
I hadn't realised he was that devastated quite honestly, and it | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
was the day after that he said to me that the fight had just gone. He | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
said he couldn't take it any more. Before his stroke, he was the | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
husband and father who had lived life to the full. Once ill, Jane | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
supported Tony's legal case to allow a doctor to help him to die. | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
That currently constitutes murder. Although they failed, she believes | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
their work wasn't in vain. Even though we didn't win, you know, | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
all the hard work for the case has been done and I hope that at some | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
point someone will come forward and carry on with what Tony started. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
The campaign may not be over, but it's also not without opponents. | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
Many are against the role a doctor would have played in helping Tony | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
to die. One of the last things he said to me was, I am already dead, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
don't mourn for me. It's true, we did. I think it was in some | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
respects seven years ago was harder, than this because we did lose the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
old Tony. Although Tony wasn't legally | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
allowed to end his life on his own terms, his case has reignited the | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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debate over assisted suicide. Our top story: The Prime Minister | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
is challenged to decide if he is man or mouse, on the issue of a | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
third runway at Heathrow Airport. Coming up: Escaping a country of | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
conflict for a world of harmony. We meet Iraq's National Youth | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
Orchestra. Later on BBC London: A major search | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
takes place for a man from Romford who's gone missing after going to | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
look for help during a camping trip in South Wales. And how amputee | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
footballers in Hackney are trying to get their sport recognised at | :17:05. | :17:14. | |
The most detailed photos of Mars ever taken have been released by | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
NASA. They were shot by the Curiosity Rover and show a 3-mile | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
high mountain where scientists plan to search for evidence that the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
planet once supported life. Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
reports. These are the most detailed | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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pictures of Mars ever seen. Coming It's six miles away, but using its | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
advanced high definition camera, NASA engineers are able to zoom in | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
and pick out areas which they think will be of greatest scientific | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
interest. But there's plenty of science to do in the meantime. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
First, to sample the martial air. We are looking forward to getting | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
our first sniff of Mars atmosphere and learning more about the history | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
of Mars, what the atmosphere is telling us with regard to its | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
composition. What is of huge interest are these layers. The | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
lower down they go the further back in time they are. These darker | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
areas go back billions of years. By analysing this rock they'll be able | :18:28. | :18:38. | |
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to recreate what Mars was like in They play the first ever voice | :18:41. | :18:50. | |
spoken on Mars. This is the administrator speaking to you... | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
NASA hopes children will be inspired by these images and one | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
day take the next giant leap for mankind. | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
As we continue the mission we hope the words of the administrator will | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
be an inspiration to someone alive today who will become the first to | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
stand upon the surface of Mars. Like the great Neil Armstrong, | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
they'll be able to speak allowed in first person at that point of the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
next giant leap in human exploration. Economic reality | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
suggests that the likelihood of a person setting foot on Mars is | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
highly unlikely. But many at NASA have been inspired again by Neil | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Armstrong's achievement and his message to the world that all | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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things are possible. The opening ceremony of the London | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
2012 Paralympics takes place tomorrow. Tonight, the torch relay | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
will set off from Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the Games' spiritual home | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
and the place where they first began more than 60 years ago. From | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
the most humble of beginnings the Games have grown into one of the | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
largest sporting spectacles and, in terms of athlete numbers, it's | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
second only to the Olympics. John Maguire reports. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
1948, and the eyes or in fact the ears of the world are on the | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
Olympic opening ceremony in London. But 40 miles away in a | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Buckinghamshire village, 16 military veterans in wheelchairs | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
compete in what's described as a hospital sports day. The | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
paralympics is born. Its birthplace, the Stoke | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
Mandeville spinal unit and its father, Professor Sir Ludwig | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Guttmann who came to the UK to escape the Nazi regime. I haven't | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
much hope. Now, look here, cut that out... His bedside manner may fall | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
short of modern expectations, but he believed in the power of sport | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
to rehabilitate, not just physically, but emotionally and | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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socially. To put it quite clearly, to transform helpless individuals, | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
severely disabled. The Games grew and grew with competitors from | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
overseas travelling there every year. Then, in Rome, 1960, for the | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
first time they followed the Olympics, the parallel games, the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
paralympics as we know them today were up and running. At the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
hospital physiotherapy and sport remain vital parts of patient | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
treatment. When I got here I was flat on a bed, I hadn't been out of | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
bed in four months. Now I am starting playing sport. Starting to | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
live my life again basically. elite sport provides extra | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
inspiration. This place is amazing. I can't describe how amazing this | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
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place is. Maybe I would like to be in the paralympics one time and | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
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shoot, I would like to try shooting. As the paralympics, both Stoke | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Mandeville and the Games it created prepare for another chapter. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
work we do is to try and change the way people think and feel about | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
disability. So in some ways we are looking for transformation but | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
through the medium of sport. We feel that we are in a very | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
privileged position with such a talented team and such inspiring | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
images that British population will be seeing over the next two to | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
three weeks, that we really feel that we can start to make inroads | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
on that ambition. It is ambition, vision, | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
determination that's driven the transformation from a small | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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hospital sports day, to one of the More than 4,000 Paralympic athletes | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
have been arriving in London ahead of Wednesday's opening ceremony. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Among them are many who've been injured in conflicts around the | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
world, including British troops, and there's one athlete from | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Afghanistan - a country where thousands of civilians are hurt in | :23:19. | :23:29. | |
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attacks and land mines each year. Aleem Maqbool reports from Kabul. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Fahim Rahimi has made it to the Olympics but shouldered his burdens | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
on his own. This weightlifter has no coach, no financial support and | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
can only use the gym in Kabul because they don't charge him. | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
He had his leg blown off by a mine in Afghanistan's civil war. There | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
are no sophisticated prosthetics here, just the plastic limb he was | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
given by the Red Cross. TRANSLATION: | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Every young person hopes they'll do something for their country. I want | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
to fly the Afghan flag all over the world. It's a big thing for to us | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
go to the Olympics. But he is the only athlete who | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
represents Afghanistan and is one success story in a country where | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
there are so many sad tales. This is how amputees can end up | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
here, as beggars on the streets and thanks to war, their numbers are | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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being added to all the time. The Red Cross factory is producing | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
a staggering 15,000 artificial limbs a year. It has become a | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
lifeline for so many. In Afghanistan now there are thought | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
to be tens of thousands of people who have been made disabled by many | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
years of conflict. These people are just learning to use their new | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
prosthetic limbs, but of course they're going to need care in some | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
form or another for the rest of their lives. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
But sport is starting to be seen as a factor that could really make a | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
difference for Afghanistan's disabled. They were not convinced | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
to be able to do anything, rather than just dragging around, moving | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
around. Now they have seen, they understood they can be players, | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
they can be champions. They can be heroes in a way. Fahim says he will | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
only be happy with a medal in London. But he is already an | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
inspiration to so many in Afghanistan. | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
And, in another country fractured by conflict, there is harmony in | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the form of a National Youth Orchestra - conceived in Iraq four | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
years ago by a teenager who wanted an escape from the world of car | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
bombs and chaos on the country's streets. Most of its members taught | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
themselves to play, using the internet as a guide. Now they're in | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Britain for their first concerts, performing alongside the world | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Our arts correspondent David | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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Sillito went to meet them. My name is Tuqa, I am a cellist. | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
Teenagers can get up to all sorts of forbidden things in secret. Tuqa | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
learned the cello. A girl playing a western instrument and growing up | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
in Baghdad, she lived in fear. I first started it was very hard | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
for a girl to play music. My house was very far from my school and the | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
cello case is very big so people would always notice what I was | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
carrying. Zuhal also grew newspaper Baghdad. When Britain and America | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
invaded, that was the end of music lessons. But Zuhal persevered. | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
just downloaded music, sheet music, and I practised and played. | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
teacher? No teacher. And now, nine years on, Zuhal has formed an | :27:15. | :27:25. | |
:27:25. | :27:26. | ||
orchestra. Auditions are sent in on Because learning an instrument is | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
difficult enough, but learning an instrument in Iraq over the last | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
ten years, you can only begin to understand the problems. | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Some of them discovered their instruments by watching something | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
on the television and falling in love with it. They had to ask their | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
friends, what's the name of that instrument? Then they somehow got | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
hold of one, usually a pretty poor instrument, and they downloaded the | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
fingering and taught themselves thousand play -- how to play. | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
a flute player. How long have you been playing? Five years. Have you | :28:10. | :28:20. | |
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ever had a teacher? No. I am a double bass player. Again, no | :28:21. | :28:31. | |
lessons. He just watched videos on... YouTube. At home. | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
And then during a ten-minute break in rehearsals it's suddenly party | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
time. Too many here grew up hidden indoors, fearful, so this is a | :28:41. | :28:48. | |
chance for friends, a little fun, and to do what they love. They | :28:49. | :28:58. | |
It's time to take to you the weather now with Chris. We are | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
going to start with an update on tropical storm Isaac. | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
We are, Kate. Yes Isaac has been leaving a trail of destruction as | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
it's moved across the Caribbean. Now it's situated in the Gulf of | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
Mexico and I have seen an eye develop in that storm which tells | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
me it's undergoing weak strengthening so it's probably | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
going to reach hurricane status this afternoon. The track of that | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
storm then moves north and west and the centre of the storm will | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
probably come on shore just to the west of New Orleans but that | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
doesn't mean it's out of the firing line because it's the eastern side | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
of storms or hurricanes we get significant storm surges driven | :29:34. | :29:39. | |
onshore by powerful winds. For today, after the drenching many | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
of us endured during Monday, today it couldn't be more different. For | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
most of us we are looking at a fine day with prolonged spells of | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
sunshine. I say most, there are one or two showers today and the | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
showers have merged together to give hrepgier -- lengthier | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
downpours across Scotland, particularly around the Highlands. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
Elsewhere in Scotland, it should stay mainly dry. A few fleeting | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
showers are possible for Northern Ireland, for western parts of of | :30:07. | :30:17. | |
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England and Wales. You will be unlucky if you do see one of them. | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
Overnight strengthening winds will blow the next system in off the | :30:23. | :30:26. | |
Atlantic with a band of rain crossing Northern Ireland and | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
pushing into Scotland and western parts of England and Wales | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
overnight. That leaves the south- east of England dry with prolonged | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
clear spells. For Wednesday morning not a bad start to the day across | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
eastern areas. Make the most of the sunshine because we are going to | :30:39. | :30:43. | |
see bands of rain pushing eastwards during the day and we see rain | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
arriving across the south-east during the afternoon. Behind the | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
rain we are looking at showers moving in to most other parts of | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
the British Isles. The showers will be heavy, thundery and slow-moving | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
across the likes of Northern Ireland, parts of northern England | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
and Wales and the south-west of Scotland, too. The rain does clear | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
from the south-east of England during Wednesday evening so we are | :31:01. | :31:05. | |
hopeful that for the opening ceremony of the Paralympics the | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
weather should be dry, just a low chance of a shower brought on by | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
those winds. There will be showers around for Thursday. Mainly | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
affecting the eastern side. Further north, across Scotland and Northern | :31:16. | :31:19. | |
Ireland, we are looking at largely dry conditions with a fair amount | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
of sunshine. Not particularly warm, thanks to the north-west breeze. | :31:23. | :31:28. | |
Towards the end of the week we see rain at times while these weather | :31:28. | :31:32. |