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The biggest ever Paralympic Games is underway. Nearly 4,500 | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
competitors from more than 160 countries are taking part and there | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
are high hopes for Paralympics GB. In the heats, Jonathan Fox in the | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
pool and Sarah Storey in cycling have already set new world records. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
And in the velodrome, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were there to | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
watch records beong broken, joined by millions of spectators around | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
the world. A London university is banned from | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
teaching overseas students after an investigation found evidence that | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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some non-EU students had no right to be in the country. We are just | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
concerned that these are valid students and that they are here for | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
a legitimate purpose, and it is for that reason that I say we would be | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
horrified if we thought it could be sustained that we were harbouring | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
illegal immigrants. A new boss at Barclays Bank - | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Antony Jenkins has worked there for 30 years. His appointment comes as | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
the bank faces a criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
Office. The United Nations accuses the | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
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world of failing to respond to a humanitarian crisis in Mali. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Later on BBC London, will the capital's academic reputation be | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
seriously damaged by a ban on foreign students? | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
And the three households fighting to stay on a huge empty council | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. The biggest ever | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
Paralympic Games in history is underway. Nearly 4,500 competitors | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
from more than 160 countries are taking part, with high hopes that | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
ParalympicsGB will beat its medal tally from four years ago. They've | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
had a good start, with two British competitors breaking world records | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
this morning. In a moment, we'll have the best of the morning's | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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action, but first, Robert Hall reports on the opening of the Games. | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
A cause for celebration. Despite the grey clouds and the drizzle, | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
there was something magic in the air as the pace of life in this | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
huge sporting community slowly gained momentum. Through gates, on | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
bridges and terraces, the first of the 2.5 million ticket-holders | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
gazed around them and studied them maps, finally at journey's end. The | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Forsyth family had travelled the long road from Wolverhampton. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, especially having our | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
son here. Hopefully, the weather will hold out. It is great to see | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
all the buildings and what it is like now. And think what it will be | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
like in a few years' time. It is good for vision impaired and blind | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
people and people with all disabilities. The talking point of | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
the morning was last night's spectacular. The fiery fly-past, | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
the umbrella theme, which today seemed thoroughly appropriate. The | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
thousands of performance who entranced us with music and dance. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
And most of all, the athletes who will thrill and provide column | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
inches in the coming days. Games here will be the biggest ever. | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
We have 164 nations taking part and have a 4,200 athletes. Three | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
nations - China, GB and the USA - have over 200 athletes, while 45 | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
only have one are competing at the Games. The pieces are in place. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
More than 4,000 Paralympic athletes from around the world on a hunt for | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
medals and a venue, once again, packed with those who will be | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
willing them on. All everyone needs now is a little blue sky. | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Now to the action, and ParalympicsGB has had a good start | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
to its Games. The swimmer Jonathan Fox smashed his own world record in | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the 100-metre backstroke, while the cyclist Sarah Storey set a new | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
world record in the individual cycling pursuit. But there was | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
disappointment for another gold medal hopeful, Di Coates. She | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
failed to reach the final in the air rifle shooting. Here's our | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
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sports correspondent, Andy Swiss. Under grey skies they came with | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
golden hope so. Once again, the fans flocked to the velodrome, | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
hoping to see Britain's Paralympics cyclists pick up where the | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
Olympians left off. In particular, one of the biggest names of these | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
Games - Sarah Storey. Storey has already won seven Olympic golds. It | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
could soon be eight. She was qualifying for the individual | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
pursuit. The aim was not just to beat her opponent but the times of | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
the previous competitors. Ward on by the fans, she was simply | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
unstoppable. -- roared on by the fans. She soon lapped her rival and | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
raced to a world record. Once again, the velodrome echoed with British | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
cheering, including those of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Storey was 16 seconds quicker than her opponent. The decibel level was | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
once again through the roof. The velodrome has always been a popular | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
place for Britain's cyclists. Could they get these Games off to a | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
glittering start following the 17 medals in the Olympics? And also | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
success in the pool, especially for this man, Jonathan Fox. He made | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
tonight's final of the 100 metres backstroke. He won silver in | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
Beijing and this time, it should be gold in London. But some | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
disappointment. Di Coates failed to make her final in the shooting. But | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
there was a rare setback on a bright first morning for | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
ParalympicsGB. A London University has been banned | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
from teaching students from outside Europe following an investigation | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
by the UK Borders Agency. It found evidence that some students at | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
London Metropolitan University had no right to be in the UK, while the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
university did just not know whether others were turning up for | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
courses. However, the National Union of Students at the ruling was | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
unfair and could mean up to 2000 students now face deportation. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Anxious times at London Metropolitan University. More than | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
2000 students have just learned they risk being deported within 60 | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
days unless they can find a university place elsewhere. Among | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
them, Emmanuel Egwu, who says he spent �40,000 on his education here | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
so far. It is outrageous. I am totally disturbed. I am worried. My | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
parents are worried. I have been here since 2009. My parents have | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
spent a lot of money paying tuition fees for me and my living expenses. | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
They sold properties back home to make sure they take care of me here | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
and this is happening to me. How do you expect me to feel? So how has | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
the University ended up in this situation? The Government is | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
committed to reducing immigration but it has very few mechanisms at | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
his disposal to do that. So it is focusing on foreign students, more | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
specifically, bogus students. Those who are not here to study but to | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
get a visa. As university administrators took phone calls | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
from bewildered students, the Home Office claimed more than a quarter | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
of students sample at the university had no reason to remain. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
There on rumours of inadequate levels of English and the | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
university did not know whether half of them were turning up for | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
lectures. -- there were rumours. could not be allowed to continue. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
The public demands quite rightly proper immigration controls and | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
forcing the Immigration Rules is important for universities just as | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
it is for employers. London Metropolitan says it will challenge | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the Government's decision. We would be horrified if we thought it could | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
be sustained that we were harbouring illegal immigrants. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Under the guise of being students. So we are investigating the | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
accusations that have been made. Students from the University | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
gathered outside Downing Street to protest. A task force has been set | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
up to help genuine students find places at other universities before | :08:45. | :08:52. | |
the 60-day deadline expires. The clock is ticking. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
Meanwhile, latest figures show net migration fell last year by 36,000. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
The figure, which those the number of people entering the UK compared | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
with those leaving, is well above the Government's target but | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
ministers say it is a sign its policies are working. -- the figure, | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
which shows the number of people. Is the Government getting to its | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
target? The target is tough. It wants to get the figure back down | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
to the 10s rather than the hundreds of thousands. They want to reduce | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
the number coming to this country for good as opposed to those | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
leaving. It is still over 200,000, down by 30,000. Labour are pointing | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
out that the experts at the Office for National Statistics have not | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
been very helpful. They say the drop is not statistically | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
significant because of the way the numbers are collected but ministers | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
are pretty positive and they are positive because of recent figures | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
about visas that show the numbers being issued a down pretty sharply. | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
Interestingly, in light of the story we heard at the University, | :10:00. | :10:09. | |
particularly in the number of student visa has been issued. Given | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
where the figures are now, and where they have to be for them to | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
hit their target, they have got a long way to go. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Barclays has chosen somebody from inside the bank to be its new chief | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
executive. Antony Jenkins began his career there 30 years ago and said | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
he was very proud to be taking the helm. But his appointment comes at | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
a difficult time. He replaces Bob Diamond, who resigned amid the | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
scandal of the interest-rate fixing scandal. And yesterday, the banks | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
said they were being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
It is one of the toughest jobs in banking. A storm over the interest- | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
rate fixing scandal sore Diamond quit the top job and out there is a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
newcomer in the seat. It is and -- Antony Jenkins who has been run of | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
the retail and business banking operations. So, what do we know | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
about the new chief executive, seen here meeting Berkeley's | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
apprentices? He did a BBC interview talking about how he met challenges. | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
I will put on some rock music if I need to prepare for something | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
difficult or I will listen to some classical music if I need to be | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
calm. Music can help focus you to the task at hand. The Serious Fraud | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
Office said last night it was looking at fees paid by Barclays in | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
2008 when it raised funds from shareholders. It was also | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
investigating the interest-rate fixing saga at Barclays and other | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
banks. So what will be in his pay packet? His basic salary will be | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
�1.1 million. His potential maximum bonus will be 2.75 million. Under | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
the long-term incentive plan, another 4.4 million a year could | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
come his way. Analysts say anybody in the top job deserves that sort | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
of pay. I have seen what it has done to executives and how tough it | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
is. Every Sunday when he is having his cup of coffee, you will get a | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
phone call from Hong Kong about a deal that has gone wrong. It is a | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
pupil stop the new Barclays boss is very much a retail banker. | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
responsibilities include running be network brunch. Will there be a | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
back-to-basics focus on the high Street and the consumer and his | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
separation of retail banking? Misty Jenkins said Barclays had made | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
serious mistakes. -- Mr Jenkins. He said he would try to repair the | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
Bank's reputation but that the journey would take some time. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
We are now going to speak to our love affairs correspondent about | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
Tom Crone, who has been arrested. He is a man who has been at lock | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
and James Murdoch in terms of the recollection of events that took | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
place. -- he has been at loggerheads. He told a committee of | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
MPs that he had told James Murdoch as early as 2008 about the famous | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
email from Neville Thurlbeck, which suggested a wider problem at News | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
of the World rather than one reporter. There was a straight | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
contradiction and of their evidence on that point. Also, when Rupert | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
Murdoch gave evidence, he said he had been kept in the dark by staff | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
at the paper who had covered up the phone-hacking scandal. Tom Crone | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
described that as a shameful Life. We -- a shameful lie. We should | :13:59. | :14:09. | |
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mention that this was part of the Leveson Inquiry. | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
Our top story this lunchtime, the Paralympic Games have begun. Two | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Britons have already broken world records in cycling and swimming. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
And coming up, Astra was prepare for a space walk but more than a | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
decade on and at a cost of $100 billion, we ask, is the space | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
station worth the money? -- astronauts. | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
Later on BBC London, offering future athletes do what disabled | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
and the prospect. And Laura Robson beads a three-time | :14:47. | :14:56. | |
champion at the Open. As nearly 5 million people face | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
food shortages in Mali, the UN has accused the world of failing to | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
respond to a growing humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
of people fleeing their homes because of fighting in the North of | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
the country. Baroness Amos has been visiting camps where many of the | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
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Their lives of this three-year-old and thousands of children in Marley | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
hang in the balance. Even the that conflict, drought make them | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
vulnerable. War has pushed them to the brink. This child should be far | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
taller than she is. She suffers from an advanced form of | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
malnutrition. It is a country where there is a chronic malnutrition | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
problem. The combination of the drought last year has pushed the | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
country into an acute crisis. There are millions of people across the | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
country who need help. We do not have the money to help them all. | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
The UN humanitarian co-ordinator wants the world to do more. She | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
spoke to me on a mobile phone as she toured the country. A want the | :16:16. | :16:24. | |
world to remember there is a crisis here. A want people to seek this is | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
a crisis that has the face of a child to it. -- I want people to | :16:30. | :16:38. | |
see. I would like the international community to give and support. | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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I share refer is vulnerable to attack. -- the Niger river. The | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
Government fell in a military coup. Islamist rebels allied to Al-Qaeda | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
and sees much of the Sahara desert region in the north, destroying | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
ancient shrines in Timbuktu. Half a million people displaced by the | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
wall in camps inside and outside of the country now face a bleak future. | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
In America, the Republican candidate for Vice President, Paul | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Ryan, has promised a turnaround for America if he and Mitt Romney win | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
the race for the White House. He told the party's convention in | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Florida that a new administration would create 12 million new jobs in | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
four years and hold down public spending - something he accused | :17:31. | :17:41. | |
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President Obama of not doing enough Businessman, Governor, | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
troubleshooter, has burnt. The CV is well known. -- husband. Who is | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
Mitt Romney and what does he stand for? On the second night of this | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
convention, it fell to his youthful running mate to provide an answer. | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
The man is prayerful and a face full and honourable. Not only a | :18:14. | :18:21. | |
defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. A | :18:21. | :18:29. | |
fine businessman and a fine man. After four years of getting a | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
runaround, America needs a turnaround. The man for the job is | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
Mitt Romney. Tampa this week is a curious mix. The convention and the | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
less conventional. We canvassed voters in Ybor City. What comes | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
into your mind when I say Mitt Romney? I am unsure. Why are you | :18:57. | :19:06. | |
unsure? Nobody gives me information I want. The stuff I'm hearing his | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
rhetoric. I do not think he is very genuine. If he were more genuine... | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
He is saying what the people want him to say. I do not think he is | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
for the common people. So out the summer, Mitt Romney has been | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
defined by his opponents. He is painted as a heartless, out of | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
touch tycoon. -- Obama is painted. On that stage, Mitt Romney will | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
have his best chance - perhaps his last chance - to define himself on | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
his own terms. He will be speaking to the partisan audience in this | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
court and millions of Americans back home. In two months' time, | :19:56. | :20:06. | |
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they will decide his fate. The people of New Orleans are breathing | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
a sigh of relief as Hurricane Isaac was downgraded to a tropical storm. | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
One person has been killed and some parts of the state are suffering | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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Hurricane Isaac battered New Orleans. Seven years to the days | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
since could -- Hurricane Katrina had devastated the city. It didn't | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
have the same power but dumped a lot more rain. This time the | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
defences held. This time the city centre was not badly hit. It was | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
different outside the protective walls. Dozens of people were | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
trapped, after water float and quickly inundated homes. Many had | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
to be rescued from their attics, or plucked from the rooftops. It went | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
through the ceiling and through the attic. We went into the boat. It is | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
very bad. Conditions are still appalling. We have driven half an | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
hour from the centre of New Orleans to the community which has been | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
worst affected. It has 2000 people. It fell the wrong side of the flood | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
defence wall. When the storm hit, the water flooded over the top. The | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
level is the level of people's houses. They had to be rescued. The | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
force of the hurricane was felt all the way along this section of the | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
Gold Coast. Winds battered the shore. With the rain is still | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
falling and a high winds rattling the region for a second night, the | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
full extent of the impact is still not certain. A gunman dressed in | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Afghan Army uniform has shot dead three Australian members of the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
NATO-led force in Afghanistan. Two other soldiers were wounded. The | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said it was the country's | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
single worst day in Afghanistan and the news would feel like a physical | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
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A US astronaut is due to carry out a space walk on the International | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
Space Station in the next few minutes - the first by an American | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
since the end of the shuttle programme last summer. As these | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
things go, it is a relatively routine job. But, with the death of | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Neil Armstrong reminding the world of past space triumphs, and with a | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
NASA robot currently roaming around Mars, some in the scientific | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
community are questioning whether more than a decade of research on | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the international space station has been worth the $100 billion price | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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Big hacks for the new crew of the International Space Station. They | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
are ready to get on with the job it was designed for. A project | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
involving 15 countries. Its launch was supposed to mark a new | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
collaborative era in human spaceflight. Within a few years, | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
the brighter start ever will appear in the sky. It will be a sign of | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
hope. All these nations are coming together to utilise technology. | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
Here is the result. An orbiting laboratory the size of a football | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
pitch. What has it been for? On board our experiments to test how | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
materials and living organisms behave when that is no gravity. A | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
particle detector analyses cosmic rays, to discover mysterious dark | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
matter particles. The engineering expertise gained will enable | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
astronauts to build space craft and hotels in space. The floating | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
around, the view, it is wonderful. On the downside, it is tough to | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
sleep. You cannot taste much. Your taste buds get affected by the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
fluid in your logic -- in your body which moves north. Everything | :24:26. | :24:34. | |
tastes like blotting paper or cardboard. One small step for man... | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
Of ever since Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, many thought | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
humanity would one day learn to live and work in space. The space | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
station was supposed to be a staging post, from which we would | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
build bases on the moon and maybe push on to Mars. Since the heady | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
days of the Apollo missions, things have been scaled back. The Space | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Station is a hugely significant enterprise. I would like to think | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
it is still the staging post to further exploration of the solar | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
system. The Curiosity rover and memories of Neil Armstrong have | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
revived interest at exploring the red planet. It is hoped that one | :25:18. | :25:27. | |
day and asked a novel set foot on Mars. -- an astronaut. More now on | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
the Paralympics. And one of the differences in this Games is that | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
people with learning difficulties will be taking part for the first | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
time in 12 years. The category was banned after the Games in Sydney | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
when it emerged that the Spanish basketball team had lied about | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
their disabilities. This time, 120 athletes with learning disabilities | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
from 34 countries will be taking part. Victoria Bromley, table | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
tennis Paralympian. She has a learning disability. She is | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
classified to compete in London because of that. For the | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
Paralympics, it is a big step. For her, it is a huge opportunity. | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
have to do reading and writing, I struggle. I sit there and go, I | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
cannot do it. This sport means a lot to me. It is something I know I | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
am good at. This is where Victoria Bromley will compete in the table | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
tennis. There will be a few learning disabled and athletes in | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
swimming and athletics as well. 12 years ago, the Spanish basketball | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
team won the learning disability competition. Most of their players | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
were not disabled at all. They were stripped of the gold and the policy | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
changed. Since then there has been a fight for recognition. They are | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
represented by the Special Olympics. There was a World Games last year. | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
No lottery funding. Being part of the Paralympics is progress. There | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
are 1.2 million people in this country with a learning disability. | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
We cater for 8000 of those. Even if another 1000 learning disabled | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
athletes come on board, with the aim of taking part in sport and | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
perhaps, when they get into the Paralympics, that will be fantastic. | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
For many were such disabilities, the goal is just to participate in | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
sport. At the Paralympics, Victoria Bromley can show the world she is | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
an elite athlete. Finding a message in a bottle is one of the great sea | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
faring stories. And now it has a new twist, after the skipper of a | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
Scottish fishing boat found one, 98 years after it was released. It is | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
a new world record and here is Andrew Leaper with his discovery - | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
one of nearly 2,000 released in 1914 as part of an experiment to | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
map the currents around Scotland. What is more amazing is that the | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
bottle which held the previous record was found by the same | :28:02. | :28:12. | |
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Now for the weather. It is hit and mess. The heavy showers are | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
gradually fading away. They started across the north-west. Some | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
torrential downpours this morning. They are heading their way into | :28:28. | :28:36. | |
East Anglia. Away from here, it will be cool. The winds are north- | :28:36. | :28:45. | |
westerly. That brings in cooler conditions. Winds could gust up to | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
gale force later this afternoon. For the rest of the day, in | :28:48. | :28:54. | |
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, the skies will be brighter but it will | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
be disappointingly cool. Temperatures around 15 degrees. | :28:58. | :29:02. | |
Through the Midlands and central southern England, we could see some | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
scattered showers in the afternoon. In south-west England and Wales, | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
bright and dry this afternoon. The north-westerly wind is being - as a | :29:14. | :29:20. | |
be feeding in the cooler air. Largely dry in Northern Ireland. -- | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
is feeding in the cooler air. It will be largely dry in Scotland. It | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
will feel caught in the winds. The showers will go this evening and | :29:33. | :29:40. | |
the winds will ease off. Overnight, just look at the temperatures. | :29:40. | :29:47. | |
Maybe nine degrees. In the more rural areas, there could be a touch | :29:47. | :29:53. | |
of frost. A chilly start for some tomorrow morning. There will be | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
sunshine first thing. From the West, a weather system will bring more | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
cloud. Damp and drizzly through wires and the south-west. As we | :30:04. | :30:09. | |
head into the weekend, we are hoping that high pressure will | :30:09. | :30:15. | |
build. It is not very successful. In the North on Saturday, this | :30:15. | :30:21. | |
weather front will move in. It to be cloudy, wet and windy. Further | :30:21. | :30:26. | |
south, not too bad when the sunshine comes out. On Saturday | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
night, we will see the weather systems slowly sinking southwards. | :30:31. | :30:37. | |
It will introduce a lot more cloud in southern areas of England. More | :30:37. | :30:43. | |
patchy rain. Towards the end of the weekend there will be more sunshine. | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
Temperatures into the low twenties. It is hit and miss for many areas | :30:48. | :30:54. | |
at the weekend. It is the end of summer and the end of August. If | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
you would like more information come at you can find out more | :30:58. | :31:08. |