:00:18. > :00:23.Unemployment falls again with a record number of people now in work.
:00:24. > :00:26.The number of people fell by 50,000 in the months to August.
:00:27. > :00:30.The Prime Minister says he is appalled by the ugly scenes, and
:00:30. > :00:31.the alleged racist taunts - at the end of the England under 21
:00:32. > :00:34.football team's match against Serbia last night.
:00:34. > :00:36.Disability Campaigners say around half a million people and their
:00:36. > :00:39.families will be worse off under planned benefit changes.
:00:39. > :00:42.Barack Obama and White House challenger Mitt Romney go head to
:00:42. > :00:50.head for the second time with angry exchanges on the economy, energy
:00:50. > :00:56.and the Middle East. It's the gavel not the guillotine for Marie
:00:56. > :00:59.Antoinette as her shoes and dinner plates are auctioned in Paris.
:00:59. > :01:02.Later on BBC London: Fears over fire cover in the
:01:02. > :01:04.capital - 17 stations could be closed with hundreds of jobs under
:01:04. > :01:14.threat. And a large hoard of rare Roman
:01:14. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:25.coins is found in a field near St Albans.
:01:25. > :01:28.Hello and Welcome to the BBC News at One. Unemployment fell by 50,000
:01:28. > :01:31.in the three months to August. The number of people out of work now
:01:31. > :01:35.stands at just over two and a half million. Youth unemployment fell
:01:35. > :01:37.62,000 to its lowest total for more than a year, and there was a
:01:37. > :01:40.significant rise in the number of people taking part-time work.
:01:40. > :01:42.Ministers say it's proof that Government's welfare policies are
:01:42. > :01:50.having a positive effect. Our chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym
:01:50. > :01:54.reports. It's certainly brighter news on the
:01:54. > :01:59.economy. Unemployment has fallen to its lowest in more than a year.
:01:59. > :02:03.myself, I thought I'm going to take this job. These young workers have
:02:03. > :02:06.been recruited by the hotel chain Premier Inn, which has been
:02:06. > :02:10.expanding across the south-east. This morning they met the
:02:10. > :02:13.Employment Minister who hailed news the total numbers of work in the
:02:13. > :02:17.economy had gone up again. These are landmark figures, more people
:02:17. > :02:21.in work than ever before. We have seen 170,000 fewer people on out-
:02:21. > :02:25.of-work benefits than there were on benefits in 2010, but there is
:02:25. > :02:30.still a lot to do. Whilst youth unemployment is below a million we
:02:30. > :02:34.know we can't be complacent about it. The overall up employment total
:02:34. > :02:39.was down 50,000 between June and August compared to the previous
:02:39. > :02:43.three months to leave 2.53 million out of work. High above the London
:02:43. > :02:47.landscape, skyscrapers are being constructed, and that means more
:02:47. > :02:50.solid foundations for the labour market. 9,000 jobs are being
:02:50. > :02:55.supported as a result of this development and not just in the
:02:55. > :03:00.capital. Those jobs are both within London and also throughout the UK.
:03:00. > :03:04.Certain parts of this building will pre-fabricate in size and in the
:03:04. > :03:08.north of England, Yorkshire and Scotland. More jobs are being
:03:09. > :03:11.create. The employment picture looks brighter but even in areas of
:03:11. > :03:14.buoyant private sector activity there are still challenges. The
:03:15. > :03:19.number of long-term unemployed, for example, those out of work for more
:03:19. > :03:24.than a year, has gone up again. Even a short distance from the City
:03:24. > :03:28.of London, it can be a struggle to find work. Here the charity
:03:28. > :03:33.Lifeline organises training to help the long-term jobless. It's a
:03:33. > :03:38.programme funded by the Government. She's just started her own catering
:03:38. > :03:43.business after battling for months to find a full-time job. There were
:03:43. > :03:47.so many people wanting jobs. I have been to so many interviews I can't
:03:47. > :03:51.even count them, so many, but it's been a great experience because
:03:51. > :03:54.through all the interviews I have gone to, it's helped me build
:03:54. > :03:58.myself up. Labour claims despite concessions like these, the
:03:58. > :04:02.Government is failing to get to grips with long-term unemployment
:04:02. > :04:05.An incredible one-third of people out of work have now been out of
:04:05. > :04:08.work for a year. These are the people the Government said they
:04:08. > :04:11.were going to help with their work programme. I am afraid these
:04:11. > :04:14.figures are fresh evidence that programme is comprehensively
:04:14. > :04:18.failing. It's a mixed picture across the UK. While unemployment
:04:18. > :04:20.in Wales was down, it was up in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
:04:20. > :04:22.Let's get more on those unemployment figures from our chief
:04:22. > :04:26.political correspondent Norman Smith.
:04:26. > :04:29.Norman Texas Government then claiming this as a success,
:04:29. > :04:33.particularly where its welfare policies are concerned, then.
:04:33. > :04:36.I don't think one can overestimate how important to the Government
:04:36. > :04:41.these figures are psychologically and politically. Psychologically
:04:41. > :04:45.because, let's face it, the Government have had to endure a
:04:45. > :04:50.fairly steady diet of grim economic news over recent months with
:04:50. > :04:53.successive downgrades of bodies like the IMF of our growth
:04:53. > :04:57.forecasts. Now they can trumpet unemployment being at its highest
:04:57. > :05:01.level ever and more people being in work at any time since the banking
:05:01. > :05:05.yeah, more important is the politics and the figure that youth
:05:05. > :05:09.unemployment has dipped below the politically symbolic figure of one
:05:09. > :05:13.million for the first time in 12 months. Although you can tease out
:05:13. > :05:17.awkward details from the figures such as youth unemployment long
:05:17. > :05:20.term, youth unemployment is still continuing to rise, it seems to me
:05:20. > :05:23.politics is often fought in the headlines. People don't read
:05:23. > :05:28.paragraphs two, three and four. They just read the headline, and
:05:28. > :05:33.the headline the Government will want is the simple one that youth
:05:33. > :05:36.unemployment dips below one million, added to which it dents and takes
:05:36. > :05:41.some of the momentum out of Ed Miliband's favoured line of attack
:05:41. > :05:45.over the so-called lost generation and the so-called forgotten 50% who
:05:45. > :05:47.don't go on to university and struggle to get a job, so from the
:05:47. > :05:52.Government's perspective, today is an important day which I think
:05:52. > :05:57.they'll regard as a key moment in terms of any revival in their
:05:57. > :06:00.political fortunes. Thank you very much for that. Up to half a million
:06:00. > :06:03.disabled people and their families will be worse off under the
:06:03. > :06:05.Government's proposed benefit system. That's according to a
:06:05. > :06:09.report conducted for several charities. They're urging Ministers
:06:09. > :06:13.to rethink their Universal Credit Scheme. The Government calls the
:06:13. > :06:20.report highly selective and says it could lead to irresponsible scare-
:06:20. > :06:29.mongering. Our social affairs correspondent has more.
:06:29. > :06:33.Today was a good day for the LockHarts. 13-year-old Dante can be
:06:33. > :06:37.disruptive, occasionally smashing furniture. The family gets �50 a
:06:37. > :06:40.week to help with the costs of looking after the teenager. Under
:06:40. > :06:44.Government proposals, that is set to be halved. The reality of it is
:06:44. > :06:48.that life is very much a struggle, and for families like ours with a
:06:48. > :06:54.child with a disability, it feels like we're being targeted. It just
:06:54. > :06:58.feels like it's very unfair. Today's report says around 450,000
:06:58. > :07:04.disabled people could lose out due to the move to universal credit.
:07:04. > :07:09.That figure includes 100,000 families with disabled children who
:07:09. > :07:13.could lose �28 per week and 116,000 working disabled people who could
:07:13. > :07:17.lose up to �40 per week. My biggest worry is we have had a number of
:07:17. > :07:21.people coming back to us saying - over 80% - that they'll be having
:07:21. > :07:25.to buy less food. They won't be able to afford their heating bills.
:07:25. > :07:28.They might have to consider moving home. The really worrying thing is
:07:28. > :07:32.a number of parents have said they'd consider putting their child
:07:32. > :07:36.into residential care. That is just not the best thing to happen to any
:07:36. > :07:40.family. Universal credit is the Government's plan to radically
:07:40. > :07:43.overhaul the �200 billion welfare system to ensure people are always
:07:44. > :07:48.better off in work than on benefits. The Government says this report is
:07:48. > :07:51.highly selective. They say when Universal Credit is introduced next
:07:51. > :07:56.October no-one will lose out in cash terms, and they say the
:07:56. > :08:01.reforms will mean that more money is targeted at the most needy.
:08:01. > :08:04.We're sweeping away a tangled mess of benefits and introducing
:08:04. > :08:09.Universal Credit, which is a much simplified system which people at
:08:09. > :08:14.last will be able to understand. Many disabled people feel a variety
:08:14. > :08:20.of benefit changes have unfairly targeted them. Today's report will
:08:20. > :08:22.only add to those concerns. Anti-racism groups have called on
:08:22. > :08:25.football's European governing body to ban Serbia after England's
:08:25. > :08:28.under-21 players were subjected to racist abuse last night. The Prime
:08:28. > :08:30.Minister says he's appalled at the incidents, and the Sports Minister
:08:30. > :08:33.Hugh Robertson has written to UEFA calling for tough action. The
:08:33. > :08:40.Football Association has sent in an official complaint about the
:08:40. > :08:43.behaviour of the Serbian crowd. There was a brawl involving players
:08:43. > :08:45.and coaching staff from both sides at the end of the match, which
:08:46. > :08:54.England won. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan has the
:08:54. > :09:00.latest. They were the sounds and scenes that shamed football -
:09:00. > :09:05.players and coachs from England's under 21 squad under physical and
:09:05. > :09:08.verbal attack after their match against Serbia last night -
:09:08. > :09:11.accusations of racist abuse from the stands. I think there was one
:09:11. > :09:15.or two racist incidents that come on certainly from the crowd, and
:09:15. > :09:19.they have been reported to UEFA, I believe, by ourselves, and it's in
:09:19. > :09:24.their hands now. They'll have to deal with it. I'm very proud of my
:09:24. > :09:28.players and my staff, to be fair. As I say, I'm very proud of the
:09:28. > :09:32.achievement of getting to the fourth tournament in a row.
:09:32. > :09:35.Honestly, I don't understand that you after everything and your
:09:35. > :09:39.qualifying and qualification, the first question you ask about these
:09:39. > :09:43.things, so it's - that has nothing to do with football. You should be
:09:43. > :09:47.happy to qualify. The trouble began when Connor Wickham scored
:09:47. > :09:52.England's winner in crescendos. The visitors pelted with missiles as
:09:52. > :09:56.they celebrated reaching the championship finals.
:09:56. > :10:06.The match had finished, but defender Danny Rose then angrily
:10:06. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:11.kicked the ball into the crowd and was sent off as tempers flared.
:10:11. > :10:15.Visibly upset, the Sunderland player making clear with this
:10:15. > :10:19.gesture that he'd reacted to racist abuse throughout the game. The FA
:10:19. > :10:23.said several of their black players were subject to racism by the crowd
:10:23. > :10:27.and were reported to UEFA. Some want the footballing authoritys to
:10:27. > :10:30.get tough. Comparatively, I think you can liken it to the situation
:10:30. > :10:32.we had here in English football with the hooliganism and the
:10:32. > :10:38.violence. We were banned from European competition for a number
:10:38. > :10:42.of years, and that significantly impacted the way we approached
:10:42. > :10:47.hooliganism and it instigated a period of self-governance. I think
:10:47. > :10:50.something similar to that - ban them for a tournament or a couple.
:10:50. > :10:53.These scenes in Serbia, which the Prime Minister has described as
:10:53. > :10:56.appalling, are merely the latest in a series of race-related
:10:56. > :11:01.controversys the sport has had to contend with. John Terry must
:11:01. > :11:07.decide this week whether to appeal against his four-match ban after he
:11:07. > :11:12.was found guilty of abusing opponent Anton Ferdinand. Football
:11:12. > :11:14.has come a long way since the dark days. Others are yet to start that
:11:14. > :11:17.journey. So how is the fall-out from last
:11:17. > :11:25.night's match being seen in Serbia? Let's talk to our correspondent in
:11:25. > :11:31.Belgrade, Guy Delauney. How is the incident being reported there?
:11:31. > :11:36.A lot of them are extremely embarrassed. The wet site of the
:11:36. > :11:41.tabloid Blitz has footage of last night's match under the headline
:11:42. > :11:48."Serbian shame, racist riot" and one of the most popular radio
:11:48. > :11:53.stations, B92 talks about scandal. A lot are concerned about the bad
:11:53. > :11:57.image their country has which, of course, started with the war of the
:11:58. > :12:02.1990s and considered into this century. These incidents in
:12:02. > :12:06.football matches, there have been several in the last few years -
:12:06. > :12:10.while some take gratification in them, for others it's mortification.
:12:10. > :12:13.Can any action be taken? Is any action being taken? The Serbian
:12:13. > :12:18.Football Association appear to have been utterly caught on the hop.
:12:18. > :12:21.They were mostly at the senior match last night where the Serbian
:12:21. > :12:26.National team were playing. They still haven't formulated a response
:12:26. > :12:29.to this. Clearly they're going to have to. There is a rather
:12:29. > :12:36.unfortunate picture developing of the authorities bowing down to
:12:36. > :12:40.hooligan groups. Couple of weeks ago a gay pride march was banned
:12:40. > :12:44.after being threatened by ultra- Nationalists. It was banned for
:12:44. > :12:48.public safety, but a lot of people saw that as bowing down to
:12:48. > :12:50.extremist groups. Guy, thank you.
:12:50. > :12:54.$NEWLINE Gatwick Airport executives are beginning detailed work on an
:12:54. > :12:57.option for a new runway. The plans have to honour a 1979 legal
:12:57. > :12:59.agreement that no runway can be built there before 2019. The survey
:12:59. > :13:01.at Gatwick, which handles 34 million passengers a year, will
:13:01. > :13:10.evaulate various options and assess their economic and environmental
:13:10. > :13:13.impacts. The Bank of England Deputy Governor
:13:13. > :13:18.Paul Tucker has called for bank bosses to be partly paid in debt -
:13:18. > :13:20.linked to the company's financial performance. Speaking to the
:13:20. > :13:23.British Bankers' Association, Mr Tucker said this would mean the
:13:23. > :13:26.bosses take a stronger interest in the fortunes of their banks.
:13:27. > :13:29.Royal Bank of Scotland has moved a step closer to becoming a private
:13:29. > :13:33.company after it withdrew from a government scheme that insured the
:13:33. > :13:36.bank's riskiest assets. It means RBS saves by not having to pay an
:13:36. > :13:44.annual premium and reduces risk to the taxpayer. The move has been
:13:44. > :13:48.welcomed by Ministers. Tell us a little bit more about the
:13:48. > :13:53.scheme and why RBS is leaving it. This insurance scheme began back in
:13:53. > :13:58.2009 when people were still worried that our banks, including RBS,
:13:58. > :14:03.could go bust. Now, you could liken this scheme to someone having a
:14:03. > :14:07.hefty, risky mortgage where the parents had to step in and be a
:14:07. > :14:12.guarantor these payments would be made, and we did this - we, the
:14:12. > :14:16.taxpayer, with RBS on a large scale, but what it did - it provided RBS
:14:16. > :14:23.with cover to give it valuable time to offload all of those risky,
:14:23. > :14:30.toxic assets - those loans that had the potential to go bad. To begin
:14:30. > :14:35.with they had �282 billion of loans insured. That's now fallen to �105
:14:35. > :14:39.billion as RBS shrinks its palence sheet. It was paying a hefty
:14:39. > :14:42.premium for that and a big excess, and now it's saying today it
:14:42. > :14:46.doesn't need that insurance cover anymore. It doesn't need it. Does
:14:46. > :14:55.that indicate it's part-way to becoming a private company again
:14:55. > :14:59.This is a hugely symbolic step. The big boss Stephen Hester saying
:14:59. > :15:03.today it was a milestone in RBS's recovery. We can say this is a bank
:15:03. > :15:07.that's not in any danger of going bust, but it still has a problem of
:15:07. > :15:09.nursing itself back to health. There is still 15 months to go in a
:15:10. > :15:13.turnaround plan. As for privatisation, Government Ministers
:15:13. > :15:16.were saying today it was a significant step towards that, but
:15:16. > :15:26.selling the state was something they were continuing to look on,
:15:26. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:37.but it would be long term, a long Our main headline - unemployment
:15:37. > :15:41.has fallen again, with a record number of people now in work.
:15:41. > :15:45.Almost 30 million people have jobs, but that figure includes more
:15:46. > :15:49.people in part-time work than ever. Coming up, why a passenger plane
:15:49. > :15:54.dropped 30,000ft to help a yachtsman in distress. My heart
:15:54. > :16:04.started beating a bit faster. Anything out of the ordinary on an
:16:04. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:29.international flight like that is a Just three weeks before the
:16:29. > :16:33.election in America, Mitt Romney and President Obama have been
:16:33. > :16:41.answering questions in their live televised debate. Our correspondent
:16:41. > :16:47.reports from Washington. The opening handshake was as cordial as
:16:47. > :16:52.it got. Moments later, this second encounter would descend into a bad-
:16:52. > :16:56.tempered political brawl. Why? Because a President who was so
:16:56. > :17:01.passive last time around removed the gloves, first on his opponent's
:17:01. > :17:07.tax plan. Mitt Romney was a very successful investor. If somebody
:17:07. > :17:11.came to you, governor, with a plan which said, I want to spend seven
:17:11. > :17:15.or eight trillion dollars, and we're going to pay for it, but we
:17:15. > :17:19.cannot tell you until after the election how we are going to do it,
:17:19. > :17:23.you would not have taken such as Gucci deal. That was just the start,
:17:23. > :17:26.as the President drew the kind of policy contrasts which had eluded
:17:26. > :17:31.him in the first debate, and so when he got under his opponent's
:17:31. > :17:36.skin. You will get your chance in a moment. Looking on was an audience
:17:36. > :17:40.of undecided voters, who posed the questions, but at times, the
:17:40. > :17:48.candidates seemed oblivious to their surroundings. It is not true.
:17:48. > :17:53.Governor, we have produced more oil... Here is what we did...
:17:53. > :17:59.was on energy production, and this, on personal investments in China.
:17:59. > :18:03.Mr President, have you looked at your pension? I have got to say...
:18:03. > :18:07.Mr President, have you looked at your pension? I do not look at my
:18:07. > :18:13.pension, it is not as big as yours. This time, it was the challenge on
:18:13. > :18:16.the back foot, but Mitt Romney stuck to his message. 23 million
:18:16. > :18:20.Americans out of work, that is what this election is about. It is about
:18:20. > :18:26.who can get the middle class in this country a bright and
:18:26. > :18:28.prosperous future. They ended with foreign policy. On Libya, Barack
:18:28. > :18:33.Obama shouldered responsibility for the recent killing of America's
:18:33. > :18:37.ambassador, but visibly angry, he accused his opponent of
:18:37. > :18:43.politicising national security. suggestion that anybody in my team,
:18:43. > :18:50.whether it be the Secretary of State or our UN ambassador, anybody
:18:50. > :18:54.on my team, would play politics or mislead, when we have lost four of
:18:54. > :18:58.our own, governor, is offensive. When it finished, there was a
:18:58. > :19:02.distinctly cool go by, then the traditional family embrace for two
:19:02. > :19:11.bruised warriors, both still contenders, both wondering what
:19:11. > :19:17.America made of that. A trainee NHS doctor appeared in court today
:19:17. > :19:22.accused of kidnapping a British photographer in Syria. 26-year-old
:19:22. > :19:25.Shajul Islam was arrested last week after arriving at Heathrow airport.
:19:25. > :19:33.Our correspondent can tell us some more, from Westminster Magistrates'
:19:33. > :19:37.Court. This was the first time that Shajul Islam had appeared in court.
:19:37. > :19:42.As you said, he was arrested at Heathrow Airport more than a week
:19:42. > :19:45.ago, when he arrived back on a flight from Egypt. He has been
:19:45. > :19:50.questioned by anti-terrorism officers. He arrived this morning
:19:50. > :19:55.in a police van for a hearing which lasted about half-an-hour. During
:19:55. > :20:00.that hearing, we had quite a few things about him. He is from
:20:00. > :20:04.Stratford in east London, and he is a recently qualified trainee doctor.
:20:04. > :20:08.He had been studying at St Bartholomew's Hospital and
:20:08. > :20:14.University of London Hospital, qualified, we understand, earlier
:20:14. > :20:24.this year. The allegation is that he flew to Turkey earlier this year,
:20:24. > :20:24.
:20:24. > :20:33.where he crossed the border into Syria and joined the camp of
:20:33. > :20:36.jihadists. We understand that that camp was entered by a Dutch
:20:36. > :20:40.journalist, Jeroen Oerlemans, and his colleague, a British
:20:40. > :20:44.photographer, who has worked for the Sunday Times. They had been
:20:44. > :20:48.covering the situation locally, they had also crossed the border
:20:48. > :20:51.from Turkey, but when they stumbled across this camp, they thought it
:20:51. > :20:56.was a camp where they were aiming to meet Syrian freedom fighters.
:20:56. > :21:01.They were held captive for a week, and the charge is that Shajul Islam
:21:01. > :21:04.was the doctor at that camp who treated the pair when they were
:21:04. > :21:09.injured and shot during a failed attempt to escape. They did manage
:21:09. > :21:14.to get out of the camp after about eight or nine days, when it was
:21:14. > :21:18.overcome by Syrian freedom fighters. Well, he was remanded in custody,
:21:18. > :21:23.and Shajul Islam will next appear in court at the Old Bailey on the
:21:23. > :21:29.2nd November. David Cameron and Ed Miliband have
:21:29. > :21:33.clashed over the future of Andrew Mitchell, the Chief Whip, after his
:21:33. > :21:38.argument with police in Downing Street. Mr Cameron said the police
:21:38. > :21:43.officer involved had accepted an apology, but the Labour leader said,
:21:43. > :21:47.in his words, that Andrew Mitchell was no toast. However much they
:21:47. > :21:51.might want the story to go away, it is not. That's right. It is nearly
:21:51. > :21:55.a month since that infamous clash in Downing Street when the police
:21:55. > :21:59.would not let Andrew Mitchell go through the main gate. Today, he
:22:00. > :22:02.was sat on the front bench, looking pretty ashen-faced and
:22:02. > :22:05.uncomfortable as Ed Miliband Moody tried to throw the book at the
:22:05. > :22:11.Prime Minister for the first time over this, questioning why Mr
:22:11. > :22:15.Mitchell was still in his job. Andrew Mitchell had denied ever
:22:15. > :22:20.using the word pleb but Ed Miliband pointed out that if your bona
:22:20. > :22:24.Saturday night was to swear at the police, he would end up with a
:22:24. > :22:30.night in the cells. For Mr Mitchell, it meant a night at the Carlton
:22:30. > :22:34.Club. The Prime Minister stood his ground. This apology has been
:22:34. > :22:36.accepted by the head of the Metropolitan Police. It is clearly
:22:37. > :22:40.not going to be accepted by the Leader of the Opposition, because
:22:40. > :22:44.he does not want to talk about what we need to do in this country to
:22:44. > :22:47.get the deficit down, because he has got no plans! Ed Miliband was
:22:47. > :22:51.not going to let him change the subject, and he seized on the
:22:51. > :22:55.suggestion that some other ministers would prefer it if Andrew
:22:55. > :22:58.Mitchell did stand down. It is good to see the Cabinet in their place
:22:58. > :23:03.supporting him in public, but in the newspapers, what are they
:23:03. > :23:08.saying? His position is untenable, in other words, he is toast. That
:23:08. > :23:11.is the reality. This was a pretty uncomfortable session, not just for
:23:11. > :23:15.the Prime Minister, not just for Andrew Mitchell, sitting just a
:23:15. > :23:19.couple of seats away, but for several of the other ministers
:23:19. > :23:23.sitting alongside them. The difficulty for the Prime Minister,
:23:23. > :23:29.for the Government, in this, is that much as they can continue to
:23:29. > :23:34.say, well, he has apologised, he did not actually use the word pleb,
:23:34. > :23:37.the difficulty is that that work reinforces people's worst
:23:37. > :23:41.perceptions of the Tory party, and makes it very, very difficult
:23:41. > :23:45.indeed for David Cameron to come back and say, look, we really are
:23:45. > :23:51.on your side. Labour know this, and as long as Andrew Mitchell is in
:23:51. > :23:55.his job, they're going to make the most of the Tories' embarrassment.
:23:55. > :24:00.Thousands of mourners have lined the streets of the Cambodian
:24:00. > :24:05.capital, Phnom Penh, to pay their last respects to their former King,
:24:05. > :24:09.Norodom Sihanouk, who died in China on Friday. His body has arrived
:24:09. > :24:14.from Beijing, where he spent the last years of his life. His body
:24:14. > :24:20.will lie in state for three months. He led Cambodia to independence
:24:20. > :24:25.from France in the 1950s. Now, news of a rather unusual
:24:25. > :24:30.rescue mission in the Tasman Sea. A passenger plane dropped 30,000ft to
:24:30. > :24:33.help a yacht in distress. The plane had been bound for Sydney, but
:24:33. > :24:39.strayed from its flight path to help the yacht, which was low on
:24:39. > :24:44.fuel, and had a broken mast. Daniela Relph reports. A lone
:24:44. > :24:52.yachtsman stranded in rough waters with a broken mast and low fuel.
:24:52. > :24:58.Help came in the unlikely form of a diverted passenger jet overhead. A
:24:58. > :25:07.15-hour journey from Vancouver to Sydney was interrupted for those on
:25:07. > :25:12.board Air Canada flight 003. The crew and passengers became lookouts.
:25:12. > :25:14.Everybody's heart started beating faster. Anything out of the
:25:14. > :25:18.ordinary on an international flight like that is a bit concerning. He
:25:18. > :25:21.said, we would really appreciate it if everybody could look out of the
:25:21. > :25:25.windows, and if anybody has any binoculars which could help to
:25:25. > :25:28.identify this yacht, it would be really helpful. The trip from
:25:28. > :25:36.Vancouver was nearing its final destination of Sydney when the
:25:36. > :25:40.pilot was asked to divert, meaning it had to descend from 35,000ft to
:25:40. > :25:47.just 5,000 camel while, allowing everybody on board to see the ocean
:25:47. > :25:52.below. -- 5,000ft. I made an announcement, please help us if you
:25:52. > :25:56.see anything, because it is very difficult to find anything even at
:25:56. > :26:00.5,000ft, which is almost a mile above the water. Almost immediately,
:26:00. > :26:05.as we closed in on the area, the First Officer said, I can see what
:26:05. > :26:10.I think is the boat. We went right over it, it was almost exactly
:26:10. > :26:14.where they had told us it would be. Once he had been spotted, an
:26:14. > :26:20.Australian police boat picked up the yachtsmen. He is said to be in
:26:20. > :26:24.good condition after his dramatic rescue.
:26:24. > :26:27.Personal belongings of the 18th century French Queen Marie
:26:27. > :26:33.Antoinette will be auctioned today to mark the anniversary of her
:26:33. > :26:39.execution. The 80 lots include a pair of silk slippers, and the
:26:39. > :26:44.clothes she wore in prison before she was guillotined in 1793. From
:26:44. > :26:50.Paris, Christian Fraser reports. Before Marie Antoinette arrived at
:26:50. > :26:53.the guillotine in October 1793, she had amassed an opulent collection
:26:53. > :26:58.of art work and furniture. There are some rare pieces in this
:26:58. > :27:02.auction, of particular note, this pair of slippers, which belonged to
:27:02. > :27:07.the Queen - not one of the shoes she dropped while climbing the
:27:07. > :27:11.Schaffel old - that still resides in a museum in France. -- climbing
:27:11. > :27:17.the scaffold. This is a fragment of a silk gown she owned before her
:27:17. > :27:20.arrest, one of hundreds of dresses which were said to fill three rooms
:27:20. > :27:25.in the Royal Palace. The revolutionaries at least recognised
:27:25. > :27:30.the value of what they confiscated. Over the years, some of it has come
:27:30. > :27:35.back. Among the 80 lots are portraits and etchings of the King
:27:35. > :27:38.and Queen. TRANSLATION: all those who acquire
:27:38. > :27:42.an object which belongs to Marie Antoinette or another historic
:27:42. > :27:46.figure have this feeling that by owning a part of her possessions,
:27:46. > :27:50.they own something legendary. That's what is moving. To say that
:27:50. > :27:56.a pair of shoes which belonged to the Queen are today, 200 years
:27:56. > :28:00.later, on sale, that is pretty fantastic. Let them eat cake, said
:28:00. > :28:06.the Queen, when told the Parisians were starving - at least, that was
:28:06. > :28:10.the myth. But the extravagance of Versailles was real. Maybe these
:28:10. > :28:15.are the symbols of a decadent tyranny, but they still hold great
:28:15. > :28:19.fascination, and not just for the fascination, and not just for the
:28:19. > :28:23.French. Time for the weather. You would have needed more than silk
:28:23. > :28:33.slippers last night if you were in Highland Scotland. Temperatures
:28:33. > :28:38.went down to minus 8, would you believe, at Braemar? Further to the
:28:38. > :28:41.south, it was in the mid-teens by the end of the night. The mild air
:28:41. > :28:51.has been moving northwards across the UK, producing some pretty heavy
:28:51. > :28:57.rain. It is producing some snow at the moment across the mountains of
:28:58. > :29:01.Scotland. Even if you have not got the snow, it is feeling decidedly
:29:01. > :29:10.raw in the central belt. Coming further to the south, we have still
:29:10. > :29:14.got that dry, bright weather, quite a pleasant afternoon. Brisk winds,
:29:14. > :29:21.but temperatures in the mid-teens - not too bad for the middle part of
:29:21. > :29:24.October. Stronger winds further to the west, with showers across parts
:29:24. > :29:27.of Wales and the south-west of England. Those gale-force winds
:29:28. > :29:35.will combine with high tides and later in the day, which could cause
:29:35. > :29:39.problems with coastal problem -- with coastal flooding. Damp and
:29:39. > :29:46.chilly across Northern Ireland, but turning particularly wet here this
:29:46. > :29:48.evening and overnight. The south- west of Scotland looking wet, too.
:29:48. > :29:53.Many eastern counties of England looking very wet as the night goes
:29:53. > :29:59.on. Temperatures mostly staying in double figures. Even across
:29:59. > :30:06.Scotland, certainly a milder night than last night! Tomorrow, a fairly
:30:06. > :30:11.cloudy start to the day for most of us, but not as much rain around.
:30:11. > :30:18.Never quite getting rid of that range from the south-eastern corner
:30:18. > :30:21.of England. Most places will end up with a dry afternoon tomorrow. The
:30:21. > :30:25.area of low pressure which is bringing the unsettled weather
:30:25. > :30:31.gradually fades as we move into Friday. But that weather front
:30:31. > :30:37.never really gets away from the far south-east of England. Otherwise, a
:30:37. > :30:42.lot of dry weather to be enjoyed, with light winds. Temperatures
:30:42. > :30:46.about where they should be for this time of year. Saturday will be the
:30:46. > :30:50.better day of the weekend for most of us. Sunday sees rain gradually
:30:50. > :30:58.working northwards across England and Wales. Next week, just a hint