:00:07. > :00:09.The American Secretary of State arrives in Belfast, as politicians
:00:09. > :00:19.and police call for calm, after days of angry sectarian
:00:19. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:31.demonstrations. A judge considers what treatment a
:00:31. > :00:33.seven-year-old boy should receive for a tumour, after his mother said
:00:33. > :00:37.she didn't want her son to have radiotherapy.
:00:37. > :00:39.Celebrations in Gaza, as the exiled leader of the ruling Hamas party
:00:39. > :00:42.visits the territory for the first time.
:00:42. > :00:48.University challenge. How applications from independent
:00:48. > :00:50.school students are more likely to outshine those from state schools.
:00:50. > :00:57.A dismissal best forgotten. England's record-breaking captain,
:00:57. > :01:00.Alastair Cook, is run out, but his Later on BBC London. Building
:01:00. > :01:03.experts say the capital is a first- class city, with third-class
:01:03. > :01:13.housing. And, the state-of-the-art CCTV system in west London, with
:01:13. > :01:28.
:01:28. > :01:31.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:31. > :01:35.The US Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, is in Northern Ireland
:01:35. > :01:37.today, against a background of sectarian tensions. There have been
:01:37. > :01:40.several days of disturbances involving loyalists since it was
:01:40. > :01:50.announced that the Union flag should only be flown over Belfast
:01:50. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:53.City Hall on designated days. Police have said dissident
:01:53. > :02:03.republicans were behind a viable home-made bomb, which was found
:02:03. > :02:04.
:02:04. > :02:08.last night in Londonderry. Mark Simpson is in Stormont.
:02:08. > :02:13.The message to the people of Northern Ireland from Hillary
:02:13. > :02:18.Clinton was very clear, violence is not the answer. She came here not
:02:18. > :02:22.to talk about the trouble, but to praise Northern Ireland's
:02:22. > :02:26.politicians. I like in Belfast, and back to hear
:02:26. > :02:30.about the state of the peace process. Hillary Clinton has always
:02:30. > :02:35.known it wasn't perfect but she came here to tell politicians to
:02:35. > :02:45.keep working together and not allow violence to drive them apart.
:02:45. > :02:49.will always be disagreements in democratic societies, we are
:02:49. > :02:55.experts in the United States. But violence is never an acceptable
:02:55. > :03:00.response. Hillary Clinton first came to Northern Ireland in 1995.
:03:00. > :03:05.It was before the Good Friday Agreement and the peace process was
:03:05. > :03:09.just starting. She has been back seven times since and has got to
:03:09. > :03:17.know the politicians well. level of support from the White
:03:17. > :03:22.House, Capitol Hill, for the peace process over 15 years has been
:03:22. > :03:28.tremendous. The Clintons have been at the heart of all about, from the
:03:28. > :03:33.beginning. The security situation is causing concern. Last night, a
:03:33. > :03:38.bomb was found in a car in Londonderry, discovered by police
:03:38. > :03:42.investigating dissident republicans. In County Down a letter bomb was
:03:43. > :03:48.intercepted. In Ballymena, more protest by loyalists complaining
:03:48. > :03:54.about the decision of Belfast City Council to stop flying the Union
:03:54. > :04:00.flag every day. The cross-community Alliance Party supported the
:04:00. > :04:06.decision. One of their officers has since been destroyed by loyalists.
:04:06. > :04:12.There East Belfast MP has received death threats and has been advised
:04:12. > :04:16.by police to leave her home. People have strong feelings but you must
:04:16. > :04:22.not use violence as a means of expressing those strong feelings.
:04:22. > :04:30.The only path forward is a peaceful, democratic one. Across Northern
:04:30. > :04:35.Ireland, the police are on high alert. We just want our flag!
:04:35. > :04:41.There is no sign of an end to the protest. Politicians have appealed
:04:41. > :04:48.to those involved to be peaceful. How serious is the security
:04:48. > :04:54.situation right now? It is a bad situation, it has been a bad week.
:04:54. > :04:58.Things could get worse before they get better. Today has reminded us
:04:58. > :05:06.of some key things, Northern Ireland still has friends in high
:05:06. > :05:12.places. It is a peace process here, a process has to keep going, like a
:05:12. > :05:18.bicycle, it wobbles and it could fall. What we are seeing at the
:05:18. > :05:23.moment, there is a wobble, there are key issues which need to be
:05:23. > :05:28.sorted around security, sectarianism and symbols like the
:05:28. > :05:32.Union flag. There is still a lot of hard work to be done here.
:05:32. > :05:35.The mother of a seven-year-old boy with a brain tumour is at the High
:05:35. > :05:38.Court today, to challenge the treatment doctors want her son to
:05:38. > :05:41.receive. According to police, she does not want him to have any
:05:41. > :05:44.radiotherapy. She and the boy disappeared from Devon at the
:05:44. > :05:47.weekend, and were found in Sussex overnight, after a national search.
:05:47. > :05:51.Daniel Boettcher has been in court. She is concerned about the
:05:51. > :05:56.potential side effects, what has been said in court? We are just
:05:56. > :06:00.starting to hear of her evidence. The seven-year-old boy had surgery
:06:00. > :06:05.for a brain tumour in October, doctors believe he needs
:06:05. > :06:10.chemotherapy and radiotherapy to recover. His chances of survival
:06:10. > :06:14.would be significantly reduced without it. But his mother Sally
:06:14. > :06:19.Roberts does not want him to have radiotherapy and is concerned about
:06:19. > :06:26.the possible side effects. She was meant to be in court at the start
:06:26. > :06:33.of the week, but she did not appear. The judge took the unusual decision
:06:33. > :06:38.they could be identified. After publicity, they were found safe and
:06:38. > :06:44.well yesterday morning. Sally Roberts is now in court. She was
:06:44. > :06:48.asked why she had not been in court this week as she should have been.
:06:48. > :06:54.She said she apologised, she had panicked, she had wanted the best
:06:54. > :06:58.for her son. She was asked what she meant. She said she wanted him to
:06:58. > :07:03.have the best quality of life and via the radio therapy could damage
:07:03. > :07:08.his future. She was asked whether she had a working knowledge of the
:07:08. > :07:16.medical issues, and she said she did. She has been giving evidence
:07:16. > :07:25.for 15 minutes. The court is expected to hear from a child
:07:25. > :07:27.expert, child oncologist, later. The exiled political leader of the
:07:27. > :07:30.militant group Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has visited Gaza for the
:07:31. > :07:34.first time. It marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of
:07:34. > :07:37.Hamas, which controls the territory. Meshaal, who left the West Bank as
:07:37. > :07:44.a child, said he hoped to become "a martyr" in the Palestinian
:07:44. > :07:48.territory. Our Gaza correspondent Yolande Knell reports.
:07:48. > :07:52.A long awaited arrival, Khaled Meshaal is the leader of Hamas
:07:52. > :07:59.which governs the Gaza Strip, but he has never been here. He
:07:59. > :08:05.described this as a moment of rebirth. TRANSLATION: This moment,
:08:05. > :08:09.I consider it as my "third birth". And I pray to God that our "fourth
:08:09. > :08:14.birth" will be the liberation of the whole Palestine. Khaled Meshaal
:08:14. > :08:20.has spent most of his life outside the Palestinian territories partly
:08:20. > :08:25.for his own safety. Israel has killed other Hamas officials. Like
:08:25. > :08:30.most Western countries, it sees them as terrorists. Hamas does not
:08:30. > :08:35.recognise the right of Israel to exist. This visit follows the
:08:35. > :08:41.conflict between Israel and militants in Gaza last month.
:08:41. > :08:45.Israel says depleted stock piles of missiles, but Hamas insists it has
:08:45. > :08:49.won the victory. Of this is a model of the rockets
:08:50. > :08:56.Hamas has used to target Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in recent violence.
:08:56. > :09:00.Later, Khaled Meshaal will address a mass rally, part of the 25th
:09:00. > :09:05.anniversary celebrations of Hamas. Preparations for the party are
:09:05. > :09:11.still under way. Across Gaza city, the streets are decorated and
:09:11. > :09:17.security is tight. The message is Hamas remains a force to be
:09:17. > :09:20.recognised, and Gaza remains its stronghold. The publicist Max
:09:20. > :09:22.Clifford has said it was extremely distressing to be arrested by
:09:22. > :09:24.police investigating allegations of sexual abuse. Mr Clifford was
:09:24. > :09:31.questioned yesterday, about accusations of sexual assault
:09:31. > :09:37.dating back to 1977. He called the claims damaging and untrue. He told
:09:37. > :09:42.reporters of his experience in the police station yesterday.
:09:42. > :09:48.I have been there about 12 hours, sitting in a police cell, being
:09:48. > :09:52.asked questions for hours and hours. It wasn't exactly a bundle of joy.
:09:52. > :09:57.But I still came out and faced the cameras and spoke to everybody
:09:57. > :10:06.because I have absolutely nothing to hide. I understand you have a
:10:06. > :10:15.job to do, it is a horrible thing to happen to anybody, but I will
:10:16. > :10:18.face it and sorted out which is what I have got to do. It's emerged
:10:18. > :10:21.this lunchtime that David Cameron looks set to support same-sex
:10:21. > :10:24.weddings in religious buildings. He will say religious groups should be
:10:24. > :10:26.allowed to host same-sex civil weddings in churches, synagogues
:10:26. > :10:29.and other religious buildings if they choose. Our political
:10:29. > :10:33.correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Westminster.
:10:34. > :10:39.I thought the original consultation said it would not be possible for a
:10:39. > :10:43.same-sex couple to get married in church? It did say that, it said
:10:43. > :10:47.that in order to protect organisations from being forced to
:10:47. > :10:53.conduct same-sex marriages, the government would not allow that.
:10:53. > :10:56.The point is ministers say now that the legal advice suggests to them
:10:57. > :11:00.in order to protect those organisations, like the Church of
:11:01. > :11:07.England, who do not want to marry same-sex couples, they have to
:11:07. > :11:11.allow those who do, to do it, in order not to infringe their rights.
:11:11. > :11:17.When the garment announces its plans, it will say there will be a
:11:17. > :11:22.process for organisations, like the Quakers, like the Liberal Jewish
:11:22. > :11:30.wing of that religion, and Unitarians, who have expressed an
:11:31. > :11:40.interest, to allow them to do that. This will get some of the people in
:11:40. > :11:43.the back benches hot under the collar.
:11:43. > :11:45.A Personal statements written by prospective graduates in their
:11:45. > :11:48.university applications could be putting state school pupils at a
:11:48. > :11:51.disadvantage. That's according to research commissioned by the
:11:51. > :11:54.education charity The Sutton Trust. It found students at private
:11:54. > :11:57.schools appeared to get more help from parents and teachers, while
:11:57. > :11:59.statements written by state school pupils were more likely to have
:11:59. > :12:00.grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. Our education
:12:00. > :12:03.correspondent, Reeta Chakrabarti. - - reports.
:12:03. > :12:06.Applying to university is a stressful business. As these sixth-
:12:06. > :12:09.formers at Trafford College near Manchester know all too well. They
:12:09. > :12:14.need the right grades for their course, but also personal
:12:14. > :12:21.statements which are up to scratch. Writing why you should win a place
:12:21. > :12:24.can be a challenge. I want them to see I am an enthusiastic student.
:12:24. > :12:30.It's your one chance to show whoever is reading it, why they
:12:30. > :12:33.should pick you, and why you are so different. Today's report looked at
:12:33. > :12:38.the personal statements of over 300 applicants to one department in a
:12:38. > :12:41.top university. All got identical A-level grades. Those from sixth
:12:41. > :12:45.form colleges were three times more likely to include clear writing
:12:45. > :12:49.errors, than those from independent schools. Accounts of work-related
:12:49. > :12:52.activity varied widely. One private school applicant said they were
:12:52. > :12:55.offered a work experience placement to shadow an ambassador to the
:12:55. > :12:59.United Nations. That's contrasted with a state school applicant's
:12:59. > :13:09.statement: I have a part-time job in a local pub as a waitress and
:13:09. > :13:11.
:13:11. > :13:15.bar maid. Personal statements are designed to give those applying to
:13:15. > :13:24.university to show their wider skills, but the claim is they could
:13:24. > :13:30.be making the system less fair for those from state schools. They will
:13:30. > :13:37.be looking at A-Level results, references from teachers. Some of
:13:37. > :13:41.them carried out tests, interviews. Two-thirds of the privately
:13:41. > :13:49.educated abacus in the study ended up being accepted by top
:13:49. > :13:55.universities, while but was true of half of those from other colleges.
:13:55. > :13:59.And we should have a system that at least tries to be a level playing
:13:59. > :14:03.field. It should be more about what you
:14:03. > :14:08.can offer for a degree course rather than what you have done.
:14:08. > :14:13.Some say admissions tutors are capable of reading between the
:14:13. > :14:23.lines. But the proportion of state school pupils in top universities
:14:23. > :14:25.remains too low and wild that persists, so will this debate.
:14:25. > :14:29.Egypt's opposition figures have rejected calls for talks with
:14:29. > :14:32.President Morsi, to try to end the current crisis in the country.
:14:32. > :14:34.Mohamed Morsi's decision to expand his powers have led to another day
:14:35. > :14:37.of demonstrations, and security forces are braced for possible
:14:37. > :14:40.confrontation. He insists he'll retain those powers until after a
:14:40. > :14:47.constitutional referendum in mid- December. Jon Leyne reports from
:14:47. > :14:51.This was a furious response to the President's speech on state
:14:51. > :14:56.television. Despite his call for dialogue, violence quickly broke
:14:56. > :15:01.out again in Egypt. There was trouble in his home town in the
:15:01. > :15:04.Nile Delta. An angry mob also attacked the headquarters of the
:15:04. > :15:08.Muslim Brotherhood, only recently opened, and set it on fire. Maybe
:15:08. > :15:12.it was predictable after a speech in which the President accused the
:15:12. > :15:17.opposition of being in the pay of former regime loyalists and offered
:15:17. > :15:21.little by way of compromise. TRANSLATION: My responsibility as I
:15:21. > :15:24.define it is to look after the sovereign matters that protect the
:15:24. > :15:28.state institutions so that it will not be harmed or devoid of meaning.
:15:28. > :15:33.I will carry on his duty irrespective of the pressures upon
:15:33. > :15:37.Opposition leaders have been increasingly united in their fight
:15:37. > :15:41.against President Morsi and his recent actions. After a meeting
:15:41. > :15:44.today, they announced they would not take up his invitation to talks.
:15:44. > :15:52.They have always insisted the President must withdraw his
:15:52. > :15:57.sweeping new powers as a More protesters have been gathering
:15:57. > :16:01.in the centre of Cairo, hoarding new demonstrations in Tahrir Square
:16:01. > :16:04.and marches on the presidential palace. -- holding. So we are back
:16:04. > :16:07.in Tahrir Square with another demonstration going to the
:16:07. > :16:16.presidential palace. All that has happened is the situation has been
:16:16. > :16:20.inflamed even further by the President's speech. Outside the
:16:20. > :16:30.are being put in place as President Morsi digs in for what is looking
:16:30. > :16:35.Our main story this lunchtime: The American Secretary of State arrives
:16:35. > :16:41.in Belfast as politicians and police call for calm after days of
:16:41. > :16:44.angry sectarian demonstrations. I have just tried and failed to
:16:44. > :16:49.post on Twitter a picture of the people I met earlier. Like Facebook,
:16:49. > :16:54.it is blocked here, so instead I have put it on Tencent Weibo.
:16:54. > :16:57.Without foreign competition, the Chinese Social media companies are
:16:57. > :17:00.causing a revolution in the way that people connect, but there is a
:17:00. > :17:03.limit to the amount of self- expression that is allowed.
:17:03. > :17:07.Later on BBC London, the new website which shows the location of
:17:07. > :17:10.every bomb dropped on London during the Second World War. And we meet
:17:10. > :17:20.some of the world famous chefs showing off their Yuletide skills
:17:20. > :17:23.
:17:23. > :17:27.at this year's Taste Of Christmas Here in the West, it is all about
:17:27. > :17:31.Twitter, BBM and Facebook messaging. In China, those websites are often
:17:31. > :17:35.blocked by the government, leaving many Chinese to develop their own
:17:35. > :17:38.social media sites. With some success, hundreds of millions of
:17:38. > :17:42.followers are signing up, creating a mini revolution in the way the
:17:42. > :17:47.Chinese communicate with each other, as Rory Cellan-Jones has been
:17:47. > :17:52.discovering. China, home to the world's largest
:17:52. > :17:56.internet population, and what is just about everyone doing online?
:17:56. > :18:00.Using social networking, of course. On a coffee break in Beijing, some
:18:00. > :18:08.medical students showed me how they kept in touch with friends and news
:18:08. > :18:18.through social networks. But the sites they use may sound unfamiliar.
:18:18. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:32.I use QQ. QQ... Weibo. That is all. I use QQ, too. Weibo. For Weibo,
:18:32. > :18:36.read Twitter. China is building its own social media superpowers. Meet
:18:37. > :18:42.Tencent, which does everything Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do,
:18:42. > :18:46.and more. This is their growing video operation, or broadcast over
:18:46. > :18:49.the internet. They are proud of their American election programme
:18:49. > :18:52.which featured social media discussions of issues like sex and
:18:52. > :18:59.immigration, and they believe they are offering their online audience
:18:59. > :19:05.a new freedom to debate. Do you see social media and Social
:19:05. > :19:08.Video as a force for change? TRANSLATION: I agree. People can
:19:08. > :19:12.discuss and share more of their opinions and comments, and that
:19:12. > :19:19.Wall of China become more open. have just tried and failed to post
:19:19. > :19:23.this on Twitter. Like Facebook, it is blocked here, so I have used
:19:23. > :19:28.Tencent Weibo. Without foreign competition, the Chinese companies
:19:28. > :19:33.are causing a revolution in the way people connect here, but there is a
:19:33. > :19:36.limit to the amount of self- expression that is allowed. This
:19:36. > :19:38.man, a former investigative journalist, says social media has
:19:39. > :19:44.transformed his campaign to help migrant workers with health
:19:44. > :19:46.problems. So that is nearly 7 million people
:19:46. > :19:50.following new across three different websites.
:19:50. > :19:53.A huge audience reads what he says. He is outspoken, and he told me
:19:53. > :19:58.there was a red line he could not cross.
:19:59. > :20:03.And what is that redline? TRANSLATION: It is intangible, but
:20:03. > :20:07.being educated under the Chinese Communist Party, I normally know
:20:07. > :20:11.where the red line is, so I cannot publish comments critical of the
:20:11. > :20:16.party, but I can do satire and sarcasm. Back at Tencent, we found
:20:16. > :20:18.out more about the limits of self- expression. Listen for the
:20:18. > :20:23.translator's response to my question.
:20:23. > :20:28.Are you saying that anybody could come on and say anything they like?
:20:28. > :20:36.They could say things against the Communist Party? That is something
:20:36. > :20:40.New social media businesses like Tencent are transforming debate
:20:40. > :20:50.here, but one thing has not changed in China. You do not question the
:20:50. > :20:55.Thousands of people along the Japanese North East goes fled their
:20:55. > :20:58.homes this morning after a tsunami came ashore. There have been no
:20:59. > :21:02.reports are serious damage. The tsunami was caused by a 7.3
:21:02. > :21:06.magnitude undersea earthquake which hit the same area which was
:21:06. > :21:10.devastated last year. Buildings also shook in the capital, Tokyo,
:21:10. > :21:12.but they have been no reports of deaths or injuries.
:21:12. > :21:18.Dutch police have arrested a 4th teenager in connection at the
:21:18. > :21:20.beating to death of a football linesman. 41-year-old Richard
:21:21. > :21:24.Nieuwenhuizen was attacked on Sunday after a match between two
:21:24. > :21:29.youth teams. Three other boys were remanded in custody yesterday by a
:21:29. > :21:33.court in Amsterdam. The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-
:21:33. > :21:37.Moon, is visiting a refugee camp in Turkey where thousands of Syrians
:21:37. > :21:40.are living after fleeing the conflict. His visit comes as
:21:40. > :21:44.governments continue to warned Damascus not to use chemical
:21:45. > :21:54.weapons, an act that he said would be an an ageist -- outrageous crime.
:21:55. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:00.We can speak to James Reynolds, who Yes, Ban Ki-Moon came here about an
:22:00. > :22:04.hour or so ago, and he said that he was shocked, humbled and deeply
:22:04. > :22:08.moved by a lot of the stories he heard from Syrian refugees. A lot
:22:08. > :22:12.of them live inside this particular camp under blue and grey awnings,
:22:12. > :22:16.and the Turkish winter is now coming in, and that makes
:22:16. > :22:21.conditions pretty grim. One refugee said they had had no electricity in
:22:21. > :22:26.the camp, so things are getting very cold here. That will increase
:22:26. > :22:30.their own desire to get back home to their own country.
:22:30. > :22:36.Well, indeed, and the humanitarian is one big issue, but the political
:22:36. > :22:40.thing is quite another. It is, because of course the war in
:22:40. > :22:45.Syria does not stop in Syria, it has drifted across the border here
:22:45. > :22:48.into Turkey. A number of mortars and shells have landed on Turkish
:22:48. > :22:52.territory, killed and injured Turkish civilians. Turkey has
:22:52. > :22:56.ordered Patriot missiles from NATO in order to defend itself against a
:22:56. > :23:00.possible missile strike from Syria. Ban Ki-Moon, in his press
:23:00. > :23:04.conference, said he had warned President Assad that they would be
:23:04. > :23:07.serious consequences if he chose to use chemical weapons. I asked him
:23:07. > :23:11.if he had begun to arrange safe passage out of Syria for President
:23:11. > :23:16.Assad and his family, he said no, those discussions have not yet
:23:16. > :23:20.started. More than 40 years after NASA first
:23:20. > :23:24.put a man on the Moon, a commercial company is offering members of the
:23:24. > :23:29.public the chance to wallow in Neil Armstrong's footsteps. The first
:23:29. > :23:39.flights are expected by 2020. Just one catch, you would need �1
:23:39. > :23:40.
:23:40. > :23:47.Apollo 17 is launched into Florida's night sky. For a moment,
:23:47. > :23:55.a night turned today. Your argot for orbit. This was the last time
:23:55. > :24:01.that astronauts were to be sent to the moon for the foreseeable future.
:24:01. > :24:04.Oh, Hay, there he is! The astronaut spent a lot of time carrying out
:24:04. > :24:11.scientific research. Harrison Schmitt was the first and only
:24:11. > :24:16.qualified geologist to be sent to the lunar surface. I can see it
:24:16. > :24:21.from here, it is orange! But it was not all scientific research.
:24:21. > :24:27.The Apollo programme was scrapped because by this time the US had
:24:27. > :24:32.demonstrated its superiority over the Soviet Union. We are on our way,
:24:32. > :24:37.Houston! That was the end of the Apollo programme. No-one has been
:24:37. > :24:42.back since. NASA says it wants to return, and even go on to Mars, but
:24:42. > :24:45.it simply does not have the money, at least for the foreseeable future.
:24:45. > :24:54.So the big question is whether anyone will ever set foot on the
:24:54. > :24:59.moon again. Harrison Schmitt believes that they will. It will be
:24:59. > :25:02.an entrepreneurial effort by private investors, obviously
:25:03. > :25:05.regulated and sanctioned by government, but nevertheless
:25:05. > :25:09.managed by the private sector. I think government is too inefficient
:25:10. > :25:14.to make those costs come down to the point where it would be
:25:14. > :25:20.economic of. His comments come as a US company, Golden Spike, says it
:25:20. > :25:27.hopes to have commercial flights to the moon by 2020. Our vision is to
:25:27. > :25:32.create a reliable and affordable US-based commercial human lunar
:25:32. > :25:36.transportation system that enables the exploration of the Moon by
:25:36. > :25:40.humans for -- from virtually any nation. The splashdown of the
:25:40. > :25:46.Apollo capsule marked the end of an heroic era of space exploration,
:25:46. > :25:49.but many hope that a return to the lunar surface might bring back the
:25:49. > :25:59.optimism that NASA's epic space programme once brought to a
:25:59. > :26:05.Cricket, and England are in control of the third Test against India in
:26:05. > :26:10.Bob Katter, finishing the day on 509-6. -- Kolkata. England's
:26:10. > :26:14.record-breaking captain, Alastair Cook, was finally out for 180, in a
:26:14. > :26:19.way he will not want to remember. Joe Wilson reports.
:26:19. > :26:23.In again, Alastair Cook greeted the third day, and India could not say
:26:23. > :26:27.goodbye. Ishant Sharma did not seem sure what had happened. He just
:26:28. > :26:33.spilled one of the simplest catchers of his career to a man on
:26:33. > :26:36.156. England calmly took the lead, Jonathan Trott discovering his
:26:36. > :26:41.touch as England progressed beyond lunch without losing a wicket.
:26:41. > :26:45.Alastair Cook seemed to be able to bat for as long as he wanted. In
:26:45. > :26:51.total, 338, the sky was the limit, but India suddenly took a wicket.
:26:51. > :26:55.Jonathan Trott was gone for 87, a smart catch by Pragyan Ojha. What
:26:55. > :27:01.happened next might never happen again. Kevin Pietersen was in to
:27:01. > :27:05.bat, England thought about a run, Virat Kohli threw at the stumps.
:27:05. > :27:09.That was Alastair Cook at that end. The throw came in, he was just
:27:10. > :27:16.about to place his bat and make his ground when he reacted to the ball.
:27:16. > :27:21.He left a gap and was run out. Extraordinary. After making 190,
:27:21. > :27:24.his lapse might just be forgivable. The match was now made for Kevin
:27:24. > :27:31.Pietersen's acceleration, there was a record to catch, Alastair Cook
:27:31. > :27:40.had made his 23rd century, could Pietersen joined him? No, out lbw
:27:40. > :27:47.for 54. England was six down at the close but past 500, nearly 200 dead,
:27:47. > :27:49.and how long left? Two days. -- 200 ahead.
:27:49. > :27:58.Ben Rich is here with the weather, I'm just trying to interpret your
:27:58. > :28:03.Mystery! Let me tell you what we have got in store, a quiet
:28:03. > :28:07.afternoon after a lively week of wintry weather, some showers this
:28:07. > :28:12.afternoon, some sunny spells in most places, but a very cold wind
:28:12. > :28:15.making it feel raw and there. This is the radar picture, and it shows
:28:15. > :28:18.where rain has already fallen, pushing its way through the south-
:28:19. > :28:23.east, and this has contained a little bit of sleet and snow in
:28:23. > :28:27.places earlier today. Across the south-east, we are going to be slow
:28:27. > :28:32.to clear that rain, a few showers across Wales and the West Midlands,
:28:32. > :28:36.and also across the east coast. But for most, drier and brighter.
:28:36. > :28:42.Certainly for Scotland and Northern Ireland compared to yesterday.
:28:42. > :28:45.Feeling cold and the wind, four degrees at best. Showers for Wales
:28:45. > :28:49.and the West Midlands, showers down the east coast as well, most
:28:49. > :28:53.falling as rain. Quite cloudy and damp across the far south-east, but
:28:53. > :28:59.westwards into Wales and the south- west, a lot of brightness,
:28:59. > :29:03.temperatures really struggling. The breeze is going to ease down to
:29:03. > :29:06.some extent through tonight. Most of the showers will fade away, the
:29:06. > :29:11.cloud will break, the skies were clear, at temperatures will drop
:29:11. > :29:14.close to freezing in towns and cities, colder in the countryside,
:29:14. > :29:18.so a widespread frost and ice problems potentially for tomorrow
:29:18. > :29:23.morning. Tomorrow dawns bright across the south, early fog
:29:23. > :29:27.clearing quickly, then these and sunny spells. Further north, a
:29:27. > :29:31.weather system working in, a bit of wintriness on the very leading edge
:29:31. > :29:35.of this wet weather, but really milder air coming in, so most of
:29:35. > :29:39.this will be rain. Temperatures across north-west Scotland, nine
:29:39. > :29:43.degrees, much milder for a time with light of winds. As we head
:29:43. > :29:47.into the second half of a weekend, high pressure tries to hold on
:29:47. > :29:50.across the south, this area of low pressure diving down from the north
:29:50. > :29:54.brings a weather front across the country, bringing damp weather,
:29:54. > :30:00.pushing southwards through the day. Across the south of the country, a
:30:00. > :30:03.mild day, 10 degrees, but behind the weather front cold air in the
:30:03. > :30:07.north again. And that is a sign of things to come, because the room
:30:07. > :30:12.next week it looks like it is going to stay cold, turning even colder,
:30:12. > :30:15.and there is the chance for some snow, initially in eastern parts,
:30:15. > :30:20.an easterly breeze bringing showers to the east coast, and certainly
:30:20. > :30:24.cold enough for those to the wintry. Further west, dry and bright for
:30:24. > :30:27.Wales and the south-west, but even here temperatures really plunging.
:30:27. > :30:36.Winter is going to bite back again next week, but before that a
:30:36. > :30:40.A reminder of our main story, and the American Secretary of State has
:30:40. > :30:43.arrived in Belfast as politicians and police call for calm after days
:30:43. > :30:48.of angry sectarian demonstrations. And in the past few minutes, police
:30:48. > :30:51.have said that the bomb found in Londonderry last night was a home-