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