:00:12. > :00:17.his wife's murder on their honeymoon in South Africa is to be extradited
:00:17. > :00:21.to face trial. A judge in London roles that Shrien Dewani is well
:00:21. > :00:28.enough to face trial after his wife Anni was shot nearly three years
:00:28. > :00:32.ago. For cars, it is all about Anni. It is about finding out what
:00:32. > :00:38.happened to her. We will fight this battle to the end.
:00:38. > :00:45.Also this lunchtime: A&E departments in England could reach crisis point
:00:45. > :00:50.this winter unless urgent action is taken, warn MPs.
:00:50. > :01:00.A man is accused in court of murdering PC blade lock at the
:01:00. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:08.Breakwater farm riots. Two girls are named who died in the
:01:08. > :01:10.River Wear. And the Queen visit Kensington Palace to see her new
:01:10. > :01:13.great-grandson. Later on BBC London: The community
:01:13. > :01:16.leader accused of war crimes in Bangladesh more than 40 years ago.
:01:16. > :01:26.And a sign of economic recovery? Construction in London's at a
:01:26. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:51.BBC News at one. The court in London has ruled that Shrien Dewani should
:01:51. > :01:55.be extradited to South Africa to face trial. The judge said he had
:01:55. > :01:59.recovered enough from mental health issues to return to the country. His
:01:59. > :02:04.wife was shot in the head and chest after the car they were in was
:02:04. > :02:12.apparently hijacked in Cape Town. Shrien Dewani's lawyers says that he
:02:12. > :02:17.will appeal against the ruling. Arriving at court, members of Anni
:02:17. > :02:21.Dewani's family, hoping to find out more than two years after she was
:02:21. > :02:26.killed if the man who married her could be extradited to face charges
:02:26. > :02:31.that he arranged her murder. There's had seemed the perfect union, a
:02:31. > :02:37.successful young businessman and his beautiful young bride, married in a
:02:37. > :02:41.lavish ceremony in Mumbai. A picture of happiness. Then whisked
:02:41. > :02:46.away on a dream honeymoon to South Africa, where the happiness
:02:46. > :02:48.shattered and the tragedy unfolded. On the night of her murder, the
:02:48. > :02:54.couple had eaten out and were travelling through the township near
:02:54. > :03:01.Cape Town when their car was hijacked. Shrien Dewani was released
:03:01. > :03:04.unharmed. Anni was shot in the neck and killed. Three men are serving
:03:04. > :03:10.prison sentences for their murder, but it is alleged that Shrien Dewani
:03:10. > :03:13.organised it. He faces charges of murder, conspiracy to murder,
:03:13. > :03:19.robbery and obstructing the administration of justice.
:03:19. > :03:25.He denies all of them. Back in the UK, Shrien Dewani has fought
:03:25. > :03:31.extradition, primarily on grounds of mental health. Experts agree that he
:03:31. > :03:34.suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Last July,
:03:34. > :03:44.it was ruled that his mental health was too bad for him to be
:03:44. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:49.extradited. In a long and, six judgement this morning, -- complex
:03:49. > :03:54.judgement, it was decided that although Shrien Dewani remains
:03:54. > :03:58.unwell, his mental health is improved to such an extent that it
:03:59. > :04:03.is now no longer either unjust or oppressive to allow him to be
:04:03. > :04:08.extradited to South Africa. The court was packed with some 30
:04:08. > :04:16.members of Anni Dewani's family. Outside, they gave their reaction.
:04:16. > :04:20.We don't want to forget Anni in this. It is all about her. It is
:04:20. > :04:26.about finding out what happened to her. And we will fight this battle
:04:26. > :04:30.to the end. A spokesperson for Shrien Dewani's family said he would
:04:30. > :04:38.appeal, and he remains committed to returning to South Africa when his
:04:38. > :04:43.health and safety can be protected. Clive is with me now. Shrien Dewani
:04:43. > :04:47.has 14 days to go back to the High Court to get a certificate of a
:04:47. > :04:51.point of law of general public importance. He can then take that to
:04:52. > :04:57.the Supreme Court. Today, the judge said that although he is unfit to
:04:57. > :05:00.plead, he is fit enough to be extradited. In previous cases, if
:05:00. > :05:06.someone is deemed unfit to plead, they have not been extradited, and
:05:06. > :05:10.that will be the basis of the appeal. Shrien Dewani will remain in
:05:10. > :05:13.this country while the appeal process plays out.
:05:13. > :05:17.NHS accident and emergency departments in England could reach
:05:17. > :05:22.crisis point this winter unless urgent action is taken to deal with
:05:22. > :05:26.growing demand. That is the warning from MPs. It found that staffing is
:05:26. > :05:30.under strain, and plans to ease the growing pressure are inadequate and
:05:30. > :05:36.confused. NHS England says it recognises more work needs to be
:05:37. > :05:43.done. Accident and emergency departments have been under intense
:05:43. > :05:49.pressure. More and more patients have been arriving at a and E and
:05:49. > :05:54.hospitals have been struggling to recruit staff. MPs say plans are put
:05:55. > :05:59.in place to remove some of that pressure, but are not good enough.
:05:59. > :06:02.Doctors agree that a crisis is approaching. We will end up with the
:06:02. > :06:07.same situation repeating itself, patients waiting long periods of
:06:07. > :06:15.time, delays in diagnosis and treatment, and some of the adverse
:06:15. > :06:19.outcomes. Emergency departments are facing overwrite if different
:06:19. > :06:23.problems, including more patients coming through the door, and
:06:23. > :06:27.difficulty in recruiting doctors to come to work here. But these issues
:06:27. > :06:31.cannot be solved in isolation, because emergency departments are
:06:31. > :06:36.part of a bigger and more complicated health system.
:06:36. > :06:41.Winter pressure starts to build in November, only 12 weeks away, and
:06:41. > :06:44.last winter, the NHS struggles to cope. Although the crisis was most
:06:44. > :06:49.evident in the accident and emergency Department, the problem is
:06:49. > :06:54.in the whole system, and the fact that accident and emergency was full
:06:54. > :06:58.was also due to the fact that people were not leaving the hospital at the
:06:58. > :07:03.other end. We are just going to do a quick assessment.
:07:04. > :07:06.During the busiest period, at Barnsley Hospital, a consultant will
:07:06. > :07:11.see a patient as soon as they are admitted, to keep them moving
:07:11. > :07:15.through. But NHS England admits much work still needs to be done to
:07:15. > :07:20.reduce the number of people who turn to emergency departments as a first
:07:21. > :07:25.port of call. We do know that there are a range of other services
:07:25. > :07:33.whereby patients can get easy access, and if they can't, they will
:07:33. > :07:37.go to A&E. So we need to look at GP services, community services, and we
:07:37. > :07:43.need to improve signposting. MPs say they are not convinced by what they
:07:43. > :07:47.have seen so far, and their warning is stark. Emergency departments
:07:47. > :07:54.could become unsustainable unless urgent action is taken.
:07:55. > :07:59.Our political respondent Norman Smith is at work -- Westminster.
:07:59. > :08:09.This is becoming something of a political blame game.
:08:09. > :08:10.
:08:10. > :08:13.Yes, we are seeing round two of the NHS blame game. There were highly
:08:13. > :08:18.acrimonious exchanges in the Commons with the Shadow Health Secretary
:08:18. > :08:25.Andy Burnham being directly blamed for unnecessary deaths because of
:08:25. > :08:32.this culture of no bad news in the health service which is -- it is
:08:32. > :08:40.alleged he created. Today, various payback, with Labour accusing Jeremy
:08:40. > :08:45.Hunt. Eight out of ten A&E departments, it is suggested, don't
:08:45. > :08:51.have enough consultants on duty. Aside from the political argument,
:08:52. > :08:56.my sense is that there probably is a degree of consensus that there are
:08:56. > :09:01.long-term pressures at work here on hospitals generally, such as an
:09:01. > :09:07.ageing population, the reluctance of young doctors to work in accident
:09:07. > :09:12.and emergency, and so despite the argument, there is a degree of
:09:12. > :09:17.consensus about the real and long-term challenges facing the NHS.
:09:17. > :09:21.A 44 euros man has appeared in court charged with the murder of PC Keith
:09:21. > :09:26.Blakelock who died during the Broadwater Farm riots in London in
:09:26. > :09:29.1985. Nicholas Jacobs is accusing of killing the officer, who was stabbed
:09:29. > :09:36.as he tried to protect firefighters tackling a blaze at a supermarket in
:09:36. > :09:40.Tottenham. Tom Symons is at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
:09:40. > :09:48.It is 28 years since Keith Blakelock died and made the May in Broadwater
:09:48. > :09:54.Farm, and that has sparked an investigation that has been
:09:54. > :09:58.troubled. Three men have had their convictions overturned, but today, a
:09:58. > :10:07.new suspect was in the dock. PC Keith Blakelock was a father of
:10:07. > :10:11.three. He died when he was caught in a mob of protesters in October 1985.
:10:11. > :10:16.As the clear up began, police started an investigation which has
:10:16. > :10:22.lasted much of the intervening 28 years. More than a dozen people have
:10:22. > :10:27.been arrested. Only yesterday, four were told they face no further
:10:27. > :10:30.action, but one has been charged. Nicholas Jacobs appeared in the dock
:10:30. > :10:36.for a short hearing in which he confirmed his name and was told his
:10:36. > :10:39.case had been referred to the Old Bailey. The case has a long history.
:10:39. > :10:45.Winston Silcott, Mark Braithwaite and Engin Raghip or wrongly
:10:45. > :10:52.convicted in 1987, and cleared four years later. After reopening the
:10:52. > :10:58.investigation, police produced pictures of PC Keith Blakelock's
:10:58. > :11:03.overalls with tape showing the knife marks. Nicholas Jacobs remains in
:11:03. > :11:07.custody, and the evidence he faces will be revealed at trial at the Old
:11:07. > :11:11.Bailey. There will be a preliminary hearing on Friday.
:11:11. > :11:16.In court, Nicholas Jacobs waved to the supporters who have campaigned
:11:16. > :11:19.over the years against those miscarriages of justice. They said
:11:19. > :11:23.outside court that given what has happened in this case, the whole
:11:23. > :11:27.production of evidence and presenting it had to happen in the
:11:27. > :11:33.full glare of publicity. Of course, that is exactly what happens in a
:11:33. > :11:38.big Old Bailey trial. Police say one of the teenage girls
:11:38. > :11:40.who died in the River Wear yesterday afternoon had only gone into the
:11:41. > :11:45.water to try to save her friend. Passers-by attempted to rescue
:11:45. > :11:49.14-year-old Chloe Fowler and Toni-Beth Purvis, 15, after they got
:11:49. > :11:52.into difficulty near viaduct in Washington, but they were swept
:11:52. > :11:57.away, and their bodies were later recovered from the river. Fiona
:11:57. > :12:01.Trott is at the scene. A tragic story, and we are learning more
:12:02. > :12:06.about what happened. That is right. The deaths are tragic
:12:06. > :12:10.enough, but just this afternoon, we are hearing from police that one
:12:10. > :12:15.friend went in to save another, and that makes it so much worse. And we
:12:15. > :12:22.have learned that they weren't fooling around, police say. They
:12:22. > :12:26.simply went into cool off. Chloe Walker is just 14. Her parents said
:12:26. > :12:31.she was beautiful, kind and caring, and we would like to thank everybody
:12:31. > :12:36.who helped. 15-year-old Toni-Beth Purvis was the friend who went in to
:12:36. > :12:41.try to rescue her. Police say she was overcome by the current. Other
:12:41. > :12:46.teenagers got into difficulty as well trying to help. Police say some
:12:46. > :12:49.of them could have drowned. Police say they is not a place to go
:12:49. > :12:54.swimming, but the river looks so shallow now, you could almost walk
:12:54. > :12:57.across it, you would think. But it is fast moving and dangerous, which
:12:57. > :13:01.is why the police are saying today this is no place to go swimming.
:13:01. > :13:05.There were lots of people here yesterday doing just that, enjoying
:13:05. > :13:10.the sunshine. There is nobody here today, just people coming to lay
:13:10. > :13:17.flowers. One friend of the teenagers said today, our lives have changed
:13:17. > :13:21.for ever. The latest legal challenge to the
:13:21. > :13:24.HS2 High Speed two reject has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.
:13:24. > :13:32.Also than ground against the building of the London to Birmingham
:13:32. > :13:38.section of HS2 were rejected. 15 councils had sought further appeal
:13:38. > :13:41.on the scheme. But a final appeal can still be made to the Supreme
:13:41. > :13:44.Court. The only vaccine available to
:13:44. > :13:50.protect against a potentially deadly form of meningitis should not be
:13:51. > :13:54.adopted by the NHS, the body that advises the government says. It says
:13:54. > :13:58.the meningitis B vaccine is not effective. Campaigners say that the
:13:58. > :14:04.decision will not cost lives -- will cost lives.
:14:04. > :14:09.Meningitis B can have devastating consequences. Seven-year-old Tilly
:14:09. > :14:13.lost both her hands and some of her toes when she contracted the bug as
:14:13. > :14:20.a toddler. All of which might have been prevented if a vaccine had been
:14:20. > :14:25.available. She was 15 months old and in agony,
:14:25. > :14:30.and as a parent, to have to watch your child go through that,
:14:30. > :14:32.screaming and shaking, is horrific. If there is anything out there that
:14:32. > :14:37.can stop another family going through what we have been through,
:14:37. > :14:45.it needs to be done. 20 years of research went into this
:14:45. > :14:47.vaccine. Many trials have shown that it is safe, and that it works. But
:14:47. > :14:53.the committee which advises the government only Asian says the
:14:53. > :14:57.vaccine is simply not cost effective. The committee is unsure
:14:57. > :15:03.how many cases of meningitis B it would prevent, and it wants more
:15:03. > :15:09.evidence. Meningitis charities say they are very disappointed with the
:15:10. > :15:13.decision. We have the highest rates in the UK of any country in Europe,
:15:13. > :15:17.and we really believe that the only way to deal effectively with this
:15:17. > :15:21.terrible disease is to prevent it in the first place through vaccination.
:15:21. > :15:26.The meningitis B vaccine could be cost-effective if it prevented the
:15:26. > :15:33.bug from spreading from person to person. But the only way we will
:15:33. > :15:37.ever know that is if the vaccine is introduced.
:15:37. > :15:39.The company will reconsider the vaccine in October. In the
:15:40. > :15:45.meantime, expect vigorous campaigning from charities and
:15:45. > :15:55.families like Tilly's, all hoping that the vaccine will eventually be
:15:55. > :15:57.
:15:57. > :16:04.introduced in Britain. A court has ruled that Shrien Dewani, accused of
:16:04. > :16:09.arranging his wife's murder on their honeymoon in South Africa, is to be
:16:09. > :16:13.extradited. And after adding world championship glory to Paralympic
:16:13. > :16:16.success, Jonnie Peacock tells us about his golden year.
:16:16. > :16:18.Later on BBC London: The 7/7 survivor and Paralympic volleyball
:16:18. > :16:21.player, who says the future of her sport is in doubt.
:16:21. > :16:24.And three weeks before the new Premier League season, Arsenal
:16:24. > :16:34.increase their offer for controversial striker Lewis Suarez.
:16:34. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:42.The Queen has been to meet the newest member of the Royal family
:16:42. > :16:48.this morning. She spent half an hour at Kensington Palace with the Duke
:16:48. > :16:58.of Cambridge and the Duchess, with the new Prince. In the last half an
:16:58. > :17:03.hour, William and Kate left the palace with the baby.
:17:03. > :17:08.She wasted no time in visiting him this morning. The Queen spent half
:17:08. > :17:13.an hour with her new great-grandson before leaving Kensington Palace and
:17:13. > :17:18.that acting palace yesterday, she could not hide her delight at the
:17:18. > :17:27.latest addition to the family and at his size -- at Buckingham Palace
:17:27. > :17:31.yesterday. Last night, the world's first view of baby Cambridge and his
:17:31. > :17:38.parents as they left St Mary's Hospital. The images gave just a
:17:38. > :17:44.hint of the third in line to the throne, who seemed unfazed at the
:17:44. > :17:50.first of many photocalls. We are still working on a name. The name is
:17:50. > :17:55.now the focus of media attention. The interest, less frenzied, but
:17:55. > :18:03.still substantial. Choosing a name for a future king is not that
:18:03. > :18:08.simple. There is so much attached to the name of a monarch, Georgian
:18:09. > :18:16.architecture, Victorian values, you have to think of initials. Inc of a
:18:16. > :18:20.name like Richard, Richard the Lionheart, great, Richard III, bad!
:18:20. > :18:27.The family will now live in Kensington Palace, the Duke's
:18:27. > :18:32.childhood home with happy memories. After the Queens visit this morning
:18:32. > :18:37.the family left Kensington Palace. The speculation is they have gone to
:18:37. > :18:43.Bucklebury, wherefore now they will base themselves at Kate Middleton's
:18:43. > :18:53.family home. So just one night at Kensington Palace?
:18:53. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :18:58.Yes. The royal aides will not confirm whether family has gone. We
:18:58. > :19:01.saw a suitcase being packed with clothes and then not long after we
:19:01. > :19:06.saw the family leaving. Prince William in the front of their
:19:06. > :19:12.vehicle, the baby seat in the back of the car with Catherine. Where do
:19:12. > :19:18.you go with a baby that is one-day-old? You have to presume,
:19:18. > :19:23.back to mamma. The Duchess will clearly need extra support at this
:19:23. > :19:31.difficult stage where she is likely to be very tired. Prince William has
:19:31. > :19:33.two weeks paternity leave but he is due back at Anglesey after that.
:19:33. > :19:35.The head of the British pharmaceutical company
:19:35. > :19:38.GlaxoSmithKline, Sir Andrew Witty, has said that several executives of
:19:38. > :19:43.the company in China appear to have potentially defrauded the company
:19:43. > :19:47.and the Chinese health care system. The company is setting up an
:19:47. > :19:54.independent review to investigate what has happened. With me now is
:19:54. > :19:59.our business editor Robert Peston. What do we think has happened?
:19:59. > :20:08.The noises coming from China is that several employees of Glaxo Smith
:20:08. > :20:12.Kline were bribing officials and doctors to buy drugs. GSK drugs. We
:20:12. > :20:18.have known that for some time. What was striking in the press conference
:20:18. > :20:25.which the boss, Sir Andrew Witty, gave today is that we have emerged
:20:26. > :20:29.knowing a bit less than we already knew. He did not say sorry. He said
:20:29. > :20:37.if the allegations were proven, that would be very disappointing and it
:20:37. > :20:42.would be shameful for the company. But he also said that there was no
:20:43. > :20:47.evidence that anybody in head office knew it was going on. Here is the
:20:47. > :20:53.oddity for me, he said he felt the company had extremely good systems
:20:53. > :20:59.and controls around the world to prevent its 100,000 employees from
:20:59. > :21:04.giving bad stuff, and yet the Chinese authorities think that there
:21:04. > :21:09.has been major fraud conducted over there. Those two statements, good
:21:09. > :21:18.controls but they did not pick this up, are quite fickle to reconcile.
:21:18. > :21:21.The other thing which is striking, he was asked... He said they have to
:21:21. > :21:23.find out what was really going on over there and it was too early to
:21:23. > :21:26.say. The drug thalidomide is still
:21:26. > :21:31.causing birth defects in Brazil according to a new scientific study
:21:31. > :21:35.seen by BBC News. It was withdrawn in most places in the 1960s but was
:21:35. > :21:39.re-licensed in Brazil to treat leprosy. Some women there took it,
:21:39. > :21:47.unaware of the risks when pregnant. But campaigners, doctors and leprosy
:21:47. > :21:54.sufferers say the benefits outweigh the risks. Angus Crawford reports.
:21:54. > :21:57.We were told this could never happen again. But Alan, eight, has been
:21:57. > :22:03.terribly damaged by thalidomide which is mother took by accident
:22:03. > :22:08.when she was pregnant. From the late 1950s, thalidomide was given to
:22:08. > :22:12.pregnant women for morning sickness. More than 400 babies were
:22:12. > :22:20.born in Britain with shocking deformities before it was withdrawn
:22:20. > :22:25.in 1961. But thalidomide never really went away. In Brazil it has
:22:25. > :22:29.been relicensed to treat leprosy. This factory produces 8 million
:22:29. > :22:38.pills a year. This is where they mix the chemicals that make the litter
:22:38. > :22:41.might. I have to wear a mask and the medicine is so potentially toxic to
:22:41. > :22:47.unborn children, no women are allowed to work anywhere on this
:22:47. > :22:50.production line. The manufacturers insist it is safe if used properly.
:22:50. > :22:57.If we inform people about the benefits that thalidomide can bring
:22:57. > :23:03.to patients, we can dispel the myths because the benefits outweigh the
:23:03. > :23:07.risks. The drug is tightly regulated. Women must use two forms
:23:08. > :23:15.of birth control and have regular pregnancy tests. These are just some
:23:15. > :23:19.of the forms that a woman have to fill out. But there is evidence the
:23:19. > :23:25.system is not 100% effective. Researchers analysed 17 million
:23:25. > :23:34.births between 2005 and 2010. Where thalidomide was used most, they
:23:34. > :23:37.found a higher than average number of birth defects. After six years of
:23:37. > :23:47.research, we found a significant and positive correlation between the
:23:47. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:52.amount of thalidomide occurring and types of genital birth defects.
:23:52. > :23:58.Leprosy is a disease of the poor and it is the children of the poor most
:23:58. > :24:02.likely to be damaged by the drug. More than 50 years after thalidomide
:24:02. > :24:09.was first withdrawn, Alan is part of a second generation of children
:24:09. > :24:11.having to live with the terrible damage it can cause.
:24:11. > :24:14.The Roman Catholic church has confirmed that Monsignor Leo
:24:14. > :24:19.Cushley, a Scottish priest based in the Vatican, is to succeed Cardinal
:24:19. > :24:23.Keith O'Brien as the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh. Monsignor
:24:23. > :24:28.Cushley will take up his new role in September. Cardinal O'Brien left the
:24:28. > :24:36.diocese earlier this year following sexual misconduct allegations.
:24:36. > :24:39.It has been a rather golden year for British sprinter Jonny Peacock. Last
:24:39. > :24:43.night he added World Championship gold to the Paralympic title he won
:24:43. > :24:47.at London 2012. The 20-year-old beat his American rival Richard Browne in
:24:47. > :24:51.the T44 100 metre sprint in Lyon. He's been telling our sports
:24:51. > :24:56.correspondent Andy Swiss about his latest success.
:24:56. > :25:02.I am delighted to say I am joined by the man of the moment, Jonnie
:25:02. > :25:07.Peacock. Many congratulations. managed to get the first world
:25:07. > :25:16.championship medal I have ever got and luckily I got the one that
:25:16. > :25:21.counts! The gold! Is it all sinking in? More and more every minute. I
:25:21. > :25:26.must say it is a big relief. I am happy just to come and get the job
:25:27. > :25:31.done. That is what the year was built towards. It was a difficult
:25:31. > :25:38.season because I had ankle surgery so I am happy to cross the line and
:25:38. > :25:43.cross it first. Your great rival Richard Browne broke your world
:25:44. > :25:49.record in the semifinals. How much were you aware of the competition?
:25:49. > :25:54.There was definitely a bit of pressure! I have never had anybody
:25:55. > :26:00.since I have been running fast right next to me so it was a different
:26:00. > :26:05.race. Usually by 60 metres, I am clear, but this time there was
:26:05. > :26:13.someone right next to me. I knew that was going to happen but luckily
:26:13. > :26:18.I kept my head up. I held him off just at the line. Congratulations
:26:18. > :26:22.again. Jonnie Peacock back on action on Sunday. Quite a week for him.
:26:22. > :26:26.How long will it be before man sets foot on Mars? Some think it could
:26:27. > :26:29.happen in the next couple of decades. But one of the biggest
:26:29. > :26:32.challenges will be the journey there. Now a team of British
:26:32. > :26:35.scientists have designed a virtual mission with the help of the BBC,
:26:35. > :26:41.imagining what it would be like for a three-person crew on the
:26:41. > :26:47.nine-month trip to the red planet, as Neil Bowdler reports.
:26:47. > :26:53.This is how a very first human mission to Mars might look. A modest
:26:53. > :26:59.craft carrying a small crew. Ahead of them, a hazardous journey, 56
:26:59. > :27:02.million kilometres in distance. The concept is the work of scientists
:27:03. > :27:07.from Imperial College London, who considered how emission might work
:27:07. > :27:15.using existing technologies to demonstrate how we may one day put a
:27:15. > :27:21.human on Mars. There is a big jump between a demonstration at one level
:27:21. > :27:26.and making a mission but those are engineering challenges. They are not
:27:26. > :27:30.fundamentally about having to make new discoveries. And this recreated
:27:30. > :27:35.in the BBC virtual studio is the interior of the craft, which will
:27:35. > :27:39.take our crew on the nine-month journey to Mars. Once we are under
:27:39. > :27:43.way the craft will start spinning, generating artificial gravity is so
:27:43. > :27:49.our muscles do not waste away and that is important if we want to take
:27:49. > :27:55.our first steps on the red planet. Radiation bursts from the son of the
:27:55. > :27:58.biggest threat. A heat shield could be used to protect ourselves during
:27:58. > :28:04.solar storms. Then the perilous descent through the thin Martian
:28:04. > :28:09.atmosphere. Parachutes could slow a lander and get the crew safely down
:28:09. > :28:16.to the surface. There we could use our hands and eyes to explore the
:28:16. > :28:20.planet. Some people think the use of human something that is popular and
:28:20. > :28:25.attractive and an adventure from an inspirational point of view but
:28:25. > :28:29.there are also scientific benefits. We are probably the most
:28:29. > :28:39.sophisticated robotic living organism you could imagine. Getting
:28:39. > :28:45.
:28:45. > :28:48.home poses further dangers. The scientist suggest a return craft
:28:48. > :28:51.could be sent ahead of a human mission. The crew could then power
:28:51. > :28:53.off to begin their journey home. All good in theory. Now we just need to
:28:53. > :28:57.decide if we are ever going to do it for real.
:28:57. > :29:02.You can see plenty more on the challenges of getting to the red
:29:02. > :29:12.planet on the BBC News channel on Saturday at 3:30pm. The heatwave is
:29:12. > :29:16.
:29:16. > :29:23.the incredible thundery breakdown. More clout is working into Ireland
:29:23. > :29:33.and that would be a future of things later on. -- that would be a feature
:29:33. > :29:33.
:29:33. > :29:35.of things later on. Further north, the North East of England, Scotland
:29:35. > :29:45.and Northern Ireland, we will generate some showers and there will
:29:45. > :29:51.be clout. Some of them could be hefty. Central and western Scotland
:29:51. > :29:56.will be full of sunny spells and some showers. The north-east of
:29:56. > :30:02.England, sunny spells and heavy showers but the bulk of England and
:30:03. > :30:07.Wales will enjoy a decent afternoon. Maybe 27 in the south eastern corner
:30:07. > :30:11.but the humidity is that bit lower than it has been. The cloud will be
:30:11. > :30:17.thickening in the south-west, ringing patchy rain which will turn
:30:18. > :30:22.heavy later on. That could get into Pembrokeshire later on. But quite
:30:22. > :30:29.pleasant in the rest of Wales. Here comes the rain through the evening
:30:29. > :30:35.and some of it will be quite heavy. It is lighter elsewhere. It covers
:30:35. > :30:41.quite a large swathes of the UK by morning and it will be another warm
:30:41. > :30:49.night. A very different start to the day tomorrow. Quite grey with low
:30:49. > :30:53.cloud and damp but it will brighten up during the afternoon. However,
:30:53. > :31:03.from the North Midlands North, we will keep a fair bit of clout and
:31:03. > :31:05.
:31:05. > :31:12.some sharp showers. -- cloud. I suspect a pretty decent end to the
:31:12. > :31:17.week. Some uncertainty about the weekend with the low pressure coming
:31:17. > :31:22.from the near continent. It is set to bring some thundery downpours but
:31:22. > :31:32.its exact track is uncertain. At the moment, it cant, Sussex, London and
:31:32. > :31:42.East Anglia -- Kent. But that is not set in stone and we will keep you
:31:42. > :31:42.
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