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