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Large explosions are heard at the shopping centre in Kenya where more | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
than 60 people are known to have died, including four Britons. The | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
than 60 people are known to have Red Cross says more than 60 people | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
than 60 people are known to have are still thought to be inside, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
though there are reports many have now been freed in the operation. I | :00:23. | :00:31. | |
saw about 12 bodies on the rooftop. There was a tent where a cookery | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
competition for children was going on. There were bodies lying under | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
there. There's a very famous radio presenter in Kenya, an Asian lady, | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
she was shot. The scene was carnage. Here, the Defence Secretary leads an | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
emergency meeting in Whitehall and offers assistance to the Kenyan | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
authorities. Also, we got things wrong. Ed Balls tells the Labour | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Party conference, we've learned from mistakes made in office. Rolf Harris | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
appears in court accused of indecently assaulting two goals and | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
making indecent images of a child. England's Ashes celebrations are | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
barely over before it's time to turn attention to the winter turned down | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
under, and a new team is announced. In BBC London. A BBC investigation | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
reveals the pressure on parking wardens to issue tickets. Two London | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
councils deny breaking the law. And how a 17th century warship could be | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
built in Deptford. Good afternoon. In the past few | :01:34. | :01:59. | |
hours, heavy gunfire and explosions have rocked the shopping Mall in | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
Nairobi, security forces confirm an operation is under way to end the | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
stand-off between Kenyan security forces and Somali militants. This | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
morning the Foreign Office said four Britons were among more than 60 | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
people who are known to have been killed in the siege, which began on | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Saturday. These are the pictures from Nairobi now, from the Westgate | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
shopping centre. Kenya's Interior Minister said those plumes of smoke | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
have been caused by the militants setting mattresses alight as a | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
decoy. It is thought there are still hostages in the shopping centre. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Many are reported to have been freed. We will have the latest from | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the scene, as well as an assessment from our security correspondent, | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Frank Gardner, on the background to the attack. Our African Carol -- | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
respondent has just sent this report from Nairobi. Two days into the | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
Kenyan shopping centre siege, and a tense stand-off continues. Sporadic | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
gunfire rang out early this morning, but no final assault by Kenyan | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
troops. A thick plume of smoke could be seen billowing from above the | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Westgate shopping centre. It is not clear at this stage if the men set | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
the place on fire or whether Kenyan security forces are using it as a | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
tactic to advance. The armed attackers, Somali militants, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
possibly more than a dozen of them, are still believed to be holding | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
hostages. A revenge, they claim, for Somali troops on soil. This is the | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
scene, terrifying families out for a day at the shops. In a brief lull, | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
hundreds of terrified men, women and children ran to safety. It is | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
believed many could be trapped inside, and there's almost certainly | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
more dead to be accounted for. Witnesses who fled describe horrific | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
scenes. A grenade was thrown at us. It went off and at the same time | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
scenes. A grenade was thrown at us. shot at us. It missed my son by an | :04:08. | :04:17. | |
inch. It bounced off the wall and hit the boy who was next to him. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
There was a tent where a cookery competition for children was going | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
on. There were bodies lying under there. There was a very famous radio | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
presenter in Kenya, an Asian lady, she was shot. The scene was carnage. | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
There was a guy lying right in the corner, he was cut to shreds. As the | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
media and emergency services waited for more news, a certain dive for | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
cover as a tense moment of confusion in a nation still traumatised by | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
what is going on. I'm very surprised with the attack. We are very grieved | :04:51. | :05:02. | |
and offer support to our family, friends and Kenyans who have died, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
and even the ones who have not escaped. We are not happy. It is | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
cowardice, an act of terror. It is really cowardice. Many are praying | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
for this nightmare to end. But everyone knows a watershed has now | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
been crossed and, whatever the outcome, Kenya will never be the | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
same again. The BBC's correspondent has been reporting from the Westgate | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
shopping centre since the attack took place on Saturday. She is there | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
now. A very fluid situation, what is the latest? As you can see in the | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
background, thick, black smoke is still billowing from that building. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
We understand from the authorities that this may have been a controlled | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
explosion, so that they could get in through the roof. The authorities | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
also tell us that some hostages have through the roof. The authorities | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
been freed as of this morning. At least ten of them that's according | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
to the military. It isn't clear how many have been freed this afternoon | :06:09. | :06:17. | |
here. The stand-off continues, we do not know how long it will last or | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Howard is going to end. We are just going to wait. Do not know if these | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
people have supplies. Both the government and the hostages, having | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
been there for three days, you can imagine it could be quite a | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
devastating situation. One person who spoke to us told us that his | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
wife and child are in there. He doesn't know their fate will stop | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
but if there is a two-year-old child-bearing who has gone three | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
days without food and water, that's a very devastating situation. - | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
match child in there. David Cameron has cut short a visit to Balmoral to | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
lead a meeting of the government's emergency meeting this afternoon. It | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
will be investigating reports that Britons may have been part of the | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Al-Shabaab group which has carried out the attack, and also to | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Al-Shabaab group which has carried establish more details about UK | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
citizens who have been confirmed to be among the dead. At Nairobi's | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
embattled Westgate shopping Mall, Kenyan forces have the complex | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
surrounded but the death toll continues to rise. Britons have not | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
been spared and the Prime Minister is chairing today's crisis | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
committee, dubbed Cobra. I can confirm that there is a fourth | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
British national confirmed dead, and next of kin have been informed. We | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
are in touch with the Kenyan authorities. We stand ready to | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
provide them with any additional assistance they require. We will be | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
monitoring the situation throughout the day and the Prime Minister is | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
returning to London to chair a further meeting later this | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
afternoon. The attack began at midday on Saturday at Nairobi's | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
upmarket Westgate shopping centre. It's a multistorey complex, one of | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the newest in East Africa, and popular with both Kenyan and | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
expatriates. The attackers, numbering between ten to 15 people, | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
sprayed machine-gun fire and threw grenades. They appeared to target | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
non-Muslims, even shooting small children. There you can see the | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
supermarket, which is located over the first two floors. After more | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
than 48 hours, the attackers and an unknown number of hostages still | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
thought to be up there. It took the Kenyan authorities nearly 30 minutes | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
thought to be up there. It took the to arrive on the scene, but they | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
have since managed to extract most of those inside. Alongside private | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
security guards on the scene, Israeli ad buyers of -- advisers are | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
believed to be working closely with the Kenyans. Britain has already got | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
forces in the country and has offered help, but it's not clear if | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
that will mean military assistance. This is a Kenyan operation. Our | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
soldiers and advisers will be advising them, they will not be at | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
the front of this. The group that launched the attack is Somalia's | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Al-Shabaab militants. They are a band, insurgent group linked to | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Al-Qaeda. Numbering only a few thousand and with a shrinking power | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
base, they've carried out numerous attacks both inside Somalia and in | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Kenya and Uganda. They've been making frequent media statements | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
ever since the siege began. There was a rumour spreading round, saying | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
that American, British, different nationalities... Non-that is true. | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
There will be non-negotiations. This whole grisly stand-off is painfully | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
met -- reminiscent of the Mumbai siege of 2008. Counter-terrorism | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
officials around the world always siege of 2008. Counter-terrorism | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
feared it would be repeated, it has been. The Al-Shabaab group has said | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
it carried out the attack because of the present in Somalia Kenyan | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
troops. They are there as part of African union forces trying to stop | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
fighting between different warring factions. They were also responsible | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
for driving out from the port of dismay of a year ago. | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
I'm at a military base of the African union troops. The high walls | :10:15. | :10:24. | |
behind me, just a couple of hundred yards from their, the first | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
positions of the Kenyan and other African union soldiers. Every night, | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
I've been here for a week, there is a firefight as Al-Shabaab approach | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
this place and then get driven away. But I have been outside these walls | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
and into town, driving with the African troops. Armed men have | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
always ruled Somalia. These African union troops are the latest. But | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
they have a mandate from the United Nations to be here. Their task? Keep | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
Al-Shabaab at bay at -- if possible and encourage a Somali government to | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
emerge. The terrible living conditions upmost Somalis show how | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
difficult these ambitions. This farmer, whose identity we've | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
disguised, said he fled his land after Al-Shabaab to control there. | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
TRANSLATION: If you have a farm, they will take half of it. They will | :11:25. | :11:34. | |
arrest you all will banish you. The troops do what they can to control | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
the situation, but they are battling against a long history of unrest. | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
Somalia has come to this state of affairs because the tribes here, all | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
plans as they are known in Somalia, have been fighting each other for | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
years. The Islamist saw this confusion and moved into exploit it. | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
The local Somali government forces are disorganised. Most people here | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
think if the African Union soldiers were to leave, the situation here | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
would get rapidly worse. If they left, how long would you last five | :12:08. | :12:17. | |
minutes, one hour? I can't predict. It may take long, it may take | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
short, but what we are fighting is not Americans or Britain. We are | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
short, but what we are fighting is fighting with the Somalians. We can | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
persist for a long time or we can... They may defeat us soon. The | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
international community has tried to bring a new audio -- new order to | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Somalia many times. But many times bring a new audio -- new order to | :12:40. | :12:51. | |
it has failed. Somalia, the cradle perhaps of the situation in | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
it has failed. Somalia, the cradle neighbouring Kenya. This is a | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
difficult and dangerous place and it has been for many years. The BBC | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
News Channel will have more on that developing story throughout the | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
afternoon. The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, has told his party conference | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
that Labour got wings wrong during its time in office, but the new | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Labour government would be different. He's been setting out his | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
plans for the economy, including plans for 25 hours of free childcare | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
in England. The man who wants to be the next Chancellor of the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Exchequer, Ed Balls, says he is taking a grown-up approach to | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
politics. His £800 million pledge on childcare will be fully costed with | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
the bank is footing the bill. It's all part of Labour's message that | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
they can help out with what they are calling a cost of living crisis. I'm | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
saying the government shouldn't be cutting taxes for the banks. Raise | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
the bank levy and make work pay for working families. We will say we | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
will increase childcare from £15 -- 15 to 25 hours for working parents, | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
so they can get to work. Labour says 400,000 families in England will | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
benefit, saving them up to £1500 a year each. But Ed Balls will have to | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
convince voters that it doesn't he have powered the qualities but he | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
can pay for them. The message is Labour won't fritter away your cash | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
if you trust them with power again. They say you don't have to take a | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
gamble on them because all the spending pledges in the next | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
manifesto will be independently audited. Ed Balls told his party | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
conference that the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, or | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
obi art, would when its rule over Labour's spending plans. That people | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
want to know that the sums add up. This is the first time a Shadow | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Chancellor, the first time any political party has ever said he | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
wants this kind of independent order. The government accused the | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Labour leadership of devising a gimmick, one which they've got no | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
power to enforce. A former Conservative policy chief says Ed | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
Balls should be careful what he wishes for. The obi are is a real | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
constraint. That's why they didn't have an OBE when Labour was last in | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
government. He won't be able to say, this will bring us in hundreds of | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
millions of pounds. He will be able to say, this doesn't cost any -- | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
very much. He will have hard figures. Labour believes that it. | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
Any slide in the polls, but convincing voters they can pay for | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
their won't be child's play. Let's get more from our chief political | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
correspondent, also at the conference. | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
The heart of Mr Balls' speech was the issue of public spending. The | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
easy part of the conference is to come forward with spending pledges | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
to ease the cost of living crisis, hence we had that announcement today | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
of more free childcare. The difficult part is convincing voters | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
that the sums add up. So Mr Balls has handed over the manifesto to the | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Office for Budget Responsibility, which I think trade and nagging fear | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
in his mind that voters are still do not trust Labour on the economy. | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
That is why Mr bills' speech was bristling with fiscal rigour. -- Mr | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
Balls' speech. He said that Labour would not reverse all of the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
coalition's cuts, and he floated the idea of not going ahead with | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
high-speed rail if the bills go up and up. He suggested it was becoming | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
a vanity project for Mr Cameron, and the question now wasn't whether it | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
was a good idea, but whether it was value for money. If Labour | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
backtracks on HS2, that will cause a stink in the Labour ranks and the | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
business com unity. Mr Balls is under lots of pressure to show he | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
has got a grip on spending, and it underlines the fact that this | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
conference is not just about the cost of living crisis, but about the | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
fact that Labour is trying to reassure voters that it can be | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
trusted on the economy. Rolf Harris has appeared in court | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
facing charges of sexual offences and creating indecent images of a | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
child. It is part of Operation Yewtree, which is examining historic | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
allegations of child abuse. Rolf Harris has been entertaining | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
British audiences since the 1950s. He is now 83, and facing a criminal | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
trial. He entered court, his wife, in blue, by his side, surrounded by | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
photographers and reporters. At least one supporter mingled with the | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
media. In a packed courtroom, he walked slowly into the dock, and at | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
one point, put out a hand to steady himself. After he confirmed his name | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
and address, the court heard the charges were the serious nature, and | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
the would be transferred -- the case would be transferred to Southwark | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Crown Court. He is accused of an indecent assault against a girl aged | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
15 and 16 in 1980 -- 1980 and 1981. There is another accusation of an | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
indecent assault, and also of making indecent images last year. Mr | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Harris' lawyers have just indicated here that he will plead not guilty | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
to these charges. The maximum charges for the alleged offences in | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
the early 80s will be two years in prison, but in 1985, the penalties | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
were changed, and is convicted of indecent assault in 1986, Rolf | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
Harris could face up to ten years in prison. His arrest interrupted a | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
career that has continued to flourish, on TV, as an artist who | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
once painted the Queen, and as an entertainer. At a music festival in | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
once painted the Queen, and as an May, he thanked the audience for | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
their support. But these charges bring him public attention of the | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
different nature. He has been given bring him public attention of the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
conditional bail, and the legal process continues with an appearance | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
at Southwark Crown Court on the 7th of October. | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
The time is 1:19pm. Our top story: Mac heavy firing and explosions are | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
heard as security forces in Kenya say an operation is under way to end | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
the siege with Somali militants at a shopping more in Nairobi. And our | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
science editor on why the pace of climate change appears to Later on | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
BBC London. Slowing down. The £100 million | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
office block, and why after just three years the council is moving | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
out. And howzat for a masterclass? The | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
world's most famous players gather And howzat for a masterclass? The | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
at Lords to coach disabled cricketeers. | :19:47. | :20:02. | |
The latest international report on climate change is expected to | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
confirm that human activity is behind the rise in temperatures over | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
the past century, but it isn't so sure why the pace of warming has | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
recently been slowing. The past decade has still been the warmest on | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
record, and scientists say burning fossil fuels is the main cause | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
behind rising oceans, melting snow and ice, and a rise in sea levels. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
What is happening to our climate? In America, crops burned last year in | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
the hottest month in the country's history. Australia also suffered a | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
record drought. Temperatures reached new heights. Last month in China, | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
people were desperate to keep cool in heat that no one had experienced | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
before. Is the world getting warmer? The science on this is still | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
evolving. The global warming affect is certain. The uncertainty lies in | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
what the local effects are where we live. In sub-Saharan Africa, there | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
could be more droughts. Those issues are the ones we are trying to pin | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
down. Understanding what is are the ones we are trying to pin | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
happening to the climate is difficult. There are just so many | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
different factors at work, in the atmosphere and in the oceans below. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
The fact is that the climate has always been changing, with us or | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
without us. The power of the sun varies. There are patterns of | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
warming and cooling in the oceans. So we are talking about how our | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
timid teas are adding to that process. How greenhouse gases from | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
our homes, cars and factories are Excel rating those changes. That is | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
what the United Nations climate science panel will be investigating | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
this week. Carbon dioxide all over the world has just reached a record | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
level, but something surprising has happened. Despite all this, for 15 | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
years, there has been a pause in warming - no rise in the global | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
temperature of the air. Global warming is carrying on. We see this | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
in the ocean that continues to warm, and sea levels that continue | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
to rise. We have always expected to see shorter periods of less warming, | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
and periods of much more rapid warming. If you look back over the | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
last century, you see precisely that. The UN panel last reported six | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
years ago, and there were a few mistakes in their work. This time, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
the find his star under more pressure. They must explain why the | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
warming has paused to convince people to listen to their warnings | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
of what could be dangerous changes to come. | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
Even Angela Merkel herself had to admit that her party had done | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
something fantastic. Last night, the German Chancellor's Christian | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
Democrats party won an historic third term. The markets reacted | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
positively to the victory this morning, with the euro rising in | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
value against the dollar. In the shadow of the new Bunder stag | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
offices, and election poster flaps in the wind. -- Bundestag offices. | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
The day after the excitement of the night before. With a hint of a jig, | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
Chancellor Merkel rejoiced with party workers. She starts her third | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
term as leader of Germany stronger than ever. | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
TRANSLATION: Tonight, we celebrate, and tomorrow we get back to work. | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
This is a big victory for Angela Merkel, no doubt about that. It is a | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
personal victory as well because the campaign was so closely focused on | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
her. Now, the negotiations start with her party and other parties, | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
particularly the Social Democrats. The SPD will now talk to Angela | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
Merkel's CDU to see if they can work together, but her party is the | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
strongest. The Christian Democrats 142% of the vote. The centre-left | :24:13. | :24:22. | |
SPD came second, with 26%. The Free Democrats, Chancellor Merkel's | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
previous coalition partners, got just 4.8%, leaving them with no | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
seats in the new parliament. So what changes in Angela Merkel's third | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
term? It is like Helmut Kohl in his best days, so critics have no say | :24:39. | :24:48. | |
any longer. In Europe, David Cameron and other heads of government can | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
say it is my way or no way. It is all about who runs the Bundestag. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
There will now be much wheeling and dealing to find a coalition that can | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
be maintained, but throughout, Chancellor Merkel will be in the | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
driving seat. It was a rather disappointing night | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
for British television programmes and actors at last night's Emmy | :25:11. | :25:18. | |
Awards. The American film about Liberace, Behind The Candelabra, | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
picked up Best film, and Michael Douglas picked up an award for his | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
betrayal of Liberace. Downton Abbey, stars like Dame Maggie Smith | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
and Damian Lewis, came away empty-handed. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
Tonight we celebrate the best of television. For our younger | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
audience, that is the thing you watch on your phones. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
A nod to Kevin Spacey's house of cards. It was the first time an | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
Internet broadcaster won an Emmy. It was amongst some well-known names in | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
the drama category. But the big prize went to Breaking Bad. Modern | :25:57. | :26:05. | |
family, one of America's most popular sitcoms, took best comedy. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
But the night's big winner, taking best TV movie, was Behind The | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
Candelabra, telling the life of Liberace, and starring Matt Damon | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
and Michael Douglas, who beat his co-star to best actor. You were | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
magnificent. The only reason I am standing here is because of you, so | :26:30. | :26:37. | |
you deserve half of this. Sir Elton John wrote and performed a song in | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
memory of Liberace, the man who inspired him and his dress sense. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
But there were few British winners. Nothing big for Downton Abbey. The | :26:47. | :26:55. | |
BBC newsroom miniseries The Hour won Best writer for Abi Morgan. So a | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
year with no real runaway winner, but lots of Tracy 's and champagne. | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
-- lots of trophies. The celebrations for England's | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
summer Ashes victory have barely ended before the team have turned | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
summer Ashes victory have barely their attention to the tour down | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
under. We were at the team launch at Lord's. Last week, Australia fly | :27:23. | :27:34. | |
home. Next week, England fly out to Australia. It is a unique situation, | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
back-to-back asses -- Ashes competitions. Gary Ballance, who | :27:38. | :27:49. | |
learnt his cricket in Zimbabwe, has a good record in Yorkshire but is a | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
surprise selection. Then there is Ben Stokes, New Zealand born and | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
developed in Durham. An all-rounder, he could develop into the new Andrew | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
Flintoff. Those players have lots of potential, but none of them were | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
actually born in England. I asked the national selector if that | :28:10. | :28:11. | |
matters. They have come into English the national selector if that | :28:12. | :28:18. | |
cricket and have developed towards what we require of them | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
internationally, so they have done all that has been asked of them, and | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
showing the passion to play for England. They have justified being | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
selected for England. The process has been accentuated by what they | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
have done in England. A lot of English cricket fans will be pleased | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
to see Monty Panesar in the England squad. He has had a pretty public | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
fall from race, released from his county early in the summer. He is in | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
the squad and says he is thrilled. We can look forward to the Ashes | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
once again. Time now to take you to the weather, with Phil Avery. | :28:57. | :29:06. | |
It is a complete change at the moment. The weather fronts that | :29:06. | :29:12. | |
would normally affect us at this time of year are being held at bay | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
in the Atlantic. Over the next few days, the high pressure that is | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
keeping things that they will gradually ease away to the near | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
continent and lose its influence. That weather front will become a bit | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
of a bother for northern parts of England. This afternoon, pretty much | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
what you have got is what you will keep. Perhaps a little bit more | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
clouds towards the eastern shores of England. Perhaps we will import | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
drier air across some Southern counties, and where you have had a | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
faulty start to the day, there is a chance of seeing a bit of sunshine. | :29:47. | :29:56. | |
With sunshine, things will be quite chance of seeing a bit of sunshine. | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
warm, around 20 degrees. The Midlands are stuck with low-level | :29:58. | :30:01. | |
cloud. Western Wales, fine and dandy, the western side of Northern | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
Ireland around 21 degrees. Then it is all change in the north of | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
Scotland. Here, you have a weather fronts that is going to be with you | :30:10. | :30:19. | |
for a while yet. The evening will be a balmy affair. Rather pleasant | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
while the sun is up. There will be a fair amount of mist and fog, but not | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
a cold night by any means, although the court -- the fog could be very | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
dense. If you are travelling across parts of England -- parts of East | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
Anglia and the south-east, particularly. On Tuesday, something | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
of an East-West split. The east Coast stuck with a bit more cloud, | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
which affects the temperatures. We have still got that rain across the | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
north, which will become more extensive with time across northern | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
parts of Britain. If you get on the cold side of that weather front, as | :30:59. | :31:06. | |
the Northern are at the moment, 13 could be yours. Temperatures | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
elsewhere are at par for this time of the year. Across Scotland, a | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
north-easterly breeze is putting a dent in the temperatures, but in the | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
south, nothing like it. There will not be wall-to-wall sunshine, but we | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
are in with a chance of keeping temperatures up at around 20 | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
degrees. Thank you. An operation is under way | :31:27. | :31:34. | |
to end the siege at a Kenyan shopping mall, as the Foreign Office | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
says four Britons are among the dead. That's all from us. More | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
throughout the afternoon on the News | :31:44. | :31:44. |