:00:00. > :00:09.Four men admit to the murder of two British medical students in Borneo.
:00:10. > :00:12.Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger were stabbed to
:00:13. > :00:19.The 22-year-olds were just a few days from the end of their work
:00:20. > :00:29.Also this lunchtime, Oscar Pistorius is accused of being a deceitful
:00:30. > :00:42.witness, as his trial for murder enters the closing stages.
:00:43. > :00:45.Israel offers to extend the cease-fire in Gaza. Hamas says it
:00:46. > :00:48.has not yet agreed to the proposal. Prince William is to train as an air
:00:49. > :01:03.ambulance pilot, and aims to make it And a stunning start for England at
:01:04. > :01:07.Old Trafford. Anderson and Broad make short work of India's open a
:01:08. > :01:12.full stop later on BBC London, the government announces the possible
:01:13. > :01:16.extension of Crossrail to Hertfordshire. Bizarre, eccentric,
:01:17. > :01:21.but making a comeback. The Indians bought the baddie comes to London.
:01:22. > :01:32.-- kabaddi. Good afternoon, and welcome to the
:01:33. > :01:36.BBC News at One. Police in Borneo say four men
:01:37. > :01:40.arrested in connection with the killing of two British medical
:01:41. > :01:44.students have confessed to the killings. Neil Dalton and Aidan
:01:45. > :01:49.Brunger, who were fourth year students at Newcastle University,
:01:50. > :01:52.were stabbed to death just a few days before the end of their work
:01:53. > :02:07.placements, at a hospital in 36 hours after this attack took
:02:08. > :02:11.place, the Malaysian police on Borneo say they are confident they
:02:12. > :02:15.have solve this crime. The deputy Police Commissioner they're saying
:02:16. > :02:17.the crime has been solved, we have finished our investigation, the
:02:18. > :02:21.suspects have been apprehended and they have admitted the crime. Here
:02:22. > :02:25.in Newcastle, staff and students at the medical school are still
:02:26. > :02:30.struggling to cope then this news and there has been support also
:02:31. > :02:35.across the country -- to comprehend this news. This lunch time, Neil
:02:36. > :02:39.Dalton's school described him as a vibrant young man with a bright
:02:40. > :02:42.future. They said he was an excellent mathematician and a
:02:43. > :02:49.talented sportsman. Both men were said to be able to go on to be
:02:50. > :02:52.successful doctors. Messages of sympathy from local people in the
:02:53. > :02:57.province of Borneo where this attack took place. Neil Dalton and Aiden
:02:58. > :03:02.Brando had gone there to further their medical experience, on a
:03:03. > :03:06.hospital work placement. These are three of the four men police say
:03:07. > :03:09.have confessed to murdering them, after a row in a bar. It was for in
:03:10. > :03:15.the morning when the gang followed the two students and stabbed them to
:03:16. > :03:19.death. Staff and students back at Newcastle University's medical
:03:20. > :03:22.school are still coming to town with what has happened. Everybody is just
:03:23. > :03:28.so shocked. It is difficult to describe. The loss of two young
:03:29. > :03:36.people with so much promise and such good students, so close to becoming
:03:37. > :03:39.doctors. It is tragic, and I think everybody in the place feels that
:03:40. > :03:45.there is just an air of silence still, and shop. They travelled to
:03:46. > :03:49.Borneo as part of learning how to save lives. Now their families are
:03:50. > :03:55.waiting for their bodies to be brought back home. Two members of
:03:56. > :03:59.the University 's Mac medical school staff have flown out to Borneo. We
:04:00. > :04:02.understand they are with the five other students who are staying in
:04:03. > :04:06.the same hostel as these two, but there is a wider group of more than
:04:07. > :04:09.20 students who were on placement in this province to the north of
:04:10. > :04:16.Borneo. It is expected that most of those students will return home in
:04:17. > :04:18.the next few days, but the bodies of the two medical students who were
:04:19. > :04:24.murdered are still awaiting a postmortem examination.
:04:25. > :04:26.Oscar Pistorius has been called a "deceitful witness"
:04:27. > :04:28.by the prosecution, as it presents its closing arguments
:04:29. > :04:32.The South African athlete is accused of murdering his girlfriend,
:04:33. > :04:34.Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in Pretoria last year.
:04:35. > :04:37.He maintains he mistook her for an intruder.
:04:38. > :04:38.Our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding is outside
:04:39. > :04:51.Yes, this morning the prosecution has been busy summing up its case
:04:52. > :04:55.against Oscar Pistorius. We have heard about his neighbours. We have
:04:56. > :04:59.heard from police experts. But above all we have heard about the athlete
:05:00. > :05:03.himself, and his supposedly weak performance in the witness box. The
:05:04. > :05:07.prosecution insisting that it is proved beyond all doubt that he is
:05:08. > :05:14.not only a liar, he is also a murderer. Brisk and focused, Oscar
:05:15. > :05:17.Pistorius trading back into court this morning to hear the prosecution
:05:18. > :05:24.lay out their case against him. For the first time, Barry Steenkamp,
:05:25. > :05:27.father of Reeva, was also here, alongside his wife, June. Ill health
:05:28. > :05:33.has kept away from this murder trial until today. In court, prosecutor
:05:34. > :05:37.Gerrie Nel started by quoting the fictional British lawyer, Rumpole of
:05:38. > :05:41.the Bailey. I was thinking that a criminal trial is a very blunt
:05:42. > :05:46.implement for digging out the truth. Then he went on the attack,
:05:47. > :05:52.dismissing Pistorius's defence is a string of lies. My lady, it is just
:05:53. > :05:55.so improbable, it can never be reasonably possibly true and it is a
:05:56. > :05:58.clear indication of his mendacity and has the seat on us. The
:05:59. > :06:05.prosecution focused on the shooting itself. -- his deceitfulness. The
:06:06. > :06:09.four bullets that Pistorius fired through the toilet door, killing
:06:10. > :06:12.Reeva Steenkamp. Gerrie Nel said the athlete offered contradictory
:06:13. > :06:15.explanations, either that he shot instinctively in panic or that he
:06:16. > :06:21.did so deliberately insult the fence, thinking there was an
:06:22. > :06:25.intruder. The accused himself was confused between which defence he
:06:26. > :06:30.must now pick during his evidence. The prosecution went on to attack
:06:31. > :06:37.every aspect of Pistorius's defence, his refusal to take responsibility
:06:38. > :06:41.for earlier gunshot incidents, his stormy relationship with Reeva
:06:42. > :06:46.Steenkamp. Overall, Melo said, a pattern of dishonesty had been
:06:47. > :06:52.established -- Gerrie Nel said. The accused was more adjusted in
:06:53. > :06:57.defending his life than in trusting the court with a truthful account of
:06:58. > :07:06.that fateful morning. Watching in the courtroom, not just Reeva's
:07:07. > :07:09.father, but Oscar's as well, thanks Pistorius, long estranged from the
:07:10. > :07:15.athlete, making his first appearance. The court said it had
:07:16. > :07:19.long proved that it was premeditated murder, even if the story did think
:07:20. > :07:23.there was an intruder in his house he walked towards the bathroom with
:07:24. > :07:29.a gun intending to kill someone. The verdict could still be weeks away.
:07:30. > :07:31.Israel says it is willing to extend the current 72-hour ceasefire
:07:32. > :07:35.in Gaza when it expires tomorrow, but Hamas says it's not yet agreed
:07:36. > :07:39.Further talks are taking place in Cairo to try to secure
:07:40. > :07:43.Meanwhile, the Disasters Emergency Committee
:07:44. > :07:46.has launched an appeal to help the hundreds of thousands of people
:07:47. > :07:59.James Reynolds reports from Gaza City.
:08:00. > :08:06.The Palestinian armed movement, Hamas, runs the Gaza Strip. This
:08:07. > :08:13.afternoon, here in Gaza City, the group held a rally to make a point.
:08:14. > :08:17.It is still here. And Israel's defensive did not damage its
:08:18. > :08:21.support. Hamas is determined to show its strength. It wants to prove that
:08:22. > :08:26.the last month of fighting has made its movement more popular here, and
:08:27. > :08:33.certainly during a period of conflict no one in Gaza will openly
:08:34. > :08:39.criticise Hamas. Thousands have been back to their neighbourhoods to see
:08:40. > :08:42.if they have anything left. The outside world has promised support
:08:43. > :08:48.for those who have lost their homes. We are going to have to see the
:08:49. > :08:54.shift in opportunity for the people of Gaza. I have no sympathy for
:08:55. > :09:00.Hamas. I have great sympathy for ordinary people who are struggling
:09:01. > :09:06.within Gaza. On the other side of the border, Israel continues to
:09:07. > :09:11.maintain its forces. It has warned that it will resume strikes if Hamas
:09:12. > :09:17.breaks the truce, and it is looking ahead. Their opportunities now,
:09:18. > :09:20.perhaps opportunities that we have not seen before -- there are
:09:21. > :09:27.opportunities now, with a realignment of important parties in
:09:28. > :09:34.the Middle East to be able to fashion a new reality, one more
:09:35. > :09:37.conducive to the end of violence, to the establishment of calm,
:09:38. > :09:42.sustainable peace, or at least a sustainable quiet which can lead to
:09:43. > :09:45.other things. Much depends now on what will happen in Cairo, where
:09:46. > :09:52.indirect talks between the two sides are taking place. Their demands are
:09:53. > :09:59.far apart, and they have less than 24 hours before the cease-fire ends.
:10:00. > :10:01.Liberia has declared a state of emergency, following the
:10:02. > :10:05.the outbreak of the Ebola virus that has claimed the lives of more than
:10:06. > :10:08.The World Health Organization is meeting to discuss
:10:09. > :10:11.Its medical ethics specialists will meet next week,
:10:12. > :10:14.to consider whether to approve the use of experimental treatments
:10:15. > :10:24.Our World Affairs correspondent Nick Childs reports.
:10:25. > :10:30.Under intensive care, now back in Spain, a medical motorcade for the
:10:31. > :10:35.Spanish missionary priest infected in Liberia while caring for Ebola
:10:36. > :10:40.victims were stuck with such a deadly virus, the Spanish
:10:41. > :10:45.authorities are taking no chances. In Liberia itself, some basic
:10:46. > :10:48.precautions, but the government has now declared a state of emergency.
:10:49. > :10:53.The country's weak health system has been overwhelmed so far, and among
:10:54. > :10:56.many librarians there is ignorance and cultural resistance over the
:10:57. > :11:03.measures needed to control this epidemic. The medical doctors were
:11:04. > :11:08.not getting access to the patients, because they have been attacked. And
:11:09. > :11:12.the latest statistics show this deadly outbreak continues to grow.
:11:13. > :11:18.932 deaths now in four West African States. They have been 108 new cases
:11:19. > :11:22.and 45 deaths just this week. They are alarming, because they are
:11:23. > :11:25.showing it is not under control. We have an increase of 55% in one week
:11:26. > :11:31.in the number of cases in Liberia, so it does show that there are still
:11:32. > :11:35.a lot of work to be done. The world health organisation is deciding
:11:36. > :11:37.whether to declare this crisis and international health emergency. Its
:11:38. > :11:41.ethics committee will also meet next week, is a debate has erupted over
:11:42. > :11:48.the use of experimental drugs to combat this outbreak. Two US aid
:11:49. > :11:51.workers infected in Liberia but brought back to the United States
:11:52. > :11:56.were treated with such a drug. They have improved, but was the drug the
:11:57. > :12:04.reason? I do think all of the other nation is in on whether this drug is
:12:05. > :12:10.helpful. What we do know is that the Ebola virus, both currently, and in
:12:11. > :12:15.the past is controllable. -- I don't think all of the information is in.
:12:16. > :12:22.If you have a good public health infrastructure in place. But it is
:12:23. > :12:25.what the outside world can do now to stop this epidemic from spreading
:12:26. > :12:27.further. Australia is holding
:12:28. > :12:30.a national day of mourning for the 298 people who died when the
:12:31. > :12:33.Malaysia Airlines plane was brought 38 of those who were killed were
:12:34. > :12:37.Australian nationals or residents. The Duke of Cambridge is to train
:12:38. > :12:45.as an air ambulance pilot, before taking up
:12:46. > :12:47.a full-time role next year. Kensington Palace say Prince William
:12:48. > :12:50.will begin a civilian pilot course next month, followed
:12:51. > :12:53.by 999 emergency response training. If he passes,
:12:54. > :12:55.he'll join the East Anglian Air He will be paid a salary, which he
:12:56. > :13:01.will donate in full to the charity. Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas
:13:02. > :13:13.Witchell reports. It is merely a dear now since he
:13:14. > :13:21.completed his tour of duty as an RAF search and rescue pilot, and ever
:13:22. > :13:25.since -- nearly a year now. He understands the importance of his
:13:26. > :13:30.royal role, representing the Queen as he did in Australia earlier this
:13:31. > :13:35.year, but he is not ready yet to commit himself to a full-time royal
:13:36. > :13:41.role. The solution to his dilemma? Another yellow helicopter, and a
:13:42. > :13:44.civilian job as a pilot for the East Anglian air ambulance, based at
:13:45. > :13:47.Cambridge and Norwich airports. It will take William six months to
:13:48. > :13:52.complete the training for the civilian helicopter pilots license.
:13:53. > :13:58.If he passes all of the exams, he will join the crew next spring. His
:13:59. > :14:03.job will be to react to 999 calls, as required by the ambulance
:14:04. > :14:08.control, to react to things such as road traffic collisions, cardiac
:14:09. > :14:13.arrests, anything where there is an emergency medical situation. William
:14:14. > :14:15.will continue to fulfil some royal judges, as he did for the First
:14:16. > :14:19.World War commemorations in Belgium on Monday, but Kensington Palace is
:14:20. > :14:23.making it clear that the air ambulance will be his principal
:14:24. > :14:28.occupation. He and Catherine and George will move to a new home, and
:14:29. > :14:31.the whole, a large house on the Queen's Sandringham estate, which
:14:32. > :14:35.has been refurbished at private expense. William will receive a
:14:36. > :14:38.salary which Kensington Palace says will be donated in full to charity.
:14:39. > :14:42.The decision to join an air ambulance crew is very much William
:14:43. > :14:46.Bosisto, there will be security concerns to be addressed but it
:14:47. > :14:52.means he will once again find that sense of purpose that he had as an
:14:53. > :14:56.RAF rescue pilot. To be able to see a son or daughter's face when you
:14:57. > :15:00.bring their father or mother back from the edge of death to hospital
:15:01. > :15:05.and they are cuddling them, it is quite powerful. William, the first
:15:06. > :15:07.future king to take a civilian job, determined to be royal, but on his
:15:08. > :15:18.terms. The time is quarter past one, the
:15:19. > :15:23.top story. Four men have admitted to the murder of two British medical
:15:24. > :15:28.students in Borneo who were stabbed to death after an argument in a bar.
:15:29. > :15:31.Still to come on the programme, 400 years after cranes were wiped out in
:15:32. > :15:41.the UK, there is a new project to bring back the birds.
:15:42. > :15:45.One of the most important weapons of World War One - the wooden
:15:46. > :15:48.sorting office, built in Regent's Park to boost morale with letters.
:15:49. > :15:50.That story and a full weather forecast looking
:15:51. > :16:03.The United Nations says it has rescued some of the thousands of
:16:04. > :16:05.people trapped by the Islamic State group, formerly called ISIS,
:16:06. > :16:11.in mountains near the town of Sinjar.
:16:12. > :16:18.It's feared those remaining could starve without swift action -
:16:19. > :16:20.access to them is impossible because militants control the area.
:16:21. > :16:30.Our world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge reports.
:16:31. > :16:41.According to this amateur footage, these are Yazidi taking to the
:16:42. > :16:44.mountains to escape fighters. The followers of this ancient religious
:16:45. > :16:47.sect made the journey knowing they were likely to find themselves
:16:48. > :16:54.stranded with little or nothing to survive on. This woman says, will we
:16:55. > :17:00.and our children ran away to save our lives and left everything
:17:01. > :17:07.behind. We preferred to die, rather than change our faith, this woman
:17:08. > :17:11.says. This is a desperate situation, particularly for children. We know
:17:12. > :17:16.40 children have already died. These are the numbers we can confirm but
:17:17. > :17:21.it is probably more than that. They have no food, water or medical
:17:22. > :17:24.supplies. The UN says some people have been extracted from the
:17:25. > :17:31.mountains in the past 24-hour was. What has happened in the area is,
:17:32. > :17:41.the UN says, a tragedy of immense proportion. These are other
:17:42. > :17:48.Yazidis. They are considered heretical and have been demanded to
:17:49. > :17:51.change to Islam. There is similar pressure on thousands of Christians
:17:52. > :17:56.living in the same region. A setback for the Kurdish forces who have been
:17:57. > :18:00.trying to protect the north of Iraq. They joined volunteers in
:18:01. > :18:02.their efforts to push back the militants in this intensification of
:18:03. > :18:06.the battle for Iraq. Two former leaders of the
:18:07. > :18:09.Khmer Rouge regime have been jailed for life after being convicted
:18:10. > :18:11.of war crimes by a UN backed court in Cambodia - for
:18:12. > :18:15.their role in the mass killings They're
:18:16. > :18:18.the only leaders to face justice. Nuon Chea
:18:19. > :18:20.and Khieu Samphan were found guilty of crimes against humanity during
:18:21. > :18:24.the forced evacuation of Phnom Penh, After the television debate
:18:25. > :18:31.on Tuesday between the yes and the no camp in the Scottish
:18:32. > :18:34.Independence campaign, there have been heated exchanges at First
:18:35. > :18:40.Minister's Questions at Holyrood. Our Scotland correspondent
:18:41. > :18:55.Lorna Gordon is in Edinburgh. Tell us more about what was said. It
:18:56. > :19:02.was a feisty debate. The leaders of the three unionist parties here in
:19:03. > :19:05.Scotland focused on Alex Salmond's performance in the television
:19:06. > :19:09.debate. They tried to nail him on policy. Every single one of their
:19:10. > :19:15.questions was over the issue of currency. They were trying to get
:19:16. > :19:22.Alex Hammond to answer what currency Scotland would use if people were
:19:23. > :19:27.here when they go to the polls six weeks today, voted yes. And also
:19:28. > :19:31.what his plan B would be of Scotland could not keep the pound. Alex
:19:32. > :19:38.Salmond came out fighting, not surprisingly really. He referred
:19:39. > :19:42.again and again to page 110 and 111 of Scotland's White Paper. He said
:19:43. > :19:48.there is a range of options out there. He named them all. He did not
:19:49. > :19:51.explicitly say what the second option would be if Scotland were
:19:52. > :19:56.tabled to keep the pound and he did not explicitly answer the question
:19:57. > :19:59.of what the consequences would be if Scotland could not keep the pound. I
:20:00. > :20:03.think opposition leaders here feel they have found a weak point and
:20:04. > :20:07.they will not let the issue go any time soon. Thank you.
:20:08. > :20:10.Researchers say they've found the strongest evidence yet that
:20:11. > :20:13.older people who don't get enough vitamin D may be more likely
:20:14. > :20:17.A study in the journal Neurology found that people who were severely
:20:18. > :20:19.Vitamin D deficient were at substantially increased risk.
:20:20. > :20:31.Here's our health correspondent, Adam Brimelow.
:20:32. > :20:37.This isn't the first paper to suggest
:20:38. > :20:40.a link between vitamin D deficiency and dementia, but it's the biggest
:20:41. > :20:43.study of its kind, and the link was much stronger than expected.
:20:44. > :20:45.Researchers looked at the vitamin D levels
:20:46. > :20:48.of more than 1,600 people over 65 from across the United States.
:20:49. > :20:51.Nearly 500 didn't have enough vitamin D.
:20:52. > :20:53.When everyone in the study was followed up six years later,
:20:54. > :21:00.The risk was more than twice as high among 70 people who were
:21:01. > :21:19.Sunlight is the main source of vitamins D. For most of us, 15
:21:20. > :21:26.minutes of sunlight is enough but as we get older, our skin is not good
:21:27. > :21:30.at generating vitamin do. We can also get vitamin deep from oily
:21:31. > :21:34.foods such as fish and eggs and from supplements. Health charity is too
:21:35. > :21:45.soon to say the sure that these will rip juice the risk of dementia. --
:21:46. > :21:48.to -- reduce the risk of dementia. We need more research before we can
:21:49. > :21:59.advise people to supplement on a long-term basis. The public health
:22:00. > :22:01.benefits could be very significant given the cost and scale of
:22:02. > :22:06.dementia. The average adult in Britain now
:22:07. > :22:09.spends more time on digital devices than sleeping - according to
:22:10. > :22:11.the media regulator, Ofcom. It also found that six-year-olds
:22:12. > :22:13.have the same understanding of mobile phones and tablets
:22:14. > :22:15.as 45-year-olds. Here's our technology correspondent,
:22:16. > :22:27.Rory Cellan-Jones. Meet a techy group
:22:28. > :22:29.of teenagers. They're on a summer camp in London
:22:30. > :22:37.learning computer programming But across the UK,
:22:38. > :22:40.Ofcom says it is 14 and 15-year-olds who are now the most confident with
:22:41. > :22:43.technology, and it's downhill from there, with 45-year-olds overtaken
:22:44. > :22:45.by tech-savvy children of six. Honestly, I think I spend most time
:22:46. > :22:49.on Instagram on my phone or tablet. I'm spending less time watching TV
:22:50. > :22:59.nowadays. How confident are you about using
:23:00. > :23:00.new technology? I'm very confident because I have grown up with the
:23:01. > :23:04.technology. Ofcom's research shows how big
:23:05. > :23:06.a part technology plays 67% of 12 to 15-year-olds have
:23:07. > :23:09.a smartphone. 49% use a tablet computer, and they
:23:10. > :23:12.communicate in a different way. They spent just 3%
:23:13. > :23:14.of their communications time talking Just 8% use it regularly
:23:15. > :23:25.compared with 77% of adults. This may be the digital generation,
:23:26. > :23:28.but the arrival of smartphones and tablets means we're all spending
:23:29. > :23:31.more time with this technology. In fact, Ofcom worked out that
:23:32. > :23:33.the average person spends eight hours and 41 minutes a day
:23:34. > :23:37.on communications and the media. That's more time than
:23:38. > :23:40.we spend sleeping. And when you think that many
:23:41. > :23:43.of us do two things at once, say surfing the web
:23:44. > :23:46.while watching the television, that brings the total up to 11 hours
:23:47. > :23:49.and seven minutes every day. There's lots of different search
:23:50. > :23:52.engines, but a lot of them have a lot of adverts, and that is
:23:53. > :23:55.off-putting when you first start. While older people may sometimes
:23:56. > :23:58.struggle to keep up, their habits This silver surfers group
:23:59. > :24:02.in Manchester helps people get to The figures show one in five people
:24:03. > :24:07.over 65 now owns a tablet computer. I bought the tablet with
:24:08. > :24:09.the intention of getting to know what's happening
:24:10. > :24:15.in the world, as you might say. The grandkids are coming in,
:24:16. > :24:36.telling you, this is what you do, This group watches less TV and gets
:24:37. > :24:39.more information from their phones. If you want to know what the future
:24:40. > :24:42.looks like, ask a teenager. England have made stunning start
:24:43. > :24:44.against India on the first day of the fourth test against India
:24:45. > :24:47.at Old Trafford. Ideal conditions
:24:48. > :24:49.for swing helped Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad rip through
:24:50. > :24:51.the top of the order. Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson
:24:52. > :25:01.sent this report from Old Trafford. Entrepreneurial spirit alive and
:25:02. > :25:08.well outside Old Trafford this morning. An Indian themed umbrella
:25:09. > :25:19.is the must have item. A test series without rain would be unthinkable.
:25:20. > :25:25.Half an hour late, rain gone, did that hit anything? Not really. No
:25:26. > :25:33.need to get worked up yet, is there? At the other end, he came Stewart
:25:34. > :25:42.Broad. There went Galton Gambia. It was a decent score in the context of
:25:43. > :25:55.the morning. Anderson's turn next. Keep watching. This is not a replay.
:25:56. > :25:59.Lancashire's bowler in classic English conditions. This is why
:26:00. > :26:03.Alastair Cook calls James Anderson the best English bowler he has seen.
:26:04. > :26:11.Stewart Broad cannot be too far behind. They say cricket has become
:26:12. > :26:15.a batsmen's game. Nice weather for ducks. Still a hint of rain in the
:26:16. > :26:21.air. The drizzle was hanging around longer than India's batsmen, a
:26:22. > :26:28.stunning half-hour. This test match is scheduled for five days. Here was
:26:29. > :26:37.India's Captain Mest Tony defending. Not even Chris Jordan's lightning
:26:38. > :26:50.reflexes could make the catch. -- India's Captain N S Tony.
:26:51. > :27:00.Bright sunshine has just arrived. They are playing on. India have just
:27:01. > :27:02.lost their fifth wicket. Sorry about that, but I think that
:27:03. > :27:06.was good news! Five years ago an ambitious project
:27:07. > :27:09.got underway to reintroduce birds to the wild which had been extinct
:27:10. > :27:12.in the UK for centuries. Now almost 100 cranes have been
:27:13. > :27:14.hand-reared and released, John Maguire has been given
:27:15. > :27:17.exclusive access to film It's early morning and a group of
:27:18. > :27:25.youngsters is about to move home. This is the latest batch
:27:26. > :27:27.of crane chicks, brought over as eggs from Germany, to be hand-reared
:27:28. > :27:30.then released into the wild. Staff disguise themselves
:27:31. > :27:34.in these grey suits. It's an approach they've pioneered
:27:35. > :27:37.here over the past five years at the Wildfowl And Wetlands Trust
:27:38. > :27:41.in Slimbridge. This isn't the first time
:27:42. > :27:44.the team have done this, of course. They're becoming really quite expert
:27:45. > :27:47.at it, and there's a good deal of confidence,
:27:48. > :27:49.but we're all being really, really Cranes were hunted into extinction
:27:50. > :27:59.in the UK 400 years ago. Now this project is trying
:28:00. > :28:01.to reintroduce them. It's always a little bit worrying
:28:02. > :28:04.because you never quite know how they're going to handle jiggling
:28:05. > :28:07.around in a box for a while, but they usually take it in their
:28:08. > :28:10.stride, so hopefully if we just continue like this and get
:28:11. > :28:13.everything done as fast and smoothly This is the first time anyone other
:28:14. > :28:19.than the conservation team has been Every action is quick, quiet,
:28:20. > :28:25.and efficient. Then, within a few hours, the
:28:26. > :28:30.12-week-old chicks take their first tentative steps into their new home,
:28:31. > :28:34.a secure enclosure in a secret They'll be in here for about two to
:28:35. > :28:44.three weeks, until they're ready to The journey hasn't been too bad,
:28:45. > :28:56.a few ruffled feathers. Some of the birds released over the
:28:57. > :28:59.past five years have already started breeding, but these chicks born
:29:00. > :29:02.in the spring failed to survive. The Great Crane Project team,
:29:03. > :29:04.though, is optimistic. What we need to do is ensure that
:29:05. > :29:08.these birds continue to receive protection, and that the wetland
:29:09. > :29:10.habitats they like to live on are also managed properly, and maybe
:29:11. > :29:17.increased in size, too, so that the For the population to be viable,
:29:18. > :29:20.almost half of the birds that have been introduced
:29:21. > :29:40.will need to become breeding pairs, There is some high impact weather
:29:41. > :29:46.coming our way which I will talk about in a moment. There was a
:29:47. > :29:49.delayed start at Old Trafford, some sharp showers across Northern
:29:50. > :29:54.Ireland and some brewing up across East Anglia. In between, plenty of
:29:55. > :30:00.fine warm weather. I will skip tonight, not a lot going on.
:30:01. > :30:03.Tomorrow, there is an increasing risk of heavy rain. Outbreaks of
:30:04. > :30:07.heavy rain developing across parts of the south-east and East Anglia.
:30:08. > :30:11.Meanwhile, rain pushes across Northern Ireland into western parts
:30:12. > :30:16.of the mainland. There will be heavy downpours developing in the middle.
:30:17. > :30:19.Some places will stay dry. By the afternoon there are some nasty
:30:20. > :30:25.downpours pushing in on the western side of Scotland down the spine of
:30:26. > :30:28.England. There will be slow moving heavy, thundery downpours.
:30:29. > :30:36.Potentially a lot of standing water and spray. Some brightness further
:30:37. > :30:43.west. One or two showers creeping into Devon and will and
:30:44. > :30:48.Pembrokeshire. There is the Eisteddfod in Llanelli. At Old
:30:49. > :30:52.Trafford there will be problems with heavy downpours. On Saturday, bright
:30:53. > :31:03.and breezy for many of us. There will be showers. Let me step to one
:31:04. > :31:10.side. This was Hurricane Bertha. It is no longer a hurricane but a huge
:31:11. > :31:15.mass of cloud. It is heading across the Atlantic. It is thousands of
:31:16. > :31:19.miles away and some days. It is impossible to nail down the track of
:31:20. > :31:23.the storm but it does look like on Sunday it will be coming to the
:31:24. > :31:27.south-west of us. It will head in the more general direction towards
:31:28. > :31:32.us. The exact track of the low pressure is open to some uncertainty
:31:33. > :31:36.and computer models are struggling with the detail. The most likely
:31:37. > :31:41.scenario is it will track across the southeastern parts of the UK and
:31:42. > :31:45.impact a lot of heavy rain and strong winds. There will be
:31:46. > :31:50.holiday-makers at the coasts. Big waves are the potential at the
:31:51. > :31:53.weekend. Less likely scenario is it tracks further south eastwards and
:31:54. > :32:00.the are more limited. It is still very much open. I advise you to keep
:32:01. > :32:01.tuned to the forecast over the next few days because the detail will
:32:02. > :32:04.change.