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India and Pakistan mark 70 years of independence from Britain -

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a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest mass

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At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps India will awake to

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freedom. But the optimism quickly gave way

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to widespread violence which left I'm right in Pakistan where despite

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a violent birth the nation is celebrating with people filling the

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streets. Strong condemnation of white

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supremacists after the violence in Virginia as the US Vice President

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gives a statement that goes much We have no tolerance for hate

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violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis or the KKK.

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Arrests of passengers suspected of being drunk at UK airports

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or on flights see a 50% rise in the past year.

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A worrying rise in rural crime - insurers say brazen thieves

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are forcing farmers to turn their farmyards into fortresses.

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And Big Ben's bongs will fall silent next week for nearly four years

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And coming up in the sport on BBC News.

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The British team claim a successful World Athletics Championships

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after reaching their medal target with five in the final

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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.

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This week - India and Pakistan mark 70 years

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of independence from Britain - a moment of freedom that came

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amid one of the largest mass migrations the world has ever seen.

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The Muslim-majority state of Pakistan was created to both

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the west and the east of India, with Muslims travelling

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in one direction, Hindus and Sikhs in the other.

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Around 12 million people are thought to have fled

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the violence that erupted, with communities

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A million people are thought to have died.

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Reeta Chakrabarti is in the Pakistani city of Lahore

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You can see the crowds behind me and hear the call to prayer from the

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mosque. It is a big day of passivity here with people taking to the

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streets to celebrate the end of colonial rule in Pakistan and also

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its creation as a new state independent of India. India

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celebrating its own independence tomorrow. But partition in 1947

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brought mass migration and widespread bloodshed as our

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correspondent James Robbins reports. 70 years ago, Britain pulled out

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of India, seen as the jewel British rule, the British Raj,

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had been unravelling in the 1940s Lord Louis Mountbatten,

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India's last Viceroy, worked to transfer power

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as quickly as possible. The British even brought

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forward the deadline India then was home to almost

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400 million people. Hindus were in the majority,

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Muslims made up about But no way could be agreed to keep

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them in a single, undivided nation. So independence also

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meant partition. Creating not one but two

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self-governing countries. At the stroke of the midnight hour

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when the bold Street India will awake to life and freedom.

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The new Borders were drawn up in just five weeks.

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On the 14th of August 1947 British India was heading to its end.

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Over the course of two days, partition was also launched.

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A new largely Muslim state of Pakistan was born

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while the new India was celebrating its independence.

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But millions of people, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, found themselves

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on what they regarded as the wrong side of the new borders.

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12 million or more refugees fled from one newly created

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Fleeing from their looted, bloodstained towns,

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Independence has not yet brought peace.

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Rejoicing turned quickly into horror and mourning.

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The new governments were ill-equipped to deal with such

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a panicked mass migration, one of the largest in history.

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There was a wave of massacres, each one sparking a revenge attack.

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Whole villages divided on sectarian lines, tens

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of thousands of women abducted, many raped.

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Between half a million and a million people

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BBC correspondent Winford Vaughan Thomas witnessed

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What we saw was a town soaked with stench of death.

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We came to a row of one-storey houses, I simply shut my eyes.

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Lying on the pathway and over the furniture and in the rooms,

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After the optimism of independence, the upheaval and violence that

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followed cast a long shadow over the next 70 years.

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Borders drawn in haste by the British Government have

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repeatedly been a source of tension between neighbours.

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Relations between India and Pakistan have never recovered from the trauma

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As James Robbins said there was a great spirit of optimism following

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independence appears to come after that were difficult. I have been to

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the city of Karachi to speak to the people there. It was the first

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capital of the country following independence and the birthplace of

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its founding father Mohammed Jinnah. It is Pakistan's birthday,

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and at every street corner But its 70 years have

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been very mixed. It was founded as a democracy

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but has had military rule and people argue whether its founder

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Mohammed Jinnah wanted a secular I went to one of Karachi's

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universities to ask students what they think of Mohammed Jinnah

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and Pakistan today. Mohammed Jinnah, it is the biggest

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name for Pakistan and even every nation of the world,

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he is like a father, And do you think Mohammed

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Jinnah would be happy He would be happy, he would be

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really happy seeing Pakistan today progressing every

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day, every second. On this 70th anniversary of

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independence, the country is doing And I hope it will get more

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prosperous day by day. And Mansour, do you think that

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Mohammed Jinnah would be happy Basically he had seen the basic

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needs of the people, and they are not being

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fulfilled right now. Much of the problem

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lies in religion. Because people nowadays,

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they're not tolerant. Crowds come to Jinnah's mausoleum

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to pay their respects. The country he founded

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was rocked again last month when the Prime Minister was forced

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to resign over corruption charges. Finding political stability remains

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one of Pakistan's many challenges. In a moment we can hear

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from our India Correspondent Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi -

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but first Scunder Kermani What do you think people are

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celebrating today, independence from the UK or splitting from India? This

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is a question that I put to a number of Pakistanis and many seem to

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believe it is independent from both Britain and India. A great deal of

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Pakistanis especially in the younger generations who have no first-hand

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recollection of life under colonial rule set primarily as independence

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from India. That is because people from a young age or taught that

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whilst Hindus and Muslims live together side under British rule and

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indeed long before that, in fact they were separate nations and so it

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was necessary to create Pakistan to ensure a Muslim minority in the

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subcontinent would not be oppressed by a Hindu majority. Partition so

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horrific amount of violence that maybe no one anticipated. But it was

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something that many Indian Muslim leaders had campaigned for. Nowadays

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it is quite common to hear in Pakistan the point of view that

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India is trying to sabotage Pakistan is a kind of punishment for breaking

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away. The legacy of bitterness that was created by partition is

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something that still continues to have modern repercussions. And India

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celebrates Independence Day tomorrow, how big occasion will that

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be? In just a few hours from now you can already see the building behind

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me being lit up, that is the parliament building where the First

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Minister made historic speech that we had in the fort from James

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Robbins. There's a sense of excitement and anticipation but also

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subdued celebration at the same time. It is not seen such a big

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occasion apart from the fact that it is a public holiday. India today is

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very different from the India of 1947. It is now a booming economy

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and in 1947 the per capita income was about ?20 and now it is ?5,500.

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One of the fastest-growing economies in the world. At the same time a lot

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of people thought in 1947 that India might break up as a nation because

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there were so many different sap nationalities in the country, it was

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so diverse. But in fact it has endured and as a democracy and it

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handled that part of its politics quite well. Many of the conflicts

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that existed at the time of partition, the differences with

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Pakistan over the Muslim majority state of Kashmir, the huge religious

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differences between the minority Muslim community and the majority

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Hindu community which was the cause of partition persists even today.

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Thank you both very much. Pakistan is a country that often feels that

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it gets a bad press internationally and there are major challenges here

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with security, political instability and also religion in the state. But

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there is also optimism especially amongst younger people and that is

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very much in evidence today. The US Vice President, Mike Pence,

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has specifically condemned far-right groups when asked to respond

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to the violence over A woman was killed and 19 people

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were injured when a car was driven into a crowd protesting

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against a far-right rally President Trump has been criticised

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for not identifying any specific group when he condemned the trouble

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- as our correspondent After the violence, the vigils.

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Across America people showed their support for the young anti-fascism

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protester killed in Charlottesville and they condemn what they saw as

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the newly confident white supremacy movement. It has not melted away. In

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Seattle group calling itself Patriot prayer was quickly surrounded. The

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violence on Saturday in Charlottesville has become a

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defining moment in the Trump presidency. The gathering of

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hundreds of white supremacists was for many shocking enough. But then

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this. A car driven into a group of counter protesters. These new

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pictures show the terror and chaos that followed. Oh, my God, people

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are badly hurt. 19 people were injured. 32-year-old Heather Heyer

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was killed. Donald Trump condemned what he called the violence on many

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sides. But did not mention the far right hate groups involved. That was

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left to the vice president last night. We have no tolerance for hate

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and violence. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, or the KKK. These

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dangerous fringe groups have no place in American public life and in

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the American debate and we condemn them in the strongest possible

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terms. But many in the president was wrecked own party are angry at his

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reluctance to specifically condemn the far right. It is un-American,

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there are domestic terrorists and we need more from our president on this

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issue. The media attacking our president... But President Trump is

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trying to switch the focus of the nation, his team releasing this at

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portraying him as the victim. But in Charlottesville they're not ready to

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change the conversation. We need to spread love all day and every day

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and not just when something like this happens, when a tragedy

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happened. Everyone wants to come together and we will be there for

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Heather. She would want us to be there all the time. That is what

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we're going to do. Richard Lister, BBC News.

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Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue is in Washington.

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Mike Pence unequivocal in condemnation, is this going to

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increase pressure on Donald Trump and will he give further comment on

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this now? To some extent I think that the damage is done. We have had

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a raft of people including Vice President and the President was

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wrecked on daughter coming out and using the words of the present

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failed to use, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, take your pick. That

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is the problem and whatever is said now he will have a problem I think

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putting it right. The difficulty of course is that for one third of the

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population, for perhaps a bunch of those people who voted for Donald

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Trump, some of them and only some of them, will have liked what they

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heard on we see that reflected on some of the ultra-right websites,

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applauding Donald Trump for not condemning them. Not singling them

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out. That is the problem here, that people in Charlottesville will find

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it very hard to move on from this. To bring the country together after

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these things have happened. The president is not naming this thing

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for what it is. Gary, thank you. China will stop some imports

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from North Korea following agreement to fully enforce sanctions agreed

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against the regime in the country. Coal and iron imports will be

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suspended after the UN and the United States put pressure

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on Beijing to do more The move comes after

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South Korea's President said he was confident the US would act

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reasonably and peacefully Moon Jae-in said "There must be no

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more war on the Korean Peninsula." The number of arrests of passengers

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suspected of being drunk at UK airports and on flights has risen

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by 50% in the past year, that's according to an investigation

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carried out by the BBC's Critics of the airline industry say

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a voluntary code on alcohol sales isn't working,

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and want the Government And it seems to be leaving

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passengers and crew with a hangover. An investigation by BBC Panorama has

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revealed that arrests of those suspected of being drunk at UK

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airports and on flights have risen Half of the 4,000 cabin

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crew who took part in by Panorama and Unite the union said

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they had either experienced or witnessed verbal, physical,

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or sexual abuse by drunk passengers People just see us as

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barmaids in the sky. They would touch your breasts

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or touch your bum and your legs. I mean, I have had hands

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going up my skirt before. Phil Ward, the managing director

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of low-cost airline Jet2, has already banned alcohol sales

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on flights before 8am. And wants the industry

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to take tougher measures. Do you think airports

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are doing enough? I think the retailers

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could do more as well. Two litre steins of beer in bars,

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mixers and miniatures which can only be

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there for one reason. But the Airport Operators

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Association insists that their code I don't accept that the airports

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don't sell alcohol responsibly. The sale of alcohol

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per se is not a problem. It is the misuse of it and drinking

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to excess and then behaving badly. Earlier this year, a House of Lords

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committee called for airport licensing to be brought into line

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with pubs and bars. A Government decision

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on whether to call time on early morning drinking at airports is now

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expected in the autumn. And you can see that Panorama

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investigation, Plane Drunk, Our top story this lunchtime: India

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and Pakistan mark 70 years of independence from Britain -

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a moment of freedom that came amid one of the largest mass

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migrations the world has ever seen. 50 years after pirate radio

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ships were outlawed, we look at how they changed

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the sound of the airwaves. Coming up in the sport,

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Cristiano Ronaldo could face a ban of up to 12 matches after pushing

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referee Real Madrid's Spanish super The world Player of the Year

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was reacting to being sent off. A rise in crime committed

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in the countryside has been described as deeply worrying

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by a rural insurer. Latest figures from NFU Mutual show

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claims have risen by more than a fifth in the first half

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of the year. The insurer says thieves

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are targeting items such as Land Rovers, tractors and quad

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bikes, despite increased Farming nearly 800 acres of arable

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land in North Yorkshire means Tim Rogers is all too aware

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of rural crime. We've had items such as these parts

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here stolen in recent days. Less than two weeks ago,

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thieves broke into his barn and stole thousands of pounds'

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worth of machinery. It puts an enormous amount of stress

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on the farming community. I know of farmers who are terrified

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about the current situation, It is the down time

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and the stress it is causing. It will no doubt in time put some

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people out of business. Figures from insurer NFU Mutual

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suggest the cost of rural theft was over ?39 million last year,

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but they also point to a 20% rise in the first six months of this

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year compared to last. These figures show an alarming rise

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of over 20% in the cost of claims in the countryside in the first half

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of this year, and we are very concerned there's a new wave

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of brazen and very determined thieves attacking farms

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and rural properties, and as a result farmers are having

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to turn their farmyards into fortresses to prevent

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themselves from becoming a victim. Some of the security measures

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farmers like Roger have had to There are six covert ones

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covering this farm to help Concrete blocks, tree trunks

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and ditches to try to stop people Tracker devices on tractors,

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and of course the big steel North Yorkshire Police

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says its dedicated task force is proactive in tackling rural

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crime, and that it works closely with farmers and residents to gather

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intelligence to disrupt criminals. Armed officers in the UK's largest

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police force are to be issued with head-mounted cameras

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in an attempt to address concerns over the transparency of operations

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around armed officers. They'll be attached to the caps

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and protective helmets of members of the Metropolitan Police's

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firearms units, as our home affairs More than 17,500 body worn cameras

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have now been rolled out by the Met Police,

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and now it's the turn And it's been decided that the best

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place for them to have their cameras With me is Chief Superintendent

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Martin Hendy and one Chief Superintendent Hendy,

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can you just talk us through how OK, so the officer you can see

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wearing a camera here has effectively got a device on his body

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armour there, that is effectively a battery pack and a means

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of switching it on very quickly. But the key bit for us

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is the actual camera mounted Because we think it is critical

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that it captures the eye line of the officer,

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so it can capture what they are actually seeing

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as a scenario unfolds. So as you see, the officer dressed

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there, he will be wearing If he was to put a ballistic helmet

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on, it would attach to the side. Very quickly attach

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to the side of the helmet. And as I said, we believe that gives

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the best chance of capturing exactly what it is the officers are seeing

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as the scenario unfolds. You've tested them in trials,

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both out in operations and also Yes, we have, we've been trialling

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it for, broadly speaking, And we've also trialled

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it within the range. And we think it's

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particularly effective. It has taken us a while to get

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to this position because of course we wanted to make sure

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they were mounted in the right place and make sure we have the right kit,

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and the right ability to download it and therefore capture

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the best evidence. But yes, we think the trials

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have proved this is It's hugely popular amongst

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the officers and my great hope is it will increase public confidence

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in armed policing, accountability, transparency, but also support those

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people that volunteer to perform a firearms role and potentially make

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some very difficult decisions. Chief Superintendent Hendy,

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thank you very much indeed. Around 140,000 vulnerable

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children in England have potentially dangerous home lives

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but are not receiving the help they need because they're not deemed

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to be at crisis point. That's the warning from the charity

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Action For Children, which says the youngsters are stuck in what it

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calls a revolving door Debbie has been working

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in children's services for 16 years and helps families with anything

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from behavioural problems But she says it's become harder

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to provide the support they need. Across the sites I run, I've got

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just under 2,500 under fives So, as much as we do,

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there's a lot that we cannot possibly do because we can't

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be everywhere at once. So you know, we're already aware

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of families that we are not A Freedom of Information request

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to local authorities found that last year 184,500 assessments

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of children's needs were closed because they fell short

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of the criteria for support. The charity Action For Children says

:24:26.:24:33.

only around one in four families were referred for early help

:24:34.:24:36.

services such as children centres We know from too many cases

:24:37.:24:38.

that if we're not able to help children early, that there

:24:39.:24:44.

are strong likelihoods that For example in serious case reviews,

:24:45.:24:47.

70% of the time we know there had been early warning signs

:24:48.:24:51.

of the outcomes. But we also know that if we give

:24:52.:24:56.

children and families the tools to help themselves much earlier,

:24:57.:24:59.

they're much more likely to not need Another issue highlighted

:25:00.:25:02.

is the differing thresholds help might be provided in one area

:25:03.:25:06.

but in a neighbouring borough, We have been hit by a double whammy

:25:07.:25:12.

of major government cuts to funding. At the same time as we are seeing

:25:13.:25:19.

a big increase in demand What reports show like this

:25:20.:25:21.

is the real human cost of the massive funding pressures

:25:22.:25:25.

facing local government The Department of Education says

:25:26.:25:27.

it's taking action to support vulnerable children by reforming

:25:28.:25:31.

social care services and better protecting victims

:25:32.:25:33.

of domestic violence and abuse. It says councils spent almost

:25:34.:25:38.

?8 billion last year on children's social care, but it wants

:25:39.:25:40.

to help them do more. It's 50 years ago today

:25:41.:25:43.

since Britain's pirate radio In the '60s, they had changed

:25:44.:25:53.

the face of broadcasting. continuous music and launched

:25:54.:26:00.

the careers of Tony Blackburn, But Harold Wilson's government

:26:01.:26:03.

introduced the Marine Offences Act, Tim Muffett looks back to a pivotal

:26:04.:26:06.

era in broadcasting. In the early 1960s, the BBC

:26:07.:26:17.

played hardly any pop. By broadcasting from

:26:18.:26:20.

international waters, pirate stations like Caroline,

:26:21.:26:25.

Radio London, and Swinging Radio This was Radio Caroline's London HQ,

:26:26.:26:27.

where Tony Blackburn Did you have any sense of what a big

:26:28.:26:34.

deal this was going to be I really thought this

:26:35.:26:40.

was going to be the start Broadcasting pop music from ships

:26:41.:26:45.

like this out at sea, the pirate But on land, they weren't just

:26:46.:26:53.

winning over millions of fans, they also faced a powerful enemy

:26:54.:26:59.

- the government. The pirates are a menace and I don't

:27:00.:27:07.

believe at all that the public wouldn't support action

:27:08.:27:11.

to enforce the law. At midnight on the 14th

:27:12.:27:16.

of August 1967, the Marine It was now illegal for

:27:17.:27:18.

British citizens to work Many pirate stations packed up,

:27:19.:27:21.

but Caroline continued broadcasting It anchored further

:27:22.:27:27.

into international waters This ship, the Ross Revenge,

:27:28.:27:32.

was its studio throughout the 1980s. What we wanted to do is return

:27:33.:27:39.

the ship to a useful Because while we dine

:27:40.:27:46.

out on our nostalgia, which is our selling point,

:27:47.:27:50.

we also want to now Having been streamed online

:27:51.:27:53.

since the late '90s, the station has just been granted

:27:54.:28:06.

a new AM broadcast license. 50 years after the law

:28:07.:28:11.

that tried to ban them, Britain's pop pirates are back

:28:12.:28:13.

on the water. The chimes of Big Ben will be heard

:28:14.:28:16.

for a final time next week, before major conservation work

:28:17.:28:29.

begins on the Westminster tower The clock won't resume its regular

:28:30.:28:32.

time-keeping duties until 2021 although specialist clock makers

:28:33.:28:35.

will ensure that Big Ben can still bong for important national

:28:36.:28:38.

events such as New Year's Eve Our political correspondent

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Leila Natthoo has the story. We are right at the top

:28:41.:28:51.

of the Elizabeth Tower, all 14 tonnes of the great bell that

:28:52.:28:53.

rings out every hour. And here are the four

:28:54.:29:00.

smaller quarter bells too. It's absolutely deafening

:29:01.:29:02.

at this close range. They have given us protective

:29:03.:29:05.

headphones to be this close to it, but from next Monday the bells

:29:06.:29:08.

will fall silent to allow It's not actually the bells

:29:09.:29:11.

themselves that need repairing, it's the mechanism that causes

:29:12.:29:21.

the clocks to tick and the hammers And there's also a wider programme

:29:22.:29:24.

of renovation under way already on the tower itself,

:29:25.:29:32.

dealing with issues like damp so the silence is really

:29:33.:29:34.

for the workmen too. So, in the coming weeks and months,

:29:35.:29:38.

scaffolding will be going up right But it's hoped that at least one

:29:39.:29:41.

clock face will be visible and working at all times,

:29:42.:29:45.

and the bells will still ring out on special occasions

:29:46.:29:48.

like New Year's Eve But next Monday afternoon at noon

:29:49.:29:49.

will be the last time for some time to gather to hear

:29:50.:29:54.

those regular sounds. And for us here in Westminster,

:29:55.:29:56.

a strange silence will descend in the absence of such familiar

:29:57.:29:58.

and reassuring sounds. A rare white moose has been captured

:29:59.:30:10.

on camera in Sweden. The animal is one of just 100 white

:30:11.:30:12.

moose in the country. They aren't actually albino but grow

:30:13.:30:16.

white fur due to a genetic mutation. Good afternoon. Sunshine is going to

:30:17.:30:39.

feature in our forecast this week but it won't always be easy to find.

:30:40.:30:44.

You don't always know where to look for it, and the menu includes some

:30:45.:30:49.

sunshine but also some generally cool weather and outbreaks of rain

:30:50.:30:54.

at times. We had rain for this weather watcher in Northern Ireland,

:30:55.:30:58.

County Antrim this morning. Some spots of rain, and along this rope

:30:59.:31:02.

of cloud you can see on the satellite picture there are various

:31:03.:31:07.

pulses of wet weather. One moving across Scotland, one across the

:31:08.:31:12.

Midlands, Wales and the south-west, then further pulses of heavy rain

:31:13.:31:15.

will push across Wales and the south-west of England later this

:31:16.:31:20.

afternoon. Here is a closer look across Scotland this afternoon at

:31:21.:31:24.

four o'clock, a lot of cloud and some outbreaks of rain. Northern

:31:25.:31:30.

Ireland, a mixture of sunny spells and heavy, thundery downpours. A

:31:31.:31:34.

window of mostly fine weather for Northern England through the

:31:35.:31:37.

afternoon, and across East Anglia and the south-east where we hold

:31:38.:31:41.

onto the brightness we could see temperatures reaching 25 degrees.

:31:42.:31:45.

For the Midlands and the south-west of England, some outbreaks of rain.

:31:46.:31:51.

Heavier pulses of rain will swing in across the south-west and Wales,

:31:52.:31:55.

into northern England throughout the night. Some clear spells up to the

:31:56.:31:59.

north-west, that will allow it to get chilly, and later in the night

:32:00.:32:03.

we are likely to see a fresh plot of downpours across the far south-east

:32:04.:32:12.

of England. Some rain to start tomorrow morning but it will clear

:32:13.:32:17.

off smartly to leave a day of sunshine and showers. Some showers

:32:18.:32:21.

will be thundery, but equally some places will avoid the showers and

:32:22.:32:25.

stay dry all day long. Not a bad day in balance. As this little bulge of

:32:26.:32:33.

high pressure builds its weight in during Tuesday night into Wednesday,

:32:34.:32:37.

it will turn chilly and as the high holds on in eastern areas on

:32:38.:32:41.

Wednesday, here it will be largely dry day with spells of sunshine. Out

:32:42.:32:45.

west, strengthening winds, rain working erratically in the western

:32:46.:32:52.

fringes of Wales later in the day. Sunshine and showers again on

:32:53.:32:55.

Thursday, Friday looks like it could bring some wet weather for some and

:32:56.:33:01.

some windy weather as well. There is some sunshine to be found in the

:33:02.:33:04.

forecast this week but you will need to know where to look for it.

:33:05.:33:06.

A reminder of our main story this lunchtime...

:33:07.:33:12.

India and Pakistan marks 70 years of independence from Britain, a moment

:33:13.:33:18.

of freedom that sparked one of the largest mass migrations to the world

:33:19.:33:20.

has ever seen. That's all from the BBC News at One

:33:21.:33:21.

so it's goodbye from me - and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

:33:22.:33:24.

news teams where you are.

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