:00:07. > :00:10.Tonight, renewed claims that News International chief James Murdoch
:00:10. > :00:14.knew phone hacking went beyond a single reporter.
:00:14. > :00:21.A lawyer for the company says he told Mr Murdoch about a key e-mail
:00:21. > :00:24.which showed others were involved. It was the reason that we had to
:00:25. > :00:28.settle the case, in order to settle the case we had to explain the case
:00:28. > :00:32.to Mr Murdoch and get his authority to settle.
:00:32. > :00:37.Also tonight: Known criminals were at the heart of the English riots,
:00:37. > :00:40.nearly three out of four adults charged so far have previous
:00:40. > :00:44.convictions. The latest on the Lockerbie bomber,
:00:44. > :00:48.we report from the home of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
:00:48. > :00:53.The hunt for the Gaddafi clan, reports that a massive convoy
:00:53. > :00:57.carrying his aides, cash and gold has left the country.
:00:57. > :01:01.Edinburgh, the most expensive university in the UK, students from
:01:01. > :01:04.England will pay �36,000 to complete a degree.
:01:04. > :01:11.A big night of football for the home nations as England prepare to
:01:11. > :01:16.take on Wales in the first clash at Wembley since the 80s.
:01:16. > :01:21.I will be here with Sportsday later on the news channel on a busy night
:01:21. > :01:31.of European football, including the team news from Wembley as England
:01:31. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:45.Good evening, welcome to the BBC News at Six. A former lawyer at
:01:45. > :01:48.News International has insisted its chairman, James Murdoch, WAS told
:01:48. > :01:54.that phone hacking at the News of the World was more widespread than
:01:54. > :01:57.the company previously acknowledged. Tom Crone said he told Mr Murdoch
:01:57. > :01:59.about a highly sensitive e-mail which showed that hacking went
:01:59. > :02:06.beyond a single rogue reporter, contradicting previous evidence
:02:06. > :02:12.given by Mr Murdoch to MPs. And, in the last hour, the Prime Minister,
:02:12. > :02:18.David Cameron, has said he did get too close to the Murdochs. Tom
:02:18. > :02:21.Symonds reports. The former top brass of the News of
:02:21. > :02:27.the World called in from the rain this morning for yet another
:02:27. > :02:31.grilling by MPs. Colin Myler was the last editor, Tom Crone was an
:02:31. > :02:35.influential lawyer. The inquisition was wide-ranging but it boiled down
:02:35. > :02:40.to two big questions: Was there a coverup within News International
:02:40. > :02:43.of the possibility phone hacking was widespread? And what did the
:02:43. > :02:48.company's European boss James Murdoch know? The committee focused
:02:48. > :02:53.on one meeting he had with the two executives about a troubling e-mail
:02:53. > :02:59.that had come to light. conversation lasted quite a short
:02:59. > :03:03.period, probably less than 15 minutes or about 15 minutes. It was
:03:03. > :03:07.discussed. The e-mail from a News of the World reporter contained
:03:07. > :03:13.transcripts of messages hacked from the voicemail of a leading figure
:03:13. > :03:17.in football, Gordon Taylor. But it also contained these words words:
:03:17. > :03:21.Transcript for Neville which appeared to show that other staff,
:03:21. > :03:26.Neville Thurlbeck was the chief reporter, were involved. What the
:03:26. > :03:32.evidence meant was that Mulcaire's illegal activity in accessing
:03:32. > :03:36.Gordon Taylor's voicemail messages, that evidence of that had passed
:03:37. > :03:40.through our office. That others knew about it? News of the World
:03:40. > :03:44.was implicated, certainly at least acknowledge that Glenn Mulcaire
:03:44. > :03:49.done that. Now rewind to the July appearance of James Murdoch in
:03:49. > :03:54.front of the MPs. He said he didn't see the e-mail and wasn't briefed
:03:54. > :03:58.on its important -- importance. I knew then what we know now we
:03:58. > :04:02.would have taken more action around that. Today's evidence, he did know.
:04:02. > :04:05.I will take it that he understood. He gave the authority to settle the
:04:05. > :04:09.case. He realised the News of the World was involved and that
:04:09. > :04:19.involvement involved people beyond Clive Goodman. James Murdoch's
:04:19. > :04:22.
:04:22. > :04:29.Today's hearing made clear News International felt it had to settle
:04:29. > :04:34.with Gordon Taylor, at a cost of �425,000, plus legal fees. And the
:04:34. > :04:37.deal included a confidentialality clause to prevent four more hacking
:04:37. > :04:41.victims from knowing they might have a case themselves. The MPs
:04:41. > :04:45.were also told the editor at the time, Andy Coulson, was prepared to
:04:45. > :04:48.give the disgraced News of the World reporter Clive Goodman
:04:48. > :04:52.another job at the paper once he had served his sentence for phone
:04:53. > :04:56.hacking. In the last hour, the Prime Minister, who gave Mr Coulson
:04:56. > :05:00.himself a second chance, has been facing the questions. Do you feel
:05:00. > :05:08.that you personally became too close to leading executives of News
:05:08. > :05:12.International? Yes, I think - look, I think that in terms of spending a
:05:12. > :05:19.lot of time trying to win over - as I say not just News International,
:05:19. > :05:21.I have met with editors of the Guardian, the BBC, you know, as
:05:21. > :05:26.leader of the opposition and as Prime Minister you do want to get
:05:26. > :05:33.your message across. But he said the relationship between the media
:05:33. > :05:37.and politicians needed resetting. Let's talk to our political editor
:05:37. > :05:44.Nick Robinson at Westminster. It's difficult to keep track of all
:05:44. > :05:47.these developments, how significant do you think today's claims are?
:05:47. > :05:52.you can't be followed all the details about e-mails and names and
:05:52. > :05:56.who said what, all the details, it still boils down to a very simple
:05:56. > :06:00.story. The men who used to run the most powerful, the biggest selling
:06:00. > :06:05.newspaper in this country, News of the World, are now fighting amongst
:06:05. > :06:09.themselves about who is telling the truth. You may say why should I
:06:09. > :06:13.care because the the paper has closed, the reason is clear because
:06:13. > :06:18.James Murdoch remains one of the most powerful media figures in this
:06:18. > :06:20.country. He is arguably the most powerful, some would say the BBC is
:06:20. > :06:23.influential as well, and parliament has a decision to make, that
:06:24. > :06:27.committee must decide whether they drag James Murdoch back in front of
:06:27. > :06:31.them. He will no doubt insist once again that he is telling the truth,
:06:31. > :06:35.and the men we heard from today are not. Or whether they leave it to
:06:35. > :06:39.the police to go through all this. One little footnote, the Prime
:06:39. > :06:44.Minister must have been nervous about facing questions himself
:06:44. > :06:49.today on his relationship with the Murdoches and Andy Coulson, once
:06:49. > :06:57.the man man who was his spin doctor, he looked very comfortable today,
:06:57. > :07:00.though. And must be rather relieved. Thank you.
:07:00. > :07:03.The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, has revealed for the first time
:07:03. > :07:05.that nearly three out of four adults charged after the English
:07:05. > :07:08.riots already had criminal convictions. He says the figures
:07:08. > :07:11.show how dreadful the the penal system is at preventing people from
:07:11. > :07:13.re-offending. Mr Clarke is calling for widespread changes to the way
:07:13. > :07:16.criminals are treated, including making criminals work much harder
:07:16. > :07:21.when they are behind bars. Our home editor Mark Easton has been to
:07:22. > :07:25.Manchester. The hard core behind last month's
:07:25. > :07:30.riots, according to the just Secretary, was a feral underclass
:07:30. > :07:33.cut off from mainstream society. Among the adults involved close to
:07:33. > :07:39.three quarters already had a criminal record it's emerged,
:07:39. > :07:43.evidence Mr Clarke suggests, of a broken penal system incapable of
:07:43. > :07:46.preventing re-offending. When you see all these people had been
:07:46. > :07:50.punished before, three quarters, it's no good just punishing them.
:07:50. > :07:54.We are failing to make sure that those are the capable of being
:07:54. > :08:00.reformed aren't reformed and aren't actually sorted out their drugs,
:08:00. > :08:05.their drink, given a more sensible approach to the values of society.
:08:05. > :08:08.The criminal past of riotors has been seized upon by the Justice
:08:08. > :08:11.Secretary to press his case that the system should focus on what he
:08:11. > :08:15.calls intelligent sentencing. Mr Clarke also suggests Government
:08:15. > :08:20.should consider the appalling social deficit highlighted by the
:08:20. > :08:25.riots. Evidence of a link between the riots and poverty emerges from
:08:25. > :08:28.analysis of the offenders who have appeared here at Manchester City
:08:28. > :08:32.Magistrates court. The BBC has obtained the postcodes of the vast
:08:32. > :08:36.majority of those charged and a clear picture emerges when you plot
:08:36. > :08:41.those home addresses against neighbourhoods deprivation.
:08:41. > :08:44.Manchester's riots have seen around 200 people charged, if one looks at
:08:44. > :08:50.the most deprived neighbourhoods in the region marked here in red, and
:08:50. > :08:53.then picks out the places the riotors came from the corrolation
:08:53. > :08:56.is clear, they came from all areas but the poorer the community the
:08:56. > :09:00.more likely local people were involved.
:09:00. > :09:03.Cheat Ham Hill is revealed as a Manchester district with a high
:09:03. > :09:07.concentration of people charged in connection. The local vicar
:09:07. > :09:11.explained how his parish also has high levels of joblessness and
:09:11. > :09:14.welfare dependency, the riots, he believes, were an expression of
:09:14. > :09:18.people's sense of powerlessness. There was a feeling that the normal
:09:18. > :09:22.laws had been suspended just for one evening and people would take
:09:22. > :09:25.advantage and get whatever they could. Because people don't feel
:09:25. > :09:29.normally they do have power, is that right? Absolutely. This is an
:09:29. > :09:33.area that's got very few facilities. It's a difficult area in which to
:09:34. > :09:39.live and work. The Manchester data also reveal that the average age of
:09:39. > :09:43.those prosecuted for riot offences is 24, with 10% under 16. Figures
:09:43. > :09:47.that question the idea the lawlessness was down to juvenile
:09:47. > :09:52.gangs. It's not the age composition of gangs, it's not the location in
:09:52. > :09:55.which gang offending usually occurs, it's not the type of offence gangs
:09:55. > :09:58.are usually usually associated with. A month on from the riots and the
:09:58. > :10:01.dust has settled enough for people to start analysing what happened.
:10:01. > :10:11.But it's also an opportunity for politicians and others to look for
:10:11. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:22.evidence that can be used to support their favoured policies.
:10:22. > :10:25.A heavily armed convoy of vehicles carrying cash and gold has crossed
:10:25. > :10:30.into Niger. It's thought key figures close to Colonel Gaddafi
:10:30. > :10:32.may be trying to flee the desert. Here is our diplomatic
:10:33. > :10:36.correspondent. As long as Colonel Gaddafi is at
:10:36. > :10:40.large he and those close to him are a real threat to Libya's future
:10:40. > :10:44.stability and he still seems able to inspire loyalists to fight on.
:10:44. > :10:49.So rumours he might have escaped into the desert of Niger with some
:10:49. > :10:54.of his family are being watched very closely.
:10:54. > :10:59.These are nomadic tribesmen in the vastness of Niger. In return for
:10:59. > :11:03.past favours from Colonel Gaddafi, some ever believed to have fought
:11:03. > :11:09.with him against the Libyan uprising. And now reliable reports
:11:09. > :11:12.from one town in northern Niger describe a convoy of pick-up trucks
:11:13. > :11:17.carrying both men and Gaddafi fighters. It was apparently heading
:11:17. > :11:21.south deeper into the country. Very little about this apparent
:11:21. > :11:29.escape from Libya is clear, but the mysterious convoy seems to have
:11:29. > :11:34.crossed the southern border, and then reached a town of Agedez. It
:11:34. > :11:39.seems to have headed towards the capital, some 6 600 miles further
:11:39. > :11:46.on. It's not clear if it will be welcome there, or if the intended
:11:46. > :11:51.destination is still further, further. In Niger the President won
:11:51. > :11:54.elections in March. He is trying to stablise the country sheltering
:11:54. > :11:58.Colonel Gaddafi or close allies has few obvious attractions. It's true
:11:58. > :12:03.Colonel Gaddafi was close to the previous leader, but that era is
:12:04. > :12:07.supposed to be over. It's unlikely Niger will want to
:12:07. > :12:12.take on the Colonel given he is clearly on the losing side. There
:12:12. > :12:16.may have been links in the past, but there's been no real warmth in
:12:16. > :12:20.terms of personal relationships and that now is clearly history.
:12:20. > :12:24.If nothing else, the intense interest provoked by the mystery
:12:24. > :12:26.convoy shows how critical the hunt for Colonel Gaddafi remains. The
:12:26. > :12:31.governments in London and Paris also want him found as quickly as
:12:31. > :12:40.possible to remove one very real threat to Libya's chances of a
:12:40. > :12:43.peaceful transition towards democracy.. Staying with Libya, the
:12:43. > :12:46.family of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi has
:12:46. > :12:51.insisted he is a dying man. He was released two years ago after
:12:51. > :12:55.doctors said he had months to live. A BBC crew was allowed to see Abdel
:12:55. > :12:58.Basset al-Megrahi and Jeremy Bowen has been speaking to his family and
:12:58. > :13:03.we can talk to him now. Why do you think the family allowed a BBC crew
:13:03. > :13:07.in to see al-Megrahi? Well, they said they're praying for him to
:13:07. > :13:11.live for a long time but I think they believe he has little time
:13:11. > :13:16.left and I was down at the house talking to them but they let my
:13:16. > :13:22.cameraman in and he took these pictures and it shows al-Megrahi
:13:22. > :13:27.looking very sick indeed. His mother is the lady very upset
:13:27. > :13:30.sitting next to him at his bedside. He is monitored there
:13:30. > :13:34.electronically and he has attendants as well from nurses but
:13:34. > :13:38.what the family are saying is that he is in a very bad condition
:13:38. > :13:44.indeed and they're also insisting on his innocence. But I did speak
:13:44. > :13:51.afterwards to his son and I asked him why exactly they wanted BBC
:13:51. > :13:58.cameras there. Because I want everybody, especially in UK and
:13:58. > :14:02.specific in Scotland to see my dad, he is so sick because I seen news
:14:02. > :14:10.some people say he is not sick and some people say he is not at home
:14:10. > :14:19.and some people say he's run away but I want you to come to see my
:14:19. > :14:23.dad and he can't remove from his room and in his room between his
:14:23. > :14:27.mother and me and my brother and my sister.
:14:27. > :14:34.That seems pretty clear that Mr Al- Megrahi, despite his family's
:14:34. > :14:37.prayers, has not a great deal of time left. His death, when it comes,
:14:37. > :14:41.will I think perhaps end the Lockerbie story for those people
:14:41. > :14:45.who believe that he did it, that he is guilty. But for people who
:14:45. > :14:50.believe that he is innocent, that he was convicted on very thin
:14:50. > :15:00.evidence indeed, there are still going to be big questions about who
:15:00. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:04.exactly downed Pan Am flight 103. Television cameras could soon be
:15:04. > :15:08.allowed into criminal courts in England and Wales for the first
:15:08. > :15:11.time. The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, announced that the ban on
:15:11. > :15:14.televising proceedings will be lifted. Broadcasters will be
:15:14. > :15:18.allowed to televise the sentencing, but not the trials themselves. The
:15:18. > :15:21.The first so-called "supergrass" trial for 25 years has begun in
:15:21. > :15:24.Belfast amid high security both inside and outside the court. 14
:15:24. > :15:27.defendants face a total of 97 charges in connection with the
:15:27. > :15:37.murder of a loyalist leader, Tommy English, in 2000. Mark Simpson is
:15:37. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:44.It is the largest paramilitary murder trial in Belfast since the
:15:44. > :15:49.1980s. Before proceedings began, there was a search for bombs
:15:49. > :15:54.outside the court. And also inside the courtroom itself. Nine of the
:15:54. > :15:59.14 men on trial are accused of killing this man, Tommy English. He
:15:59. > :16:04.was shot dead during her feud between two rival loyalist
:16:04. > :16:11.paramilitary gangs in 2000. Most of the evidence against those accused
:16:11. > :16:14.of killing him comes from two brothers. They took part in the
:16:14. > :16:18.murder, but admitted their involvement and have now agreed to
:16:18. > :16:23.give evidence against others. It is similar to the so called supergrass
:16:23. > :16:28.trials held during Northern Ireland's troubles in the old
:16:28. > :16:32.Crumlin Road Courthouse. It is now in ruins but in the 1980s, hundreds
:16:32. > :16:35.of loyalists and Republicans were convicted here on the evidence of
:16:35. > :16:41.their fellow paramilitaries. But many of the convictions were later
:16:41. > :16:45.quashed on appeal and the system stopped being used. New legislation
:16:45. > :16:49.six years ago, which also applies in England and Wales, allows those
:16:49. > :16:55.involved in criminal gangs to be given reduced sentences in exchange
:16:55. > :16:59.for giving evidence against others. The case centres on one of Northern
:16:59. > :17:04.Ireland's most notorious murder gangs, the Mount Vernon UVA in
:17:04. > :17:08.north Belfast. One of their groups were signing up for peace, but they
:17:08. > :17:13.were still involved in hijacking, gun-running and killing. Among
:17:13. > :17:17.those on trial is the alleged leader of the UVF gang, 42-year-old
:17:17. > :17:22.Mark havoc. He is a one-time police informer, but he is now facing a
:17:22. > :17:26.murder charge. He was separated from the rest of the accused during
:17:26. > :17:31.today's proceedings. They all this and as a self-confessed member of
:17:31. > :17:37.the UVF gang, Robert Stewart, gave evidence against them. In return
:17:37. > :17:41.for his evidence, he was given 19 years off a 22 year sentence. He
:17:41. > :17:46.told the court mark had it had ordered the murder of Tommy English
:17:46. > :17:50.and he got others to carry it out. They shook their heads as he spoke.
:17:50. > :17:55.They all deny the charges against them. Their friends and families
:17:55. > :18:01.held a small protest outside the court. The trial is expected to
:18:01. > :18:03.last for 12 weeks. Our top story tonight:
:18:03. > :18:07.Renewed claims that News International chief James Murdoch
:18:07. > :18:10.knew phone hacking went beyond a single reporter.
:18:10. > :18:20.Coming up - 40 years on, NASA releases new images of the Apollo
:18:20. > :18:23.
:18:23. > :18:27.Later on the BBC News Channel, American markets open down sharply
:18:27. > :18:31.as fears persist about a global recovery. And why air passengers
:18:31. > :18:39.are paying more than a quarter of a million pounds a day to use their
:18:39. > :18:43.The University of Edinburgh has announced plans that would make it
:18:43. > :18:46.the most expensive place in the UK to get a first degree. It wants to
:18:46. > :18:50.charge students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland �36,000 in
:18:50. > :18:52.tuition fees to do its standard four-year course. Student groups
:18:52. > :18:55.have condemned the plans as "staggering and ridiculous" but
:18:55. > :18:57.Edinburgh says it will offer generous bursaries for students
:18:57. > :19:07.from low income households. Here's our Scotland correspondent Lorna
:19:07. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:14.It is one of Scotland's ancient universities, rated among the
:19:14. > :19:17.world's top 20 academic institutions for top but from next
:19:18. > :19:21.year, the cost of learning at Edinburgh will for some, at a much
:19:21. > :19:25.Edinburgh will for some, at a much higher price. The university plans
:19:25. > :19:29.to charge the maximum fee of �9,000 a year over its standard four-year
:19:29. > :19:33.a year over its standard four-year degree. That adds up to �36,000.
:19:33. > :19:38.Top English universities like Oxford and Cambridge will also
:19:38. > :19:41.charge �9,000, but their mainstream degrees take only three years. The
:19:42. > :19:45.other Scottish universities have announced what they will be
:19:45. > :19:46.charging and will offer one-year charging and will offer one-year
:19:46. > :19:51.charging and will offer one-year charging and will offer one-year
:19:51. > :19:54.fee -- free. It makes Edinburgh the most expensive. We are competing
:19:54. > :19:59.with a number of universities across the UK who have set high
:19:59. > :20:03.level fees and will have significant income to benefit the
:20:03. > :20:08.quality of the education they can provide. Scottish universities must
:20:08. > :20:12.be able to compete with that quality. We have never met. They
:20:12. > :20:16.University of Edinburgh have been getting a wider profile recently
:20:16. > :20:19.thanks to the best-selling novel and film one day. The main
:20:19. > :20:25.characters meet here in the late 80s at a time when studying for a
:20:25. > :20:29.degree was free. It is much more complicated now. If you are from
:20:29. > :20:34.Scotland you won't have to pay to study here. If you are from Wales,
:20:34. > :20:37.you can get a subsidy from the Welsh government. Only Northern
:20:37. > :20:42.Ireland has yet to decide what it will do and if you are from England,
:20:42. > :20:47.you may have to pay the full amount. I went to school in England. I
:20:47. > :20:52.don't think people from England will want to pay �36,000. Way too
:20:52. > :20:56.expensive. No undergraduate, irrespective of where they study,
:20:57. > :21:02.will pay tuition fees up front. Critics believe that is irrelevant.
:21:02. > :21:06.You still have to pay the debt off eventually. For somebody who comes
:21:06. > :21:10.from a more deprived background, paying �36,000 for a degree that
:21:10. > :21:16.they could get for less somewhere else, people will make decisions
:21:16. > :21:19.based on how it will cost. To this university believes that won't be
:21:20. > :21:24.the case. It is offering bursaries to those from less well-off
:21:24. > :21:27.families in the hope they won't be priced out. At
:21:27. > :21:30.The BBC has learned that the NATO- led mission in Afghanistan has
:21:30. > :21:32.suspended the transfer of detainees to certain Afghan jails. They're
:21:32. > :21:37.concerned about allegations of widespread torture and mistreatment
:21:37. > :21:41.of prisoners. The accusations come in a UN report that has yet to be
:21:41. > :21:44.published. The National Directorate of Security in Afghanistan deny the
:21:44. > :21:47.allegations. Dozens of wildfires sweeping across
:21:47. > :21:52.parts of rain-starved Texas in the United States have now destroyed
:21:52. > :22:02.more than 1,000 homes. Firefighters have been struggling in high winds
:22:02. > :22:07.
:22:07. > :22:10.to control many of the blazes, the largest of which is 16 miles wide.
:22:10. > :22:13.Football now and there's a big night ahead in the Euro 2012
:22:13. > :22:16.qualifiers. England take on Wales at Wembley, the first time the two
:22:16. > :22:19.sides have met at the stadium for 34 years. Scotland and Northern
:22:19. > :22:25.Ireland are also in action. Our sports correspondent Dan Roan is at
:22:25. > :22:29.Wembley. A in this, their penultimate
:22:29. > :22:33.qualifier of the campaign, and after an impressive away victory in
:22:33. > :22:36.Bulgaria on Friday, England with victory tonight could take another
:22:36. > :22:41.important step towards those European Championship finals in
:22:41. > :22:47.Pownall -- Poland and Ukraine. They are expected to win, but they
:22:47. > :22:51.underestimate Wales at their peril. Leighton James with a chance to put
:22:51. > :22:57.the Russian front. It was the day when the Welsh won at Wembley and
:22:57. > :23:01.made history. His 7th goal for his country. And 1977 and the only time
:23:01. > :23:06.England have been beaten here by their neighbours. A result the
:23:06. > :23:11.visiting fans would never forget. A 34 years on, supporters are
:23:11. > :23:13.beginning to arrive for the latest instalment in this ancient rivalry,
:23:13. > :23:18.but after the country's national anthems were booed when the teams
:23:18. > :23:26.met in March, they do so having been urged to show respect.
:23:26. > :23:33.Cardiff I did not like the Boeing and the shouts against the other
:23:33. > :23:37.country. They need to respect the other country. Or on the pitch,
:23:37. > :23:41.England have traditionally had the better of his international Derby,
:23:41. > :23:46.with 65 Dick -- victories. England are currently 113 places above
:23:46. > :23:49.their opponents in the world rankings. But in Gareth Bale, the
:23:49. > :23:55.Welsh possess a potent attacking weapon that could just help them
:23:55. > :23:59.defy the odds. They will cause us problems, but we are confident and
:23:59. > :24:04.we believe in the way we play, we believe in what we have to do. You
:24:04. > :24:07.never know for a bigger tests lie ahead for Capello and his team, but
:24:07. > :24:10.in what could be his last competitive home match in charge of
:24:10. > :24:14.England, a win would at least reinforce the sense that the
:24:15. > :24:18.manager is making progress. England and Wales are not the only
:24:18. > :24:24.home nations in action tonight. Scotland take on Lithuania at
:24:24. > :24:27.Hampden Park. Northern Ireland play Estonia. Both must win in order to
:24:27. > :24:30.keep already faint qualification hopes alive.
:24:30. > :24:33.NASA has released new images of the Apollo landing sites on the moon.
:24:33. > :24:36.The images, which have been taken from an orbiting spacecraft, show
:24:36. > :24:38.scientific equipment, the lunar rovers and a trail of footprints
:24:38. > :24:48.left on the lunar surface by astronauts 40 years ago. Our
:24:48. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :24:59.science correspondent Pallah Ghosh This was the best view we had of a
:24:59. > :25:04.lunar landing site until now. This new image is from the spacecraft in
:25:04. > :25:06.low orbit. Look closely and you can see the footprints of astronauts as
:25:06. > :25:12.they bounced along the lunar they bounced along the lunar
:25:12. > :25:14.surface. And here, a trail left by their moon buggy. In the vacuum of
:25:15. > :25:19.space, the hardware has remained in space, the hardware has remained in
:25:19. > :25:23.pristine condition. What is wonderful about these pictures is
:25:23. > :25:28.their clarity. We can now see the individual experiments left on the
:25:28. > :25:33.moon, but the footprints, particularly from Apollo 17, the
:25:33. > :25:37.last footprints on the moon, have hardly changed in 40 years.
:25:37. > :25:41.small step for man. It was more than 40 years ago that Neil
:25:41. > :25:47.Armstrong set foot on the moon. It was the first of just six lunar
:25:47. > :25:52.landings. The astronauts had fun, but having achieved its goal of
:25:52. > :26:00.beating the Russians to the moon, Nasa cancelled the Apollo programme.
:26:00. > :26:03.And in 1974, the Americans left the moon and haven't been back since.
:26:03. > :26:08.The equipment on the lunar surface is all that is left of the moon
:26:08. > :26:14.missions. The Rovers, the Landers, the flagpoles will be reserved for
:26:14. > :26:17.millions of years as a testament to a heroic era of human space travel.
:26:17. > :26:21.Nasa has scrapped its shuttle programme, but it says it wants to
:26:21. > :26:26.go back to the moon in a new spacecraft. But many doubt whether
:26:26. > :26:30.the US has the money or desire to do so. The new pictures should lay
:26:30. > :26:40.to rest the skimped -- the conspiracy theories that the moon
:26:40. > :26:42.
:26:42. > :26:47.landings were shot in a Hollywood Time for the weather now.
:26:47. > :26:51.It has been a wild day today. Strong winds and a lot of heavy
:26:51. > :26:57.rain. The rain will ease this evening, but it will still be quite
:26:57. > :27:01.a blustery night. Wet across the far south-east of England right now.
:27:01. > :27:06.Both areas of rain gradually peter out over the next few hours. We
:27:06. > :27:13.keep some showers around western coasts, but most places end up dry,
:27:13. > :27:17.but still windy. That will keep the temperatures up. On Wednesday, not
:27:17. > :27:21.quite so lively. Still a noticeable winter and that will chase the
:27:21. > :27:25.showers in across many of north- western areas. Across the south and
:27:25. > :27:30.east, it might stay dry and we might see spells of sunshine.
:27:30. > :27:35.Across parts of South Wales, not as many showers as today. Across North
:27:35. > :27:40.Wales, a lot of cloud and strong winds and a lot of showers. Showers
:27:40. > :27:44.continued to get fed in in Northern Ireland. Blustery across western
:27:44. > :27:49.Scotland, a lost them -- a lot of showers peppering the Highlands.
:27:49. > :27:52.Across the north-east, not so many showers. Across northern England,
:27:52. > :27:56.and East West split with most of the showers to the west of the
:27:56. > :28:00.Pennines and sunny spells to the east. Still quite windy. A strong
:28:00. > :28:05.wind across East Anglia and the south-east, but not as windy as
:28:05. > :28:10.today, and not as wet. We may see some spells of sunshine. Mostly
:28:10. > :28:13.cloudy across south-west England, but for some it will stay dry.
:28:13. > :28:18.Thursday sees England and Wales looking cloudy with outbreaks of
:28:18. > :28:23.rain. Largely dry across Scotland, with some sunshine. It is all
:28:23. > :28:26.change on Friday. Winds pick up again and coming up from the south,
:28:26. > :28:30.we may see temperatures rise up to we may see temperatures rise up to
:28:30. > :28:36.22 in London. But there will be some rain further north.
:28:36. > :28:38.A reminder of tonight's main news. There have been renewed claims that