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An inquiry condemns the appalling, gratuitous violence by British | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
soldiers that led to the death of a Iraqi civilian. 36 hours in | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
detention that left a family without a father. Baha Mousa had 93 | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
separate injuries. What happened to Baha Mousa and his fellow detainees | :00:25. | :00:34. | |
in September 2003 was deplorable, Baha Mousa and others were herded, | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
humiliated and abused. The report calls it systemic failure. We hear | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
from a soldier that was there. personal views are that everybody | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
that was there that day has their own responsibility for his death. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Whether you hit him or you didn't, you still have your own | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
responsibility for his death. tonight: A bleak forecast for | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Britain's economy. A leading international think-tank sees even | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
slower growth for the rest of the year. 10 years on, US officials | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
released chilling messages from the 9/11 hijacker Mohammed actor as he | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
took control of an American Airlines plane towards the twin | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
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Paralympic tickets go on sale tomorrow. The athletes and | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
organisers promise the best performances yet. The more | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Paralympic sport you show young people, the more interest there is | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
in Paralympic sport. It gives us a real head start in this country. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
sport, Andy Murray is back on court after two days of rain at the US | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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Open. We will have news of his bid Good evening. Welcome to the BBC | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
News at six. 36 hours in the custody of the British Army and the | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa was left with 93 separate injuries that led | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
to his death. In a devastating report, Sir William Gage, who has | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
just completed a two year inquiry, said Baha Mousa was the victim of | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
appalling, gratuitous violence. He said that death had left a great | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
stain on the British Army. Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, said that | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the episode was shocking and shameful. In a moment, the lessons | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
for the army. First, Caroline Hawley on this damning report. Her | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
piece contains distressing images. In a makeshift detention facility | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
eight years ago, a killing that cast a shadow over the army's | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
reputation. Baha Mousa had just lost his wife to cancer when he was | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
detained by British troops. Over the next 36 hours, he and nine | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
other detainees were forced to wear hoods, forced into painful | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
positions and badly beaten. When he died, he had 93 separate injuries. | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
My judgment is that it constituted an appalling episode of serious, | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
gratuitous violence on civilians, which resulted in the death of One | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
man and injuries to others. They represented a very serious breach | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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of discipline. Footage from detention facility shows corporal | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
Donald Payne shouting obscenities at the Iraqis. He's the only man to | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
have been punished in any way. The use of hoods and stress positions | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
are against international law and had been banned by the British | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
government in 1972. It was an army major that instructed the soldiers | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
to use them. The inquiry heard they were standard operating procedure. | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
The report blamed they used on a corporate failure at the Ministry | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
of Defence. It said stress positions and the use of hunts were | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
wholly unacceptable in any circumstances. -- hunts. It also | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
found that many soldiers had assaulted the Iraqis. Even more had | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
failed to intervene. There had been, it said, a lack of moral courage. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
It is truly a shocking and appalling incident. It should not | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
have happened and it should never be allowed to happen again. The | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
British Army should uphold the highest standards. The inquiry | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
found that Major Michael Peebles knew that detainees had been | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
assaulted. It said if the pennant Craig Rogers had acted when he | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
first knew what was happening, Baha Mousa or would almost certainly | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
have had survived. It found that the decorated commander Colonel | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
Jorge Mendonca So should have known what was going on, and that | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Corporal Payne was a violent bully that tried to cover up what he had | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
done. No doubt the Director of Prosecutions will be reading that | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
report and they will be considering war crimes of torture, inhumane | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
treatment and submitting people to grossly humiliating behaviour. They | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
awry number of people that have every reason to be very, very | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
worried. Back in the Middle East, a family is still grieving. Baha | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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Mousa's father had to identify his In my heart... My son. Baha Mousa's | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
two children are now growing up without a father. Today, the | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
soldier that tried to resuscitate him expressed remorse. I cannot say | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
enough words how sorry I am, not only for myself but for those that | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
were involved in his death. If you hit him we didn't hit him, you | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
still have your own responsibility for his death. Baha Mousa is buried | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
in Iraq's holiest city. Today's report into his death is a big step | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
towards accountability. But the scandal over what happened to him | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
has not yet been laid to rest. The inquiry's chairman Sir William | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Gage has blamed the death on a systemic failure at the Ministry of | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Defence, for not giving clear guidance about the treatment of | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
prisoners. Caroline Wyatt is here. This will make very difficult | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
reading for the army. Have they learned any lessons? Indeed it does. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
The army insist that they have learned lessons. As we heard from | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
the inquiry, the abuse and the death of Baha Mousa as a prisoner | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
in British custody was a dark day for the British Army, one that | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
stained its reputation. The MoD and the army say they are ensuring that | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
all soldiers that are deployed are aware of the ban on the five so- | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
called conditioning techniques that were used to soften up prisoners | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
before questioning. In 2003, that Banahan soon how -- some have been | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
Baha Mousa was not a casualty of war. His death occurred as a | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
detainee in British custody. It was avoidable and preventable and there | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
can be no excuses. There is no place in our armed forces for the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
mistreatment of detainees. Although the challenges that British | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
soldiers based in Iraq in 2003 were hostile and intense, the head of | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
the army said today that there could be no excuse for the loss of | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
discipline and the lack of moral courage that occurred. His clear | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
from the inquiry report that we were ill prepared in 2003 for the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
task of handling civilian detainees. The army has made strenuous efforts | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
since then to transform the way that we train them for and conduct | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
detention operations. The army insists that some improvements have | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
already been made. You've got to treat everybody you have captured | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
humanely. No exceptions, no IFS or buts. Amongst the recommendations | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
are an update and improvements to this training video for British | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
soldiers on prisoner handling. It came out in 2005, in the wake of | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
Baha Mousa's death. Inquiry also said that the MoD must keep the ban | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
on making detainees wear hoods, and improved training. It also wants to | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
see more rapid medical attention for detainees and possible civilian | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
inspections of prisons. But some say that those involved must face | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
trial. The inhuman treatment of civilians is a war crime. The | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
beating and killing of a prisoner is in breach of our criminal laws. | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
The army had investigated, so they say, in respect of the court | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
martial that took place. But that was a court martial where we met a | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
wall of scientists -- silence. army says that those still serving | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
have now been suspended and there will be another look at whether | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
they could face disciplinary action. That could be a fresh court martial | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
war even prosecution in a civilian court. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
The Bank of England has once again kept interest rates at the record | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
low of 0.5%. The rates have remained unchanged now for two-and- | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
a-half years. It comes as a group of leading international economists | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
warned that the UK growth could be a lot lower than the Government is | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
predicting. The British economy is stumbling | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
forward without much momentum. That is the message from the OECD think- | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
tank. Now the hunt is on for growth, with the Chancellor examining every | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
area of activity as the pressure grows for policies to get things | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
back on track. Today, Mr Osborne, after trade talks with the high- | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
level Chinese delegation, said that his deficit reduction plan had laid | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
the foundations for the UK economy to expand. If you were to start | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
spending more money, the almost immediate result would be that | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
interest rates go up. Families would find themselves paying higher | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
mortgage payments, businesses would find themselves paying more to | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
borrow and invest. That doesn't seem to be very sensible. What | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Britain has to do is work through the debt problems, but also grow | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
and become more competitive. economic outlook is cloudier. Life | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
is getting more difficult for policy makers at home and further | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
afield. The climate is worse for leading industrialised economies. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
The OECD says all of their growth prospects are going down. The UK is | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
no exception. Last autumn, they predicted that UK growth this year | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
would be 1.7%. By May this year, they had revised that forecast down | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
to 1.4%. Now the OECD believes that the UK will grow by less than 1% in | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
2011. George Osborne's decisions a year ago choked of our recovery in | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Britain, even before this latest crisis in the eurozone and in | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
America. That means we are very badly exposed indeed. Our economy | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
is flat-lining. Unemployment is rising. The case for a global plan | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
B and a change of course in Britain is growing by the day. Consumers | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
are feeling the pinch. They might be on the high streets, but they | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
are not spending like they used to. It was revealed today that some | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
towns like Stockport have nearly 30% of shops empty, as many retail | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
chains struggle. Back in the city, they are trying to come up with | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
ideas for growth. His business leader says the Government can help | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
with targeted tax breaks. British government commit they need | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
to do anything, they need to sit shoulder to shoulder with this | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
country's very impressive entrepreneurs, who are creating | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
businesses and high growth industries of tomorrow. But it will | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
not be easy, even with the Bank of England keeping interest rates on | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
hold yet again, at record low levels. Looking for growth with | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
other countries struggling is now a major challenge for this government. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
The first homecoming ceremony play for one British serviceman since | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
repatriations through Wootton Bassett ended has taken place at | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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The body of Sergeant Darren Weston, or 42 Commando, was flown into the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
base. He was killed while on foot patrol by a roadside bomb in | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
Afghanistan. He leaves behind it wife and three daughters. Around | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
2000 people lined the route, where the new memorial to British troops | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
has been erected. American forces in Afghanistan have | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
admitted that a BBC reporter who died when the Taliban stormed a | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
building in July was shot dead by US troops in a case of mistaken | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
identity. The reporter, who worked for the BBC service, was killed | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
while hiding in a bathroom after his soldier mistaken for a suicide | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
bomber. He left a wife and baby daughter. The funeral of Mark | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
Duggan, the man shot dead by police in north London last month, takes | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
place tomorrow. His family have been speaking today and they have | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
criticised the police watchdog which is carrying out investigation. | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
His death was followed by riots across England. June Kelly is in | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
Tottenham. It is five weeks since Mark Duggan | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
was shot on this road in Tottenham by armed police. Tonight, his | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
family are preparing for the funeral. The Met police say that | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
the policing for the funeral will reflect the family's desire for a | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
peaceful and dignified event. Mark Duggan, with his mother, | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
Pamela. And, in other photographs released by the family, in | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
photographs with his girlfriend, Simone Wilson. When he was shot, he | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
was said to be carrying a gun hidden in a sock. His family are | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
disputing this. There is an issue of a gun. There is an issue of a | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
gun with no fingerprints from my brother on it whatsoever. Where did | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
this gun come from? We don't know, we only know what the police say at | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
this point in time. But I'm sure that was not my brother's gun. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
After that was a passenger in a mini cab that was stopped in what | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
has been described as an intelligent lead police operation. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
He was shot in the chest and arm by an officer from the Met Police's | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
firearms unit. For the police to open fire, they must believe the | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
suspect is posing an imminent threat. It was a shooting which led | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
to a protest which descended into the first of the riots which | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
convulsed so many neighbourhoods in London and beyond. Independent | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Police Complaints Commission is carrying out the investigation into | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
Mark Duggan's death. The IPCC have admitted that they misled | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
journalists shortly afterwards by saying, inaccurately, that Mark | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
Duggan had fired first at officers. This has led to strained relations. | :15:01. | :15:11. | |
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But the family say they have no faith in the IPCC. The initial | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
stages of this inquiry, the initial stages of this incident, if they | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
are anything to go by, I've got no trust in them whatsoever. Meanwhile | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
Scotland Yard says there is no truth in the reports that the | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
officer who shot Mark Duggan is about to return to firearms duties. | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
Because of the ongoing investigation, no-one is responding | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
to the allegations the family are making about the gun. What we also | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
don't know, crucially, is why the police felt they had to stop Mark | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
Duggan on this road five weeks ago. Viewers on BBC London can see the | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
full interview with Mark Duggan's brother after this programme. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
Our top story tonight: An inquiry condemns the appalling, gratuitous | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
violence by British soldiers that led to the death of an Iraqi | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
civilian. Coming up: The 2 million-year-old | :16:11. | :16:21. | |
skeleton which could shed new light on the origin of man. Later on the | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
BBC News Channel, as interest rates in the UK and Europe remain on hold | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
in an attempt to keep economic growth alive, gloomy data from both | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
sides of the Atlantic suggest those Chilling messages from the planes | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
which crashed into the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11 have | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
been released by US authorities. The tapes, many of which have not | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
been heard before, paint a dramatic picture of the confusion and horror | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
as American officials and pilots struggled to understand what was | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
happening. This weekend marks ten years since the attacks took place. | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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Adam Brookes reports. September 11th. At 8.13 in the morning air | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
traffic controllers lose contact with American Airlines Flight 11 | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
not far from New York. Then a telephone call from the plane | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
itself. It is Betty Ong, an attendant. Somebody is stab in | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
business class. I think there's mace. We can't breathe. I don't | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
know but I think we are being hijacked. Nobody move. Everybody is | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
og. If you try to make any moves you will endanger yourself and the | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
aeroplane. Just stay quiet. voice of Mohammad Atta now at the | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
plane's controls. Stunned air traffic controllers try to find | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
what is happening. We have a problem here. We've got a hijacked | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
aircraft heading for New York. We need someone to scramble some F-16s | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
or something to help us out. this real world or an exercise? | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
This is not an exercise. I found myself as standing in the middle of | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
that floor mostly trying to comprehend what the heck was going | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
on. As events unfold, in the control towers, bafflement and | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
disbelief. You can look out your window right now? You can see a guy | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
at 4,000 feet? I see him. That's another situation. Another one just | :18:28. | :18:36. | |
hit the building! Wow! Another one hit the World Trade. The whole | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
building came apart! At 10.30 the orders go out to shoot down the | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
aircraft. The commander who declared we can shoot down aircraft | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
that do not respond to our direction. Did you copy that? | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
that, Sir. But there were none left to shoot down. One tape has not | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
been released from Flight 93, in which passengers fought the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
hijackers and the plane went down. To protect the families, we are | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
told, the voices will not be heard. It took just 73 minutes for those | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
terror attacks on 9/11 to change the course of American history. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Those moments also changed the lives of thousands of families as | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
husbands, wives, sons and daughters were killed. More than 3,000 | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
children lost a parent. As the 10th anniversary of the terrorist | :19:23. | :19:30. | |
attacks approach, Laura Trevelyan reports on the children of 9/11. | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
The at wood children are back from their first day at school but this | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
is no ordinary week for Margaret, Gerald and Robert and their mother, | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Barbara. On Sunday the children will mourn the death of their | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
father, firefighter Gerald Attwood, who perished ten years ago at | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Ground Zero trying to save others. I am proud because he sacrificed | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
his life for other people, that he didn't even know, and he cares so | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
much about them. Barbara was pregnant with Robert when Gerald | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
was killed. The pregnancy helped her to deal with the grief. Robert | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
miss the father who never got to take him on school trips. What has | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
it been like growing up without your father? Alright but it what be | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
beyond better if he were here. Barbara has devoted herself to | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
bringing up the family. But she worries about what she and the | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
children are missing without Gerald. Taking the boys to Scouts, just | :20:34. | :20:42. | |
being that partner who is committed to being there for me, for the | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
children. It's been huge. There is not a day that I don't think about | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
him. When Al-Qaeda destroyed the Twin Towers more than 60 fathers of | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
unborn children were among those killed. The pain of growing up | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
without a dad isn't confined to New York. The long shadow of 9/11 | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
extends to Britain too. Elizabeth Turner's husband, Simon, has flown | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
from London to New York for a meeting on September 11th. | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
Elizabeth was pregnant with William when Simon was killed inside the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
World Trade Center. Her grief is very different to William's | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
mourning. William didn't know Simon. He knows of him and knows of him as | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
has dad. So, it is almost like his grief is about the loss of not | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
having a father. This is the memorial at Ground Zero. For 3,000 | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
children who lost a parent now have somewhere to mourn the ir | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
replaceable. The starting gun has been fired and | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
tickets are about to go on sale for the 2012 Paralympics in London. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Organisers say they hope the games will prove to be the most | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
successful ever staged and are confident that it will be a sellout. | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
Paralympic athletes have been gathering in Trafalgar Square to | :22:00. | :22:09. | |
mark the occasion. Andy Swiss reports. So, anyone for a quiet | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
game of wheelchair rugby? How about sitting volleyball? Table tennis, | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
or a mere 17 other sports? Today you could watch them and tomorrow | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
you can buy a ticket for them. The Paralympics are coming to town. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
people are coming out enjoying the sport. I've seen people clench | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
their jaws watching the while chairs clash behind us. It is | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
exciting. The excitement around the sports is what is needed. Yeah, I'm | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
looking forward to it. And so are these two, Boris Johnson and David | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Cameron, amusing the crowds with an enthusiastic play of their tennis | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
skills. But they know selling ticket will be a far more serious | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
business. Previous Paralympics have given them away. London is not. | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
There are 2 million for sale and they are cheaper than the Olympics. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
Half of them will cost �10 or less. You can buy them on-line from | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
9.00am tomorrow for nearly three weeks. The Paralympics were born in | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Britain, at the Stoke Mandeville games in 1948. Organisers hope that | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
tradition will translate into ticket. Our history and the | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Paralympic movement, the fact that many of our Paralympians are | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
household names, and the more Paralympic sport you show young | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
people the more interest there is in Paralympic sport gives us a real | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
head start this this country. the frustration of missing out on | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
Olympic tickets for thousands like the West family, the Paralympics | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
have gained added significance. were very disappointed. That's why | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
we are hoping we are going to be successful in our ballot tomorrow | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
morning and get the Paralympic tickets, because we do want to be | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
part of it. We are Londoners. It is history and I think it'd be | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
something really nice to be able to look back on and say we were there | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
and witnessed some great sport. Perhaps the best reason to watch | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
the Paralympics will be this. Britain won some 42 gold medals in | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Beijing, second only to China. With home support anything is possible. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Being in Beijing and having the Chinese crowd cheering for you, | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
even though you weren't Chinese, it gave you a buzz. Hopefully in | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
London we'll get that buzz. London organisers will certainly | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
hope so. Britain will want to win new fans as well as win the medals. | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
So yes, quite a day here in Trafalgar Square. Tomorrow you can | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
start applying for those Paralympic tickets from 9 o'clock in the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
morning. It is not first come first served. You have nearly three weeks | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
to make your choice. Andy, thank you. | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
It's a question that's baffled us for generations: how did we became | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
human, and who are our closest ancestors? Well, scientists in | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
South Africa now believe they may have found a missing link between | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
chimps and humans. They've been studying two skeletons which are | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
over 2 million years old. As Pallab Ghosh now reports, if this | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
controversial claim is true, the find would overturn our current | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
understanding of how and where humans evolved. South Africans call | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
this park the Cradle of Human Kind. It turns out that it may well be. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
These remains were found in a cave at the park. They are of an ape- | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
like creature that live 2 million years ago. And a new detailed | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
analysis published in the journal, Science, show that they are the | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
most human-like apes of their time. These hands, for example, may have | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
been able to use tools. And new scans of its skull show that the | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
creature as brain was shifting towards being more human-like. | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
we are looking at is the point of transition where we move from | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
relatively primitive creatures to something that's potentially stone | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
tool-using. There are the potential origins of language, the way that | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
something is looking like us. is is the story of human evolution | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
so far. The first apes emerged 20 million years ago. Then came pre- | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
humans, these were apes with some human characteristics. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
And then came the first true humans - this happened around 2 million | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
years ago. The new species is thought to be right at the | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
transition point between pre-human and human. Some say it actually was | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
the very first human. However, up until now it's thought that this | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
transition happened in East Africa. But the new discovery has | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
challenged that theory. This now puts the focus back on South Africa | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
as the place where that first transition to people beginning to | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
look like us happened. Scientists once thought there was a linear | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
progression from monkey to ape to human. We now know the picture was | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
far more complicated. Million office years ago there were many | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
human-like species. They became fewer and fewer over the years | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
until there was just one - us. Never before have our origins been | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
studied in such detail. It is research that's answering not just | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
where and how our species emerged but deeper questions about what it | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
truly means to be human. truly means to be human. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
The weather now with Alex Deakin. We are dig out summer for one more | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
day tomorrow. Warm air is across us tonight. A damp night. Outbreaks of | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
rain in Northern Ireland this evening and spreading here into | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
southern Scotland and northern England overnight. Heavy rain in | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
places. Heavy, showery rain drifting across southern parts of | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
England and Wales. Double digits, 16 in the South West. Cooler in the | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
far north of Scotland. The rain will arrive in northern Scotland | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
tomorrow. It sticks around for most of the day. It tends to clear from | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
central and southern Scotland and northern England. As things | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
brighten it will feel warm and human nid the afternoon. One or two | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
scattered showers in England and Wales. Around some coasts it may | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
stay grey and misty. But head inland and things should brighten | :28:13. | :28:19. | |
up. Where we get did sunshine, 23 maybe 24 degrees through parts of | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
East Anglia and the East Midlands. Bright anything north-east England | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
after a grey start. Central Scotland becoming drier and | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
brighter in the afternoon. In the far north, a dull and damp day. The | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
overnight clears from Northern Ireland. Things brighten here with | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
a hint of sunshine. We might reach 20 degrees. Warm and humid. Across | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
Wales it will be predominantly cloudy. Brightness east of the | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
hills maybe. The same for south- west England. Quite cloudy and | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
misty. All change for Saturday. A band of | :28:50. | :28:55. | |
rain sweeps across the country, accompanied by strong winds. Warmer | :28:55. | :29:00. |