:00:16. > :00:18.Relief as European leaders strike a last-minute deal to tackle the debt
:00:18. > :00:21.crisis. Back from the brink as Eurozone
:00:21. > :00:23.heads agree to double the region's rescue fund and write off half of
:00:23. > :00:25.Greece's debts owed to private banks.
:00:25. > :00:30.It brings fresh confidence to investors around the world as
:00:30. > :00:33.financial markets surge. It's very important to keep up the momentum
:00:33. > :00:36.of this work, to keep people's confidence. That is the critical
:00:36. > :00:42.thing. So yes, this is something the British Government has worked
:00:42. > :00:44.hard to encourage, and we certainly hope it works.
:00:44. > :00:48.Also on tonight's programme: Serial killer Robert Black's found
:00:48. > :00:53.guilty of the murder of a nine- year-old girl 30 years ago. Her
:00:53. > :00:57.family say they're relieved it's finally over. All of a sudden we're
:00:57. > :01:01.confronted with the awfulness of the last few hours and what she
:01:01. > :01:03.would have had to suffer. That has been truly awful for each and every
:01:03. > :01:07.one of us. The Canon Chancellor of St Paul's
:01:07. > :01:10.resigns in a row over treatment of the anti-capitalist protestors.
:01:10. > :01:20.And saving people's sight - the gene therapy that could sop people
:01:20. > :01:25.
:01:25. > :01:35.going blind. Coming up on the BBC News channel,
:01:35. > :01:39.
:01:39. > :01:46.the Chelsea pitch has refused to sell back the freehold.
:01:46. > :01:54.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm.
:01:54. > :01:57.The marathon talks lasted well into the early hours of this morning.
:01:57. > :02:00.But finally - just before 4.00am - the leaders of the 17 countries
:02:00. > :02:04.that use the euro reached a deal they hope will solve the Eurozone
:02:04. > :02:06.debt crisis. Banks are being asked to write off half what they lent to
:02:06. > :02:10.Greece, and the bailout fund is being increased substantially.
:02:10. > :02:12.There are still plenty of details that need to be worked out but the
:02:12. > :02:19.financial markets reacted favourably with big increases in
:02:19. > :02:24.share prices. Europe woke to the news that
:02:24. > :02:30.against expectations, its leaders had agreed on a plan to fix the
:02:30. > :02:34.eurozone crisis. It might not have been quite the big bazooka some had
:02:34. > :02:37.been calling for, but politicians were claiming that during a long
:02:38. > :02:42.Brussels night the euro had been saved. I think it's much better
:02:42. > :02:46.than before. We'll have to wait until a couple of days just to be
:02:46. > :02:51.sure. Stock markets around the world enjoyed a bounce. The euro
:02:51. > :02:54.crisis had been seen as increasing the risk of a global recession.
:02:54. > :02:59.Europe's leaders had been under enormous pressure to reach
:02:59. > :03:06.agreement. At 4.00am with people slumped at their desks, Europe's
:03:06. > :03:10.two most powerful leaders stepped into the spotlight. I am very well
:03:10. > :03:15.aware, as we all are, that the world was watching us closely
:03:15. > :03:17.tonight, and I think we Europeans proved that we came to the right
:03:17. > :03:21.conclusion. TRANSLATION: I think the result
:03:21. > :03:24.will be welcomed by the entire world which was expecting strong
:03:24. > :03:28.decisions from the eurozone. I think these decisions have been
:03:28. > :03:33.taken. Away from the summit, others were more cautious, spying progress,
:03:33. > :03:36.but seeing the outcome as just a first step. We're in a much better
:03:36. > :03:40.position today than we were yesterday, and it's very important
:03:41. > :03:43.to keep up the momentum of this work, to keep people's confidence.
:03:43. > :03:49.That is the critical thing, so yes, this is something the British
:03:49. > :03:54.Government has worked hard to encourage, and we certainly hope it
:03:54. > :03:59.works. So what was in the big deal? Banks that have invested in Greece
:03:59. > :04:04.will take losses of up to 50%, so reducing Greek debt. This will mean
:04:04. > :04:08.that Europe's banks will need to raise more capital of around 108
:04:08. > :04:13.billion euros, and the EU's main bail-out fund will be boosted to
:04:13. > :04:17.around 1 trillion euros to protect countries like Italy. It is wise to
:04:17. > :04:21.be cautious, however. A lot of the crucial detail is missing from this
:04:21. > :04:25.plan and won't be known for weeks, but what the markets like about it
:04:25. > :04:30.is that it signals that Europe's leaders finally are trying to take
:04:30. > :04:34.control of a debt crisis that began in Greece. In Greece today, the
:04:34. > :04:38.government said the country's debts were now manageable, but here too
:04:38. > :04:43.there was caution. International banks have to volunteer to accept
:04:43. > :04:48.losses, and key details on the bail-out fund won't even be
:04:48. > :04:51.negotiated until November. They have stopped the euro from
:04:52. > :04:56.collapsing today or even perhaps tomorrow, but they definitely
:04:56. > :05:00.haven't saved the euro. We're still in the thick of trouble. We're not
:05:01. > :05:05.out of the woods. Last night's most tricky decisions were taken here by
:05:05. > :05:09.just the eurozone leaders. The UK, not being in the euro, was not
:05:09. > :05:14.represented, and it raises questions of whether there will now
:05:14. > :05:18.be a two-tier Europe - insiders and outsiders.
:05:18. > :05:24.We can speak now to Gavin in Brussels. Let's pick up on that
:05:24. > :05:28.point. Where does this now all leave Britain? Make no mistake -
:05:28. > :05:32.the eurozone crisis is changing the European Union. Officials in this
:05:32. > :05:36.town are determined the crisis will never happen again, and that is why
:05:36. > :05:40.they think the solution lies in closer integration, closer economic
:05:41. > :05:45.union. As part of that, the countries in the eurozone - they
:05:45. > :05:50.will have greater surveillance over their budgets. They'll have their
:05:50. > :05:54.own summits with the President presiding, but the big fear is that
:05:54. > :05:58.the countries outside the eurozone will be in an outer core and
:05:58. > :06:02.what'll develop will be essentially a two-tier Europe, with those on
:06:02. > :06:05.the inside in the eurozone and those like the UK which are not in
:06:05. > :06:10.the eurozone on the outside. Of course, the big fear there is a
:06:10. > :06:16.loss of influence in areas of key national interests like over
:06:16. > :06:21.financial regulation or the single market - a divided Europe. It's a
:06:21. > :06:25.fear that might result from this crisis, Sophie. Thank you. Across
:06:25. > :06:29.Europe, there are still some doubts as to whether the agreement signed
:06:29. > :06:32.by the eurozone countries will work in the long term. Our chief
:06:32. > :06:35.economics correspondent Hugh Pym is here to look at the details and the
:06:35. > :06:38.implications for the UK. Yes, Sophie. There is agreement on
:06:38. > :06:42.tackling the eurozone crisis after weeks of debate and speculation,
:06:42. > :06:47.but there are still many unanswered questions. First of all, what's the
:06:47. > :06:50.detail? We have been told that 50% of the Greek debt owed to private
:06:50. > :06:54.investors like banks will be written off. That still needs
:06:54. > :07:01.individual bank approval, though the signs are that shouldn't be too
:07:01. > :07:05.big a problem. Most, if not all, the banks have
:07:05. > :07:09.agreed as to the 50% write-down on the Greek holding. Actually, that's
:07:09. > :07:12.one part of the announcement this morning that from our perspective
:07:12. > :07:17.and certainly from the market's perspective was quite clear. There
:07:17. > :07:22.is a lot more detail still to come on another key bit of the package -
:07:22. > :07:25.that's the 1 trillion euro bail-out fund. The idea is to take agreed
:07:25. > :07:29.existing funding and encourage other investors to come onboard,
:07:29. > :07:33.but it's unclear who exactly will pay for it. An approach will be
:07:33. > :07:38.made to the Chinese Government to seek involvement in the new bail-
:07:38. > :07:42.out fund. This could act like an insurer covering a portion of
:07:42. > :07:45.future losses by investors. With that guarantee, those investors
:07:45. > :07:48.might be tempted to buy more eurozone Government bonds. Of
:07:48. > :07:54.course, there is another key question for all of us - what might
:07:54. > :07:59.the cost be to the UK? The Government has already given
:07:59. > :08:02.guarantees to an EU-wide bail-out fund, though there won't be one in
:08:02. > :08:06.the latest package. There is a contribution too to the
:08:06. > :08:11.International Monetary Fund which has made loans to some countries.
:08:11. > :08:16.It could make more in the future, as the Chancellor conceded today.
:08:16. > :08:21.There may well be a ways for increasing the resources of the IMF,
:08:21. > :08:24.and Britain as a founding and permanent member of its governing
:08:24. > :08:27.board stands ready to consider the case for further resources and
:08:27. > :08:33.contribute with other countries, if necessary. Let us remember that
:08:33. > :08:36.support for the IMF does not add to our debt or deficit and that no-one
:08:36. > :08:40.who has ever provided money to the IMF has ever lost that money.
:08:40. > :08:44.Perhaps the biggest question of all is, will it work? Well, we don't
:08:44. > :08:48.know if the size of the bail-out fund is enough and whether it
:08:48. > :08:52.really will provide enough firepower to calm investors, and we
:08:53. > :08:56.don't know if it will really help economic growth, which is key for
:08:56. > :09:00.the future stability of the eurozone. We're only going to get
:09:00. > :09:05.out of the debt problem if these economies are still growing, and
:09:05. > :09:09.for that only time can tell. There is nothing they can deliver to us
:09:09. > :09:13.overnight in a summit that could make us say absolutely these
:09:13. > :09:17.economies are on a sustainable path. We need to see whether politically
:09:17. > :09:22.this austerity can be delivered and how the economies react in the face
:09:22. > :09:26.of it. Well, right now the financial markets have taken an
:09:26. > :09:32.optimistic view of the agreement. Bank shares were up sharply. But as
:09:32. > :09:35.we have seen all too often moods can shift shift quickly on eurozone
:09:35. > :09:38.bail-out deals. Thought for more analysis and
:09:38. > :09:45.explanation of the eurozone crisis, you can go to this special section
:09:45. > :09:48.of our website. The child killer Robert Black, who
:09:48. > :09:54.is already serving life in prison for the murders of three young
:09:54. > :09:58.girls in the 1980s, has been found guilty of killing a fourth victim.
:09:58. > :10:02.Nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy went missing in County Antrim in
:10:02. > :10:07.Northern Ireland. Her body was found six days later.
:10:07. > :10:12.He's one of the most notorious killers in British criminal history,
:10:12. > :10:17.and today Robert Black was convicted of another murder of a
:10:17. > :10:25.young girl. Nine-year-old Jennifer Cardy disappeared 30 years ago as
:10:25. > :10:30.she rode her bicycle to a friend's house. As the years went on, hopes
:10:30. > :10:35.faded of finding the schoolgirl's killer, but the case was recently
:10:35. > :10:39.reopened, and the evidence all pointed to one man, Robert Black.
:10:39. > :10:44.Today he was found guilty of murdering Jennifer Cardy. Her
:10:44. > :10:50.parents were in court for every day of the five-week trial. And all of
:10:50. > :10:54.a sudden we're confronted with the awfulness of the last few hours and
:10:54. > :11:01.what she would have had to suffer, and that has been truly awful for
:11:01. > :11:05.each and every one of us. I don't think - I'm being realistically
:11:05. > :11:11.honest - I don't think we will ever have closure because our daughter
:11:11. > :11:15.has gone. Robert Black was convicted in 1994 of three other
:11:15. > :11:22.murders. The Scottish van driver's victims were all young girls. 11-
:11:22. > :11:25.year-old Susan Maxwell from the Scottish borders, five-year-old
:11:25. > :11:31.Caroline Hogg from Edinburgh and 10-year-old Sarah Jane Harper from
:11:31. > :11:36.Leeds. The killing in Northern Ireland came first in the summer of
:11:36. > :11:39.1981. Jennifer Cardy was found dead ten miles from her home. Robert
:11:39. > :11:43.Black brought the schoolgirl's body here in the back of his van.
:11:43. > :11:47.Because he was a long-distance driver, he was constantly on the
:11:47. > :11:53.move right across the UK. It's one of the reasons why it took the
:11:53. > :11:58.police so long to catch him. He was eventually arrested while attacking
:11:58. > :12:02.another schoolgirl. According to one detective, who interviewed him,
:12:02. > :12:07.he's arguably Britain's most dangerous criminal. He's a unique
:12:07. > :12:11.individual. He's a preferential child molester on one level, but
:12:11. > :12:14.he's an aggressive predatory paedophile on another and I think
:12:14. > :12:19.unique in the history of serious offending against children in the
:12:19. > :12:23.United Kingdom. Robert Black is now serving life for four murders. He's
:12:23. > :12:29.never admitted any of his killings, and the suspicion remains that the
:12:29. > :12:33.full horror of his past has yet to be uncovered.
:12:33. > :12:37.The UN has officially lifted the no-fly zone over Libya and ended
:12:37. > :12:39.action to protect the country's citizens from Colonel Gaddafi's
:12:39. > :12:45.regime. It's expected that NATO will meet
:12:45. > :12:53.tomorrow to formally end the seven- month conflict. NATO air raids on
:12:53. > :13:03.his military sites and strongholds helped opposition forces in their
:13:03. > :13:03.
:13:03. > :13:06.efforts to liberate the country. In Turkey a man has been pulled alive
:13:06. > :13:13.from the rubble one hundred hours after the earthquake which struck
:13:13. > :13:16.on Sunday. Hope is running out of finding many more survivors. 185
:13:16. > :13:21.people have so far been rescued but the death toll has now risen to
:13:21. > :13:23.five hundred and 34. In Thailand, thousands of residents are fleeing
:13:23. > :13:26.the capital Bangkok which is being threatened by severe flooding over
:13:26. > :13:32.the weekend. So far, more than 360 people have died in Thailand's
:13:32. > :13:36.worst floods in decades. Nine million people live in Bangkok, but
:13:36. > :13:40.thousands have already left their homes in the northern suburbs.
:13:40. > :13:44.Street by street, the water is winning the control for control of
:13:44. > :13:49.Bangkok's northern suburbs, creeping further every day -
:13:49. > :13:53.torrents of it. A middle-class neighbourhood is rapidly being
:13:53. > :14:03.submerged. This woman has just washed her street disappear under
:14:03. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:11.the deluge. Water is inside deeper than my chest. Most take with them
:14:11. > :14:16.only what they can carry - valuable possessions and treasured pets.
:14:16. > :14:20.There is no panic here, but a very definite sense of urgency tinged
:14:20. > :14:22.with disbelief. The Government had originally said Bangkok would be
:14:23. > :14:27.protected. There are no such assurances anymore.
:14:27. > :14:31.This is just the latest district of Bangkok that's been told to
:14:31. > :14:35.evacuate. With each passing day, more areas of the capital city are
:14:35. > :14:42.put on alert. Now the Government says there is no part of Bangkok
:14:42. > :14:45.that it can guarantee will be safe. "We're trying our best," an
:14:45. > :14:50.emotional Prime Minister tells reporters. Just two months into the
:14:50. > :14:55.job, she finds herself struggling to manage a national crisis.
:14:55. > :14:59.In the centre of the city, things much as normal, apart from the
:14:59. > :15:04.sandbag flood defences and new warnings from foreign governments,
:15:04. > :15:09.including Britain - avoid Bangkok if you can. Our assessment is not
:15:09. > :15:11.alarmist. It is practical and realistic, and if things improve,
:15:11. > :15:16.we'll adjust our assessment accordingly, but if things get
:15:17. > :15:23.worse, obviously, we would also take that into account. The signs
:15:23. > :15:27.are not encouraging. Market traders in the old quarter of Bangkok kept
:15:27. > :15:33.going as long as they could, but few customers are prepared to wade
:15:33. > :15:41.to their stalls - little point in hanging on to watch the water's
:15:41. > :15:50.relentless rise. Those who can are getting out of town. Confidence has
:15:50. > :15:53.ebbed away, complacency, drowned in Our top story tonight: Eurozone
:15:53. > :15:56.leaders agree a deal to try to solve the debt crisis, bringing
:15:56. > :16:01.fresh confidence to the financial markets.
:16:01. > :16:04.And coming up, the first medals for London 2012 take shape at the Royal
:16:04. > :16:08.Mint. Later on the BBC News Channel, we
:16:08. > :16:18.will hear from Gavin Henson as he moves back to Wales in the latest
:16:18. > :16:24.
:16:24. > :16:28.It could save the eyesight of tens of thousands of people. Researchers
:16:28. > :16:34.in Oxford are developing a genetic therapy that they hope. People
:16:34. > :16:38.going blind. They have treated a man in his 60s on the verge of
:16:38. > :16:45.losing his eyesight. If it works, the gene therapy could transform
:16:45. > :16:49.the lives of many people in the future.
:16:49. > :16:54.Jonathan Wyatt is going blind. He can just about see enough to work
:16:54. > :16:59.from home. But 10 years ago he was a successful courtroom barrister.
:16:59. > :17:03.He had to abandon his job because he began making mistakes. The worst
:17:04. > :17:08.occasion, I think, was when I was reading out a statement to the
:17:08. > :17:15.court and then made a mistake. The judge turned to me and snapped,
:17:15. > :17:19.can't you read? I then decided it was time to put my Wick down and
:17:19. > :17:23.leave advocacy. Have you got any specific questions about what we
:17:23. > :17:27.are going to do? Jonathan is losing his eyesight
:17:27. > :17:32.because of a faulty gene. He is the first patient in the world to take
:17:32. > :17:37.part in an experimental operation which aims to replace the faulty
:17:37. > :17:43.gene in his eye with another one. By putting the gene back into the
:17:43. > :17:47.cells, we hope to stop further degeneration. In Donovan's case,
:17:47. > :17:57.because of a faulty gene, it sells at the back of the eye have been
:17:57. > :17:59.
:17:59. > :18:03.dying, -- the cells. They hope to keep the remaining cells alive.
:18:03. > :18:07.This operation is just about to begin. There is some tension in the
:18:07. > :18:11.air because it is an incredibly precise and delicate procedure. One
:18:11. > :18:17.small slip and his retina could tear and the attempt to save his
:18:17. > :18:25.eyesight will have failed. The procedure has never been
:18:25. > :18:32.carried out before. Now the riskiest part. The needle is
:18:32. > :18:37.inserted, by a foot operated control. Has the operation been
:18:37. > :18:46.successful? It went very well indeed. Absolutely no problems. So
:18:46. > :18:50.far so good. Jonathan Wyatt claims that he can already see better but
:18:50. > :18:55.it is far too soon to be sure if there is a lasting improvement. If
:18:55. > :19:02.it does work, gene therapy could be used to treat a wide variety of
:19:02. > :19:06.eyesight disorders. The Canon Chancellor of St Paul's
:19:06. > :19:09.cathedral has resigned following an argument over the way the anti-
:19:09. > :19:13.capitalist protesters camped downside of being treated. Giles
:19:13. > :19:18.Fraser has been sympathetic to the demonstrators since they arrived
:19:18. > :19:22.two weeks ago. Our religious affairs correspondent is there for
:19:22. > :19:32.us now. Giles Fraser has developed a
:19:32. > :19:37.
:19:37. > :19:41.reputation as a radical, left of centre thinker on the church's side.
:19:41. > :19:46.He used to deal in economics, and now his two world have collided and
:19:46. > :19:50.he has lost his job. After a stand- off of almost two weeks, protesters
:19:50. > :19:55.and the judge have been asking themselves fundamental questions
:19:55. > :20:00.about how to serve the poor and the marginalised. -- the church. When
:20:00. > :20:02.the police moved in, Giles Fraser asked them to back off. We are
:20:02. > :20:06.happy for people to exercise their right to protest peacefully. That
:20:06. > :20:10.is what they are doing. The police try to protect the cathedral and
:20:10. > :20:15.they are doing a good job. I asked them if the police would come down
:20:15. > :20:18.from the cathedral, and they did and there was no damage. Giles
:20:18. > :20:22.Fraser joined colleagues and asking the campaign is to leave, but he
:20:22. > :20:25.believes the spectacle of the campaign is being forcibly removed
:20:25. > :20:29.would undermine the church commitment to the poor and
:20:29. > :20:33.marginalised. I think the church should stand for the oppressed and
:20:33. > :20:36.the poor but my red light on this issue was do not believe the church
:20:36. > :20:42.should sanction any cause of action that would lead to violence towards
:20:42. > :20:45.the protesters. The resignation has been welcomed by the protesters.
:20:45. > :20:49.may have lost an ally within the institution but we hope to have
:20:49. > :20:53.gained an ally within the movement. I think he has got principles. It
:20:53. > :20:57.is a shame that it has had to come to that for him. But he does not
:20:57. > :21:02.want to see violence in the name of the church. The Bishop of London
:21:02. > :21:06.said it would be a tragedy if Giles Fraser's voice was lost to the
:21:06. > :21:10.church, but he said the camp undermined the efforts of the
:21:10. > :21:13.church to improve social justice and should be moved. I do think
:21:13. > :21:17.that the continued existence of the campsite will make it very
:21:17. > :21:21.difficult we involve some of the major City players in the kind of
:21:21. > :21:25.dialogue and debate which I see as being able to move the thing
:21:25. > :21:30.forward. This has become a distraction and it is a distraction
:21:31. > :21:34.from something that is legitimate and serious. But the campaigners at
:21:34. > :21:39.St Paul's know that they have the nation's attention and will not
:21:39. > :21:47.easily give up their prime position. Events will use of force is very
:21:47. > :21:51.much a possibility. -- the eventual use of force. Some parts are being
:21:51. > :21:55.cleared and the cathedral is due to reopen tomorrow with a special
:21:55. > :21:58.service but they have been bruised following the siege going on
:21:58. > :22:04.outside. The resignation of Giles Fraser will focus unwanted
:22:04. > :22:08.attention on exactly how the campaigners are treated from now on.
:22:08. > :22:12.The Government wants automatic life sentences for the most serious
:22:12. > :22:17.criminals convicted of a second serious sexual or violent crime. It
:22:17. > :22:21.is part of a number of changes to sentence think being set out by Ken
:22:21. > :22:26.Clarke, the Justice Secretary, in England and Wales. He also wants
:22:26. > :22:33.mandatory jail sentences for 16 and 17 euros that commit knife crime.
:22:33. > :22:41.The prison population in England and Wales is at a record level.
:22:41. > :22:46.18,000 behind bars, and growing. -- 87,000. A key change today,
:22:46. > :22:50.focusing on imprisonment for public protection. Somebody like Colin
:22:50. > :22:56.Blanchard, convicted of running a child-abuse ring, can be held
:22:56. > :23:01.indefinitely until the Parole Board thinks he is safe for release. Ken
:23:01. > :23:08.Clarke thinks that a fixed term sentence would be better. They are
:23:08. > :23:14.playing cat-and-mouse. Trying to prove you are not a risk is rather
:23:14. > :23:17.difficult when you are sitting in prison. So the sentences are being
:23:17. > :23:22.scrapped and a review of parole criteria may help some of win their
:23:22. > :23:29.release. A prisoner contacted our office. He was serving a 71 day
:23:29. > :23:31.sentence. And five years later nearly he was asking if there were
:23:31. > :23:34.offending behaviour programmes that he could attend so we could
:23:34. > :23:39.convince the Parole Board he was no longer a risk to the public. That
:23:39. > :23:43.is not acceptable. The Government believes that scrapping indefinite
:23:43. > :23:46.sentences will cut the prison population by about 2500 in the
:23:46. > :23:52.long term. Ken Clarke wants to be sure that he is not accused of
:23:52. > :23:57.being soft on crime. The proposals today include a get-tough policy,
:23:57. > :24:01.more mandatory life sentences. Each of these men is a double rapist.
:24:01. > :24:04.They reoffended after leaving prison. The new sentences would
:24:04. > :24:09.mean that anybody committing two crimes were at least 10 years in
:24:09. > :24:14.prison would get life. 20 cases every year are expected. Another
:24:14. > :24:22.new mandatory sentence. Four months for 16 or 17 year-old juveniles
:24:22. > :24:26.that threaten someone with a knife. Ken Clarke told MPs that judges try
:24:26. > :24:29.to get around compulsory sentences just two days ago. I want to
:24:30. > :24:33.consider all of these things before we come to a final decision.
:24:33. > :24:38.now he says his mind is made up because backbenchers threatened to
:24:38. > :24:42.rebel that he was too soft on juvenile knife crime. The changes
:24:42. > :24:45.today are aimed at steering a course through tricky political
:24:45. > :24:49.territory. With nine months to go before the
:24:49. > :24:53.start of the London 2012 Olympics, the Royal Mint in South Wales has
:24:53. > :24:56.begun making the medals for the Olympians and the Paralympians.
:24:56. > :25:03.They are made with painstaking care and each one takes 10 hours to
:25:03. > :25:10.complete. We have been watching how it is done. This is the medals at
:25:10. > :25:14.Olympic dreams are made of. One of the first of the press. 4700 gold,
:25:14. > :25:18.silver and bronze medals will be made here. Artists from across the
:25:18. > :25:21.world were invited to submit their designs. Two winners were picked
:25:21. > :25:26.and they have been working closely with the design team at the Royal
:25:26. > :25:32.Mint. These are some of the prototypes. Gordon Summers is the
:25:32. > :25:37.chief engraver. He worked with the winning artists. This is the
:25:37. > :25:40.Olympic gold medal. It has the depiction of Nike on the reverse
:25:40. > :25:45.with the ancient stadium that was rebuilt for the first modern
:25:45. > :25:49.Olympic Games. The Paralympic one is different. On this we have got
:25:49. > :25:54.braille, for the people that are visually impaired. We have the
:25:54. > :25:58.depiction of the wings of Nike, which is about transcendence see.
:25:58. > :26:03.And this is taken from the original sculpture of Nike, just above her
:26:03. > :26:08.heart, so it is about the heart of the Paralympic Games. Thank you
:26:08. > :26:12.very much. This is one of the first actual Olympic medals top of the
:26:12. > :26:16.printing press. From here it will go to a secure room deep inside the
:26:16. > :26:19.Royal Mint. Its location is known to just a handful of members of
:26:19. > :26:26.staff and it will stay in that secure room and 10 it goes to
:26:26. > :26:34.London for the Olympics next year. -- until it goes to London. The
:26:34. > :26:38.Beijing Games saw British athletes returning with a record haul of
:26:38. > :26:47.medals. There are hopes that the London Games will see the highest
:26:47. > :26:53.Now the weather. It is a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and
:26:53. > :26:59.tonight it could be very misty. Mist and fog forming overnight.
:26:59. > :27:05.England and Wales have been damp today. With long nights, that is a
:27:05. > :27:10.recipe for mist and fog to form. The rain will clear, and it will
:27:10. > :27:13.turn for the across the heart of England. There will be some heavy
:27:14. > :27:18.showers in the far North West of Scotland. Elsewhere dry and quite
:27:18. > :27:23.cold, down to five degrees. A possible touch of frost in some
:27:23. > :27:29.areas. The Avon valley could be badly affected by mist and fog in
:27:29. > :27:34.the morning. Some nasty patches if you are driving to work. And if it
:27:34. > :27:38.starts off foggy, it could last throughout the day. Beware of that.
:27:38. > :27:41.It will be cloudy across parts of the South East and it will
:27:41. > :27:45.gradually cloud over across the far North West of Scotland as well. In
:27:45. > :27:51.between it is looking good. The snapshot mid-afternoon, South to
:27:51. > :27:55.North, that cloud lingers in South East England and it will be
:27:55. > :27:58.disappointing and quite cold. Most other places will have lots of
:27:58. > :28:03.sunshine, and a better day for the South West of England when the fog
:28:03. > :28:08.has cleared. Sunshine for central England and Northern Ireland as
:28:08. > :28:11.well. Western Scotland will cloud over as the breeze picks up and a
:28:11. > :28:15.weather front approaches. On Saturday there will be outbreaks of
:28:15. > :28:19.rain in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Most of England
:28:19. > :28:23.and Wales will be dry. If you are lucky there will be something in
:28:23. > :28:27.the way of sunshine. Another approaching weather front brings
:28:27. > :28:31.dampness to western parts of Scotland on Sunday. Further East it
:28:31. > :28:34.is dry and brighter, up to 18 degrees potentially.
:28:34. > :28:38.Thank you. The reminder of the main news