:00:03. > :00:07.The full scale of the hacking scandal revealed by a new inquiry
:00:07. > :00:11.into press standards. Dozens of journalists involved, hundreds of
:00:11. > :00:13.voicemails intercepted - and the News of the World may not have been
:00:13. > :00:19.alone The judge in charge of the inquiry will ask whether
:00:19. > :00:25.journalists can be left to set their own standards. More and more
:00:25. > :00:29.information is coming out to show that after a period there was what
:00:29. > :00:34.we might call of Wild West behaviour in which they more-or-
:00:34. > :00:38.less thought they could get away with virtually anything. The judge
:00:38. > :00:39.in charge will ask whether journalists can set their own
:00:39. > :00:44.standards. Also on tonight's programme:
:00:44. > :00:47.Two men charged with the killing of Stephen Lawrence. The teenager was
:00:47. > :00:52.stabbed to death 18 years ago - the court was told there'll be new
:00:52. > :00:58.scientific evidence. Security at the Olympic Games - the
:00:58. > :01:01.Government says ground to air missiles could be deployed.
:01:01. > :01:11.Cable thieves are putting lives at risk on Britain's railways - calls
:01:11. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:24.for new laws to deal with rogue In sport, John Terry says it is his
:01:24. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.duty to face up to claims he Good evening, welcome to the BBC
:01:38. > :01:40.News at Six. It's only day one of the new
:01:40. > :01:43.inquiry into press standards and already it's revealed the scale of
:01:43. > :01:47.the hacking scandal at the News of the World and, possibly, other
:01:47. > :01:53.papers. It's emerged that 28 journalists may have been involved
:01:53. > :01:56.and hundreds of voicemails intercepted. The inquiry, chaired
:01:56. > :01:59.by Lord Justice Leveson, will be looking at whether the press can be
:01:59. > :02:02.left to set its own standards. Today he warned editors against
:02:02. > :02:12.targeting witnesses at the inquiry. Nick Higham has spent the day at
:02:12. > :02:16.It was the scandal that began with the News of the World, Britain's
:02:16. > :02:22.biggest selling newspaper and one of its brashest. The revelation
:02:22. > :02:26.that the paper had hacked into a murdered schoolgirl -- schoolgirl's
:02:26. > :02:30.voice Mel's prompted outrage, its closure and the Leveson Inquiry.
:02:30. > :02:34.The parents of Madeleine McCann, politicians like Lord Prescott and
:02:34. > :02:38.Tessa Jowell, along with celebrities like JK Rowling, Hugh
:02:38. > :02:43.Grant and Sienna Miller all alleged victims of newspaper intrusion,
:02:43. > :02:47.among more than 50 core participants who will give evidence.
:02:47. > :02:52.Today in the measured tones of an appeal court judge, Lord Justice
:02:52. > :02:55.Leveson issued a warning to newspapers. Concern has been
:02:55. > :03:01.expressed that those who speak out might be targeted by the press as a
:03:02. > :03:08.result. I have absolutely no wish to stifle freedom of speech, and
:03:08. > :03:13.expression, but if it appears that those concerns are made out,
:03:13. > :03:17.without objective justification, it might be appropriate to draw the
:03:17. > :03:22.conclusion that these vital rights are being abused. Today the inquiry
:03:22. > :03:25.heard just how much phone hacking had been done by this man, Glen
:03:25. > :03:29.Mulcaire. Originally said to have been working for a single rogue
:03:29. > :03:34.reporter. In his notebooks, police found the names of staff at the
:03:34. > :03:40.News of the World and the sun and even the Daily Mirror, though the
:03:40. > :03:43.Mirror today denied any involvement. In all, 28 people at News
:03:43. > :03:47.International were involved. One use of the World journalist alone
:03:47. > :03:51.it made over 1,400 requests for information. More and more
:03:51. > :03:56.information is coming out to show that for a period at one newspaper
:03:56. > :03:59.at least, there was what we might call a Wild West behaviour in which
:03:59. > :04:04.they more or less thought they could get away with virtually
:04:04. > :04:09.anything. Lord Leveson's inquiry is in two parts. The first is looking
:04:09. > :04:11.at the general culture of the press, its relations with the police and
:04:11. > :04:16.politicians, had and whether the present system of regulation is
:04:16. > :04:20.broken and if so how it should be fixed. The second is into the
:04:20. > :04:23.illegal activities by newspapers which started this. That can't
:04:23. > :04:27.begin until the police have finished their investigations,
:04:27. > :04:31.which won't be for many months. The inquiry admitted it is putting the
:04:31. > :04:35.cart before the horse. The inquiry continues tomorrow. It will begin
:04:35. > :04:40.hearing evidence from witnesses who say they were victims of press
:04:40. > :04:44.intrusion next week. We can talk to our home affairs
:04:44. > :04:51.correspondent, June Kelly, who's at the Royal Courts of Justice. Quite
:04:51. > :04:55.a lot emerging already. What is the significance of what has emerged?
:04:55. > :04:58.It has always been claimed that phone hacking at the News of the
:04:58. > :05:02.World was taking place on an industrial scale and today one
:05:02. > :05:08.lawyer said there was at the very least a thriving cottage industry.
:05:08. > :05:12.The key revelation today is this news that the names of 28 News
:05:12. > :05:17.International employees were found in the notebooks of private
:05:17. > :05:20.investigator Glen Mulcaire. Other key elements, and I know we all
:05:20. > :05:24.think we have heard a lot about phone hacking, but other key
:05:24. > :05:30.elements. His suggestion that Glen Mulcaire might have worked for
:05:30. > :05:33.other newspapers, notably the Sun, part of the newt -- Murdoch empire,
:05:33. > :05:38.and the Daily Mirror. But the Mirror are tonight saying they have
:05:39. > :05:43.no knowledge of Glenn Mulcare ever being used by them. John Yates, the
:05:43. > :05:46.Assistant Commissioner at the Met, resigned. News emerging about him.
:05:46. > :05:50.He was one of two senior officers who resigned because of the phone
:05:50. > :05:54.hacking affair. He was being investigated by the Independent
:05:54. > :05:58.Police Complaints Commission and that was over his role in
:05:58. > :06:02.forwarding a CV inside Scotland Yard. That was the CV of the
:06:02. > :06:05.daughter of a former editor of the News of the World, Neil Wallis. He
:06:05. > :06:11.himself went on to work for Scotland Yard and he was arrested
:06:11. > :06:15.in this latest phone hacking investigation. Today the IPCC said
:06:15. > :06:19.it found no evidence of misconduct which would justify a disciplinary
:06:19. > :06:23.proceedings against John Yates. Mr Yates said he was pleased with the
:06:23. > :06:33.outcome. He said he had always acted with complete integrity and
:06:33. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:40.it was a matter of great Rivett -- regret. Thing gee macro. -- thank
:06:40. > :06:42.you. Europe faces its biggest crisis
:06:42. > :06:50.since the Second World War according to Angela Merkel, the
:06:50. > :06:53.German Chancellor. Matthew Price reports from Brussels on the fear
:06:54. > :06:57.that the problem will continue to grow and spread throughout the
:06:58. > :07:01.continent. His report contains flash photography.
:07:01. > :07:10.They have changed the guard in Italy and Greece, out with Silvio
:07:10. > :07:15.and George, in with the grey men. In Rome today, Mario Monti, the new
:07:15. > :07:20.prime minister, was being hailed as the man to save Italy and by
:07:20. > :07:24.extension the euro. He is an Economist, a respected university
:07:24. > :07:29.President. He knows how Europe works, he was a commissioner for a
:07:29. > :07:34.decade, and he is a staunch defender of the euro. Today one of
:07:35. > :07:38.his former students gave this assessment. Given the present
:07:38. > :07:42.emergency, he is playing end important role and he will be the
:07:42. > :07:47.right man at the right time. At least for a little while. Financial
:07:47. > :07:51.markets also seemed relieved. But for how long? In Brussels, Mario
:07:51. > :07:55.Monti's appointment has been broadly welcomed. He is seen as a
:07:55. > :07:59.can-do man. During his time at the commission here, he was known as
:07:59. > :08:03.Super Mario, and yet in the coming -- becoming prime minister, the
:08:03. > :08:08.fundamentals in Italy have not changed. They still have record
:08:08. > :08:13.debt and interest repayments on the money they have borrowed. In Greece,
:08:13. > :08:17.there's a new leader on the block. Lucas Papademos is also referred to
:08:17. > :08:22.as a technocrat, in economic expert thought to be an influence by
:08:22. > :08:26.public pressure. And yet in the Greek parliament today, it was
:08:26. > :08:31.clear that may not be possible. The opposition hinted at political
:08:31. > :08:37.problems to come. It could derail Greece's next slice of bail out
:08:37. > :08:45.funding. The important point is the euro is still in crisis. Listen to
:08:45. > :08:49.Germany's Angela Merkel. TRANSLATION: Europe is in the
:08:49. > :08:53.middle of what may be its toughest hours since World War to you. We
:08:53. > :08:57.mustn't be discouraged by that. We must succeed in getting Europe out
:08:57. > :09:03.of this crisis, stronger than when it went in. But she knows the
:09:03. > :09:07.problem now is trust. Or lack of it. Germany is the only Euro country
:09:07. > :09:16.investors see as truly safe. Italy and Greece may have changed the
:09:16. > :09:21.guard, but they and others remain Today Lynn News survey of business
:09:21. > :09:24.here in Britain warned we face a slow and painful loss of jobs. The
:09:24. > :09:29.survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found
:09:29. > :09:34.that firms were put him off decisions on hiring staff. --
:09:34. > :09:36.putting off. Carole Walker looks at what is expected to be difficult
:09:36. > :09:41.figures on growth and youth unemployment.
:09:41. > :09:45.It was all smiles as David Cameron took his Dutch counterpart to see
:09:45. > :09:48.Birmingham's new high-tech library, but to date came a new warning that
:09:48. > :09:53.companies worried about the economic turmoil are not taking on
:09:53. > :09:56.enough workers to make up for the jobs lost from the public sector.
:09:56. > :09:59.The prime minister said the government is doing its bit. We are
:09:59. > :10:03.rolling up our sleeves and doing everything we can to promote growth
:10:03. > :10:07.and jobs. We have the enterprise zones, including the one in
:10:07. > :10:10.Birmingham, we have cut corporation tax, we are investing in
:10:10. > :10:15.apprenticeships, we are focusing on capital spending, including roads
:10:15. > :10:22.and stations and things that can help boost the economy. That has to
:10:22. > :10:26.be the plan to keep... He looming in David Cameron's in-tray of the
:10:26. > :10:29.Bank of England's forecasts of growth and inflation, with almost
:10:29. > :10:34.one million young people already out of work there are new
:10:34. > :10:38.unemployment figures and there is the eurozone crisis. These are
:10:38. > :10:43.difficult times for companies like this. It makes specialist coatings
:10:43. > :10:47.for the car industry in the West Midlands. It is a prime example of
:10:47. > :10:52.a company doing well, but is uncertain whether to risk expanding.
:10:52. > :10:56.We are hoping to extend our factory and we have planning permission,
:10:56. > :10:59.but it is very difficult to justify going ahead with that because of
:10:59. > :11:02.the economic situation. government is keen to highlight a
:11:02. > :11:06.flurry of initiatives to help young people get the skills and jobs they
:11:06. > :11:10.need, but while the prime minister says it is the crisis in the
:11:10. > :11:15.eurozone which is hampering our recovery, Labour says it is up to
:11:15. > :11:18.his government to do more. On a visit to a science park in
:11:18. > :11:22.Hertfordshire, Ed Miliband says the government is not doing enough to
:11:22. > :11:26.boost growth. The problem is that under this government, businesses
:11:26. > :11:30.have no confidence about the future. The government urgently needs to
:11:30. > :11:35.get a plan for growth and jobs, which will put young people back to
:11:35. > :11:38.work, and get our economy moving again. David Cameron wants to speed
:11:38. > :11:42.up building projects like a new library he saw today, but he is
:11:42. > :11:48.stressing the UK must stick to the plan to cut the deficit if it is to
:11:48. > :11:53.avoid the problems facing some countries in the eurozone.
:11:53. > :11:57.With me now is Stephanie Flanders. To what extent are owl problems
:11:57. > :12:00.down to what is going in -- going on in Europe? We will never know
:12:00. > :12:03.what would have happened without the eurozone crisis and we will
:12:03. > :12:07.never know what would have happened if the Government hadn't decided to
:12:07. > :12:11.cut borrowing more quickly than the previous government plan. But if
:12:11. > :12:15.you are looking at the numbers and the timing of the slowdown in our
:12:15. > :12:20.recovery, it is hard to see a big direct impact of the eurozone
:12:20. > :12:24.crisis. The eurozone economies as a group have growing three times
:12:24. > :12:29.faster than us over the last year and yet they are even closer to the
:12:29. > :12:32.crisis than we are. Our exports until August had been growing very
:12:32. > :12:36.strongly. You can't see it in the numbers, but they don't tell you
:12:36. > :12:39.about the indirect impact on confidence, people worrying about
:12:39. > :12:44.the European and global recovery. And they can't tell you about the
:12:44. > :12:48.future. We are now seeing a sharp slowdown in the European recovery -
:12:48. > :12:52.- economy, we will get confirmation of that tomorrow. Our economy will
:12:52. > :13:02.be greatly affected even if the situation in Greece, Italy and
:13:02. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:08.Spain stabilises and I am not sure it will.
:13:09. > :13:11.Four teenagers have been convicted of murdering a 15-year-old boy near
:13:12. > :13:14.his school in south London. Zac Olumegbon was stabbed to death in
:13:15. > :13:16.July last year. The Old Bailey found a fifth teenager guilty of
:13:16. > :13:18.his manslaughter. Gemma Hayter's death could have
:13:19. > :13:21.been prevented or predicted, according to serious case review
:13:22. > :13:25.into the torture and murder of the vulnerable disabled woman. Her body
:13:25. > :13:27.was found on a disused railway line in August last year. Five people
:13:28. > :13:31.who the 27-year-old had considered friends were convicted of her death
:13:31. > :13:34.and jailed in July. Two men, Gary Dobson and David
:13:34. > :13:37.Norris, have appeared in court charged with the murder of Stephen
:13:37. > :13:40.Lawrence 18 years after the black teenager's death. The 18-year-old
:13:40. > :13:44.A-level student was stabbed twice by white youths in south-east
:13:44. > :13:47.London on 22 April 1993. The court heard that new scientific evidence
:13:47. > :13:55.will be central to the proceedings in the Old Bailey, from where Tom
:13:55. > :14:00.Symonds joins us now. The killing of Stephen Lawrence is
:14:00. > :14:07.one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of recent times, but finally
:14:07. > :14:11.today 24 potential jurors were chosen to hear this case. They will
:14:11. > :14:14.hear new scientific evidence and will have to decide if it can be
:14:14. > :14:19.regarded as safe. The judge also said to them that whatever had
:14:19. > :14:24.happened in the past was now irrelevant. This case starts with a
:14:24. > :14:27.clean slate. The Stephen Lawrence was 18 when he died.
:14:27. > :14:31.He was stabbed while waiting for a bus late one night in south London.
:14:31. > :14:36.For his mother it was a loss made so much worse by the fact that no
:14:36. > :14:41.one has ever been convicted of the killing. His father Neville also
:14:41. > :14:47.came to see this trial begin. The two accused men, David Norris on
:14:47. > :14:53.the left, 35, Gary Dobson, 36 ft up both deny murder. This is a case
:14:53. > :14:57.with the tortuous history. Stephen died on 22nd April, 1993. There
:14:57. > :15:02.were a court hearings in the mid- 90s and an inquest in 1997. Such
:15:02. > :15:09.was the concern about the case that a full public inquiry was held in
:15:09. > :15:13.1998. Addressing the 24 potential jurors, the judge, Mr Justice
:15:13. > :15:17.Treacy, said the case has aroused strong feelings in people.
:15:17. > :15:21.Accusations, he said, have been made as to who was responsible for
:15:21. > :15:25.the killing and the competence of the police investigation. But the
:15:25. > :15:30.two accused heard that new scientific evidence would now be
:15:30. > :15:34.centre stage. They question the way certain exhibits were handled. So
:15:34. > :15:39.the trial went just focus on the events here that night, but also in
:15:39. > :15:45.the years that followed and on Stephen himself. He didn't see any
:15:45. > :15:51.danger in any way. He wanted to be an architect. All his studies were
:15:51. > :15:56.focused that way. He was an athlete, he loved sport, he loved music and
:15:56. > :15:58.clothes. Just like any other young man. The jurors who will consider
:15:58. > :16:04.who killed Stephen Lawrence have been told to expect the trial that
:16:04. > :16:08.will stretch into next year. This case is extremely sensitive. The
:16:08. > :16:12.judge spent some time telling the jurors to only concentrate on what
:16:12. > :16:16.they hear in the court room and the media to be very careful about what
:16:16. > :16:20.they report. A lot of the history of this case we can't even report
:16:20. > :16:30.tonight. But you can be sure we will keep you up-to-date about the
:16:30. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:38.developments from the court in the Our main headline - the full scale
:16:38. > :16:45.of the hacking scandal is being revealed by a new inquiry. And
:16:45. > :16:55.coming up... The space shuttle may have been decommissioned, but
:16:55. > :17:09.
:17:09. > :17:12.Russia has resumed its manned space The theft of metal cable from power
:17:12. > :17:15.stations and railway lines is costing hundreds of millions of
:17:15. > :17:18.pounds a year and could put lives at risk. Tomorrow, MPs debate
:17:18. > :17:22.giving greater powers to regulate the scrap metal industry. Councils
:17:22. > :17:32.across the UK are also calling for change. Ed Thomas reports on the
:17:32. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:39.huge surge in the theft of metals such as copper, lead and bronze. 24
:17:39. > :17:43.hours with British Transport Police. This is the front line in the fight
:17:43. > :17:51.against metal theft. It took just minutes for the first call of the
:17:51. > :17:59.night to come in. We can see how much cable has been taken from this
:17:59. > :18:05.location. You can see the various colours here. This patrol is about
:18:05. > :18:09.taking on a growing problem. After terrorism, this is our number one
:18:09. > :18:14.priority. We need to get a grip on it because a lot of people are
:18:14. > :18:19.suffering as a consequence of this. It is down to the rising cost of
:18:19. > :18:23.metals, mixed with the ease of selling stolen metals to scrapyards.
:18:24. > :18:29.These are copper plates and copper cable, all from North West
:18:29. > :18:33.Electricity. It should not be sold to or bought by any dealer. But as
:18:34. > :18:39.the law stands, I could walk into any scrapyard, give a false name or
:18:39. > :18:44.address, handed over and get cash in return. This crime is putting
:18:44. > :18:47.people's lives in danger. In this street in Castleford, thieves
:18:47. > :18:54.caused a gas leak after stealing copper cable. Luckily, all the
:18:54. > :18:59.homes had been evacuated. Six people have been killed steel. It
:18:59. > :19:02.is costing the UK economy more than �700 million every year. Police are
:19:02. > :19:09.now carrying out spot checks and working with scrap dealers. But
:19:09. > :19:17.here, they say it is the system that needs to change. The way to
:19:17. > :19:23.deal with the problem is to make it cashless. It would give greater
:19:23. > :19:29.traceability. The same calls are being heard from energy companies,
:19:29. > :19:33.with nearly two incidents every day at sub-stations. We were within
:19:33. > :19:36.minutes of losing the whole of Wigan, because of metal theft.
:19:36. > :19:42.Businesses could not operate, Internet down, traffic lights out,
:19:42. > :19:52.just think of the chaos. But change could come soon. MPs will be
:19:52. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :19:56.Ground-to-air missiles could be used to protect the skies of London
:19:57. > :19:59.from attack during the Olympics next year. The Defence Secretary,
:19:59. > :20:03.Philip Hammond, says they would be deployed if they were deemed
:20:03. > :20:06.operationally necessary. All necessary measures to ensure
:20:06. > :20:09.the security and safety of the London Olympic Games will be taken,
:20:10. > :20:16.including - if the advice of the military is that it is required -
:20:16. > :20:25.appropriate ground-to-air defences. With me now is our sports editor,
:20:25. > :20:27.David Bond. It sounds like warfare... The Olympics are a
:20:28. > :20:33.massive security challenge. What Philip Hammond was saying might
:20:33. > :20:39.sound alarmist, but it is not unusual. We saw the same thing in
:20:39. > :20:43.Beijing in 2008, and in Athens in 2004. London has its dreadful
:20:43. > :20:47.experience with terrorism, the 7/7 bombings happened the day after
:20:47. > :20:53.London won its Olympic bid. So, the authorities are saying they will do
:20:53. > :20:57.whatever it takes. Who will pay for all of this? The one sticking point
:20:57. > :21:01.at the moment is over the number of security personnel to be used
:21:01. > :21:06.around the venues during the games. Following test events in the summer,
:21:06. > :21:11.it became clear at that the numbers which were being used were way. So
:21:11. > :21:15.it is expected that the numbers will more than double. Funds will
:21:15. > :21:23.be found from the surplus in the Olympic budget. But I think this
:21:23. > :21:26.issue will continue to come up as Jordan's King Abdullah has called
:21:26. > :21:29.for Syrian President Bashar al- Assad to step down in the interests
:21:29. > :21:32.of his country. His comments, in an exclusive BBC interview, follow a
:21:32. > :21:34.defiant speech by the Syrian Foreign Minister after the
:21:34. > :21:36.announcement of Syria's suspension from the Arab League because of its
:21:36. > :21:39.violent suppression of anti- government protests. The UN
:21:39. > :21:49.estimate that more than 3,500 people have been killed in the
:21:49. > :21:52.
:21:52. > :22:00.uprising, which began in March. Jon Leyne reports. As the violence in
:22:00. > :22:04.Syria continues, the world is losing patience. These images
:22:04. > :22:10.appear to show more brutal attacks on opposition protesters in the
:22:10. > :22:14.city of Homs. Yet more evidence that Syrian tanks have not yet been
:22:14. > :22:18.pulled back from the streets, as the government promised to do. So
:22:18. > :22:22.now, there is growing pressure on President Assad himself. In an
:22:22. > :22:29.interview with the BBC, King Abdullah of Jordan became the first
:22:29. > :22:33.Arab leader to encourage him to step down. He would step down, but
:22:33. > :22:39.he would also create an ability to reach out and start a new phase of
:22:39. > :22:44.Syrian life. Syria's response has been an almost theatrical act of
:22:44. > :22:47.defiance. Huge numbers of Syrians were encouraged onto the streets
:22:47. > :22:54.over the weekend to support the government and to protest against
:22:54. > :22:59.the Arab League's decision to suspend Syria. Angry mobs attacked
:22:59. > :23:05.the embassies of Qatar, a Saudi Arabia and Turkey, countries which
:23:05. > :23:10.have taken a very tough line against Syria. It has just led
:23:10. > :23:16.Syria into more isolation than ever before. In the European Union,
:23:16. > :23:20.Britain and other countries voted for new sanctions against Damascus.
:23:20. > :23:25.It is very good that the Arab League are taking a leading role on
:23:25. > :23:28.this crisis. It is very important in the European Union that we can
:23:28. > :23:32.do do -- consider additional measures to put pressure on
:23:32. > :23:37.President as that. There is evidence that sanctions are
:23:37. > :23:43.continuing to bite. However, these queues for gas maybe the result of
:23:43. > :23:48.the government trying to starve out opposition supporters. This evening,
:23:48. > :23:52.the Arab League in Cairo are discussing how to co-ordinate their
:23:52. > :23:57.fight against the Syrian government. They are proposing sending a
:23:57. > :24:01.mission to monitor the situation inside Syria. It will be seen as a
:24:01. > :24:04.last test of the Syrian Government's good faith. But it has
:24:04. > :24:14.been suggested that the Arab government leaders are already
:24:14. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:17.looking beyond President Assad's Russia has resumed its manned space
:24:17. > :24:20.flights, with the launch of a Soyuz rocket with two Russians and an
:24:20. > :24:22.American on board. The launch had been postponed for two months after
:24:22. > :24:26.a similar rocket carrying cargo crashed shortly after take-off in
:24:26. > :24:29.August. The three astronauts are going to replace the crew of the
:24:29. > :24:39.International Space Station. Daniel Sandford sent this report from
:24:39. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:49.Moscow. Generating huge thrust from its four booster engines, the
:24:49. > :24:54.rocket blasts off this morning, on board, two Russian cosmonauts and
:24:54. > :24:57.an American astronaut, heading for the International Space Station, on
:24:57. > :25:00.what is currently the only route into orbit. The launch had been
:25:00. > :25:06.delayed for two months because of safety fears, but they said they
:25:06. > :25:12.were not concerned. A lot of difficult and diligent work was
:25:12. > :25:16.done to verify that everything was good. I'm not nervous about it.
:25:16. > :25:22.This was why he might have been worried, an almost identical rocket,
:25:22. > :25:27.carrying cargo, crashed back to Earth in August, leading to all
:25:27. > :25:35.manned launches being put on hold. Having fired the imagination of a
:25:35. > :25:38.generation, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time.
:25:38. > :25:43.troubled is that since the retirement of the space shuttle in
:25:43. > :25:48.July, there was no other way of getting people into space. But NASA
:25:48. > :25:55.insists that the Russian built and operated Soyuz was not rushed back
:25:55. > :26:00.into operation. Every flight his whisky, there's things we just do
:26:00. > :26:04.not know about. In this case, we worked with the Russians, and we
:26:04. > :26:11.has confidence that they had resolved the problems. Amazingly,
:26:11. > :26:17.the rocket on which everyone is now relying, the Soyuz, dates back to
:26:17. > :26:25.the 1960s. The Americans do not expect their next man vehicle to be
:26:25. > :26:34.ready for five years. Now, almost by accident, Russia finds itself
:26:34. > :26:36.once again leading the world in manned space flight. Back down to
:26:36. > :26:41.manned space flight. Back down to earth now, with the weather. We
:26:41. > :26:46.will have a look from Space first of all. The view from up there
:26:46. > :26:51.looks very different to yesterday. Yesterday, in the sunshine,
:26:51. > :27:01.temperatures jumped up to 18 degrees. Today, however, under the
:27:01. > :27:02.
:27:02. > :27:11.cloud, temperatures are just about 9. Some places in the west have had
:27:11. > :27:16.some sunshine today. But for many, tonight will be a damp autumn night.
:27:16. > :27:20.Tomorrow, we will start off with more of the same. But I'm
:27:20. > :27:28.optimistic that it will be turning brighter as we go through the day.
:27:28. > :27:34.This will be especially so in the west. As a result, temperatures
:27:34. > :27:40.should be allowed a bit higher than today. Where it stays cloudy, we
:27:40. > :27:46.will struggle to get much about nine or 10. Today, northern parts
:27:46. > :27:51.of Northern Ireland saw some sunshine. And it will be similar
:27:51. > :27:59.tomorrow. And again, like today, western Scotland should get some
:27:59. > :28:09.sunshine tomorrow. In the east, the cloud making all the difference to
:28:09. > :28:10.
:28:10. > :28:19.the temperatures. East Anglia and the south-east of England could be
:28:19. > :28:24.a bit brighter again on Wednesday. A little bit of rain creeping in to
:28:24. > :28:26.the south-west of England later on. It has been a very mild start to
:28:26. > :28:34.It has been a very mild start to November. For more information, log