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Ahead of the Church of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is to | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
step down. He says he hopes the next Archbishop or have the | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
constitution of an ox and the height of a rhinoceros. A potential | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
successor does not seem too keen. Do you fancy his job? You cannot be | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
serious. We will be looking at the challenges ahead for the Anglican | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
Church. Also tonight: The coffins of the school children flown home | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
after the coach crash in Switzerland and the English | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
schoolboy among the dead. Warminster pays its respects to the | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
six soldiers who died in Afghanistan and waves off their | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
comrades. The actor George Clooney is | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
arrested about protesting over the crisis in Sudan. We meet | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
worst humanitarian crisis in the world, immediately. And Sachin | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Tendulkar bat his way into the history books with his hundredth | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
international century. Car may not on sports day: There is | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
no Gold Cup fairy-tale for Kauto Star or as the two-time winner | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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pulls up. AP McCoy wins on Good evening. The Archbishop of | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is to step down at the end of the year. | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
As the global head of the 80 million-strong Anglican Church he | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
hinted at the strength of the job by saying he hoped his successor | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
would have the constitution of an ox and the hide of a rhinoceros. He | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
has battled with a number of issues that have threatened to split the | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Church. He will leave his post before another pervasive issue is | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
voted on, the consecration of women bishops. Was his decision a | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
surprise? It was in many ways. When he | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
arrived 10 years ago, he admitted by being daunted by the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
expectations of the Anglicans placed on him to heal their | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
church's divisions. In the process of keeping the church together he | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
has even become a revered figure in the church and tonight there is | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
widespread shock and dismay at the prospect of losing him. Even as he | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
demanded to be let into Canterbury Cathedral for his enthronement, | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
Rowan Williams was a reluctant leader of the Church. This is why | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
the Christian will engage with passion in the world of our society | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
and politics. He was taking over a church and a worldwide communion | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
that were bitterly divided about homosexuality. A let us create our | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
newly enthroned Archbishop with great gladness. It was an issue | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
which was to overshadow his entire leadership. After again man was | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
ordained as an Anglican bishop in the United States, traditionalists | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
accused Dr Williams of doing too little to stand up for basic | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Christian teaching. The Archbishop of Canterbury was seen as | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
indecisive to an extent by a number of key leaders in Africa and | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
elsewhere. The very fact he wanted to keep people discussing was seen | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
as him taking sides, siding with those who wanted to innovate, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
particularly in the area of sexuality. Although the archbishop | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
remained a popular figure, traditionalists in the developing | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
world who see homosexuality as a sane, constructed a powerful | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
alliance, partly aimed at getting the American Church expelled from | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
the Anglican Communion. The worldwide communion threatened to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
disintegrate, but Dr Williams held it together. I pay tribute to the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
service he has paid to the country and the church and I single out the | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
work he has done in Africa and Sudan and elsewhere to ensure peace, | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
stability and prosperity. conflicting demands on Dr Williams | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
came to the head at the once a decade meeting of the world's | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
Anglicans at the Lambeth Conference. Last summer he spoke of handed over | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
his burden. I have said I do not want to be the President of the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
next Lambeth Conference, I have done one and I have done that job | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
for the Church. The next one will be in 2018. Between now and then I | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
will think about it. The ordination of women as bishops could be among | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
Dr Williams' achievements. A crucial vote takes place in July. | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Who might follow Dr Williams into Lambeth Palace? The Archbishop of | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
York, John Sentamu, was asked whether he was a contender. | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
Do you fancy his job? You cannot be serious. Any successor will take on | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
a church still in grave danger of division. Finding the right person | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
will not be easy. I think it there is a surprise about the timing of | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
his decision is it comes just ahead of this decisive vote on women | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
bishops. He has turned himself into a lame duck Archbishop just when | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
his personal prestige could make a huge difference to the outcome. The | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
Church will feel a little more lonely in discussing those issues. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Belgium has held a national day of mourning to remember the victims of | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
Tuesday night's coach crash in Switzerland. 28 people, including | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
22 children, died when their bus hit the wall of a tunnel. It | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
emerged a British boy, 11 year-olds Sebastian Bowles, was among the | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
dead. At 11 o'clock in the morning a | :06:16. | :06:23. | |
minute's silence to remember those who died. At this school in | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Heverlee, a school where seven children and two adults will not | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
return, children gathered in the playground, many of them too young | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
to understand. Across the country flags were at half mast and in | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
Government buildings, railway stations, even in local factories, | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
people stopped for a moment of contemplation. From another school | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
in Lommel near the Dutch border, 15 people died. All of them were only | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
about 12 years old. There is only silence. If we can hope that the | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
parents and the Grand parents become better after some time, but | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
I think it will last 20 years. Heverlee balloons were released in | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
an act of remembrance. And on the school gates a list of names of | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
those who died, among them Sebastian Bowles, an 11 year-old | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
boy with a British father and a Belgian mother. On a school block a | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
few days ago he wrote about how much he was enjoying his skiing | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
holiday. Today he was remembered fondly at his former school in | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
north London. AA smiley, bubbly boy who looked like an angel and was an | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
angel and it was a delight to have him as part of our school community. | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
Still pipa are looking for answers. Why did the bus crash in | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Switzerland? So far there is nothing to suggest the driver was | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
suddenly taken ill. The investigation continues. More | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
people will be leaving their own personal tributes and sooner we | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
will have a series of heartbreaking funerals. It is the loss of so many | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
young children who should have their whole lives ahead of them | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
which is making this tragedy so difficult to accept. And now those | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
who died have been brought back home. Coffins emerging from | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
military aircraft, one by one. It is hard for everyone to take. A | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
sombre ceremony as Belgium searchers for some way to bring | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
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some comfort to the bereaved. The town of Warminster in Wiltshire | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
came to a standstill today as residents paid their respects to | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
the six soldiers killed in Afghanistan last week and saw off | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
their comrades now heading into the war zone. 400 soldiers from the 3rd | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment marched through the town of | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
Warminster. Its motto is fortune favours the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
brave. Today arrangement with its heart in Yorkshire followed its | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
colours of through the Wiltshire town which has offered so much | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
sympathy and support at a difficult time. Hundreds of people, young and | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
old, joining the Duke of York, the regiment's Colonel in-Chief, to | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
which this Battalion Welsh. house and his ex-forces himself, so | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
I understand how the whole battalion are feeling at this sad | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
time. We are backing them all the way, especially over what has | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
happened in the last few weeks. Because we are a military town and | :09:38. | :09:44. | |
they are all young lads and it is just heartbreaking. News that six | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
comrades had been lost broke as these men took part in their final | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
training. Some have served in Afghanistan before. Every man knows | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
that today's heightened tension will bring increased risks on | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
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patrol. In Warminster's Parish Church soldiers and civilians have | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
bowed their heads to remember the six members of the company who will | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
be repatriated next week and to pray that other lives will be | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
spared. Whatever we face in the coming months of our tour, let us | :10:22. | :10:30. | |
face our joys, our sadness, our winning, our losing as a team. | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
flames which have been lit here Welburn until they return home. The | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
days before departure will not be easy, but this town has done all it | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
can to help soldiers and their families face the challenges ahead. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
In Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has met the families of the | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
16 villagers shot dead by a road US soldier last Sunday. He accused the | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
US authorities of failing to co- operate fully with an investigation | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
into how it happened and he questioned that more than one | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
soldier was involved. Quentin Somerville is in Kabul for us now. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
These are strong words. How difficult it will this make it for | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
the US and Britain to work together with President Hamid Karzai? Strong | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
words that have come after a series of horrible events, the accidental | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
burning of the Koran by American soldiers, which caused protests, | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
and then those terrible murders in the south of the country. Everyone, | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
it seems, is in agreement that foreign troops need to move back to | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
their bases and eventually return home. Hamid Karzai wants foreign | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
troops out of the villages of Afghanistan and back in those bases, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
but so too does the British Government. They are saying by the | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
end of next year does combat operations will have ended and | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
Afghans will be doing the fighting. The actor George Clooney has been | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
arrested in Washington. He was taking part in a demonstration at | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
the Sudanese embassy, accusing the country's president of promoting a | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
humanitarian crisis by blocking food aid. Our Washington | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
correspondent has the story. This report contains flash photography. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Amid the sort of publicity few can muster, George Clooney taking his | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
case to Washington, standing outside the Sudanese mission with | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
two simple demands. We need humanitarian aid to be allowed into | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Immediately. The second thing we are here to ask is a very simple | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
thing, for the Government in Khartoum to stop randomly killing | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
its own innocent men, women and children. The film star has spent | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
much of the week in Washington, including an appearance on Capitol | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
Hill, arguing for action to stop Sudanese attacks in the mountains. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
We found children filled with shrapnel. He is just back from the | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
border region and a secret trip into the affected area. This video, | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
which includes graphic images of civilian injuries, was shown two | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
senators. George Clooney has political cloud and access among | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
the guests at the White House for Wednesday's state banquet in honour | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
of David Cameron. Today's outcome was never in doubt. George Clooney | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
and his father among a dozen activists deliberately defying the | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
police, knowing perfectly well what would follow. After years of | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
activism on Sudan, George Clooney shows no sign of giving up. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Our top story tonight: The Archbishop of Canterbury says he is | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
to step out at the end of the year. Coming up, Wales is getting ready | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
for tomorrow's big Grand Slam rugby game, but can the team at the | :14:07. | :14:14. | |
success of the 1970s? And we bring you inside F1 as the | :14:14. | :14:24. | |
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new Formula One season gets under Racing and at the Cheltenham | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
Festival, Synchronised, ridden by Tony McCoy, has won the Gold Cup. | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
There were high hopes for Kauto Star, which has won the race twice. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
But his jockey pulled him up before the end of the race and the 12- | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
year-old horse is almost certain to retire. Joe Wilson was watching. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
There is a sweet agony to watch him at Cheltenham. Even to lovers of | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
course racing, there has been soul- searching this week. The enjoy it | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
but it compose such risks to the animals. It doesn't put me off | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
because it is part of the whole scene. Like with most sport, there | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
is always a risk, but that is why you watch it, because of the | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
excitement. Most come to watch the great Kauto Star, defying the used | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
to battle for his third Gold Cup, but the race was over before | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
halfway. Ruby Walsh decided he was not moving properly and moved him | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
out. This was the reaction from those watching. | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
APPLAUSE. It was reported that Kauto Star was fine. The race was | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
left to the others. Defending champion Long Run strained to | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
retain his title but between the last fence and the finishing line | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
it was Synchronised, guided by AP McCoy, who timed it perfectly. Any | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
victory for Tony McCoy is greeted by a huge warmth at Cheltenham. It | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
is an acknowledgement of this jockey's enormous contribution to | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
the sport. Moments after victory, AP McCoy was four of praise for | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
Ruby Walsh's decision to withdraw Kauto Star -- full of praise. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
of us want it to happen to any course but especially not one like | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
quarter stop so Ruby Walsh was thinking about it animal more than | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
anybody else -- like Kauto Star. For the image of the sport, AP | :16:28. | :16:38. | |
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McCoy's was not the only victory. Over the last year, more British | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
people were murdered in Pakistan than any other foreign country. | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
This is often related to family disputes, as our correspondent | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
reports from the Punjab provinces. Pakistan, homeland to around 1 | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
million people in the UK. Many invested dreaming of a comfortable | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
future but for this man, it was an aspiration that ultimately cost him | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
his life. From Glasgow he sent back money to support relatives in | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Pakistan but on a visit here, when he told them that would stop, he | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
was killed. For his wife, that has been impossible to comprehend. | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
am I supposed to think? This is supposed to be my second home. We | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
were planning that when we both retired, that we would maybe buy a | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
house and live permanently here, but everything has changed. Your | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
own relatives are not your own any more. She says she is too | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
frightened to visit her husband's grave, fearing she too could be | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
killed for pursuing a murder case against her nephews. Crimes like | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
this, family disputes over land and money which ended in murder, or not | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
uncommon in Pakistan but British Pakistanis are thought to be | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
targeted in particular because they are the ones perceived to be | :18:09. | :18:16. | |
wealthy. One family thousands of miles away in Oldham knows exactly | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
how that feels. A five-year-old British boy has | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
been kidnapped in Pakistan Bob le Brocq this tour we hit the | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
headlines two years ago. -- in Pakistan... Their story hit the | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
headlines two years ago. By grown men! Today, the little boy appears | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
to be doing well and he was released unharmed, but only after a | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
huge ransom was paid to a criminal gang. The family still can't | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
believe he had had such terrifying ordeal in a country they had been | :18:54. | :19:01. | |
to so often. We used to go every few years but now... It is scary. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
If I do go over, I have got three children, and they need to go back | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
to their home country to visit. Much as they want to retain their | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
links with Pakistan, many others are deciding it is too dangerous to | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
travel here because of amounting number of cases. The suspected | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
murderers of Hanif have been detained for now, but his wife | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
cannot be at peace. On top of the increasing security risks, there is | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
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also never any certainty that killers stay behind bars. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Many elderly and vulnerable patients who rely on carers who | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
look after them in their homes are being neglected, according to new | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
research from the consumer group Which. An undercover investigation | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
has found that poor home care is widespread and many vulnerable | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
people are left without food and medication for long periods of time. | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
The voucher company Groupon has been given three months to improve | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
the way it operates after an investigation by the Office of Fair | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
Trading found widespread examples of breaches of consumer protection | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
rules. Groupon says it will ensure that prices in its adverts are | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
accurate and that any limitations on availability are made clear. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
The former head of the UK Border Force Brodie Clark, who stepped | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
down last year over claims that immigration controls had been | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
relaxed without ministerial permission, has reached an out of | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
court settlement with the Home Office. Mr Clark had brought a case | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
for constructive dismissal. In a joint statement, both sides said | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
they had done nothing wrong. Young people out of work for more | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
than a year would be guaranteed a job for six months if Labour were | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
in power, but they would lose their benefits if they refused the offer. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
That was the promise from the Labour leader Ed Miliband today. | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
The Conservatives said the policy was irresponsible. What more did Ed | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
Miliband have to say? He said this was the initiative | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
that would conquer youth unemployment. His idea was to give | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
a guarantee of a job for at least six months to any young people who | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
had been out of work for more than a year. He put a figure on this of | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
around �600 million and this money, he said, would come from repeating | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
the bank bonus tax. That is the tax which Labour says could raise up to | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
�2 billion, and they also want to use this money to do things like | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
you a boost to the construction industry, to get more affordable | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
homes and to boost the regional growth fund. Labour's deputy leader, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Harriet Harman, got herself into trouble when she appeared on the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
BBC politics programme earlier today and appeared to be unaware of | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
either the cost of the flagship initiative or the amount that the | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
bank bonus tax was due to raise. That is embarrassing for Harriet | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Harman but it also makes it much more difficult just as Labour are | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
trying to prove their credibility on the economy, and with Ed | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
Miliband saying that this initiative was so important today | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
that it would be in the first line of the future budget of a Labour | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
government. Thank you. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
He is a global cricket hero to millions, and now the Indian | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
batsman Sachin Tendulkar has become the first player to score 100 | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
centuries in tests and one-day internationals. It came against | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
Bangladesh in the Asia Cup, and it has been a long road since his | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
first century against England more than 20 years ago. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
It was just one run. But a milestone no cricketer has ever | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
come close to. The moment Sachin Tendulkar hit his 100 century. It | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
has been an agonising wait. More than a year since he hit number 99. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Ironically it happened in a match that India lost, but that doesn't | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
matter to 10 corker's millions of fans -- took Tendulkar's millions | :23:02. | :23:12. | |
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of fans. He was marvellous, fantastic, 100th century!! There it | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
is! The man they called the Little Master showed his talents barely, | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
hitting his first century when he was just 17 against England. Today, | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
among those he been on the praise... Sachin Tendulkar has been the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
player against which all others have been measured in the last 15 | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
years and for him to get 100100s is an amazing achievement and very | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
unlikely to be achieved again. where does temple could stand among | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
the greats? Unquestionably the best batsman ever was Sir Donald Bradman, | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
who averaged an astonishing 99.9 runs. No one has come close to | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
equalling that. Gary Sobers is considered the best all-rounder, | :24:01. | :24:11. | |
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taking 235 wickets. With his 100 centuries, Tendulkar's record may | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
be unbeatable. Rugby now and Wales will be going | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
for their third Grand Slam in eight years tomorrow. They take on France | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
in the final round of the Six Nations at the Millennium Stadium | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
in Cardiff. Wales are the favourites tomorrow? | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
Yes. Most of the 75,000 people who will pack up the stadium tomorrow | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
will certainly hope so. They will be nervous to see whether the | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
latest crop of players can make history, but the game will also be | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
tinged with sadness after the news that one of the greats of world | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
rugby, Mervyn Davies, has passed away. A player who has tasted on | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
more than one occasion the success of a Grand Slam. | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
If you could bottle anticipation, Cardiff's shopkeepers would make a | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
million. Welsh hopes, flying high. What will Wales do tomorrow? Win! | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
We will score 28 points! Wales have beaten every team put before them | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
in this tournament so far without truly dominating. Some of these | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
places experienced Grand Slam Games in 2005 and 2008 but for the | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
captain, it is the first time. 75,000 people cheering us, it will | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
be a fantastic atmosphere and one that none of us will forget. | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
Massive motivation for us to win the Grand Slam. The last time Wales | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
won three Grand Slams within a decade was in the 1970s. Today, one | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
of that era's greatest players passed away following a battle with | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
cancer. Mervyn Davies will be remembered for his bravery on and | :25:59. | :26:06. | |
off the pitch. He was without question very loyal and an honest | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
player and if I had to choose an international team throughout the | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
ages, his name would have gone down first as a number eight. Tomorrow's | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
opponents will not be a pushover. France arrives after defeat last | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
weekend and keen to spoil the party. It will be hard but I think we are | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
going to win, France. The but at Sam Warburton's old club, they are | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
certain Wales will stay on course. The next generation are hungry for | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
that title. Come on, Wales! Wales do not win tomorrow, that | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
opens the door to England. A big win against Ireland at Twickenham | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
would deliver them the championship, so on the final day of the Six | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
Nations Championship, it is all to play for. | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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Some threat of some really heavy showers tomorrow. At the Millennium | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
Stadium, it could be quite wet. For the Scottish game in Italy, it will | :27:11. | :27:21. | |
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Back to now, we have rain coming over Scotland and Northern Ireland. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
As the sky is clear across Scotland and Northern Ireland overnight, we | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
could see some frost, but it will stay relatively mild with thick | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
cloud and showers further south. The showers could produce a longer | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
spell of rain tomorrow across more eastern parts of England and the | :27:44. | :27:54. | |
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Midlands. Some are -- there is some uncertainty about this. For much of | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
Scotland, it is looking find it tomorrow afternoon, although not to | :27:59. | :28:06. | |
warm. For much of England and Wales, a lot of cloud and lively showers | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
across more northern and western areas. Some sunshine in between. | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
For the eastern half of England, it looks pretty cloudy and drought | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
with a threat of persistent rain as we end the day. -- cloudy and damp. | :28:22. | :28:29. | |
Another fairly cloudy and wet day on Sunday for the south and the | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
East. To summarise the weekend, there will be some sunshine but | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
showers as well. It will feel cool and there will be some frost around | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
at night. A reminder of tonight's main news. | :28:42. | :28:46. |