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Two children aged five and two have died and their father is messing | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
after a canoe capsizes in the Scottish Highlands. The two boys | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
are named as Jamie and Ewen Beaton. The search for their father has | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
been scaled down - he is presumed dead. Syrian rebels claim they have | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
shot down an army helicopter in Damascus. Scientists say more | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
Arctic ice has melted this summer than at any time since satellite | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
records began. Essex on alert, but was there ever a lion on the lose | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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A very good afternoon to you. A man is missing, feared dead, after an | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
accident on a Highland sea loch. Ewen Beaton was on a day trip with | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
his two sons T canoe they were in, with three other people capsized | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
near Loch Gairloch yesterday. Our correspondent is at the scene for | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
us. This was a terrible tragedy, involving two fathers who decided | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
yesterday afternoon to head out into the wear behind me here with | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
their children. It was a decision which led to disaster. | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
For hours, they scoured the sea and the shore line, but to no avail. | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
32-year-old Ewen Beaton is now presumed drowned. His young sons, | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
Ewen, aged five and Jamie, two, are also dead. The unfolding tragedy | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
was recorded on camera by tourists on the beach. We saw them recover | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
one of the casualties from the water. Then there was an ambulance | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
helicopter turned up. The boat kept searching. There was another pick- | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
up, when somebody was brought ashore. The accident has shocked | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
holidaymakers and locals here. An eight-year-old girl and her father | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
survived, swimming hundreds of metres to raise the alarm, but the | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
girl's five-year-old sister was taken to hospital in a serious | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
condition. What went wrong is not yet clear. It was a beautiful sunny | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
summer's afternoon. The loch was flat calm, visibility was clear. A | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
great day - it just ended with tragic consequences. The two | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
families had been out in an open can any Diane canoe like this. The | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
children were living life jackets, their fathers were not. It hasn't | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
got any inher rant buoyensy of its own. It is quite an unstable craft. | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
They are quite - if you get a few people in them, it can be dangerous. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Tonight, the Beaton family released a statement, saying they were | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
utterly devastated by the loss of their beautiful little boys. They | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
thanked rescuers for trying to find their adoring father, Ewen, but | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
they know he will not now be found alive. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
That search has been scaled back this evening. The search for Ewen | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Beaton now reduced to shore-line patrols to find his body. His wife | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
is being comforted by members of her family at home. Really, what | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
comfort can anyone give her this evening? | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
17 people have been killed in a Taliban-controlled area of | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Afghanistan. It is thought they may have been targeted because they | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
were at a party. Our correspondent is in Kabul for us now. What more | :03:46. | :03:54. | |
do we know about all this? We know these 17 civilians, including two | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
women, either had their throats cut or were beheaded by local Taliban | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
commanders. It may be because they were singing and dancing, they were | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
at a party and the Taliban believe they should be punished for that. | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
Or according to local officials it may be because rival Taliban | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
commanders were in dispute over the affections of the two women. The | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
reason it has taken so long to hear about this, despite the fact there | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
are thousands of Marines in this area, this is Taliban-controlled | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
territory. And there is news of yet another | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
incident involving NATO troops being attacked by an Afghan | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
soldier?. That is right, in the east of the country, not far from | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
where I am now. It is called green on blue incidences, an Afghan | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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soldier killed two NATO soldiers. He was subsequently killed. We saw | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
ten Afghan national soldiers killed when their checkpoint was overrun | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
by 200 overrunning that checkpoint. It gives you an idea of the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
ferocity of this continuing war. Thank you. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Scientists say more sea ice in the Arctic has melted this summer than | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
at any time since satellite records began more than 30 years ago. It is | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
believed greenhouse gases from pollution are mainly to blame. It | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
may provide an opportunity for gas, gas and mineral exploitation. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
The Arctic. It is warming much faster than the rest of the planet. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
That is thanks to the melting of the ice on the sea. Ice reflects | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
heat, so every bit that disappears allows the sun to heat the dark | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
ocean beneath it. From 1979, NASA's satellite have tracked the | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
shrinking of Arctic ice. It fluctuates from year to year. This | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
year's ice will be the smallest yet. Every year the ice grows during the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
winter and shrinks back in the summer. That is a natural cycle | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
that goes on all the time. It is just in recent years we have seen | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the summer minimum is getting smaller and smaller. | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
So what has caused the rapid warming? A recent paper from | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Reading university suggest that 30% is due to the natural cycle | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
repeating every 65-80 years. It has been in a warm phase since the | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
1970s. The same paper calculates that human activity has caused 70% | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
of the warming. Pollution from our cars, our homes and our factories. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Some scientists believe that an ice-free Arctic in summer is only a | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
matter of time. I think the next two or three years will see a | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
further collapse. We will then encounter an Arctic Ocean without | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
any ice in it during the summer months. Some would benefit from a | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
melting ocean like shipping, for instance. Oil and gas firms | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
battling with environmentalists like Gazprom did with Greenpeace | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
today hope to exploit the Arctic's mineral resources too. Warming | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
would bring trouble, roads based on permanently frozen ground are | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
crumbling, as was shownen the BBC's World's Most Dangerous Roads. | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Methane, a greenhouse gas could be permanently released and that would | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
over-heat the world nor. It is all a big accidental experiment with | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
the planet. Opposition forces in Syria say they | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
have shot down a helicopter as it attacks rebel fighters in Damascus. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
State television has confirmed that a helicopter did crash near a | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
mosque, but did not give any more details. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
A dramatic development in the battle for Damascus. A military | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
helicopter burst into flames and fell out of the sky. Rebels say it | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
had fired on their neighbourhood and claimed to shoot it down. State | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
television confirms only it had crashed. It was a huge morale boost | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
for the opposition in this uneven war. Unverified footage appears to | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
show the smouldering wreck yaedge. There's no sign of the -- wreckage, | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
there's no sign of the pilot. Fighting has been going on for a | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
more than week. These pictures are said to show a fire, ignited by | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
random shelling to. The north, the city of Aleppo, is the other main | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
battle ground. The conflict here has ground into a bloody impasse. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
These images appear to show a guerrilla fighter using small arms | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
to attack the military. Activists claim he hit an approaching | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
armoured vehicle. Near Aleppo n the town of Ma'arra, rebels take a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
break from the war. They are angry about being left on their own to | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
face a far superior army. The commander said the world needs to | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
wake up. I have seen horrible things. I am not talking to the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
people inside Syria. I am addressing the world. Can you not | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
see the shelling, the destruction, the children being slaughtered - is | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
this not enough proof for the world? The least the world can do | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
is provide us with some safe havens. Back in Aleppo no-one is safe and | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
will not be for some time. In order to win the war t regime needs to | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
win here and in Damascus. Labour has joined Sir Richard | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Branson in calling for the Government to delay the signing of | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
a new contract to run the West Coast Main Line until MPs can | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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scrutinise the deal. Virgin Trains lost the franchise to FirstGroup. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
He has practiced at celebrating success. Now Richard Branson is | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
fighting a defeat. The Government is poised to sign a contract with | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
FirstGroup, allowing it to take over the West Coast Main Line. At | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
the moment, it is run by Virgin Trains. Richard Branson is lobbying | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
hard for a last-minute re-think. We're not letting this drop because | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
we is spent 15 years creating what we believe to be the best train | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
network in the UK. We don't want to see that ruined. FirstGroup's | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
critics fear the company will not be able to afford the �5.5 billion | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
it offered in its successful bid. In a statement the chief executive | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
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said its bid was the best deal for 140,000 people have signed an on- | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
line petition asking the Government to think again. Labour wants MPs to | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
have a say before the contract is signed. This is a deal that's going | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
to last not for the next Parliament but for the next three Parliaments. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
It seems that if the Secretary of State signs it in the recess, | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
having announced knit the recess, MPs and they -- announced it in the | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
recess and means MPs will not have a chance to debate it. The lawyers | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
spent the weekend working out how to challenge the bidding process. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
Time is running out. The Government insist the bid was done fairly and | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
the Secretary of State for Transport shows no sign of changing | :11:49. | :11:59. | |
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The final Paralympic cauldron has been lit in Cardiff. They have | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
already been lit in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
planes will be brought together tomorrow, head of the Torch Relay | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
for the opening ceremony. Dwindling congregations in | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Methodist churches across Wales are transforming the landscape as more | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
and more church buildings close. Chapels in Wales are being lost at | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
the rate of one a week. Church leaders fear that hundreds more are | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
likely to follow. Robert Piggott reports from Pembrokeshire, where | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
in the last 12 months almost half of Methodist chapels have closed. | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
After almost 200 years of worship on this spot, Hill Mountain Chapel, | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
near Haverfordwest, is closing. Facing the final Hennes with a lump | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
in their throat, but know that with a maid -- register of only four | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
members, the end had to come. sad to see it closing. But if it's | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
got too close, it's got too close. Wales is littered with abandoned | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
troubles. They are too costly for dwindling congregations to maintain. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Of the 6500 built, more than half have closed. Those who still go to | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the Troubles blamed the demise of a culture which encourages | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
individualism and the pursuit of personal wealth -- wealth, and | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
scorns religion as unsophisticated and irrational. Almost half of | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Methodist chapels in Pembrokeshire have closed in the last 12 months. | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
The Church says freeing itself of expensive buildings will help it | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
take Christianity into the wider community. Were think, although it | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
is very sad that some are closing, it is also very exciting. It is | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
liberating the people to do what the Church should be doing. Ethel | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
Chapple has just five that Sunday morning service. In the long term, | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
they could be fighting a losing battle to keep it open. Wales was | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
built on a culture that included non-conformity. That means the | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
spirit of the nation, in many ways, is gone. Wales will be in no way | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
distinctive. It will have lost its hope, it will have lost its way. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Hill Mountain, people talk by the door like any other Sunday. Except | :14:09. | :14:19. | |
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Golf, and European Ryder Cup captain Jose Maria Olazabal has | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
announced his team for the competition this year. Nicolas | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Colsaerts from Belgium and Englishmen Ian Poulter were named | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
as the wild-card picks in the team of 12, which includes Rory McIlroy | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
and Luke Donald. There will compete against United States in Chicago | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
next month. Police in Essex have called off a | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
search for a lion near Clacton-on- Sea. At one point, armed officers | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
and helicopters were deployed and people were told to stay in their | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
homes after a member of the public claimed to have seen that the | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
creature in a field. It is here that you would expect to | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
see lions in Essex, safely in captivity in Colchester Zoo. Just a | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
few miles away last night, armed police were on alert. Several | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
people reported seeing what they thought was a lion, lurking in a | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
field. Today, one of them told us what he had seen. We saw a large | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
cat. It was looking at a tree, we thought it was going to go up. It | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
did not, it turned, it sacked. I believe it could hear us from the | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
other side of the field. -- it sat down. It just sat there looking at | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
us. It was very impressive. It was a nice sight to see. In the local | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
area, some were sceptical. Others were understandably worried. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
think it is quite concerning. If it is true, there is a large cat out | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
there, then it is quite a worrying thing. We do have a lot of fields | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
around, so there are plenty of places for the animal to hide. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
sighting happened in a field near St Osyth. Experts were drafted in | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
on the basis of photographs that were taken, evidence that was far | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
from conclusive. It's a picture of a blurry, sandy coloured animal at | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
a distance. I was not prepared to say what it could be. This | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
afternoon, the search was called off. For a while, imaginations have | :16:16. | :16:20. |