:00:10. > :00:12.The BBC Newsnight editor who dropped a Jimmy Savile
:00:12. > :00:14.investigation "steps aside" during an inquiry.
:00:14. > :00:23.The corporation says part of Peter Rippon's original explanation for
:00:23. > :00:27.axing the report is "inaccurate and incomplete". The BBC has
:00:27. > :00:30.effectively changed its story about why it dropped the Newsnight story
:00:30. > :00:33.about Jimmy Savile, so these are serious questions.
:00:33. > :00:36.Who knew what and when - tonight the BBC's Panorama looks for
:00:36. > :00:38.answers about the Savile scandal. There are mounting questions for
:00:38. > :00:42.BBC bosses. Its Director General faces MPs tomorrow.
:00:43. > :00:45.Also on the programme: A 31-year old man appears in court
:00:45. > :00:53.charged with murder and attempted murder following a series of hit-
:00:53. > :00:56.and--and-ruun incidents in Cardiff. On trial - three men accused of
:00:56. > :01:02.planning a terror attack that could have been more deadly than the
:01:02. > :01:05.London bombings. And from hero to zero - Lance
:01:05. > :01:15.Armstrong is officially stripped of his seven Tour de France titles by
:01:15. > :01:45.
:01:45. > :01:47.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at 6.00pm. The editor of BBC
:01:47. > :01:50.Newsnight, the man who dropped its investigation into Jimmy Savile,
:01:50. > :01:58.has stepped aside. Peter Rippon will be off work till the inquiry
:01:58. > :02:01.into the corporation's handling of the affair is complete. This
:02:01. > :02:03.morning the BBC said part of his explanation for not broadcasting
:02:03. > :02:06.the programme had been "inaccurate or incomplete". And tonight, the
:02:06. > :02:08.BBC Panorama programme will include a claim that BBC bosses misled the
:02:08. > :02:13.public about why the programme was dropped.
:02:13. > :02:19.Crisis at the BBC - as one flagship of its journalism, Panorama,
:02:19. > :02:23.investigates another - Newsnight amid allegations of a corporate
:02:23. > :02:27.cover-up in the Jimmy Savile scandal. The affair has claimed its
:02:27. > :02:30.news casualty with Newsnight editor Peter Rippon stepping aside while
:02:30. > :02:34.investigations continue. A BBC statement says his blog explaining
:02:34. > :02:38.his decision to junk an investigation into Savile was
:02:38. > :02:41.inaccurate or incomplete. The latest twist comes on the day a
:02:41. > :02:44.Panorama documentary reveals the impact shelving the programme had
:02:44. > :02:48.on one of the women who had been interviewed by Newsnight. For all
:02:48. > :02:53.of that stress - that's what made me angry, the fact that I'd gone
:02:53. > :02:57.through all of that stress when I really needed to concentrate on
:02:57. > :03:02.getting well, and then they never used it. The Panorama also includes
:03:02. > :03:06.interviews with a reporter and producer behind the aborted Savile
:03:06. > :03:10.investigation. Ever since the decision was taken to shelve our
:03:10. > :03:14.story, I've not been happy with public statements made by the BBC.
:03:14. > :03:17.I think they're very misleading about the nature of the
:03:17. > :03:21.investigation we were doing. I was sure the story would come out one
:03:21. > :03:25.way or another, and that if it did, the BBC would be accused of a
:03:25. > :03:30.cover-up. In fact, I wrote an e- mail to Peter saying, "The story is
:03:30. > :03:37.strong enough, and the danger of not running it is substantial
:03:37. > :03:40.damage to BBC reputation." Meirion Jones and Liz McKeen's boss
:03:40. > :03:45.was the editor of Newsnight, Peter Rippon. He ultimately reported to
:03:45. > :03:49.the Director of News, Helen Bowden. The editor in chief for all BBC
:03:49. > :03:53.journalism is the Director General. Today further details emerged of a
:03:53. > :03:57.brief conversation Helen Bowden had with former director George
:03:57. > :04:01.Entwistle in which she warned that if the Newsnight investigation went
:04:01. > :04:05.ahead, he might have to change the Christmas schedules. In charge of
:04:05. > :04:09.all the BBC's channels, he had scheduled two tributes to Jimmy
:04:09. > :04:13.Savile over Christmas. Last month he took over as Director General.
:04:13. > :04:16.will, of course, be taking questions at the Culture Select
:04:16. > :04:20.Committee tomorrow. Then there are the two independent reviews we have
:04:20. > :04:23.set up, one looking at Jimmy Savile's activities over the past
:04:23. > :04:27.decades and the Pollard review looking at what happened on
:04:27. > :04:30.Newsnight, and I would to make a full contribution to those. Today
:04:30. > :04:33.the Prime Minister was asked what he made of the latest revelations
:04:33. > :04:36.in the affair. The developments today are concerning because the
:04:36. > :04:38.BBC has effectively changed its story about why it dropped the
:04:39. > :04:42.Newsnight programme about Jimmy Savile, so these are serious
:04:42. > :04:45.questions. They need to be answered. They need to be answered by these
:04:45. > :04:48.independent reviews that the BBC has established, and I'm sure that
:04:48. > :04:53.they will be. What makes the allegations particularly serious
:04:53. > :04:57.for the BBC is they call into question the independence of its
:04:57. > :05:01.journalism. Any suggestion that news reporters were prevented from
:05:01. > :05:04.broadcasting a story because it was inconvenient to the corporation
:05:04. > :05:09.could cause real damage to the credibility of BBC News.
:05:09. > :05:12.I don't think that the BBC has handled it terribly well. This is
:05:12. > :05:18.the worst cries that is I can remember in my nearly 50 years at
:05:18. > :05:22.the BBC. With new revelations of abuse by Jimmy Savile still
:05:22. > :05:25.emerging, some will see the apparent conflict between BBC
:05:25. > :05:30.journalists and their editors as a sideshow, but at stake is public
:05:30. > :05:32.trust in the institution and the fact Panorama is free to
:05:32. > :05:37.investigate editorial decisions within the corporation is seen as
:05:38. > :05:41.evidence of a vital independence. And mark is here with me now. The
:05:41. > :05:46.Director General, as we were saying, faces MPs tomorrow. What are they
:05:46. > :05:48.going to want to know from him? think although we've obviously got
:05:48. > :05:52.these two independent investigations ongoing, I think
:05:52. > :05:55.they will want to question him about what went on at BBC over many
:05:55. > :05:59.decades when Jimmy Savile was an employee of the BBC and when
:05:59. > :06:03.allegation that he was involved in the sexual abuse of children on BBC
:06:03. > :06:10.premises took place. Obviously, he will be questioned closely, I
:06:10. > :06:16.suspect, on why that Newsnight investigation was dropped, exactly
:06:16. > :06:19.what conversation did he have with the Director of News at the BBC at
:06:19. > :06:22.an award ceremony when he was told about the Newsnight investigation.
:06:22. > :06:26.There will be questions now about what procedures are in place at the
:06:26. > :06:31.BBC to ensure this kind of situation could never, ever happen
:06:31. > :06:35.again. Mark, there are other institutions too with questions to
:06:35. > :06:38.answer. Of course there is a police inquiry going on, as you know. The
:06:38. > :06:42.NHS has its questions as well as the BBC having its investigations.
:06:42. > :06:47.We know this afternoon the Crown Prosecution Service revealed in
:06:47. > :06:51.2009 they received four allegations of sexual assault or abuse by Jimmy
:06:51. > :06:55.Savile back in the 1970s and didn't pursue those allegations any
:06:55. > :06:59.further because they said that the victims - the alleged victims -
:06:59. > :07:03.would not have been prepared to give evidence in court. Now, these
:07:03. > :07:07.were four allegations, three involving girls under the age of 16.
:07:07. > :07:13.Two occurred at a children's home, one at the Stoke Mandeville
:07:13. > :07:17.Hospital. And I think there will be questions there about how such
:07:17. > :07:19.serious allegations involving such vulnerable people did not set alarm
:07:19. > :07:26.bells ringing. Mark, thank you very much. Thank you.
:07:26. > :07:36.And you can see the full Panorama special tonight at 10.30pm here on
:07:36. > :07:40.
:07:40. > :07:45.BBC One. Matthew Tvrdon is accused of murdering a mother of three and
:07:45. > :07:51.the attempted murder of 13 other people including seven children.
:07:51. > :07:54.Let's go live now to Sian Lloyd who joins us from Cardiff. Sian? George,
:07:54. > :08:00.these flowers mark the spot where people were knocked down last
:08:00. > :08:03.Friday. The streets here in the Eely area of Cardiff were full of
:08:03. > :08:07.people collecting their children home from school. Tonight, six
:08:07. > :08:14.people remain injured in hospital, and this community deeply shocked
:08:14. > :08:18.by what happened. The man accused of deliberately
:08:18. > :08:23.knocking down pedestrians in Cardiff last Friday arrived at
:08:24. > :08:30.court under police guard. During a short court hearing, 31-year-old
:08:30. > :08:35.Matthew Tvrdon stood with his eyes closed. He was flanked on either
:08:35. > :08:41.side by police officers and security guards and remained in
:08:41. > :08:47.handcuffs throughout. 19 counts were read out, one of murder, 13
:08:47. > :08:53.charges of attempted murder, four counts of assault and a charge of
:08:53. > :08:58.dangerous driving. A white van was seized by police called to multiple
:08:58. > :09:04.hit-and-run incidents in the city on Friday. Karina Menzies, a mother
:09:04. > :09:08.of three, died after being knocked over in Eely in west Cardiff. 13
:09:08. > :09:10.other people were treated at the University Hospital of Wales. Three
:09:11. > :09:16.adults and three children are still in hospital.
:09:16. > :09:26.Matthew Tvrdon was remanded in custody. He'll appear before
:09:26. > :09:32.
:09:32. > :09:35.Newport Crown Court tomorrow via video link.
:09:35. > :09:38.Three men have gone on trial accused of plotting a series of
:09:38. > :09:40.suicide bombings in the UK. The men are accused of planning eight
:09:40. > :09:44.rucksack bombings, which prosecutors claim could have been
:09:44. > :09:47.on a larger scale than the attacks in London seven years ago. As June
:09:47. > :09:49.Kelly now reports, the men deny plotting to carry out the suicide
:09:49. > :09:53.bombings. It is said to be a plot to commit
:09:53. > :09:57.mass murder in the UK - the men accused are all British born and
:09:57. > :10:00.from Birmingham. For months they were being watched, and on a
:10:00. > :10:09.September morning last year, the surveillance stopped and officers
:10:09. > :10:15.from the West Midlands Counterterrorism Unit moved in and
:10:15. > :10:21.made arrests. Irfan Khalid, Irfan Naseer and Ashik Ali are charged
:10:21. > :10:31.with plotting to become the country's next suicide bombers. If
:10:31. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:45.they succeeded their attack could be bigger than the bombing of 2005.
:10:45. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:05.Today prosecuting council Brian Two of the men, Irfan Naseer and
:11:05. > :11:09.Irfan Khalid, had travelled to Pakistan where they were accused of
:11:09. > :11:15.learning how to make poisons and handling weapons. It's here they
:11:15. > :11:18.were to release so-called martyrdom videos after their deaths. Osama
:11:19. > :11:25.Bin Laden was described as one of their inspirations. Back in
:11:25. > :11:30.Birmingham it's thought they funded their plot by street collections,
:11:30. > :11:33.stealing from their own commun. They pretended to be collecting for
:11:33. > :11:38.Muslim Aid. But on the internet they invested most of the money
:11:38. > :11:41.they kept, more than �13,000, but they lost �9,000, and all the time,
:11:42. > :11:46.their conversations were being monitored through bugs planted in
:11:46. > :11:50.their cars and one of their flats, and the court was told it was here
:11:50. > :11:53.the men started putting into practise what they'd learned in
:11:53. > :11:57.Pakistan. It's alleged they began trying to work out how to make
:11:57. > :12:02.their bombs. It was at that point that the men were arrested. The
:12:02. > :12:08.jury was told they'd yet to decide their targets, but they had tried
:12:09. > :12:13.to recruit others. The men deny all the charges against them.
:12:13. > :12:17.19 people onboard a helicopter that ditched in the North Sea have been
:12:17. > :12:23.rescued. The aircraft came down between Orkney and Shetland.
:12:23. > :12:26.Coastguards say the helicopter was on its way from Aberdeen to the
:12:26. > :12:29.West Phoenix drilling rig. It's the fourth serious incident involving a
:12:29. > :12:33.Super Puma within the last four years. The Prime Minister says he
:12:33. > :12:36.wants to see more use of payment by results for private firms and
:12:36. > :12:40.charitys that succeed in turns around the lives of criminals.
:12:40. > :12:43.David Cameron said he wanted such contracts to become the norm by
:12:43. > :12:48.2015. From Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London, our political
:12:48. > :12:52.editor Nick Robinson reports. Send fewer people to prison, give
:12:52. > :12:56.criminals more help - few politicians would dare say anything
:12:56. > :13:03.like that but with a budget for prisons falling, something has to
:13:03. > :13:06.be done. Today David Cameron spent an hour on the inside of Wormwood
:13:06. > :13:11.Scrubs before delivering his first speech on crime as Prime Minister.
:13:11. > :13:16.He argued people are all too often presented with false choices.
:13:16. > :13:19.them out or let them out, blame the criminal or blame society. Be tough
:13:19. > :13:25.or act soft. What I have been trying to do is break out of this
:13:25. > :13:30.centre I'll debate and show a new way forward - tough but intelligent.
:13:30. > :13:35.Translated that's meant to meaning incarcerating real criminals but
:13:35. > :13:39.once they get out, working harder to make sure they never come out.
:13:39. > :13:42.Lock them up and let them out again - that is the story for all too
:13:42. > :13:45.many people housed in establishments like this which is
:13:45. > :13:49.why a Government that is cutting the prisons budget is desperate to
:13:49. > :13:53.find ways to stop criminals reoffending again. More than one in
:13:53. > :13:56.six of those who leave prison come back again. Teaching prisoners
:13:56. > :13:59.skills like making double glazing is meant to cut that rate.
:14:00. > :14:02.these guys, they come in here. They want to learn. There is
:14:02. > :14:07.opportunities for them. None of this is new, of course. What is,
:14:07. > :14:11.though, is a plan to let charities and private firms bid to run every
:14:11. > :14:16.scheme to rehabilitation ex-cons and then to pay them by results,
:14:16. > :14:19.but can it work with fewer staff and less money? It's not about
:14:19. > :14:22.shortage of money. We spend billions of pounds on prison and
:14:22. > :14:25.probation, but we're not getting the right results. In terms of
:14:25. > :14:29.getting charities to do more, it's happening now. I have just been
:14:29. > :14:33.sitting in a cell with a very good drug rehab charity that's working
:14:33. > :14:38.with prisoners trying to get them off drugs, get them clean. Are you
:14:38. > :14:43.really saying, though, with fewer staff and less money you can get
:14:43. > :14:46.more rehabilitation? We've got to do more for less. Every place here
:14:46. > :14:50.costs �40,000. There are 600 staff that work in this prison. It's not
:14:50. > :14:54.a shortage of money. It's that we haven't been focusing people on
:14:54. > :14:58.what really matters, which is the results. That isn't a view shared
:14:58. > :15:03.by many organisations who welcome the idea, but fear that budget cuts
:15:03. > :15:07.could undermine efforts to stop prison's revolving door. I think
:15:07. > :15:10.there is a danger that these very good plans to prioritise
:15:10. > :15:13.rehabilitation could backfire if we don't have the resources to do
:15:13. > :15:17.mental health treatment, alcohol treatment and drug treatment in
:15:17. > :15:21.prisons and in the community. debate about prisons about any
:15:21. > :15:24.policy must feel like a mighty big relief to a Prime Minister whose
:15:24. > :15:29.Chief Whip finally resunned last week. Have you learnt anything from
:15:29. > :15:32.the events of last week which were pretty politically catastrophic?
:15:32. > :15:35.I've said, it's much easier to sack people as soon as something goes
:15:35. > :15:39.wrong. I don't actually think that's the right approach. I think
:15:39. > :15:42.just following a media head line like that is the wrong approach.
:15:42. > :15:45.But the focus should be on the big picture why unemployment is falling,
:15:45. > :15:50.inflation is falling. Hospital waiting lists are coming down.
:15:50. > :15:53.Crime is falling. The Government is focused on the big picture. That's
:15:53. > :16:03.what matters. That's a message not just to the country, but to those
:16:03. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:10.in his party, who found him guilty Our top story tonight:
:16:10. > :16:13.The BBC Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon steps aside while an inquiry
:16:13. > :16:18.takes place into the programme's dropping of a report over the Jimmy
:16:18. > :16:25.Savile sex abuse scandal. And with just over two weeks to go to the
:16:25. > :16:32.American Presidential election, the battle is on for women voters. In
:16:32. > :16:42.the business news, $17 billion and counting. BP sells 15% of its
:16:42. > :16:45.
:16:45. > :16:48.venture to Rosneft. Yah who unveils Lance Armstrong has no place in
:16:48. > :16:51.cycling and he deserves to be forgotten. Those were the words of
:16:51. > :16:55.the head of cycling's governing body today as the one time champion
:16:55. > :16:57.was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life.
:16:57. > :17:01.It follows a report from the American Anti Doping Agency that
:17:01. > :17:08.accused him of being a drugs cheat. Something the American rider still
:17:08. > :17:12.denies. From Geneva, our Sports Editor David Bond reports.
:17:12. > :17:16.For more than a decade he was the biggest name in cycling. A rider
:17:16. > :17:22.whose close brush with cancer made him one of sport's most
:17:22. > :17:25.inspirational figures. But today, two weeks after the American
:17:25. > :17:29.authorities accused Lance Armstrong of a running the most sophisticated
:17:29. > :17:35.drugs ring in the history of sport, cycling's governing body delivered
:17:35. > :17:40.its verdict. We will ban Lance Armstrong from cycling and strip
:17:40. > :17:47.him of his seven Tour de France titles. Lance Armstrong has no
:17:47. > :17:52.place in cycling. He was paid millions of pounds for winning the
:17:52. > :17:56.Tour de France. Now he's facing demands to repay his prize money
:17:56. > :18:01.and sponsorship bonuses. The men who run a world cycling are
:18:01. > :18:03.desperate to draw a line under the Lance Armstrong scandal. But the
:18:03. > :18:09.affair has thrown up so many difficult questions that it's not
:18:09. > :18:13.going to be shut down that easily. The report into him by the US anti-
:18:13. > :18:17.doping agency was damning. It included testimonies given under
:18:17. > :18:21.oath by 11 of the American's former team-mates. They provided
:18:21. > :18:26.compelling evidence that Armstrong not only cheated but led doping
:18:26. > :18:31.ring where other riders were forced to take a cocktail of drugs. Most
:18:31. > :18:36.intriguingly, the report include allegations he paid to cover up a
:18:36. > :18:41.suspicious test from the Tour of Switzerland in at 2001. Here at the
:18:41. > :18:45.Swiss headquarters, senior figures admit they received over �60,000
:18:45. > :18:50.from Armstrong to fund of the fight against drugs. But they say it had
:18:50. > :18:55.nothing to do with the suspicious test, and I asked the President if
:18:55. > :19:00.the payment showed the organisation had got too close to Armstrong?
:19:00. > :19:04.reflection, that may have been a mistake, but they did it with the
:19:04. > :19:09.best of intentions, and there's absolutely no question that there
:19:09. > :19:14.was any connection with a donation and preferential treatment for
:19:14. > :19:19.Lance Armstrong. You can see how people would look at it. Of course,
:19:19. > :19:25.the media can make it out like that but there was absolutely none.
:19:25. > :19:29.been an interesting, at times difficult, few weeks. Armstrong
:19:29. > :19:32.told supporters at a charity bike ride in Texas at the weekend, he
:19:32. > :19:39.would not give up the fight but today's decision means he has
:19:39. > :19:47.little choice but to walk away from the sport. For cycling, yet another
:19:47. > :19:50.long journey back to redemption lies ahead.
:19:50. > :19:53.The British oil company, BP, has agreed a multi billion pound deal
:19:53. > :19:56.with the Russian state oil company, Rosneft. It's made Rosneft one of
:19:56. > :19:59.the world's most powerful oil companies. Let's get more from our
:19:59. > :20:01.Chief Economics Correspondent Hugh Pym, who's here with me now. Bob is
:20:02. > :20:06.the big news for the energy companies, but what does it mean
:20:06. > :20:10.for us? George, the financial fortunes of BP are important to
:20:10. > :20:16.millions of people because it's a share held by so many pension funds
:20:16. > :20:20.and saving products. It brings an end to the problems BP had had with
:20:20. > :20:25.their Russian interests. Let's have a look at the dealer with Rosneft,
:20:25. > :20:30.which is controlled by the government of Russia. BP will have
:20:30. > :20:38.19.75 % of the company and a cash payment as well. In terms of the
:20:38. > :20:44.size of Rosneft, it propels it to the top of oil companies. BP itself,
:20:44. > :20:50.and Shell. It gives BP and entrance into the big opportunities in the
:20:50. > :20:55.Arctic, and Siberia, developing new reserves. One of the pitfalls, 20%
:20:55. > :20:59.owned by BP, the rest controlled by the Kremlin, and dealing with that
:20:59. > :21:04.situation may not be entirely straightforward with corporate
:21:04. > :21:07.governance issues and transparency in the future. OK, thank you. With
:21:07. > :21:09.just over two weeks to go until America chooses its next president,
:21:09. > :21:12.Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney will later
:21:12. > :21:15.tonight take part in their final TV debate. With many opinion polls
:21:15. > :21:20.showing the candidates neck and neck, the battle is on for women
:21:20. > :21:23.voters, many of whom backed Barack Obama four years ago. As the
:21:23. > :21:30.campaign enters its final phase, Steve Kingstone reports from Denver
:21:30. > :21:37.in Colorado. The breathtaking splendour of the
:21:37. > :21:41.Rocky Mountains. In whose foothills assets the mile-high city. Denver,
:21:41. > :21:47.the beating heart of the critical swing state. A state where women
:21:47. > :21:51.voters outnumber men by more than 100,000. My name is Rebecca and I'm
:21:51. > :21:55.a single mother with three teenage children. I'm Katherine, my husband
:21:55. > :22:02.is working at two jobs while I care for my three-year-old daughter,
:22:02. > :22:07.Charlotte. They are what the pollsters call Wal-Mart mums. Busy
:22:07. > :22:10.women on a budget, who come to this giant retailer for cost and no
:22:11. > :22:15.frills convenience. I will make a list and put a dollar amounts by
:22:15. > :22:20.each item. I used to have a corporate job and then I was laid
:22:20. > :22:24.off so we went to having not much money. Over the years, suburban
:22:24. > :22:30.women with children have been of the pursuit group of voters. Bill
:22:30. > :22:39.Clinton famously targeted at soccer mums, Sarah Palin hockey mums, and,
:22:39. > :22:44.in 2012, this latest variation could decide the outcome. That's
:22:44. > :22:48.becomes -- because in elections, mothers decide their minds played.
:22:48. > :22:52.Rebecca wants to think about her job as a classroom assistant and a
:22:52. > :22:56.recent divorce, and as she cut back on spending, she wants a president
:22:56. > :23:02.who will do the same. What we have to look at is, how do we fix the
:23:02. > :23:07.Budget, how do we get it back on the right track? It is a mess.
:23:07. > :23:16.many pieces? At Katherine's House, it is but this time and is a
:23:16. > :23:20.familiar helping of negative political adverts. I just get
:23:20. > :23:25.exhausted from hearing both sides tell me, vote for me just because
:23:25. > :23:30.the other side is so bad and rotten and awful. Nobody says, here is
:23:30. > :23:34.what I can do for you. What they share his frustration with both
:23:35. > :23:40.campaigns. But the time has come to make a decision. Here we are, final
:23:40. > :23:44.stretch, tell me who your leading towards and wife. The Barack Obama,
:23:44. > :23:48.again, just because Mitt Romney, I don't know exactly what we're going
:23:48. > :23:52.to get from him as President. know exactly what we're going to
:23:52. > :23:58.get from Barack Obama and I don't like it. I want something new.
:23:58. > :24:02.the weekly shop is over but not so the selection. Polls suggest the
:24:02. > :24:05.President's lead amongst Women is slipping as both sides make a final
:24:05. > :24:15.sales pitch. And there's plenty of more details
:24:15. > :24:21.on the American Presidential For most seven year-olds visiting
:24:21. > :24:24.the opera or listening to one comes low on their list of priorities.
:24:24. > :24:28.But not for Alma Deutscher from Dorking in Surrey. She's gone one
:24:28. > :24:32.better and composed her very own work. The opera's called The
:24:32. > :24:42.Sweeper of Dreams and is fast becoming an internet sensation. Jon
:24:42. > :24:45.
:24:45. > :24:52.In the heart of the Surrey countryside, the strains of a
:24:52. > :24:59.beautiful sonata. The pianist doesn't just play it like a dream,
:24:59. > :25:09.she composed it, as well. Last year, when she was six. I had the theme
:25:09. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:21.when I was very young and it was Now at the ripe old age of seven,
:25:21. > :25:26.Alma has written her first opera, The Sweeper Of Dreams. Where do you
:25:26. > :25:34.get the ideas for your compositions? I improvise it and
:25:34. > :25:38.normally, when I tried to think of it, it doesn't come. Of course, no
:25:38. > :25:43.self-respecting child prodigy would be a bit you're so in just one
:25:43. > :25:47.instrument. Alma writes with a violin, as well. Her parents say
:25:47. > :25:54.her talents were evident early on. It was striking, when she was about
:25:54. > :25:59.three, she heard a lullaby by Richard Strauss, and she came to us
:25:59. > :26:04.and said, "How can use it be so beautiful?" she was so struck by
:26:04. > :26:08.the beauty of it. Those working in the music industry are impressed by
:26:08. > :26:13.what they have heard. It is very unusual for a child of seven to
:26:13. > :26:18.even know what an opera is, let alone at composing one herself, so
:26:18. > :26:20.it's an astonishing feat, and I just hope she will go on to develop
:26:20. > :26:26.and chief and maximise on the potential she is showing at the
:26:26. > :26:31.moment. -- achieve. Her next project is a concerted for the
:26:31. > :26:35.cello. The world of music will be taking note.
:26:35. > :26:42.It's been a foggy day for many. Let's get the latest on the weather
:26:43. > :26:46.Not very inspiring, the weather, and it's not going to change much
:26:46. > :26:52.in the short term. The fog will thicken up, widespread by the end
:26:52. > :26:56.of tonight. We won't see it everywhere, mind you. Low cloud
:26:56. > :27:01.across Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland and over Hillier parts
:27:01. > :27:06.of the Scotland and Wales, the Midlands and the fog will then
:27:06. > :27:09.become widespread and dense in places. Pretty mild underneath that.
:27:09. > :27:13.Temperatures in double figures in most places tonight but it could
:27:13. > :27:19.cause problems for transport. One or two issues at the airport, for
:27:19. > :27:25.example. Perhaps road and rail travel affected tomorrow morning.
:27:25. > :27:29.It will gradually thinner and left. One or two western areas getting
:27:29. > :27:35.brightness coming through but it will be in short supply once again
:27:35. > :27:40.tomorrow. To the west of higher ground, you might see some of that
:27:40. > :27:43.cloud breaking up to allow sunshine to come through but most places
:27:44. > :27:50.resolutely great through the afternoon. Temperatures on the mild
:27:50. > :27:53.side despite the cloud. 13-14 Celsius. The brightest spot is the
:27:53. > :27:59.north-west of Scotland. Glorious weather at the moment with light
:27:59. > :28:04.winds. Temperatures on the low side. Wednesday, doesn't look much better.
:28:04. > :28:07.Grey skies are virtually everywhere away from the north-west corner.
:28:07. > :28:11.Maybe as the wind picks up, a few more bright spells appearing here
:28:11. > :28:15.and there but the big change comes at the end of the week. Mild air
:28:15. > :28:20.being pushed away by a very cold northerly winds all the way from
:28:20. > :28:23.the Arctic, sleeping in through Friday and Saturday, bringing snow
:28:23. > :28:29.to eastern areas on the hills and down to lower levels from time to
:28:29. > :28:32.So, winter is here. Thank you, Peter. A reminder of tonight's main
:28:32. > :28:34.news. The BBC's Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon steps aside while an