:00:12. > :00:16.A nurse who took the hoax call from two Australian DJs about the
:00:16. > :00:20.Duchess of Cambridge has been found dead. Jacintha Saldanha had worked
:00:20. > :00:24.at the hospital for four years T Duchess was treated at the hospital
:00:24. > :00:30.earlier this week, suffering from extreme morning sickness. We can
:00:30. > :00:34.confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of a prank call to the
:00:34. > :00:38.hospital. The hospital had been supporting her through this
:00:38. > :00:44.difficult time. Jacintha was a first-class nurse, who cared
:00:44. > :00:48.diligently for hundreds of patients during her time with us.
:00:49. > :00:54.Australian DJs rang the hospital and managed to find out details of
:00:54. > :00:57.the Duchess's medical condition. They apologised afterwards. The
:00:57. > :01:01.Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they were deeply saddened to
:01:01. > :01:04.learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha and they had been looked
:01:04. > :01:08.after wonderfully at the hospital. Also - the mother who went into
:01:08. > :01:12.hiding with her son, now in court to try and stop him having
:01:12. > :01:17.radiotherapy for a life-threatening brain tumour. Hillary Clinton in
:01:17. > :01:22.Northern Ireland calls for peace after this week's violence, as a
:01:22. > :01:28.rocket launch is -- launcher is found in Londonderry. David Cameron
:01:28. > :01:33.says he will not force churches to carry out gay marriages. And 40
:01:33. > :01:39.years since man last stepped on the moon - it could be your turn, if
:01:39. > :01:43.you have a spare �1 billion. And coming up on the BBC News Channel -
:01:43. > :01:53.England tighten their grip on the Third Test.
:01:53. > :02:06.
:02:06. > :02:11.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. A nurse who took a
:02:11. > :02:13.prank call from two Australian DJs about the Duchess of Cambridge has
:02:13. > :02:17.been found dead. The King Edward VII's Hospital, where the Duchess
:02:17. > :02:20.was treated earlier this week for extreme morning sickness said
:02:20. > :02:24.Jacintha Saldanha was an excellent and well-respected nurse, who had
:02:24. > :02:28.been the victim of a hoax call. She was married with two children. On
:02:28. > :02:34.Tuesday, it is understood she first answered the call from the two DJs
:02:34. > :02:40.who were pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles and put it
:02:40. > :02:43.through to the Duchess's hospital room. This report contains some
:02:43. > :02:47.flash photography. It was a prank call intended as a joke. This
:02:47. > :02:51.morning police were called to an address near the King Edward VII's
:02:51. > :02:56.Hospital, there they found the body of the nurse who initially answered
:02:56. > :03:01.the call. It is with deep sadness that I can confirm the death of a
:03:01. > :03:05.member of our nursing staff - Jacintha Saldanha. Jacintha has
:03:05. > :03:10.worked at the King Edward VII's Hospital for more than four years.
:03:10. > :03:15.She was an excellent nurse and well respected and popular with all of
:03:15. > :03:20.her colleagues. We can confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of
:03:20. > :03:25.a hoax call to the hospital. The hospital had been supporting her
:03:25. > :03:27.through this very difficult time. In a statement from St James's
:03:27. > :03:30.Palace, a spokesman said the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were
:03:30. > :03:40.deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha. The
:03:40. > :03:50.
:03:50. > :03:54.The prank call was made by two Australian radio presenters called
:03:54. > :03:59.Mel Greig and Michael Christian. They work for a Sydney radio
:03:59. > :04:02.station called 2Day FM. Nurse Saldanha was on duty at King Edward
:04:02. > :04:07.VII's Hospital when the call came through early on Tuesday morning.
:04:07. > :04:13.She answered the call and was taken in by the caller's impersonation of
:04:13. > :04:23.the Queen. She put the call through to a second nurbs who was
:04:23. > :04:27.
:04:28. > :04:35.monitoring -- nurse who was This is desperately sad. It has
:04:35. > :04:39.come as a great shock. Yes. It's a desperate story,
:04:39. > :04:44.desperately sad. Just precisely as you say. A universally sad reaction
:04:44. > :04:49.that has been the reaction from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as
:04:49. > :04:52.they said in their statement - deeply saddened. That is rather an
:04:52. > :04:56.understatement of how they are feeling just now. Of course it will
:04:56. > :04:59.be for an inquest to work out precisely the sequence of events.
:04:59. > :05:04.What did happen, what was the cause of death. We don't know anything
:05:04. > :05:08.about that at this stage. St James's Palace has pointed out that
:05:08. > :05:13.at no stage did they make a complaint about how the hospital
:05:13. > :05:19.handled the hoax call. They said, we offered our full and heart-felt
:05:19. > :05:24.support to the nurses involved in the prank call. We have heard
:05:24. > :05:27.nothing from Sydney from, the station 2Day FM or from the two
:05:27. > :05:34.presenters who thought it would be funny to make this prank call.
:05:34. > :05:41.Indeed, a short time ago, a tape of the call was still on the radio
:05:41. > :05:44.station's website. Thanks very much. A mother who sparked a nationwide
:05:44. > :05:50.manhunt after going into hiding with her seven-year-old son has
:05:50. > :05:55.spent the day at the High Court, challenging the medical treatment
:05:55. > :05:58.doctors say he should receive. He has a life threatening brain tumour.
:05:58. > :06:03.She is trying to stop him having radiotherapy, which she says could
:06:03. > :06:08.harm him. Neon Roberts was described as a
:06:08. > :06:12.funny boy - a seven-year-old who had a brain tumour removed in an
:06:12. > :06:18.operation. A mother who is questioning what treatment happens
:06:18. > :06:23.next. Sally Roberts arrived at court today to challenge doctors.
:06:23. > :06:28.They have advised drugs, radiotherapy - but she is concerned
:06:28. > :06:33.about the impact that radiotherapy could have. He had an operation in
:06:33. > :06:36.October to remove his brain tumour. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are
:06:36. > :06:41.recommended to follow. It is the standard treatment for a child with
:06:41. > :06:45.this cancer. His mum launched legal action at the High Court, concerned
:06:45. > :06:48.that radiotherapy could damage his brain. She went missing on Monday
:06:48. > :06:53.with Neon, but they were found yesterday. Sally Roberts told the
:06:53. > :07:00.judge today she only wants the best for her son.
:07:00. > :07:04.Today, her mum and dad spoke to the BBC, saying they want every option
:07:04. > :07:10.considered carefully, including their grandson just having
:07:10. > :07:16.chemotherapy. We're not against the medical profession. All we want to
:07:16. > :07:21.do is the very best for our grandchild. That is exploring every
:07:21. > :07:26.avenue. We could be told, you are completely wrong. That's fine.
:07:26. > :07:30.court heard there is a risk of some brain damage from radiotherapy, but
:07:30. > :07:34.experts say it gives the best chance of survival, so much so that
:07:34. > :07:38.it east the standard treatment across the UK.
:07:38. > :07:43.What the court has to decide is what's in Neon's best interests.
:07:43. > :07:48.Weighing up the extra chance of survival that radiotherapy could
:07:48. > :07:53.give him, against the potential long-term damage to his brain. When
:07:53. > :07:56.children need treatment, it's parents who have to decide. Often
:07:56. > :08:02.facing difficult and painful dilemmas. Trying to make a decision
:08:02. > :08:05.with the help of doctors. There's nobody who knows more about that
:08:05. > :08:12.child and their quality of life and the choices that they would want to
:08:12. > :08:15.make than that family. What you bring, as the clinician, is an
:08:15. > :08:20.understanding of having seen the progression of this particular
:08:20. > :08:27.illness or disease. In Neon's case, his parents don't agree. So the
:08:27. > :08:30.judge will decide and that could be as early as tomorrow.
:08:30. > :08:34.On a visit to Northern Ireland Hillary Clinton has condemned this
:08:34. > :08:38.week's violence in Belfast which has been sparked by anger among
:08:38. > :08:42.some loyalists at plans to stop flying the Union Flag every day
:08:42. > :08:51.over City Hall. A local MP who supports the proposal was advised
:08:51. > :08:55.not to return to her home after a death threat. Hours before the --
:08:55. > :08:58.Hillary Clinton's arrival, police intercepted a rocket launcher. Back
:08:59. > :09:03.in Belfast and back to hear about the state of the peace process.
:09:03. > :09:07.Hillary Clinton has always known it was not perfect, but she came here
:09:07. > :09:11.to tell politicians to keep working together and not allow violence to
:09:11. > :09:15.drive them apart. There will always be disagreements in democratic
:09:15. > :09:20.societies. We are experts at that in the United States. We have a lot
:09:20. > :09:25.of very serious difficult disagreements that divide us. But
:09:25. > :09:29.violence is never an acceptable response to those disagreements.
:09:29. > :09:33.The security situation in Northern Ireland is causing concern. Last
:09:33. > :09:39.night, in Londonderry, police investigating dissident republicans
:09:39. > :09:45.stopped a car and found inside a rocket launcher type devise. This
:09:45. > :09:50.is a weapon designed to attack armoured vehicles and kill the
:09:50. > :09:53.occupants of those vehicles. County Down a letter bomb was
:09:53. > :09:57.intercepted. In Ballymena there were more protests by loyalists.
:09:57. > :10:02.They are complaining about the decision of Belfast City Council,
:10:02. > :10:07.to stop flying the Union Flag every day. The cross-community Alliance
:10:07. > :10:11.Party supported the flag decision. One of their offences has --
:10:11. > :10:15.offices has since been destroyed by loyalists. It emerged that the East
:10:15. > :10:19.Belfast MP, Naomi Long, has received death threats and been
:10:19. > :10:22.advised by police to leave her home. I will not let that threat deter me
:10:22. > :10:28.from serving my constituents. I will not let it influence decisions
:10:28. > :10:36.that my party takes. The taking down of one flag has led to four
:10:36. > :10:43.days of trouble. There are British symbols everywhere you look - on
:10:43. > :10:47.Belfast's Shankill Road. So, why do these symbols matter so much? Some
:10:47. > :10:52.people here feel that the peace process has made Northern Ireland
:10:52. > :10:58.less British. I would like to see my flag, which belongs to my Queen,
:10:58. > :11:01.flying in my country. The Union Jack is our flag. It should be
:11:02. > :11:06.flown. There are huge swathes of people here who feel that the peace
:11:06. > :11:10.process has left them out and left them behind. I think that's part of
:11:10. > :11:14.the problem. Hillary Clinton was briefed on the on-going
:11:14. > :11:18.difficulties today. She also got a glimpse of the new Belfast and
:11:18. > :11:22.visited the recently opened Titanic tourist centre. Northern Ireland
:11:22. > :11:31.has changed dramatically in the past ten years and she said she
:11:31. > :11:35.still believed its future is bright. The Prime Minister says he supports
:11:35. > :11:40.same-sex marriages in churches, synagogues, mosques and other
:11:40. > :11:44.religious buildings. He says she does not want gay people to be
:11:44. > :11:47.excluded from a great institution. Plans will be unveiled next week.
:11:47. > :11:53.Religions such as the Church of England will not be forced to
:11:53. > :11:56.conduct the ceremonies. I am in favour because I am a supporter of
:11:56. > :12:02.marriage. I don't want gay people to be excluded from a great
:12:02. > :12:05.institution. Let me be 100% clear - if there is any church or any
:12:05. > :12:10.synagogue or mosque that does mot want to have a gay marriage, it
:12:10. > :12:13.will not, it must not be forced to hold it. Well, our political
:12:13. > :12:19.correspondent is at Westminster. This represents a significant shift
:12:19. > :12:22.in Mr Cameron's view. Yes, it does. I mean David Cameron has always
:12:22. > :12:27.supported the idea of same-sex marriages, but only in a civil
:12:27. > :12:31.setting, so only in a registry office or one other place like a
:12:31. > :12:35.country house where people can get married nowadays. What he's saying
:12:35. > :12:38.now is religious organisations should be allowed to conduct
:12:38. > :12:42.marriages, not they should be forced to and indeed those who
:12:42. > :12:45.don't want to should be protected from any pressure to do so. Those
:12:45. > :12:51.who want to, should be allowed to. The reason they have changed their
:12:51. > :12:53.mind on that is this - they believe that this is a water-tight
:12:53. > :12:57.guarantee, to guarantee those organisations who don't want to do
:12:57. > :13:01.it from being forced to do it. In other words, if you allow people to
:13:01. > :13:04.opt in, you protect their freedoms - the ones who want to do it. If
:13:04. > :13:08.you write to the legislation you don't want to do it, that protects
:13:08. > :13:11.those who don't want to do it. They say that is the best way of
:13:11. > :13:16.guaranteeing freedoms in both directions. Interestingly, there's
:13:16. > :13:21.been stern reaction to this from the Tory backbenchers. They were
:13:21. > :13:25.not keen on gay marriage as it was. They are incandescent in some parts.
:13:26. > :13:29.One described it as an outrage. Another said that Mr Cameron was
:13:29. > :13:32.catastrophically wrong about that. The Church of England, of course,
:13:32. > :13:37.they say it is divisive about the way the definition of marriage has
:13:37. > :13:41.been changing T Quakers and the Unitarians have wanted this for
:13:41. > :13:44.some time. We will get a bill just before Easter on this and we'll
:13:44. > :13:49.have a vote in the House of Commons in the early part of the summer.
:13:49. > :13:53.The Tory MPs will get a free vote. We expect Labour and the Liberal
:13:53. > :13:59.Democrats to get some whipped vote, in other words to be asked to vote
:13:59. > :14:03.in favour by their party. We should get legislation f it goes through
:14:03. > :14:06.Parliament, by the beginning of 2014 it will become law.
:14:06. > :14:11.manufacturing output fell more sharply than expected in October,
:14:11. > :14:15.raising fears that the economy could shrink again. Output was down
:14:15. > :14:20.1.3% from September. It was the worst fall since June, when output
:14:20. > :14:24.was affected by extra public holidays for the Diamond Jubilee.
:14:24. > :14:28.Tens of thousands of protestors are on the streets of Cairo, continuing
:14:28. > :14:31.to demonstrate against the Egyptian President, Mohamed Morsi, who has
:14:31. > :14:35.given himself sweeping powers. Last night the President called for
:14:35. > :14:45.talks about the growing political crisis. Today, it was rejected by
:14:45. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:53.Egypt is again on the brink. Two men killed in violence earlier this
:14:53. > :14:58.week were buried after Friday prayers. This is from where
:14:58. > :15:04.President Morsi draws his support, the mast, organised ranks of the
:15:05. > :15:09.Muslim Brotherhood. These Brotherhood offices in Cairo were
:15:09. > :15:12.ransacked last night. Local officials too wary to identify
:15:12. > :15:18.themselves accuse their opponents of disregarding the democratic
:15:18. > :15:23.process in which the President was elected six months ago. They come
:15:23. > :15:27.in and damage a building that has nothing to do with them. It kind of
:15:27. > :15:34.tells you, I mean, what we are talking about, not freedom of
:15:34. > :15:37.opinion, freedom of killing, freedom of damaging, what is that?
:15:37. > :15:42.President Morsi has been accused of gravity excessive powers and of
:15:42. > :15:49.trying to push through a new constitution which does not protect
:15:49. > :15:54.the basic rights of others. -- grabbing. Egypt is again hopelessly
:15:54. > :15:57.divided. Almost two years ago, these people marched in their
:15:57. > :16:02.thousands of Tahrir Square, demanding the downfall of an
:16:02. > :16:07.authoritarian regime. Now they are back again, opponents of President
:16:07. > :16:12.Morsi, saying that one tyrant has simply been replaced by another.
:16:12. > :16:17.Hosni Mubarak is long gone, and these liberals, Christians and
:16:17. > :16:21.women fear the new President and his constitution. They say Egypt is
:16:21. > :16:26.heading for disaster. Listen to the people, the people are trying to
:16:26. > :16:31.tell you something. We cannot say that there is another revolution
:16:31. > :16:38.coming. He is totally blind about the truth of what is happening.
:16:38. > :16:45.Worse than Mubarak is how he has been described, a man he regret
:16:45. > :16:51.voting for. I do not like the constitution of my country. It will
:16:51. > :16:56.be written by one party. And what is really bad is that I am starting
:16:56. > :17:00.to believe that the old regime is better. From behind his palace
:17:00. > :17:03.walls, President Morsi has called for a national dialogue tomorrow,
:17:04. > :17:13.but tonight opposition protesters are reported to have broken through
:17:14. > :17:15.
:17:15. > :17:19.these barricades around the heavily Our top story tonight: The nurse
:17:19. > :17:24.who took the hosts call from Australian DJs about the Duchess of
:17:24. > :17:27.Cambridge has been found dead. -- hoax call. And that extraordinary
:17:27. > :17:33.run-out for the captain, England's cricketers still pile on the runs
:17:33. > :17:36.against India. Coming up in Friday's Sportsday on
:17:36. > :17:41.the BBC News Channel, all the build-up to the Manchester derby,
:17:41. > :17:51.the rivalry is hotter than ever after City beat United to the
:17:51. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :17:56.Surgeons in Birmingham have saved the life of a five-year-old girl
:17:56. > :18:00.with a rare spinal disorder which meant her body was being slowly
:18:00. > :18:04.crushed. Rosie Davies was born with part of the spine missing and has
:18:04. > :18:08.never been able to walk. But in only the second operation of its
:18:08. > :18:11.kind, a medical team used bone grafts to build the gap and are
:18:12. > :18:21.confident she may be able to walk with the aid of artificial limbs.
:18:21. > :18:25.On the move, Rosie is making a remarkable recovery just two months
:18:25. > :18:31.at the pioneering surgery to stop her body collapsing on itself.
:18:31. > :18:34.There was a cost, amputating her lower legs, but these had never
:18:34. > :18:40.functioned, and the bone was used as part of a unique red hair which
:18:40. > :18:45.has saved her life. -- repair. Before, she was basically a
:18:45. > :18:50.timebomb. We do not know how long we had with there, and since having
:18:50. > :18:55.the operation, she has now had a life expectancy increased to that
:18:55. > :18:58.of a normal child. Before the operation, Rosie's organs were
:18:58. > :19:03.being gradually crushed by the unsupported weight of her upper
:19:03. > :19:07.body. It would eventually have killed her. She was born with five
:19:08. > :19:12.of her vertebrae missing. Doctors had never seen such a large gap
:19:12. > :19:17.before. To bridge the missing section, surgeons used tear
:19:17. > :19:21.amputated lower leg bones, and to permanently lock the repair into
:19:21. > :19:26.place, they inserted these metal struts which were bolted to the
:19:26. > :19:33.vertebrae above and the pelvis below. And the design will allow
:19:33. > :19:37.her to grow. Can we see your legs moving? Doctors at Birmingham
:19:37. > :19:42.Children's Hospital are delighted with their progress, because not
:19:42. > :19:48.only do her organs now have the room to function normally, but her
:19:48. > :19:52.stretch spinal cord has begun to provide a feeling to her upper legs.
:19:52. > :19:57.Before the surgery, she had very little sensation in her upper legs,
:19:57. > :20:01.and immediately after the surgery it was obvious that sensation was
:20:01. > :20:05.getting clearer, she could feel better, she could tell us which leg
:20:05. > :20:10.it was, and now today in testing she has pinpoint precision
:20:10. > :20:14.sensation. And getting feeling in her legs is crucial for rosy for
:20:14. > :20:20.another reason, because it means that in the future she may be able
:20:20. > :20:24.to be fitted with prosthetic limbs. Whether she will be able to walk
:20:24. > :20:28.will not be known for some time. For the moment, her parents and
:20:28. > :20:37.sister are simply delighted that the shadow hanging over her future
:20:37. > :20:41.They are called personal statements and have been described as a way
:20:41. > :20:44.for students to stand out from the crowd when applying for a
:20:44. > :20:47.university place, but one charity wants the system changed because
:20:47. > :20:51.they say state school pupils are put at a disadvantage because their
:20:51. > :20:56.personal statements often appear less impressive than those written
:20:56. > :20:59.by pupils from independent schools. Shia Reeta Chakrabarti.
:20:59. > :21:03.Applying to university is a stressful business. Teenagers need
:21:03. > :21:08.the right grades fell their cause but also personal statements that
:21:08. > :21:11.up to scratch. -- for their cause. The sixth-formers near Manchester
:21:11. > :21:16.understand the pressure all too well, writing an account of why
:21:17. > :21:20.they should win a place can be a challenge. I want them to see that
:21:20. > :21:24.I am an enthusiastic student who really wants what I am going after.
:21:24. > :21:27.It is your one chance to show the weather is reading it and
:21:27. > :21:33.processing the applications why they should be queue and y you are
:21:33. > :21:43.different from everyone else. -- why they should pay queue and y you
:21:43. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:49.One private-school applicants said they were offered a work placement
:21:49. > :21:53.to shadow an ambassador to the United Nations. That is contrasted
:21:53. > :21:59.with a state school applicants saying, I have a part-time job in a
:21:59. > :22:04.local pub. There were more spelling mistakes in the state school
:22:04. > :22:08.applications, and grammatical mistakes. Personal statements are
:22:08. > :22:12.designed to give those applying to university a chance to show their
:22:12. > :22:15.wider skills and interests, but the claim today is that they could be
:22:15. > :22:21.making the system less fair to those from state schools.
:22:21. > :22:25.Universities say they are just one of a range of things they look at.
:22:25. > :22:29.They are going to be looking at A- level results, prior attainment,
:22:29. > :22:34.teachers' references. Some of them carry out tests, some of them carry
:22:34. > :22:38.out interviews. Two-thirds of the privately educated applicants in
:22:39. > :22:42.the study ended up being accepted by a top university, while that was
:22:42. > :22:46.true for just over half of those from state schools and colleges.
:22:46. > :22:50.The charity behind the research wants this part of the system to be
:22:50. > :22:54.reformed. We should have a system that at least tries to be a level
:22:54. > :22:59.playing field, so it should be more about, I think, what you can offer
:22:59. > :23:03.for a degree course, rather than what you have done already. Some
:23:03. > :23:06.say admissions tutors are more than capable of reading between the
:23:06. > :23:10.lines and factoring in social background, but the proportion of
:23:10. > :23:14.state school pupils in top universities remains too low, and
:23:14. > :23:18.while that persists, so will this debate.
:23:18. > :23:22.Cricket, and England have enjoyed another excellent day against India
:23:22. > :23:27.in the third Test. Captain Alastair Cook continued his amazing run of
:23:27. > :23:31.form but was out in bizarre fashion, having looked on course to score a
:23:31. > :23:34.double century. Joe Wilson watched the action.
:23:34. > :23:41.Lunch digest it on the third day in Calcutta, and India still wondering
:23:41. > :23:47.how to get rid of Alastair Cook. Still going strong. Where now? Well
:23:47. > :23:52.into the unknown, or at least the highly unusual. Virat Kohli quite
:23:52. > :23:56.properly through at the stumps when England considered a run. As the
:23:56. > :24:01.throw came in, Alastair Cook was about to ground his bat when he
:24:01. > :24:09.reacted to the ball and left a gap. Run-out, freakishly, for the first
:24:09. > :24:11.time in his first-class career. Still, he had main 190 and shared a
:24:11. > :24:16.partnership of 173 with Jonathan Trott. Now could Kevin Pietersen
:24:16. > :24:25.accelerate? He had a record to catch, Alastair Cook has 23 Test
:24:25. > :24:30.centuries, Pietersen only 22. Out lbw, 54. England were past 500,
:24:30. > :24:34.nearly 200 runs ahead, two days to win the Test, and for India in the
:24:34. > :24:39.morning, more bowling. A private company is offering to
:24:39. > :24:43.fly customers to the money if they can afford the stratospheric price.
:24:43. > :24:47.For �1 billion for two tickets, it claims wealthy individuals,
:24:47. > :24:51.corporations or scientists could land on the Moon by 2020. The
:24:51. > :25:01.announcement comes on the 40th anniversary of NASA's last manned
:25:01. > :25:01.
:25:01. > :25:07.mission to the Moon on Apollo 17. December 1972, and NASA sends
:25:07. > :25:12.Apollo astronauts to the moon for the very last time. No-one has been
:25:12. > :25:17.back since. One giant leap for privately owned commercial
:25:18. > :25:22.enterprise... 40 years on, some former NASA employees have launched
:25:22. > :25:27.a new company. Golden Spike says it will soon be offering commercial
:25:27. > :25:33.flights back to the lunar surface. Our vision is to create a reliable
:25:33. > :25:37.and affordable US-based commercial Schumann lunar transportation
:25:37. > :25:42.system. This is the lunar module that the last man on the Moon used
:25:42. > :25:47.40 years ago, and this is what Golden Spike will hope to take
:25:47. > :25:50.people back with in 2020. The company says it will cost $1.4
:25:51. > :25:55.billion. It will be open to corporations and wealthy
:25:55. > :25:59.individuals. It will mean that countries like Japan, South Korea
:25:59. > :26:04.and South Africa could carry out research on the lunar surface. 40
:26:04. > :26:08.years ago, only the vast resources of the United States could send an
:26:08. > :26:15.astronaut to the moon. Now there is no political will nor the money to
:26:15. > :26:18.do it again. According to one of the last men to set foot on the
:26:18. > :26:25.loan, it will be the private sector from now on that will lead the way
:26:25. > :26:28.back. It would be an entrepreneurial effort by private
:26:28. > :26:32.investors, obviously regulated and sanctioned by government, but
:26:33. > :26:37.nevertheless managed by the private sector. I just think government is
:26:37. > :26:40.too inefficient to make those costs come down to the point where it
:26:41. > :26:44.would be economic goal. Some experts think the idea is too
:26:44. > :26:49.ambitious. They do not have the money, they have not picked the
:26:49. > :26:53.hardware, they have not developed the hardware, so I am a little
:26:53. > :26:58.sceptical that, at least on the timescale they are talking about,
:26:58. > :27:02.this can go from an idea to a reality. The splashdown of Apollo
:27:02. > :27:06.17 marked the end of a thrilling year are SpaceX narration, but some
:27:06. > :27:15.believe that there will be another one, taking a new generation back
:27:15. > :27:19.to the moon and even beyond. -- Let's take a look at the weather
:27:19. > :27:24.now with Jay Wynne, is it just getting colder and colder? A you
:27:24. > :27:28.wait for next week, snow is on the way, or it is at least possible.
:27:28. > :27:34.This is the satellite sequence from earlier today, a scattering of
:27:34. > :27:37.showers, but we have seen icy patches developing once again
:27:37. > :27:42.tonight, another cold and frosty night. Still she some showers at
:27:42. > :27:47.the moment which will tend to fade away over the next few hours. --
:27:47. > :27:51.still some showers. The nagging wind eases down, but there is a
:27:51. > :27:54.weather system in Scotland bringing a risk of snow over the hills, may
:27:54. > :27:59.be some freezing rain at lower levels. Temperatures down to
:27:59. > :28:02.freezing or just below for the vast majority. Tomorrow, the bulk of the
:28:03. > :28:07.day will see a North-South split, more cloud in the north of the UK,
:28:07. > :28:12.a breeze and patchy rain. Further south, it is going to be a lovely
:28:12. > :28:18.day. Sunny spells and scattered showers, not scattered showers,
:28:18. > :28:23.much lighter winds than we have seen of late! Brighter weather and
:28:23. > :28:29.might a winds. North Wales, the odd spot of rain and a similar sort of
:28:29. > :28:33.idea in Northern Ireland. Bright and a bit of a breeze developing
:28:33. > :28:38.here. Breezy in the West of Scotland, quite a great day with a
:28:38. > :28:42.bit of rain, but eastern Scotland faring that bit better, bright and
:28:42. > :28:47.breezy. A similar spread across northern England, with the best of
:28:47. > :28:51.the brightness to the west of the Pennines. Sunday is windier for all
:28:51. > :28:54.parts, a lot of cloud around, some rain slipping into Northern Ireland
:28:54. > :28:59.and northern England. Behind that, it brightens up, but a cold wind
:28:59. > :29:02.coming down from the north, and we will keep that into the early part
:29:03. > :29:07.of next week, just turning into a north-easterly breeze, really cold
:29:07. > :29:13.air from the near Continent, and as that comes our way on Monday and