:00:05. > :00:10.Russia makes a surprise offer to break the deadlock over Syria's
:00:10. > :00:21.chemical weapons. Its foreign minister says their weapons could be
:00:21. > :00:26.put under international control. As the fighting continues, there has
:00:26. > :00:32.been a cautious reaction from around the world. If Syria were to put its
:00:32. > :00:36.chemical weapons under international supervision, clearly that would be a
:00:36. > :00:40.big step forward and should be encouraged. We'll be asking just how
:00:40. > :00:47.credible this latest Russian initiative is.
:00:47. > :00:50.Also tonight: BBC bosses get a grilling about over-size pay-offs -
:00:51. > :00:54.MPs say it was one rule for the elite and another for everyone else.
:00:55. > :00:58.The Michael Le Vell rape trial - the elite and another for everyone else.
:00:58. > :01:06.judge tells the jury not to be influenced by the distress of his
:01:06. > :01:09.alleged victim. And a classic Bond car resurfaces at
:01:09. > :01:20.auction in London after been found in a lock up garage.
:01:21. > :01:29.Coming up on BBC News, the FIFA president gives an indication that
:01:29. > :01:49.the cut our World Cup in 2022 may have been a mistake.
:01:49. > :01:54.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. Russia has proposed a
:01:54. > :01:56.surprise plan to break the deadlock over Syria's chemical weapons. The
:01:56. > :01:59.Russian Foreign Minister is calling on the Syrian Government to put its
:01:59. > :02:02.stockpile under international supervision. So far the reaction
:02:02. > :02:05.from Damascus appears to be positive and here David Cameron says that the
:02:05. > :02:08.proposal, if confirmed, would be hugely welcome. This latest
:02:08. > :02:11.diplomatic move comes as the US administration steps up it efforts
:02:11. > :02:22.at home and abroad to get support for a military strike against Syria.
:02:22. > :02:28.Here's our diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins. President Assad used
:02:28. > :02:32.an interview with the American CBS James Robbins. President Assad used
:02:32. > :02:36.network to insist he didn't use chemical weapons and he predicts
:02:36. > :02:45.possible retaliation in the event of American strikes, perhaps by his
:02:45. > :02:52.allies in the region. Everything is on the blink of explosion, you have
:02:52. > :02:59.to expect everything. Senator John Kerry said they saw evidence of
:02:59. > :03:05.rockets fired from a region controlled by your army. It is about
:03:05. > :03:08.evidence. The Russians have completely opposite evidence that
:03:08. > :03:14.the missiles were thrown from an area where the rebels controlled it.
:03:14. > :03:20.None of that persuades America's Secretary of State. John Kerry
:03:20. > :03:24.argued the case against Syria's regime is solid and the American
:03:24. > :03:30.people and their lawmakers should not fear being dragged into war. We
:03:30. > :03:39.are not going to war. We will not have people at risk in that way. We
:03:39. > :03:43.will be able to hold Bashar al-Assad accountable without engaging troops
:03:43. > :03:50.on the ground or any other prolonged effort in a very limited, very
:03:50. > :03:55.targeted, very short-term effort that degrades his capacity to
:03:55. > :04:01.deliver chemical weapons. Then the ground suddenly seemed to shift when
:04:01. > :04:05.Mr Kerry was asked if there was any way Bashar al-Assad could avoid
:04:05. > :04:11.attack, he gave this reply. If he gave every bit of his chemical
:04:11. > :04:19.weapons to the international community in the next week, turn it
:04:19. > :04:21.over, all of it. John Kerry offered a potential way out is Bashar
:04:21. > :04:24.al-Assad got rid of all of his a potential way out is Bashar
:04:24. > :04:29.chemical weapons stocks in one week, but then Mr Kerry went on to
:04:29. > :04:35.say he isn't about to do it and it cannot be done obviously. Across the
:04:35. > :04:41.global divide on Syria, Russia is pushing the idea of Syrian chemical
:04:41. > :04:46.disarmament. The Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he has already
:04:46. > :04:50.put the idea to his Syrian counterpart. We don't know if Syria
:04:50. > :04:56.will agree to it, but if opting chemical weapons in that country
:04:56. > :05:04.averts strikes then we will immediately get to work with it in
:05:04. > :05:09.Damascus. Now Syria has apparently welcomed the proposal from Russia,
:05:09. > :05:13.praising the Kremlin for seeking to prevent American aggression. Ban
:05:13. > :05:17.Ki-Moon is talking about the creation of UN supervised zones in
:05:17. > :05:25.Syria where the weapons could be destroyed. In the House of Commons
:05:25. > :05:32.the Prime Minister provided a welcome with a note of caution.
:05:32. > :05:36.Clearly that would be a big step forward and should be encouraged. I
:05:36. > :05:40.think we have to be careful to make sure this is not a distraction
:05:40. > :05:44.tactic to discuss something else rather than the problem on the
:05:44. > :05:49.table, but if it is a genuine offer it should be genuinely looked up.
:05:49. > :05:55.These developments do not mean the crisis is over. The threat of
:05:55. > :05:58.American strikes remains but the new twists will certainly complicate
:05:59. > :06:06.President Obama's efforts to get Congress and the American people
:06:06. > :06:15.behind him. Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Damascus for us
:06:15. > :06:23.tonight. Jeremy, how seriously is the Administration in Damascus
:06:23. > :06:31.taking this Russian initiative? I have spoken to a senior official on
:06:31. > :06:37.the telephone who said, we accept this, we believe it would be win-win
:06:37. > :06:42.for all concerned, away to climb down out of this crisis. One
:06:42. > :06:44.question is how serious was John Kerry's proposal when he made it
:06:44. > :06:49.that the Foreign Office? It was a Kerry's proposal when he made it
:06:49. > :06:53.seemingly off-the-cuff answer to journalists, and he then almost
:06:53. > :06:58.immediately tried to back away from it so their response will be crucial
:06:58. > :07:05.and interesting. The Syrian official I spoke to said that the expectation
:07:05. > :07:11.here was that the would agree after what Mr Kerry said in London. In
:07:11. > :07:14.Washington it will strengthen the people in Congress who do not want
:07:14. > :07:19.to support military action and there has been an incident here in the
:07:19. > :07:24.last few days which might also strengthen that. There is an
:07:24. > :07:29.historic Christian town called Ma'loula and the Al-Qaeda supporting
:07:29. > :07:33.armed rebel group has taken it over and the Christians of that town have
:07:33. > :07:41.fled to Damascus and I have been talking to a few of them. By the
:07:41. > :07:45.time the men of Ma'loula met the Greek patriarch in Damascus, they
:07:45. > :07:50.were shocked by the speed of events in their home village. It is a place
:07:50. > :07:55.of pilgrimage where they still speak the language they believe was spoken
:07:55. > :08:00.by Christ. Infighting over the last week or so, Ma'loula has changed
:08:00. > :08:05.hands several times. Now the Syrian army has withdrawn and it is under
:08:05. > :08:12.the control of an armed rebel group affiliated with Al-Qaeda. The
:08:12. > :08:16.Christians of Ma'loula fled. They came to the Greek Catholic cathedral
:08:16. > :08:21.in Damascus for help. They said three had been killed and six
:08:21. > :08:28.kidnapped, and that the fighters desecrated their churches. They took
:08:28. > :08:37.the crosses and one of them destroyed it. There is a statue for
:08:37. > :08:42.our Lady and they tried also to destroy it. I don't know what they
:08:42. > :08:49.are fighting for actually, but they are against Christians now in
:08:49. > :08:55.Ma'loula. They were registered at the church for relief aid, the
:08:55. > :09:02.latest of 4 million displaced in this war. It is not easy to live in
:09:02. > :09:09.the village. When I arrived, I looked at my village and I was so
:09:10. > :09:15.sad, I said, my God, I can never go back to my village. The patriarch
:09:16. > :09:26.had a message for President Obama. It is enough, have mercy on us. You
:09:26. > :09:33.are saying no bombing? No bombing. Do you think that by bombing, Obama
:09:33. > :09:40.would help Al-Qaeda? He would make more chaos and we are the victims.
:09:40. > :09:50.Chaos is more dangerous than chemical. Everything is worse and
:09:50. > :09:53.worse and worse. These people getting emergency rations who just
:09:53. > :09:59.lost their homes are not interested in the kind of arguments being put
:09:59. > :10:03.forward by President Obama for military action, they believe it
:10:03. > :10:04.could even make matters worse and could end up benefiting the
:10:04. > :10:11.could even make matters worse and jihadists from whom they have fled.
:10:11. > :10:15.But many were angry that after the Syrian army secure their village, it
:10:15. > :10:19.was pulled out. One priest said they were being used by the regime
:10:19. > :10:24.deliberately exposed in the hope that a Christian trauma would
:10:24. > :10:34.strengthen the anti-war camp in the United States. George Osborne today
:10:34. > :10:46.said he has won the argument over Britain's economy. He said those who
:10:46. > :10:50.had wanted him to change course could not explain the current
:10:50. > :10:54.economy. The Chancellor is not declaring victory on the recovery
:10:54. > :10:58.just yet, like the block of flats in central London where he delivered
:10:58. > :11:04.his speech, it is a work in progress. But in the debate about
:11:04. > :11:11.posterity, George Osborne thinks he can now save plan A has beaten plan
:11:11. > :11:17.B. We held our nerve when many told us to abandon our plan and as a
:11:17. > :11:22.result, thanks to the efforts and sacrifices of the British people,
:11:22. > :11:26.Britain is turning a corner. Is it a fair summary of your speech that you
:11:26. > :11:31.were right about everything and your critics were wrong about everything?
:11:31. > :11:34.The Chancellor said he would have handled the problems at the Royal
:11:34. > :11:39.Bank Of Scotland differently but otherwise the answer seemed to be
:11:39. > :11:45.yes. There was a very heated argument in this country about plan
:11:45. > :11:49.A versus plan B. I would suggest those who advocated plan B can not
:11:49. > :11:55.explain what is happening at the moment. The Chancellor is right that
:11:55. > :12:00.the growth we have seen recently has been more broad-based, but George
:12:00. > :12:04.Osborne also claimed today the critics of austerity have now
:12:04. > :12:08.comprehensively lost the argument. Even experts who support the
:12:08. > :12:13.Chancellor don't think it is that black and white. Austerity has been
:12:13. > :12:18.a drag on economic growth but it has been the lesser of a number of
:12:18. > :12:24.evils. The implosion in the Eurozone has probably been the worst and the
:12:24. > :12:27.rebalancing of excesses prior to the crisis. Things might have gone
:12:28. > :12:32.better with Ed Miliband running the economy, they might have been
:12:32. > :12:39.worse, we simply don't know but Labour are now focusing less on the
:12:40. > :12:43.slow growth and more what it means for us. I think it is extraordinary
:12:43. > :12:47.complacency from the Chancellor. He for us. I think it is extraordinary
:12:47. > :12:53.is saying he has saved the British economy went at a time for ordinary
:12:53. > :12:58.families their living standards are falling. George Osborne said the
:12:58. > :13:03.success of his plan A and giving him the best chance of raising living
:13:03. > :13:08.standards as well. Not everybody here in Cardiff agreed. I think
:13:08. > :13:13.people are worse off than they were ten years ago, especially in my
:13:13. > :13:19.position with my baby. Housing prices going up in a few areas, good
:13:19. > :13:23.signs, but recovery is another matter. People seem to be spending
:13:23. > :13:28.more, the shops are quite busy, I think things are generally getting
:13:28. > :13:33.better. The Chancellor thinks the debate about how to fix the deficit
:13:33. > :13:40.is moving into the past. The debate about how to fix the hole in the
:13:40. > :13:44.living standards is alive and well. Let's talk to our political editor
:13:44. > :13:50.in Downing Street. The Chancellor was careful not to sound like he was
:13:50. > :13:54.boasting but this had the feel of an important speech. It was because for
:13:54. > :13:59.a long time the word on this street was that the Chancellor would be the
:13:59. > :14:03.last person to call the recovery, to say things were getting better but
:14:03. > :14:07.today he clearly decided he had waited long enough to do that. He
:14:07. > :14:13.was partly doing what Stephanie Flanders asked him about, saying I
:14:13. > :14:18.told you so, partly saying to the Labour Party, you said our policies
:14:18. > :14:23.would strangle the economy, now how do you explain the increase in
:14:23. > :14:25.growth? But he knows that elections are won when you talk about the
:14:25. > :14:29.future and Labour is having some are won when you talk about the
:14:29. > :14:33.effect by saying that too many people, talk of a recovery feels
:14:33. > :14:36.hollow because their living standards are being squeezed so the
:14:36. > :14:41.Chancellor is saying you have to carry on with the policies you have
:14:41. > :14:46.got now to deliver living standards, and low interest rates, you cannot
:14:46. > :14:53.change course. In other words, the argument about the economy, far from
:14:53. > :14:56.being dead, has only just begun. The BBC's former director general
:14:56. > :15:02.Mark Thompson and other executives are being questioned by a committee
:15:02. > :15:07.of MPs about a series of payoffs to senior managers at the Corporation
:15:07. > :15:17.of up to £1 million. Several of the payments went beyond what they were
:15:17. > :15:20.entitled to in their contracts. . The BBC has already admitted it got
:15:20. > :15:23.it wrong over its very generous payoffs. But who got it wrong? The
:15:23. > :15:27.chairman of the trust that oversees payoffs. But who got it wrong? The
:15:27. > :15:31.the BBC, Lord Patten says that he did not know how bad things were.
:15:31. > :15:37.The former Director General, Mark Thomson, he was not kept in the
:15:37. > :15:40.dark. This is all about the reputation of these men. When it
:15:40. > :15:44.comes to the payoffs, what do they know about them and what did they
:15:44. > :15:51.do? And perhaps most importantly, can their words be trusted? In a bid
:15:51. > :15:56.to unravel at all, seven senior BBC figures were lined up before MPs.
:15:56. > :15:59.Beginning with Lord Patten, had he misled Parliament when he said he
:15:59. > :16:03.did not know the details of one of the most controversial payoffs? He
:16:03. > :16:06.answered, saying it had been signed off before he arrived and he had
:16:06. > :16:09.been assured it was just fulfilling a contract. My supposed to get from
:16:09. > :16:14.that that there is a different view a contract. My supposed to get from
:16:14. > :16:19.of what a contractual entitlement is? -- and my supposed to. A
:16:19. > :16:23.different view to the one that you have been annunciator year? All I
:16:23. > :16:28.said to this committee, and I am in some difficulty about this, because
:16:28. > :16:33.I repeat that I was not party to any agreements made about Mark Byford. I
:16:33. > :16:34.am in the position where I am accused of having misled the
:16:34. > :16:37.committee on something that I never accused of having misled the
:16:37. > :16:43.new and could not have been expected to know. What about the man who
:16:44. > :16:48.helped draw up that deal? The former Director General, Mark Thomson. The
:16:48. > :16:54.question was why, and he could have offered half that amount. -- when he
:16:54. > :17:00.could. It was my judgement, and discussed with the ABC trust, that
:17:01. > :17:06.we wanted Mark Byford focused on the task we had. -- BBC Trust. We did
:17:06. > :17:10.not want him worried about headhunters. We wanted him focused.
:17:10. > :17:15.And that is why we decided not to ask him to work through his
:17:15. > :17:23.benefits. Moving on to who said what. And a crucial question, Hattie
:17:23. > :17:29.told the Trust about the deal? I believe that the suggestion made
:17:29. > :17:37.that I'm and my colleagues withheld important information about the
:17:37. > :17:41.settlements from the BBC, that the BBC trust was kept in the dark and
:17:41. > :17:49.that they would be just as interested in why we did not know,
:17:49. > :17:53.is untrue and unfair. The response of the Trust, it was not their job.
:17:53. > :17:58.The former chairman agreed that the sums were eye watering. It is a fair
:17:58. > :18:01.question about whether or not we should have spent more time
:18:01. > :18:07.question about whether or not we exploring the process of
:18:07. > :18:15.intimidation -- implementation. But let me draw on some of the evidence.
:18:15. > :18:21.So you agree that you should have? In hindsight, we should have. MPs
:18:21. > :18:25.said they were not criticising the BBC but the disagreements and lack
:18:25. > :18:32.of clarity meant it was a tough afternoon for the managers.
:18:32. > :18:36.Our top story this evening, Russia has made a surprise offer to break
:18:36. > :18:43.the deadlock over Syria's chemical weapons. And coming up, Flodden
:18:43. > :18:45.Field, one of the bloodiest battles in British history, is commonly
:18:45. > :18:52.rated 500 years on. --, narrated. in British history, is commonly
:18:52. > :18:56.Coming up on BBC News, Kimi Raikkonen is the leading contender
:18:56. > :18:57.to join Ferrari as the Italian team finalise their driver line-up for
:18:57. > :19:13.the 2014 season. Not a single piece of track has been
:19:13. > :19:17.laid but today, there was get another critical report in the
:19:17. > :19:21.government's planned high-speed rail link between London and the North of
:19:21. > :19:25.England. This time it came from MPs. The government says the HS two
:19:25. > :19:32.project will cost nearly £43 billion and is vital to Britain's economic
:19:32. > :19:37.future. It will connect the London to Birmingham from 2026 and then
:19:37. > :19:45.expand up to Manchester and Leeds from 2033. But the MPs say that the
:19:45. > :19:50.government case are based on research that is out of eight and
:19:50. > :19:55.fragile numbers. No one will be catching a high-speed
:19:55. > :20:01.train for 13 years, but the scheme is already controversial. Supporters
:20:01. > :20:04.have been a lining up in recent weeks to say they have gone cold on
:20:04. > :20:10.the idea and today an influential group of MPs waded in. I moved from
:20:10. > :20:12.being a supporter to thinking that this is not the right place to put
:20:12. > :20:17.being a supporter to thinking that £50 billion of money. The committee
:20:17. > :20:22.and eye are not alone. There are a growing number of voices who are
:20:22. > :20:27.sceptical about this project. This latest report says that HS2 has been
:20:27. > :20:30.plagued by spiralling costs and bundling benefits. It says that
:20:30. > :20:33.ministers have failed to prove that the scheme will revitalise the
:20:33. > :20:36.regions rather than just London. And there is criticism of the way that
:20:36. > :20:40.they have totted up the benefits for business users. It says that the
:20:40. > :20:45.user survey -- they use a 10-year-old survey and they assumed
:20:45. > :20:52.that business people cannot work on the train. In the modern world, that
:20:52. > :20:55.is clearly not true. At the moment, the fact is that everyday coming
:20:55. > :21:00.into Birmingham station, 5000 people are standing. You cannot work and
:21:00. > :21:07.stand. Every day, 4000 people are arriving at Euston station
:21:07. > :21:10.standing. You cannot work standing. The government says that the scheme
:21:10. > :21:14.will help to bridge the North-South divide. In Birmingham, this is what
:21:14. > :21:18.remains of the Victorian station they built for the first line to
:21:18. > :21:24.London. Here, there are plenty of supporters. HS2 will connect
:21:24. > :21:27.England's cities in a more dynamic way so that they perform in a more
:21:27. > :21:33.cohesive way, Coppell netting each other. It is a major opportunity for
:21:33. > :21:37.Birmingham's creative quarter, and Highgate. HS2 will begin major
:21:37. > :21:43.Birmingham's creative quarter, and regeneration, and we will see
:21:43. > :21:48.prosperity brought to those areas. Across the city, there are
:21:48. > :21:52.businesses that export all over the world. The boss is not convinced. Is
:21:52. > :21:57.London business going to come back up to Birmingham? It is difficult to
:21:57. > :22:01.say. The cost to the taxpayer needs to be looked at closely. And I
:22:01. > :22:05.believe, from what I've seen, that that has not been closely analysed.
:22:05. > :22:11.It should be analysed further to see if there is going to be a benefit to
:22:11. > :22:15.the taxpayer. We have had the attacks, now expect the fightback.
:22:15. > :22:18.The government is publishing a report on Wednesday claiming that
:22:18. > :22:24.HS2 can make billions for cities all over England.
:22:24. > :22:27.A jury in Manchester has been hearing the final arguments in the
:22:27. > :22:30.trial of the Coronation Street actor, Michael le Vell, accused of
:22:30. > :22:39.sexually assaulting and raping a young girl. Judith Moritz is outside
:22:39. > :22:44.the court. Eleanor laws QC for the prosecution
:22:44. > :22:47.again today by asking the jury of eight women and four men to decide
:22:47. > :22:50.whether the alleged victim in this case was a wicked and convincing
:22:50. > :22:55.liar or whether she was telling the truth. She said, I believe she is
:22:55. > :22:58.telling the truth and there is no reason for her to live. She told the
:22:58. > :23:02.jury that they should mark the girl's courage in coming to court
:23:02. > :23:08.with convictions. For the defence, Alistair Williamson told them that
:23:08. > :23:11.the prosecution's case had been a hollowed mirrors. He said they
:23:11. > :23:15.should not cast a man's life away when there was not enough evidence.
:23:15. > :23:20.The judge told them that the medical evidence had been essentially
:23:20. > :23:25.neutral. The jury will now continue their deliberations in this case
:23:25. > :23:28.tomorrow. 500 years ago today, one of the
:23:29. > :23:34.bloodiest battles in British history claimed the lives of some 15,000 men
:23:34. > :23:37.in the space of just three hours. The Scottish and English armies met
:23:37. > :23:49.at the Battle of Flodden field in Northumberland and Scotland lost
:23:49. > :23:51.their king, James IV. What happened in these
:23:51. > :23:55.Northumberland fields barely registers in English history. At in
:23:55. > :23:59.Scotland, it echoes down the centuries. Flodden was a battle that
:23:59. > :24:06.the Scots should have one. They had the larger army by far. They lost
:24:06. > :24:13.10,000 men here in a few hours. This was the major Scottish weapon. The
:24:13. > :24:19.Swiss pike. Clyde gives guided tours of the battlefield. He says that the
:24:19. > :24:22.Scots failed to see that the ground was waterlogged and their pike men
:24:22. > :24:28.got stuck in the mud with calamitous consequences. Scotland not only lost
:24:28. > :24:32.quantity, they lost quality. 14 lords of Parliament and the heads
:24:32. > :24:37.and areas of most of the landed families, as well as the King. It is
:24:37. > :24:39.the victory at Bannockburn two centuries earlier that is more
:24:39. > :24:43.enthusiastically recalled in Scotland, especially in the run-up
:24:43. > :24:46.to the independence referendum. But the modern cult of Braveheart and
:24:46. > :24:54.all that overshadows what happened here. In a way, this was the more
:24:54. > :24:58.decisive battle, a national cast of the -- catastrophe that in feeble
:24:58. > :25:07.Scotland as a successful and confident kingdom. -- enfeebled. You
:25:07. > :25:20.could argue that the journey towards union began on this hillside. At the
:25:20. > :25:24.high Kirk of Saint Giles in Edinburgh, descendants of those who
:25:24. > :25:29.died gathered. As the independence referendum approaches, national
:25:29. > :25:33.sentiment come on national pride and the triumphs and few Malaysians of
:25:33. > :25:39.history resonate with a powerful contemporary force. In 2014,
:25:39. > :25:44.Scotland faces a historic choice. What ever way Scotland votes, it
:25:44. > :25:50.must be a single lesson, that enmity, even ancient enmity can have
:25:50. > :25:54.no part. It is to the credit of politicians on all sides of the
:25:54. > :26:01.argument that it has not wielded that yet. But it might.
:26:01. > :26:05.Scotland's SNP government have paid little attention to the
:26:05. > :26:14.anniversary, but compared to other more celebrated battles, this is not
:26:14. > :26:17.a story to lift the national spirit. It was licensed to thrill in the
:26:17. > :26:23.James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, but the Lotus Esprit 007 drove
:26:23. > :26:27.in the 1970s classic disappeared without trace. Now it has resurfaced
:26:27. > :26:35.at an option. -- and auction. For sale, 70s
:26:35. > :26:48.classic a low mileage, one not very careful owner... Can use women?But
:26:48. > :26:50.it is reversible. 007's Lotus Esprit from the spy who loved me as one of
:26:50. > :26:54.his most famous gadgets. -- The Spy from the spy who loved me as one of
:26:54. > :26:57.Who Loved Me. Several cars were used in filming and one that was driven
:26:57. > :27:04.underwater is, for the first time, up for auction. It is a cultural
:27:04. > :27:08.icon. Of all the Bond films and Bond cars that have done different
:27:08. > :27:12.things, I do not think there is anything that has been as
:27:12. > :27:19.outrageously memorable as a car that transformed itself into a submarine.
:27:19. > :27:23.After years in storage, it sold any blind auction for $100 and the owner
:27:23. > :27:28.did not know what he had got. He thought he had bought some blankets,
:27:28. > :27:31.until he went the next day and it was uncovered. Even at that point,
:27:32. > :27:37.he had no idea because he had never seen a James Bond movie in his life.
:27:38. > :27:40.Previous Bond cars have sold for millions of pounds but even
:27:40. > :27:48.collectors do not know what the submarine will fetch. I am intrigued
:27:48. > :27:56.to see. Nobody has clue what it will go for. Will you bid?I don't know.
:27:56. > :27:59.Sadly, the missile launchers do not work and because it was never fitted
:27:59. > :28:04.with an engine or wheels, it cannot be driven on the road. But inside,
:28:04. > :28:11.all the submersible equipment is still in place. So it could still be
:28:11. > :28:19.used underwater. All set to tackle another villain, bent on world
:28:19. > :28:24.domination. And that brings us to the weather
:28:24. > :28:29.with Peter Gibbs. Decent weather today where the sun broke through.
:28:29. > :28:33.But where it stayed cloudy, it was decidedly chilly. By chilly
:28:33. > :28:37.overnight, with a hint of autumn in the air. Much of the rain is dying
:28:37. > :28:42.away. We have seen some heavy showers through this afternoon. Some
:28:42. > :28:47.of those are lingering on. Becoming confined to eastern coasts as the
:28:47. > :28:50.night wears on. Elsewhere, coming try with the skies clearing.
:28:50. > :28:54.Temperatures dipping away. -- becoming dry. Towns and cities,
:28:54. > :29:00.generally holding at about 10 degrees. Onto tomorrow, ignore that
:29:00. > :29:04.wind and rain in the East for the moment, let's concentrate on the
:29:04. > :29:11.drier weather that most of us should experience across central and
:29:11. > :29:17.western areas. Diving underneath that, it is looking grim. Cold
:29:17. > :29:22.temperatures, 12 or 13, fairly persistent rain underneath grey
:29:22. > :29:26.skies. The wind, gale force along the north coast of Norfolk. Not a
:29:26. > :29:31.pleasant day at all. Moving away from the eastern corner, again,
:29:31. > :29:34.where you have the sunshine breaking through, it will be pleasant enough.
:29:34. > :29:38.It is only the middle part of September, so the sun is fairly
:29:38. > :29:43.strong. Highs of between 16 and 18. Feeling reasonably pleasant. The
:29:43. > :29:49.rain in the East were cleared away, only to be replaced by some more
:29:49. > :29:55.rain, moving in from the North West. Eventually, and -- a wet day. Bright
:29:55. > :29:59.skies in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and that will be the way of
:29:59. > :30:02.it through the west of the week. By the weather and temperatures on the
:30:02. > :30:04.low side. Most of us will see some rain from time to time.
:30:04. > :30:06.low side. Most of us will see some That is all from the BBC's News at
:30:06. > :30:08.six.