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