:00:00. > :00:11.A muslim convert admits killing soldier Lee Rigby in London and
:00:12. > :00:14.tells the Old Bailey this is a war. Michael Adebolajo from Essex says he
:00:15. > :00:18.targeted Lee Rigby because of the UK's foreign policy, claiming his
:00:19. > :00:23.actions would save other lives. We'll get the latest from the Old
:00:24. > :00:28.Bailey. Also tonight. Ambulances forced to queue outside A How
:00:29. > :00:32.some patients are waiting hours to be admitted. The football fixing
:00:33. > :00:40.allegations spread. Police consider if this booking was deliberate.
:00:41. > :00:44.Remembering Mandela. Last-minute preparations for tomorrow's memorial
:00:45. > :00:56.service as his daughter speaks of the moments before he died.
:00:57. > :01:02.Everybody called everybody here who want to see him and say goodbye. It
:01:03. > :01:03.was the most wonderful day for us because the grandchildren were
:01:04. > :01:09.there. We were there. And Ashes angst for England as
:01:10. > :01:16.Australia celebrate winning the second Test in Adelaide.
:01:17. > :01:26.Coming up, David Moyes says he takes complete responsibility for
:01:27. > :01:27.Manchester United's results. Back-to-back home defeats have left
:01:28. > :01:48.and ninth in the Premier League. Good evening and welcome to the BBC
:01:49. > :01:52.News at Six. One of the men accused of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby on
:01:53. > :01:56.the streets of London in May has been describing how he chose his
:01:57. > :01:59.victim and then killed him. 28-year-old Michael Adebolajo, a
:02:00. > :02:03.Muslim convert from Essex and a father of six, told the Old Bailey
:02:04. > :02:06.he was a soldier of Allah and blamed Lee Rigby's death on UK foreign
:02:07. > :02:16.policy. Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is at the
:02:17. > :02:21.Old Bailey now. June. Sophie, I am a soldier and this is war, the words
:02:22. > :02:26.of Michael Adebolajo today. From the witness box. He described Lee
:02:27. > :02:30.Rigby's death as an act of war and said he planned to Martin self by
:02:31. > :02:35.running at police officers and hoping they would shoot him dead. --
:02:36. > :02:42.martyr himself. This report contains some distressing details. Day six of
:02:43. > :02:46.this trial and the start of the defence case. The men in the dock
:02:47. > :02:50.are accused of the murder of Lee Rigby. They are also facing charges
:02:51. > :02:53.of conspiring to murder and attempting to murder a police
:02:54. > :02:59.officer. They are pleading not guilty to everything. Michael
:03:00. > :03:03.Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo have said they want to be referred to by
:03:04. > :03:10.their Muslim names. In the witness box, surrounded by security guards,
:03:11. > :03:11.Michael Adebolajo laid out his political and religious beliefs. He
:03:12. > :03:26.told the jury: he described how he had been brought
:03:27. > :03:31.up as a Christian and had converted to Islam when he was at university.
:03:32. > :03:35.He took part in demonstrations, angry at British foreign policy
:03:36. > :03:39.pulls up today he spoke of the war in Iraq. And said it was the
:03:40. > :03:44.treatment of Muslims which led him to kill. Of events in Woolwich, he
:03:45. > :03:48.admitted trying to decapitate Lee Rigby and said, as a soldier, he has
:03:49. > :03:53.an obligation to fight, despite having a wife and six children. His
:03:54. > :04:01.youngest child was just four days old when he took a soldier's life.
:04:02. > :04:04.He said it was Allah who told him to kill Fusilier Lee Rigby. He and
:04:05. > :04:07.Michael Adebowale were looking for a soldier and went for Lee Rigby
:04:08. > :04:24.because he was carrying a military rucksack. He told the court, :
:04:25. > :04:29.this was Michael Adebolajo running towards officers armed with a meat
:04:30. > :04:35.cleaver. Police shot him. Today he said he wanted to die. Lee Rigby's
:04:36. > :04:40.sister, being comforted by her mother at the family left court this
:04:41. > :04:44.evening, after sitting through his testimony. He has now completed his
:04:45. > :04:51.evidence and the rest of the defence case is due to be heard tomorrow.
:04:52. > :04:55.Michael Adebolajo was asked about Lee Rigby's family and says he has
:04:56. > :04:59.no bad feelings towards them and said every soldier has a family who
:05:00. > :05:04.loves him. And then he went on, my family didn't stop loving me the
:05:05. > :05:07.moment I became a soldier. June, thank you very much. Some patients
:05:08. > :05:10.who are taken to NHS hospitals by ambulance are being held in a queue
:05:11. > :05:13.outside for far longer than they should be. Patients should be
:05:14. > :05:16.admitted to accident and emergency within 15 minutes of arriving. But
:05:17. > :05:19.data released to the BBC, under the Freedom of Information Act, shows
:05:20. > :05:24.many patients in England, Wales and Scotland are waiting longer. One was
:05:25. > :05:27.kept waiting in an ambulance for more than six hours. Our Health
:05:28. > :05:40.correspondent Branwen Jeffreys reports. Gerald 's mother is in
:05:41. > :05:43.hospital for the business than a week was called for the 85-year-old
:05:44. > :05:51.by a GP worried was becoming seriously ill. But the A was
:05:52. > :05:55.overloaded so Marion spent four hours waiting outside in the
:05:56. > :05:58.ambulance. It's unacceptable. No one in this country, this civilised
:05:59. > :06:04.society, should have to wait that long to have medical treatment. She
:06:05. > :06:09.was sent by her doctor to hospital to have specific medication. The
:06:10. > :06:13.average hand over time is just 50 minutes but the figures obtained by
:06:14. > :06:17.the BBC revealed some shocking delays. Wales has some of the worst
:06:18. > :06:23.but one case of over six hours. Overall, England was better. But
:06:24. > :06:26.still had long waits, up to five hours. Scotland had no weights about
:06:27. > :06:35.length. The longest was under two hours. And Northern Ireland has one
:06:36. > :06:40.weight of more than three hours. This morning, 69-year-old Judith
:06:41. > :06:44.came in after a fall. Her care handed on to A staff within
:06:45. > :06:49.minutes. At the Royal Glamorgan, they no longer keep ambulances
:06:50. > :06:52.waiting. The decision we made was we would rather have a patient in the
:06:53. > :06:56.department where we can see them and assess them, rather than sitting on
:06:57. > :07:00.an ambulance in the car park and not know what is there. So we felt the
:07:01. > :07:06.save the decision was to bring them into hospital, even if that meant
:07:07. > :07:11.the department was very crowded. The A is running smoothly here. But
:07:12. > :07:15.there are concerns elsewhere. Wales has struggled with ambulance
:07:16. > :07:21.handover times for several years. Although the situation has improved
:07:22. > :07:26.slightly, there are still some areas where patients are waiting for up to
:07:27. > :07:33.five or six hours before being taken into the care of A The ambulance
:07:34. > :07:36.service said it's trying to get similar progress elsewhere. Long
:07:37. > :07:41.handovers during this winter could make it hard answer urgent calls. It
:07:42. > :07:45.shouldn't be happening. It's not beneficial to patients. It's not
:07:46. > :07:50.good for staff, and it doesn't help ambulance response times when they
:07:51. > :07:53.are delayed outside hospitals. Handover times are one sign of
:07:54. > :07:59.pressure on emergency care. Something the NHS around the UK says
:08:00. > :08:02.it is working hard to improve. As part of the BBC's NHS Winter
:08:03. > :08:05.Project we're launching a website which lets you see the latest weekly
:08:06. > :08:07.statistics for every major A department in England. Go to
:08:08. > :08:09.bbc.co.uk/nhswinter and enter your postcode to find out how your local
:08:10. > :08:20.hospital is coping. Investigators have found no evidence
:08:21. > :08:22.of engine or gearbox failure in the police helicopter which crashed
:08:23. > :08:27.killing nine people in Glasgow ten days ago. However a preliminary
:08:28. > :08:33.report found the main rotors and tail blades had stopped rotating
:08:34. > :08:36.moments before impact. It also said the helicopter had about 95 litres
:08:37. > :08:45.of fuel when it crashed into the Clutha pub. The singer and former X
:08:46. > :08:48.Factor judge Tulisa Constavalos has been charged with supplying class A
:08:49. > :08:51.drugs. The charges relate to claims that she sold cocaine to an
:08:52. > :08:56.undercover journalist following an investigation by the Sun newspaper
:08:57. > :08:59.earlier this year. The Blackburn Rovers striker DJ Campbell is one of
:09:00. > :09:02.five players who have been released on bail in connection with
:09:03. > :09:06.allegations of fixing in football matches. A sixth is still being
:09:07. > :09:08.questioned. They were all arrested yesterday after the former
:09:09. > :09:12.Portsmouth player Sam Sodje told a reporter he could arrange for
:09:13. > :09:13.players to be booked or sent off in exchange for cash. Andy Swiss
:09:14. > :09:25.reports. He has been a striker at the highest
:09:26. > :09:30.level. Highlighted here in the red shirt, this was DJ Campbell playing
:09:31. > :09:34.for Blackburn last week. The left of the picture comedy brings down one
:09:35. > :09:38.of his Ipswich opponents and picks up a yellow card. It's a challenge
:09:39. > :09:45.which the Sun newspaper claims is under the spotlight. Yesterday, the
:09:46. > :09:49.sun on Sunday released undercover footage of the former Portsmouth
:09:50. > :09:57.player Sam Sodje claiming he once deliberately got sent off in
:09:58. > :10:02.exchange for ?70,000. He also said he could get other players involved
:10:03. > :10:05.in fixing. Allegations that have shocked supporters. If you want your
:10:06. > :10:11.team to win, obviously, you wanted to be fair play. We don't want none
:10:12. > :10:14.of that. If you want to see a game, you want to see real effort going in
:10:15. > :10:19.there. You want to see the real team come out and win. Before arriving at
:10:20. > :10:23.Blackburn, DJ Campbell played for several clubs in the Premier League.
:10:24. > :10:27.He's a very familiar name to football fans are so these latest
:10:28. > :10:34.allegations but the sport and even sterner scrutiny. Last week, two
:10:35. > :10:38.players with a non-league side were charged after supper investigation
:10:39. > :10:41.into claims of match fixing of non-league football. After this
:10:42. > :10:44.latest enquiry by the National Crime Agency, some believe it's up to
:10:45. > :10:49.players themselves to take a stand. If this whistle-blowing in
:10:50. > :10:54.particular that you need to look at, modern organisations now have in
:10:55. > :10:57.their tool bag of governments, this issue of getting employees to be
:10:58. > :11:00.able to feel free to whistle-blowing without repercussions, so I think
:11:01. > :11:05.that is essentially one of the areas they need to focus on. And this
:11:06. > :11:09.investigation has involved high-profile players. Sam Sodje's
:11:10. > :11:13.former club Portsmouth said they were saddened by allegations which
:11:14. > :11:16.have once again cast a shadow over the integrity of Ingush football.
:11:17. > :11:19.More than ?40 million has been written off by the government on a
:11:20. > :11:23.computer system for one of the biggest benefit changes, the
:11:24. > :11:25.Universal Credit scheme. But the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain
:11:26. > :11:28.Duncan Smith, who was appearing before MPs this afternoon, has
:11:29. > :11:32.rejected claims that his flagship welfare policy is a debacle. Our
:11:33. > :11:41.political correspondent Carole Walker has the story. How to
:11:42. > :11:45.construct a benefit system which installs you are better off in
:11:46. > :11:50.work, merged six different benefits into one, and moved 7 million people
:11:51. > :11:54.onto the new Universal Credit. Today, the minister in charge denied
:11:55. > :11:59.the whole thing was Ada Barker. The point I was making was, within the
:12:00. > :12:01.timescale and budget, we are delivering a solution that a
:12:02. > :12:09.debacle. You tell was in September it was
:12:10. > :12:20.working. We are now told it isn't working. No, it is working. You are
:12:21. > :12:25.talking about too many issues here. So who is getting Universal Credit?
:12:26. > :12:32.The latest figure from September shows just 2150 were claiming it.
:12:33. > :12:36.The target for April 2014, set two years ago, was 1 million. The
:12:37. > :12:41.department say that as an old timetable and no new figure has been
:12:42. > :12:46.set. By 2015, the time of the next election, an estimated 400,000 will
:12:47. > :12:51.be claiming it according to the independent office the budget
:12:52. > :12:55.responsibility. Labour support the principle of Universal Credit but
:12:56. > :12:59.say the scheme is in chaos. The Labour Party, and National Audit
:13:00. > :13:04.Office and others have all said that this project was off-track for
:13:05. > :13:10.months now and Iain Duncan Smith failed to listen and get a grip.
:13:11. > :13:13.This is about his leadership because he has staked his application on the
:13:14. > :13:17.Universal Credit and we now know that flagship policy lies in
:13:18. > :13:22.tatters. Though the minister in charge insists his big programme is
:13:23. > :13:26.on track, there's no doubt various targets and timetables have been
:13:27. > :13:29.abandoned. Perhaps he's just calculate it but accusations of
:13:30. > :13:34.delays and mismanagement are less damaging than moving people onto a
:13:35. > :13:37.system which can't cope leaving vulnerable people without their
:13:38. > :13:42.benefit payments. The complex computer system is at the heart of
:13:43. > :13:46.the problem. What has been most depressing about the Universal
:13:47. > :13:49.Credit IT is that what we have learnt is it is repeating failures
:13:50. > :13:52.which have been highlighted and we have been told by this and previous
:13:53. > :13:56.governments that those failures have been learned from and rectified. The
:13:57. > :14:00.government says step-by-step, it will build a system which works but
:14:01. > :14:06.it is a very long way from delivering the central plank of its
:14:07. > :14:11.welfare reforms. Universal Credit. Our top story this evening. Michael
:14:12. > :14:14.Adebolajo admits killing soldier Lee Rigby and tells the Old Bailey he's
:14:15. > :14:20.at war because of British foreign policy. Still to come. Bowled,
:14:21. > :14:30.beaten and bothered. England's Ashes woes continue down under. Coming up
:14:31. > :14:34.in sports day, on BBC News, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck
:14:35. > :14:38.Ribery are short listed for this year 's awards. Ronaldo is the
:14:39. > :14:52.favourite for the award. In Johannesburg final preparations
:14:53. > :14:54.are being made for tomorrow's official memorial service for South
:14:55. > :14:59.Africa's former President, Nelson Mandela. More than 100 leaders from
:15:00. > :15:03.around the world, including four British Prime Ministers past and
:15:04. > :15:08.present, will join tens of thousands who will on hoR his life. -- who
:15:09. > :15:16.will honour his life. Over to George in Soweto. Thank you. Good evening.
:15:17. > :15:21.We are just outside a stadium here in Soweto, where there will be that
:15:22. > :15:25.service for Nelson Mandela. It promises to be probably the biggest
:15:26. > :15:29.sippingle event of this week of national mourning. -- single event
:15:30. > :15:33.of this week of national mourning. Tens of thousands will gather, but
:15:34. > :15:37.many more will gather at various sites around the country, where they
:15:38. > :15:42.are erecting scenes for the public to watch. Today, Nelson Mandela's
:15:43. > :15:48.eldest daughter, Makeziwe, has been speaking to the BBC. It's her first
:15:49. > :15:51.broadcast interview and as our reporter Andrew Harding reports, she
:15:52. > :15:58.has been describing Nelson Mandela's final day, surrounded by his
:15:59. > :16:02.children and grandchildren. The stage is not quite set, but world
:16:03. > :16:05.leaders are on their way and tomorrow they'll join the crowds
:16:06. > :16:13.here at the World Cup stadium, to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela.
:16:14. > :16:20.Today, his daughter described his last days and moment, in her first
:16:21. > :16:28.broadcast interview since his death. Every day for the - I don't know how
:16:29. > :16:34.many past months - I would say, "I'm coming to see you tomorrow." Maybe
:16:35. > :16:43.he would open his eyes for just a second and close those eyes. So, for
:16:44. > :16:47.me, I think that until the last moment he was happy. Many of the
:16:48. > :16:53.family were at his bed side last week, when the doctors warned them
:16:54. > :16:59.he was slipping away. They told us in the morning that there was
:17:00. > :17:06.nothing they could do. And said to me, "Make a call." That people
:17:07. > :17:14.should come and say goodbye. It was the most wonderful day for us. That
:17:15. > :17:20.positiveness seems to have gained traction across the countriment
:17:21. > :17:26.people are flocking to his old house in Soweto in Johannesburg. It was at
:17:27. > :17:29.the nearby stadium in 1990 that he addressed a turbulent nation,
:17:30. > :17:34.immediately after emerging from 27 years in prison. Now, the stadium
:17:35. > :17:39.has been rebuilt and no up to a point, has South Africa. Perhaps
:17:40. > :17:43.there have been bigger and grander sent-offs than this one, but not
:17:44. > :17:47.many. In the modern era, it's very difficult to think of anyone more
:17:48. > :17:55.widely loved than Nelson Mandela. This is going to be a very special
:17:56. > :18:00.gathering. But a few miles away, the freedom he helped bring has proved a
:18:01. > :18:08.disappointment to some. This remains a profoundly unequal society. Yes,
:18:09. > :18:12.we do have our freedom and our rights, but we are abusing our
:18:13. > :18:15.rights. You are stuck in poverty? We are still stuck in poverty and I
:18:16. > :18:22.don't think poverty is going anywhere. It's not going anywhere,
:18:23. > :18:25.any time soon. If you few hold against Nelson Mandela himself.
:18:26. > :18:35.They'll be toasting him here tomorrow, even in this nation is
:18:36. > :18:38.still a work in process. When Nelson Mandela became South
:18:39. > :18:44.Africa's first black President he said himself -- set himself one task
:18:45. > :18:47.above all others - to reconcile black and white South Africans.
:18:48. > :18:54.Throughout his presidency he used the sport ng aR reign Na -- arena to
:18:55. > :18:58.achieve his goals. Never more so when South Africa reached the rugby
:18:59. > :19:02.World Cup final in 1995. He walked into the stadium wearing the
:19:03. > :19:10.Springbok jersey and it was a hated symbol in those days of white
:19:11. > :19:14.supremacy. In a fare tale ending Francois Pienaar's team won that
:19:15. > :19:18.game and I've been speaking to him about that day. A presidency that
:19:19. > :19:24.had its fair share of momentous occasions this was perhaps one of
:19:25. > :19:27.the most electrifying. Francois Pienaar, captain of the team,
:19:28. > :19:43.remembers a knock on the changing room door on that day. In walked Mr
:19:44. > :19:55.Mandela. I was incredibly emotional, because - We can take some time.
:19:56. > :19:59.Thanks. When he walked into the dressing room, wearing the Springbok
:20:00. > :20:06.on his heart, it was just wow. He just stood there and he said, "Good
:20:07. > :20:10.luck, boys." He turned around and my number was on his back. That was me,
:20:11. > :20:14.I couldn't sing because I knew I would end up crying. I was just so
:20:15. > :20:21.proud to be a South African at that time. Do you think Nelson Mandela
:20:22. > :20:26.made a calculated move in deciding that he was going to adopt rugby in
:20:27. > :20:31.this way? He understood the power of sport. He said that, that it's
:20:32. > :20:34.incredibly powerful and it can unite people in a way that little else
:20:35. > :20:39.does. And it had, because he understood the importance, but he
:20:40. > :20:44.really cared. He was genuine and it means a lot to a lot of people like
:20:45. > :20:48.you and you have a sense when people are real and when they are not and
:20:49. > :20:54.he's real. There are people who say he has already been failed and that
:20:55. > :21:02.South Africa is unequal and in fact it's become more unequal in the last
:21:03. > :21:08.two decades. I see that. Often we debate that. As South Africans. I'm
:21:09. > :21:12.not a politician. We have some fantastic leaders in the ANC, but
:21:13. > :21:19.also we have leaders who are not doing a great job NC and -- ANC and
:21:20. > :21:23.corruption is unacceptable and we need to stamp that out. What it
:21:24. > :21:28.tells me is that it's as if the nation were built on the shoulders
:21:29. > :21:34.of one man. That now that he's gone people are going to start panicking
:21:35. > :21:40.and saying, "Well, can we make it?" They respected the man, but
:21:41. > :21:44.respected his presence pels and they -- principles and they reflect on
:21:45. > :21:51.his leadership. We had him for such a short time, so there is that
:21:52. > :21:55.respect and I think hope that the leaders that follow in his footsteps
:21:56. > :22:04.would have the same moral compass and values and energy and love for
:22:05. > :22:07.the country that Nelson Mandela had. Francois Pienaar speaking to me
:22:08. > :22:11.earlier. I've just been given a programme for tomorrow's service. It
:22:12. > :22:17.turns out that President Obama will be giving a speech and so too, the
:22:18. > :22:21.Cuban President. It's a testiment to Nelson Mandela's reach. He's a man
:22:22. > :22:27.who will be mourned by this one nation, but he will also be missed
:22:28. > :22:31.by a world. It from us here. Back to you, Sophie.
:22:32. > :22:34.George, thank you. They are three of the most divisive
:22:35. > :22:39.issues in Northern Ireland. Politicians have been told to treat
:22:40. > :22:44.talks over flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles with a sense
:22:45. > :22:47.of urgency. The American diplomat, Richard Haas, who is leading
:22:48. > :22:55.negotiations, flew into Belfast today and he has until Christmas to
:22:56. > :22:59.find answers to the problems. Every evening in North Belfast there's a
:23:00. > :23:05.loyalist parade. It's costing ?50,000 a day to police. This
:23:06. > :23:09.dispute is over a decision to prevent Orangemen from walking
:23:10. > :23:16.passed the mainly nationalist area and started in the height of summer.
:23:17. > :23:20.Protests are still taking place on a nightly basis throughout winter.
:23:21. > :23:25.Parading's just one of the issues Richard Haas is trying to solve. I
:23:26. > :23:30.think it's a Mission Impossible. Expecting him to come in for a
:23:31. > :23:36.six-month period and solve all the problems in Northern Ireland. I
:23:37. > :23:39.don't think the guy's a magician. Richard Haas wants to find an
:23:40. > :23:46.agreement. But the Christmas deadline is hard to ignore. I've
:23:47. > :23:52.heard some say I'm optimistic. Others have described us as
:23:53. > :23:58.ambitious. I can live with both of these descriptions. In a place where
:23:59. > :24:02.flags can be the source of conflict, he's already asked a controversial
:24:03. > :24:06.question - should there be a new plaG to represent Northern Ireland?
:24:07. > :24:10.We are asking you to try and design a flag and we asked students at
:24:11. > :24:15.Queen's University to come up with ideas. This was one suggestion. I
:24:16. > :24:20.don't think there's going to be one in the feature that everyone could
:24:21. > :24:28.get behind. Who think a new flag would be a good idea? That says a
:24:29. > :24:32.lot. We've got enough to argue about. The other challenges dealing
:24:33. > :24:35.with the legacy of violence and many are determined to ensure that
:24:36. > :24:39.victims are not forgotten. You wouldn't turn around to somebody who
:24:40. > :24:44.had been a victim of child abuse and say, "Well, that happened 40 years
:24:45. > :24:49.ago, so it shouldn't really effect you." We take it seriously. It's not
:24:50. > :24:53.just the past. Last week near this protest, distent Republicans shot at
:24:54. > :25:01.police, a reminder of how important it is to deal with long-held
:25:02. > :25:05.divisions. Cricket now and England are now 2-0 down in the Ashes series
:25:06. > :25:16.after Australia made quick work of finishing off their remaining
:25:17. > :25:19.batsmen to win by 218 runs. It's no good arriving at the fifth day in
:25:20. > :25:24.Australia and expecting the weather to come to your rescue. Drizzle
:25:25. > :25:28.delayed play for ten minutes. England lasted less than an hour.
:25:29. > :25:35.The more obvious Australia make the trap, the more determined some
:25:36. > :25:39.players are to jump into it. So much for Stuart Broad. Out in the first
:25:40. > :25:45.over. Matt Prior played himself back into some form. There was a match to
:25:46. > :25:50.save? Batting is the connection of thought process and technique, is
:25:51. > :25:53.often in Adelaide the English thinking seemed scrambled. In truth,
:25:54. > :26:01.the cause had been lost days before. Matt Prior out for 69. Another ball
:26:02. > :26:05.into Australian hands. 312 all out when Panesar fell. Making runs
:26:06. > :26:08.should not be left to the tail end as it begins with the bantsmen and
:26:09. > :26:13.right at the top with England's captain. I need to score more runs.
:26:14. > :26:21.Simple. We all do. But that first, there's only so many times you can
:26:22. > :26:25.do it. I'm now at the top of the order and these last two I haven't
:26:26. > :26:30.been scoring enough. After two defeats, is England's golden Ashes
:26:31. > :26:37.era coming to a calamitous halt? It's all beginning to unravel. And
:26:38. > :26:41.we have had three series we have won comfortably and we'll get
:26:42. > :26:46.annihilated in this one. Their mind isn't right and there's no team. The
:26:47. > :26:53.next Test starts on Friday, 13th, in Perth, where England have a grim
:26:54. > :26:59.record. Sound encouraging? It could be 3-0 and then the Ashes really
:27:00. > :27:13.will be done. Time for a look at the weather.
:27:14. > :27:17.Beautiful picture there. As far as this week's concerned, I don't think
:27:18. > :27:21.it's going to be all clear skies. In fact, there will be a lot of cloud,
:27:22. > :27:26.but it will be mild. It will be mostly dry. Some spots of rain
:27:27. > :27:31.around and breezy. On the big picture, you can see the cloud
:27:32. > :27:35.streaming from the south and moving north. They normally move from west
:27:36. > :27:40.to east. They are trying to, but they can't. Why? Because there is a
:27:41. > :27:44.big area of high pressure. It's sitting over us and blocking the
:27:45. > :27:49.weather systems from piling through, so they sort of skirt around the UK,
:27:50. > :27:52.so that's why around Northern Ireland, the Western Isles of
:27:53. > :27:54.Scotland and the northern isles, there will be spots of rain and with
:27:55. > :28:00.the southerly flow it will be quite mild. Temperatures overnight around
:28:01. > :28:03.eight or nine. The exception and the extreme where we could see a touch
:28:04. > :28:06.of frost in the south-east. As far as tomorrow goes, it's more of the
:28:07. > :28:09.same because the high pressure is still there. It's not going away.
:28:10. > :28:13.Again, we have the cloud and bits and pieces of rain across western
:28:14. > :28:19.areas and the further east and south you are, the brighter the weather is
:28:20. > :28:24.going to be. There's no big freeze across Europe. It's fairly settled
:28:25. > :28:30.and lots of sun around. The really cold temperatures are in Moscow.
:28:31. > :28:34.Back home, first thing on Wednesday morning, I'll point out there's
:28:35. > :28:39.going to be a lot of dense mist and fog around the east and south. That
:28:40. > :28:44.should clear. Then, on Wednesday, it's the sunny day right across
:28:45. > :28:47.almost the country. Not necessarily across Scotland and northern
:28:48. > :28:58.England. It looks like there is light rain. It will be damp across
:28:59. > :28:59.the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. Goodbye from