:00:00. > :00:08.Two British men plead guilty to fighting in Syria after the mother
:00:09. > :00:11.of one of them reports them to the police.
:00:12. > :00:15.Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar, childhood friends from Birmingham,
:00:16. > :00:16.admit fighting alongside a group linked to Al-Qaeda. The police pay
:00:17. > :00:29.tribute to the Sarwar family. You have to feel for them. It was a
:00:30. > :00:33.really difficult situation. In this case, they have been led an
:00:34. > :00:35.elaborate deception by the youngsters.
:00:36. > :00:38.tribute to the Sarwar family. The police appeal to other families
:00:39. > :00:40.to contact them if they suspect their children may be
:00:41. > :00:42.involved in terrorist activity. Also tonight:
:00:43. > :00:45.The Home Office's top civil servant tells MPs the missing files linked
:00:46. > :00:54.to child abuse allegations at Westminster have probably been
:00:55. > :00:57.destroyed. As Israel launches fresh air strikes
:00:58. > :01:00.on Gaza, it says it's ready to send in ground troops to stop continuing
:01:01. > :01:03.militant rocket attacks. British scientists say they've taken
:01:04. > :01:04.a major step forward towards a test to predict the onset of Alzheimer's
:01:05. > :01:13.disease. And Prince Charles makes good on his
:01:14. > :01:16.promise to return to the Somerset Levels.
:01:17. > :01:19.disease. Tonight on BBC London:
:01:20. > :01:22.A failure in cancer care - an NHS trust is criticised for errors
:01:23. > :01:25.which could have led to two deaths. And the Londoners accused of trying
:01:26. > :01:42.to fund Syrian terrorists by smuggling cash in their underwear.
:01:43. > :01:46.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six.
:01:47. > :01:50.Two men from Birmingham have pleaded guilty to fighting in Syria with
:01:51. > :01:53.a group affiliated to Al-Qaeda. Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Sarwar,
:01:54. > :01:57.who are both 22, were caught after Sarwar's mother
:01:58. > :02:00.reported her son to the police. He had left her
:02:01. > :02:04.a letter telling her he intended to "do jihad" with a terrorist group.
:02:05. > :02:07.Thanks to her, the police were waiting at Heathrow Airport for
:02:08. > :02:09.the pair when they returned after eight months fighting in Syria.
:02:10. > :02:10.Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is outside
:02:11. > :02:18.Woolwich Crown Court. These are just two of a growing
:02:19. > :02:25.number of British men who are going to Syria to fight. That's right.
:02:26. > :02:29.We're told around 500 Britons are out in Syria fighting. A growing
:02:30. > :02:33.number of them hoof returned have been arrested and charged and we are
:02:34. > :02:38.now starting to see convictions like those today. -- who have returned.
:02:39. > :02:43.Yusuf Sarwar, thousands of miles from his home in Birmingham, a
:02:44. > :02:48.university student with an AK-47 and ready to die as a martyr. And with
:02:49. > :02:53.him at the heart of the Syrian conflict, his school friend Nahin
:02:54. > :02:56.Ahmed. These photos were found on their camera. The pair had chosen a
:02:57. > :03:02.deliberately western look when they flew out of the UK bound for the
:03:03. > :03:06.Middle East. They headed to the Syrian city of Aleppo, the scene of
:03:07. > :03:13.some of the worst fighting. But come, Yusuf Sarwar left a note
:03:14. > :03:18.demonstrating his alienation from the country where he was born. He
:03:19. > :03:23.described how he planned to join the Al-Nusra Front, an organisation
:03:24. > :03:27.linked to Al-Qaeda. He told his family that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
:03:28. > :03:31.were not bad but the West portrayed them as bad. His parents went to the
:03:32. > :03:36.police. When the men arrived back in the UK, officers were waiting. But
:03:37. > :03:41.the police were aware of the dilemma facing the family. You have to feel
:03:42. > :03:47.for them. It is a really difficult situation. In this case, they have
:03:48. > :03:52.been led an elaborate deception by the youngsters, to give the
:03:53. > :03:56.impression they were going to Turkey, rather than Syria. But they
:03:57. > :04:02.have done the right thing by telling us. It has allowed us to progress
:04:03. > :04:06.the investigation and get to where we are today. At this mosque in
:04:07. > :04:09.Birmingham, like others around the country, there is alarm at the
:04:10. > :04:12.growing exodus of young Muslims heading for the war zones of the
:04:13. > :04:17.Middle East. The local mosques should be more proactive in helping
:04:18. > :04:23.young British Muslims be part of the humanitarian aid and assistance, in
:04:24. > :04:26.order to show them that there is a way they can help the people in
:04:27. > :04:31.Syria and make a difference to the lives of the Syrian people, and that
:04:32. > :04:35.is to do charity, do events where you can see a difference that it
:04:36. > :04:38.makes to the lives of the people. Today Yusuf Sarwar and Nahin Ahmed
:04:39. > :04:44.were in the dock, where they pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in
:04:45. > :04:47.preparation for acts of terrorism. The former foreign jihadi is now
:04:48. > :04:53.facing jail terms American country. They will be sentenced later. -- in
:04:54. > :04:58.their own country. These men have only just turned 22. They had been
:04:59. > :05:00.due to stand trial here at Woolwich Crown Court but they suddenly
:05:01. > :05:05.pleaded guilty to the charges they were facing today. Because of those
:05:06. > :05:16.guilty pleas, they will get a shorter jail term when they are
:05:17. > :05:19.sentenced. Thank you. The most senior civil servant at the Home
:05:20. > :05:25.Office has admitted to MPs that hundreds of files relating to
:05:26. > :05:28.politicians have been destroyed. It comes as the retired senior Judge
:05:29. > :05:35.Elizabeth Butler-Sloss is to chair the government's wide-ranging review
:05:36. > :05:38.into host Oracle child abuse. -- historical. The allegations are
:05:39. > :05:41.that 30 years ago there was child abuse at the very heart of public
:05:42. > :05:46.life, abuse that permeated Parliament and Whitehall. The Home
:05:47. > :05:49.Office was told about these allegations at the time and today
:05:50. > :05:54.the top civil servant there was summoned by MPs to explain how and
:05:55. > :05:58.why he investigated the claims last year, claims he said were
:05:59. > :06:03.horrifying. As a citizen and a parent I still shudder when I think
:06:04. > :06:07.of this. But as a public servant, I think all of us - and you've made
:06:08. > :06:12.this point yourself - must be appalled at how the systems of --
:06:13. > :06:17.the system as a whole, the state as a whole, failed its most vulnerable
:06:18. > :06:22.systems. The MPs asked what happened to 1400 files which had mysteriously
:06:23. > :06:26.gone missing, leaving no trace, just their titles. Most of the files were
:06:27. > :06:29.probably destroyed because the kinds of topics that they covered would
:06:30. > :06:34.have been subject to the normal file destruction procedures that were in
:06:35. > :06:38.place at that time. But they can't be confirmed to have been destroyed
:06:39. > :06:42.because there isn't a proper log of what was destroyed and what wasn't.
:06:43. > :06:46.For some MPs, his answers weren't good enough. The Home Secretary said
:06:47. > :06:51.yesterday in a statement at one of her principles was around
:06:52. > :06:54.transparency. Well, there was very little transparency being shown on
:06:55. > :06:57.the select committee today from the permanent secretary at the Home
:06:58. > :07:01.Office. Today the Government appointed the former High Court
:07:02. > :07:03.judge Lady Butler-Sloss to head up its new Hillsborough style inquiry
:07:04. > :07:08.into how all public bodies have handled child abuse accusations over
:07:09. > :07:12.the years. But Peter Forbes, who says he was abused repeatedly at a
:07:13. > :07:16.school and watch sale 40 years ago, and whose allegations were abroad by
:07:17. > :07:20.the authorities, doubt of the inquiry would bear fruit. There have
:07:21. > :07:26.been enquiries in the past but nothing has come from them and I
:07:27. > :07:30.think this will go along the same lines and be swept under the carpet.
:07:31. > :07:34.The focus today was on the Home Office - how and why it had kept
:07:35. > :07:38.these allegations of abuse secret all those years ago. Once the wider
:07:39. > :07:42.inquiry gets going, it's a question that will be asked of other
:07:43. > :07:46.institutions across public life. Some MPs fear it could get ugly. We
:07:47. > :07:52.are creating a fevered atmosphere, which is going to make rational
:07:53. > :07:57.investigation all that much more difficult. And it will just end up,
:07:58. > :08:00.if we're not careful, denying justice to the victims. 30 years
:08:01. > :08:04.ago, the Government warned children not to talk to strangers. The
:08:05. > :08:06.question now is whether it should warn them about figures of
:08:07. > :08:11.authority, too. Woolwich Crown Court.
:08:12. > :08:14.Israel has warned it's considering sending in ground troops to Gaza to
:08:15. > :08:16.stop Palestinian militants as rocket attacks and air strikes
:08:17. > :08:19.between the two sides continue. Israel has launched dozens of
:08:20. > :08:22.airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least ten people, while some 100 rockets
:08:23. > :08:25.have been fired into Israel. In a moment we'll have a report
:08:26. > :08:26.from James Reynolds in the Israeli town of Sderot, but first
:08:27. > :08:40.Yolande Knell reports from Gaza. Footage filmed by the Israeli
:08:41. > :08:47.military as it air strikes targeted Gaza and each one brings
:08:48. > :08:50.destruction. This car was turned to wreck it as Israel hit three
:08:51. > :08:54.Palestinian militants. It says it wants to stop those behind rocket
:08:55. > :09:01.attacks. Their burials soon took place. Just a fewer hours ago, the
:09:02. > :09:05.three men, all her mass militants, were driving along a street in Gaza
:09:06. > :09:10.city. Now they've been carried into the graveyard. They were killed in
:09:11. > :09:14.an Israeli air strike. And just look at the crowd that turned out to pay
:09:15. > :09:21.their respects. With several civilians killed here
:09:22. > :09:27.in southern Gaza, including children, how mass leaders swore
:09:28. > :09:33.they'd hit back. TRANSLATION: We warned the occupiers against
:09:34. > :09:37.escalation and attacking homes. At this hospital, ambulances ferried in
:09:38. > :09:41.the wounded and doctors worry about how they will cope if this
:09:42. > :09:48.continues. Within one or two or three days, all our resources will
:09:49. > :09:55.be finished and how do we deal with the victims? But with dozens more
:09:56. > :10:02.rockets fired, from Gaza into southern Israel today, the cycle of
:10:03. > :10:07.violence continues. Israel is massing its forces on the
:10:08. > :10:11.border with Gaza. It is called up reserves and it is determined to
:10:12. > :10:18.stop incoming Palestinian rocket fire. I feel I am not safe where I
:10:19. > :10:22.live, although I know I've got shelters and I've got all the army
:10:23. > :10:25.around me and everything. But still, it's a scary just to be around the
:10:26. > :10:32.noises and the bombing and everything. In towns and villages
:10:33. > :10:36.along the border, is reallys take refuge in shelters. Since midnight,
:10:37. > :10:41.more than 90 rockets have hit this country. This is the headquarters of
:10:42. > :10:45.Israel's Southern command and if Israel does order a ground offensive
:10:46. > :10:52.into Gaza, but operation will be directed from here. Are you about to
:10:53. > :10:57.order a ground offensive into Gaza? One way or another, we are going to
:10:58. > :11:05.stop her mass, either by charging them a heavy price or by launching
:11:06. > :11:09.any kind of offensive measures, by air, by ground or whatever, in order
:11:10. > :11:13.to stop them. Israel now faces decisions. A ground offensive into
:11:14. > :11:22.Gaza would be its most serious move. Yolande Knell reports from Gaza.
:11:23. > :11:25.British scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough in
:11:26. > :11:27.developing a blood test to predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
:11:28. > :11:30.Such a test could lead - in the future -
:11:31. > :11:32.to the development of new treatments to stop or cure the condition.
:11:33. > :11:42.Our health editor Hugh Pym reports. Gill and Dominic have lived with
:11:43. > :11:47.Alzheimer's for more than a decade. She's been caring for him ever since
:11:48. > :11:52.he was diagnosed. Today's research breakthrough has come too late for
:11:53. > :11:58.them. They can see that some in the future may benefit from early
:11:59. > :12:04.diagnosis. Some people can go for a test because they want to know what
:12:05. > :12:10.the facts are. But other people who don't know what the facts are, and
:12:11. > :12:15.then suddenly find what the facts are, can be very distressed by it.
:12:16. > :12:19.Now in this London laboratory, they've devised a simple blood test
:12:20. > :12:24.based on the presence of certain proteins. The aim is to predict
:12:25. > :12:27.which patients displaying symptoms like memory loss will succumb to
:12:28. > :12:32.Alzheimer's Society now is of possible treatments and drugs can be
:12:33. > :12:40.applied to the right people. This will guide us on current developing
:12:41. > :12:43.drugs that different pharmaceutical companies will be able to use to
:12:44. > :12:47.treat these people a lot earlier because we want to detect them a lot
:12:48. > :12:51.earlier before they convert to Alzheimer's disease. The disease
:12:52. > :12:57.accounts for about two thirds of the total number of dementia cases in
:12:58. > :13:02.the UK. The test was trialled on 1100 patients. It predicted with 87%
:13:03. > :13:06.accuracy which would develop Alzheimer's disease. This is an
:13:07. > :13:11.important milestone on the journey towards finding a treatment which
:13:12. > :13:15.would delay the onset of Alzheimer's but while research continues, it may
:13:16. > :13:20.be a few years yet before the test is widely available to patients. So
:13:21. > :13:24.will people worried about their brain function - loss of memory, for
:13:25. > :13:29.example - be offered a test to tell them whether they could develop
:13:30. > :13:32.Alzheimer's? Because all tests have what we call a false positive rate,
:13:33. > :13:36.which is where you say someone is going to get a condition and, in
:13:37. > :13:39.fact, they won't, this certainly won't be available yet and shouldn't
:13:40. > :13:43.be available for general screening of the public to see whether they
:13:44. > :13:46.are going to develop Alzheimer's disease. More than 40 million people
:13:47. > :13:54.suffer from dementia around the world. Alzheimer's research has
:13:55. > :13:55.moved painfully slowly. Now British science has opened up new
:13:56. > :13:58.possibilities. Our health editor Hugh Pym reports.
:13:59. > :14:01.A mother accused of murdering her young son in Edinburgh is alleged to
:14:02. > :14:04.have beaten him for up to four days before dumping
:14:05. > :14:07.his body in a suitcase in woodland. A huge search was organised when
:14:08. > :14:10.three-year-old Mikaeel Kular was reported missing back in January.
:14:11. > :14:14.Danny Savage is in Kirkcaldy, where his body was eventually found.
:14:15. > :14:19.When a three-year-old boy went missing this January, thousands of
:14:20. > :14:23.people turned out close to his home in Edinburgh to search for him. They
:14:24. > :14:28.believed the child had managed to climb on a stool, open his front
:14:29. > :14:31.door and vanish. But the prosecution say Mikaeel Kular hadn't wandered
:14:32. > :14:37.off and that he had actually been killed by his mother. She was today
:14:38. > :14:41.brought to the High Court in Edinburgh, her first public
:14:42. > :14:45.appearance since she was charged with murdering her son. Rosdeep
:14:46. > :14:50.Adekoya didn't speak during three-minute hearing. More details
:14:51. > :14:54.of what she is accused of word today made public. The prosecution say
:14:55. > :14:58.that over a four-day period she repeatedly punched her son before
:14:59. > :15:00.murdering him. She's then accused of wrapping his body in a duvet and
:15:01. > :15:02.murdering him. She's then accused of wrapping his body in a duvet putting
:15:03. > :15:07.him in a suitcase before taking him from here to a wood about 20 miles
:15:08. > :15:13.away. And it was here in Kirkaldy where the little boy's body was
:15:14. > :15:17.eventually found. It's claimed his mother tried to hide the suitcase
:15:18. > :15:23.under a bush. The case returns to court later this month.
:15:24. > :15:24.Hopefully, Mr Modi is making the right sort of moves to cut through.
:15:25. > :15:26.To grease the wheels of British businesses improofing Two British
:15:27. > :15:27.men plead guilty to fighting in Syria after the mother of one of
:15:28. > :15:36.them reports them to the police. Still to come:
:15:37. > :15:40.As fans young and old gather, will the World Cup hosts, Brazil,
:15:41. > :15:44.be denied a place in the final by Germany?
:15:45. > :15:49.Just how did they survive? Office workers tell
:15:50. > :15:51.of the moment an ambulance crashed through their front window.
:15:52. > :15:53.And, a blooming success. A charity garden helping
:15:54. > :16:03.ex-offenders wow the crowds at Hampton Court Palace.
:16:04. > :16:07.Around 90,000 people arrive at Heathrow Airport every day. Spotting
:16:08. > :16:11.who among them is being trafficked into the country for the sex trade
:16:12. > :16:14.or to be a domestic slave is the mammoth task of the UK Border Force.
:16:15. > :16:18.Now, new specialist teams from the force will be posted at every major
:16:19. > :16:20.port and airport around the UK to try to pick them out. An estimated
:16:21. > :16:23.1,700 potential victims of trafficking that came into the UK
:16:24. > :16:26.last year, almost double the number the previous year. Our social
:16:27. > :16:29.affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, has had exclusive access to the
:16:30. > :16:38.first of these specialist teams to be set up at Heathrow.
:16:39. > :16:45.The watch room at Terminal 5 Heathrow Airport. From here Border
:16:46. > :16:49.Force officers survey passport control. Hidden in with the many
:16:50. > :16:51.people returning from holidays or business trips, will be the
:16:52. > :16:55.traffickers and their victims. Today, the new safeguarding and
:16:56. > :17:00.trafficking team is targeting a flight from Athens, a place often
:17:01. > :17:03.used as a staging point by gangs trafficking people to Britain. First
:17:04. > :17:07.the briefing. Pay attention to anyone who is travelling on a
:17:08. > :17:11.passport that purr ports them to be an adult, but they look to be
:17:12. > :17:15.younger. If we think they may be with a suspected trafficker we need
:17:16. > :17:21.to separate them. Five minutes until the plane lands, they head to the
:17:22. > :17:26.gate. This specially trained team started working in April. Similar
:17:27. > :17:29.teams are being rolled out around the country. Documents are checked.
:17:30. > :17:34.There are questions about their age, who they are travelling with, where
:17:35. > :17:37.they are going. Anyone who raises concerns will be taken aside for
:17:38. > :17:43.further checks. This time no-one worries them. Since the team started
:17:44. > :17:46.they say they have identified between 10-12 trafficking victims a
:17:47. > :17:51.month. Most victims are not aware they are coming in for exploitation.
:17:52. > :17:54.They believe they are coming in for education, for better jobs, to be
:17:55. > :17:59.able to send money back home to their families. The challenge for
:18:00. > :18:03.the new teams is to pick the victims of trafficking out of the crowd.
:18:04. > :18:06.That's when the victims may not realise what is happening to them
:18:07. > :18:11.and when the traffickers are constantly changing the way in which
:18:12. > :18:16.they operate. This girl was just 13 when she was trafficked to the UK.
:18:17. > :18:21.She was kept as a domestic slave, locked up and beaten. She arrived
:18:22. > :18:25.with a trafficker on someone else's passport. She was asked no
:18:26. > :18:29.questions. I was behind him. I always had to stay behind him.
:18:30. > :18:35.No-one really asked me anything or if, it's like, open the passport,
:18:36. > :18:38.look at me once, done, let me go. Trafficking is big business with
:18:39. > :18:43.some victims ending up in cannabis farms or the sex trade. Campaigners
:18:44. > :18:46.say we're not doing enough. There still needs to be more done. We are
:18:47. > :18:51.failing these children at the border. Once they go through, they
:18:52. > :18:57.are lost, lost in the system, lost to everybody and being harmed. To
:18:58. > :18:59.stop the traffickers will need greaterville begans at every stage
:19:00. > :19:09.of their journey. There's been a surprise drop in
:19:10. > :19:12.manufacturing output across the UK, ending a six-month run of growth.
:19:13. > :19:14.It fell by 1.3% in May, compared with the previous month.
:19:15. > :19:17.The announcement comes as the Chancellor is in India on a mission
:19:18. > :19:19.to boost trade and political links. He's met the country's new,
:19:20. > :19:22.and controversial, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.
:19:23. > :19:28.Our economics editor, Robert Peston, was there.
:19:29. > :19:31.Everyone rides on the Delhi underground, including Britain's
:19:32. > :19:33.Chancellor of the Exchequer. In India, to win precious business
:19:34. > :19:39.for British companies from the new government here.
:19:40. > :19:41.And, at the other end of the line, here's Mr Osborne again,
:19:42. > :19:44.for talks with Narendra Modi, India's Prime Minister,
:19:45. > :19:49.who's party won a landslide victory in May's general election.
:19:50. > :19:54.But the British government and Mr Modi haven't always been
:19:55. > :19:58.the best of friends because in the riots of 12 years ago, in Gujarat,
:19:59. > :20:01.he was accused of not doing enough to prevent a brutal massacre of
:20:02. > :20:04.Muslims, and Britain boycotted him. Do you think that Mr Modi harbours
:20:05. > :20:06.any kind of a grudge against the British?
:20:07. > :20:10.Back in 2002 there were concerns about what happened in Gujarat, but
:20:11. > :20:13.they were extensively investigated. This Government,
:20:14. > :20:17.this British Government, took a decision, in 2012, actually ahead
:20:18. > :20:23.of quite a lot of other western nations, to re-establish contact
:20:24. > :20:25.with Modi, to begin a dialogue. A British company has played
:20:26. > :20:28.an important part in developing Delhi's new Air
:20:29. > :20:32.Traffic Control tower and airport. And winning other valuable contracts
:20:33. > :20:34.with Britain to help modernise India is what Mr Osborne and the
:20:35. > :20:39.Foreign Secretary dearly want. But it's not easy.
:20:40. > :20:40.As somebody now who has worked here for some time, what are the pit
:20:41. > :20:53.falls that you have to look out for? Dealing with the bureaucracy and the
:20:54. > :20:58.administrative system there. Mr Modi is making the right moves to cut
:20:59. > :21:02.through. To grease the wheels of British businesses improving India's
:21:03. > :21:07.business struck sure George Osborne is providing ?1 billion of credit.
:21:08. > :21:12.Have you done anything on this scale with any other country? This is the
:21:13. > :21:15.first time. This is about fixing what is not working as well as other
:21:16. > :21:19.parts of the British economy, which is our exports. As a country we
:21:20. > :21:22.depended too much on exports to the continent of Europe or to North
:21:23. > :21:28.America. You look at a country like India you say, Britain has to be
:21:29. > :21:31.more part of this. It's not all sunshine. Previous Indian
:21:32. > :21:37.governments promised to modernise India and have been defeated by the
:21:38. > :21:42.elements. A typical Mumbai monsoon, washing everything clean and new.
:21:43. > :21:48.It's what the Indian people I've spoken to expect of Mr Modi's
:21:49. > :21:51.government and what he has promised. The world's second most populous
:21:52. > :21:56.country, determined to become richer, maybe with the help and to
:21:57. > :22:02.the benefit of Britain. Robert Peston, BBC News.
:22:03. > :22:06.He promised he'd return, and today he did.
:22:07. > :22:08.Prince Charles has paid another visit to the village of Muchelney
:22:09. > :22:10.on the Somerset Levels, which last winter bore the brunt
:22:11. > :22:13.of severe flooding. Five months ago,
:22:14. > :22:15.he had to be ferried through the waters by boat and tractor.
:22:16. > :22:17.Today, he saw how the area has been transformed.
:22:18. > :22:24.Our correspondent, John Kay, was there too.
:22:25. > :22:31.Last time Prince Charles needed a boat to reach Muchelney, it was an
:22:32. > :22:35.island village cut off for 12 weeks. Today no wellies required, bright
:22:36. > :22:39.sunshine and blue skies. The Prince had come to see the transformation,
:22:40. > :22:46.to see fields that were full of water in February, now full of life.
:22:47. > :22:52.The road to Muchelney, yes this was a road, now re-opened. This time,
:22:53. > :22:55.the Royal Bentley could get through. Prince Charles had promised people
:22:56. > :22:59.here he would come back this summer and see how things have improved.
:23:00. > :23:04.He's keen to show the outside world that Somerset is open for business.
:23:05. > :23:09.Like this wedding venue. When we filmed back in February it was a
:23:10. > :23:15.sorry sight. Well, this was the wedding barn then. So a slight
:23:16. > :23:23.transformation. Here it is today. Hosting a Royal reception. Do you
:23:24. > :23:26.feel you're over it now? 110%, completely over. It it's almost like
:23:27. > :23:32.the flooding never happened. It's amazing. You are right. How quickly
:23:33. > :23:38.nature recovered. It was hard. Freaky, nobody expected it to be as
:23:39. > :23:41.bad as it was. Many in Somerset have concerns about flood defences,
:23:42. > :23:45.insurance and attracting tourists. With plans to make the road here
:23:46. > :23:48.higher, this village at least hopes it will never be cut off again. John
:23:49. > :23:57.Kay BBC News, Muchelney. It's the million dollar question on
:23:58. > :24:00.the mind of every Brazilian football fan tonight. Will their side cope
:24:01. > :24:03.without their star striker in their World Cup semi-final clash with
:24:04. > :24:05.Germany? Neymar suffered a fractured vertebrae following a challenge in
:24:06. > :24:07.the match against Colombia last week. Our chief sports
:24:08. > :24:12.correspondent, Dan Roan, reports from Brazil.
:24:13. > :24:24.Every day they come in the hope of a glimpse at their heroes. With their
:24:25. > :24:29.team one game away from the World Cup final, it was never going to
:24:30. > :24:35.happen. Brazil is coming to terms with this. The dramatic moment star
:24:36. > :24:38.player are, Neymar's World Cup was injured by a challenge that
:24:39. > :24:43.fractured his vertebrae and broke the hearts of a nation. A lot of
:24:44. > :24:47.emotion is involved. They are are very motivated. To do it for him?
:24:48. > :24:56.Yeah. I think. It's a good, you know, good extra push. It's the
:24:57. > :25:03.feeling of all Brazilians now. Inside the camp there is no escape
:25:04. > :25:07.from the glare of the world's media. Everyone curious to see whether
:25:08. > :25:13.Neymar's absence will cost this team or inspire it? It's an additional
:25:14. > :25:20.motivation for us. The sadness is behind us. We understand he has done
:25:21. > :25:25.his share, we must do Brazil don't others. Only have to contend with
:25:26. > :25:28.the attention and the loss of their best player, they are coming up
:25:29. > :25:33.against a team who would love nothing more than to spoil the
:25:34. > :25:37.host's party. Germany have been impressive here. This win over
:25:38. > :25:40.France taking them to a record fourth consecutive semi-final. A
:25:41. > :25:46.golden generation of players will now expect to go all the way. I
:25:47. > :25:54.think the way they have been playing probably one of the best teams. It's
:25:55. > :26:01.when they play against another giant, it's the details that will
:26:02. > :26:05.see who is in the final. The hosts have already provided some of this
:26:06. > :26:09.tournament's defining moments. The reality is that they will count for
:26:10. > :26:16.little if Brazil's own World Cup ends tonight. It's hard to overstate
:26:17. > :26:20.just how big a game of football this is for the hosts. There has been
:26:21. > :26:23.talk about how good a World Cup it has been. There is a sense here that
:26:24. > :26:27.if it truly is to be the greatest World Cup ever the hosts, Brazil,
:26:28. > :26:31.need to be in the final on Sunday here, in Rio, against Argentina or
:26:32. > :26:34.the Netherlands on Sunday. To lose tonight would be unthinkable.
:26:35. > :26:40.Germany present formidable opposition. Tonight, something
:26:41. > :26:45.simply has to give. That match will be on BBC One from 8. 30pm if you
:26:46. > :26:51.want to watch. Now a look at the weather. Evening. Another day that
:26:52. > :26:55.brought us vicious thunderstorms across the British Isles. Tomorrow
:26:56. > :26:57.will be different. This evening the picture becoming quieter. Still, for
:26:58. > :27:03.the next couple of hours, if you are heading on to the roads in eastern
:27:04. > :27:08.Scotland, Midland or the south-east of England heavy showers to come.
:27:09. > :27:11.Temperatures in rural areas sliding down to perhaps eight or nine
:27:12. > :27:15.degrees. A fresh feel for tomorrow morning. The difference between
:27:16. > :27:19.today is very clear from the word go. A dryer day in prospect. There
:27:20. > :27:25.should be decent sunshine around as well. Our exception on Wednesday
:27:26. > :27:29.will be the east coast, a nagging northerly wind, building cloud,
:27:30. > :27:32.gusting up to gale force at times through the afternoon, some rain
:27:33. > :27:35.will arrive later on in the day. For Northern Ireland, perhaps a little
:27:36. > :27:40.more cloud from the west through the afternoon. We should see decent
:27:41. > :27:46.sunshine here. Scotland with sunny spells. A cooler field to the east
:27:47. > :27:48.coast. Wales and the South West are the best areas for the unbroken
:27:49. > :27:52.sunshine through Wednesday afternoon. For the afternoon
:27:53. > :27:55.building cloud across the south-east of England. A lot of dry weather to
:27:56. > :27:59.come into the evening. The reason though for the change in the weather
:28:00. > :28:04.is this weather front which will push towards us from the continent.
:28:05. > :28:06.It looks that it might reinvigorate through Wednesday into Thursday and
:28:07. > :28:10.bring the potential on Thursday for heavy rain to eastern Scotland and
:28:11. > :28:15.perhaps, if you like, down the spine of the British Isles. A few bundles
:28:16. > :28:20.of thunder mixed in with this weather further. Further west quiet
:28:21. > :28:25.story. Further east warmed and humid with a threat of thunderstorms.
:28:26. > :28:28.Friday we could spark up big thundery showers. Some areas could
:28:29. > :28:31.escape with a fine day. If you see the sunshine it could turn out warm
:28:32. > :28:39.indeed, temperatures of 25 or 26. from Brazil.
:28:40. > :28:40.That's all from the BBC News at