:00:10. > :00:11.A train carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian airliner
:00:12. > :00:14.has arrived in a town controlled by the Ukrainian government.
:00:15. > :00:18.Most of those who died were Dutch - the bodies will be flown back to
:00:19. > :00:21.Data from the plane's two black boxes is to be analysed by British
:00:22. > :00:26.And we'll be looking at the new European sanctions
:00:27. > :00:33.Also tonight - in Gaza - we'll return to a woman rescued
:00:34. > :00:36.from the rubble - who's now fighting for her life.
:00:37. > :00:40.As the government announces new plans to tackle female genital
:00:41. > :00:53.I don't want any children in this world to go through what me and my
:00:54. > :01:00.daughter did, the pain is unbelievable.
:01:01. > :01:02.An inquiry finds there was co-ordinated action in Birmingham
:01:03. > :01:04.schools to impose hardline Muslim views.
:01:05. > :01:07.And on the eve of the Commonwealth Games, the Queen's
:01:08. > :01:10.On BBC London - the Academy chain trying to recover
:01:11. > :01:12.millions which ended up in a former employee's personal account.
:01:13. > :01:16.And a mother's joy at being reunited with her sons - after they were
:01:17. > :01:44.The bodies of most of the 298 victims killed in the
:01:45. > :01:46.Malaysia Airlines crash have arrived in Kharkiv, a city controlled
:01:47. > :01:52.The remains were taken overnight by train from Torez,
:01:53. > :01:55.which is in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, and will be flown to
:01:56. > :02:01.In other developments - international monitors inspecting
:02:02. > :02:05.the crash site say pieces of the wreckage have been tampered with.
:02:06. > :02:08.The plane's black boxes have also been handed over by pro-Russian
:02:09. > :02:12.The Dutch have asked British air accident investigators based
:02:13. > :02:16.at Farnborough to retrieve data from them.
:02:17. > :02:25.Our correspondent Daniel Sandford is in Kharkiv tonight.
:02:26. > :02:30.There is a noticeable error of relief amongst the international
:02:31. > :02:35.team working here in the aftermath of the downing of flight MH17. I
:02:36. > :02:39.have finally started the process of bringing the bodies of passengers
:02:40. > :02:44.and crew out of the conflict zone and here to the relative safety of
:02:45. > :02:49.Kharkiv. But it was not all of them. Some of the bodies are still
:02:50. > :02:53.missing. It was the first leg of the long
:02:54. > :02:57.journey home, a refrigerated train pulling into the Ukrainian
:02:58. > :02:59.government controlled city of Kharkiv, carrying the remains of
:03:00. > :03:05.most of the almost 300 passengers and crew of flight MH17. Now,
:03:06. > :03:12.finally beyond the wall which took their lives. Here in a tank factory
:03:13. > :03:16.the bodies will be prepared for the next leg of their journey and each
:03:17. > :03:25.will be moved to a Coffin for the flight. From here they will be flown
:03:26. > :03:27.to the Netherlands and from there in the city of Hilversum the body of
:03:28. > :03:32.each passenger and crewmember will be identified and return to their
:03:33. > :03:41.family. When will the first bodies return? I'm not sure because they
:03:42. > :03:50.are still organising a good arrangement of the bodies. So we
:03:51. > :03:55.hope that they can organise very fast. In the early hours of this
:03:56. > :03:58.morning the rebels of eastern Ukraine whose forces are suspected
:03:59. > :04:03.of shooting down the plane by mistake handed over the lack box
:04:04. > :04:07.flight recorders to the Malaysians. They are now being flown to Britain
:04:08. > :04:12.where they will be examined by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch
:04:13. > :04:17.in Farnborough. Out on the fields of rebel held territory, where the
:04:18. > :04:21.plane plummeted to earth, the first international aviation experts also
:04:22. > :04:25.from Malaysia got to see where flight MH17's journey was cut
:04:26. > :04:28.tragically short in an instant. Though there are continuing concerns
:04:29. > :04:37.that the crash site has been badly disturbed. Looking at the fuse which
:04:38. > :04:40.now compared to what it was we have noticed differences and we will
:04:41. > :04:48.report that in our published reports -- fuser large. The other day we saw
:04:49. > :04:53.workers using diesel power source to get a closer look at the fuselage.
:04:54. > :04:56.Here at the start of the trail of debris we found something very
:04:57. > :05:02.interesting. A piece of fuselage, which clearly has holes made by
:05:03. > :05:06.shrapnel puncturing through it. It has scorch marks on it and a place
:05:07. > :05:09.where it has been ripped off the aircraft. All of which appears to be
:05:10. > :05:16.evidence that the plane was hit by something exploding outside the
:05:17. > :05:19.aircraft. It supports the idea that the plane was downed by a
:05:20. > :05:26.sophisticated anti-aircraft missile that detonated when it got close.
:05:27. > :05:29.The Americans claimed that a BUK missile launcher had been brought
:05:30. > :05:33.across the border from Russia and they even detected it being fired.
:05:34. > :05:38.On the face of it it is damning evidence, but five days on from the
:05:39. > :05:43.downing of flight MH17, the formal investigation has barely begun.
:05:44. > :05:45.As we've been hearing, the black boxes with
:05:46. > :05:48.the recorded flight data of MH17 are to be handed over to air accident
:05:49. > :05:55.Our transport correspondent Richard Westcott is with me now.
:05:56. > :06:06.Why are they coming to the UK? We have one of the only facilities in
:06:07. > :06:09.Europe that can do this job. I've been in a room where they will
:06:10. > :06:14.analyse these boxes and it is extremely tightly controlled. Before
:06:15. > :06:17.they do anything they seal it off so nobly can electronically eavesdrop
:06:18. > :06:23.on what is going on. There are four loudspeakers. When they listen back
:06:24. > :06:25.to the cockpit voice recorder which the microphone will tell them what
:06:26. > :06:29.was happening before and they wanted to be as realistic as possible so
:06:30. > :06:34.they have a speaker in each corner. What will we learn? It will rule out
:06:35. > :06:38.mechanical failure. It does not seem to be mechanical failure but it will
:06:39. > :06:42.rule it out. Secondly, the cockpit voice recorder I was talking about
:06:43. > :06:45.when listening on those four speakers they will listen for an
:06:46. > :06:48.explosion because it may have picked up a missile exploding. It will only
:06:49. > :06:51.take them a day to get the information off but we have no idea
:06:52. > :06:53.when we will hear about what they have found. Thank you for joining
:06:54. > :06:55.us. With the finger being pointed
:06:56. > :06:58.squarely at Moscow for backing the Ukrainian rebels thought to have
:06:59. > :07:00.caused the crash, this afternoon European foreign ministers have
:07:01. > :07:02.agreed new sanctions against Russia. Let's go now to our Europe
:07:03. > :07:17.Editor Gavin Hewitt in Brussels. Perhaps it was inevitable that after
:07:18. > :07:21.all of the pressure from the United States, Britain and other countries
:07:22. > :07:28.the foreign ministers here would agree on new measures. They have
:07:29. > :07:31.decided to extend asset freezes and travel bans against key Russian
:07:32. > :07:35.officials, although we don't know who they are at the moment and how
:07:36. > :07:40.many they are, although I'm told that some of them will be regarded
:07:41. > :07:44.as President Putin's cronies. But perhaps more significantly they have
:07:45. > :07:48.decided to explore targeting key sectors of the Russian economy. The
:07:49. > :07:52.European Commission has been tasked with looking into how they can hit
:07:53. > :07:57.the defence industry, the financial services, even the energy sector,
:07:58. > :08:00.and to bring up some proposals by Thursday. But in order to do that
:08:01. > :08:04.that decision would have to be signed off by Europe's leaders. How
:08:05. > :08:09.do we gauge all of this? Well, some people would say it still lacks
:08:10. > :08:15.detail, it is still very cautious, but if finally Europe's leaders did
:08:16. > :08:18.decide to target Russia's economic sector at risk of damaging its own
:08:19. > :08:21.economies then that would be a big deal. Thank you for joining us.
:08:22. > :08:25.With international anger against Russia simmering, here the
:08:26. > :08:28.government has announced a public inquiry into the death of the former
:08:29. > :08:37.He was poisoned in London eight years ago with
:08:38. > :08:40.the radioactive substance, polonium - it's been suggested -
:08:41. > :08:43.Until now the government has resisted holding an inquiry,
:08:44. > :08:46.and questions are being asked about the timing of today's announcement.
:08:47. > :08:56.A fierce critic of the Kremlin, Alexander Litvinenko endured a
:08:57. > :09:00.lingering death in a London hospital bed, poisoned by radioactive
:09:01. > :09:07.polonium. Today, a public enquiry was announced. His widow Marina told
:09:08. > :09:12.me of her relief after a long fight to get answers. I can't say it is my
:09:13. > :09:16.responsibility to save him but I could not save him. Now I think I
:09:17. > :09:25.need just to finish why and who killed him. It is my rights to do
:09:26. > :09:29.for him. Another former Russian security officer, now a politician,
:09:30. > :09:35.is accused of administering the polonium, a charge he denies. But
:09:36. > :09:40.the question has always been: Who gave the orders? Was it the Russian
:09:41. > :09:44.state? There is said to be secret intelligence that may point towards
:09:45. > :09:48.that. It was at this London hotel that Alexander Litvinenko was
:09:49. > :09:52.poisoned with a radioactive cup of tea. We still don't know eight years
:09:53. > :09:58.on who was ultimately responsible for that. That's partly because
:09:59. > :10:02.until now the British government fought to keep its secrets out of
:10:03. > :10:06.the public eye. An inquest under this judge, Sir Robert Owen, was
:10:07. > :10:10.denied access to sensitive intelligence. That led to a legal
:10:11. > :10:13.challenge demanding a public enquiry, so it could be assessed.
:10:14. > :10:18.The Home Secretary had been resisting that. A year ago writing
:10:19. > :10:24.to the judge that it was true that international relations had been a
:10:25. > :10:30.factor in decision-making. So, why the change of heart? At the 2012
:10:31. > :10:34.London Olympics Vladimir Putin and David Cameron were trying to put the
:10:35. > :10:37.murder behind them and patch things up. Now, even before the shooting
:10:38. > :10:42.down of the Malaysian jet the government makes Impey have given up
:10:43. > :10:48.on the hope of improving relations. -- may simply have. We are one step
:10:49. > :10:49.closer to finding out what was behind the murder of this British
:10:50. > :10:52.citizen on British soil. In Gaza, diplomatic efforts to
:10:53. > :10:58.broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have been stepped up, but
:10:59. > :11:01.Israel has continued its bombardment of the territory. Gaza's health
:11:02. > :11:17.ministry claims more than 600 Palestinians have been killed in the
:11:18. > :11:20.last two weeks. The UN estimates more than one hundred thousand
:11:21. > :11:22.people have been forced to take shelter in UN buildings. Meanwhile
:11:23. > :11:25.Palestinian militants have continued using rockets and mortars against
:11:26. > :11:27.Israel, which has suffered 29 deaths. We've two reports - in a
:11:28. > :11:30.moment Quentin Sommerville will have the latest from Erez on the Israel
:11:31. > :11:34.Gaza border, but first Paul Adams sent this report from Gaza. You may
:11:35. > :11:39.find some images in his package All over Gaza more heavy
:11:40. > :11:45.bombardment. Two missiles hit this building last night. Rescue workers
:11:46. > :11:55.are trying to reach a body trapped under concrete. 11 persons killed
:11:56. > :12:00.without any... They just came here to be safe. Ten members of Ahmed's
:12:01. > :12:05.family died here. They fled the neighbourhood of Shejaiya on Sunday
:12:06. > :12:06.seeking shelter from relentless shelling and after more than two
:12:07. > :12:19.weeks there is nowhere left to hide. We were in Shejaiya on Sunday
:12:20. > :12:22.afternoon during a brief shaky truce. Emergency teams racing to
:12:23. > :12:32.find survivors before the shooting started again. As shells crashed
:12:33. > :12:38.nearby they found a body, barely visible under piles of concrete. At
:12:39. > :12:49.first all we could see of asthma was a hand -- Asma. Somehow she survived
:12:50. > :12:56.but her injuries were terrible, crashed and burned, she almost lost
:12:57. > :13:02.her leg. Asma was making breakfast for a family of ten when the missile
:13:03. > :13:06.struck. Asma is obviously not going to come out of this hospital for a
:13:07. > :13:08.long time and when she does someone will have to tell her that her
:13:09. > :13:13.family is no more. But of her parents are dead, both of her
:13:14. > :13:17.brothers, her sisters, her sister-in-law and her three
:13:18. > :13:25.children, all killed in the house on Sunday morning. Asma's cousin
:13:26. > :13:33.Mohammed keeps vigil outside her room. He was among the first to try
:13:34. > :13:37.to rescue her. TRANSLATION: I was trying to get her out, me and my
:13:38. > :13:40.cousins. There was lots of bombing and shooting. There was a huge
:13:41. > :13:51.concrete block on top of her. We could not move it. She was under the
:13:52. > :13:59.rubble for 12 hours. 12 hours? 12 hours, she is lucky, she is a
:14:00. > :14:08.miracle. For two weeks Shifa Hospital has been full of terrible
:14:09. > :14:19.scenes, crowding the corridors, as we leave yet another body arrives
:14:20. > :14:23.from the rubble of Shejaiya. We can join our respondent Chris Morris who
:14:24. > :14:29.is injuries all. The Israelis have suffered the worst casualties of any
:14:30. > :14:32.incursion into Gaza. That's right. The vast majority of the dead in
:14:33. > :14:35.this conflict have been Palestinian civilians but the number of
:14:36. > :14:43.fatalities among the Israeli military has been survivors in the
:14:44. > :14:49.high. 28 soldiers so far. -- surprisingly high. Disturbing news
:14:50. > :14:53.from Israel today, the military said one soldier is missing, presumed
:14:54. > :14:57.dead, but a couple of days ago Hamas claimed the capture of an Israeli
:14:58. > :15:01.soldier. I have produced no evidence that he is actually alive that it
:15:02. > :15:06.will bring back difficult memories for many Israelis from the case of
:15:07. > :15:09.Gilad Shaar leaf, who was kept captured in Gaza for five years and
:15:10. > :15:19.only released once hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were released
:15:20. > :15:25.from Israeli jails. The US is suspending flights to Israel for at
:15:26. > :15:28.least 24 hours remind it is not just the death toll which is the way to
:15:29. > :15:34.pay the price, there will be an economic toll as well, the Federal
:15:35. > :15:37.aviation Administration has prohibited all US airlines from
:15:38. > :15:42.flying to Tel Aviv airport. The reason is that a rocket landed
:15:43. > :15:47.relatively close to the airport, a rocket fired by Hamas, this morning.
:15:48. > :15:53.Obviously in the week of so many stories about flight MH17, the
:15:54. > :15:57.authorities are taking no chances. Before the decision was made a
:15:58. > :16:00.couple of airlines already announced they were unilaterally deciding to
:16:01. > :16:03.stop flights and the Israeli transport minister said they should
:16:04. > :16:08.change their minds because otherwise they would be rewarding terror.
:16:09. > :16:15.Our top story this evening. A train carrying the bodies of
:16:16. > :16:16.victims of the Malaysian airliner has arrived in a town controlled
:16:17. > :16:28.by the Ukrainian government. I will be live in Glasgow on the eve
:16:29. > :16:31.of the Commonwealth Games, how will they compare to London 2012.
:16:32. > :16:36.Could the rental market solve revolutionising
:16:37. > :16:50.We look ahead to the medal hopefuls at the Commonwealth Games.
:16:51. > :16:55.Parents who put their daughters through the ordeal of female genital
:16:56. > :17:00.mutilation should be prosecuted, according to David Cameron.
:17:01. > :17:03.He was speaking at The Girl Summit in London, which aims to end FGM
:17:04. > :17:07.and also forced marriage within this generation.
:17:08. > :17:13.It's thought that up to 137,000 women and girls living in England
:17:14. > :17:16.and Wales could have undergone FGM. Families from many countries
:17:17. > :17:19.in Africa, and some in Asia and the Middle East,
:17:20. > :17:22.force the practice on young girls. While there's evidence it happens
:17:23. > :17:24.here, it's more commonly carried out in the family's country of origin.
:17:25. > :17:37.June Kelly reports. They had come from all over the
:17:38. > :17:43.world for this Girl Summit. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh amongst
:17:44. > :17:48.the politicians. Also here, Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged education
:17:49. > :17:53.campaign shot by the tally ban. Everybody drawn together by a
:17:54. > :17:57.passion to protect young girls -- the Taliban. Those who have gone
:17:58. > :18:01.through female gentle mutilation do not want the next generation to
:18:02. > :18:08.ensure the same physical and psychological trauma -- female
:18:09. > :18:11.genital mutilation. I do not want any children in this world to go
:18:12. > :18:17.through what me and my daughter went through, the pain, it is
:18:18. > :18:20.unbelievable. London the location for this first international
:18:21. > :18:25.gathering on FGM and forced marriage. And from the Prime
:18:26. > :18:29.Minister there was a pledge. Here it is absolutely clear about what we
:18:30. > :18:35.are trying to achieve, it is such a simple but noble and good ambition.
:18:36. > :18:40.That is to outlaw the practices of female genital mutilation, and
:18:41. > :18:47.childhood and forced my, to outlaw them everywhere for everyone within
:18:48. > :18:52.this generation. APPLAUSE David Cameron promised a package of
:18:53. > :18:55.measures including making it compulsory for doctors, teachers and
:18:56. > :18:58.social workers to report cases of FGM. Anonymity for the victims in
:18:59. > :19:00.the courts, FGM. Anonymity for the victims in
:19:01. > :19:05.the courts, there has never been a successful prosecution in this
:19:06. > :19:06.country. And legislation to prosecute parents if their daughter
:19:07. > :19:11.undergoes FGM. prosecute parents if their daughter
:19:12. > :19:15.undergoes FGM. Politicians and campaigners denounce FGM as a severe
:19:16. > :19:18.form of child abuse, but families who put their children through it do
:19:19. > :19:23.not you like that. They believe there are giving their daughters a
:19:24. > :19:28.better future by making them more marriageable -- see it like that.
:19:29. > :19:34.One campaign has reservations about plans to put parents before the
:19:35. > :19:38.courts. It is a good idea if it acts as a deterrent, however these
:19:39. > :19:43.parents who practice FGM do it because they love their children. If
:19:44. > :19:48.this goes ahead, it means the whole community may face prosecution. And
:19:49. > :19:52.the campaigners who left the summit this evening know that it is in
:19:53. > :19:57.those communities that there has to be a change of culture.
:19:58. > :20:01.Nurses and other health workers are to vote
:20:02. > :20:04.on whether to strike over pay. The union, UNISON, and the Royal
:20:05. > :20:07.College of Midwives are proposing to stage the action in October.
:20:08. > :20:10.It's the first time in its history that the midwives'
:20:11. > :20:17.union has balloted its members on taking industrial action.
:20:18. > :20:19.An inquiry led by the former head of counter terrorism into claims of
:20:20. > :20:22.extremism at schools in Birmingham has found there was 'co-ordinated
:20:23. > :20:27.action' to impose hardline muslim views in some schools.
:20:28. > :20:29.Peter Clarke's report found that like-minded people were appointed to
:20:30. > :20:33.key jobs at the schools, and head teachers who disagreed with
:20:34. > :20:33.their views were removed. From Birmingham,
:20:34. > :20:46.Alex Forsyth reports. Back in the spotlight, five schools
:20:47. > :20:49.at the centre of an alleged takeover plot by hardline Muslims. Today a
:20:50. > :20:54.government inquiry gave the verdict. It found there was a
:20:55. > :20:58.co-ordinated attempt to introduce an aggressive Islamic ethos in some
:20:59. > :21:03.schools. There was evidence of some people in positions of influence who
:21:04. > :21:07.endorsed or failed to challenge extremist views. The new Education
:21:08. > :21:12.Secretary called the findings disturbing. There has been no
:21:13. > :21:17.evidence of direct radicalisation or violent extremism. But there is a
:21:18. > :21:21.clear account in the report of people in positions of influence in
:21:22. > :21:25.the schools with a restricted and narrow interpretation of their
:21:26. > :21:28.faith. Who have not promoted fundamental British values and who
:21:29. > :21:33.have failed to challenge the extremist views of others. Closed
:21:34. > :21:38.for the summer, one school allowed us in, it is one of four academies
:21:39. > :21:43.involved, schools accountable to government. Today's report said this
:21:44. > :21:47.level of oversight can leave them vulnerable to those without good
:21:48. > :21:51.intentions, in this case allowing intolerant of use to dominate. This
:21:52. > :21:55.school, like others, denies digestion is of a hardline agenda,
:21:56. > :22:00.it says it teaches children about other cultures and religions and
:22:01. > :22:05.many school leaders and parents see this as an attack on this
:22:06. > :22:09.predominantly Muslim community. It is a plot to tarnish the Muslim
:22:10. > :22:14.community but there has been no evidence to show what the teachers
:22:15. > :22:18.has done. But these teachers said they saw first-hand how some
:22:19. > :22:22.governors try to influence the, some felt pushed out by the local council
:22:23. > :22:28.which was criticised in today's report for failing to act on the
:22:29. > :22:34.warnings. The council is not there to support me, I was isolated and on
:22:35. > :22:38.my own, just carry on with the job. Birmingham will get an education
:22:39. > :22:42.commissioner to tackle the problems, but events here are likely to
:22:43. > :22:45.influence wider policy in the hope this does not happen again.
:22:46. > :22:50.A year ago seven million people in the UK watched as Prince George
:22:51. > :22:52.was introduced to the world for the first time, outside
:22:53. > :22:54.St Mary's hospital in London. Well, today,
:22:55. > :22:56.he celebrates his first birthday. To mark the occasion two new
:22:57. > :22:59.pictures have been released of him and his parents, visiting
:23:00. > :23:06.the Butterfly exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London.
:23:07. > :23:10.There's just a day to go before the Commonwealth Games
:23:11. > :23:13.of 2014 gets underway in Glasgow. Thousands of athletes are gathering
:23:14. > :23:16.from around the world for the biggest sporting event to be
:23:17. > :23:20.held in Britain since the London Olympics, and as you can imagine,
:23:21. > :23:21.the excitement is mounting. Our chief sports correspondent
:23:22. > :23:32.Dan Roan is there. MILITARY MUSIC they are known as the
:23:33. > :23:36.friendly games, and as they prepare to play host for the biggest
:23:37. > :23:41.sporting event Scotland has ever seen Glasgow appears to be ready and
:23:42. > :23:44.willing to welcome the world. This is how much the Commonwealth Games
:23:45. > :23:47.means too many of those who live here. Thousands desperate to get a
:23:48. > :23:53.glimpse of the batting relay as it makes its way through the city. --
:23:54. > :23:58.Queen's Baton Relay. Much of the excitement will focus on how the
:23:59. > :24:02.hosts do, last-minute training for Team Scotland's rhythmic gymnasts
:24:03. > :24:07.this afternoon, in one of the venues. What does it mean to be
:24:08. > :24:12.competing? It is an indescribable feeling, of course you are nervous,
:24:13. > :24:15.excitement. Because I am 15, it is my first games and the home games,
:24:16. > :24:23.it adds to the excitement and I cannot wait. The challenge for these
:24:24. > :24:27.competitors to deliver medals, the challenge for Glasgow 2014 as an
:24:28. > :24:30.event is to hold its own in an already busy sporting calendar.
:24:31. > :24:36.Without many of the powerhouse nations that so lit up London 2012.
:24:37. > :24:40.Sir Chris Hoy was one of those who made the country 's golden summer so
:24:41. > :24:44.memorable. But Britain's best ever Olympian told me rather than being a
:24:45. > :24:50.poor relation, the Commonwealth Games can take advantage of the
:24:51. > :24:55.legacy of London. The spirit and the celebration of London is still
:24:56. > :24:59.there, people are crying out for another multi sports games, to
:25:00. > :25:04.support and to enjoy and celebrate. Glasgow will take it and it will be
:25:05. > :25:08.spectacular. But do the biggest names want to be here, Mo Farah will
:25:09. > :25:14.compete for England but only after months of speculation. Usain Bolt
:25:15. > :25:20.has chosen to run just in the relay, prompting some to argue that the
:25:21. > :25:23.games have lost their lustre. The games are relevant to the audience,
:25:24. > :25:28.we are for the Commonwealth, we are not trying to be anything more. We
:25:29. > :25:33.create a fantastic platform for athletes, through their sporting
:25:34. > :25:36.career. Whatever doubts over the game status this event is in the SL
:25:37. > :25:42.out, the public appetite for another summer of sporting drama clearly
:25:43. > :25:47.burns as brightly as ever. -- it is almost a sell-out. There is real
:25:48. > :25:50.excitement ahead of the opening ceremony and while the Commonwealth
:25:51. > :25:53.Games cannot really compete with the Olympics of course there is no doubt
:25:54. > :25:59.that for many this has evoked memories of events two years ago.
:26:00. > :26:03.For many, it has dismissed the Commonwealth Games as something of
:26:04. > :26:07.an anachronism, but with over 1 million tickets sold it deserves to
:26:08. > :26:12.be taken seriously. There's no doubt after a summer to forget, events in
:26:13. > :26:15.venues like those behind me in a couple of weeks could provide a
:26:16. > :26:17.much-needed boost to British sport. Thank you for joining us.
:26:18. > :26:19.Dan Roan is there. Time for a look at the weather.
:26:20. > :26:27.Here's John Hammond. Beautiful blue skies in Glasgow,
:26:28. > :26:30.will this continue? We think so, it was the warmest day of the year in
:26:31. > :26:35.Glasgow and we think it will hold for the opening ceremony. There is a
:26:36. > :26:39.small chance of showers. I think the chances are it will stay dry with
:26:40. > :26:45.plenty of warm sunshine. Light wind and temperatures in the low 20s. For
:26:46. > :26:49.the rest of us, the theme will be warm weather for the next few days,
:26:50. > :26:53.there will be some showers dotted around. Some showers over Northern
:26:54. > :26:58.Ireland earlier today. Fading away with time. We will see cloud
:26:59. > :27:04.drifting in from the North Sea into central and eastern parts. It is
:27:05. > :27:08.fairly uneventful tonight, temperatures staying pretty high and
:27:09. > :27:15.it will be muggy again, Lowes, 16-17 degrees. There is a chance of
:27:16. > :27:18.showers moving into eastern England on the breeze, later in the day we
:27:19. > :27:23.could see some sharp showers across southern England but they will be
:27:24. > :27:28.isolated. The vast majority will be fine and dry with sunshine. Just
:27:29. > :27:33.some bits of rain, plenty of space in between indicating the dry
:27:34. > :27:36.weather. Every bit as warm as today, high 20s, knocking on the door of 30
:27:37. > :27:43.degrees on the south coast, broken cloud. Northern Ireland should be
:27:44. > :27:49.dry in contrast to today. Not as warm as today over Shetland. A
:27:50. > :27:56.little bit cooler with the misty conditions. Moving into Thursday,
:27:57. > :28:00.dry, pleasantly warm in most places. The north-east will be cooler and
:28:01. > :28:05.misty. The chance of showers over southern and western England and
:28:06. > :28:11.Wales. Mid to high 20s will be typical. The largely fine weather
:28:12. > :28:15.continues to the end of the week. Thank you for joining us.
:28:16. > :28:18.Here's John Hammond. A reminder of our main story.
:28:19. > :28:21.A train carrying the bodies of victims of the Malaysian airliner
:28:22. > :28:25.has arrived in a town controlled by the Ukrainian government.
:28:26. > :28:28.That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me -
:28:29. > :28:29.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's