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Iraqis flee for their lives. Tonight tens of thousands are | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
on the road, running from the militants of the Islamic State. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
They're flooding into nearby towns and have been without food, | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
water and shelter for days. We just have a bottle of water and | :00:17. | :00:32. | |
no more. Not me, thousands of people. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
water and shelter for days. The race is on to drop aid to those | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
stranded, as their plight triggers mounting international concern. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
We'll be tracking the advance of the militants and assessing a | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
major crisis unfolding in Baghdad. Also tonight. | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
Proposals to introduce mandatory health warnings on bottles | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
and cans of alcohol. Why sheep rustling's on the rise and | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
at what cost to the rural economy. And glory for Rory McIlroy puts him | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
alongside the golfing greats. Tonight on BBC London. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
The former boxing promoter Frank Maloney, | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
who guided Lennox Lewis to a world title, on her new life as a woman. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
And how London's top police officer was called upon to make an arrest | :01:18. | :01:38. | |
himself - his first as Commissioner. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
BBC News at Six. Ten of thousands | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
of Iraqis are tonight fleeing for their lives, desperate to avoid | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
the advance of the Islamic State, formerly known as ISIS. | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Many are stranded on a mountain side and have been without the basics | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
of life, proper food, water and shelter, for seven days or more. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
International concern is focused on those who've been driven from | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
their homes in the town of Sinjar. There are thought to be 30,000 | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
members of the Yazidi community now in desperate need. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Some refugees have made it to the town of Dahuk. | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
The forlorn and desperate track continues to some kind of safety. | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
Some of the thousands of members of the Yazidi community fleeing the | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
violence and brutality of the militant fighters now known as the | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
Islamic State. TRANSLATION: I had to walk halfway here alone. I have | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
three children. This one is with me, I had not seen the others or my | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
husband. I have walked from the mountain to | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Syria or walking. We just have a bottle of water. There is no more. | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
In their anxiety to escape the militants some have purposely | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
crossed into the Kurdish rebel held areas of neighbouring Syria, itself | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
a war wracked country where the Islamic State has a powerful hold. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
This camp may offer relative century for some but not real safety or | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
long-term future. With the help of US air strikes, and there was | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
another major one late last evening, Kurdish forces in Iraq have taken | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
some ground from militants in the North. Washington says it is now | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
providing the Iraqi Kurds with weapons to try to turn the militant | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
tide. But in their own videos the militants have celebrated their | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
successes. And there is word that they have made in advance closer | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
south, near Baghdad. It is the humanitarian crisis of tens of | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
thousands of other threatened Iraqi minorities that is focusing | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
international concern and alarm on the threat posed by these Sunni | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
militants in Iraq and beyond. Western governments are trying to | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
grapple with and understand the scale of the challenge. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
the town of Dahuk. Well tonight, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
as Iraqis continue to pour out of Islamic State territory, a political | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
crisis is emerging in Baghdad with a stand-off between the country's | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
prime minister and president. And, | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
in a separate move Washington said it had begun to send weapons to the | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
Iraqi Kurdish forces to help them in the fight against the militants. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Our Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall has this report. | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
Much needed aid been dropped from US military planes to help trapped | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
Iraqi civilians as well as US air strikes on the militants from | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Islamic State who threaten them. But this crisis seems to be drawing the | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
Americans in. Now they have decided to arm the Kurdish forces directly. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
In Syria, supplying their allies with weapons was something the | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
Americans would not do in case they fell into the hands of extremists. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
But now those same extremists, sweeping through Iraq, have got | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
their hands on American heavy weaponry anyway, looted from fleeing | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
Iraqi soldiers. They flaunt their war spoils jubilantly. And the | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Kurdish state unless they get more outside military support and will be | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
helpless to stop them. So far we have been outgunned by the Islamic | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
State so this will help us match that. If this had been done in | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Syria, if there had been an earlier intervention, we would not be seeing | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
what we are now seeing in Iraq. From their original stronghold in Syria | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Islamic fighters now control broad swathes of northern Iraq. They | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
captured Mosul in the north and moved south to towns like to quit. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
Now they're advancing his towards Kurdish areas. But yesterday Kurdish | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Jeff Maggert fighters we took a couple of town. -- Peshmerga | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
fighters. Most at risk or the non-Muslims, they have threatened to | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
destroy. Like the Iraqi Christians. And the ancient communities like the | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
Yazidi, stranded on the barren slopes of the mountain. But the | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
biggest strategic risks claim that the dam has been seized and could | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
read entire regions. Or they could take the Kurdish capital. And they | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
could claim control of Baghdad. All this as tensions there are rising. | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
The city paralysed by a row over who should lead the new government in | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
the country. This morning the old prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki put | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
his troops on the streets to back up his claim to stay on. In a counter | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
move this afternoon the new president invited the Deputy Speaker | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
of parliament to form a government instead. A move welcomed in London | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
and Washington. Nouri al-Maliki and his supporters declared it illegal. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
And while the bickering continues, the threat from Islamic State | :07:14. | :07:33. | |
extremists edges closer. What is the view from Washington? They are | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
concerned about the crisis and do not want it to end badly with Nouri | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
al-Maliki threating to hold onto power and mobilising troops. They | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
have responded to the steps so far positively. They have welcomed the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
appointment of the new Prime Minister at the vice president here | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
Joe Biden called it a key milestone. He has said that the steps taking | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
place at the moment he believes are constitutional. And he called the | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Iraqi president and said that Washington is quite keen to offer | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
more assistance to coordinate with the new Iraqi government, to combat | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
these threats from the Islamist militants. Washington had been | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
reluctant to be overt in helping the Kurdish Iraqi government because | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Nouri al-Maliki is seen as a divisive a minister and steering | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
ethnic and sectarian tensions. So President Obama has said all along | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
the key is to get a new and because of government in Baghdad and then | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
they could help the government. So the Americans hoping that the | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
process that has started will continue and the government will | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
complete its change. Kendall has this report. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
There should be mandatory health warnings on alcohol to help stop | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
people from drinking too much, according to MPs. | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Labels similar to those used for cigarettes should be used, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
they say, to warn about the risks. The MPs also propose lowering | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
the drink-drive limit. Our Health Correspondent Branwen | :08:59. | :08:59. | |
Jeffreys reports. If you're pouring a drink tonight, | :09:00. | :09:12. | |
would cigarette style warnings on the bottle make you buy or drink a | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
little less? I do not look at the label, I just grab it and pay for | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
it. I will not be reading the label. Maybe I would not buy as much. It | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
would be quite putting. Responsible drinking is promoted throughout the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
drinks industry to a degree that you would hope people would take heed | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
and do what is sensible. We now by almost half the alcohol we drink in | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
shops. It is much more affordable than 20 years ago. So MPs from all | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
the parties have drawn up and alcohol manifesto. It calls for a | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
minimum price per unit, already planned in Scotland and Wales. A | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
lower drink drive limit and stronger health warnings on all alcohol. | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
People know you are endangering your liver if you drink too much. They do | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
not know however that drinking alcohol is also implicated in heart | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
disease, in strokes and dementia and cancers. A whole host of areas where | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
it is a danger if you drink too much. Alcohol is killing one person | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
per hour through ill health or violence according to the MPs. They | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
argue that that cost to society justifies much tougher controls. | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
Cigarette packets are often covered with graphic health warnings. Now | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
MPs are calling for something similar on bottles. But there is one | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
big difference. The evidence that smoking damages your health is | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
really clear. The evidence against moderate drinking is much less | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
clear-cut. And the alcohol industry says many bottles already carry | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
enough information. Graphic health warnings are a step too far or stop | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
the majority of us to drink responsibly and there is lots of | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
information for consumers. And we know how to get information. Most | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
people may know that they should drink moderately. But there is now | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
growing pressure to make sure that we change our habits. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Jeffreys reports. The Foreign Office Minister Mark | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
Simmonds has resigned from the government, saying he had | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
to put his family life first. Mr Simmonds' departure comes just | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
days after Baroness Warsi also quit the Foreign Office, over | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
the government's policy on Gaza. Downing St said Mr Simmond's | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
resignation was not triggered by a dispute over policy. | :11:38. | :11:49. | |
He told the BBC he rarely sees his wife and children because | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
parliamentary expenses mean that he cannot afford a flat for them in | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
London. I have been mulling over the decision for so -- for some months. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
And the support for Members of Parliament with children who live | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
outside of London is not there in my opinion. The situation has become | :12:08. | :12:08. | |
intolerable. by a dispute over policy. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Our Political Correspondent Vicki Young is in Westminster for us. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
This is the second loss in a week to the Foreign Office? When the story | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
broke I think most people thought, is this another protest at | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
government foreign policy? It seems that is not the case. His complaint | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
is a different one though one that we are hearing more and more from | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
MPs about expenses, the life of an MP, travelling back up to their | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
constituencies and not having time with their families. What is also | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
interesting is when the BBC started reporting the story, the independent | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
body which oversees MP expenses not in touch very quickly to say that | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
actually MPs with children to get extra help. They can claim up to | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
?28,000 per year to rent a flat in London. Of course on top of the | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
ministerial salary of around ?90,000. So there would not be much | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
sympathy for Mark Simmonds from members of the public. He says he | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
understands their angry about MP expenses scandals but he thinks have | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
gone too far. Another former Mr I spoke to said he was concerned that | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
MPs who become ministers and then stand down, they have decided to | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
turn their back on public service and walk away from this place. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
Young is in Westminster for us. Indirect talks between Israeli | :13:29. | :13:29. | |
and Palestinian negotiators, aimed at finding a long-term | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
solution to the conflict in Gaza, have been taking place in Egypt. | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
After the bloodshed of recent weeks, there are signs of normal life | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
returning to Gaza, as a three-day ceasefire continues to hold. | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Our correspondent, Yolande Knell, sent this report from the Rafa | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
border crossing where much-needed supplies are getting through. | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
Supplies rolling in to Gaza today. Coming across the border from | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
Israel. Most of these is bought by Palestinian businesses. And there is | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
also aid. But the Israelis imposed tight control. Almost no exports | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
leave here. No one talks about a longer term | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
cease-fire deal back on in Cairo, maintaining Israel's security and | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
lifting the Gaza blockade by the key demands. These lorries are bringing | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
goods into Gaza from Israel's only commercial crossing point. It is | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
just down the road. Palestinians want it to be open more fully so | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
they can trade effectively stop and then behind me you have the Rafa | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
crossing point with each -- with Egypt. It has been mostly close to | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
travellers for the past year by Palestinians should -- said it | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
should be the gateway to the world for Gaza. Currently only those with | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
foreign passports or residency can't leave to Egypt. But all sides in the | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
mirror gushy Asians are being pushed to make difficult compromises. -- | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
all sides in the negotiations are being pushed. We want people to be | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
able to travel abroad and come to Gaza. Across Gaza are scenes of mass | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
destruction. After five weeks of fighting with Israel. But now a | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
temporary truce is allowing families to think about rebuilding their | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
lives. Many are returning to the neighbourhoods they fled. And not | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
far away some Israelis are doing the same. Neighbours greet each other as | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
they go back to their properties near the Gaza border. TRANSLATION: | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
I'm happy. This is our home. We had not been here for one month and two | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
weeks. Now the challenge is to build on this truce so that the calm can | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
last. Our World Affairs Correspondent, | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
Wyre Davies, is in Jerusalem. What hope is there for these | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
negotiations going on in Egypt? These sides have sat down together, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
albeit with Egyptian mediators and the talks are going on - that is a | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
good sign. They are so far apart that many people expect the talks to | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
fail and in two or three years will be back here again talking about the | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
latest Gaza war. There is a lot of pressure from the outside, for the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
talks to achieve something. The Israeli government is facing | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
pressure from within, there are more hardline members of the government | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
here who think the Israelis shouldn't be talking to Hamas, that | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
the Israeli Army should have defeated Hamas militarily. That, of | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
course, would have led to more civilian deaths in Gaza and in | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
Israel. But many Israelis think that is the only way to bring an end to | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
this long-term conflict, four wars over Gaza in the last ten years. A | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
lot of pressure internationally and internally for this truce to achieve | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
something. Two days left of the ceasefire and everybody's eyes still | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
on Cairo to see if those talks can achieve something rather than the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
big piece -- peace everybody is hoping for. | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Tens of thousands of Iraqis are continuing to flee for their lives - | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
on the run from the militants of the Islamic State. | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
And still to come: how a boy born without ears was given a new pair | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
after reconstructive surgery. Later on BBC London. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Heathrow and Gatwick passenger numbers hit a record high, so | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
what does it mean for their bids to expand and build new runways? | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
And the freedom to dig - why one council is rewarding its pensioners | :17:42. | :17:42. | |
with free allotments. There's been a big rise in rural | :17:43. | :17:57. | |
crime, affecting communities up and down the country, according to new | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
figures out today. A spate of sheep rustling is pushing | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
the numbers up, with agricultural equipment also being targeted. | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
The overall figure shows a 5.2% rise, making 2013 the worst on | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
record for livestock theft. One of the areas most badly affected | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
is the North of England and our correspondent, Ed Thomas, joins us | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
now from a farm in Cheshire. Yes, this is deepest Cheshire. We | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
have more than 2,000 sheep on this farm alone. It makes it ideal for | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
the rustlers and the thieves have been back here again and again to | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
take as many as they want. It is a stunning place to work, but | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
more than ever, thieves are damaging farmers' livelihoods. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Chris's family have farmed here for several generations. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
But in the last three years, more than 200 sheep have been stolen. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
Is this your tag here? Yeah, that is our tag. Heath. | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
It's cost him nearly ?30,000. When you see these disappearing | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
from your farm, your land... It hurts. It gets worse and worse | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
and worse. It feels like you don't own it | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
anymore. It's as if you are always being watched by somebody. | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Thieves? Thieves - whatever movement you do, 24/7. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
It is not just livestock. All the tools that farmers rely on are being | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
stolen and sold on. Thieves took Phil Hodgson's tractor. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Without it he couldn't work. It's a huge impact. We were unable | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
to feed the livestock because the machine we use was stolen so we had | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
to stop going hungry whilst we were trying to sort out a replacement | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
machine. Police believe organised criminal | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
gangs are involved, with sheep and lambs being butchers illegally and | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
farming equipment, tools, being sold on in Eastern Europe and even | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Africa. What we are noticing - and my | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
colleagues in other counties are saying the same thing - it is the | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
high value, easily saleable items that can be exported, often to | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Eastern Europe, where agriculture is flourishing. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Police say they are making arrests. But for farmers like Chris, thieves | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
are making an already difficult job even harder. | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
It's also worth remembering, like many farms, this isn't just a place | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
of work, it is also a family home. That makes the stress and the panic | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
of constantly being targeted by the thieves even greater. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Each year around 100 children are born in Britain with a condition in | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
which one or both of their ears are missing. It's called Microtia. | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
The BBC has been given exclusive access to treatment at London's | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
Great Ormond Street Hospital, where doctors create new ears, and graft | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
them onto the head. Kieran Sorkin is one young patient | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
who's benefited from the technique and our Medical correspondent, | :21:00. | :21:00. | |
Fergus Walsh, went to meet him. Kieran was born deaf, with | :21:01. | :21:09. | |
just small lobes where his ears should be. The nine-year-old has | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
already had successful surgery to implant a hearing aid, the small | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
red box on his head. Now, he wants to look like other children. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
I'm going to keep this part, but this is going to make the outside | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
bit like that big. I might have, like, big elf ears. | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
I don't want children bullying him because he looks different, so I | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
want him to be accepted like everyone else. Morning. | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Kieran's new ears are to look like his mum's. This sketch will be taken | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
into theatre. I'm going to have your ears? | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital remove cartilage from | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
six of Kieran's ribs, shape and sew them. Once inserted into pockets | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
under the skin, a key moment - using suction the skin wraps around the | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
ears and they take shape. This type of surgery is for cosmetic | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
reasons, not to improve hearing, so what difference does it make to the | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
dozens of children helped each year? There's huge psychological benefit | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
for them and I think if you can change the confidence of a patient | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
at this young age, you will change their whole trajectory in life, so I | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
think it's a very beneficial procedure and you see that when they | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
come back to follow up. There is a huge boost for them. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
Within a decade, this kind of surgery could be done using a very | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
different method. Advances in tissue engineering mean that cartilage, | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
indeed the whole framework of the ear, could be grown in the | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
laboratory. This is the future, fat cells under | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
the microscope, which will be turned into cartilage, far less | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
invasive than taking material from ribs. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Three days after surgery, and Kieran is getting used to having ears. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Woah. He will need a second small operation to complete the procedure, | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
but he's already happy with his new look. | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
A rescue operation was launched in Northern Ireland earlier after | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
dozens of sailing dinghies capsized in stormy weather. | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Almost 100 people were thrown into the water at Strangford Lough on the | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
country's east coast, where a regatta was taking place. | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries, others were | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
treated for hypothermia at the scene. | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
Footage has emerged of a child in a buggy being blown on to the tracks | :23:56. | :24:03. | |
at a London Underground station. The CCTV images released by British | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Transport Police show a strong gust of wind blowing the unattended pram | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
off the platform in July. A couple had left the pushchair at the bottom | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
of the stairs while assisting other family members. The child's mother | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
rushed on to the tracks to carry the baby and the pushchair back to | :24:22. | :24:22. | |
safety. scene. | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
Last month it was the Open. Yesterday, it was the | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
PGA Championship. Today, Rory McIlory called it a | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
'summer beyond his dreams' after picking up his second Major title of | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
the season - the fourth in his career. So is he on the way to | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
becoming one of the all-time greats? Richard Conway has this assessment. | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
The report contains flash photography. | :24:48. | :25:02. | |
McIlroy stood illuminated in glory. McIlroy took a leap to becoming a | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
sporting legend. He kept his nerve and the trophy lid! I was happy | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
being a two-time Major champion coming into this year, now I'm a | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
four-time Major champion going for the career Grand Slam at Augusta. | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
After securing the Open title three weeks' ago, golfers at McIlroy's | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
home course are getting used to the sight of him winning. This is the | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
golf course where Rory McIlroy honed his talent. There are those here who | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
say they always knew he would go on to achieve great things. Could they | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
have imagined being mentioned as perhaps one of the game's all-time | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
greats? Jack Nicklaus is considered the greatest golfer of all time. | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
Like Rory McIlroy, at the age of 25, he too had won four of golf's | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
biggest prizes. Tiger Woods has also won four Majors at 25. After a | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
marriage break-up and serious injuries, he hasn't added to his 14 | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
Majors since 2008. Europe's most decorated golfer, Nick Faldo, waited | :26:09. | :26:18. | |
11 years to win his first Major. He's the best player - and I have | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
seen them all in the last 70 years - he is the best player we have ever | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
had at this stage. A summer of silverware, proudly displayed online | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
by Rory McIlroy. Now, given his desire to secure a place in golf's | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
illustrious history, his rivals may have to get used to the sight of him | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
driving off with more Major trophies. | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
Matt has the weather. 24 hours ago, the start of the duck race in the | :26:49. | :27:01. | |
Highlands. 24 hours later, that idyllic scene turned into a torrent. | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
The same bridge, the river rising rapidly. We have seen flooding | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
across many parts of northern Scotland today. Also problems across | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
the roads. This swirl of cloud linked to the remnants of Hurricane | :27:16. | :27:24. | |
Bertha. We have more bursts of rain pushing into the far north. South of | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
that, some lively showers pushing through on the breeze. Overnight, | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
the showers will ease from eastern areas. It will be a much fresher | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
night than we have been used to of late. Temperatures into single | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
digits, so it could be on the cool side tomorrow morning for the | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
commute. Through central and eastern areas, it should be a dry and bright | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
start. More persistent rain across Scotland. For England and Wales, a | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
story of sunshine and passing showers. The heaviest of those | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
showers through the Midlands towards parts of Yorkshire. With winds | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
easing down a bit on today, here feeling a bit warmer. Generally, | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
temperatures disappointing for this stage in August. A case of spot the | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
difference for Wednesday. There are differences. A brighter day across | :28:21. | :28:29. | |
parts of Scotland. The showers will get going into Thursday, | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
particularly across Wales and the South West. A better chance of some | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
dryness as we go into Friday. That is all from the BBC News at | :28:41. | :28:45. | |
6.00pm. So goodbye from me and now we | :28:46. | :28:47. |