:00:00. > :00:00.War and peace - David Cameron says stay in the EU to maintain stability
:00:07. > :00:12.in Europe, the Leave campaign says Number Ten has "lost the plot".
:00:13. > :00:15.The Prime Minister argues the EU has fostered peace
:00:16. > :00:21.The Leave campaign calls it a force for instability and alienation.
:00:22. > :00:24.Britain has a fundamental national interest in maintaining common
:00:25. > :00:29.purpose in Europe, to avoid future conflict between European countries.
:00:30. > :00:33.I don't think the Prime Minister can seriously believe that leaving
:00:34. > :00:38.the EU would trigger war on the European continent.
:00:39. > :00:41.We'll be looking at the EU's record on trying to resolve conflicts
:00:42. > :00:48.The teenager murdered 32 years ago - now a man has been jailed,
:00:49. > :00:54.Seven years after it began, the long awaited Chilcot Inquiry
:00:55. > :00:58.report into the Iraq war will be published in July.
:00:59. > :01:01.New research suggests claims patients are more likely to die
:01:02. > :01:06.at weekends is based on flawed data and is untrue.
:01:07. > :01:10.And China sets its sights on footballing glory -
:01:11. > :01:14.and aims to build 50,000 football schools within ten years.
:01:15. > :01:18.And coming up in the sport on BBC News: Michel Platini will resign
:01:19. > :01:19.as Uefa president after failing to have his ban
:01:20. > :01:44.Platini says he's deeply disappointed by the decision.
:01:45. > :01:47.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.
:01:48. > :01:50.Peace in Europe could be at risk if Britain votes to leave
:01:51. > :01:54.That's the stark warning from David Cameron who claims the EU
:01:55. > :01:57.has helped maintain order and stability on the continent
:01:58. > :02:01.But Boris Johnson has hit back for the Leave campaign,
:02:02. > :02:04.arguing that coming out of the EU wouldn't be a trigger for war.
:02:05. > :02:08.And pointing out that only a few months ago the Prime Minister had
:02:09. > :02:10.suggested people should vote to leave the EU if it failed
:02:11. > :02:14.Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg has been listening
:02:15. > :02:31.Fighting over the flag. The top commanders of the rival campaigns
:02:32. > :02:34.vying to claim the mantle. Subtle it was not. The Prime Minister's
:02:35. > :02:40.backdrop was a museum which tells the story of so many battles lost
:02:41. > :02:50.and won, to give his gravest warning yet, if you vote to leave the EU, it
:02:51. > :02:52.could be a step towards future wars. The rows of white headstones in
:02:53. > :02:55.lovingly tended Commonwealth War cemeteries stand this silent
:02:56. > :03:01.testament to the price this country has paid to help restore peace and
:03:02. > :03:06.order in Europe. Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our
:03:07. > :03:10.continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk
:03:11. > :03:17.worth taking? And would never be so rash as to make that assumption. The
:03:18. > :03:21.lesson from history, he claims, whether Spitfires in the skies or
:03:22. > :03:23.soldiers in the trenches, Britain was proud alone, but Europe has been
:03:24. > :03:39.safer United. As this Prime Minister hoped, and
:03:40. > :03:44.today's leader quoted Churchill's vision. Isn't this warning at best
:03:45. > :03:47.alarmist, vision. Isn't this warning at best
:03:48. > :03:50.given that three months ago you said you would be willing to lead us out
:03:51. > :03:55.of the union? you would be willing to lead us out
:03:56. > :03:58.my mind the European Union has helped bring former
:03:59. > :04:02.together. Until now, the government was using its full force to say we
:04:03. > :04:07.together. Until now, the government would be poorer if we left the EU.
:04:08. > :04:11.The shiny diplomatic cars parked up at today's speech showed the
:04:12. > :04:19.argument over our place in the world is well and truly on. To the anger
:04:20. > :04:25.of some, the In campaign circulated a video of veterans' testimonies.
:04:26. > :04:33.But that argument was turned on its head by the Out campaign's biggest
:04:34. > :04:37.draw. I saw for myself the disaster in the Balkans when the EU was
:04:38. > :04:41.charged and mandated with sorting out the former Yugoslavia, and I saw
:04:42. > :04:47.how it was Nato and the American led alliance that had to come in and
:04:48. > :04:51.sort it out. It is now I am afraid the EU itself, and it's
:04:52. > :04:56.anti-democratic tendencies, that are now a force for instability and
:04:57. > :04:59.alienation. Do you think David Cameron is telling the truth when he
:05:00. > :05:05.is telling voters leaving the EU would risk peace and our continent?
:05:06. > :05:10.The answer is no, I did believe that leaving the EU would cause world War
:05:11. > :05:14.three to break out on the European continent. This site needs plenty of
:05:15. > :05:20.shoe leather to make their arguments, not least as Boris
:05:21. > :05:24.Johnson burst into song in German. Yes, some in German, to kill
:05:25. > :05:30.accusations they are not just backward looking little Englanders.
:05:31. > :05:34.But the past does loom over this campaign. The history of this
:05:35. > :05:38.country and the Tory party who have split time and again over Europe.
:05:39. > :05:43.This is such a big decision about our place in the world. It is not
:05:44. > :05:48.surprising that both sides want to try and take the patriotic high
:05:49. > :05:52.ground. But their conflicts are personal as well as political. This
:05:53. > :05:57.is about war and peace in the Tory party as well. As the referendum
:05:58. > :05:59.battle really starts to roar, it is hard to see how they will after call
:06:00. > :06:02.a truce. Our diplomatic correspondent
:06:03. > :06:04.James Robbins is with me here. James how successful or otherwise
:06:05. > :06:16.has the EU been in trying That is the fundamental question.
:06:17. > :06:20.The way the Prime Minister talks about the past, he is talking not
:06:21. > :06:26.just about the two world wars of the first part of the 20th century, but
:06:27. > :06:32.also a past of bloody conflict in continental Europe stretching across
:06:33. > :06:36.many centuries. Since 1945, Europe has enjoyed 70 years of almost total
:06:37. > :06:41.peace. That for many can be partly attributed to the success of
:06:42. > :06:44.European political integration through the European committee and
:06:45. > :06:49.European Union. But for others, who believe we should leave not remain
:06:50. > :06:54.in the EU, it is really the triumph of Nato, not the EU. We have heard
:06:55. > :06:58.some of that argument. Today, it is interesting that Lord Owen, a former
:06:59. > :07:03.Foreign Secretary who switched sides, said he believes we should
:07:04. > :07:07.leave. His experience from the Balkans is that the EU messed up and
:07:08. > :07:18.further, he thinks the EU is partly to blame for Lance in Russia in
:07:19. > :07:21.Ukraine, for sparing Russia into hostilities. It is a very divided
:07:22. > :07:24.argument. All we know now is that history is as much disputed about
:07:25. > :07:25.the vision of the past, as it is about the vision of the future.
:07:26. > :07:27.Thank you. A man has been jailed today
:07:28. > :07:30.for the murder of a teenager Christopher Hampton was caught
:07:31. > :07:33.after police matched DNA from the clothing of 17-year-old
:07:34. > :07:35.Melanie Road to a member of Hampton's family
:07:36. > :07:37.on the national database. From Bristol, our correspondent
:07:38. > :07:39.Jon Kay reports. It was 1984 and Melanie Road
:07:40. > :07:43.was studying for her A-levels. She had been out clubbing
:07:44. > :07:45.with her friends, but on the way home she was sexually
:07:46. > :07:50.assaulted and stabbed to death. Melanie walked back
:07:51. > :07:52.on her own at that night. It is only about half a mile
:07:53. > :07:55.from the centre of Bath Her body was discovered by a milkman
:07:56. > :08:01.the next morning, next to some garages in
:08:02. > :08:04.a quiet cul-de-sac. The police found drops
:08:05. > :08:10.of the killer's blood at the scene, and on the pavement nearby,
:08:11. > :08:13.and over the years, thousands of local men have
:08:14. > :08:16.provided DNA samples, Then last year, scientists found
:08:17. > :08:23.similarities with DNA taken from a She was the daughter of this man,
:08:24. > :08:32.Christopher Hampton from Bristol. He in turn was tested, and there was
:08:33. > :08:36.a complete match. Now 32 years later, he has
:08:37. > :08:42.admitted murdering Melanie. Melanie's mum said she can't believe
:08:43. > :08:48.Hampton could murder a girl he didn't know and hide
:08:49. > :08:52.his secret for so long. I always said if I got hold of him,
:08:53. > :08:55.I would strangle him or stick a knife into him, and that
:08:56. > :08:58.is how I felt. I wouldn't even use
:08:59. > :09:02.my energy up on him. I feel he should be shut up
:09:03. > :09:06.in a dungeon like they used to in Over the decades, 700 officers
:09:07. > :09:13.have worked on the case. They hoped science would eventually
:09:14. > :09:17.identify the killer. I have been working on this case
:09:18. > :09:21.for seven years, and I just knew it and if you ask anybody,
:09:22. > :09:24.they will tell you. Christopher Hampton
:09:25. > :09:31.was told he would serve at least Given that he is now in his 60s,
:09:32. > :09:36.the judge said Jon Kay BBC News,
:09:37. > :09:43.Bristol Crown Court. It began taking evidence
:09:44. > :09:44.seven years ago. Its final report is expected to be
:09:45. > :09:48.more than two million words long. A date has at last been announced
:09:49. > :09:51.for the long awaited report by the Chilcot Inquiry
:09:52. > :09:55.into the Iraq war - July the 6th. Let's talk to our political
:09:56. > :09:57.correspondent Vicky Young Just remind us what the inquiry has
:09:58. > :10:11.been looking into and why Well, it was set up by Gordon Brown
:10:12. > :10:16.back in 2009, to look at the decision that was made to go to war
:10:17. > :10:20.and the aftermath. Sir John Chilcot always said it was not about
:10:21. > :10:24.apportioning blame, but there is likely to be criticism, of Tony
:10:25. > :10:28.Blair, some of his ministers and of generals, the way they failed to
:10:29. > :10:33.plan for the aftermath. What would happen after Saddam Hussein was
:10:34. > :10:39.toppled? There was a huge scope to this enquiry. The panel saw 150,000
:10:40. > :10:43.government documents. One delay was caused by a row about how much of
:10:44. > :10:48.the communication between Tony Blair and President Bush should be
:10:49. > :10:53.published. The families of those killed in Iraq have been dismayed by
:10:54. > :10:55.this long delay. They will at least get advanced sight of it on July the
:10:56. > :10:58.6th. Thank you. Several of Britain's biggest
:10:59. > :11:00.construction firms - including Balfour Beatty
:11:01. > :11:02.and McAlpine - have agreed to pay out ?50 million in compensation
:11:03. > :11:04.to builders denied work because they were on a secret
:11:05. > :11:06.blacklist Over 700 construction
:11:07. > :11:09.workers involved will share payouts of between ?20,000
:11:10. > :11:12.and ?200,000 each. The GMB union claims many
:11:13. > :11:15.were blacklisted for raising Claims that hospital patients
:11:16. > :11:22.are more likely to die at weekends That's according to new research
:11:23. > :11:28.by Oxford University which says the variation in mortality rates
:11:29. > :11:31.is down to differences The so-called weekend effect has
:11:32. > :11:36.been a key factor behind the Government's push to change
:11:37. > :11:54.junior doctors' contracts Our patients going into hospital at
:11:55. > :11:59.weekends more likely to die at a certain time than those are admitted
:12:00. > :12:03.on weekdays? It has turned into a highly controversial debate, as the
:12:04. > :12:07.government calls for better NHS services on Saturdays and Sundays.
:12:08. > :12:13.We are absolutely determined to eliminate the weekend effect which
:12:14. > :12:16.these 11,000 excess deaths each year. It has become a key issue in
:12:17. > :12:20.the junior doctors dispute. Ministers argued more staff are
:12:21. > :12:24.needed at weekends to cut excess deaths. Junior doctors say they
:12:25. > :12:33.already worked on Saturdays and Sundays and challenge the idea of a
:12:34. > :12:35.weekend effect. Now one expert has questioned the data. We certainly
:12:36. > :12:40.found no evidence when we put together the high-quality studies.
:12:41. > :12:44.It really is an excellent at sample of how poor quality data badly
:12:45. > :12:50.interpreted can lead to the wrong answer. The study found some of the
:12:51. > :12:58.data behind death rates was wrong. Of stroke admissions, more than 600
:12:59. > :13:03.were actually for routine problems leave in -- leading to a false
:13:04. > :13:09.impression that weekday admissions were safer. This report did not
:13:10. > :13:13.invalidate earlier research which pointed to excess deaths among
:13:14. > :13:18.patients who go into hospital at weekends. The study last year was a
:13:19. > :13:22.large study of 50 million patients and showed a definite weekend effect
:13:23. > :13:27.of the risk of mortality if you are admitted at a weekend. In terms of
:13:28. > :13:32.NHS England's policy, we believe we have to provide consistently better
:13:33. > :13:43.care for patients at weekends. The Health Secretary was challenged on
:13:44. > :13:47.this at a parliamentary hearing today. I think, without getting into
:13:48. > :13:50.my academic study versus your academic study debate, I think
:13:51. > :13:54.actually, we can agree there is a weekend effect. This latest row over
:13:55. > :13:59.NHS services and death rates, comes at a sensitive time in the junior
:14:00. > :14:02.doctor dispute. Today, for the first time in three months, the British
:14:03. > :14:06.Medical Association and the government sat down for talks to try
:14:07. > :14:11.and resolve their differences. Whatever the outcome of the talks,
:14:12. > :14:12.the debate over weekend patient care and safety in English hospitals is
:14:13. > :14:16.far from over. David Cameron says stay
:14:17. > :14:20.in the EU to maintain The Leave campaign accuses
:14:21. > :14:25.him of desperation. And still to come -
:14:26. > :14:28.the tiny black dot that is the planet Mercury moving
:14:29. > :14:32.across the face of the Sun. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News,
:14:33. > :14:34.after two years together, Andy Murray mutually agrees to split
:14:35. > :14:38.with coach Amelie Mauresmo. Since having a baby,
:14:39. > :14:40.Mauresmo said dedicating her time and the travel involved
:14:41. > :14:53.has been a challenge. Could the world's great
:14:54. > :14:55.footballing nations - Brazil, Germany, Italy -
:14:56. > :14:59.soon be joined by China? The Chinese government
:15:00. > :15:01.certainly thinks they could, and it's come up with a massive
:15:02. > :15:05.national plan to try to make it happen,
:15:06. > :15:06.led by the president, He wants 50 million Chinese people
:15:07. > :15:12.to be playing the game by 2020. He's ordered 6,000 pitches and
:15:13. > :15:16.stadiums to be built or renovated. And he's setting up 50,000 football
:15:17. > :15:21.schools within 10 years. Our Sports Correspondent Richard
:15:22. > :15:24.Conway sent this special report from Beijing.
:15:25. > :15:40.China is changing. The rhythm of football is taking
:15:41. > :15:45.hold across the most populous nation here to have the best league
:15:46. > :15:49.and to be the best national team One familiar face has lived
:15:50. > :15:52.and worked here for three years, and insists there is no end in sight
:15:53. > :15:55.for the game's rapid growth. Recently, this season,
:15:56. > :15:57.it's gone crazy. The big foreign names,
:15:58. > :15:59.they were not really Only when they are getting
:16:00. > :16:02.older, on the way down. But now, even when they are
:16:03. > :16:04.at their peak, they are When Guangzhou Sunning took Ramires
:16:05. > :16:20.from Chelsea and Liverpool lost out on Brazilian striker
:16:21. > :16:23.Alex Teixeira earlier this year, they became the biggest spending
:16:24. > :16:25.Chinese club and the world China's leading players' agent
:16:26. > :16:36.leaves more stars will now follow. We had a saying, the only two
:16:37. > :16:39.players not coming to China in this window were
:16:40. > :16:41.Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi! Other names, it's
:16:42. > :16:45.all highly possible. It's here in Tiananmen Square that
:16:46. > :16:48.China's political power is centred. It's also been the location for some
:16:49. > :16:53.of the darker moments from its past. But resident Xi Jinping is firmly
:16:54. > :16:55.focused on China's future. He wants the country to be a global
:16:56. > :16:58.leader in football, hosting A football-supporting President has
:16:59. > :17:05.motives beyond sport, though. There is an ambition to diversify
:17:06. > :17:08.the economy and for China to exert Two hours drive east of Beijing lies
:17:09. > :17:20.the rural farming town of Pingu. It's here that the President's plan
:17:21. > :17:23.is starting to take shape. It's home to this elementary school,
:17:24. > :17:26.which lies in the shadow These six and seven-year-olds
:17:27. > :17:32.are pioneers. They attend one of China's first
:17:33. > :17:34.designated football schools and provide a first glimpse
:17:35. > :17:36.of their President's vision I just want you to practice walking
:17:37. > :17:43.around with the ball. The unlikely American forging
:17:44. > :17:46.a new path for the people's republic is Tom Bier, having achieved
:17:47. > :17:51.cult status in Japan, contributing to their football
:17:52. > :18:05.development, he's been headhunted The economy surpassed Japan, they
:18:06. > :18:11.are the number two economy. They are putting rockets into space, the
:18:12. > :18:16.country is good, but they can't be countries like Thailand in a
:18:17. > :18:19.football match. If a country knows about manufacturing success, it's
:18:20. > :18:23.China. Everything appears to be in place but it might take patients. It
:18:24. > :18:28.could be another generation before we see a World Cup victory made in
:18:29. > :18:30.China. Richard Conway, BBC News, Beijing.
:18:31. > :18:32.The owner of an Indian restaurant has gone on trial
:18:33. > :18:34.accused of the manslaughter of a customer who suffered
:18:35. > :18:38.Paul Wilson died in 2014 after eating a takeaway curry.
:18:39. > :18:41.He had told the restaurant his meal had to be free of nuts.
:18:42. > :18:43.Mohammed Zaman from York is accused of repeatedly ignoring warnings
:18:44. > :18:45.he could be putting his customers' lives at risk.
:18:46. > :18:47.He denies manslaughter by gross negligence.
:18:48. > :18:50.Danny Savage is at Teeside Crown Court.
:18:51. > :18:55.Danny, what is the prosecution trying to prove?
:18:56. > :19:06.Mohammed Zaman didn't actually serve Paul Wilson that dish on the 90
:19:07. > :19:09.died. But what he did do as owner of the restaurant was make decisions
:19:10. > :19:15.about the ingredients used in the dishes they sold. -- on the night he
:19:16. > :19:17.died. One of those dishes contained groundnut powder which contains
:19:18. > :19:21.peanuts, and that was served in dishes, even to people who told
:19:22. > :19:25.staff they had a peanut allergy. Paul Wilson, a 38-year-old assistant
:19:26. > :19:27.manager at a North Yorkshire pub and a man who knew he'd had a severe
:19:28. > :19:31.peanut allergy since he was a boy. Following an afternoon
:19:32. > :19:33.here in Easingwold, Paul Wilson came to the Indian Garden restaurant,
:19:34. > :19:36.which used to be in this building. Conscious of his nut allergy,
:19:37. > :19:38.he specifically ordered He took it back to his lodgings
:19:39. > :19:43.and ate it. Mohammed Zaman owned
:19:44. > :19:52.the Indian Garden. The jury was told to cut costs
:19:53. > :19:55.he stopped using almond powder in dishes, which is less likely
:19:56. > :19:57.to cause a reaction, and used cheaper groundnut powder
:19:58. > :20:04.containing peanuts instead. The jury was told Mr Zaman had
:20:05. > :20:07.a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk, put profit before safety
:20:08. > :20:14.and cut corners at every turn. And it's claimed he had received
:20:15. > :20:18.numerous warnings beforehand. A 17-year-old girl with the allergy
:20:19. > :20:23.had been hospitalised after being served a meal with nuts
:20:24. > :20:26.at one of his other restaurants. Trading Standards also found
:20:27. > :20:29.dangerously high levels of peanuts in a supposedly nut-free
:20:30. > :20:32.meal from here. Yet the prosecution says
:20:33. > :20:36.the defendant did absolutely nothing to change his menus or practices,
:20:37. > :20:40.therefore he is responsible Danny Savage, BBC News,
:20:41. > :20:48.Teesside Crown Court. Hundreds of passengers on a British
:20:49. > :20:50.cruise to North America have Health officials say more
:20:51. > :20:55.than 250 people on board the Balmoral have now contracted
:20:56. > :20:59.the winter vomiting bug. Those infected have been told
:21:00. > :21:01.to remain in their cabins for 48 hours, while the cruise
:21:02. > :21:06.continues as planned. A second man has been arrested
:21:07. > :21:08.in connection with the death from the Royal Gibraltar Regiment,
:21:09. > :21:17.was found injured and unconscious in He was taken to hospital,
:21:18. > :21:21.but later died. A 23-year-old man was also arrested
:21:22. > :21:24.yesterday on suspicion of murder. Now, you can hardly miss it -
:21:25. > :21:26.the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union
:21:27. > :21:29.is less than two months away, and all this week we'll be trying
:21:30. > :21:33.to explain what's at stake. Our Europe Correspondent
:21:34. > :21:36.Damian Grammaticas has our first referendum guide -
:21:37. > :21:38.about the different institutions within the EU, how they work
:21:39. > :21:42.and what they control. The EU, as it says on the tin,
:21:43. > :21:45.is a union, a club more than half So too is the United States of
:21:46. > :21:56.America. But compared to America,
:21:57. > :21:59.the EU's population is far bigger. And its combined economies
:22:00. > :22:02.rival the US. The EU is the world's
:22:03. > :22:05.biggest single market. People and goods, money
:22:06. > :22:07.and services, flowing freely. And there is the Euro,
:22:08. > :22:11.now used by 19 nations and more To make this market work,
:22:12. > :22:15.EU countries have removed some borders and pooled
:22:16. > :22:18.some decision-making. They gather regularly to take big
:22:19. > :22:27.decisions jointly, such as on the migrant crisis,
:22:28. > :22:30.and set the EU's priorities. Government ministers
:22:31. > :22:34.from each country do. They meet their counterparts every
:22:35. > :22:37.month. When they are co-ordinating economic
:22:38. > :22:39.policy, it's the Chancellor They, together with the elected
:22:40. > :22:45.European Parliament, And to keep the EU running,
:22:46. > :22:55.are 55,000 civil servants. The UK Government employs
:22:56. > :22:59.six times the number. Most of the EU's civil servants work
:23:00. > :23:02.for the Commission. It's independent of governments,
:23:03. > :23:05.draws up the laws and make sure The European Court rules on any
:23:06. > :23:10.disputes and a central bank Well, it has sole power
:23:11. > :23:17.to strike trade deals. It makes competition rules
:23:18. > :23:20.like capping mobile roaming charges, The EU shares with member states
:23:21. > :23:27.the power to act in areas like the rights of
:23:28. > :23:29.workers and consumers, protecting the environment,
:23:30. > :23:33.and its powers are growing. It oversees banks in countries that
:23:34. > :23:36.use the euro and monitors levels of national debt and deficit
:23:37. > :23:40.in all EU nations. It helps coordinate border controls,
:23:41. > :23:43.has a bill of rights for EU citizens, embassies around
:23:44. > :23:49.the world, even peacekeeping troops. So, this union is economic,
:23:50. > :23:53.but political too, growing If you want to take a second look,
:23:54. > :24:03.you can watch that again on the BBC website, and you can find out more
:24:04. > :24:06.about the EU referendum and the facts on both
:24:07. > :24:08.side of the arguments It's 60 million miles away, and it's
:24:09. > :24:16.travelling at 30 miles per second. Right now the planet Mercury
:24:17. > :24:19.is passing in front of the surface of the Sun and Britain is one
:24:20. > :24:22.of the best places in the world As our Science Editor David Shukman
:24:23. > :24:27.reports, it's kept thousands of amateur and professional
:24:28. > :24:28.astronomers enthralled Against the vast fiery
:24:29. > :24:35.backdrop of the Sun, the tiny shape of Mercury slipping
:24:36. > :24:39.through space and lined up so that we get a spectacular
:24:40. > :24:43.view of it from Earth. This only happens about 14
:24:44. > :24:47.times every century. The sight is a reminder of how
:24:48. > :24:50.the solar system works. Are you OK to line it
:24:51. > :24:53.up on the Sun as well? In London and around the world,
:24:54. > :24:56.people gathered for a glimpse of the little planet that is closest
:24:57. > :24:58.to the Sun. The Royal Astronomical Society
:24:59. > :25:03.laid on a variety of All you can see is a small black
:25:04. > :25:08.dot, but the sight of this distant Despite being a tiny dot, it has
:25:09. > :25:15.an incredible beauty of its own. The last time I saw this was back
:25:16. > :25:22.in 2003, so I'm just as excited Most people here will never have
:25:23. > :25:25.seen anything like this. The overwhelming majority
:25:26. > :25:27.of the world's population probably Those things together make it
:25:28. > :25:32.something to celebrate. A lot about Mercury
:25:33. > :25:34.is still a mystery. In this image from a Nasa
:25:35. > :25:38.spacecraft, the colours represent the highs and lows of a landscape
:25:39. > :25:41.battered by meteorites It's a planet that has
:25:42. > :25:45.long been fascinating. A couple of hundred years ago,
:25:46. > :25:48.astronomers studied planets like Mercury to measure
:25:49. > :25:50.their distance from Earth, and so try to calculate the size
:25:51. > :25:53.of the Solar System. Today is just about
:25:54. > :26:00.a very exciting sight. So, from a distance of 48 million
:26:01. > :26:03.miles, we have been able to watch this strange world racing past
:26:04. > :26:09.the turbulent surface of the Sun. A journey of seven hours
:26:10. > :26:13.is now almost over. Time for a look at the weather -
:26:14. > :26:32.here's John Hammond. Stunning picture here in the Western
:26:33. > :26:39.Highlands. The mercury has been rising across this part of the
:26:40. > :26:45.world. We hit 27 degrees earlier this afternoon. You will see the
:26:46. > :26:49.warmth but also the cloud across the south-west with thunderstorms
:26:50. > :26:53.developing through the Thames Valley and southern parts of Wales in the
:26:54. > :26:57.last few hours. Rumbling away through the evening and edging
:26:58. > :27:01.further west. Watch out if you are on the move, nasty downpours across
:27:02. > :27:04.the Midlands and Wales, and then a respite before more rain arriving
:27:05. > :27:12.from France later this evening in the south. Under the clear skies
:27:13. > :27:18.across Ireland and Scotland, it will be quite chilly. The best of the
:27:19. > :27:22.sunshine once more tomorrow, a lovely day to come in contrast to
:27:23. > :27:25.the wet weather in the south. The rain will be quite heavy with
:27:26. > :27:30.rumbles of thunder spiralling north and west as we go through the day. A
:27:31. > :27:31.day of contrast again. 24 degrees again across the Western Highlands
:27:32. > :27:35.of Scotland. again across the Western Highlands
:27:36. > :27:38.contrast it with the East Coast, where the onshore breeze in the last
:27:39. > :27:44.few days the temperatures have been pegged back. Lovely day for
:27:45. > :27:46.Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England as
:27:47. > :27:48.Scotland, Northern Ireland and in the day the rain will edge up
:27:49. > :27:51.Scotland, Northern Ireland and into South Yorkshire and Lancashire.
:27:52. > :27:54.Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wet weather for the Midlands in the
:27:55. > :27:57.afternoon, for Wales and the south-west as well. It might
:27:58. > :28:01.brighten up in the south-east but watch out for heavy showers. Some
:28:02. > :28:06.wet weather around tomorrow. The rain edging northwards by Wednesday.
:28:07. > :28:10.Grinding to a halt across northern England and Northern Ireland. Either
:28:11. > :28:15.side, some fine weather but with showers across the South. Humid air.
:28:16. > :28:18.Temperatures in the low 20s in the south, but as we end the week it
:28:19. > :28:20.looks like we will lose the warm air and it will turn more fresh from the
:28:21. > :28:24.North. David Cameron says stay in the EU
:28:25. > :28:28.to maintain stability in Europe. The Leave campaign accuses him
:28:29. > :28:38.of desperation. After the murder of a teenager 32
:28:39. > :28:39.years ago, a man has been jailed thanks to DNA breakthrough.
:28:40. > :28:44.That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me -