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