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She contracted ebola and survived, now the Scottish nurse | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Pauline Cafferkey has been cleared of professional misconduct. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
She'd been accused of not reporting she had a raised temperature, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
on her return to the UK from Sierra Leone in 2014. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Pauline has been motivated by a genuine desire to help other | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
people, even if this meant putting her own life at risk. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
She would never have knowingly put anyone in danger. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Now questions have been raised about screening procedures | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
described as disorganised and chaotic, when Ms Cafferkey | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
But the Nursing and Midwifery Council has been defending it's | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
decision to bring the case, we'll have the latest. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
MPs strongly attack Britain's intervention in Libya five years | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
ago, saying it was an "opportunist policy of regime change" | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
that helped the rise of so called Islamic State. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Lucky for some, it's thirteen Paralympic golds | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
in all now Dame Sarah Storey, victorious once again in Rio. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Great Britain's now won more medals than at London 2012. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
And, it'll be the most accurate guide of the night sky ever made. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
A complete map of the Milky Way, complete with one billion stars. | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News, Leicester | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
make their Champions League debut tonight, but their manager | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Claudio Ranieri says it's impossible for them to win the competiton. | :01:31. | :01:53. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
A nurse who almost died from ebola after volunteering in Sierra Leone, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Pauline Cafferkey was accused of failing to declare | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
she had a high temperature, on arrival at Heathrow Airport | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
She denied the allegation before the Nursing and Midwifery Council | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
in Edinburgh, and said in a statement she was "relieved" | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
During the hearing it was suggested airport screening of those returning | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
from ebola-hit countries was "disorganised and chaotic." | :02:23. | :02:23. | |
Our Scotland Correspondent Lorna Gordon reports from Edinburgh. | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
It's almost two years since Pauline Cafferkey Court ebola and almost | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
died from it. For much of the time since she's been fighting to recover | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
from ill health and fighting to clear her name. Today, finally, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
relief that the disciplinary process has come to an end. Pauline has been | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
motivated by a genuine desire to help other people even if this meant | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
putting her own life at risk. She would never have knowingly put | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
anybody in danger. The Pennetta see disciplinary process has been | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
upsetting for Pauline. However, she is delighted the panel has made the | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
decision she has no case to answer. It had been claimed Pauline | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Cafferkey put the public at risk when she allowed an incorrect | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
temperature to be recorded at Heathrow. The screening process | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
demonstrated here which was described in the misconduct hearing | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
as chaotic and disorganised. It was run by the very organisation, Public | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Health England, who complained about the behaviour of the Scottish nurse. | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
A woman whose judgment was impaired, say experts, because she was in the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
early stages of ebola. The body governing nursing said they had no | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
alternative after the complaint had been made. This was a highly unusual | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
set of circumstances, and it was incumbent upon us to do a proper | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
investigation and allow the panel to decide the best outcome, which is | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
what they've done today. Pauline Cafferkey was treated in isolation | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
three times for a disease sheep caught while trying to help others. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
And she has talked of the additional anguish caused by the misconduct | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
allegations. Speaking after her first hospitalisation, she described | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
how slow her recovery has been. I do get joint pains, I have done for | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
several months. And my hair fell out. You just don't know, long-term, | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
either. One-man among her former patients in Sierra Leone says he's | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
grateful for everything Pauline Cafferkey did to save her life. We | :04:38. | :04:46. | |
listened to her and her colleagues and because of that we survived. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Pauline Cafferkey has sacrificed much but with her reputation finally | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
cleared, all she wants to do now is continue helping others through | :04:58. | :04:58. | |
working as a nurse. Public Health England this evening | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
responded to comments made about their role in this process in a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
statement. They said that the ebola outbreak in West Africa was | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
unprecedented and that they were hugely grateful to all volunteers | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
who contributed at great personal risk. They said they supported the | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
judgment that the panel he made today and that they wish Pauline | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Cafferkey well with her ongoing recovery and her future. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
A committee of MPs has strongly criticised Britain's military | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
intervention in Libya in 2011, accusing David Cameron of pursuing | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
an "opportunist policy of regime change," in removing Colonel | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
The Foreign Affairs Select Committee said the intervention, | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
and the lack of a coherent strategy, left Libya in chaos | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
and gave a foothold to so-called Islamic State. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
But ministers and officials involved in the decision have | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
defended the intervention, as James Landale reports. | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
Libya is an unstable country. A place where militias compete for | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
power. Where the Islamic State group has a foothold. Where migrants pour | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
across unprotected borders en route for the sea. It is a chaotic picture | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
which, MPs say, is the result of David Cameron Rose decision five | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
years ago to sending warplanes to support rebels fighting against | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
Colonel Gaddafi. We were not prepared for the consequences of a | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
regime change in Libya. And all the analysis being done here was based | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
on a frankly limited understanding of what the situation in Libya was. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
The aim of the intervention was to protect people living here in | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Benghazi who were threatened by Gaddafi's forces. The foreigners can | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
fit -- the Foreign Affairs Committee says the case was overstated. As | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
fighting continued over the summer, the aim of the operation changed | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
from protect King civilians to getting rid of Gaddafi. The conflict | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
he said this was an opportunist policy of regime change. In | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
particular MPs say more should have been done to use Tony Blair's | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
contacts to see if a political deal was possible which could have left | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Gaddafi in power. Is it better to allow a dictator who may be | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
appropriate to the country and to the times in which we are living to | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
remain in power to ensure stability rather than risk the chaos of an | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
unstable country such as Libya? In September 2011 after the Gaddafi | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
regime had fallen, Mr Cameron and the then French president visited | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
Libya and told the people they had shown the courage of Lions. Your | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
friends in Britain and in France will stand with you as you build | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
your democracy and build your country for the future. And yet the | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Foreign Affairs Committee says that this did not happen and David | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
coherent Libya strategy. Diplomats and ministers involved in the | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
decision to intervene said it was backed by MPs and the United | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
Nations. And was responding to a real fight. It wasn't clear that | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
leaving Gaddafi in place would have ensured a better outcome. In Iraq we | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
went in with major forces, it did not turn out well. In Syria we chose | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
not to get involved, that also catastrophic. In Libya we went in in | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
a targeted weight in support. The situation is bad but I wouldn't rule | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
out that in five years the various parties will have got together and | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
began to build something. The situation on the ground makes such | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
optimism Roef. In Libya politics still comes second to violence. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
The President of the European Commission says the EU | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
is in crisis, but not at risk, as a result of Brexit. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
In his State of the Union speech, Jean Claude Juncker, | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
warned of the dangers of what he called "galloping | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
populism" in Europe, and condemned attacks on migrants | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
in the UK, in the wake of the vote to leave the EU. | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Here's our Europe Editor, Katya Adler. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
Is this the man who can save the EU? His annual State of the union speech | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
is designed to be visionary, full of goals and ideals. But this year the | :09:17. | :09:25. | |
main EU a is survival. TRANSLATION: All too often we see splits and | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
disagreement instead of European union, leaving the door open for | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
galloping populism. He said the EU was, to a degree, in a stench of | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
crisis. The EU is crawling with crises. Think migration, Eurozone | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
wobbles and cross-border terror. The UK's vote to leave is probably the | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
biggest body blow yet. But Brexit was given little mention today by Mr | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
Jonker. His intended message, we'll be fine without you. The European | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
Parliament's Brexit negotiator put this point even more forcefully. | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Stop the politics of division and choose this opportunity not to kill | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
Europe as some of you want, but to reinvent Europe's. When the EU and | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
UK do thrash out their new relationship, Mr Juncker insisted | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
European principles were not up for negotiation. The UK would not get | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
good access to the European single market, he said, if it imposed entry | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
limits on EU workers. Q Nigel Farage. The two men are famous here | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
for their testy relationship. If you stick to the dogma of saying that | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
for tariff free access, reciprocal tariff free access to the single | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
market, we must retain the free movement of people, then you will | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
inevitably drive us towards no Deal. Jean-Claude Juncker's state of the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
union speech today was supposed to mark new, invigorated EU beginnings | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
following Britain's vote to leave. Instead it highlighted the EU's | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
biggest headaches. No start date and a lack of clarity surrounding Brexit | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
on the one hand, and on the other a real fear inside the EU Parliament | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
that voters out there across Europe no longer trust or believe in the | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
EU. But perhaps that's also part of a bigger process. The problem is the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
trust of ordinary citizens. How do you change that? Ordinary citizens | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
working hard and playing by the rules don't feel respected. Not only | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
by the European Union. This is a worldwide phenomenon on. Look to the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
election campaign in the United States. Bustles bureaucrats, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
bankers, politicians from traditional parties, growing numbers | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
distrust what they see as a self-serving elite. EU needs reform | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
to appear relevant but there is little agreement in these corridors | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
as to how. The latest unemployment figures, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
which include the first month after the Brexit vote, | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
show a continuing improvement The number of people | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
unemployed in the three months to July was down by | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
39,000 to 1.63 million. That's an unemployment rate of 4.9%, | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
more than half a percentage point With me now is our Economics | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Editor, Kamal Ahmed. Kamal, more data which seems to show | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
that post Brexit the I think a lot of people who | :12:30. | :12:39. | |
predicted an economic calamity after the vote to leave the European Union | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
have had to revise those forecasts. As you say, employment figures today | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
show that there is still some pretty good momentum in the UK economy. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Why? There's a pretty simple fact here. Nothing has actually changed | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
yet. We are still members of the European Union. Brexit hasn't | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
happened. We are members of the single market. With a weaker | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
currency, which means our exports are more competitive, which has | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
meant an economic boost. Secondly, the Bank of England has cut interest | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
rates which many economists did not model for before the referendum. So | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
that is good for the UK economy and confidence. I would urge some | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
caution. The data post-referendum is still sparse, these employment | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
figures only have five weeks post-June one, and there is evidence | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
of inflationary pressure is growing in the economy which could mean | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
higher prices for consumers, because we are paying more for food and fuel | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
that we import. We are waiting to see the direction of travel from the | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
government over tax and spending, will they back the Hinkley power | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
station? A new runway? Once we see that, investors will decide whether | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
to invest in the UK and keep those employment numbers as strong as we | :13:57. | :13:57. | |
have seen today. Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
who almost died of Ebola, has been cleared of | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
professional misconduct. the difficulties facing | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
young people leaving care. Cyclist Dame Sarah Storey has | :14:06. | :14:32. | |
won her 13th Paralympic gold as Great Britain passed | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
the total haul of gold medals There's also been success elsewhere | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
on the track and in the pool. So with four days left, | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Great Britain has 38 golds, beating the 34 in London 2012 - | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
remembering though that Russia For all of the day's | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
action, here's Andy Swiss. It was a day when Britain raced past | :14:51. | :15:04. | |
yet another milestone. On the streets of Rio, Dame Sarah Storey | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
winning the team's 35th gold medal here, more than they won at the | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
whole of London 2012. Having reached that landmark, they roared on | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
through. Kadeena Cox hurtled into history in the 400 metres. Cox, who | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
has multiple sclerosis, had already won a gold in cycling. Now she is | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
the first Briton to win two titles in two sports at the same games for | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
more than 30 years. There was still more to come for a. Karen Darke took | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
gold in the hands cycling, despite her chain falling off. Sophie Wells | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
conjured a title winning performance in the dressage. But the entire | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
team, having beaten the London tally, this was a day to celebrate. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Nobody was more disappointed than the athletes with only winning 34 | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
medals in London. We thought it was an underperformance. Our athletes | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
have performed fantastically in Rio. 50% of medals have been gold. It has | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
been sensational. Another golden night had set the tone, not least | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
for a Libby Clegg, the sprinter who is visually impaired, running her | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
second title with guide runner Chris Clarke in the 200 metres. The pair | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
only training together six months ago. On and off the track, theirs is | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
a special chemistry. He is a bit of a joke as well. The first guiding | :16:33. | :16:42. | |
session we did, we just ran pretty much in sync. You Pretty much | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
happened ready. In the pool, that same spirit of success. Stephanie | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
Millward with a kiss for her mum as, at 34, she finally ended her long | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
wait for a Paralympic title. And in the splash and dash of the 50 metres | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
freestyle, Matt Wylie had the touch. Another victory, and other gold, | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
another moment for the family album. Yes, it has been another great day | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
for the British team. Their target now is to beat their overall medal | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
tally from London 2012. They won 120 medals in London. They have got 80 | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
year. With four days remaining, they will be full of confidence. Andy | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Swiss on the continuing success for Great Britain in Rio. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
The United Nations says it still hasn't been able | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
to deliver vital humanitarian aid to besieged areas of Syria, | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
Later today, America and Russia, will deliver their assessment | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
of the first 48 hours of the truce, and announce | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
The northern city of Aleppo has been at the centre of fierce fighting, | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
between government troops who hold the west, and rebels controlling | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been affected | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
is in Aleppo, and sent us this report from the suburb of Bedi Zaid. | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Now this place is Bedi Zaid, to the west of Aleppo. | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
And it has been absolutely pulverised. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
I suspect a lot of this must have been | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
Now rebels, the Army is telling me, held this place until July of this | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
year. And then, in what was a huge display of firepower, they were | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
From the government's point of view, this was an important moment, | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
because from this area, rebels were able to fire down into | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
You can only guess what happened to people | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
who originally lived in these houses. | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
The remains of the school over there. | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
I suppose they've swelled the numbers who have lost their | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
Half the pre-war population of Syria is either refugees | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
outside the country, or displaced within it. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Now the Middle East is in the process of | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
It is the result of a century of misrule, disastrous foreign | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
interventions, stagnation and repression, and this war is part of | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
all of that. No wonder it is so hard to stop. | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
And you can see Jeremy's full report from the city | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
Thousands of young people in England are being set up to fail, | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
because councils aren't preparing them for life after care. | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
That's the stark warning from the Children's Society, which says | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
many vulnerable teenagers end up suffering debt and homelessness | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
once they leave care system at the age of 18. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Between 2013 and 2015, more than 3,000 care leavers, | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
had their benefits stopped or reduced. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
They're also three times more likely to lose benefits or have them | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
on the difficulties facing so many young people. | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
Leaving home and stepping out into the world today can be tough | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
But for teenagers who have been in care, it can trigger a | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
I've been homeless basically since I left care. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
You have to fend for yourself, basically, and it's really hard. | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
For people like Michael, a child of the care system, a young | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
man already with a history of homelessness, addiction and prison. | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
I just felt like that was me, brush him out of the way - | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
it's OK, it's only Michael. Do you know what I'm saying, like? | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
I don't really have friends. I'm always on my own. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
The Lifeshare charity are doing all they can | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
Young people who leave care are supposed to get council support. | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
But here they know that that system is struggling. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
Young people can get very frustrated because they're | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
ringing up to speak to the care workers, but unfortunately a care | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
worker might have 35 other young people on their books, so hasn't got | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
that time to give perhaps that emotional support the young person | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
# Being in care is like the dumping ground... | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
Callum has been out of care for two years. | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
# I started off as zero, but look at me now... | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Now he's got his music, his girlfriend and his daughter. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
The Children's Society says care leavers are three times | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
more likely to have their benefits stopped or sanctioned than other | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
people of the same age. Callum was one of them. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
When my girlfriend were pregnant, we got sanctioned. | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
Some nights I would literally sit there and make sure | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
that she had a meal, even if I didn't eat, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
because I know she needed it more than me because she was not | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
only feeding herself, she was feeding my daughter. | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
Parents these days know that kids need support well after | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
But for those coming out of care, there is no more mum | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
or dad to help with those basic life skills. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Like using the washing machine, preparing a meal or | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
The local authorities need to be doing more to | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
support them when they do leave care, when they do turn 18. | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
Councils acknowledge there is a problem. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Councils have a difficult job in this area. | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
It's made a lot harder by the enormous scale of | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
government funding cuts to councils, which are really stretching many | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
What I hope for the future is that I can better myself and just move | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
The government says it wants to help, and that | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
new reforms means that those who have left care will now | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
Now, it will be one of the most extraordinary maps ever made. | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
The most accurate guide of the night sky, charting the whereabouts | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
and brightness of more than a billion stars in our galaxy. | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
The Gaia space telescope has been scanning the heavens for three years | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
and all the data has been put together by the European space | :23:47. | :23:47. | |
agency. I you were flying through it in a | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
spacecraft, this is This is a three-dimensional map | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
of stars created from real data, just released by the | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
European Space Agency. The release is the first step | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
towards a complete revolution in our knowledge of the structure, the | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
origin, the evolution and what the I'm in the library of the Royal | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
astronomical Society. It's full of books about where | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
the stars in the galaxy are. But new results from the Gaia space | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
telescope will mean that many of them will have to be rewritten. | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
We show you why. It is one of eight planets that make | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
up the solar system. With our stars, | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
the sun and its centre. But the sun is just one of billions | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
of stars in our galaxy called the Milky Way, | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
which the textbooks Astronomers think that we are here, | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
on one of the spiral arms. But all of this is | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
based on guesswork and the observation of just | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
a few hundred stars. But over the past three years, | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
Gaia has been scanning the skies and mapped | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
the position of more So very soon we will | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
have a more accurate picture of what the Milky Way | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
is really like and where we are. This may well be completely | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
different to The telescope has collected so much | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
data that the European Space Agency has invited schools all | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
across the world to help them, by sifting through the information | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
and letting them know if they discover | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
anything interesting. They have discovered a star that has | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
exploded at the end of its life. We discovered that | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
the supernova, which is in the data that we have been | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
looking at from stars, and what we You don't discover | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
a supernova everyday? It's different because you don't see | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
these kind of things every day. It feels really proudto think that | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
I discovered a supernova Astronomers also hope | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
to discover a completely new object in our galaxy that are | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
currently beyond our imagination. Time for a look at the weather. | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Here's John Hammond Normal service will resume, the | :26:15. | :26:30. | |
weekend but it has been another bizarre mid-September day, a day | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
full of contrast. East Anglia had the highest temperatures. 31 | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
degrees. Mind you, running up the east coast it was a different story. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Temperatures knocked on the head under the cloud cover. 13 degrees in | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
eastern Scotland with leaden skies for much of the day. This was a | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
typical scene on the east coast of Scotland. Showery rain in the far | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
north-west of Scotland. The odd sharp shower across the heart of the | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Midlands. We could see a thunderstorm in Wales. Most of us | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
will be dry overnight. Cloud creeping inland. You could wake up | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
to low cloud and missed first thing in the morning. A steamy night in | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
the large towns and cities across southern Britain. One more day of | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
heat. Particularly when you make up -- wake up to sunshine. A murky | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
start further north. Inland, the sun will come through and the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
temperatures will rocket into the 20s. Possibly the low 30s across the | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
south-east. Thunderstorms erupting. The potential for some nasty storms | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
initially across southern England, through parts of the Midlands, | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
Wales, northern England and eastern Scotland. It could be a very wet | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
start to the day in eastern part of the UK on Friday. Fresher conditions | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
coming off the Atlantic. Temperatures in some places down by | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
10 degrees on Friday. Some sunshine at West. That gradually eases away. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
A ridge of high pressure building in on Saturday. The start of the | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
weekend looks pretty good with some sunshine. Temperatures are a lot | :28:10. | :28:10. | |
lower than they have been. And on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:16. | :28:18. |