:00:00. > :00:00.The Syrian city of Aleppo endures some of the most intense bombing
:00:07. > :00:12.It came hours after the Syrian government announced a fresh
:00:13. > :00:17.offensive against rebel-held areas of the city.
:00:18. > :00:19.TRANSLATION: Syrian and Russian warplanes carried out more than 150
:00:20. > :00:25.air strikes on Aleppo last night, causing so much destruction.
:00:26. > :00:28.We'll have the latest from the United Nations in New York.
:00:29. > :00:32.The death of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling in
:00:33. > :00:37.India eight years ago - two men are cleared of rape and murder.
:00:38. > :00:40.More than eight million British users of Yahoo had their data stolen
:00:41. > :00:46.in a cyber attack two years ago that's only just been made public.
:00:47. > :00:50.But more than four in ten children in England didn't last year.
:00:51. > :00:56.That's more than five million who failed to see an NHS dentist.
:00:57. > :01:03.And why the cheetah is running from illegal wildlife traffickers.
:01:04. > :01:05.Coming up in Sportsday at 6:30pm on BBC News,
:01:06. > :01:07.we'll look ahead to a busy weeked in the Premier League,
:01:08. > :01:11.as Jose Mourinho's Manchester United prepares to host the champions,
:01:12. > :01:37.The city of Aleppo in Syria has come under heavy air
:01:38. > :01:39.attack for a second day, after the Syrian government
:01:40. > :01:41.announced a new offensive to retake areas controlled by rebels.
:01:42. > :01:46.A 250,000 people have been living under siege there.
:01:47. > :01:50.They've been told they can leave at a number of checkpoints,
:01:51. > :01:52.but have been warned to stay away from so-called "terrorist
:01:53. > :01:57.Human rights activists say that overnight at least 30 people died.
:01:58. > :02:20.They have grown used to destruction in Aleppo but never on this scale.
:02:21. > :02:26.This man says a woman was killed here where three houses once stood.
:02:27. > :02:30.In the ruins of the Syrian ceasefire, Eastern Aleppo is being
:02:31. > :02:35.flattened. Here, they say they have never heard a loud explosion. And
:02:36. > :02:41.when the dust settles, and with one eye on the skies overhead, they
:02:42. > :02:47.search for bodies. Here in the dirt, in the doorway of a house, they have
:02:48. > :02:53.spotted the head of a baby boy. The rescue workers have to move quickly
:02:54. > :02:58.before another air strike. Gently, they take away the stone and the
:02:59. > :03:09.dust, and they have him, and he is alive. The hospitals here are being
:03:10. > :03:16.overwhelmed again. They have lost six medical staff over the past two
:03:17. > :03:21.days of bombing. There have been nearly 250 air strikes in the past
:03:22. > :03:26.24-hour is, and in Aleppo it is not just civilians being targeted, but
:03:27. > :03:31.their rescuers, too. Above, the sound of aircraft that have just
:03:32. > :03:36.bombed the neighbourhood. This is a base for the civil defence force,
:03:37. > :03:43.the White helmets. Three of their rescue centres were bombed.
:03:44. > :03:47.TRANSLATION: There have been more than 25 raids since this morning.
:03:48. > :03:50.Civil defence teams were helping rescue people from under the rubble
:03:51. > :03:55.and firefighters were here. Four vehicles were damaged and a fire in
:03:56. > :04:00.June destroyed. We also lost an ambulance. The bombing has been
:04:01. > :04:04.relentless. The Syrian regime and its allies are now preparing for a
:04:05. > :04:07.ground offensive. TRANSLATION: This morning we heard
:04:08. > :04:14.an earthquake and went out and sorry huge hole in the ground. We thought,
:04:15. > :04:19.my God, what is this, what are we to him? Why does Assad hit us like
:04:20. > :04:24.this? May God have revenge on him, that oppressor. Dozens have been
:04:25. > :04:27.killed in the past 48 hours. We can't say how many. They are still
:04:28. > :04:33.looking for the dead and missing. The ceasefire did not achieve peace,
:04:34. > :04:36.but may just have given Russia and regime forces time to regroup and
:04:37. > :04:38.prepare for one final push on Aleppo.
:04:39. > :04:40.Let's go to James Robbins in New York, where talks
:04:41. > :04:45.between the US and Russia have been taking place.
:04:46. > :04:54.James, these talks have been going on for a week but can there be any
:04:55. > :05:00.hope of success? No, I don't think so. Each evening, the prospect for a
:05:01. > :05:06.negotiated end to this war has faded slightly further. And the new
:05:07. > :05:10.development this evening is that the Syrian government side have said
:05:11. > :05:15.they will not even go to Geneva next month for international talks which
:05:16. > :05:19.the UN's envoy on Syria was hoping to convene. Without the Syrian
:05:20. > :05:25.government there, there can be no talks, however fruitless talks may
:05:26. > :05:28.have been in the past. It is looking very dark. Last night here in New
:05:29. > :05:33.York there was another bust up between the United States and
:05:34. > :05:35.Russia, what was to scribe is a long and disappointing meeting that
:05:36. > :05:40.dragged on for more than two and a half hours. The two sides are not
:05:41. > :05:46.even meeting today, the United States and Russia. If they can't get
:05:47. > :05:48.together, there seems very little prospect of reopening negotiations.
:05:49. > :05:50.Thank you, James Robbins. Two men have been cleared of raping
:05:51. > :05:53.and killing a British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling, who
:05:54. > :05:56.was 15, was found dead She'd been at a beach party,
:05:57. > :06:01.while the rest of her family Her mother, Fiona McKeown,
:06:02. > :06:04.said she was devastated by today's Our correspondent Justin Rowlatt
:06:05. > :06:14.reports from Goa. This report contains flash
:06:15. > :06:18.photography. There was chaos as Scarlett
:06:19. > :06:20.Keeling's mother left It had taken the judge seconds
:06:21. > :06:27.to end her almost decade-long Her 15-year-old daughter was found
:06:28. > :06:38.dead on a Goa beach in 2008. Her mother has always been
:06:39. > :06:49.convinced it was murder. What does it tell you about
:06:50. > :06:51.the police investigation that two days later you could
:06:52. > :06:53.find crucial evidence There wasn't an
:06:54. > :06:59.investigation at all. She forced the authorities
:07:00. > :07:02.to perform a second autopsy which confirmed Scarlett had been
:07:03. > :07:06.attacked before she died, and that she'd taken
:07:07. > :07:12.a cocktail of drugs. Today, the two men accused
:07:13. > :07:14.of grievous sexual assault and causing Scarlett's death left
:07:15. > :07:19.the court as free men. One, Samson D'Souza,
:07:20. > :07:22.said he'd always been Fiona MacKeown believes one reason
:07:23. > :07:34.the case failed was that at the last moment a key witness decided not
:07:35. > :07:40.to give evidence. Michael Mannion, a British man,
:07:41. > :07:43.has repeatedly spoken about how he saw Samson D'Souza
:07:44. > :07:48.attacking Scarlett. I saw this character
:07:49. > :07:51.drive off on his scooter. In the light of the front beam
:07:52. > :07:54.of his scooter, I saw He lives less than
:07:55. > :08:03.an hour from London. All he had to do was turn up
:08:04. > :08:07.at the Indian embassy Fiona says she will always regret
:08:08. > :08:12.letting her 15-year-old daughter But at the end of the day,
:08:13. > :08:21.I didn't murder her. The responsibility to sort that out
:08:22. > :08:24.lies with the authorities here, and they've let me down
:08:25. > :08:27.and Scarlett down as well. She says all she wants now is to be
:08:28. > :08:30.back at home in Devon Justin Rowlatt, BBC News,
:08:31. > :08:40.Goa. Here, the Information Commissioner
:08:41. > :08:42.says some 8 million people in the UK have had their personal
:08:43. > :08:45.information compromised by the hacking attack
:08:46. > :08:49.on the internet giant Yahoo. Today the US company has been under
:08:50. > :08:51.pressure to explain how data from half a billion customers
:08:52. > :08:55.worldwide had been stolen. Yahoo has described the attack,
:08:56. > :08:57.which happened two years We're getting used to hacking
:08:58. > :09:08.attacks on big internet names Now one of the oldest brands
:09:09. > :09:12.of all has suffered the biggest data breach in history with the details
:09:13. > :09:17.of 500 million accounts stolen. Yahoo says the attack which took
:09:18. > :09:20.place in 2014 was probably the work of what it called
:09:21. > :09:23.state-sponsored actors. The UK's data regulator
:09:24. > :09:25.says 8 million people There is an expectation
:09:26. > :09:31.from all the data protection authorities that big organisations
:09:32. > :09:34.like Yahoo have the appropriate security measures in place and stay
:09:35. > :09:40.one step ahead of the hackers. While any password data stolen
:09:41. > :09:43.was encrypted and should be secure, Yahoo users are still advised
:09:44. > :09:47.to take action. First and foremost get into Yahoo,
:09:48. > :09:49.if you are a customer, make sure you have changed your
:09:50. > :09:52.password, make sure you unable Using your mobile device receiving
:09:53. > :09:59.an SMS to help you log in. Also if you reused the password
:10:00. > :10:01.anywhere else you have to change Password reuse is a tried and tested
:10:02. > :10:06.attack vector for criminals. Yahoo may be an ailing giant,
:10:07. > :10:09.but hundreds of millions have used it to catch up on news,
:10:10. > :10:12.business, weather or sport Some BT and Sky customers
:10:13. > :10:22.still get their mail from Yahoo. It also owns the photo
:10:23. > :10:24.sharing service Flickr In July the firm agreed to sell up
:10:25. > :10:32.to communications giant Verizon but that deal
:10:33. > :10:34.still hasn't been completed. Yahoo's Marissa Meyer is one
:10:35. > :10:39.of the best paid bosses in She now now face some difficult
:10:40. > :10:45.questions from Verizon. I think the very first question that
:10:46. > :10:48.Verizon is going to be asking, just like many of the users
:10:49. > :10:51.who were affected is for how long How long it took
:10:52. > :10:55.for them to respond. And how long it took for them
:10:56. > :10:58.to communicate to affected users. And then in addition to that,
:10:59. > :11:01.what they are going to do to prevent this happening again in the future
:11:02. > :11:04.because hackers will most Yahoo has struggled to survive
:11:05. > :11:08.in the era of the mobile Internet. Now its reputation as a competent
:11:09. > :11:12.and secure company has suffered serious damage from this
:11:13. > :11:16.unprecedented data breach. The Treasury Minister, Lord O'Neill,
:11:17. > :11:22.has left the Government. It's the first ministerial
:11:23. > :11:24.resignation for Theresa May. He was appointed to George Osborne's
:11:25. > :11:27.team last year with responsibility Lord O'Neill, a former chief
:11:28. > :11:33.economist at Goldman Sachs, will now now sit as a cross bencher
:11:34. > :11:40.in the Lords. A former taxi driver from Swindon
:11:41. > :11:43.will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing Becky Godden
:11:44. > :11:45.13 years ago. 52-year-old Christopher Halliwell
:11:46. > :11:47.is already serving life for the murder of
:11:48. > :11:51.another woman in 2011. The judge called Halliwell
:11:52. > :11:53."self-centred and calculating". Police say they believe
:11:54. > :11:57.there were other victims. Jon Kay reports from Bristol Crown
:11:58. > :12:01.Court. Dangerous and devious,
:12:02. > :12:03.the judge's description He stabbed Sian O'Callaghan
:12:04. > :12:09.to death five years ago, now he's finally been jailed
:12:10. > :12:12.for strangling Becky Godden Halliwell was already serving
:12:13. > :12:18.a minimum sentence of 25 years. Today that's been increased
:12:19. > :12:22.to a whole-life term which means The 52-year-old said thank
:12:23. > :12:28.you to the judge as he was led away. Callous, cold, calculating,
:12:29. > :12:32.pathological liar. The senior officer on the case
:12:33. > :12:35.told me he'd received several He believes there must be more
:12:36. > :12:41.victims out there. He was a ground worker,
:12:42. > :12:46.he was a chauffeur, he did airport runs,
:12:47. > :12:49.he could have committed offences Karen Edwards told the judge that
:12:50. > :12:53.losing her daughter had Becky was a sex worker and addicted
:12:54. > :13:00.to heroin when she was murdered. Her dad said he was still angry
:13:01. > :13:03.about what he called John Godden claims that
:13:04. > :13:09.if guidelines had been followed when Halliwell was arrested,
:13:10. > :13:12.Becky's case could have come She didn't deserve to get murdered,
:13:13. > :13:16.and she deserved justice six The Wiltshire Police
:13:17. > :13:23.are massively at fault. Former detective Steve Fulcher
:13:24. > :13:25.was found guilty of gross misconduct over Halliwell's arrest and later
:13:26. > :13:28.resigned, but today the judge said he believed the detective had
:13:29. > :13:34.acted in good faith. Whole-life prison terms are reserved
:13:35. > :13:37.for the most dangerous offenders. As Honeywell leaves here,
:13:38. > :13:41.police are beginning to investigate new claims against him
:13:42. > :13:46.and are reviewing unsolved crimes. heavy bombing hits
:13:47. > :13:57.the Syrian city of Aleppo after Syria's government
:13:58. > :14:03.announced a new offensive. Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News
:14:04. > :14:06.in the next 15 minutes, Manchester City are on a high - the
:14:07. > :14:11.men are top of the Premier League, the women can win the title
:14:12. > :14:37.for the first time this weekend. The illegal trade in animals
:14:38. > :14:39.poses the most immediate threat to some of our most popular
:14:40. > :14:42.wildlife species, according to the head
:14:43. > :14:45.of the Cites Convention. This international group
:14:46. > :14:47.comes together every three years to try to save endangered species,
:14:48. > :14:51.including elephants killed for their tusks,
:14:52. > :14:53.rhinos slaughtered for their horns, and baby cheetahs seized
:14:54. > :14:58.from the wild to be used as pets. Our science editor,
:14:59. > :15:01.David Shukman, reports. Thin, dehydrated
:15:02. > :15:03.and dangerously ill, these baby cheetahs
:15:04. > :15:06.have just been rescued. They were being shipped
:15:07. > :15:08.in terrible conditions This is a glimpse into
:15:09. > :15:14.a shocking and illegal trade. are sold in the rich states
:15:15. > :15:19.of the Gulf. Their owners boast about them
:15:20. > :15:24.on social media, but the cubs usually die
:15:25. > :15:26.within two years, and that's after the catastrophic
:15:27. > :15:30.losses on the journey there. They're probably just thrown
:15:31. > :15:32.into a crate, living in their own faeces,
:15:33. > :15:36.travelled for days without proper food and end up,
:15:37. > :15:43.many of them, dead on arrival. Cheetahs are the world's fastest
:15:44. > :15:47.land animals, but the cubs are easy targets for poachers,
:15:48. > :15:49.so the numbers are collapsing - To get a sense of
:15:50. > :15:58.how many animals are at risk, we've created
:15:59. > :16:01.this virtual data bank. Each species in trouble has its own
:16:02. > :16:04.file, and the numbers are shocking. Look at this, more than 12,000
:16:05. > :16:09.different kinds of animal Either their habitats
:16:10. > :16:14.are being destroyed, or they're wanted as pets or for
:16:15. > :16:17.some imaginary medicinal reason. So let's look at a few examples,
:16:18. > :16:20.such as the big cats. The cheetahs we've been
:16:21. > :16:21.hearing about, back in 1900, there were
:16:22. > :16:24.an estimated 100,000 of them. Now the total is just under 7000.
:16:25. > :16:26.But what about tigers? Well, a century ago,
:16:27. > :16:29.there were about 100,000. in 1950, it's thought
:16:30. > :16:38.there were about 400,000. Well, in 1975, the Cites Convention
:16:39. > :16:46.was set up, an international agreement to clamp down
:16:47. > :16:50.on the trade in endangered species. It has progressively tightened
:16:51. > :16:54.controls on exports and imports, but the underground trade may be
:16:55. > :17:01.worth up to ?15 billion a year. Ultimately, all this comes down
:17:02. > :17:05.to whether national governments will act when so many thousands
:17:06. > :17:10.of animals are in danger. So I asked the head
:17:11. > :17:13.of the Cites Convention if it was failing to tackle
:17:14. > :17:17.the illegal wildlife trade. You are dealing with
:17:18. > :17:19.transnational organised crime. At international level, it means
:17:20. > :17:23.you start talking to Interpol, the UN Office of Drugs and Crime,
:17:24. > :17:27.World Customs Organisation, and that is exactly
:17:28. > :17:29.what we have been doing, and so we're talking about
:17:30. > :17:32.how we're going to scale that up. But a single cheetah
:17:33. > :17:36.can fetch $10,000. A major conference over the next
:17:37. > :17:38.fortnight will try to tighten up the rules
:17:39. > :17:41.for all endangered species, but at a time
:17:42. > :17:43.when demand remains high. A brief look at some of
:17:44. > :17:51.the day's other other news stories. Terry Jones, one of the founding
:17:52. > :17:55.members of Monty Python, has been diagnosed
:17:56. > :17:56.with a form of dementia. He helped to create the group's
:17:57. > :17:59.Flying Circus TV series and directed their films Life
:18:00. > :18:02.Of Brian and The Meaning Of Life. the 74-year-old's ability
:18:03. > :18:08.to communicate has been affected. A speeding driver who was being
:18:09. > :18:10.chased by the police has pleaded guilty to causing the death
:18:11. > :18:14.of a woman in Glasgow last year. Marie Laurie was on her way home
:18:15. > :18:17.from her son's wedding when the taxi she was in was hit by
:18:18. > :18:21.a car being driven by Steven Bennie. Amazon UK, the online
:18:22. > :18:25.shopping company, has been fined ?65,000
:18:26. > :18:28.at Southwark Crown Court after being found guilty of trying
:18:29. > :18:32.to ship dangerous goods by air. Amazon said the items,
:18:33. > :18:35.which included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols,
:18:36. > :18:40.were sent by mistake. When was the last time
:18:41. > :18:42.you saw a dentist? New figures show that almost
:18:43. > :18:45.half of all adults in England have not seen an NHS dentist
:18:46. > :18:48.in the last two years. Well, our correspondent
:18:49. > :18:49.Judith Moritz is at a dentist's
:18:50. > :18:55.in Great Manchester. look at the number of people
:18:56. > :19:03.who have been to see an NHS dentist. Organisations including
:19:04. > :19:06.the British Dental Association have done the maths
:19:07. > :19:08.and have calculated the number of people
:19:09. > :19:12.who haven't had NHS checkups. These figures don't
:19:13. > :19:13.cover the numbers So nearly half of adults in England
:19:14. > :19:22.did not visit an NHS dental practice
:19:23. > :19:25.during the last two years. Children are advised
:19:26. > :19:29.to go to see the dentist more frequently than adults,
:19:30. > :19:32.and it's been revealed that in the last year four out of ten
:19:33. > :19:37.children haven't had NHS checkups. That equates to nearly
:19:38. > :19:44.five million children. going to hospital to have teeth
:19:45. > :19:49.extracted has also been going up. Four million tooth extractions
:19:50. > :19:52.were carried out by NHS dentists in the last year, of which just
:19:53. > :19:56.under a million were on children. The Royal College of Surgeons
:19:57. > :20:02.has called the statistic alarming, saying that average five-year-olds
:20:03. > :20:07.are eating their own weight in sugar each year, and adding that
:20:08. > :20:11.tooth decay is the most common reason why children aged 5-9 years
:20:12. > :20:14.old are admitted to hospital. The British Dental Association
:20:15. > :20:30.has described the figures Public Health England says it wants
:20:31. > :20:34.to renew its advice to parents to take children to the dentist's
:20:35. > :20:38.frequently, to reduce their intake of sugary drinks, and make sure they
:20:39. > :20:41.brush their teeth twice a day. Judith, thank you.
:20:42. > :20:44.He's British, and he's one of the most influential
:20:45. > :20:46.David Adjaye's latest design, the National Museum
:20:47. > :20:48.of African-American History and Culture,
:20:49. > :20:49.will be officially opened by President Obama tomorrow.
:20:50. > :20:51.Our North America correspondent Nick Bryant
:20:52. > :20:59.This is a building that not only occupies the last vacant plot
:21:00. > :21:02.on some of America's most honoured land, the National Mall
:21:03. > :21:07.of Washington, but seeks to fill a gap in America's national memory.
:21:08. > :21:10.For decades, African-Americans have campaigned for a museum
:21:11. > :21:13.that tells their epic story, and now it's about to be opened
:21:14. > :21:17.by the country's first African-American President.
:21:18. > :21:20.It's sort of changed my career - changed my life, actually...
:21:21. > :21:22.The architect is British, David Adjaye,
:21:23. > :21:28.And rather than designing a monument, he set out to construct
:21:29. > :21:31.a living building that contributes to the ongoing racial debate
:21:32. > :21:35.that reflects the ongoing struggle for equality.
:21:36. > :21:38.I think this building helps to really allow people
:21:39. > :21:41.to understand each other, and to understand how people
:21:42. > :21:44.are interrelated in many ways, and how the path forward
:21:45. > :21:47.is not separation but understanding and kind of coexisting.
:21:48. > :21:50.So I think that this building comes at an opportune time in America
:21:51. > :21:53.to really remind it of its incredible rich history
:21:54. > :21:57.and its own contribution to that integration story.
:21:58. > :22:00.Inside, the building chronicles an often traumatic
:22:01. > :22:04.journey into freedom - the shackles and whips of slavery,
:22:05. > :22:06.the clenched fists of the black power salute
:22:07. > :22:17.of how black culture has come to define American culture.
:22:18. > :22:19.These are all real, nothing here is a reconstruction,
:22:20. > :22:23.so that really is Chuck Berry's kind of original Eldorado Cadillac.
:22:24. > :22:29.for a British man to help tell an American story?
:22:30. > :22:33.I try not to think about that, because if I did, I would collapse,
:22:34. > :22:36.and I'd probably need therapy, because it's a very weighty subject,
:22:37. > :22:39.but I think what I bring to it is a professionalism
:22:40. > :22:40.about what I believe architecture can contribute
:22:41. > :22:47.The building is steeped in symbolism - the form evokes an African crown,
:22:48. > :22:50.the latticework recalls the ironwork of freed slaves
:22:51. > :22:56.Windows look out over landmarks of the freedom struggle,
:22:57. > :22:58.like the Lincoln Memorial, the pulpit from which
:22:59. > :23:08.Dr Martin Luther King delivered his "I have a dream" speech.
:23:09. > :23:13.This building is coming to completion as Barack Obama's
:23:14. > :23:18.presidency is coming to completion, have you been struck by the irony?
:23:19. > :23:21.It has been very beautiful, the irony, we started when he started
:23:22. > :23:25.his presidency, and he was instrumental in helping, you know,
:23:26. > :23:27.get the first tranche is of money through Congress and releasing that,
:23:28. > :23:31.getting the project going. In a way,
:23:32. > :23:33.it feels like a wonderful from slavery can come, you know,
:23:34. > :23:38.a son of America who is of African descent who becomes President
:23:39. > :23:40.of the most powerful nation in the world.
:23:41. > :23:42.And the story goes on. This is not just the most important
:23:43. > :23:50.public building to open in Washington in decades,
:23:51. > :23:51.but also perhaps something of a bridge that can help straddle
:23:52. > :23:54.America's racial divide. It's been a tense end
:23:55. > :23:57.to the county cricket season, with three teams in with a chance
:23:58. > :24:00.of taking the championship. It all depended on the match between
:24:01. > :24:03.Middlesex and Yorkshire at Lord's. A win for either,
:24:04. > :24:05.and they would take the title, Our sports correspondent
:24:06. > :24:18.Joe Wilson is there. You know, Reeta, the County
:24:19. > :24:23.Championship has been going since 1890, you might meet some people who
:24:24. > :24:27.suggest it is irrelevant. Four day matches played during the working
:24:28. > :24:31.week? Not very modern, but sometimes a sporting conclusion can be truly
:24:32. > :24:34.exciting - if you have to wait for it.
:24:35. > :24:42.The County Championship is a season, and what began with leaves in bud
:24:43. > :24:46.persists at Lord's with the cold breath of autumn on the players'
:24:47. > :24:50.necks and the final victory still up in the air. Middlesex versus
:24:51. > :24:55.Yorkshire, if one of the teams could win this match, they would take the
:24:56. > :24:58.title. Dawid Malan's century for Middlesex took hard work, but with
:24:59. > :25:02.only hours left in the season, something had to be engineered.
:25:03. > :25:06.Yorkshire bowled balls to be whacked and Middlesex sometimes hits them
:25:07. > :25:09.straight back, a phoney war that created a target, Middlesex
:25:10. > :25:15.declared, Yorkshire would bat again needing to wanted and 40. All the
:25:16. > :25:20.efforts of the cricketers here as Lord's could be in vain because of
:25:21. > :25:24.Somerset. They had a day off today, already won their final match. If
:25:25. > :25:28.this match finished as age or, Somerset would-be champions for the
:25:29. > :25:33.first time ever. Hard to know where to look. -- finished as a draw.
:25:34. > :25:39.Watch the ball is what they always tell you. At Taunton, the Somerset
:25:40. > :25:44.players gathered to watch on TV. Saving any drink except champagne.
:25:45. > :25:49.As Lord's, Yorkshire saw boundaries, Middlesex wickets. David Willey is
:25:50. > :25:55.an expert slugger, will he, won't he? 48-3. Tim Bresnan was key, he
:25:56. > :26:00.made 55, gone. Yorkshire would keep swinging and hoping, but the game
:26:01. > :26:06.was really up. Toby Roland-Jones taken two wickets in two balls, then
:26:07. > :26:13.this. Oh, bowled him! Hat-trick, 170 81 out, at five goal the final day,
:26:14. > :26:15.Middlesex were the champions - pretty boring, this type of cricket,
:26:16. > :26:22.isn't it? That is the point, there are deep
:26:23. > :26:27.discussions in domestic cricket about the way forward, how to make
:26:28. > :26:31.it more accessible, too many players, too many clubs? Twenty20 is
:26:32. > :26:35.the answer for many people, but maybe, Reeta, it is not the only
:26:36. > :26:39.answer. Surely there is still space for the kind of drama and excitement
:26:40. > :26:44.we saw here. Thanks very much, Joe Wilson there.
:26:45. > :26:53.Let's take a look at the weather with Alex Deakin.
:26:54. > :26:58.A disappointing result for Yorkshire in the cricket, but some lovely
:26:59. > :27:03.weather in the county, and right away across England and Wales, as
:27:04. > :27:08.the satellite Bruce, plenty of sunshine this fine Friday. Further
:27:09. > :27:12.north and west, cloud streaming in off the Atlantic, and now rain has
:27:13. > :27:16.arrived in western Scotland, and it will persist through tonight and
:27:17. > :27:21.most of tomorrow, potentially causing problems, fringing into
:27:22. > :27:25.Northern Ireland. For England and Wales, a dry and clear night with
:27:26. > :27:29.warmer air, not as cold as it was last night. We start the day in
:27:30. > :27:33.double digits. We start the day with quite a bit of sunshine across
:27:34. > :27:37.England and Wales, and in the east it will stay that way. In the West,
:27:38. > :27:41.significant winds, very wet in Northern Ireland and western
:27:42. > :27:46.Scotland, rain continuing to cause problems as it mounts up, pushing
:27:47. > :27:50.towards western fringes of England and Wales later in the day.
:27:51. > :27:55.Temperatures rising in the southerly winds in the south and eased, 23 or
:27:56. > :28:00.24 Celsius. Even where it is raining, 15 or 16 is above average.
:28:01. > :28:03.Through tomorrow evening, the rain staggers into western parts of
:28:04. > :28:07.England and Wales, creeping across the Midlands and into eastern
:28:08. > :28:10.England. The switch in wind direction will be crucial for
:28:11. > :28:14.Sunday, still some rain across eastern England for a time on
:28:15. > :28:19.Sunday, but then we have got sunny spells and quite a few showers, and
:28:20. > :28:23.that change of wind direction brings a change to the temperatures, a much
:28:24. > :28:28.fresher feel on Sunday. Saturday is wet and windy in western areas, in
:28:29. > :28:32.the east there will be plenty of warm sunshine on Saturday. And then
:28:33. > :28:38.on Sunday, cooler for all of us, with sunshine and showers. Reeta.
:28:39. > :28:42.Thank you, Alex, a reminder of our main story: every bombing hits the
:28:43. > :28:43.Syrian city of Aleppo after the Syrian government announced a new
:28:44. > :28:45.offensive. That's all from the BBC News at Six,
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