:00:00. > :00:08.Brexit borders - the Government wants business as usual
:00:09. > :00:12.between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
:00:13. > :00:14.Whether it's goods being traded or people on the move,
:00:15. > :00:18.no check points, no cameras - that's the vision.
:00:19. > :00:21.We do want to ensure that we don't see a return
:00:22. > :00:24.to the borders of the past, we don't see a return
:00:25. > :00:30.But would that leave a back door for EU migration
:00:31. > :00:37.I think there is blame on both sides.
:00:38. > :00:40.Here we go again - Donald Trump faces another barrage
:00:41. > :00:42.of criticism over his latest comments about the
:00:43. > :00:45.The number of people in work is the highest ever,
:00:46. > :00:51.but some employers are struggling to get staff.
:00:52. > :00:54.We can't drive the growth as fast as we're able -
:00:55. > :00:57.bizarrely, not because of models or orders or finance, but people.
:00:58. > :00:59.And it's super-frustrating that we can't get the skilled
:01:00. > :01:05.Homes buried under a mountain of rock and mud -
:01:06. > :01:09.600 people still missing in Sierra Leone.
:01:10. > :01:11.The Royal Navy's flagship carrier enters its home port
:01:12. > :01:19.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:20. > :01:21.Celtic play the first leg of their Champion League qualifier
:01:22. > :01:23.tonight at Celtic Park, they take on Kazakhstan
:01:24. > :01:51.Good evening and welcome to the BBC's News at Six.
:01:52. > :01:53.After Brexit, people and goods should be able to move
:01:54. > :01:55.seamlessly across the border between the Irish Republic
:01:56. > :01:57.and Northern Ireland, much as they do today.
:01:58. > :02:00.In their latest proposal for life outside the EU,
:02:01. > :02:02.ministers says there will be no return to check points
:02:03. > :02:08.But critics say the plan raises as many questions as answers -
:02:09. > :02:11.not least, what's to stop EU migrants coming into the UK
:02:12. > :02:15.from Ireland through an unsupervised crossing?
:02:16. > :02:18.Our Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, is in Narrow Water,
:02:19. > :02:30.Chris. George, people who live at this border rarely recognise it. But
:02:31. > :02:37.could all that to change once the other side of this water is still
:02:38. > :02:39.inside the EU and this part is outside of the European Union?
:02:40. > :02:44.Today, alongside the phrases we have heard so often like there needs to
:02:45. > :02:47.be a seamless border, we heard another from the British Government,
:02:48. > :02:51.that there needs to be an unprecedented solution to this
:02:52. > :02:54.modern Irish problem. And perhaps that gives a sense of the scale of
:02:55. > :02:57.the challenge facing both the UK and the EU.
:02:58. > :02:59.For more than 300 miles, crossing fields and bridges,
:03:00. > :03:02.roads and rivers, there is a political dividing line
:03:03. > :03:09.But it is a border that cannot be seen, and many want
:03:10. > :03:15.Soft toys and cushions are the latest protest
:03:16. > :03:27.Where some kind of barriers could divide towns like Belcoo and
:03:28. > :03:31.Blacklion in the Republic, they are either side of this bridge and
:03:32. > :03:33.people in areas like this have jobs, businesses and friends that require
:03:34. > :03:36.them to cross this border regularly. I cross this border quite
:03:37. > :03:38.easily 15, 20 times a day, moving goods sometimes,
:03:39. > :03:41.sometimes just to manage staff, meet people, whatever
:03:42. > :03:44.is involved in daily work. If there is any sort of checks that
:03:45. > :03:47.slow that down or anything else, it is going to create a lot
:03:48. > :03:59.of logistical difficulties. The Government wants to return to
:04:00. > :04:03.the days when border huts and customs posts marked where the
:04:04. > :04:08.Norwich Island meets the Republic. This paper seems to dismiss the idea
:04:09. > :04:10.of a return to infrastructure or cameras at the border. And ministers
:04:11. > :04:14.say they are determined to protect the Common Travel Area. Allowing the
:04:15. > :04:20.free movement of people across Ireland and Britain. Ideas and
:04:21. > :04:27.aspirations that will be welcomed beyond these islands and Brussels,
:04:28. > :04:29.but ones which raise political and practical difficulties, with claims
:04:30. > :04:33.that it could allow a back door for people to get into the UK. We do
:04:34. > :04:36.want to ensure that we don't see a return to the Borders of the past,
:04:37. > :04:41.we don't see a return to a hard border and that are able to ensure
:04:42. > :04:44.that the crucial flow of goods and people between Northern Ireland and
:04:45. > :04:49.the Republic of Ireland is able to continue in the future. Some have
:04:50. > :04:53.raised doubts about the UK's ability to forge trade deals with other
:04:54. > :05:00.countries if it agrees to meet the EU's standards for food and
:05:01. > :05:03.agriculture. And if they customs deal cannot be agreed with the EU,
:05:04. > :05:07.there are questions about what will happen to the billions of pounds of
:05:08. > :05:12.trade carried along these busy border roads. The British Government
:05:13. > :05:15.believes technology and online declarations could be used to
:05:16. > :05:19.monitor goods carried by bigger firms. But there are concerns about
:05:20. > :05:25.smuggling and the Irish Government has other doubts. I don't believe
:05:26. > :05:28.the island of Ireland issue's will be resolved through technology and I
:05:29. > :05:32.believe this paper but we also accept that, which is a step forward
:05:33. > :05:37.and I welcome that. It does leave you wondering what the board it is
:05:38. > :05:40.going to look like and if you are outside of the customs union how you
:05:41. > :05:44.police that. We are no clear as to knowing what that is going to be,
:05:45. > :05:47.are we? That is because a negotiation now needs to take place.
:05:48. > :05:51.And there is a will to find solutions in this negotiation
:05:52. > :05:56.because tied up with the politics and practicalities are concerns
:05:57. > :05:58.about the attention impact of peace and prosperity at this, what is
:05:59. > :06:11.currently the softest of borders. Listening to the reaction, people
:06:12. > :06:14.still seem to have a lot of questions about these plans. Until
:06:15. > :06:19.now, the goblet has been accused of a lack of clarity is and confusion
:06:20. > :06:23.of its approach to Brexit so it is showing it has been working on this
:06:24. > :06:27.for some time and that it has a vision and key to that is that idea
:06:28. > :06:31.of an invisible border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
:06:32. > :06:35.and that idea of frictionless trade. There are some specific ideas about
:06:36. > :06:38.how that might be achieved. For example, exempting small businesses
:06:39. > :06:44.from customs checks. But there is great step because their scepticism
:06:45. > :06:50.about whether this can work in practice and there is concern about
:06:51. > :06:53.extra checks meaning there could be a back door to immigration which was
:06:54. > :06:57.central plank of the referendum campaign. Much of this detail is
:06:58. > :07:02.still to come and it all has to be thrashed out with the EU in those
:07:03. > :07:05.ongoing negotiations. But while there is clarity the goblet has
:07:06. > :07:11.provided has been broadly welcomed, it does show that in this complex
:07:12. > :07:16.jigsaw puzzle that is Brexit, every piece that is revealed only shows
:07:17. > :07:19.what gaps are still left. Alex, thank you very much.
:07:20. > :07:21.US President Donald Trump is - once again - facing criticism
:07:22. > :07:24.from all sides after his latest comments about the violence
:07:25. > :07:25.in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
:07:26. > :07:33.In a bad-tempered press conference, he's returned to the sentiments that
:07:34. > :07:36.got him into trouble in the first place, saying that anti-racist
:07:37. > :07:44.Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports.
:07:45. > :07:54.# Amazing Grace... The memorial service for an
:07:55. > :07:57.antiracism text are mown down by a white supremacists in
:07:58. > :08:02.Charlottesville on Saturday, but far from this being an occasion when a
:08:03. > :08:07.nation comes together, America seems more between divided than ever. They
:08:08. > :08:15.try to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what? You just magnified
:08:16. > :08:24.her? This was Charlottesville on Friday night, racist groups chanting
:08:25. > :08:28.dues will not replace us, carrying Ku Klux Klan stealth tortures and
:08:29. > :08:32.marching to the slogan white lives matter. Yesterday, the President
:08:33. > :08:35.blamed both sides for the violence that ensued. You had a group on one
:08:36. > :08:39.side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other
:08:40. > :08:43.with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible
:08:44. > :08:47.thing to watch. But there is another side. There was a group on their
:08:48. > :08:51.side, you can call them the left, you have just called them the left,
:08:52. > :08:57.that came violently attacking the other group, so you can say what you
:08:58. > :09:01.want, but that is the way it is. It is true there was violence on both
:09:02. > :09:06.sides. But the race had protesters had come to dock for trouble. Many
:09:07. > :09:10.carried guns will stop this is not the Army, but a right-wing militia
:09:11. > :09:13.that turned up whistling with weaponry. Most had clubs, helmets
:09:14. > :09:19.and shields with white supremacists insignia. The antiracism
:09:20. > :09:24.demonstrators were not organisers, they were mostly local people on
:09:25. > :09:30.whom a small group had come to fight. But Donald Trump seeming to
:09:31. > :09:35.draw a moral equivalence between swastika carrying Neo Nazis and
:09:36. > :09:37.antiracism protesters has brought near universal condemnation. The
:09:38. > :09:49.senior Republican Paul Ryan tweeting...
:09:50. > :09:55.The only significant voice of support last night came from the
:09:56. > :10:02.former leader of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, who said...
:10:03. > :10:09.There is reported to be deep unhappiness among some senior White
:10:10. > :10:15.House staff over the President's comments. He had not been due to say
:10:16. > :10:21.anything and significantly, a new intervention, this time from two
:10:22. > :10:24.former Republican living presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush,
:10:25. > :10:26.saying there is no room for bigotry and anti-Semitism in today's
:10:27. > :10:30.America. The number of people out of work
:10:31. > :10:34.in the UK is now at its lowest level There's also been a slight rise
:10:35. > :10:40.in average earnings. Our economics correspondent, Andy
:10:41. > :10:44.Verity, is here with the details. Yes, the rate of unemployment in
:10:45. > :10:49.the UK is at its lowest since 1975. The number of unemployed
:10:50. > :10:54.people is 1.48 million. Part of the reason it's
:10:55. > :10:56.such a low rate - 4.4% - is because it's a smaller
:10:57. > :10:58.and smaller percentage There's now a record
:10:59. > :11:11.32.1 million people in work. With the unemployment rate so low,
:11:12. > :11:14.in theory, wages should take off - because employers need to pay more
:11:15. > :11:17.to attract staff and workers have Pay rises did improve slightly -
:11:18. > :11:21.the average was 2.1%. But in the past, as you can see
:11:22. > :11:25.here, we used to take it for granted that pay would rise
:11:26. > :11:27.faster than inflation. After the crisis, pay rises started
:11:28. > :11:30.falling behind price rises, so we could all buy less than before
:11:31. > :11:32.- the big squeeze In 2014, that was supposed to have
:11:33. > :11:40.gone away, when pay rises started But this year, they've flopped back
:11:41. > :11:48.again, so even though the labour market's tight,
:11:49. > :11:50.pay is still shrinking The paradox is, we've got super-low
:11:51. > :12:05.unemployment right down to the level that would normally cause
:12:06. > :12:07.an acceleration of wages, It's not happening here and it's not
:12:08. > :12:11.happening in any country in the developed world,
:12:12. > :12:12.even with low unemployment. For companies like this
:12:13. > :12:17.upmarket motorbike maker, the tight labour market would be
:12:18. > :12:20.solved by offering higher pay. It simply can't find enough skilled
:12:21. > :12:23.staff to meet demand for the bikes. At the moment, I can't drive
:12:24. > :12:26.the growth as fast as we're able - bizarrely, not because of models
:12:27. > :12:30.or orders or finance, but people. And it's super frustrating
:12:31. > :12:33.that we can't get the skilled staff to come in and take advantage
:12:34. > :12:38.of the orders that we have. Companies used to be able to afford
:12:39. > :12:40.inflation-beating pay rises because every year,
:12:41. > :12:43.each worker produced a little bit more per hour,
:12:44. > :12:46.helped by investment in new technology,
:12:47. > :12:47.training and skills. But that growth in productivity has
:12:48. > :12:53.been absent in 2017. Today's figures also show something
:12:54. > :12:56.interesting about the flow 3.56 million people working
:12:57. > :13:04.in the UK are non-UK nationals. That number is still rising,
:13:05. > :13:08.but not as quickly as it has been. In the first three months
:13:09. > :13:12.of the year, it grew by 207,000 But in the second quarter,
:13:13. > :13:20.it went up by just 109,000. The Labour MP Sarah Champion
:13:21. > :13:28.has resigned as Shadow Equalities Minister,
:13:29. > :13:29.after apologising for an article In the article, which was published
:13:30. > :13:36.on Friday, she wrote that "Britain has a problem with British Pakistani
:13:37. > :13:39.men raping and exploiting The MP for Rotherham today
:13:40. > :13:42.apologised for what she said was an "extremely poor
:13:43. > :13:46.choice of words". Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn said
:13:47. > :13:50.he had accepted her resignation. Police are investigating
:13:51. > :13:52.a robbery at the showroom In footage of the incident,
:13:53. > :13:59.a number of suspects emerge from the Knightsbridge shop and make
:14:00. > :14:01.off carrying bags of They used hammers to smash their way
:14:02. > :14:05.through counter displays. Boodles, which specialises
:14:06. > :14:07.in diamonds, say no-one Researchers at Newcastle University
:14:08. > :14:15.say England will need an extra 71,000 care home places by 2025 -
:14:16. > :14:20.that's less than ten years' time. They say people are living longer,
:14:21. > :14:23.but many of them need substantial Ida, who's 92, is being shown
:14:24. > :14:38.how to text at this IT She feels she's making
:14:39. > :14:41.progress, though sometimes, it's hard to remember
:14:42. > :14:44.everything she's learned. Sometimes, it gives you a few
:14:45. > :14:51.minutes, then it comes back and - So, you know, you just have
:14:52. > :14:58.to work hard at that. The aim of the class
:14:59. > :15:02.at the Abbey Community Centre, in North London, is to help
:15:03. > :15:05.the learners with independent lives What this new research highlights
:15:06. > :15:14.is that while living longer can bring more opportunities,
:15:15. > :15:15.it can mean declining health - and that means
:15:16. > :15:18.a greater need for care. The report predicts
:15:19. > :15:19.rapidly increasing demands on a system which is already
:15:20. > :15:23.under great pressure. The care needs of the over-65s have
:15:24. > :15:27.doubled over two decades. Men now require 2.4 years
:15:28. > :15:29.of substantial care on average, So the report says 71,000 extra
:15:30. > :15:36.care home places will be needed in England by 2025,
:15:37. > :15:44.on top of the 220,000 in 2015. Care providers say they need to know
:15:45. > :15:47.about official plans before trying After confusion in the election
:15:48. > :15:51.campaign, the Government's consulting on a new social care
:15:52. > :15:53.policy, which experts We are going to need to spend more
:15:54. > :16:01.as a nation on looking Some of that money, I think,
:16:02. > :16:05.should come from us as individuals, some of it needs to come
:16:06. > :16:07.from the Government. What the Government most needs to do
:16:08. > :16:13.is come up with a clear strategy. Staying fit and staying
:16:14. > :16:15.healthy are the priorities Some will live many
:16:16. > :16:20.years independently, some will need social care,
:16:21. > :16:23.and the challenge for them - and society as a whole -
:16:24. > :16:39.is to work out who will pay for it. The time is 6:16pm, the top story
:16:40. > :16:41.this evening. The government says it wants a seamless border between
:16:42. > :16:48.Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic after Brexit. Still to
:16:49. > :16:55.come: will you return as James Bond? Yes. It will be the fifth outing as
:16:56. > :16:57.007 Daniel Craig and, he says, the last.
:16:58. > :17:01.Mark Stoneman has been named in England's team to face
:17:02. > :17:03.West Indies in the First Test at Edgbaston tomorrow.
:17:04. > :17:12.The Surry batsman makes his Test debut.
:17:13. > :17:16.In Alaska hunters can now shoot bear cubs and hibernating bears even
:17:17. > :17:19.when they are in conservation areas after President Trump
:17:20. > :17:23.abolished protections put in place by Barack Obama.
:17:24. > :17:28.Welfare organisations say the change in the law is inhumane.
:17:29. > :17:32.However, hunters say they are actually helping conservation.
:17:33. > :17:35.This report from Claire Marshall in the Chugach National Forest.
:17:36. > :17:42.Alaska's wildlife refuges are immense.
:17:43. > :17:45.Each year, tens of thousands of people hunt here but what rules
:17:46. > :17:47.President Trump has lifted restrictions put
:17:48. > :17:52.Once again all hunters can use bait and kill mother
:17:53. > :17:58.Animal rights campaigners are outraged.
:17:59. > :18:02.But many believe hunters are the best people to manage big game.
:18:03. > :18:05.Christine has hunted for a decade and she has also won
:18:06. > :18:10.She lets us follow her up into the mountains
:18:11. > :18:17.Something I have found hard reading about it is the fact that
:18:18. > :18:24.you can now kill bears when they are with their cubs.
:18:25. > :18:27.I do not know anybody, though, who would want to kill a baby bear.
:18:28. > :18:31.I know a lot of hunters and that's just not what anybody would do.
:18:32. > :18:34.The game managers tell me oh, these are, there's getting to be too
:18:35. > :18:37.many bears because you know in a wild place, there
:18:38. > :18:43.So, clearly if there's too many bears, there is a need
:18:44. > :18:50.Rather than politicians in Washington, it is now up to local
:18:51. > :18:54.Alaska state officials that favour hunting to set the laws.
:18:55. > :18:56.Good news for businesses that depend on the industry.
:18:57. > :19:04.This will be the beginning of your experience with
:19:05. > :19:15.Every time we buy a hunting licence we are paying for Fish
:19:16. > :19:17.and Wildlife officers, we are paying for conservation,
:19:18. > :19:21.But people that just look at animals down the road,
:19:22. > :19:27.The amount of money that is brought in by hunters from outside and spent
:19:28. > :19:30.here is dwarfed by the number of people who come up
:19:31. > :19:38.Our wildlife is worth far more alive than it is dead.
:19:39. > :19:42.Back up on the mountain they have spotted a bear and are stalking it.
:19:43. > :19:48.It looks like a pretty good-sized bear.
:19:49. > :19:55.I think I can see Christine getting ready to take a shot.
:19:56. > :20:02.The bear is young and she feels it is not right.
:20:03. > :20:07.What does this say about you as a hunter?
:20:08. > :20:09.You could say, well, she doesn't have what it takes.
:20:10. > :20:12.Or, I would've shot that bear, or I wouldn't have.
:20:13. > :20:18.I don't think you can let that make the decision.
:20:19. > :20:20.Because, you know, it's a sleep with yourself decision.
:20:21. > :20:29.At the heart of all this is balancing the needs of the people
:20:30. > :20:32.using wildlife refuges and the creatures that live in them.
:20:33. > :20:34.In Alaska right now it's the hunters that
:20:35. > :20:43.Claire Marshall, BBC News, in Alaska.
:20:44. > :20:46.Officials in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, say 105 children are among
:20:47. > :20:49.the 400 people who are known to have died when flooding caused
:20:50. > :20:51.a massive mudslide on the outskirts of the city.
:20:52. > :20:53.At least 600 people are still missing.
:20:54. > :21:00.Martin Patience reports from Freetown.
:21:01. > :21:09.In Freetown the ambulances are rushing not at the hospital but to
:21:10. > :21:14.the main mortuary. They are ferrying the dead, victims buried alive by a
:21:15. > :21:18.landslide. The relatives wait outside to
:21:19. > :21:33.collect their bodies. The stench of death is overpowering. Emotions are
:21:34. > :21:38.raw. She lost her sister. Daniel wasn't home when disaster
:21:39. > :21:48.struck. But he tells me six members of his family are dead, including
:21:49. > :21:53.his wife. They died, they died. The grief and anger is tangible
:21:54. > :21:58.here. This is a nation in mourning the loss of hundreds. And rescue
:21:59. > :22:07.workers say that authorities are hampering their rescue efforts.
:22:08. > :22:12.This gaping scar was once a neighbourhood, but now the scene of
:22:13. > :22:15.a recovery operation on the hoof. Diggers have been drafted in but
:22:16. > :22:21.there are no sniffer dogs, not enough body bags. The fear is
:22:22. > :22:27.disease could spread unless hundreds of bodies are found.
:22:28. > :22:33.A trickle of aid is getting through but many like Adama are now
:22:34. > :22:37.homeless. I've lost everything, she tells me.
:22:38. > :22:44.Martin Patience, BBC News, Freetown. Britain's new aircraft carrier,
:22:45. > :22:46.HMS Queen Elizabeth, sailed into its home port
:22:47. > :22:48.of Portsmouth for the first She's the largest and one
:22:49. > :22:59.of the most powerful warships ever Jonathan Beale is on board the
:23:00. > :23:03.Navy's flagship. Jonathan. As you say, this is the largest
:23:04. > :23:07.warship ever built for the Royal Navy. To give you a sense of scale
:23:08. > :23:10.from the top of the mast down to the bottom of the keel is taller than
:23:11. > :23:14.Nelson's column and from one end to the other is longer than the Houses
:23:15. > :23:17.of Parliament. The flight deck is four acres, three football pitches
:23:18. > :23:21.worth of British sovereign territory that in theory will be able to go
:23:22. > :23:22.anywhere in the world. But all this does not come cheap.
:23:23. > :23:25.The Royal Navy has never had a ship of this size before.
:23:26. > :23:28.HMS Queen Elizabeth overshadowed everything around her.
:23:29. > :23:35.Including Portsmouth harbour, now her new home.
:23:36. > :23:40.A day to remember for the crowds who woke up early to see her in.
:23:41. > :23:43.And even a touch of nostalgia for when Britain ruled the waves.
:23:44. > :23:51.I think it makes the country feel a lot safer.
:23:52. > :23:53.It puts you, you know, above everybody else
:23:54. > :23:59.For the past seven weeks the 700 crew have been testing her systems.
:24:00. > :24:04.It is the most complex warship ever built in UK.
:24:05. > :24:06.A symbol of power and pride for the Navy.
:24:07. > :24:09.But they believe, for the whole nation too.
:24:10. > :24:12.It puts us, the Royal Navy and the British armed forces,
:24:13. > :24:18.I think for a global, outward facing country
:24:19. > :24:22.like the United Kingdom, as an island nation,
:24:23. > :24:26.why wouldn't you want a strong Royal Navy?
:24:27. > :24:30.This is a big moment for the Royal Navy.
:24:31. > :24:34.Its largest warship entering Portsmouth for the very first time.
:24:35. > :24:37.It is also its most expensive warship.
:24:38. > :24:40.And it still needs jets, and other warships to protect her.
:24:41. > :24:42.At a time when the Ministry of Defence is having
:24:43. > :24:47.This former naval officer says the Navy is already
:24:48. > :24:53.struggling to crew just 19 frigates and destroyers.
:24:54. > :24:57.Certainly right now there are not enough ships to protect it,
:24:58. > :25:01.there are not enough submarines to run in advance of it.
:25:02. > :25:04.And this is the worry, if we are not even in a situation right now,
:25:05. > :25:06.having delivered the platform itself, to protect the ship,
:25:07. > :25:11.On her first visit on board, the Prime Minister said the ship
:25:12. > :25:15.sent a signal that Britain remains a global power.
:25:16. > :25:18.It will be another year before the first jets fly off
:25:19. > :25:25.The new F35 will also cost around ?100 million each.
:25:26. > :25:28.It is a significant investment and a signal of ambition.
:25:29. > :25:30.But it will stretch already limited resources.
:25:31. > :25:36.Jonathan Beale, BBC News, Portsmouth.
:25:37. > :25:41.After months of speculation, Daniel Craig has confirmed
:25:42. > :25:46.that he will play James Bond again - but just one more time.
:25:47. > :25:52.Chi Chi Izundu asks if it's really all about the money.
:25:53. > :25:57.Her report contains some flashing images.
:25:58. > :26:05.Months of speculation, will Daniel Craig comeback for a fifth time as
:26:06. > :26:09.007? Will you return as James Bond? Yes. Daniel is the seventh actor to
:26:10. > :26:12.take on bond and is commercially the most successful of the franchise
:26:13. > :26:16.with Skyfall being the first to break the $1 billion mark at the box
:26:17. > :26:20.office, it was only a matter of time before he was back home at MI6,
:26:21. > :26:28.regardless of how many times it's been destroyed in the films. Despite
:26:29. > :26:31.the cars, the Martinis on tap and of course the women, let's not forget
:26:32. > :26:35.that after the release of Spectre Daniel said he would rather slit his
:26:36. > :26:41.wrists than play the fictional MI6 spy again. And if you believe what
:26:42. > :26:44.you read in the press, he's going to be well-paid. And while Daniel was
:26:45. > :26:50.mulling over that offer other names like Idris Elba were discussed. But
:26:51. > :26:53.for the fans, Daniel is The Man with the Golden Gun. After all of this
:26:54. > :26:58.regulation we finally have an answer and it's like in August. Daniel
:26:59. > :27:02.Craig has reinvented bond and his films are among the most successful
:27:03. > :27:07.and critically acclaimed, so I think we are really glad we got the answer
:27:08. > :27:13.we are looking for what it bond 25. He will be 51 by the time Bond 25
:27:14. > :27:17.hits the cinemas in 2019 and the stunts from Spectre left him needing
:27:18. > :27:20.knee surgery. So it's understandable that he says this time is the last
:27:21. > :27:24.time. Chi Chi Izundu, BBC News. Time for a look at the weather -
:27:25. > :27:31.here's Chris Fawkes. Hello. For Your Eyes Only. We have
:27:32. > :27:36.had some sunshine across parts of England but it has not been sunny
:27:37. > :27:39.everywhere. This was the scene earlier today across North
:27:40. > :27:42.Yorkshire. If we look at the forecast we have heard, further west
:27:43. > :27:46.we have had a band of rain working in, quite heavy at times across
:27:47. > :27:49.Northern Ireland and Scotland, and beginning to work in to Western
:27:50. > :27:52.Wales and south-west England bringing heavy bursts. This is what
:27:53. > :28:01.the cloud and rain looked like this photograph sent to us in the last
:28:02. > :28:03.half hour coming across parts of Argyll and Bute in Scotland. This
:28:04. > :28:06.evening and overnight the band will push its way eastwards, the rain
:28:07. > :28:09.turning heavier as it works across central and eastern areas of England
:28:10. > :28:13.but it will clear a way for a time further across Scotland and Northern
:28:14. > :28:17.Ireland. Mild night, temperatures 13-16d. Through Thursday morning
:28:18. > :28:20.this weather front is slow to clear, damp weather for Eastern and
:28:21. > :28:23.southern parts of England, staying cloudy in the south, perhaps into
:28:24. > :28:27.the early afternoon. Away from that, some sunshine, and some showers, a
:28:28. > :28:31.bit more sunshine around Scotland and Northern Ireland, it will be
:28:32. > :28:38.milder, temperatures of 19 degrees in this guide 20 in Belfast. Heavier
:28:39. > :28:40.rain spreads through Thursday night across Northern Ireland, Scotland
:28:41. > :28:44.and northern England, and this is how weak and Friday, mixture of
:28:45. > :28:48.sunshine and showers, some heavy with hail and blunder, particularly
:28:49. > :28:52.across northern part of the UK, cold and blustery winds, temperatures
:28:53. > :28:55.coming down, 15 or 16 degrees for Northern Ireland, northern Scotland
:28:56. > :29:01.and northern England. What about the weekend weather prospects? Hurricane
:29:02. > :29:07.Gert will be gobbled up by this area of normal blood pressure across
:29:08. > :29:10.eastern Canada. It will head over to the UK and during the latter part of
:29:11. > :29:15.Sunday it is likely we will get heavy rain from the remnants of
:29:16. > :29:17.hurricane Gert somewhere across the west of the UK.