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Tonight at 6pm - four serving soldiers arrested on suspicion | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Three of them are believed to be members of the Royal Anglian | :00:09. | :00:21. | |
Regiment. They are being detained under terror laws. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
They're accused of belonging to National Action - | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
it was banned last year for being racist, | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
A fifth person, a civilian, is also being held. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
Also tonight - the toddler stamped to death by her mother - | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
a review blames care workers for believing the killer. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
South Korea shows off its weapons - Russia's President Putin warns that | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
a military stand-off threatens a global catastrophe. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Kate and William win their privacy battle over topless photos - | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
a French celebrity magazine is ordered to pay damages. | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
My run will start from Los Angeles and it will go | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
And she'll end up in New York - meet Mimi the grandmother who's | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Gareth Bale says Wales | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
will face their World Cup qualifier with Moldova tonight with conviction | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:20. | :01:45. | |
Four serving members of the British army have been arrested on suspicion | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
of being members of National Action, a banned neo-Nazi group. | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
They are being held under terror laws, | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
although police say the public was never in danger. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
Three were arrested in Britain and a fourth in Cyprus. A fifth person, a | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
civilian is also being detained. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Tom | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Symonds is at West Midlands Police These arrests are highly significant | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
because they are the first in connection of suspected membership | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
of an extreme right-wing organisation. These men are in their | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
early 20s and 30s and they are being questioned at an unidentified West | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
Midlands Police station. The BBC has been told three of the | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
men are members of the Royal Anglian Regiment which recruits in Norfolk, | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Suffolk, Essex and Cambridge. Four arrest in the UK, one in Cyprus. An | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
army spokesman said we can confirm... | :02:51. | :03:06. | |
That group is National Action, which described itself last year in the | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
language of Hitler's fascism, as a national socialist youth movement. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
Its members marched the streets. The focus was as much on spreading | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
neo-Nazi ideas online but experts say the far right is not well | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
supported. I think extreme right groups in Britain are very good | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
these days about creating a sense of greater scale on social media than | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
is actually the case. The National Action group are people that tend to | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
do that the very best. When the Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
loner influenced by similar propaganda, the government acted, | :03:53. | :03:53. | |
prescribing or banning National Action. Despite the name, National | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
Action's court seeks doom by communities and stir up hatred. | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Prescribing this neo-Nazi group will prevent its mothership growing, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
prevent them spreading propaganda which allows a culture of hatred and | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
division to thrive. Legally, the group should not now exist but | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
police in Birmingham are questioning five suspected members under Counter | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
Terrorism laws while searches properties are carried out. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Three years ago toddler Ayeeshia Jayne Smith was murdered | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
by her own mother at the family home in Burton on Trent. | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Today a review into her case has found that care workers | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
let their concern for the mother overshadow the needs of the child. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
The report found that Ayeeshia's death could not have been predicted | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
but criticised social workers for taking what the mother | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
said at face value. Kathryn Smith is serving | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
a 19-year jail sentence. Sima Kotecha reports. | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
Ayeeshia-Jayne Smith, known as AJ to her family. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
A toddler with a thin frame and described | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
as a happy and smiley child. At 21 months old, her | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
life was brutally cut short by her mother. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Kathryn Smith, a former drug addict with a history | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
of aggression and self-harm, stamped her daughter to death. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
Today, the Serious Case Review said social workers and medical staff | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
should have asked more questions. The report says... | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
Derbyshire County Council has said sorry. | :05:32. | :05:46. | |
How can you assure people at home that this won't happen again? | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Can you actually provide that assurance? | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
We work with hundreds of children every single day and we work hard | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
to keep them safe and the majority of times, we are successful | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
at doing so, but one death is one death too many. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
And a death in such tragic circumstances, of course | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
we are all impacted by it and I am determined to make our services | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
as strong as they can be to minimise the risk of this happening again. | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
AJ was at home in the ground-floor flat behind me | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Medical experts believe her heart was torn by one forceful stamp. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Pathologists also found 16 other injuries on her body including | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
an historical bleed to the brain and a damaged spine. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
She was taken to hospital on more than one occasion | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
in the year she died, including four cuts on her lip | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
in the year she died, including for cuts on her lip | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
and chin and after collapsing. Again, warning signs were missed. | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
The Trust agree with the report's findings. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
We had two instances where we definitely didn't show | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
enough professional curiosity around Ayeeshia-Jayne's attendance. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
The febrile convulsion wasn't as it turned out a febrile convulsion. | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
We didn't go into Ayeeshia-Jayne's social situation, her family | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
situation as much as we should have, we didn't ask enough questions. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Concerns raised by AJ's biological father, Ricky Booth, | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
The aim of this review is to learn lessons. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
But for AJ's family, today's report will bring little | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
comfort after the ordeal they have been through. | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
Russian President Vladimir Putin says further sanctions | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
against North Korea are useless - and that ramping up military | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
preparations could lead to global catastrophe. | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
It comes after the US said it would table a new UN resolution | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
a hydrogen bomb by the North. From Seoul, Yogita Limaye reports. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
Off the eastern coast of South Korea, today | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
it was the Navy's turn to show its strength. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
The Commander of this fleet said they were training | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
to bury the enemy at sea. South Korea has held military drills | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
for two days now in response to the North's nuclear test. | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
Pyongyang claims it successfully made a hydrogen bomb that can be | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
fitted on to missiles capable of reaching America. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
At a UN conference in Geneva, North Korea's | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
The recent self defence images by my country DPRK, | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
are a gift package addressed to the US. | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
The US will receive more gift packages from my country as long | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
as it relies on reckless provocations and futile attempts | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Those attempts include further squeezing of North Korea's economy. | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
But some don't think that's a good idea. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
TRANSLATION: The use of sanctions of any kind in this case is already | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
As I told my colleagues yesterday, they will eat grass | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
but they will not give up this programme if they do not feel safe. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
South Korea doesn't feel safe either and so it's setting up this American | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
anti-missile defence system, designed to shoot | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
And now, President Trump has said he is allowing Japan and South Korea | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
to buy more sophisticated military equipment from the US. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
He's also agreed to remove limits on these South Korean missiles, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
lifting restrictions on the weight of the they can carry. | :09:33. | :09:42. | |
lifting restrictions on the weight of the warheads they can carry. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
It's this country, South Korea, which has the most to lose | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Some people here even still have family living up in the North. | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
But they have heard these threats for so long now that they've almost | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
And yet, things are a bit different now. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
TRANSLATION: The experiment North Korea did this time was much | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
larger in scale and so it makes me nervous. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
This woman says she is worried but she doesn't believe war | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Barely 50 kilometres from the border with North Korea, | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
people here live each day with the knowledge that | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
But with a strong belief that the peace that has held | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
for more than 60 years is not about to be broken. | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Today was the first chance after the summer recess for MPs | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has said there are, what he called, | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
"significant differences" with European Commission over | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
the so-called divorce bill Britain will have to pay when it leaves | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Here's our deputy political editor, Jon Pienaar. | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
What did you do this summer? David Davis tried to get exit talks into | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
high but it's been tough and colleagues like Foreign Secretary | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Boris Johnson are demanding hardball with Brussels. Petty officials, so | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
much to do, so little time. Jeremy Corbyn's team look up for it, Naib's | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
EU policy is not all clear, his deputy talks about may be staying | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
inside the EU system. His Brexit spokesman doesn't go that far but | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Labour have pledged to challenge ministers in Parliament's role, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
judging Brexit, the devolved assemblies' role as well as workers' | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
rights. Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. Time to | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
answer questions and face the sceptics. Negotiations have been | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
tough at times but we have made progress on the important issues. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Britain was nowhere near agreeing the Brexit divorce bill or as he put | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
it... There are significant differences to be bridged in this | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
sector. So not easy but not our fault. The UK's approach is more | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
pragmatic and flexible than that of the EU as it avoids unnecessary | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
interruption to British business and consumers. Labour of course wasn't | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
buying it. No deal, which I had hoped had died a death since the | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
election could raise from the ashes. His message: get real. Too many | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
promises have been made about Brexit which can't be kept. Today, Labour | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
has decided to vote against the bill, turning all EU legislation | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
into British law. Ready to be kept in all weeded out later. If and when | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
they lose that road, it will just be the start of something like | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
parliamentary siege warfare while Labour look to win over the handful | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
of Tory rebels they need to pull ministers up short. Impatient with | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Brexit? It's just the start. The two big parties on tune with respecting | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
referendum and now nothing else. How are you feeling about Brexit? There | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
is progress on Brexit? They will argue and say, it's impossible and | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
in the end, they will agree they have got to agree and it will be | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
done. This demo wanted Brexit stopped and many don't. While | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
negotiators plate a game of who blinks first, a vision of economic | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
uncertainty and political storms ahead now seems plain to see. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Scotland's First Minister has set out her party's programme | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
Nicola Sturgeon placed education and health reform | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
at the top of the agenda, and says she'll lift the 1% cap | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Ms Sturgeon called the plans "fresh, bold and ambitious" - | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
but was accused by Conservative leader Ruth Davidson | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
of "over-promising and under-delivering". | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
Our Scotland Editor Sarah Smith is at Holyrood for us this evening. | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
Politics here have been so dominated this year so far by arguments over a | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
second Scottish referendum, Nicola Sturgeon is now trying to turn the | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
page. She knows she needs to show she's energetically attacking | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
politics in Scotland, schools and hospitals, not just worrying about | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
independent says she has come up with a long list of measures for | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
this parliamentary year. Nicola Sturgeon has got her hands | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
full and she wants all of us to know it. She promised to refresh her | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
policies after a disappointing general election result and now she | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
wants to seize back the political initiative with what she calls a | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
bold and ambitious programme for government. At it heart is this | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
ambition to make our country the best place in the world to grow up | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
and be educated. To live, work, visit and do business and the best | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
place to be cared for in times of sickness, need or vulnerability and | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
the best place to grow old. The First Minister announced significant | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
government investment in high-tech manufacturing and financial | :14:56. | :14:57. | |
technology and she was getting her own lesson today in digital skills. | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
But its education that will be the biggest test for the SNP. Faced with | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
falling standards in Scottish schools, they plan to give | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
headteachers more powers and responsibilities. Teachers along | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
with nurses and police officers will be among thousands of workers | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
getting a higher pay rise next year as Scotland is scrapping 1% public | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
sector pay cap. No details on how that might be paid for yet but a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
strong hint, higher income taxes may follow. The opposition say the SNP | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
had to earn back the trust of the Scottish electorate. They must be | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
frank about the huge challenges Scotland faces. Not seek as its | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
first response to bury bad news or pretend it doesn't exist. Given what | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
we know of this government, we will wait to see whether these words are | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
backed up by action. The government should know this, after this last | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
year, it is on probation with the people of Scotland and it is time to | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
change tack and time to deliver. The Scottish Parliament will be busy and | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
the 16 new bills announced today, including the creation of a national | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
investment bank. And, free personal care for under 65 is suffering from | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
dementia and eight deposit return scheme for plastic bottles and | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
pardons for men convicted of same sex offences which are now legal. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
The Scottish Government also wants to go further, faster with electric | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
cars. Promising a huge expansion of car charging facilities and plans to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
phase out new petrol vehicles by 2032, eight years ahead of the UK | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
target. But remember, as a minority government, the SNP need the support | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
of other parties if they are to drive headpiece plans the next year. | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
Four serving members of the British Army have been | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
arrested on suspicion of links to a neo-Nazi group. | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Hurricane Irma, now classified as extremely dangerous, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Our weather presenter tells us how bad it could be. | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: Chris Froome wins the individual | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
time trial at the Vuelta a Espana and nearly doubles his lead. | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
He's aiming to wrap up a Tour de France-Vuelta double. | :17:12. | :17:28. | |
The UN is warning of a risk of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar after a | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
dramatic increase in the nub of Rohingya Muslims cleaned into | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
Bangladesh. They are a minority group in the Buddhist state. | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
Fighting in the state of Rakhine has left at least 400 people dead. | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
The UN says 35,000 people have crossed the border into Bangladesh | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
That brings the total seeking refuge to more than 123,000 | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Our correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder, has sent this | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Desperation is what is driving the Rohingya refugees. And Bangladesh, | :18:03. | :18:14. | |
which has taken them in, is being overwhelmed by the numbers that are | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
surging in. A truck has backed up to take all these refugees to the | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
nearest relief camp. You can just see the chaos as they are all | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
desperate to get on board. It is a chance for them to get somewhere | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
where they will be safe and where they can rest. They are getting a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
sense now that things are slowly spinning out of control. Soldiers | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
try to bring in a sense of order. But the refugees are weak, | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
dehydrated and disorientated after days on the road. The Rohingyas | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
group are described as the worst persecuted minority, the Buddhist | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
majority Myanmar has denied them citizenship despite living there for | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
centuries. Now they have been driven out. Their villages burned, hundreds | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
killed, in a wave of religious violence. People are either being | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
shot or burnt alive in their homes. We had to flee for our lives. They | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
are making sure that no Muslims are left there. So they fled, carrying | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
with them whatever they could salvage from their wrecked homes. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Local volunteers meet them as they arrive. Handing out packets of | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
cooked rice and meat. Their first proper meal in days. But with so | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
many refugees coming game, space is running out. Existing camps are | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
stretched beyond capacity. New ones are being built by the hour, open | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
fields and hilltops have now become huge settlements. And the conditions | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
are basic. This pit filled with rainwater serving as the water | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
supply. These new arrivals are scattered in different locations, | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
different villages, makeshift site and the two existing refugees plight | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
is whether UN works. Those camps are reaching such a point and in one of | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
them, the population has more than doubled. -- saturation point. | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated nations and | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
now it has to somehow find space for all the Rohingyas who are pouring | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
in. Princes William and Harry have | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
visited a new centre that is offering advice | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
and counselling to families affected They met members of the community | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
and volunteers in North Kensington at the Support 4 Grenfell community | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
hub. At least 80 people are thought | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
to have died in the fire Meanwhile, a French magazine has | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
been ordered to pay ?90,000 in damages to the Duke and Duchess | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
of Cambridge after it published topless photos of Kate | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
while on holiday in Provence The couple filed a criminal | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
complaint against 'Closer' magazine On one side of the Channel | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
today, there was barely a front page without her - | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
the Duchess of Cambridge, Her private life a cause for media | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
interest, national comment, But when does interest | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
become intrusion? In the Paris suburbs today, | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
judges ruled that French celebrity magazine Closer did | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
invade her privacy by publishing topless photos | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
of the Duchess on holiday. The pictures were taken from et | :21:35. | :21:48. | |
hello photo lens as they were sunbathing in a private villa. | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
The magazine Editor and Chief Executive were each | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
fined 45,000 euros - the maximum penalty, | :21:54. | :21:54. | |
C'est le montant maximum prevu par la loi. | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
The Royal couple were also awarded 100,000 euros in damages. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
A high figure for France, but far smaller than the 1.5 million | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
The lawyer for Closer described the amount requested | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
as 'extravagant' and said the private lives of | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
the Royal Family were a matter of public interest. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
TRANSLATION: The photos showed a couple in love. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
And I'll remind you that in the case of the Duke's parents, | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
we were led to believe that they adored each other | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
by being given official photographs and it wasn't the reality. | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Here, at least, the photos aren't offensive and show | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
It's in the public interest to know that. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
The Duke of Cambridge said the clandestine way the photographs | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
were taken had been particularly shocking and all the more painful | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
given the way his mother Diana had died here in Paris, | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
In a statement after today's ruling, Kensington Palace described | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
the photographs as "a serious breach of privacy" and said the couple | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
"wished to make the point strongly that this kind of unjustified | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Last week, William went to view tributes laid to Princess Diana | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
on the twentieth anniversary of her death. | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
Having watched the media make both hero and hostage of his mother, | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
the Duke of Cambridge seems determined to stop the same thing | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
For most people, running a marathon is an achievement. | :23:22. | :23:36. | |
For one grandmother from Kent, it's just a training session. | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Mimi Anderson began running in her late thirties - | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
to overcome anorexia - and has since gone on to become one | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
of the top endurance runners in the world, | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
Now she's preparing for her biggest challenge yet, to become the fastest | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
For the next seven and a half weeks, Mimi Anderson will be running | :23:51. | :24:02. | |
at least 55 miles every single day as she makes her way | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
It's taken years of planning and a lot of training. | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
Oh, it's been really, really hard work, but I've sort | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
of built up my distances so that I will do a week where I'm running | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
And then the following week, I'm running a marathon every single day. | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
And then I'm doing 30 miles every single day. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
My run will start from Los Angeles and it will go | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
She'll pass through 12 states in all, as she tries to break | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
the women's Coast-to-Coast record, set in 1979. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Oh, here are all your medals, what a haul! | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
I have to say I'm quite proud of them, actually, quite proud. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
But Mimi is used to tough challenges. | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
She took up running in her mid-30s and, since then, has conquered some | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
of the hardest endurance races in the world. | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
This one here, the Marathon des Sables - which is 250 | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
kilometres over six days, in the Sahara desert - | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Nearly died doing it, but I loved it! | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
And then this race here, the iconic Badwater Ultramarathon. | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
Which is 135 miles in Death Valley, in America, so I think Death Valley | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
And they are races that have pushed her body to the limit. | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
The Arctic Race is called the 6633 Extreme Ultra Marathon. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
It's 350 miles, nonstop, over eight days, in temperatures | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
And I actually won that race overall, male and female. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
And I came in I think it was 24 hours ahead of the only other | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
But running across America is her toughest challenge yet. | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
I love, erm, the thought of me physically and mentally - | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
because that plays a big part - of actually being able to run | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
To power her to a new world record, she's relying on a lot of coffee, | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
ten pairs of running shoes and a support crew including her | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
She's already dreaming of the finish line. | :26:16. | :26:28. | |
When I get to the steps of the New York City Hall, ah! | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Those steps, I'm just going to love them. | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
And I'll get down on my knees and I'll kiss them if necessary! | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
Mimi Anderson, who starts her journey across America on Thursday. | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
Now, we've barely seen the back of Hurricane Harvey, | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
but there's another one brewing, and it could be even bigger. | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
These are satellite images of Hurricane Irma, taken | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
It's been upgraded to Category 5, meaning it's extremely dangerous. | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
It's heading for the Caribbean, and then onto the southern | :26:54. | :26:55. | |
United States, and could bring wind speeds of around 175 miles-per-hour. | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
It is incredible, it is the strongest Atlantic facing hurricane | :27:06. | :27:22. | |
on record, winds of 180 mph and stronger gusts that could reach 220 | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
mph. So just catastrophic damage they could do but they are half the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
story. There is also going to be huge rainfall and into the centre of | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
the pressure in the middle of the storm, the sea surface bulges up and | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
we get a storm surge as the sea works into the land and that itself | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
could be 11 foot. I am six foot three, imagine two of me, a wall of | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
water blown in by the hurricane. It works in a cross and he get in the | :27:52. | :27:56. | |
next 11 hours. Across the British Virgin Islands as well. And we will | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
see further damage from the storm. Across the UK, a relatively quiet | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
day with a band of rain pushing East. Patchy in nature is brighter | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
skies try to working from the West. The cloud has broken up in Dorset | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
with sunshine coming through here. Still feeling humid across central | :28:16. | :28:18. | |
and eastern England and the humid air gets blown out of the way by a | :28:19. | :28:22. | |
westerly breeze as the cloud and rain clears Eastern counties. | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
Clearing skies and a dry night for many but there will be showers | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
across the North and West of Scotland running into North West | :28:30. | :28:31. | |
England. Temperatures overnight 11 or 12 degrees Delhi Wireplay -- | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
fairly widely and it feels fresh, but not humid. Wednesday is going to | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
be a decent day come up mostly dry with sunshine to start the day and | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
Fairweather cloud and some showers mainly affecting North West Scotland | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
where it is quite windy and some sneaking into the Irish Sea coast of | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
North West England. Foremost, it stays dry and in the sunshine, | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
16-20dC. It does not stay settled for long because towards the end of | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
the week and the weekend, low pressure takes up residence and the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
weather turns increasingly unsettled with rain showers on most days. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, blustery winds making it feel cold | :29:14. | :29:14. | |
as well. That's all from the BBC News at Six, | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
so it's goodbye from me. And on BBC One, we now join | :29:18. | :29:20. | |
the BBC's news teams where you are. | :29:21. | :29:21. |