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Good evening. Channel but now, | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Two men have been cleared of a double murder in Milton Kdynes. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Brahim Haji and Ahmed Ahmed had admitted being | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
at the scene of the shooting on the Fishermead estate three years ago. | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
But they told the jury that they had not known it was going to happen. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
They were teenage friends who lost their lives in a row about drugs. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
19`year`old Mohammed Abdi Farah and Amin Ahmed Ismail, who was 8, | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
The prosecution described it as an execution. | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
This is the chilling 999 call that alerted police. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
There's someone laying in the alleyway | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The gunman Fuad Awale and his accomplice Sharmake | :00:46. | :00:59. | |
Abdulkadir were convicted of the murders in January last year. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
But the prosecution alleged others were actively involved. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Among them, Dutch national Brahim Hajji and Ahmed Ahmed. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Both men admitted being at the scene on the night | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
of the murders but denied any knowledge of the shootings. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
The jury accepted their version of events and cleared them | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
I think it's very important, both for the interests of justicd that | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
all five people were brought to account and made to answer for their | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
actions, and also for the families involved to be able to hear the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
words of those two people and to have a full understanding | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
of exactly how their two sons came to tragically lose their lives. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
Three years on, justice has finally run its course. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
For the victims' families, though, it can never heal their pain. | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
They've often fled the horrors of conflict and persecution | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
at home and arrive in the UK to an uncertain ftture. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
For many refugees, that new life begins in Swindon. | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
It's one of four places in the UK designated by the government | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
as dispersal towns ` places where refugees are sent upon | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
This is no ordinary Swindon resident. | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
At the age of 23, Mohamed Abdo has led resist`nce to | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Hidden in a mountain cave for days in an unknown country. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
And helped save the lives of hundreds of his fellow asylum | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
seekers when their overloaded boat got lost in the Mediterrane`n. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
And he didn't even want to leave Syria in the first pl`ce. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
I leave Syria because my life was in danger. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
If I stay in Syria, I would die and this is the first reason. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
My political activities pushed me to go outside. | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
How dangerous was it for you to leave? | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
It was very dangerous because the way how I came to the UK | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
demonstrations against President Assad in Aleppo in 2012. | :02:56. | :03:09. | |
He's here in the white coat on the left. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
This re`enactment shows doctors being killed by soldiers. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
2,000 miles away in Swindon, Mohamed finds shelter at The Harbour, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
Single asylum seekers only get five pounds a day | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
from the government until they hear whether they can stay. | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
Here they can access legal `dvice, English classes, friendship. | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
In actual Home Office accomlodation, it can be six men in one house, all | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
You know, you've come from ` new country, you don't know anybody. | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
In Swindon, there are around 100 asylum seekers. | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
Refugees say when they come to this country, | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
Places like this give them a voice and a future. | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
A bike hire scheme has been relaunched in Oxford after it was | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
started last year but folded within a few months when the company | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Thornhill Park and ride is one of seven locations where | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
It's hoped more people will choose to cycle rather than take | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
their car into the city to reduce congestion on the roads. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
It's a pound to join the scheme and the first 30 mins | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
Music is just as important as any medicine, according to residents | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
They are taking part in a ten week long project looking | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
at the power of music to increase happiness and reduce anxiety. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
Memories aren't always clear for some of these residents | :04:44. | :04:56. | |
# You can always hear me singing my song. #. | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
I've lost a lot but not all of it, so that's something, isn't it? | :05:06. | :05:17. | |
Specially`trained musicians are running a ten`week course | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
in this care home and it's `lready having an impact on residents. | :05:24. | :05:33. | |
If we can listen to a piece of music, it allows them to express | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
their emotions and then aftdr that there is no anxiety and that's | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
The residents really seem to get a lot out of it | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
and we had some lovely moments with singing along, particularly singing | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
We had a lovely moment where myself and a resident were singing | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
The main thing is that they enjoy it and they certainly seemed to today. | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
The results will be analysed by researchers at Essex University. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Staff here say the music sessions are already having | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
a long lasting impact, striking a chord with a variety of reshdents. | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
A building at Oxford Brookes University has been recognised | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
The low`carbon John Henry Brookes building was commended | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Judges from the Royal Institute of British Architects said it also | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
has a personality which is evident throughout. | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
It's now been shortlisted among 56 developments being considerdd | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Alexis is on the way with the weather forecast. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Slightly cooler tomorrow and slightly fresher overnight | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
tonight with perhaps one or two mist patches but staying dry through | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
the course of the night with temperatures in our towns and cities | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Slightly lower in the countryside, eight or nine degrees. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
A mild but dry start to the day tomorrow. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
A cloudy start but we will start to see that cloud | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
thin and break in places to allow for some sunshine and temperatures | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
won't be as high as today, reaching around 19, possibly 20 Celshus. | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
In some spots for a lucky few of us in the sunshine, | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
a high of 22 degrees but the pollen levels tomorrow are high and they | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
High pressure is in charge of our weather. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
It stays settled but up next is the national weather forecast. | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
dry. With the national details, here is Darren Bett. | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
Hello there, my blood pressure has been high for the past few hours. I | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
don't think it has anything to do with the air pressure! The high | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
pressure is shaping our weather. It pressure is shaping our weather It | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
is sat there all week. Here we are seaing the weak weather front. The | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
warmth has been in the south-west, 26 Celsius. The temperatures in | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Scotland yesterday, today nearer 20 Celsius. Still pleasant. There is | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
slightly cooler air from the | :08:07. | :08:08. |