:00:00. > :00:00.This is BBC World News Today with me, Tom Donkin.
:00:07. > :00:08.Here's the Headlines: Hurricane Matthew leaves a trail
:00:09. > :00:11.of destruction across Haiti - thousands have been displaced
:00:12. > :00:18.Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres looks set to be
:00:19. > :00:25.the next secretary-general of the United Nations.
:00:26. > :00:28.A contractor for the US National Security Agency has been
:00:29. > :00:29.charged with stealing top secret information.
:00:30. > :00:31.And how long are we going to live for?
:00:32. > :00:51.Scientists say 115 is likely to be the best we can hope for.
:00:52. > :00:55.It's the most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in nearly
:00:56. > :00:57.a decade, and already it's killed at least nine people.
:00:58. > :01:00.So far the winds, rains and storm surges of Hurricane Matthew have
:01:01. > :01:02.hit Haiti the hardest, causing at least two deaths.
:01:03. > :01:09.Cuba and the Bahamas have also been in the firing line,
:01:10. > :01:12.and as the storm moves north, the United States is next.
:01:13. > :01:14.President Obama has said people should, "Hope for the best
:01:15. > :01:17.but prepare for the worst", and a mass evacuation is underway
:01:18. > :01:20.But in Haiti, they're trying to pick up the pieces.
:01:21. > :01:23.The UN says the country has suffered its worst humanitarian
:01:24. > :01:24.disaster since the earthquake six years ago.
:01:25. > :01:39.Nick Bryant has this report from the capital Port au Prince.
:01:40. > :01:42.Disaster must often seem like a way of life
:01:43. > :01:49.for the hard-pressed people of Haiti.
:01:50. > :01:55.This morning, the residents were trying to make this journey on foot.
:01:56. > :01:57.A journey that they could previously have made by car.
:01:58. > :01:59.The bridge linking the main road from
:02:00. > :02:02.the capital to the worst affected communities in the south of this
:02:03. > :02:05.It has severed this town in half and severely
:02:06. > :02:08.Homes have been swamped by the deluge of rain.
:02:09. > :02:13.And destroyed by 140 mile an hour winds.
:02:14. > :02:15.This shanty dwelling only just survived the
:02:16. > :02:18.But here, just a few yards away in what now
:02:19. > :02:21.looks like wasteland, the homes of four
:02:22. > :02:23.families were washed away as
:02:24. > :02:29.the flood waters rushed down the valley.
:02:30. > :02:33.These are the people made homeless, these are the children
:02:34. > :02:36.whose futures seem to be continually blighted by tragedy.
:02:37. > :02:37.The epicentre of the 2010 earthquake was
:02:38. > :02:43.So it's not just sorrow they are feeling, but
:02:44. > :02:49.The children have just started school, their mother told
:02:50. > :02:58.me, and their new uniforms were washed away.
:02:59. > :03:02.This storm has left a trail of third world destruction, and this country
:03:03. > :03:05.is struggling to cope. As Hurricane Matthew moves north,
:03:06. > :03:08.and more than a million people in the US start to move out
:03:09. > :03:11.of its way, forecasters are examining the different paths
:03:12. > :03:13.the storm could take. Tomasz Schafnernaker from the BBC
:03:14. > :03:25.Weather Centre explains. Here's the uncertainty in the
:03:26. > :03:29.weather forecast. So as we see, the storm moves over the Bahamas on
:03:30. > :03:33.Thursday and then it is the central and eastern coast of Florida that is
:03:34. > :03:42.not used to intense horror games, if the storm stays 100 or 200 miles out
:03:43. > :03:51.to sea, it will not be as bad as the impact lance. Dash-mac they not used
:03:52. > :03:58.to intense her retains. It could be here, are to be way out there. This
:03:59. > :04:01.could mean many days of very destructive winds and storm surges
:04:02. > :04:03.still to come. If you don't recognise this man now,
:04:04. > :04:06.you probably will soon. He's Portugal's former
:04:07. > :04:08.Prime Minister Antonio Guterres - and he's poised to become the next
:04:09. > :04:11.secretary general of the United With none of the five permanent
:04:12. > :04:14.members of the Security Council opposing his nomination,
:04:15. > :04:16.he's likely to be confirmed Mr Guterres has been head of the UN
:04:17. > :04:20.refugee agency for ten years. Nada Tawfik is at the United
:04:21. > :04:28.Nations for us now. Good to see you. Apart from maybe
:04:29. > :04:33.the Pope and the US president, there are few jobs which have as much
:04:34. > :04:38.exposure and air miles. Antonio Guterres is not one who shies away
:04:39. > :04:43.from the spotlight. And he is also used to international diplomacy, so
:04:44. > :04:48.he seems like a pretty good candidate. Yes, and I have to say,
:04:49. > :04:53.the reaction to his election has been very positive. He has been an
:04:54. > :04:57.advocate for the rights of refugees when the world is seeing the largest
:04:58. > :05:03.refugee crisis really since world War II. He has groups such as human
:05:04. > :05:07.rights watch really praising him and says that he is an advocate and hope
:05:08. > :05:11.that he continues to do that once he becomes the UN Secretary-General.
:05:12. > :05:14.And really, Antonio Guterres during this whole process of when he was
:05:15. > :05:19.interviewed in the UN General Assembly, diplomats said that he
:05:20. > :05:23.really stood out, that he had the vision for the top job, he had the
:05:24. > :05:26.most experience to offer, and so while there were criticisms that a
:05:27. > :05:32.woman should have taken this post after we have had eight passed mail
:05:33. > :05:35.Secretary-General 's, the British ambassador Matthew Rycroft told me
:05:36. > :05:40.that it really was in fact that he was the best candidate. At the start
:05:41. > :05:45.of the names on the ballot were female, so a lot of people were
:05:46. > :05:48.hoping for the first one in 70 years of the organisation. But what needs
:05:49. > :05:53.to happen now for Antonio Guterres to get over the line here? Well, now
:05:54. > :05:58.the Security Council is going to finalise their recommendation
:05:59. > :06:03.tomorrow to a vote in the Security Council. None of the permanent five
:06:04. > :06:06.members have vetoed him. He has the majority supported the council, so
:06:07. > :06:11.that is likely to go through. They will send a recommendation over to
:06:12. > :06:14.the UN General Secretary, the body that has to make the final decision
:06:15. > :06:17.on that. We do not know when the final vote will take place, but I
:06:18. > :06:21.have to say, it is all must assured at this point that he will be the
:06:22. > :06:22.next UN Secretary-General after getting through the Security
:06:23. > :06:25.Council. Thanks very much. Now let's take a look at some
:06:26. > :06:28.of the day's other news. Almost 6,000 people
:06:29. > :06:30.were rescued from the They were on board boats
:06:31. > :06:34.trying to reach Europe It's one of the largest number
:06:35. > :06:39.of people rescued in a single day International donors are meeting
:06:40. > :06:43.in Brussels to raise billions more They are expected to
:06:44. > :06:49.pledge 3 billion dollars Afghanistan will be asked to do more
:06:50. > :06:55.to tackle corruption and to take back tens of thousands
:06:56. > :07:00.of failed asylum seekers. Poland's Deputy Prime Minister has
:07:01. > :07:06.said proposals put before parliament for a near-total ban on abortion
:07:07. > :07:08.will not be implemented. A citizens' bill backed
:07:09. > :07:11.by the Catholic Church aims to ban all abortions except
:07:12. > :07:14.if the mother's life is at risk. On Monday, tens of thousands
:07:15. > :07:18.of people protested about the plan. The US Justice Department says
:07:19. > :07:22.a National Security Agency contractor has been charged
:07:23. > :07:23.with stealing highly It said the documents obtained
:07:24. > :07:27.by Harold Thomas Martin were critical to a wide variety
:07:28. > :07:33.of national security Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue
:07:34. > :07:43.joins us from Washington. Gary, we mentioned eight contract
:07:44. > :07:49.that was being charged in the same breath as Edward Snowden,
:07:50. > :07:53.responsible for the biggest leak in NSA history. What more do we know
:07:54. > :08:00.about these charges? We do know for a start that Martin worked for the
:08:01. > :08:04.same contractor that Edward Snowden worked for, so that will send some
:08:05. > :08:09.shivers up the few spines here in Washington, I think. What we know is
:08:10. > :08:13.that his house and his car were searched on the 27th of August and
:08:14. > :08:17.they recovered a number of what they would describe as highly sensitive
:08:18. > :08:22.documents. Six in particular they are interested in that they say were
:08:23. > :08:25.from intelligence sources, and if they would have been disclosed they
:08:26. > :08:32.could have revealed some sensitive sources and capabilities. Now, these
:08:33. > :08:35.charges that he is facing Ark -- have the potential to put him in
:08:36. > :08:39.jail for ten years. We are deciding statement from his lawyers who said
:08:40. > :08:42.that Mr Martin loves his family and loved his country and there is no
:08:43. > :08:47.evidence that he was intending to be traded. This will worry a lot of
:08:48. > :08:51.people in Washington. The Obama Government has spent so much money
:08:52. > :08:54.protecting itself from hacks and external forces, but they can't
:08:55. > :08:58.fully protect themselves from those home-grown threats of leaks from
:08:59. > :09:03.within. So this will really work the some people in the securities is
:09:04. > :09:07.judgment. Yes, it certainly will. It is early stages in this case,
:09:08. > :09:10.obviously. We don't really know the nature of the information this man
:09:11. > :09:14.is meant to have had, why he had it, what he intended to do with it, but
:09:15. > :09:22.it is embarrassing there is no question. And coming off the back of
:09:23. > :09:25.the revelations a couple of years ago from Edward Snowden, people will
:09:26. > :09:27.wonder what lessons have been learned. Thank you very much, Gary.
:09:28. > :09:31.A man armed with a knife has wounded two Belgian police officers
:09:32. > :09:32.in an attack described by the authorities as
:09:33. > :09:44.It happened on a street in northern Brussels. The suspect was arrested
:09:45. > :09:48.after being shot in the leg by officers from another unit.
:09:49. > :09:56.We now know that this man, the attacker, has been identified as
:09:57. > :10:01.police as a 43-year-old man of Belgian nationality. His name has
:10:02. > :10:08.been given. That is standard practice here, not to give his full
:10:09. > :10:11.name but instead the initial of his surname. He was taken to hospital
:10:12. > :10:16.for treatment for a gunshot wound to his leg. That was sustained when he
:10:17. > :10:22.was arrested. Now, he had attacked two police officers north of the
:10:23. > :10:29.city centre in a residential area but close to a main busy road that
:10:30. > :10:34.runs through there. And eyewitness described to Belgian media how he
:10:35. > :10:38.had lunged at one police opposite, knocking him to the ground and
:10:39. > :10:42.continue to strike blows on that officer as the officer tried to pull
:10:43. > :10:45.off into the bushes. We know he was armed with a knife. He then turned
:10:46. > :10:50.on a second officer, winded them, left them bleeding and was then
:10:51. > :10:55.apprehended when a police patrol unit arrived, shot him in the leg, a
:10:56. > :11:03.scuffle happened, the injured in office and there by breaking their
:11:04. > :11:08.nose and was then taking -- taken away. We say they are treating this
:11:09. > :11:11.as a potential terrorist attack swat the prosecutors are saying. The man
:11:12. > :11:14.himself may have been known to them but the police officers injuries are
:11:15. > :11:15.not life-threatening. The Vice Presidential candidates
:11:16. > :11:17.Tim Kaine and Mike Pence took each other on in their first
:11:18. > :11:22.and only televised debate. It was their one big chance to take
:11:23. > :11:25.centre stage but they spent most of it talking up their bosses,
:11:26. > :11:28.as well as launching bitter attacks on the reputations and policies
:11:29. > :11:31.of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It was all quite feisty,
:11:32. > :11:33.but as Laura Bicker reports, neither man managed to deliver
:11:34. > :11:37.that knock-out blow. Senator Tim Kaine was
:11:38. > :11:41.Hillary Clinton's attack dog and accused Donald Trump
:11:42. > :11:45.of not paying his taxes. It was up to Mike Pence
:11:46. > :11:50.to take a defensive stance. He went through a very difficult
:11:51. > :11:53.time but he used the tax code just the way it is supposed to be used
:11:54. > :11:56.and he did it brilliantly. How do you know that,
:11:57. > :11:59.you haven't seen his tax return? Because he has created a business
:12:00. > :12:01.worth billions of dollars. Again and again Tim Kaine tried
:12:02. > :12:05.to hit the Trump campaign I cannot believe that Governor Pence
:12:06. > :12:13.would defend the insult driven If Donald Trump had said
:12:14. > :12:23.all of the things you said he said in the way you said he said them,
:12:24. > :12:26.he still wouldn't have a fraction of the insults that Hillary Clinton
:12:27. > :12:29.levelled when she said that half of our supporters were
:12:30. > :12:31.a basket of deplorables. The Virginia Senator often
:12:32. > :12:36.interrupted the Governor's answers. He ended up talking
:12:37. > :12:38.about Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton,
:12:39. > :12:39.and he didn't manage The problem with nuclear
:12:40. > :12:47.proliferation is that some fool or maniac could trigger
:12:48. > :12:51.a catastrophic event, Senator, that was even beneath
:12:52. > :12:57.you and Hillary Clinton The pressure was all on Mike Pence
:12:58. > :13:03.tonight after a dreadful week He gave a decent performance, quite
:13:04. > :13:11.confident, but will his attempts to defend his boss resonate
:13:12. > :13:14.with voters when there is just 34 The British Prime Minister says
:13:15. > :13:22.she wants British companies to have the maximum freedom
:13:23. > :13:24.to operate in the single market But Theresa May told
:13:25. > :13:28.the Conservative party annual conference that she
:13:29. > :13:31.wants to keep control of immigration and stay outside
:13:32. > :13:48.the jurisdiction of European courts. It was quiet resolve that propelled
:13:49. > :13:57.her onto the main stage less than 100 days ago. What is my vision for
:13:58. > :14:02.Britain? My philosophy, my approach? The referendum changed everything.
:14:03. > :14:08.It is her time now. In June, people voted for change and that change is
:14:09. > :14:14.going to come. Because of the quiet resolution that took place in our
:14:15. > :14:17.country just three months ago. A revolution in which millions of our
:14:18. > :14:27.fellow citizens stood up and said they were not prepared to be ignored
:14:28. > :14:31.any more. So stand by for a meritocracy. Easy to say, much
:14:32. > :14:34.harder to make it happen. I want is to be a country where it doesn't
:14:35. > :14:38.matter where you were born, who your parents are, where you went to
:14:39. > :14:42.school, what your accent sounds like, what got you worship, whether
:14:43. > :14:46.you are a minority women, gay or straight, black or white, all that
:14:47. > :14:53.should matter is the talent you have and how hard you are prepared to
:14:54. > :14:57.work. Three months ago, it might not have been hurt. Now firmly in
:14:58. > :15:02.charge, Theresa May wants to take a party down a different road. It is
:15:03. > :15:08.time to remember the good that Government can do. Time to reject
:15:09. > :15:12.the ideological templates provided by the socialist left and the
:15:13. > :15:18.libertarian right. And to embrace a new centre ground in which
:15:19. > :15:23.Government steps in to act on behalf of is all. A Tory Prime Minister
:15:24. > :15:30.applauded for praising the state. It was a speech about basic beliefs. To
:15:31. > :15:33.the audience here and far beyond. But you -- but above all, it was his
:15:34. > :15:39.portrait of the leaders she hopes to be. But political success is
:15:40. > :15:46.determined over years, not one platform performance. Theresa May's
:15:47. > :15:50.offered to you? And do the right thing and the Government will be on
:15:51. > :15:55.your side. The state can be a force for good. She wants to skip up
:15:56. > :15:59.voters in the middle as Labour moved to the left, but ultimately, she
:16:00. > :16:04.will be judged by what he does and what he says on the platform.
:16:05. > :16:07.Bringing this hall to its feet, the Tory party together, is one thing.
:16:08. > :16:15.Persuading the country to follow her now is very different.
:16:16. > :16:18.The Syrian army says it will reduce air strikes and shelling
:16:19. > :16:33.The announcement comes after increasing international
:16:34. > :16:34.criticism against the Syrian government and Russia
:16:35. > :16:37.in their joint campaign to retake the contested city.
:16:38. > :16:39.Meanwhile earlier today, the UN said last month's attack
:16:40. > :16:42.on an aid convoy was most likely the result of an air strike,
:16:43. > :16:45.At least 18 people were killed when lorries unloading supplies
:16:46. > :16:48.The US believes Russian warplanes bombed the convoy,
:16:49. > :16:52.Let's speak now to Louisa Loveluck from the Washington Post who's also
:16:53. > :16:54.been investigating the attack on the convoy.
:16:55. > :16:59.Does the UN assessment tally with what you found?
:17:00. > :17:05.No. When news of this broke, a lot of people but it was a mistake. And
:17:06. > :17:08.when you look back, you see that the coordinates of the aid convoy were
:17:09. > :17:11.marked and there was also a brush and drawn in the sky until the last
:17:12. > :17:15.minute monitoring the movements of the convoy and what we found when we
:17:16. > :17:19.spoke to eyewitnesses and we analysed a lot of footage and
:17:20. > :17:24.photographs was that this was a sustained and possibly even for our
:17:25. > :17:30.attack. It involved both Syrian helicopters and Russian warplanes.
:17:31. > :17:34.It was first attacking the aid convoy and then attacking the rescue
:17:35. > :17:40.workers who arrived to try to help the injured and dead. Aleppo is a
:17:41. > :17:44.conflict is all now so it is difficult even for aid agencies to
:17:45. > :17:46.get in, who have protection. Our new conducting your research and
:17:47. > :17:50.analysis from where you are in Washington? Well, we were lucky
:17:51. > :17:53.enough to speak to several eyewitnesses. Several of them were
:17:54. > :17:56.rescue workers who arrived at the scene. Some of them are actually
:17:57. > :17:59.showing in the footage at the moment. We also spoke to several
:18:00. > :18:03.other people who did not go on record but were very helpful in
:18:04. > :18:07.telling us what they had seen. We then moved on and we looked at
:18:08. > :18:11.social media, videos and pictures, and that turned out to be the most
:18:12. > :18:14.helpful was we went back to photos of the debris. We looked at the bomb
:18:15. > :18:17.fragments that were found and found and time and time again they showed
:18:18. > :18:21.that these were Russian munitions that were found in the degree along
:18:22. > :18:26.with the bodies of the aid workers. Russia today have said that they
:18:27. > :18:28.will reduce the amount of strikes in and around Aleppo. Do you hold out
:18:29. > :18:33.much hope that those promises will be fulfilled in the weeks ahead?
:18:34. > :18:36.Well, it is very difficult to say at the moment. But I think there has
:18:37. > :18:39.certainly been a pattern over the last Europe Russian intervention
:18:40. > :18:43.where Russia has said one thing and then quite frankly it has done
:18:44. > :18:47.another. This aid convoy was something that was meant to come
:18:48. > :18:49.with the guarantee of safety from both Russia and the Syrian
:18:50. > :18:54.Government and of course that did work. If these are strikes to
:18:55. > :19:01.reduce, it is certainly not an end to the war around Aleppo. It would
:19:02. > :19:04.seem to be that the Russians are pushing to have the area emptied of
:19:05. > :19:09.civilians and I think that is something that would really
:19:10. > :19:13.radically change the area around Aleppo and the Fermanagh during
:19:14. > :19:16.crisis there. Just briefly, you have studied Aleppo and spoken to people
:19:17. > :19:19.who live there on the ground. It seems like it is a massive flash
:19:20. > :19:22.point at the moment. If it does indeed follow in the coming weeks
:19:23. > :19:26.and months, what does that mean for the opposition in Syria? One thing
:19:27. > :19:30.it does mean is that the Government would be able to cling onto its hope
:19:31. > :19:34.of finishing this war with the whole of Syria under its control. If the
:19:35. > :19:40.rebels do lose it after four years, it would be a crushing psychological
:19:41. > :19:44.blow to an insurgency which has really seen the northern provinces
:19:45. > :19:47.and particularly east of Aleppo as the heart of their fight. They would
:19:48. > :19:53.probably pull back. They would go to areas in the North. But ultimately,
:19:54. > :20:01.it could well be the beginning of the end for this insurgency. Louisa,
:20:02. > :20:06.thanks very much. As I mentioned to Louisa, in the last hour, the Syrian
:20:07. > :20:11.Government has announced a reduction in the number of air strikes on
:20:12. > :20:15.Aleppo. Armed Forces have been cutting of all terrorist supply
:20:16. > :20:19.routes. The announcement comes after international criticism of the
:20:20. > :20:20.Government and Russia has joined the campaign to retake the city from
:20:21. > :20:21.rebels. It takes extraordinary
:20:22. > :20:23.physical and mental strength to complete a marathon -
:20:24. > :20:26.so imagine how much it takes to run That's the same as jogging
:20:27. > :20:32.from here in London to Sydney. Well, British man Ben Smith has
:20:33. > :20:34.been doing just that. Today, he's finished the challenge
:20:35. > :20:36.in the city of Bristol. Karin Giannone caught
:20:37. > :20:50.up with at the finish. We are at the finish line, 401 days
:20:51. > :20:54.after the challenge began. Ben Smith is here. He made it. Then, it was
:20:55. > :20:59.hard not to shed a tear when you came across with all those children.
:21:00. > :21:02.What was going through your mind? I was in a bit of shock. I am going to
:21:03. > :21:05.be perfectly honest with you. I started to feel it as I came into
:21:06. > :21:13.Mullany and square, seeing all the people who turned out to support
:21:14. > :21:15.this and running with the people that have run with before. It has
:21:16. > :21:18.been a magical experience. It has been incredible. The way you feel
:21:19. > :21:21.today to what motivated you to start this in the first place. Take us
:21:22. > :21:25.back to that motivation. It all started where I was ten years old
:21:26. > :21:29.and I went to school and I started to get bullied. I was made to feel
:21:30. > :21:33.weak. I was made to feel not good enough. And unfortunately, I was
:21:34. > :21:37.bullied because I was gay and that lasted for eight years and it got to
:21:38. > :21:41.the point when I did not want to be here. I felt like I couldn't be who
:21:42. > :21:46.I wanted to be and be strong. To now, I am stood here in front of you
:21:47. > :21:50.having run 401 marathons and no one has ever done that before in 401
:21:51. > :21:56.days. Idle stronger than ever and I feel proud to be who I am. What
:21:57. > :22:00.happens now? What is going to happen to you? I'm going to go off and have
:22:01. > :22:04.dinner with my family in a bit, so that we can celebrate. As of
:22:05. > :22:08.tomorrow, plans start to be put in place for the 41 foundation which
:22:09. > :22:11.will carry on the legacy of what I have created here. We have such an
:22:12. > :22:14.engaged following of people who have been so supportive and want to
:22:15. > :22:18.season change and hopefully people will start having conversations now
:22:19. > :22:21.and not feeling ashamed about who they are going through bullying.
:22:22. > :22:26.That is what we wanted to try to get out of this. That is the grassroots
:22:27. > :22:29.movement that I wanted to create. Then, thank you very much. It has
:22:30. > :22:35.been an amazing experience to see how Ben was welcomed back to
:22:36. > :22:37.Bristol. It has made a mark over these 401 days. For 13 months, he
:22:38. > :22:39.has been running constantly. Ben Smith, back in his home city
:22:40. > :22:42.of Bristol after a journey that's Human life expectancy increased
:22:43. > :22:46.steadily throughout the 20th century, but the trend has slowed
:22:47. > :22:49.over the last few decades. Now scientists believe we may
:22:50. > :22:51.be reaching the limit A team from America,
:22:52. > :22:54.looking at numbers from around the world,
:22:55. > :22:57.suggest that 115 years old is the best most
:22:58. > :22:59.of us can hope for. Our medical correspondent
:23:00. > :23:05.Fergus Walsh reports. Aged 112, Bessie Camm
:23:06. > :23:14.is the oldest person in Britain. The former nurse was born in 1904
:23:15. > :23:17.when Florence Nightingale was still alive, and the First
:23:18. > :23:24.World War a decade off. I never had a quarrel
:23:25. > :23:30.with a soul in my life. I've always been an easy-going
:23:31. > :23:35.person who listened. But no one has come close to
:23:36. > :23:39.matching Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 aged 122,
:23:40. > :23:47.the oldest person who ever lived. Research in the journal Nature
:23:48. > :23:49.suggests human life span More and more of us are living
:23:50. > :23:59.to a ripe old age. Just look at how life expectancy has
:24:00. > :24:04.risen relentlessly since 1900. Apart from dips in the First
:24:05. > :24:09.and Second World Wars. And notice that women,
:24:10. > :24:13.the red line here, generally live In the UK there are now more
:24:14. > :24:18.than half a million people aged 19 - aged 90 and over, more than double
:24:19. > :24:21.the number 30 years ago. The number of
:24:22. > :24:26.centenarians is soaring. From 3,500 to 14,500,
:24:27. > :24:31.a fourfold increase. But, while more and more of us
:24:32. > :24:35.will live beyond 100, researchers say the maximum age
:24:36. > :24:37.of death has plateaued And only a handful of individuals
:24:38. > :24:46.worldwide will live beyond that. At the moment most people die
:24:47. > :24:50.between about 65 and 95. That is likely to shift upwards
:24:51. > :24:54.with current health trends, although of course the wave
:24:55. > :24:57.of obesity amongst the young We may start to see
:24:58. > :25:01.the population splitting along Scientists are trying to discover
:25:02. > :25:13.how to halt the natural ageing process, but until they do,
:25:14. > :25:16.few of us can hope to match Just before we go -
:25:17. > :25:24.this year's Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded
:25:25. > :25:28.to three European scientists. Jean-Pierre Sauvage,
:25:29. > :25:29.Bernard Feringa and Fraser Stoddart were honoured for their work
:25:30. > :25:32.on what's been described They're actually molecules
:25:33. > :25:37.with controllable movements, which can be used to perform tasks
:25:38. > :25:42.on a microscopic scale. But for now from me and the rest
:25:43. > :26:04.of the team, goodbye. Rain-bearing low pressure systems
:26:05. > :26:08.over the Atlantic are currently being blocked from coming
:26:09. > :26:11.to our shores by a huge