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