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the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
A crowd of 10,000 including heads of state and government and members | :00:10. | :00:23. | |
of the Royal Family joined descendants of those who fought 100 | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
They heard the words of those who went 'over the top' | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
on the 1st of July 1916, a day of huge losses for British | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
and French forces trying to break through German defences. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
There's a job to be done, and you just got on and did it. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
I was more frightened going up to the trenches, sitting, | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
The day was also marked across the UK with guns fired | :00:48. | :01:05. | |
to signal the time when the troops were | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
The Chancellor's hopes of achieving a budget surplus | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
He says post Brexit, the nation can't afford it. | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
Michael Gove pledges to leave the EU single market, | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
as he sets out why he should be the next Prime Minister. | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
I was so very reluctant because I know my limitations. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Whatever charisma is, I don't have it. | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
Whatever glamour may be, I don't think anyone can | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
A gun attack has left two policemen dead, and at least 20 people | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
have been taken hostage, at a restaurant in the | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. | :01:47. | :01:47. | |
So called Islamic State claim responsibility. | :01:48. | :01:59. | |
Ramsey's corner, Williams! What a goal! In towards Volkswagen! | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
And the wonder goal that put Wales into the semi finals | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
-- Vokes. The fans go mad as they celebrate | :02:11. | :02:27. | |
the success. And coming up on BBC News, more | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
reaction to the final and also highlights of today's play at | :02:33. | :02:33. | |
Wimbledon. Good evening from Thiepval | :02:34. | :02:48. | |
in Northern France where earlier today a crowd | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
of 10,000 came together, including heads of state and government | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
and members of the Royal Family to mark the centenary | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
of the Battle of the Somme It was the bloodiest | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
battle in the history of the British Armed Forces | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
and the battle that came to define the brutality and horror | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
of the First World War. The ceremony was held | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
in the shadow of the famous memorial here at Thiepval | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
which bears the names of 72,000 British and South African troops | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
whose bodies were never found. The Prince of Wales, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
David Cameron and President Hollande were among those who took part | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
in the presence of hundreds of descendants of those who fought | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
as our Special Correspondent It is the largest First World War | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
memorial anywhere, its scale commensurate with the loss of life | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
in these fields. It is a memorial to | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
the missing of the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
known graves are carved here. Its plea to posterity, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
to us, is plain - never forget. Heads of state and government, | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
present and future, listened to Clive Adlam as he read | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
the words of his father, Lieutenant Tom Adlam, | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
who fought and survived. You did a job out there | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
and I never realised that there was anything | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
unusual about it. There was a job to be done | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
and you just got on and did it. I was more frightened going up | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
to the trenches, sitting, I was very frightened then, | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
very frightened indeed. We were taught we had to be | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
an example to our men and that, if we went forward, | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
they would go with you, you see. And you'd sort of lose your sense | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
of fear, thinking The nurse, Olive Dent, | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
treated the wounded. Here, her words described that | :04:39. | :05:03. | |
first week on the Somme. I am too tired to sleep, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
too tired to shut out of sight and mind the passionate appeal | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
of two dying eyes and the low faint whisper of, "Sister, | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
am I going to die?" A week after Britain voted to leave | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
the European Union, David Cameron took his place beneath the memorial | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
to the enduring alliance between the UK and France, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
and described a moment of mutual respect between enemies as a British | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
major risked his life to rescue a wounded soldier | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
from no man's land. He walked as though | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
he was on parade. The Germans never fired a shot | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
at him as he went. They never fired a shot | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
as he went back. And they cheered him as he lifted | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
the man onto his shoulders. The poppy and, in France, | :05:55. | :06:12. | |
the blue cornflower are the emblems of the sorrow of war marked | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
in two minutes of silence. In these moments of remembrance, | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
the dead cry out their warning In the words of the poet | :06:18. | :06:33. | |
Siegfried Sassoon, recited here today, "Do you ever stop | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
and ask, 'Will it all happen again?' Look down and swear | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
by the slain of the war that There have been many | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
events organised today to mark the centenary of the first | :06:49. | :07:02. | |
day of the Battle of the Somme, some in France but many | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
in different parts The national commemoration in the UK | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
was held in Manchester reflecting the fact that | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
so many of the so-called Pals' Battalions, | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
the volunteers who joined up with friends and colleagues, | :07:15. | :07:15. | |
came from the north of England as our correspondent Judith Moritz | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
reports. The signal that sent the men over | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
the top sounded today in The Somme is sewn into | :07:28. | :08:05. | |
the history of Manchester. A service to honour the pals, | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
groups of friends The boys in khaki were | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
friendly, cheery and full There was a sense of hope | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
and exhilaration in the air. On this day we remember | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
before you all who experienced the Battle | :08:34. | :08:43. | |
on Those who faced the terrible | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
waste and devastation. The ghosts of the battle came alive | :08:46. | :08:56. | |
through theatre on the streets. Connecting the past to the present | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
here in Manchester and across the UK today, the soldiers of the Somme | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
have been rubbing shoulders with commuters and shoppers, bringing | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
a flavour of 1916 into the 21st Volunteers and veterans marched | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
in memory, parading among them was Louis Roskell, whose father | :09:11. | :09:26. | |
Alfred served at the Somme. I'm quite proud to be | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
here and to see My dad was a very retiring sort | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
of chap, not the sort of guy to put himself forward | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
so I feel I'm doing it for him. I want to demonstrate | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
that he was there are I want to demonstrate | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
that he was there and Alfred Roskell trained for battle | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
in camp at Manchester's Heaton Park. Tonight, the Park hosted a concert, | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
telling the story of the Somme | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
to a new generation. Judith Moritz, BBC News, | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Manchester. The site here at Thiepval | :10:02. | :10:15. | |
is visited by around 300,000 people a year and it wouldn't | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
be at all surprising if those numbers didn't rise | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
after today's event it really is an impressive | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
site on the Somme, looked after by the Commonwealth War | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Graves Commission. We'll be back at Thiepval | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
later in the programme but for now it's back to Clive | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
in the studio. The Chancellor George Osborne, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
has abandoned his aim of achieving a budget surplus by the end | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
of the decade. It's been a lynchpin | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
of economic strategy, driving austerity measures | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
in several budgets. But in response to the EU | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
referendum result, he said the public had to be realistic | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
about what could be achieved. Here's our Economics | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
Editor, Kamal Ahmed. We will fix the roof | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
when the sun is shining. And we are going to fix the roof | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
when the sun shines. Fixing the roof when | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
the sun is shining. Repairing the public | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
finances while the economy Many predict the post Brexit will be | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
weaker sunshine will be weaker for the UK economy, | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
try to rethink that 2020 pledge. It's incredibly important | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
we maintain fiscal credibility, that we are tough on the deficit, | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
whilst being realistic about achieving the surplus | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
by the end of the decade. That is exactly what our fiscal | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
rules provided for, they explicitly acknowledge the impact | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
of a significant negative shock. The Chancellor insisted he was not | :11:28. | :11:39. | |
breaking his own budget rules - the austerity target | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
on cutting public spending So how has Brexit changed | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the long-term economic plan? Since 2010, the Government has cut | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
public spending by 10%. The amount the Government borrows | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
has fallen from ?137 billion That has meant a lot | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
of cuts and tax rises. Now the Chancellor ditched | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
the Government's target of balancing the books by 2020, | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
a worst economic outlook post Three weeks ago, the Chancellor | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
claiming an emergency budget would have to find ?30 billion | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
of tax rises and spending cuts immediately, that doesn't look | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
like happening any time soon, In some ways I am pleased, | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
He's acknowledged the reality In some ways I am pleased, | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
he's acknowledged the reality What we need now is a clear | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
investment programme, so we can counter the recessionary | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
trend on our economy, and also to start investing in some | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
of the areas that felt left behind But pain deferred for the country | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
is not pain cancelled. Chancellors have choices | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
about what they do into the future but it looks like we will be | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
borrowing a lot more in 2020 That will have to be | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
paid down at some point, so it may be that we could get more | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
austerity in the 2020s, it may not just be one decade but | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
a decade-and-a-half of austerity. I think reality bit today | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
for the Chancellor and his officials An economic reality | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
and a political reality. Few economists would want to be | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
raising taxes and cutting spending in the teeth of a possible | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
contraction in the economy, and politically, Theresa May, | :13:18. | :13:19. | |
the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, has said | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
she wants to consign George Osborne's pledges on spending | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
to the waste paper basket. Frankly, George Osborne | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
had nowhere else to go. He's been the hard hat, | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
high-vis Chancellor, warning that we are facing | :13:34. | :13:34. | |
an economic shock but we have not had post referendum economic data | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
yet and the markets have Whatever happens, Mr Osborne | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
wants to be prepared Michael Gove has laid | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
out his vision for the country, if he becomes the next Conservative | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
leader and Prime Minister. He described himself today | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
as a candidate for change, and that he would stand | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
by the promises the Vote Leave campaign made during the EU | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
referendum, including ending free movement and increasing | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
spending on the NHS. Mr Gove also defended | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
withdrawing his support for Boris Johnson in | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
the leadership race. Our Deputy Political Editor | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
John Pienaar has more. He doesn't look like a political | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
assassin but he is to a lot of Tory The man who stabbed his friend | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Boris Johnson in the back. I'll be giving a speech at 11 | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
o'clock this morning at Policy Exchange and I look | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
forward to seeing you there. Charming as ever but launching his | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
own leadership campaign he painted his main rival | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
for the premiership Theresa May as the safe, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
maybe even dull, option. He was out to win Tory | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
heads and hearts. What this country needs | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
is a Prime Minister not just with a cool head in office, | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
but a heart burning with a desire for change, not just a plan to make | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
do and mend, but a vision to transform our country | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
for the better. His cheerleading section of MPs is | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
smaller than Theresa May's though. Some can't forgive him | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
for what they see as treachery, backing Boris Johnson then deserting | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
and running himself. I stand here and I'm standing | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
for the leadership not as a result of calculation, certainly not | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
as a result of calculation. I'm standing because I have | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
a burning desire to transform There was plenty of policy - | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
a points system to pick and choose No need for Scottish independence, | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
more devolution of power instead. To build that new union, | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
the United Kingdom matters so much And another ?100 million | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
a week for the NHS. I'll put my heart and soul | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
into making sure that the care that your son or daughter or mum | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
or dad receives is the same that You were very clear that | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Boris Johnson does not have what it Does Theresa May have what it takes | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
to be Prime Minister? Theresa did not argue | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
for and did not put the case for Britain leaving | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
the European Union and that is a fundamental division of principle | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
between the two of us. Your assassination of Boris Johnson | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
- if I could put it that way - has cost you quite a lot of kindness | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
and respect among your colleagues. If you're the sort of person | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
who worries about personal criticism, if you're the sort | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
of person who allows the attacks from others to get under your skin, | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
you shouldn't be leader. Theresa May has strong support | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
in a contest where Tory members will pick their leader | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
and Britain's Prime I think he's proved himself to be | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
a very divisive figure and I don't think he's conducted himself very | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
well, so I would hope that he might now take the right decision over | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
the weekend and stand down. Among MPs Theresa May | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
is the favourite. She's the safe pair of hands | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
candidate and that may appeal to Conservatives with so many doubts | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
hanging over the economy. The perception of treachery | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
will hurt Michael Gove. It will make it harder for him | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
to touch Tory hearts and minds after his successful operation | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
to destroy one of Britain's Today, Boris Johnson | :17:19. | :17:20. | |
was pondering his future and the past 48 hours, | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
which for him had I cannot unfortunately get | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
on with doing what I wanted to do, so it'll be up to somebody else now | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
and I wish him every The Shadow Chancellor John | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
McDonnell, says Jeremy Corbyn is likely to face a challenge | :17:39. | :17:50. | |
for the Labour leadership But he maintains Mr Corbyn | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
is "staying as leader" and would win any contest, | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
despite the resignations of dozens of front bench MPs, and a no | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
confidence vote against him. He says it's up to the wider | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
membership to decide It's been a crucial night for Wales, | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
with their most important football match in more than 50 years, | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
playing Belgium in the quarter Our Wales Correspondent | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Hywel Griffith joins us from the stadium in Lille, | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
and what a night it's been Hywel. Yes, Clive. Wales arrived at this | :18:21. | :18:35. | |
tournament without the weight of expectation and pressure that seems | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
to be so heavy on other teams. They've taken to it with a smile and | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
a song and tonight have proven that team spirit can be enough to sell | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
one of the finest teams in the world. -- fell. | :18:49. | :18:57. | |
Loud, proud and desperate to stay in Europe. Few Welsh fans dared believe | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
their team could make it this far. But diaries were cleared, life | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
savings spent, anything to be here. It's been 58 years since the last | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
time. You've got to make the effort, it's a once-in-a-lifetime. The | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
atmosphere is amazing, absolutely amazing. And Wales will win? Of | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
course! With the stadium only eight miles from the border, Belgium | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
almost had home advantage while Wales had familiar weather. There | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
was no time to soak in the atmosphere as Belgium unleashed a | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
torrent of attacks once, twice, three times Wales held on. But it | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
couldn't last. As Nainggolan Centre Thunderball through the Welsh | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
defence. COMMENTATOR: | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
His gourds magnificently! Just as it seemed Welsh hopes had been grounded | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
they found their feet and took flight, cached -- Captain Ashley | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Williams with only his second ever international goal. Every Welsh fan | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
suddenly saw him. And then time to reach cloud nine. Aaron Ramsey's | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
pass found Hal Robson-Kanu, a Championship striker with a | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
world-class finish. COMMENTATOR: | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
What a goal! If Wales could barely believe it, neither could their | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
opponents. Marouane Fellaini heading wide and Belgium heading home. Sam | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Vokes made sure they left with Welsh voices ringing in their ears. And a | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
song of pure joy. COMMENTATOR: | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
That's the whistle that counts. This has never happened to me, I've | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
enjoyed it. We're not here to enjoy it, we are here to compete. We have | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
something to offer. Already the most successful Welsh football team ever, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
the story isn't over. Wales now stand just a game away from the | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
final. What a journey the Wales team has | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
been on. The form book suggested they should have been home by now. I | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
don't think anyone dared to dream that Wales would still be here now, | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
one game away from the final! They have beaten Belgium before the | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
qualifying rounds for this tournament, yes, they have shown | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
that they can really pull out some surprising results, but all that has | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
been ripped up. Wales are writing new chapters in their history now, | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
surpassing the heroics of the team in 1958. This is the best ever Welsh | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
football team. So what next? A semifinal in Lyon against Portugal. | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
That's where we will feed two the lack to cope As collide, Cristiano | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Ronaldo carrying his team to the semifinal, Gareth Bale a key part of | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
the night but what was really interesting is that Gareth Bale | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
wasn't amongst the goals. Gareth Bale didn't create everything. Wales | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
have shown that they are a team that works together and gets the results | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
on the pitch, surpassing all the other home nations, surpassing all | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
the favourites in the tournaments. There are very, very many people who | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
have been dancing around their living rooms to night, dancing on | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
the streets of Lille. This is one for them and for all those people | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
who are starting to lose their voice. Wales are absolutely in | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
dreamland. Many thanks for that, Hywel Griffith in Lille. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories. | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
A convicted paedophile has been sentenced to 24 years in prison | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
Douglas Slade was found guilty on Monday of 13 counts | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
of historical child sex abuse, involving boys as young as 10. | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
He was expelled from the Philippines last year to face the charges. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Austria's highest court has annulled the result of May's | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
presidential election, saying there has to be a re-run.The | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Green Party had won by less than one percentage point, | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
with the right wing Freedom Party contesting the result. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
Researchers say they have the first clear evidence that the hole | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has begun to shrink. | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
A study found that it was 1.5 million square miles smaller | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
than at the beginning of the century - an area roughly the size of India. | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
The chemicals which cause the problem - CFCs - were banned | :23:17. | :23:18. | |
Police in Bangladesh say suspected Islamist extremists | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
have attacked a cafe, in the diplomatic quarter | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
Two policemen have been killed and it's understood up to 20 people | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
A number of foreigners are among those being held. | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
The cafe is in the upmarket district of Gulshan, and is popular | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
So-called Islamic State has claimed responsibility. Here's our | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
correspondent, Sanjoy Majumder. The attack has taken place | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
in Dhaka's main diplomatic area, in a cafe popular with expats | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
and wealthy Bangladeshis. Several foreigners were inside | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
the cafe when the gunmen stormed in. This man was working | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
in the restaurant and TRANSLATION: I was working | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
in the pizza kitchen and saw two I managed to make it | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
onto the roof of the building. They were throwing bombs | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
and the windows were shaking. And then explosions, | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
apparently set off by the attackers. Several people have been injured | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
and have been rushed to hospital. Elite Bangladeshi police units have | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
now been deployed and are attempting In Washington a State Department | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
official said they were keeping They're obviously in constant touch | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
with Bangladeshi authorities as they continue to work | :24:44. | :24:52. | |
through this very fluid, It's not yet clear who | :24:53. | :24:54. | |
is behind this attack, although the so-called Islamic State | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
has claimed responsibility. Bangladesh has seen a wave | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
of killings over the past year, targeting religious minorities, | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
bloggers and foreigners. They have been blamed on local | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
militants but there's a suggestion there are links with global | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
Islamist groups such as IS. Sanjoy Majumder, BBC News, | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Delhi. Let's return now to the 100th | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
anniversary commemorations, of the start of the | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
Battle of the Somme. Huw is in Thiepval | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
in Northern France. There were many nations | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
represented here today a reminder that soldiers | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
from different parts of the world fought | :25:41. | :25:41. | |
for the British on the Somme and in some cases that involved both | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
supporters and enemies of the British Empire fighting | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
shoulder to shoulder. The loyalist Ulster Division | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
and the nationalist Irish volunteers were on the verge of | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
civil war in Ireland when the First World War started | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
but at the Somme they Our special correspondent | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Fergal Keane tells the story. "I couldn't tell you | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
what it was like," wrote A century on and the slaughter | :26:06. | :26:20. | |
still challenges the imagination. But today, that bloody history | :26:21. | :26:38. | |
is being marshalled to shape The Orangemen of Ulster | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
and ministers from South and North We do them no service if we do not | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
relate them to today and to our hopes and our prayers | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
and our aspirations for the future. # When we charged this morning | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
with a great and mighty yell #. The Somme is central | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
to Ulster Protestant identity. 2200 Ulstermen were | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
killed on the first day. It was loyalty with an emphatic | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
political purpose, for after this how could Britain abandon | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
Ulster to Irish home rule? In east Belfast, Darren Wray | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
feels a direct connection with the cause his great grandfather | :27:32. | :27:33. | |
Thomas died for on the first I firmly believe that my future | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
and the future of this country is better off | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
within the United Kingdom. I understand that's what those | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
guys felt back then. I personally don't think attitudes | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
have changed that much. But the Somme is also part | :27:48. | :27:57. | |
of southern Irish history. Tens of thousands of Irish Catholics | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
fought, believing loyalty would persuade Britain to grant | :28:05. | :28:06. | |
Irish home rule. But revolution at home brought | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
an end to empire and a new national story in which there was no space | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
for men like William Dodd, In Dublin, his descendant recalled | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
those narrower times. People didn't want to see to be | :28:21. | :28:28. | |
basically lining up with Britain. If you were a person | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
who was involved in commemorating a memory of these people, you | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
weren't, it wasn't the thing to do. Ireland has travelled far, | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
from a time when gunmen claiming the mantle of the Somme murdered | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
Catholics and the IRA bombed To this, a Queen and President | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
paying homage to the dead At the Somme today, Darren Wray | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
and William Dodd both remembered It's great to see now the | :28:57. | :29:07. | |
Orange government. It's been more accepted | :29:08. | :29:14. | |
now North and South. And so it should be, | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
coming from the background that I come from and seeing what has | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
happened, I can't help On an old battlefield it is peace | :29:22. | :29:23. | |
that now casts the longer shadow. Fergal Keane there on the complex | :29:24. | :29:52. | |
Towie Irish dimension in the history of the of the Somme. -- complexity. | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
That's all from us here at Thiepval tonight | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
in a moment on BBC ONE we'll join our news | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
But we'll leave you with some of the sights and sounds and words | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
from today's commemorations on this 100th anniversary | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
of the start of the Battle of the Somme. | :30:08. | :30:09. | |
Look up and swear by the green of the spring that | :30:10. | :31:08. |