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Next source. The fate of flight MH17 has confirmed. A rebel source | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
brought the plane down in 2013. For the first time in Barack Obama's | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
tenure, the US Senate and Congress have overturned a presidential veto. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
The bill will allow families of the victims of 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Tributes to Siobhan Peres have been paid across the world. He was a | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
giant of Israeli politics. We will talk to Jeremy Bowen about his | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
career in politics in half an hour. And an effort to tackle sexism in | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
online gaming has been the focus of the BBC news beat investigation. We | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
will hear what they have found and how two of the biggest online hosts | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
have reacted to the problem. And Rory Cellan-Jones explains why | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
blackberry will not be making phones any more. | :01:09. | :01:24. | |
Let's start by going through the events that led up to flight MH17 | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
being shot down. We know that it took off from Amsterdam just after | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
10:30pm GMT on July the 17th of 2013. 298 passengers and crew were | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
aboard. It started to travel across central and eastern Europe towards | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
its destination of Kuala Lumpur. It was shot down over the Donetsk | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
region of Ukraine. That is territory that was and is controlled by pro | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Russia rebels. Today, an international investigation has | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
found that the missile that was fired was brought across the border | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
from Russia. If we're going to be precise, we know it was fired six, | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
two South of this particular village, which was also controlled | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
by the rebels. 25 kilometres away was where the plane came down. These | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
pictures show the crash site. We know that everybody on board lost | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
their lives. The investigation found that the missile launcher after the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
attack was then taken back to Russia. They have also made progress | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
in establishing who was responsible. Here is some of what we heard from | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
the investigators. TRANSLATION: There are 100 people who can be | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
linked to the crash of MH17 in one way or another or the transport of | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
the Buk. We have established the identity of some of them. These | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
people were active in getting control of the Buk trailer and | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
transporting it to the launch site. Let's be clear, Russia is denying it | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
had anything to do with this plane coming down. We cannot accept as a | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
final truth what they say. And I bet you have not seen any proof of that | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
statement. We have to be very precise. It is a very serious | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
tragedy. We cannot operate on statements without any proof for | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
details. We know that the details are in there, and unfortunately we | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
are still missing a lot of the details to be able, and to find | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
ourselves able to say that this was that way and this weapon came from | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
that part, or from that direction or from this direction. So that is | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Russia's side of the story. We have this report and allegations and | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
inevitably everyone is asking what happens next. I put that point to | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Richard Wescott. Even if they name names, where do they appear in | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
court? What will the charges be? None of that has been singled out. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
They have exquisitely said that they are going to try to find out who did | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
it first and work out the legal side as they go along. There are plenty | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
of people out there who think this will never end up in a court of law | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
and others are more confident. The investigation team said they were | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
confident it would end up in a court somewhere. Now we find out where the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
missile comes from and it points to having come over the border from | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Russia. But they did not say if it was on purpose or an accident. How | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
high up to the order come? Those crucial questions are still to come. | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
Earlier I played a clip from a Russian spokesperson saying that you | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
cannot make these accusations about sharing proof. Is there no proof in | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the report? There is plenty but some of it is secret. They say the | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Americans have shared secret stuff but they cannot put it out. They | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
also said that the Russians have still to get back to them on various | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
things they have asked for, like basic radar data. They are accusing | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
the Russians of not answering all of their questions. We have heard a lot | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
from Russia and the investigation has gone along. They have been | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
vociferously against it. Initially they said it was a Ukrainian | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
aircraft that brought down and then they said it was Ukrainians their | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
side. They are saying different things all along. It is not | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
surprising that they have reiterated that. It was Ukrainians, not the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
rebels and not us. In many ways, this is a tragic one-off. Has it | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
changed the airline industry in any particular way? Probably not. They | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
still fly over dangerous areas. If you look at maps, would be surprised | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
that some of the countries people fly over. It is about the heights. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
In the Ukraine they were not supposed to fly below 26,000 feet. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Above that height, it was meant to be safer. 160 ordinary planes went | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
over that route on the same day. It was deemed to be a safe route and | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
nobody thought a missile could get that high. But we still fly high | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
zones deemed to be safer. It is down to the country to say whether it is | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
safe and the airlines will listen to that advice and their own | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
government. Safety, they always say, is that first. No-one is wanting a | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
repeat of this. But he would be surprised, to see the countries you | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
flyover perfectly safety, some of them are very troubled countries. In | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
the last hour we have had details of a school shooting in the US. These | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
are some of the pictures that we have. A feed showing an elementary | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
school in South Carolina. That is where the shooting is taken place. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
The gunman is in custody. This is the local sheriff speaking earlier. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
We have one sugar in custody. We have 300, two students that have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
been taken to the paediatric trauma centre. And we have one teacher that | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
has been taken in the Lima to hospital. We do not know the extent | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
of their injuries. We're trying to put together the facts. We have | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
searched the school. Our squad team has been engaged. We do not know | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
about any other shooters and everything appears safer. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
We have taken the students to a nearby church and the district force | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
have put out a text message alert that that is where the kids are. All | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
the kids are safe and we will be providing relevant information from | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
our emergency operations centre in a couple of hours. More information on | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
that as and when we get it. Now this is the Justice Against Sponsors of | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Terrorism Act. It was introduced last year by the US Senate and the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
house. It will allow families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
But last month President Obama vetoed it. Well, now the Senate and | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
the house have again backed it, overriding the presidential veto. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Here is one Democrat talking before the vote. | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
I heard my colleagues -- I urge my colleagues to move swiftly and | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
soundly to reverse this veto. So that these families can have their | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
day in court. That is what the legal system in this country is designed | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
to do. These families will never get back their loved ones. But they | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
deserve justice. The White House is unimpressed. They | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
have said, this is the single most embarrassing this US Senate has done | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
since 1983. And the CIA has concerns. Its director said: | :08:47. | :08:56. | |
Let's bring in Barbara Plett usher in Washington, who has been covering | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
this. But this in some context for us. How | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
often do both houses pushback at a presidential veto? It is not unusual | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
for there to be a veto override coming to the end of a President's | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
term. This Congress is deeply polarised, so it is quite unusual | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
for there to be joint action on this. And then more than two thirds | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
in both houses, and overwhelming vote. So why is there such a divide | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
between the Democratic president and the house and the Senate Democrats? | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
It is a 9/11 thing. The lawmakers have sympathy for the victims of the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
families and the victims of 9/11. There is a general feeling that they | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
deserve a day in court and they should be able to take the Saudis to | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
court. If the Saudis are guilty, they should be able to be | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
prosecuted. That is the general thing. And it has been able to move | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
through more easily now because there is more of an open questioning | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
about the alliance with Saudi Arabia. Not that the alliance is in | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
danger but lawmakers are more willing to ask questions about | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
elements of it, so I think that has contributed. And you were explained | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
earlier that the president has now comeback at this stage. How quickly | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
might families be able to take legal action? Well, they have tried before | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
to sue the Saudi government, and they have been stopped because | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
foreign governments had immunity from prosecution. Now the Saudi | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
government would not have immunity so they are going to try again. The | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
9/11 commission found that there was no evidence that any senior Saudi | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
officials were complicit in the attack. But the suspicion has | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
remained that lower-level operatives might have been. And that kind of | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
evidence related to that will be brought to court. There is also a | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
bigger financing issue. The attack took place at a time when Islamic | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
charities were funnelling money to extremists and many of these | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
charities did have connections to the government. The Saudis say that | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
they clean that up in the ensuing years but that is a line that the | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
families are also pursuing. Thank you, Barbara. Barbara Plett-Usher, | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
live from Washington, DC. Next, turning to a story that has been | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
given to us by BBC News beat. It is about which, YouTube gaming, and | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
more broadly the issue of sexism in online gaming. Twitch is an online | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
platform where you can watch games being played and talk to other | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
players. It has 100 million users, and it is thought that YouTube | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Gaming could have doubled that. Both have been restating their commitment | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
to take on the issue of sexist abuse in response to a BBC investigation. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
It has documented these kinds of experiences. The most common is | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
probably name calling. They will call you anything from a bitch to a | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
slide. Something that does not really mean anything, anything they | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
can think of and type. Nothing personal. It is very easy to ban | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
trolls so they do not come back but the more difficult ones are when | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
they come back with a new account. And they say more things and start | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
messaging you on other social media, like Twitter or Instagram or even on | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
your console. You can only ban so much but when they going to your | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
viewers and your mods and the people that support you, they do not want | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
to see that. So when they are getting harassed, and it is not just | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
in a day, this is a good few months. And it is not them saying, Candi | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
Lashes, tell her I'm going to come to her house and kill her and her | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
family. That is more extreme. Lot of you watching will play online games | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
and I wonder if you have seen these issues. YouTube has responded, | :13:03. | :13:03. | |
saying: Stefan Powell from BBC News beat has | :13:04. | :13:17. | |
been working on the story and came by earlier. It is around the system | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
that is in place. Twitch have said that they are trying to come up with | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
new, fancy technology to look at the intention of somebody's message. | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
YouTube has taken this, too, saying that they are trying to show diverse | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
faces on the channel. There is a lot of that they are trying to do and | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
they say they are frustrated by the pace of change but they are doing | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
the best they can. Whether that is enough for some of the people being | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
affected, it is difficult for them, I suppose. You can find sexism and | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
misogyny everywhere online. Is there a particular problem with gaming? | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
That is true. It is a point the trade bodies have made. This is an | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
issue that is societywide. There is a shared responsibility to tackle | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
it. Some say that gaming is a particular problem because it is in | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the middle of changing generations from something that was a niche | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
activity to something that everybody does and that might be a reason why | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
it is particularly happening in gaming but it is fair to say that it | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
happens in other areas like film and sport and music. It would be | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
understandable that this puts women off online gaming. Is that borne out | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
by the numbers? There are 20 million people who game in the UK and 42% | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
are women. That is more than it was traditionally. We see more faces on | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
channels like twitch and YouTube, hosts who game like candy, and share | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
their experiences. More people do that. Some of the people we have | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
spoken to at Which, one of their wrappers and steps was telling us | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
that by having a diversification of faces on channels, it will only | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
encourage more women to get involved. Thanks to Stephan for | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
that. If you want more on the story, put Newsbeat and online gaming into | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
any search engine and you will find it. Generally bone is going to be | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
alive to talk to us shortly about a couple of stories in the Middle | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
East. -- Jeremy Bowen. And Rory Cellan-Jones will be talking about | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
BlackBerries, because they are not going to be making smartphones for | :15:24. | :15:24. | |
very much longer. Junior doctors in England have lost | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
a legal challenge in the High Court to stop a new contract. A group | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
called Justice for Health had argued that the contract was unsustainable | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
and unsafe. The Department of Health has welcomed the decision and urged | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
the BMA to remove all threat of further industrial action. Keep them | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
as more on the development in a long-running dispute. On all counts, | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
that were put forward by the junior doctors and lawyers, the judges | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
ruled in favour of the Health Secretary saying that he has acted | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
lawfully. He had acted rationally. And there were no causes, if you | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
like, for a challenge to the way he went about things. Although justice | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
for health have noted that it became clear that actually the government | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
does not have the power to impose a contract because it has individual | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
contracts with the trusts. The government has argued that Jeremy | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Hunt said he was not going to impose it but he wanted it to be adopted. I | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
am seconds in the BBC newsroom and this is Outside Source. Our lead | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
story as prosecutors investigating the shooting down of an aeroplane | :16:46. | :16:54. | |
over eastern Ukraine in 2014 say that the missile launched was from a | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
Russian vehicle. BBC Arabic is reporting that the US is threatening | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
to suspend all Syria related contact with Russia. If Russia does not take | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
immediate action to prevent the assaults on a level. Activists claim | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
that two major trauma hospitals have been targeted. Authorities on the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
Indonesian island of Lombok are tempting to locate hundreds of | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
terrorists thought to be hiking near a volcano that erupted on Tuesday. | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
No injuries have been reported among those who have already been | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
contacted. And a lot of you have been watching this video of Tom | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Hanks interrupting two newlyweds in Central Park in New York. He was out | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
for a jog and they were celebrating and the three of them got together. | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
You can see the video on the BBC newsroom. I want to talk about an | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
important announcement by Opec, the organisation which represents oil | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
producing countries. And it is about to reduce oil output to around 32.5 | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
million barrels a day. That is a drop of 1 million barrels. This is | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
very significant because for a long while the oil prices have been going | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
down and down. They rallied slightly during this year but in the broader | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
context, they are still very low. Opec has resisted reducing | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
production in an effort to push these prices back up. The | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
questionnaires, what has now changed? Let's bring in Samir | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Hussein. Why the change? So, these are preliminary reports suggesting | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
that Opec has come to some sort of an agreement. If you look at the way | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
that oil is trading, it is 5% in the markets. And they are all trading | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
higher on the news. So to your question, what has changed? For a | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
long time Opec and mainly one of the biggest countries producing oil, | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
Saudi Arabia, have been saying we are just going to let the supply and | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
demand work itself out. They saw that the price of oil was plunging. | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
It used to be trading in the hundred dollar range and now it has been | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
trading around 40 or $50. But they always believed that it would work | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
itself out. What they didn't realise is the role that the United States | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
would play in this in terms of their contribution to oil with shale gas. | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
And that has actually been surprisingly resilient. As a result | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
it seems that Opec have been pushed into a situation where they had to | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
make some sort of decision but to be clear, no one really expected | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
anything to come out of this meeting. We're going down to 32.5 | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
million barrels, down 1 million. Is that a big cut, medium-sized? Help | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
us out. It is significant, if not for the number of barrels but for | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
what it singles. We have talked about the price of oil for so many | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
weeks, summoning months. And just the kind of pressure that we see on | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
oil markets, not just oil markets but look at other companies. Exxon | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
would be one company, Caterpillar is another. It is very impacted by the | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
price of oil. It has one of these knock-on effects. This use is really | :20:21. | :20:32. | |
significant. Similarly saying, thank you. Talking about a subject we keep | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
coming back to, let's talk about Deutsche Bank. It is Germany's | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
biggest bank and it is having a difficult week with shares | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
plummeting. They have rallied to some degree but the bank have had to | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
deny that it may need a government bailout. Not that that looks like an | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
option. Germany's Finance Minister has said for one -- has said: From | :20:52. | :21:04. | |
one bank to another, we talked about Wells Fargo a few days ago. Its CEO | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
was heavily criticised by Senators over a fraud where 2 million e-mail | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
accounts were treated, and customers were never told. This was to do with | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
hitting sales targets. He has been hanging onto his job but he will | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
also be hanging onto $40 million worth of equity -- he will not be | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
hanging onto $40 million worth of equity, which he will be handing | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
back, and he will not get a 2016 bonus. Janet Yellen has also been | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
asked about the scandal and here is the exchange she was involved in. We | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
will hold the largest organisations to exceptionally high standards. Of | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
rich management, internal controls, consumer protection, and we | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
expect... -- of risk management. But if Wells Fargo was broken up then | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
instead of holding them up to those really high standards, able could | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
choose which financial institution to go with and they would not pose a | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
systemic risk. By saying you were holding giant institutions up to | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
standards, something you have not been able to do 2 million times, 2 | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
million fully accounts, you are saying you are just going to | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
continue to do a great job of regulating too big to fail, because | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
you will not break them up? We believe it is impossible even though | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
that it is possible, even though it is extremely challenging for | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
organisations... 2 million fully accounts not detected by the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
regulator. Break them up. -- phoney accounts. Blackberry is going to | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
stop making phones. This is what you see when you go to their website | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
today. You can put this down as a change in tax. Software is the new | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
BlackBerry. No great surprise, they have been far behind Apple and | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Samsung. Here is Rory Cellan-Jones with more details. BlackBerry's | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
Chief Executive said some months ago if by September we're not making | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
money from handsets, we will stop doing it. And they are not going to | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
make more handsets under their own guidance. It is opening up the | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
possibility that it may get other companies to do that from time to | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
time, but basically this is the end of an era. This is blackberry | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
saying, we're no longer a hardware company and it is going to be all | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
about software. Their website today says BlackBerry is software. And we | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
have seen other big companies like IBM and HP also shift corporate | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
emphasis from hardware to software. Is this a broader pattern within the | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
industry? I think this is particularly about the earthquake | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
that is happening in the mobile phone industry over the last ten | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
years. It all dates back to 2007 when Apple arrived from nowhere with | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
the iPhone. That changed everything. Blackberry has basically been dead | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
as a hardware manufacturer for a couple of years and it is now | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
acknowledging that fact. Nonetheless, we should pause and | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
acknowledge the importance of the blackberry in the history of mobile | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
technology. There was a time when it was king. Absolutely. This was the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
device that showed people that mobile phones and mobile devices | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
could be about more than just making calls. You could do e-mail on the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
move. It was an extraordinary status symbol, the ultimate yuppie device. | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
It was very popular on Wall Street. It showed that you had got somewhere | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
in investment banking if you had one. But its time has now come to an | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
end. I cannot believe you have not got one here to show me. I did ask | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
around the office. One person had one but she has gone home. And that | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
is it, really. Thanks very much to Rory for that. I saw a great tweet | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
on this from our tech correspondent. He says: | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
That is one of you who are -- that is one for those of you who have | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
been connoisseurs of English football. To be kind to win Bridge, | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
it was not likely he would play for England again when he announced he | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
was retiring. Over the next half hour, this is Sam Allardyce, the man | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
who was England's football manager until last night. Not any more. We | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
have a fresh report on how that story is developing. Any moment now | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
Jeremy Bowen will arrive here to talk about Shimon Peres and his | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
contribution to Israel and the Middle East. Any questions you have | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
for Jeremy, not just about Shimon Peres but also about his recent trip | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
to Aleppo, you're welcome to us now, using the hashtag #BBCOS. Speak to | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
you in a minute. Good evening. Southern Australia, | :25:49. | :26:12. | |
the entire state was left without power for a time on | :26:13. | :26:13. |