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Half a million people flee Iraq's second city after it's effectively | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
taken over by Islamist Militants. Iraqi troops shed their uniforms | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
and throw away their weapons in Mosul as fears mount that | :00:16. | :00:16. | |
the violence will spread. There are tens of thousands of them | :00:17. | :00:28. | |
and they controlled territory and border crossings and oil resources, | :00:29. | :00:29. | |
mineral resources. the violence will spread. | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
We'll be talking to our security correspondent about | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
the latest developments in Iraq. Also this lunchtime: | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
UK unemployment falls to its lowest level in five years, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
but wages are still failing to keep pace with inflation. | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
Angry passport applicants say delays are putting holidays at risk. | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
The Government calls in more staff and denies being unable to cope. | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Senior doctors say plans to expand the use of statins should | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
be scrapped as the side-effects are being under-estimated. | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Bringing London to a standstill - angry black cabbies plan to disrupt | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
the capital over a new smartphone app. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
At the heart of the dispute is this, the Uber app. Black cabbies say it | :01:08. | :01:20. | |
is effectively a meter and the law says only they can have one of those | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
installed. a new smartphone app. | :01:23. | :01:23. | |
Later on BBC London: Two teenagers have fallen to | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
their deaths from the sixth-floor balcony of a flat in Deptford. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
And the Home Secretary says she'll consider the difficult safety issues | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
before water cannon can be used in the capital. | :01:32. | :01:48. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
As many as half a million people have been | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
forced to flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
effectively took control of it. Troops were among those abandoning | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Iraq's second-largest city as hundreds of jihadists | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
from the ISIS group overran government and police buildings. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
The Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has asked parliament to declare | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
a state of emergency, as the United States warned of the growing threat | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
to the entire Middle East region. This report from our world | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
affairs corresponent Paul Adams. The exodus from Mosul goes on. | :02:21. | :02:30. | |
Dramatic pictures from the River Tigris shows civilians fleeing | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
fighting on the other side. Perhaps as many as half a million people | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
have now left the rock's second-largest city -- left Iraq's | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
second-largest city. In Mosul itself, the aftermath of a battle | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
that did not take long. The militants attacked just five days | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
ago. On Monday, the provincial governor urged residents to hold | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
firm. Hours later, the was gone. The security forces were not far behind. | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Militants now control government offices and banks. In January, | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
another major city Falluja fell to the same hardline group. The | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
government has tried and failed to take it back. Tens of thousands of | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
people have fled. ISIS now controls lots of territory across the Middle | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
East. In Anbar province, ten one is still in rebel hands. In Syria, the | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
group is involved in fighting in Aleppo -- Falluja. They now have | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
Mosul too. There are tens of thousands of them and they now have | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
a territory, they controlled territory and border crossings and | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
oil and mineral resources, trade, Inc. They have a base in the middle | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
of the Middle East. -- trade. A wider effort to create an Islamic | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
state. Extensive use has been made of foreign fighters including some | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
of the hundreds of young British Muslims who have gone out to fight. | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
In Iraq, the government is struggling to respond. There were | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
clashes overnight were the major all the supplies much of the country. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
These unverified pictures appear to show fighting before the militants | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
reportedly withdrew. With hundreds of thousands of Iraqis once more on | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
the move, the country is now in the grip of a crisis as bad as anything | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
since American forces left three years ago. Our security | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
correspondent Frank Gardner is here. The Americans say it is extremely | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
serious. Is it? It is very serious for Iraq. The question is, how | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
serious is it for the rest of the world? That depends what ISIS do | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
with it. This can go two ways. They could make this a haven for jihadist | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
extremists from all over the world. They could provide a platform for | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the way Al-Qaeda did in Afghanistan. Then it would be very dangerous. You | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
would see people trying to do 9/11 style plots and the international | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
community led by the US would be forced to do something. Or they | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
could play it light. They could tone down extremism and clean-up the | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
streets and established with justice and say, we are not going to take | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
over any more land, let us be. They know the West has no appetite for | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
military action in that part of the world. What can be done to stop it? | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
Ultimately, this is the problem of the Iraqi government. They failed to | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
protect the place. They had to be warnings according to local | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
politicians and they allegedly ignored them. They will have to come | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
to some sort of arrangement with local tribes. Ultimately, this comes | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
down to how much support the Iraqis will get from the local tribes. Then | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
there is the Kurdish factor. If ISIS is smart, they will not clash with | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
the Kurds. They will not win. If they are also smart, they will | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
consolidate the area they have got and the Iraqi army will find it very | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
difficult to dislodge them. They have the weapons from the Americans. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
The Americans will probably accelerate the Apaches and | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
intelligence but not boots on the ground. If the Iraqis could not | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
retake towns in the south, I am not sure they can take Mosul that | :06:42. | :06:42. | |
easily. affairs corresponent Paul Adams. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
for more than five years. The number of people out of work | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
fell by 161,000 to 2.16 million in the three months to April. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
The number of people in work rose to just over 30 million. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
But the rate of wage increases slowed sharply and is still failing | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
to keep pace with inflation. Our business correspondent | :07:04. | :07:03. | |
Emma Simpson reports. It is a fresh start for this man. | :07:04. | :07:16. | |
When he could not find a job, he decided to set up his own commercial | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
laundry business in Leicester. He was forced into self-employment as | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
the recession took hold. But business is now thriving. Quite a | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
turnaround. Had I been employed, I would not have looked at this | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
option. It is a blessing in disguise. Would you go back to being | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
an employee? I cannot see myself working for anybody else. The rise | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
of self-employment is one of the big stories of the recovery. Look at the | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
latest figures. There are 780,000 more people in employment than a | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
year ago. The number of people self employed has risen by 337,000. More | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
than 40% of the increase in work these last 12 months has been people | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
working for themselves. Self-employment is at a record high | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
boosting the overall jobs numbers which are continuing to improve. It | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
is a record rise. 345,000 in the last three months. You are seeing a | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
rise in employment across all parts of the country, across all ages and | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
across all sectors. But the cost of living is still going up more | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
quickly than pay packets with news today that wage growth has slowed. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
There has been a sharp fall in average annual earnings. Many people | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
are working hard, doing the right thing and yet they are finding their | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
money is not going as far as it used to. The cost of living crisis is | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
still a very real concern for many families and people up and down the | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
country. The picture on jobs is more sunny. Unemployment fell everywhere | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
in the UK apart from the north-east. The labour market may be gathering | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
speed, but with wages still lagging behind inflation, it is clear there | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
is no feel-good factor just yet. Emma Simpson reports. | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
The Home Secretary Theresa May says more staff have been put | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
in place to deal with passport applications after claims that | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
the Passport Office was struggling to cope with its workload. | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
There have been complaints of delays, but officials say 99% | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
of passport renewals are being dealt with in four weeks and new | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
applications are taking six weeks. Duncan Kennedy reports. | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
Hundreds of files, thousands of applications. This was the scene at | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
one Passport Office in Liverpool yesterday. In photos leaked to the | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
media, they are a sign of how massive the strain has been. Hannah | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
needs a poor spot for her baby so they can go on holiday to France. -- | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
a passport. After three months of applying, it has not arrived. I have | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
asked for the service to be upgraded. So that we receive the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
passport quicker. All I am doing is being told every time that I will be | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
called back by Durham within 48 hours and I have not been. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Businesses are also suffering. If Peter from Welch does not get his | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
passport back by Friday, he will lose a major contract in Kazakhstan | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
-- from Welcher. The government has a responsible kid to help small | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
businesses. I am not getting the support. How frustrating is it? It | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
is extremely frustrating and not good enough. The Home Office says | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
nearly half a million passports are currently being processed. The size | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
of the pre-summer surge has not been seen in 12 years. A million have | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
been issued since the start of April alone, but it is still not enough. | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
Why the sudden rush? In large part, it is because the economy is picking | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
up and people are booking foreign holidays again. The Home Secretary | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
agreed today there is a problem and that the Passport Office is trying | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
to get on top of it. I recognise it is about people and their holiday | :11:11. | :11:19. | |
plans. We will be looking to ensure the Passport Office is putting | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
resources in to deal with this very, very high level of applications. | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
Unions blame Passport Office closures for what they call this | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
major backlog. But staff are now said to be working seven days a week | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
to clear it with the holiday and business plans of millions of people | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
depending on them. Our chief political correspondent Norman Smith | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
is in Westminster. They can ban TV figures around, but one missing | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
passport brings misery for one person. This may not look like a | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
political headache for the Prime Minister but it is. Let me remind | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
you of the tale of the former Labour prime and is the Jim Callaghan who | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
are returning to Britain in the winter of discontent said, crisis | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
but not what crisis? That is precisely the trap David Cameron is | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
trying to avoid. Labour are trying to make it larger bike saying it has | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
come about because Theresa May has been focused on spats with Michael | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Gove and David Cameron has failed to get a grip on the situation. The | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Prime Minister's task today is to try to reassure voters he was not | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
oblivious to the nightmare some families are facing. His message | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
that more staff are being taken on, 250 more staff, 650 staff at the | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
telephone helpline, a new office in Liverpool. Only around 30,000 | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
people, he suggested, whereat richly facing a delay of more than four | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
weeks. -- were actually facing a delay. The difficulty is if you are | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
one of the 30,000 who does not have one of these, you will be a very | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
angry voter. Hell probably have no fury like a family who cannot go on | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
holiday because they have not got one of these. Thank you very much. | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Duncan Kennedy reports. Leading doctors are calling | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
for plans to extend the use of statins by millions more people | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
to be scrapped because they believe they could do more harm than good. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
They're concerned about the side effects of the cholesterol-reducing | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
drugs and are urging the advisory body NICE to re-think its proposals. | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
Our medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has more details. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
7 million people in the UK take statins and they save thousands of | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
lives a year by preventing heart attacks and strokes. But some | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
doctors are frankly appalled that millions more may be prescribed the | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
drug. Confused about statins, you have every right to be as one of the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
most heated rows in medicine in recent years has gone on. Both sides | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
agree that if you already have heart disease, the benefits of the tablets | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
are overwhelming. The new NICE guidance that pretty much everyone | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
from mid 50s onwards would be on these tablets for life. For many | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
doctors, it is a step too far. At present, those with a 20% risk of | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
cardiovascular disease, having a heart attack or stroke in the next | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
decade are offered statins. Draft guidance from NICE would lower the | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
threshold to those with a 10% risk, but could add another 5 million | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
statin users in England and Wales. We are asking millions of people at | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
the cost of billions of pounds to be taking these medicines. These are | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
people who are low risk for heart disease. We are asking them to take | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
the medicine possibly for the next 30 years with not very good evidence | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
that they are actually going to save lives. In an open letter, critics | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
say the NICE guidance is overreliant on industry sponsored trials which | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
they claim grossly underestimate side-effects such as muscle pain and | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
diabetes. But NICE says the drugs will save lives. Statins are so | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
amazingly effective that they reduced the risk of heart attacks | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
and strokes by greater than the consequences of their small increase | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
in diabetes caused by taking statins. NICE points out its | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
guidance on statins will not be compulsory. It will simply give GPs | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
and patients and other option along with lifestyle changes such as diet | :15:37. | :15:38. | |
and exercise. Half a million people flee Iraq's | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
second city after it's effectively And still to come, is Brazil | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
ready for kick-off, with one day The number of people unemployed | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
in the capital falls by 27,000, but critics say wages aren't keeping | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
up with the cost of living. Six months on, just how successful | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
has the new giant container port The World Cup begins tomorrow, | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
and Brazil's president says her country is ready, on and | :16:08. | :16:20. | |
off the pitch, for the tournament. Against a backdrop of protests, | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
she rejected criticism of overspending, saying that | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
the tournament would leave England play their first match | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
on Saturday and already, there are Yes, I am in a glorious day here in | :16:30. | :16:49. | |
Rio. England fans have been on the beach, | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
playing football in the sand. England's players have a final | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
training session here in a couple of hours' time before they had up to | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Manaus in the Amazonian rainforest for that first game against Italy on | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
Saturday. Real concerns about the oppressive heat and unity there. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Let's talk to our sports correspondent, Natalie Pirks. Also | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
concerns about the pitch? Yes, pictures have emerged this morning | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
of the arena where they will play, the 46,000 seater stadium. It cost | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
173 million to build and the pitch does not look good. There, yellow, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
in some cases patches all over the place. It is not good news for Roy | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Hodgson. A more pressing concern will be the fitness of striker Danny | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Welbeck. He was limping out of training earlier yesterday. We were | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
told that those training sessions would be the most intense, and so it | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
has proved. He was treated by England's head physio. There was | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
already strapping on his right thigh. Too early to say what the | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
injury might be, that it will concern Hodgson because he was | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
expected to pick him to start against Italy on Saturday. But Alex | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Oxlade-Chamberlain is winning his battle against the knee injury he | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
picked up against Ecuador. He has been training and he might be fit | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
for England's second game against Uruguay. We are hearing that the | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
England players will be taking malaria tablets ahead of that trip | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
to man house. The tournament kicks off in Sao Paulo tomorrow, Brazil | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
against Croatia. Also in Sao Paulo, the FIFA Congress is underway, with | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
pressure on President Sepp Blatter to step down after all those | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
corruption allegations concerning Qatar's 2022 World Cup. Let's go to | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
my colleague in Sao Paulo with the latest. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
Yes, the Congress is about to get underway. You would imagine that | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
this would be a source of celebration, that the World Cup is | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
about to start. Instead, it is likely to be marked by acrimony and | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
a certain amount of blood when letting -- blood-letting overstep | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
butter should be allowed to continue as FIFA president. He is pitted | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
against the second most powerful Federation in football, UEFA, who | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
clearly believe that Sepp Blatter's time is up over those allegations | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
about the bid for the 2022 World Cup and the role played by Mohamed bin | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
hammam over the Qatari bid. But it should also be added that Sepp | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Blatter, when he spoke to the Asian Federation, the American | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Federation, the African federations, he was given a standing ovation. So | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
yes, there is pressure, but those who would like to see Sepp Blatter | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
stand-down, do they have the vote? One other moving part in this is | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
those sponsors. Money may speak louder than the individual | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
federations. The sponsors of the World Cup are unhappy about the | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
allegations over the Qatari bid. They want to see a horror | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
investigation of that. So far from it being joy, Brazil is ready, the | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
football kicks off tomorrow, there is politics. | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
In fact, there has been a year of unrest in Brazil in the run-up to | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
this World Cup. There have been strikes and violent protests about | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
the sheer cost of it. The president of Brazil has been on television | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
saying that she believes the pessimist will be proved wrong. | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
Ben Brown, thank you. An official inquiry has found that | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
payday loan customers could be paying too much to borrow money | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
because of a lack of competition The regulator, | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
the Competition and Markets Authority, is now looking at ways | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
of helping consumers shop around. Our personal finance correspondent | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Simon Gompertz is here. How much more are they paying than | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
they need? Well, if you look at our high streets, it looks like | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
competition, because a lot of these are high cost lenders there, but | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
more than 80% of the blundering it online and not shopping around. To | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
add to your question, the result is that each loan is costing ?10 more | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
than it should. That is on a typical loan of around ?260, which would | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
cost you 75 pounds on average. They say you are paying ?10 too much. If | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
you take that across the whole of the UK for a year, that is ?45 | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
million, the total cost of that. That is because there are 1.8 | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
million people a year using payday lenders. So that is the problem. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
What do they say is the solution? More transparency, to be more | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
upfront at open, particularly about the charges people pay if they are | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
like in giving the money back, so that the customer knows. And | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
particularly as well, independent price comparison sites so that you | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
can go online and do your shopping around on that. Separately, there | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
will also be a price cap on payday loans, which is something that the | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
financial regulator has been told why the government to come up with | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
for the beginning of next year. Thank you. The minister for disabled | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
people has admitted that several thousand people are waiting for | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
assessments for employment and support allowance. 100,000 of them | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
should have been moved onto the new benefit by April. He said the delays | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
were the fault of the private contractor Atos, whose contract to | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
carry out the test is being ended early. | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
Plans to cut jobs in the Army and increase the number of reservists | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
That's according to the National Audit Office, who, | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
in a new report, says the decision was taken without "appropriate | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
The Ministry of Defence hopes to raise | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
the numbers of trained reservists from 19,000 to 30,000 by 2018. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Our defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports. | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
Army reservists in training in Cyprus, as they stormed the beaches. | :22:43. | :22:49. | |
They are key part of the army's future plans, but in a report | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
today, the National Audit Office has been less impressed by the MoD's | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
performance. They are recruiting more reserves, which it needs to do | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
if its figures are to add up. The numbering of Army reserves has not | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
increased in the last two years. To get to 30000 x 2019, a significant | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
improvement will be required. The army's aim is to shake its numbers | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
from 102,000 regular soldiers in 2010, down to 82,000 by the end of | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
the decade. With the reserves due to go from 19,000 up to 30,000 by | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
2018-19. Today, the defence secretary Philip Hammond said the | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
MoD's plans were feasible. The report quotes a source as they knit | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
will take until 2025 to reach the target for reserves that we set for | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
2018-19. That is not the case. The head of the Army has led that it | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
created a novel and imaginative structure which best met the | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
challenges the army were likely to face within the resources available. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
But internally, there has been some disquiet over the plans, not least | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
because it is proving far easier to get rid of regulars than it is to | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
recruit the right reserves. There has been fighting behind the scenes | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
as well as the MoD has blamed its outsourcing partner capital and | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
software problems for some of the delay in recruitment. The watchdog | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
says the army and the MoD must get a better understanding of the | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
significant risks to the plans for Army 2020 and ultimately, what | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
impact that could have on the nation's troops. Caroline Wyatt, BBC | :24:26. | :24:26. | |
News. London cabbies are aiming to bring | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
traffic chaos to the capital this afternoon in | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
a protest against the introduction of a new smartphone app which helps | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
passengers find a rival minicab. The action is part of a worldwide | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
coordinated demonstration Black Cabbies claim the service is | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
illegal because it calculates a fare similar to a meter, which they | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
say only licensed taxis can carry. Our Technology Correspondent Rory | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Cellan Jones has this report. Tap to request a driver and within | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
minutes, a car draws up. But Uber, | :24:55. | :25:07. | |
which started in San Francisco, has caused anger amongst established | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
tax drivers around the world, and In Paris, taxi drivers are staging a | :25:13. | :25:26. | |
protest over the app, which they say is defined regulations and taking | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
over their business. In London, cabbies are preparing a go slow | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
which they say could bring the capital to a halt. They said | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
passport for London are letting people get away with breaking the | :25:42. | :25:42. | |
law. As the heart of the dispute is this, | :25:43. | :25:43. | |
the Uber app. The taxi drivers say that | :25:44. | :25:45. | |
because it tracks the distance covered and then calculates the | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
fare, it is essentially a meter, and the law says only they are allowed | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
to have one of those installed. Richard, who has been driving | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
a cab for eight years, insists that he is not against new | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
technology, but says the rules are You have the trust in us that you | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
can stick your hand up and the first person, hopefully, that stops for | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
you will know where they're going. You will know they have been | :26:06. | :26:07. | |
background checked properly, and Uber says it isn't breaking | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
the law and is making life better The company is now valued at ?10 | :26:11. | :26:24. | |
billion. The company, which is registered in Holland, work or | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
abrasion tax is low, says it is making life better. | :26:31. | :26:31. | |
We are fully compliant with all the private hire legislation. | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
Uber also offers another choice to customers and drivers. | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
It increases competition, which is good for all of us. | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
Taxi drivers claim their protest will bring the capital | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
to a halt today, but Uber is confident that its technology will | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
And Rory is in Trafalgar Square for us now. | :26:45. | :26:58. | |
Yes, the demonstration is due to get under way in about half an hour. The | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
idea is that thousands of London taxi drivers will converge on the | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
square. There are already quite a few queueing up, and they will | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
gradually bring traffic to a halt. They are stressing that their | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
demonstration is not against Gruber, but against Transport for London. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
They have a long list of grievances against the regulator. They say that | :27:20. | :27:32. | |
allowing private hire companies to compete unfairly with them, and they | :27:33. | :27:37. | |
are angry about this. Police are trying to divert traffic into | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
Whitehall. So it will be interesting to see how things develop over the | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
next hour. In the longer run, the feeling is that this kind of | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
technology is going to change the way we travel, and it will be | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
difficult for taxi drivers to stop that happening. Rory, thank you very | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
much. Let's look at the weather. It is to be sneezed at? | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
Yes, lots of sunshine at the moment. It has been good growing weather | :28:03. | :28:10. | |
over the last few weeks. The cloud is broken in most places, which | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
means high or very high Holland levels across much of the UK -- | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
pollen levels. We are at the peak of the grass pollen season. But really | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
nice weather out there if you are heading out and about. You may catch | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
the odd stray shower, but they will be very few and far between. Those | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
places will stay dry and continue to get further spells of sunshine. When | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
you have got an onshore breeze, it is a bit cooler. But inland, you are | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
looking at up to 22 degrees. A similar story across Northern | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
Ireland. The chance of the old light shower here and there. Maybe the odd | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
shop shower across eastern parts of Scotland. But the majority of races | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
will miss those and end up dry through the afternoon. Any showers | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
will die away fairly steadily. So I mostly dry night come with clear | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
spells developing. Temperatures will hold up. Tomorrow, it is perfect | :29:09. | :29:16. | |
tennis weather, both at Queen's Club and in Birmingham. Bright blue | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
skies, comfortable temperatures and just a light breeze. That is because | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
high pressure is in charge of our weather at the moment almost | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
everywhere. Across the northern part, you can see a weather front | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
just bashing by, which will introduce more cloud across northern | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Perhaps some light and | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
patchy rain here, but that is the exception to the dry rule. If | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
anything, probably more sunshine across England and Wales tomorrow. | :29:45. | :29:54. | |
And temperatures are up a notch. That North-South contrast is | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
accentuated by Friday. Patchy rain at times in Scotland and Northern | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
Ireland, so cooler here. Still warm sunshine across the bulk of England | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
and Wales. Will it last into the weekend? Sort of. High pressure is | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
out to the west of the UK by then. The clockwise flow around that means | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
we start to pull in some cooler north to north-easterly winds, so | :30:15. | :30:16. | |
there is a different feel to things. There will be dry weather and | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
sunshine from time to time, but across eastern areas, it will feel | :30:22. | :30:23. | |
cooler, even in the sunshine. There is always a but. Peter, thank | :30:24. | :30:37. | |
you. Now a reminder of our top story: Half a million people flee | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
Iraq's second city of Mosul after it is effectively taken over by | :30:43. | :30:43. | |
Islamist | :30:44. | :30:45. |