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Another Iraqi city falls into the hands of Islamist militants | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
- as they continue their advance towards the capital, Baghdad. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
They've taken control of Tikrit - just two days after attacking Mosul | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
- the country's second biggest city. Hundreds of thousands have fled from | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
their homes as the militants threaten new areas. | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
There's tens of thousands of these guys and they now have a territory. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
They control territory, they control border crossing points, they control | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
We'll be live in Iraq with the very latest. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
A record rise in the number of people in work brings unemployment | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
down to its lowest level for five years. | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
Passports under pressure - extra staff drafted in to try to | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
clear a backlog of applications which have hit a 12-year high. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
The Harry Potter creator - JK Rowling - conjures up ?1 million | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
to help the campaign against Scottish independence. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Gridlock in London and other European cities as taxi drivers | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
protest about a new smartphone app they say is damaging business. | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
On BBC London: We reveal the secret report on widespread police | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
corruption that Scotland Yard have refused to publish. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The Home Secretary is to decide whether to approve the use of water | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
cannon only after considering the safety issues. | :01:17. | :01:36. | |
Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Islamist militants in | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
Iraq have attacked and gained control of another major city. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, fell into their hands this | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
afternoon just two days after they took Mosul, the country's second | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
biggest city. Iraq's Prime Minister has urged civilians to arm | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
themselves and fightback. At least 500,000 refugees are believed to | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
have fled as the militants get closer to Baghdad. James Robbins | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
reports. Latest pictures from the road | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
towards Tikrit, suggest more heavy fighting. The Islamist militants | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
overwhelm Iraqi government forces once again. Reports suggest the | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
Sunni fighters have taken Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein, now | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
they apparently control another city soon after seizing Mosul. Iraq's | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
second city Mosul is still emptying out. The country risks breaking | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
apart. These are some of the 500,000 people who have fled and crossed the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
river to escape fighting on the other side. Thousands of families | :02:50. | :03:05. | |
are fleeing refuge elsewhere. Mosul has fallen, a disaster for | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Iraq's government, but also for the wider world, too. As Islamist | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
extremists take more ground from which to plan attacks. It's | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
humiliating for Iraq's Prime Minister vowing to fight back. | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
TRANSLATION: We are dealing with the situation. We are not going to allow | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
this to carry on regardless of the price. We are getting ready. We are | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
organising. We are restructuring the armed units. | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
So who are the fighters? They are a Sunni Muslim jihadist group formed a | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
year ago and pledged to create an Islamic state across Iraq, Syria and | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
neighbouring countries. They are now in control of significant parts of | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Syria, where Westerners including some British Muslims are fighting | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
with them. It's all helping to increase their power in Iraq, too. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
They took Fallujah five months ago, now they have Mosul and appear to | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
have taken the city of Tikrit as well. This is their leader, Abu Bakr | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
al-Baghdadi, seen as a brilliant commander and tactician, | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
battle-hardened. Some blame the American-led invasion | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
for all this. Others say it's Iraq's failed political system which can't | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
stop the daily bloodshed, but increasingly, it is Islamist | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
fighters who are gaining ground. Our correspondent Paul Wood is in | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
the village of Kalak on the road to Mosul for us now. He joins me now. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
It looks like a mass exodus behind you. What have you seen in the last | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
few hours? I'm speaking to you from about half an hour north of Mosul, | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
the first checkpoint that people arrive at and the cars behind me are | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
people leaving Mosul. People have left Mosul on foot as well. There is | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
a little aid station giving out bread and water to people who are | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
tired, hungry and frightened. They are not only frightened of Isis. One | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
woman told me they had been very polite to them. The thing that made | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
her flee was a speech on television by the Iraqi Prime Minister. People | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
here are afraid. They have also been telling us stories of how there was | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
a complete collapse among the Iraqi security forces. Policemen and | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
soldiers abandoned their posts and fled along with the other refugees. | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
You have to wonder if the security forces did not stand and fight the | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
day before yesterday, how is the Iraqi government going to get back | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
this large city of two million? People here feel it will be massive | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
air strikes. That is why we are seeing this exodus of people away | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
from Mosul. Thank you. Extra staff have been drafted in to | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
get through a backlog of passport applications in what's been the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
busiest period for 12 years. The Prime Minister has admitted that up | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
to 30,000 passport applications have been delayed but he insisted that | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
the Government was dealing with the problem. Our correspondent has spent | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
the day at the Passport Office in Liverpool. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
When this woman was booking her holiday, a trip to Liverpool was not | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
in her plans. holiday, a trip to Liverpool was not | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
in her After six weeks of waiting, she took matters into her own hands. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
I had to resort to going to my MP, my MEP, finding out the e-mail | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
address of the CEO... She ended up travelling 200 miles from South | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Wales to get the passport in person. I have lost two days work. That is | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
without the phone calls. I have had to pay for a hotel. We have had to | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
hire a car. So, it's cost me ?500. Alison wasn't the only person we | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
found who had problems. Others had given up waiting and come to the | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Passport Office themselves. About 20 phone calls, we got different | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
advisers every time. Saying the same thing. It was repeated, "We will | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
ring you back" and they never did. So we decided this morning to come | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
up here and try and sort it. Horrendous, the system, it is so | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
bad. They couldn't track where our passports were at. Today, these | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
pictures are said to show a backlog of applications waiting to be | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
processed with an overthrow of files being stored in meeting rooms at the | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
Passport Office. It is unprecedented for something like that to happen | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
for office space to be used for the storage of applications. It is a big | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
indicator of how much of a mess it is in. Labour have warned thousands | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
of people face cancelled holidays as a result of the problems. ABTA has | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
say it's seen no increase in people changing their plans. We have 250 | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
staff redeployed to the frontline... Today, the Government announced that | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
extra staff were being brought in to help with demand. We have 300,000 | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
extra applications. We have increased massively the staff. The | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
level of applications outside the normal three-week limit is less than | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
the 10% of that 300,000. The Passport Office has said it's | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
experiencing its highest demand in 12 years and to help cope, more | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
staff and extra officers are being laid on. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
-- offices are being laid on. Unemployed has fallen to its lowest | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
level for five years. The number of people out of work went down by | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
161,000 to 2.16 million between February and April, bringing the | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
rate down to 6.6%. But there's been a slowdown in the growth of average | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
pay. It now stands at 0.7%. Here is our business correspondent, Emma | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Simpson. How to hire new workers and fast. In | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
Stoke-on-Trent this afternoon, a ceramics manufacturer held a jobs | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
fair to find 65 new workers and it fired up plenty of interest. Today, | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
I'm trying to find myself a job. I'm really pleased that there are more | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
opportunities now because I think we have suffered as a city for a long | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
time. It's not only this business which is powering ahead, so is the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
UK's jobs market, judging by today's figures. After some difficult years, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
the UK economy is bouncing back, record numbers of people are in | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
employment, big falls in unemployment. The economic plan that | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
we as the Liberal Democrats and the Coalition Government have put in | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
place is working for hundreds of thousands of people who are now | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
getting back into work. Today's figures show s employment increasing | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
at a record rate. What's behind this big rise? There are 780,000 more | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
people in work than a year ago, the largest increase for nearly a | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
quarter of a century. Here's the striking thing. 337,000 of those | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
extra workers are self-employed. Take this man, who has made a fresh | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
start. When he couldn't find a job, he decided to set up his own | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
commercial laundry business in Leicester. He was forced into self | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
employment as the recession took hold. But business is now thriving. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
Had I been employed, I would not have looked at this option. It's a | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
blessing in disguise. Would you ever go back to being an employee? After | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
being employed, I can't see myself going back working for anybody else. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
But the cost of living is still going up more quickly than pay, with | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
news today that the growth in average annual earnings has slowed | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
sharply. Wage s are increasing at half the rate of prices, so people | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
are finding their money is going less far, struggling to pay the | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
bills, the rent and the mortgage, and that is making life very tough | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
for many families. Ironing out the squeeze on household finances is | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
still a work in progress, but the jobs market is gathering pace. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Unemployment has fallen in every area of the UK apart from the North | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
East. And if things go smoothly for this man's business, he hopes to be | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
hiring, too. The Defence Secretary has dismissed | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
a warning from the public spending watchdog over plans to save billions | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of pounds by cutting the size of the Regular Army and boosting numbers of | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
reservists. The National Audit Office said the decision to reduce | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
the number of regular soldiers had been taken without an appropriate | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
feasibility study but Philip Hammond says he is confident the target of | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
35,000 part-time soldiers would be reached by 2018. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
The author JK Rowling has donated ?1 million to the campaign against | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Scottish independence. The creator of Harry Potter said she was | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
concerned about the economic impact if Scotland left the UK and | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
criticised what she called a fringe who demonised the opponents of | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
independence. Allan Little reports. High on a hill... She chose to make | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Scotland her home 21 years ago when she was a single mother living on | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
benefits. She married here, raised her three children here and plans to | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
stay here for the rest of her life. Her support for a devolved Scotland | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
is no surprise, she declared it two years ago. Independence right now is | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
not a great idea. Devolution has been fantastic for Scotland. I | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
really do. I suppose I think we have a great deal currently. JK Rowling | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
accuses the "yes" campaign of minimising and denying the risks of | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
independence. Reasonable questions she says are drowned out by | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
accusations of scaremongering. Especially on oil revenues, which | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
currency Scotland would use and EU membership. A fringe of | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Nationalists, she says, like to demonise anyone who is not blindly | :13:20. | :13:31. | |
and unquestionably pro-independence. J K Rowling's success began here. | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Today, she has been attacked online. She knows there are intelligent, | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
thoughtful people on both sides. Indeed, she says intelligent, | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
thoughtful people prevail, but much of the campaign is being fought out | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
on social media and on the fringes of that dialogue, there is without | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
question some intolerant, aggressive and intimidating behaviour. Is the | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
support undermined by the online abuse of others? Yes, they should | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
not do it and they should apologise for it. Don't let's pretend that the | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
debate we are having is anything other than an example of how to | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
conduct a democratic debate. JK Rowling brings her money to the | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
anti-independence cause. Allan Little, BBC News, adden buRg. -- | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
Edinburgh. Another Iraqi city has fallen to the | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
hands of Islamist militant s. I will be live here in Sao Paulo on | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
the eve of the 2014 World Cup Finals in Brazil. | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
Later on BBC London: A pair of teenagers die after | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
falling from a balcony at a party. And more Londoners are finding work | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
- but are they the right ones? They're drugs that lower cholesterol | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
to guard against strokes and heart disease. | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
But now a group of leading doctors says plans by | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
the health watchdog to give statins to millions more people in England | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
and Wales should be scrapped. Statins are already | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
the most commonly prescribed medicines in the UK. | :15:31. | :15:31. | |
Around seven million people take them. | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
And it's thought they prevent up to 7,000 deaths a year. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
Statins cost just 10p a day per patient, but critics say the side | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
effects are underestimated and they question why relatively healthy | :15:42. | :15:43. | |
people should be put on medication for the rest of their lives. | :15:44. | :15:45. | |
Fergus Walsh reports. These pills are setting Doctor opens | :15:46. | :16:00. | |
Doctor, academic against academic -- doctor against Doctor. Confused | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
about statins, you have every right to be as a result of one of the most | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
heated rows in medicine in recent years. Both sides agree that if you | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
already have heart disease, the benefits of the tablets are | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
overwhelming. But the new NICE guidance would mean pretty much | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
everyone from their mid-50s onwards would be on these tablets for life. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
At present, anyone with a 20% chance of having a heart attack or stroke | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
over the next decade is offered statins. Draft proposals would lower | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
the threshold to a 10% risk. It could mean an extra 5 million | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
patients on statins. Those in favour say it will save more lives. First, | :16:51. | :17:00. | |
a leading critic. Statins can prevent heart attacks if taken by | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
well people. Not deaths. But we also have diabetes caused by statins. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
They can also cause cataracts, liver disease, muscle disease. We have | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
built in all of the known adverse effects including the increase in | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
diabetes into the models which guidance is based on and the | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
benefits of statins shine through. Michael would rather be gardening | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
than worrying about statins. He hopes the pills are doing him good | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
but has some concerns. I have a certain amount of confidence but | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
some of it is confusing. I think we really... They should have | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
investigated a bit more and give us more information. It is hard to see | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
the row being settled before NICE's final guidance comes out next month. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
The uncertainty could turn high risk patients of statins and that would | :18:04. | :18:16. | |
cost lives. -- off statins. Scotland Yard says no evidence has | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
been found relating to the Madeleine McCann investigation. | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
From the scene, this report. Just outside the resort of Praia da Luz, | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
another unremarkable piece of wasteland, now the latest focus in | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
the hunt for Madeleine McCann. First thing this morning, specific areas | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
were sealed off so that British and Portuguese police officers with | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
sniffer dogs could search the fields around these derelict buildings. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Working next to all of the police activity, this farmer. He told me | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
the police searched this area thoroughly when Madeleine vanished | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
and he says they will not find anything now. We just have a few | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
dead horses buried in the ground as well as a donkey, he says. That is | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
it. It is seven years since Madeleine disappeared. She was last | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
seen in the holiday apartment. Officers spent the whole | :19:22. | :19:22. | |
seen in the holiday apartment. Officers of last week searching a | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
site in the town centre. With that complete, today they moved onto two | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
new areas about half a mile outside of the town either side of a main | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
road. The searches that are taking place here were requested by British | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
police officers and there is a lot of cynicism here about that. This | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
graffiti arrived this morning. It says in Portuguese, the English | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
police are stupid. There is no indication anything significant has | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
been found during the searches. But Scotland Yard has said the end of | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
their work here will not mean the end of their investigation. This | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
will be one of many lines of enquiry. This is taking place in the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
public domain because it is an outside location. We need to allow | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
the detectives to do their work. Over the next few weeks, behind | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
closed doors, several local suspects will be questioned. | :20:23. | :20:35. | |
700,000 people are still awaiting assessment for the new Employment | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
and Support Allowance. The government blames the delay on ATOS. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Around 100,000 people should have been assessed for the new benefit by | :20:45. | :20:45. | |
the end of April. Fergus Walsh reports. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Traffic has ground to a halt in several European cities including | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
London today as taxi drivers staged a protest against a new smartphone | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
app which they say is damaging their business. The app allows passengers | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
to book and track minicabs from their mobile phone. Here's our | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones. | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
No trouble getting a cab in Whitehall this afternoon. But if you | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Whitehall this afternoon. But if wanted to get anywhere fast, it was | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
not so easy. In Paris too there was transport chaos as taxi drivers | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
staged a protest. And similar scenes in Madrid. Everywhere the cause was | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
the same, anger that is smartphone app called Uber was harming the | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
livelihoods of taxi drivers. The power of the internet is threatening | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
us. They have to do it the legal way. Then you cannot complain. A lot | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
of people have the Uber app and it seems on the face of it illegal. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
They said that the app which measures how far you travel and | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
calculates the fair is in effect a meter and only they are allowed to | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
have one of those. They are furious that transport for London has | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
refused to act. Here is how Uber works. You tap to request a driver | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
and within minutes a car draws up. ?11. That is good. I did the same | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
journey and within minutes a car draws up. | :22:20. | :22:20. | |
?11. That is good. I did the in reverse with a black cab. The driver | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Richard who spent three years doing the knowledge found a faster route | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
that I paid a bit more with a tip thrown in. : ?17. Thank you. Uber | :22:29. | :22:39. | |
founded in San Francisco has grown into a hugely successful business. | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
The company incest is it is legal. -- the company insists. Uber offers | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
another choice to customers and drivers and increases competition | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
which is good for all of us. The taxi drivers say they are not | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
opposed to innovation but an un-regulated American company should | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
not be allowed to threaten the livelihood. Uber says the publicity | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
has provided a huge boost to their business. | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
Cellan-Jones. The president of Brazil | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
says her country is ready, both on and off the pitch, for the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
World Cup which kicks off tomorrow. But England got a nasty surprise | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
today when this picture emerged. It appears to show the pitch | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
in Manaus, where the team will take on Italy on Saturday night, in what | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
looks like a pretty poor state. Nothing though can stop the huge | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
excitement in Brazil, as our chief sports correspondent, Dan Roan, | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
has been finding out in Sao Paulo. They need no excuse for a game | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
of football here in this favela. Imagine what it means to these | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
youngsters to have the World Cup on their doorstep | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
in just a few hours' time. This is one of Sao Paulo's | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
tougher neighbourhoods but it is communities | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
like this that have produced many of the game's greatest ever players. | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
That is the dream for this 13-year-old for whom | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
football is more than just fun. It is very importent to me, he says. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Becoming a football player would enable me to leave this place, | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
to help my family and my community. If we can win the World Cup here | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
at home, I am going to be very, very happy. | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Many Brazilians say the World Cup is too expensive, | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
that the money would have been better spent in places like this. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
But ask these youngsters who is excited and the answer is clear. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
But with passion like this comes pressure too. | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
These kids and millions like them across Brazil expect | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
nothing less than for their country to be crowned World Cup champions | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
in just over a month's time. When it comes to this event, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
Brazil has history. World Cup winners five times, this | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
is a country that has come closer than any to mastering the sport. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Pele has scored! Its most iconic player knows | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
all too well what is at stake. I think this for | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
the country is fantastic, to show the world what we are capable of. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
What Brazil can do. I think we have to take | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
this opportunity because it is very important for us. | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
Not least for these players, the select few who carry the hopes | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
of a nation on the shoulders. The football team has become | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
a brand in its own right. It is like Brazil itself. | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
It defines everything about the culture, the creativity, | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
the way they play, their attacking formation, | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
all of those things really personify the Brazilian personality. | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
We have just been lucky to be a part of that and actually see it | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
grow over the years. Football is in the blood here | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and no matter how fraught the build up to their own World Cup may have | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
been, the people's passion for the sport that has come to define | :25:55. | :25:55. | |
them burns as brightly as ever. What has always been billed as the | :25:56. | :26:07. | |
ultimate dream World Cup has perhaps become the most controversial in | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
history. The event rather limping with concerns over readiness and | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
protests at the expense of the tournament. FIFA will be desperate | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
to see tomorrow night in the stadium behind me Brazil and Croatia kicking | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
off the tournament and for the Shia and disputable love and passion for | :26:32. | :26:34. | |
the sport the Brazilian people have two sweep away most concerns -- the | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
un-disputable love and passion. them burns as brightly as ever. | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
And you can see more of that interview with Pele on a Match of | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
the Day World Cup Preview tonight on BBC One at 10.35pm. Time for a look | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
at the weather. Here's Nick Miller. | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
London for the next few days might be a bit warmer than Sao Paulo. Life | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
is not pleasant for hay fever sufferers that the movement -- at | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
the moment. But there has been fine weather for the bulk of the UK. | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
Showers in north-east Scotland today. They are pushing away. Plenty | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
of dry and clear whether around. Cooler in the countryside. Dipping | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
into single figures. England and Wales will see the best of the | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
sunshine. They fine day for many of us. Some rain in north-west Scotland | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
later in the day. It is the start of a test match tomorrow. It surely | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
means rain! Far from it. Sunshine and warmer than today. Here is a | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
look at the weather across the UK at 4pm. Mostly light winds and the sea | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
breezes. We are widely in England and Wales in the low 20s with a | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
mixture of cloud and sunshine. There will be some warm sunny spells at | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
times in Northern Ireland, southern and eastern Scotland. More cloud | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
coming in and some of us, especially in the north and north-west of | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
Scotland, getting outbreaks of rain. Friday, more widespread rain across | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland and heading into northern England. The | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
warm sunshine is just across southern areas by Friday. There | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
might be late date thunderstorms on Friday night. What about the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
weekend? High pressure is still close by. The flow of air has | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
changed to a north-easterly direction, down the eastern side of | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
the UK. More cloud and lower temperatures. On the weekend, the | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
best of the warmth and sunshine will be in the West. | :28:38. | :28:41. | |
The main story: Another Iraqi city has fallen into the hands of | :28:42. | :28:50. | |
militants. That is all | :28:51. | :28:51. |