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Iraq says it has launched air strikes against the Islamist | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
militants who say they're planning to take Baghdad. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Iraq's Ministry of Defence has released footage of strikes | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
in the north of the country, after fighters linked to Al Qaeda seized | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
the cities of Tikrit and Mosul. President Obama says he won't rule | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
anything out. There will be some short-term immediate things that | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
need to be done militarily. Our national security team is looking at | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
all the options. the cities of Tikrit and Mosul. | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
As Iraq's government promises a fightback, | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
hundreds of thousands of refugees are forced to flee their homes. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
They are waiting to see what the government response will be in what | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
they fear is a massive onslaught of artillery and air strikes. As long | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
as they believe that will happen, they will remain here in safety. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
are forced to flee their homes. Also tonight... | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
New measures to tackle the backlog of passport | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
applications, as the Home Secretary admits there's no big solution. | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
Taking the heat out of the housing market. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The Bank of England's given new powers to stop banks | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
making risky mortgage loans. And I'm Brazil, | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
where the opening ceremony of the World Cup is about to get underway. | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
But there's been more violence as protestors clash with police | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
over the amount of money being spent on the tournament. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
As fans gather ahead of tonight's kick off, FIFA insist | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
everything is ready to go. On BBC London. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
City Hall says it has confidence in the Met to root out corrupt | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
officers. And the campaign to stop photos | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
of children being published without a parent's consent, | :01:40. | :01:40. | |
launched by Paul Weller's wife. Good evening and welcome to the | :01:41. | :02:02. | |
BBC News at Six. Iraq says it has launched air | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
strikes against Islamist militants advancing on the capital, Baghdad. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
They're targeting the ISIS fighters, linked to Al Qaeda, | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
who're already in control of the major cities, Mosul and Tikrit. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
President Obama has spoken for the need of immediate short-term | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
military action in Iraq. the major cities, Mosul and Tikrit. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
The Sunni militants are now within about 80 miles of the capital | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
after taking Iraq's second city of Mosul on Monday. | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
The cities of Fallujah and Tikrit have also now fallen | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
into their hands, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee. | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
The Kurdish military has moved in to take control | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk after the national army fled. | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
Paul Wood is in Iraq. It is a chaotic and fast-moving | :02:42. | :02:56. | |
situation. President Obama's remarks will be taken as evidence that the | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Americans are considering drone strikes. The Iraqi government has | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
certainly requested them in the past and it's highly likely they have | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
asked them again, now that so much territory has slipped from their | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
grasp. Just a few miles from where I'm speaking, the jihadis are | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
consolidating their grip on Mosul. They have announced a 16 point | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Sharia law code, for instance, women may not leave the house and is | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
modestly dressed. They've also threatened to destroy shrines, | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
exactly the kind of thing that raises fears of a sectarian war | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
here. They are pushing towards Baghdad and meanwhile, here in this | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
part of Iraq, more frightened people have arrived. In the Kurdish | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
countryside a safe haven for the Middle East's latest displaced | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
population. They left Mosul with little, so all the familiar | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
machinery of an aid operation cranks into gear. Many fled because they | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
are afraid of the counterattack the Iraqi government has threatened to | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
recapture Mosul. But many are here, too, because they feared the | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
jihadis. The family of a murdered policeman. Three old era's father | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
was shot and killed a year ago. They were terrified of ISIS even before | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the jihadis swept into Mosul. The guns growing louder, they left their | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
bread baking in the oven ran. Bush work describes a harrowing escape. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
TRANSLATION: The Army discarded the uniforms because of ISIS snipers. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Then the snipers fired that everyone, soldiers and civilians. | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
The initial glut of terrified people has abated somewhat but there's | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
still a steady flow through this, the first Kurdish checkpoint they | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
encounter from Mosul. Behind them they leave the beginnings of what | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
ISIS calls its Islamic emirate. The jihadis want nothing less than to | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
redraw the map of the whole Middle East. In Mosul, ISIS rally the | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
faithful. We have vanquished the Americans and their allies, he | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
declares. God willing, we will establish a state ruled under the | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Koran. You are soldiers of Islam and Samarra, Tikrit and in Baghdad. The | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
camera phone of an ISIS guard shows the Iraqi army's captured soldiers. | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
They are humiliated in defeat. But the government fightback has begun. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
This is cockpit video from Iraqi planes bombing Mosul, as the Prime | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Minister promised they would. In the capital, government loyalists rushed | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
to join up. Baghdad is majority Shi'ite, it's barely conceivable it | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
could fall. But a sectarian civil war is one possible outcome of this. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Another is that Iraq ceases to be a single country. Paul Wood, BBC News. | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
Paul Wood is in Iraq. So what's behind the current | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
bloodshed in Iraq, and how has the Iraq government attempted to | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
deal with the problem of sectarian violence in the country? | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Our security correspondent Frank Gardner reports. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Street battle this week. Iraq as a nation risks falling apart. This | :06:24. | :06:35. | |
unverified footage appears to show Shia militia men fighting the Sunni | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
jihadist is of ISIS, an Al splinter group. Both Syria and Iraq are | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
experiencing violent insurgencies, increasingly sectarian. Mostly | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
between Sunni and Shia Muslims. The Sunnis, he used to rule Iraq, | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
concentrated in the north and west and they now feel dispossessed. ISIS | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
is a fanatical Sunni group, present in both Iraq and Syria. In Iraq, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
it's been helped by the Sunni resentment against the government. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
In January, their fighters took the town of Fallujah, this month they | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
had taken Mosul, Iraq's second city. From there, they pushed south to | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
take Tikrit. All of this could be the genesis of a new Islamist | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
mini-state right in the heart of the Middle East. The only force that can | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
match them in northern Iraq is the Kurds. Today they took over the oil | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
town of Kirkuk, to stop it falling into the hands of the fanatic ISIS. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
ISIS fighters are now threatening the capital, Baghdad, itself divided | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
between Shia district in green and Sunni district in bed, where they | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
will have some supporters. Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
been in power for eight years. He has won fair, democratic elections | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
but his rule has been controversial. In 2011 he rejected a deal that | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
would have kept US troops in Iraq for support. He has concentrated | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
many of the key ministries in his own hands and, as a Shia, he is | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
distrusted by much of the Sunni minority for not sharing enough | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
power. So will all this fighting drug in foreign powers? Iran has | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
hinted it may help the Iraqi government, but NATO and Britain are | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
saying no to military involvement. We are very concerned about the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced. Britain, with | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
our very largely monetary and budget, we may be in a position to | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
assist with that we're looking at now. But we will not be getting | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
involved militarily. But it looks like America will. Tonight, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
President Obama says the US is considering short-term military | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
action to defend its ally, Iraq. In our consultations with the Iraqis, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
there will be some short-term, immediate things that need to done | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
militarily. Our national security team is looking at all the options. | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
But this should also be a wake-up call for the Iraqi government. There | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
has to be a political component to this. Iraq needs help. This | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
government promotional video belies the fact Iraq's Armeec simply run | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
away from the fighters of ISIS. But if those ISIS militants do push on | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
to Baghdad, they may well overreach themselves and their sudden success | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
could be curtailed. Frank Gardner, BBC News. Our correspondent is in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
Washington. We heard President Obama speaking earlier. What do you make | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
of his comments? A key part of what President Obama had to say, there | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
was a lot of talk about, military, technical and intelligence, there | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
were no options of the table. We talked about short-term military | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
action, whether national security interests of the were threatened in | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
the US and UK feel that ISIS represents a threat to its national | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
security interests. We've heard that from the intelligence communities in | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
both London and Washington in the past. What does that mean? I agree | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
with my colleague, it either means probably drone or perhaps S4C | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
strikes from US bases housed in Turkey. Interestingly, President | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
Obama has come in for a lot of criticism for his policies with | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
regards to Syria and elsewhere in the region. People have accused him | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
of failing to respond strongly enough, failing to support the other | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
side. As far as the Iraqis are concerned, they want more help. | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
Frank Gardner reports. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
has announced new measures to deal with a backlog of around 30,000 | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
passport applications. People who need to travel abroad | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
urgently will now have their applications fast-tracked free | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
of charge, and more staff are being drafted in. | :10:59. | :10:59. | |
Labour says the Government's handling | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
of the matter has been a shambles. Our deputy political editor | :11:04. | :11:04. | |
James Landale is outside a passport The Government says officers like | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
these have been bombarded with more applications for passports than at | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
any time in 12 years. Some blame the economic recovery, others blame a | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
decision to stop embassies issuing passports overseas. Either way, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Labour claims the government anticipated this last summer and | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
failed to act. The Home Office denies that but is now promising to | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
act. Although the detail is a work in progress. Summer has arrived, the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
beach is beckoning, time to get some sun. But before getting here, some | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
of us will have to spend time here... Quite a long time. The | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
Government says 97% of passports are issued on time, but 30,000 are | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
taking longer than three weeks. And perhaps here is why. At this office | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
today the computer went down. Some of the helplines weren't working. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
One unhappy customer sent us a photo from inside showing just how busy it | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
was. I've got to pay another ?128, I've already paid ?72 online plus | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
how much it cost in to London, I'm not happy. I've e-mailed, e-mailed, | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
faxed, I've got everything that I've done all in my bag ready. I just | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
hope they manage to give me a passport today. A few days ago The | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Home Office was denying there was a backlog. Not any more. What is | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
necessary is not a grand political gesture. What is necessary is the | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
slow, careful consideration we have been giving, which will now lead to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
urgent action by the passport office. She said people will be able | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
to fast-track their applications for free, if they have an urgent need to | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
travel. Expats will be able to get a one-year extension before renewing | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
their passport. And there will be emergency travel documents for | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
children who need to get back to the UK. But she blocked plans by | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
officials at this and other offices to be lax checks on overseas | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
applicants. She said The Home Office could take direct control of the | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
passport office. Labour were not impressed. This has been a sorry | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
shambles from a sorry department and Home Secretary who can't even bring | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
herself to the word. Government incompetence means people are at | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
risk of missing their holidays, their honeymoons, their businesses. | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Here at the passport office, the waiting continued. It's a good idea | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
to get the ones in the UK fast tracked as. Everyone has their | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
holidays booked. It's not an excuse, it's a service they are | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
supposed to provide for UK citizens. It does strike me as being a bit of | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
a panic mission by the Government in relation to something that perhaps | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
should have been foreseen. The politics of passports can be toxic. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
If voters think the Government can't do something as simple | :13:59. | :13:59. | |
If voters think the Government can't do something as as is your passport, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
they can begin to question its confidence and a Home Secretary's. | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
It is little wonder Theresa May has been forced to act fast. | :14:07. | :14:16. | |
James Landale is outside a passport The Bank of England is to be given | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
new powers to set limits on the amount people can borrow, in | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
relation to their income, to buy a house. The Chancellor, in his | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
Mansion House speech tonight, will say that if there is evidence of a | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
housing bubble, the Bank will be able to impose a cap to stop banks | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
making risky mortgage loans. Our business editor Kamal Ahmed reports | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
on the latest fears that the UK's housing market is running out of | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
control. The chancellor donned a hard hat today not to protect | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
himself from people who could not afford a home but two to a housing | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
development in London. Tonight, George Osborne will announce new | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
powers to cool down Britain's housing market as prices rise by 8% | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
here. Now the Bank of England will be the judge and jury on how much | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
people can borrow. I'm acting against future risks in the housing | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
market by today giving the Bank of England new powers to intervene and | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
control the size of mortgages compared to family incomes and house | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
values, and I'm also taking new steps so we build many more homes in | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
our towns and cities. I am told that the Jansen believes rates could be | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
tackled following warnings from the International Monetary Fund and the | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
European Union. -- the Jansen. This morning Vince Cable told the BBC he | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
was appalled that banks were lending so much. If you lend people five | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
times their income and something goes wrong, there will be serious | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
trouble, and it is just feeding prices so that people on an ordinary | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
income cannot get into the market. The UK housing market is certainly | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
mixed. In London, where prices are rising quickly, first-time buyers | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
borrow nearly four times their income to buy a home. For the whole | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
of England, that figure drops to 3.5 times. In Scotland, it is just under | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
three times. Northern Ireland is similar at 2.9 times. This is what | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
the Chancellor is worried about, residents who are so keen to get on | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
or up the housing ladder they push themselves to far. When interest | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
rates rise, as they are likely to next year, people could be left in | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
houses they cannot afford. With parts of Britain overheating, buyers | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
argue they have to borrow much more than they earn to have any hope of | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
affording a house. But for people like Tom and his girlfriend Rachel | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
from Bristol, a mortgage of four times their income could cause | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
problems if interest rates rise. If it goes up to 3.5%, I don't know how | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
it's going to affect me, but it's going to make repayments higher, and | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
everything else is going up, petrol prices. It's going to be had and | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
worry me. As the Mansion House is prepared for the Chancellor's big | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
speech, evidence is emerging that the housing market is actually | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
cooling. Bankers believe rate rises could will lead to a fall in prices, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
and then it would be a question of not stopping a bubble butt rescuing | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
small mortgage holders. Our top story this evening: | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
The Iraqi government launches air strikes against Islamist militants | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
who are trying to seize Baghdad. President Obama says there is a need | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
for short-term military action. And why you the unique camouflage of | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
these World War I battleships is being recreated in this Liverpool | :17:31. | :17:31. | |
dock. who are trying to seize Baghdad. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Later on BBC London, the capital's first dental hospital | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
in 40 years opens its doors, training the next generation | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
of dentists and transforming patients' lives. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
And the other World Cup scrap, who will have this year's | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
biggest football song? In Brazil, police have clashed | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
with protestors near the stadium in Sao Paulo just hours | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
before the World Cup kicks off. Brazil take on Croatia in Sao Paulo | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
tonight in the first of 64 matches in the tournament. | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
But before that, tens of thousands of people have gathered | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
in the stadium to watch the opening ceremony, which begins shortly. | :18:08. | :18:08. | |
Ben Brown is in Brazil. Ben. | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
Yes, Sophie, Brazil is a football crazy nation, but also an angry | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
nation at the moment. For the last year there have been strikes and | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
demonstrations here against the eye watering cost of this tournament, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
and today more protests just before the first match, violent clashes | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
between riot police and demonstrators, the last thing the | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
organisers wanted the watching world to see. Chief sports correspondent | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
Dan Roan reports from Sao Paulo. With the wait over and the world | :18:40. | :18:48. | |
watching, this was the last thing Brazil wanted. Just hours before the | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
start of the World Cup year, further clashes in Sao Paulo between | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
authorities and a small group of protesters angry about the huge cost | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
of staging the tournament. Riot police used stun grenade and fired | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
rubber bullets. They treated a teacher like an | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
animal, this man says, they have ignored his civil rights, they | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
dragged him like an animal. Here at the stadium preparing to host the | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
glittering opening ceremony and the curtain raiser between the hosts and | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Croatia, a heavy security presence amid concerns that the protests may | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
reach here as kick-off approaches. What was billed as the dream World | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
Cup has arguably become the most controversial ever, but now the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
action is finally about to start here in Sao Paulo, the authorities | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
will be desperately hoping that this football mad country gets behind the | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
event. In a country where football is | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
religion, these were the scenes outside the stadium today a full six | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
hours before kick-off. We have to think about all the good things that | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
the World Cup will bring to the country, you know, so we are very | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
excited about having the World Cup in Brazil. We are really happy to be | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
here and make part of this party, we can say! Last-minute work at | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
night's venue, just one of the stadia that FIFA has been most | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
worried about. These temporary stands have never been tested at | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
full capacity. Is Brazil ready? For the World Cup? For sure. I mean it | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
took a lot of planning, we had hard times, but we are sure we have | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
covered all major angles of the World Cup preparation and all | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
infrastructure needed to guarantee the success of the event, and | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
present the world with a very festive atmosphere, a carnival | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
atmosphere in Brazil. Meanwhile, the Brazilian team prepares to carry the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
hosts of a nation. To say expectation is high would be an | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
understatement. Only willing it will make a good World Cup, that is the | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
standard of this nation. Whenever they go to the World Cup, they have | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
to win it. And then after, they have to win it well, because they will | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
always get compared to the previous stars. This is a date many thought | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
would never come, but a World Cup mired in problems and unrivalled | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
passion is here, ready or not, Brazil's moment in the son has | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
arrived. It is not just the anger at the most expensive World Cup ever, | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
the race against time to get the stadium ready, the deaths of | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
construction workers, but also allegations of corruption against | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
FIFA. There is a sense that football is a sport needs this event to be a | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
success. The best chance of that happening is if Brazil wins tonight | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
and carries on winning and lifts the trophy for a sixth time. The nation | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
will tonight hold its breath and hope that happens, and if it does, | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
it is hard to not believe that this could be, in spite of everything, | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
one of the most memorable World Cups ever. All right, Dan, thanks very | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
much indeed. England are preparing for their | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
first match in Manaus on Saturday. They will face not only Italy, but | :22:10. | :22:21. | |
searing heat, impressive humidity and a pretty ropey page. -- | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
oppressive. Natalie Pirks is in Manaus for us this evening. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
It is just after one o'clock, and it is 30 degrees, 70% humidity, it is | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
oppressively hot, but England play at six o'clock, when it will | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
hopefully be cooler. Nevertheless, running around for 90 minutes will | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
be a test. first match in Manaus on Saturday. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Life is played out at a more sedate pace in the rain forest. | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
In the gateway to the Amazon, they are so relaxed that two days | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
out, the builders are still here. Inside, though, Manaus, not known | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
as a hotbed of football, now has an arena fit for a gladiator. | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
It is undeniably impressive. Well, when England and Italy sit | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
here on Saturday, it's the heat and humidity of Manaus that will | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
hit them first, but there have been concerns over the state | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
of the pitch. As you can see, | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
they are working frantically to get it ready for Saturday, and to be | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
honest, it doesn't look nearly as bad as we were led to believe. | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
Still, the parched surface is not quite up to where England | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
have been training in Rio. But like for Manaus's officials, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
the World Cup is for some a dream realised, not least | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
for former factory worker turned striker Rickie Lambert, | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
who has journeyed from League Two to Liverpool and England. | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
I didn't think this chance would come, to play in a World Cup. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
I've got it, and I'm going to make sure that I take my chance and | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
whatever minutes I get, that's the most important thing, and that's | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
where I'll be trying to do my best. The World Cup is tantalisingly | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
close for him and England fans. # Roy Hodgson is taking us | :23:57. | :23:57. | |
to Rio, to Rio... # The intrepid travellers amongst them | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
are starting to arrive and getting to know this remote city | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
of two million. Travelled up the Amazon last week, | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
three days from Colombia and we're here in Manaus. | :24:10. | :24:25. | |
Definitely the most remote place I've ever gone to watch football. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
As the heat rises here, so will fans' nerves. | :24:29. | :24:30. | |
In two days' time, the atmosphere won't be anywhere near as calm. | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Manaus. Grow not long to go before that | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
first match, certainly the Brazilian government hoping that some of the | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
anger and resentment we have seen today will dissipate once the | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
football gets going. Sophie, back to you. | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
Natalie Pirks, BBC News, Manaus. The wife of the comedian Rik Mayall, | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
who died this week, says he suffered an acute cardiac event after | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
returning from a morning run. He was found dead at his home in south west | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
London on Monday lunchtime. His They were warships painted not | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
in gun metal grey but in reds, oranges and greens, all to confuse | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
German U-boats during World War I. 2,000 so-called dazzle ships | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
were camouflaged in this way, and now the technique's been | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
recreated as part of the Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art. | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
From the Albert Dock, Will Gompertz reports. | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
A retired Mersey pilot ship is having a make over | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
in a dry dock in Liverpool. Out goes the boring old paint job, | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
and on with an eye-catching new coat. | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
And presto, the 777-tonne Edmund Gardner has | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
become what was known in World War I as a dazzle ship, | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
a floating piece of optical art designed to protect | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
Britain's merchant ships from German U-boats | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
that had them under siege. We wanted to launch the 14-18 NOW | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
arts programme with a major public art commission for everyone to see | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
that reflects on one of the most extraordinary stories of the First | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
World War, the dazzle ships that were painted, many of them, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
right here in Liverpool. The Venezuelan artist responsible | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
for the new dazzle ship design hadn't known about their existence | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
until recently. TRANSLATION: For me, | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
it was a big revelation that artists painted the ships | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
in World War I, because it was | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
of immense beauty and efficiency. It was also to see something | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
that was made to be beautiful and promote something | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
other than death. The British artist Norman Wilkinson | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
came up with the idea of dazzle ships in 1917 when serving | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
as a Royal Navy volunteer. He realised there was no camouflage | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
that could conceal a ship, but there was one that might | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
confuse the enemy. Wilkinson was working on the basis | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
that a U-boat commander had a very short amount of time | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
in which to race his periscope, look through it, identify his target | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
and fire his torpedo. If he took too long, he would be | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
spotted and his submarine sunk. Wilkinson's garish dazzle camouflage | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
was designed to disorientate the U-boat commander, | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
causing him to dither and miss. The contrasting stripes, | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
bold curves and vivid spirals were decided to make it difficult | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
to gauge the ship's direction of travel and speed. | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
Did it do the job that it was supposed to do? | :27:10. | :27:12. | |
We still don't really know the answer to that, we don't know how | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
confused the U-boat commanders were, but we do know that the sailors | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
on board the ships themselves loved their unique designs, | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
and there was a keen boost to morale. | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
When Picasso saw the dazzle camouflage, he immediately took | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
credit for the idea, saying it was inspired by his Cubist paintings. | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
Mother nature might argue that she got there first | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
with her op-art design for zebras. Either way, these eccentric floating | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
artworks are now a colourful part of Britain's maritime history. | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
Will Gompertz, BBC News, Liverpool. A day of contrasts across the United | :27:42. | :27:56. | |
Kingdom, you can see all this cloud bringing some rain and a cooler | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
field to things in the north, but with the sunshine for England and | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
Wales, 26 in the London area, a little bit warmer than it will be in | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
Sao Paulo. Clear skies across much of England and Wales tonight, missed | :28:12. | :28:13. | |
in rural spots, further north that rain into the morning, and it will | :28:14. | :28:22. | |
be an unpleasant rush-hour, but the rain fizzles out into northern | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
England, and then the cloud melts away, lots of sunshine to start the | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
day across most of England and Wales. A warm day in the South, 17 | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
or 18 degrees at eight o'clock in the morning, lots of sunshine, | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
setting up for another warm day across the southern half of the | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
United Kingdom. Cloud will increase across England and Wales into the | :28:43. | :28:45. | |
afternoon, but still fine, sunny and warm with light winds. That rain | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
across the north of the UK becomes lighter into the afternoon, but we | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
keep the temperature contrast, 26 or 27 is possible in the London area, | :28:55. | :28:57. | |
pretty warm for central and eastern areas. We are not going to keep that | :28:58. | :29:04. | |
warmth everywhere, low to middle 20s in some areas, but by Saturday the | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
middle teens for many places, so a drop in temperatures through the day | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
on Saturday as this cool northerly wind brings in a weather front. | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
Further west, feeling more pleasant. Sunday is a similar sort of day, | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
cool and breezy down the eastern side, most places fine and dry, and | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
further west winds are lighter, temperatures up to about 20 | :29:29. | :29:30. | |
degrees. It is that little bit cooler through the weekend, but the | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
weather is looking pretty good for | :29:34. | :29:35. |