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Tonight at Six... Verdicts in the phone-hacking trial from the jury at | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
the Old Bailey. phone-hacking trial from the jury at | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
The former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson is found guilty | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
of conspiracy to hack phones. Another former editor and News | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
International executive, Rebekah Brooks, walks free from court | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
cleared on all charges. Today the Prime Minister, who hired | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Coulson as his press spokesman knowing there'd been claims about | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
hacking, said sorry. We'll be looking at the verdicts and | :00:31. | :00:40. | |
-- it was a bad decision and I am sorry about that. We will be looking | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
at products and hearing from phone hacking victims. | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
As fighting continues in Iraq rebels tell the BBC they expect to reach | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Baghdad within a month. And the Queen visits one of | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
Belfast's most notorious jails with two former inmates. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
The final match for England against Costa Rica as their World Cup | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
campaign comes to an end. And coming up on BBC London... | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
The Government names scores of language schools it says are | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
involved in student visa fraud. And the vulnerable children who are | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
"abhorently failed". New calls to overhaul the social care system. | :01:22. | :01:39. | |
Good evening. The former editor of the News of the | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
World Andy Coulson has been found guilty of plotting to hack phones. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
It follows an eight month-long trial which exposed the workings | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
of what was Britain's biggest-selling newspaper, and to | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
which Hollywood stars and former Cabinet ministers gave evidence. | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Mr Coulson, who went on to become the Prime Minister's official | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
spokesman, was found guilty of conspiring to intercept voicemails. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
The former News International chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, who was | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
also Coulson's former lover, was cleared of four charges including | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
hacking voicemails and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
One of the most high profile victims was the murdered school girl, Milly | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
Dowler, whose mobile phone was hacked by the News of the World. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
The Prime Minister has said he took "full responsibility for employing | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
Andy Coulson". David Cameron said he was | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
"extremely sorry", and admitted it was "the wrong decision". | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Our political editor, Nick Robinson, looks now at the verdicts. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
He walked into court 12 of the Old Bailey a free man. Just before | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
noon, the one-time friend and adviser of a Prime Minister, learn | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
his fate. Andy Coulson has been found guilty. Found not guilty, his | :02:54. | :03:03. | |
former boss and lover, Rebekah Brooks, who lots -- left court for a | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
good along with her husband, PA and other senior staff from use of the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
World. All this after 130 dramatic days of evidence about the biggest | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
media scandal in years. The scene of the crime, the long abandoned | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
newsroom of what was once Britain's top-selling paper, the News of the | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
World. The paper, long since closed, its home demolished after it was | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
revealed what happened here - the systematic hacking of the phones of | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
celebrities, politicians and those whose lives had already been | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
blighted by terrible crimes. The couple who ran the paper, Andy | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, were indeed a couple - not just | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
colleagues, but lovers. They would become two of the most powerful | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
people in Britain. She, a regular visitor to Number Ten, a close | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
friend of the man who became prime and Vista. He, hired on her advice | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
to connect the Tories to the part of the electorate they struggled to | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
reach. The man who usually stayed in the shadows has lost not just his | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
careers and reputation, the shadows has lost not just his | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
careers and but his liberty as well. Today he has forced the Prime | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
Minister into making a humiliating apology. I asked him whether he knew | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
about phone hacking and we accept that his assurances, and that was | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
the basis on which I employed him. I was clear I was giving someone a | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
second chance. He had resigned from the News of the World because of | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
what happened there. I accepted his assurances and gave him a job. It | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
was a second chance and it turns out to be a bad decision and I am | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
extremely sorry about that. Phone hacking was easy backs to a basic | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
security weakness or many mobile phones. To hear on a -- a voice mail | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
or you need is a four digit pin code and often it is a default setting or | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
possible to guess, or possible to purchase. With the right digit | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Private messages suddenly become public will stop film stars, sports | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
stars, police officers, politicians, rival journalists - the | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
News of the World hacked into the private affairs of anyone who might | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
provide a story. Most shockingly, perhaps, the mobile phone of the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler was hacked. She was not the only murder | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
victim to have her phone messages intercepted. We now know that a | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
woman who was shot dead had her messages hacked in the hours after | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
her killing. Did they know we were doing that on that day? It felt like | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
such an intrusion into a really private grief moment. The jury | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
decided today that Andy Coulson didn't just know about, but | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
sanctioned the hacking. Amongst the evidence that pointed to his guilt | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
was as e-mail concerning the reality TV star Calum Best, in which Colson | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
was as e-mail concerning the reality seen as a huge cat when he was first | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
hired by the Tories. The former tabloid editor and I am an with | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
connections to Rupert Murdoch, he quit when phone hacking | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
connections to Rupert Murdoch, he revealed at the News | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
connections to Rupert Murdoch, he but that, we were told, | :06:26. | :06:25. | |
connections to Rupert Murdoch, he and all in the past. Wasn't it? Do | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
connections to Rupert Murdoch, he you have any regrets? When he walked | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
out of his job at Number Ten he insisted he knew nothing. Labour | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
said the Prime Minister ignored every flashing light. We now know he | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
brought a criminal into the heart of Downing Street. David Cameron was | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
warned about Andy Coulson. The evidence mounted against Andy | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Coulson. David Cameron must have had his suspicions about Andy Coulson. | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
And yet, he refused to act. his suspicions about Andy Coulson. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
And yet, he refused to Tonight, a man who helped get his boss into | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
Number Ten faces the prospect of a life in prison why is the Prime | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
Minister is left making his plea in the Court of the public opinion. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
Apologies for the flashing images on that report. | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
looks now at the verdicts. The victims of phone hacking are | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
thought to run into their thousands. Among them was the former | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Home Secretary, David Blunkett. In an exclusive interview he spoke | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
to our Home Editor, Mark Easton about the devastating | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
impact it had on his life. I can only put it this way - | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
I came as close as anyone could ever come to having a breakdown without | :07:40. | :07:40. | |
actually having one. At his Sheffield constituency | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
office, David Blunkett has spoken for the first time | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
about what he calls the terrible hurt phone hacking inflicted on him, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
his family and his friends. The honest truth is, I don't know | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
how I managed to continue doing the job in the way I did. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
I actually think it probably took me two years to really recover. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
The News of the World illegally intercepted hundreds of private | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
messages Mr Blunkett had left on phones belonging to close friends, | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
intimate voice mails that revealed an affair and would ultimately | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
destroy his Cabinet career. It was devastating in terms | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
of my life's work. I had given everything to become | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
in a position to make a difference to people's lives, to be a Cabinet | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
member, to be able to carry out the things I wanted to do. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
I can't believe now how I managed to cope. | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
David Blunkett had defied blindness, family tragedy and poverty to | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
become a key figure in Tony Blair's New Labour government. | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
Then, in 2004, a few days ahead of the News of the World revelations, | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, travelled to Sheffield to confront | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
the Home Secretary about his affair. I put a tape recorder on the table. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
I said, I'm going to record this because it's so crucial. | :08:53. | :09:15. | |
Listening to that conversation, it was clear that you were really | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
bewildered as to how Andy Coulson could possibly be so sure | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
about the affair. You start to suspect that someone | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
has, to put it in the pejorative, betrayed you. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
They believe you might have done it. It sours relationships to | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
a terrible degree, which then comes back as a consequence later, | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
as it did in my case. The scandal wounded the | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Home Secretary so severely, he was forced to resign. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Less than a year later he left government for a second time. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Although unconnected, once again phone hacking by News | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
of the World was a feature of a media storm that finally | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
destroyed his Cabinet career. The hyenas of the press, he said, | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
had finished him off. I call them hyenas | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
because it was quite clear that the pack were after me. | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
People have said to me, why aren't you bitter? | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
And the reason is, you can't send bitterness like an e-mail. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
It erodes you from the inside. The former Home Secretary says | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
the law should be changed to protect victims like him | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
and those close to him from having to face a repeat of the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
original intrusion in open court. Privacy has been breached | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
for a second time. Double victim? | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Double victim and in the end, the only consolation we all have is | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
that justice has been done. David Blunkett, the former Home | :10:46. | :10:46. | |
Secretary, talking to Mark Easton. What more do we know about how | :10:47. | :10:58. | |
journalists at News of the World hacked into the phones of other | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
people and how deeply ingrained was a? Our home affairs correspondent | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
now reports. This used to be a powerhouse of tabloid journalism. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
But this place, once the News of the World's newsroom, was where the | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
phone hacking conspiracy grew into a national scandal driven by the | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
pressure to break sensational stories. The News of the World | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
contract it at the hacking to Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
They played him -- paid him hundreds of thousands of pounds. In 2006, | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
police raided this office in South London and inside, they found a | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
massive haul of evidence indicating phone hacking on an industrial | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
scale. This is the former office of Glenn Mulcaire. He was very | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
organised. He set out a strategy on whiteboards. Welcome to go to | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
network services, Helensburgh in, tan -- can I take your name? He had | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
a special trick when targets change their number. I need to do a voice | :12:08. | :12:18. | |
mail reset. He is calling a voice mail -- phone network employee to | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
reset a voice mail pin number. Bethany Usher was a young News of | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
the World reporter who was often asked to hand over the numbers of | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
those she had interviewed. I was not in a position to question what they | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
were asking. I would never say, why do you want this number? I would | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
just give it to them will stop do you suspect it might have been to | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
use it for phone hacking? With hindsight, yes. That makes me angry. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
There were people who had an interview with me because they | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
trusted in me and the idea that they would have hacked their phone is | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
sickening. Having access to the voice mail secrets of the stars only | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
helps the paper so much. Journalists could never admit how they got the | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
information but it helped to prove stories were true. Former reporter | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Matt Driscoll did not see evidence of hacking but says accuracy was | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
surprisingly important. It is a big myth that tabloids were reckless | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
with the information for their story. The News of the World was all | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
about making sure that in a few months time that it was not denied | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
and also that there was not a legal letter that was going to cost the | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
paper a lot of money. Andy Coulson's was not the only | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
conviction. Dan Evans admitted hacking phones. James weather up and | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
Neville fell back all pleaded guilty as well. So much for those thinking | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
that Clive Goodman was the rogue reporter. An editor who unwittingly | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
agreed payments was acquitted today and thanked his lawyers. Most | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
remarkable and it is to them I owe a huge and injuring thanks for the | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
result, the unanimous verdict, of the jury today. Thank you. Rebekah | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Brooks may have been cleared but more journalists face trial next | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
year as the multi-million pound police | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
year as the multi-million pound investigation into the dark arts of | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
the tabloids continues. Secretary, talking to Mark Easton. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Our Political Editor Nick Robinson is in Westminster for us now, Nick. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Where does this leave David Cameron tonight? | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
The Prime Minister has said sorry but in many ways has blamed Andy | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
Coulson from what went wrong. That, I think, will not do for many of his | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
critics, not just his political opponents, but others as well. They | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
will say that he had plenty of warnings, as we heard the Labour | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
leader say in my report. In other words, warnings not just from the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Labour Party but also his coalition allies, the Liberal Democrats, | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
warnings from his close colleagues in the Conservative Party, warnings | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
from the newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic who began to expose | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
what really happened at News of the World. It is worth remembering that | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
you will not hear a full-blooded debate about what should and should | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
not have happened until the legal process is over and it is not | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
tonight. The judge has sent the jury home because we have yet to have | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
verdict on two crucial accusations, with the suggestion that a royal | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
phonebook was purchased. Andy Coulson left court this evening | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
still not knowing what will be his fate, still not knowing the sentence | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
that awaits him. When it is over and when this becomes a matter of | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
politics, David Cameron will know, I think, that sorry may be a hard word | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
to utter but in this case, it may not be enough. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Our top story: Andy Coulson, the former editor | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
of the News of the World, is guilty of conspiring to hack phones. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
His former colleague, Rebekah Brooks, was cleared of all charges. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Still to come: The Queen visits the set of Game of | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Thrones. Later on BBC London: | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
In 2010 the Mayor dismissed phone allegations as "codswollop". | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
And the latest radical design to guilty verdict. | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
In Iraq, Sunni insurgents, led by the group ISIS, | :16:37. | :16:53. | |
have continued their advance, as stark new figures today highlight | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
the human cost of the fighting. According to the UN, more than 1,000 | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
people - mostly civilians - have been killed in the country | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
in the last two weeks. The rebels say they've now captured | :17:06. | :17:07. | |
a key oil refinery, although that's disputed by the Iraqi government. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
While John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, travelled | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
to the northern city of Erbil. He called for unity in the region | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
to confront the rebels' advance. In an exclusive interview, | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
Sunni fighters have told the BBC that they'll reach Baghdad within | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
a month. Our special correspondent, | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
Fergal Keane, is in Erbil from where he sent this report: | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
In the shadow of its ancient citadel, | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
Erbil is a haven from the war. And it was here that we | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Erbil is a haven from the war. Sunni fighters who travelled to | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
and from the frontline. They very rarely talk to Western | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
media. But these insurgents are confident. | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
"Baghdad will soon fall", they told me. | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
"Baghdad will soon fall", It is a matter of time. | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
Less than one month. Now they are asking young Shia | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
to fight against us, but we will be there very soon and Baghdad | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
will fall under the revolution. And they say that | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
Prime Minister Maliki will be executed if he's captured. | :18:19. | :18:20. | |
TRANSLATION: Sharia law says | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
the killer must be killed. We will follow the law. | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
The fighters are from Sunni tribes, spurred to radicalism | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
by a government crackdown in their home town of Fallujah. | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
One reason they may have decided to talk to us, is a growing resentment | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
of ISIS and its foreign fighters, a feeling that the Sunni revolution | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
has been taken over. TRANSLATION: | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
I want to say to America and the world that this is not | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
an ISIS revolution, this is a Sunni revolution. | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
We ask the EU and America to support the Sunni people. | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
We are not terrorists. The Iraqi army is still striking | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
at insurgents but is demoralised and weak. | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
Latest reports suggest the country's biggest oil refinery | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
has fallen to the militants. Now America is pressing | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
for a new Iraqi government, more acceptable to Sunnis. | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
Without an adequate transformative decision by the leaders of Iraq, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
anything that the United States or other allies or friends with troops | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
do to fight back, is going to be limited, if not impossible. | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
John Kerry was speaking here in Erbil where Iraq's ethnic groups | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
co-exist peacefully under the Kurdish majority. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
It is a dream but only that, of what a peaceful Iraq might look like. | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Iraq is a complex catastrophe and the idea that there will be one | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
outright winner who can control the whole country is a fallascy. | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
-- fallacy. What we've heard from the Sunni | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
fighters suggests a growing resentment of their ISIS allies. | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
So even if the insurgents do win, it could merely be the first phase | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
in a much longer war. Let's have a look at some of the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
other stories making the news today. Reports from Sudan say a Christian | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
woman who was released from prison yesterday after her | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
death sentence for renouncing Islam was annulled, has been re-arrested | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
at Khartoum Airport. It's thought Meriam Ibrahim's | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
husband and two young children were also detained. | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
An estimated 48,000 immigrants may have fraudulently obtained English | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
language certificates to allow them to get a UK student visa. | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
The figures come from a Government inquiry set up | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
after an investigation by the BBC's Panorama earlier this year. | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
The Immigration Minister says work has begun to remove anybody who is | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
in the country illegally as a result of such cheating. | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
Air traffic controllers in France have started a six-day strike | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
which is disrupting flights to and from Britain. | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Ryanair, British Airways, Easyjet and Flybe have all cancelled | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
some flights across Europe. Many airlines are warning of delays. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Journalists around the world have gathered to protest against the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
seven-year jail terms given to three Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt. | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
A court in Cairo found Australia's Peter Greste, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed guilty of spreading false news. | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
The trio had denied the charges and are expected to appeal. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have visited a former prison | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
in Belfast on the second day of their visit to Northern Ireland. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
They were shown around the Crumlin Road Gaol by two former inmates - | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
the First Minister, Peter Robinson, and his Deputy, Martin McGuinness. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Our Royal Correspondent Nicholas Witchell reports. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
The report contains some flash photography. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Witchell reports. For so much of her reign, | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
visits to Northern Ireland have been sombre affairs, | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
devoid in much of the way of hope. Today, though, was different. | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
The Queen had come to Belfast's Crumlin Road to the | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
building which once was a prison - a bleak place where rival groups | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
of paramilitaries, republicans and loyalists had been incarscerated. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
Guiding the Queen today, two former inmates of Her Majesty's | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Prison Crumlin Road. Two men who are now Northern | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
Ireland's elected leaders, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, and the | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
Democratic Unionist, Peter Robinson. The First Minister and Deputy First | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
Minister took the Queen through one of the prison wings, transformed now | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
into a visitors centre, but little changed physically from the days | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
when Mr McGuinness was locked up here, charged with IRA membership. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
Mr Robinson, with protests against Anglo-Irish talks. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
That was then and Northern Ireland has moved on, | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
with political reconciliation and economic regeneration. | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
Take this, for example. The American TV programme Game | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
of Thrones is one of the most acclaimed drama series | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
in the world and it is made in Northern Ireland, bringing millions | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
of pounds to the local economy. The Queen was shown the studio sets, | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
in what was once part of the giant Harland Wolff shipyard. | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Then, in the centre of Belfast, she walked through a covered market, not | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
far from what was once the strongly republican area of the Short Strand. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
For so many years, a visit such as this would have been unthinkable. | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
At Belfast's City Hall the Queen paid tribute to those who'd worked | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
for reconciliation. You have come this far by turning | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
the impossible into the possible. And as you face the future, | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
and difficulties that may appear insurmountable, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
always remember that the thoughts and prayers of millions, | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
including my own, are with you. For a monarch who's seen so much | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
change during her reign, and not all of it for the better, this has been | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
one day when the dominant emotion really has been that of hope. | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Cricket now and on the fifth and final day of the Test match, England | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
are trying to avoid a First Series home defeat to Sri Lanka. | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
Moeen Ali made his half century. | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
A short time ago he was on 96 not out. England are on a total of 236-9 | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
with two wickets left. century. | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
Heather Watson became the third British player to reach | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
the Second Round at Wimbledon with an impressive win | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
She brushed her aside in two sets to go through to the second round of | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
the Women's Singles. at Wimbledon with an impressive win | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
against Costa Rica. Whatever the result, they and many of their | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
fans, will be heading home tomorrow, as our chief sports | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
correspondent, Dan Roan, reports. # We're going home # | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
Some trying to look on the bright side but having followed their team | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
to the bitter end this wasn't the party they envisaged, journeying | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
half way around the world for a match reduced to the meaningless | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
friendly. We only got tickets for this game. I quit my job. You quit | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
your job? Yes, to come here. I got tickets. I was excited. I will not | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
let it ruin it. I made the effort. I wish the team had done the same. I | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
the spent so much money and time. We came out here but what place no, | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
better place than Brazil to get knocked out. England made radical | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
changes to the team. But one of the two who kept his place, Daniel | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Sturridge, came closest early on. Unlike their more vaunted opponents, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
Costa Rica have shown just what's possible here, qualifying for the | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
second round. Now a reminder of way. Ben Foster was forced into action. | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
England claimed to have no luck in Brazil. Perhaps they are right. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
Sturridge unfortunate not to earn a penalty but in truth, by now, even | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
they found it hard to care. Well the names on the shirts may have changed | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
for England but it is still the same old story. No goals, 0-0. Still 25 | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
minutes inside the second half against Costa Rica in what is a very | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
poor match as England such desperate for a mod come of salvage, pride. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
After this match they fly directly home and in truth, the end of their | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
World Cup can't come soon enough. Time for a look at the weather. | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
It is lovely there in Brazil. Nice weather to end the day in the UK. | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
However there weather to end the day in the UK. | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
around, just like yesterday and even one or two thunderstorms. Just in a | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
few areas. As far as tomorrow goes, hazy sunshine and I think right | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
across the country it is going to be that little bit cooler. Now this the | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
satellite picture from the that little bit cooler. Now this the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
hours. Again, just like yesterday, across this portion of the UK is | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
where we had a few downpours. One or two rumbles of thunder but we will | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
say goodbye to them through the evening hours. | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
say goodbye to them through the clouds will thicken through the | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
course of the night. By the early hours of Wednesday morning, there | :27:20. | :27:20. | |
will be light hours of Wednesday morning, there | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
Belfast and also Glasgow but for most, a dry night. Tomorrow, it | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
starts off on a bright note for many areas. The cloud will increase | :27:30. | :27:30. | |
starts off on a bright note for many little bit. But overall it should be | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
a fine day across most of England with temperatures hovering in the | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
mid-to high teens, possibly 21 in London but fresher in the north-west | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
with a few spots of rain for Northern Ireland and western | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
Scotland in particular. For the play at Wimbledon tomorrow, overall not a | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
bad day with hazy sunshine and around about 20. | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
For Thursday, Glastonbury-glrs will want to know about the weather -- -- | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
Glastonbury-goers. It looks like rain on Thursday and | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
into fri. You can keep the forecast in the palm of your hand with our | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
BBC weather app throughout the course of the weekend. | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
And, finally on Friday, this is where the rain will be, across son | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
parts of the country. You can see an increasing breeze. That's basically | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
the start of what is going to be quite an unsettled weekend, just | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
after all of this fine, bright warm weather we have been having. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
Inevitable, I suppose. That's all from the News at Six. Goodbye from | :28:32. | :28:34. | |
me. On BBC One, we | :28:35. | :28:35. |