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Public-sector workers go out on strike in what's thought to be | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
the biggest day of industrial action for three years. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
There have been rallies around the UK, though the Government says most | :00:15. | :00:16. | |
teachers, fire-fighters and council staff have turned up for work. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
I am very angry, I have been teaching for 27 years, I have never | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
known this before, it has affected our pensions, our pay, and I have to | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
think about my family. My son is not at school, my daughter is, but it is | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
inconvenient, I have work I need to do. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
We'll be looking at how disruptive the day has been and | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
the likelihood of future strikes. Also tonight. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Emergency legislation is rushed through Parliament to allow the | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
police and security services access to our phone and internet records. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Israel and Palestinian militants trade airstrikes | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
and rocket attacks as the violence increases and the death toll rises. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Why dishing out free school meals could lead to primary | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
schools getting less money to help poor children in England. | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
And, bored with the World Cup? Well, limber up for the | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Commonwealth Games. An inquest jury finds that failures | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
contributed to the death of Cherry Groce, whose shooting by | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
police triggered the Brixton riots. And, could the Mayor take | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
a safe Tory seat, as a London MP Good evening, | :01:30. | :01:54. | |
and welcome to the BBC News At Six. Strikes are taking place | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
across the UK in a series of disputes with the Government | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
over pay, pensions and cuts. One union claims over | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
a million public-sector workers have walked out. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
The Government says it's half that. Schools in England and Waless. | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
In what's thought to be the biggest round of industrial action | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
for three years, teachers joined fire-fighters and civil servants | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
in rallies and on the picket line. But a Government spokesman says most | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
public-sector staff have reported for work | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
and nearly all key public services are being delivered as usual. | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
It was billed as one of the biggest strikes in years. Here in Birmingham | :02:37. | :02:44. | |
and around the UK, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
lost a day's earnings to protest over pay, pensions and cuts to | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
services. In London, several thousand workers turned out. There | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
were demonstrations in Cardiff as well. This was the scene in | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Newcastle. Thousands of people linked in their opposition to the | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
cuts. The cuts in services, we are public sector workers, we cannot | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
provide the services, we are understaffed, so we have had enough. | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
We are campaigning for a decent wage, what we are entitled for for | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
the work we do. The government are putting lives in danger. At the | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
heart of the strike, the issue of public sector pay and the situation | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
in local government, where workers have had a pay freeze and then a 1% | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
pay cap since last year. Unions insist the vast majority of the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
workers are around ?2000 worst off since the coalition came in. Chris | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Black was on strike today. She works for Somerset County Council and is | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
also a union branch secretary. She says her ?16,000 a year salary has | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
increased by just ?400 in three years. Whenever it gets towards the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
end of the month, I am counting the pennies, trying to make the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
decision, do I have enough for petrol to get me to and from work? | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Have I got enough petrol to get me to and from work? | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
for my daughter? The government insists pay restraint has saved | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
thousands of jobs and protected services. Today it condemned the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
strikes, calling the action irresponsible. When unions go on | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
strike, it is hard working people who suffer the consequences most. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Formal ball people who depend on public services, parents who are | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
forced to take a day off work or arrange childcare because their | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
school is closed, these strikes risk damaging those who are working hard | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
to get this country moving again. The key is to prevent further | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
strikes and further disruption happening. When the government is | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
ramping up the rhetoric against public service workers, womanising | :04:57. | :04:57. | |
them even more, I do not public service workers, womanising | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
is the answer -- be memorising them. Should cancel workers be able to | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
take action after low turnouts? I believe we deserve a living wage. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Wages have not increased significantly to meet the cost of | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
living. I have seen disruption reported on the news, it is not | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
right you should in danger the people due are meant to be standing | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
up for. There is already talk of two further strike days in September. It | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
will be business as usual at councils tomorrow, but this dispute | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
is not going away. The strike closed schools in England | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
and Wales as members of the National Union | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
of Teachers stayed away from work. The strike has meant some parents | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
having to take the day off to look after their children. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
This was the site at many schools across England and Wales, classrooms | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
closed, playgrounds and T. Thousands of teachers and support staff stayed | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
away, forcing some schools to shut. Not an easy decision, according to | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
this headteacher and union member. Our teachers are superbly | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
professional, most of the teachers are, they are dedicated and do an | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
excellent job, but they feel that their professionalism is constantly | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
undermined. Like others on strike, teachers are protesting over wages. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
There will be a new pay system from September. They are also angry at | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
having to work for longer and make higher pension contributions, and at | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
their heavy workloads. For the parents affected by the strikes, | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
closed schools meant major disruption. It has been a total | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
inconvenience, I have had to take a day's holiday. I do not get a lot of | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
holidays, 22 days a year. For other parents, it was business as usual. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Some schools were not affected, others partially closed. Just one | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
teaching union is on strike today, so some schools have had to close | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
the classes taught by teachers in that union. Others have stayed open. | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
My son is not at school, my daughter is, which is inconvenient. I have | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
work that I need to do. It is not great. What did you think about the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
idea that teachers have gone out? It is shocking that they are paid so | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
little that they need to strike. It is also about anger at education | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
reforms, including changes to the curriculum and growth of academies | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
and free schools. The man in charge is unabashed. Those on strike do not | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
represent the majority of teachers or the future of education. They are | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
trying to defend a particular set of conditions and an approach towards | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
pay that does not put children first. The government says its | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
reforms are improving standards, despite tough economic times. But | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
with such fundamental differences about what is right for education | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
and the wider public sector, there is no easy end to this ongoing | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
dispute. At least one union and the | :08:13. | :08:28. | |
government coming up with different figures, how do you assess the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
impact of the day's action? Here and elsewhere, we saw a lot of people on | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
strike, but it is always difficult to get a grip on it, and there are | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
differing views on the numbers and impact. Unions insist there were | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
more than 1 billion people on strike, but the Cabinet Office has | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
reported that, insisting it was less than half a million, and it said | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
that would be the lowest recorded turnout of a national strike. But | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
there could be more to come, there is talk of two more strike dates in | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
September, and the possible of the of health workers joining industrial | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
action, which could become even bigger in the autumn. | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
Emergency legislation to ensure the police | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
and security services can continue to access phone and internet records | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
is being rushed through Parliament. All three Westminster parties | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
are backing the new law. The Government says urgent action is | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
needed to protect the public from criminals and terrorists. | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
But civil-liberties campaigners have warned it | :09:24. | :09:24. | |
will invade people's privacy. Who did you call last year? Who did | :09:25. | :09:38. | |
you text and e-mail? When did you do it? Where were you? That is not just | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
your business, say the police and security services, it is theirs. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
They say they need the data to keep you safe. The headlines, emergency | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
legislation has been drawn up with all-party support. At 8am, the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Cabinet was summoned to Downing Street to be told that the three | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
main party leaders had agreed that an emergency new law was needed. Two | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
hours later, the Prime Minister and his deputy, who in the past have | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
disagreed over these issues, faced the media to make their case | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
together. We face real and credible threats to our security, from | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
serious or as a, the activity of paedophiles, the collapse of Syria, | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
the growth of Isis in Iraq and al-Shabab in East Africa. I am not | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
prepared to address the people after a terror incident and explained that | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
I could have done more to prevent it. The powers they are asking for | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
have already been used to help find the killers of Rhys Jones, to help | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
stop the terror plot to grow -- blow up planes. But now, a problem. The | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
judges in Europe ruled three months ago that the EU law under which | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
these operations were carried out is no longer legal. Companies like | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
Vodafone boast they protect their customers' privity. Ministers fear | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
that if the law is unclear, they would face pressure to destroy the | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
data they now hold. But why, many ask, does a new law need to be | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
passed in just one week? Does history not want us to be suspicious | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
of politicians who say, we all agree, there is an emergency, we | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
have to legislate in Hayes, do not worry, it is all going to be fine? I | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
am not asking for new powers and capabilities, I am saying we need to | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
legislate rapidly to keep those capabilities and powers that we | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
have. Nick Clegg says he has insisted on safeguards. We have | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
inserted a poisoned pill into the legislation, it will form -- fall in | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
2016. It is not permanent. We told the powers will not give the state | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
new to read our messages or to listen in to our cause. The | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
politicians are under pressure from the police and the security services | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
to take that step in future. But thanks to the revelations of this | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
man, Edward Snowden, the politicians face pressure to sleep less and to | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
be more transparent about what they are doing -- snoop less. We have | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
engaged in detailed discussions to ensure that the right safeguards are | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
in place, because they need to be safeguards when it comes to these | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
kind of issues. The party leaders may agree for now, but backbenchers | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
on both sides are worried by the rush to action. British people are | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
not stupid and not ideological. Why can they not have time to discuss it | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
with their elected preservatives? Whatever happens next week, the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
debate about who should be able to read and listen to what has a long | :12:54. | :12:54. | |
way to run. Israel is continuing its campaign | :12:55. | :13:04. | |
of air strikes on the Palestinian territory of Gaza, amid further | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
rocket attacks into Israel from Palestinian militants there. | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
After three days of increased hostilities, the death toll in Gaza | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
has risen to over 80, according to health officials there. | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
There've been no Israeli fatalities over the same period. | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
Israel said today it would no longer tolerate what it called the storm | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
Hamas, the militant group which controls | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
Gaza, insists an Israeli blockade that restricts the movement of goods | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
into the territory must be lifted. In this refugee camp, the bodies | :13:29. | :13:48. | |
kept coming today. This was the funeral of this family. A mother and | :13:49. | :13:55. | |
a father killed, we are told, alongside their six children. They | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
were asleep in their beds when the Israeli air strike hit. Flattening | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
their home. There was little left to salvage. In total, 17 people were | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
killed. The worst night so far for Gaza. They did not warn us, says the | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
neighbour, it was the first time they have hit a house without any | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
warning. The Israeli military usually gives advanced notice of an | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
attack. If they did here, the family did not receive it. It is not yet | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
clear why Israel bombed this particular site. Here, families | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
clear why Israel bombed this cheek by jowl. There may only have | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
clear why Israel bombed this been one target, but these were the | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
homes to six separate families, and all of them have been destroyed. | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
Israel says it is investigating what happened. There is anger. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
Israel says it is investigating what to destroy all Palestinians. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Israel says it is investigating what can save this land, because this is | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
our land. Overnight, Hamas continue to attack Israel. Since midnight, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
our land. Overnight, Hamas continue home. It | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
our land. Overnight, Hamas continue playroom. The family were not home. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
When the sirens sound, Israelis run for cover. Hamas rockets are | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
reaching further and deeper into for cover. Hamas rockets are | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
country. As long as they keep coming, Israel says it will keep | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
hitting Gaza. It blames Hamas for any civilian casualties. Israel is | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
taking great measures to avoid harming innocent civilians. Defence | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
forces warned Palestinians in Gaza of imminent strikes. At the same | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
time, Hamas instructs of imminent strikes. At the same | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
on the roof of those buildings and act as human shields. Israeli tanks | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
began taking up positions near Gaza today. The air and sea campaign has | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
already been costly for civilians. The ground invasion, if it comes, | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
would be even deadlier. Teachers, firefighters and council | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
staff go on strike over pay and changes to their pensions but the | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
government says most of the public And coming up, I am at Celtic Park. | :16:19. | :16:34. | |
It is still a construction site but hundreds of people are transforming | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
this football stadium into the venue for the opening ceremony of the | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
Commonwealth Games. Later on BBC London, a second smash and grab at | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
the Dorchester in the space of a month, is Rob is once again | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
month, again as robbers once again raid the luxury hotel. And handing | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
over the reins to the new owner, we hear from the Italian now in charge | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
It's a form of modern day slavery, otherwise known as forced labour. | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
Millions of men, women and children are made to work against their will | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
for little or no pay. The UN's International Labour | :17:11. | :17:12. | |
million people worldwide in forced labour. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
even though the practice has been illegal for nearly 40 years. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Our correspondent, Humphrey Hawksley, | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
reports from the village of Pipalguda in the Indian state of | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
he is 19 and learning to manage life with only one hand. He has worked | :17:35. | :17:46. | |
since childhood and his family barely scrapes a living. One day, | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
last December, he was offered a job that would cost him his right hand. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
TRANSLATION: When I went for work, I thought I would earn some money. Of | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
course, if I knew what would happen, I would not have gone. This is the | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
job he was being taken to, a family for bricks, used to build offices, | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
skyscrapers, call centres, the gleaming face of modern India. | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
Activists have compiled so many reports of violence against workers | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
that they call them blood bricks. He tried to run away and was kidnapped. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
What unfolded next is an all too common story of poverty, modern-day | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
slavery and the global economy. They laughed at me and made me decided I | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
want to lose my life, my laughed at me and made me decided I | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
hand. In desperation, I set my hand. They cut it off with an axe, just | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
like a chicken's head. It turns out that the man who approached him for | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
work comes from a nearby village. So we are going to try and find him. He | :18:53. | :19:03. | |
is a Labour contractor who has been charged and is out on bail. He | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
admits recruiting the man but says he was not there when his hand was | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
severed. TRANSLATION: I want to say sorry so we can live together as | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
neighbours. The kidnapping, the torture, the beating of people. You | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
were involved in all of that. No, sir, I was not involved in the | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
violence. I know nothing about it. But this man is far from alone. He | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
tells his ordeal to 150 others in a two-year recovery programme run by a | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
charity. All have similar stories of rape, beatings and threats. Many are | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
children with government certificate saying they are now free. As part of | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
the counselling, they relived their work with bricks. An estimated 10 | :19:55. | :20:04. | |
million people in India are bonded labourers, or slaves. History now is | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
to start his own family, but with no right-hand finding a wife will be | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
difficult. Just one young man with one story from India's trade in | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
bricks. Metropolitan Police Commissioner, | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, has "apologised unreservedly" | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
for the shooting of Cherry Groce, Mrs Groce, whose shooting triggered | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
the Brixton riots in 1985, was shot by police who were looking | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
for her son, Michael. With me now is She was paralysed | :20:34. | :20:43. | |
from the waist down, A jury at Southwark Coroner's Court | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
found the raid on her house should never have taken place, and police | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
failures contributed to her death. People might find it astonishing | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
that it has taken three decades for the family to find out what went | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
wrong. This is quite a significant moment, this was a shooting that not | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
only caused riots in the area but it scarred a whole community and | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
tarnished the reputation of the Metropolitan Police. Here we have a | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
full apology from the Police Commissioner Thomas Sir Bernard | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Hogan-Howe, not just for what happened, but also he is saying it | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
is inexcusable that it has taken his force so long to make that apology, | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
and he has admitted that there were failings, that the raid should not | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
have gone ahead. The catalyst for this is the inquest that has | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
concluded today, and the jury found there were eight police failings | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
that contributed to the death of Cherry Groce. There will certainly | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
be questioned at Scotland Yard is to why it has taken so long but today | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
at least the family have got the apology that they wanted. | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
The introduction of free school meals for all infant | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
school children in England is supposed to help poorer parents | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
But Head Teachers are concerned that an unforeseen consequence is that it | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
could lead to a reduction in other government funding | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
At Ash Green primary in Halifax, they take pride in taking free | :22:00. | :22:18. | |
school meals. As a result, the child gets additional money from the | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
government, known as pupil premium. At this school, pupil premium money | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
has had a huge impact, it was partly used to pay for this adventure | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
playground. Here, 60% of children are eligible for free school meals, | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
and as a result the school received nearly a quarter of ?1 million of | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
extra funding. From September, all four to seven-year-olds will be | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
entitled to free school meals but even so parents receiving benefits | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
will still have to register to attract the pupil premium funding. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
Worried that some may not see the need to sign up, the head has made | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
extra efforts to help them. It actually gives you a real kick start | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
as a school, we don't sort it out with the parents the children will | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
suffer ultimately. How can we make the parents understand and see the | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
value of doing this, and also to help to fill the forms in. Research | :23:12. | :23:21. | |
shows that some parents are worried about losing funding. Head teachers | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
say government departments should pool information on benefits to | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
remove the responsibility from parents. If a government has got the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
information about who gets these benefits, then they should be able | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
to share that date with local authorities, so that the schools are | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
told -- to share that data, rather than having to go through these | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
hurdles. Here in Halifax, parents have been keen to sign up. It is | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
confusing, I think every school should guide the parents like this | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
school has done. If the parents are knowing they are getting help for | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
the child, it is their education, so they are learning, and not just | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
getting the free school meals. They have a wider range of experiences | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
through the pupil premium, paying for the trips, and I think it brings | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
them further on in their education. This class went on a school trip | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
with pupil premium money. The government says that with ?1300 per | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
child at stake next year, there is a strong incentive for parents to | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
register. There are now 13 days to go | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
before the start of the Thousands of elite athletes from 71 | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
nations and territories will join with volunteers and spectators for | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
a festival of sport and culture. We can go live to Celtic Park, | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
the venue for the opening ceremony, and our Scotland Correspondent | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
Lorna Gordon. Normally these seats would be packed | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
with tens of thousands of fans watching a game of football, but | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
tonight this stadium is full of hundreds of workers putting the | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
finishing touches to the trans-formation of this stadium, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
head of the opening ceremony. You might be able to see behind me a | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
huge electronic screen, which stretches the entire width of the | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
stadium. The work here is on time, it is on schedule, head of the | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
rehearsals of the opening ceremony, which gets underway here next week. | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
At a secret location in Glasgow, hundreds of people are giving up | :25:27. | :25:33. | |
hours of their time every day. They are the cast for the opening | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Energetic, enthusiastic and | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
committed, and for some it has not been without its challenges. It is | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
getting my been without its challenges. It is | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
coordinate with each other! My feet are all in one direction, my arms in | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
the other direction, but I fail spectacularly, it is brilliant, it | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
really is. This is where they will be performing. What looks like a | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
dance floor now sits across the pitch. Work is still ongoing to | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
transform this stadium into a celebration of the Commonwealth. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Some small details about the show are being revealed, but not many. | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
Some small details about the show Well, ceremonies usually have a set | :26:19. | :26:20. | |
formula, they have a creative element and a bit of protocol. | :26:21. | :26:21. | |
This, we have mixed it all up in a element and a bit of protocol. | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
different way, so it is going to be a surprise. There was some | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
different way, so it is going to be Scottish imagery at the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
different way, so it is going to be ceremony. Four years later, they | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
want to include the story of the host city as well. It is an | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
attitude, I know it is a slogan, people make Glasgow, but it must | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
have been the easiest to come up with because it is true. These have | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
been billed as the friendly games of the friendly city, and after years | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
of running and months of work, it is less than two weeks now until the | :26:59. | :26:59. | |
show gets underway. It has been gorgeous in Glasgow, a | :27:00. | :27:18. | |
real day of contrast, 24 degrees, 25 down in Bournemouth, but 14 under | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
that cloud. That is only half the story, there has been some really | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
intense rain, but this weather front is very active, so we are seeing in | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
the storms and half an inch of rain, ten to 15 millimetres falling in the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
space of an hour. Also a keen wind to go with it, so clearly quite | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
miserable if you are out on the roads, because we have a lot of | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
spray and standing water. Overnight, we pick up some mist and | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
fog near the east coast. It could be rather grey. Any fault in the land | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
should clear fairly quickly, but it will be quite drab navvies coat -- | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
near the east coast. Not a bad day actually, brighter for Northern | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
Ireland, if you sharp showers there at the moment, fewer tomorrow. | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
Lovely weather again across Scotland, still some sunshine across | :28:05. | :28:13. | |
parts of North West England and Wales. Just enough moisture left to | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
give us a few sharp showers during tomorrow afternoon. Still quite | :28:22. | :28:31. | |
muddy, 22 degrees, -- still quite muggy. Then we have a change, our | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Atlantic weather system coming through. Most of the rain in the | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
West on Saturday. Saturday night, it will push its way eastwards, start | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
to fear out of the way. Behind it, a few more sharp showers into Sunday | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
afternoon, but brightening up and freshening up for the West was that | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
not a bad end to the weekend for many but still some disturbed | :28:51. | :28:55. |