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The greatest show on Earth - the 2016 Olympics are about to get | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
under way in Brazil, but is Rio ready? | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
The Olympic torch is paraded around Rio's most iconic sites before | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
I love the British humour and they used it quite well. | :00:13. | :00:26. | |
But if London was smart, we're going to be cool. | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
As the carnival capital of the world prepares to party, | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
one of Team GB's stars says he's excited about the competition ahead. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Here, it's a little bit, like, less formal, but it makes it fun too. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Big losses for Royal Bank of Scotland, | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
more than ?2 billion in the first half of this year. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
The deadly results of a new wave of criminality - | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
making super-strength cannabis using highly flammable gas. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
And the biggest travelling arts festival in Europe | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
gets underway in Wales - the Eisteddfod, celebrating | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Coming up in Olympic Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
As the Olympic torch arrives in Rio De Janeiro, | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
we'll have the latest from Brazil ahead of tonight's opening ceremony. | :01:18. | :01:42. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
The biggest sporting event in the world is about to get | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
The opening ceremony for the 2016 Olympics is being held | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
More than 10,000 athletes from 206 countries will be taking part | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
But organisers say more than a million tickets remain unsold. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
With the country facing a political and economic crisis, | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
Wyre Davies asks if Rio is ready for the Olympics. | :02:06. | :02:17. | |
The scene of many great moments in sporting history, and seven years | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
after Brazil was awarded the Olympic Games, all eyes will tonight be on | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
the Marikana. Rio will draw heavily on its history of Carnival and | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
diversity, putting on a spectacle costing a fraction of London's | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
extravaganza four years ago. Rehearsals, inspirational, says one | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
British resident of the city taking part in the show. Brazilian friends | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
of mine came away very emotional. Considering the limited budget, the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
feedback has also been that the lights and everything else they have | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
used to their advantage have made the show, live. In a working-class | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
district of Rio, plenty of local pride, as the Olympic torch arrived | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
after a marathon journey across Brazil. | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
TRANSLATION: It's a huge incentive for young and old alike. We are | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
excited and competent for this Games in Brazil. Public support for the | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Games has sometimes felt patchy. In areas where there has been little | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
investment, they ask, who are the Olympics for? But as the opening | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
ceremony approaches, there has been plenty of enthusiasm, some protest | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
and a lot of security. 85,000 troops have been deployed on the streets. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
Health, health, shouts one protester, amid real anger at the | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
billions being spent staging the Olympics when Rio has arguably more | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
pressing priorities. This is a city undoubtably transformed by the | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
Games. Some new infrastructure and the regeneration of previously no-go | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
areas. But there have been missed opportunities, too. Chronic levels | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
of water pollution and a city with still high levels of inequality. The | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
Olympic Games is perhaps not providing as much momentum for | :04:14. | :04:14. | |
change as had been promised. It's the first time the Olympics has | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
been held in South America. More than 500,000 spectators | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
are expected to descend on Rio And as the city makes its final | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
preparations, the stage is set for quite a spectacle, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
as Natalie Pirks reports. Ask anyone to describe Rio and this | :04:28. | :04:44. | |
would be right up there. Sun, surfing and the seemingly | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
never-ending sand. But now the marvellous city is staging their | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
biggest ever party. The action will be spread over four main areas, with | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
much of the competition taking place at the newly built Olympic Park. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
This will be the heart of the games. Half a million spectators here to | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
see the likes of the swimmers in a magnificent summing pool. There will | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
be handball, fencing, gymnastics, and the track cyclists will call the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
velodrome their home, only completed six weeks ago. You also have the | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
tennis arena, where Andy Murray will attempt to defend his title. Many of | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Team GB's athletes have a ready trained in the venues, with the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
divers getting a taste of the outdoors in the arena. Tom Daley | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
believes Rio will deliver a more laid-back Games than London. These | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
Games will be so much fun. London was quite formal. It was spectacular | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
and amazing. This is a little less formal, but it makes it fun, too. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Not everything is so serious and regimented. I think people coming to | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
these Games will have a blast. A record number of 206 countries will | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
compete in a record number of events here in Rio. In total, more than | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
11,000 athletes will compete in 300 and events, across 28 different | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
sports. Few venues will surpass the beauty of the rowing and canoeing | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
sprints, taking place on a stunning lake virtually in the centre of Rio. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
The same could be said of another iconic area, the Copacabana, where | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
you will find the likes of the triathlon, open water swimming and | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
where else for the beach volleyball? Inside the venues, there are some | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
major stories waiting to unfold. Usain Bolt will attempt to become | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the first man in history to win three sprint old medals at three | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
consecutive Games. Simone Biles is expected to light up the gymnastics | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
arena, and the most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Phelps, will be looking for a remarkable 23rd Olympic medal in the | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
pool. Rio is made for the Olympics. It is a wonderful setting. We have | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
amazing fields of play for the athletes, a beautiful setting, warm | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
people very excited to have the Olympics, welcome to the first Games | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
in South America. The city will provide a breathtaking backdrop and | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
the scene is set for the action to begin. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Our sports editor Dan Roan is at Rio's Maracana Stadium | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
where the opening ceremony is being staged tonight. | :07:22. | :07:23. | |
Dan, it's called the greatest show on Earth, but can Rio pull it off? | :07:24. | :07:32. | |
This may not be quite as efficient a Games as London 2012, but having | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
said that, as we saw, it does have one big natural advantage. It will | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
look absolutely stunning. No city can match its backdrop. But the | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
build-up to Rio 2016 has been amongst the most challenging any | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Games has seen. Political upheaval, economic recession, concerns over | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
the Zika virus, crime and pollution, one of the worst doping scandals | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
sport has seen in recent years, and in the last few minutes, the | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
football legend, Pele, has dropped out. He was expected to be the man | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
to light the Olympic cauldron. He has dropped out because of health | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
issues. Having said that, if tonight can pass off well, and this is the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
pinnacle for 10,000 athletes who will be here after years of | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
training, this opening ceremony, watched by around 3 billion people | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
around the world on television, it will be a huge relief to organisers, | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
who will hope that the focus now shifts towards the sport instead of | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
controversy. If some of the names from that previous package provides | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
some inspirational performances, many of those problems may well be | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
forgotten. This has already been a spectacular summer of sport with | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
Chris Froome winning the Tour de France and Andy Murray triumphing at | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
Wimbledon. Wales reached the semifinals of the European | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
Championships as well, but nothing perhaps can beat the Olympic Games, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
which has the potential to inspire and surpass every sporting event. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
And you won't miss a moment of the Rio Games with the BBC. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
We'll bring you live coverage on TV, radio and online, as well as | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
And you can find a day by day guide to what's on when on our website. | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
Royal Bank of Scotland - which is largely owned | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
by the taxpayer - has announced losses of more than ?2 billion | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Its chief executive said the bank was still addressing | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
"legacy issues", including settling PPI claims. | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Today's figures mean the bank's total losses have topped | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
?50 billion since the financial crisis in 2008. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
We've all got a past, but RBS's is more painful than most. | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
As much as it tries to get on with its life, it | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
continues to be haunted by the events of eight years ago. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Tonight at 10pm, all change for the British banking system, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
and the taxpayer foots the massive bill. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
The Royal Bank of Scotland is being effectively nationalised. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
It's a frustrating case of one step forward and two steps back | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
The first thing is, this is a magnificent business. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
Each quarter it makes about ?1 billion of profit before tax. | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
And then year-on-year we get hit by legacy issues. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
I think what's been surprising is that they keep coming, but these | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
We are trying to deal with as many this year which ever | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
And that's exactly how this year has panned out. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
Wiping out any profits were 700 million for litigation | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
costs going right back to 2008, 630 million in selling | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
old stuff at a loss, and another 450 million | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
All that contributed to a loss of ?2 billion | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
You know, I stood in this very spot in 2008 when RBS had made | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
the biggest loss in British corporate history, received | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
Every year since then, RBS has lost money. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
I didn't expect to be here eight years later saying the total | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
of those losses now exceeds ?50 billion, more money | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
And the value of the shares we got for that stake are now worth less | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
And RBS may find reporters outside for years to come. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
RBS is doing a lot of the right things with its business model. | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
It is expanding, it's doing that in a competitive environment. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
But it's got its history to deal with and it's just not going away. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
And the biggest thing out there is the settlement about US | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
mortgage-backed securities from way back when. | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
It's a biggie, and it's hanging on and it's hard for RBS to make | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
A process to revive the old Williams and Glyn brand has been beset | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
by technical difficulties and was finally shelved today. | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
The 300 branches it has to sell as a condition of its 2008 | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
bail out now look likely to be sold to a rival. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
Still three quarters owned by the taxpayer, | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
it's unlikely RBS will make a profit or that we'll get any | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
That will make it a lost decade for a bank that on some measures | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
At least 10 people have been arrested following protests | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
by Black Lives Matter campaigners which blocked the main road | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
into Heathrow Airport for a time this morning. | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
There were similar protests at Birmingham airport and a number | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
of other cities around the country to mark the fifth anniversary | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
of the shooting of Mark Duggan, an event which led to rioting in some | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
A prison governor has received hospital treatment | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
after being seriously injured by an inmate at a prison in Norfolk. | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
Paul Cawkwell was talking to a prisoner in the canteen at HMP | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
The Ministry of Justice confirmed that police | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
The former head of the official inquiry into historical allegations | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
of child abuse has been asked to explain her surprise | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
Dame Lowell Goddard is the third chair to quit the position since | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
Sources have told the BBC there have been tensions within | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Our correspondent Tom Symonds reports. | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
His face is never welcome these days, but really, this all started | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
with him, the flood of disclosures about child abusers. An enquiry was | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
demanded. In the search for a chairman, two senior lawyers came | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
and went, too close to the establishment. Finally, Dame Lowell | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Goddard was brought in from New Zealand. Hope, that she was far | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
enough removed to be truly independent. I come with certainly | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
no agenda other than to work hard and get to the bottom of the | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
allegations and to find answers for the survivors and the government. | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
She began a vast enquiry, 13 wide-ranging subjects. Possible | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
abuse in high office is only one of them. Much bigger is the examination | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
of wrongdoing in children's homes in Rochdale, Nottingham and Lambeth, | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
for starters. The allegations about the Anglican and Catholic churches. | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
The focus is institutional failure, but when a public figure like Labour | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
peer Lord Janner was accused of abusing children within | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
institutions, the enquiry said it had to assess the facts of what he | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
did. Today, abuse victims and survivors working on the enquiry | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
were locked in a long meeting at this London hotel will stop shocked | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
at Dame Goddard's resignation, they were given little explanation. But | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
one source said there was tension between the judge and her officials. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Another described it as conflict. A third has told us in the past that | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
she is difficult to work with. Yet somebody more sympathetic to her has | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
said she simply didn't get the support and loyalty she needed to do | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
this difficult job. But those at today's meeting were told that the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
enquiry goes on. They did a good job of trying to reassure people that | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the enquiry would continue and that there would not be any undue delays | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
in the public hearings, and they would move as quickly as possible to | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
try and get a suitable replacement chair in place. The new Home | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
Secretary, Amber Rudd, met those working with the enquiry today. | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
Finding a replacement will be a daunting task for her. Both the | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Minister and the judge have been told to appear in front of MPs next | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
month to explain themselves. Just hours until the Olympics get | :15:37. | :15:50. | |
underway in Brazil, thousands of athletes will take part in the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
opening ceremony in Rio tonight. And I'm in Abergavenny. This is the | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
first time this major cultural event has happened in this town for over | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
100 years. In Olympic Sportsday on BBC News, | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
the latest from Rio. Police and firefighters are warning | :16:08. | :16:19. | |
that a highly dangerous new method of making super strength cannabis | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
is emerging in Britain. It's called butane hash oil - | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
or BHO - and involves using large amounts of the flammable | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
gas, which can explode A BBC investigation has learned | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
of two deaths and more than 30 people being injured across the UK, | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
as a result of making the drug. They want to get high | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
but are risking their lives, This is probably the most | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
concentrated form of Nicknamed Shatter or Dabs, | :16:55. | :17:16. | |
this is BHO, butane hash oil, Usually the very highest | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
quality is the more gold. The more gold it is, | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
the higher quality. Alex takes it for a chronic | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
medical condition. Undoubtedly it is growing, | :17:35. | :17:35. | |
it is huge, compared to just last year, it's ten times bigger | :17:36. | :17:47. | |
and I expect it will be ten It means more people may try | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
and make it and hurt themselves. They are using the butane | :17:51. | :18:00. | |
as a solvent to extract Squirting raw butane | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
into a compartment and it only takes the smallest of ignition sources | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
to create that explosion. With trained fire investigators | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
in a specialist facility, we can show how | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
dangerous it really is. Here, using just one canister, | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
a simulation of what happens when BHO production | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
goes badly wrong. A fraction of a second later, fire, | :18:26. | :18:26. | |
burning at more than 1400 Celsius. That's the theory, | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
this is real life. What's left of a BHO factory | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
in a flat in Birmingham, concrete beams snapped in two, | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
debris blown across the street, hundreds of cans of butane | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
were found inside. The explosion triggered | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
by the switch of an electric kettle. One man was so badly hurt here, | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
he died later in hospital. The house had to be | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
completely demolished. This isn't a one-off, | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
we know of at least one other death and 25 serious injuries linked | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
to hash oil explosions We've seen an increase | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
in the amount of incidents What would be your message | :19:11. | :19:23. | |
to the people who are doing it Because the devastation | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
and the effects on people's In America, it is being made | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
on an industrial scale. Sometimes with terrible | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
consequences. A man who blew up these Glasgow | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
flats was today jailed Producers think it can get them | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
high or make them rich, the reality is, just one spark | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
could be enough to kill. David Hoare - who chairs | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
the education watchdog, Ofsted - has apologised for any offence | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
he caused when he described the Isle of Wight as a "ghetto" | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
suffering from inbreeding. the unacceptably poor performance | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
of schools there. The Isle of Wight Council called | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
the comments "truly offensive". A cargo plane has overshot | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
the runway at an airport in Northern Italy and slid | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
into a road in the early The Boeing aircraft crashed | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
through fences after landing in heavy rain at Bergamo | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
international airport - No-one was injured in the incident | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
and the airport was A Muslim cleric who conducted | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
a wedding ceremony in West Yorkshire for a woman | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
allegedly murdered in a so-called honour killing has | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
said he was threatened Samia Shahid, who was 28 | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
and from Bradford, died Her second husband claims | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
she was killed because her family Samia Shahid from Bradford | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
married Syed Mukhtar Kazam She had previously married this | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
man, Choudhry Shakeel. This Muslim cleric | :21:10. | :21:21. | |
divorced her from her first We strongly condemn | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
any forced marriages. He says because he'd helped her, | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
he was threatened by her relatives. They said, "We will harm your family | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
and you, and you will pay much So the threat was targeted at | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
you and your family? They said, "We know about where | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
you are living and your wife." The same thing I talked | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
to the police about. Police then kept in | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
touch and investigated. Police in Pakistan have said | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
that the 28-year-old beautician was strangled | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
while she was there last month. Her husband has claimed | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
she was killed by her family because they disapproved | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
of their marriage. The family have denied any | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
wrongdoing, and no arrests have been More than 1,000 so-called honour | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
killings were reported The authorities here say | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
they are speaking to police over there about what happened | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
and are reviewing all the people The cleric described the 28-year-old | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
beautician as "sensitive" and said he was devastated by | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
the way in which she died. It's a celebration of Welsh | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
literature, music and performance. The Eisteddfod is the biggest | :22:48. | :23:02. | |
travelling arts festival in Europe and it's a tradition that can be | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
traced back to the 12th century. It's held over eight days | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
and for the first time in more than 100 years it's taking | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
place in Abergavenny. Our Arts Editor, | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
Will Gompertz, is there. It exists to further the Welsh | :23:17. | :24:11. | |
language, and everybody realises that we have this Welsh language | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
policy, which states that all of the performances will be in Welsh. | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
This is the field where all of the performances are in Welsh and all | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
the signage. The star attractions take place in the main pavilion over | :24:28. | :24:37. | |
there. There is no doubt this is an | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
important cultural event, but the festival has been criticised in the | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
past for being too inward looking and a little unwelcoming to the 80% | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
of Welsh people who do not speak the language. | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
Changes are a foot, with more contemporary shows, like this new | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
piece by an acclaimed harpist. This whole thing is about celebration of | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
the language. It is always important to bear in mind we must welcome | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
everybody else and increasingly they are doing that. I would hope that as | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
a non-Welsh language speaker you could come and still have a lovely | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
day and enjoy the culture that we celebrate. The festival is making a | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
rare visit to the largely English speaking Welsh town of Abergavenny, | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
where it gets a mixed reception. It is a lot of Welsh. Some of it, you | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
think, what is the point? It has definitely encouraged a lot of | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
people I know to start learning Welsh. From two years ago when we | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
first knew it was coming here. These award-winning Welsh folk singers | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
worry that the approach can be too insular. Normalise the Welsh | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
language. Sing your song that happens to be in the Welsh language. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Don't make a big thing about it. If you start thinking in and keeping | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
every thing safe and Welsh, that is the problem we are going to suffer | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
as a Welsh nation. So collaboration, not isolation, is their vision for | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
the future of the Welsh language, and a festival which wants to be | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
seen as an open house, not a walled garden. | :26:22. | :26:55. | |
Essentially for most of us it will be a fine end to the working week | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
with clear skies this evening and overnight. Not particularly cold in | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
city centres. But as usual, across the North in the countryside it will | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
turn the peak, with temperatures dipping down. | :27:11. | :27:19. | |
Gale force winds later in the day around the western coast but for the | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
bulk of the country a fine day. Temperatures in the sunshine peaking | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
in London at 25 degrees, 23 in Yorkshire and in the lowlands of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
Scotland not far off 20 degrees. As well as the Eisteddfod we have the | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Edinburgh Festival running through August and it's not looking bad for | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
the first few days. Saturday evening, fine end to the day for | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
most of England and Wales but you can see that the winds are | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
increasing in the north-west of the UK, bits and pieces of rain and with | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
this wind comes a rush of mild muggy air. So first thing Sunday morning | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
it will feel close and warm and probably if I were to draw a line | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
around here from northern England northwards, gale force gusts of wind | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
buffeting those treess towards the south, breezy conditions and | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
sunshine getting up to around 25 Celsius. Overall for most of us not | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
too bad and for that all-important opening ceremony, 26 degrees in Rio, | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
with clear skies. Thank you. The 2016 Olympics are about to get | :28:23. | :28:35. | |
underway in Brazil with the opening ceremony in Rio just hours away. | :28:36. | :28:37. |