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This is BBC World News Today with me, Geeta Guru-Murthy. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The man who some say led the UK out of the EU is now out | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Boris Johnson shocks the country, pulling out of the race to be | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
the next British Prime Minister - its thought he didn't enough | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
-- it is thought he did not have enough backing for the top job. | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
Having consulted colleagues, I have concluded that | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
Five people have put their names forward. | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
Among them are Mr Johnson's former colleague in the Leave | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Another contender - UK Home Secretary Theresa May warns that | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Also coming up...The Governor of the Bank of England hints that | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
interest rates in the UK are likely to be cut, | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
caused by Brexit could weigh on economic prospects for some | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
All this uncertainty, the three components together, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
has contributed to a form of economic post-traumatic | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
stress disorder amongst households and businesses. | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
of the Battle of the Somme, the centenary of the start | :01:21. | :01:29. | |
In which more than 1 million people were wounded or killed. | :01:30. | :01:39. | |
It's been another breathtaking day of drama for British politics. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Who will lead the Conservative party - and the country? | :01:42. | :01:51. | |
The most surprising in a day of astonishing twists and turns, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
the decision by the leading voice in the Leave campaign, | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Boris Johnson, to rule himself out of the race. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
He stunned a press conference by declaring the best person | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Having consulted colleagues and in view of the circumstances in | :02:05. | :02:16. | |
Parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me. My role Will | :02:17. | :02:26. | |
Beatty give every possible support to the next Conservative | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
administration, to make sure that we properly fulfil the mandate of the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
people and champion the agenda that I believe them. -- believe in. | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Boris Johnson had seemed one of the most likely successors | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
to David Cameron, until a surprise move earlier today by his fellow | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Leave campaigner Michael Gove who said Mr Johnson | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
wasn't up to the job and he himself would stand. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
The UK's Home Secretary Theresa May who campaigned | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
to stay in the European Union also announced she would be | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
I know I am not a showy politician, I don't gossip about people over | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
lunch or go drinking in Parliament 's bars, I don't often wear my heart | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Stephen Crabb, current Work and Pensions Secretary and a Remain | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
campaigner, former defence secretary Liam Fox and Energy | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Minister Andrea Leadsom, both of whom campaigned | :03:30. | :03:30. | |
Well as we said, one of the big surprises to come out | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
of today was Justice Secretary and Leave campaigner, Michael Gove, | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
throwing his hat in the ring for the conservative leadership. | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Many thought he would give his support to Boris Johnson. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
He sat down with the BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
First of all, days ago, you were backing Boris Johnson, running his | :03:52. | :04:06. | |
campaign. What changed your mind? I thought it was right, following the | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
decision of the British people last week, we should have someone needing | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the Conservative Party and country who believed in the heart and soul | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
that Britain was better off outside the EU. I thought Boris Johnson was | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
someone who could ensure the government and follow the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
instructions of the British people, and build and ignite a team around | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
him in order to lead the country forward. Boris is an amazing and | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
impressive person but I have realised in the last few days that | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
he is not capable of building that team and providing that unity. I | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
came reluctantly but firmly to the conclusion that as someone who argue | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
from the start that we should leave the EU and as someone who wanted to | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
ensure a bold and positive vision for our future was implemented, that | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
I had to stand for the leadership of the Conservative Party. What changed | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
your mind? You've known Boris Johnson for a very long time. It | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
can't be the case that you've only just realised his attributes and | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
faults, or a lack of ability in certain areas? Here's a big | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
character with great abilities, I enjoyed working with him during the | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
referendum campaign. He brings great energy and enthusiasm but there is | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
something special about leading a party and country, I had the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
opportunity in the last few days to assess whether or not Boris could | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
lead that team and build that unity. I came reluctantly but firmly to the | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
conclusion that while he has many talents and attributes, he was not | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
capable of building that team. There were a number of people who said to | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
me during the course of the week that it should be me. I reflected on | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
those comments and on the individuals who made that case, and | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
last night I came, as I say, with a degree of hesitation but ultimately | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
believing this was absolutely the right thing to do, I came to the | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
conclusion it was necessary to put myself forward. We need someone with | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
experience at the highest reaches of government, and someone who believes | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
in the British people's verdict that they delivered last week. We need | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
someone who can appeal to and unite individuals who argued we should | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
leave, and who also believed that we should remain in the EU. Already | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
today, I've had support from colleagues across the spectrum, and | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
indeed from outside of politics, confirming my belief that I was | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
right to stand and offer myself up for election, and I leave it to my | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
colleagues in the Conservative Party to make a judgment as to whether or | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
not it is right I should lead. What kind of primaries to which you make, | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
what are your priorities gritter mocha would be captain of a strong | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
team, the first thing to recognise is that we have all of these talents | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
-- priorities? . I want to lead a government in which people with wise | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
heads and generous hearts work together in order to ensure the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
decision of the British people made on the EU is honoured. We had to | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
take this country out of the EU and into the world, and restore | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Parliamentary control of our orders, taxes and laws. We had to build a | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
more dynamic economy and fairer society. When people voted to leave | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
the EU last week they were voting for change. There are far too many | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
people in this country who felt that recent economic growth and renewed | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
prosperity has not touched their lives. There are far too many people | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
in this country who felt left behind and overlooked as the world moves | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
forward at a faster pace. I want to govern for everyone in this country, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
heal and unite, and above all I want to ensure that Britain is a country | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
that others look to with admiration because we are the home of | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
admiration and creativity, and a warm and compassionate place that | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
everyone is proud to call home. Michael Gove, thank you very much | :08:06. | :08:06. | |
indeed. Two reasons, the first is a question | :08:07. | :08:21. | |
of personality, some Conservative MPs perhaps thought that the former | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
was too colourful and the electorate had had too much excitement for this | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
year. The second reason is more ideological, some in the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
Conservative Party were committed to Britain leaving the EU and do not | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
entirely trust Boris to go through with it. It throws up another point | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
where a lot of people had said Boris Johnson was not that much of a | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Eurosceptic, he had thrown his lot in with Brexiteers to become | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
primaries to and it has all come to this. It was a personal ambition, | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
potentially at an end? Michael Gove, passionately Eurosceptic but liberal | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
in his outlook in other areas? Absolutely but I think the problem | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
Michael Gove will have is that yes, he is seen as a purist by those in | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
the Conservative Party, does not like the EU, but on the other hand | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
he was very much what you would call a love him or hate him politician, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
is seen as ideological by opponents. That, of course, present problems. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
Theresa May pointed out something many people have thought over the | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
last few days, that politics is not a game, that is how it has failed to | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
some of those who have been part of the Conservative Party over the last | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
few days? Her pitch is, the men have messed it up. Time for a proper | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
woman. She campaigned for remain but says that she is steady, no-frills, | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
we had a bit of it there, reliable and knows what she's doing, we have | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
two sort of a relationship with Europe and respond to those who | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
voted for exit. That is what it will come down to, are the backers right | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
in thinking the country has had enough excitement for the last year | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
or so? Let me add one quick thing, bearing in mind what has happened | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
over the last few weeks, it seems to be that as long as some winter is | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
not defy the laws of physics and thermodynamics, it could always | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
happen. -- something. It has been astonishing just today, never mind | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
the last week. The Conservative Party is not the | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
only one facing a leadership battle, Jeremy Corbyn is expecting to face a | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
leadership The leader of Britain's main | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
opposition Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn, is expected to face | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
a leadership challenge after rejecting calls | :10:55. | :10:56. | |
from many of his own MPs Our deputy political editor | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
John Peinaar reports. Jeremy Corbyn's home is normally | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
mobbed by the media. Today, as rival Cabinet Ministers | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
jostled and bumped each other off in the power struggle for Britain, | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
he set off in peace. No-one's even asking | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
what Labour thinks anymore. First launching a plan to stamp out | :11:11. | :11:11. | |
racism in the party, he upset critics by mentioning | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Israel and the so-called Islamic Our Jewish friends are no more | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
than our Muslim friends are for those various self-styled | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
Islamic States or organisations. A pro-Corbyn activist who'd handed | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
out a statement saying rebel MPs should be sacked as candidates | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
turned on a Jewish MP for what he So you can see who's | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
working hand-in-hand. The MP, Ruth Smeeth | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
walked out in disgust. And under enormous pressure to stand | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
down, facing an imminent leadership I am the leader of the party | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
and I'm doing that. What do you say to those many | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
members and most of your MPs who will never follow your | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
leadership no matter what you say And is the break-up of the Labour | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Party a price worth paying I'm sorry, John, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
I am going to cut in. There will be plenty of time | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
in the months ahead Mr Corbyn made a message | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
to the Labour Party. He headed back to Westminster | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
where his MPs are competing to see Mr Corbyn, is the break-up | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
of your party a price worth paying? And where once loyal MPs are telling | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
me privately they think he should stand down too to prevent a | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
right-wing takeover. Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
faith goes back decades. New members helped elect him | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
with far-left backing all hostile to most Labour MPs | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
and behind his loyal hard core support who are determined | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
he cut and won't give in. He absolutely has my support | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
and the support of the majority I think he's a man who's shown | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
immense courage and leadership this week as MPs have tried to take a | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
coup out against him. I believe he is the right man | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
to lead the Labour Party. Angela Eagle, a former | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Shadow Cabinet Minister's ready But Owen Smith fancies | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
a challenge too. They are both holding back to decide | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
which one has the best chance And there's another reason | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
a challenge has been put on hold. Many MPs are becoming convinced | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Jeremy Corbyn's determination to fight on may be | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
weakening under pressure. This morning, more than 500 Labour | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
councillors joined the chorus There's talk of his trade | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
union support softening. They say his base of support is | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
strong enough to see off all-comers. The Governor of the Bank | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
of England Mark Carney has signalled that interest rates | :14:05. | :14:25. | |
could be cut over the summer. He warned that economic growth | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
could be hit for some time Mr Carney said more cash might also | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
need to be pumped into the economy. Here's our Business | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
Editor Simon Jack. As the Vote Leave | :14:36. | :14:36. | |
campaign punched the air in victory last week, | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
?1.8 trillion was wiped off shares worldwide in a | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
single day, the city and the country seemed rudderless. | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
The Bank of England had described Brexit is the | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
biggest risk to the economy and the governor had | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
the economy and the governor had not changed his tune today. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
In my view, and I'm not prejudging the views of | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
other independent members of the MPC, the economic outlook has | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
deteriorated and some monetary policy easing will likely be | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
That could mean lower interest rates, more | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
money printing or both, to deal with a new economic reality. | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
The material slowing in growth that the MPC had | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
identified as a risk associated with the referendum now looks likely | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
Out in the real economy there is some early | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
One thing we have noticed is four potential | :15:25. | :15:37. | |
contracts in the pipeline have pulled back, | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
international client is | :15:40. | :15:40. | |
looking to invest in the UK and until we know if Britain | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
is in the single market or not they will be a | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
period of uncertainties and that is unsettling | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
for people looking to invest here, for jobs and | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
That the biggest losers this week have been banks. | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
HSBC and JP Morgan have warned jobs in the UK could go to Europe but to | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
date the Barclays chief told the BBC that UK jobs were not under threat. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
We want to be involved in the capital markets globally. | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
Right now the best way to do that is to be | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
anchored in London and New York as we are. | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
You might have to increase your presence in another location | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
that does not necessarily mean you are decreasing your present here. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
This is not an economic crisis, this is very | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
In the city, some financial markets have roared | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
back, helped in part by the | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
Governor's hint of an imminent interest rate cut. | :16:37. | :16:37. | |
It is still early days in the post Brexit journey but | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
today the Bank of England made it clear it thinks the sky has | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :16:45. | :16:57. | |
The US has lifted its ban on transgender soldiers serving | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
Transgender individuals will be allowed to enlist, | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
and those already serving will no longer be forced to leave based | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
The American Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the change | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
was the "right right thing to do for our people and for the force". | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
Our mission is to defend this country. We do not want barriers | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
unrelated to a person-macro 's qualification to serve preventing | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
asked from recruiting or retaining a soldier, sailor, or Marine who can | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
best accomplish a mission -- person's. We want to be able to | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
recruit the most highly qualified and to retain them. | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
More now from Gary O'Donoghue who joins us from Washington. | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
Has this been a real problem for the military? Is this a problem they | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
have with a lot of individuals who are transgender coming up against | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
previous rules of the military? Not so much a question of numbers, | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
indeed numbers are actually quite small. These are estimates, that it | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
is possibly something between 2500-7000 people in a force of 1.3 | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
million who will be transgender. Numbers are very small but there | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
have been significant social changes in the US. Elsewhere these issues | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
have come to the top of the agenda in many ways in civilian life, now | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
the military has to confront them as well. This is implementing a | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
decision made one year ago by the defence Department. They had been | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
looking at it ever since, conducting studies. Surface chiefs asked for | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
extra time for it to be implemented -- service. About one and a half | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
months. As of today, you will be able to declare yourself as | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
transgender in the military and it will not be a bar to promotion, and | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
you will not be sent out of the military, sacked from the military | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
for that any more. Over the next 12 months they will set out a bunch of | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
guidance for doctors etc and a year from today you will be able to apply | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
to join the US services, air force, army or navy, as a transgender | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
individual, providing, this is a big providing, that you have been stable | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
in your preferred gender for around 18 months and certified by a doctor. | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
They are significant changes and it is the US military catching up with | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
what is happening elsewhere in society. Gary O'Donoghue, thanks. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Now a look at some of the day's other news. | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
A Palestinian has stabbed to death a thirteen-year-old | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Israeli girl at her home in a West Bank settlement. | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
The Israeli military says the Palestinian teenager | :19:48. | :19:49. | |
from a nearby village broke into the house and injured | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
a security guard before he was shot dead. | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
Turkey says three men who carried out a deadly suicide attack | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
on Istanbul's main airport were from Russia and | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
The Turkish government has blamed Islamic State militants | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
for the assault on Tuesday, which killed more | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
There has been a twin bomb attack on a convoy of buses transporting | :20:05. | :20:20. | |
police cadets on the outskirts of Afghan capital, Kabul. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
At least 30 people have been killed and many more injured. | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
The newly graduated police cadets were returning from a training | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
centre when the suicide bombers struck. The first attacker was | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
reportedly on foot when he detonated the device. As the convoy reached | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
the outskirts of Kabul. People rushed to help the victims, but a | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
second bomber drove a car full of explosives at them. TRANSLATION: | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
When I got to be senile back you waited around 40-45 victims from the | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
bus with other people there -- I got to be seen, I evacuated. | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
My clothes were covered in blood so I went and changed. 2-mac civilians | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
from the area were also murdered. The Taliban claimed responsibility | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
for the attack which true criticism. -- two civilians. Firstly, let me | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
offer my condolences for the martyrdom of the police cadets. I | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
ask all people to stand against these rebels in one voice and one | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
policy. This is the latest in a series of strikes by the Taliban | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
this year. Up to 144 people have been killed in at least seven | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
attacks attribute it to the militants. The most recent was when | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
14 security guards from Nepal were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul. | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
The new President of the Philippines has been sworn into office. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
Rodrigo Duterte is a controversial figure. | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
about rape and murder - and he's also insulted the Pope... | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
But it's his stance on crime, which includes saying that suspected | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
criminals should be killed, which helped win last | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
Friday marks the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
a day that became the bloodiest in British military history, | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
killing almost 20,000 allied soldiers. | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
Many more sustained injuries that had never been seen | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
before on such a scale, and returned home to a society that | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Sophie Raworth has been talking to a former British army captain | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
who lost both legs in Afghanistan about how different life | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
is for injured servicemen 100 years later. | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
The 31-year-old, who stepped on an improvised explosive device | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
in Helmand five years ago is hoping to go to the Paralympics and win | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
His great grandfather served in World War I, rescuing injured | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
I think I would find it incredibly difficult to even picture | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
what it was that they went through back in 1916, | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
1917, sitting in a trench filled with mud and dead bodies, rats, | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
It is very hard for me to imagine just how | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
100 years ago, the horror of war was compounded by the new weapons | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
Tanks were deployed for the first time at the Somme, and machine guns | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
The result was the largest number of casualties ever seen | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
This was very high velocity weaponry, large blast injuries, | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
So at the very heart of it, the wounds had changed. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
They were blowing great bits out of people. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Around 40,000 soldiers returned home with missing limbs. | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
For the first time, the medical world had to come up with ways | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
of getting large numbers of amputees back into society. | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
I can't imagine trying to go back and do the things I'm doing now | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
And I look at this leg, and the only thing I could imagine | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
The historical evidence is that people tried it | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
for five or six years, and then really they went back home, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
or went into a Star and Garter home, and simply weren't able to function. | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
And suddenly doctors had to deal with reconstructing the faces | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Many never overcame the psychological impact | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
They are called hospital blues for the most obvious reasons. | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
They are a suit that was issued to pretty much all the military | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
It came to be something that but the public recognised, | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
so that if out of the corner of your eye you caught blue, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
you knew immediately that there was somebody over | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
there was a military casualties, and that really increases | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
A century later, as Dave Henson prepares to compete on the world | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
stage, that sense of isolation is far from his reality. | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
This is something that has happened to me. | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
I lost my legs, and there is an interesting story behind it. | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
I am very proud of what I have done, and I'm so happy to share that | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
with people and display that in the form of these war wounds | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
I keep on show more less 99% of the time. | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
That was former British army captain Dave Henson finishing that report. | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
Another incredible day in British politics. | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
The most prominent figure in Britain's campaign | :25:40. | :25:41. | |
to leave the European Union, Boris Johnson, has ruled himself out | :25:42. | :25:43. | |
of the race to succeed David Cameron as prime minister. | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
The former mayor of London had been widely tipped for the post. | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
He withdrew after his fellow Leave campaigner, Michael Gove, | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
announced his own surprise bid for the leadership. | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has also entered the race. | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
It is looking pretty unsettled on the weather front, | :25:57. | :26:10. | |
quite a mixed bag on the way for the next few days. | :26:11. | :26:14. |