:00:06. > :00:13.Petrol bombs on the streets of Athens as a general strike against
:00:13. > :00:21.further austerity measures turns violent. Clashes outside parliament
:00:21. > :00:24.on the eve of a crucial vote on more spending cuts and tax rises.
:00:24. > :00:29.After all the tension, bitterness and frustration of recent days, it
:00:29. > :00:32.was almost inevitable that there would be an outbreak of violence.
:00:32. > :00:37.Further clashes tonight, as Greece is told it must pass the measures
:00:37. > :00:39.to get international help to stop it going bankrupt. We'll be
:00:39. > :00:44.assessing whether the Greek government can deliver the
:00:44. > :00:46.necessary reforms. Also tonight... As public sector workers prepare to
:00:46. > :00:56.strike on Thursday, David Cameron insists plans to reform their
:00:56. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:04.These strikes are wrong for you, for the people you serve, for the
:01:04. > :01:07.good of the country. Another high street chain in
:01:07. > :01:09.trouble, as household incomes see their biggest fall since the late
:01:09. > :01:13.1970s. Hidden charges on credit and debit
:01:13. > :01:16.cards - travel companies are told to be upfront with the customer.
:01:16. > :01:26.And what a difference 24 hours makes as Wimbledon's defending
:01:26. > :01:52.
:01:52. > :01:55.champion, Rafael Nadal, brushes off Good evening. There have been more
:01:55. > :01:56.violent clashes on the streets of Athens tonight after a day of
:01:56. > :02:00.protests against the Greek government's latest austerity
:02:00. > :02:04.measures. Masked demonstrators threw petrol bombs at riot police
:02:04. > :02:08.on the eve of a key vote on more spending cuts and tax rises. With
:02:08. > :02:11.Greece on the brink of bankruptcy, the government has to win the vote
:02:11. > :02:14.tomorrow to secure an emergency international loan. Without it,
:02:14. > :02:24.Greece will run out of money within weeks. From Athens, our Europe
:02:24. > :02:27.
:02:27. > :02:32.Late into the evening, there were clashes between police and
:02:32. > :02:37.protesters outside Parliament. All pot of the day of protest against
:02:37. > :02:43.an austerity package which Greek MPs will vote on tomorrow. Earlier,
:02:43. > :02:48.the protest had turned violent. For hours there were running battles in
:02:48. > :02:52.the square outside Parliament. Communications trucks were attacked
:02:52. > :02:56.and set on fire. After all the tension, bitterness and frustration
:02:56. > :03:03.of recent days, it was almost inevitable that there would be an
:03:03. > :03:07.outbreak of violence. The police fired hundreds of volleys of stun
:03:07. > :03:12.grenades and tear gas to clear the area in front of Parliament. Inside
:03:12. > :03:17.the Greek government, there is real anxiety about the extent of these
:03:17. > :03:25.protests. Away from the centre of the city, most parts of the Greek
:03:25. > :03:30.economy were brought to a halt by a 48-hour strike. The government
:03:30. > :03:35.insists austerity measures are needed to qualify the country for a
:03:35. > :03:39.further emergency loan from the EU and the IMF. Without them, the
:03:39. > :03:44.country is heading for bankruptcy, they say. But many Greeks do not
:03:44. > :03:48.accept that. This does not get us out of the crisis. They are lying,
:03:48. > :03:58.everybody knows that. Time and again, ordinary Greeks told me they
:03:58. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:03.were not to blame for the debt crisis. The IMF and the European
:04:03. > :04:05.Union and the Greek government are trying to make us pay a debt which
:04:05. > :04:12.trying to make us pay a debt which we did not create. The Greeks are
:04:13. > :04:18.facing years of budget cuts, �25 billion by 2015. 150,000 public-
:04:18. > :04:22.sector jobs will go. There will be a range of new tax increases,
:04:22. > :04:28.including some on the lowest paid. Over and above all of that, �44
:04:28. > :04:31.billion worth of state assets will be sold off. In the debate in
:04:31. > :04:32.parliament, the opposition made it clear they do not accept the
:04:32. > :04:40.clear they do not accept the Government's argument for more
:04:40. > :04:44.austerity. I also fought, said the Leader of
:04:44. > :04:48.the Opposition, so that I could send a message that the
:04:48. > :04:55.Government's's policy is wrong, and has surpassed the limits which the
:04:55. > :05:00.Greek people can handle. Government supporters were defiant. I believe
:05:00. > :05:05.today's protests just make it stronger for us to believe and see
:05:05. > :05:09.and understand the responsibility of our vote. Late tonight, and many
:05:09. > :05:12.Greeks are still on the streets, defying the pleadings from the
:05:12. > :05:16.European Union and the IMF that there is no alternative to
:05:16. > :05:25.austerity. And we can speak to Gavin in Athens
:05:25. > :05:31.now. There is such intense pressure on the Greek government, they seem
:05:31. > :05:36.to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. That's right. There are
:05:36. > :05:40.skirmishes still going on, the air is heavy with tear gas. There is
:05:40. > :05:44.something of a rock concert going on in the Square, and people are
:05:44. > :05:48.attacking government ministries. That's the domestic pressure. And
:05:48. > :05:52.we are after midnight here in Athens. But there's also huge
:05:52. > :05:56.pressure coming from Europe. The President of the European Council
:05:56. > :06:00.today said these were critical hours for Greece and for the
:06:00. > :06:07.eurozone. The new head of the IMF, appointed today, said, if I have
:06:07. > :06:10.one message for Greece, it is that they have to find national unity in
:06:10. > :06:15.support of the Government's austerity measures. But so far,
:06:15. > :06:19.there's little sign that that is appearing. Another EU commissioner
:06:19. > :06:23.said this was a moment of great crisis for the eurozone. I think
:06:23. > :06:27.tomorrow it is likely that these austerity measures will be passed.
:06:27. > :06:35.But the big question is, bearing in mind what is going on behind me at
:06:35. > :06:38.the moment, will faithfully be able Here, David Cameron has told around
:06:38. > :06:41.three quarters of a million public sector workers in England and Wales
:06:41. > :06:44.that it's wrong for them to strike on Thursday over planned reforms to
:06:44. > :06:47.their pensions. The Prime Minister told the teachers, lecturers and
:06:47. > :06:57.civil servants that the proposed changes were "essential and fair".
:06:57. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:01.Our deputy political editor, James For sum, it is time to get ready to
:07:01. > :07:05.strike. Across the country, activists like these are cutting
:07:05. > :07:08.and pasting and sticking their placards, preparing for Thursday,
:07:09. > :07:12.when up to three-quarters of a million public sector workers are
:07:12. > :07:19.expected to close hundreds of schools, courts, Jobcentres and
:07:19. > :07:24.other government offices in protest against pension changes.
:07:24. > :07:29.My pension will be worth �46,000 less. I will have to work an extra
:07:29. > :07:34.six years for that, and also pay �60 extra a month, which I will
:07:34. > :07:38.find very difficult. In Birmingham today, David Cameron avoided a
:07:38. > :07:42.demonstration outside, but inside he threw his personal weight behind
:07:42. > :07:45.the pension reforms, saying they were fair to the taxpayer, and
:07:45. > :07:49.would still leave many in the public sector better off than those
:07:49. > :07:54.in the private sector. To those considering strike action
:07:54. > :07:58.at a time when discussions are ongoing, I would say to you, these
:07:58. > :08:02.strikes are wrong - for you, for the people you serve and for the
:08:02. > :08:07.good of the country. The problem is that we are all
:08:07. > :08:12.living about six years longer than we were in 1980. That means the
:08:12. > :08:16.public sector pension funds are facing a black hole of almost �10
:08:16. > :08:22.billion by 2015. So the Government wants most public sector workers to
:08:22. > :08:25.pay more into the pensions, and to work until they are 66. David
:08:25. > :08:29.Cameron was not just making his case to the unions, he was
:08:29. > :08:34.appealing to a wider audience. The battle for public opinion will be
:08:34. > :08:37.as vital as the argument over the detail. The leader of one of the
:08:37. > :08:40.unions striking this week insisted it was sprinter who was getting it
:08:40. > :08:43.wrong. I think the Prime Minister's
:08:44. > :08:48.comments today show how out of touch he is with ordinary people in
:08:48. > :08:51.this country. He is urging them not to strike while forcing them to
:08:51. > :08:56.work eight years longer, pay thousands of pounds more and get
:08:56. > :09:01.half of the pension back. Once upon a time, activists might have relied
:09:01. > :09:05.on the unconditional support of the Labour Party, but not today.
:09:05. > :09:09.I think the strikes are a mistake. They should not be going ahead
:09:09. > :09:12.because they will inconvenience parents and children. Public sector
:09:12. > :09:16.pensions need to be reformed, but the Government has got to take its
:09:16. > :09:19.share of the responsibility, because they have gone about the
:09:19. > :09:25.negotiations in a reckless and provocative way. My message to both
:09:25. > :09:29.sides is, get round the table. now, the politicians' appeals are
:09:29. > :09:37.falling on deaf ears, and the negotiations and preparations for
:09:37. > :09:41.the strikes continue. One of the main hotels in Kabul in
:09:41. > :09:44.Afghanistan is under attack tonight. At least 10 people are reported to
:09:45. > :09:48.have been killed. The Intercontinental is on a hill on
:09:48. > :09:52.the edge of Kabul, it is one of the few Western-style hotels in the
:09:52. > :09:55.city. The streets around it have been sealed off. There are reports
:09:55. > :10:00.of three suicide bombers detonating their explosives, heavy machine-gun
:10:00. > :10:03.fire, and one attacker is said to be targeting security forces from
:10:03. > :10:09.the hotel would. The Taliban is reported to have claimed
:10:09. > :10:12.Household incomes have suffered their biggest fall for more than 30
:10:12. > :10:14.years. The new figures came as the Bank of England Governor, Mervyn
:10:14. > :10:17.King, warned the country was facing a "very substantial squeeze" on
:10:17. > :10:20.living standards. Retailers are feeling the effects - the discount
:10:20. > :10:23.department store TJ Hughes and Thorntons are the latest on the
:10:23. > :10:33.high street to run into trouble. Our chief economic correspondent,
:10:33. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :10:40.It is a hard road ahead for households. The prices of many
:10:40. > :10:45.everyday items are rising rapidly and pushing up inflation. But wage
:10:45. > :10:49.increases are lagging behind, leaving people worse off. Today,
:10:49. > :10:54.the Bank of England's Governor, challenged about high inflation,
:10:54. > :10:59.told MPs he understood the pressures facing families.
:10:59. > :11:04.Inflation is clearly uncomfortably high, this is a symptom, not a
:11:04. > :11:08.cause, of a very substantial squeeze on real living standards. I
:11:08. > :11:12.do not believe it is easy to do much about that. This is the way in
:11:12. > :11:16.which we as a country are adjusting to the consequences of the
:11:16. > :11:26.financial crisis. Official figures confirmed the
:11:26. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:34.It is the biggest fall in household income since 1977. Household
:11:34. > :11:40.spending has fallen by 0.5% over the same period. All that helps
:11:40. > :11:44.explain why more retailers have run into trouble. The department store
:11:44. > :11:48.chain TJ Hughes said today it was set to call in administrators -
:11:48. > :11:57.4,000 jobs are at risk. Chocolate maker Thorntons said it would shut
:11:57. > :12:07.at least 120 shops over three years. Yesterday, the this is chain -- the
:12:07. > :12:11.fashion chain Jane Norman went into administration. More people are
:12:11. > :12:16.shopping on the Internet, more non- food spending, which is putting
:12:16. > :12:21.pressure on some long-established high-street names. Shoppers and
:12:21. > :12:25.retailers may be feeling the pain, but some argue this is part of a
:12:25. > :12:32.necessary rebalancing, with a move away from borrowing and consuming
:12:32. > :12:36.towards saving and investment. Manufacturing is growing steadily,
:12:36. > :12:39.boosted by strong exports, and there have been calls for policy
:12:39. > :12:43.makers to support growth in this kind of industry.
:12:43. > :12:48.They have got to find a way of recruiting the economy, getting
:12:48. > :12:53.growth to come from investment and trade, replacing the consumption
:12:53. > :12:57.driven growth of the past 10 years with something more substantial.
:12:57. > :13:04.The theory is that there will be long-term gain for the economy, but
:13:04. > :13:08.involves pain right now for the high street and for the consumer.
:13:08. > :13:13.In Libya, rebels say they have captured a major underground
:13:13. > :13:18.complex of weapons bunkers. They were able to take the arms dump
:13:18. > :13:24.following a NATO air strike. Our world affairs correspondent, Mark
:13:24. > :13:30.Doyle, was taken to the front line to see it.
:13:30. > :13:34.We arrived shortly after a rebel fight to clear the arms dump of any
:13:34. > :13:39.Coloureds still loyal to Colonel Gaddafi, but not before rebel
:13:39. > :13:49.sympathisers had begun collecting their prize. The opposition
:13:49. > :13:50.
:13:50. > :13:53.fighters in this part of Libya are mainly ethnic Berbers. They now
:13:53. > :13:58.want their share of the rebel action. They have pushed forward,
:13:58. > :14:03.but not without difficulty. When we joined them at their front line on
:14:03. > :14:13.the way to Tripoli, a burnt-out car was being salvaged, they need the
:14:13. > :14:20.
:14:20. > :14:27.spare parts. And Colonel Gaddafi's Go, go, go. We escaped without
:14:27. > :14:32.problems. But there have been many casualties on the rebel side. This
:14:32. > :14:36.man was shot in the wrist with a large-calibre bullet. It was touch
:14:36. > :14:42.and go whether he would keep the use of his hand. The rebels tell us
:14:43. > :14:45.that NATO bombed the arms depo a few days ago and the complete
:14:45. > :14:50.obliteration of this bunger is evidence enough. Until now, the
:14:50. > :14:54.rebels have always insisted they're the ones at a disadvantage because
:14:54. > :14:58.they have only small arms while Colonel Gaddafi has the long-range
:14:58. > :15:03.artillery. The capture of this arms and ammunition dump may change all
:15:03. > :15:10.that. The next time the rebels go to their frontline, fresh arms and
:15:10. > :15:20.ammunition are likely to go with them.
:15:20. > :15:21.
:15:21. > :15:23.Coming up on tonight's programme: Booming in Brazil - how Latin
:15:23. > :15:25.America is racing ahead where Britain trails behind.
:15:25. > :15:32.Universities in England will be able to compete for more students
:15:32. > :15:35.under plans unveiled by the Government today. With fees due to
:15:36. > :15:39.rise in 2012 to a maximum of �9,000 a year, Ministers say it means
:15:39. > :15:41.students will be able to judge if they are getting the best return
:15:41. > :15:44.for their money. Our education correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti is
:15:44. > :15:49.here with the details. Thank you, Sophie. Well, English
:15:49. > :15:54.universities come in many shapes and sizes, offering academic and
:15:54. > :15:58.vocational courses. Their differences will be more stark from
:15:58. > :16:01.next year with tuition fees ranging from a maximum of �9,000 to �6,000
:16:01. > :16:04.with further education colleges doing degrees for less. Ministers
:16:04. > :16:06.want future students to know more about what they'll get, viewing
:16:06. > :16:09.them as consumers who'll demand more because they'll be paying more.
:16:09. > :16:12.So students will be able to compare universities according to hours of
:16:12. > :16:21.teaching, teaching quality and what the expected future salary is for
:16:21. > :16:25.graduates once they leave. We will put students at the heart of the
:16:25. > :16:28.system, improving the academic experience with universities and
:16:28. > :16:34.colleges more accountable to their students than ever before. We will
:16:34. > :16:38.also take steps to improve social mobility without compromising
:16:38. > :16:43.academic excellence or institutional autonomy. There are
:16:43. > :16:46.other changes to the university landscape too. At present, student
:16:46. > :16:51.numbers are fixed for each institution, but next year they'll
:16:51. > :16:53.compete for a quarter of those students, with the prestigious
:16:54. > :16:58.university recruiting more of the brightest, getting at least two As
:16:58. > :17:02.and a B and new universities being allowed to recruit more on prize,
:17:02. > :17:06.any courses costing less than �7,500, but because the overall
:17:06. > :17:10.number of students will stay the same, allowing some to expand means
:17:10. > :17:14.that some could get squeezed and be forced to close.
:17:14. > :17:19.This London university could be one to feel the pressure. It's charging
:17:19. > :17:22.an average of �7,500. Its Vice Chancellor is worried he could lose
:17:22. > :17:28.up to a third of his students. Inevitably, universities in the
:17:28. > :17:32.middle perhaps who can't compete with the A-A-B, an upward shift of
:17:32. > :17:35.that could get squeezed. Of course that's a real concern because we
:17:35. > :17:38.offer the widening participation. We offer the students who have not
:17:38. > :17:42.had chance to go to university before, the first of their families
:17:42. > :17:45.ever to go into higher education. Critics say expanding cheaper
:17:45. > :17:48.universities is all about cutting costs because it's the Government
:17:48. > :17:52.that pays the tuition fees up front and at least half of the
:17:52. > :17:56.universities are charging the maximum for all or some courses.
:17:56. > :17:59.Far more universities are charging �9,000 than the Government planned
:17:59. > :18:03.for, causing huge political embarrassment for the Government
:18:03. > :18:07.and creating a funding crisis with the Treasury, and that the real
:18:07. > :18:15.substance of this White Paper is a desperate drive to cut fees no
:18:15. > :18:18.matter what the effect on quality. These are big changes, and tomorrow
:18:18. > :18:20.the Education Secretary in Scotland will outline how he plans to plug a
:18:20. > :18:23.multi-million-pound university funding gap. Ministers have ruled
:18:23. > :18:27.out raising fees for Scottish students, but might charge those
:18:27. > :18:30.from England, Wales and Northern Ireland more.
:18:30. > :18:33.Thank you very much. Travel companies have been
:18:33. > :18:36.threatened with legal action by the Office of Fair Trading over
:18:36. > :18:38.misleading charges for online debit and credit card bookings. The
:18:39. > :18:43.Government says it will work with the regulator to ensure people
:18:43. > :18:49.don't face excessive surcharges when using their cards online. Our
:18:49. > :18:55.personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz reports.
:18:55. > :19:00.Credit and debit card charges have taken off, with easyJet adding at
:19:00. > :19:05.least �8 to most card sales and total airline surcharges climbing
:19:05. > :19:10.to �300 million a year. Rail booking agencies are charging too.
:19:10. > :19:15.Trainline levies �3.50 for credit card bookings. Charges for using
:19:15. > :19:19.debit cards should be banned, says the Office of Fair Trading, but for
:19:19. > :19:25.now, it's threatening court action where it judges that consumers are
:19:25. > :19:29.being misled over what surcharges they have to pay. We're glad that a
:19:29. > :19:32.number of companies have agreed to increase the transparency of their
:19:32. > :19:37.fur charging but where they don't go far enough, we'll take action to
:19:37. > :19:40.ensure that consumers can make the right choice. On the High Street
:19:40. > :19:44.you rarely, if ever, face those charges, so what you see is what
:19:44. > :19:47.you get, even though bank and card companies charge the shops to
:19:47. > :19:51.process the payments. If you're buying online, you can't use cash,
:19:51. > :19:55.and often what you see is not what you get because it can be hard to
:19:55. > :20:01.find out what the surcharges are, so you could end up paying tens of
:20:01. > :20:07.pounds to use a card when in fact the cost of processing the payment
:20:07. > :20:10.is 2% if it's a credit card and just 20p on average if it's a debit
:20:10. > :20:16.card. EasyJet and Trainline said they'd work with the Office of Fair
:20:16. > :20:21.Trading, though Ryanair argued that it wouldn't have to change its fees.
:20:21. > :20:25.Shoppers in Belfast made it clear how much they disliked card
:20:25. > :20:28.surcharges. Surely, it would be more convenient for them paying by
:20:28. > :20:30.card, you know, as opposed to anything else. What's the
:20:30. > :20:34.alternative? There is no alternative. It's ridiculous. I
:20:34. > :20:38.think you ask for one payment. That's all you should be paying,
:20:38. > :20:43.shouldn't be paying any extra. There could be more restrictions in
:20:43. > :20:46.store for surcharges. A European directive is being drawn up to
:20:46. > :20:50.prevent companies levying anymore than processing the true cost of a
:20:50. > :20:53.payment. Now, while Greece grapples with its
:20:53. > :20:56.huge national debt and the rest of Europe tries to extricate itself
:20:56. > :21:00.from the legacy of the financial crisis three years ago, other parts
:21:00. > :21:03.of the world are booming. One of those countries is Brazil. With its
:21:03. > :21:09.wealth of natural resources, the country grew by over 7% last year.
:21:09. > :21:13.But could the boom be fuelling a new bubble? Our economics editor
:21:13. > :21:18.Stephanie Flanders has been to find out.
:21:18. > :21:24.Brazil today feels like the opposite of the UK. House prices,
:21:24. > :21:30.investment, growth - it's going down in Britain. In Brazil, it's
:21:30. > :21:33.going up. Brazil's economy grew by 7.5% last year compared with just
:21:33. > :21:39.1.3% growth in the UK. We're hitching a free ride up the coast
:21:39. > :21:44.to see how the richest man in the country plans to exploit its
:21:44. > :21:48.biggest advantage - its abundant natural resources, including newly
:21:48. > :21:51.discovered oil. Unlike us, they're better off when the price of all of
:21:51. > :21:55.these basic commoditys is going up. When it's finished, this new super-
:21:55. > :21:58.port will be the biggest in the Americas this. Pier runs three
:21:58. > :22:02.kilometres out from the mainland and when it's done, you'll be able
:22:02. > :22:06.to get four container ships all docking here at the same time.
:22:06. > :22:09.There will be another port further out able to take the biggest tanker
:22:09. > :22:13.in the world, the Chinamax, and the clue is in the name. The bulk of
:22:13. > :22:17.the business of this place for the foreseeable future will be sending
:22:17. > :22:22.raw materials like iron ore to China.
:22:22. > :22:26.Eike Batista's father sold raw materials to Japan when it was
:22:27. > :22:31.taking off. His son, already worth $30 billion, wants to do the same
:22:31. > :22:37.for China. The rich resources, OK, in Brazil, we have a lot of them
:22:37. > :22:43.still. The Chinese are mining 4% iron ore in the ground. We mine 40%
:22:43. > :22:48.iron ore. But as usual, when it comes to China, the traffic isn't
:22:48. > :22:51.all one-way - far from it. The growth of the last ten years has
:22:51. > :22:55.created a whole new class of consumer here in Brazil, but
:22:55. > :22:59.they're not spending their new money on Brazilian goods. Last year
:22:59. > :23:07.alone, imports from China went up by 60%. Most of what you can see
:23:07. > :23:10.here is made in China, and so were 80% of the costumes in this year's
:23:10. > :23:15.Rio Carnival. Money has been pouring into property - maybe a bit
:23:16. > :23:20.too much of it. In some Rio shanty towns, prices have trebled in the
:23:20. > :23:24.last three years and mortgage lending to poorer families has
:23:24. > :23:29.taken off, even with lending at an eye-watering 25%. The people
:23:29. > :23:32.started to see they could buy their own houses, making their own dream
:23:32. > :23:37.come true, which is having your own house and stop paying rent for the
:23:37. > :23:42.rest of their lives, so they don't really think much of the high
:23:42. > :23:46.interest they pay. What they think is that they're making their dream
:23:46. > :23:51.come true. Like many emerging markets, Brazil's economy is a bit
:23:51. > :23:55.too hot, while places like Britain and the US are too cold. The world
:23:55. > :23:59.would all be better off if we could be somewhere in between, but no
:23:59. > :24:02.prizes for guessing who is having more fun.
:24:02. > :24:05.In cricket, England have beaten Sri Lanka comprehensively at the Oval
:24:05. > :24:10.this evening. They bowled the tourists out for a rain-affected
:24:10. > :24:18.total of 121 to win the first one- day international by 110 runs.
:24:19. > :24:21.There are four matches still to play in the series.
:24:21. > :24:24.The defending Wimbledon men's champion Rafael Nadal will be able
:24:24. > :24:27.to defend his title after all. His future in the tournament looked in
:24:28. > :24:30.doubt last night when he injured his foot on court. But a scan
:24:31. > :24:33.revealed there was no damage and he's fit to fight his quarter-final
:24:33. > :24:39.match against America's Mardy Fish tomorrow. Our sports correspondent
:24:39. > :24:44.Tim Franks reports. Rafa Nadal, the muscle man of
:24:44. > :24:48.tennis, was in such pain last night, he thought he'd broken his foot. It
:24:48. > :24:52.was only this evening that he was up for a limber on the practise
:24:52. > :24:57.courts - good news for everyone except his future opponents, but
:24:57. > :25:01.the experts say Nadal's approach to the game will catch up with him.
:25:01. > :25:05.mean, he's wonderful to watch, but the positions he gets into and the
:25:05. > :25:09.force he uses on every shot in comparison with someone like Roger
:25:09. > :25:15.Federer, who is sort of almost like a ballet dancer - is just totally
:25:15. > :25:19.different. Should Andy Murray, training earlier today, win his
:25:19. > :25:22.game tomorrow along with Rafael Nadal, they'll face each other in
:25:22. > :25:27.the semi-finals. Andy Murray's best preparation may be to steer clear
:25:27. > :25:33.of the TV. APPLAUSE
:25:33. > :25:38.Yesterday, it showed Nadal, even on one foot, able to defeat the highly
:25:38. > :25:42.talented Juan Martin Del Potro. APPLAUSE
:25:42. > :25:46.Most mortals, it seems, couldn't beat Nadal if he were bound and
:25:46. > :25:49.gagged and staked to the baseline. So the tale of Rafa's foot has
:25:49. > :25:53.provided one twist to these Championships, but the fleetest
:25:53. > :25:56.footwork of the day has had to belong to the Wimbledon
:25:56. > :26:02.administrators, who have had to reschedule a slew of rain-sodden
:26:02. > :26:11.matches. Even under the roof of Centre Court, the weather demanded
:26:11. > :26:15.it be heard. The unseeded Sabine Lisicki was en
:26:15. > :26:17.route to winning her quarter-final but not before she'd been made to
:26:17. > :26:21.flinch. Her next match will be against former champion Maria