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Tonight at ten, industrial action by public sector workers is getting | :00:04. | :00:09. | |
underway. Tomorrow brings hundreds of thousands out on strike in a | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
dispute over pensions. Immigration officers have also joined the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
action. Travellers could be badly affected, as unions and government | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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disagree. It is a massive raid on pensions, completely unfair. I do | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
not believe there is any case for industrial action tomorrow, not | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
least because talks are still ongoing. We will be asking how | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
likely it is that government and unions will find common ground. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
Also tonight: In Greece, more clashes on the | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
streets after parliament approves a new set of austerity measures. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Police warn that a legal ruling has brought the system for granting | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
bail to the verge of disaster. is not the intention or the desire | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
of policing to put dangerous people back on the street, but we are now | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
working out whether that is a potential consequence of this | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
decision. Scottish universities will be able | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
to charge up to �9,000 a year to And how Murray reached his third | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Join me for Sportsday at 10:30pm for more news from Wimbledon, | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
including Frenchman drove through - - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on the biggest | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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win of his career as he knocked out Good evening. Industrial action by | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
public sector workers is getting underway tonight. Some immigration | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
officers have started their action in a dispute about pensions, and | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
they will be joined tomorrow by hundreds of thousands of others, | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
including teachers. Many schools in England and Wales will be affected, | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
and travellers across the UK could face disruption. David Cameron said | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
it was unfair of the strikers to cause problems for everyone else. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Thousands of schools will be closed. Many Jobcentres will be shut, and | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
air travellers will face long queues at airports. That is just | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
some of the likely impact tomorrow as thousands of public sector | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
workers go on strike over changes to their pensions. But on the eve | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
of the biggest industrial action to be seen in years, the Prime | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Minister again attacked the plan walkout. I do not believe there is | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
any case for industrial action tomorrow, not least because talks | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
are still ongoing. It is only a minority of unions who have taken | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
the decision to go ahead and strike. But tomorrow I want to see as many | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
mums and dads as possible able to take their children to school. | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
the same time in London and elsewhere, unions involved were | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
rallying their troops. They reject the government's claim that the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
proposed changes are fair. We are striking because the Government has | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
made it clear that they intend to make our members work eight years | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
longer, pay thousands of pounds more and get half the pension they | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
currently get. It is a massive raid on pensions, completely unfair. So | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
so what impact will the strikes have? Details are sketchy, but the | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
government says it expects around 100,000 civil servants to withdraw | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
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One teaching union tonight described that as overly optimistic. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
So how much sympathy is there for the strike? Business groups warned | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
that tomorrow's action could damage an already fragile recovery. If the | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
UK is perceived as a country where we have a lot of public sector | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
strikes, investor confidence in putting new business into the UK | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
could be hit. This evening at Heathrow, the strike got under way. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
It is understood that some immigration officers did not report | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
for work. But the disruption here and elsewhere are to tomorrow may | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
only be a taste of what is to come. The crunch time in the next phase | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
of these pension talks is likely to be around late summer or early | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
autumn. If at that moment, a deal cannot be done, some of the main | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
trade unions are warning of more widespread industrial action. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
So it is there any sign tonight of a potential meeting of minds | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
between government and the unions? Our political editor Nick Robinson | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
is in Downing Street for us tonight. She it is worth remembering that | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
when you see closed schools and picket lines tomorrow and when you | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
hear strike their rhetoric, it may not be as simple as a long, hot | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
summer of confrontation between public sector unions and ministers. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
I say that because not all public sector unions are striking tomorrow. | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
Negotiations are ongoing. I have been talking to people on the | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
ministerial side of negotiations and on the union side, and also | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
people in the Labour Party with good union connections who continue | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
to believe that a deal is the only way that would see the resolution | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
of this and that a deal is possible. There is still a significant gap, | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
and things could well go wrong. Therefore, the key tomorrow is the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
signal it sends to both sides about where the public stands. How much | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
will they tolerate further strike action? How much will they back the | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
strikers in their demands? That will affect the crucial next stage | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
of negotiations. The Prime Minister today talked of the effect on | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
families up and down the country, but is there an effect on the | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Downing Street family's? Indeed, yes. David Cameron's own children | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
will be able to go to school, but Nick Clegg's will not, because the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Deputy Prime Minister's School is partially closed. One-in-five civil | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
servants will go on strike, we are told, tomorrow. I have been told | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
they can bring their children to work. The Cameron children will not | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
need to come to Downing Street tomorrow. | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
The Greek parliament has approved a set of drastic measures, including | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
tax rises and pay cuts, to prevent the country from defaulting on its | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
debts and to qualify for more financial help. On the streets of | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Athens, there were more violent clashes between riot police and | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
protesters. Greece plans to make �25 billion worth of savings by | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
2015. In the public sector, 150,000 jobs, 20% of the workforce, will go. | :06:54. | :07:04. | |
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And �44 billion of state assets will have to be privatised. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
Fierce clashes continue tonight in Athens, after Greek MPs voted to | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
impose tax increases and spending cuts in an attempt to avoid | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
bankruptcy. Earlier, in the square outside Parliament, protesters had | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
hoped to interrupt a vote that would bring in hardline austerity | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
measures. Fights with the police quickly broke out as thousands of | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
protesters gathered outside Parliament. Even before the vote | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
had started, there were volleys of tear gas being aimed at the crowd. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
And the crowd here certainly has a sense of tension, knowing that | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
within an hour, the MPs are supposed to vote. The violence was | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
more serious than yesterday. Dozens of police and protesters were | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
injured. There were running battles with protesters charging police | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
lines. The police used tear-gas and stun grenades. Some of the | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
protesters threw blast bombs. And the fighting spread to nearby | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
neighbourhoods. Inside Parliament, the Greek Prime Minister, George | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
Papandreou, said it was time to face up to a historic challenge. He | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
said the Greek people do not want this Government to fail, because if | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
these measures fail, Greece will fail. In the event, the austerity | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
measures passed by just a handful of votes. The way is now open for | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
Greece to receive �10 billion in emergency loans and so avoid | :08:34. | :08:44. | |
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bankruptcy. The response on the streets was one of fury. This woman | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
said, let the Prime Minister come here and see if he can live on 300 | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
euros a month. Europe's leaders said the result was good news for | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
Europe and the Eurozone. That may be true in the short-term, but | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
these budget cuts have very little popular support, and there is real | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
bitterness here. Tonight crowds were herded into a metro station, | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
and the police showed little restraint. Yes, the Government won, | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
but there are serious doubts whether the austerity measures can | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
be fully implemented. Our Business Editor Robert Peston | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
is here. Does that at least solve the immediate problem? Well, Greece | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
and the Eurozone have bought some time in agreeing to these austerity | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
measures. Greece should now get a short-term bridging loan. �10 | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
billion immediately, and probably another �50 billion, which in | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
theory allows it to keep the lights on in the public sector for two or | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
three years and pay debts as they fall due for repayment. But it does | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
not get all the money in one lump. And if it does not deliver on the | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
promise to shrink the deficit, if it does not shrink the size of the | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
state and raise more from taxes, then in theory we could be in | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
another crisis in a few months, because the Eurozone and IMF would | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
say, you have not met the conditions and you cannot have the | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
extra money. There will be a lot of nervousness about whether Greece | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
will eventually default for some time to come. And there is another | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
thing. I cannot find a banker or a politician or a regulator who does | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
not believe that Greece has not in total borrowed too much. National | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
debt equivalent to 150% of GDP. They all say at some point, it will | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
have to negotiate with its creditors a reduction in bad debt. | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
That is another word for a default. So in this time, Greece and the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Eurozone have bought, the crucial thing that has to happen is that | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
the financial system of the Eurozone and wider has to be | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
strengthened so that when the default comes, there is not the | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
kind of shock to confidence of the financial system that we saw after | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
Lehman. The European Union has proposed | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
that its budget should go up by 5%, and that the UK should pay more. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
The European Commission has put forward its plans for the seven | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
years from 2014. It suggested a new VAT across Europe to fund the | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
budget and changes to the rebate that Britain gets. A British | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
government spokesman has said the plans are "completely unrealistic". | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Senior police officers are warning that a legal ruling has brought the | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
system for granting bail in England and Wales to the verge of disaster. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has also expressed her concern. | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
Until now, officers could release people on bail for weeks or even | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
months in some cases. But a new ruling in a case involving greater | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Manchester police means that suspects can be released on police | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
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bail for no more than 96 hours. When it comes to crime, politicians | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
of all parties talk tough. Today as ever, thousands of suspects were | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
being processed. But those on the frontline say a court ruling has | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
plunged the entire system into chaos and led to the prospect of | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
criminals walking free. Following initial questioning, many suspects | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
are released on what is called police bail. The practice has been | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
that people can then be brought back, and there will be a decision | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
on whether to charge. A long- established system in England and | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Wales has meant that people could be held for a total of 96 hours, | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
often running over weeks or months, and be bailed in between. The new | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
ruling means that suspects can now be held for 96 hours continuously, | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
a far tighter time frame when it comes to gathering evidence and | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
deciding whether charges should follow. On top of this, suspects | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
can only be re-arrested if police have what is described as new | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
evidence. The ruling reverses more than 25 years of police practice. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
It is not the intention or desire of policing to put dangerous people | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
back on the street. But we are now working out whether that is a | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
potential consequence of this decision. Clearly, public safety is | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the priority. But while all those involved in bringing criminals to | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
justice grapple with the ruling, some lawyers claim the police have | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
been playing fast and loose with the bail system. Defence solicitors | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
have been concerned that bail has been extended and extended over the | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
last few years. This message may be saying that enough is enough. You | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
cannot just treated as an ever extending piece of elastic. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
streets of Enfield in north London, earlier this month, and a much to | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
highlight the suffering caused by local gang violence. The message | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
from one of the organisers here - leave the bail system as it was. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
many incidences of knife crime, some that lead to death. The police | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
need a longer time, as long a time as they need to collect the | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
evidence and makes strong cases so that we can get the perpetrators of | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
the streets. Tonight, it has emerged that police chiefs and the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Home Secretary were told about the ruling and its implications last | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
week. There may be opportunities for appealing the decision, but we | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
will also look at whether it is necessary to introduce legislation | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
to deal with this issue. Labour say they are ready to support any | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
emergency legislation, and they are calling for a swift response to | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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An official investigation into the gangs who groom children for sexual | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
abuse estimates there are more than 2000 victims in the UK. The six- | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
month assessment of the scale of so-called St grooming was launched | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
after a high-profile case in which a number of Asian men were | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
convicted of sexually abusing girls in Derby. These streets were used | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
as a place to groom a vulnerable young girls. The gang were | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
convicted six months ago, after being filmed driving around Derby | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
at night offering drink and drugs and then forcing the girls to have | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
sex. When the ringleaders were jailed, the former home secretary, | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Jack Straw, was criticised for claiming some men of Pakistani | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
origin so wide girls as easy meat. Co peer admits it could only gather | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
a limited amount of information for its report and that its findings | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
are inconclusive. But of the 940 identified offenders, CEOP said | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
more than a quarter are Asian. That is a high percentage given the size | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
of the population. 38 % were described as white, while the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
ethnic origin of others wasn't known. Tracey had only just become | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
a teenager when she became a victim of abuse. They'd start to ask me to | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
have sex with people. If I said no one had an argument or put up a | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
fight, then they'd be a punishment. CEOP has concerns that in many | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
places that type of grooming isn't being taken seriously enough. | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
appears to was that less than half of the local Safeguarding Children | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
Board in areas across the country are taking the necessary proactive | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
approach to child sexual exploitation. I would be delighted | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
if they did that. This Barnardos centre in Bradford was the first to | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
specialise in helping children who have been sexually exploited. | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
had a child aged 13 who was targeted by a number of men. She's | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
been burnt by cigarettes, kidnapped, she's had horrendous experiences. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
This is far from a definitive report, but of the 2000 victims | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
identified the vast majority were girls and most were white. They | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
would come, pick us up... The still macro was exploited from the age of | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
14. She's Asian, and says grooming should not be treated as a race | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
issue. When you read stories, they are too focused on the subject of | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
them being Asian. But basically they are human beings, they are men, | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
they've done wrong. That's what you need to focus on, not the fact of | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
their ethnic background. I and there is a belief that more could | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
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be done to protect children and their innocence. Coming up... | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
Delight for the Frenchman who knocked out Roger Federer on Centre | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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The Scottish Government is to let universities charge students from | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to �9,000 a year in tuition fees. | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
The current visa �1,800 a day. Scottish students will continue to | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
pay nothing. Scotland is a destiny son of toys for thousands of | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
students from all over the world. The cost of getting a degree here | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
already depends on where you come from. And for some, it's about to | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
get much more expensive. Of these Edinburgh university graduates, | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
those from England, Wales and Northern Ireland are the only ones | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
from anywhere in the European Union who will have paid tuition fees. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
Take this trio, all with the same degree in chemical engineering. | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
Jack, from Scotland, had his fees paid by the Scottish government. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
That won't change. It's nice to be graduating with a somewhat more | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
limited amount of debt. Under EU law, Susanna, from Poland, had to | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
be given the same subsidy. The Scottish Government is trying to | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
find a way round this to make European students pay something. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
England is quite expensive for students. I applied to scuppered | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
because I knew I didn't have to pay the fees. But the government was | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
able to charge Alexandra, from England, �1,820 a year. In future, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
universities will be able to increase that to a maximum of | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
�9,000 for students from the rest of the UK. In comparison to the | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Scottish and European students, they don't have to pay. I always | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
found it a bit strange that I'm from Great Britain and I have to | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
pay. The Scottish Government had been considering a plan to raise | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
the cost of tuition for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
to come to Scotland to �6,500 a year. But now it's decided to let | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
some universities charge more, others to charge less. In other | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
words, each institution will set the fees of its choice. We have no | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
option but to act. If we did nothing, the students from England | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
in particular would pay only just over �1,800 a year to attend a | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Scottish university. That compares to five times the total, �9,000, in | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
their home nation. Action is essential to make sure Scottish | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
students aren't simply squeezed out. Scotland's universities say they | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
will charge competitive rates. But student leaders fear undergraduates | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
from other parts of the UK could be priced out of Scottish education. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Some of the 20 doctors on trial in Bahrain who were tortured into | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
making false confessions, according to their families who spoken to the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
BBC. The doctor's return to court tomorrow accused of taking over a | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
hospital during the anti-government protests in March and using it as a | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
rebel base. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes is one of only two foreign | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
journalists to be allowed to watch the trial. He sent this report. If | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
you try to get to the site of the protests in Bahrain, this is what | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
you will find. The filming here is banned. The military is in control. | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
The voice of opposition is silenced. Inside this house is the wife of | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
one of the doctors now one trial. She's too scared to show her face. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
But she says her husband has been systematically tortured into making | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
a confession. He told me that they tortured him a lot. They were hit. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
For the last three weeks, since they took him from the first day, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
they didn't allow him to sit for three weeks. He was standing all | :21:29. | :21:37. | |
the time. There is no sleep because you are standing. In March, | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
government troops marched in to smash street protests that had | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
swept Bahrain for more than a month. The dead and injured were rushed to | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Bahrain's biggest hospital. That's where the 20 doctors all worked. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
This is the military court on the edge of the capital where the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
doctors trial began last week. there behind the is the courthouse. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
It's a military building and we are not allowed to film in it. But I | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
was allowed in to the building to see the 20 doctors being brought in, | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
looking forlorn and exhausted, and to hear the allegations against | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
them, of which are extremely serious and very difficult to | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
This is the Government's evidence against the doctors. In this video, | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
one of them can clearly be seen leading anti-government protests | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
outside the hospital. Isn't it a crime to exaggerate the events in a | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
country where actually your national security is jeopardised, | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
where you send the information that antagonises and incites hatred? | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
their families say the doctors are being persecuted for this. For | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
showing the world hard evidence of government shootings. But going on | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
international television to appeal for the violence to stop. They are | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
innocent... Please. They have seen every crime happened to these | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
people. And they have broadcast this to the international media. | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
That has made the government very angry about it. Bahrain's ruling | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
family has succeeded in silencing the opposition. But they now rule | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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over a society deeply so -- deeply At Wimbledon, Andy Murray is | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
through to the semi-finals for a third year in succession. He will | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
face the defending champion, Rafa Nadal. The six-times champion Roger | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
Federer is out. He lost to Joe Wilfried Tsonga, despite having | :23:43. | :23:51. | |
been two sets up. When the weather is just so and the stars are at | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
play, Wimbledon is indeed a place of beauty. Filled with things of | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
beauty. Enter Andy Murray's blue- eyed quarter-final opponent, | :24:00. | :24:09. | |
Feliciano Lopez. Andy Murray, a teenager once again, said that made | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
him feel sick. In the first set, Andy Murray duly produced a cross- | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
court Ripper fit for amateur cycle analysts. That would deliver the | :24:19. | :24:28. | |
break and the first set. Under his fine Mediterranean features, Lopez | :24:28. | :24:33. | |
has a waspish left-handed serve, but Murray has the defence to draw | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
most things and a counter attack which would bring the second set. | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
The only worrying moment came not from his opponent but from his | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
midriff. Halfway through the third set, Murray be gained -- began to | :24:48. | :24:58. | |
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I'm playing well. I'm sure in the next round and going to get pushed | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
even harder and will have to up my game again. So Andy Murray's name | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
advances through the draw, where he will be joined by three other | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
fabulously high-class semi- finalists. Tennis fans can rejoice. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
British tennis fans can start to get nervous. His opponent in the | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
semi-final will be Rafa Nadal. Against the American Mardy Fish, | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
Nadal batted him. Less predictable was six-time champion Roger | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Federer's match against the Frenchman, Joe Wilfried Tsonga. | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
Federer went two sets up, a position at Wimbledon at at which | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
he's never before been defeated. Tsonga or declared history. He | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
began to produce fierce and tennis, it to general bemusement the | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Frenchman took Federer to a deciding set where, even more | :25:49. | :25:57. |