:00:08. > :00:12.hospitals in England cannot be guaranteed, after days of bruising
:00:12. > :00:16.criticism of the health watchdog. The Care Quality Commission is
:00:16. > :00:24.facing accusations that its staff covered up their failings. The
:00:24. > :00:28.Health Secretary says it's "fundamentally flawed". I think we
:00:28. > :00:31.have to be honest with people. We do not have a regulatory structure fit
:00:31. > :00:34.for purpose, and we are changing that as fast as we can.
:00:35. > :00:37.With the reputation of the regulator badly hit, we'll be looking at how
:00:37. > :00:40.public trust might be restored. Also tonight: The teacher jailed for
:00:40. > :00:44.five-and-a-half years for sexual offences with an underage pupil.
:00:44. > :00:47.Jeremy Forrest is banned from working with children for life.
:00:47. > :00:52.Emergency talks in Brazil as anti-government unrest reaches a new
:00:52. > :00:54.peak. More than a million people joined the latest nationwide
:00:54. > :01:03.protests. And support for the British and
:01:03. > :01:07.Irish Lions, hours away from the In Sportsday, we'll be looking at
:01:07. > :01:17.what lies in wait for Andy Murray at Wimbledon when he begins his
:01:17. > :01:33.
:01:33. > :01:36.Good evening. The Health Secretary says he cannot
:01:36. > :01:42.guarantee the safety of hospitals in England, describing the Care Quality
:01:42. > :01:44.Commission watchdog as "fundamentally flawed". The
:01:44. > :01:50.organisation has been under considerable pressure after a report
:01:50. > :02:00.alleged it had covered up its own failings at one hospital in Cumbria.
:02:00. > :02:00.
:02:00. > :02:04.Today Jeremy Hunt called it "not fit for purpose". Here's Dominic Hughes.
:02:04. > :02:07.The regulator that is meant to provide assurance on the safety of
:02:07. > :02:12.hospitals in England is in trouble. First, the Care Quality Commission
:02:12. > :02:18.failed to spot opens at Morecambe Bay NHS Trust. Then managers
:02:18. > :02:22.allegedly attempted to cover up the mistake. Today, the Health Secretary
:02:22. > :02:26.could not guarantee that hospitals are now being properly inspected but
:02:26. > :02:31.he offered support for disciplinary action against anyone involved in a
:02:31. > :02:35.cover-up at the CQC. They are very serious allegations and they should
:02:35. > :02:42.have serious consequences if they are proved to be right. I will back
:02:42. > :02:46.the CQC to the hilt and try to make sure justice is done. Management of
:02:46. > :02:48.the CQC, led by chief executive Cynthia Bower, was severely
:02:48. > :02:55.criticised in the independent report that exposed failures at Morecambe
:02:55. > :02:58.Bay, but a former inspector turned whistleblower is not surprised.
:02:58. > :03:03.Management were very concerned about their reputations and keeping the
:03:03. > :03:08.reputation of the CQC squeakyclean. But in doing so, they lost sight of
:03:08. > :03:11.what they ought to be looking at and doing, and that was properly
:03:11. > :03:15.inspecting. We were all telling them how it should be done and they were
:03:15. > :03:21.not listening. The Care Quality Commission has carried out thousands
:03:21. > :03:25.of inspections at around 170 hospital trusts across England, but
:03:25. > :03:28.given the mistakes at the Morecambe Bay trust, the question is how
:03:28. > :03:35.reliable are those inspections and is the regulator still fit for
:03:35. > :03:38.purpose? The Care Quality Commission was formed in 2009 by the merger of
:03:38. > :03:41.three specialist regulators, the Health Care Commision, the
:03:41. > :03:44.Commission for Social Care and the Mental Health Act Commission. It was
:03:44. > :03:51.meant to be a single regulator for health and adult social care in
:03:51. > :03:56.England. It also oversees GPs, dentist and thousands of care homes,
:03:56. > :03:59.overwhelming the organisation, say critics. They are not fit for
:03:59. > :04:03.purpose. It does not matter about the platitudes, they are just not
:04:03. > :04:09.fit for purpose. We have run out of excuses and reasons why things went
:04:09. > :04:13.wrong. In the wake of the scandals at Stafford Hospital and now at
:04:13. > :04:16.Morecambe Bay, the government has signalled a move back to the old
:04:16. > :04:21.specialisms, with the creation of a new post, chief inspector of
:04:21. > :04:24.hospitals, and more recently the chief inspector of GPs and chief
:04:25. > :04:27.inspector of social care. But a question hangs over the future of
:04:27. > :04:31.the Care Quality Commission, at organisation that was already
:04:31. > :04:33.struggling for credibility. It now sees its reputation in tatters.
:04:33. > :04:43.Our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys is here. Where does all
:04:43. > :04:44.
:04:44. > :04:50.this leave the watchdog? There is no doubt that it has been extremely
:04:50. > :04:53.messy and damaging for the CQC. This new team of leadership was put in to
:04:53. > :04:56.restore public confidence after the enquiry into Stafford Hospital.
:04:56. > :05:01.Instead, they found their judgement questioned, as first they refused to
:05:01. > :05:07.name officials, and then named them, only for the allegations to be
:05:07. > :05:13.disputed. Can confidence be restored? A large part of that job
:05:13. > :05:17.will rest on the post of the first chief inspector of hospitals. That
:05:17. > :05:22.is going to be Professor Sir Mike Richards, Doctor, cancer specialist,
:05:22. > :05:26.very well respected within the NHS, credited as the man who has
:05:26. > :05:31.transformed cancer care in England in the last decade. But he takes on
:05:31. > :05:34.the job at such a difficult time, after this mess, with 14 hospitals
:05:34. > :05:38.under review for their death rates. Although we know that patients
:05:38. > :05:42.experience good care by and large, public faith in the ability of the
:05:42. > :05:46.NHS to be open, honest and transparent when things go wrong has
:05:46. > :05:49.been very severely tested. A maths teacher who had an affair
:05:49. > :05:51.with a 15-year-old pupil before taking her to France has been jailed
:05:51. > :05:56.for five-and-a-half years. Yesterday, Jeremy Forrest was
:05:56. > :06:00.convicted of abducting the teenager. Today, he pleaded guilty to five
:06:00. > :06:03.further charges of sexual activity. The judge said he'd been "motivated
:06:03. > :06:13.by self interest" and hadn't shown any "genuine care" for the girl's
:06:13. > :06:16.
:06:16. > :06:19.welfare. Duncan Kennedy reports. Jeremy Forrest was brought to court,
:06:19. > :06:26.supposedly to be sentenced for abduction, but that soon changed
:06:26. > :06:31.once he was inside. Instead, in an extraordinary move, the Crown Court
:06:31. > :06:36.temporarily sat as a magistrates court, so five additional charges of
:06:36. > :06:40.sexual abuse could be added, which Forrest pleaded guilty to. The
:06:40. > :06:45.judge, Michael Lawson QC, told him, you chose to ignore the cardinal
:06:45. > :06:47.rule of teaching. Time and again your colleagues warned and advised
:06:47. > :06:53.you and offered support. You lied to them about the nature of your
:06:53. > :06:58.relationship. He was in a position of authority and trust over children
:06:58. > :07:02.in his care, something parents and the wider community expect to be
:07:02. > :07:07.upheld at all costs. The girl was not in court today but her mother
:07:07. > :07:11.was. Her witness impact statement revealed the extent of the family
:07:11. > :07:18.breakdown following the case. Last week, the 15-year-old told the court
:07:18. > :07:21.about her extensive sexual contact with Forrest. Today, mother said, I
:07:22. > :07:27.feel her childhood has been robbed from me. I feel like she has died
:07:27. > :07:31.and I am grieving for her. The pair went on the run last September,
:07:31. > :07:37.taking a ferry to France. They tried to hide in Bordeaux, acting like a
:07:37. > :07:41.couple in love. This was the fake CV Forrest used to try to find work. He
:07:41. > :07:46.changed his name, claimed to have a degree in journalism, and said he
:07:46. > :07:52.was living in France. Like his affair with a schoolgirl, it was all
:07:52. > :07:58.a dangerous fantasy. After today's sentencing, his family had a
:07:58. > :08:01.statement read, in which he offered an apology. This is a sorry episode
:08:01. > :08:05.for all concerned and Jeremy is sorry for his actions. Despite the
:08:05. > :08:14.verdict, there are many factors in the case which need to be examined
:08:14. > :08:17.and addressed. The case of the music loving teacher is now the subject of
:08:17. > :08:21.an investigation by a number of agencies, including the police and
:08:21. > :08:26.the school, asking how could he have carried on the relationship for so
:08:26. > :08:31.long. Tonight, Jeremy Forrest has been moved to Lewis prison, to start
:08:31. > :08:36.his sentence. The judge also banned him from ever working unsupervised
:08:36. > :08:39.with children again. His liberty and life in his chosen profession is now
:08:39. > :08:43.at an end. An emergency Cabinet meeting's been
:08:43. > :08:46.held in Brazil amid the worst unrest in the country for 20 years. The
:08:46. > :08:49.latest demonstrations have been the biggest so far, with anger over poor
:08:49. > :08:55.public services, corruption, and the money being spent on next year's
:08:55. > :09:05.World Cup. Most of the protests have been in Rio de Janeiro. From there,
:09:05. > :09:09.
:09:09. > :09:14.Alistair Leithead sent this report. Police acted firmly and decisively
:09:14. > :09:18.to break up the biggest demonstration since this crisis over
:09:18. > :09:22.bus fares escalated into violence a week ago. They are the worst
:09:22. > :09:25.protests in 30 years, since the end of the dictatorship, and still there
:09:25. > :09:30.has been no word from the president, who has been holding
:09:30. > :09:34.emergency meetings today. More than 1 million people took the streets
:09:34. > :09:39.across the country. In Rio, attempt to march on the City Hall were met
:09:39. > :09:45.with tear gas and rubber bullets. The protesters have set fires down
:09:45. > :09:49.the end of the road. The police are again moving forward. They have been
:09:49. > :09:52.steadily inching their way down, firing tear gas in front of them,
:09:52. > :10:00.firing rubber bullets and other explosives to try to keep the
:10:00. > :10:05.protesters at a. -- at bay. Today, there was a lot of cleaning up to
:10:05. > :10:09.do. There will be no World Cup, the graffiti reads, but FIFA says there
:10:09. > :10:13.are no plans to cancel this week was my Confederations Cup, let alone
:10:13. > :10:18.next year's main event. This man was injured last night as he tried to
:10:18. > :10:21.escape tear gas in what he said was a peaceful protest. The Brazilian
:10:21. > :10:29.people have been waiting for an opportunity for their voices to be
:10:29. > :10:33.heard for such a long time. There are many reasons. The protest has
:10:33. > :10:38.united Brazilians across the social spectrum. What started with anger at
:10:38. > :10:45.increased bus fares has become about so much more. We are trying to show
:10:45. > :10:49.them that we run this country, and they have to work for us. Roderigo
:10:49. > :10:52.is a university professor who agrees with the young activists. He does
:10:53. > :10:58.not think the government is spending money in the right way.
:10:59. > :11:03.TRANSLATION: The movement mixes the upper middle-class, the lower
:11:03. > :11:07.middle-class and the poor. We want our rights, our voices to be heard,
:11:08. > :11:12.fair and transparent government. This was not the image Brazil wanted
:11:12. > :11:15.the world to see. Even though some social media pages have been taken
:11:15. > :11:18.down, more demonstrations are being planned, as the government and the
:11:18. > :11:21.people decide where this mass movement goes next.
:11:21. > :11:25.More than 500 people have died in flooding and landslides caused by
:11:25. > :11:29.heavy monsoon rain across northern India. Roads and bridges have been
:11:29. > :11:32.washed away, stranding around 50,000 people. The worst affected area is
:11:32. > :11:37.in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, where thousands of
:11:37. > :11:40.Hindu pilgrims had been visiting local shrines. The Indian army is
:11:40. > :11:42.leading rescue efforts, though its soldiers are yet to reach some
:11:42. > :11:50.remote mountain areas. Official figures have shown that
:11:51. > :11:53.government borrowing increased slightly in the last financial year.
:11:53. > :11:57.Using new data, the Office for National Statistics revised the
:11:57. > :12:00.borrowing figures for the past two years. The Treasury insists the
:12:00. > :12:10.coalition is taking the right action on deficit reduction. Here's Hugh
:12:10. > :12:13.Pym. Today's figures show what the
:12:13. > :12:17.government has been borrowing, what is being run up on the nation's
:12:17. > :12:22.credit card, to add to all the unpaid debt from previous years. And
:12:22. > :12:26.the numbers are still big. The Chancellor has set great store by
:12:26. > :12:30.reducing the bills year by year. We discovered today that he actually
:12:30. > :12:35.borrowed a bit more in the latest financial year than in the previous
:12:36. > :12:40.12 month period. Deficit reduction is a thing of the past. He has
:12:40. > :12:42.failed to do it. It has stalled totally. He has failed on the
:12:42. > :12:48.economy and unless you get the economy moving, you will not deal
:12:48. > :12:54.with high levels of rowing. Annual government borrowing, stripping out
:12:54. > :13:01.special factors, had been estimated at just under �121 billion for
:13:01. > :13:05.2011-12. That has now been revised down to �118.5 billion. The latest
:13:06. > :13:10.estimate is nearly �119 billion, an increase on the previous year. The
:13:10. > :13:15.Treasury view is that this is not some sudden bad news. Far from it.
:13:15. > :13:18.The changes are because of a downward revision to borrowing in a
:13:18. > :13:23.previous year. They argue that the underlying trend is exactly as it
:13:23. > :13:26.was when set out in the budget. trend continues to be downward if
:13:26. > :13:30.you look at the deficit as a percentage of the overall economy.
:13:30. > :13:34.But it is right that the government remains focused on reducing the
:13:34. > :13:37.deficit, making sure we can live within our means. We have to remain
:13:37. > :13:43.focused on that, even when the economy has not grown as fast as we
:13:43. > :13:47.would have liked. Last month, a Swiss sweetener for the British
:13:47. > :13:50.government's finances. More than �3 billion handed over by Swiss
:13:50. > :13:54.authorities as part of a deal to get tax paid on bank accounts held by
:13:54. > :13:59.British citizens. That helped to bring borrowing below the figure in
:13:59. > :14:02.May for the previous year. But the fundamental issues remain the same,
:14:02. > :14:12.getting the annual credit card bill down. It has been a big challenge
:14:12. > :14:17.for the Chancellor and is likely to levels through a third day in
:14:17. > :14:20.Singapore, with the state bank did in smog caused by illegal forest
:14:20. > :14:26.fires in Indonesia. At quality is considered good if it lies between
:14:26. > :14:31.zero and 50 on the country's pollution index. It is unhealthy
:14:31. > :14:37.between 100 and 200 and considered hazardous at over 300. Today, the
:14:37. > :14:43.index in Singapore chiefly hit a new high of 401, which meant schools
:14:43. > :14:49.were closed and people were advised to stay indoors.
:14:49. > :14:53.A pale, grey cloud has descended on Singapore. Its skyscrapers are
:14:53. > :14:57.almost lost in the haze. The air is thick with tiny particles, carried
:14:57. > :15:03.on the wind from Indonesia. People working outdoors have been warned to
:15:03. > :15:11.take special care. Everyone is feeling the impact. I'm finding it
:15:11. > :15:17.difficult to breed. I am surprised the officers are still open. --
:15:17. > :15:20.breathe. With the environment, you don't feel motivated to step out
:15:20. > :15:25.unless you have to. The greatest risk is to anyone suffering from
:15:25. > :15:30.asthma. In this class, almost all of the children are wearing masks, even
:15:30. > :15:35.indoors. Such is the concern about the smoke. For these kids, there is
:15:35. > :15:40.no question of playing in the open. At one point today, what is called
:15:41. > :15:45.the pollution standard index, the PSI, reached a record level.
:15:45. > :15:49.Obviously with the PSI being at 400 right now, it is really not safe for
:15:49. > :15:54.them to be going out. My daughter has mild asthma. I don't want her to
:15:54. > :15:58.be exposed at all, if possible. satellite picture from NASA shows
:15:58. > :16:02.the scale of the cloud of smoke reaching from Indonesia, across to
:16:02. > :16:07.Singapore and Malaysia. By zooming in, the authorities can actually see
:16:07. > :16:10.the fires. They have already blamed eight companies that have been
:16:10. > :16:14.clearing forest to make way for plantations. The fires are designed
:16:14. > :16:18.to prepare the ground, to cultivate palm oil. This kind of burning is
:16:18. > :16:22.against the law, but it is rarely enforced. The result is that the
:16:22. > :16:26.fires, that may now be out of control, are generating a dense
:16:26. > :16:32.haze, drifting on the wind. They are likely to keep burning for weeks or
:16:32. > :16:36.even months. Indonesia is now under massive
:16:36. > :16:40.pressure. Its firefighters face an almost impossible challenge. They
:16:40. > :16:45.are up against powerful local interest is, clearing land for
:16:45. > :16:49.plantations is very big business. Burning happens when, after the
:16:49. > :16:54.major trees have been cleared for timber, there will be scrub forest,
:16:54. > :16:58.grassland or peatland remaining. The planters will literally pour petrol
:16:58. > :17:07.on the ground and set fire to it, with the hope of clearing that
:17:07. > :17:10.scrub. One view of the haze over Singapore. The pollution has raised
:17:10. > :17:17.tensions in the region. But the fires may go on until the rains come
:17:17. > :17:21.in several months time. The UKIP leader Nigel Farage has
:17:21. > :17:25.admitted he made a mistake by setting up a trust fund in an
:17:25. > :17:34.offshore tax haven seven years ago. He said he did it on the basis of
:17:34. > :17:39.advice from his former financial The UKIP leader has been enjoying
:17:39. > :17:45.the limelight recently, with his party soaring in the polls. Now,
:17:45. > :17:48.Nigel Farage's reputation as a man of the people has taken a hit. A
:17:48. > :17:53.Mirror newspaper investigation revealing he set up an offshore
:17:53. > :17:57.trust fund. All perfectly legal, but he said he soon realised it was
:17:57. > :18:00.inappropriate. It is something tens of thousands of people do. Having
:18:00. > :18:05.said that, really, I should never have bought the policy. I am not
:18:05. > :18:08.rich enough. I have to say, one side set it up and put the initial check
:18:08. > :18:18.in to get the thing started, I began to feel a bit uncomfortable,
:18:18. > :18:21.frankly. How did it operate? Well, in 2003 he set up a company called
:18:21. > :18:26.Farage Ltd. He transferred company shares into the trust, based on the
:18:26. > :18:29.Isle of Man. He says he did not personally benefit. Dividends were
:18:29. > :18:35.paid to his brother. The whole issue of tax avoidance has become a hot
:18:35. > :18:39.political topic, with big companies like Google and Starbucks accused of
:18:39. > :18:46.not paying their fair share. Last month, Nigel Farage said that
:18:46. > :18:50.officials at the European Commission were just as bad. They pay tax of
:18:50. > :18:56.12%. It is tax fraud on an absolutely massive scale. I would
:18:56. > :18:59.say to you, how can that be deemed to be fair? Part of Nigel Farage's
:18:59. > :19:03.appeal to voters is that he is different from other politicians at
:19:03. > :19:07.Westminster, that he is more in touch with the real world. The
:19:07. > :19:11.revelation he set about offshore trust to protect his children's
:19:11. > :19:17.inheritance tax is pretty damaging. His political opponents have accused
:19:17. > :19:21.him of saying one thing and doing another.
:19:21. > :19:25.The monitoring agency GCHQ is said to have secretly accessed
:19:25. > :19:28.fibre-optic cables carrying huge amount of Internet and
:19:28. > :19:33.communications data. According to the Guardian newspaper, the agency
:19:33. > :19:37.is able to tap into and store data from the cables for up to 30 days so
:19:37. > :19:42.that it can be analysed. GCHQ insists it is scrupulous in
:19:42. > :19:48.complying with the law. For the last decade, Sir Mervyn,
:19:48. > :19:53.soon-to-be Lord King, has been the governor of the Bank of England,
:19:53. > :19:58.throughout the financial crisis. Next week, he retires. Stephanie
:19:58. > :20:02.Flanders has this assessment of his economic legacy.
:20:02. > :20:06.Sir Mervyn has been a familiar face at the Bank of England for more than
:20:06. > :20:10.30 years, and its governor for ten. The sport loving economist would
:20:10. > :20:18.probably admit it has been a game of two halves. Few British policymakers
:20:18. > :20:25.such global respect. He took the Bank of England, effectively, into
:20:25. > :20:29.an independent monetary institution. People put down their blackberry and
:20:29. > :20:32.mobile phones and listen to him because he is Mervyn King.
:20:32. > :20:36.constant questioning of what was going on, how we should do things,
:20:36. > :20:42.what we should think about, that is an example of how to be a policy
:20:42. > :20:49.maker who can both be assertive and flexible. Central banks are all
:20:49. > :20:53.about stability. His regular press conferences on inflation after 1993
:20:53. > :20:58.helped pave the way for making the bank independent in 1997 and made
:20:59. > :21:04.him a natural choice for governor in 2003. He was instrumental in making
:21:04. > :21:08.it work on the new construction. That is very important. Around the
:21:08. > :21:13.world, we look to the Bank of England as a model of how central
:21:13. > :21:19.banking should be done. The early record on inflation was stellar.
:21:19. > :21:23.Prices rose 2% a year on average in his first five years as governor,
:21:23. > :21:28.bang on target. Since then, inflation has averaged more than 3%
:21:28. > :21:32.per year. And that wasn't all he had to deal with in the second half. In
:21:32. > :21:36.2007, things got a lot more complicated at the bank. Financial
:21:36. > :21:42.markets took fright, credit started to dry up. Critics said the governor
:21:42. > :21:46.was a bit slow to grasp how much the world had changed. The bank as a
:21:46. > :21:50.whole, perhaps, didn't see the financial crisis coming the way it
:21:50. > :21:53.should have. It took some time for the Bank of England to adjust. Once
:21:53. > :21:58.he realised what was happening, and that the next challenge was not
:21:58. > :22:04.going to come from the inflation side, but from the financial side,
:22:04. > :22:07.Mervyn King responded quickly and aggressively. The Chancellor at the
:22:07. > :22:11.time, Alistair Darling, has criticised the way the governor
:22:11. > :22:14.handled the rescue of northern rock. But when the bank cut rates, it put
:22:14. > :22:19.them quickly and made history, creating hundreds of billions of
:22:19. > :22:24.pounds with quantitive easing. It did not produce a strong recovery.
:22:24. > :22:29.But most economists say that things would be even worse without it. What
:22:29. > :22:32.Labour finds harder to forgive is the governor's public endorsement of
:22:32. > :22:37.the coalition's deficit strategy in 2010, only hours after the
:22:37. > :22:41.government was formed. Inside and outside the bank, many worried he
:22:41. > :22:46.had strayed too far into party politics. The Chancellor has a
:22:46. > :22:50.different view. I don't think anyone would question that Mervyn King is a
:22:50. > :22:53.completely independent figure. Independent not just as governor of
:22:53. > :22:57.the central bank, but also independent because he has the
:22:57. > :23:03.intellectual self-confidence to be independent. Everyone can agree he
:23:03. > :23:10.is a man that knows his own mind and loves his cricket. Also, art, tennis
:23:10. > :23:15.and Aston Villa. There is probably never a harder time to be governor
:23:15. > :23:19.of the Bank of England. Mervyn King says that historians will judge how
:23:19. > :23:22.he did. As we already know that the Bank of England would be a different
:23:22. > :23:26.place without him. The anticipation is building. In 12
:23:26. > :23:31.hours, the British and Irish Lions take on Australia in the first test.
:23:31. > :23:35.It is 12 years since the teams last met. That in 2001, it was the
:23:35. > :23:45.Aussies who emerged victorious. So, what are the Lions chances? Live in
:23:45. > :23:47.
:23:47. > :23:50.Brisbane is done in Rome. -- Dan Roan.
:23:50. > :23:53.Much day has finally arrived. Soon we will discover if British and
:23:53. > :24:00.Irish rugby is good enough to overcome Australia. Nothing stays
:24:00. > :24:04.the blood like a Lions tour. The team will not be lacking support.
:24:04. > :24:08.It has been 12 years in the making. It finally the Lions are ready to
:24:08. > :24:13.make themselves heard in Australia once again. Brisbane is brimming
:24:13. > :24:17.with British and Irish fans, all here to witness one of rugby's most
:24:17. > :24:22.cherished traditions. It means everything. You are part of one huge
:24:22. > :24:26.family. An understrength team lost their last warmup match last week.
:24:26. > :24:30.Now it is time for the real test. George North has emerged as their
:24:30. > :24:34.most potent attacking weapon. The Welsh winger told me that the squad
:24:34. > :24:38.are full of confidence. If you go into a battle thinking you are going
:24:39. > :24:42.to lose, there is no point playing it. I think the format we showed up
:24:42. > :24:46.until, unfortunately, Tuesday, I think we are an exceptional shape.
:24:46. > :24:51.We have to go in confident, attacking and keep the pressure on.
:24:51. > :24:56.The Lions may be intent on ending eight winless streak. But they have
:24:56. > :25:03.done their best to be good tourists, from climbing the Sydney Harford A*
:25:03. > :25:08.Harbour Bridge to serving. All a far cry from 1988, when the first Lions
:25:08. > :25:15.visited Australia. Since then, they have won 15 matches. But Australia
:25:15. > :25:20.claimed the last series in 2001. These games are very close. We will
:25:20. > :25:23.attack the team. But it will be very close. But I just see the Lions
:25:23. > :25:28.being a little bit more together than the Australian team at the
:25:28. > :25:34.moment. The first match in the test series will be pivotal. This is
:25:34. > :25:40.where it will take place, in Brisbane, where the tourists have an
:25:40. > :25:44.opportunity to become part of Lions legend. Having been cocooned in a
:25:44. > :25:48.training camp for weeks, Australia may not be as battle hardened as the
:25:48. > :25:53.Lions. But they insist they are braced for whatever the tourists
:25:53. > :25:57.throughout them. They have been very confrontational, that is the way
:25:57. > :26:03.they have played a lot of therapy. It is a big job for the guys are
:26:03. > :26:08.prone to make sure that we not only match that, but take the ascendancy.
:26:08. > :26:12.Meanwhile, the Lions have received a message of Obviously you English
:26:12. > :26:20.chaps will be leading from the front... From another team preparing
:26:20. > :26:24.to face Australia. Killed an!This is something that few expected to
:26:24. > :26:30.see, three lions using an open-air pool for a recovery session. The
:26:30. > :26:35.tourists have made a stir of the pitch. Now they must perform on it.
:26:35. > :26:39.After losing three successive series, the Lions need a win here,
:26:39. > :26:43.more than, perhaps, ever before. Australia will be strong, but there
:26:43. > :26:49.is a growing sense that the British and Irish Lions have the talent and