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Goodbye to the Greatest - thousands gather for | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
People line the streets of his home city of Louisville | :00:08. | :00:20. | |
They are glad because the world acknowledges the special genius | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
and greatness of Muhammad Ali and his contribution | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
Tonight, a former US president joins actors, | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
sports stars and 15,000 fans at the memorial service. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
We'll have the latest from the service. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Labour's referendum warning: insiders tell the BBC increasing | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
numbers of their supporters want to leave the EU. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
A specially composed anthem at the start of the celebrations | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
France leave it late to secure victory in their Euro opener and | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
mid-tight security in a nervous Paris. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
While in Marseille, a second night of clashes involving England fans, | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
And as a play about Harry Potter opens in the West End, | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
his creator insists the wizard still belongs to her, | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
And for seven of those years it was entirely mine | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
and not a living soul knew anything about it. | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
Later... The opening match at the Stade Francais and the rest of the | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Euro news on the first day of the tournament. | :01:47. | :02:01. | |
A former US President, stars from the world of sport | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
and entertainment, joined tens of thousands of fans this evening | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
to pay their last respects to the man known simply | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Muhammad Ali's coffin was driven for 19 miles through his home city | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
of Louisville, in Kentucky, where crowds lined the streets. | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
This evening, a public memorial service has been taking place, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
where Bill Clinton will deliver a eulogy. | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
Our North America editor Jon Sopel reports from Louisville. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
They came from across the nation and beyond to see the man they called | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
the Louisville capital lip take his final lap. At the funeral parlour | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
his friends were now his pallbearers. The former boxing | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
heavyweight Mike Tyson and actor Will Smith among them. His widow | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
that the family in mourning. His coffin was draped in the cloth that | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
signified his Muslim faith. And then his final journey. With the streets | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
literally echoing to his name. This is where he grew up, the City that | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
was home, where he learned to box and fight the segregation of 1960s | :03:16. | :03:27. | |
America. Today, police officers formed a guard of honour and the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
people remembered him. Muhammad Ali meant justice to me and he also was | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
a two word explanation for why someone like I could exist. What was | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
he like as a man? He was funny and had a great sense of humour, he | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
would be magic tricks. He left a legacy that will keep going. He is | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
just gone for a short time, he still lives in all of us. Since his death | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
was announced the Muhammad Ali centre has become a makeshift shrine | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
for people to come together. I spoke to the Reverend Jesse Jackson. It is | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
a sad day and a glad day, glad because the world acknowledges the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
special greatness of Muhammad Ali and his life and times but sad | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
because we'll miss him. We miss him already. His life and legacy and | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
music as it were lives on. A local imam started the service, but this | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
was an occasion that brought all faiths and non-together. And excuse | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
the metaphor, the speakers weren't pulling any punches. He dared to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
affirm the beauty of blackness, he dared to affirm the power and | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
capacity of African Americans. He dared to love America's most unloved | :04:48. | :05:00. | |
race. And he loved us all. Muhammad indicated that when the end came for | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
him he wanted us to use his life and his death as a teaching moment for | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
young people, for his country, and for the world. Barack Obama could | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
not be here because of his daughter's high school graduation | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
send this video message. It is very rare that a figure captures the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
imagination of the entire world. While the service was going on, | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
across town at the Louisville TKO gym a new denigration was working at | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
being the next Muhammad Ali. This one was being laid to rest, a | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
defining figure of his age, the genius sportsman, political activist | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
of national significance, cultural icon, total one-off, there was no | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
one quite like Muhammad Ali, as he would have told you himself. That | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
memorial service is till going on and we are due to hear from former | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
President Clinton and the actor and comedian Billy Crystal. It's 50 | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
years since he became heavyweight champion of the world and was making | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
waves in the civil rights movement. Speak to the young people on the | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
streets today and they will tell you he is still a role model. The legacy | :06:13. | :06:20. | |
of Muhammad Ali lives on. John so Pollin Louisville, thank you. | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Senior Labour figures have told the BBC that the party | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
is haemorrhaging support to the Leave campaign | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
The former leader Ed Miliband warned today that the outcome of the vote, | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
in less than a fortnight, is in doubt, and not enough Labour | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
voters realise the party supports staying in the EU. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Our deputy political editor John Pienaar reports | :06:39. | :06:39. | |
Labour supporters mocking Boris Johnson | :06:40. | :06:53. | |
for snatching Labour votes for an EU exit. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
The Shadow Minister trying to get them back was finding no one home. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Today's appeal: stick with us, don't follow the leavers. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
Of course this result is in question and Labour is clear, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Labour is united, Labour is for Remain because we think | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
it is better for Labour values, better for social justice, | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
better for when there is a Labour government, | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
to be able to make sure that we build a fairer | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
And here in Labour West Bromwich, the thing that is troubling | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Celebrated by Labour politicians and disliked | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Appeal or no appeal, who's listening? | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Try asking in the high street or on a visit | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
I am tending towards Out due to the immigration. | :07:27. | :07:38. | |
I think a lot of immigrants are coming in too fast for us to cope. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
What about a lot of immigrants working in the NHS which is helping | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Well, yes, they are already in position, I'm worried | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
I don't know that we be able to cope with the amount. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
I think people need to work in partnership with other people. | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
People who are voting Out are voting Out because of immigration | :08:03. | :08:04. | |
Picking the winner in this referendum is anyone's guess, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
it's a gamble, and Labour is finding it hard just keeping up. | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
Probably a large majority of Labour voters are knowledgeably, | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
And they are voting to leave because the European | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
It's not working for the working classes in this country. | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
In Labour territory, if people don't vote to remain | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Over a brew, you hear the same thing time and again. | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
Yes, immigration is the main factor for my decision. | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
We do a lot for countries around the world and bailing them | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
out of their problems, when we have homeless people | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
Come here, come almost anywhere deep in Labour territory and you can see | :08:54. | :09:16. | |
why Labour In campaigners are telling me that they're not just | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Fears of mass migration have grown and a lot of people just | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
And poster slogans about taking back control can sound good | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
if you're feeling overlooked or taken for granted. | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
If Britain votes to leave they'll be saying the next day that a lot | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
of Labour supporters, not all but a lot, just stopped | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
Labour has a problem in its heartland, a senior | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
Labour In source told me that they are very worried. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
Just now the leavers' message is reaching parts that Labour can't. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
The Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who's campaigning for the UK | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
to leave the EU, has said he stands by his comments that the sex attacks | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
on dozens of women that happened in Germany, | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
on New Year's Eve, could be repeated in the UK, if levels | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Mr Farage also responded to the subsequent accusation | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
of racism from the Archbishop of Canterbury, saying, | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
"We have good archbishops and bad archbishops." | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports. | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
This report contains some flash photography. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
He's one of the most high-profile campaigners for Brexit. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
Though even some on his own side are uncomfortable | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
with the Nigel Farage tone and style. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Tonight, just a sip of red wine - before the confrontation at least. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
No surprise that immigration, the big issue for the Leave | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
The real point about this referendum is who makes the decisions. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
Do we have the ability to control the numbers that | :10:43. | :10:44. | |
Mr Farage said he wanted to get net migration down below 50,000 | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
and he said this was not just about the economics. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
There is something called quality of life, and that means | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
the ability to get your child into the local primary school. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
It means being able to get a GP appointment. | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
He was less keen to talk about his controversial warning | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
on LBC of sexual attacks like those in Cologne if we stay in the EU. | :11:10. | :11:20. | |
You did predict Cologne-like sex attacks... | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
I may have done months ago, but I chose in this | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
referendum to try and make it a non-issue. | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Because there are so many other things for us to talk about. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
However, is what I said on LBC wrong? | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
But what about the criticism from the Archbishop of Canterbury, | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
who accused him of legitimising racism? | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
We have good archbishops and bad archbishops. | :11:38. | :11:38. | |
Given that he was talking specifically about what had appeared | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
in a Sunday newspaper, he clearly had read | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
a headline and not very careful words that I used. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Nigel Farage insisted Britain would be safer outside the EU | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
and dismissed opponents who said his vision | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
None of them go out and meet ordinary people and perhaps | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
in my case occasionally have a pint with them, | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
and let me tell you, my vision is to put this country | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
and the British people first, and for us to divorce ourselves | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
from political union and to re-engage with the rest | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
It is upbeat, it is optimistic, and do you know something, | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
But there's no disguising the upbeat mood in the Leave camp. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
There have been renewed warnings from Germany | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
The country's Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schauble, said if Britain | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
votes to leave it would also be ejected from the single market | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
and wouldn't be able to access its advantages as Norway | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed is here with me. | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
Michael Gove, a senior figure in the Leave campaign, | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
says he doesn't want to be in the single market anyway. | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Well, I think it is significant, clearly if Britain left the European | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
Union then Germany would be a very important voice in any | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
renegotiations that took place. I think there is a growing nervousness | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
in other countries in the European Union about the referendum on June | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
23, there will be a poll in the Independent tomorrow which puts | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Leave ahead by ten points, 55% to 45%. It is only one poll but it | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
shows that this is not a done deal for either side. And I think Europe | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
is approaching this with a bit of carrot and stick. We have had the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
stick from Wolfgang Schauble's comments that we would have to leave | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
the single market which could damage the British economy. He also worries | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
about copycat referendums which could set off a domino effect. | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
The carrot, this interview with Wolfgang Schauble that we are | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
talking about tonight is in a special addition of Der Spiegel, one | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
of the most important magazines in Germany, sort of a love letter to | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Britain, saying Britain, don't leave us, please don't go, we need you in | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
the European Union. For the Leave campaign, they really think the | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
single market issue is something of a sideshow, that whatever happens | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
Britain is the second largest economy in Europe, the fifth largest | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
in the world, and we will get a deal where there are no terrorists | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
because Germany, France, other countries in the EU, need to export | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
us. We are an important customer for then and that made the trade deal | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
will be done. How close are those polls? We have heard about the | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Independent poll. I've been speaking to people close to Lynton Crosby, | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
the Cameron Kourou, who called the 2015 election correctly, a sort of | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Svengali figure. He apparently thinks it is 50-50 Leave Remain, | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
it's on a knife edge and that nervousness in the German government | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
and the Italian government and British government will continue. | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
Thank you. A National Service of | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
thanksgiving has taken place at St Paul's Cathedral - | :15:03. | :15:03. | |
to mark the Queen's 90th birthday. It's the beginning of three days | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
of events to mark the official birthday celebrations - | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
after the Queen turned 90 in April. The service was attended by members | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
of the Royal family - including the Duke of Edinburgh | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
on his own 95th birthday. Our royal correspondent | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
Nicholas Witchell has more. Between them, they've known 185 | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
years of life's experiences. 90 years in the case of the Queen, | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
95 years in the case of the Duke. But it's the long life of a monarch | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
which brings together a congregation within St Paul's Cathedral | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
for a national service of thanksgiving, a moment | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
for gratitude for this For her faithful devotion, | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
dutiful commitment, loving leadership, gentle constancy, | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
royal dignity and kindly humanity. She's been known to tell clergymen | :15:54. | :16:03. | |
not to overdo the praise on occasions like this, | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
but as family members who will follow in her footsteps | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
and politicians whose time on the national stage | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
comes and goes listened, the Archbishop of Canterbury | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
defined a contribution to national life the like of | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
which we will not see again. So we look back on Your Majesty's | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
90 years in the life of our nation with deep wonder | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
and profound gratitude. Through war and hardship, | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
through turmoil and change, Your Majesty, today, | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
we rejoice for the way in which God's loving care has fearfully | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
and wonderfully sustained you. As well as Prince Philip, | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
marking his 95th birthday today. Reflections on the passing | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
of the years, written by one 90-year-old, the Paddington Bear | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
creator Michael Bond, read by another 90-year-old, | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Sir David Attenborough, featured words used by the Queen's | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
father, George VI, when Britain Truly, if you put your hand | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
into the hand of God, that shall be to you better | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
than light and safer Members of different faith groups | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
joined an act of thanksgiving, a reminder of how Britain has | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
changed during the course One feature though has remained | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
constant, and for that person on this day the congregation sang | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
the national anthem with more The Queen left St Paul's, | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
steadying herself on a specially At 90, a fully engaged head of state | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
on the first of three days marking Nicholas Witchell, BBC News, | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
St Paul's Cathedral. The partner of the former EastEnders | :17:58. | :18:09. | |
actress, Sian Blake, has admitted murdering her | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
and their two children. Arthur Simpson-Kent, | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
who's 49, pleaded guilty when he appeared by video link | :18:14. | :18:14. | |
at the Old Bailey this morning. He was extradited from Ghana | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
in February, having fled Our home affairs correspondent | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
June Kelly reports. He killed his whole family, | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
left the country, and then was arrested in the West African | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
state of Ghana. Today, thousands of miles away | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
from here, Arthur Simpson-Kent came before a British judge and pleaded | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
guilty to a triple murder. He took the lives of his partner, | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
the former EastEnders actress Sian Blake, and their two boys, | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Zachary, who was eight, on the left, After they were reported missing, | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
police began digging up the garden at the family home in Erith in Kent | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
and found their bodies. By then, Arthur Simpson-Kent | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
was a fugitive and had travelled He'd been here for some weeks | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
when locals realised he was a wanted man, because his picture | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
was circulating on social media. They contacted the police | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
and he was arrested and then Today, Sian Blake's sister said | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
she was relieved that Scotland Yard said Sian's close-knit | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
family had been devastated by the loss of two generations | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
in a completely senseless So six months after he fled | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
the country trying to evade justice, Arthur Simpson-Kent has now pleaded | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
guilty to three counts of murder. He wasn't in court for | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
today's brief hearing. He appeared by video | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
link from prison. He is due to be here in October | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
when he will be sentenced June Kelly, BBC News, | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
at the Old Bailey. The European football championships | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
have kicked off this evening amid unprecedented | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
security in Paris. It's just seven months since | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
the terror attacks in the city. Hosts France beat Romania | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
in the tournament curtain raiser in the capital, | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
where we can join our sports editor, France will be delighted not only | :20:10. | :20:20. | |
with tonight's results, but also to get the tournament safely under way? | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
That's right, there was a real sense of trepidation. You could feel it | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
ahead of tonight's opening match, but that has now given way to one of | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
celebration instead. A perfect start for the hosts, and the winning goal | :20:34. | :20:34. | |
they will never forget. The moment fans looked | :20:35. | :20:46. | |
to sport to help lift a nation. Despite an unprecedented security | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
operation tens of thousands gathering in their fun park at Euro | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
2016 got under way, the message one of resilience. We just try to keep | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
living as before, because we cannot stay at home always. Seven months | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
ago this stadium was targeted by terrorists during a night the | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
country still is coming to terms with. Now the Stade de France played | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
host to the tournament's opening match between the hosts and Romania. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
We come here to enjoy that game and to be honest I don't think about | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
nothing, about the terrorist men. We need to show that we are not afraid. | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
To the world. We can enjoy the stadium, we can play football and | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
are not afraid about this. The short opening ceremony a defiantly | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
cheerful and colourful affair, celebrating French popular culture. | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
DJ David Guetta orchestrating proceedings which culminated in a | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
spectacular fly-past by the French air force. And after all the | :21:49. | :21:57. | |
fanfare, time for the footballers to take centre stage. This rousing | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
rendition of the national anthem sung as if France wanted the whole | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
world to hear it. Perhaps the emotion got to the hosts, because | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
they started nervously. Lloris preventing Romania from taking an | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
early lead. But France would soon show why they are favourites to win | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
their own competition. They went close. And then Giroud, clinical. | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
This is the opening goal of the tournament, France one up. A chance | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
to equalise from the spot. The lead didn't last long. Evra gave away a | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
penalty, Bogdan Stancu punished the French. Romania back level. But | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
France would not be beaten, with full-time looming a moment of sheer | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
genius from Dimitri Payet. A winning goal worthy of racing such an | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
occasion. The hosts off to the perfect start. But away from the | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
scenes of celebration, a second night of violence on the streets of | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Marseille. Police again deploying tear gas to disperse England fans, | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
after fresh disturbances. This evening Roy Hodgson's youthful squad | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
arrived in Marseille and took the opportunity to familiarise | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
themselves with the stadium where they play Russia tomorrow. We know | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
what we can do, we know that we have a team that if we perform to the | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
level we think we can perform two, we will make it difficult for any | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
opponent that comes our way. Wales fans meanwhile have been relishing | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
their first appearance in a major championships since the 1958 World | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
Cup. Slovakia their team's opponents tomorrow in Bordeaux. And to | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
complete a weekend to savour for the home nations, Northern Ireland in | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
their first-ever European Championship finals faced Poland in | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
Nice on Sunday. But tonight belongs to France. This is the start they | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
would have dreamt of. Dan Roan, BBC News, Paris. | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
England fans have again been involved with clashes | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
with French police in Marseille for a second night. | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Fans stayed drinking in the city this evening ahead of England's | :24:14. | :24:15. | |
Matthew Price is in Marseille for us tonight. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
What more can you tell us? It's a rather strange atmosphere in | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
Marseille this evening. We have had French fans buzzing through this | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
square celebrating their victory, swiftly followed by a little bit of | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
tear gas coming through the air, and that followed by a load of England | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
fans, who were trying to get away from some of the tear gas that riot | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
police had been firing. There have been bottles thrown, about ten | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
minutes ago, right on this very spot a group of lads, 15 or so of them, | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
through a bottle at someone they didn't like. It's largely of course | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
the minority, we always say that, but there are some very drunk people | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
in this town tonight and at times they are facing off against the | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
French police and the French riot police as we know will use tear gas | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
to disperse crowds. So isolated pockets of tension. The restaurants | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
and cafes around here, some of them closing because they are worried | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
about more violence. It is isolated but as I say, it is tens and it's | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
quite nasty in places and I think I've heard another round of tear gas | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
being fired a few streets away. Matthew in Marseille, thanks. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
She's one of the most successful writers in the world. | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
JK Rowling's Harry Potter books have sold hundreds of millions of copies, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
and spawned a series of blockbuster movies. | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
Now, she's preparing for the latest Potter instalment - a two-part play. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
It's called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
She's been speaking to our arts editor, Will Gompertz. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
Harry Potter is back - on stage this time. | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
He's 19 years older, married with kids, still hanging out | :25:50. | :25:51. | |
with Ron and Hermione and facing some familiar and unfamiliar foes. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Just so we're clear, I mean obviously you're the writer, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
Jack, you're the director, John, and you're the creator, Jo, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
How did that actually work in practice? | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
The three of us talked and discussed and cogitated the story | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
through discussions, which Jack then wrote down, | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
and we didn't start writing the play as such, or Jack didn't, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
until we'd agreed on what that story was. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
And then I tried to write a script and then... | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Well, you did write a script, you're very self-deprecating. | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
What's been your overriding concerns? | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
I don't think I realised how anxious I was, to tell | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
I mean, this is putting me back ten years. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
Potter attracted a lot of madness and a lot of hype, and going back | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
into that place I realised on Wednesday morning how anxious | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
that had made me, because I knew how much expectation there would be | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Is there a sense then in your own mind - | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
philosophically more than literally - that you don't own Potter anymore, | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
I wouldn't go that far, Will! | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Because you know, that would be, I'm deadly serious, that would be | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
to disavow what that world was to me. | :27:28. | :27:29. | |
17 years that world was mine and for seven of those years | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
it was entirely mine, not a living soul knew anything | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
about it, and I can't just uproot that from all the personal | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
experiences that inform those stories and say I'm | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
throwing it away now - and that's how that would feel. | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
And as a fan you want it to be her world, not our world, | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
It's her world we've been allowed to play in. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
In a way, John, Jack and Jo had it easy, because they were dealing | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
You've got to make their imagination a reality on stage. | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
It's not all kind of glitter guns and cannons. | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
Actually a lot of it is very, very, very simple magic | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
So touch wood there's not a huge amount really that could go wrong. | :28:14. | :28:22. | |
There's not much that could go wrong! | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
Yeah, I'm pressing my leg against the wooden | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
But what I mean by that, we've done it very carefully, | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
so it's not a kind of wing and a prayer. | :28:35. | :28:36. | |
Can you imagine ever creating another world which has | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
such a profound impact as the Potter world? | :28:42. | :28:44. | |
I feel as though I did that and I love it. | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
It takes up so much mental space, it takes up a lot of space | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
I think I would be on a fool's errand to try to do that again. | :28:58. | :29:12. | |
Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :29:13. | :29:16. |