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The Bank of England cuts interest rates | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
amid signs the UK economy is slowing. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Interest rates have been cut to a new historic low, 0.25%, | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
as the Bank's Governor hints they could go even lower. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
We're living through a time of considerable uncertainty, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
and one thing we can do is reduce the uncertainties | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Good news for many homeowners, bad news for savers - | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
but some economists are already questioning | :00:34. | :00:34. | |
Once you are down that 0.5%, further cuts in interest rates | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
are very unlikely to make much of a positive difference to the economy. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
We'll be asking what more the Bank and the Government need to do | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Also tonight, the head of the UK's independent inquiry | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
into child sex abuse, Dame Lowell Goddard, resigns, | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
The American killed in a knife attack in London | :00:56. | :01:04. | |
was the wife of a visiting university professor. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
One of the injured describes what happened. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
The guy stabbed her, and then I realised, | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
I looked at my arm, and I saw that she was bleeding, | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and then I realised that he stabbed me also. | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
the MP challenging him for the Labour leadership, | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
clash at their first head to head debate. | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
Andy Murray leads the way for Team GB | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
at tomorrow's opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
We'll be looking at Britain's medal chances. | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
a century from Azhar Ali leads the Pakistan charge at Edgbaston, | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
with the tourists closing day two of the third Test on 257-3. | :01:44. | :02:07. | |
The Bank of England has cut interest rates to a new record low | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
and warned of a sharp slowdown in the economy | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
following the vote to leave the European Union. | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Interest rates now stand at 0.25%, down from 0.5%, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
the first time they have been cut for seven years. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
The move is one of a series of what the Bank | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
called "exceptional measures" to boost growth, | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
including a decision to pump ?170 billion into the economy. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
The Bank also announced the biggest ever cut to its forecast | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
for economic growth - from 2.3% down to 0.8% next year. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Our first report is from our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
We were saying farewell to a tough winter and an even tougher recession | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
the last time the Bank of England cut interest rates from 1% to 0.5%. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
we've running, swimming and jumping at an Olympics, | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
voters have trudged to the polls time after time after time, | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
and all the way through the Bank has resolutely not acted | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
The Governor decided it was time to act. | :03:11. | :03:21. | |
We have, in the actions that we've taken today, | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
by acting through multiple channels with a coherent policy package, | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
we have improved the economic outcomes for this country. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
There will be less unemployment, there will be more activity, | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
of a successful adjustment to the new realities. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
For the moment, that new reality is pretty gloomy. | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Following the referendum, the Bank said house prices | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
will decline, inflation will rise, and real incomes fall. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
The Governor told me the adjustment Britain was now facing | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Unfortunately, if you look at our base forecast, | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
we expect unemployment to go from just under 5%, | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
the unemployment rate from just under 5% | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
That is a little more than 250,000 jobs | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
that would be lost over the course of the next few years. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
That shows the real cost of Brexit, doesn't it? | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Well, that shows the cost of the adjustment, | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
this period of adjustment and uncertainty. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Uncertain maybe, but the Governor said the economy could cope, | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
and he wanted to make Brexit a success. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
To help, a rate cut and creation of more money - | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
?170 billion, to be precise - increasing support for banks, | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and adding to quantitative easing, | :04:41. | :04:41. | |
the buying of government and business debt. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Once you are down at 0.5%, further cuts in interest rates | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
are very unlikely to make much of a positive difference | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
to the economy, and indeed there are negative concerns. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
We've seen sterling fall, that's going to mean | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
higher import prices, and that will be difficult | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
1.5 million mortgage holders will see their bills fall. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
It won't be by much, on average by just ?22 a month. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
If you have a savings pot of ?100, on average you would have received | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
The Governor said he was in regular contact with the Chancellor | :05:19. | :05:31. | |
and that the Government will have to play its part | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
The Chancellor said he would do whatever it takes. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
We're trying to protect jobs and economic growth, | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
and the measures that have been taken today are designed to ensure | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
that any increase in unemployment as a result of the economic | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
slowdown is kept to the absolute minimum possible. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
The message from opponents - get on with it, investing | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
in Britain's infrastructure will be as important | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
I welcome the Bank of England's decision to try and exude | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
confidence within our economy, but monetary policy is not enough. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
we need the Government to start investing in our economy. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
The Chancellor said he will wait until the autumn, that is too late, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
we need decisions now, because Britain will be on hold | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
For the Bank of England, the big question - | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Yes, the interest-rate cut is modest, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
but Mark Carney has offered himself | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
And for the economy, confidence is important. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
While others fiddle, here is some action. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
The Bank says there could be a bright future ahead, | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
but for the moment the economy is struggling. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Interest rates could be cut again to 0.1% as Britain continues | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
to digest the economic result of the referendum. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
So with interest rates now at the lowest | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
they've ever been in the UK, what impact will it have | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
on households up and down the country? | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
Hywel Griffith has been to a new development in Newport | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
to assess consumer and business confidence. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Economic growth requires a lot of ingredients. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
If today's measures are going to shore things up, it's places | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
like this new housing estate where they 'll be used. | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Right, so we are into the kitchen, start here. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Oh, this is lovely. Isn't it? | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
Tom and Ffion are buying their first home together. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
The interest-rate cuts should make finding a mortgage cheaper. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
It just means that we can buy the house of our dreams, have a bit | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
of extra money in our pockets, and sort of have the peace of mind | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
that we're not stretching ourselves too much. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Right, this way, out into the garden... | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Both work in the coffee trade, a service industry that's been | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
booming, but they are aware that other businesses, | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
like the local steelworks, aren't doing so well. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
So how confident are they about the future? | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
It's terrible when people lose their jobs, | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
and factories in Wales are closing down, | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
and that's awful, because that people's livelihood. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
But I just think that we all just need to be a little bit more | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
sensible with our money and spend it where you need it, | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
and hopefully the economy will then turn itself around | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
and we will come out the other side. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
their new neighbours will be Muhammad and his family. | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
With two stores in Newport and plans for a third, | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
an economic slowdown would be felt in his tills. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Buying a new house now is a big decision, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
but today's interest-rate cut has convinced him | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
he is better off buying bricks and mortar | :08:44. | :08:44. | |
You can't keep cash in the bank this time, because interest rates is | :08:45. | :08:53. | |
too low, and best way you can invest money somewhere in property | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
or somewhere in business, that's the best way, | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
and that's the best time to buy the house. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
Construction is an important part of the UK economy, | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
but it's an industry that been particularly nervous | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
over what the next few months will bring. | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
What they want here is confidence and cash flow | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
For developer Tim Grey, the promise of economic stimulus is key - | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
as long as the money does reach them. | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
unless the banks are there to support us as an industry. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
You know, we clearly want to build as many houses as we possibly can. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Yes, there are a number of factors that affect that, including finance, | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
so obviously if that finance wasn't available, we wouldn't be | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
in a position to actually build what we know we can sell. | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
These brand-new streets won't be finished for another 18 months. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
By then, we should know if today has put the economy on the right track. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Well, let's take stock with our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed. | :09:51. | :09:59. | |
The Bank has painted a pretty bleak picture of the road ahead, | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
but what happens next is not just down to them. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
It certainly isn't, Sophie, we had a really remarkable day, I think the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Bank of England have really tested the limits of monetary policy, but | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
as you say, they are only part of the picture. The other big player in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
this whole economic story for the country post-referendum is, of | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
course, the Government. Frankly, no-one were saying we must have | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
lower interest rates, we must have more funding and lending to people, | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
because the Bank has done all it can in that area, to be honest. We are | :10:35. | :10:47. | |
now looking to the Government, still a pretty new Chancellor, new Prime | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
Minister, what other economic policies and taxes, spending and | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
borrowing? We are not going to know that until we get to the Autumn | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
Statement, and for a lot of people where the Bank has acted decisively | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
and quickly, the Government appears to be slow, slow, slow, and that | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
must be a concern. Businesses. Kamal , thank you. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
The judge appointed to lead the Independent Inquiry | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
into Child Sexual Abuse, Dame Lowell Goddard, | :11:11. | :11:11. | |
She was appointed in February last year | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
after the two previous chairwomen resigned. | :11:16. | :11:16. | |
The inquiry was set up in 2014 to examine allegations | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
of an establishment cover-up of historic abuse. | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
Following the resignation of two former chairwoman, New Zealand judge | :11:21. | :11:33. | |
Dame Lowell Goddard was appointed by the then Home Secretary Theresa May | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
to be the steadying hand needed on an inquiry that many thought had | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
lost its way before it had even started. | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
Why have you undertaken this challenge? | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Really, my whole career path to date and my experience, I believe, | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
it was to be a vast, wide-ranging inquiry, | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
that would examine child abuse within public bodies | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
So why might Lowell Goddard have resigned? | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Today, she faced press criticism that during her first year, | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
she spent three months away from the inquiry. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
A spokesman said she had been on enquiry business and | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
In her resignation statement tonight, Judge Goddard gave some | :12:19. | :12:27. | |
clues, saying the conduct of any public inquiry is not an easy task, | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
let alone one of the magnitude of this. | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
Compounding the difficulties was its legacies of failure, | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Her resignation is a setback for the inquiry which was set up in 2014. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
The first chair, Baroness Butler-Sloss, | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
was appointed in July 2014, but stood down a week later. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Dame Fiona Woolf was appointed in September of that year, | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
she stood down less two months later. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Like her predecessor, she had been criticised for being too close | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Justice Lowell Goddard was appointed in February last | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
I think this very unfortunate that the inquiry has now | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
lost its third chair, but I hope, and I speak | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
as a survivor, that this will not derail the great work that has | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
In a statement, the Home Secretary said, I want to assure everyone | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
with an interest in the inquiry, particularly victims and survivors, | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
that the work of the inquiry will continue without delay, | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
With Judge Goddard's departure, the inquiry is in crisis. | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
Who now will be prepared to take on a role | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
The American stabbed to death in central London last night | :13:43. | :13:54. | |
has been named as 64-year-old Darlene Horton, | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
the wife of a university professor from Florida, | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
who'd been teaching in London this summer. | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
Five other people were injured in the knife attack. | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Police say the victims were selected at random, | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
and they don't believe it was terrorist related. | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
Under control and under arrest, a 19-year-old who had taken one life | :14:07. | :14:13. | |
and left others injured, as he lashed out with his knife | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Amongst those he stabbed was an 18-year-old tourist from Israel. | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
I looked at my arm and saw she was bleeding, | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
and then I realised he stabbed me also. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
She was still breathing when I saw her, but after a few minutes, | :14:36. | :14:47. | |
it was too late and it was so awful to watch, and her husband... | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
The woman who was murdered has been named tonight | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
as Darlene Horton, who was 64 and visiting from Florida. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
She and her husband were said to have planned to leave the UK today. | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Witnesses described how the killer fled the scene | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
and some officers went after him on foot. | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
He was eventually brought down by a taser stun gun. | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
There was a guy running on the street. | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
A policeman was following him and he screamed every time, stop, stop! | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
He was panicking, he wanted to get away. | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
He was being shouted at by the police, | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
"Don't move, don't go any further, stop where you are." | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
Literally screaming at him coming down the street. | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
They had gone out of my vision but then I did hear the taser. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Then he goes to the floor and lay there for 45 minutes. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
During the day, detectives worked to establish reasons for the attack. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
While the investigation is not yet complete, | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
all of the work we have done so far increasingly points to this tragic | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
incident having being triggered by mental health issues. | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
I emphasise that so far we have found no evidence of radicalisation | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
which suggests the man in our custody is in any way | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
The way that so many police officers poured into this area so quickly | :16:09. | :16:21. | |
Instead, this was about the safety of a group of people of different | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
nationalities who were caught up in a random lethal street attack. | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
The man in custody is a Norwegian national of Somali origin. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
His victim is being remembered at the spot | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
The two men vying to be the Labour leader in the autumn have clashed | :16:42. | :16:55. | |
Jeremy Corbyn and his challenger, the MP Owen Smith, have been taking | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier has been watching | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
He is in charge at the moment. But with a leadership crisis, the party | :17:04. | :17:16. | |
is divided and struggling to find its direction. This man says he has | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
the answers and has taken on the head-to-head for the first time. His | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
Cardiff hustings a chance for the candidates to outdo each other, to | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
prove their leadership will give Labour their next best chance. It | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
was a question about division in the party, which revealed once more the | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
gulf between Jeremy Corbyn and his MPs. It would be a good thing if | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
Labour MPs got behind their leader and worked with them, rather than | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
briefed against them all the time. I understand political differences and | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
I understand dissent. But, Jeremy, 172 Labour MPs voted no confidence | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
in your leadership. They are not red Tories. These are not people who | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
want to see the Tories back in power. They are not Blairites, they | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
are just Labour MPs. As for taking the fight to the Tories, Jeremy | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
Corbyn insisted he had already been successful. In the past ten months | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
we have defeated the government 22 times implement. When we work | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
together, we win, we do defeat the Tories. But Owen Smith repeated time | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
and time again Labour lead it to be not just in opposition, but a | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
radical government in waiting. I think the problem with that, Jeremy | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
is, we are not defeating the Tories. We have had a few victories, but we | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
are behind. We are 14 percentage points behind the Tories. At times | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
it was personal. Allegations of anti-Semitism have dogged the party | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
in recent times, and Mr Smith's comments on this true both cheers | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
and jeers from party members. I have been in this Labour Party for 30 | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
years. I have only remembered in the last nine months a discussion about | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. That's the truth! Mr Corbyn | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
condemned all forms of anti-Semitism. I want our party to | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
be an inclusive, welcoming, open place for everybody, whatever their | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
faiths, whatever their ethnic group, whatever their community they come | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
from. There was one policy where the pair disagreed, Trident. I voted | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
against the renewal of Trident... CHEERING | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
We must retain a nuclear deterrent in order to enable the multilateral | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
disarmament of the entire world arsenal. That is the unfortunate, | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
terrible truth. Whoever wins the leadership contest, the deep | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
divisions entering in the Labour Party will not be easily healed. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
There were no major blows game changing moments tonight but Jeremy | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Corbyn did seem to pick up more of the cheers from the audience. Owen | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Smith was jeered when he suggested his rival was incapable of leading | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
and that he was the man to take Labour back to government. This was | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
Owen Smith's debut and the pair will have more hustings like these, | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
before around half a million Labour Party members and supporters choose | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
their next leader. Thank you. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
Officials in Afghanistan say a group of foreign tourists, | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
including eight Britons, have been attacked | :20:52. | :20:52. | |
The Taliban has said it carried out the attack. | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
A lorry driver who was reading a text message just seconds | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
before he crashed, killing off duty policewoman Sharon Garrett, | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
has been found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
Danny Warby - who's 28 and from Kings Lynn in Cambridgeshire - | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
A man has been jailed for the kidnapped and sexual assault | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
of a teenage girl more than 30 years ago. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
David Green, who's now 60, abducted his victim | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
and assaulted her in a cave in Weston-super-Mare in 1983. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
He was caught using new DNA techniques. | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
David Cameron's controversial resignation honours list, | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
which was leaked at the weekend, has been officially published | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
It confirms that the former Chancellor, George Osborne, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
is to become a Companion of Honour, and that Isabel Spearman, | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
who worked for Samantha Cameron, will be awarded an OBE. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Mason is in Westminster. | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Yes, it certainly is. There are 46 people being honoured by David | :21:52. | :22:04. | |
Cameron, an additional 13 are being sent to the House of Lords as | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Conservative peers. The former Chancellor George Osborne becomes a | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
companion of honour. That is awarded for what is described as service of | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
conspicuous national importance. Also knighthoods for the former | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
director of communications in Downing Street, and senior | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Conservatives Oliver N, Patrick McLoughlin and uncle Fallin, and a | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
Dame hood for the former Cabinet minister Caroline Spelman. And also | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
a CBE for the Remain campaign in the referendum. And David Cameron is | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
sending his former chief of staff Ed Llewellyn to the House of Lords. | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, sending Shami Chakrabarti to the | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
house of lords as a Labour peer. She recently chaired an enquiry into | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
anti-Semitism in the Labour Party for Jeremy Corbyn. Sources say all | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
of these report appointments reflect tireless public service. The Liberal | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Democrat leader Tim Farron said tonight this list was so full of | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
cronies it would embarrass a medieval court. Thank you. | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
At least 271 Russian athletes have been cleared to compete | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
That's despite the World Anti Doping Agency recommending all | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
should have been banned following the country's doping scandal. | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
The Russian Olympic Committee President has said his country's | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
team will be the "cleanest" at the Games. | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
Our sports editor Dan Roan is in Rio with the latest. | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
Still a pretty big Russian team, how much of a supply is as this? Many | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
will be surprised, especially after that damning world anti-doping | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
agency report last month which found evidence of state-sponsored cheating | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
in Russia in many sports and over several years. The critics expected | :24:01. | :24:10. | |
and demanded a blanket ban of the entire Russian team from these games | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
as a result. Instead, the Russian Olympic team confirmed there will be | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
271 members of their team, 100 fewer than originally intended, but it | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
still makes it one of the biggest teams that these games, and many | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
will say it raises serious questions about the IOC's commitment to clean | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
sport and makes a mockery of the president Thomas Bach's suppose its | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
stance and zero tolerance policy against cheating. If you expect the | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
Russians to be contrite, grateful and not make any outspoken comments, | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
you would be disappointed. The team leader said he believed Russia was | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
the cleanest team of any at these games. The track and field governing | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
body barred 67 Russians but only a few other sports sanctioned them in | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
the same way. That means now a big team will be seen at the opening | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
ceremony tomorrow evening in the Olympic Stadium. It will be | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
fascinating to see what kind of reaction those athletes receive. | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Thank you. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
and Prince Harry have recorded a special good luck message | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
to British athletes competing Team GB's 366 strong squad | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
are hoping to win at least 48 medals - that's not as many as in London - | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
but it would still make Rio Britain's most | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
successful Games overseas. Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss | :25:32. | :25:32. | |
has been looking at their chances. 28 different sports, | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
one common goal. After weeks of preparing | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
in Belo Horizonte, the time for training is nearly | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
over. As British athletes start | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
gathering for the opening ceremony, one man may need | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
a little more practice. Andy Murray's flag bearing not quite | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
as smooth as his forehand, Just drop it a little bit, Andy, | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
we're blocking HRH. But Murray said this was an honour | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
he'd hardly expected. I was just getting into | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
bed at about 11:15 pm. Um, our team leader came | :26:08. | :26:09. | |
and said the Chef de Mission needs to speak to you, | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
and I was speechless, really. But for the team as a whole, | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
the challenge is to follow this. The success at London 2012 set | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
a new gold standard So, what should we expect from Team | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
GB here in Brazil? London was their best Games | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
for more than a century. Here, their target is a little more | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
modest - 48 medals. That though would make | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
it their best overseas Games, beating the 47 medals they won | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
in Beijing eight years ago. It's really unusual for a team to do | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
really well after a home Games. Some of them have really | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
slumped in the past. To have the best away Games ever | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
after a home Games like we had in London would be | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
an outstanding result for us. The key could be a crop | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
of new stars, like World Champion Adam Peaty in the swimming, | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
sailor Giles Scott, who's lost just once in three years, | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, set to challenge Jessica Ennis-Hill | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
for heptathlon gold. I still do admire her and respect | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
everything she's achieved, so it can't be a rivalry | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
in that respect. I never thought our careers | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
would cross paths. It's a bit weird, both | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
going for the gold. It will be good for Great Britain, | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
getting two medals in some capacity. Our athletes are an | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
inspiration to us all. For the team today, a message | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
of royal support. Topping 2012 might be a step too | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
far, but it's time for Team GB Andy Swiss, BBC News, | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
Belo Horizonte. The world's the list tall tower has | :28:00. | :28:22. | |
opened in Brighton today. It is on the site once occupied by the | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
entrance to the ruined West Pier. It has been called a vertical peer but | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
the tower has divided public opinion. | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
Now, are you addicted to your mobile phone? | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
New research suggests that adults in the UK are spending an average | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
The study found nearly 60% of people say they're hooked | :28:43. | :28:49. | |
A third of people admitted they found it increasingly | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
And over a quarter of people even admitted they've texted | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
or instant messaged someone who's in the same room. | :28:58. | :28:59. | |
Here's our business correspondent Emma Simpson. | :29:00. | :29:04. | |
Nothing beats getting away from it all. | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
But can we really switch off from our phones and devices? | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
If I Google that, we'll be able to look today. | :29:14. | :29:21. | |
I find it totally impossible just to put it away | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
I like to keep in touch with everybody and I like to be able | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
to post all my photos to Facebook so my friends can see where we are. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
I'm usually on Facebook, a bit of Instagram, | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
Sadly, I have to admit that I do check my e-mails. | :29:39. | :29:48. | |
I appreciate that my family don't always approve when I do that. | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
I think, in industry today, there is a requirement | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
We're now spending, on average, 25 hours a week online. | :29:55. | :30:06. | |
But we're also becoming aware of the drawbacks. | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
A third of adults, 15 million people, said they'd gone | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
on a digital detox or break, to strike a healthier balance. | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
For instance, 16% of us have deliberately gone on holiday | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
Over on pitch 108, the Woodwards from Merseyside | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
There's a lot going on in the world and different things like that. | :30:34. | :30:43. | |
Two weeks of the year, you can just chill out | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
This woman runs a business helping people deal with digital overload. | :30:47. | :30:55. | |
It's stopped us from doing things that we've done as human beings | :30:56. | :30:58. | |
for thousands of years, because we are now focused | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
I think we just want to put ourselves on pause, | :31:03. | :31:07. | |
and switch ourselves onto a plane mode for a while, to be able | :31:08. | :31:11. | |
Many parents are doing just that, by making their kids take | :31:12. | :31:22. | |
Nearly two thirds have been digitally grounded. | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
I don't find it something you need every day. | :31:25. | :31:29. | |
I'm more than happy biking up and down. | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
We're better connected than ever before but the challenge, | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
it seems, is to make sure that our obsession with the Web | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
doesn't negatively affect our lives beyond the screen. | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
For the third time, the person in charge of the enquiry into child | :31:45. | :32:01. | |
sexual abuse has stepped down, and that is before the first public | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
hearings. We will be asking if it is just bad luck to lose three or we | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
doing something wrong? Here on BBC One it's time | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
for the news where you are. | :32:10. | :32:10. |