:00:07. > :00:08.Pressure increases on Donald Trump as a stream of allegations emerge
:00:09. > :00:14.He says the claims by several women are false and singles out one
:00:15. > :00:22.Take a look, you take a look, look at her, look at her words,
:00:23. > :00:32.The US First Lady weighs into the row, accusing Trump
:00:33. > :00:42.The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman.
:00:43. > :00:50.We'll be looking at what effect the growing controversy is having
:00:51. > :01:05.Also tonight: No-one will have the right to deny scotland
:01:06. > :01:07.the chance to choose a better future.
:01:08. > :01:09.Nicola Sturgeon makes her strongest bid yet for a second referendum
:01:10. > :01:13.The stand-off between Tesco and Unilever is over -
:01:14. > :01:15.but could other Brexit price rises be on the way?
:01:16. > :01:19.New safety concerns at two thirds of A E departments in England.
:01:20. > :01:21.# Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine
:01:22. > :01:23.# I'm on the pavement thinking about the government...#
:01:24. > :01:26.And Bob Dylan joins the likes of Hemingway and Steinbeck
:01:27. > :01:29.to win the Nobel Prize - for literature.
:01:30. > :01:30.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:31. > :01:34.2012 Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill announces her
:01:35. > :01:57.retirement, saying she wanted to go out on a high.
:01:58. > :02:02.The US First Lady, Michelle Obama, has launched a scathing attack
:02:03. > :02:06.on the Republican Presidential candidate, Donald Trump,
:02:07. > :02:09.accusing him of "sexually predatory behaviour" that is shocking
:02:10. > :02:14.Meanwhile, women have been lining up to accuse Trump of groping
:02:15. > :02:18.Tonight the billionaire businessman has gone on the offensive,
:02:19. > :02:20.denouncing all the claims as "absolutely false".
:02:21. > :02:22.Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, reports on an increasingly bitter
:02:23. > :02:31.This woman talking to the New York Times recounts how
:02:32. > :02:33.she was on a flight and moved to first class.
:02:34. > :02:36.She found herself sitting next to Donald Trump.
:02:37. > :02:39.He was like an octopus, it was like he had six arms,
:02:40. > :02:43.When he started putting his hand up my skirt that was it.
:02:44. > :02:55.Two allegations regarding sexual misconduct in his
:02:56. > :03:08.A writer for people magazine had gone to interview him and his wife
:03:09. > :03:12.on their first wedding anniversary. Melania are Trump was heavily
:03:13. > :03:13.pregnant and gone up to change when the reporter claims he pounced. She
:03:14. > :03:34.writes: At a rally in Florida, Donald Trump
:03:35. > :03:38.painted himself as the victim, where everyone was ganging up at him and
:03:39. > :03:42.he furiously dismissed the allegations. These claims are all
:03:43. > :03:52.fabricated. They're pure fiction, and they're outright lies.
:03:53. > :03:56.These events never, ever happened and the people that said people
:03:57. > :04:00.meekly, fully understand - you take a look at these people. You study
:04:01. > :04:05.these people, and you'll understand also. So why are all these stories
:04:06. > :04:09.appearing now? Trump support remembers convinced there is
:04:10. > :04:12.effectively a conspiracy between the liberal media and the Clinton
:04:13. > :04:16.campaign but this many stories, from so many different outlets from
:04:17. > :04:19.across the country? Well, the women themselves have a simpler
:04:20. > :04:23.explanation. They were enraged by Trump's denial
:04:24. > :04:27.at the third time of asking in Sunday's presidential debate, that
:04:28. > :04:33.he had ever made unwanted sexual advances towards women. REPORTER:
:04:34. > :04:37.For the record, are you saying what you said on 11 years ago that you
:04:38. > :04:41.did not kiss women or grope women without respect. I have great
:04:42. > :04:49.respect for women Have you ever done those things? Women have respect for
:04:50. > :04:54.me. I will tell you, no I have not. My shell Obama for one isn't buying
:04:55. > :05:00.the line it was idle chat This wasn't just locker room banter. This
:05:01. > :05:05.was a power individual, speaking freely and openly, about sexually
:05:06. > :05:10.predatory behaviour. And actually bragging about kissing
:05:11. > :05:13.and groping women, using language so obscene that many of us were worried
:05:14. > :05:19.about our children hearing it when we turned on the TV. And these
:05:20. > :05:23.comments to a group of ten-year-olds at Trump Tower aren't helping his
:05:24. > :05:29.ka.s I'm going to be dating her in ten years, can you believe it? ? I'm
:05:30. > :05:35.offended every time he opens his mouth. I don't like him at all. I
:05:36. > :05:41.don't respect him He is awful, he is against women. He is always putting
:05:42. > :05:44.women down. I think, I think he's a scum bag.
:05:45. > :05:48.Donald Trump is doing everything he can to switch attention away from
:05:49. > :05:56.himself and making this about a system that he says is rigged.
:05:57. > :06:00.Well, Jon, he has come out fighting, as you say, he is hitting back hard.
:06:01. > :06:04.Are you getting any sense that the tide is beginning to turn now?
:06:05. > :06:08.Fiona, if you just look at the situation on the ground. We learned
:06:09. > :06:13.today a key battle ground state, Virginia, Donald Trump is pulling
:06:14. > :06:16.resources from there. In Wisconsin, another swing state, his polling
:06:17. > :06:20.numbers among women have fallen through the floor since the comments
:06:21. > :06:23.last week and in other battle ground states it is pretty much the same
:06:24. > :06:28.story but Donald Trump is trying to say - look, I may be about to lose
:06:29. > :06:31.this election, it seems, but there are reasons for it. What he did
:06:32. > :06:35.today was give awe full-scale conspiracy theory - give you a
:06:36. > :06:39.full-scale conspiracy they ary. In terges he said, the media, along
:06:40. > :06:42.with Wall Street and major organisations were working in
:06:43. > :06:47.concert to deny the American people a Trump victory. He said at the
:06:48. > :06:51.epicentre of this conspiracy was Hillary Clinton. He said he posed an
:06:52. > :06:56.existential threat to the American system. He went on - they, the media
:06:57. > :06:59.will seek to destroy everything about you, including your
:07:00. > :07:03.reputation, but I am prepared to take the slings and arrows for you,
:07:04. > :07:07.my supporters. Now, one other thing important to add - the numbers
:07:08. > :07:11.attending his rallies have not dipped at all. The enthusiasm for
:07:12. > :07:16.him of those attending is still as great. And the numbers of people in
:07:17. > :07:19.America, who believe the message that there is this conspiracy, is
:07:20. > :07:23.still significant. It's just not significant enough at
:07:24. > :07:30.the moment to deliver Donald Trump a presidential election victory.
:07:31. > :07:31.Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has
:07:32. > :07:34.made her strongest move yet for a second referendum
:07:35. > :07:38.She has announced that consultation on legislation for a new referendum
:07:39. > :07:41.She told the SNP conference in Glasgow that the Scottish people
:07:42. > :07:43.should be able to reconsider independence in the light
:07:44. > :07:50.Our Scotland Editor, Sarah Smith, is in Glasgow for us tonight.
:07:51. > :07:53.Given that this is just a consultation at this stage,
:07:54. > :07:56.how significant would you say this is?
:07:57. > :08:03.Well, Nicola Sturgeon is making preparations for a second referendum
:08:04. > :08:08.on Scottish independence. Without definitely saying that she will call
:08:09. > :08:12.for one. Truth is, she is not certain that if that were to happen
:08:13. > :08:19.soon, she would win it. But nonce, she did want to send a clear message
:08:20. > :08:24.today that - but innocence, she did want it send a clear message that if
:08:25. > :08:25.she does t she'll do what is necessary to protect Scotland's
:08:26. > :08:27.interests. Welcome the leader of the Scottish
:08:28. > :08:31.National Party and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is angry
:08:32. > :08:41.and she didn't mince Accusing the Tories of xenophobia,
:08:42. > :08:46.calling them a disgrace and delivering a stark warning,
:08:47. > :08:48.that if the UK Government doesn't listen to her on Brexit,
:08:49. > :08:51.she's prepared to hold another If you think, for one single second,
:08:52. > :08:55.that I am not serious about doing what it takes to protect
:08:56. > :08:57.Scotland's interests, I can confirm today
:08:58. > :09:06.that the independence referendum bill will be published
:09:07. > :09:11.for consultation next week. Party members were as delighted,
:09:12. > :09:14.as they were surprised. Nicola Sturgeon's speech
:09:15. > :09:20.here in Glasgow was really a direct message to the Prime Minister
:09:21. > :09:25.in Downing Street. A clear warning that if Theresa May
:09:26. > :09:30.doesn't listen to her concerns about Brexit, then Sturgeon
:09:31. > :09:34.could demand a second SNP members are accustomed
:09:35. > :09:38.to being told to be patient, not to rush
:09:39. > :09:40.into a referendum they might lose. But the mood of the party leadership
:09:41. > :09:43.has clearly changed. Is this a threat to the Prime
:09:44. > :09:46.Minister that she must listen to the Scottish Government,
:09:47. > :09:48.or they will call a second No, it's a promise
:09:49. > :09:52.to the Prime Minister. We promise that we will stand up
:09:53. > :09:55.for the interests of We will do everything we have to do
:09:56. > :10:00.to protect our place in Europe. If that's what it takes,
:10:01. > :10:04.that's what we will do. Outside the conference centre,
:10:05. > :10:06.the landscape looks Polls suggest no
:10:07. > :10:08.significant increase Since the fall in the oil price,
:10:09. > :10:13.the economic outlook But Nicola Sturgeon says it's a hard
:10:14. > :10:19.Brexit that will damage Here in Scotland, 80,000
:10:20. > :10:24.jobs could be lost. Wages could be hit by up to ?2000
:10:25. > :10:27.and growth in the Just along the Clyde
:10:28. > :10:30.in the Riverside Museum, Scottish voters have their own ideas
:10:31. > :10:33.about what Nicola Sturgeon Work on getting us
:10:34. > :10:39.independence from England. The people of Scotland voted to stay
:10:40. > :10:43.in the UK and the people of the UK There is not much we can do
:10:44. > :10:52.about Brexit now, but you have to make sure you have a good NHS and
:10:53. > :10:55.you've got a good education system. If voters think that making plans
:10:56. > :10:58.for another vote on independence means the Scottish Government might
:10:59. > :11:00.neglect the country's schools or hospitals,
:11:01. > :11:01.that certainly won't help them The battle over the cost
:11:02. > :11:13.of Brexit between Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco,
:11:14. > :11:17.and the consumer goods Unilever had wanted to push up
:11:18. > :11:21.the price of its products, like Marmite and Pot Noodle,
:11:22. > :11:24.because of the sharp fall in the value of the pound,
:11:25. > :11:27.following the vote to leave the EU. This evening, both companies said
:11:28. > :11:29.the situation had been resolved. As our Economics Editor,
:11:30. > :11:31.Kamal Ahmed reports, there may be more
:11:32. > :11:42.price hikes to come. Tonight, a sort of uneasy peace.
:11:43. > :11:52.Tesco and Unilever demanded that price rises by the maker of mar
:11:53. > :11:57.giet, Ben Jerries... They reached a truce.
:11:58. > :12:01.What we are seeing here is a supermarket in the UK, and an
:12:02. > :12:05.importer in the UK, arguing over who is going to accept the cost to them
:12:06. > :12:10.of the falling pound. Neither of them really want to pass it on to
:12:11. > :12:16.customers if they can avoid it but they don't want to absorb it into
:12:17. > :12:21.their own pocket. Unilever's claim was simple, it is Koss us more to
:12:22. > :12:28.import goods we need higher prices from Tesco to compensate. Tesco said
:12:29. > :12:34.no and suddenly some of the famous brands disappeared from test Joe
:12:35. > :12:39.online. This has been a PR coup for Tesco. I'm told it was Unilever that
:12:40. > :12:43.backed down. It is not just anner a ultimate between a supplier of
:12:44. > :12:48.Marmite and a very big supermarket i.s implications go far wider. Yes,
:12:49. > :12:52.we import a lot of food but we also import a lot of other things, like
:12:53. > :12:57.fuel and there, prices are already starting to rise. We could be on a
:12:58. > :13:03.new road towards inflation, price rises shall as what Britain imports
:13:04. > :13:06.becomes more expensive. In the 1970s, inflation approached 30% and
:13:07. > :13:12.since then, has been on a gradual downward march. After the financial
:13:13. > :13:22.crisis, the economy slowed so rapidly, inflation dipped below 0%.
:13:23. > :13:25.But with sterling falling in value, many economists believe inflation
:13:26. > :13:29.could be up as high as 3% by the end of next year. Ultimately there maybe
:13:30. > :13:32.inflation coming into the UK economy, and that means the
:13:33. > :13:35.Government has to redouble its efforts to invest in infrastructure
:13:36. > :13:39.to counter that effect. This they can do that, if we can find other
:13:40. > :13:42.ways to grow, then that will more than offset any of the problems that
:13:43. > :13:47.might be caused by inflation coming threw from Brexit. He says stopping
:13:48. > :13:50.the jams and investing in major projects like road improvements will
:13:51. > :13:53.boost the economy and if the economy is strong, then wage growth is
:13:54. > :13:56.strong. That makes inflation less damaging.
:13:57. > :14:07.And we could be doing a lot more of this...
:14:08. > :14:10.A 1990s campaign for Made in Britain, suddenly appealing again as
:14:11. > :14:12.imports become more expensive. Speaking today, the Government
:14:13. > :14:16.insisted the economy is strong. There are a whole host of things
:14:17. > :14:20.that companies are looking at, in terms of their investments. I think
:14:21. > :14:24.what's really encouraging for all of us, is that since the date on 23rd
:14:25. > :14:31.June, we've continued to see strong investment into the UK.
:14:32. > :14:34.No price rises yet for these shoppers but the battle between
:14:35. > :14:39.Tesco and Unilever is a sign of something much larger. If inflation
:14:40. > :14:41.does rise, that will bring the effect of the fall in the pound into
:14:42. > :14:44.everyone's living room. There are safety concerns
:14:45. > :14:46.about two-thirds of A departments in hospitals in England,
:14:47. > :14:48.according to the watchdog, the Care It's blaming the crisis in care
:14:49. > :14:53.in A mainly on a lack of care for the elderly, which is causing
:14:54. > :14:56.a rise in emergency admissions It's a view echoed by England's most
:14:57. > :15:01.senior emergency doctor who says the NHS is on its knees and parts
:15:02. > :15:04."will implode" this winter. I'm one of the emergency doctors
:15:05. > :15:13.here, how are you doing? Another challenging day
:15:14. > :15:20.at the Queen's Hospital in Romford. It has one of the biggest emergency
:15:21. > :15:22.departments in the country and there's no
:15:23. > :15:25.respite, no let up. We have vast numbers of patients
:15:26. > :15:36.coming in through the doors. In a place like this,
:15:37. > :15:39.we can see up to 600, The numbers are definitely
:15:40. > :15:43.a big issue, shall I say. The last CQC inspection here said
:15:44. > :15:46.the department needed to improve But more patients,
:15:47. > :15:51.many old and frail, The Queen's Hospital
:15:52. > :15:58.here in Romford is not alone. The latest CQC report shows that
:15:59. > :16:01.a rising demand in services and very tight budgets means hundreds
:16:02. > :16:03.of hospitals across England Today's report looks at the state
:16:04. > :16:11.of care across the health and social Nearly two thirds of A units
:16:12. > :16:17.were judged to be inadequate or requiring improvement
:16:18. > :16:19.when it comes to safety. And hospitals are seeing
:16:20. > :16:24.many more older people. Admissions of those over-85 have
:16:25. > :16:26.increased by one third But there has also been a 26% drop
:16:27. > :16:31.in the number of older people getting care from councils over
:16:32. > :16:36.the past four years. People who should be getting adult
:16:37. > :16:42.social care are either not getting a service or they are presenting
:16:43. > :16:45.to the NHS, or we see Accident Emergency attendances up,
:16:46. > :16:47.emergency referrals being up and particularly older people
:16:48. > :16:56.delayed in hospital. This could be part of the answer
:16:57. > :16:59.is easing the pressure on hospitals. Granby hub in Liverpool offers care
:17:00. > :17:02.to those like Ellen McNaught, who was well enough to be discharged
:17:03. > :17:05.from hospital but even too frail What was meant to be
:17:06. > :17:10.a four-week stay for Ellen has I need two carers at least to use
:17:11. > :17:18.this equipment and help me. So, other people probably
:17:19. > :17:24.need the same. You know, we just can't get carers,
:17:25. > :17:27.so we are taken to a place like this where people can come in and get
:17:28. > :17:30.that little bit of respite The Department of Health says
:17:31. > :17:34.the system is coping well, given the pressures,
:17:35. > :17:37.but leading doctors point to waiting times in A E this summer that
:17:38. > :17:40.were worse than in During these winter months
:17:41. > :17:45.we are going to see extreme pressure on hospitals and I think
:17:46. > :17:48.we could see hospitals falling over as we face
:17:49. > :17:52.the winter pressures. The picture today is one of a system
:17:53. > :17:55.that's on the edge. Bob Dylan has won the Nobel
:17:56. > :18:02.Prize for Literature. It's the first time -
:18:03. > :18:05.in 115 years of the prize - that the award has been
:18:06. > :18:08.given to a musician. The legendary singer-songwriter now
:18:09. > :18:11.ranks alongside former winners and giants of literature such
:18:12. > :18:16.as Hemingway, Steinbeck and Sartre. Dylan was awarded the accolade
:18:17. > :18:18.for having created "new poetic expressions within the great
:18:19. > :18:20.American song tradition". Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz has
:18:21. > :18:23.the story. # Johnny's in the basement
:18:24. > :18:26.mixing up the medicine #. As Bob Dylan said himself,
:18:27. > :18:31.he has a way with words. His lyrics have been sung,
:18:32. > :18:33.quoted and discussed the world over, and today it earned him
:18:34. > :18:40.the Nobel Prize for literature. For having created new poetic
:18:41. > :18:50.expressions within the great You got a sense of the
:18:51. > :18:58.austere Swedish Academy was stepping out of its
:18:59. > :18:59.literary comfort zone. Does Bob Dylan really
:19:00. > :19:01.deserve the Nobel prize? There was, though, advice
:19:02. > :19:09.for the uninitiated. If you want to start listening
:19:10. > :19:12.or reading, you may start with Blonde on Blonde,
:19:13. > :19:16.the album from 1966. an extraordinary example
:19:17. > :19:23.of his brilliant way of rhyming and putting together refrains
:19:24. > :19:25.and his pictorial Bob Dylan's position as an iconic
:19:26. > :19:35.musician who helped elevate the status of pop music from an
:19:36. > :19:40.ephemeral disposable entertainment into a bona fide artform
:19:41. > :19:45.is well-established. # The answer my friend
:19:46. > :19:48.is blowing in the wind # The answer is blowing
:19:49. > :19:51.in the wind #. Becoming a Nobel laureate
:19:52. > :19:53.takes him into another realm, to join an elite group
:19:54. > :19:56.of the world's greatest literary writers from novelist
:19:57. > :19:59.Alice Munro to the late poet TS His work is timeless and it's
:20:00. > :20:03.gonna reverberate for not just years or decades -
:20:04. > :20:06.for centuries. And in that I do think
:20:07. > :20:09.it is incredibly valid. That he gets the Nobel Prize
:20:10. > :20:11.for This is not someone that is a song
:20:12. > :20:15.and dance man although he Do you think of yourself
:20:16. > :20:24.as a singer or a poet? I think of myself more as a song
:20:25. > :20:27.and dance man, you know. Adele wasn't even born when he said
:20:28. > :20:32.that yet here she is like so many # When the evening shadows
:20:33. > :20:40.and the stars appear #. Bob Dylan like Shakespeare
:20:41. > :20:44.has that knack for coining a phrase that becomes
:20:45. > :20:46.part of everyday speech. He has his own literary voice,
:20:47. > :20:50.his own sense of meter and rhyme, He is a contemporary chronicler,
:20:51. > :20:55.storyteller, moralist and poet whose work and words have
:20:56. > :20:59.changed attitudes and lives. The new elected head
:21:00. > :21:07.of the United Nations has said with so many conflicts around
:21:08. > :21:09.the globe, we are facing a very difficult moment
:21:10. > :21:12.in the history of our world. Antonio Guterres, a former prime
:21:13. > :21:15.minister of Portugal, said the conflict in Syria
:21:16. > :21:17.is "breaking his heart" and that But with the city of Aleppo plunged
:21:18. > :21:23.into some of the worst violence in the country's
:21:24. > :21:27.five year civil war, what can the UN -
:21:28. > :21:29.and Mr Guterres - do? He's been speaking to our
:21:30. > :21:31.Chief International The world's most powerful club,
:21:32. > :21:35.tasked with ending the world's most For five long years,
:21:36. > :21:45.the UN utterly failed Syria. On its watch, millions displaced
:21:46. > :21:47.or dead, a Now, a new man to take
:21:48. > :22:00.on what's called the most Antonio Guterres,
:22:01. > :22:03.former Portuguese Prime For years he berated the world
:22:04. > :22:11.to do more for refugees. Because the Syrians
:22:12. > :22:13.deserve much more. Now he must focus on stopping
:22:14. > :22:15.the wars But as he gives his
:22:16. > :22:23.first interview, some, including Britain's Foreign
:22:24. > :22:25.Secretary, say there is more talk of The role of the Secretary
:22:26. > :22:31.General is to try to be an honest broker,
:22:32. > :22:33.it's to try to be a messenger for peace,
:22:34. > :22:35.it's to Do you fear more war,
:22:36. > :22:43.that there will be I hope not, I sincerely hope
:22:44. > :22:48.not, because we have seen such a terrible
:22:49. > :22:50.level of suffering, seen such a terrible level
:22:51. > :22:53.of suffering, to think this will I believe that it is
:22:54. > :22:57.the international community's first priority to be able
:22:58. > :23:00.to end this conflict. momentum created by it
:23:01. > :23:03.to try to address all the other conflicts
:23:04. > :23:04.that The biggest of barriers,
:23:05. > :23:09.the deeply divided UN It showed rare unity
:23:10. > :23:12.backing Mr Guterres for the Russia's top diplomat tells me,
:23:13. > :23:18.don't expect change in the US's most Russia's top diplomat tells me,
:23:19. > :23:21.don't expect change in the UN's most You cannot do much about
:23:22. > :23:24.the security council. He is not in charge
:23:25. > :23:26.of the Security Council. The Security Council's
:23:27. > :23:27.in charge of itself and unfortunately
:23:28. > :23:30.on some issues there are very dramatic contradictions
:23:31. > :23:36.which cannot be breached. Today, from the US,
:23:37. > :23:40.call for Mr Guterres to strengthen this house.
:23:41. > :23:43.The countries of the world here reflecting, I believe,
:23:44. > :23:48.the longings and the urgent needs of our citizens,
:23:49. > :23:50.are calling on the UN and, by extension, the Secretary
:23:51. > :23:54.General, to do more than this institution has ever done before.
:23:55. > :24:00.71 years ago the UN emerged from the ashes
:24:01. > :24:02.of war with a promise of
:24:03. > :24:06.Competing interests shaped it from the start.
:24:07. > :24:09.They are all backing Mr Guterres now, but he knows big
:24:10. > :24:19.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:24:20. > :24:21.The Nigerian government says that 21 schoolgirls -
:24:22. > :24:23.kidnapped more than two years ago by Islamist militants -
:24:24. > :24:27.Boko Haram abducted more than 270 girls from a school in Chibok,
:24:28. > :24:33.The government has denied four imprisoned militants
:24:34. > :24:39.Figures from the Home Office show a sharp rise in reports of hate
:24:40. > :24:47.The statistics - from police forces in England and Wales -
:24:48. > :24:49.show a 41% increase in offences in July -
:24:50. > :24:53.A high court case has begun about whether the government needs
:24:54. > :24:55.Parliament's approval to leave the European Union.
:24:56. > :24:58.One of the lead claimants is investment fund manager
:24:59. > :25:02.Gina Miller, who wanted the UK to stay in the EU.
:25:03. > :25:08.The government called it an attempt to stifle the will of the people.
:25:09. > :25:10.A gorilla is safely back in its enclosure after escaping
:25:11. > :25:15.Visitors were locked inside cafes while armed police were called
:25:16. > :25:19.The zoo said the gorilla - called Kumbuka -
:25:20. > :25:26.He was tranquilised and returned to his enclosure.
:25:27. > :25:28.The world's longest reigning monarch, the king of Thailand,
:25:29. > :25:35.It's prompted an outpouring of grief across the country.
:25:36. > :25:39.Revered as the father of the nation, the king is considered by many Thai
:25:40. > :25:42.The country will now observe a period of mourning
:25:43. > :25:50.His death means the Queen is now the world's longest serving monarch.
:25:51. > :25:54.Our South Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head reports from Bangkok.
:25:55. > :25:57.It was a moment everyone here knew was coming but few
:25:58. > :26:08.The long-expected announcement from the palace, that the king
:26:09. > :26:13.who had reigned and inspired them for 70 years, had died.
:26:14. > :26:18.Still the cry went out - "Long live the king."
:26:19. > :26:28.Well, we've seen an intensely emotional reaction here to the news
:26:29. > :26:36.The unquestioned reverence to the monarchy in Thailand is not
:26:37. > :26:39.what it was, but the emotional bond that people across this country
:26:40. > :26:42.feel, to a man they still refer to as "Father of the nation",
:26:43. > :26:52.His death will leave an enormous void, one which may well have
:26:53. > :26:58.consequences for this country's political stability.
:26:59. > :27:00.He'd acceded to the throne when the monarchy was
:27:01. > :27:05.weak and Thailand an undeveloped rural country.
:27:06. > :27:08.But by allying himself with
:27:09. > :27:10.a succession of military governments, he rebuilt the
:27:11. > :27:15.Tapping into Thai traditions of semidivine
:27:16. > :27:22.Yet he was passionately interested in rural development,
:27:23. > :27:26.travelling extensively to promote his own projects.
:27:27. > :27:32.During the Cold War he used his royal stature to
:27:33. > :27:35.help shore up the central government against a tenacious Communist
:27:36. > :27:41.He is credited with mediating several political crises.
:27:42. > :27:44.Yet later in his reign the monarchy was accused of taking sides in
:27:45. > :27:51.By the time of his death he had been out of public sight for
:27:52. > :27:58.Yet many Thais remember him as the ruler that brought them
:27:59. > :28:11.She's the poster girl of British track and field, a World Champion,
:28:12. > :28:14.Olympic champion at London 2012 and she won silver
:28:15. > :28:17.at Rio this year - but today Jessica Ennis Hill
:28:18. > :28:22.announced her retirement from athletics.
:28:23. > :28:24.The heptathlete said she'd made some 'amazing memories'
:28:25. > :28:37.Jessica Ennis-Hill has packed more into her career than most of us
:28:38. > :28:40.could dream of but she knows now is the time to say goodbye.
:28:41. > :28:56.She'd already been the heptathlon World Champion but London 2012
:28:57. > :29:02.On Super Saturday the nation held its breath as Ennis-Hill
:29:03. > :29:04.cemented her status as its poster girl.
:29:05. > :29:09.COMMENTATOR: Jessica Ennis is the Olympic champion.
:29:10. > :29:12.It catapulted her into a world of celebrity, and, of course,
:29:13. > :29:17.After the Olympics, though, came a different challenge,
:29:18. > :29:21.becoming a wife and then mother to son, Reggie,
:29:22. > :29:24.yet she came back to become World Champion again last year,
:29:25. > :29:27.and in Rio a silver medal made the tears flow as she
:29:28. > :29:33.You know, I've got to go away now and make a big
:29:34. > :29:40.These years have been amazing, just really proud.
:29:41. > :29:43.Those who know the pressure of competing at the highest level
:29:44. > :29:46.understand why she's bowed out at the very top.
:29:47. > :29:49.This was the scene of her greatest triumph and fans were hoping to see
:29:50. > :29:52.more of her next year when London hosts the World
:29:53. > :29:58.But those who competed under the same pressure,
:29:59. > :30:02.say they understand why she bowed out at the very top.
:30:03. > :30:04.She's achieved something that most athletes only ever dream about.
:30:05. > :30:09.Now she has the next however many years ahead,
:30:10. > :30:10.hopefully being inspirational, supportive and motivational
:30:11. > :30:19.Humble, hard working but fiercely determined, Ennis-Hill will go down
:30:20. > :30:25.in British sporting history, as the ultimate all-rounder.
:30:26. > :30:39.Tonight a Syrian refugee who moved to Britain on trial for sexual
:30:40. > :30:43.assault. Newsnight has followed him and his family for a year and is
:30:44. > :30:45.with them as the verdict comes through. Join me on BBC 11pm in
:30:46. > :30:46.Scotland.