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After months of fighting, the Islamic State group is now | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
battling for survival - in both Iraq and Syria. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
We report from the front line in Mosul, the Iraqi city | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
where the "global caliphate" was declared three years ago. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
This is the final push forward against the so-called islamic state. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
It's a gruelling advance here in the heat and the dust. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
This battle has dragged on for more than eight months. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
And in Syria, where US forces are supporting the fight, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
IS is under siege in the city of Raqqa. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
But the question is - what happens when the caliphate falls? | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Because, as we know from Afghanistan and Iraq, | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
it's always easier to get in, than it is to get out. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
We'll have the very latest on the fight against IS, | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
as military experts say that their forces are trapped. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
The judge who'll lead the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
fire visits the site, as local people express their fears. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Whether he will get to the bottom of who was responsible for causing | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
the fire in the first place, is a different matter and that's | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
the one that's really concerning residents at present. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
The ayes have it, the ayes have it. Unlock. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
By a majority of 14, the Commons approves the Queen's Speech, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
and two years of the Government's legislative plans. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
One of the most powerful figures in the Catholic Church, | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Cardinal George Pell, will return to Australia to deny | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy all of Sky is likely to be referred | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
And - we have the findings of a major new study | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
into the effects of pesticides on bees. | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Despite a heavy fall, Johanna Konta recovers to underline her | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Wimbledon credentials, with victory over the world No.1, | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
Angelique Kerber, in the quarterfinals of Eastbourne. | :02:07. | :02:27. | |
After months of relentless fighting, the Islamic State group | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
is facing defeat in Mosul - its last big powerbase in Iraq. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Government forces say they're finally set | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
It is three years ago to the day that so-called Islamic State | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
in Mosul declared a "global caliphate". | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Back then, IS controlled vast regions of Iraq | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Now, after prolonged battles and countless military offensives | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
in both countries, IS has been pushed back | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
to the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
In both places, they are now surrounded and | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
We'll be reporting from Syria in a moment, but first this report | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
from our correspondent Orla Guerin, and cameraman Nicolas Hameon | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Covering fire, as troops dart into position. | :03:13. | :03:24. | |
We joined them, pushing forward but keeping low. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
They can see his hiding place, and he can see them. | :03:29. | :03:37. | |
A heavily armed brigade from Iraq's emergency response division, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
But they manage to press on across the rubble | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
of a hospital complex, treacherous terrain, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
closing in on the last remaining IS fighters. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
"Please warn unit two that those IS guys are on the move", he says. | :04:01. | :04:18. | |
"Thank god we don't have any injuries now". | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
A coalition air strike adding to the embers of battle. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
This is the final push forward against the so-called Islamic State. | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
It's a gruelling advance here in the heat and the dust. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
This battle has dragged on for more than eight months. | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
We've just been told that three IS fighters have fled | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
from the building right in front of us. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
It is clear that most of the militants who remain | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
But so will the troops who are determined to bury | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
the Islamic State where it was born, in Mosul. | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
Iraq has paid a high price for this battle, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
TRANSLATION: We lost many martyrs here, all of them young. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
I miss them, their families miss them, and the country misses them, | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
but they didn't die for nothing - they died for this country. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
And today, another fallen soldier carried from the battlefield, | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
after troops reached what's left of the al-Nuri Mosque, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
It was here the IS leader proclaimed himself "ruler of all Muslims". | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
The liberation of Mosul may be at hand, but it | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Mohammed Abdul Karim was held at this makeshift IS prison, | :05:42. | :05:53. | |
right behind his own house, just for repairing mobiles. | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
TRANSLATION: They brought a prisoner here and tied him to a tree. | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Then they brought two electric cables and shocked | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
He told us that man was one of two he witnessed | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
Mosul is emerging from the shadows after three long years of tyranny. | :06:26. | :06:35. | |
The caliphate now lies in ruins where it was declared, | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
but the IS ideology has long since spread from here, | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
bringing anguish to cities, including London and Manchester. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
In this battle of our times, there are many front lines. | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
As we mentioned, across the border in Syria, so-called Islamic State | :06:55. | :07:06. | |
Its fighters there are under heavy siege in the city of Raqqa, | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
surrounded by a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters, backed | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
already preparing for life after the defeat of IS. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
Our correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse, who's north of Raqqa, | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
If and when Raqqa falls, it will be thanks in large part | :07:26. | :07:37. | |
to the American military and their allies, including | :07:38. | :07:38. | |
This is their main logistics hub, an airstrip cut | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
discreetly into a hillside somewhere north of Raqqa. | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
From this base, they support their own forces and arm the SDF, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
the coalition of Arabs and Kurds who are leading | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
All of this infrastructure has gone up in a really short space | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
of time, and it has coincided with rapid advances | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
But the question is, what happens when the caliphate falls? | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
As we know from Afghanistan and from Iraq, it's always easier | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Already, they are looking to a future post caliphate. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Here to meet local leaders in waiting, the US envoy. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
The American presence here has been growing quietly. | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
If you look at the record to date, we have now coalition backed | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
operations in Iraq and Syria which have cleared out 60,000 square | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
We have liberated over 4 million people. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
As the coalition advances into Raqqa, families are fleeing. | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
All lived under the harsh rule of the group that calls | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
One corner of the camp is reserved for the wives | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
This woman left Lebanon for Raqqa two years ago | :08:58. | :09:07. | |
When he was killed, she married a Tunisian and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
so joined the ranks of a relatively privileged group, the wives of | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
We challenged her on the treatment of sex slaves at the hands | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
TRANSLATION: The men were spending their money on sex lives. | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
They bought them the best make-up, clothes and accessories. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
American troops in Syria number in the hundreds. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
Their special forces are involved in the fighting on the | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
Their planes bombing Raqqa from the air. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
When Mosul is liberated or Iraq is liberated, | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
there is a lot of hard work left to do. | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
I asked the general if he knew the whereabouts of Abu Bakr | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
al-Baghdadi, the self-declared leader of the caliphate. | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
If you know, please tell me and we will kill him forthright. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
At least once a month, we have someone | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Reports from the front line today suggest | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
that US backed forces have Raqqa surrounded. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
But as we learned in Mosul, capturing the city itself | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
will likely prove a long, hard fight. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
The fall of Raqqa will effectively mean the end of the caliphate but it | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
won't necessarily mean the end of IS or its ideology. It definitely won't | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
mean the end of the conflict in Syria. Remember, apart from the | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Americans, Turkey is deeply involved here, as of course is Russia. For | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the moment, they are all sort of United in a common enemy, but when | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
the Islamic State goes, what we're left with is this big powers backing | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
opposing sides in an unfinished war. Already earlier this month we saw | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
the United States fighter jet shoot down a Syrian aeroplane that | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
belonged to the Russian backed regime in Damascus. The potential | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
for further confrontation is very real indeed. | :11:11. | :11:10. | |
Thank you very much for the latest from Syria. | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
The judge appointed to lead the inquiry | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
into the Grenfell Tower tragedy has promised to leave | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
no stone unturned, as he tries to get to the truth | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, a retired Appeal Court judge, | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
has been asked by the Prime Minister to produce an interim report | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
But Sir Martin has said that he is "doubtful" the process | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
will be as wide-ranging as some residents hope. | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds reports. | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Our reputation is absolutely in the gutter. | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
Kensington and Chelsea was forced to abandon a meeting this evening, | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Councillors decided they weren't prepared to speak freely, | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
their lawyers had warned it could even interfere | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
An inquiry which will be led by a senior judge. | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
His background already scrutinised by the Government, | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
I've never seen anything like that building, which is now completely | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
gutted so that you can see through it in many places. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
I'm absolutely determined that this inquiry will be open and full | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
and will cover all the ground, so that we reach conclusions that | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
are reliable and can prevent anything like this happening again. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
The Chairman, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, was born in Wales and went | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
to Christ's College Cambridge before becoming a barrister. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
He was appointed to the High Court as a judge of 1995, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
hearing commercial cases, and to the Court of Appeal, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
the second-highest court in England and Wales, in 2005. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
People here are desperate for answers. | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
The Prime Minister has said she would like an interim | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Today, the judge said that could include details | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
of how the fire started, why it spread so fast, | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
But, he said, even that could take up to a year. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
After all, the remit of the inquiry has still to be | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
The cause of the fire will clearly be a core topic, | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
but that could involve delving deep into the regulations | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
governing tower block safety, and the pressure to examine social | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
and political causes is unlikely to go away. | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Well, I've had a brief conversation with some of the residents... | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
He spent several hours listening to the views | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
of survivors and local people, but already he and they appear | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
to have different views of the inquiry's aims. | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
He may certainly get to the bottom of, you know, | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
what caused the fire to spread so quickly. | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Whether he will get to the bottom of who is responsible for causing | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
the fire in the first place, is a different matter, | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
and that's the one that's really concerning residents at present. | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
We want a wider inquiry, the one that would include | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
So basically, the attitude towards people. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
There's a feeling around the tower that he should examine | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
whether warnings about fire safety were ignored because | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
Whether my inquiry is the right way in which to achieve that, | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
I'm more doubtful, and I'll give that some thought and in due course | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
But there may be other ways in which that desire | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
for an investigation can be satisfied, otherwise | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
than through the work that I'm going to do. | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
So you may not be able to give them the very wide inquiry | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Local people will be consulted about the inquiry's remit, | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
but the chairman will have to keep their support. | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
Inquiries like this can go wrong - the child abuse inquiry | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
Women from Northern Ireland will no longer have to pay for abortions | :14:46. | :14:57. | |
The concession was made by ministers to avoid | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
a Conservative rebellion in votes on the Queen's Speech. | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
The Government's legislative programme | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
for the coming two years was eventually passed by a majority | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
The majority was gained with the support of | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
the Democratic Unionists, as our political editor | :15:15. | :15:16. | |
The Prime Minister, on the red carpets of Europe. | :15:17. | :15:25. | |
Everyone in a good mood, her German colleague says. | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
To avoid being humbled by the House of Commons, | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
Ministers had to make a last-minute promise that women | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
from Northern Ireland who go to England for abortions | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Intends to intervene to fund abortions in England for women | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
It is welcome that the Government is now saying they will | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
However, he will know, as everybody know, the devil | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
And ministers had to do that billion pound deal with the DUP | :16:04. | :16:16. | |
to get their numbers, to fury, even on their own side. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
I can barely put into words my anger at the deal my party | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
What is grubby about money being put into the infrastructure | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
Money going into the health service of Northern Ireland? | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
The Prime Minister returned this afternoon to help pass the vote | :16:33. | :16:44. | |
to improve her government's programme, stripped of its most | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
And then out at the front to face the opposition's main complaint. | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
It cannot ensure that when people go to work, | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
It can't maintain our public services. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
That's a government that doesn't deserve to remain in office. | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
I do not see, Mr Speaker, how the nations of the UK can cope | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
with the drastic economic hit that will come as a result of Brexit. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
Is there a determination to stand up to the most powerful, | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
To coin a phrase, the answer is no, no, no. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
But Labour itself faced embarrassment. | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
Nearly 50 of this number defied the leadership, | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
voting for a Brexit amendment that failed, with three shadow ministers | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Yet it was the Government that was repeatedly on the back foot. | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
..Taking the hard decisions that will set Britain on course to seize | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
the prizes and achieve a brighter global future. | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
The case that, in the end, had its way. | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
But tonight and for some time, wins that will be cobbled together. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
No sign of cruising to any victories. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
You could almost hear the sighs of relief from Number Ten. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Had it been defeated, this fragile administration | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
Yet with no overall majority and less authority, ministers know | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
that even as they win tonight, it is Parliament and not | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
the Prime Minister that can really show its power in the months ahead. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Parliament. | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
Some campaign groups in Northern Ireland have | :18:32. | :18:32. | |
welcomed the decision to offer free access | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
Among them are many women who've travelled to other parts | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
of the UK in the past, where they've had to | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Page has more on today's reaction. | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
We said pro-choice, they say no choice! | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Abortion may be an intensely personal issue, | :18:57. | :18:57. | |
but in Northern Ireland, it's also highly controversial. | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
Strong campaign groups push for the law to be changed, | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
and others passionately defend the status quo. | :19:03. | :19:03. | |
Every week, women go across the Irish Sea to | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Four years ago, the BBC filmed Sarah as she went to England | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Her baby wasn't expected to survive birth because of | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
She says today's decision will make a difference | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
It's a good thing that we're now going to get it in hospitals | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
across the water instead of a clinic. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
But at the same time, if it's OK for us to go over | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
there and have it on the NHS, it should be OK for us to have | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
it here with medicals in our own hospitals. | :19:41. | :19:42. | |
I was lucky to have family and friends that were able | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
Last year, doctors carried out 16 abortions in Northern Ireland | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
But 724 women travelled to have a termination in England. | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
The Government believes the new arrangement will cost | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
But at Stormont, there is no political consensus about | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
So some organisations have tried to bring change through the courts. | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
In 2015, a judge ruled that abortion law here breached | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
the European Convention on Human Rights. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
But just today, the ruling was overturned after an appeal. | :20:21. | :20:22. | |
Pro-life campaigners have welcomed that decision, | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
but criticised the one made by the Government. | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
Absolutely disappointed, totally outraged. | :20:29. | :20:29. | |
In some way, we would hope we can overturn this | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
We won't stop until every unborn child in Northern | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Neither side in this debate expected the news from Westminster today. | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
It adds a new dimension to an emotive ethical argument | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Staying with Northern Ireland, yet another deadline has passed | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
to set up a new power-sharing executive, and yet another | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
Downing Street says talks between Sinn Fein | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
and the Democratic Unionists will continue until Monday. | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
If there's no agreement by then, there could be a return to direct | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
Our Ireland correspondent Chris Buckler is at Stormont. | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
How do you see the prospects of some kind of agreement by Monday? It is | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
worth mentioning that time and time again, Westminster had made clear | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
that four o'clock this afternoon was the final deadline for a deal. This | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
evening, Stormont still has no government and the DUP and Sinn Fein | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
remained deeply divided on a range of issues, particularly Sinn Fein's | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
demand for legislation that would give official status to the Irish | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
language. Despite warning of serious consequences, this evening the | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Northern Ireland's Secretary James Brokenshire has given the parties | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
the weekend to try to find a compromise. But on Monday, he will | :21:52. | :22:08. | |
have to take action because a lack of government here is starting to | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
have consequences. Decisions are not being taken. There are implications | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
for budget and public spending. However, the reality is that he has | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
only a few options. Technically, he should call for elections or have | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Westminster step in to take over the running of Northern Ireland for a | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
time. But he may well simply try to extend the time for talks. The DUP | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
and Sinn Fein both said there are still the possibility of a deal, | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
although they both say that is on the basis that the other party gives | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
up ground. They have been saying similar things since January, when | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
power-sharing first collapsed. Chris Buckler, our Ireland correspondent. | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
One of the most powerful figures in the Roman Catholic Church, | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
Cardinal George Pell, has said he will defend himself | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
The former Archbishop of Sydney and Melbourne said that he'd | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
suffered a relentless character assassination and was looking | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
forward to having his day in court in his native Australia. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
Cardinal Pell is the Vatican Treasurer and one | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
Our religious affairs correspondent Martin Bashir is in Rome tonight. | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
Yes, today was meant to be dominated by a solemn ceremony as the Pope | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
presided at the feast of Saint Peter and Take That Paul, whose ministry | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
and martyrdom helped establish the Church -- Saint Peter and St Paul. | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
But as the Cardinals gathered in Saint Peter's square behind me, one | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
senior official was surprisingly absent. | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
A public holiday for the people and for Pope Francis, | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
an opportunity to celebrate Mass with several new cardinals. | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
But one of his most trusted officials, effectively the head | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
of the Vatican's vast property portfolio and finances, was not | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
administering the sacraments, but facing the press after becoming | :23:49. | :23:50. | |
the highest ranking Vatican official to be charged | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
The alleged offences relate to an ongoing inquiry back | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
in Cardinal Pell's native Australia into instances of historical | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
The whole idea of sexual abuse is abhorrent to me. | :24:00. | :24:15. | |
Cardinal Pell had been Archbishop of Melbourne during the 1990s, | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
where hundreds of individuals claimed to have been | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
He was interviewed by the inquiry last year via video link. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Several survivors travelled from Melbourne to witness his testimony. | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
Then, in the early hours of this morning, came this. | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
of historic sexual offences, and there are multiple complainants | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
Pope Francis has prioritised the issue of child sexual abuse, | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
setting up a commission for the protection of children. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
But one member who resigned earlier this year says | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the institution itself is reluctant to change. | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
"Why should we change? There's no need to change. | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
That attitude of complacency has to go. | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
In his homily today, Pope Francis asked his hearers | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
if they were people who just talk about their faith, | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
but do not display the marks of godliness in their daily lives - | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
a question that Cardinal Pell will have to answer | :25:23. | :25:24. | |
It's 20 years since Hong Kong ceased to be a British territory | :25:25. | :25:37. | |
and was transferred to Chinese sovereignty. | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
To mark the anniversary, President Xi of China has | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
visited the territory amid high levels of security, | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
given the prospect of protests by democracy campaigners. | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
Our China editor Carrie Gracie has been meeting some of those young | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
people born in the year of the handover. | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
Hong Kong's patriots greet their president and First Lady. | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Flags, but no umbrellas allowed, because umbrellas | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
He said he'd come to support Hong Kong. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
That's not how democracy activists see it, | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
occupying a monument that China presented | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
One student insisted on her freedom to protest as she was arrested. | :26:23. | :26:32. | |
Hours earlier, she had illustrated her feelings | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
But she's no longer optimistic about what protest can achieve. | :26:35. | :27:06. | |
Another Hong Konger, born in the year of the handover. | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
This coffee shop barista and freestyle footballer | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
In one of the world's most unaffordable cities, | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
he resents the people from mainland China who he says | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
To find a 20-year-old who's celebrating this week, | :27:26. | :27:46. | |
Sunny Tan is a student here, but she grew up in China | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
and from an early age was taught to be proud of her country. | :27:54. | :28:11. | |
This vigil, calling for the release of a political dissident, | :28:12. | :28:24. | |
would be impossible anywhere else in China. | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
Only Hong Kong has the freedom to protest, which is what makes it | :28:28. | :28:33. | |
so special, but what also makes it a thorn in China's side. | :28:34. | :28:36. | |
The culture secretary Karen Bradley says she intends to refer | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
of Sky television to the competition authorities | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
because of concerns about his "increased influence" | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
Mr Murdoch's company, 21st Century Fox, wants | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
to acquire the 61% of Sky it doesn't already own. | :28:59. | :29:00. | |
The company says it's disappointed by the announcement, as our media | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
Rupert Murdoch pioneered satellite TV in Britain. | :29:04. | :29:14. | |
After transforming our newspaper market, his move into pay-TV nearly | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
30 years ago with Sky made him the country's first | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
Six years ago, he withdrew his bid for full control of the broadcaster | :29:20. | :29:27. | |
because of the phone hacking scandal, which led to the closure | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
On the question of whether the merger... | :29:31. | :29:33. | |
Today in Parliament, it was concerns about his | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
power and influence that | :29:36. | :29:36. | |
led to his latest bid being referred to the competition watchdog. | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
It concludes, "The transaction raises public interest concerns | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
as a result of the risk of increased influence by members of the Murdoch | :29:46. | :29:48. | |
family trust over the UK news agenda and the political process | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
with its unique presence on radio, television, in print and online." | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
Here is why the Murdochs are so desperate for this | :29:58. | :30:00. | |
Digital giants like Amazon and Netflix are pushing another | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
revolution in viewing habits by investing billions in programmes. | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
So the Murdochs want full access to Sky customers in crucial markets | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
With these 22 million subscribers across Europe, James Murdoch, | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
the son of Rupert and chairman of Sky, thinks that the family | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
The Murdoch family obviously have traditionally been very powerful | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
in newspapers, but of course what has happened | :30:28. | :30:29. | |
is that newspapers have become steadily less and less influential. | :30:30. | :30:33. | |
We are now moving into a world where newspaper circulations | :30:34. | :30:35. | |
are falling steadily and more and more people are going to get | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
their news from places like Google and the social media companies | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
As I have said to a number of other witnesses... | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
But the Murdochs are nothing if not divisive. | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
Alleged victims of their tabloid papers argue that the second stage | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
of the Levenson enquiry, which promised to scrutinise | :30:55. | :30:56. | |
James Murdoch's corporate leadership, but was dropped | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
in the Tory manifesto, is needed before this | :31:00. | :31:01. | |
It is in the newspapers' interests not to have the other | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
part of the Leveson, they don't want their dirty washing | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
out in public, they don't want us to see the double-dealing. | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
Fox say they are pleased Ofcom deemed them fit and proper to hold | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
a broadcasting licence and that they will work | :31:19. | :31:20. | |
But with his enemies energised and new phone hacking trials due | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
to begin in October, Murdoch's Fox faces an anxious wait. | :31:25. | :31:32. | |
Scientists have this evening released the findings | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
of a major new study into the effects of | :31:35. | :31:36. | |
The investigation, involving three countries including the UK, | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
focused on the impact of widely-used chemicals and found | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
The chemicals have been banned in the European Union | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
for the past few years, but there's growing demand for them | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
to be reintroduced here, as our science correspondent | :31:56. | :31:57. | |
Around the world, these vital pollinators are vanishing. | :31:58. | :32:07. | |
Now, a major new study has revealed the role of pesticides | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
The chemicals were used extensively for oilseed rape until a temporary | :32:11. | :32:16. | |
Neonicotinoids really change the way we use pesticides. | :32:17. | :32:24. | |
Instead of spraying fields, seeds are coated with the chemicals | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
and this protects the crops as they grow from insects. | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
But now an experiment on a vaster scale spanning 2,000 hectares, | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
that's an area the size of 3,000 football pitches, has revealed that | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
The scientists were given special permission to use the banned | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
chemicals at sites in the UK, Hungary and Germany. | :32:50. | :32:55. | |
Our findings are a cause for serious concern. | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
We have shown for the first time negative effects of neonicotinoid | :32:59. | :33:00. | |
We have also shown similar negative effects on wild pollinators | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
This is important because many crops globally are insect-pollinated, | :33:06. | :33:11. | |
and without pollinators, we would struggle to | :33:12. | :33:13. | |
For bumblebees, scientists found that exposure to the chemicals | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
resulted in fewer queens, so fewer new hives. | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
For honeybees, in two out of the three countries, | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
hives were more likely to die off over the winter. | :33:28. | :33:31. | |
These are neonicotinoid treated seeds. | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
But some farmers say since the ban, their crops have | :33:35. | :33:36. | |
In the UK, oilseed rape production has fallen by 20%. | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
It creates vegetable oil, cold-pressed. | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
It's good for you on salad dressings. | :33:48. | :33:57. | |
We think farmers will always want to grow oilseed rape | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
but without neonicotinoid technology in difficult years, | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
A major manufacturer says they're convinced that | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
The EU will soon decide whether to extend the ban. | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
But with Brexit for the UK, any decision may be short lived. | :34:10. | :34:18. | |
Tonight, on the 20th anniversary of the handover, we will hear from the | :34:19. | :34:31. | |
last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten. He calls the Chinese | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
ambassador to Britain a man who doesn't know the difference between | :34:35. | :34:39. | |
democracy and a wet haddock. That and other observations on BBC Two. | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
That is underway on BBC Two. Now on BBC One, it's time | :34:42. | :34:42. | |
for the news where you are. | :34:43. | :34:45. |