:00:08. > :00:10.Decades of child abuse in Jersey, and children
:00:11. > :00:15.could still be at risk - the conclusion of an
:00:16. > :00:19.It reveals how hundreds of vulnerable children in care
:00:20. > :00:34.Beatings, being forced down in the bat. I thought I was going to die.
:00:35. > :00:36.They've been getting away with it for so long.
:00:37. > :00:38.And people's lives have been ruined ? because of not
:00:39. > :00:41.The report recommends that a notorious children's home
:00:42. > :00:43.at the centre of the scandal be demolished.
:00:44. > :00:47.Downing Street says it's sticking to a 1% rise for doctors
:00:48. > :00:51.and nurses in England despite mounting pressure.
:00:52. > :00:54.The death of seven-year-old Katie Rough - a teenage girl has
:00:55. > :01:00.Bankers in the dock - four senior directors at Barclays
:01:01. > :01:02.are charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
:01:03. > :01:06.The scanner that reveals the workings of the brain
:01:07. > :01:09.as never before - it could revolutionise treatment.
:01:10. > :01:11.And Andy Murray shakes off injury to begin a solid defence
:01:12. > :01:22.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News - away from Wimbledon,
:01:23. > :01:24.Everton continue their spending spree, signing Burnley and England
:01:25. > :01:46.defender Michael Keane for a fee which could rise to ?30 million.
:01:47. > :01:52.An inquiry into seven decades of abuse of children in care
:01:53. > :01:54.in Jersey says children there may still be at risk.
:01:55. > :01:56.More than 600 witnesses have given harrowing evidence
:01:57. > :02:00.about the systematic mistreatment of vulnerable young people such
:02:01. > :02:03.as being sexually abused, tortured with electrical wires,
:02:04. > :02:07.locked in confined spaces or simply abandoned.
:02:08. > :02:09.The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry recommends that the children's home
:02:10. > :02:13.at the centre of the scandal - Haut de la Garenne - be demolished.
:02:14. > :02:15.It has also found failings in Jersey's child care system even
:02:16. > :02:18.now and says the lessons of the past have not been learned.
:02:19. > :02:20.Robert Hall is in Jersey for us tonight.
:02:21. > :02:23.Robert, this is a day that so many survivors of abuse
:02:24. > :02:39.Yes, a very difficult day for many of them. But this was a day when
:02:40. > :02:44.their suffering was acknowledged, when independent voices identified
:02:45. > :02:50.the failures that led to physical, sexual and mental abuse. This is a
:02:51. > :02:55.weighty report which accuses Jersey of letting down its children,
:02:56. > :03:00.children trapped in establishments with abusive carers and little
:03:01. > :03:03.chance of outside support. Tonight, Jersey's chief minister said he
:03:04. > :03:07.accepted every one of the panel's recommendations.
:03:08. > :03:09.The island of Jersey, proud and independent,
:03:10. > :03:11.according to the report, an island whose attitude
:03:12. > :03:13.to children in the care system was indefensible.
:03:14. > :03:16.Chair Frances Oldham said children had been abandoned in care with no
:03:17. > :03:22.Her panel had identified what she termed
:03:23. > :03:25.In its most favourable light, this expression is
:03:26. > :03:27.said to refer to the maintenance of proud
:03:28. > :03:30.and ancient traditions and the
:03:31. > :03:33.preservation of the island's way of life.
:03:34. > :03:38.Using the expression in a pejorative way, it is said to
:03:39. > :03:44.involve the protection of powerful interests and resistance to change,
:03:45. > :03:46.even when change is patently necessary.
:03:47. > :03:48.Allegations of abuse in Jersey came to public prominence
:03:49. > :03:51.during police operations at this former children's home.
:03:52. > :03:55.The search for human remains at Haut de la
:03:56. > :03:58.Garenne was inconclusive, but the images spurred islanders who had
:03:59. > :04:00.kept their secrets for so long to come forward.
:04:01. > :04:12.He said he and his friends were frightened to tell their
:04:13. > :04:20.Everyone had a story but no one wanted to say it.
:04:21. > :04:25.Some did try to, and it was just brushsed aside.
:04:26. > :04:28.And it became like a little gang, that you would just sit
:04:29. > :04:31.there and you know, you would talk between yourselves but you were
:04:32. > :04:35.During a three-year investigation, police
:04:36. > :04:37.recorded more than 500 alleged offences at homes throughout the
:04:38. > :04:43.Madeline spent her early years at Haut de la Garenne.
:04:44. > :04:50.I was in care from the age of three months, and it went on
:04:51. > :05:02.Awful experiences - of abuse, being locked
:05:03. > :05:13.practically, I thought I was going to die, then.
:05:14. > :05:15.The panel said children of all ages had been
:05:16. > :05:24.There seems to be a common thread throughout,
:05:25. > :05:27.that wherever the States of Jersey were involved in the care of
:05:28. > :05:29.children, they failed to meet their responsibilities.
:05:30. > :05:31.There was a lack of political will and a lack of
:05:32. > :05:36.The report said lessons had not been learned and
:05:37. > :05:40.Jersey's children were still at risk.
:05:41. > :05:51.were not receiving the care and support they needed.
:05:52. > :05:53.The island's chief minister had listened with
:05:54. > :05:56.colleagues and he said Jersey had to act.
:05:57. > :05:59.We failed children who needed our care, who needed to be protected
:06:00. > :06:02.Unpalatable truths were swept under the carpet because
:06:03. > :06:13.The report says Haut de la Garenne should be torn down, a
:06:14. > :06:20.symbol of fear, mistrust and the weaknesses of the Jersey way.
:06:21. > :06:23.They've been getting away with it for so long.
:06:24. > :06:26.And people's lives have been ruined - because of not listening
:06:27. > :06:37.Theresa May says there's no change in the Government's position
:06:38. > :06:39.on public sector pay - that's despite a succession
:06:40. > :06:43.of ministers lining up to say it's time to remove the 1% pay
:06:44. > :06:46.Downing Street says it will listen to the recommendations
:06:47. > :06:48.of the various independent pay review bodies.
:06:49. > :06:54.But pay rises for millions of workers, including doctors,
:06:55. > :06:56.nurses and the armed forces, have already been fixed at 1%
:06:57. > :06:59.Here's our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed.
:07:00. > :07:04.There are two stark figures at the heart of this battle
:07:05. > :07:12.1% - the pay cap imposed for nurses, teachers, firefighters and the many
:07:13. > :07:18.And 2.9%, the rate at which prices are rising - inflation.
:07:19. > :07:20.For the 5 million people this affects, their real
:07:21. > :07:26.Alan Daly is a firefighter from Oxfordshire -
:07:27. > :07:28.like so many others, weary of the living
:07:29. > :07:35.Firefighters don't expect to be rich, but they don't expect to be
:07:36. > :07:39.I hear time and time again, oh, they've got second jobs.
:07:40. > :07:41.Yes, some do have second jobs, because they have
:07:42. > :07:48.Has the Government been underpaying nurses and teachers,
:07:49. > :07:54.Or by bike, the message was the same from Cabinet heavyweights.
:07:55. > :08:00.The Treasury was not amused, pointing out that balancing
:08:01. > :08:03.the books is still central to economic policy,
:08:04. > :08:06.and the Government is still spending ?47 billion a year more
:08:07. > :08:11.Paying for public sector workers is one of the biggest things
:08:12. > :08:16.We spend ?180 billion a year on the doctors and nurses
:08:17. > :08:19.and teachers and policemen and so on.
:08:20. > :08:24.So, each extra 1% on that big number itself costs quite a lot.
:08:25. > :08:27.This is the public sector pay challenge.
:08:28. > :08:31.Whilst pay in the public sector has been capped at 1%,
:08:32. > :08:33.in the private sector, average increases are
:08:34. > :08:36.This is leading to those recruitment problems.
:08:37. > :08:45.The private sector is simply becoming more attractive.
:08:46. > :08:49.And then there is the cost of any pay rise - and that could be as high
:08:50. > :08:52.as ?1.5 billion for every 1% extra paid to the 5 million people
:08:53. > :09:00.Well, here, the Treasury says that money will either need
:09:01. > :09:02.to come from higher taxes, more borrowing or a
:09:03. > :09:08.As we have seen with the poor economic figures at the start
:09:09. > :09:12.of the year, relying on economic growth can be dangerous.
:09:13. > :09:15.Yes, some public sector workers do receive automatic pay
:09:16. > :09:20.But economists say there is a bigger issue here, and it's
:09:21. > :09:24.It's perfectly straightforward to say, you can raise
:09:25. > :09:29.I think the barrier there is political, and we've had
:09:30. > :09:32.a government that for a very long time now has been saying,
:09:33. > :09:35.we want to at least level off public spending and not have any increases,
:09:36. > :09:39.we don't want to increase taxes, we'd rather give people tax cuts.
:09:40. > :09:42.And this is now two immovable objects crashing into each other.
:09:43. > :09:47.Whether it's the response to the Grenfell fire tragedy,
:09:48. > :09:52.the heightened terror threat or today's public sector pay
:09:53. > :09:55.tensions, difficult choices on spending lie ahead.
:09:56. > :09:57.The Government's position in Parliament is precarious,
:09:58. > :09:59.making every decision it makes politically and
:10:00. > :10:09.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is at Westminster.
:10:10. > :10:11.So, ministers saying one thing about this 1% pay cap,
:10:12. > :10:16.What are the chances that this pay cap
:10:17. > :10:28.Well, you would never know that government ministers are meant to
:10:29. > :10:32.stick to the same line in public, would you? In the last hour, the
:10:33. > :10:38.Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has made some more comments which play into
:10:39. > :10:44.this public discussion. Philip Hammond has told the CBI in the City
:10:45. > :10:48.tonight that the Government wants to strike a fair balance in terms of
:10:49. > :10:53.public sector pay, but at the same time, in the big picture of the
:10:54. > :10:58.Government's ambition to sort out the debt, that they must hold their
:10:59. > :11:01.nerve. So if you like, that is a very public back knowledge meant
:11:02. > :11:05.that there is a lot of intense discussion going on about the
:11:06. > :11:11.political wisdom of lifting the pay cap, but at the same time, his
:11:12. > :11:14.allies will knowledge that as well as the political damage from
:11:15. > :11:19.sticking to the cap, there might be political damage from raising taxes,
:11:20. > :11:24.for example, to get rid of it. It is clear to me that both privately and
:11:25. > :11:27.publicly, ministers are yet to find a common position on this. One
:11:28. > :11:31.minister said this morning, it was obvious they had to scrap the cap
:11:32. > :11:35.and show that they had listened to the electorate. In the other corner,
:11:36. > :11:40.someone said it would be complete madness to do so, why would they
:11:41. > :11:44.publicly pull away the threads which have held the Tory party's economic
:11:45. > :11:52.merge together for the last few years? In this slightly chaotic
:11:53. > :11:56.aftermath of the general election, a locked is potentially up for grabs.
:11:57. > :11:58.A 16-year-old girl has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter
:11:59. > :12:04.Katie Rough was found on a playing field in York with severe injuries
:12:05. > :12:08.She died from her injuries in hospital.
:12:09. > :12:10.Her mother described her as a beautiful girl who liked
:12:11. > :12:15.Her teenage attacker can't be named because of her young age.
:12:16. > :12:21.Seven-year-old Katie Rough - an innocent, much-loved schoolgirl,
:12:22. > :12:25.killed by another child, who heard voices in her head.
:12:26. > :12:28.An older girl, who we can't identify for legal reasons,
:12:29. > :12:34.who told a friend she had dreams of killing someone.
:12:35. > :12:37.It was a school day afternoon and just getting dark,
:12:38. > :12:40.when Katie Rough was found fatally injured at the end of an alleyway
:12:41. > :12:42.on the edge of a playing field here in York.
:12:43. > :12:46.The seven-year-old died a short time later in hospital.
:12:47. > :12:51.It then emerged that a 15-year-old girl had attacked her with a knife.
:12:52. > :12:53.Immediately afterwards, the teenager told a man nearby
:12:54. > :13:03.Katie's parents were quickly told what had happened
:13:04. > :13:10.We found her at the same time as a police officer found her.
:13:11. > :13:22.I saw her injuries, I knew she was gone.
:13:23. > :13:27.I don't know, it's impossible to describe.
:13:28. > :13:37.Today, the teenage girl who killed Katie admitted
:13:38. > :13:40.She denied murder, but pleaded guilty to manslaughter
:13:41. > :13:45.Katie's parents have been left with just memories.
:13:46. > :13:56.Shy at first, but then once she knew you, she was...
:13:57. > :13:58.Yeah, she was shy, you know, with other people,
:13:59. > :14:05.She was...loud at times, she was just your typical
:14:06. > :14:12.Leeds Crown Court heard the teenager who killed this seven-year-old
:14:13. > :14:16.believed people weren't human, and were robots.
:14:17. > :14:18.The older girl didn't speak at all today, leaving others
:14:19. > :14:26.to explain the consequences of her disturbed mind.
:14:27. > :14:29.Kensington and Chelsea Council have elected a new leader
:14:30. > :14:31.to replace Nick Paget-Brown, who resigned last week
:14:32. > :14:33.following criticism of the authority's handling
:14:34. > :14:37.Elizabeth Campbell apologised to the community, saying it had been
:14:38. > :14:45.Meanwhile, a group of lawyers, acting for some
:14:46. > :14:48.have written to the Prime Minister outlining concerns about
:14:49. > :14:59.Our special correspondent Lucy Manning reports.
:15:00. > :15:02.This isn't the home they had, and it won't be filled with old family
:15:03. > :15:05.photos and mementos, for they now lie in the ashes.
:15:06. > :15:07.But this will be where some from Grenfell will live.
:15:08. > :15:14.Council officials invited the media to this two-bedroom flat.
:15:15. > :15:19.About 126 families have been offered this type of housing.
:15:20. > :15:22.There are about ten more, as we stand here today,
:15:23. > :15:26.There are a number of families who are not yet ready
:15:27. > :15:30.Although housing will be offered, only a few of the Grenfell residents
:15:31. > :15:36.Already, some are telling us that flats they have been offered are not
:15:37. > :15:43.Others don't want to move if they are going to have to move again.
:15:44. > :15:46.And so far, only eight families have taken up the offer of new,
:15:47. > :15:54.After the protests about Kensington and Chelsea Council, tonight,
:15:55. > :15:56.a new leader was elected, her message perhaps
:15:57. > :16:03.This is our community, and we have failed it
:16:04. > :16:13.So no buts, no ifs, no excuses, I am truly sorry.
:16:14. > :16:17.And the second thing I'm going to do is to phone up Sajid Javid,
:16:18. > :16:22.the Secretary of State, and ask for more help.
:16:23. > :16:24.But the Government is facing more calls for the judge leading
:16:25. > :16:27.the inquiry into why homes burned down, and why families
:16:28. > :16:32.A group of lawyers representing some survivors writing
:16:33. > :16:35.to the Prime Minister with 12 demands, including the removal
:16:36. > :16:42.He stated that his remit would be extremely narrow,
:16:43. > :16:46.so people are thinking, well, this is going to be
:16:47. > :16:50.a bit of a whitewash, we don't have confidence in it.
:16:51. > :16:52.But the Government is now suggesting his inquiry
:16:53. > :16:57.He will set out the terms of the inquiry and he is not there yet.
:16:58. > :17:07.He should take the right amount of time necessary and make sure
:17:08. > :17:09.the inquiry is very broad and it's to the satisfaction
:17:10. > :17:11.of the victims and their families and friends.
:17:12. > :17:13.Today at the inquest, two more victims were identified,
:17:14. > :17:16.Ali Jafari's wife and two daughters escape from the tenth floor
:17:17. > :17:26.26-year-old Italian Gloria Trevisan died with her partner, Marco.
:17:27. > :17:28.She called her parents as the flames spread, telling them,
:17:29. > :17:30."I'm sorry I could never hug you again.
:17:31. > :17:44.A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.
:17:45. > :17:46.18 people have been killed in a coach crash in Germany.
:17:47. > :17:49.The vehicle collided with a lorry on a motorway in Bavaria
:17:50. > :17:52.in the south of the country, and then burst into flames.
:17:53. > :17:54.Police say another 30 passengers have been taken to hospital,
:17:55. > :17:58.The French energy supplier EDF says the cost of building a new nuclear
:17:59. > :18:01.power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset could go
:18:02. > :18:05.The total bill is now likely to be ?19.6 billion,
:18:06. > :18:16.Police in France have seized a haul of guns from a car
:18:17. > :18:20.about to enter the UK through the Channel tunnel.
:18:21. > :18:22.The 79 weapons had been hidden in engine blocks.
:18:23. > :18:24.Two men, of Polish and Czech nationalities,
:18:25. > :18:28.have appeared in court and been remanded in custody.
:18:29. > :18:30.Four former Barclays bank executives,
:18:31. > :18:33.including former CEO John Varley, have appeared in court,
:18:34. > :18:38.The men are the most senior UK banking figures to face criminal
:18:39. > :18:43.The case centres on allegations that Barclays improperly raised emergency
:18:44. > :18:45.funds from Qatar in 2008 to avoid a Government bailout.
:18:46. > :18:47.All deny the charges, as our business editor,
:18:48. > :18:57.One by one, they arrived, former Barclays chief
:18:58. > :18:59.executive John Varley, and former senior executives
:19:00. > :19:01.Roger Jenkins, Tom Kalaris, Richard Boath, made their way
:19:02. > :19:04.through a thick press pack, here to catch a rare sighting
:19:05. > :19:15.Inside, they sat next to each other in the dock as the charges
:19:16. > :19:26.Roger Jenkins and John Varley face additional charge each.
:19:27. > :19:28.Barclays came to Qatar in 2008 to raise emergency cash
:19:29. > :19:33.at the height of the crisis, rather than accepting
:19:34. > :19:38.State-owned funds from Qatar invested over ?5.3
:19:39. > :19:45.It is alleged that Barclays lent them ?2 billion of that money
:19:46. > :19:47.and paid them ?322 million in fees as a sweetener, fees
:19:48. > :19:53.Just a few moments ago, the four defendants from Barclays
:19:54. > :19:57.sat stony-faced in the dock here at Westminster
:19:58. > :20:00.Magistrates' Court, as charges were read out to them.
:20:01. > :20:03.These are the first criminal charges ever filed against any senior
:20:04. > :20:05.executives at a bank for their conduct during
:20:06. > :20:09.In London's tranquil legal enclaves, experts warned
:20:10. > :20:22.It's always difficult to prove that people are dishonest
:20:23. > :20:29.as opposed to simply mistaken, or that they misunderstood.
:20:30. > :20:33.That is what you have got to show, that they were really acting in bad
:20:34. > :20:35.faith, and in relation to people in a professional context,
:20:36. > :20:37.that is often a very difficult thing to establish.
:20:38. > :20:39.The BBC understands all four will contest the charges.
:20:40. > :20:43.Roger Jenkins, who lives in the US and Tom Kalaris,
:20:44. > :20:45.who has dual nationality, were asked
:20:46. > :20:53.The case now moves on to the Crown Court on July the 17th.
:20:54. > :20:55.The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal
:20:56. > :20:59.workings has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.
:21:00. > :21:04.The MRI machine reveals for the first time the fibres
:21:05. > :21:06.which carry all the brain's thought processes.
:21:07. > :21:09.Doctors hope it will help increase understanding of a range
:21:10. > :21:11.of neurological disorders and could be used instead
:21:12. > :21:16.Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh volunteered to be scanned -
:21:17. > :21:27.All thought, memory, consciousness is here.
:21:28. > :21:31.In unprecedented detail, these images of my brain
:21:32. > :21:35.show the white matter, fibres called axons,
:21:36. > :21:39.the brain's wiring, which carry billions of electrical signals.
:21:40. > :21:42.Those colour-coded green travel between front and back.
:21:43. > :21:51.The scan was done at Cubric, the Cardiff University Brain
:21:52. > :21:58.I have had my brain scanned for TV reports many times,
:21:59. > :22:11.Using this special MRI scanner - there are just three in the world -
:22:12. > :22:14.the team could map the wires, the axons, in my brain,
:22:15. > :22:17.so thin it would take 50 of them to match the thickness
:22:18. > :22:21.You might feel a little bit more vibration and the scan should
:22:22. > :22:27.The team at Cardiff worked with engineers from Siemens
:22:28. > :22:36.in Germany and the US to create the 3D images.
:22:37. > :22:38.If you go up, you can actually see...
:22:39. > :22:40.This has been the most exciting development
:22:41. > :22:42.in my personal research career of 22 years in MRI.
:22:43. > :22:45.It's similar to being handed a Hubble telescope when you have
:22:46. > :22:49.In other words, we can look in far more details than ever before.
:22:50. > :22:52.We can get measures that for the first time will help us
:22:53. > :22:55.address what I call the missing link between structure and function.
:22:56. > :22:57.Sian Rowlands is one of the research volunteers in Cardiff.
:22:58. > :23:05.She has multiple sclerosis, which causes neurological damage.
:23:06. > :23:10.The relapses, attack of symptoms, can come on suddenly.
:23:11. > :23:12.It's devastating, it really is scary.
:23:13. > :23:15.You can go from being absolutely normal one day to not
:23:16. > :23:17.being able to walk or move, in a wheelchair and having
:23:18. > :23:20.to go through a recovery process that can take anywhere from three
:23:21. > :23:27.One of the areas of damage we can see here...
:23:28. > :23:30.This is a conventional scan image showing a lesion,
:23:31. > :23:39.But the new scan reveals another level of detail,
:23:40. > :23:41.including the density of the brain's wiring, which scientists
:23:42. > :23:49.Deep in the brain, where the cabling is thickest, is shown in white,
:23:50. > :23:54.but the red and green bull's-eye is an area of less density
:23:55. > :23:57.and clearly indicates a brain lesion, which can trigger Sian's
:23:58. > :24:01.movement problems and extreme fatigue.
:24:02. > :24:03.Those symptoms are really only partially explained by what we see
:24:04. > :24:08.What this technique allows us to do for the first time is look
:24:09. > :24:09.at axonal density in exquisite detail along each
:24:10. > :24:14.We hope it will allow us to uncover a lot more
:24:15. > :24:18.about the explanation for the wide range of symptoms in MS.
:24:19. > :24:22.Researchers are using the technique to investigate schizophrenia,
:24:23. > :24:25.dementia and epilepsy, and it might even have a role
:24:26. > :24:27.in cancer, allowing virtual biopsies, examining tumours
:24:28. > :24:37.Donald Trump has offered to help the parents of a British
:24:38. > :24:40.terminally ill baby who have lost a legal fight to take him
:24:41. > :24:46.In a tweet, the US president said he would be delighted
:24:47. > :24:48.to help Charlie Gard, whose parents wanted him to undergo
:24:49. > :24:51.a therapy trial in the US to treat a rare genetic condition.
:24:52. > :24:54.It comes after Pope Francis called for Charlie's parents to be allowed
:24:55. > :24:56.to "accompany and treat their child until the end".
:24:57. > :24:59.Let's talk to our North America editor, Jon Sopel, who's
:25:00. > :25:02.This is a tragic case involving a British child.
:25:03. > :25:10.Why has it caught the attention of the US president?
:25:11. > :25:18.As you say, a terrible case, where there are no easy choices. You are
:25:19. > :25:21.right to raise the question of why the president has got involved,
:25:22. > :25:24.because this has been all the way through the British courts, to the
:25:25. > :25:29.European Court of Human Rights, and it is legally settled, so why has
:25:30. > :25:33.the president got involved? The White House says, it is just out of
:25:34. > :25:36.sensitivity. They say he does not want to pressure the family in
:25:37. > :25:40.anyway. Members of the administration have spoken to the
:25:41. > :25:44.family in calls facilitated by the British Government, and the
:25:45. > :25:48.president is just trying to help, if at all possible. But, of course,
:25:49. > :25:54.this is a very difficult thing for them to do. Downing Street response
:25:55. > :26:01.was interesting, saying, this is a very sensitive time, our thoughts
:26:02. > :26:05.are with him and Charlie's family. I think that could be interpreted as
:26:06. > :26:09.saying, you know what, this is really sensitive and we don't need
:26:10. > :26:12.an intervention like this now, even though your motives may be for the
:26:13. > :26:16.best. The new French President,
:26:17. > :26:19.Emmanuel Macron, has proposed a radical overhaul of the country's
:26:20. > :26:22.government by cutting the number The French president -
:26:23. > :26:25.in a special parliamentary session of the National Assembly
:26:26. > :26:28.and the Senate - said he hopes to pass legislation to that effect
:26:29. > :26:31.swiftly, but that he'd call a referendum if
:26:32. > :26:32.politicians oppose it. His opponents boycotted
:26:33. > :26:34.the event, accusing Mr Macron Our correspondent Hugh Schofield
:26:35. > :26:37.reports from Versailles. The dignity of the presidential
:26:38. > :26:39.office is something about which Emmanuel Macron
:26:40. > :26:43.feels very deeply. He came to Versailles,
:26:44. > :26:46.a place of regal pomp and awe, He called and they came -
:26:47. > :26:51.900 deputies and senators Newcomers to the Assembly,
:26:52. > :27:00.like the mathematician and Macron loyallist Cedric Villani,
:27:01. > :27:01.who saw nothing wrong with the president's
:27:02. > :27:06.unconventional summons. It's an exceptional,
:27:07. > :27:09.critical moment. The nation has gone through
:27:10. > :27:14.a terrible lack of trust recently. I find it perfectly normal
:27:15. > :27:17.and reassuring that the president An exhortation to lawmakers
:27:18. > :27:22.to understand the appetite He said he wants to make
:27:23. > :27:33.government more efficient, cutting the number of MPs
:27:34. > :27:35.by a third, and Europe was, TRANSLATION: It is no longer
:27:36. > :27:41.the time to paper over the cracks. We need to take Europe
:27:42. > :27:45.back to its beginnings, to its very origins and,
:27:46. > :27:47.in that way, give life again Earlier in the day, there had
:27:48. > :27:51.been a security alert. An alleged plot to shoot
:27:52. > :27:53.the president on Bastille Day. It would appear that Emmanuel Macron
:27:54. > :28:01.would like a new kind of presidency from that practised
:28:02. > :28:06.by his immediate red predecessors. of presidency from that practised
:28:07. > :28:08.by his immediate predecessors. He would like to restore
:28:09. > :28:11.to the office some of And what greater symbol
:28:12. > :28:19.than to address the joint Houses of Parliament here in Versailles,
:28:20. > :28:21.home of the old monarchy? But not everyone likes this
:28:22. > :28:23.new-look French presidency. The far left boycotted Versailles
:28:24. > :28:26.and held a symbolic meeting of its own on left-wing republican
:28:27. > :28:29.turf in eastern Paris, where views He portrayed himself
:28:30. > :28:42.as a sort of a god. Well, we're a republic and we have
:28:43. > :28:46.something against gods and we have something against kings,
:28:47. > :28:48.since we cut their heads off. So, no, we don't want
:28:49. > :28:55.that again, honestly. Macron the monarch, Macron
:28:56. > :28:58.the Jupiter on Olympus. Expect a lot more of
:28:59. > :29:01.that from the left-wing opposition, especially if -
:29:02. > :29:03.no, when - things start to go less majestically well for France's
:29:04. > :29:08.young head of state. Plenty of strawberries,
:29:09. > :29:10.a little bit of rain The first day of Wimbledon saw
:29:11. > :29:18.Andy Murray begin the defence of his men's title with a straight
:29:19. > :29:21.sets victory, despite struggling Joe Wilson was watching all
:29:22. > :29:25.the action at the All England Club, A solid start for Murray,
:29:26. > :29:38.which is something of a relief Yes. Where does your mind turn
:29:39. > :29:40.chairs darkness falls at Wimbledon? So much has happened. Rafa Nadal
:29:41. > :29:52.went through, so did Heather Watson. But I'm sure you're wondering about
:29:53. > :29:53.Andy Murray. He finish with more of a swagger, I would say, than
:29:54. > :29:56.Olympic. The dignified march
:29:57. > :29:58.through the entrance to expectation. But from the back of the queue
:29:59. > :30:01.to the front of the Royal Box, this year, Wimbledon began with one
:30:02. > :30:05.unifying tension - is he fit? You never truly know
:30:06. > :30:09.until the balls hit the court. Sure, he'd serve, but how
:30:10. > :30:11.would Andy Murray move? One thing to make
:30:12. > :30:17.the other guy scamper, but the defending champion
:30:18. > :30:19.would have to sprint His opponent stopped
:30:20. > :30:24.for mid-match fist bumps. The tattooed arm belongs
:30:25. > :30:27.to Sasha Bublik. The young man from Kazakhstan
:30:28. > :30:30.was taking it all in, and on his first Centre Court
:30:31. > :30:33.appearance, he forced There were two breaks
:30:34. > :30:45.for rain in the third set. Murray's straight sets victory ended
:30:46. > :30:50.with another dash towards the net. You know, with the adrenaline
:30:51. > :30:57.and stuff, it sort of helps numb I moved well today and, yeah,
:30:58. > :31:06.I thought I did pretty well And tickets are still sold
:31:07. > :31:16.on the day for those But tradition can only
:31:17. > :31:23.operate in today's world, and in the light of current security
:31:24. > :31:26.concerns, this year, the queue is protected
:31:27. > :31:28.from potential vehicle attack Refocusing after a nasty
:31:29. > :31:42.slip in Eastbourne, on court at Wimbledon,
:31:43. > :31:45.Konta was in full flow against Su-Wei Hsieh, an opponent
:31:46. > :31:47.who had beaten her before. 6-2, 6-2 for Britain's
:31:48. > :31:55.number six seed. OK, so how does she deal with people
:31:56. > :32:01.thinking she could win it? Obviously, I'm training very hard,
:32:02. > :32:05.working very hard to be And I'm hopefully
:32:06. > :32:11.going to be involved Venus Williams won today,
:32:12. > :32:15.20 years after her debut here. Last month, she was involved
:32:16. > :32:18.in a fatal car accident in Florida. She came to speak,
:32:19. > :32:25.described the situation as devastating, and then, well,
:32:26. > :32:27.she couldn't continue. Petra Kvitova is still learning how
:32:28. > :32:29.to hold a racket again. Remember, she was stabbed in her
:32:30. > :32:35.hand by an intruder in December. To play again, to win again here,
:32:36. > :32:42.dream come true, she said. Here on BBC One, it's time
:32:43. > :32:45.for the news where you are.