:00:00. > :00:10.America's Ambassador to the UN says the North Korean
:00:11. > :00:14.missile test was a clear and sharp military escalation.
:00:15. > :00:17.In response, America and South Korea hold a joint military drill,
:00:18. > :00:21.as the US warns it's prepared to use military force.
:00:22. > :00:25.It is a dark day because yesterday's actions by North Korea made
:00:26. > :00:29.Their illegal missile launch was not only dangerous,
:00:30. > :00:39.Donald Trump has arrived in Europe ahead of a G20 summit.
:00:40. > :00:44.The White House says it's exploring its options
:00:45. > :00:47.With warnings of new sanctions against North Korea, we will be
:00:48. > :00:50.asking how much more can be done? After three weeks of sifting
:00:51. > :00:53.through tons of debris by hand, police say they have finally removed
:00:54. > :01:03.all human remains Paula has had a call from her
:01:04. > :01:04.daughter are saying her 15-year-old grandson has been stabbed. The
:01:05. > :01:06.caller is hysterical. The rising tide of knife
:01:07. > :01:08.crime in Britain - now the number one murder weapon -
:01:09. > :01:11.it's being carried by growing We need to step right back
:01:12. > :01:14.to nine-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and guide them in a better
:01:15. > :01:16.direction, and that's Plugging into the future -
:01:17. > :01:21.Volvo becomes the first carmaker to ditch petrol and diesel only
:01:22. > :01:28.cars. And a straight sets win
:01:29. > :01:30.for Andy Murray takes him through to the 3rd
:01:31. > :01:35.round at Wimbledon. And coming up in Sportsday on BBC
:01:36. > :01:37.News: Warren Gatland keeps
:01:38. > :01:42.faith with his 15. The Lions coach names an unchanged
:01:43. > :01:44.team for their deciding Test The American Ambassador
:01:45. > :02:10.to the United Nations has described North Korea's latest missile test
:02:11. > :02:13.as "a clear and sharp military escalation" -
:02:14. > :02:15.one that has made the world It has been confirmed
:02:16. > :02:22.that the intercontinental ballistic missile fired by North Korea
:02:23. > :02:25.for the first time yesterday, could have a range of
:02:26. > :02:27.more than 3000 miles - The US Ambassador, Nikki Haley,
:02:28. > :02:31.told an emergency meeting at the UN that America was prepared to use
:02:32. > :02:35.the full range of its capabilites to deter North Korea -
:02:36. > :02:37.including military force And she said America
:02:38. > :02:43.would now propose new UN Here's our diplomatic
:02:44. > :03:01.correspondent James Landale. Today, on the coast of South Korea a
:03:02. > :03:08.barrage of missiles, fired by local and US forces. A simulated attack on
:03:09. > :03:12.the leadership, a show of force and retaliation, backed up tonight by
:03:13. > :03:19.hard word that the United Nations Security Council. TRANSLATION: Today
:03:20. > :03:21.is a dark day, a dark day because yesterday's actions by North Korea
:03:22. > :03:29.made the world more dangerous. There are legal -- Darron Lee goal --
:03:30. > :03:32.there are legal missile launch was not just dangerous but reckless. It
:03:33. > :03:39.shows North Korea does not want to be part of a peaceful world. With
:03:40. > :03:45.this launch of an integral antic -- intercontinental ballistic missile,
:03:46. > :03:48.it shows it wants to threaten a number of states and indirectly the
:03:49. > :03:53.whole world. This is the cause of their concern. Yesterday's launch
:03:54. > :03:59.what the US now admits was in North Korea's first intercontinental
:04:00. > :04:04.ballistic missile. Which experts claim could carry a nuclear weapon
:04:05. > :04:08.as far as Alaska. Today, North Korea claimed the test had shown its
:04:09. > :04:12.warheads could withstand the heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, a
:04:13. > :04:17.crucial step forward if proof. No wonder the country's leader Kim Jong
:04:18. > :04:21.Un looked so please, no wonder he was quoted as saying "The Yankees
:04:22. > :04:26.must be quite unhappy with the gift we send them on their Independence
:04:27. > :04:30.Day". The problem is that so far the international response has been
:04:31. > :04:34.divided. President Xi Jinping has called for restraint, and Russia has
:04:35. > :04:41.warned against any pre-emptive military action. TRANSLATION: For
:04:42. > :04:46.Russia and China, it is absolutely clear that any attempt to justify a
:04:47. > :04:50.military solution using Security Council resolutions as a pretext, is
:04:51. > :04:54.unacceptable. But it is China's reluctance to use
:04:55. > :04:58.its economic clout against North Korea which has angered at Donald
:04:59. > :05:01.Trump. As he left the European complained about the growing trade
:05:02. > :05:07.between both countries, saying on twitter, so much for China working
:05:08. > :05:11.with us but we had to give it a try. The question is what else the US
:05:12. > :05:15.might do. Today's joint military exercises were designed to show what
:05:16. > :05:20.commanders said could happen if US self restraint were lifted.
:05:21. > :05:23.I'm sure they will be looking at a military option. It's their bases
:05:24. > :05:29.under threat, their seaboard which is now within reach. But whether any
:05:30. > :05:32.other country would be asked to come and help is, at the moment,
:05:33. > :05:38.hypothetical. Tonight, Donald Trump arrived in
:05:39. > :05:42.Poland ahead of the T20 summit, where the crisis will be high on the
:05:43. > :05:45.agenda but where a united response looks unlikely.
:05:46. > :05:48.You're in Poland, where Donald Trump has just landed.
:05:49. > :05:53.What more can the Americans do to deter North Korea?
:05:54. > :06:00.I think there's certainly a lot more the international community could
:06:01. > :06:06.do. The UN could impose an oil embargo on North Korea, restrict
:06:07. > :06:10.access to its airline, to finance under a lot more. Tonight the United
:06:11. > :06:13.Kingdom and France saying they would be synthetic to tighter sanctions.
:06:14. > :06:16.The problem the United States has is getting the support of countries
:06:17. > :06:21.like China and Russia. I think that is why the United States is now
:06:22. > :06:25.contemplating unilateral action. In other words, imposing trade
:06:26. > :06:29.restrictions on those countries that continue to trade itself with North
:06:30. > :06:34.Korea, in violation of UN sanctions. The bottom line is this, I think,
:06:35. > :06:41.North Korea has been subject to sanctions for over a decade now and
:06:42. > :06:43.it seems to have made very, very little impact on its efforts to
:06:44. > :06:47.secure for itself a nuclear weapon. So as world leaders gather here and
:06:48. > :06:50.in Hamburg in Germany in the coming days for the GE 20 summit, the
:06:51. > :06:56.question will be this, if not sanctions, what else? -- the G20
:06:57. > :06:59.summit. Police say they have recovered
:07:00. > :07:03.the last of the visible human remains in Grenfell tower three
:07:04. > :07:05.weeks after the building But they've warned that the remains
:07:06. > :07:09.of some victims may never be found. Meanwhile a specialist task force
:07:10. > :07:12.is being sent into Kensington and Chelsea Council to take over
:07:13. > :07:14.the running of key services, after their response to the disaster
:07:15. > :07:17.was heavily criticised. Our Special correspondent
:07:18. > :07:25.Lucy Manning reports. The missing posters have been here
:07:26. > :07:34.for three weeks, they flutter is a painful reminder because time has
:07:35. > :07:39.not brought any answers. Now the police search through the 15 tonnes
:07:40. > :07:44.of debris on each floor, still trying to find all the Grenfell
:07:45. > :07:48.victims. Carrie Mazzilli was at the meeting the police and coroner
:07:49. > :07:54.called last night. His uncle, Hesham Rahman, is missing from the 23rd
:07:55. > :08:00.floor. He went over to comfort, you know, some young children, which for
:08:01. > :08:05.me is very heroic cost up I want that to stick and stay with the
:08:06. > :08:12.family. We may never know if my uncle is ever going to be found. The
:08:13. > :08:16.family is just broken. There's no way of fixing them. This is
:08:17. > :08:19.something that can never be fixed. They want to be able to bury their
:08:20. > :08:24.loved ones, pray for their loved. Say goodbye in any way, shape or
:08:25. > :08:36.form, and it sounds like all we're going to have is the brief on his
:08:37. > :08:45.flat, which isn't good enough. So... Sorry, Karim. Yeah, yeah.
:08:46. > :08:50.The police now say they have recovered all the remains from the
:08:51. > :08:53.building that were visible, and 87 recoveries, as they put it, have
:08:54. > :08:59.been made, but they stressed because of the catastrophic damage that
:09:00. > :09:05.doesn't mean 87 people, and they still can't say how many have died.
:09:06. > :09:10.Meanwhile, survivors struggle carrying bags of donated food back
:09:11. > :09:14.to their hotels. Three weeks and you will have housing, was the promise.
:09:15. > :09:17.This survivor didn't want to be identified, scared of being seen to
:09:18. > :09:22.criticise the council. I didn't take them up on their
:09:23. > :09:24.offer, they were very expensive, the rent. Although they promised they
:09:25. > :09:29.would pay for a whole year, I didn't have to pay for a year, but after
:09:30. > :09:35.that I said, put it in writing and they said legal documents are not
:09:36. > :09:38.ready yet. People would prefer to stay in their emergency temporary
:09:39. > :09:41.accommodation within hotels and make one move into permanent
:09:42. > :09:46.accommodation, so there have only been 14 acceptances so far. You
:09:47. > :09:52.would like to move the children away from here? Yes. Residents are
:09:53. > :09:55.feeling scared, let down. A panic this afternoon when nearby
:09:56. > :10:02.businesses were evacuated left families fearing the tower was
:10:03. > :10:05.unstable. One centre out of 100 centres sensed one millimetre of
:10:06. > :10:10.movement, so that's why the alarm went off. Don't tell me nothing, how
:10:11. > :10:15.dare you! Police withdrew from the tower.
:10:16. > :10:19.And at a public meeting at the mosque tonight, there were cries of
:10:20. > :10:23.anguish from the families. The woman said to be the new council leader
:10:24. > :10:27.was there to listen, on the day ministers sent in a task force to
:10:28. > :10:34.run some of its services. We will do absolutely everything we
:10:35. > :10:37.can as a council, to help our community and to help our community
:10:38. > :10:41.heal. You don't think the council should be taken over by outside
:10:42. > :10:44.commissioners? The council isn't being taken over by outside
:10:45. > :10:49.commissioners. We have asked people to come because we need more help.
:10:50. > :10:53.From ministers, there were tears. Hearing the harrowing account of the
:10:54. > :11:01.survivors has been the most humbling and moving experience of my whole
:11:02. > :11:08.life. The families that I've met have been through unimaginable pain.
:11:09. > :11:13.Earlier, at the inquest, 60-year-old Vincent Chiejina is named and Sheila
:11:14. > :11:16.Smith, described as a truly beautiful person. Lucy Manning, BBC
:11:17. > :11:17.News, West London. Labour has accused the Government
:11:18. > :11:19.of flip-flopping and floundering over the issue of raising the pay
:11:20. > :11:22.of public sector workers. Several cabinet ministers have
:11:23. > :11:25.hinted that they would like to see But Theresa May told
:11:26. > :11:29.MPs that Britain had The fierce exchanges in the Commons
:11:30. > :11:33.come as new figures show productivity in the UK has fallen
:11:34. > :11:36.for the first time since 2015. Here's our economics
:11:37. > :11:43.editor Kamal Ahmed. Whatever your job,
:11:44. > :11:46.the income squeeze is on. Wages are rising more
:11:47. > :11:56.slowly than inflation and our ability to create wealth,
:11:57. > :11:58.productivity, is struggling. When productivity fails
:11:59. > :11:59.to improve, the ability In the Commons, the economy
:12:00. > :12:03.and what Britain can afford I had a letter last week
:12:04. > :12:09.from a teacher called David... Jeremy Corbyn on the attack over
:12:10. > :12:14.the public sector pay cap. So what we're doing by this pay cap,
:12:15. > :12:18.I say to the Prime Minister, is wrecklessly exploiting
:12:19. > :12:20.the goodwill of public Our policy on public sector pay has
:12:21. > :12:30.always recognised that we need to balance the need to be fair
:12:31. > :12:36.to public sector workers, to protect jobs in the public
:12:37. > :12:39.sector, and to be fair to those Public services and how we pay
:12:40. > :12:45.for them depend to a large If the economy is performing well,
:12:46. > :12:51.we pay more taxes, firms pay more taxes and the Government has
:12:52. > :12:55.more money to spend. But today, on the economy,
:12:56. > :12:57.not good news. Productivity, the amount of wealth
:12:58. > :13:01.we create for every hour This is Britain's
:13:02. > :13:08.productivity problem. Productivity fell by 0.5% in the
:13:09. > :13:12.first three months of the year and is now worse
:13:13. > :13:15.than before the financial crisis. In the productivity league table,
:13:16. > :13:21.the UK is ranked a pretty poor 26th in the world,
:13:22. > :13:23.behind competitors like America, And here's a stark
:13:24. > :13:27.illustration of the problem. In the time it takes
:13:28. > :13:30.a British worker to produce ?1 of economic value,
:13:31. > :13:35.a German worker produces ?1.36. Britain's productivity has stagnated
:13:36. > :13:39.for the last decade. It's been worse in the last
:13:40. > :13:42.decade than at any time There are things that businesses can
:13:43. > :13:47.do, there are things There are things that we
:13:48. > :13:51.as a country can do. Whether that be investing in skills,
:13:52. > :13:53.investing in machines, addressing the way in which businesses grow
:13:54. > :13:56.and in which staff move from one business to another
:13:57. > :14:00.to achieve their potential. Public sector pay, the living
:14:01. > :14:04.standards squeeze, lack of investment by firms,
:14:05. > :14:07.the productivity problem. The challenge for all the players
:14:08. > :14:12.in the economy, public and private, how to work better and increase
:14:13. > :14:16.wealth for all? The Italian government has made
:14:17. > :14:22.the latest offer to treat the terminally ill baby Charlie
:14:23. > :14:24.Gard. But the Foreign Secretary,
:14:25. > :14:28.Boris Johnson, says that for legal reasons it is impossible for him
:14:29. > :14:31.to be transferred to the Vatican's lost their legal battle,
:14:32. > :14:37.both here and in the European Court, to keep him alive -
:14:38. > :14:40.against the advice of doctors at A disabled refugee who was beaten
:14:41. > :14:48.to death and set alight by his neighbour in Bristol four
:14:49. > :14:51.years ago - was repeatedly That's the conclusion
:14:52. > :14:54.of the Independent Police Complaints Commission,
:14:55. > :14:56.who say officers from the Avon and Somerset force ignored
:14:57. > :15:00.Bijan Ebrahimi's pleas for help. And they said there was evidence
:15:01. > :15:03.that "racial bias" affected Four years on, and
:15:04. > :15:20.tonight the sisters of Bijan Ebrahimi have
:15:21. > :15:21.some more answers. They've been told their vulnerable
:15:22. > :15:24.younger brother was repeatedly failed by police in the years before
:15:25. > :15:26.he was murdered - treated Reading that report,
:15:27. > :15:30.it was devastating. They say the list of
:15:31. > :15:34.failings has shocked them. It was so hard to see Bijan
:15:35. > :15:37.all these years been suffering, He always thought that he's
:15:38. > :15:44.in a country that the police Don't you dare take pictures
:15:45. > :15:50.of me, all right... Today's report says Bijan didn't
:15:51. > :15:53.just fear for his life in the days before he was murdered by this
:15:54. > :16:00.neighbour, Lee James... But that he'd called police
:16:01. > :16:04.repeatedly from a number of addresses over several years,
:16:05. > :16:06.asking for help. But time and time
:16:07. > :16:12.again, he was ignored. What part of be quite
:16:13. > :16:14.do you not understand? Today's report runs to hundreds
:16:15. > :16:18.of pages, and it says this whole case has laid bare what it calls
:16:19. > :16:23.the disrespect, the prejudice and even contempt with which some
:16:24. > :16:25.officers and staff treated Bijan Ebrahimi in the days before
:16:26. > :16:32.he was murdered here. Last year, PC Kevin Duffy
:16:33. > :16:35.and community support officer Andrew Passmore were jailed
:16:36. > :16:38.after being convicted PCs Leanne Winter and Helen Harris
:16:39. > :16:44.were cleared by the jury, but were later sacked
:16:45. > :16:48.by a misconduct hearing. Bijan's family have raised questions
:16:49. > :16:52.about racism within the force. There are some hallmarks
:16:53. > :16:58.of discrimination that could be There are overwhelming elements
:16:59. > :17:05.of evidence that indicate this was discrimination
:17:06. > :17:07.against a very vulnerable man. Avon and Somerset Police say
:17:08. > :17:10.this case has already We accept that we failed
:17:11. > :17:16.Bijan Ebrahimi at his time of greatest need, and throughout
:17:17. > :17:18.that time he was respectful and he had confidence
:17:19. > :17:22.and trust in us, the police, and we let him down,
:17:23. > :17:26.and for that, we are sorry. In this city, known
:17:27. > :17:30.for its tolerance, tonight many questions remain,
:17:31. > :17:32.and four years after the murder of Bijan Ebrahimi, there
:17:33. > :17:34.is still another major report Knife crime is one of the greatest
:17:35. > :17:46.challenges police forces now Knives are now Britain's number one
:17:47. > :17:53.murder weapon and increasingly both the victims and the perpetrators
:17:54. > :18:00.are children and teenagers. Last year, nearly 32,500 knife
:18:01. > :18:02.crimes were committed That figure was up 14%
:18:03. > :18:09.on the previous year. Our home affairs correspondent,
:18:10. > :18:11.June Kelly, has been on police patrol in Birmingham and met some
:18:12. > :18:13.of those working to A summer evening in Birmingham
:18:14. > :18:21.and the Force Response teams from West Midlands Police
:18:22. > :18:23.are dealing with dozens Caller has had a call
:18:24. > :18:41.from her daughter stating the 15-year-old grandson
:18:42. > :18:42.has been stabbed. He doesn't live in this
:18:43. > :18:49.road, he was found here. The teenager is helped
:18:50. > :18:57.into the ambulance by his mate. No sign of the attacker and no
:18:58. > :19:02.information from the victim. Are you doing anything productive
:19:03. > :19:04.at that particular job? And once again, there is no
:19:05. > :19:16.corporation from this second victim. Unfortunately, he didn't
:19:17. > :19:22.want to provide a statement or provide us an account or tell us
:19:23. > :19:25.where the incident had occurred. So there is very little
:19:26. > :19:27.we could actually do or investigate. But we can still record
:19:28. > :19:33.the matter as a crime. In the West Midlands,
:19:34. > :19:36.just like the rest of the country, Do you understand the reasons why
:19:37. > :19:41.you're being searched? Lives lost, victims
:19:42. > :19:46.scarred and maimed. And more people found
:19:47. > :19:52.to be carrying blades. The teenage grime artist
:19:53. > :19:58.from Birmingham had fans He was murdered weeks
:19:59. > :20:07.after his 18th birthday. A row over a girl spiralled
:20:08. > :20:11.into a fight and then his rival pulled a knife and plunged it
:20:12. > :20:16.into his heart. Seven hours later, Depzman,
:20:17. > :20:21.real name Joshua Ribera, was dead. Now his mum Alison goes into schools
:20:22. > :20:32.and uses her son's name, fame and death to drive home
:20:33. > :20:35.the consequences of carrying knives. We're not showing these children's
:20:36. > :20:38.faces because they have been permanently excluded
:20:39. > :20:41.from mainstream schools. Every single time his heart stopped,
:20:42. > :20:46.he fought back and fought back But on the morning of the 21st
:20:47. > :20:51.of September at 5:58am, We were given unique
:20:52. > :20:57.access to this class, part of City of Birmingham School
:20:58. > :20:59.which looks after excluded children. At the entrance there is a scanner
:21:00. > :21:05.to stop any weapons coming in. Why do you think someone
:21:06. > :21:07.is going to carry a knife And today the pupils are also
:21:08. > :21:16.hearing from Constable Rob Pedley. He's in different schools every week
:21:17. > :21:19.as part of a campaign by West Midlands Police
:21:20. > :21:21.to try to turn teenagers away If you go to your kitchen drawer
:21:22. > :21:26.at home, take out one of the sharp knives,
:21:27. > :21:28.you are carrying the country's Staff here have enlisted Rob
:21:29. > :21:33.and Alison because every day they are battling
:21:34. > :21:41.to keep his children day they are battling
:21:42. > :21:43.to keep these children While we cannot show their faces,
:21:44. > :21:48.we were able to record their words. They know about knives being used
:21:49. > :21:50.as initiation into gangs. When you take a beating, they only
:21:51. > :21:55.have to stab you in the arm. Nathan spent most of his teens
:21:56. > :21:59.in and out of young And has served jail
:22:00. > :22:09.terms for knife crime. He has tried to turn his life around
:22:10. > :22:13.and now, as well as being a rapper, How are you going
:22:14. > :22:17.to break that cycle? People who have been through things,
:22:18. > :22:22.people who have gone to prison, real people who have been
:22:23. > :22:24.in situations are the best people to help reform
:22:25. > :22:26.people and give people, tell people about their experiences
:22:27. > :22:28.and definitely workshops and help promote more awareness
:22:29. > :22:34.about these things. And showing, you know what I mean,
:22:35. > :22:36.looking at the consequences of why these things,
:22:37. > :22:39.what can happen. And as the mother of a murdered
:22:40. > :22:41.son, Alison is calling for a different approach to stop
:22:42. > :22:45.so many ruined lives. Looking at them as being scum
:22:46. > :22:47.of society is not working. We need to step right
:22:48. > :22:50.back to nine-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and guide them
:22:51. > :22:55.in a better direction. It is going to be a big
:22:56. > :22:57.old blue light, then. Around the country,
:22:58. > :22:59.police are trying to crack And it will take a change
:23:00. > :23:06.of mindset and culture Last month Saudi Arabia,
:23:07. > :23:35.the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut all land,
:23:36. > :23:38.air and sea links with their Gulf neighbour Qatar, accusing it
:23:39. > :23:40.of supporting jihadi groups. Now they say Qatar has failed
:23:41. > :23:43.to grasp the gravity of the situation, and further
:23:44. > :23:45.measures will follow. But Qatar's foreign minister has
:23:46. > :23:47.told the BBC they won't give in. In a Cairo Palace in the Egyptian
:23:48. > :23:51.capital today a crisis meeting Foreign ministers from four Arab
:23:52. > :23:55.countries have accused Qatar of supporting terrorism
:23:56. > :23:56.which it denies. They've cut ties and slapped
:23:57. > :23:59.sanctions on Qatar, to no avail. We can not have a country
:24:00. > :24:02.like Qatar that is an ally, militarily and in the GCC
:24:03. > :24:05.and in the Arab League, and that hosts an air base from which planes
:24:06. > :24:10.take off to fight ISIS and Daesh - I mean, al-Qaeda and at the same
:24:11. > :24:13.time it turns a blind eye to terrifying who
:24:14. > :24:17.operate openly in Qatar. The Gulf state of Qatar stands
:24:18. > :24:21.accused of using its vast wealth from gas to back Islamist movements
:24:22. > :24:25.all over the Middle East and of allowing extremist preachers
:24:26. > :24:30.to broadcast on Al-Jazerra. Its Arab opponents have insisted
:24:31. > :24:33.that TV network be shut down, one of 13 demands that include
:24:34. > :24:35.closing a Turkish military base on its soil and cutting
:24:36. > :24:37.back ties with Iran. On the Syrian civil war,
:24:38. > :24:46.Qatar admitted today it had made mistakes in the past over
:24:47. > :24:50.which rebel groups to support. But so too says Qatar have other
:24:51. > :24:53.countries in the region. When I met Qatar's Foreign Minister
:24:54. > :24:58.in London today he insisted the terrorism accusation was just
:24:59. > :25:09.an excuse to rob Qatar Qatar has never and will never
:25:10. > :25:13.support any terrorist movement or will never allow terrorism funds
:25:14. > :25:17.to be raised from Qatar or to be channelled through Qatar
:25:18. > :25:19.and will take whatever measures it It has huge investments
:25:20. > :25:34.in the UK economy. These include Britain's tallest
:25:35. > :25:36.building, the London Shard; a 50% stake in the Canary Wharf
:25:37. > :25:49.development; all of the luxury of the supermarket group
:25:50. > :25:50.Sainsbury's. Their UK investments
:25:51. > :25:52.total around ?40 billion. Qatar hosts the Pentagon's largest
:25:53. > :25:55.air base in the Middle East, a vital part of the US-led war
:25:56. > :25:58.on so-called Islamic State. Washington and Kuwait have tried
:25:59. > :26:01.in vain to mediate in this dispute. Now it looks set to
:26:02. > :26:03.escalate, to the dismay Volvo has become the first carmaker
:26:04. > :26:14.to announce that it will no longer From 2019, all their new models
:26:15. > :26:24.will be electric or hybrids. Our transport correspondent Richard
:26:25. > :26:27.Westcott considers what it all means for the future of cars and how
:26:28. > :26:29.we drive them VOICEOVER: He drives up
:26:30. > :26:31.in a 1908 Model T... The shapes have changed
:26:32. > :26:38.a bit over the years, and thank goodness, when it comes
:26:39. > :26:40.to the Brown Allegro, but all these cars have
:26:41. > :26:43.one thing in common - an internal combustion engine,
:26:44. > :26:44.burning petrol or diesel. We've relied on it for 100 years,
:26:45. > :26:48.but is that about to change? Volvo cars is taking
:26:49. > :26:50.a bold step forward, heralding the end of an era
:26:51. > :26:53.for the pure internal From 2019, Volvo says
:26:54. > :27:00.all its new models will be Ambitious plans, but experts
:27:01. > :27:06.say it won't be quick. Diesel and petrol will have
:27:07. > :27:09.a long life in them yet. A lot of people choose to adopt
:27:10. > :27:12.hybrids before they go all electric. During that time, batteries
:27:13. > :27:19.will improve, which will increase the range of miles you can do,
:27:20. > :27:21.and prices will drop, which will also make them more
:27:22. > :27:24.tenable for people to buy. So it's going to be quite
:27:25. > :27:27.a while yet before we see all electric cars, as every car
:27:28. > :27:29.on the road. In fact, sales of alternative
:27:30. > :27:31.engines remain small. In June last year, more than 8,300
:27:32. > :27:34.electric and hybrid vehicles That increased to nearly 11,000 this
:27:35. > :27:41.year, but it's still dwarfed by the 250,000 petrols
:27:42. > :27:44.and diesels people bought. This street sums up one of the big
:27:45. > :27:47.reasons that plug-in cars haven't Many of us live in houses
:27:48. > :27:55.like this, we don't have You often can't even
:27:56. > :28:00.park near your house, so how are you supposed
:28:01. > :28:03.to charge your electric car? Then there's the problem
:28:04. > :28:07.of topping up mid-journey. Certainly some of the country
:28:08. > :28:09.is better than others. Newcastle and the north-east has
:28:10. > :28:12.quite a lot of charging infrastructure, Wales is very poor,
:28:13. > :28:14.but to get from where we are to where we need to be,
:28:15. > :28:17.lots of different parties are going to have to come forward
:28:18. > :28:22.and put in charging points. Be that workplaces, we'll
:28:23. > :28:24.need to see businesses Supermarkets, anyone who has
:28:25. > :28:29.a public car park available. Our cities are plagued by pollution,
:28:30. > :28:32.with diesel engines one Electric cars are quieter
:28:33. > :28:37.and cleaner, are getting cheaper with a better range,
:28:38. > :28:40.but it will still be some years before the internal combustion
:28:41. > :28:46.engine drives off for good. It's been a good day for the Brits
:28:47. > :28:52.at Wimbledon with victories Joe Wilson was watching the day's
:28:53. > :28:57.action where the players weren't They also had to contend
:28:58. > :29:04.with flying ants. Public information didn't
:29:05. > :29:07.mention flying ants. But the heat and the British
:29:08. > :29:13.success ws forecast. Two British players -
:29:14. > :29:18.woman and man, contender and title Johanna Konta at the top
:29:19. > :29:27.of the screen, Croatia's Donna Vekic on the other side of the net,
:29:28. > :29:31.and the ball flying. Konta took the first set
:29:32. > :29:35.in a tie-break but when Vekic won the second, the match
:29:36. > :29:39.altered course alarmingly. But the tennis was relentless,
:29:40. > :29:47.this match stretched Look at this point in the 17th
:29:48. > :29:53.game of the third set. Someone had to win,
:29:54. > :29:56.and Konta broke decisively. How it feels to give everything
:29:57. > :30:04.and win, and to give Well, I think everybody at Wimbledon
:30:05. > :30:14.needed a bit of a relax after that. But quickly back to Centre Court
:30:15. > :30:22.for Andy Murray's solo. Well, it takes two to make
:30:23. > :30:27.an entertaining match, and when Dustin Brown
:30:28. > :30:30.is your opponent there will be fun. But this was a day when the towels
:30:31. > :30:35.were filled with ice Pretty soon he worked out
:30:36. > :30:40.he could follow Brown's tune Just three sets, just one hour 36
:30:41. > :30:52.minutes for Murray to win, in a nicely natured
:30:53. > :30:54.Centre Court excursion. Now all we needed was a quick update
:30:55. > :30:57.on that troublesome hip. I mean, you know, I've moved well
:30:58. > :31:05.the first couple of matches, I've been getting good practices in,
:31:06. > :31:09.you know, and I feel good. Also through to round three,
:31:10. > :31:12.British players Heather Watson and Alijaz Bedene, both
:31:13. > :31:15.with notable wins today. Petra Kvitova's brave
:31:16. > :31:20.comeback ended. She needed medical attention but got
:31:21. > :31:23.through three sets in defeat. Wimbledon would like
:31:24. > :31:27.to see her again. As for the flying ants,
:31:28. > :31:30.encouraged into action by Wednesday's heat,
:31:31. > :31:47.perhaps don't come back Tonight not hard, soft or medium
:31:48. > :31:49.Brexit, is a reverse now looking like a possibility? Join me now on
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