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Police in Germany clash with protestors, as world leaders

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gather in Hamburg ahead of the G20 summit.

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Police used tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse a crowd

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of several thousand anti-G20 protestors.

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President Trump has arrived in Germany after a visit to Poland,

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where he warned of threats posed by both Islamist terrorism

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Today, we're in the West, and we have to say, there are dire

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threats to our security and to our way of life.

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Tomorrow, President Trump will hold his first face-to-face

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meeting with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

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The Iraq War - Tony Blair was not straight with the nation

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about his decisions in the run-up to the invasion, says Sir John

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I think any Prime Minister taking a country into war has got to be

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straight with the nation, and carry it, so far

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I don't believe that was the case in the Iraq instance.

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Fragile and precarious - inspectors warn that a quarter

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of social care services for adults in England are failing

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And what a debut for Joe Root as England Test captain -

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he scores a century against South Africa at Lord's.

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: It's not the Centre Court

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debut British Number two Kyle Edmund would have dreamt of,

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as he's beaten in the second round at Wimbledon.

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President Trump has used his first major speech in Europe to warn

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Police and protesters have clashed in Germany tonight, as world leaders

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gather their ahead of tomorrow's G20 Summit. President Trump flew into

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Hamburg after a visit to Poland, where he used his first major speech

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in Europe to want the very survival of the West is at risk. Addressing a

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large crowd in Warsaw, Mr Trump drew on Poland's example of fighting

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Warsaw Well Nazi oppression. He called on the west to fight against

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Islamist extremism, terrorism and government bureaucracy.

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The famous port of Hamburg, tonight a disembarkation point

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for anarchists and capitalists, anti-globalisation protesters,

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and the leaders of the world's 20 richest nations.

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Protesters, stones and fireworks being met by police tear

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No such hostility when the president ventured out to Warsaw this morning.

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Not everywhere in Europe would they chant Donald Trump's name so

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But with its populist anti-immigration

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government, this was politically the ideal place to come.

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And by dint of Poland's history and geography, the

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perfect location to deliver a message about the challenges facing

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The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has

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Do we have the confidence in our values to defend

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Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect

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Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our

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civilisation interface of those who would subvert and destroy it?

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-- in the face of those who would subvert and destroyed.

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This sculpture commemorating those who

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The backdrop against which the president

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Today, he identified the threat as Islamist

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extremism, but he had another target in his sights, too.

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We urge Russia to cease its destabilising

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activities in Ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes,

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including Syria and Iran, and to instead join the community of

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responsible nations in our fight against common enemies and in

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That's the most outspoken he's been about Russia, and it comes on the

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eve of his eagerly anticipated first meeting with Vladimir Putin.

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But on Moscow's interference in last November's US presidential election,

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something his intelligence services say is an undoubted fact, the

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I think it could very well have been Russia,

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but I think it could well have been other countries, and I won't be

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specific, what I think a lot of people interfere.

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I think it's been happening for a long time, it's been

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But the most immediate and looming threat is

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North Korea, testing and

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intercontinental ballistic missile, something likely to dominate the

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As far as North Korea's concerned, I don't know, we'll see

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I don't like to talk about what I have planned.

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But I have some pretty severe things that

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we're thinking about, that doesn't mean we're going to do them,

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One other important thing that came out of this trip to

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Warsaw was a clear commitment to Nato's Article 5.

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That an attack on one nation is an attack against

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all, a welcome announcement for all those anxious countries

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Then it was on to Germany, and what promises to be a

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testing summit, with disagreements over North Korea, free trade,

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And Angela Merkel and Donald Trump, who

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met this evening, disagree on much of this.

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The joint communique is going to be a test of the

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Thousands of protesters are still on the streets of hamburger tonight. A

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large security cordon has been created around the city centre to

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stop them reaching the G20 summit venues. Police have used water

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cannon and tear gas to try to distance -- disburse them.

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Protesters say they are angry because leaders have failed to solve

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many of the issues threatening world peace. Jenny Hill reports from

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The world's leaders aren't exactly welcome in Hamburg.

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There are tens of thousands of protesters in the

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city, they dance to many different tunes but they are united in their

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Then, after a peaceful afternoon, police moved in to disperse them.

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This is now stand-off for a half an hour or so.

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The police in riot gear, water cannon at the ready have been

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waiting here, holding back the demonstrators,

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Hard to say who provoked whom, but this is exactly

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They say 8,000 extremists are targeting

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the summit, many of them armed with improvised weapons.

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The demonstration may be over for now, the protests are not.

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We are shocked how the police is treating all the people and we saw

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They are just doing their job, but maybe a

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After all, the summit hasn't even yet gun.

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Jon, what's the situation there tonight?

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Well, the position is that the immediate area where we are now, the

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protesters have cleared away about an hour ago. There was a lot of tear

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gas in the air, riot police on the streets. You can probably hear the

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police helicopters overhead. They've moved about a mile away from our

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position now. But I suspect tomorrow the focus will turn to the G20

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summit itself, and that most on sequential meeting taking place,

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that between President Trump and Vladimir Putin -- consequential

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meeting. I went to a briefing big or coming out here and the President's

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National Security adviser said there's no agenda, the president

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will raise what he wants to raise. Will he raise the issue of Russian

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interference in the US election? I suspect probably not, given what he

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said earlier on today. And that's bound to fuel suspicion in

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Washington I gain, with all these multiple enquiries going on. But

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there are the wider issues of the G20 and we've already seen that

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Donald Trump is disagreeing with the Russians and the Chinese over South

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Korea. He's isolated over climate change, but may have the support of

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the Russians on that. On trade, the president seems to be pretty much

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alone, because there are great fears here that there could be a trade

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war. Then you've got other issues as well, why people don't see eye to

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eye. Angela Merkel and Donald Trump on immigration, very far apart. What

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you see in this G20 is there are flexible alliances and some very

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profound disagreements. Jon Sopel and Hamburg, thank you.

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The chairman of the inquiry into the Iraq war, Sir John Chilcot,

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has told the BBC that Tony Blair was not straight with the nation

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and the inquiry about his decisions in the run-up to the invasion more

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Speaking a year after the publication of his report,

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Sir John said the evidence Mr Blair gave to the inquiry

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was "emotionally truthful", but he had relied on beliefs

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Mr Blair's office insists that five separate reports -

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including the Chilcot inquiry - have found that there was no

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Sir John was speaking exclusively to our political editor,

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Tonight British servicemen and women are engaged

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And the whole truth about Britain's war in Iraq.

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We will approach our task in a way that is thorough, rigorous, fair.

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The man charged with finding it, the man who took us in.

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Responsibility but not a regret for removing Saddam

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A year since his vast report emerged, Sir John Chilcot's

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Tony Blair is always and ever an advocate.

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He makes the most persuasive case he can, not

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departing from the truth, but persuasion is everything.

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There is, I argued, the responsibility of the

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leading politician of a government, both to make the case for the policy

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decision taken but also to balance that with realism about risks,

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If you act simply as a one-sided advocate,

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you risk losing that, and I think that risk became apparent.

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But you spent years studying this intelligence.

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The way you put it in the report and what

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you just said suggests, as

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somebody who spent their life in government, in public service...

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That you feel he manipulated the evidence to make his own case?

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Again, I'm declining the word "manipulate",

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and using "as best he could" but it's only fair to

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him to say that on the very eve of the invasion, he asked the then

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chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee, can you tell me

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beyond reasonable doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass

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destruction, to which the answer was, "yes, I can".

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He was entitled to rely on that but would it have been

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Do you feel he gave you the fullest version of

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I hesitate to say this, rather, but I think from his

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perspective and standpoint emotionally truthful.

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I think he was under really great emotional

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pressure during those sessions, far more than the committee were and he

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was suffering, he was deeply engaged.

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Do you believe that Tony Blair was as straight

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with you and the public as he ought to have been?

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Can I slightly reword that to say I think

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any Prime Minister taking a country into war has got to be straight with

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the nation and carry it, so far as possible, with him or her,

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I don't believe that was the case in the

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There were no lies, there was no deceit, there was no

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Sir John didn't then, doesn't now, say Tony Blair intentionally

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And the former Prime Minister's friends reject the

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accusation that he wasn't completely straight.

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In the report he made it clear that Tony Blair did not seek to deceive

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the public or Parliament and to use the words

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he was not straight, gives

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a slightly different spin in relation to it.

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So I think it is unfair and wrong and not justified

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Did he do a good job in our relations with the United States?

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The enquiry produced dramatic evidence of their close ties.

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Our formal policy right up to the Autumn of 2002,

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was one of containment, that was the

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But the Prime Minister was running one of coercive diplomacy,

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with the knowledge and support of the Foreign Secretary but the

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Foreign Secretary hoped that diplomacy would win and not

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I think the Prime Minister probably looked the other way

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When you saw some of the most notable documents that emerged, and

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I'm thinking, of course, of the note...

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Of course,"I shall be with you whatever"...

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What did you think of that when you saw

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Because you're giving away far too much.

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You're making a binding commitment from one

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sovereign country to another which you can't

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fulfil, you're not in a

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I mean he didn't even know the legal position

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So many documents like this end up simply on the

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But the author, this time, believes the narrative of Britain's

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misadventures in Iraq has already changed things.

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Do you think we could ever go to war in the same way?

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Oh, yes, in an existential crisis, certainly, no

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question about it, but more generally, I think we have seen

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evidence, not of a failure of nerve but of an insistence on much better

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control of capacity, resources, before reaching

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a decision to do something on that scale.

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The report has brought in a new level of challenges?

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In fact I'm assured so, and hope it's so.

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By whom, what assurances have you had?

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I was extremely uncertain as to what kind

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I didn't know whether you'd get booze or

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brick bats or even rotten tomatoes, still, we got loud applause.

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Now the sense of relief I experienced

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My hope is that some future minds will have been changed,

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because you can't just say that block of volumes never existed.

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It's standing in the way of a retreat back down the road

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Giving too, an intensely detailed post-script for his reputation,

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built on power, political passion and ambition,

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So a year after the Chilcot report was published,

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some relatives of those who died in the Iraq war have been asking

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why Sir John has chosen to talk about it again now.

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Our home editor, Mark Easton, has been gauging reaction

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It was the largest protest march in British history,

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and for many of those who took part, Tony Blair will always

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Sir John Chilcot's suggestion he was not straight with the public,

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whatever the official record might say, will be held up as evidence

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Kris O'Neill was among the 179 British service

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His family say Sir John's latest comments are to be welcomed.

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What he says today adds strength to our case, to go further,

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to try and bring some sort of justice to parents

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What that will be, I don't know yet, that is still in the hands

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Sir John portrays Tony Blair as an emotional advocate

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for action against a tyrant, rather than a leader

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using objective judgment, but the British UN Ambassador

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I don't think that Tony Blair ever really wanted to go to war in Iraq.

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He wanted to find another way, he was desperate,

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and I worked for him on that, to find another way to persuade

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It was only as he was dragged into it, that he realised

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Friends and colleagues of Tony Blair have called Sir John's comments

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The family of Alex Green, also killed in Iraq, agree.

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To be honest, I find it really, really puzzling, and I'm wondering

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what his motives are, because there doesn't seem to be any

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positives at all that can come out of this and I'm stunned as to why

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Sir John's comments have once again stirred passionate arguments

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about the Iraq war and Tony Blair's role in it, but they've

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also focused attention on the public inquiry process,

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and whether an investigation that takes seven years

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achieves its purpose, if the head then feels

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the need to make further comment another year later.

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I think what Chilcot has done today is draw attention once

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again to the process by which we were taken to war.

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Was Prime Minister Blair sufficiently open with Parliament

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But what is really important, and I wouldn't want today's

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illumination of this issue again to make the families of the 179

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people that we lost in southern Iraq think that their sacrifice

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Southern Iraq, for our intervention, is a much better place today

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It's 15 years since the decisions and actions which divide this

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country on Iraq were taken, but for some they remain as bitterly

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Laura's in Westminster for us tonight.

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What impact is Sir John's intervention likely to have? I don't

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think it settled the old arguments, the views held passionately on

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either side. Tony Blair has rejected the suggestions he was somehow

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pursuing his own version of the truth. Perhaps the real impact, I

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think, that is likely, that to erpart of government, politicians,

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everyone weather in the Ministry of Defence, Downing Street, the Foreign

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Office or the intelligence service, it's a heavy reminder that their

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responsibilities to all of us as and when the political wind moves to a

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potential war is extremely great and they must, in his view, never make

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the same kinds of mistakes again. Now Sir John was absolutely clear,

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he thinks there have already been some changes in the 12 months since

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he report was published but I think if anything he hopes that the legacy

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of that inquiry, that remember took longer than the conflict itself,

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will be to ensure that the military, the government machine, will never

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again fall short in quite the same way.

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Finding the right care provision for the elderly has become a game

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of "Russian roulette", according to the charity Age UK.

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It follows a new report from the Care Quality Commission

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which found that a quarter of services in England are

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One million vulnerable people use care services in England.

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About 500,000 get care in their own homes.

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And 200,000 are looked after in nursing homes.

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Inspectors in England identified a lack of staff

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and errors over drugs as some of the most serious problems.

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Our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt reports.

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Mum, can you open your eyes just a little?

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Bernie Jarvis carefully gives her 78-year-old mother lunch.

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Betty, who has dementia, is now back with family,

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but she used to live in a nursing home.

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The family put in a secret camera because they had concerns,

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and it quickly picked up the sort of poor care highlighted

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It showed a care worker pushing the chair Betty is slumped

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Later, when Betty objects to her top being changed,

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her head is slammed back into the chair.

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Last February in court, the care worker accepted her

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actions were reckless rather than intentional.

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She was given a 12 month community order.

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Because they did with us for about eight months.

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I wish we would have pursued it a lot quicker than we did.

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Because mum, you know, mum probably wouldn't have

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Today's report by inspectors said most care in England is good.

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Even so, a quarter of all services, including home care and residential

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And 37% of nursing homes weren't safe enough.

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Also when reinspected, quality of care in some good

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There's good care out there, we can be confident about that,

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but what it's saying is that some of that care is fragile

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and it's precarious, and we've really got to concentrate

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on making sure we shine the spotlight on poor care.

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At a time when the number of older people and younger disabled

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adults is increasing, this report raises serious concerns

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about the quality of care that some are getting.

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But those at the sharp end say it also underlines the importance

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of rapid action to sort out how we pay for and organise

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For individual older people and their families,

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they're facing a degree of Russian roulette.

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Will the care in a care home be safe?

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Will there be a nurse in the nursing home?

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These are such fundamental questions, and it's unfair to expect

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older people to be facing them at the most vulnerable

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This home in south London is rated outstanding.

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Jane Ashcroft heads the not-for-profit

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They've done research which suggests a quarter of people still think

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the state will pay for their care, which she says shows the need

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If we're still talking about this in three years,

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that will be a disaster for people looking for services,

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We have to recognise this is a crucial issue

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The government says poor care is completely unacceptable and that

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as well as putting in more money, it will be consulting on how

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to place social care on a more secure footing for the future.

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But the question for many is how quickly will that happen?

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A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.

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Counter-terrorism police in Manchester say they believe

:24:07.:24:08.

Salman Abedi, who carried out the suicide attack in the city

:24:09.:24:11.

in May, was not part of a larger extremist network.

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But officers say other people might have been aware

:24:14.:24:15.

of what he was planning, and they want to question

:24:16.:24:18.

his younger brother, who is in custody in Libya.

:24:19.:24:25.

A man who killed two of his girlfriends, five years apart,

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and claimed they had died in their sleep, has

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Robert Trigg, who's 52, was convicted of the manslaughter

:24:30.:24:32.

of Caroline Devlin in 2006 and the murder of Susan

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Both women were found dead at their homes in Worthing.

:24:36.:24:44.

Urgent large-scale tests have been ordered on combinations of cladding

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and insulation used on high rise buildings, in the wake

:24:47.:24:48.

So far, tests on cladding have involved only the plastic core

:24:49.:24:52.

A group of prominent business leaders say Britain should stay

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inside the single market and customs union until a final

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The CBI says that adapting to a transitional arrangement

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and then a final agreement would be difficult and wasteful.

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Our business editor, Simon Jack, is here.

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Simon, how significant an intervention is this from the CBI?

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I think this is probably the most significant intervention by a

:25:22.:25:28.

business lobby since the referendum. What they are saying is that the

:25:29.:25:33.

chance of doing a full deal by March 2019 when due to leave the EU is

:25:34.:25:38.

almost impossible, given that, there is no point for a two-stage process,

:25:39.:25:44.

the negotiated transitional deal and a final deal. We should, until there

:25:45.:25:49.

is a fully negotiated final deal in place, until the moment it is in

:25:50.:25:54.

force, we should stay in the single market and the customs union. That

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could take years and it could be controversial as it comes with

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strings attached like the movement of people.

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And Michelle Barnier has been saying I can hear people saying you can

:26:10.:26:14.

leave the single market and keep the benefits, that is not possible or

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leave the customs union and have a frictionless border trade, that is

:26:20.:26:23.

not possible. This is a negotiation, of course he will say that say some

:26:24.:26:27.

but it shows the gap between what the British Government thinks is

:26:28.:26:32.

possible and what the EU says that the reality is still wide and other

:26:33.:26:37.

businesses threw in with the CBI, that the best way over the gap is a

:26:38.:26:42.

bridge and the best bridge is pretty much the status quo. Simon, thank

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The largest change to the welfare system in decades -

:26:46.:26:48.

Universal Credit - should be stopped until significant

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That's the warning from the Citizens Advice charity,

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who say it is creating financial problems for thousands of people.

:26:55.:26:57.

The new credit brings together six separate benefits,

:26:58.:26:59.

such as housing benefit and tax credits, into one monthly payment.

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But Citizens Advice say people are being forced into debt due

:27:02.:27:04.

Michael Buchanan reports from Somerset.

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Before the doors have even opened, people gather at the Citizens Advice

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Seeking help with debt and benefits, Universal

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Credit is now the fastest growing problem.

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Vicky Kelly juggles her young daughter and two cleaning

:27:26.:27:35.

She's no internet access at home, so struggles with the online

:27:36.:27:39.

I have to take a day off work to sort this out!

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They want you to work, yet they won't let

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So, this is you making a Universal Credit claim?

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In the back room Margaret Woodward has the

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increasingly unenviable task of helping people

:28:00.:28:00.

So you're not getting an awful lot, are you?

:28:01.:28:03.

Once someone claims it, any other benefits immediately stop and you

:28:04.:28:07.

typically wait six weeks before receiving any money.

:28:08.:28:09.

I think at the moment it's probably not fit for

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Nobody can survive with without any income for six weeks.

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We have people getting into rent arrears, can't pay their electric,

:28:16.:28:17.

can't pay their gas, haven't got money for food.

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At the local food bank, they say they're seeing the consequences of

:28:26.:28:28.

Figures they've gathered indicate problems

:28:29.:28:30.

associated with benefit changes and delays have increased by more

:28:31.:28:32.

Louise Summer-Hayes has been here several times

:28:33.:28:35.

Her first visit, she says, was due to troubles

:28:36.:28:41.

We had to borrow money off of friends, family, come to the

:28:42.:28:50.

food bank because benefits are late or in the very beginning, we had to

:28:51.:28:53.

Bridgwater was one of the first places

:28:54.:29:03.

in Britain to experience the

:29:04.:29:04.

A year later it is ideally placed to assess

:29:05.:29:11.

the largest overhaul of the

:29:12.:29:12.

The problem around here is not unemployment, as such, it is low

:29:13.:29:20.

wages - people need the benefit system to top up their incomes.

:29:21.:29:23.

Most people I spoke to actually support

:29:24.:29:32.

the idea of Universal Credit but just need it to now work

:29:33.:29:35.

One change sees housing Benefit paid directly

:29:36.:29:39.

to claimants, which has led

:29:40.:29:40.

The Housing Association say two thirds of rent

:29:41.:29:43.

arrears are now due to Universal Credit.

:29:44.:29:51.

Holly Reninhan is one of those tenants, she says problems

:29:52.:29:53.

with Universal Credit caused her to build up three

:29:54.:29:56.

months' of rent arrears, as well as other household

:29:57.:29:58.

To cover some household bills I had to look at getting payday

:29:59.:30:05.

loans and because of my money being up and down

:30:06.:30:08.

each month, it's put me in

:30:09.:30:09.

further debt due to me not making the payments on the loans.

:30:10.:30:12.

Ministers say that Universal Credit is a

:30:13.:30:14.

They say that it's moving people into work.

:30:15.:30:17.

They say most claimants are satisfied with the

:30:18.:30:19.

benefit and that help is available for those with problems.

:30:20.:30:22.

But the increasing demands on a small

:30:23.:30:23.

Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Bridgwater in Somerset.

:30:24.:30:29.

At Wimbledon today, despite a shaky start,

:30:30.:30:31.

third seed Roger Federer is through to the last 32

:30:32.:30:33.

Earlier in the day on Centre Court, Britain's Kyle Edmund failed

:30:34.:30:37.

to become the fifth British singles player to reach the third round.

:30:38.:30:40.

He lost in straight sets to Frenchman Gael Monfils.

:30:41.:30:50.

Cricket now - and on his first appearance as England Test captain,

:30:51.:30:53.

Joe Root has scored a century against South Africa.

:30:54.:30:55.

Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss was watching the action.

:30:56.:31:06.

The first Test of the summer and of an era.

:31:07.:31:08.

Joe Root arrived all smiles and promptly won the toss.

:31:09.:31:10.

But as his predecessor helped prove, it's anything but.

:31:11.:31:16.

Alastair Cook gone for three as wickets soon tumbled.

:31:17.:31:18.

A rueful Root and how he made South Africa pay.

:31:19.:31:32.

Magic and maturity in equal measure as he led the England

:31:33.:31:35.

fightback, and soon after tea he reached his century.

:31:36.:31:38.

A kiss of the badge, an ovation from his team -

:31:39.:31:42.

leading by example has rarely felt better.

:31:43.:31:44.

But that was just the start, as thrillingly he hit the accelerator.

:31:45.:31:48.

And just when South Africa thought they finally

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That summed up their day and this summed up Root's.

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On 184 at the close, no England skipper has scored more

:32:04.:32:06.

It just seemed to fall into place today, and when you get a life

:32:07.:32:13.

early sometimes you feel like it's your day and you've got

:32:14.:32:19.

One of the great captaincy debuts and a day which had threatened

:32:20.:32:28.

to belong to South Africa instead belongs to Joe Root.

:32:29.:32:30.

Tonight Donald Trump says that the West may not survive. Is he right or

:32:31.:32:54.

part of the problem? The head of the CB. Joins to see her vision of a

:32:55.:33:01.

Brexit so soft, it could

:33:02.:33:02.

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