:00:00. > :00:00.Another big step towards Brexit, as the Government publishes
:00:07. > :00:11.its plans to convert EU law into British law.
:00:12. > :00:13.Ministers call for all parties to work with them,
:00:14. > :00:17.but already the opposition is calling for changes.
:00:18. > :00:19.The Prime Minister faces a difficult path ahead
:00:20. > :00:23.She says she was devastated by the election result.
:00:24. > :00:37.We'll be looking at the challenges ahead.
:00:38. > :00:45.The parents of baby Charlie Gard return to court, as an American
:00:46. > :00:47.doctor says a trial therapy could give him a chance
:00:48. > :00:52.On a visit to Paris, just weeks after President Trump
:00:53. > :00:55.said he'd pull America out of the Paris climate accord,
:00:56. > :01:01.World leaders pay tribute to one of China's most prominent
:01:02. > :01:04.political dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, after he dies
:01:05. > :01:11.And the end of a dream for Johanna Konta, as she fails
:01:12. > :01:14.to become the first British woman in 40 years to reach
:01:15. > :01:19.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News:
:01:20. > :01:22.Chris Froome loses the yellow jersey in the Tour de France,
:01:23. > :01:47.as he struggles on the final climb in today's 12th stage.
:01:48. > :01:51.It's another major step on Britain's path to leaving the European Union.
:01:52. > :01:55.The Government has finally published its long-awaited plans
:01:56. > :01:59.to pave the way for EU law to be transferred into British law.
:02:00. > :02:02.The European Union Withdrawal Bill is being described as one
:02:03. > :02:07.of the largest legal projects ever undertaken in the UK.
:02:08. > :02:09.The Government's called for all parties to work together
:02:10. > :02:13.But already Labour is calling for significant changes,
:02:14. > :02:16.and the Liberal Democrats are warning they will make life
:02:17. > :02:22.The bill will take an estimated 12,000 EU laws and copy them into UK
:02:23. > :02:27.law on the day that the UK leaves the European Union.
:02:28. > :02:31.The Government will then have powers to amend laws as it sees fit.
:02:32. > :02:34.Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has this report.
:02:35. > :02:41.A warning - it contains some flashing images.
:02:42. > :02:44.Still doing the handshakes, rolling out the red
:02:45. > :02:49.carpet for royalty - Spanish, this time.
:02:50. > :02:53.Still embarking on the task of taking us out of the European Union.
:02:54. > :02:58.For the first time today, the Prime Minister explaining her
:02:59. > :03:03.I felt, um, I suppose, devastated really, because,
:03:04. > :03:07.as I say, I knew the campaign wasn't going perfectly, but still,
:03:08. > :03:10.the messages I was getting from people I was speaking to,
:03:11. > :03:14.but also, the comments we were getting back
:03:15. > :03:17.from a lot of people, that were being passed on to me,
:03:18. > :03:20.were that we were going to get a better result than we did.
:03:21. > :03:34.And then you obviously have to brush yourself down.
:03:35. > :03:38.You have a responsibility, you are a human being, you have been
:03:39. > :03:44.But I was there as leader of the party and Prime Minister.
:03:45. > :03:48.I had a responsibility then, as we went through the night,
:03:49. > :03:51.to determine what we were going to do the next morning.
:03:52. > :04:01.Today, the bill that will legally take us out of the European Union
:04:02. > :04:08.Broadly, the withdrawal bill cuts and pastes thousands of EU laws that
:04:09. > :04:12.govern so much right now into British law.
:04:13. > :04:17.But with Theresa May's shaky grip, MPs will inevitably try
:04:18. > :04:25.I think there is a big understanding now amongst ministers,
:04:26. > :04:29.right the way across the board, that there will need to be a bit
:04:30. > :04:31.of compromise, there will need to be inevitable changes.
:04:32. > :04:33.So you think ministers have understood that,
:04:34. > :04:38.The withdrawal bill is such a huge undertaking.
:04:39. > :04:41.It also gives ministers the power to try to change or strike out
:04:42. > :04:47.swathes of regulation without guaranteeing MPs a say.
:04:48. > :04:49.This bill, as it stands though, would give ministers
:04:50. > :04:54.like you sweeping powers to change, get rid of bits and pieces
:04:55. > :04:58.of regulation that you don't like, without MPs having a guaranteed vote
:04:59. > :05:04.These are hardly massive changes, these are technical changes
:05:05. > :05:09.And it's up to the House of Commons, if a statutory instrument is placed
:05:10. > :05:12.front of the House of Commons, the House of Commons
:05:13. > :05:14.decides whether it debates it and votes on it.
:05:15. > :05:17.But they're not guaranteed votes unless today you want to give
:05:18. > :05:21.That's in the call of the House of Commons, what it chooses
:05:22. > :05:25.But no, it's not just a ministerial signature,
:05:26. > :05:27.it is what they call a statutory instrument, which can be
:05:28. > :05:38.Asking for its own meetings in Brussels.
:05:39. > :05:43.Trying to get the EU's negotiator onside.
:05:44. > :05:48.Barnier, you are now playing for Arsenal!
:05:49. > :05:52.Although it might take more than an Arsenal shirt to do that!
:05:53. > :05:56.But there's no way, as it stands, that Labour will back the bill.
:05:57. > :05:59.We will make sure there is full Parliamentary scrutiny,
:06:00. > :06:03.We have a Parliament where the government does
:06:04. > :06:05.not have a majority, we have a country that
:06:06. > :06:08.has voted in two ways, on Leave and Remain.
:06:09. > :06:11.Obviously the majority voted to leave, we respect that.
:06:12. > :06:14.But they didn't vote to lose jobs, they didn't vote to have Parliament
:06:15. > :06:23.Nicola Sturgeon with her own Kodak moment in Brussels today too.
:06:24. > :06:26.The Scottish Parliament can't technically veto the plan,
:06:27. > :06:33.As the bill stands just now, in good conscience I could not
:06:34. > :06:35.recommend to the Scottish Parliament that it gives legislative
:06:36. > :06:39.This bill takes powers away from the Scottish parliament
:06:40. > :06:41.This bill takes powers away fromt the Scottish Parliament
:06:42. > :06:43.and undermines the very foundations of the devolution settlement that
:06:44. > :06:47.As Whitehall begins this enormous process, ministers
:06:48. > :06:50.are all too well aware that there will be conflict ahead.
:06:51. > :06:53.The question, how they balance, compromise and hang
:06:54. > :06:59.And what ends up on the statute books does not just sit
:07:00. > :07:02.on the shelf, but shapes how ministers govern, how
:07:03. > :07:10.And Laura's in Westminster for us tonight.
:07:11. > :07:19.It is clear that there is a rocky road ahead for the government.
:07:20. > :07:22.Absolutely. Ministers know this will be very difficult and there will be
:07:23. > :07:27.all sorts of attempts to change the legislation. One joke doing the
:07:28. > :07:31.rounds at Westminster is that MPs are going to try and hang so much on
:07:32. > :07:34.this bill that it's going to end up dressed up like a Christmas tree.
:07:35. > :07:38.Ministers know they'll have to concede in some areas. The question
:07:39. > :07:45.is, where will they compromised and when? Will they try and fight day by
:07:46. > :07:51.day, once MPs are back in the autumn, on every issue? If you sniff
:07:52. > :07:54.very hard, there is a vague whiff of compromise in the air, maybe for the
:07:55. > :08:00.first time. Talking to Brexit Secretary David Davis earlier, he
:08:01. > :08:06.did suggest the UK might be able to have some sort of associate
:08:07. > :08:10.membership of the nuclear safety agency it sounds a bit obscure, but
:08:11. > :08:15.that is a green rebellion that has been gathering steam in the last few
:08:16. > :08:18.days he also sketched out the idea of what he had described as
:08:19. > :08:22.arbitration mechanisms, a potential way around the brick wall that has
:08:23. > :08:27.built up between Westminster and Brussels over what you do over who's
:08:28. > :08:34.in charge of life after Brexit. Remember, Louisa May is adamant that
:08:35. > :08:41.European judges must no longer have control over what happened in the
:08:42. > :08:44.UK. -- Theresa May. In Brussels, they believe European judges will
:08:45. > :08:47.have to continue having a role to police the things that have come
:08:48. > :08:51.down through European law over the time. I think David Davis was
:08:52. > :08:57.deliberately sketching out a possible way out of that particular
:08:58. > :09:03.quagmire. Ministers want to stick to their guns as much as they can, but
:09:04. > :09:07.since the election, with their political authority dilutive, and
:09:08. > :09:10.the clock ticking louder and louder, they know, as things proceed, they
:09:11. > :09:14.are going to have to concede or compromise politically, but they
:09:15. > :09:16.don't want to be seen to back down. An American doctor has told
:09:17. > :09:19.the High Court that a trial therapy in the States could give a chance
:09:20. > :09:22.of meaningful improvement to the condition of the terminally
:09:23. > :09:24.ill baby Charlie Gard. Charlie's parents returned to court
:09:25. > :09:27.today for the latest stage of their legal battle
:09:28. > :09:29.to keep him alive. The judge says he will only
:09:30. > :09:31.change his ruling - allowing Great Ormond Street Hospital
:09:32. > :09:34.to withdraw life support - Our Medical Correspondent,
:09:35. > :09:41.Fergus Walsh, reports. Save Charlie Gard,
:09:42. > :09:43.save Charlie Gard. They call themselves Charlie's Army,
:09:44. > :09:46.some of the half a million people who signed the petition calling
:09:47. > :09:49.for him to be allowed abroad Chris Gard and Connie Yates reject
:09:50. > :09:55.evidence from Charlie's doctors that their son has
:09:56. > :10:02.irreversible brain damage. If he is still fighting,
:10:03. > :10:11.then we are still fighting. Charlie is terminally ill,
:10:12. > :10:14.cannot move or breathe unaided. Four courts have already ruled
:10:15. > :10:19.he should be allowed to die. The key evidence today came
:10:20. > :10:21.via video link from the American He said he now had a better
:10:22. > :10:29.understanding of the benefits Of nine patients treated so far,
:10:30. > :10:36.none of whom has the same genetic mutation as Charlie,
:10:37. > :10:41.five now spent less time each day on a ventilator, and one of them
:10:42. > :10:45.could breathe completely unaided. He said this led him to conclude
:10:46. > :10:49.there was at least a 10% chance of meaningful
:10:50. > :10:54.improvement for Charlie. It's a powder added to food,
:10:55. > :11:02.which aims to boost energy Six-year-old Art Estopinan has
:11:03. > :11:09.a muscle-wasting condition and is one of those treated with it
:11:10. > :11:13.in the US. We were able to give him
:11:14. > :11:15.the medications, and little by little he started
:11:16. > :11:18.to get stronger. I didn't care if he was the first
:11:19. > :11:25.human to try these medications, because they only told us
:11:26. > :11:30.he was going to die. But Great Ormond Street says
:11:31. > :11:33.Charlie's catastrophic brain damage The final decision
:11:34. > :11:59.of the court is aimed to be at Charlie's best interest,
:12:00. > :12:02.and that would be a balance It's not black-and-white,
:12:03. > :12:06.but it's going to be a summation of all the possible benefits
:12:07. > :12:10.and all the possible risks, and what that could do for Charlie,
:12:11. > :12:13.not what it does for anybody else. In court, Connie Yates insisted
:12:14. > :12:18.Charlie is not suffering or in pain, and both parents briefly walked out
:12:19. > :12:23.of the hearing after the judge said they had agreed their son currently
:12:24. > :12:27.had no quality of life. So this desperately sick boy
:12:28. > :12:32.remains in intensive care, kept alive on a ventilator,
:12:33. > :12:38.as arguments over what is in his President Trump has hinted America
:12:39. > :12:48.could still shift its policy on the Paris climate accord,
:12:49. > :12:53.despite his decision last month to withdraw from the global
:12:54. > :12:56.agreement to limit climate change. He made the comments
:12:57. > :12:58.in Paris after talks with the French President,
:12:59. > :13:00.Emmanuel Macron. He also faced questions
:13:01. > :13:02.about the controversy surrounding his son's meeting
:13:03. > :13:04.with a Russian lawyer during the presidential
:13:05. > :13:08.campaign last year. This report contains
:13:09. > :13:14.some flashing images. If diplomacy is about power
:13:15. > :13:16.disguised as flattery, there are few more potent greetings
:13:17. > :13:19.than a ten-second handshake. Emmanuel Macron welcomed
:13:20. > :13:25.Donald Trump today with a visit to the tomb of France's and military
:13:26. > :13:27.leader, Napoleon, the impressive location designed to flatter both
:13:28. > :13:31.the visitor and host. Both these two men see
:13:32. > :13:37.themselves as modern-day political revolutionaries,
:13:38. > :13:40.sweeping away the old But Mr Macron also sees nothing
:13:41. > :13:46.wrong with using France's imperial history and military might
:13:47. > :13:49.to put its current diplomatic The two men have been battling
:13:50. > :13:56.for the role of alpha male ever since their first handshake
:13:57. > :13:58.on the sidelines of the G7 summit. Donald Trump later pulled out
:13:59. > :14:01.of a key climate change deal brokered in Paris,
:14:02. > :14:08.prompting Mr Macron to issue a video parodying the US
:14:09. > :14:12.President's campaign slogan. But Mr Macron, keen to boost
:14:13. > :14:21.French influence abroad, And Mr Trump's comments today
:14:22. > :14:27.on climate change suggest Something could happen with respect
:14:28. > :14:33.to the Paris accord. But we will talk about that over
:14:34. > :14:40.the coming period of time. And if it happens,
:14:41. > :14:43.that will be wonderful, and if it doesn't that
:14:44. > :14:48.will be OK, too. TRANSLATION: I want to continue
:14:49. > :14:50.discussions with the US and President Trump on this
:14:51. > :14:53.very important subject. I think it's compatible
:14:54. > :14:58.in the Paris Agreement. Now we have to let the US
:14:59. > :15:01.work on its road map And amid allegations that Russia
:15:02. > :15:07.interfered in the US election, Mr Trump was also asked
:15:08. > :15:10.about his son's contact I have a son who is a great young
:15:11. > :15:17.man, he is a fine person. He took a meeting with
:15:18. > :15:19.a lawyer from Russia. It lasted for a very short period
:15:20. > :15:23.and nothing came of the meeting. And I think it's a meeting that
:15:24. > :15:27.most people in politics Today, no differences were allowed
:15:28. > :15:34.to mar the transatlantic ties. But what do French voters think
:15:35. > :15:37.of Mr Trump's visit? I don't like him much,
:15:38. > :15:41.but what do I have to say? Trying to understand
:15:42. > :15:49.what he wants and where he's Even if he does not appreciate him
:15:50. > :15:55.as a person, or what he stands for. So I think French
:15:56. > :15:58.diplomacy at its best. In a visit where symbolism
:15:59. > :16:02.was the substance, the two couples A place labelled pragmatic,
:16:03. > :16:08.rather than pretty, to cement an alliance imperfect but crucial
:16:09. > :16:12.to France's place in the world. A brief look at some
:16:13. > :16:21.of the day's other news stories. A Russian military court has jailed
:16:22. > :16:24.five members of a Chechen gang for killing the leading opposition
:16:25. > :16:28.politician Boris Nemtsov. Mr Nemtsov, a former deputy
:16:29. > :16:31.prime minister and fierce critic of President Putin,
:16:32. > :16:33.was shot close to The gang's ringleader was sentenced
:16:34. > :16:40.to 20 years in prison. A former soldier who raped
:16:41. > :16:43.and killed a 15-year-old schoolgirl has been found guilty
:16:44. > :16:45.of her manslaughter more Stephen Hough killed Janet Commins
:16:46. > :16:51.in Flint in north Wales in 1976. Another man has already served six
:16:52. > :16:55.years for the crime. Hough will be sentenced
:16:56. > :16:59.at a later date. Train drivers working
:17:00. > :17:01.for Southern Rail have announced Members of the Aslef union,
:17:02. > :17:06.who are already in a dispute with the firm about driver-only
:17:07. > :17:09.operated trains, have voted Southern's parent firm was fined
:17:10. > :17:14.?13 million this morning for poor performance,
:17:15. > :17:18.during a period which saw a number An aristocrat has been jailed
:17:19. > :17:27.for posting menacing messages online Rhodri Philipps, the 4th
:17:28. > :17:31.Viscount St Davids, offered ?5,000 to anyone who would kill Gina Miller
:17:32. > :17:34.after she won a legal challenge saying Parliament had to be
:17:35. > :17:39.consulted about Brexit. It's being hailed as the biggest
:17:40. > :17:46.shake-up of ambulance response times At the moment, when an urgent
:17:47. > :17:51.999 call is received, the call handlers have to decide
:17:52. > :17:54.within 60 seconds whether or not The upshot is that a quarter
:17:55. > :17:59.of ambulances end up being stood down when it turns out
:18:00. > :18:01.they're not needed. Now call handlers are going to be
:18:02. > :18:04.given more time to assess the needs of a caller,
:18:05. > :18:06.to try to make the system Breathe normally for me,
:18:07. > :18:12.I'm just going to have Paramedics in the West Midlands
:18:13. > :18:16.today, with a 92-year-old patient. After a checkup, they decide it's
:18:17. > :18:19.safe to leave him at home. Try to keep your
:18:20. > :18:21.breathing nice and slow. The Ambulance Service is under great
:18:22. > :18:24.pressure but the way it works now allows too many vehicles to go
:18:25. > :18:27.to urgent cases, leaving other The new way of working will mean
:18:28. > :18:36.that we can identify and get to the sickest patients faster,
:18:37. > :18:39.that all patients will get the best response, rather
:18:40. > :18:45.than just the nearest... Under the current system,
:18:46. > :18:48.in a control room like this, call handlers have just 60 seconds
:18:49. > :18:52.to decide whether to dispatch an ambulance, and whether it should
:18:53. > :18:55.be a blue light for the most The problem is, that sometimes isn't
:18:56. > :19:01.long enough to decide the most appropriate response,
:19:02. > :19:04.and ambulances can be That decision time will be extended
:19:05. > :19:13.for serious but not critical cases. And while for the most urgent cases
:19:14. > :19:16.under the current system the target is for an ambulance to arrive at 75%
:19:17. > :19:19.of patients within eight minutes, under the new one there will be
:19:20. > :19:24.a target of 90% seen Service leaders say fewer 999 calls
:19:25. > :19:32.will be treated as life-threatening, and some people needing urgent care
:19:33. > :19:35.will have to wait longer, but they can be more certain
:19:36. > :19:39.of getting the right response. Willie Wynne says the system
:19:40. > :19:42.as it is failed his family. His daughter, Ingrid,
:19:43. > :19:45.had a heart condition. She had palpitations and he called
:19:46. > :19:48.999 six times and no ambulance You have people with a broken arm
:19:49. > :19:55.and a broken leg going, I know I'd love them to have it,
:19:56. > :20:00.but, you know, that is not We are talking about emergencies,
:20:01. > :20:04.and an emergency is an emergency. But nobody done anything
:20:05. > :20:08.about an emergency. The local ambulance trust,
:20:09. > :20:12.South Central, said it extended At the time, many of its resources
:20:13. > :20:16.were tied up elsewhere. Some argue that while the reforms
:20:17. > :20:19.are welcome, they won't solve From the patients' point of view,
:20:20. > :20:26.this could be good, in terms of one part of their journey,
:20:27. > :20:28.as it were. But it's no good if they get messed
:20:29. > :20:32.up in A, or can't get a bed Reforms have already been
:20:33. > :20:40.introduced in Wales. There is a pilot scheme
:20:41. > :20:42.under way in Scotland. Trials in England suggest more
:20:43. > :20:46.ambulances can be freed up to get to a wider range of patients,
:20:47. > :20:49.but the real test will come this winter, when it's
:20:50. > :20:52.introduced nationally. One of China's most prominent
:20:53. > :20:59.political dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, has died of cancer a month
:21:00. > :21:02.after he was moved He'd been serving an 11-year
:21:03. > :21:07.sentence for "inciting Mr Liu won the Nobel peace prize
:21:08. > :21:11.in 2010 for his pursuit There have been tributes
:21:12. > :21:16.from around the world. The leader of the Norwegian Nobel
:21:17. > :21:19.Committee said the government in Beijing bore a heavy
:21:20. > :21:23.responsibility for his death. Our China Editor,
:21:24. > :21:28.Carrie Gracie, reports. Reunited with his wife
:21:29. > :21:38.only at the end. And still, under the watchful
:21:39. > :21:42.eye of the state. Two foreign doctors were allowed
:21:43. > :21:46.to visit his bedside. The pictures released abroad
:21:47. > :21:50.to support the Government's claim Along with videos to deflect
:21:51. > :21:55.the charge that his cancer But he was denied his dying
:21:56. > :22:04.wish - to leave China. We have been through these kind
:22:05. > :22:08.of cases one after another, but it has still come
:22:09. > :22:10.as a big shock. Because, not only because I know
:22:11. > :22:16.him, but also because he has been such a symbol for China's human
:22:17. > :22:26.rights, or democratic movement. The Tiananmen Square
:22:27. > :22:33.democracy protests. He tried to secure
:22:34. > :22:39.students safe passage out. Before the army moved
:22:40. > :22:44.in to kill unknown numbers. In and out of jail,
:22:45. > :22:52.for demanding political freedoms. TRANSLATION: As a survivor
:22:53. > :22:56.of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, I feel I have a duty
:22:57. > :22:59.to uphold justice for those In 2010 he won the Nobel Peace
:23:00. > :23:09.Prize, but he was back "Empty chair" became a banned
:23:10. > :23:18.expression on China's internet. His once irrepressible wife,
:23:19. > :23:21.Lui Xia, was placed under house arrest, where she fell
:23:22. > :23:28.victim to depression. It was only two weeks' ago the world
:23:29. > :23:32.learned of Liu Xiaobo's illness. Hong Kong, the one place in China
:23:33. > :23:39.citizens could call for his release. Chinese censorship is formidable,
:23:40. > :23:42.and few here know of Liu Xiaobo's life, his death or his Nobel Peace
:23:43. > :23:49.Prize. Many Chinese see the one party state
:23:50. > :23:54.as an unavoidable fact of life, and under the strong arm rule
:23:55. > :23:58.of President Xi Jinping it has become even more
:23:59. > :24:05.dangerous to challenge that. Liu Xiaobo once warned,
:24:06. > :24:07."If you want to enter hell, He felt no ill-will
:24:08. > :24:12.toward his jailers. He said he'd committed no crime,
:24:13. > :24:20.but had no complaints. The Chinese political
:24:21. > :24:22.dissident Liu Xiaobo, An Italian delegation has been
:24:23. > :24:31.in Libya today in a new attempt to stop the people smugglers sending
:24:32. > :24:33.thousands of migrants Most of them set out to sea
:24:34. > :24:38.from Libya, which has no Italian coastguards have taken
:24:39. > :24:43.to burning the smugglers' boats to stem the flow,
:24:44. > :24:45.despite criticism that it makes Our Europe Editor, Katya Adler,
:24:46. > :24:53.is here with more. The number of migrants arriving
:24:54. > :24:58.in Europe has fallen dramatically But Italy is still under
:24:59. > :25:03.immense pressure. More than 85,000 people
:25:04. > :25:05.have arrived this year, In total, Italy has received over
:25:06. > :25:11.600,000 newcomers over the last four years,
:25:12. > :25:16.while around 13,000 people have died Alongside that human tragedy,
:25:17. > :25:21.the political and economic impact is huge, and Italy says
:25:22. > :25:25.it can't cope. Amnesty International is warning
:25:26. > :25:29.that 2017 is set to become the deadliest year on what it calls
:25:30. > :25:34.the deadliest migration Italy is keen to crackdown
:25:35. > :25:41.on the people smugglers, but charities working on the front
:25:42. > :25:44.line accused the EU of cutting back on rescue missions,
:25:45. > :25:47.in an attempt, they say, to put other migrants off
:25:48. > :25:51.trying to come to Europe. This footage was filmed by the BBC
:25:52. > :25:58.off the Libyan coast. Throughout the day the Italian
:25:59. > :26:00.coastguard has been moving around, trying to set fire to as many
:26:01. > :26:04.of these smugglers' The EU says this is the most
:26:05. > :26:10.important thing to do In addition to saving lives,
:26:11. > :26:14.to disrupt the business model of the smugglers,
:26:15. > :26:18.and this is how they do it. So where are the
:26:19. > :26:23.migrants coming from? At the height of the crisis,
:26:24. > :26:26.two years ago, many Hundreds of thousands made perilous
:26:27. > :26:30.crossing from Turkey to Greece That route has now been slammed
:26:31. > :26:35.shut, partly due to an EU deal with Turkey to stop
:26:36. > :26:38.the people smugglers. But Italy's story
:26:39. > :26:40.is a different one. Migrants are heading there
:26:41. > :26:43.from across sub Saharan Africa, They set off to Europe
:26:44. > :26:49.from conflict torn Libya. most are not refugees
:26:50. > :26:52.but economic migrants - The International Organisation
:26:53. > :26:57.for Migration says we're facing this for the long-term
:26:58. > :27:01.because people are attracted It is not something that is going
:27:02. > :27:09.to go away in a year or two. It is something that is going
:27:10. > :27:12.to stay for a variety of reasons. What is complicated is the fact
:27:13. > :27:16.that the response is left to just The front line and a couple
:27:17. > :27:21.of others more in the interior of the EU that are ready to come
:27:22. > :27:24.and share the responsibility Germany's Angela Merkel
:27:25. > :27:33.and France's Emmanuel Macron met the Italian Prime Minister
:27:34. > :27:35.yesterday. But Italians say they have heard
:27:36. > :27:43.lots of empty promises. Italy could send economic migrants
:27:44. > :27:49.back home, since they are neither refugees nor asylum-seekers,
:27:50. > :27:54.but many have no ID papers. Their countries of origin are often
:27:55. > :27:59.reluctant to issue new ones, and they can't be returned to Libya
:28:00. > :28:02.safely because of the EU countries have pledged to improve
:28:03. > :28:09.lives in Africa so fewer people feel the need to move,
:28:10. > :28:12.but that is a long-term goal. In the meantime, lives
:28:13. > :28:17.continue to be lost at sea, Johanna Konta's dream of becoming
:28:18. > :28:27.the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon finals in 40
:28:28. > :28:29.years is over. She crashed out of the championships
:28:30. > :28:31.after being beaten in straight sets by the five-time champion Venus
:28:32. > :28:35.Williams. Joe Wilson was watching
:28:36. > :28:40.the match on centre court. Everyone knows your name,
:28:41. > :28:42.everyone wants your name. For Johanna Konta,
:28:43. > :28:45.it's all been new. For Venus Williams,
:28:46. > :28:47.it's been her life. Venus has seen it all,
:28:48. > :28:52.returned it all. But Konta, well, she wasn't
:28:53. > :28:56.here to be intimidated. Konta created an opportunity
:28:57. > :28:58.in the first set. For Konta the methodical,
:28:59. > :29:12.the reliable, the match Double fault and broken
:29:13. > :29:17.in the second set. Centre Court yearned for the Konta
:29:18. > :29:21.we had seen in previous rounds. Now, come on, it's a lovely
:29:22. > :29:26.afternoon, we'd like to Well, this match lasted just one
:29:27. > :29:31.hour and 14 minutes. Williams, too good and too
:29:32. > :29:36.composed when it mattered. Overwhelmed by a Williams
:29:37. > :29:39.at Wimbledon. Quite honestly, I think
:29:40. > :29:46.I was in just as much of a shot I think today it came down
:29:47. > :29:51.on the day and Venus I mean, I think I've definitely got
:29:52. > :29:59.a lot more to improve on and there's a lot of exciting things I can
:30:00. > :30:02.still get better at. Well, we always felt this
:30:03. > :30:05.was an open women's tournament, full of possibility,
:30:06. > :30:07.because somebody was missing. With Serena Williams
:30:08. > :30:09.happily enjoying pregnancy, An opportunity, it turns
:30:10. > :30:17.out, for her sister. Last week, Venus was in tears,
:30:18. > :30:19.talking about the car Now, she's in another final, at 37,
:30:20. > :30:24.at the place she loves. I thought the crowd was very
:30:25. > :30:27.nice to me, actually. They could have really been
:30:28. > :30:30.even more boisterous. I thought the crowd was so fair,
:30:31. > :30:33.and I know that they love Jo I thought she handled it well,
:30:34. > :30:41.and I think my experience Dealing with this disappointment
:30:42. > :30:45.is Jo Konta's next challenge. She's ranked high enough to expect
:30:46. > :30:48.titles, but the future offers no guarantees of more opportunities
:30:49. > :31:15.like this one. Tonight, the government tells us
:31:16. > :31:17.that in the wake of the Grenfell disaster, it except that building
:31:18. > :31:20.regulations are not up to the job and will be fully reviewed.
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