:00:00. > :00:09.The parents of the terminally-ill baby
:00:10. > :00:12.Charlie Gard abandon their legal fight to get him experimental
:00:13. > :00:17.Their lawyer said it was too late for the therapy
:00:18. > :00:20.to work for Charlie - his doctors here had argued it
:00:21. > :00:25.As their court case ended, his parents paid tearful tribute
:00:26. > :00:30.We're now going to spend our last precious moments with our son
:00:31. > :00:33.Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just
:00:34. > :00:46.Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is on life support,
:00:47. > :00:49.spoke of the respect they had for "the agony, desolation and
:00:50. > :00:53.Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser defends his conduct
:00:54. > :00:58.after giving evidence about links with Russia.
:00:59. > :01:02.I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the
:01:03. > :01:12.A new government strategy to develop batteries that store power
:01:13. > :01:17.The household products that have shrunk in size -
:01:18. > :01:24.We have a special report from Greenland, on the impact
:01:25. > :01:29.British scientists have come here to Greenland to try to work out
:01:30. > :01:31.how rapidly the ice is going to melt and
:01:32. > :01:35.what that means for sea levels around the world.
:01:36. > :01:37.And could England's cricket World Cup win herald
:01:38. > :01:42.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Adam Peaty retained his
:01:43. > :02:09.100 meter breaststroke title at the World Championships in Budapest.
:02:10. > :02:13.The parents of the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have
:02:14. > :02:16.ended their legal battle to take him to the US for
:02:17. > :02:22.Charlie's father Chris Gard gave an emotional statement
:02:23. > :02:24.outside the High Court, saying they were going
:02:25. > :02:26.to spend their last precious moments with their son,
:02:27. > :02:29.who would not now make his first birthday in just
:02:30. > :02:33.Earlier, their lawyer told the Court that "time had
:02:34. > :02:36.run out" for the baby, as an American doctor who examined
:02:37. > :02:39.Charlie had said he could no longer offer the therapy,
:02:40. > :02:41.after seeing the results of a new MRI scan last week.
:02:42. > :02:43.Doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital say the treatment
:02:44. > :02:52.Here's our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh.
:02:53. > :03:01.CROWD CHANT: "Shame on GOSH!" War emotion outside the High Court.
:03:02. > :03:04.While inside Charlie Gard's parents were accepting their fight is over.
:03:05. > :03:10.And they're desperately ill son should be allowed to die. They
:03:11. > :03:15.emerged from a highly emotional hearing to pay tribute to Charlie.
:03:16. > :03:22.Our son is an absolute warrior and we could not be proud of him, and we
:03:23. > :03:27.will miss him terribly. His body, heart and soul may soon be gone, but
:03:28. > :03:30.his spirit will live on for eternity and he'll make a difference to
:03:31. > :03:35.people's lives for years to come, we'll make sure of that. We're now
:03:36. > :03:42.going to spend our last precious moments with our son, Charlie. Who,
:03:43. > :03:47.unfortunately, won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks'
:03:48. > :03:51.time. Charlie has been in intensive care in Great Ormond Street Hospital
:03:52. > :03:57.since October. He has a rare inherited condition. Mitochondrial
:03:58. > :04:03.depletion syndrome. He cannot move, feed or breathe unaided. The central
:04:04. > :04:07.question was whether this powder, nucleoside therapy, added to food,
:04:08. > :04:13.could boost his muscle function. It's never been tried on animals or
:04:14. > :04:17.humans with his condition. His parents raised ?1.3 million for the
:04:18. > :04:22.treatment in the United States. That money will now go to a foundation in
:04:23. > :04:27.Charlie's name. But every neurologist examined him said the
:04:28. > :04:31.treatment was futile because by January he had suffered catastrophic
:04:32. > :04:36.and irreversible brain damage. The High Court had to intervene, and in
:04:37. > :04:41.April backed the doctors, saying Charlie's suffering should end. His
:04:42. > :04:46.life support be withdrawn. Every legal appeal by the parents failed.
:04:47. > :04:50.But they had powerful supporters, including the Pope and Donald Trump,
:04:51. > :04:57.the latter tweeting an offer of help. This has been an extraordinary
:04:58. > :05:00.case, a battle over the fate of a baby boy fought out not just here in
:05:01. > :05:05.court, but internationally. The judge said it was one of the
:05:06. > :05:08.pitfalls of social media that the watching world felt it right to have
:05:09. > :05:13.opinions without knowing the facts of the caves. He said the court's
:05:14. > :05:18.paramount consideration had been Charlie's best interest at all
:05:19. > :05:27.times. The case came back to court when this American neurologist, Doug
:05:28. > :05:32.Free macro, claimed there was new evidence his therapy could help. --
:05:33. > :05:36.Hirano. He and a doctor from the Vatican flew over to examine Charlie
:05:37. > :05:41.for the first time. New MRI body scans were ordered. On Friday night
:05:42. > :05:46.Charlie's parents accepted these showed his muscle wasting was so
:05:47. > :05:52.severe he was beyond help. There was bitterness he did not get the chance
:05:53. > :05:55.of treatment sooner. A whole lot of time has been wasted. We are now in
:05:56. > :06:00.July and our poor boy has been left to just lie in hospital for months.
:06:01. > :06:03.Had Charlie been given treatment sooner, he would have had the
:06:04. > :06:08.potential to be a normal, healthy little boy. In court, Connie Yates
:06:09. > :06:13.said they would be haunted by the what ifs for the rest of their
:06:14. > :06:18.lives. But now they had to let Charlie go. It's an incredibly brave
:06:19. > :06:22.decision by Charlie's parents. They have bought through for themselves
:06:23. > :06:26.what the new evidence shows. And they've reached a conclusion,
:06:27. > :06:29.probably, the judge would have reached the same. It's very brave
:06:30. > :06:33.for them to do it without hearing what he had to say. Great Ormond
:06:34. > :06:37.Street Hospital said this had been a bruising court case, adding, the
:06:38. > :06:44.agony, desolation and bravery of the parents decision humbled all who
:06:45. > :06:45.worked there. They are now supporting the family in their final
:06:46. > :06:49.time together. Listening to Charlie's parents,
:06:50. > :06:52.it's clear they feel there might have been hope if there'd been
:06:53. > :06:58.an earlier intervention. That's right, the parents and the
:06:59. > :07:04.hospital are never going to agree on what was best for Charlie. It was
:07:05. > :07:08.deeply moving in court when Charlie's mum, Connie, read out this
:07:09. > :07:12.anguished statement that he'd been denied the chance of being a normal
:07:13. > :07:20.boy. Some of the press and the lawyers were in tears. The hospital
:07:21. > :07:22.will point out he had, he has, a severe progressive mitochondrial
:07:23. > :07:28.disorder. It's a cruel condition that wastes the muscles and is
:07:29. > :07:32.generally fatal in infancy. We've heard from the parents the doctors
:07:33. > :07:36.and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital who devote their lives to
:07:37. > :07:41.caring for sick children, they have necessarily remained anonymous and
:07:42. > :07:46.many of them have received death threats. This frustration, I think,
:07:47. > :07:49.that some of those who offered to help Charlie and said he could be
:07:50. > :07:54.helped by the experimental therapy had never even examined him until
:07:55. > :07:59.this week. That had raised false hopes and expectations. Now the
:08:00. > :08:06.focus moves to Charlie's final hours, perhaps days. He will receive
:08:07. > :08:09.palliative care. He's already on morphine, on pain relief. It will be
:08:10. > :08:16.increased before the ventilator that helps in brief is switched off.
:08:17. > :08:21.Charlie will then obviously pass away. -- that helps him breathe. The
:08:22. > :08:23.war of words about what was best for this little boy will continue.
:08:24. > :08:26.Fergus, thank you. President Trump's son-in-law,
:08:27. > :08:28.Jared Kushner, has denied any collusion with Russia in last year's
:08:29. > :08:30.American election. He's the first member
:08:31. > :08:32.of the President's inner circle to have been questioned
:08:33. > :08:33.by a congressional Speaking after giving evidence,
:08:34. > :08:37.he said he had been Our North America editor
:08:38. > :08:51.Jon Sopel is in Washington. Donald Trump has been absolutely
:08:52. > :08:56.consistent on this. The whole Russia investigation is fake and phoney. He
:08:57. > :08:59.went on Twitter today to say, a year-long investigation and zero
:09:00. > :09:04.evidence. To use the American phrase, it's a nothing burger. But
:09:05. > :09:09.then every couple of months, new revelations about meetings people
:09:10. > :09:10.didn't know about, suggesting there may be some substance to that burger
:09:11. > :09:13.after all. Jared Kushner, the husband
:09:14. > :09:17.of Ivanka, the son in law of the president, and the closest
:09:18. > :09:20.confidante of Donald Trump to find himself in the cross hairs
:09:21. > :09:22.of the sprawling A man who's normally
:09:23. > :09:30.found studiously avoiding the limelight today found himself
:09:31. > :09:32.uncomfortably the After giving evidence to the Senate
:09:33. > :09:40.intelligence committee behind closed doors,
:09:41. > :09:42.he returned to the White House I did not collude with Russia,
:09:43. > :09:50.nor do I know of anyone else I have not relied on Russian
:09:51. > :10:00.funds for my businesses. And I have been fully
:10:01. > :10:16.transparent in providing So what were the contacts? In April
:10:17. > :10:19.20 16th Krishna meet Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak,
:10:20. > :10:22.apparently no more than a handshake and passing small talk. Krishna
:10:23. > :10:29.denies two for phone calls took place after this. On June nine 20
:10:30. > :10:34.16th Krishna joins Donald Trump Junior and campaign manager to hear
:10:35. > :10:39.from a Russian attorney who has alleged links to the Intel services
:10:40. > :10:42.in Moscow. The subject matter getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.
:10:43. > :10:48.After the election he meets the Russian ambassador again on December
:10:49. > :10:50.the 1st and two weeks later he meets a Russian banker, Sergei Gorkov,
:10:51. > :10:57.said to have direct links to Vladimir Putin. But one thing he was
:10:58. > :11:02.insistent. These meetings made zero difference to the outcome of the
:11:03. > :11:08.election. Donald Trump at a better message and ran a smarter campaign.
:11:09. > :11:13.And that is why he won. Suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted
:11:14. > :11:18.for him. But today as Donald Trump was framed by over 100 White House
:11:19. > :11:23.interns, he was doing some ridiculing of his own, as reporters
:11:24. > :11:28.sought to ask disobliging questions. Is it true Jeff Sessions resigned?
:11:29. > :11:36.First by saying nothing... And then by letting rip. She's breaking the
:11:37. > :11:41.code. He sounded similarly difficult to keep his opinions to himself over
:11:42. > :11:47.Russia. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.
:11:48. > :11:50.Consumers in the UK could save up to ?40 billion by 2050
:11:51. > :11:52.through major changes to the way electricity is made, used
:11:53. > :11:56.The Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark announced plans to invest
:11:57. > :11:59.a quarter of a billion pounds in battery technology -
:12:00. > :12:01.saying he wanted the UK to lead the world in its development.
:12:02. > :12:11.From obvious things like our phones to London's
:12:12. > :12:17.To this experimental aircraft, battery power is taking
:12:18. > :12:23.The problem is, they still run out too quickly, so today
:12:24. > :12:29.the government's promised to invest millions improving the technology.
:12:30. > :12:32.For the next generation of battery technology,
:12:33. > :12:35.there is nowhere better in the world than Britain, not only
:12:36. > :12:40.to have the ideas, but to turn them into manufacturing plants
:12:41. > :12:45.Right now, Britain is a front runner with battery research.
:12:46. > :12:47.Like here at Warwick University where they're trying to solve
:12:48. > :12:49.the two biggest issues, making batteries weigh
:12:50. > :12:57.This room is four times drier than the centre
:12:58. > :13:00.of the Sahara desert, because it's where they physically
:13:01. > :13:04.put the batteries together and any moisture can ruin the process.
:13:05. > :13:06.Taking sheets like this, containing the lithium ions,
:13:07. > :13:10.and they're sandwiching them together in this machine.
:13:11. > :13:14.Here, they've welcomed this latest investment,
:13:15. > :13:16.but warned that competition from China, Japan, Korea
:13:17. > :13:30.We are producing the cells we're producing, even our competitors
:13:31. > :13:35.But we've got to keep it up, you know, because they'll catch
:13:36. > :13:38.up and they'll beat us if we don't watch it.
:13:39. > :13:39.As governments around the world scramble to cut pollution,
:13:40. > :13:43.In China, they used ?5 billion worth of lithium ion
:13:44. > :13:50.It's the same story across western Europe.
:13:51. > :13:56.Again production will nearly double from 1.2 billion to ?2.3 billion.
:13:57. > :13:58.Batteries could also make wind and solar power more productive.
:13:59. > :14:01.One idea being floated is to use old electric car batteries to store
:14:02. > :14:05.I think we'll see, and people are already working on this,
:14:06. > :14:07.in the UK, combining batteries with the production
:14:08. > :14:21.And if you can do that successfully at scale,
:14:22. > :14:23.you can remove the challenge that the wind doesn't blow
:14:24. > :14:25.all the time and the sun doesn't always shine.
:14:26. > :14:30.And you can have a continuous flow of energy into the great.
:14:31. > :14:32.The future looks electric, but now the pressure's on to make
:14:33. > :14:40.Richard Westcott, BBC News, Coventry.
:14:41. > :14:43.A brief look at some of the day's other other news stories.
:14:44. > :14:47.Police searching for the missing toddler Ben Needham have found signs
:14:48. > :14:50.of blood on part of a sandal, and on soil inside a toy car.
:14:51. > :14:53.Ben was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island
:14:54. > :14:58.South Yorkshire Police said forensic work was being carried out
:14:59. > :15:02.to try to extract DNA from the blood.
:15:03. > :15:05.Missiles have been thrown at police in North London following a vigil
:15:06. > :15:09.that had taken place for Rashan Charles.
:15:10. > :15:11.The 20-year-old died after being arrested by police
:15:12. > :15:14.in a shop in the early hours of Saturday morning.
:15:15. > :15:16.Police say Mr Charles was seen to swallow
:15:17. > :15:24.His death is being investigated by the police watchdog the IPCC.
:15:25. > :15:26.The Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has been criticised
:15:27. > :15:29.for backing London's Crossrail 2 project days after scrapping
:15:30. > :15:34.electrification schemes in Wales and in northern England.
:15:35. > :15:37.The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said people would not
:15:38. > :15:40.accept that "spending billions more on London is the country's highest
:15:41. > :15:47.The Met Office says there's an increased risk of unprecedented
:15:48. > :15:53.winter downpours such as those that caused extensive flooding in 2014.
:15:54. > :15:57.Using a supercomputer to map future weather patterns,
:15:58. > :16:00.it's revealed there's now a one in three chance of monthly rainfall
:16:01. > :16:07.records being broken in England and Wales in winter.
:16:08. > :16:10.More than 30 people have been killed and more than 40 injured
:16:11. > :16:13.in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.
:16:14. > :16:16.The Taliban say they carried out the bombing during
:16:17. > :16:22.of parts of the country, after being driven from power
:16:23. > :16:26.following a US-led invasion 16 years ago.
:16:27. > :16:28.Our correspondent Justin Rowlatt is in Kabul, and reports
:16:29. > :16:34.on the continuing fight there against the group.
:16:35. > :16:38.The suicide attacker struck at 7am, exploding his bomb right beside
:16:39. > :16:46.This shopkeeper describes how one man staggered into his doorway
:16:47. > :17:03.Attacks on Kabul are common, but the bombs are getting bigger.
:17:04. > :17:06.The trauma ward is quiet, but there is anger in the city -
:17:07. > :17:12.This is the second huge blast in Kabul in as many months.
:17:13. > :17:15.The government promised to increase security,
:17:16. > :17:22.but this attack shows just how vulnerable the city still is.
:17:23. > :17:26.The Taliban has been growing in strength since the Nato combat
:17:27. > :17:29.mission in Afghanistan ended two and a half years ago.
:17:30. > :17:32.The insurgents now control a tenth of the country.
:17:33. > :17:38.They contest another third, and Islamic State
:17:39. > :17:42.President Trump has promised a new strategy
:17:43. > :17:54.His military advisers want a significant increase in troops,
:17:55. > :18:01.taking the total of foreign soldiers close to 20,000.
:18:02. > :18:04.But at the peak of the war there were 130,000 foreign troops here,
:18:05. > :18:15.This American-led training exercise is a key part of the argument
:18:16. > :18:21.the US military is making to justify more troops.
:18:22. > :18:27.Strengthening Afghan forces, so they can fight on their own.
:18:28. > :18:29.Air support makes all the difference in the world.
:18:30. > :18:31.It's something you have that they don't have.
:18:32. > :18:36.So, training the Afghan military to have an air force
:18:37. > :18:38.when the insurgents don't have an air force provides
:18:39. > :18:44.The hope is, eventually, the Afghan military will be able
:18:45. > :18:48.to force the Taliban to the negotiating table.
:18:49. > :18:50.That would, at best, be a hollow victory and,
:18:51. > :18:55.if it's successful at all, could take many, many years.
:18:56. > :18:58.The other option, of course, is to pull out.
:18:59. > :19:09.Greenland is one of the most remote parts of our planet -
:19:10. > :19:12.but changes there could affect us here in the UK.
:19:13. > :19:14.Scientists are worried the country's ice sheet is melting
:19:15. > :19:19.That could see ocean levels rise and low-lying areas around
:19:20. > :19:25.Our science editor David Shukman has been to Greenland to look
:19:26. > :19:33.A vivid blue snakes across the Greenland ice sheets.
:19:34. > :19:36.A beautiful sight, but when the ice here melts the oceans
:19:37. > :19:45.On the horizon, the ice sheet looms ahead of us.
:19:46. > :19:48.We've joined a team of British scientists.
:19:49. > :19:52.They're trying to understand how the ice is changing.
:19:53. > :19:56.People are very worried about the possibility that the ice
:19:57. > :20:02.sheet might be melting faster and faster in the future.
:20:03. > :20:11.We touch down in one of the remotest corners of the planet.
:20:12. > :20:15.The first task is to set up camp - a home in an utterly
:20:16. > :20:24.Once it's level, I'll leave it to you to take the measurements.
:20:25. > :20:30.Painstaking research, to measure how quickly it might vanish.
:20:31. > :20:34.From the air, all you can really see is what looks like a vast
:20:35. > :20:39.expanse of endless white, but that isn't the whole story.
:20:40. > :20:42.Because what's hard to grasp as I stand here is that this is just
:20:43. > :20:47.the surface of a vast mass of ice that's unbelievably thick.
:20:48. > :20:53.So, let's imagine cutting it away right in front of me.
:20:54. > :20:56.The ice sheet stretches for as much as two miles, three kilometres,
:20:57. > :21:01.from the surface here, right down to the rock below.
:21:02. > :21:05.In fact it's so thick you could take the world's tallest building,
:21:06. > :21:07.the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and fit four of them,
:21:08. > :21:16.But as we walk around, there's a real surprise,
:21:17. > :21:19.white ice is turning dark - and the darker a surface,
:21:20. > :21:25.And, like wearing a black T-shirt on a hot day,
:21:26. > :21:37.Martin Tranter, the chief scientist here, says one
:21:38. > :21:41.reason for the dark ice is algae, tiny plants.
:21:42. > :21:43.Algae have always been here but, with higher temperatures and more
:21:44. > :21:50.The algae are microscopically small, but they may be having a big impact.
:21:51. > :21:55.What we want to know is how far the algae can spread over
:21:56. > :21:59.the Greenland ice sheet as the climate warms.
:22:00. > :22:02.And it might well be that they will cause more melting,
:22:03. > :22:07.and an acceleration of sea-level rise.
:22:08. > :22:09.To investigate that, drones are used to scan the dark
:22:10. > :22:14.areas of the ice sheet, so the scientists can work out
:22:15. > :22:16.how rising temperatures could encourage the algae and lead
:22:17. > :22:24.In the evening light, the shimmer of gentle
:22:25. > :22:30.Until recently, the amount of ice melting in summer was balanced
:22:31. > :22:38.But in the last 20 years the flows of water have multiplied,
:22:39. > :22:43.each one eventually adding to the level of the oceans.
:22:44. > :22:46.No-one's saying that this whole thing is going to melt in the next
:22:47. > :22:50.decade, or even in the next hundred, or even the next thousand years,
:22:51. > :22:53.but it doesn't all have to melt for more people to be in danger.
:22:54. > :22:56.Only a small amount, a very small portion of this ice
:22:57. > :22:59.sheet has to melt to raise the sea levels, and then threaten millions
:23:00. > :23:03.of people in coastal communities around the world.
:23:04. > :23:10.What's striking is that this massive block of ice may be vulnerable
:23:11. > :23:15.if more algae darken the surface and lead to faster melting.
:23:16. > :23:19.Down at the edge of the ice sheet, the streams become a torrent.
:23:20. > :23:22.We already know that meltwater is raising the level
:23:23. > :23:25.of the sea bit by bit, but the researchers here
:23:26. > :23:30.want to find out whether that rise will accelerate.
:23:31. > :23:32.And for people in low-lying areas of Florida, Bangladesh,
:23:33. > :23:39.parts of Britain, getting an accurate forecast really matters.
:23:40. > :23:44.David Shukman, BBC News, in Greenland.
:23:45. > :23:46.More than 2,500 products have reduced in size over
:23:47. > :23:48.the last five years - but we're still paying
:23:49. > :23:53.New findings show that chocolate bars, toilet rolls,
:23:54. > :23:56.and coffee are just some of the items to have been
:23:57. > :23:59.affected by the phenomenon, dubbed shrinkflation.
:24:00. > :24:02.Some companies are blaming the rising costs of ingredients
:24:03. > :24:08.Our correspondent Sophie Long has been finding out more.
:24:09. > :24:12.Andrex is soft, strong and unbeatably long.
:24:13. > :24:24.187 calories of naughtiness, actually.
:24:25. > :24:26.Will have even fewer calories, because you won't find
:24:27. > :24:38.Back in the olden days, when I was spending my pocket
:24:39. > :24:41.money on pick 'n' mix, 50p certainly went a lot further.
:24:42. > :24:46.Nowadays, though, some companies are choosing not
:24:47. > :24:48.to raise their prices, but make things smaller.
:24:49. > :24:55.I'd like some more cola bottles, please.
:24:56. > :24:58.While many of us could probably do with cutting back
:24:59. > :25:00.on our confectionery consumption, some products suffering so-called
:25:01. > :25:08.shrinkflation could be considered essentials.
:25:09. > :25:17.A packet of McVitie's dark chocolate digestives is now 32 grams lighter.
:25:18. > :25:20.And a carton of Tropicana Orange and Rasberry is now 850 millilitres.
:25:21. > :25:31.You know, on low income families and people who have children
:25:32. > :25:36.to feed, it's not really fair, is it?
:25:37. > :25:38.If the packaging's made to look the same size,
:25:39. > :25:42.so it looks the same size but it actually isn't, then...
:25:43. > :25:45.They'd still lose out in the long run because you
:25:46. > :25:53.I just think we have to put up with it.
:25:54. > :25:58.And it's something analysts say we're going to have to get used to.
:25:59. > :26:00.It's a hidden inflation, shrinkflation.
:26:01. > :26:03.Because consumers are, I suppose, less likely to notice a smaller
:26:04. > :26:05.package than they are to notice, of course, higher
:26:06. > :26:10.And that makes it easier, it's the lesser of two evils
:26:11. > :26:12.for producers who are looking to manage the higher costs
:26:13. > :26:16.of imported prices due to the pound's fall.
:26:17. > :26:19.Manufacturers say their products are just as good and they're just
:26:20. > :26:27.Great Britain's swimmers have won two gold medals
:26:28. > :26:30.at the World Championships in Hungary.
:26:31. > :26:40.Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty successfully defended his 100 metre
:26:41. > :26:43.breaststroke World Title - setting a new Championship record.
:26:44. > :26:49.But he just missed breaking his own World Record.
:26:50. > :26:51.England's cricket World Cup triumph could be a springboard
:26:52. > :26:58.That's according to England's captain, Heather Knight, whose side
:26:59. > :27:01.beat India by nine runs in front of a sell-out 26,000 crowd
:27:02. > :27:05.Some are asking if this could be a watershed moment
:27:06. > :27:15.It was the perfect platform for women's sport.
:27:16. > :27:20.England's cricketers, crowned champions on home soil.
:27:21. > :27:22.Anya Shrubsole had been the team's hero, her record-breaking spell
:27:23. > :27:28.of six wickets for 46 runs securing a thrilling victory over India.
:27:29. > :27:31.Before the match, her father Ian posted photos of his daughter
:27:32. > :27:37.And this morning, in the exact same spot and after a night
:27:38. > :27:39.of celebrations, she told me what it was like to have
:27:40. > :27:48.I just remember being here as a nine-year old watching,
:27:49. > :27:50.and wishing one day I could be back here playing.
:27:51. > :27:53.Never in my wildest dream did I think it would be
:27:54. > :28:02.It shows you can have a dream, and sometimes they do come true.
:28:03. > :28:05.England have won the tournament at Lord's before in 1993.
:28:06. > :28:07.But back then, they weren't allowed to go into the
:28:08. > :28:11.Today, in the hallowed Long Room, the woman in charge told me
:28:12. > :28:18.I think we have to celebrate properly, and enjoy this moment,
:28:19. > :28:21.and the players have to enjoy it, but certainly, we all have to start
:28:22. > :28:23.thinking very strategically about what opportunities
:28:24. > :28:27.This is about a lot more than what this team achieved
:28:28. > :28:33.Both in terms of the attendance here in the ground,
:28:34. > :28:36.and the estimated 100 million television audience following
:28:37. > :28:40.the action around the world, it broke all records.
:28:41. > :28:43.The sense that this was the defining moment of a ground-breaking summer
:28:44. > :28:50.Johanna Konta's already become the first British woman
:28:51. > :28:54.in a Wimbledon semifinal for 39 years.
:28:55. > :28:56.England's footballers, meanwhile, are doing well at the Euros,
:28:57. > :29:01.But away from performances, there's still a gender gap.
:29:02. > :29:03.In terms of prize-money, 83% of sports now reward
:29:04. > :29:06.women and men equally, and 5% of sports media coverage
:29:07. > :29:08.is dedicated to women, and even less when it comes
:29:09. > :29:17.I think there's still a long way to go in terms of women
:29:18. > :29:19.in the boardroom, women running sport, as well as
:29:20. > :29:25.Women in coaching, women in refereeing and umpiring,
:29:26. > :29:28.all of us know there is still a long way to go.
:29:29. > :29:31.It emerged today that, despite preparing to defend
:29:32. > :29:34.their World Cup title next month, most of England's rugby players
:29:35. > :29:38.will not have their contracts renewed by the RFU.
:29:39. > :29:41.On a day when England's cricketing World Champions were busy trying
:29:42. > :29:44.to leave a legacy with this coaching session at Lord's, it was a reminder
:29:45. > :29:47.of just how tough life can still be for some sportswomen.
:29:48. > :29:50.But for the next generation, never before has there been so much
:29:51. > :29:59.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC2 in a few moments.
:30:00. > :30:04.from a man whose name dominates Washington, but whose
:30:05. > :30:13.We'll be hearing from Jared Kushner, who says he's done nothing wrong.
:30:14. > :30:15.Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.