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The parents of the terminally-ill baby

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Charlie Gard abandon their legal fight to get him experimental

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Their lawyer said it was too late for the therapy

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to work for Charlie - his doctors here had argued it

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As their court case ended, his parents paid tearful tribute

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We're now going to spend our last precious moments with our son

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Charlie, who unfortunately won't make his first birthday in just

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Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie is on life support,

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spoke of the respect they had for "the agony, desolation and

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Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser defends his conduct

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after giving evidence about links with Russia.

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I did not collude with Russia, nor do I know of anyone else in the

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A new government strategy to develop batteries that store power

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The household products that have shrunk in size -

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We have a special report from Greenland, on the impact

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British scientists have come here to Greenland to try to work out

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how rapidly the ice is going to melt and

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what that means for sea levels around the world.

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And could England's cricket World Cup win herald

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Adam Peaty retained his

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100 meter breaststroke title at the World Championships in Budapest.

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The parents of the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have

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ended their legal battle to take him to the US for

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Charlie's father Chris Gard gave an emotional statement

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outside the High Court, saying they were going

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to spend their last precious moments with their son,

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who would not now make his first birthday in just

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Earlier, their lawyer told the Court that "time had

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run out" for the baby, as an American doctor who examined

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Charlie had said he could no longer offer the therapy,

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after seeing the results of a new MRI scan last week.

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Doctors at Great Ormond Street hospital say the treatment

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Here's our Medical Correspondent Fergus Walsh.

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CROWD CHANT: "Shame on GOSH!" War emotion outside the High Court.

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While inside Charlie Gard's parents were accepting their fight is over.

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And they're desperately ill son should be allowed to die. They

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emerged from a highly emotional hearing to pay tribute to Charlie.

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Our son is an absolute warrior and we could not be proud of him, and we

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will miss him terribly. His body, heart and soul may soon be gone, but

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his spirit will live on for eternity and he'll make a difference to

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people's lives for years to come, we'll make sure of that. We're now

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going to spend our last precious moments with our son, Charlie. Who,

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unfortunately, won't make his first birthday in just under two weeks'

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time. Charlie has been in intensive care in Great Ormond Street Hospital

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since October. He has a rare inherited condition. Mitochondrial

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depletion syndrome. He cannot move, feed or breathe unaided. The central

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question was whether this powder, nucleoside therapy, added to food,

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could boost his muscle function. It's never been tried on animals or

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humans with his condition. His parents raised ?1.3 million for the

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treatment in the United States. That money will now go to a foundation in

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Charlie's name. But every neurologist examined him said the

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treatment was futile because by January he had suffered catastrophic

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and irreversible brain damage. The High Court had to intervene, and in

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April backed the doctors, saying Charlie's suffering should end. His

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life support be withdrawn. Every legal appeal by the parents failed.

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But they had powerful supporters, including the Pope and Donald Trump,

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the latter tweeting an offer of help. This has been an extraordinary

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case, a battle over the fate of a baby boy fought out not just here in

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court, but internationally. The judge said it was one of the

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pitfalls of social media that the watching world felt it right to have

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opinions without knowing the facts of the caves. He said the court's

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paramount consideration had been Charlie's best interest at all

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times. The case came back to court when this American neurologist, Doug

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Free macro, claimed there was new evidence his therapy could help. --

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Hirano. He and a doctor from the Vatican flew over to examine Charlie

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for the first time. New MRI body scans were ordered. On Friday night

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Charlie's parents accepted these showed his muscle wasting was so

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severe he was beyond help. There was bitterness he did not get the chance

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of treatment sooner. A whole lot of time has been wasted. We are now in

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July and our poor boy has been left to just lie in hospital for months.

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Had Charlie been given treatment sooner, he would have had the

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potential to be a normal, healthy little boy. In court, Connie Yates

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said they would be haunted by the what ifs for the rest of their

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lives. But now they had to let Charlie go. It's an incredibly brave

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decision by Charlie's parents. They have bought through for themselves

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what the new evidence shows. And they've reached a conclusion,

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probably, the judge would have reached the same. It's very brave

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for them to do it without hearing what he had to say. Great Ormond

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Street Hospital said this had been a bruising court case, adding, the

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agony, desolation and bravery of the parents decision humbled all who

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worked there. They are now supporting the family in their final

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time together. Listening to Charlie's parents,

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it's clear they feel there might have been hope if there'd been

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an earlier intervention. That's right, the parents and the

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hospital are never going to agree on what was best for Charlie. It was

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deeply moving in court when Charlie's mum, Connie, read out this

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anguished statement that he'd been denied the chance of being a normal

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boy. Some of the press and the lawyers were in tears. The hospital

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will point out he had, he has, a severe progressive mitochondrial

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disorder. It's a cruel condition that wastes the muscles and is

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generally fatal in infancy. We've heard from the parents the doctors

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and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital who devote their lives to

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caring for sick children, they have necessarily remained anonymous and

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many of them have received death threats. This frustration, I think,

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that some of those who offered to help Charlie and said he could be

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helped by the experimental therapy had never even examined him until

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this week. That had raised false hopes and expectations. Now the

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focus moves to Charlie's final hours, perhaps days. He will receive

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palliative care. He's already on morphine, on pain relief. It will be

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increased before the ventilator that helps in brief is switched off.

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Charlie will then obviously pass away. -- that helps him breathe. The

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war of words about what was best for this little boy will continue.

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Fergus, thank you. President Trump's son-in-law,

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Jared Kushner, has denied any collusion with Russia in last year's

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American election. He's the first member

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of the President's inner circle to have been questioned

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by a congressional Speaking after giving evidence,

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he said he had been Our North America editor

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Jon Sopel is in Washington. Donald Trump has been absolutely

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consistent on this. The whole Russia investigation is fake and phoney. He

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went on Twitter today to say, a year-long investigation and zero

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evidence. To use the American phrase, it's a nothing burger. But

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then every couple of months, new revelations about meetings people

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didn't know about, suggesting there may be some substance to that burger

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after all. Jared Kushner, the husband

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of Ivanka, the son in law of the president, and the closest

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confidante of Donald Trump to find himself in the cross hairs

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of the sprawling A man who's normally

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found studiously avoiding the limelight today found himself

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uncomfortably the After giving evidence to the Senate

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intelligence committee behind closed doors,

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he returned to the White House I did not collude with Russia,

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nor do I know of anyone else I have not relied on Russian

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funds for my businesses. And I have been fully

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transparent in providing So what were the contacts? In April

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20 16th Krishna meet Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak,

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apparently no more than a handshake and passing small talk. Krishna

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denies two for phone calls took place after this. On June nine 20

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16th Krishna joins Donald Trump Junior and campaign manager to hear

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from a Russian attorney who has alleged links to the Intel services

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in Moscow. The subject matter getting dirt on Hillary Clinton.

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After the election he meets the Russian ambassador again on December

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the 1st and two weeks later he meets a Russian banker, Sergei Gorkov,

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said to have direct links to Vladimir Putin. But one thing he was

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insistent. These meetings made zero difference to the outcome of the

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election. Donald Trump at a better message and ran a smarter campaign.

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And that is why he won. Suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted

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for him. But today as Donald Trump was framed by over 100 White House

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interns, he was doing some ridiculing of his own, as reporters

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sought to ask disobliging questions. Is it true Jeff Sessions resigned?

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First by saying nothing... And then by letting rip. She's breaking the

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code. He sounded similarly difficult to keep his opinions to himself over

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Russia. Jon Sopel, BBC News, Washington.

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Consumers in the UK could save up to ?40 billion by 2050

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through major changes to the way electricity is made, used

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The Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark announced plans to invest

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a quarter of a billion pounds in battery technology -

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saying he wanted the UK to lead the world in its development.

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From obvious things like our phones to London's

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To this experimental aircraft, battery power is taking

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The problem is, they still run out too quickly, so today

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the government's promised to invest millions improving the technology.

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For the next generation of battery technology,

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there is nowhere better in the world than Britain, not only

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to have the ideas, but to turn them into manufacturing plants

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Right now, Britain is a front runner with battery research.

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Like here at Warwick University where they're trying to solve

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the two biggest issues, making batteries weigh

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This room is four times drier than the centre

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of the Sahara desert, because it's where they physically

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put the batteries together and any moisture can ruin the process.

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Taking sheets like this, containing the lithium ions,

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and they're sandwiching them together in this machine.

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Here, they've welcomed this latest investment,

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but warned that competition from China, Japan, Korea

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We are producing the cells we're producing, even our competitors

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But we've got to keep it up, you know, because they'll catch

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up and they'll beat us if we don't watch it.

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As governments around the world scramble to cut pollution,

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In China, they used ?5 billion worth of lithium ion

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It's the same story across western Europe.

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Again production will nearly double from 1.2 billion to ?2.3 billion.

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Batteries could also make wind and solar power more productive.

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One idea being floated is to use old electric car batteries to store

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I think we'll see, and people are already working on this,

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in the UK, combining batteries with the production

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And if you can do that successfully at scale,

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you can remove the challenge that the wind doesn't blow

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all the time and the sun doesn't always shine.

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And you can have a continuous flow of energy into the great.

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The future looks electric, but now the pressure's on to make

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Richard Westcott, BBC News, Coventry.

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

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Police searching for the missing toddler Ben Needham have found signs

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of blood on part of a sandal, and on soil inside a toy car.

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Ben was 21 months old when he disappeared on the Greek island

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South Yorkshire Police said forensic work was being carried out

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to try to extract DNA from the blood.

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Missiles have been thrown at police in North London following a vigil

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that had taken place for Rashan Charles.

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The 20-year-old died after being arrested by police

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in a shop in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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Police say Mr Charles was seen to swallow

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His death is being investigated by the police watchdog the IPCC.

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The Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has been criticised

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for backing London's Crossrail 2 project days after scrapping

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electrification schemes in Wales and in northern England.

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The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said people would not

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accept that "spending billions more on London is the country's highest

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The Met Office says there's an increased risk of unprecedented

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winter downpours such as those that caused extensive flooding in 2014.

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Using a supercomputer to map future weather patterns,

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it's revealed there's now a one in three chance of monthly rainfall

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records being broken in England and Wales in winter.

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More than 30 people have been killed and more than 40 injured

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in a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital Kabul.

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The Taliban say they carried out the bombing during

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of parts of the country, after being driven from power

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following a US-led invasion 16 years ago.

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Our correspondent Justin Rowlatt is in Kabul, and reports

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on the continuing fight there against the group.

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The suicide attacker struck at 7am, exploding his bomb right beside

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This shopkeeper describes how one man staggered into his doorway

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Attacks on Kabul are common, but the bombs are getting bigger.

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The trauma ward is quiet, but there is anger in the city -

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This is the second huge blast in Kabul in as many months.

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The government promised to increase security,

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but this attack shows just how vulnerable the city still is.

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The Taliban has been growing in strength since the Nato combat

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mission in Afghanistan ended two and a half years ago.

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The insurgents now control a tenth of the country.

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They contest another third, and Islamic State

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President Trump has promised a new strategy

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His military advisers want a significant increase in troops,

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taking the total of foreign soldiers close to 20,000.

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But at the peak of the war there were 130,000 foreign troops here,

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This American-led training exercise is a key part of the argument

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the US military is making to justify more troops.

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Strengthening Afghan forces, so they can fight on their own.

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Air support makes all the difference in the world.

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It's something you have that they don't have.

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So, training the Afghan military to have an air force

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when the insurgents don't have an air force provides

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The hope is, eventually, the Afghan military will be able

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to force the Taliban to the negotiating table.

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That would, at best, be a hollow victory and,

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if it's successful at all, could take many, many years.

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The other option, of course, is to pull out.

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Greenland is one of the most remote parts of our planet -

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but changes there could affect us here in the UK.

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Scientists are worried the country's ice sheet is melting

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That could see ocean levels rise and low-lying areas around

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Our science editor David Shukman has been to Greenland to look

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A vivid blue snakes across the Greenland ice sheets.

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A beautiful sight, but when the ice here melts the oceans

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On the horizon, the ice sheet looms ahead of us.

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We've joined a team of British scientists.

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They're trying to understand how the ice is changing.

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People are very worried about the possibility that the ice

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sheet might be melting faster and faster in the future.

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We touch down in one of the remotest corners of the planet.

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The first task is to set up camp - a home in an utterly

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Once it's level, I'll leave it to you to take the measurements.

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Painstaking research, to measure how quickly it might vanish.

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From the air, all you can really see is what looks like a vast

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expanse of endless white, but that isn't the whole story.

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Because what's hard to grasp as I stand here is that this is just

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the surface of a vast mass of ice that's unbelievably thick.

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So, let's imagine cutting it away right in front of me.

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The ice sheet stretches for as much as two miles, three kilometres,

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from the surface here, right down to the rock below.

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In fact it's so thick you could take the world's tallest building,

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the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and fit four of them,

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But as we walk around, there's a real surprise,

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white ice is turning dark - and the darker a surface,

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And, like wearing a black T-shirt on a hot day,

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Martin Tranter, the chief scientist here, says one

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reason for the dark ice is algae, tiny plants.

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Algae have always been here but, with higher temperatures and more

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The algae are microscopically small, but they may be having a big impact.

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What we want to know is how far the algae can spread over

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the Greenland ice sheet as the climate warms.

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And it might well be that they will cause more melting,

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and an acceleration of sea-level rise.

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To investigate that, drones are used to scan the dark

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areas of the ice sheet, so the scientists can work out

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how rising temperatures could encourage the algae and lead

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In the evening light, the shimmer of gentle

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Until recently, the amount of ice melting in summer was balanced

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But in the last 20 years the flows of water have multiplied,

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each one eventually adding to the level of the oceans.

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No-one's saying that this whole thing is going to melt in the next

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decade, or even in the next hundred, or even the next thousand years,

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but it doesn't all have to melt for more people to be in danger.

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Only a small amount, a very small portion of this ice

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sheet has to melt to raise the sea levels, and then threaten millions

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of people in coastal communities around the world.

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What's striking is that this massive block of ice may be vulnerable

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if more algae darken the surface and lead to faster melting.

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Down at the edge of the ice sheet, the streams become a torrent.

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We already know that meltwater is raising the level

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of the sea bit by bit, but the researchers here

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want to find out whether that rise will accelerate.

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And for people in low-lying areas of Florida, Bangladesh,

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parts of Britain, getting an accurate forecast really matters.

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David Shukman, BBC News, in Greenland.

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More than 2,500 products have reduced in size over

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the last five years - but we're still paying

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New findings show that chocolate bars, toilet rolls,

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and coffee are just some of the items to have been

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affected by the phenomenon, dubbed shrinkflation.

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Some companies are blaming the rising costs of ingredients

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Our correspondent Sophie Long has been finding out more.

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Andrex is soft, strong and unbeatably long.

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187 calories of naughtiness, actually.

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Will have even fewer calories, because you won't find

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Back in the olden days, when I was spending my pocket

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money on pick 'n' mix, 50p certainly went a lot further.

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Nowadays, though, some companies are choosing not

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to raise their prices, but make things smaller.

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I'd like some more cola bottles, please.

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While many of us could probably do with cutting back

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on our confectionery consumption, some products suffering so-called

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shrinkflation could be considered essentials.

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A packet of McVitie's dark chocolate digestives is now 32 grams lighter.

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And a carton of Tropicana Orange and Rasberry is now 850 millilitres.

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You know, on low income families and people who have children

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to feed, it's not really fair, is it?

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If the packaging's made to look the same size,

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so it looks the same size but it actually isn't, then...

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They'd still lose out in the long run because you

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I just think we have to put up with it.

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And it's something analysts say we're going to have to get used to.

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It's a hidden inflation, shrinkflation.

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Because consumers are, I suppose, less likely to notice a smaller

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package than they are to notice, of course, higher

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And that makes it easier, it's the lesser of two evils

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for producers who are looking to manage the higher costs

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of imported prices due to the pound's fall.

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Manufacturers say their products are just as good and they're just

:26:17.:26:19.

Great Britain's swimmers have won two gold medals

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at the World Championships in Hungary.

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Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty successfully defended his 100 metre

:26:31.:26:40.

breaststroke World Title - setting a new Championship record.

:26:41.:26:43.

But he just missed breaking his own World Record.

:26:44.:26:49.

England's cricket World Cup triumph could be a springboard

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That's according to England's captain, Heather Knight, whose side

:26:52.:26:58.

beat India by nine runs in front of a sell-out 26,000 crowd

:26:59.:27:01.

Some are asking if this could be a watershed moment

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It was the perfect platform for women's sport.

:27:06.:27:15.

England's cricketers, crowned champions on home soil.

:27:16.:27:20.

Anya Shrubsole had been the team's hero, her record-breaking spell

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of six wickets for 46 runs securing a thrilling victory over India.

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Before the match, her father Ian posted photos of his daughter

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And this morning, in the exact same spot and after a night

:27:32.:27:37.

of celebrations, she told me what it was like to have

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I just remember being here as a nine-year old watching,

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and wishing one day I could be back here playing.

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Never in my wildest dream did I think it would be

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It shows you can have a dream, and sometimes they do come true.

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England have won the tournament at Lord's before in 1993.

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But back then, they weren't allowed to go into the

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Today, in the hallowed Long Room, the woman in charge told me

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I think we have to celebrate properly, and enjoy this moment,

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and the players have to enjoy it, but certainly, we all have to start

:28:19.:28:21.

thinking very strategically about what opportunities

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This is about a lot more than what this team achieved

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Both in terms of the attendance here in the ground,

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and the estimated 100 million television audience following

:28:34.:28:36.

the action around the world, it broke all records.

:28:37.:28:40.

The sense that this was the defining moment of a ground-breaking summer

:28:41.:28:43.

Johanna Konta's already become the first British woman

:28:44.:28:50.

in a Wimbledon semifinal for 39 years.

:28:51.:28:54.

England's footballers, meanwhile, are doing well at the Euros,

:28:55.:28:56.

But away from performances, there's still a gender gap.

:28:57.:29:01.

In terms of prize-money, 83% of sports now reward

:29:02.:29:03.

women and men equally, and 5% of sports media coverage

:29:04.:29:06.

is dedicated to women, and even less when it comes

:29:07.:29:08.

I think there's still a long way to go in terms of women

:29:09.:29:17.

in the boardroom, women running sport, as well as

:29:18.:29:19.

Women in coaching, women in refereeing and umpiring,

:29:20.:29:25.

all of us know there is still a long way to go.

:29:26.:29:28.

It emerged today that, despite preparing to defend

:29:29.:29:31.

their World Cup title next month, most of England's rugby players

:29:32.:29:34.

will not have their contracts renewed by the RFU.

:29:35.:29:38.

On a day when England's cricketing World Champions were busy trying

:29:39.:29:41.

to leave a legacy with this coaching session at Lord's, it was a reminder

:29:42.:29:44.

of just how tough life can still be for some sportswomen.

:29:45.:29:47.

But for the next generation, never before has there been so much

:29:48.:29:50.

Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC2 in a few moments.

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from a man whose name dominates Washington, but whose

:30:00.:30:04.

We'll be hearing from Jared Kushner, who says he's done nothing wrong.

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Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.

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