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Tonight at Ten: Life after Brexit - the Government sets out its hopes | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
for how the UK will trade with the EU and the rest of the world. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Buying and selling across borders - the Brexit secretary insists keeping | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
trade as simple as possible will work for the EU as well. | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
BMW do not want to have to have a customs border | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
that is going to slow down their sales and add | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
But one of the EU's main negotiators says the Government's | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
The Grenfell Tower inquiry will look at the cause of the blaze | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
and the response of the authorities - but not the wider | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Anger as millions of rail passengers face the biggest hike in train | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
India, the world's most populous democracy, celebrates 70 | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
And I'm in the city of Amritsar looking at the country's potential | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
and the problems that are holding it back. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
And the cloakroom attendant plucked from the wings at the last minute | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
as a stand in at the world famous Wigmore Hall. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
we'll have the pick of the action as Liverpool face | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
Hoffenheim in the first leg of their Champions | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
The Government has set out its plans for how it wants to trade | :01:23. | :01:49. | |
with the EU and the rest of the world after Brexit. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Ministers say they want to avoid a sudden and drastic change | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
for business so they're calling for a temporary relationship | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
with the EU while a more permanent arrangement is developed. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
Their ultimate goal is to have a system of trade | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
with the EU that is as close as possible to what we have now. | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
But the EU parliament's chief negotiator described | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
Our business editor Simon Jack reports. | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
Nearly 20% of all goods traded with the EU come through here. | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
Businesses fear any blockages to trading arteries like this | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
would have serious consequences for them and the rest of the UK. | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
For logistics firms, like this one in Kent, time is money. | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
Our business runs on a just-in-time basis, moving goods | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
If we ended up having shipments, having to do customs clearances both | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
inbound and outbound, that would be damaging in terms | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
of the amount of time we would spend at Dover getting in and out | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
of the country and that would almost grind our business to a halt. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
There may be 21 miles of sea between here and France, | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
but in trade terms there is no barrier, thanks to our membership | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
It's a club of EU countries in which individual | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Goods move freely and with minimal check-ups. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
But there is still an external border between the EU and the rest | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
of the world at which goods are checked and, in some cases, | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
So, what happens when we are outside the club? | :03:23. | :03:31. | |
Today the Government said it wanted to leave, | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
it wanted a new deal, but that could take | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
The interim period, when we get to it because it'll take time to get | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the structures in place, will be a bit like | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
But it will be not the current customs union, we will not be | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
a member of the single European Union and we will want to | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
By technically leaving the customs union, while leaving border | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
arrangements pretty much unchanged for a couple of years, | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
we get minimised disruption, while at the same time forging | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
new trade arrangements with people around the world before | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
we eventually end up with an almost frictionless arrangement | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Which is why many think there's one long recipe | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
The European Parliament's top negotiator described parts of this | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
While David Davis' direct counterpart said there were more | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
important things to settle first, like citizens rights, | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
Any additional friction at this border could be very | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
It's the impact on the politics in Northern Ireland. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
How would Sinn Fein, the second largest party | :04:49. | :04:49. | |
in Northern Ireland, actually react to the manifestation | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
They would see this as a repartition, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Borders, customs, trade - this is complicated enough | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
without party politics, which something have | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
shaped these proposals and today's response to them. | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Well, why don't we just stay in the customs union? | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
If they want to have something, that, you know, | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
quacks like a duck - you know, it's a duck. | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
They seem to be going to great lengths to differentiate something | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
that's pretty much identical to the customs union | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
This seems to be all about the problems in | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
the Conservative Party and, really, not about addressing | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
the challenges faced by the British public and the needs | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
We're leaving, but nothing will change at the border for now. | :05:35. | :05:46. | |
That, at least, is what the Government is hoping for. | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
In a moment we'll speak to Chris Buckler, who's on the Irish | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
border, but first Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster. | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
We heard that one senior EU negotiator has described these | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
proposals as fantasy. What is the Government hoping to achieve? With | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Brexit talks hoping to get going again later this month, it is partly | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
about the Government trying to show that work is being done and it does | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
have a plan. It's also an attempt to demonstrate political unity after | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
differences of opinion from inside Cabinet have spilled out into the | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
public over recent weeks. Clearly, this is about much more than | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
domestic political battles. The Government has presented its wish | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
list, if you like. As we have heard, some in Brussels have called parts | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
of it a fantasy. That does raise a key question. Are these proposals | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
actually achievable? Even before the Government gets to the detail, its | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
first task on this issue is to get the EU to engage on the topic of | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
trade and on the UK's future relationship with the EU. Tonight, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Brussels is not budging. It is sticking to its plans and saying no, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
those discussions can only come after sufficient progress is made on | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
the divorce talks on the Brexit bill, on EU citizens rights and on | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
now, talks about the future relationship will have to wait. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Thank you. We will go to that border, the Irish border. Chris | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
Buckler is there. Where you are illustrate a difficult path ahead | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
is? Yes, 300 miles of the Irish border, and you will find reminders | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
of what used to be. Old border huts and derelict customs houses. The | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
government back and we'll publish a second document, a decision paper on | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
the future of the border, and it will make clear it does not want to | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
see a return of buildings like this and barriers. This is the old Dublin | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
to Belfast road. It has been largely replaced by a motorway that runs | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
parallel to the very busy motorway. There is not that much need for this | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
road and money changing facilities. Technology has dealt with some of | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
the difficulties posed by different currencies. We have heard time and | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
time again from the Government today, and we expect to hear it | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
tomorrow, that they believe technology can really help with | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
dealing with problems posed by problems. -- customs. You will find | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
a lot of what was said today repeated tomorrow. It is partly | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
because Westminster knows that Brussels wants to talk about the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
Irish border. It is one of their three priorities. On the other hand, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
the UK wants to talk about trade, as well as customs. This is a chance to | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
get it on the table by talking about the Irish border. The other thing | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
you can expect is a repeating one of the phrases we have seen in recent | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
months. The idea that there should be no return to the borders of the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
past, that there should be a seamless, frictionless border. But | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
we have also heard cynicism from the EU, the idea that an invisible | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
border is something that is fantasy. The likes of the Irish government, | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
they will be looking closely at the proposals, looking closely at the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
detail to see if they have something that is workable there. Thank you. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire - | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
which left more than 80 people dead - has officially got under way. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
It will look at how the blaze started, the design | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
and refurbishment of the tower as well as the response | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
But broader questions about social housing will not be considered. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
That has prompted criticism from the local MP, | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
residents and campaigners - as our special correspondent | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
Hanging from near the top of the tower. | :09:18. | :09:25. | |
There are still remains to be found, victims to be identified, | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
And still, so many questions to be answered. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Questions the public inquiry will now look at. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
The inquiry now says it will examine the cause and spread of the fire, | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
the design and construction of the tower block, | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
including safety regulations, and the response of the Fire Brigade | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
to the blaze, and central and local government's response after it. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
But it won't look at social housing policy, or the relationship | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
between residents and the council, and the tenant | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
Karim Mussilhy is still waiting for the remains of his uncle, | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
Hesham Rahman, to be found and identified. | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
We thought that it's covering pretty much | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
what we want it to cover, in terms of, you know, | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
the cause and spread of the fire, the response with the local | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
authorities and the residents, before and after. | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Do you think the inquiry could be broader? | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
I think it should be more broader and be more | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
You'd like it to look at social housing? | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
But he still can't say he has confidence in the inquiry. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Confidence is another, very strong word. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
I mean, I have more confidence in a criminal investigation | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
While Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the head of the inquiry, | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
won't examine policy on social housing, the Government | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
There is a listening exercise we need to do in Government | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
as well as about wider social housing policy and that is precisely | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
what I will be doing over the coming weeks and months. | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
As residents marched in silence last night to remember the tragedy, | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
many still feel the inquiry doesn't go far enough. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Sid-ali Atmani escaped with his family from the 15th | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
The social housing policy should be a part of the terms of reference. | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
The reason why I'm saying that is because there | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
are people that moved there, they used to live on high floors, | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
That's why it should be added to the the terms of reference. | :11:33. | :11:45. | |
This is what we felt was going to happen at the beginning | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
of this consultation process and this is what we've | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
The inquiry's had a difficult start, with the judge accused | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
He needs the confidence of the survivors, the bereaved, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
the whole community here, or this will be seen as a whitewash. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
And, after today's announcement, he still doesn't have | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
The Grenfell inquiry will hold its first hearing next month, | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
and hopes to have an initial report on the cause and spread | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
One survivor said, "We just want the truth." | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Rescue workers in Sierra Leone have recovered almost 400 bodies | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
after a massive mudslide near the capital, Freetown | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
Homes were engulfed by mud and water when part of a mountain | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
The authorities are planning mass burials for those who've been killed | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
From Freetown, our correspondent Umaru Fofana reports | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
The mountainside collapsed in an avalanche of mud, | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
The deluge of water surged through streets, leaving total | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
Outside the Freetown mortuary, it's been a difficult day | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
Hundreds of bodies have been brought here. | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
This is a disaster, which even by the reckoning | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
of the head of this mortuary, who's been doing this for decades, | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
He says it compares to nothing with the Ebola virus outbreak. | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
It does not compare to the Civil War. | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
He says he has never seen anything like this. | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
Those who did escape look on other places where they used to live. | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
This man lost eight members of his family. | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
TRANSLATION: I first saw the body of my sister and called | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Then I started hearing other people nearby crying. | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Meanwhile, the rescue operation continues. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
It's hoped survivors might still be found. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
It is believed that hundreds of people are lying dead | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
here beneath the mudslide and the hope is that they will be | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
In fact, because of the late arrival of the heavy machinery and equipment | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
needed for that initial reaction when this mudslide happened | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
Many here believe that help did not come in time. | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
The mudslide and flash floods have shaken this country. | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
People here have already suffered a bloody Civil War | :14:28. | :14:29. | |
The families of all of the 22 victims killed | :14:30. | :14:46. | |
in the Manchester Arena terror attack in May are to | :14:47. | :14:48. | |
That includes ?70,000 which has already been given | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
The money is from an emergency fund made up of public donations. | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
A court has heard how a cyclist, accused of killing a woman | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
by crashing into her in a London street, began shouting at her | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Charlie Alliston - who was 18 at the time - | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
was allegedly going 18mph when he knocked down | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
President Trump has again blamed both sides for the clashes | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
in Virginia over the weekend and accused some protesters | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
on the political left of attacking white nationalists. | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
Mr Trump had drawn sharp criticism from some within his own party | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
for his initial response, because it had taken him until yesterday | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
to criticise right-wing groups for the clashes. | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
Tonight at a press conference in New York, he accused some protesters on | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
the political left of attacking white Nationalists. ( | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
There was a group on this side, you can call them the left, | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
you've just called them the left, that came violently | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
So you can say what you want, but that's the way it is. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
You said there was hatred and violence on both sides? | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
You look at both sides, I think there's blame on both sides. | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
President Trump speaking a short time ago. | :16:10. | :16:11. | |
Nick Bryant was at that news conference in Trump Tower. | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
It was a bad tempered press conference. It was an incredibly | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
angry press conference. Worth pointing out that it's the first | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
time we've seen the presidential seal at Trump Tower. Last night was | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
the first that Donald Trump has spent in New York since becoming | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
president. I think that many observers and many people in his own | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
party who have been critical of Donald Trump's response to | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
Charlottesville will have regarded that as a very unpresidential | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
performance because he reverted boo being to his position on Saturday, | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
which was both sides were to blame for this violence that erupted at a | :16:45. | :16:52. | |
rally organised by the far right. Members of the KKK, white | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
supremicists, neo-Nazis. It took him away from the position yesterday at | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
the White House, where he read from autocue, in a statement prepared by | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
his advisors criticising those very groups. So, I think, we will revert | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
to the criticism that Donald Trump received over the weekend. My | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
abiding memory this afternoon press conference will be a question that | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
was shouted by an African-American cameraman, very rare you get | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
cameramen asking questions. He asked simply this: "What message does that | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
send our children? Thank you. | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has led his nation | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
in marking the 70th anniversary of the country's | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
The division of colonial India in 1947 into two states - | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
India and Pakistan - led to sectarian violence | :17:40. | :17:40. | |
The Partition resulted in the movement of around | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
It was one of the largest migrations ever seen. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
Many Muslims fled east and west out of Hindu-dominated India. | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
And millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed the other way. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Reeta Chakrabarti is in India tonight at the Golden | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
This is the holiest site of the Sikh religion. | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
And it stands in the state of Punjab, which was terribly | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
affected in the horrors of Partition 70 years ago. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
India has a lot to reflect on, in its past and in its present | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
on this anniversary, with a huge young population, | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
Modern day India has a huge and young population and a burningoning | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
economy. It's recently seen a spike in religious violence directed | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
mainly at Muslims. our South Asia | :18:33. | :18:45. | |
correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, His report contains some | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
distressing images. This is a day of | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
celebration for India. The Indian Prime Minister, | :18:50. | :18:51. | |
Narendra Modi, talked of the country's successes - | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
its growing economy, its efforts to tackle corruption | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
and his vision for a secure, developed nation with equal | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
opportunities for all. He made a point of speaking out | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
against hate crimes. TRANSLATION: In the name | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
of religions, some people in this This is the land of Gandhi | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
and Buddha and violence in the name He is talking about India's tiny | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
minority of Hindu extremists, Modi is a Hindu Nationalist | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
and tensions have been growing between the country's Hindu majority | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
and its large Muslim minority. At the centre of the controversy | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
is the slaughter of cows for meat. But the cow is a sacred | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
animal in Hinduism, TRANSLATION: If I find someone | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
killing my mother cow, I don't need the police | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
or the authorities. Vijaykant is so passionate | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
about protecting the cow he and his supporters take | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
to the streets. They've been told they've got no | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
permission to stop vehicles, Stopping these lorries to see | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
if they're carrying any cows. TRANSLATION: I have information | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
that they are smuggling cows Cow vigilantes have been | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
increasingly active across the country since Modi took | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
power and there have been murders. This Muslim man was accused | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
of illegally transporting cows for slaughter by a different | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
group of vigilantes. Avoiding communal conflict | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
is crucial for India. This new bridge is just | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
one of scores of major The country's doing well - | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
the fastest growing large It wants to keep its hardline Hindu | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
supporters onside but, at the same time, it knows economic | :21:03. | :21:16. | |
success depends on the country With tensions between Hindus | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
and Muslims running high, Justin Rowlatt, BBC | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
News, Uttar Pradesh. This city Amritsar is right | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
on the border with Pakistan, and as India celebrates its 70 years | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
of independence, it is just starting to address publicly its brutal | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
and bloody beginning, when the country was effectively cut | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
in two by Partition. As I've been finding out, | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
it was a difficult start for India - and for its first prime minister, | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
Jawaharlal Nehru. One of a tiny number of transport | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
links between neighbours. This train operates just twice | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
a week, taking Indians over the border and bringing Pakistanis | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
here to the outskirts of Amritsar. But it's a journey very few make, | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
because of decades of mistrust between the two countries, | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
which started with the Amritsar is becoming | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
a centre of remembrance. This week, India is launching | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
the first ever Partition museum here, recording the acts of violence | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
and bravery of that time. People actually haven't spoken much | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
about Partition in the past, The reason being that | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
I think that generation when they came across, | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
A, they were traumatised, and B, because they were so busy | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
setting up their own lives, As the newly independent | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
state of India was born, its first Prime Minister, | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
Jawaharlal Nehru, was full At the stroke of the midnight hour, | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
when the world sleeps, India His vision was of a democratic, | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
secular state in which poverty and She lived through the horrors | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
and only narrowly escaped with her life, hidden with a fruit | :23:13. | :23:21. | |
truck and disguised in a burkha. Now 87, she's been recording her | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
memories for her grandson Rishi and also reflecting on modern | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
India and Nehru's legacy. TRANSLATION: All the dreams | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
that he showed us, they've We thought that after independence, | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
all sorts of things would happen. We are still better off, | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
but there are many poor people. There is still so much | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
poverty in India. There has been major | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
economic growth in India, but Nehru's vision of a more | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
equal society hasn't happened yet. One thing endures, the political | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
mistrust between India and Pakistan, a hostility that some born many | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
years after Partition We might just worship different | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
gods but that doesn't But he's never been to Pakistan, | :24:07. | :24:16. | |
which is less than 20 miles away. The border between the two countries | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
is real and psychological. Partition is both history | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
and ever present. It is very difficult for Indians | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
to go to Pakistan and vice versa. There are few transport | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
links and few The continuing political hostility | :24:36. | :24:48. | |
between the states of India and Pakistan inevitably effect personal | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
relations. People may have friendly feelings towards each other, but as | :24:53. | :24:56. | |
for the states themselves, 70 years after Partition, they're still as | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
far apart as ever. Back to you. Millions of rail passengers | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
are facing the biggest rise in train Tickets are going up by 3.6% | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
in January, because of a rise The increases will affect season | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
tickets, so called "anytime" tickets Unions have called it a kick | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
in the teeth for passengers. Our transport correspondent, | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Richard Westcott, has the story. Rebecca's commute from Taunton | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
to Bristol costs ?3,500 a year, and it's due to go up by ?130 next | :25:25. | :25:41. | |
year, as most commuters There's this gradual erosion | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
of your actual real wealth that's happening to an awful lot of people, | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
where you will find that your salary may have gone up, but everything | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
else is going up so much faster and so much more that year on year, | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
we're all actually, It's not the train companies that | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
set around half of our rail fares, They've been putting | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
the fares up for years because they want to change who pays | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
for the railways. It's all part of a plan to shift | :26:13. | :26:14. | |
the financial burden away from taxpayers, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
most of whom don't commute Fares used to account for about half | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
the cost of running our trains. Across Britain, people | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
are facing tough choices. If it goes on, I probably won't be | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
able to afford to go to work. Because it's cheaper | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
to get the car to work. That makes us worse off | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
when they put up fares like that. I wouldn't mind the rise if you got | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
a better quality carriage They're pretty tatty | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
these things now. Campaigners have criticised the use | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
of the RPI rate of inflation, The rail firms say they face | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
the same increases. Railway companies costs are going up | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
in line with that inflation as well. They have to cover the costs | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
in order to provide the services Ministers argue that the money | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
is needed to pay for a ?40 billion A lot of it is still Victorian | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
and it's struggling cope with record Critics claim fares have outstripped | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
wages for years and say it's The Government could still change | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
its mind in the Autumn Budget. The British explorer | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
Pen Hadow and his crew have set sail from Alaska, | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
in a bid to become the first people ever to sail | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
by yacht to the North Pole. It's been impossible until now | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
because of Arctic ice. But that's melting at | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
an unprecedented rate - meaning the 3.500-mile journey may | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
now be possible. Hadow left Nome in | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
Alaska earlier today. This is the route he and his crew | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
will take in two 50-foot yachts - sailing along the Baring Strait | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
into the Central Arctic Ocean. They'll then use satellites to plot | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
the best route through the ice Our science correspondent, | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
Rebecca Morelle, reports. Setting off into uncharted Arctic | :28:14. | :28:21. | |
waters, a pair of yachts attempting a first - | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
sailing all the way A crew of ten and dog, Fukimi, | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
have just departed from Alaska. Led by British explorer, Pen Hadow, | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
they have a 3,500 mile voyage ahead. For the first time in human history, | :28:37. | :28:43. | |
possibly for the first time in 130,000 years, | :28:44. | :28:45. | |
it is now possible to sail It's the rapidly warming conditions | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
in the Arctic that have made this This shows how sea ice | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
has melted over time. The smaller the circle, | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
the less ice that year. There's still data to come for 2017, | :29:03. | :29:05. | |
but already it doesn't look good. A large-scale analysis, | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
from the US Polar Science Centre, estimates that, from the late 1970s, | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
half of the volume of It means that once inaccessible | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
waters are opening up, and researchers say this could lead | :29:19. | :29:24. | |
to significant changes, especially At Reading University, | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
scientists say that instead of having to sail around the frozen | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
pole, ships will have At the moment, we're | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
seeing a few experimental In the future, as the ice continues | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
to melt, the possibility of having more commercial ships travelling | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
through the region Ice-strengthened ships may be able | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
to go right over the pole The team do not know how | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
far north they'll get. But this expedition | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
into the unknown may be the start It's the stuff of dreams - | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
a soprano is taken ill at London's world famous Wigmore Hall - | :30:08. | :30:17. | |
and the person who's drafted in to replace her at the last minute | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
is a 23-year-old music student, who usually takes the tickets | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
and works in the cloakroom. For one night only, Milly Forrest | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
swapped coats for the stage and wowed the audience | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
and critics alike. Milly's normally back | :30:32. | :30:33. | |
here taking coats and bags Sometimes she even gets to page turn | :30:34. | :30:51. | |
doing a live concert. But not for the season's | :30:52. | :31:04. | |
closing night. And that's because one of the | :31:05. | :31:06. | |
evening's performers was taken ill. She says she was shocked | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
by the opportunity. But when I had a good | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
look at the music, I knew I could make sure | :31:13. | :31:18. | |
I learned it in time. One critic dubbed her | :31:19. | :31:22. | |
"breathtaking", even though at 23, her voice is still not mature enough | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
to go into the profession full-time. A few people who I trust have | :31:28. | :31:32. | |
said look at this girl. So we have to take care | :31:33. | :31:36. | |
of her and make sure that we don't But there is a quality to the voice | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
and her interpretation that came out very much, | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
towards the end of Milly's heading to the Royal College | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
of Music for her postgrad in September, but has already been | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
booked to perform at the hall again. Maybe mum and dad | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
will catch that one. I rang them and I said, "Mummy, | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
I'm going to be stepping She said, "Oh, I really wish | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
we could go, but we're My dad called me again and he said, | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
"I'm sorry, treasure. You're going to have | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
to forgive mum for this one." Next month, she'll be back taking | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
cloaks and bags in that cloakroom. Here on BBC One, it's time | :32:21. | :32:30. | |
for the news where you are. | :32:31. | :32:34. |