:00:00. > :00:10.The war in Yemen - the UN accuses both sides of killing and maiming
:00:11. > :00:13.children. The smallest are the most vulnerable to famine, even in
:00:14. > :00:29.All the oxygen has stopped, and this happens all the time.
:00:30. > :00:31.The Saudi-led coalition is blockading a port
:00:32. > :00:38.in a rebel-held area, stopping food coming in.
:00:39. > :00:41.If something isn't done soon, literally hundreds of thousands
:00:42. > :00:45.of children will die in the next four to five months.
:00:46. > :00:51.We have a special report tonight, a rare glimpse inside what the UN is
:00:52. > :00:51.calling the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
:00:52. > :00:53.Also tonight: The four men accused
:00:54. > :00:56.of the Barcelona attack - in the last hour, one has been freed
:00:57. > :00:59.without charge. Donald Trump admits he's
:01:00. > :01:02.changed his mind and decides to send Businesses across the north
:01:03. > :01:08.of England call on the Government to commit to greater transport
:01:09. > :01:11.links. The Great British Bake
:01:12. > :01:13.Off on Channel Four - will it benefit or suffer
:01:14. > :01:18.from our changing viewing habits? And at the last minute,
:01:19. > :01:20.England's women beat France to make it through to the Rugby World Cup
:01:21. > :01:24.final. And coming up in
:01:25. > :01:26.Sportsday on BBC News: Celtic are into the group stage
:01:27. > :01:28.of the Champions League. Despite defeat to Astana
:01:29. > :01:31.of Kazakhstan, they progress 8-4 We start with a special report
:01:32. > :01:58.tonight on the desperate crisis in Yemen and the ongoing suffering
:01:59. > :02:01.of its people. In two leaked reports,
:02:02. > :02:04.obtained by the BBC, the UN accuses both sides in the war
:02:05. > :02:08.there of killing and maiming children and says that the Saudi-led
:02:09. > :02:11.coalition is blocking the delivery Yemen is now in its third
:02:12. > :02:16.year of war, which has created the world's
:02:17. > :02:19.worst humanitarian crisis. 17 million people don't
:02:20. > :02:21.know where their next And seven million more
:02:22. > :02:26.are facing famine. The war is between a
:02:27. > :02:28.Saudi-led coalition, It includes many of the Gulf states
:02:29. > :02:34.and is backed by the US and the UK - on the other side Houthi rebels,
:02:35. > :02:38.with some support from Iran. Nawal Al Maghafi's report is from
:02:39. > :02:42.the Houthi-held area of Hudaydah. You may find her
:02:43. > :02:46.report distressing. Many of Yemen's children have
:02:47. > :02:51.only ever known war. And Hudaydah Central
:02:52. > :02:59.Hospital is full of them. Victims of a conflict that has
:03:00. > :03:04.left their country battered, I first met Dr Abdullah
:03:05. > :03:09.Al Zuhayri a year ago. He tells me things
:03:10. > :03:14.are now much worse. TRANSLATION: We have
:03:15. > :03:17.started to see so many more Now, it's not only
:03:18. > :03:23.the poor bringing their children here, we are seeing cases
:03:24. > :03:26.of severely malnourished children He takes me to meet boy,
:03:27. > :03:32.just three years old, He needs intensive care
:03:33. > :03:39.but there are no beds available. As we talk, the doctor
:03:40. > :04:03.interrupts us. A bed has been freed
:04:04. > :04:06.and he is rushed This is one of the area's
:04:07. > :04:16.last functioning All these people have spent all
:04:17. > :04:28.the money they have to get this far. Now the electricity
:04:29. > :04:32.is off, so all the machines are off, all be incubators
:04:33. > :04:38.are off, all the oxygen has stopped. The war between the Saudi backed
:04:39. > :04:46.government and the Houthi rebels The region's richest nation -
:04:47. > :04:55.bombing its poorest. It's killed thousands
:04:56. > :04:57.and left millions homeless. Where ever you go, displaced
:04:58. > :05:04.people line the streets. With all borders closed,
:05:05. > :05:09.there's no escape. Even the refugee camp offered no
:05:10. > :05:14.protection for Mohammed and Hudaydah is Yemen's main port city,
:05:15. > :05:44.it should be a lifeline, but now it's barely operating,
:05:45. > :05:49.after the Saudi coalition bombed the cranes
:05:50. > :05:52.and blocked their replacements. Food should not be
:05:53. > :05:55.a weapon of war, food 95% of all the food
:05:56. > :06:00.that we need to feed the innocent people comes
:06:01. > :06:03.through this sport. If this port is bombed
:06:04. > :06:07.and completely made useless, literally hundreds of thousands
:06:08. > :06:11.of children will die and millions of But it's not just
:06:12. > :06:19.starvation that the Yemen now faces the worst cholera
:06:20. > :06:23.outbreak in the world This 13-year-old caught it
:06:24. > :06:29.along with 18 members of In the intensive care unit we get
:06:30. > :06:57.a desperate call from As his father says goodbye,
:06:58. > :07:21.the family asks us to carry on filming, to show the world
:07:22. > :07:24.these heartbreaking images. A three-year-old boy,
:07:25. > :07:29.starved and broken. Another child born into a war that
:07:30. > :07:36.has now taken his life. Our Middle East editor,
:07:37. > :07:42.Jeremy Bowen, is here. Images distressing beyond words,
:07:43. > :07:54.the scale of the suffering in Yemen Yeah, it's absolutely horrendous.
:07:55. > :07:58.I've got some figures actually about that area, where that report was
:07:59. > :08:03.filmed. I've got the figures from Save the Children, who are very busy
:08:04. > :08:10.in that part of town. They've got a lot of information. It's one of the
:08:11. > :08:18.hardest areas, areas hardest hit by cholera and malnutrition. 27% of
:08:19. > :08:22.under fives have malnutrition. Almost 94,880, they say, are at
:08:23. > :08:26.imminent risk of death from starvation. Don't forget as well
:08:27. > :08:29.that malnourished children are three times more likely to die from
:08:30. > :08:33.cholera than otherwise healthy children. The figures are terrible.
:08:34. > :08:40.We heard the UN representative there pointing the figure of plain at the
:08:41. > :08:44.Saudis, who are leading a coalition for amongst other things blockading
:08:45. > :08:51.the port. The Saudis see it very differently, though. Yes, they will
:08:52. > :08:55.also point to, in that leaked report, there were information there
:08:56. > :09:00.about grave violations carried out by Houthis as well, including
:09:01. > :09:04.recruiting child soldiers, but the Saudis see the Houthis very much as
:09:05. > :09:09.tools of Iran. When all this started, I sat with a senior Saudi
:09:10. > :09:14.diplomat and he said, "We are going into Yemen and we're going to sort
:09:15. > :09:17.this out once and for all. We cannot have the Iranians active on our
:09:18. > :09:22.doorstep." Now there are many analysts who say the Iranians are
:09:23. > :09:26.not as active as the Saudis say. But that is the big motivation why
:09:27. > :09:30.they're there. The UK is involved. It is supporting the Saudi-led
:09:31. > :09:34.coalition. Yes, Britain over the years has done some absolutely
:09:35. > :09:38.massive arms deals with the Saudis. We continue to maintain as well
:09:39. > :09:43.through various contracts some of their equipment. So, yeah, we're a
:09:44. > :09:47.major supplier. Britain is a major supplier to the Saudi armed forces
:09:48. > :09:53.and the Air Force. The Air Force has carried out a lot of killings,
:09:54. > :09:57.according to this UN information, of children in the area, these grave
:09:58. > :10:02.violations, as they're called. Now there's pressure inside the UN and
:10:03. > :10:05.from other players outside as well to say that this Saudi-led
:10:06. > :10:09.coalition, which is all the countries in it are strong allies of
:10:10. > :10:15.the West, including Britain, that they should be put, the pressure
:10:16. > :10:19.says, on a blacklist of countries that carry out grave violations of
:10:20. > :10:21.human rights against kids particularly. Jermey Bowen, thank
:10:22. > :10:23.you. The four Moroccan men,
:10:24. > :10:26.suspected of the attacks in and around Barcelona last week,
:10:27. > :10:29.have appeared in court. One of them admitted that another
:10:30. > :10:31.bigger attack was being planned. But in the last hour,
:10:32. > :10:34.one of the men has been The latest now from Tom
:10:35. > :10:39.Burridge in Barcelona. In the wake of the deadliest terror
:10:40. > :10:44.attack in Spain in years, four men One by one they were led into a high
:10:45. > :10:52.security prison outside Madrid. The four men in court
:10:53. > :10:58.today are all linked in different ways to last week's
:10:59. > :11:02.attacks and a wider plot. Mohamed Houli Chemlal this morning
:11:03. > :11:05.taken to court in his Last Wednesday he was badly
:11:06. > :11:10.injured in an explosion He admitted in court the group
:11:11. > :11:14.was planning a larger attack. He will remain in prison
:11:15. > :11:17.and faces terrorism charges. Driss Oukabir's passport
:11:18. > :11:20.was found in the rented van, which was driven
:11:21. > :11:23.with such deadly effect He has also been in
:11:24. > :11:34.prison and charged. The man driving the van, Younes
:11:35. > :11:38.Abouyaaquob, was shot dead by police yesterday in countryside outside
:11:39. > :11:41.bars loanament another suspect, he owned an internet cafe. Tonight he
:11:42. > :11:46.remains in custody pending further inquiries. There have been police
:11:47. > :11:51.raids tonight in Ripoll and elsewhere. The fourth man in court,
:11:52. > :11:55.Mohammed Allah denied being owner of the Audi A 3 used in the attack in
:11:56. > :11:58.Cambrils on Friday morning. Today he has been released without charge.
:11:59. > :12:02.It's now been confirmed a speed camera clocked four of the attackers
:12:03. > :12:07.as they drove to Paris in that very car the week before the attacks.
:12:08. > :12:11.Police in Catalonia say their investigation is far from over. On
:12:12. > :12:17.Las Ramblas, five days on, there is a palpable sense of defiance. Spain
:12:18. > :12:21.is a country where much of life is lived outdoors and no amount of
:12:22. > :12:28.terror will change that. But of course, many lives have been cruelly
:12:29. > :12:31.touched forever. Brave British tourist Harry Athwell, held a young
:12:32. > :12:35.boy, after he had been hit by the van. I was afraid for the boy at
:12:36. > :12:40.that point, when I looked at his injuries. They were severe. I was
:12:41. > :12:44.actually quite emotional as well. Because I knew straight away this
:12:45. > :12:48.boy, had to be seven or eight years old, that's the same age as my son.
:12:49. > :12:52.Like I said, due to the injuries, I was quite upset. The first thing I
:12:53. > :12:56.tried to do was just to check his pulse to see if he was alive. His
:12:57. > :13:03.hair was similar to my son's hair. It was a bit shorter than my son's
:13:04. > :13:06.now, but the hair was the same, beautiful, thick, brown hair. I
:13:07. > :13:10.stroked it, I tried to talk to him. As more facts are revealed about the
:13:11. > :13:18.perpetrators of this, questions hang in the air.
:13:19. > :13:21.President Trump has gone back on his often repeated calls for US
:13:22. > :13:23.troops to come out of Afghanistan and announced that instead he'll be
:13:24. > :13:28.In a speech, he made a rare admission that he had
:13:29. > :13:31.changed his mind and that the US would stay in Afghanistan
:13:32. > :13:33.not to nation build, but to attack its enemy
:13:34. > :13:39.America's 16-year involvement in the war has seen over 2,300
:13:40. > :13:42.troops killed and more than 20,000 injured.
:13:43. > :13:45.But as our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports, there was no
:13:46. > :13:52.detail about how many extra troops will be deployed and for how long.
:13:53. > :13:56.Donald Trump on his way a rally in Phoenix, Arizona,
:13:57. > :13:59.with a tricky sales job on his hands.
:14:00. > :14:02.The man who likes to be a crowd pleaser, and who throughout
:14:03. > :14:06.the campaign delighted audiences with his promise to pull US
:14:07. > :14:09.forces out of Afghanistan, "a gigantic waste of money
:14:10. > :14:16.But last night, as the band played Hail to the Chief,
:14:17. > :14:21.he was preparing to hit the reverse thrust button on that policy.
:14:22. > :14:26.My original instinct was to pull out, and historically, I like
:14:27. > :14:34.But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different
:14:35. > :14:38.when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.
:14:39. > :14:42.But what this flip-flop means in practical terms is hard to assess.
:14:43. > :14:45.The president would not say how many additional troops he would send,
:14:46. > :14:48.nor commit to how long they would be there.
:14:49. > :14:51.The mission would be judged by results, not timelines.
:14:52. > :14:54.And although Kabul may be a long way from Charlottesville,
:14:55. > :14:57.recent events in Virginia were clearly on his mind
:14:58. > :15:03.Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another.
:15:04. > :15:08.Love for America requires love for all of its people.
:15:09. > :15:11.When we open our hearts to patriotism,
:15:12. > :15:17.there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry,
:15:18. > :15:22.And some of his harshest words were aimed at the Pakistani
:15:23. > :15:25.government, whom he accused of harbouring terrorists,
:15:26. > :15:29.while taking billions of dollars in US aid money.
:15:30. > :15:34.He called his new policy strategic realism, and summed it up this way.
:15:35. > :15:51.In Phoenix long lines have formed ahead of the president's rally this
:15:52. > :15:54.evening. What do his supporters make of the Afghanistan U-turn? I think
:15:55. > :15:58.Mr Trump has received new information. I'm reluctantly going
:15:59. > :16:03.to follow his lead. He's been listening and he knows exactly what
:16:04. > :16:07.he needs to do now. So that's why I am for his decision. I don't like
:16:08. > :16:10.what I'm seeing in Afghanistan. But I'm going to reserve judgment until
:16:11. > :16:14.I see the fruits of what's actually going to come out of this. The
:16:15. > :16:17.fruits right now are my money's being wasted. We're creating more
:16:18. > :16:21.terrorists going over there and I don't like it. Though Donald Trump
:16:22. > :16:25.has tried to dress this speech up as marking a significant shift in
:16:26. > :16:30.policy, the most striking thing about it is the sense of continuity
:16:31. > :16:34.with the Obama White House. And one other thing - now that this major
:16:35. > :16:41.policy announcement has come, this is Donald Trump's war in Afghanistan
:16:42. > :16:43.not Barack Obama's, not the generals'. Now he has ownership of
:16:44. > :16:47.something he never wanted to buy. In that speech, President Trump
:16:48. > :16:53.declared there would be more onus on the Afghan government
:16:54. > :16:55.to perform better, in civilian But the Afghan government barely
:16:56. > :17:01.controls just over half of all the districts in Afghanistan,
:17:02. > :17:05.and the Taliban are gaining ground. It's estimated 31 Afghan
:17:06. > :17:08.security force soldiers are being killed every day -
:17:09. > :17:10.along with civilian deaths. From Kabul, here's
:17:11. > :17:16.Secundar Kermani. This is the Kabul military training
:17:17. > :17:19.centre, one of the largest In a few months many of the young
:17:20. > :17:30.men here will be on the front lines For the past two and a half years
:17:31. > :17:34.it's been Afghan soldiers, as opposed to international forces,
:17:35. > :17:36.that have taken the lead There's no doubt that
:17:37. > :17:48.they've sacrificed a lot, thousands upon thousands have
:17:49. > :17:50.lost their lives. Yet they've been unable to stop
:17:51. > :17:52.the level of violence In the first half of this
:17:53. > :17:56.year alone, over 1600 Whilst the government only controls
:17:57. > :18:01.just over half of the country. So the commitment by President Trump
:18:02. > :18:05.not to allow Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban, has been widely
:18:06. > :18:08.welcomed by authorities here. TRANSLATION: The message
:18:09. > :18:20.is that the US will stand The tougher stance on Pakistan
:18:21. > :18:25.was also well received. TRANSLATION: Our neighbour has been
:18:26. > :18:28.given a clear message - Afghan security forces have long
:18:29. > :18:46.claimed that attacks like this one are masterminded in neighbouring
:18:47. > :18:47.Pakistan. That's always been flatly
:18:48. > :18:49.denied by authorities in the Pakistani capital Islamabad,
:18:50. > :18:51.who point of the country's losses It has suffered casualties,
:18:52. > :18:57.30-40,000, and I think wounded is over 100,000,
:18:58. > :19:03.and we've lost manpower and we are We have lost civilians,
:19:04. > :19:11.and they say we haven't done enough. President Trump today seemed
:19:12. > :19:18.to recognise there was no military solution to the conflict and instead
:19:19. > :19:20.there would be some kind For the moment, though,
:19:21. > :19:26.many more young men like these will go out to fight,
:19:27. > :19:28.and many will never return. The former boss of the retail chain
:19:29. > :19:37.BHS, Dominic Chappell, is to be prosecuted by the Pensions Regulator
:19:38. > :19:40.for failing to provide information BHS went into administration last
:19:41. > :19:44.year, causing 11,000 people to lose their jobs,
:19:45. > :19:46.and leaving a 571 million This time last year
:19:47. > :20:00.and everything must go - the end of an era of a once great
:20:01. > :20:03.high street name. Dominic Chappell, its former owner,
:20:04. > :20:09.he had no retail experience, but he bought the loss-making
:20:10. > :20:11.chain for ?1. Just over a year later,
:20:12. > :20:16.BHS collapsed into administration. This used to be BHS' flagship store,
:20:17. > :20:21.here on Oxford Street. The shutters are still down
:20:22. > :20:27.on what's coming next. What was revealed today, though,
:20:28. > :20:30.is that Dominic Chappell is being prosecuted by the pension
:20:31. > :20:34.regulator for failing to provide information and documents
:20:35. > :20:37.about a reasonable excuse. It wants this material
:20:38. > :20:41.because the regulator is still pursuing Mr Chappell over
:20:42. > :20:45.whether he avoided his responsibilities
:20:46. > :20:49.to the BHS pension scheme. I want to give an assurance
:20:50. > :20:53.to the 20,000 pensioners, Sir Philip Green sold
:20:54. > :21:02.BHS to Mr Chappell. After that promise to MPs,
:21:03. > :21:05.he eventually paid more than ?350 million in a settlement
:21:06. > :21:09.with the pension regulator. For this MP, BHS is still
:21:10. > :21:13.unfinished business. There is going to be a search
:21:14. > :21:19.for truth and justice, even if it takes a long time,
:21:20. > :21:23.and the select committee will help play its part in that
:21:24. > :21:26.great unfolding drama. Many stores still lie
:21:27. > :21:28.empty as Mr Chappell He's previously pledged
:21:29. > :21:34.to fight any legal action, denying he was responsible
:21:35. > :21:37.for the hole in the pension scheme. An end to the north-south divide
:21:38. > :21:44.in investment in transport has been called for by two lobby groups,
:21:45. > :21:46.representing thousands of companies More than 70,000 people
:21:47. > :21:53.have signed a petition, demanding that the Government spend
:21:54. > :21:55.more outside London The high speed rail line HS2
:21:56. > :22:00.will provide a faster link - between London and Birmingham -
:22:01. > :22:02.then on to Manchester, But businesses want a commitment
:22:03. > :22:08.to HS3, which would cut journey times across the country
:22:09. > :22:12.from west to east. Jon Kay has been speaking
:22:13. > :22:13.to passengers, travelling between Liverpool and Manchester,
:22:14. > :22:19.to gauge opinions. This train will be calling at
:22:20. > :22:21.Manchester Victoria, Huddersfield... Heading across northern
:22:22. > :22:27.England tonight, the 17.10 On time, but for some
:22:28. > :22:30.it's just too slow. Yeah, it's terrible,
:22:31. > :22:31.it's absolutely terrible. Rona has spent six hours today
:22:32. > :22:33.commuting between Yorkshire and Merseyside and it's only 70
:22:34. > :22:38.miles each way. So for me, I left home at 6:30am
:22:39. > :22:46.this morning and I'll get home at 7:30pm tonight,
:22:47. > :22:49.so that's a very long day. So for my productivity,
:22:50. > :22:51.it impacts me tomorrow While she is recovering,
:22:52. > :22:59.tomorrow the north of England's politicians and business leaders
:23:00. > :23:02.will be holding a summit to discuss building a high-speed
:23:03. > :23:05.link across the region. It could cut the journey
:23:06. > :23:08.from Manchester to Leeds from 48 minutes to 26,
:23:09. > :23:11.and the 90 minute journey from Just the section between Manchester
:23:12. > :23:18.and Leeds across the Pennines can cost up to ?7 billion,
:23:19. > :23:20.so do rail users What do you think the money should
:23:21. > :23:30.be spent on instead, Spent it on education,
:23:31. > :23:34.spent it on health. It's always been the south,
:23:35. > :23:37.so why not the north for a change? I don't think it's a big deal
:23:38. > :23:40.getting somewhere ten I think if they're more efficient,
:23:41. > :23:44.on time, better services, cleaner, With a house on the Wirral
:23:45. > :23:50.and a business in Newcastle, Herb would love a faster line
:23:51. > :23:54.but he thinks they are cheaper and more realistic ways
:23:55. > :24:00.of getting business moving. To make sure anywhere along any
:24:01. > :24:03.of the Northern Rails you would never drop a phone call,
:24:04. > :24:06.you would always be able to have high-speed mobile
:24:07. > :24:08.data available to you, ideally Wi-Fi, but even just 4G
:24:09. > :24:14.would be a huge step forward. But Raman thinks a new railway
:24:15. > :24:17.is the only solution and would help him expand
:24:18. > :24:19.from the north-east For us, better links
:24:20. > :24:26.towards Manchester and Liverpool, that would make it easier for us
:24:27. > :24:29.to do business in those regions. It could actually lead
:24:30. > :24:32.to the opening of an office in those regions, because at the minute
:24:33. > :24:34.we are quite restricted, in terms But this could be a long
:24:35. > :24:38.and slow journey. It's about politics
:24:39. > :24:41.as well as the price, and the north of England is not
:24:42. > :24:45.the only region raising its voice and demanding urgent
:24:46. > :24:47.investment in infrastructure. A brief look at some of the day's
:24:48. > :24:55.other other news stories... Rescue workers on the Italian island
:24:56. > :24:58.of Ischia say they've pulled out alive three children from one
:24:59. > :25:01.family, including a seven-month-old baby, from the rubble
:25:02. > :25:04.of their home after an earthquake Two people were killed and 40 others
:25:05. > :25:09.were injured when it hit the holiday island off the coast
:25:10. > :25:11.of Naples. The US navy says divers searching
:25:12. > :25:15.for ten American sailors missing since their warship collided
:25:16. > :25:17.with a merchant tanker near Singapore, have
:25:18. > :25:20.found human remains. They were discovered
:25:21. > :25:21.in sealed compartments of the USS John S McCain,
:25:22. > :25:24.which was nearing port yesterday Over 13 million people watched
:25:25. > :25:31.the final of the last When it re-launches on Channel 4
:25:32. > :25:37.next week, the broadcaster will be relying on it to bring in increased
:25:38. > :25:41.revenue through advertising. But as our Media Editor Amol Rajan
:25:42. > :25:43.reports, the media landscape is changing, and the the way
:25:44. > :25:51.we watch TV is being transformed. Nobody wants to be the first
:25:52. > :25:57.person to leave... Great British Bake Off,
:25:58. > :25:58.poached from the BBC The winner of the 2015
:25:59. > :26:05.Great British Bake Off is... Watched by 13 million
:26:06. > :26:14.people on BBC One. Channel 4 paid a reported
:26:15. > :26:19.?75 million for three years. According to the man who ran both
:26:20. > :26:22.Channel 4 and the BBC, Bake Off Personally, I think Channel 4
:26:23. > :26:27.were out of their minds. Buying a show like that,
:26:28. > :26:30.using a cheque book to buy ready-made BBC show,
:26:31. > :26:33.the most popular show on British television,
:26:34. > :26:34.it's not what Channel 4 It's there to be a nursery
:26:35. > :26:38.for talent and ideas, VOICEOVER: Islamic State is
:26:39. > :26:44.the state of the Muslims and we... But this is why it is happening -
:26:45. > :26:48.though a public broadcaster, Channel 4 is commercially funded
:26:49. > :26:52.and believes only big audiences can generate the revenues necessary
:26:53. > :26:59.to fund shows that push boundaries. It's not going to jump,
:27:00. > :27:01.they can't jump. And the competition for eyeballs
:27:02. > :27:04.has become ferocious. Four of the five biggest
:27:05. > :27:07.companies in the world - Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon -
:27:08. > :27:09.are moving dramatically Meanwhile, streaming services
:27:10. > :27:14.like Netflix and Disney are investing billions in original
:27:15. > :27:16.programming to broadcast directly to hundreds
:27:17. > :27:20.of millions of customers. The marketing body for Britain's
:27:21. > :27:22.commercial networks says This is a time of great
:27:23. > :27:31.commercial opportunity The internet is often pitted
:27:32. > :27:36.as the great competitor to TV. In fact, exactly the
:27:37. > :27:38.opposite is the case. The internet is the future of TV,
:27:39. > :27:42.it's how TV is expanding, Technological innovation
:27:43. > :27:47.is changing both the supply On the supply side, the choice
:27:48. > :27:54.for audiences is greater than ever, and in terms of demand,
:27:55. > :27:57.many young viewers increasingly consume TV across multiple devices,
:27:58. > :28:00.ignore TV schedules and in some Finally we called at the Clarks,
:28:01. > :28:05.and although it was Saturday Time was when families
:28:06. > :28:09.across the country would come together to watch a limited
:28:10. > :28:12.range of channels. That still happens,
:28:13. > :28:16.but on fewer applications. This family in Kent illustrate
:28:17. > :28:21.the changing way parents Is this a normal family scene,
:28:22. > :28:29.of how you guys watch TV together? When I come home it's the news
:28:30. > :28:32.that everybody watches, and they join in and then
:28:33. > :28:35.after that they watch Do you guys watch TV with your
:28:36. > :28:39.parents most of the time or not? I live away from home most
:28:40. > :28:42.of the time, so my access to TV is very different,
:28:43. > :28:45.it's through my laptop I'm usually spending my time
:28:46. > :28:48.on Nickelodeon or even watching the Food Network,
:28:49. > :28:52.Good Food. To quote the late Sir Bruce Forsyth,
:28:53. > :28:54.television is today While broadcasters from the BBC
:28:55. > :29:02.to Channel 4 compete ever harder for the flagship shows that can
:29:03. > :29:05.bring a nation together, technology is pulling
:29:06. > :29:06.audiences and families England are through to the final
:29:07. > :29:14.of the Women's Rugby World Cup. They beat France by 20 points
:29:15. > :29:17.to three in Belfast tonight, to set up a meeting
:29:18. > :29:19.with New Zealand on Saturday. Our Sports Correspondent Katherine
:29:20. > :29:33.Downes was watching the action. Sarah Harding lot, rugby fans.
:29:34. > :29:38.Brightening a great Belfast date with all the sparkle a World Cup
:29:39. > :29:45.semifinal deserves. Come to add their voices to the roar of the
:29:46. > :29:48.crowd, however small. England, defending world champion tonight,
:29:49. > :29:53.faced a familiar foe, France, who proved a thorn in the side of the
:29:54. > :29:57.red roses over recent Six Nations campaigns, and so it would prove. By
:29:58. > :30:10.half-time there were only six points on the board shared between the
:30:11. > :30:14.boots of Emily 's carrot and Izar. 40 minutes of crunching tackles,
:30:15. > :30:19.this was perhaps even more of a battle than expected. England opened
:30:20. > :30:23.up a slight lead at the start of the second half, another three points
:30:24. > :30:29.hard earned, ground up French mistake. Even that try when it came
:30:30. > :30:36.to was inched over. England's battering ram finally puncturing a
:30:37. > :30:41.hole in France's defence. 20-3 disco. But also rendered finally by
:30:42. > :30:45.a French Bumble at the final whistle. So relieved for England and
:30:46. > :30:50.the realisation that the World Cup double is still possible, but if
:30:51. > :30:56.France were tough to beat, four times champions New Zealand who beat
:30:57. > :30:57.the US is a earlier, wait in the final two claim the trophy they
:30:58. > :31:05.think is rightfully theirs. And so it is a fairy tale final for
:31:06. > :31:08.this World Cup, the two best sides in the women's game going
:31:09. > :31:11.head-to-head for the title, here in Belfast on Saturday. At the end of
:31:12. > :31:16.the summer of sport that has seen women contest that cricket World
:31:17. > :31:20.Cup, the football championship, the Solheim cup to name just a few, in
:31:21. > :31:24.front of the television audience of millions, this is another chance to
:31:25. > :31:27.showcase the very best of women's sport to an ever expanding audience.
:31:28. > :31:31.Newsnight's about to begin over on BBC Two in a few moments.
:31:32. > :31:35.Tonight, as Donald Trump's' new-found commitment to the war
:31:36. > :31:38.in Afghanistan and his generals sinks in, we speak to the mercenary
:31:39. > :31:44.backed by Steve Bannon who thought he would get a slice of the action.
:31:45. > :31:48.Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.