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A murder in Pakistan on grounds of blasphemy, | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
and a community celebrates the work of the murderer. | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
It was a very depressing thought when my father was murdered to see | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
his murderer garlanded with flowers, it was shocking. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Is it possible that people here, could take the same view | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
On the day that a killer was given a life sentence for a religiously | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
inspired murder in Glasgow, we'll ask how serious this problem is. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
He's behind in the polls, are the wheels coming off? | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
I am a Republican and I would rather than the Republicans would win but | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
more importantly I would rather that my country not go down a fascist | :00:51. | :00:51. | |
route. All that and Steve Smith too, | :00:52. | :00:52. | |
back on the Olympic couch. That looked like an illegal server. | :00:53. | :01:05. | |
That is the other thing about watching the Olympics, you suddenly | :01:06. | :01:06. | |
become an expert. Most of us in this country cannot | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
begin to understand how someone might murder a fellow human being, | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
simply for blasphemy. The idea others might wish a killer | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
well for upholding the prophet's honour is surely even | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
more incomprehensible. But we know that in Pakistan, | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
blasphemy has been an excuse for a killing, and there crowds have | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
turned out in support of a killer. Well Tanveer Ahmed was sentenced | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
to life imprisonment today, for the murder of Glaswegian | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
shopkeeper, Asad Shah. He said his victim, | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
an Ahmadi Muslim, had So how on earth did that perverse | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
motive for murder arrive here? Secunder Kermani has been looking | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
at the case of two murders - that tragic killing of Asad Shah | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
in Glasgow, and the murder that These are the moments just before to | :01:57. | :02:12. | |
Ahmed pulls out a knife and murder a Glasgow shopkeeper he accuses of | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
committing blasphemy. His victim was Assad Shah, who had made YouTube | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
videos claiming to be a prophet, sentencing his killer the judge | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
today said he had shown no remorse. This was a brutal, barbaric and | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
horrific crime, resulting from intolerance. At which led to the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
death of a holy innocent man who openly expressed beliefs which from | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
yours. This is the story of two murders. Tanveer Ahmed was inspired | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
by another killer, who five years ago shot a liberal Pakistani | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
politician attempting to reform the country's blasphemy laws. He became | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
a national hero of sorts, after his execution thousands attended his | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
funeral. Tanveer Ahmed had a handful of supporters in court today but no | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
one in Britain has openly backed what he did. We found a significant | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
minority supportive of the killing in Pakistan, that helped inspire it. | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
Not just among those widely considered to be extremists but | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
among groups and scholars normally associated with more peaceful, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
spiritual interpretations of Islam. Missoup Chaudhry, a scholar from | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Pakistan, travelled overseas for the funeral. | :03:45. | :03:57. | |
He says that the man was provoked and should have been freed. He says | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
he does not condone the killing in Glasgow. You don't think it is fair | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
to say that all these people in Britain who are supporting them, | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
like yourself, deep down are actually supporting Tanveer Ahmed | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
but do not want to get themselves locked up for inciting racial | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
hatred? Masuda completely condemns Isis but | :04:25. | :04:46. | |
he and others see no contradiction between that and supporting the | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
murder in Pakistan. If we have home-grown terrorists, then we need | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
home-grown readers to combat and respond. This Coventry scholar, | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
speaking at a conference condemning terrorism. And yet, here he is on | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
YouTube in support of the murder in Pakistan. He was a person of | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
forthrightness and integrity. Here is a flyer for an anti-Isis event, | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
held by popular demand from Bradford. And here is his now | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
deleted Facebook post describing Mumtaz Ghadi as a lion. To glorify a | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
murderer is not to glorify the individual but to glorify his | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
actions. And to call on someone to emulate that. This is not a benign | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
or passive action, it is an active and provocative action. When a man | :05:47. | :05:55. | |
like Mumtaz Ghadi is glorified, sooner or later, a man like Tanveer | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
Ahmed will commit murder. The issue of Glastonbury is very emotive for | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
Muslims. In Bradford, even some who condemn him believe that blasphemy | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
should be illegal. -- the issue of blasphemy. Historically, we had a | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
law against blasphemy, and those laws are now redundant. We need to | :06:20. | :06:29. | |
look at that. Most people would find that outrageous, the idea of having | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
a blasphemy law. Well, what is blasphemy? It is the right of the | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
faith community not to be offended. Assad Shah is greatly missed in his | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
local community. His murderer is breathing new life to controversies | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
that many thought we had left behind. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
With us now from Glasgow is Scottish Government Minister, Humza Yousaf. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
He is the first Muslim minister in the Scottish Government, and | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
represents a neighbouring Glasgow seats to those where the events took | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
place. Good evening. Is it more than a tiny fringe who would regard | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
blasphemy as reasonable grounds for murder? No, I think it is a minority | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
but that is not to say it is not a serious problem. Even a minority of | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
people having this view, that is a serious issue. And I think there is | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
a little bit of birdieing the head in the sand, not just in the Muslim | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
community but perhaps even wider than that, that this problem does | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
exist. Well, clearly Mumtaz Qadri has attracted a weird level of | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
support from people inside and outside of Pakistan. Have you seen | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
evidence of that in the Muslim community two I am afraid I have. I | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
remember when the tragic murder of the Punjab Governor took place. I | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
remember that there were people celebrating on Facebook and social | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
media. There was a shop in Glasgow giving out sweets in celebration. | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
Ortelli conned them the ball actions. -- utterly condemn the | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
ball. To think that sympathy could translate into violence, it is wrong | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
to not make that link. I think there is a real job to be done by the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Muslim community of course. We have to accept that there is a tiny | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
minority but there is a minority that exists that believes that | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad is a justification for violence. But | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
there is also a job for others to do. I want to be clear, are these | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
the usual suspects in your view, people who have pretty extreme views | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
that are way outside the mainstream, or is this something that you have | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
observed in people who you would not have ordinarily regarded as | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
extremists, radicals, jihadists? I am afraid it is the latter. It is | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
people that, if I go to my own mask, where I am a minority, it is with | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
people that I would automatically think would not be sympathetic to | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
violent extremism but for one reason or another, it has been drummed into | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
them that blasphemy, disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad, who we are | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
taught to revere as closely as our own parents, the disrespected that | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
must be met with any means necessary. And of course that is | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
contradictory to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad himself. He was | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
verbally and physically abused and the only responded in kindness. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Those people who commit acts like Tanveer Ahmed, they disrespect the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
name of the Prophet Muhammad and anyone else could. They are not the | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
fringe, they are not extremists. These are people who everybody would | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
regard as fairly moderate in their everyday lives. What is going on | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
here? Why is this such a touchstone issue for some people? Is it a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
projection of identity? It does not feel like it. It is not a West | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
versus Muslim thing, the great battle between these two global | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
forces. It feels like it is a very strange thing here. I can only give | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
you my interpretation. I am not a religious expert, nor an expert in | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
these matters but there is clearly a real subversion and her version of | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
Islamic ideology at the moment that is happening, with a minority that | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
will read things in literal black and white and divide the world into | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
those who believe the way they do, their extreme view, and anybody else | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
that does not believe that. It's frankly, fair game. What we have to | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
do as a Muslim community in the United Kingdom is to make sure that | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
we empower those with moderate voices, those that are credible, | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
influential moderates, and give them a voice. The danger would be, and we | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
have seen this in some elements of the prevent programme, particularly | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
south of the border, that often politicians will pluck people who | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
sing from the hymn sheet that the government want them to and they do | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
not have any credibility within the Muslim community and are frankly | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
viewed as suspicious. Therefore, if anything it hardens their views. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
There is a job to do there. There are many more moderates, if I can | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
use that term, many more moderates, peaceful Muslims who are happy to | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
tolerate and expect to be tolerated themselves. Whatever people's faith, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
religion or creed is, they are not the people being empowered. Finally, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
Tanveer Ahmed has been given a life sentence for the brutal murder. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
People in the court or out the court to cheer or pay respect to him, what | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
should a government or the authorities literally do when we see | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
that happening? Should we say it is a free country and if people want to | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
cheer a murderer, that should be tolerated or is it simply | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
intolerable? It is clearly disgraceful and disgusting and I | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
have no doubt that the security services will often look for | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
patterns of ideology that they claim to associate themselves with and | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
whether or not that will lead to violent extremism, whether it is far | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
right or Islamic extremism or any other type of extremism. But that is | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
a job for the security services to do. But we do live in a democracy, | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
we do live in a country where we believe in free speech. As | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
intolerable as people's views are, I don't think that clamping down on | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
people necessarily for their views, if anything that would probably hard | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
in the way they think. But there is a job for the authorities and the | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
intelligence services, they do that already, and community policing is | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
an integral part of that. Thank you very much. | :12:56. | :12:56. | |
It's been interesting watching Donald Trump | :12:57. | :12:57. | |
Some have said he's imploding, some of have said he's showing signs | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
I have to say, to me, the strangest moment of the last week | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
was his interaction with the mother of a crying baby, it wasn't him | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
talking of disbanding NATO or pontificating on how aerosols | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
don't damage the ozone layer, it was just a somewhat odd way | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
Tonight, in a differently odd way, he spoke of stopping | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Hillary Clinton, by using the second amendment - which is the one | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
But are the wheels really falling off Donald Trump's campaign, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
or is that wishful thinking by his many opponents? | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
David Grossman looks at the challenge facing Donald Trump. | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
It seems we live in an era of political flying pigs. Events that | :13:38. | :13:47. | |
we were sure what impossible happened anyway. In the UK, we have | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
seen Labour wiped out in Scotland, Jeremy Corbyn elected leader, a | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
Conservative government and a vote for Brexit, all supposedly | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
unthinkable. Could the next impossible reality be a Donald Trump | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
presidency? This has been a presidential cycle that has been | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
full of surprises. As we saw with the Brexit vote in June, in the UK, | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
obviously that gap was smaller in polling but polling is an imperfect | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
measurement of public sentiment and it is -- and of who is going to show | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
up to vote. There could still be surprises. The last couple of weeks | :14:30. | :14:31. | |
have certainly been full of surprises but none in Donald Trump's | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
favour. He got into an extraordinary public row with appearance of a | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
falling Muslim soldier, at one point comparing his suppose it's a | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
sacrifice to bears. That row has not played well in the polls. If we | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
trace Donald Trump in red and Hillary Clinton in blue since last | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
October, we can see a definite rise and fall in the Tron campaign in | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
recent weeks. From slightly ahead going into the Democratic | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
convention, to a double-digit deficit today. The way we elect | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
presidents, Donald Trump would have to carry certain states, specific | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
states in the upper Midwest, industrial states. States that he | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
needs absolutely to win the election. He is doing related in | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
those states, almost without exception. The way back would | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
require some enormous collapse on Hillary Clinton's part. She has been | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
so scrutinised over the years, I cannot imagine that there is going | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
to be a new scandal that is going to undo her. In the absence of that | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
scandal, and increasingly confident Clinton campaign is now pushing | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
resources into usually strong Republican states like Arizona and | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Florida which current polling suggest are winnable for the | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
Democrats. # You can't always get what you want. During the battle for | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
the party's nomination, Donald Trump was focused on appealing to die-hard | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Republican activists. Now he has to win over the uncommitted voters in | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
the middle, very different challenge that his campaign shows no sign of | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
adjusting to. The frustration in Republican circles is obvious. Today | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
a letter signed by 50 former Republican administration officials | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
warned that Donald Trump would make a dangerous president and would put | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
at risk our country's national security. | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
I've been watching this train wreck for some time and I kept | :16:38. | :16:57. | |
I'm a Republican and I would rather that the Republicans would win. I | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
would rather that my country didn't go down a fascist route. But Donald | :17:04. | :17:13. | |
Trump continues to defied the conventions of political | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
campaigning. To night, he appeared to suggest that political | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
assassination might be the only way to keep the second Amendment right | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
to bear arms. Hillary Clinton wants to abolish, essentially abolished, | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the second Amendment. If he gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
folks. Although the second Amendment people, maybe, there is. I don't | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
know. In 90 days, America decides. Meanwhile, the world waits. No | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
comment. It's the season of rail strikes, | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
or talk of strikes, at the moment. We all know about the long running | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
dispute at Southern. There's an argument | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
going on at ScotRail although there is no strike | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
there for the moment. And now staff on Virgin Trains East | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
Coast have voted for a walk-out. No actual strike yet, but the threat | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
is in the union's back pocket. Common to all three disputes | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
are arguments over with safety mentioned as an issue | :18:11. | :18:12. | |
by the union on them all. Mick Lynch is the assistant general | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
secretary of the RMT Very good evening to you. Who do you | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
think should be making decisions about what is safe on the railways? | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Decisions are made about regulations by the regulator, and other bodies. | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
The union has to make a decision about whether the government is | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
trying to deregulate the railway and dilate safety standards. It is our | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
opinion that the focus and their agenda is to dilate safety practices | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
and get driver only operation widespread across the system and | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
that puts that risk to passengers and infrastructure and put our | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
members jobs at risk into the bargain. You portray it as a risk to | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
the public. I'm trained to work out whether we should think the union is | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
the best arbiter of safety standards or whether the rail safety standards | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
board is the better standard investigator? Should we not trust | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
those who set the standards? You have to be wary of government bodies | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
that are set up by the government. The O R R, for instance is the | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
regulator and Grams franchise. Its agenda is to do the government's | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
bidding. We are a very extreme -- experienced trade union and our | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
agenda is to make sure we have the safest railway possible. You would | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
agree that you are conflicted because you have to look after your | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
members jobs. It is judge to look after their jobs. That is our jobs | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
and their safety. We have no conflict in keeping the railway safe | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
and keeping the passengers that use it to save and the people that work | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
on it safe. That is a mutual and joint interest. You might tell as it | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
is a safety issue when it is really about rejecting jobs. No. These | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
disputes are entirely about safety. We could take a deal from these | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
employers that said that we keep the people we have already got. We are | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
standing up for the principle that we don't want safety practices daily | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
did. We want competent people operating trains and the railway and | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
despatching trains. We want the public protected so they are not | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
tracked and dragged on crowded stations, the incidence of which are | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
increasing. We want a proper process where safety officers are on board | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
all our trains. Who should the public trust? Conflicted and able to | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
make this decision in a sensible way? They can't trust the | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
government. We have the rail standard safety board love love that | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
this and said that none of the work has identified any increased risk. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
At the same time they are investigating an increase in trap | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
and drag incidents. It's not just about train dispatch but the whole | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
suite of competencies that on-board staff have on our railways. It | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
involves evacuation, emergency situations. Can I ask, if we could | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
agree on a neutral body to decide, not someone that the government | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
appointed to deregulate the railways, not the union, someone | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
completely independent, if we could agree on a board that would review | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
the evidence and look at the data and tanners whether -- and tell us | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
whether it is a safety problem, would you agree to go with their | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
verdict and stop the strike? We used to have Health and Safety Executive | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
that was largely neutral, the government emerged that with the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
body that grants franchises. The O R has attended a forum with the | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
government on this batch processes and we are happy to take part but it | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
has not to be subjective. The government agenda is to get rid of | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
safety practices as they stand on our railway so the companies can | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
make more profit. Would you agree that there is a simple solution, an | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
independent body to decide whether it is safe? If it is an independent | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
body, we will support it but there is nobody in government proposing | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
it. I'm proposing it to you. If only you have the power, it would be a | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
nice thing to happen. Thank you very much. We are going to be continuing | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
that conversation off at because we are having a Facebook life. You can | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
send your own questions direct to Mick Lynch and you can pick it up on | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
Facebook page after the programme. When it comes to the Olympic Games, | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
you can't help but be in awe of the sacrifices made by | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
our fellow citizens, to achieve their lifetime dreams and pursue | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Corinthian ideals of sport. Our own Stephen Smith, for example, | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
has passed up a fortnight's holiday in a static caravan in Rhyll | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
to confine himself to a sofa day-in, day-out | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
for the duration of Rio 2016. he brings us his | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
strictly amateur take on the Games. I'm Radio 4's Corrie Corfield | :23:49. | :23:57. | |
and you're watching Stephen Smith's When it comes to watching | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
sport on telly, I'm an Eddie the Eagle | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
with a remote control. But Kevin O'Sullivan | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
is it for a living. Did you see my thing | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
on Newsnight last night? Yeah. | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
It was brilliant. Do you want to hang | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
out at the Newsnight house and | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
watch some Olympics with me? But Evan's not going | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
to be there, is he? I don't want any lectures | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
about quantitative easing. COMMENTATOR: It's like he's going | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
through a boxing routine and Phelps I've been mesmerised | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
about the pageant of But before the swimming races, | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
they all stand, kind COMENNTATOR: It's like he's growling | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
like a dog. There's this amazing | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
pantomime before the race See, this is what's great | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
about the Olympics. Suddenly, you're watching table | :25:06. | :25:23. | |
tennis That's the other thing | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
about watching the Olympics. Well, I've got some | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
handbooks somewhere. COMMENTATOR: Daley and | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
Goodfellow, last one. Some complained that Goodfellow | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
got rather cut out of Don't share the screen | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
with Tom Daley. COMMENTATOR: Kazakhstan | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
has just fallen in. I think, none of us watch | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
23.5 hours per day. So, I think, if the BBC's | :26:11. | :26:23. | |
going to cover it, it So, yeah, I think | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
the coverage is fine. Thank you so much for coming | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
on Throne Of Games. Listen, any chance of a nice little | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
write-up for the weekend? I'm reviewing When Plastic Surgeons | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
Go Nad on the History Channel. You're watching Stephen | :26:45. | :26:58. | |
Smith's Throne Of Games. Before it's quietly | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
binned and disowned. Thursday, I'm guessing. No, it's | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
going through the Olympic Games. It's all gone very quiet | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
on the Brexit front this month; that debate over how quickly to invoke | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
Article 50 seems to have been resolved in favour of the "not now" | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
or "not even very soon" options. But, if we are going to take it | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
all very slowly, there are some consequences and our business editor | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
Helen Thomas is with me, So there is a looming issue | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
for Nissan's manufacturing Remember this is the biggest | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
car plant in the UK - it employs nearly 7,000 | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
people and produces half a million vehicles a year, | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
most of which are exported. Now what Nissan has said, | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
since the referendum, is that future investment in the UK | :27:46. | :27:47. | |
will depend on the details of the UK's relationship with Europe - | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
particularly of course things The problem is that the | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
Renault-Nissan alliance makes all its plants bid | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
against each other for big So Sunderland could be competing | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
against a Renault plant in Spain say What we've been told | :28:01. | :28:07. | |
is that the bidding to build the latest model of the Qashqai | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
is expected to come at the end That car wouldn't even be | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
launched until 2020. But, in the car industry, these | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
decisions are made years in advance. So where does Sunderland stand | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
in that bidding process? Will it be able to bid at all, | :28:21. | :28:22. | |
given that UK investment is on hold Or would it have to include | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
potential tariffs in its bid, which of course would be a real | :28:27. | :28:29. | |
disadvantage against rivals? What we're being told is that | :28:30. | :28:32. | |
people just don't know. Qashqai accounts for about 60% | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
of Sunderland production currently. Nissan has told us today that | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
it's company policy not to comment And we're not saying that Sunderland | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
will lose production of the Qashqai - it's a big, very efficient, | :28:49. | :28:55. | |
very productive plant. But it's not as hard as you might | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
think to move production A lot of Nissan and Renault cars are | :29:03. | :29:04. | |
basically built on the same base. Nissan has been pretty clear that it | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
wants some answers about Brexit before it makes new investment | :29:13. | :29:15. | |
decisions - and it's in the UK's interest | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
to get things sorted Is it going to get those answers | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
before this very significant decision coming up at the end | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
of next year? I will be continuing the | :29:27. | :29:40. | |
conversation with Mick Lynch on the Facebook page. | :29:41. | :29:41. | |
at risk our country's national security. | :29:42. | :29:55. | |
Up and down over the next few days. But the weekend is looking pretty | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
promising. A promising start to the day for many of us. The odd shower | :30:01. | :30:04. | |
across eastern counties but it will be damp early on across Northern | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
Ireland and the rain will be moving across the Irish Sea. It rather | :30:09. | :30:11. | |
dreary scene across Northern Ireland for much of the day with rain | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
extending into the western half of | :30:16. | :30:16. |