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Three British soldiers, serving in Afghanistan have been killed by an | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Afghan policeman. They were attacked after visiting a | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
checkpoint in the Helmand province. Their loss will be felt deeply | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
across the task force. However, this will be nothing compared to | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
the grief experienced by their families at home. The outgoing | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
chairman of Barclays, Marcus Agius, says he's sorry for the rate-fixing | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
scandal. The bank will undergo an independent review. Three police | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
forces will not be able to provide a proper service because of budget | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
cuts. Calls for loser ties with the European Union. The former Defence | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Secretary says Britain needs a new relationship with the EU. This is | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
about a national debate. There are millions of our fellow | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
citizens, who feel their view is not listened to. Stopping the cold | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
callers - the service set up to block them is being ignored by some | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
marketing companies. And the reign of Spain continues, | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
as the country prepares to welcome Later on BBC London. Roadworks are | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
suspended around London as the Olympic preparations get underway. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
And the growing influence of London's so-called Silicon | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at 1pm. An Afghan | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
policeman has shot and killed three British soldiers in Helmand | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
province T attacks happened yesterday as the soldiers left a | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
checkpoint. Their families have been informed. So far 26 NATO | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
troops, including seven from Britain have been killed in so | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
called green on blue attacks, when Afghan forces turn on their foreign | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
colleagues. David Cameron called the deaths "appalling" and said the | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Government would do everything possible to learn lessons for the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
future. Our correspondent is in Lashkar Gah now. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
There is a feeling of immense loss for the British task force here. Of | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
course it is devastating for the unit involved who have lost close | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
comrades. It is not close whether the policeman was a Taliban | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
infiltrator or a policeman with a personal grudge. Those details are | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
still sketchy. The three soldiers were killed at a | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
police checkpoint on the southern most part of this route, route 601, | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
which snakes through the Afghan desert. They didn't die at the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
hands of the enemy, but at the hands of a man they believed was an | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
ally, an Afghan policeman. On Sunday, the soldiers were at a | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
local meeting, similar to one we filmed that same afternoon, some | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
40kms away. It is clear how closely British forces have to work with | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
the Afghans and have to trust them, even though all are armed. | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
Yesterday, for reasons which are not clear, one policeman turned his | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
weapon on two soldiers from the Welsh Guards and one from the Royal | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Corps of Signals. For those serving here there was shock and sadness | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
today, but also a determination to continue their task. The task force | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
cares deeply about all our soldiers. We are utterly determined to | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
complete this mission. We believe in advising. We take all measures | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
to protect our soldiers. What makes this all the more devastating is | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
the Welsh guards have seen one comrades killed by an Afghan | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
policeman this May. In March an Afghan serviceman shot dead two | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
British troops. These latest deaths come, despite the extra measures | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
taken earlier this year to protect British forces from just such | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
attacks. Those working here say they have to work side by side with | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
their Afghan colleagues, to help and advice them, as NATO begins its | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
gradual withdrawal. Today, three more names will be added to the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
memorials here in Helmand. British soldiers trust in the Afghans they | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
are helping will be shake and there will be an impact on morale. But | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
above all, there is sadness here for these three deaths, but little | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
time to mourn. This means that around a quarter of all British | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
forces killed this year have been killed at the hands of their Afghan | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
allies. It is clear NATO will be looking at whether there is | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
anything at all that can be done to protect their forces as they work | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
closely with their Afghan counter parts. What is being said by | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
commanders here is there is no other option that working side by | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
side is an essential part as NATO begins its gradual withdrawal. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
Thank you. Let's talk now to our correspondent, | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
who joins us from the capital, Kabul. As Caroline was saying, | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
there have been far more of those green on blue incidents this year. | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Why is that? Well, simply put because there are more Afghan | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
forces than ever before. They are working more intimately with | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
British and American troops than ever before. That's why we've seen, | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
that is part of the reason why we've seen 26 deaths this year. Now, | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
the international mission here in Afghanistan will say this is a tiny | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
number when you have over 300,000 Afghan security forces, over | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
100,000 foreign troops. This is a tiny number of such deaths. But | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
they have a disproportionate effect and they are incredibly bad for | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
morale and that morale and that trust is vital when these soldiers | :06:13. | :06:22. | |
have to go out and face the Taliban. The outgoing chairman of Barclays | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
says he sorry for the rate-fixing scandal. Mr Agius is stepping down | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
from his post at Barclays and is chairman of the British Bankers' | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
Association. Less than a week after the bank was fined almost �300 | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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million for fixing the LIBOR. Today the chairman Marcus Agius | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
took his share of responsibility. He's confirmed he has resigned, but | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
will stay until a replacement is appointed. That announcement comes | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
after intense criticism of the bank, following news last week it was | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
paying fines of nearly �300 million. The traders had been manipulating | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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the interest rate. In a statement Barclays said it would carry out a | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
root and branch review of past practises. The chief executive, Bob | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Diamond, is still under heavy scrutiny. There have been calls for | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
him to quit, include from the Labour leader, who has demanded a | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
wider investigation. There needs to be a more general change of | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
leadership,. I don't think it is enough generally, because people | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
going, just resigning, is not really getting to the bottom of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
what happened, who is responsible and punishing those who did wrong. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Mr Diamond, seen here at a previous hearing is due to be questioned | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
again by MPs on Wednesday. Some say that's the key test, because while | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
he may attract controversy he has a proven track record at Barclays. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
He's good at his job. Whether he stays or goes depends on what comes | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
out in terms of what he knew, when he knew it and the degree to which | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
he can be held responsible for what went wrong. The rigging of the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
LIBOR was not restricted to Barclays. Several other leading | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
international banks are under investigation. While those | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
inquiries are on going, there'll be a continuing shadow over the City | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
of London and the banking industry. This afternoon, the Government will | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
announce an inquiry into banking standards. Not a full public | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
inquiry like the Leveson review into the media, but something which | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
would result in swift legislation if required. Let's pick that up | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
with our business editor who is here. Robert, if it is not a full | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
public inquiry that the Government are announcing, what are they | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
likely to be saying? They are looking at two issues. One is how | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
to make fixing interest rates a criminal offence. Let's be clear, | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
there are those who believe that what some of these traders did may | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
turn out to be a prosecutable offence and the Serious Fraud | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Office is looking at it. We heard the head of the Financial Services | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Authority say there are, in his view, deficiencys in the law here. | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
That is one thing they will look at. Then there is this absolutely | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
gripping, resson napbt issue, the inve -- the investigation into | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
standards. That must look at how they are remunerated, the degree of | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
regulation of their activities. Although George Osborne, I am told | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
wants a quick and dirty probe that will allow law changes quickly. It | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
is difficult to see how it can be that quick. Looking at Barclays, as | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
we heard Bob Diamond appearing before MPs on Thursday, what will | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the key issue be for them? There are key issues. One, he'll have to | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
demonstrate, to their satisfaction, that he genuinely did know nothing, | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
at the relevant time, about this manipulation of interest rates. He | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
claims this was going on without his knowledge. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
But one of the things that I learned yesterday was that there | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
was a fascinating conversation with the deputy Bank of England in | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
autumn of 2008, between Mr Diamond and Mr Paul Tucker, the deputy | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
governor. Barclays managers got the view that the Bank of England was | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
instructing them to rig rates. If Mr Diamond knew nothing about their | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
activities, how was it that they found out about his interesting | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
conversation with the Bank of England? So, big questions for him | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
to answer, which will have an impact on his reputation and I have | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
to say the Bank of England's reputation. Thank you. The former | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, has called for Britain to have a loser | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
relationship with the European Union. In a speech in London he | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
said millions of people felt they weren't being listened to and they | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Nottingham given consent to the current relation with the EU. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Yesterday the Prime Minister suggested there could be a | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
referendum on the relationship with Europe, but not yet. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
It's almost four decades since Britain had a vote on staying in | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
Europe. Now it a club of 27 countries, over half share a | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
currency. So, some thing it is time for another referendum. Enter a | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
big-hitter to stir up the debate. Liam Fox wants Britain to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
renegotiate its relationship with Brussels and then put it to a vote. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
There are millions of fellow citizens who feel their view is not | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
listened to. That changes have been made in our relationship with the | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
European Union, that they have never given their consent to. They | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
agreed to a Common Market, but they been delivered an intrusive | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
relationship. They would like to have a say. The Conservatives have | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
a long history of fractious relationships with Europe. Liam Fox | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
compared the euro to the Titanic. Just a few days ago, Europe's | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
leaders agreed they need to move closer together to save their | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
currency. At that summit David Cameron said he does not want a | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
straight in or out referendum. He said a vote may be needed to get | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
people's full-hearted backing. Supporters say it is about a new | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
relationship. The majority of people in this country don't want | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
to leave the EU all together. They don't want to join the euro and | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
sign up to further integration. If we're going to have a referendum we | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
have to give people the choice they want - that is to say in EU but | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
under new terms. That is to trade with Europe, but take powers away | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
from the EU and oh range of other areas. What is clear is that Europe | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
is changing and lots of questions are being asked about Britain's | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
position in it. The real pressure on Cameron is not from within the | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
party. The real pressure is from within. The pressure is UKIP. Since | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
the last general election 1.4 million Tory voters have switched | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
and said they will vote UKIP. If it gets stronger from here then I | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
think the pressure will become impossible. Liam Fox and his former | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
boss agree Britain needs to change its relationship with the people in | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
here. The key difference though is that the Prime Minister does not | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
envisage the UK outside of the European Union. For Liam Fox, | :13:39. | :13:46. | |
leaving might be the answer. Nearly 6,000 police officers are | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
being cut from front-line roles, as forces reduce spending. A report by | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
the chief inspector for police for England and Wales says for now the | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
cuts are being made without the public noticing, but there may be | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
challenges ahead. This is where we want to see our | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
police officers - on the beat, on the frontline. Today's report | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
concludes that police forces are working hard to keep them there. It | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
could be a challenge in the future. In total, they are cutting spending | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
by �749 million. Mainly through cutting staff. | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
The result - an overall number of frontline officers will fall by | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
5,800. That is down 6%. The police themselves have protested against | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
cuts. Today's carefully-phrased report agreed the Government was so | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
far meeting its pledge of protecting the frontline, although | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
it's not preserving frontline police numbers. Question - can cuts | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
be made without the public noticing? It is proving so far, but | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
we're only, as it were, approaching halfway through it, in terms of | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
numbers. It will be interesting to see if | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
that is maintained as we go forward. Cuts meant three forces may not be | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
able to provide effective services in future. Two rural ones - Devon | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
and Cornwall and Lincolnshire and one that's very much on the | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
frontline, Britain's biggest, the Metropolitan Police. The force that | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
gets extra funding because it looks like that is not ready for the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
storm that is brewing. We have known it is coming for two or three | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
years now. It is worrying. The Met said it will be ready. It is | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
developing a plan to deliver the cuts. The Government insists good | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
Most police forces continue to cut crime, continuing to improve | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
services to the public and showing that they can deal with the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
necessary budget reductions. One noticeable change, nearly a | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
quarter of police station counters are being closed, some are replaced | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
by access points in supermarkets and libraries. | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
Now a quick look at the top story: Three British soldiers are serving | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
in Afghanistan, they have been killed by an Afghan policeman. They | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
were attacked after visiting a checkpoint in the Helmand province. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
Coming up, I am live at Wimbledon, where it is not a great day for | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
watching tennis. It is chilly and rain is forecast, so will Andy | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
Murray get to play at all? On BBC London: Less than a month to go, a | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
comprehensive guide on where to watch and what to do during the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Olympics. And we meet some of the London | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
athletes as they make final preparations for the biggest event | :16:42. | :16:50. | |
of their lives. The tactic of cold calling has been | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
used for years by companies who want to talk to potential customers | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
at home. The calls are not always welcome. If you signed up to the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Telephone Preference Services, you should not receive them, but a BBC | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Panorama investigation found that companies are by-passing a database, | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
so far not a single one has been found for doing so. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Tony Clark has an ex-director phone number and is signed up to the | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Telephone Preference Services, a scheme that is supposed to prevent | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
UK-based companies from making unwanted cold calls. Yet he is | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
still getting up to five of them a day. He found one firm was | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
especially persistent. I'd like to know how they know | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
about me? How they got my details? Panorama went under cover to find | :17:41. | :17:49. | |
out. In fact, the company calling Tony | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
and others like him is called Central Claims Group, based outside | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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of Manchester. In a statement, the Central Claims | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
Group said it takes legal obligations very seriously. It does | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
not condone the lapses that we filmed. They said they have | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
informed all employees that introducing themselves anything | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
other than the Central Claims Group will be regarded as grows | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
misconduct, warranting dismissal, but what of the scheme that is | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
supposed to block cold callers? The Direct Marketing Association runs | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the scheme, but the enforcement is the job of the Information | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
Commissioner's kst office and they have not imposed fines in the last | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
18 months. At the moment we are definitely | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
trying to take action against the individuals. We have only had the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
power to fine since early January, so it is early days yet. There is a | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
lot of money to be made, however, in this sphere. | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
So for now, companies across the country are getting away with | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
breaking the rules. There is more on that story in | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
tonight's Panorama, it is called Panorama: Call Centres Uncovered at | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
8.30pm on BBC One. The cost to the taxpayer of | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
supporting the Royal Family rose during the past financial year. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Buckingham Palace accounts show that the Queen's official | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
expenditure went up by �200,000 to �32 .3 million.En increase of 0.26%. | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
The Queen is to be offered the keys to the city of Edinburgh in an | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
ancient ceremony today. She marks her Diamond Jubilee with a visit to | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Scotland. She and the Duke of Edinburgh are then to visit the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Our correspondent joins us from the | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh. Lorna, what are we | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
expecting in the ancient Ceremony of the Keys? The Queen comes to the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Palace of Holyrood House erweek of the year towards the beginning of | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
July. Then the palace turn noose the main working Royal headquarters, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
but this year they have the Royal Week timed to coincide with her | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Jubilee visit to Scotland. So the Ceremony of the Keys is an annual | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
event. It is when the Queen is handed a set of keys and welcomed | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
to her ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland. That is the | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
start of a packed five-day visit. In addition to that, she will be | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
visiting the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, tomorrow there | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
will be a garden party here at the Palace. They are hoping that the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
rain holds off for that then on Wednesday she heads across to | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Glasgow for a service of Thanksgiving. On Thursday another | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
significant day when Prince William, who is known in Scotland at the | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
Earl of Strathern is made a Knight of the Thistle and on Friday she is | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
to visit Perth. A place that was awarded city status, because of the | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Diamond Jubilee. The Queen is no stranger to Scotland. She spends a | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
lot of time up at Balmoral in the north-east of Scotland every summer | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
and spends that week here at the Palace of Holyrood House every year, | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
but this particular visit is very special, a part of the Diamond | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Jubilee celebrations. Lorna, thank you very much. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
In Mexico, the Institutional Revolutionary Party which could've | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
earned the party for 71 years until the end of the 21st century has | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
returned to power. Enrique Pena Nieto won 27% of the vote in the | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
election. Spain is reigning in Europe, at | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
least in the football after winning the Euro 2012 final last night. | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
Does that make this Spain's side the best football tem ever? | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
Supporters in Madrid think so, as we have been finding out. | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
It was one celebration after another. | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
As the goals kept on going in... Soon, the capital's main avenues | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
were awash with red and yellow. As people celebrated the team's | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
third title in as many tournaments. There is an incredible atmosphere | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
on the streets of Madrid tonight. A sea of red and yellow. People are | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
going to party hard all night. It is crazy. I'm going to get drinks | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
spill the on me. Spain have won in style, they will celebrate in style, | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
they have made history tonight. COMMENTATOR: It is four! Juan Mata. | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
On the pitch the numbers were simple. At 4-0, not even the | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Italians could argue that Spain were not the best. Spain's economy | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
may be faltering... But its football team are the envy of | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
Europe and the world. With their new record come the | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
comparisons to some of history's greatest sides. | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
COMMENTATOR: It is four! Like Brazil in the 1970 World Cup. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
So, is the Spain of today the best football team of all time? When all | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
of this, the boys have retired after ten, 15 years, we can look | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
back and say we were really good, maybe the best in history, maybe | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
not, but we enjoy it a lot, winning these titles. | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
This morning the European and the world champions left their hotel in | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
Ukraine. There will be a victory later on today in Madrid, but bad | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
economic news is now also the norm here. Many told us that this makes | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
the victory even more sweet. Andy Murray takes to the grass at | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
Wimbledon this afternoon, weather permitting. Bidding for a place in | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
the quarter-finals. He is facing Marin Cilic. | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
Our correspondent Katherine Downes joins us from Wimbledon now. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
Well, despite the gloomy weather play is underway on all courts. | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
Andy Murray is due out on Court One later on today. Judy Murray is in | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
charge of British women's tennis, earlier on I caught up to ask her | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
what it is like to watch your little boy take on the hopes of | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
nation. This is the moment that Judy Murray | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
tells her protege, Elena Baltacha, that she is going to compete at the | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
Olympics. Smiles and hugs, it is a new approach for Britain's women, | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
led by the matriarch of women's British tennis. | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
The girls are playing with confidence and belief in themselves | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
and we have created a good team spirit. They are all supporting | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
each other. There is much more of a family feel around the side at the | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
moment. Judy Murray has not missed a game | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
at Wimbledon. Overseeing from the courtside, the best performance | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
from the British women. Her son has had to do without her | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
at times, but for today, it is all about Andy Murray. He place Marin | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
Cilic at Queen's, he was handed the title there after David Nalbandian | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
lost his temper, but it has been no easy ride for Marin Cilic. His | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
match on Saturday was the second longest in Wimbledon history, but | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
watching her son play any opponent, even a tired one, should be a | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
strain for his mum. I should be used to it by now, but | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
it is still a mixture of newsa and a heart attack. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
It helps to keep the weight down! Can you -- he do it today, do you | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
think? I hope so. At least today there should be no | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
sabotage by his shorts. Andy Murray will be wearing a different style | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
after Saturday's spillages. Yes, that happened to him three | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
times on Saturday. It cost him points. So longer shorts and deeper | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
pockets, though imagine that the main concern is the weather. He is | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
out on Court One, the roof on the court is a consideration for the | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
future. That would be small comfort for Andy Murray and the family if | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
they see him today before it rains. Usain Bolt has been beaten by his | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
training partner Yohan Blake for the second time in 48 hours. Yohan | :26:39. | :26:49. | |
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Blake won in a time of 19.8 seconds. He beat him in the 100m at the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
Jamaican trials on Friday. Millions of people are without | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
power in America after storms hit the eastern coast over the weekend. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
The region is in the grip of a heatwave with temperatures reaching | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
100 degrees Fahrenheit. There have been 17 weather-related deaths so | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
far. It is slow progress to restore the | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
spaghetti of fallen power lines as millions are waking up to another | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
day without electricity. Storms have ripped through four | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
states on the east coast on Friday night. With little or no warning. | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
Hurricane force winds of up to 90 miles an hour have been uprooting | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
trees and taking down power lines. In Virginia, an elderly coup until | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
their 90s were killed after the house caught fire. It is thought | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
that it was caused by sparking power lines. In Ohio a faulty | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
generator caught fire, but this couple managed to escape. | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
I heard a boom and then I heard him screaming that the house was on | :27:53. | :27:55. | |
fire. Many are using public places to | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
escape the heat. We are here to cool off. The kids | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
have a movie. They are watching it on the laptop. So we will hang out | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
here for a council of hours and try to find a neighbour with airb. | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
Our house has no power. So we have come to the movies. | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
Now, even the generators are running low. As they are used to | :28:17. | :28:23. | |
power the airbing. -- air conditioning. | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
Others are getting creative in order to stay cool. | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
The record-breaking wave of the extreme weather. Violent storms | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
blamed for at least 17 deaths. While the heatwaves and the | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
blackouts continue, many are powerless to keep cool. The elderly | :28:39. | :28:46. | |
are warned to take extra care. Well, a very different sort of | :28:46. | :28:50. | |
weather here. Peter Gibbs has the weather here. Peter Gibbs has the | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
forecast here. Well, there is more rain around | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
this week for all of us, that is for sure. | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
I am looking hard to find a glimmer of hope. There will be a little bit | :29:01. | :29:05. | |
of sunshine, when the sun breaks out in the middle of the week it | :29:05. | :29:09. | |
will feel like the early part of July, but not today for most of us. | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
The rain has been the main story. Wimbledon is leading a charmed life | :29:13. | :29:18. | |
so far, but see how the rain is sweeping in over Wales, the south- | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
west of England and edging north wards. The far west coast of | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
Scotland is holding out. Northern Ireland watch out for sharp showers. | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
That could lead to localised flooding and the odd shower in the | :29:35. | :29:41. | |
north of Wales and the Midlands as well. For much of rain and Wales -- | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
England and Wales, it is rain. Outbreaks of rain in Southampton or | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
Oxford, there, expect it to get pretty wet. The rain moving into | :29:50. | :29:55. | |
the London area, Kent just hanging on to the drier weather, but the | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
weather temperatures are struggling. The midto high teens at the best. | :29:59. | :30:03. | |
The north-east of England a drier slot, but here there could be | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
showers turning up. Drifting to the north in the evening. As we get rid | :30:07. | :30:12. | |
of one lot of rain from England and Wales overnight, there is the next | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
lot beginning to push in to the south-west later on in the early | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
hours. A mild night. We had midto high teens in the day, but not much | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
lower than this tonight. On to Tuesday morning. Some brightness | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
for the Midlands and eastern England, but the next batch of rain | :30:29. | :30:34. | |
is marching in, to Wales, up into the north of England. Cloudier in | :30:34. | :30:38. | |
Northern Ireland. Brightness in the north of Scotland, that is on the | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
cool side. With the potential, with the sun, in Newcastle and Glasgow, | :30:44. | :30:48. | |
it is 21 Celsius, but high teens if you are lucky at Wimbledon. The | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
next couple of days will be tricky for the organisers. There will be | :30:53. | :30:56. | |
interruptions. There is a big area of low pressure | :30:56. | :31:03. | |
sitting over the UK. This is the sirp, but that is what we need to | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
move in. -- this is the summer here. That is | :31:06. | :31:11. | |
what we need to move in. This is the jet stream, we need it to move | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
to the north but all of the charts suggesting that will not happen in | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
at least the next couple of weeks at least the next couple of weeks | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
and possibly beyond as well. Thank you. | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
Before we go, the top story: Three British soldiers serving in | :31:27. | :31:30. |