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before the army's ultimatum for the president and his opponents expires. | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
Thousands pour into Tahrir Square a ahead of the 3. 30pm deadline to | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
meet the demands of the people or face military intervention. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
I will be reporting live from the square on what could be a momentous | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
and dangerous day for Egypt Some foreigners could be forced to | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
pay to use the NHS under new plans. The Bolivian president's jet is | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
diverted to Austria. Brian O'Driscoll and five others are | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
dropped from the Lions squad. And at Wimbledon a big day for Andy | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
Murray. Exterminate. Exterminate. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
LAUGHTER Prince Charles drops in on the Dr | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Who set and comes face-to-face with On BBC London: The | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Prime Minister of Malaysia condemns the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
Woolwich. And why landlords could soon be | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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required by law to check the Welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Senior military officers in Egypt are holding a crisis meeting just | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
hours before their deadline to President Morsi and the opposition | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
runs out. They have told him to resolve the country's political | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
crisis by this afternoon or face military intervention. The army has | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
said it is ready to die to defend Egyptians against what it called | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
terrorists and fools. Protesters are continuing to gather in Tahrir | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Square ahead of that 3. 30pm deadline. Well, Ben Brown is there | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
for us now. Ben. Yes, across Egypt millions of Egyptians are holding | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
their breath this afternoon on what could be a defining day for the | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
history of this country. These protesters here behind me in Tahrir | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Square, they are delighted with the army's ultimatum to President Morsi. | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
It expires this afternoon. Of the clock really is ticking. So far | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
though, he has been defiant. He made a TV address to the nation last | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
night. He said, " Look, I'm in charge. I'm democratically elected. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
I'm staying and I will lay down my life if I have to." This is a | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
question of who blinks first the president or the Armed Forces? Let's | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
get this report now from my colleague. | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
This crisis is costing Egyptian blood. President Morsi says he is | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
willing to give his life to protect his legitimacy, it seems others are | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
prepared to do the same. Mobile phone footage shows frightening | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
scenes outside Cairo University. It had been supporters of President | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Morsi who gathered here. The police watched without intervening as | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
people were killed. During the night this area became nothing less than a | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
battlefield. You can see a lot of the blood stains over the road here | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
and the fear is as tensions rise further, this could just be the | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
beginning. Massive numbers of demonstrators continued to take to | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
the streets. Tahrir Square was once again full of those wanting | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
President Morsi to leave. For days now, they have been making their | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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message clear. In Egypt's second city of Alexandria, there were huge | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
anti-Morsi demonstrations. TRANSLATION: My opinion is he should | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
leave. If he doesn't, the whole country will be ruined. It will be a | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
civil war. We don't want anymore of this. Gas, there is no gas. Water, | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
power, what are we supposed to do? We can't eat. We can't live. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
President Morsi said he was going nowhere. He rejected the ultimatum | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
given by the army. TRANSLATION: No one has the | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
authority to intervene in the constitution either by what they say | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
or by force God for bid. No one has the right to change the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
constitutional legitimacy or to come up with a new system. The military | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
chief has given the politicians until late afternoon to come to a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
solution and Egypt is holding its breath waiting to see what happens | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
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Well, the protesters, very noisy protesters in Tahrir Square blame | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
President Morsi for what they say is the economic collapse and failing to | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
share power, but the president's supporters and the Muslim | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Brotherhood, they say he is this country's first democratically | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
elected president and any move against him this afternoon by the | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
military would amount to a coup. STUDIO: Ben, this deadline 3. 30pm. | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
It is anyone's guess what happens once that deadline passes? It is, | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Sophie, although we have had indications from the military that | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
what they want to see put in place is a kind of what they call a road | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
map, a transition where there be a transitional interim governing | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
council. The controversial constitution that this country would | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
be suspended and Parliament dissolved and that council pave the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
way for new electionings, Parliamentary -- nexts Parliamentary | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
elections in a year's time. It remains to be seen if Mr Morsi will | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
accept any of that. There has been a lot of bloodshed and deaths and | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
injuries last night. The fear is that as the tension rises this | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
afternoon, there could be more bloodshed ahead. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Ben Brown, thank you very much indeed. There is more information on | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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Foreigners from outside the EU face being charged to use the NHS in | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
England under plans to tackle so-called health tourism. The | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Government wants people with visas of six months or more to pay a | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
health service fee of around �200 a year. The Demt estimates the co f of | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
treating people from overseas is �30 million a year, but some doctors are | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
warning immigrants with untreated diseases could pose a public health | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
risk. Well, Norman Smith is in Westminster. The difficulties of | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
just implementing this is, of regulating this, are apparent? | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
Absolutely so and what is striking it seems to me is despite the | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
political umpth given to the propostals, it is not clear that | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
health tourism is a problem for the NHS. Ministers concede they don't | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
know how much money it might be the costing the NHS and their estimates | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
of 20 to �30 million, that's peanuts worth of spending compared to the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
overall NHS budget and the problem pails in comparison to the | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
challenges facing the NHS in terms of an ageing population and cost of | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
drugs, having to save �20 billion worth of savings and yet ministers | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
are determined to get headline treatment for these proposals. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
So why is this being brought up now? These propostals, I think, Sophie | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
have to be seen in the context of other reforms announced by the | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Government. They are suggesting that landlords should have to check on | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
the immigration status of tenants. We know the Home Secretary is | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
piloting a scheme whereby visitors from the India and subcontinent | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
would have to pay a bond before coming to the UK. Iain Duncan Smith | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
is looking at curbing so-called benefit tourism. The Government says | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
this is about fairness, but pressing on two key issues, welfare and | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
immigration where ministers believe Labour is on the defensive and where | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
they believe they are on the right side of public opinion. So in part, | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
this is all p about saving money, but it is also very, very largely | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
about the politics. Norman, thank Bolivia expressed anger after their | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
president's jet was forced to land in Austria last night following a | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
tip-off that the US spy contractor, Edward Snowden was on board. The | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
plane was taking a Evo Morales home after a summit in Moscow where Mr | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Snowden has been staying in a transit area of the airport. He was | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
not on board. The President of Bolivia hadn't | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
planned a trip to Austria, but on his way home from Moscow, his | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
presidential plane diverted here. Officials say that France and | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
Portugal had refused to let it cross their airspace suspecting that | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
Edward Snowden was on board. Inside Vienna Airport, a bemused Evo | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Morales put on a brave face, while his ministers denied giving Mr | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
Snowden a ticket to freedom. Of TRANSLATION: This is un untrue. It | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
is a conspiracy organised by the US Government with the help of European | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
governments to damage the image of the president of Bolivia. | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
When Austrian officials searched the jet, they found no secret passenger | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
and the presidential plane flew on. That means that Edward Snowden is | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
probably still in the transit area at Moscow Airport, but no one has | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
seen him here. Waiting for a country to offer him refuge. There is | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
speculation that Bolivia may do so or Venezuela, but so far, there has | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
been no firm offer. The I thinks dent involving the -- the incident | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
involving the Bolivia president's plane shows Edward Snowden's | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
predicament, even if he gets on a plane and there is no guarantee he | :10:03. | :10:11. | |
will arrive at his desired Nelson Mandela's grandson has been | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
horde ordered to return the remains of three relatives this afternoon | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
from the former South African grew up. Two years ago, had Is grandson | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
exhumed the bodies of three of Mandela's children and moved them | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
where he is the local chief and where his grandfather was born. But | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
a group of Nelson Mandela's relatives said he did it without | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
their consent. Well, Mike Wooldridge is outside the court now. Mike. | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Well, really an extraordinary drama is played out here over the past few | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
days. Last Friday, 16 members of Nelson Mandela's family obtained a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
court order on that day for the bodies of the two late sons of | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
Nelson Mandela and one daughter to be exhumed from the village, Nelson | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Mandela's birthplace where Nelson Mandela's grandson had taken them | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
back in 2011 and to take them to an area nearby and that's believed to | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
be the place where Nelson Mandela wants to be buried, but then the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
grandson challenged that and a short while ago in this court, he failed | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
in that challenge and that means that in theory at least, those | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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bodies, remains, should be exhumed and returned. That's about 40 miles | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
away from here. Whether that will happen is not clear and it is just | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
possible that there will be a further legal challenge. It seems | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
many people feel this long running dispute over the removal of the | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
remains has come to a head because of Nelson Mandela's severe illness | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
now. He is still lying critical ill in hospital, but certainly also | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
everyone around here, traditional elders feel this is an extremely | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
unfortunate, distasteful affair to have come to a head in this way at | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
this time. Mike, thank you very much. | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
The Government's plans for a Royal Charter to regulate the press will | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
not be introduced until the autumn at the earliest. Ministers insist | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
they are still committed to the measures drawn up after the Leveson | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Inquiry, but they want to ensure they are not challenged in the | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
courts. Next week, the Privy Council will consider a system of newspaper | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
regulation proposed by the industry itself. | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Plans have been announced for a major overhaul and expansion of the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Territorial Army. The service which will now be known as the Army | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
Research will double in size to 20,000 over the next five years, but | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
the move comes as the number of regulars is being reduced and | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
critics say they are creating an Army on the cheap. | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
Caroline Wyatt is in Helmand province. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
This is all part of the Government's plans to reform and overhaul the way | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
that the Army works and bringing into service more use of reservists | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
as the size of the regular Army is cut and today Philip Hammond | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
announced several measures. �42 million to be spent on better equip: | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
The right of reservists to have an Army pension and the right to the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
same sort of healthcare. All this aimed at trying to quell the | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
criticism that has been deployed against the changes. | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
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On exercise in Cyprus, the men of the Rifls come into land. The | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
Government will promise more training abroad, vital for men like | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Captain Ted Evans a doctor and reservist for the past decade. | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
have done two operational tours to Afghanistan. That's my key | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
achievement. It has been my service and I spent a lot of time training | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
soldiers either in the UK or in training areas around Europe. | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
Through my military service I have gained a huge amount of experience | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
and dare I say confidence in treating severely injured | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
casualties. Back in the UK, the Defence Secretary, has now promised | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
reservists access to the same welfare facilities as the regulars | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
they serve alongside. In terms of healthcare, pensions and more leave. | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
As well as more training with the regulars and better equipment. A | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
riposte to the critics who says the Government wants an on the cheap. | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
But no one is denying these changes were driven by the Government's need | :14:40. | :14:48. | |
to save money. Having reserves who are able to | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
deploy gives us extra flexibility and it does make financial sense. | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
But businessmen like Simon who owns a coffee shop in Sheffield worry | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
about taking a on more staff who are reservists. Even if he is given | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
better notice of their deployments and a cash incentive. It has a huge | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
impact on me. I only employ one person in production, so if one | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
person goes off that is 25% of my workforce. It is not like I employ | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
hundreds of thousands, where you can absorb that reduction. It will have | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
an impact on productivity, and impact on the team, and impact on | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
everything we do in production and other people will be left to pick up | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
the pieces. The government's aims in all of this remain ambitious. Some | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
critics are still skip it all about using reserve is small. Although | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
many thousands have proven their worth in the fields of Afghanistan | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
and Iraq. Amongst the changes that Philip Hammond announced was a �500 | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
cash incentive every month for employers that higher reserve is. | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Crucially, after worries over mental health issues after reservists | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
served in Iraq, with more coming home than regulars reporting | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
post-traumatic stress, the government has said they will have | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
access to the same medical facilities, including help with | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
mental issues and getting back into civilian life after they have been | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
deployed. All of these measures are aimed at helping confidence in the | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Army in its ability to bring in the reserves and use them, much more as | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
an integrated part of the overall Army. | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
Our top story: Crisis talks in Egypt, just hours before the Army | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
ultimatum for the president and his opponents expires. | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
Coming up: It was on Mallard, one of the streamlined specifics, that the | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
driver set a speed record that has never been beaten. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
The sights and sounds are fantastic. Little wonder that people travel | :16:48. | :16:55. | |
from all over the world for a trip on this train. | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
Later on the programme, the London tennis player trying her hand behind | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
the microphone at Wimbledon. And celebrating the aircraft of my | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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command, a new book which shows of Wimbledon. Andy Murray is due on | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
court later this afternoon. He will play Fernando Verdasco for a place | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
in the semifinals. Andy Murray is favourite to beat the Spaniard, who | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
has never made it to the quarterfinals at Wimbledon before. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
But, as we know by now, this year has been full of surprises. Verdasco | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
was the first left-handed player that Andy Murray has had to face | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
this year. Let's get the latest from Wimbledon. | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
In the last few minutes, we have seen the Argentine won Martin Del | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Porto take a nasty tumble on Centre Court, where he is playing the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
number four seed, David Ferrer. He looked to be in a lot of pain and he | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
has been receiving treatment over the last few minutes. It is not | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
clear how badly that will affect what was set to be a great day of | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
tennis, 24 hours after the women put on a spectacular show. A terrific | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
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way to end it. Yesterday was a day for the girls. Game, set and match | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
for Lisicki. Today, the covers are off for the men's quarterfinals. On | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
a slightly worn looking centre court, first David Ferrer. He faces | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
former US open champion won Martin Del Potter. After that, Andy Murray | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
faces Spanish left-hander Verdasco. In preparation, practice was with | :18:44. | :18:52. | |
left-handed grey grid ST. -- Greg Rusedski. He has his hands full. We | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
talk about the competition getting tougher. I reckon Verdasco will be | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
the strongest test so far. Novak Djokovic leads the charge on court | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
1, against the tall and talented Tomas Berdych. Then comes a Polish | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
double act. With Radwanska through to the semis, it is Poland's best | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
year at Wimbledon. Those that braved the rain this morning are praying it | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
is an even better one for Britain. Well, he is still receiving | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
treatment. Andy Murray has had to play down speculation about his | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
injured back. You will remember that he missed the French open to have | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
treatment ahead of Wimbledon. He admitted feeling some discomfort | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
after his last game. But he says his confidence is high and he will not | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
give up on lifting the trophy unless he is physically incapable of | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
lifting his own racket. Well, there was more good news for | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
the economy this morning as a new survey suggested the UK service | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
sector grow at its fastest rate for more than two years. Hugh Pym is | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
with me. Can we say that the economy has turned a corner yet? Quite a few | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
economists are beginning to say the recovery is gaining momentum. We had | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
the British chamber of commerce yesterday saying that things were | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
looking a lot more positive. Today, purchasing managers in the servicing | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
sector, covering everything from business services to hotels and | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
restaurants, saying that business activity was the strongest since | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
March 2011. Two other surveys, from construction and manufacturing, have | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
been equally positive. It all points towards a strong likelihood that we | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
would have seen growth in the second quarter of this year. As we have | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
seen, the threat can come from the Eurozone. Portugal is having a | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
difficult time? Yes, the eurozone can always come back to bite | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
investors. Imported all, two senior ministers have resigned from the | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Coalition Government, raising fears that Portugal will not see through | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
its bailout, its austerity programme. Shares were down by 70%. | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
Movement borrowing costs have soared above 8%, at one point. Shares in | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
London and other leading stock markets are down as well. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Prince Charles has come face-to-face with the Daleks this morning, when | :21:20. | :21:27. | |
he visited the doctor who set in Cardiff. Nicholas Witchell was there | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
and his report contains flash photography. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
He has been around for decades and he is always doing his bit to save | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the world. So, it might be said that the Time Lord who we know as Doctor | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
Who has qualities in common with the royal prince from Windsor that we | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
know as Prince Charles. The Prince and the Duchess of Cornwall were | :21:48. | :21:56. | |
given a guided tour of the TARDIS by the current doctor and his | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
companion. Breaking briefly through the time and space continuum, for | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
which Doctor Who is famous, a face-to-face encounter with some of | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
his adversaries. Intruders detected! What are you doing on our planet? | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
It's one of those moments when Charles could say what one suspects | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
he has frequently thought, certainly in respect of the media and, albeit, | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
:22:30. | :22:35. | ||
as a Dalek. EX-TERM-IN-ATE!There was a close encounter with the | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
Cybermen. Memories of childhood were being stirred. I heard him say he | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
has watched it since he was 15. He knew about the world of Doctor Who, | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
definitely. Do you think he has the qualities of a timelord? Who knows? | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
He would have to audition like anybody else. If he did want the | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
job, which is soon to become vacant, he may need to help his wife | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
use a sonic screwdriver. Charles was a natural. Memo to BBC bosses, the | :23:08. | :23:18. | |
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new Doctor Who may have been found. Rugby, and in a surprise move, Brian | :23:20. | :23:30. | |
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O'Driscoll has been confirmed... Content to not be the captain. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
Critics have described the decision as a cute shot and terrible mistake. | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
:23:44. | :23:44. | ||
Dan Roan is in the resort of Noosa Well, the Lions have won won and | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
lost one so far, setting up a pivotal, winner takes all decider | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
against Australia in Sydney at the weekend. The perfect finale, you | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
would think, for the most capped centre of all time, Brian | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
O'Driscoll. A huge surprise when he was omitted, not just from the team, | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
but from the entire squad. It has been described as the biggest | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
selection surprise in rugby history. He is one of the most talented | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
:24:22. | :24:23. | ||
players of his generation. But Brian O'Driscoll found himself surplus to | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
requirements today. His Lions career, over. Instead of preparing | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
to face Australia in the decisive third test, the Irishman found | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
himself coaching local youngsters, along with other players not picked | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
for a game that the tourist must win. It wasn't about leadership, it | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
was about picking what we thought was the best team. Obviously he was | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
disappointed. It's not easy for that to be the first time. He has enjoyed | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
an illustrious career for his country and the Lions, with which | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
whom this is the fourth and final tour for him. The decision has been | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
met with shock. I am hugely disappointed. He was building up to | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
the final game of his Lions career. He said it was the most important | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
match in his life and he is not going to be part of it. Do not be on | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
the bench is equally scandalous. may be the shock omission from the | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
squad, but Brian O'Driscoll is just one of six changes to the team that | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
lost the second test in Melbourne at the weekend. It has left this series | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
on a knife edge. Ten of the 15 players selected to start for the | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
Lions are Welsh. That includes their captain. I played from the start of | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
the tour, the first test, so to be selected in the position I am for | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
the final test is a special moment for me. But obviously there is still | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
a job to do. Having spent the last few days relaxing on the Sunshine | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
Coast, the Lions must get down to business and prepare for one of the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
biggest games of their lives. They will do so on the back of a | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
selection that has made waves. The harsh reality is that Brian | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
O'Driscoll has not been in top form. But such is his talent, such | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
is the Irishman's experience, it remains a huge call by Warren | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
Gatland. In fact, it is fair to say that he has staked his entire | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
reputation on the decision. It is bold, some would say it is brave, it | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
leaves no room for sentimentality. The time to judge it will be on | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
Saturday, when the Lions play this huge game against Australia. It may | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
be a decision that he lives to regret. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
Now, 75 years ago today a world record which still stands was set by | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
a steam engine called Mallard. For just a couple of minutes, the | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
locomotive thundered along at speeds of 126 mph. To mark the occasion, | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
the engine has been reunited with five of its sister locomotives at | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
the National Railway Museum in York, attracting enthusiasts from all over | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
the world. To a fanfare at the National Railway | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Museum, the star of the show arrived in style. Mallard, the fastest steam | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
engine in the world. This is what she is remembered for. Her | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
streamlined form, dashing along the line, her curves to spired by | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
Bugatti. For a few fleeting seconds, she got up to 126 mph. Driver Joseph | :27:31. | :27:41. | |
:27:41. | :27:43. | ||
Duddington was at the controls. 125, they held their breaths. 100 | :27:43. | :27:53. | |
and is 26 mph. It was every schoolboy's ambition to be the | :27:53. | :28:01. | |
driver. When you first start, it was hard and dirty work. As you progress | :28:01. | :28:06. | |
up the ladder, you look forward to it. You look forward to being part | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
of this. For months now, engines of its kind have been beating a path to | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
York. For today's great gathering. Some of them still take passengers. | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Life on the foot plate has not changed. The first thing in the | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
morning, it takes several hours to get this steam engine ready to | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
roll. The sights and sounds are fantastic. Little wonder that people | :28:27. | :28:34. | |
travel from all over the world for a trip on this train. For the driver, | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
here on the North York Moors Railway, it is a privilege to | :28:37. | :28:47. | |
operate one of these. They were the thoroughbreds. It was Sir Nigel | :28:47. | :28:52. | |
Gresley's finest design, meant to run from King's Cross to Edinburgh, | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
nonstop. And they proved their worth, over and over again. | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
sixth surviving engines of this classic breed will stand together | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
for the next two weeks, before those that can go back to work. Reminding | :29:07. | :29:17. | |
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now. Nick Miller assures me he has are waiting for the sunshine. It has | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
been a cloudy morning and for many of us it will be late afternoon or | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
the evening before we will see the sunshine coming through the cloud. | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
There are still a few drizzly showers, whether cloud is big enough | :29:36. | :29:41. | |
and still quite damp for some of these west facing hills. A slum | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
improvement to the afternoon, and we will take a look at things at four | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
o'clock. By this stage it is mainly dry. Some sunshine down the eastern | :29:48. | :29:57. | |
side of Scotland, lifting the temperature. Generally, a warm day | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
than yesterday. The risk of mist down the coast in late afternoon and | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
into the evening. Still a chance for one or two showers around the | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
Wimbledon area over the next couple of hours. I don't think they will | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
amount to much, but the possibility is there. Tomorrow, Sunny spells | :30:13. | :30:17. | |
with cloud. Tomorrow, the possibility of catching the odd | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
shower into the afternoon. That is because we have, before things | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
improve at the weekend, one more weather system to get through. It | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
starts to show its hand across western areas overnight. A bit of | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
rain heading into Northern Ireland and western Scotland, with heavy at | :30:31. | :30:38. | |
this late in the night. The wind is strengthening as well. Temperatures | :30:38. | :30:47. | |
are around 1114d to start Thursday. So, this rain will push south into | :30:47. | :30:53. | |
Thursday. One or two heavy bursts into England or Wales. Weakening | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
considerably as it feeds its way south. The odd shower in the | :30:57. | :31:00. | |
afternoon and sunny spells. Behind the weather system, to the north and | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
west, much brighter. Feeling fresher. Given a sunshine towards | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
the south-east and East Anglia, temperatures shoot up. It will feel | :31:08. | :31:15. | |
quite muddy. Still a few showers, but generally on Friday it is | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
looking fine. The high pressure is finally moving in. A word of caution | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
on Saturday. Still a weather front that threatens parts of Scotland and | :31:24. | :31:27. | |
Northern Ireland. Nothing more than a band of cloud drifting south | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
across some parts on Sunday. The general theme for the weekend is the | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
weather settling down. That means we will see more in the way of sunshine | :31:34. | :31:38. | |
coming through and temperatures heading up. How warm? By Sunday | :31:38. | :31:45. | |
there will not be many spots that get in to the 20s. The warmth | :31:45. | :31:48. |