:00:07. > :00:11.Britain is reopening its embassy in Iran as the crisis in Iraq
:00:12. > :00:19.intensifies. Security's tight in Baghdad
:00:20. > :00:21.after fierce fighting just 40 miles from the capital between Islamist
:00:22. > :00:23.extremists and government forces. We'll be talking to
:00:24. > :00:30.our world affairs editor John Simpson who's in Baghdad.
:00:31. > :00:34.Also this lunchtime: Hot property - house prices across
:00:35. > :00:36.the UK rise by almost 10% in a year. In London
:00:37. > :00:39.the increase is nearly double that. The Queen welcomes the Chinese
:00:40. > :00:40.premier to Windsor castle at the start of a three-day official visit
:00:41. > :00:50.to boost trade and stronger links. A winter of floods - now MPs accuse
:00:51. > :00:56.the government of not doing enough to maintain flood defences.
:00:57. > :01:01.The missing Malaysia claim. The likely crash site has still not been
:01:02. > :01:04.searched according to a radar company.
:01:05. > :01:07.to boost trade and stronger links. Later on BBC London:
:01:08. > :01:09.The schoolboy who died at an illegal rave in East Croydon is named.
:01:10. > :01:11.And people living near Heathrow give their views
:01:12. > :01:29.on plans for a third runway. Good afternoon
:01:30. > :01:32.and welcome to the BBC News at One. There's heavy fighting between Iraqi
:01:33. > :01:39.government forces and the Sunni Islamist insurgents group,
:01:40. > :01:40.ISIS, in the city of Baquba only 40 miles from the capital, Baghdad.
:01:41. > :01:43.Reports suggest the city fell last night, but is now
:01:44. > :01:46.back in government hands. Troops loyal to Baghdad are also
:01:47. > :01:50.trying to win back other cities in the north of the country which
:01:51. > :01:52.have been overrun by ISIS forces. Meanwhile here the Government has
:01:53. > :01:55.announced that it's re-opening the UK's embassy in neighbouring
:01:56. > :01:58.Iran as part of its response to the upsurge of violence in Iraq.
:01:59. > :02:00.We'll have he latest on the fighting in Iraq in a moment.
:02:01. > :02:01.But first our political correspondent, Ross Hawkins, on
:02:02. > :02:12.The flag burned, the British embassy the day's diplomatic developments.
:02:13. > :02:19.The flag burned, the British embassy stormed. The protesters were
:02:20. > :02:25.controlled, the British believe, by the Iranians regime. But three years
:02:26. > :02:31.later, he has decided it is time for plans to send Jews diplomats back to
:02:32. > :02:35.Tehran. Following discussions with the Iranians Foreign Minister, we
:02:36. > :02:46.will be reopening our embassy in Tehran, initially with a small team.
:02:47. > :02:48.The statements didn't mention Iraq, but the Sunni militants advancing
:02:49. > :02:53.across that country are making diplomats rethink. That doesn't mean
:02:54. > :02:57.this decision has come out of the blue. Iran has been talking to the
:02:58. > :03:02.West about its nuclear programme for awhile. It was all smiles last year
:03:03. > :03:06.when William Hague and Iran's Foreign Minister met for the first
:03:07. > :03:10.time. The President Hassan Rouhani, elected last year, is more engaged
:03:11. > :03:16.with Western governments, and he will project a relaxed image from
:03:17. > :03:19.time to time. But above all, the fighting in Iraq poses a bigger
:03:20. > :03:23.threat to the interests of Britain and Iran alike. The diplomatic
:03:24. > :03:28.outrage of two years ago. the day's diplomatic developments.
:03:29. > :03:31.Well, as we've heard, forces from the Sunni militant group
:03:32. > :03:35.ISIS are now around forty miles from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
:03:36. > :03:38.But they seem to have been halted at the vital city of Baquba by the
:03:39. > :03:39.Iraqi Army and militia volunteers. Our world affairs correspondent,
:03:40. > :03:55.Emily Buchanan, has the latest. For now, Baghdad is calm. Security
:03:56. > :03:59.is tight. Overnight, Sunni extremists help by supporters of the
:04:00. > :04:05.former dictator, Saddam Hussein, seized control of parts of Baquba,
:04:06. > :04:10.barely an hour from the capital. A US aircraft carrier is manoeuvring
:04:11. > :04:13.into position. Washington is weighing the military option is to
:04:14. > :04:16.push back the insurgents. A contingent of American troops are
:04:17. > :04:20.being sent to Iraq to protect American assets, while the Iraqi
:04:21. > :04:26.government is urging America to begin air strikes immediately. We
:04:27. > :04:31.need air cover, aerial attacks on the centres of these terrorists. On
:04:32. > :04:38.their convoys, on their supply columns. We need also support in
:04:39. > :04:43.terms of counter-terrorism, support, intelligence support. There
:04:44. > :04:56.are fears American air strikes could inflame sectarian tensions, driving
:04:57. > :05:00.Shi'ites and sunny's apart. The fault lines are deepening. Some
:05:01. > :05:11.argue the conflict is the beginning of a 3-way split in the country. We
:05:12. > :05:15.have to find how to live together, find a formula to live together. But
:05:16. > :05:21.if we think that we can go back like before, I don't think so. It is
:05:22. > :05:27.almost impossible. Certainly the spread of images like this won't
:05:28. > :05:30.help. The United Nations says ISIS extremists may have committed war
:05:31. > :05:35.crimes. They allegedly executed hundreds of business over the past
:05:36. > :05:41.few days. The region is already struggling to cope with millions of
:05:42. > :05:45.refugees, and now thousands of Iraqis are fleeing for safety. These
:05:46. > :05:49.people escaped after the militants invaded. Many more transit camps
:05:50. > :06:02.like this one are going to be needed. Let's go to the Iraqi
:06:03. > :06:14.capital, Baghdad, and speak to John since. -- Simpson. You might get the
:06:15. > :06:20.sense that they would be a feeling of panic here, but that is not the
:06:21. > :06:24.case. People are looking just 37 miles down the road to Baquba and
:06:25. > :06:26.what is happening there, and having the sense that their country is
:06:27. > :06:33.perhaps in the process of falling apart. Nobody is taking this likely.
:06:34. > :06:38.The streets and surprisingly empty of traffic. People are mostly
:06:39. > :06:44.staying at home. But we shouldn't give the impression that somehow
:06:45. > :06:47.ISIS is an unstoppable force rolling towards the capital, which it will
:06:48. > :07:00.soon capture. It isn't like that at all. They have been working in
:07:01. > :07:04.basically Sunni areas. They have been capturing towns with a sizeable
:07:05. > :07:07.Sunni population, and they have had it quite easy. Baghdad is a
:07:08. > :07:18.completely different proposition. For a start, it is a Shia majority.
:07:19. > :07:20.It isn't quite what it seems. What is happening in Baquba at the
:07:21. > :07:27.moment, the government hopes, is what is going to happen overall,
:07:28. > :07:32.which is that the volunteers have stemmed the tide, have chucked the
:07:33. > :07:36.ISIS fighters out of the centre of the town, and are taking over. That
:07:37. > :07:42.is what the government would like to hear. And what about Iran? Does it
:07:43. > :07:49.have a role in tackling the ISIS fighters in Iraq? Iran has a very
:07:50. > :07:54.big role indeed here in Iraq. It already plays it. It is the power
:07:55. > :08:00.behind the throne of the Shi'ite government. Iran is the world's
:08:01. > :08:07.great Shi'ite nation. Being right next door, so close, gives it a
:08:08. > :08:10.position of huge importance. It is quite amusing, really, to hear
:08:11. > :08:17.British and American politicians talk about allowing Iran to have a
:08:18. > :08:20.role. Iran would see it as the other way around, letting Britain and
:08:21. > :08:26.America have some kind of knowledge of what their plans are here. John
:08:27. > :08:32.Simpson, thank you very much. Our chief political correspondent Norman
:08:33. > :08:38.Smith is at Westminster. And a very big development, the British Embassy
:08:39. > :08:43.reopening. It is a sea change moment in foreign policy. Remember
:08:44. > :08:51.President Bush branded Iran part of the axis of evil. The embassy was
:08:52. > :08:56.ransacked, there were allegedly unanswered questions about the
:08:57. > :09:01.nuclear programme, and now it is being brought in from the diplomatic
:09:02. > :09:04.cold. Bluntly, it is because the Barbarians 40 miles from the gates
:09:05. > :09:14.of Baghdad, the Barbarians in the form of the terrorist group ISIS.
:09:15. > :09:17.Only Iran has the political and potentially military muscle to repel
:09:18. > :09:21.the invaders. It tells us that there is an utter conviction in the
:09:22. > :09:24.witches government that the UK should not get militarily involved
:09:25. > :09:31.in Iraq again -- in the British government. That it is up to the key
:09:32. > :09:38.players in the region to involve these conflicts. And the political
:09:39. > :09:40.imperative is to defeat ISIS, and if that means reaching out to an old
:09:41. > :10:05.foe, so be it. Norman, thank you.
:10:06. > :10:08.Emily Buchanan, has the latest. House prices across the UK rose
:10:09. > :10:11.by 9.9% in the past year according to figures from the Office
:10:12. > :10:13.for National Statistics. In London that figure is nearly 19%.
:10:14. > :10:16.It means the average house now costs ?260,000.
:10:17. > :10:18.The latest figures also show that inflation has fallen to 1.5%,
:10:19. > :10:20.but prices are still rising faster than wages,
:10:21. > :10:21.as our economics correspondent, Simon Jack, now reports.
:10:22. > :10:24.The rate of inflation was you and a downward trend until Easter, when
:10:25. > :10:27.the higher travel costs associated with holidays pushed it up last
:10:28. > :10:32.month. Overall, the price of goods and services was 1.5% higher in May
:10:33. > :10:36.than it was last year. That is down from April, which now looks like a
:10:37. > :10:40.blip. That it still means prices are rising, just less quickly. The
:10:41. > :10:44.economy has really blossomed over the last year. It is growing at a
:10:45. > :10:48.rate that we haven't seen since before the big downturn.
:10:49. > :10:53.Unemployment has fallen sharply, and inflation is low. But prices are
:10:54. > :10:59.still rising a little bit more than people's wages, so is it too soon to
:11:00. > :11:03.say that the big squeeze is over? I do think that prices are going up
:11:04. > :11:08.with inflation. I don't think that my wages are keeping up. Everything
:11:09. > :11:12.goes high, bills and everything, but our bills -- wages don't go high.
:11:13. > :11:15.goes high, bills and everything, but Wii I do feel a bit better off.
:11:16. > :11:20.Prices have Wii I do feel a bit better off.
:11:21. > :11:23.going up so quickly. Last week, the Bank of England warned it may raise
:11:24. > :11:29.interest rates this year to head off inflation. It is a bit of a pinch
:11:30. > :11:34.when wages are going up at less than 1%, but it is low to be too
:11:35. > :11:41.concerned. So I think interest rates will probably rise in the next 6-12
:11:42. > :11:44.months. One thing the bank may have to tackle sooner is house prices,
:11:45. > :11:51.which rose 99% on average nationally, and faster than
:11:52. > :11:57.inflation in every part of the UK. -- 9.9%. The Court of Appeal has
:11:58. > :12:03.ruled that the hospital acted unlawfully when it placed do not
:12:04. > :12:04.resuscitate notice in the notes of a terminally ill patient without her
:12:05. > :12:09.permission. Simon Jack, now reports.
:12:10. > :12:11.The judges ruled that Janet Tracey's human rights had been violated
:12:12. > :12:14.by staff at Addenbrooke's hospital, where she died in 2011.
:12:15. > :12:16.It means that from now on, patients and their families will
:12:17. > :12:27.Janet Tracy's family said that their before such notices are issued.
:12:28. > :12:35.Janet Tracy's family said that their mother's life was spent caring for
:12:36. > :12:39.others. But she was not cared for at the end of her life. The 63-year-old
:12:40. > :12:42.care home manager was suffering from advanced lung cancer when she broke
:12:43. > :12:47.her neck in an accident. Without telling her or her relatives,
:12:48. > :12:51.doctors at the hospital placed a do not resuscitate notice on her
:12:52. > :12:56.records. Today the Court of Appeal said her treatment reached her human
:12:57. > :13:02.rights. It was extremely distressing for my wife. She was in tears.
:13:03. > :13:10.Nobody should have to go through that. How important is this victory
:13:11. > :13:16.in the court today for other families in a similar situation? It
:13:17. > :13:20.is very important, and it would have been very important to my mum. She
:13:21. > :13:23.cared for the elderly all her life. She would have expected us to do
:13:24. > :13:29.something in the light of what she had experienced. And for us, it is
:13:30. > :13:34.very important, but also it is those that are going to come into the same
:13:35. > :13:37.situation in the future. Today's ruling doesn't mean that patients
:13:38. > :13:41.will now have the automatic right to be resuscitated. That will study a
:13:42. > :13:44.purely medical decision made by their doctors. But they do now have
:13:45. > :13:50.the right to be kept informed at every stage of the process. The
:13:51. > :13:55.hospital trust says it has introduced a new approach to
:13:56. > :13:56.handling such decisions. Janet's family say after three distressing
:13:57. > :14:03.years, they can finally move on. before such notices are issued.
:14:04. > :14:05.The Queen has welcomed the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to
:14:06. > :14:08.Windsor Castle at the start of a three-day official visit.
:14:09. > :14:11.He's now in Downing Street for talks with David Cameron
:14:12. > :14:13.which are expected to focus on plans to boost trade and investment.
:14:14. > :14:21.Here's our world affairs correspondent, Paul Adams.
:14:22. > :14:31.A grand, decorous start to a day of hard business. It is believed the
:14:32. > :14:38.Chinese threat -- threatened to cancel the whole trip if this
:14:39. > :14:41.meeting wasn't on offer. Last year's trip to China was an
:14:42. > :14:49.opportunity for the Prime Minister to look, learn and be impressed. But
:14:50. > :14:56.December's host now says he wants to draw on British experience. China,
:14:57. > :15:04.he says, is a late, to modernisation with lots to learn. And lots to
:15:05. > :15:07.invest. A ?1 billion plan to turn a part of London's docklands into an
:15:08. > :15:13.Asian trading hub is part of the grand scheme they have in mind. It
:15:14. > :15:16.is still very underdeveloped by comparison with someone like
:15:17. > :15:21.Germany, for example. There is a lot of money coming into the UK in
:15:22. > :15:24.investment, and particularly in big infrastructure projects that the
:15:25. > :15:29.Government is trying hard to push. Among a host of deals, almost ?12
:15:30. > :15:34.billion budget for BP to supply China with liquefied natural gas.
:15:35. > :15:37.The end of a 30 year ban on British beef and lamb, which could be worth
:15:38. > :15:40.a 30 year ban on British beef and lamb, which could be worth ?120
:15:41. > :15:43.million. Add a major commitment worth almost ?1 billion from one of
:15:44. > :15:48.China's newest investment corporations.
:15:49. > :15:51.Albanese the way, new streamlined Visa system announced yesterday,
:15:52. > :16:00.welcoming news for Chinese tourists and businesses alike. When it comes
:16:01. > :16:00.to human rights, concerns are once again on display outside Downing
:16:01. > :16:14.Street. From September,
:16:15. > :16:16.chocolate and sweets will be banned And fried or battered food won't be
:16:17. > :16:20.served for lunch more than twice a week under new rules being set
:16:21. > :16:22.out by ministers. Children won't be allowed salt
:16:23. > :16:25.on the table and they will be given water,
:16:26. > :16:28.rather than fruit juice to drink. The UK says it will re-open
:16:29. > :16:51.its embassy in neighbouring Excitement here over Brazil being
:16:52. > :16:55.back in action here, but for England fans it is all
:16:56. > :17:00.The research showing where to live outside the capital to save money.
:17:01. > :17:03.And for over 100 years it's been where Londoners have their say.
:17:04. > :17:05.Now Speakers? Corner gets a makeover.
:17:06. > :17:17.about the build-up to the key match -- it
:17:18. > :17:19.More than three months after the Malaysian airlines plane
:17:20. > :17:21.disappeared with 239 people on board, a British satellite
:17:22. > :17:24.company says the most likely crash site has still not been searched.
:17:25. > :17:27.Scientists have told the BBC's Horizon programme that they'd
:17:28. > :17:30.calculated the flight's most likely path, but the area where they
:17:31. > :17:32.believe it came down hasn't been looked at yet because the
:17:33. > :17:35.authorities began investigating a series of pings further afield.
:17:36. > :17:45.Here's our Science Correspondent, Pallab Ghosh.
:17:46. > :17:58.on March the 8th, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 set off for Beijing. On
:17:59. > :18:10.board the Boeing 777 were 239 passengers and crew. 40 minutes into
:18:11. > :18:30.the flight, air traffic controllers lost radio contact with the crew and
:18:31. > :18:37.lost track of the plane on their radar. The hourly electronic
:18:38. > :18:48.connections between the jet and the communications satellite showed that
:18:49. > :18:54.the plane continued to fly for several hours. Data from the company
:18:55. > :18:59.that owned the satellite, Inmarsat, suggested the plane came down in the
:19:00. > :19:03.southern Indian Ocean. An Australian naval vessel was sent to investigate
:19:04. > :19:08.the region west of Perth. BBC Two's Horizon programme reports it never
:19:09. > :19:11.got to the most probable area from Inmarsat because it picked up
:19:12. > :19:12.signals some distance away. The search team thought it was coming
:19:13. > :19:19.from the jet flight recorders. But the lead turned out to be a
:19:20. > :19:21.dead-end. It was not an unrealistic location, but it was an area that
:19:22. > :19:24.was not high that of probability. It is hoped that investigators are now
:19:25. > :19:27.on their way to solving the mystery of what happened to MH370.
:19:28. > :19:31.You can see more about that story on Horizon this evening on BBC2
:19:32. > :19:35.The programme is called Where is Flight MH370?
:19:36. > :19:37.An inquiry has recommended widespread changes to the way babies
:19:38. > :19:41.It follows the scandal at a crematorium in Edinburgh,
:19:42. > :19:43.where for decades staff secretly buried or scattered the ashes
:19:44. > :19:46.of babies after telling bereaved parents there were no remains.
:19:47. > :19:50.Our Scotland Correspondent, Lorna Gordon, reports.
:19:51. > :20:01.Sian Marshall's son Liam was born, got to hold him, dress and tell him
:20:02. > :20:06.he was loved. The mother from Dundee say she was told there would be no
:20:07. > :20:08.remains from his cremation but says she recently discovered his ashes
:20:09. > :20:10.were in fact scattered by staff at the crematorium without her
:20:11. > :20:13.knowledge. I was the one that felt the kick and felt every nickel and
:20:14. > :20:19.had to give birth, and to have him taken away from a completely and not
:20:20. > :20:24.decide where his ashes went in the end was awful. Scotland's baby ashes
:20:25. > :20:26.scandal started at this crematorium in Edinburgh. The
:20:27. > :20:30.scandal started at this crematorium secretly buried or scatter the ashes
:20:31. > :20:34.of babies without the knowledge of parents. Today's report looks into
:20:35. > :20:34.practices across Scotland, but the BBC has
:20:35. > :20:40.practices across Scotland, but the widespread. We asked all crematoria
:20:41. > :20:48.in the UK how widespread. We asked all crematoria
:20:49. > :20:53.cremation of stillborn and very young babies. Of those who fully
:20:54. > :20:56.replied, it emerged that in 15-year period more than 1000 ashes were not
:20:57. > :20:59.returned. Of those, in 300 instances across the UK, there were no ashes
:21:00. > :21:03.left after the process, and in more than 700 instances, baby ashes were
:21:04. > :21:11.not returned to families. There are a number of reasons why this might
:21:12. > :21:17.have happened, but what is clear is that there are inconsistencies in
:21:18. > :21:24.the way different crematoria and different parts of the UK handle the
:21:25. > :21:27.cremation of babies. Glenn and Louise Perkins from Shrewsbury were
:21:28. > :21:29.told there would be no remains after their four-month-old daughter,
:21:30. > :21:31.Olivia, died. The council is now investigating. I don't know where
:21:32. > :21:38.she is. I have nowhere to go. I believe she is with me, but on her
:21:39. > :21:42.birthday, the anniversary, I have no where I can go and lay flowers or
:21:43. > :21:46.take a teddy bear to. These families have all suffered terrible grief,
:21:47. > :21:48.and in some cases that suffering has now been compounded by the
:21:49. > :21:53.uncertainty over what happened to their child's remains. There are
:21:54. > :21:58.moves to review practices here in Scotland, and also a suggestion that
:21:59. > :22:01.the law elsewhere in the United Kingdom is clarified.
:22:02. > :22:04.7,000 properties were flooded last winter and parts of Somerset
:22:05. > :22:08.Now a group of MPs has accused the government of not doing enough
:22:09. > :22:13.And MPs on the Environment Committee said spending on river maintenance
:22:14. > :22:18.But the government insists it's investing far more than in the past.
:22:19. > :22:31.It was the wettest winter record. For many, it meant
:22:32. > :22:33.It was the wettest winter widespread flooding and widespread
:22:34. > :22:42.misery. For some, it has still not gone away. Here in Somerset, this
:22:43. > :22:45.woman has been out of her house for months before -- with little chance
:22:46. > :22:52.of getting back in before Christmas. She is concerned the new report
:22:53. > :22:55.could end up being all talk. The strain of living in chaos is never
:22:56. > :22:59.far away. People's lives are so one edge. One drop of water and it
:23:00. > :23:04.raises all hell in concern. The edge. One drop of water and it
:23:05. > :23:08.water outside is always going to be a major problem and it is a long way
:23:09. > :23:12.off from being sorted out. Dredging got underway at the end of March.
:23:13. > :23:17.Locals wanted it for years, and complained that no one was
:23:18. > :23:21.listening. Today, a group of MPs said the government must ensure it
:23:22. > :23:25.gets its sums rights on flood prevention and recognise local
:23:26. > :23:33.knowledge is key in the defence of any vulnerable areas. You must not
:23:34. > :23:36.rob Peter to pay Paul. If money is no object and it will be made
:23:37. > :23:39.available to Somerset and the South West, it must be from another source
:23:40. > :23:43.of money rather than existing money in the system. The clearer continues
:23:44. > :23:49.here in moorland. The government says it is spending more than ever
:23:50. > :23:51.on flood management -- the clean-up. It is committed to long-term
:23:52. > :23:57.investment and is giving local people more power. Residents here
:23:58. > :24:00.hope they have got it right. No one can bear the thought of a repeat of
:24:01. > :24:03.those devastating winter floods. More meat
:24:04. > :24:05.from diseased animals could end up in sausages and pies because
:24:06. > :24:09.of changes to the way safety checks Inspectors will no longer be allowed
:24:10. > :24:13.to cut open pig carcasses to check for signs of disease because it's
:24:14. > :24:16.thought it could increase New rules mean they'll only
:24:17. > :24:35.carry out visual checks. Another day at the office that the
:24:36. > :24:38.meat inspectors. One medium-sized abattoir in Suffolk. They examine
:24:39. > :24:43.each pig manually to see if it should be eaten, but this method is
:24:44. > :24:48.changing. It is not a pretty sight and we can't show you most of the
:24:49. > :24:52.process here, but what happens in abattoirs is key. Inspectors have
:24:53. > :24:56.always handled the meat, but now they are being told to stand back
:24:57. > :25:00.and spot disease by looking at it. It is unusual to be let inside a
:25:01. > :25:04.place like this, but the owner wants to make a point. He believes that
:25:05. > :25:13.disease will be missed. We could have an abscess missed, arthritic
:25:14. > :25:16.joints missed, lesions, and we don't want things like that ending up in
:25:17. > :25:20.sausages. This is not about your food becoming more risky to eat,
:25:21. > :25:23.it's more about knowing if there is something unpleasant on your plate.
:25:24. > :25:29.Ron has 30 years experience and represents food inspectors across
:25:30. > :25:33.Europe. I will not be eating pork pies and sausages from now on
:25:34. > :25:38.because, even though it won't make me ill, in all probability, it may,
:25:39. > :25:46.but probably not, I do not want that kind of material, pass, parts of
:25:47. > :25:49.abscesses, minced into my food. But the Food Standards Agency says there
:25:50. > :25:55.is science behind the shake-up. If you routinely handle carcasses and
:25:56. > :26:00.offal you are likely to spread the contamination around. The scientific
:26:01. > :26:03.evidence shows us that those hazards of contamination are the key public
:26:04. > :26:09.health hazard we need to control against. There is more awareness of
:26:10. > :26:12.where our food comes from and what exactly is in it.
:26:13. > :26:15.And you can hear more on that story on File on Four tonight at 8:00pm
:26:16. > :26:19.The World Cup now, and there's intense speculation
:26:20. > :26:22.about whether the England manager, Roy Hodgson, will play Wayne Rooney
:26:23. > :26:23.in Thursday's vital qualifier against Uruguay following
:26:24. > :26:28.The FA has confirmed that the Manchester United striker had
:26:29. > :26:30.extra training on Monday at his own request.
:26:31. > :26:46.Sophie, thanks very much, welcome to a rather hazy day in Rio. There are
:26:47. > :26:50.two questions for Roy Hodgson to mull over. One is whether to play
:26:51. > :26:54.Rooney, and if the answer is yes, then the question becomes where.
:26:55. > :26:58.Gary Neville says a drama is being created around one player. But that
:26:59. > :27:04.Wayne Rooney has the strength to cope with it. Let's get this report.
:27:05. > :27:12.How do you solve a problem like Wayne Rooney? Rooney pulls it wide.
:27:13. > :27:15.Played out on the left-hand side in the defeat to Italy, and an
:27:16. > :27:19.unfamiliar permission -- position that has got many people talking,
:27:20. > :27:25.including Roy Hodgson's right-hand man. I think Rooney can cause damage
:27:26. > :27:27.including Roy Hodgson's right-hand on the left. He scored against
:27:28. > :27:31.Ecuador and set up a goal from the left against Italy, in the two games
:27:32. > :27:33.we have played. The idea he cannot play there, because I've seen him in
:27:34. > :27:39.big games playing in that position, once we get down to which players
:27:40. > :27:42.are going to be playing on Thursday and the manager decides he can look
:27:43. > :27:48.at Uruguay and think that this suits Wayne Rooney in a number of
:27:49. > :27:51.positions. Everyone has -- opinion on the Manchester United man with
:27:52. > :27:56.many newspapers speculating he might not start in the crunch match on
:27:57. > :27:59.Thursday with Uruguay. But the one former England international there
:28:00. > :28:03.is no doubt he should play, and in his favoured position. I think if
:28:04. > :28:08.you're going to play Wayne Rooney, you play him where he's at his best,
:28:09. > :28:13.which is behind centre forward. As experience, his movement, he can
:28:14. > :28:17.score goals and he can prove it. He might not yet at a World Cup but he
:28:18. > :28:24.is very good and he can make things happen. So with two days -- two days
:28:25. > :28:28.to go before the next game, Roy Hodgson with lead you to think
:28:29. > :28:32.about, that not just about Wayne, but where to play him. A closed
:28:33. > :28:35.training session is taking place later on, and then we understand
:28:36. > :28:41.another player will be holding a news Conference after that. Maybe we
:28:42. > :28:45.will learn a little more about Roy Hodgson's thoughts. The pick of the
:28:46. > :28:49.matches today undoubtedly Brazil against Mexico, and the copper
:28:50. > :28:52.cabana Beach will probably be a feast of yellow and green --
:28:53. > :28:55.Copacabana beach. All of those bands, and a lot of noise.
:28:56. > :29:07.A bit more sunshine than yesterday and in that sunshine it will feel
:29:08. > :29:10.warmer as well. As far as the day goes today we will have plenty of
:29:11. > :29:14.sunshine around. The early-morning cloud we had across East Anglia and
:29:15. > :29:19.south-east England is continuing to melt out of the way. We have
:29:20. > :29:22.sunshine in the south and north, but the weather will feel different. AQ
:29:23. > :29:29.midfield for Scotland and Northern Ireland and the air coming in was
:29:30. > :29:37.sent from the subtropics -- AQ midfield. There is high pressure in
:29:38. > :29:42.East Anglia, but that arrived from Greenland over the weekend. In the
:29:43. > :29:48.northern areas, in the humid air, we will see top temperatures of maybe
:29:49. > :29:50.26 degrees in the central belt of Scotland, the hottest day for
:29:51. > :29:54.Scotland 2014. In the sunshine, further south, a pleasant feel with
:29:55. > :29:59.temperatures in the low 20s. As I mentioned, a fresh feel the
:30:00. > :30:02.sunshine. With the area of cloud across northern England, the North
:30:03. > :30:05.Sea coast could struggle the temperatures. Northern Ireland and
:30:06. > :30:09.Scotland, where we see the sunny spells, it will feel humid and
:30:10. > :30:13.pretty hot and temperatures leading into the low up to mid-20s. The heat
:30:14. > :30:16.and humidity could spark some showers over the Scottish hills, and
:30:17. > :30:20.the showers will then begin to spread a little further south,
:30:21. > :30:24.perhaps arriving across the Pennines and parts of northern England as we
:30:25. > :30:27.head through the evening, before journeying south. But some
:30:28. > :30:31.uncertainty about whether showers will be. They will be hit and miss
:30:32. > :30:34.in nature but it will be a mild night. Turning murky in the north,
:30:35. > :30:39.and in Manchester and Glasgow, falling no lower than 16 degrees.
:30:40. > :30:42.Wednesday promises to be a cloudy day across England and Wales for
:30:43. > :30:45.many areas. Showers clear away from the south and the sky brightened up
:30:46. > :30:49.in the afternoon, but the best of the sunshine will probably be across
:30:50. > :30:52.the north and west of the British Isles where temperatures should get
:30:53. > :30:55.into the 20s. Showers break out later in the day across the
:30:56. > :31:00.north-east of Scotland and they are tied in with a cold front. As we
:31:01. > :31:04.head into Thursday, that will sweep towards the south and this will
:31:05. > :31:07.bring a change to Scotland and Northern Ireland. There will be less
:31:08. > :31:11.humidity, the air will be fresher and there might be more in the way
:31:12. > :31:16.of cloud. The temperatures fall back by a few degrees into the upper
:31:17. > :31:20.teens. But still warm across the South where temperatures will reach
:31:21. > :31:24.the low 20s. Pollen levels are expected to peak. They will be very
:31:25. > :31:27.high across Southern counties and the south of Wales as we get through
:31:28. > :31:31.Thursday afternoon. It could be quite a sneezy day.
:31:32. > :31:38.Now a reminder of our top story this lunchtime:
:31:39. > :31:39.The UK says it is opening the embassy in Iran as tensions rise in