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Andy Coulson WILL face a retrial over allegations he made corrupt | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Coulson was found guilty of conspiring to hack into voice-mail | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
messages last week - but the jury failed to reach verdicts | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
on two charges. We'll have the latest from the Old Bailey. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Downing Street says the Prime Minister will "redouble his resolve" | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
to secure reform in Europe, despite losing the battle | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The militant Sunni group ISIS has declared an Islamic state | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
in the territories it controls in Iraq and Syria. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
The Oscar Pistorius trial resumes - the court is told he did NOT have | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
a mental disorder when he killed his girlfriend. | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
Andy Murray plays for a place in the quarterfinals later. | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
An inquest into the death of a mother whose shooting sparked the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
It's 120-years-old today! We're at Tower Bridge - one of the most | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:03. | :01:25. | |
The former News of the World editor, Andy Coulson, and the paper's royal | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
editor, Clive Goodman, are to face a new trial over allegations they | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
paid police officers for royal telephone directories. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
Last week, a jury failed to reach a verdict on | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
the charges, but convicted Coulson of conspiracy to hack phones. | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
From the Old Bailey, our home affairs correspondent, | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
He's facing prison and months more legal uncertainty. For Andy Coulson, | :01:46. | :01:57. | |
the end of the eight-month phone-hacking trial is only the end | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
of one chapter of the legal saga he's caught up in. These | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
confidential royal phone directories are at the heart of the charges he | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
still faces. Purchased by Andy Coulson's News of the World, at the | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
request of his then Royal Editor, Clive Goodman. They both deny paying | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
officers to obtain them, what the law describes conspiring to commit | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
misconduct in public office. That's for later. This morning's main | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
business was the speeches that will help the judge decide what sentences | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
to hand down. In total, of eight charged with phone-hacking, six were | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
convicted and the prosecutor said that they were highly paid and | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
influential executives who corrupted a newspaper which became at the very | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
highest levels a criminal enterprise. As well as Coulson in | :02:46. | :02:56. | |
the dock are the former news editors, Dan Evans, Glenn Mulcaire | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
and Neville Thurlbeck, once the paper's chief reporter. The evidence | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
was overwhelming. Glenn Mulcaire kept notebooks in which he recorded | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
at the top left of each page the name of whoever commissioned his | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
work - in this case Neville Thurlbeck. The prosecutor told the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
judge: The sentences are expected to be | :03:22. | :03:36. | |
handed down on Friday, bringing to its end what all involved have taken | :03:37. | :03:48. | |
to calling trial one. Andy Coulson is to face a retrial. What factors | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
would the Crown Prosecution Service have to weigh up in deciding that? | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Well, prosecutors start from the position that it is in the public | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
interest for there to be a retrial, for there to be a verdict. They have | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
to decide whether there is enough evidence to justify going ahead. Has | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
the evidence changed in any way? Have witnesses decided they can't no | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
longer give evidence? And they also have to look at whether the jury | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
failed to reach a verdict for any particular reason. Now, there is no | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
suggestion of any particular reason playing a part in the jury's | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
decisions here last week. It is fair to say that Mr Coulson's legal team | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
will be arguing at future hearings that he can't face a possible | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
retrial fairly because of the level of publicity there was following his | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
conviction last week. One other piece of information that's come out | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of court that is relevant this lunch time. It was made clear to the judge | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
and to everybody at court that Mr Coulson and the others face a | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
maximum two-year sentence for the phone-hacking charges. That's under | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
the Conspiracy to Intercept Telecommunications charges, which | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
would mean that Mr Coulson might be released within a year. That is if | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
he got the full sentence. David Cameron says he WILL now work | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
with the new President of the European Commission, | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
despite having argued for months that Jean-Claude Juncker | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
was "the wrong person" for the job. This afternoon he'll appear | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
before MPs to explain why he lost the battle to stop | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
the former Prime Minister Downing Street said this morning the | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
defeat in Europe would "redouble the Here's our political correspondent, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Vicki Young. David Cameron spent weeks opposing | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
Jean-Claude Juncker's appointment but that battle has been lost and | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
Mr Cameron has no choice but to work with a man he tried | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
so hard to block. Let me be absolutely clear. This is | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
a bad day for Europe. But Mr Cameron has to build bridges, | :05:43. | :05:50. | |
starting with a phone call yesterday to Mr Juncker | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
congratulating him on his new job. The Prime Minister insists he can do | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
business with the new Commission President, but in an article for the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Telegraph he was defiant, writing: "Sometimes it is possible to | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
be isolated and to be right." On renegotiating the EU's | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
membership he said: "I do not deny that it has made the | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
task harder and the stakes higher. Some Euro-sceptic Conservatives | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
think it will be very difficult to get concessions from other EU | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
leaders but they think One of the levers is that | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
people don't want us to leave. That is real. The Germans don't want | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
us to leave. We support their free market approach. Others don't want | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
us to leave because we are a counterweight to the Franco-German | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
axis so that is powerful. Labour say Mr Cameron is isolated | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
and the appointment of Mr Juncker is a personal defeat | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
and a diplomatic humiliation. My objection is not just to his | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
tactics but also to his strategy. He seems to think that wandering the | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
corridors of Brussels, threatening to leave the European Union | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
increases Britain's negotiating muscle. All the evidence indicates | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
it has had the reverse effect. David Cameron may have lost this | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
battle but he says it shows other EU leaders that he is willing to stick | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
to his principles even That's gone down well with some | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
of his own Euro-sceptic MPs, but critics say he's failed to | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
build alliances with other countries and that doesn't bode well | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
for any future negotiations. Let's speak to our chief political | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
correspondent, Norman Smith. David Cameron says that it is | :07:27. | :07:40. | |
possible to be isolated and right and presumably that will be his | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
message to MPs this afternoon? Mr Cameron is intent on trying to | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
snatch victory from the jaws of that shattering defeat in Brussels when | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
he was routed by 26 votes to two in his opposition to Jean-Claude | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
Juncker. He will tell his MPs I didn't back off, I didn't blink, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
he's shown other EU countries we are not bluffing when we talk about | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
leaving the EU and he believes he's beginning to win the argument. He | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
faces two huge challenges. One from some of his own Euro-sceptic MPs who | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
seem intent on ratcheting up the pressure on him, by demanding he | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
gets back more and more powers and the expectation he will fail and | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
therefore Britain will leave. The other from other EU leaders. On | :08:24. | :08:35. | |
Friday, he only had one other ally - Hungary. The German Finance | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Minister, a close friend of Chancellor Merkel, said this morning | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
it was unthinkable, unimaginable that Britain could leave the EU, but | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
he also said it was unthinkable, unimaginable to have a football | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
World Cup without England and as we know, England were eliminated in the | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
first round. The Islamist group ISIS has said | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
it's establishing an Islamic state, or caliphate, made up of areas it | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
now controls in Iraq and Syria. The announcement came | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
amid continued fighting this morning between the insurgents and Iraqi | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
government forces around Saddam Here's our security | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
correspondent Frank Gardner. Celebrating the caliphate. Jihadists | :09:14. | :09:29. | |
in eastern Syria greet the announcement. A strict Islamic | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
caliphate stretching across the border with Iraq and ruled by the | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
extremist group ISIS. Now renamed the Islamic State. They bulldozed | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
their way through the border, merging the areas they have seized, | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
areas now lost to the governments in Baghdad and Damascus. And they are | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
posting it all online, trumpeting what they see as the end of the old | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
colonial border, drawn up by the pact of 1916. This is all one | :09:59. | :10:12. | |
country. There is no more. Iraq's government forces are fighting back | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
in places. Here they appear to have retaken a border crossing with | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Jordan. Iraqi state television has been broadcasting their alleged | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
successes, but the truth is that both Iraq and Syria are now deeply | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
damaged countries, facing a violent and potent insurgency. We have seen | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
a group that has gone from being one of the losing sides of the | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
insurgency in Iraq, to being something that is dominating the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
insurgency in Syria, to now surge back into Iraq to take over this | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
large piece of territory. Russian fighter jets have arrived in | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Baghdad, requested by the government to push back the jihadist advance. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Iraq doesn't have an air force to speak of and there are doubts over | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
who will fly them. And Iraq will need far more than air strikes to | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
recover the ground it's lost. Let's speak to our correspondent in | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Baghdad, Rafid Jaboori. What reaction has there been in | :11:07. | :11:18. | |
Baghdad to this declaration by ISIS? Well, let's talk about Tikrit where | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
fierce fighting is taking place between the government forces, the | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
Iraqi troops and the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and ISIS. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
This is the major counterattack launched by the Iraqi forces since | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
they lost vast areas in northern and western Iraq over the past few | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
weeks. It is very unfortunate for the Iraqi troops and for the | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to get that done in order | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
to restore the pride of his forces, which is not an easy task. Here in | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Baghdad, everyone is talking about that battle. This country - the | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
public opinion here is significantly divided across the sectarian line, | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
the Shia-Sunni sectarian line over that fight and over this whole issue | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
with the confrontation between the government and ISIS. Thank you. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
In South Africa, the trial of Oscar Pistorius has resumed, with a | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
ruling that the Paralympic athlete IS fit to stand trial for the murder | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
The trial had been adjourned for more than a month, while | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
But today, the court ruled he HADN'T been mentally ill when he shot | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
From Pretoria, Andrew Harding reports. | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
REPORTER: How are you feeling? Back in court after a month of mental | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
evaluation, Oscar Pistorius's own psychiatrist had earlier diagnosed a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
general anxiety disorder. Today, the court was told that a panel of | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
experts had found nothing significantly wrong with the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
athlete. Mr Pistorius did not suffer from a mental defect or mental | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
illness at the time of the commission of the offence. That | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
would have rendered him criminally not responsible for the offences | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
charged. The main focus today was on his physical condition. With the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
doctor who amputated his legs as a child, he described how he still | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
struggles without prosthetic legs. The doctor, declining to be filmed | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
in court. His ability to turn around is severely impaired by his lack of | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
balance and the instability of his stumps. On his stumps in a dangerous | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
situation, his ability of fleeing is severely impaired and his ability to | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
ward off danger is severely impaired. At one point, Oscar | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
Pistorius was asked to remove his prosthetic legs. The judge came | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
forward to inspect his stumps as the athlete's doctor explained why it | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
was difficult and painful for the athlete to walk. The defence wants | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
to highlight Pistorius's acute sense of vulnerability the night he shot | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
dead his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. But the prosecutor was | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
sceptical. The most amazing part of this is - walking to the bathroom on | :14:19. | :14:28. | |
the accused's version, firing the shots, running back from the | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
bathroom, all done in the dark. The defence then called an acoustics | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
expert whose task is to show why those neighbours who insist they | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
heard a woman screaming that night could have been mistaken. | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
One of the four crew involved in a high-speed collision between two | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
RAF jets in Scotland was suffering from a fear of flying at the time. | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Investigators believe it was one of the contributory factors but not | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
James Cook is outside RAF Lossiemouth. | :15:03. | :15:27. | |
since this accident happened, involving two Tornado jets which | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
were on training missions, when they collided, with the deaths of three | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
of the people on board. A fourth man was badly hurt, but he did survive. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Today's report by the Military Aviation Authority identifies 17 | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
contributory factors to this accident, and rather startlingly, | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
perhaps, one of them is this evidence that a weapons systems | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
operator, one of the crew, who was sitting in the back of one of the | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
aircraft, had essentially developed a fear of flying. It was known | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
about, according to the report, and yet he was still up in the aircraft | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
that day. In terms of the other factors, ineffective supervision of | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
the training programme, and the flights on that day. That is also | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
raised as a problem in the report, as is the absence of a collision | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
warning system on the aircraft, which might possibly have given them | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
a few seconds to prevent this accident. The Ministry of Defence | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
say that is now being tested on Tornados, and that there will always | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
be a certain element of risk in these flights, and that its thoughts | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
are with the families of those who died. Our main headline... A former | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson is to face a retrial over | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
allegations he made illegal payments to police officers. I live at | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Wimbledon, where Andy Murray is facing a tall task today, in more | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
later on BBC One, the wrestler hoping to become a role model for | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
women. And we will have a full weather forecast. First it was | :17:14. | :17:31. | |
biting. Now, attention at the World Cup has turned to diving, after | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
Arjen Robben admitted faking a fall during his team's victory over | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
Mexico. He told a TV channel that it had been a stupid, stupid thing to | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
do. The Mexicans have said the striker should have been sent off. | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
We can go now to Ben Brown in Rio de Janeiro. It is not often footballers | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
admit diving, but that is what Arjen Robben has done. He said, I have to | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
apologise, in the first half, I took a dive, and I really should not do | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
that. Does that open him up to a charge from FIFA? Under their | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
disciplinary code, it for bids unsportsmanlike behaviour. Jon Brain | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
reports. Arjen Robben breaking excipient | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
hearts and World Cup hopes, winning the penalty that sent Holland into | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
the quarterfinals. But did he go to ground a little bit too easily? | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Mexico's coach claims the decision was the culmination of 90 minutes of | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
play acting from a footballer who has got something of a reputation. | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
TRANSLATION: If the referee starts changing things, marking faults | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
which do not exist, then in the end, he invents a penalty, and you | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
leave the World Cup because of circumstances which are not your | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
fault. The striker said seem to have a problem staying on his feet at | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
times. Here, he falls not once, but twice. If there was any contact from | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
the defenders, it appears to have been minimal. In an extraordinary | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
admission after the game, Robben said he had dived. | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
The problem is with Robben, he does it so often, that the referees are | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
put in a horrible position. For such a wonderful player, I wish he would | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
put that out of his game. But Song rushed to the player's defence. Dive | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
or no dive, Holland's Brazilian adventure continues, and it is the | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
Mexicans who are going home. Today it is day 19 in the World Cup, | :19:55. | :20:05. | |
and it is effectively Europe against Africa, with France against Nigeria | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
and Germany against Algeria. No doubt there will be more | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
controversy, and who knows, maybe even a bit of diving. | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
The Italian Navy has found the bodies of 30 dead migrants on board | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
eight packed ship in the Mediterranean, which had about 600 | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
people on board. It is thought the refugees asphyxiated. This weekend | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
alone, they said they had rescued 5000 migrants. Our correspondent | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Alan Johnston is in Rome. What more can you tell us about the deaths, | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
and about how the authorities are coping with this influx? Well, the | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
Italian Navy conducts a major, round-the-clock search and rescue | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
operation in those waters around Sicily. This fishing craft was in | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
distress and it sent a boarding party to investigate. Among the | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
hundreds of migrants pact on board, these 30 dead bodies were | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
discovered, these were passengers who had been travelling crammed into | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
a compartment down below decks, up in the bowel, and it seems they | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
suffocated. There is speculation that perhaps dangerous, choking | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
fumes from the engine might have contributed. We know that on these | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
vessels, sometimes migrants with a little bit more money can pay to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
travel up on deck in the fresh air, and those with less money are forced | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
to go down below in the more dangerous, sometimes deadly | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
conditions. All the time, the number from places like Syria and all of | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
Africa who are willing to risk this journey seems to be growing. As you | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
said, at the weekend, 5000 people rescued by the Italian Navy, a far | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
higher figure than we have seen over any 48-hour period so far this year. | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
It is straining the Italian capacity to receive these people beyond | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
breaking point. The small town in Sicily where those 30 dead people | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
who are about to be brought in says it just will not have room in the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
morgue. Britain's biggest union, the Unite | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
union, has promised its full support to Labour at the next general | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
election, despite having cut its funding earlier this year in anger | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
over changes to union links. Their general secretary told a conference | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
that Labour could not fight the election with one hand tied behind | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
its back, and that it needed the union's financial support. John | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
Moylan reports. Len McCluskey has been on a journey. Once a Liverpool | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
dock worker, today he came to his home city to address his union and | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
to draw a line under its long and troubled relationship with the | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Labour Party. Let there be no doubt, the Unite union stands fully behind | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
Labour and Ed Miliband in the increasingly radical agenda he has | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
outlined. This was Labour MPs meeting in 1906. The party had only | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
just been set up by unions at the start of the previous century. Over | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
the years there have been accusations that unions hold too | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
much influence in its affairs. More recently, Labour was critical of the | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Unite union's attempts to influence the selection of a Labour candidate | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
in Falkirk. Then there was the row over Ed Miliband's decision to | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
reform the relationship Dwayne the union and the party. But today, Len | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
McCluskey put all of that in the past. Unite will do its bit to make | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
sure the election is not financially lopsided. Democracy demands a fair | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
fight. There was never any doubt that the Unite union would be | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
supporting Labour in the next election, but this is the clearest | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
statement yet that the union will back up that support with funding, | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
will be to the tune of millions of pounds, in order to help Labour take | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
the fight to the Tories. Unite has given ?15 million to Labour since | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
the last election. Today, Downing Street said it amounted to the same | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
old Labour, dominated by unions. Later, the Unite union's members are | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
expected to back a major strike over pay in July. | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
Every employee in the UK will from today have the right to request | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
flexible working hours. Previously, only parents and carers could do so. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
It has now been extended to include 20 million workers. Five, reports. | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
Stephany works as a quality assurance manager for the Yorkshire | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
Building Society Group. Because she has flexible working, she has been | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
able to pursue an Open University course in business. I have got a | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
really good quality work balance now. The Government says fixable | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
working boosts productivity. 38% of businesses survey offering flexible | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
working have seen a drop in staff absences. | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
Until now, the only workers with a right to request flexible working | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
were parents with children under 17 and some carers. But now, every | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
employee who has been employed for more than 26 weeks can request it. | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
If I could come in at seven in the morning on one day, and finish at | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
three o'clock, and then I can do other things, I think it would be | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
great. It would be incredibly hard for somebody who is managing to | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
predict how their workforce is going to be. Whilst employers' groups and | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
unions welcome the changes, there is a note of caution. This is only a | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
right to request, and many employers can simply say they have got a | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
business reason to say no. But for people like Stephanie, today could | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
make the worklife balance just that bit easier. | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Tennis, and Andy Murray is back on court this afternoon. The defending | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
champion plays the world number 18, Kevin Anderson, in the fourth round | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
at Wimbledon. The South African stands at 6ft eight. Katherine | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
Downes is there. Yes, Andy Murray is by now accustomed to walking out on | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
to centre court. At for his towering opponent today, it is a new | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
experience. I understand Kevin Anderson spend some time at the | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
weekend walking around on centre court taking photographs. He is | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
bound to be nervous later this afternoon. | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Memories of last year stand tall over this second week at Wimbledon. | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
With those memories come excite and and expectation. I think people | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
expect him to win. Do you think he can do it? Straight sets, easily. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Andy Murray is aware that the eyes of the nation are on him, more than | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
ever. Rivals like Rafa Nadal and Djokovic have toiled in the first | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
week, but Murray has sailed through in straight sets, and he even looks | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
to be enjoying himself. But an easy ride so far may not be the best | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
preparation for what lies ahead. You want to save energy for the latter | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
stages, but at the same time, having tough matches early on gives you | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
more confidence going into the second week. I am sure Rafa, after a | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
couple of tough matches, is thinking that he can win the tournament. | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
South African Kevin Anderson, the world number 18, is 6ft eight, and | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
he will be up against Murray today. He is a big guy, with a big game, so | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
I will need to be sharp, I will have to return well, if I want to win. | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
Andy Murray knows that on current form, he should have the upper hand, | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
but he will leave nothing to chance. And he is right to approach this | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
match with respect, of course. Anderson has beaten him before. On | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
Saturday, the world number one Serena Williams was knocked out. In | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
the last half an hour, hard-line Wozniacki has been sent home. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
Sometimes here at Wimbledon, the underdog refuses to lie down. Let's | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
have a look at the weather. Just the small chance of a shower at | :28:48. | :28:56. | |
Wimbledon this afternoon, and after that, warming up for the rest of the | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
week. For most, it is going to be dry, with broken cloud and sunshine. | :29:02. | :29:11. | |
Over the past few hours, some patchy cloud has developed. There are a few | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
showers popping up over southern England, which will be drifting a | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
bit further north as the afternoon goes on. But these are the exception | :29:23. | :29:30. | |
to the rule, the vast majority will be staying fine through the | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
afternoon. In the very far south-west of England, there is more | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
cloud around, and maybe some patchy rain in the Isles of Scilly. Here is | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
that line of showers. It is drifting north. There is that threat for | :29:45. | :29:51. | |
Wimbledon this afternoon, but by no means a guarantee of a shower, and | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
even if there is one, it should be a fleeting affair. It will be | :29:57. | :30:04. | |
pleasantly warm in the sunshine. A fine evening to come. That cloud in | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
the far south-west will be pushing across more of southern coastal | :30:11. | :30:15. | |
England. A little bit of missed around. -- miss. Elsewhere, broken | :30:16. | :30:25. | |
cloud and sunshine, with some showers. But again, the vast | :30:26. | :30:37. | |
majority staying dry tomorrow. Temperatures creeping up a bit. For | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
England and Wales, with high pressure close by, on Wednesday | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
temperatures will be getting even higher. But look to the north, and | :30:46. | :30:52. | |
we have got a weather front coming our way, which will start to spoil | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
things in northern Scotland on Wednesday. But in England and Wales, | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
with that sunshine, fixtures will be creeping into the mid-20s. Thursday | :31:04. | :31:10. | |
could be even warmer, the warmest day of the week, maybe of the year | :31:11. | :31:18. | |
so far. That cloudy weather finally reaches southern England we think | :31:19. | :31:20. | |
that the Our main headline... Andy Coulson is | :31:21. | :31:35. | |
to face a retrial over allegations that he made it | :31:36. | :31:36. |