:00:12. > :00:19.Rolf Harris is being sentenced now for a series of sexual swords
:00:20. > :00:23.against young girls. He arrived in court knowing that he is facing a
:00:24. > :00:27.custodial sentence for what is called a breach of trust. We will be
:00:28. > :00:29.outside of the court in Southwark for the reaction.
:00:30. > :00:32.The former Editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson,
:00:33. > :00:37.More than a hundred imams in the UK are appealing to British Muslims
:00:38. > :00:44.two people in Brazil not far from one of the venues for next
:00:45. > :00:56.I name this ship Queen Elizabeth, may God bless her, and all who sail
:00:57. > :01:07.in her. of whisky, the Queen gives her name
:01:08. > :01:18.to the Royal Navy's largest ever And in Yorkshire, it is hello to the
:01:19. > :01:22.Tour de France. . Men's semifinal day at Wimbledon, Roger Federer and
:01:23. > :01:23.Novak Djokovic will both attempt to reach the final with two emerging
:01:24. > :01:41.stars of the game in their way. Good afternoon
:01:42. > :01:50.and welcome to the BBC News at One. The entertainer Rolf Harris is being
:01:51. > :01:52.sentenced now for a string of indecent assault charges against
:01:53. > :01:54.four young girls. sentenced now for a string of
:01:55. > :02:01.indecent assault charges against The 84-year-old was found guilty earlier
:02:02. > :02:04.this week of four offences, -- 12 offences and it was said that his
:02:05. > :02:08.public breach of trust would be taken into account. One victim has
:02:09. > :02:15.said in a statement that the disgraced entertainer had taken her
:02:16. > :02:19.childhood. Correspondence at the scene now. Mr Justice Sweeney has
:02:20. > :02:25.presided over this case, he began his sentencing remarks in the last
:02:26. > :02:30.ten minutes, he's going through all of the 12 counts, one by one, with
:02:31. > :02:34.decisions on each. Count three, indecently assaulted her, you
:02:35. > :02:39.committed the offence in breach of trust. Mr Justice Sweeney has said
:02:40. > :02:45.that Rolf Harris's reputation lies in ruins and he has no one to blame
:02:46. > :02:48.but himself. With the story of today's victim impact statements
:02:49. > :02:51.heard in court this morning, here is my colleague.
:02:52. > :02:58.The walk to court, he has done it many times over the last seven weeks
:02:59. > :03:04.but this time, for the first time, it is as a convicted paedophile, a
:03:05. > :03:10.disgraced sex abuser. Any word for your victim? Without his wife but
:03:11. > :03:15.holding the hand of his daughter, who has accompanied her father every
:03:16. > :03:16.day, of the 12 charges of indecent assault, seven were against her
:03:17. > :03:26.childhood friend. For Rolf Harris, the journey from
:03:27. > :03:31.frame to infamy began 60 years ago, when you arrived in England. SUNY
:03:32. > :03:36.was a household name but his fame became a licence to sexually assault
:03:37. > :03:40.women and girls. -- soon he was a household name. As he has throughout
:03:41. > :03:44.the trial, he was wearing a hearing loop as he listened, as impact
:03:45. > :03:52.statements were read out. The friend of his daughter said:
:03:53. > :03:56.His youngest victim, groped by him at a community centre near
:03:57. > :04:06.Portsmouth when she was seven or eight, wrote:
:04:07. > :04:12.In the middle of the 1970s he was a contestant on the celebrity game
:04:13. > :04:18.show filmed in Cambridge, there, he assaulted a teenage waitress. She
:04:19. > :04:22.was not the only victim that day. Then 16, Karen Gardner says that he
:04:23. > :04:29.also had his eyes and his hands on her. He began making a fuss of me
:04:30. > :04:32.and in front of everyone else, he put his arms around me and he
:04:33. > :04:39.touched my breast! I knew that he was not the man he pretended to be.
:04:40. > :04:42.He was a fraud, and he hurt women. A lot of older middle-aged men would
:04:43. > :04:49.have a go at young girls in those days, it was not unusual. I could
:04:50. > :04:54.name a lot of them. He was the worst, because he was Rolf Harris.
:04:55. > :04:57.In mitigation it was said that Rolf Harris had supported numerous
:04:58. > :05:01.charities over many years, and that he is the sole carer for his wife,
:05:02. > :05:07.who is in poor health. Detectives say that insists on conviction on
:05:08. > :05:10.Monday others have come forward and new allegations are now being
:05:11. > :05:15.investigated. Rolf Harris had a dark side. For more than two decades,
:05:16. > :05:23.Newby used and assaulted with little or no thought of the cost. Now, he
:05:24. > :05:28.will begin to repay that debt. -- he abused and assaulted.
:05:29. > :05:34.Mr Justice Sweeney continues to go through each of the 12 counts in
:05:35. > :05:39.graphic detail. He has said that in every case, the age gap was
:05:40. > :05:44.considerable "and you clearly got a thrill from committing some of the
:05:45. > :05:48.offences". Once he has gone through the counts, we expect a sentence,
:05:49. > :05:51.and we know that the custodial sentence is uppermost in his mind.
:05:52. > :05:55.When we get the sentences through we will bring them to you here on the
:05:56. > :05:59.BBC News at one. David Cameron's former
:06:00. > :06:12.Director of Communications Andy Coulson has been jailed
:06:13. > :06:15.for 18 months for phone hacking. Coulson was found guilty last week
:06:16. > :06:17.of conspiring to intercept voicemails while Editor of the News
:06:18. > :06:19.of the World, He was joined in the dock by three
:06:20. > :06:24.former colleagues and the private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who all
:06:25. > :06:34.admitted their part in the crime this trial has divided opinion, some
:06:35. > :06:37.people wanted longer sentences than the law allowed, two years is the
:06:38. > :06:41.maximum, but others feel that these journalists should not have been
:06:42. > :06:48.prosecuted at all for infringing the privacy of famous and often
:06:49. > :06:51.celebrities, but the judge said that regardless of that, his decision
:06:52. > :06:55.reflected the fact that he felt much of the blame should rest on the
:06:56. > :06:58.shoulders of the man in charge of the News of the World at the height
:06:59. > :07:02.of the phone hacking scandal, he will take the greatest blame.
:07:03. > :07:08.The end for the editor, Andy Coulson knew that he would be going to
:07:09. > :07:11.prison this morning, and after fighting his way through the Old
:07:12. > :07:15.Bailey cameras, he made his one-way journey up to court 12, where his
:07:16. > :07:20.role in the hacking scandal has been laid bare. If the charges to the
:07:21. > :07:23.end, facing a two-year sentence, Judge said that he knew about,
:07:24. > :07:29.encouraged and should have stopped went on, but his jail term was
:07:30. > :07:32.reduced to 18 months because of his previous good character and the
:07:33. > :07:43.punishing duration of the trial. Neville Thurlbeck and Greg were
:07:44. > :07:49.criticised and received six months in prison, reduced by the 53 days
:07:50. > :07:52.they have one offender tags. James Weatherup, former reporter and desk
:07:53. > :07:55.editor was less involved, he received a suspended sentence. When
:07:56. > :08:01.Malchow, phone hacking private investigator, was the lucky one, he
:08:02. > :08:06.was jailed for just six months in 2006, because of a flawed police
:08:07. > :08:07.investigation, not his fall, the judge said, suspending his sentence
:08:08. > :09:00.also. What would you say to how do they think that it was a good
:09:01. > :09:04.idea to get how do they think that it was a good
:09:05. > :09:14.idea headlines by invading somebody's life? If I'm honest, I
:09:15. > :09:19.feel sorry for him, he was a talented man and a good editor. In
:09:20. > :09:23.politics he was very good food David Cameron. It is a high price to pay.
:09:24. > :09:27.However, you have got the balance that by the fact that if you have
:09:28. > :09:29.these top jobs, and you do something wrong and you are convicted, then
:09:30. > :09:38.your fall will be much higher. Andy Coulson is still here at court,
:09:39. > :09:41.after lunch he will be taken by van to Belmarsh prison, not the high
:09:42. > :09:45.security part where terrorists are kept but the medium secure bit of
:09:46. > :09:49.that prison. From there it is likely and similar prisoners such as in
:09:50. > :09:54.will go to an open prison to and similar prisoners such as in
:09:55. > :09:58.will go to an open serve the majority of his sentence, he could
:09:59. > :10:02.be out in nine months. The Prime Minister said: "It is right that
:10:03. > :10:07.justice should be done and no one is above the law". There are two more
:10:08. > :10:10.police investigations into specifically phone hacking at the
:10:11. > :10:16.News of the World and at titles owned by Mirror group newspapers.
:10:17. > :10:17.The militant Palestinian group Hamas
:10:18. > :10:19.has reportedly agreed to a ceasefire with Israel
:10:20. > :10:24.Sources close to the group say Hamas is ready to stop rocket attacks
:10:25. > :10:26.on Israeli cities and towns, in return for an assurance that
:10:27. > :10:30.A possible truce comes just before the funeral
:10:31. > :10:38.in east Jerusalem, of a Palestinian youth murdered earlier this week.
:10:39. > :10:41.The Queen has formally named the Royal Navy's largest ever
:10:42. > :10:46.HMS Queen Elizabeth is the first of two new aircraft carriers being
:10:47. > :10:51.built at a cost of more than ?6 billion.
:10:52. > :11:02.The Queen smashed a bottle of single malt whisky on the hull of the
:11:03. > :11:04.65,000 tonne ship, instead of the usual bottle of champagne.
:11:05. > :11:13.Scotland Correspondent James Cook is at the Rosyth Dockyard in Fife.
:11:14. > :11:20.There is enough room on the flight deck to fit three football pitches,
:11:21. > :11:23.it is taller than Niagara Falls, it will project power all over the
:11:24. > :11:26.world, supporting British troops. The development of the ship has been
:11:27. > :11:31.controversial and difficult, today, for a short time, that was put aside
:11:32. > :11:34.here in the Scottish dockyard for a very British ceremony.
:11:35. > :11:42.In more ways than usual, this is Her Majesty ship. HMS Queen Elizabeth is
:11:43. > :11:46.the biggest vessel ever built for the Royal Navy, 65,000 tonnes of
:11:47. > :11:51.British sovereign territory, on the high seas. She was named by the
:11:52. > :11:58.monarchy in suitable style. I believe that Queen Elizabeth as
:11:59. > :12:02.flagship for the Royal Navy will be a source of inspiration and pride
:12:03. > :12:07.for all of us. I name this ship Queen Elizabeth. May God bless her,
:12:08. > :12:19.and all who sail in her. Not everything has gone so smoothly,
:12:20. > :12:25.together, this carrier and the sister ship is costing more than ?6
:12:26. > :12:30.billion, three times the original budget, at the head of the Navy
:12:31. > :12:33.insists it will be worth it. When you are a big nation you do big
:12:34. > :12:37.things, this is one of those journeys, I feel strongly that over
:12:38. > :12:41.the next 50 years we will look back at this early controversy on the
:12:42. > :12:49.early questions and wonder why we were so shy! 10,000 people help to
:12:50. > :12:53.build the carrier, not just here in five but in yards across the UK. For
:12:54. > :13:00.the British government, that is the point, the union working together.
:13:01. > :13:04.-- Fife. Proud day for Scotland and for the United Kingdom, this is the
:13:05. > :13:09.biggest chip Royal Navy has ever had delivered and it is a long-term
:13:10. > :13:12.investment in Britain Security, for 50 years, this will help to keep us
:13:13. > :13:15.safe and that is a really vital investment for the country.
:13:16. > :13:19.Scotland's First Minister agrees that it is a great day, and he
:13:20. > :13:24.insists shipbuilding will continue here if there is a vote for
:13:25. > :13:28.independence. We know that aircraft carriers, these magnificent ships,
:13:29. > :13:35.will be the last of their kind. We have got to build other things
:13:36. > :13:40.therefore. What keeps us safe in the future it is not the willpower of
:13:41. > :13:43.David Cameron, it is this magnificent deepwater facility and
:13:44. > :13:48.the skills of the workforce. There is a big problem: They have no
:13:49. > :13:53.aircraft to carry, the Jets have been beset by difficulties and will
:13:54. > :13:58.not fly in anger from the ship until at least 2020. For all of the pomp
:13:59. > :14:00.and ceremony, the Queen Elizabeth will set sail into a sea of
:14:01. > :14:12.uncertainty. The Queen also talked about an error
:14:13. > :14:19.of capability and cooperation, an exciting new era. There was some
:14:20. > :14:25.booing from the crowd, some for the politician, David Cameron, and some
:14:26. > :14:29.even louder booze for Alex Salmond. He brushed it off saying that we are
:14:30. > :14:32.living in interesting political times and everyone is entitled to
:14:33. > :14:34.their opinion, these opinions are likely to get louder as we approach
:14:35. > :14:51.the referendum on September 18. More than 100 imams
:14:52. > :14:54.in the UK have appealed to British Muslims,
:14:55. > :14:56.not to travel to Syria and Iraq. In an open letter they say they've
:14:57. > :14:59.come together as a unified voice, to urge people to not to fall prey
:15:00. > :15:03.to any form of sectarian divisions Our Home Affairs correspondent
:15:04. > :15:08.June Kelly has more. It is the conflict thousands of
:15:09. > :15:11.miles away which has drawn in hundreds of men, some of them only
:15:12. > :15:15.teenagers, from the UK. 500 British Muslims are estimated to have
:15:16. > :15:20.travelled to Syria, to take up arms against the regime of President
:15:21. > :15:25.Assad. Some like those in this video have joined the militant group,
:15:26. > :15:30.Isis, its name has become is anonymous with appalling acts of
:15:31. > :15:34.barbarity. Now, religious leaders in Muslim communities here are urging
:15:35. > :15:37.Britons not to travel. More than 100 imams have signed an open letter
:15:38. > :16:05.which is in essence an appeal. It says:
:16:06. > :16:08.everything in our capability to disseminate the message and the
:16:09. > :16:13.mosque is only one of those platforms. Using social media and
:16:14. > :16:17.other media outlets to make sure the message goes out everyone who might
:16:18. > :16:22.be inclined to take part and go on to travel to Syria. One Briton who
:16:23. > :16:26.says he's been out there for a year has spoken to BBC five live. His
:16:27. > :16:30.claim that he is fighting with the Al-Nusra Front, which is linked to
:16:31. > :16:33.Al-Qaeda, cannot be verified. I don't want to come back to what I
:16:34. > :16:38.left behind. There is nothing in Britain. It is pure evil. If and
:16:39. > :16:43.when I come back to Britain it will be when the Islamic state comes to
:16:44. > :16:48.conquer Britain and I come to raise the black flag of Islam over Downing
:16:49. > :16:51.Street, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge and Big Ben. As Muslims
:16:52. > :16:55.gather for Friday prayers, their leaders are stressing that there are
:16:56. > :17:06.around 3 million Muslims in this country and only a tiny number have
:17:07. > :17:11.chosen to follow the jihadi path. The headlines on BBC News. Rolf
:17:12. > :17:17.Harris is being sentenced now for a string of serious sexual assaults
:17:18. > :17:20.against four young girls. Also coming up comic Yorkshire prepares
:17:21. > :17:25.to welcome the world's biggest free sporting event, as the Tour de
:17:26. > :17:30.France comes the furthest north it has ever been.
:17:31. > :17:35.Coffee, cake and a Van Gogh to go - the Reading cafe serving up
:17:36. > :17:36.a multi-million pound piece of artwork.
:17:37. > :17:39.And Britain's number one wheelchair tennis player is through to
:17:40. > :17:51.Three days of mourning have been declared in Belo Horizonte
:17:52. > :17:53.in Brazil, after a flyover collapsed killing two people.
:17:54. > :17:56.It happened two miles from the stadium which will host one of the
:17:57. > :18:02.The bridge, which was part of the city's promised infrastructure
:18:03. > :18:23.improvements for the tournament, was still under construction.
:18:24. > :18:25.Two people including the driver of the bus were killed,
:18:26. > :18:29.The concrete and steel bridge was still under construction, though no
:18:30. > :18:33.workers are thought to have been on it at the time of the collapse.
:18:34. > :18:35.But it's not yet clear what caused it.
:18:36. > :18:38.This man says the overpass started falling from the left to the right,
:18:39. > :18:43.but he had no time to see anything else as he ran away.
:18:44. > :18:46.The bridge is just two miles from the stadium in the World Cup
:18:47. > :18:51.It was part of the infrastructure planned for
:18:52. > :18:56.It stretched over one of the main routes connecting the stadium to
:18:57. > :19:00.The construction firm says it deeply regrets what happened
:19:01. > :19:06.and that technical staff have started investigations.
:19:07. > :19:09.The city's mayor said there were some errors but he didn't want to
:19:10. > :19:15.The collapse casts a further shadow over the construction projects
:19:16. > :19:19.Eight workers have died building stadiums that have hosted
:19:20. > :19:22.the games and there has been opposition to the cost
:19:23. > :19:25.of preparations for the tournament and delays to infrastructure.
:19:26. > :19:29.Forensic teams will now try to establish what caused this accident
:19:30. > :19:32.and the city's mayor has declared three days of mourning for the two
:19:33. > :19:45.It's men's semi-finals day at Wimbledon with
:19:46. > :19:48.the top seed Novak Djokovic first up on Centre Court against Andy
:19:49. > :19:51.Then it's the turn of the seven-times champion Roger
:19:52. > :20:00.Our sports correspondent Katherine Downes has more.
:20:01. > :20:06.A familiar sight on men's semifinals day at Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic
:20:07. > :20:10.warming up, but now with Boris Becker at his side and hundreds
:20:11. > :20:15.watching on. He and the eternally majestic Roger Federer are the only
:20:16. > :20:21.two of the big four left standing. Game, set and match. For now there
:20:22. > :20:27.are challenges knocking at the door of the most elite club in tennis.
:20:28. > :20:32.Today, Djokovic faces Grigor Dimitrov, the Bulgarian who everyone
:20:33. > :20:37.is talking about. He has it all, he is with Maria Sharapova as well. It
:20:38. > :20:43.is a big romance. He appeals to everybody and that is what you need
:20:44. > :20:46.to create interest in your sport. Men's tennis with dementia of its
:20:47. > :20:51.going to go through the roof, he will be that big a star. For a man
:20:52. > :20:54.who usually enjoys the limelight, David Croft was uncharacteristically
:20:55. > :21:00.camera shy today, training out of reach of even the longest lenses. --
:21:01. > :21:05.Dimitrov. His focus is on himself. I have been playing great tennis. I
:21:06. > :21:11.believe in my skills at the moment and whoever I am phasing in the next
:21:12. > :21:16.match, it will be a battle, so I have to be really composed. It seems
:21:17. > :21:19.we have a new face of men's tennis and Grigor Dimitrov certainly has
:21:20. > :21:26.the talent and self belief to win grand slams. But he is not the only
:21:27. > :21:30.confident new kid in town. Milos Raonic has been one to watch for a
:21:31. > :21:35.while. Now he is one to worry about, if you are Roger Federer. A Canadian
:21:36. > :21:39.with a huge serve, who is blazing a trail in his home country. Milos
:21:40. > :21:43.Raonic grew up idolising Pete Sampras, an American. Can you
:21:44. > :21:47.imagine what it will be like for the next crop of Canadian young athletes
:21:48. > :21:55.to have a home-grown talent to look up to and emulate? Raonic will have
:21:56. > :21:57.to wait until later to paint himself against the experience of Federer
:21:58. > :22:00.because first on Centre Court it is Djokovic against Dimitrov, as the
:22:01. > :22:11.old guard takes on the young pretenders. More on the sentencing
:22:12. > :22:13.of Rolf Harris. Let's go back to our correspondent at Southwark Crown
:22:14. > :22:16.Court. In the last few seconds Mr Justice
:22:17. > :22:21.Sweeney has handed down a sentence to the veteran entertainer of five
:22:22. > :22:26.years and nine months in custody. Five years and nine months, for the
:22:27. > :22:31.indecent assaults of four women, 12 individual counts of indecent
:22:32. > :22:34.assault. He will not believing this court, as he has done every day for
:22:35. > :22:39.the last eight weeks by the front door. He will be leaving in a prison
:22:40. > :22:42.van. Just to reiterate that sentence that Mr Justice Sweeney has just
:22:43. > :22:47.handed down to the veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, five years
:22:48. > :22:53.and nine months in prison. We expect it to be in Wandsworth prison. We
:22:54. > :22:57.expect that is where he will go. The judge was very harsh in his quotes.
:22:58. > :23:02.He said, going through the individual counts, he said that some
:23:03. > :23:07.of the women had said Rolf Harris had a hold over me. That made me a
:23:08. > :23:11.quivering wreck. The judge said that he had his reputation lying in ruins
:23:12. > :23:15.but he has no one but himself to blame. He said he took advantage of
:23:16. > :23:21.the trust placed in him because of his celebrity status and has shown
:23:22. > :23:25.no remorse at all, at all. We have not had any reaction from Mr
:23:26. > :23:28.Harrison Court. He has sat impassively throughout the eight
:23:29. > :23:32.week trial. Now he has learned that he will be sentenced, he has been
:23:33. > :23:41.sentenced, to five years and nine months in jail.
:23:42. > :23:43.Will there will be more on the sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout
:23:44. > :24:03.the afternoon on the BBC News Channel.
:24:04. > :24:07.With just a day to go before the Tour de France gets underway
:24:08. > :24:09.here in the UK, the excitement is building in Yorkshire.
:24:10. > :24:12.Huge crowds are expected to turn out to watch the world's most
:24:13. > :24:15.famous bike race thunder through villages in the hills and dales.
:24:16. > :24:17.Nearly 200 riders from 22 teams are competing,
:24:18. > :24:23.including last year's British yellow jersey winner Chris Froome.
:24:24. > :24:27.The banner says it all, welcomed the Tour de France. It is so clear this
:24:28. > :24:36.region really has embraced the Tour. Yorkshire has been asked to go
:24:37. > :24:39.yellow for the Tour de France This is the furthest north the Tour
:24:40. > :24:44.has ever been. From the first moment we met
:24:45. > :24:48.the French it was our destiny to It was brought here by Gary Verity,
:24:49. > :24:52.who saw an opportunity to show off One of the defining moments was
:24:53. > :24:57.when we put Christian Prudhomme and his team up in a helicopter and
:24:58. > :25:00.showed them Yorkshire from the sky. He said, I knew Yorkshire -
:25:01. > :25:03.but not that it was that gorgeous. It is not hard to see why they were
:25:04. > :25:08.impressed by their aerial trip. Back on the ground it is the winding
:25:09. > :25:12.roads of the Dales on day one. Undulating lanes lead to narrow
:25:13. > :25:16.bridges and sharp corners. Amateurs have been out in their
:25:17. > :25:20.thousands, having a go, and bringing We've just been
:25:21. > :25:27.so much busier than usual. Even on wet days,
:25:28. > :25:31.when it can be quiet, we have seen some of the cyclists, maybe too many
:25:32. > :25:37.men in Lycra but there you go! But more men in Lycra are
:25:38. > :25:39.on their way. The professionals have
:25:40. > :25:42.been out practising. This is Chris Froome and his team,
:25:43. > :25:45.planning for what they hope will be But those hard Yorkshire stone
:25:46. > :25:51.walls haven't gone unnoticed. It is a genuine concern, the fact
:25:52. > :25:55.that if you do go off the road at any of these points you don't
:25:56. > :25:58.just go off into a field, you've got It is going to be tricky racing
:25:59. > :26:05.and nervous racing, as the first few days
:26:06. > :26:11.of the Tour de France always are. But how much
:26:12. > :26:14.of a challenge will it be? Will the climbs
:26:15. > :26:17.of the Pennines be just speed bumps It has nothing like the Alpine
:26:18. > :26:25.climbs of the Pyrenees, but it's got Holme Moss, it's got Cragg Vale,
:26:26. > :26:29.it's got lots of steep inclines on the run-in to Sheffield, so it's
:26:30. > :26:33.going to be very, very tough. And one of the big draws for race
:26:34. > :26:36.watchers this weekend will be the More people are set to line
:26:37. > :26:43.the roads coming up this hill than pack into Old Trafford
:26:44. > :26:46.for a Premiership game. But with the roads closed for hours
:26:47. > :26:50.on either side, the advice if you Not far away they've even painted
:26:51. > :26:57.this cafe in the King The bunting is up,
:26:58. > :27:02.the route is ready. Although let's hope
:27:03. > :27:23.somebody's told the sheep! You will even find some of those
:27:24. > :27:27.sheep painted in Tour de France colours. The police and motorbike
:27:28. > :27:33.police for the UK were here as well for a photocall this morning. People
:27:34. > :27:37.stopping by, taking photos. The race will start in Leeds tomorrow
:27:38. > :27:41.morning. You heard about rolling out the red carpet is something we do is
:27:42. > :27:45.a tradition. Of course, it is the Tour de France so instead we have
:27:46. > :27:48.the yellow carpet rolled out for this very special event. There is
:27:49. > :27:52.that very English side of the deckchairs here as well. A very
:27:53. > :27:54.special weekend coming up. Millions of people expected. It is going to
:27:55. > :28:01.be pretty spectacular. The first hurricane
:28:02. > :28:04.of the season has hit the North Carolina coast with wind
:28:05. > :28:06.speeds of over 100 miles an hour. It's meant a wet
:28:07. > :28:09.and windy start to the July 4th holiday for thousands of Americans,
:28:10. > :28:12.as authorities ordered them to The hurricane is expected to pick up
:28:13. > :28:15.speed, And on the other side
:28:16. > :28:20.of America a giant sandstorm has knocked out power to thousands
:28:21. > :28:23.of homes and grounded many flights The wall of dust that enveloped
:28:24. > :28:29.parts of the city caused traffic chaos with trees being felled
:28:30. > :28:52.by 50 mile an hour gusts. The 4th of July fireworks looked
:28:53. > :28:56.good when the storm clears away. It is looking on the fresh side, with
:28:57. > :28:59.showers. A lot of us today across the south-east of England and East
:29:00. > :29:04.Anglia are experiencing quite a hot day. We have reached highs up to 28
:29:05. > :29:08.degrees. I would not be surprised if it nudges to almost 29 by the time
:29:09. > :29:11.we through the afternoon. The area of low pressure is starting to get
:29:12. > :29:16.the weather going across many western areas of the country. This
:29:17. > :29:19.is where the warm air is, towards the south-east. The cold air in the
:29:20. > :29:23.north-west of the country. For western areas it has been dull, with
:29:24. > :29:26.rain on and off from Scotland, around the Irish Sea, into the
:29:27. > :29:31.south-west of the country, turning progressive cloudier --
:29:32. > :29:35.progressively cloudier. It is overall looking at the majority of
:29:36. > :29:39.the country not such a great day, with all the cloud and rain. Having
:29:40. > :29:43.said that, in some parts of the country despite the cloud and rain
:29:44. > :29:47.it is still in the high teens, so not that bad. Quite humid air.
:29:48. > :29:50.Across Cornwall and Devon it is still raining. In central and
:29:51. > :29:54.southern England, cloudier skies, then when you get towards the
:29:55. > :29:56.south-east and East Anglia, this is where the hot weather is. One more
:29:57. > :30:02.day, then from tomorrow it is goodbye. Goodbye just for now, not
:30:03. > :30:08.the rest of the summer, hopefully! Tonight, the rain eventually reaches
:30:09. > :30:14.the south-east. It will be a muggy night across the south-east.
:30:15. > :30:18.Temperatures no lower than 15 or 17 Celsius. The north of the country a
:30:19. > :30:21.lot fresher. Tomorrow morning, rain in the south-east and east. The
:30:22. > :30:25.cloud and the bits and pieces of rain really could drag their heels
:30:26. > :30:30.through the course of the morning. It may take a while before the sun
:30:31. > :30:34.appears in London. It may stay fairly cloudy through most of the
:30:35. > :30:37.day, where as in western areas there will be some sunshine and showers
:30:38. > :30:41.and a lot fresher. For the start of the Tour de France, this is what it
:30:42. > :30:45.looks like. In Leeds, a rainy morning. The time we get to
:30:46. > :30:51.Harrogate, 3pm, the sun should be out and 17 Celsius on the way. This
:30:52. > :30:55.is Sunday, it starts off sunny in many areas, particularly in the
:30:56. > :31:01.east. Showers are driven in by breeze and will be the order of the
:31:02. > :31:04.day. Some could be heavy. Again, sunglasses in one hand and umbrella
:31:05. > :31:08.in the other. These are the temperatures for Sunday, 22 in
:31:09. > :31:13.London. Fresher for most of us. Typically 16-19 Celsius. All in all
:31:14. > :31:15.it is a mixed weekend but not that bad once we get the band of rain out
:31:16. > :31:18.of the way for tonight and tomorrow. breeze and will be the order of the
:31:19. > :31:26.day. Some could be heavy. The top story. Rolf Harris has been
:31:27. > :31:29.sentenced to five years and nine months in jail for a string of
:31:30. > :31:34.serious sexual assaults against four young girls. Much more on the
:31:35. > :31:35.sentencing of Rolf Harris throughout the afternoon on the BBC News
:31:36. > :31:36.Channel.