:00:00. > :00:07.A top senior civil servant is to be quizzed by MPs over
:00:08. > :00:11.He will face questions about his department's handling
:00:12. > :00:21.of child abuse allegations made over a 20-year period.
:00:22. > :00:29.One alleged victim says it will not uncover the truth. I am not positive
:00:30. > :00:32.on what the outcome will be because there have been enquiries in the
:00:33. > :00:37.past. Also this lunchtime: The mother of a 3-year-old boy,
:00:38. > :00:40.whose disappearance in Edinburgh sparked a massive search, appears
:00:41. > :00:43.in court charged with his murder. Hundreds of thousands of people
:00:44. > :00:45.seek shelter in Japan as the Scientists say
:00:46. > :00:49.a simple blood test that can predict the onset of Alzheimer's could be
:00:50. > :00:52.available in two years. After the floods, Prince Charles is
:00:53. > :00:55.returning to Somerset this lunchtime to talk to residents
:00:56. > :00:58.about life after the deluge. A Briton is arrested arrested
:00:59. > :01:01.in Brazil, over an alleged An investigation finds major
:01:02. > :01:07.mistakes in administration may have led to
:01:08. > :01:10.the deaths of two cancer patients. And the family of a man who died
:01:11. > :01:13.after being restrained Good afternoon
:01:14. > :01:36.and welcome to the BBC News at One. The most senior civil servant
:01:37. > :01:39.at the Home Office will appear before MPs this afternoon to give
:01:40. > :01:41.evidence about his department's handling of allegations
:01:42. > :01:46.of historical child abuse. Mark Sedwill will face questions
:01:47. > :01:48.from members of the Yesterday, the Home Secretary,
:01:49. > :01:52.Theresa May, One will look again at how the
:01:53. > :01:57.Home Office handled documents relating to allegations of child
:01:58. > :02:00.abuse by Westminster politicians. The other will review all
:02:01. > :02:20.public bodies and how they The 1980s, when public information
:02:21. > :02:24.films warned children to be wary of strangers and report abuse to
:02:25. > :02:31.teachers and police. You know your teacher. But it is
:02:32. > :02:35.precisely those figures of authority, along with politicians
:02:36. > :02:39.and the whole range of public bodies and institutions that will now be
:02:40. > :02:45.scrutinised in a national child abuse enquiry. Exactly how it will
:02:46. > :02:51.work is yet to be agreed on. If we are really going to get to the truth
:02:52. > :02:56.is institutional abuse, we will need a judge led process that has people
:02:57. > :03:02.who are required to attend and give evidence under oath. Peter Forbes
:03:03. > :03:07.says as a child he was abused repeatedly at a school in Rochdale.
:03:08. > :03:14.He complained to the authorities, nothing was done, and he remains
:03:15. > :03:17.pessimistic. I am not too positive on what the outcome will be because
:03:18. > :03:21.there have been enquiries in the past and nothing has come from
:03:22. > :03:26.them. I think this is going to go along the same lines as the other
:03:27. > :03:32.enquiries and be swept under the carpet. This afternoon, the top
:03:33. > :03:36.civil servant at the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, will answer questions
:03:37. > :03:40.from MPs about hundreds of missing files in relation to child abuse
:03:41. > :03:54.allegations. He has only been in post for a couple of years but he
:03:55. > :03:57.should know what is likely to have happened and he in initiating the
:03:58. > :03:59.enquiry into 2013 which has uncovered these missing 114 files.
:04:00. > :04:01.We must find out what has happened to them. The Home Office has looked
:04:02. > :04:08.into it once. Some believe the police should have been involved,
:04:09. > :04:13.not civil servants. It is not for the Home Office to decide what is
:04:14. > :04:16.right or wrong. Where there is potential for criminal behaviour,
:04:17. > :04:20.you do not investigate that yourself first and then if you identify a
:04:21. > :04:24.problem then go to the police, where there is an allegation that should
:04:25. > :04:31.involve criminal behaviour, you bring the police in straightaway. I
:04:32. > :04:37.would like that to be what he's going to do. But making sense of the
:04:38. > :04:41.bigger picture and holding those responsible to account, will not be
:04:42. > :04:46.easy. Let's speak to our chief political
:04:47. > :04:52.correspondent Norman Smith. There are plenty of unanswered questions.
:04:53. > :04:57.We are at the start of a long slope attracted painful public reckoning,
:04:58. > :05:02.not just for this place, Parliament, but pretty much every part of civic
:05:03. > :05:07.society. The police, political parties, churches, charities, any
:05:08. > :05:11.institution which had anything at all to do with children are going to
:05:12. > :05:16.have to explain and justify how they have dealt with allegations of child
:05:17. > :05:20.abuse. Mrs May and her officials are working through the terms of
:05:21. > :05:23.reference for that overarching enquiry now. My expectation is we
:05:24. > :05:29.will get the name of the individual who will head that enquiry later
:05:30. > :05:33.today. For them, we will see, as we have heard, the top civil servant at
:05:34. > :05:35.the Home Office being questioned about that initial investigation
:05:36. > :05:40.that he carried out. And when you look at some of the key questions he
:05:41. > :05:45.faces, that underlines the gravity of the allegations facing
:05:46. > :05:51.Westminster. He will be pressed in particular about what has happened
:05:52. > :05:56.to 114 files which were examined but have gone missing. He will be
:05:57. > :05:59.questioned about what happened about the allegations made by the
:06:00. > :06:04.Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens. And he will also be questioned about
:06:05. > :06:07.to what extent the Home Office directly or indirectly has provided
:06:08. > :06:12.funding for groups linked to paedophiles. When you look at those
:06:13. > :06:18.questions, you understand the nature of the challenge facing in
:06:19. > :06:22.particular, this place, Parliament. My sense is you have an institution
:06:23. > :06:27.here which is only just gradually coming to terms with the
:06:28. > :06:32.reputational damage inflicted on it by the expenses scandal. But these
:06:33. > :06:37.enquiries, it seems to me, have the potential to inflict much, much more
:06:38. > :06:40.serious damage on the reputation of Parliament and Westminster. Thank
:06:41. > :06:43.you. And you can watch that committee
:06:44. > :06:48.meeting this afternoon on the BBC News Channel at 3:15pm.
:06:49. > :06:50.A mother who's charged with murdering her three year old son,
:06:51. > :06:53.has made her first public appearance in court.
:06:54. > :06:55.Rosdeep Adekoya is accused of killing her son,
:06:56. > :06:57.Mikaeel and then burying his body before reporting him missing.
:06:58. > :07:02.Here's our Scotland correspondent, Colin Blane.
:07:03. > :07:10.The disappearance of little Mikaeel Kular prompted a huge public
:07:11. > :07:13.response. Hundreds of volunteers searched parkland and open spaces
:07:14. > :07:19.all around the three-year-old's home in the north of Edinburgh. Police
:07:20. > :07:26.were brought in from all over Scotland after his mother reported
:07:27. > :07:28.him missing. But Mikaeel's body was eventually found 20 miles away from
:07:29. > :07:31.his home. His mother is eventually found 20 miles away from
:07:32. > :07:34.his home. His mother charged with his murder. Today, we learned the
:07:35. > :07:40.details of the allegations against her. It is claimed Rosdeep Adekoya
:07:41. > :07:46.punched her son, causing him blunt force trauma injuries for which she
:07:47. > :07:49.failed to seek medical attention. After Mikaeel died, it is alleged
:07:50. > :07:57.his mother wrapped his body in a duvet, placed it in a suitcase and
:07:58. > :07:59.drove it to woodland in Fife. In Edinburgh today, Rosdeep Adekoya
:08:00. > :08:05.arrived for her first appearance in open court. Rosdeep Adekoya stood
:08:06. > :08:11.between two security officers. She was dressed in black and showed no
:08:12. > :08:14.emotion. She looked straight ahead during the three minute hearing. She
:08:15. > :08:18.made no plea and was returned to custody. It is alleged that all the
:08:19. > :08:23.time the search for Mikaeel Kular was going on, his mother knew that
:08:24. > :08:25.her son was already dead. She is due to make another appearance in court
:08:26. > :08:29.on the 25th of July. Southern Japan is being battered
:08:30. > :08:32.by the most powerful storm to hit Typhoon Neoguri is
:08:33. > :08:36.nearly 250 miles wide. It's currently over the southern
:08:37. > :08:38.islands of Okinawa with winds The storm is expected to hit
:08:39. > :08:43.mainland Japan tomorrow, as our correspondent in Tokyo
:08:44. > :08:57.Rupert Wingfield-Hayes now reports. Typhoon Neoguri is a real monster.
:08:58. > :09:01.The shots taken from the International Space Station show
:09:02. > :09:07.just how big it is. In the last few hours, it has been downgraded from a
:09:08. > :09:13.super typhoon but it is still 250 miles wide and it is packing winds
:09:14. > :09:19.of up to 150 mph. This morning, the centre of the storm swept to shore
:09:20. > :09:23.on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. This wooden building was
:09:24. > :09:26.torn from its foundations and dumped in the middle of the road. As the
:09:27. > :09:31.storm lashed the island relentlessly, most seem to have
:09:32. > :09:35.heeded the government's warnings to stay inside. Others sought refuge in
:09:36. > :09:42.evacuation centres. The ferocity of the storm left some of them badly
:09:43. > :09:45.shaken. TRANSLATION: We had information that the Typhoon would
:09:46. > :09:52.be big and we should evacuate early on so I have been here since last
:09:53. > :09:57.night. I am alone and scared. The winds are really strong. The 30,000
:09:58. > :10:07.US troops based in Okinawa were also ordered into what they call lockdown
:10:08. > :10:11.mode. What lockdown means is everybody has to go to their home of
:10:12. > :10:17.residents and they are not supposed to leave their house under any
:10:18. > :10:21.circumstances. The good news is the warnings worked. So far there have
:10:22. > :10:26.only been a handful of injuries reported. The Typhoon is now
:10:27. > :10:31.weakening and heading north towards the Japanese mainland. TRANSLATION:
:10:32. > :10:35.We have not received information concerning great damage or injury.
:10:36. > :10:40.The Prime Minister has provided information to our citizens and to
:10:41. > :10:45.prepare thoroughly for any disaster and respond quickly if anything
:10:46. > :10:50.should happen. Here in Tokyo it is a lovely warm, dry evening but Typhoon
:10:51. > :10:54.Neoguri is heading in this direction. When it reaches the
:10:55. > :10:58.Japanese mainland, the vast amount of moisture it is carrying will be
:10:59. > :11:02.dumped as rain and that will mean flash floods and landslides. The
:11:03. > :11:11.danger of this huge storm is not over.
:11:12. > :11:16.Two men from Birmingham have admitted travelling to Syria to
:11:17. > :11:22.fight in the conflict there. They were arrested at Heathrow when they
:11:23. > :11:26.had returned home. Let's speak to our home affairs correspondent June
:11:27. > :11:31.Kelly. These two young men from Birmingham
:11:32. > :11:35.have become the latest Britons to be convicted in relation to the war in
:11:36. > :11:40.Syria. They had been due to stand trial this afternoon but this
:11:41. > :11:47.morning they suddenly both entered a guilty plea. As you say, they were
:11:48. > :11:51.childhood friends. They left this country last May, went into Syria
:11:52. > :11:58.via Turkey which is the traditional route. One of them had left a letter
:11:59. > :12:03.for his family at their home in Handsworth and he told them he was
:12:04. > :12:09.off to join a group allied to Al-Qaeda. He said he wanted to
:12:10. > :12:13.become involved in jihad. A few days after he left, his family went to
:12:14. > :12:17.the police and notified them that he was missing. When they arrived back
:12:18. > :12:22.in the UK, the police were waiting for them and they were arrested. In
:12:23. > :12:26.terms of evidence against them, detectives looked at a lot of
:12:27. > :12:31.information on social media and e-mail accounts. Also, the men had
:12:32. > :12:38.photographs they had taken of themselves in Syria, both wielding
:12:39. > :12:41.an AK-47 automatic weapon. Those images were traced and it was
:12:42. > :12:44.believed they were in the city of Aleppo which has seen some of the
:12:45. > :12:50.worst fighting during the Syrian Civil War. This afternoon, we will
:12:51. > :12:53.get an outline of the case against them and they will be sentenced at a
:12:54. > :12:56.later date. Thank you. Marks Spencer has reported
:12:57. > :12:59.a big drop in online sales Marc Bolland said overhauling
:13:00. > :13:08.the website had an impact. Like-for-like sales of non-food
:13:09. > :13:10.products, including clothing and However, the fall was offset
:13:11. > :13:14.by continued growth in M's food British scientists claim to have
:13:15. > :13:22.made a "major step forward" in developing a blood test to predict
:13:23. > :13:27.the onset of Alzheimer's disease. They claim it has an accuracy
:13:28. > :13:30.of 87% but other experts have warned that the test isn't yet ready
:13:31. > :13:34.for doctors' surgeries. Let's speak to our health editor,
:13:35. > :13:47.Hugh Pym. How will this test work? Well, and
:13:48. > :13:52.major step forward, scientists say. In the last decade or so, every
:13:53. > :13:59.single use of research has yielded nothing in terms of a breakthrough.
:14:00. > :14:05.This will be a simple blood test which will give a clue as to whether
:14:06. > :14:14.a patient which is -- with memory loss will develop outsiders. That
:14:15. > :14:17.worked in 87% of the trial sample. A lot more work needs to be done. The
:14:18. > :14:22.significance is that if they can take this further, it will help with
:14:23. > :14:26.drug research because they need patience in the early stages, likely
:14:27. > :14:31.to develop it but without full-blown Alzheimer's. Until now, they have
:14:32. > :14:36.only been able to work with patients with the onset of this condition. If
:14:37. > :14:37.the test does become available, the big question is
:14:38. > :14:43.the test does become available, the would you want to take the test?
:14:44. > :14:47.Scientists know that it is very frustrating, that patients who have
:14:48. > :14:51.come to them and been worried about memory loss and other symptoms, they
:14:52. > :14:56.have said you have to go away and come back in a year or so. They have
:14:57. > :15:01.had to live with another year or more without knowing if they have
:15:02. > :15:04.Alzheimer's. This test, if it is developed into something more
:15:05. > :15:07.substantial could help them. But equally, there are families who say
:15:08. > :15:12.they would rather not know about an elderly relative, someone who would
:15:13. > :15:16.rather have another couple of years of quality-of-life without knowing
:15:17. > :15:23.they will get Alzheimer's. It does raise a lot of issues if this goes
:15:24. > :15:27.further forward. Thank you. Our top story this lunchtime: A top
:15:28. > :15:33.civil servant is to be questioned by MPs about his department's handling
:15:34. > :15:36.of historical allegations of sex abuse.
:15:37. > :15:40.I will be live here in Rio with the latest on the World Cup ticket
:15:41. > :15:43.scandal that is threatening to overshadow tonight's semifinal.
:15:44. > :15:47.The end of an era at Leyton Orient - Barry Hearn sells his stake
:15:48. > :15:52.And after a ceiling collapse stopped the show, this award-winning play
:15:53. > :16:04.The ferocious storms that began in October made last winter
:16:05. > :16:08.At the heart of the flooding were the Somerset levels,
:16:09. > :16:14.For weeks, it was underwater, and residents could only get
:16:15. > :16:19.Prince Charles went to visit those stranded in February.
:16:20. > :16:22.Now the waters have gone, and he's back there today to see how
:16:23. > :16:32.Our correspondent Jon Kay is in Muchelney.
:16:33. > :16:38.No royal wellies required this time. Prince Charles has just arrived in
:16:39. > :16:43.the last couple of minutes. These are the pictures. He returned
:16:44. > :16:44.the last couple of minutes. These back in February, and he could
:16:45. > :16:46.the last couple of minutes. These have picked a better day to get
:16:47. > :16:49.across the message that this have picked a better day to get
:16:50. > :16:53.is open for business. The sun is shining this time, the sky is blue,
:16:54. > :16:55.the flowers are out, and he was determined to send that message to
:16:56. > :17:04.the world really, that things here are slowly getting back to normal,
:17:05. > :17:06.very different from February. Last time Prince Charles visited
:17:07. > :17:12.Muchelney, he needed a boat to get here, and then a tractor to get
:17:13. > :17:16.Muchelney, he needed a boat to get around. His tour guide that day was
:17:17. > :17:20.local farmer, Mike Curtis, who showed the Prince Hal floodwater had
:17:21. > :17:27.turned the village into an island, and turned his farm into a mess. It
:17:28. > :17:32.is not perfect but it is liveable. Today, five months on, the Curtis
:17:33. > :17:36.family showed me they are home and dry and life is getting back to
:17:37. > :17:40.normal. The fields are better, they are green, the roads are clear and
:17:41. > :17:45.people can get in and out, it is great. It is really good, it is
:17:46. > :17:47.coming back together, and we are missing out for tourism. People
:17:48. > :17:53.aren't coming because they think Somerset is flooded, which now we
:17:54. > :17:58.are not, we are open like normal. Just watch the transformation. This,
:17:59. > :18:03.the same field, as it emerges from Somerset's disastrous winter, and
:18:04. > :18:10.this road to Muchelney, guess, it is a road now returned to its dry and
:18:11. > :18:15.green normality. Back in February, we filmed this wedding venue in the
:18:16. > :18:18.village. It was a sorry sight, and the owners were desperate for the
:18:19. > :18:23.authorities to come in and help. Life needs to move on, we need to
:18:24. > :18:30.clean up, get builders income we need dehumidifiers, we need this to
:18:31. > :18:33.be taken out of the village. While this was the wedding barn in
:18:34. > :18:40.February, and here it is today. Hosting a reception for the royal
:18:41. > :18:47.visitor. Do you feel you are over it now? 110%, yes. Completely over it,
:18:48. > :18:52.it is almost like the flooding never happen. It is amazing how quickly
:18:53. > :18:57.nature has recovered. It was hard, it was freaky, nobody expected it to
:18:58. > :19:01.be as bad as it was, but we are over it. Come see for yourselves. Many in
:19:02. > :19:07.this county do still have concerns about insurance and flood defences,
:19:08. > :19:13.but today's message is positive, that Somerset is open for business.
:19:14. > :19:17.Certainly Muchelney is apparently back to normal today, that is what
:19:18. > :19:20.Prince Charles is seeing in the building behind the at the moment.
:19:21. > :19:24.Some other communities, some villages though, were hit much worse
:19:25. > :19:28.and will take much longer to recover but this village is confident that
:19:29. > :19:33.it will never be as bad again. There is flood defence work underway, and
:19:34. > :19:35.they will raise the road again, so that this village will never become
:19:36. > :19:38.an island in the future. The inquest into the death
:19:39. > :19:41.of a teenager, who was killed by a polar bear on a school trip to
:19:42. > :19:45.the Arctic Circle, has been hearing Michael Reid said he'd tried to
:19:46. > :19:48.shoot the bear as it attacked Horatio Chapple,
:19:49. > :19:50.but his rifle wouldn't fire. Let's speak to our correspondent,
:19:51. > :20:00.Sarah Ransome, What else has he been saying?
:20:01. > :20:04.He has been describing the moment when that polar Bear went on the
:20:05. > :20:09.rampage through the camp they had set up on a remote glacier near the
:20:10. > :20:15.Arctic Circle. Michael Reid said he was woken up by shouts of "bear
:20:16. > :20:20.attack! " By some of the youngsters on the camp, he grabbed his rifle on
:20:21. > :20:24.the way, and when he got outside his tent he could see a bear on top of
:20:25. > :20:28.one of the teenagers. He said he repeatedly tried to shoot the
:20:29. > :20:31.animal, but the rifle failed. He said then he looked and the bear
:20:32. > :20:36.turned around and then went on to attack him. He told the court he
:20:37. > :20:41.could remember the bear biting his head. He said he tried to gouge the
:20:42. > :20:44.eyes out of the animal, thinking that was the weakest area of the
:20:45. > :20:49.polar bear, but he said that was unsuccessful. Eventually the polar
:20:50. > :20:53.bear turned away. He grabbed the rifle and managed to shoot it dead,
:20:54. > :20:58.but by then Horatio Chapple, the 17-year-old from here in Salisbury,
:20:59. > :21:02.Wiltshire, had already died. When he was asked about the rifle, he said
:21:03. > :21:07.he had plenty of experience with firearms, and he felt he had had
:21:08. > :21:10.sufficient training in that particular type. He also said, when
:21:11. > :21:15.asked about the trip wire that had been put the previous evening, he
:21:16. > :21:20.said he tested it himself and he was happy that it was working. He also
:21:21. > :21:24.went on to pay tribute to the 17-year-old would-be doctor. He said
:21:25. > :21:28.he was a fantastic young man with amazing potential. The inquest is
:21:29. > :21:34.set to go on for the rest of the week.
:21:35. > :21:37.The Welsh Environment Minister Alun Davies has been sacked
:21:38. > :21:38.from the Welsh government for "unacceptable" behaviour.
:21:39. > :21:40.Mr Davies asked civil servants to give him
:21:41. > :21:42.private financial information about senior opposition members,
:21:43. > :21:45.despite being told by his staff that the information
:21:46. > :21:48.The Wales First Minister Carwyn Jones said the actions had been
:21:49. > :21:57.There are 71 days before Scotland goes to the polls to vote on
:21:58. > :21:59.whether or not to become an independent nation.
:22:00. > :22:01.Campaigners and commentators have made much
:22:02. > :22:04.of the implications for people in Scotland if it's a Yes vote.
:22:05. > :22:05.But how would an independent Scotland impact
:22:06. > :22:10.Here's our Wales correspondent, Hywel Griffith.
:22:11. > :22:13.Their sights set on Scotland, in a few weeks Team Wales will be
:22:14. > :22:17.trying to hunt down medals at the Commonwealth Games.
:22:18. > :22:21.Many of these riders also compete for Team GB.
:22:22. > :22:24.But in Glasgow, old friends become rivals.
:22:25. > :22:34.In the year that Scotland votes on its independence, the Games will
:22:35. > :22:39.It might be tempting to assume that Wales and Scotland are
:22:40. > :22:43.on the same sort of political track, that there is a big debate here,
:22:44. > :22:48.In reality, it is not something most people are talking about.
:22:49. > :22:52.A recent poll for the BBC suggested 61% of people here thought a Yes
:22:53. > :22:58.vote in Scotland should make no difference to life in Wales.
:22:59. > :23:04.Only 17% thought it would lead to more powers for the Welsh assembly.
:23:05. > :23:10.14% thought it should lead to Welsh people voting for independence.
:23:11. > :23:13.Away from the track, opinions of what should happen
:23:14. > :23:19.If Scotland get the independence, which they are looking for, I think
:23:20. > :23:22.definitely it would be an option for Wales to have the same sort of
:23:23. > :23:28.I would like them to stay, but that is about the only view I
:23:29. > :23:32.I am not bothered whether they stay or not, to be honest.
:23:33. > :23:33.Politicians in Cardiff Bay will be tracking
:23:34. > :23:38.Yes or No, the impact will be felt here.
:23:39. > :23:41.In the attempt to keep Scotland in the union,
:23:42. > :23:44.various goodies are being offered to Scotland, especially around finance,
:23:45. > :23:46.which are actually very advantageous to Scotland, whilst
:23:47. > :23:54.So they are worried that they are going to lose out, either way,
:23:55. > :23:58.Whatever the decision around the corner, Scotland's
:23:59. > :24:00.referendum will increasingly shape the debate in Wales, as its
:24:01. > :24:14.Brazilian police investigating a major World Cup ticket scam have
:24:15. > :24:18.detained the British chief executive of a hospitality firm.
:24:19. > :24:24.Ray Whelan is accused of leading a network selling illegal game passes.
:24:25. > :24:31.Our chief sports correspondent, Dan Roan, is in Rio de Janeiro.
:24:32. > :24:38.This case has shone a light on the complex and some would say murky way
:24:39. > :24:42.in which some World Cup tickets are sold and then resold. Once again,
:24:43. > :24:50.FIFA finds itself embroiled in some controversy. Rear Davis reports on a
:24:51. > :24:58.case that could be embarrassing for world football's governing body.
:24:59. > :25:01.This report contains Flash drug-free. Ray Whelan being
:25:02. > :25:03.unceremoniously detained at the Copacabana Palace hotel, the city's
:25:04. > :25:14.dash-mac loaf rush -- flash photography. Whelan is a
:25:15. > :25:18.senior executive in one of FIFA's official business partners. He is
:25:19. > :25:23.being questioned over his links to a gang running a huge World Cup ticket
:25:24. > :25:27.scam. The gang is thought to have been operating for the last four
:25:28. > :25:30.World Cups, obtaining and selling as many as 1000 tickets per match.
:25:31. > :25:38.Prosecutors said they could have made as much as ?50 million this
:25:39. > :25:41.tournament alone. For several days, Brazilian police had insisted
:25:42. > :25:46.someone from close to, or inside FIFA, must have been involved,
:25:47. > :25:53.because of the number of VIP and hospitality tickets being made
:25:54. > :25:57.available. TRANSLATION: The crimes he has been accused of facilitating
:25:58. > :26:03.our distribution of tickets to be sold by touts. It has a penalty of
:26:04. > :26:09.four years in prison, and also the offence of FIFA has insisted its
:26:10. > :26:14.high-tech named ticketing policy makes swapping all reselling almost
:26:15. > :26:18.impossible, but as the tournament nears its climax, the demand for
:26:19. > :26:19.black-market tickets and the opportunity for criminal gangs to
:26:20. > :26:30.make vast profits is huge. In the last hour, Rio police have
:26:31. > :26:35.confirmed to us that Ray Whelan has been released after questioning, and
:26:36. > :26:40.he has said he denies any wrongdoing, but I still think this
:26:41. > :26:44.will be very uncomfortable for FIFA, after all the controversy
:26:45. > :26:47.surrounding the World Cup in Qatar in 2022, this really was the last
:26:48. > :26:53.thing they would have wanted, partly because of the close ratio chip they
:26:54. > :26:57.have with this company, Match. It has an exclusive contract to sell
:26:58. > :27:00.hospitality, both tickets, accommodation and other services,
:27:01. > :27:05.not just for this World Cup but for the next two as well. It goes
:27:06. > :27:08.further than that. Sepp Blatter's own nephew is a minority shareholder
:27:09. > :27:12.in the business, so it will be interesting to see how FIFA react to
:27:13. > :27:17.this. Let's look ahead to tonight, Brazil against Germany, it does not
:27:18. > :27:22.get bigger than that. It is hard to overstate, Sophie, how
:27:23. > :27:26.important this semifinal is against Germany for the whole of Brazil.
:27:27. > :27:29.There will be 200 million people here ginning into the match, the
:27:30. > :27:34.whole country will stop and hold its breath and hope and pray that the
:27:35. > :27:37.select few chosen to represent them can do the business and reached the
:27:38. > :27:40.final on Sunday, because if they can achieve their ultimate goal and win
:27:41. > :27:44.the World Cup, it will be the first time they have ever won the trophy
:27:45. > :27:49.on home soil. They have won it five times before but never on home soil,
:27:50. > :27:51.and that is why this team operates under such almost intolerable
:27:52. > :27:54.pressure. The problem they have got is that they will have to do it
:27:55. > :28:00.tonight in Belo Horizonte without their best player, Neymar, who
:28:01. > :28:04.fractured his vertebra, as we all know now, in that quarterfinal
:28:05. > :28:07.against Colombia. Not only that, but they are also without their captain,
:28:08. > :28:11.having to operate under this incredible scrutiny and attention,
:28:12. > :28:15.but what a story it will be if Brazil can beat a German side who
:28:16. > :28:19.they are fully aware would love nothing more than to spoil the
:28:20. > :28:22.host's party. They are very consistent. It is their fourth
:28:23. > :28:24.consecutive World Cup semifinal, that is a record for any team. They
:28:25. > :28:29.have been very impressive this tournament, and I think Germany are
:28:30. > :28:32.the favourites, but you can't underestimate the motivation that
:28:33. > :28:35.Brazil will find from that injury to Neymar. They will want to do it for
:28:36. > :28:38.him and they will have the whole country behind them, and it will be
:28:39. > :28:42.an incredible atmosphere where ever you watch the game tonight. Time for
:28:43. > :29:06.a look at the weather now with Phil Avery.
:29:07. > :29:11.It has been very wet across the North East of England, thunderstorms
:29:12. > :29:14.now migrating down towards Lincolnshire. That is not the end of
:29:15. > :29:18.the story because you get the sense that on the big picture we have
:29:19. > :29:21.quite a bit of storm activity to encounter through the rest of the
:29:22. > :29:24.afternoon, but it is not without the possibility of a bit of sunshine.
:29:25. > :29:28.This neck of the woods was thoroughly miserable yesterday. A
:29:29. > :29:30.cheerier prospect, that went be difficult, but the Russ and heavy
:29:31. > :29:35.thunderstorms breaking along parts of Wales and the West Midlands.
:29:36. > :29:39.Fewer perhaps through parts of Cumbria, central and southern parts
:29:40. > :29:42.of Scotland, the focus across the eastern side of Northern Ireland and
:29:43. > :29:46.as we get into the eastern side of Scotland this afternoon, and again
:29:47. > :29:50.down that eastern strip of England, torrential downpours was that we
:29:51. > :29:52.have already seen some reports of localised flooding in parts of the
:29:53. > :29:55.north-east of England, and that is on the cards again, quite
:29:56. > :29:58.extensively across the South of England, and we have had a gaggle of
:29:59. > :30:02.showers growing through the morning through Sussex and Surrey. I think
:30:03. > :30:05.they will become more extensive during the course of the afternoon.
:30:06. > :30:10.Through the evening and overnight, showers lingering for a time then
:30:11. > :30:15.exiting stage right towards the near continent. Then a finite the most of
:30:16. > :30:18.the British Isles, not a cold one in the towns and cities, in the
:30:19. > :30:24.countryside single figures, that the mist and fog around, not a
:30:25. > :30:28.widespread problem. Then tomorrow, a fine prospect, unless you happen to
:30:29. > :30:32.be closer to the east coast. Late on in the day, that's enough cloud,
:30:33. > :30:35.wind and rain getting towards Norwich and East Anglia to give a
:30:36. > :30:38.rather chilled aspect of the weather. Further west, drier,
:30:39. > :30:42.brighter and consequently a warmer affair there. So that bodes pretty
:30:43. > :30:47.well for the first day of the test at Trent Bridge, England taking on
:30:48. > :30:51.India, the second tourists of the season. Thursday, notice, the rain
:30:52. > :30:55.is on the move. We suspect it will migrate away from the east coast is
:30:56. > :30:59.this warm front introduces, funny old thing, warmer conditions from
:31:00. > :31:02.the continent. We will see the consequences of that later in the
:31:03. > :31:05.week across the east, but it does mean that we will have again
:31:06. > :31:10.occasional heavy bursts of rain migrating their weight and a further
:31:11. > :31:13.to the west. Not getting to the western extremities until late in
:31:14. > :31:17.the day. A lot going on. If you want the full nine yards on it all, the
:31:18. > :31:24.BBC Weather website is the place for you.
:31:25. > :31:28.A reminder of the top story, a senior civil servant is to be
:31:29. > :31:31.questioned about his department's