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Four weeks after the fire at Grenfell Tower, the new leader | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of the council says it will take a generation for survivors | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Elizabeth Campbell promises to use some of the council's | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
reserves to build new homes, to help those who no | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
The community is strong. The chasm is between the community, whether | :00:20. | :00:34. | |
they are rich or poor, it is between them and the state. Whether they've | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
lost trust in local government or in central government. That is what we | :00:41. | :00:41. | |
have got to restore. We'll have the latest | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
from West London. A gay man wins a landmark ruling | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
at the Supreme Court Thousands of married gay couples | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
will now have the same pension entitlements | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
as heterosexual couples. There's been another | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
fall in unemployment. The overall rate of 4.5% | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
is the lowest since 1975. Donald Trump defends his son, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
who's under pressure after his discussions | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
with a Russian lawyer. The President says Donald Jr | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
is being subjected to a witch hunt. And at Wimbledon, Andy Murray has | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
just walked onto Centre Court in his He's about to play | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
the American Sam Querrey. And coming up in the | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
sport on BBC News. As well as Andy Murray | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
in action today at Wimbledon, Roger Federer takes to Centre Court | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
later against Milos Raonic. Good afternoon and welcome | :01:35. | :01:56. | |
to the BBC News at One. Exactly four weeks after the fire | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
at Grenfell Tower which killed at least 80 people, the new leader | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
of Kensington Chelsea has promised that the council will use some | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
of its reserves to build homes, to help the families | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
who have lost theirs. Elizabeth Campbell said people | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
who survived the fire will take a generation to trust | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the council again. MPs are debating the inquiry | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
into the fire this lunchtime and, tonight, the community in west | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
London will hold a vigil I have been here in the community | :02:27. | :02:45. | |
for some weeks now, speaking to people who escape from the tower, | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
those who lost their loved ones and people in the community who have | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
been pulling together and giving that much needed help. Emotions here | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
are still extremely raw as people try to come to terms with what has | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
happened. There is still a very long way to go after police said this | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
morning that the recovery operation inside the tower is not going to be | :03:06. | :03:06. | |
complete until the end of the year. Stepping into Grenfell Tower, | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
climbing the stairs to what was people's homes. Investigators have | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
so far recovered 32 bodies out of at least 80 believed to be dead still | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
missing. It is a meticulous process. Some victims may never be | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
identified. I feel passionate about getting those people back to their | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
loved ones. I understand how frustrating it is for people outside | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
this environment to sit and wait and say, "Why can't I have my family | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
back? Surely it is easy?" It isn't. The magnitude started become | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
apparent even before we got there. Inspector Nick Thatcher was in | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
charge of the first officers on the scene. It is very much a case of, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
you six, you ten, 12 or two, whatever numbers they arrived in, | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
there's a problem there, this is as much as I can tell you, off you go, | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
if you need help, let me go. My briefings to the officers were not | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
great but it was moving so fast because again, as people were | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
arriving, the fire was so aggressive. Most who used to live in | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
a tower are still waiting for permanent homes. Many are in hotels | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
and four weeks on, it is taking its toll. It will be with me forever. I | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
dream about it. Every night it comes back to me. But you can't change it. | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
It is going to haunt me for the rest of my life. Following a series of | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
failings by Kensington and Chelsea Council, Elizabeth Campbell takes | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
her position as leader next week and admits there is a lot of work to be | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
done. The community is strong. The chasm is between the community, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
whether they are rich or poor, it is between them and the state, whether | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
they've lost trust in local government and they've lost trust in | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
central government. That is what we've got to restore. But some think | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
the council is still out of touch with residents here. The public has | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
not got confidence in the new leadership. She is tainted by her | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
connection with the previous leader, fairly or unfairly and I'm afraid | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
what local residents don't want is out of touch leader who does not | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
understand their concerns and what they are going through. Elsewhere, | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
tests have been carried out on 200 buildings with similar cladding to | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Grenfell Tower. All have failed to shake -- safety checks. Labour has | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
called for the process to be speeded up, saying the government has been | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
too slow at letting others know whether their homes are safe. Later | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
today, there will be a debate in the Commons over the public inquiry into | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the disaster and tonight, the community will once again come | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
together for a vigil, a chance to reflect and show unity following a | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
tragedy that has torn so many lives apart. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
Well, this afternoon, the inquest into nine victims will be opened to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
give families some of those much-needed answers but there are | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
still many questions being asked. Where will people be living and what | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
is going to happen to the towers? Although we are four weeks on, this | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
feels like very much the beginning. Thank you. Frankie McCamley, there. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
The trauma has had a huge impact on the community, | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Our correspondent Graham Satchell has been to meet some of them, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
to find out how they're coping in the aftermath of the fire. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
In sight of Grenfell Tower, fun and laughter. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
This is Kids On The Green, a safe space where children | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
There's a lot of food and, yeah, just really fun overall. | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
Then, it got a bit easier after a few weeks. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Then, when this started happening, you just come here, it | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Kids On The Green is run by volunteers, teachers, therapists, | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
Children can play and be supported. Parents can get some respite. | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
I've got two boys and also an older girl, who is 13. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
And a couple of her friends were in the tower, so she's been | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
really affected by it, as well, and upset. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
It is hard to know that some of the neighbours, a teacher, | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
children that my kids were friends with, are no longer with us | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
and also, the building being right there, in our | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
A month after the fire, the impact on some of the children | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
The last week, some of the symptoms have become kind of more severe. | :07:34. | :07:41. | |
We find that a lot of kids have been scared to go to bed. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
They have been scared to fall asleep. | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
So we are giving parents a lot of practical support | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
in resetting their routines and making the children feel safe. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
In the art tent, children can paint anything they want. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
We have a team of art therapists on site all the time so that | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
if children are drawing disturbing pictures, that they are supported | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
It is very sad that so many children witnessed it. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Such widespread sadness and horror, it's... | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
All the children here have witnessed unimaginable horror. | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
This is just the beginning of a healing process. | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
But we know that healing is going to take years. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Graham Satchell, BBC News, West London. | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favour of a gay man | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
who argued that he and his husband should have the same pension | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
rights as those enjoyed by heterosexual couples. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
The case was brought by a former cavalry officer, John Walker, | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
who challenged the rule which limited access | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
to pension funds accrued before 2005, when civil | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
Our legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman reports | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Victory after an 11 year legal battle. John Walker worked for the | :09:05. | :09:18. | |
company in a spec the 23 years, paying into the firm's pension | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
scheme. Mr Walker and his now husband became civil partners in | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
2006. That was shortly after the partnerships became legal. But the | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
company, relying on an exception in domestic law, refused to take | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
account of his pension contributions before that date. However, the court | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
ruled EU law trumped that. Mr Walker's husband will be entitled to | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
a spouse's pension on Mr Walker's death, provided of course that they | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
remained married. It would be the same with anybody, whether it is a | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
heterosexual couple or a same-sex couple, someone you love, that | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
person you want to make sure is looked after as long as they are | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
alive. I'm older than him, therefore statistically, the chances are that | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
I will die before him. I wanted to ensure he was looked after. The | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
effect of today's ruling is massive. It does not just about John Walker | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
but everyone who is in a civil partnership or same-sex marriage and | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
that is whether they are paying into an occupational pension scheme with | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
a private employer or within the public sector. Supporters were | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
thrilled but there is a possible storm cloud on the horizon. It is | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
only EU law that allowed him to win today. So obviously, what Mr Walker | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
wants to know and what we want to know is what is going to happen to | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
these rights when we leave the European Union. The UK courts will | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
no longer have the power to apply EU law to British law then. John Walker | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
is happy that equality at the heart of civil partnerships and same-sex | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
marriage has finally caught up with pensions and there is a pot at the | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
end of the rainbow. Clive Coleman, BBC News. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
There has been another drop in unemployment. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
It fell by 64,000, to 1.49 million, in the three months to May, | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
according to the latest official figures. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
This means the unemployment rate of 4.5% is now | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
But wage increases continue to fall further behind inflation. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
Earnings rose by 2% year-on-year, below the current rate of inflation. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Here is our economics correspondent, Andy Verity. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Teaching English has been a growing industry in the last 12 years, | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
as the job market keeps generating new vacancies - | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
many of them filled by people who grew up speaking other | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
They will join a record workforce of 32 million. | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
As a proportion of that, unemployment is | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
But the number of new students is not growing as fast | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
now and the owner of this Bristol language school fears | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
why their pay will not beat inflation. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
It is the most difficult thing a house to do. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
It is the most difficult thing I have to do. | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
These people have given me loyalty and their hard | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
work and to tell them I cannot reward that as I would like to | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
Unemployment is just under 1.49 million. | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
That is higher than the last figures but not enough to keep up with | :12:13. | :12:24. | |
prizes. This chart shows you what has happened to earnings over the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
last 12 years so we have had pay rises, the yellow line coming up | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
here, but to take into account inflation, you have to look at the | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
blue line. That is where we are now, we are up about 3.8% from the trough | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
but we are down about 3.2% from the peak in March 2000 eight. If you | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
look at where we are now, we are earning no more in real terms than | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
we were way back in 2006. We need to keep driving wages forward and | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
fundamentally, that is about productivity and about the skills | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
base and underpinning those things is investment. With consumer price | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
inflation accelerating, and new jobs not really paying that much more, it | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
is clear that real wages, consumer purchasing power, is going to be | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
tightening which creates real questions about the longevity of the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
consumer led recovery. Economists used to think low unemployment would | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
lead workers to lose their fear of the dole queue and demand inflation | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
beating pay rises. But imposed financial crisis Britain, that | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
theory can seem out of line with the facts. Andy Verity, BBC News. | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
Michel Barnier has said Britain must recognise the existence of its | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson suggested | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
the EU could "go whistle", for what he described | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
At a news conference in the last hour, Monsieur Barnier said | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
he cannot hear any whistling, just the clock ticking. | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
Let's talk to our Brussels reporter, Adam Fleming. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Michel Barnier showing some frustration with Britain, Adam? Yes, | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
he was his usual unruffled self, unlike me in the wind in Brussels | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
this afternoon, but there was a bit of frustration from what he sees as | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
the fact that the UK site has not been as transparent and open as he | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
has in terms of what their actual position is on a range of issues, Mr | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Barnier pointed out his side has published lots of papers covering | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
lots of different areas of the Brexit negotiations. He repeated his | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
criticism of Theresa May's proposal for the rights of EU nationals | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
living in the UK after Brexit. Mr Barnier said they don't go far | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
enough and they don't give a role to the European Court of Justice which | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
is one of Mrs May's redlines. As you mentioned, this big sticking point | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
emerging now is the idea of the financial settlement. Should the UK | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
pay a bill for its financial obligations it had as a member of | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
the EU? Mr Barnier says until David Davis acknowledges the principle | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
that there is a bill to be paid, there will be a lack of trust | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
between the two side and they can't have any talks about the future | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
relationship between the EU and the UK. Thanks, Adam Fleming, there. | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
The charity Citizens Advice is calling for all energy customers | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
to be given a rebate of ?285, because it says the companies | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
which manage the gas and electricity grids and local networks have been | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
allowed to charge people too much, even though their prices are | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
controlled by the energy regulator, Ofgem. | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Theo Leggett. | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
The cost of transporting electricity and gas | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
makes up a quarter of our energy bills. | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
These networks are looked after by National Grid, along with a | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Because they don't face any competition, the prices they can | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
charge are vetted by the regulator, Ofgem, | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
and approved for an eight-year period. | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
But Citizens Advice estimates that, during the current | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
period, which we are halfway through, the network companies will | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
make too much money - ?7.5 billion of excess profits. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
So,they want each household to get a rebate of ?285 to | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Ofgem have overestimated the cost of investment and borrowing. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
For example, interest rates have not been as high as they expected. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
They have also allowed the companies to earn money at the rate that | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
a much riskier company would be able to do and they have | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
not been tough enough with the companies on sharing the benefits | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
of any efficiency savings they have made. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Ofgem insists it is protecting the interests of bill payers and it | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
has warned the network companies that the next | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
set of price controls, from 2021, will be tougher. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
As Ofgem, we are always looking at ways we can | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
improve value for money for consumers. | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
As part of that, there is a broad discussion about how we make | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
We are keen to engage people like Citizens Advice. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
One thing I'm determined to make sure is that these | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
next price controls will be consumer-led. | :16:53. | :16:53. | |
Therefore, we welcome interactions with people | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
like Citizens Advice and other consumer bodies. | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
The network companies themselves reject the | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
calculations made by Citizens Advice and they point out that they are | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
planning to invest huge sums in infrastructure over the next few | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
years to help keep the lights on and our homes warm. | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Four weeks after the fire at Grenfell Tower, the new leader | :17:12. | :17:22. | |
of the council says it will take a generation for survivors | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
At an expectant Wimbledon, Andy Murray is on court and hoping to | :17:26. | :17:42. | |
join Johanna Konta in the semifinals. | :17:43. | :17:43. | |
England are aiming for their fifth consecutive win | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
They're facing New Zealand in Derby after their win over | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
President Trump has defended his eldest son, | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
who is under pressure for meeting a Russian lawyer during last | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
He tweeted that Donald Jr was transparent, open and innocent | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
and was being subjected to the greatest witch hunt | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
Donald Trump Jr played a key role in his father's | :18:14. | :18:23. | |
Now, his actions are almost threatening to | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Fearing further revelations about a meeting last | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
year at Trump Tower, the President's eldest son chose | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
to release copies of an e-mail exchange between him and the man | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
Those e-mails have released some disturbing questions. | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
In retrospect, I would have done things differently. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
This is before they were building it up in the press. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
This was opposition research, I wanted to hear it out. | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
But that was not what the meeting was about. | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
The e-mails feature an exchange between Donald Trump Jr | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
and a British publicist named Rob Goldstone. | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
Goldstone offers to broker a meeting with a Russian lawyer who he says | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
has damaging information about Hillary Clinton, | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
"information which would be very useful to your father". | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
The e-mail continues, "This is obviously very high level | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
and sensitive information, but is part of Russia | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
and its government's support for Mr Trump." | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
Donald Trump Jr replied simply, "If it is what you say, I love it." | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Do you tell your father anything about this? | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
I would not have even remembered it until you start | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
It was a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
President Trump has been largely silent on the issue, | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
saying only that his son was a high-quality person and that | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
he applauded his transparency, but the apparent eagerness | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
of Donald Jr to accept a Russian offer of help with his father's | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
campaign has left lawmakers of both parties deeply concerned. | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
This is obviously very significant, deeply disturbing, new public | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
information about direct contacts between the Russian government | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
and its intermediaries at the very centre of the Trump family, | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
The fact that Donald Trump's son-in-law was also present | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
at the meeting at Trump Tower only adds to the concern here. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Now a senior adviser to the President, some say | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
it is another sign of how keen the Trump campaign | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
was for information about its Presidential rival. | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
President Trump travelled to France today, anxious, no doubt, | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
to escape the impression that his is an administration | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
It has been a year since the failed coup attempt in Turkey and, | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
in an exclusive interview with the BBC, President Erdogan has | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
rejected criticism of Turkey's record on press freedom | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
He also criticised the EU for being insincere about possible | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Turkish membership and said he hoped for a post-Brexit free | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
A year ago, Turkey almost fell to the tanks. | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
An attempted coup thwarted as Turks resisted rogue soldiers, responding | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
He evaded capture and emerged stronger. | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
150,000 sacked or suspended, accused of links to the plotters. | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
Turkey again the world's leading jailer of journalists. | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
But speaking to the BBC's HARDtalk, President Erdogan shook off | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
criticism and denied that press freedom was under attack. | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
TRANSLATION: Those people in jail are not titled journalists. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Some of them collaborated with terror organisations, | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
some of them were jailed for possession of a firearm. | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
The past year has soured relations with Europe. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Turkey furious at Western criticism of the purge, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Mr Erdogan slamming German and Dutch leaders as "Nazis". | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
He said Turkey's decades-long dream of EU membership is not absolute. | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
TRANSLATION: The majority of my people do not want EU anymore, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
they don't think its approach to Turkey is sincere. | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Despite this, we will continue on being sincere with the EU | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
Turkey's big economy is a prime trade target | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
The President said he wanted stronger relations, | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
two countries at either door of the EU, striking | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Pugnacious, delighting his supporters, but to his critics, | :22:55. | :23:05. | |
it is proof of Turkey's democratic decay. | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
His country is less anchored to the West, | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
And for their EU and Nato allies, he is not an easy partner. | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
And you can see more of that interview on HARDtalk this Friday | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain have begun a three-day | :23:27. | :23:35. | |
It is being seen by the Government as an opportunity to forge | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
closer ties with Spain, as the UK prepares to leave the EU. | :23:40. | :23:51. | |
A degree of pomp and ceremony, but some serious business to be done as | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
well? That is right. But remind ourselves, a state visit is a | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
personal invitation from the Queen to stay at Buckingham Palace, it is | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
the ultimate in hospitality. But with serious business being done by | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
the politicians and officials who accompanied the visitor, and the | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
positive atmosphere the visit creates. The Queen and Duke of | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
Edinburgh work that Horse Guards to greet them, possibly the last time | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
we will see the Duke of Edinburgh at a state visit. That is perhaps the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
case, though if Donald Trump and his wife turned up, I am sure his | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
curiosity may get the better of him. The state visitors were welcomed by | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
the Queen and the Duke, they expected a guard of honour from the | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Irish Guards, and part of the ceremony of these visits, the right | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
with the Household Cavalry, in a carriage at the Queen and the | :24:51. | :24:58. | |
Spanish Queen in the first carriage. What is the serious business? | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Britain wants to encourage as good a relationship is possible with all | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
individual European nations. Spain wants to raise that particular | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
subject of Gibraltar, something the King in the past has called a | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
colonial anachronism, he may well do that at a speech in Westminster this | :25:18. | :25:18. | |
afternoon. Britain's Andy Murray has just | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
begun his match on Centre Court against the American Sam Querry, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
the 24th seed. Murray is aiming to secure a place | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
in the semifinals of the tournament, after Johanna Konta yesterday became | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
the first British woman to reach It is actually 50 years since | :25:34. | :25:53. | |
Britain had a man and a woman in the Wimbledon singles semifinals, that | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
if Andy Murray wins today, the wait will be over. Finally he is not | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
alone in flying the flag. History was made sweeter by the | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
presence Joanna Conser had just emulated, the first Briton since | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Virginia Wade to reach the women's singles semifinals at Wimbledon and | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
quite possibly the first to pose for a sulphate with a Chelsea | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Pensioners. Last night when I got back I got back to the Royal | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Hospital at 8pm and my phone never stopped ringing, texts, I had a | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
message from my son to say, you have gone viral! Amazing. It was an | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
occasion I did not want to miss a once-in-a-lifetime. Gratefully, I | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
pulled it off. From her celebrations to Andy Murray's preparations, a | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
quarterfinal against Sam Querrey, the six foot six California with a | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Hollywood serve. He will find a way to break him down, but he has got to | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
keep improving his performance, because the matches will only get | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
tougher. He knows he has got a couple more matches in the tank to | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
get him back into the final, to hopefully defend his title. For | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
years it has been known as Henman Hill, and not even the heroics of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Andy Murray will change that, but otherwise Wimbledon has become | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
synonymous with the Scot. Because he is now a two-time champion, and | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
today marks his tenth consecutive appearance in the last eight. The | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
run started against Rafael Nadal in 2008, he suffered a heavy defeat, | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
the like of which he will hope not to repeat. He knows how to win here, | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
he has done it twice, so it is not new territory. I am sure he will | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
feel comfortable with the situation. I am sure he knows he needs to up | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
his game, because now he will have to play the real top layers. I hope | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
he is ready for that. The path is well trodden by him, less so Johanna | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Konta, but their combined progress is uniting Wimbledon in excitement, | :28:05. | :28:05. | |
a nation enthralled. Andy Murray leads by a break in the | :28:06. | :28:17. | |
first set, so it is going to plan. Do we think we will wake up tomorrow | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
morning to two British players in the semifinals? It looks that way. | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
Andy Murray has such a great return of serve, and even though he is up | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
against a big server, who beat Novak Djokovic last year, once he | :28:32. | :28:33. | |
nullifies the serve, you still have to pick him in any of those baseline | :28:34. | :28:40. | |
encounters. Johanna Konta plays Venus Williams tomorrow, will she | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
reached the final? She can achieve that. She is playing some of the | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
best tennis we have seen her play. The victory against Simona Halep | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
Boston nominal, and she has beaten Venus Williams three times out of | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
five, but this is Venus Williams' domain, she has won this title five | :29:00. | :29:03. | |
times, she is named after the trophy. But I think we might see | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
Johanna Konta in the final. The sun is out, Andy Murray is on court, | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
what more could you want? Not anything, really, to be honest! | :29:14. | :29:16. | |
One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken away from an ice | :29:17. | :29:19. | |
The block is about a quarter of the size of Wales, | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
and is calculated to weigh a trillion tonnes. | :29:24. | :29:26. | |
An American satellite observed the iceberg while passing over | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
It is absolutely immense. It is deep winter in the Antarctic, submit to | :29:31. | :29:48. | |
not have great pictures, but the satellites going over, and they are | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
getting some ideas of where it has broken, and we see the crack in the | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
satellite images. You know icebergs stand more above the water than they | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
do below, actually, the other way around, it is 30 metres above the | :30:05. | :30:10. | |
surface, 200 metres below. In the top three, four or five in the | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
satellite era, we think this is, but back in the 1950s the US Navy | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
spotted one that they set for something like 35,000 square | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
kilometres, the size of Belgium. Imagine that. But no satellites then | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
to confirm it. A quick thought about significant? This is the natural | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
order of things, other places have been warming and melting, we do not | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
think that in this instance this is that case. It is probably just what | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
the ice does, it carves icebergs sometimes, and that is what we are | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
seeing. A wet 24 hours across England and | :30:47. | :31:04. | |
Wales, the rain pouring down, the largest rainfall totals concentrated | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
in the south. Over half a month's rein in the space of 24 hours, it | :31:11. | :31:14. | |
led to large puddles, dangerous driving conditions earlier today | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
around Greater London. You can see how the weather system drove east | :31:21. | :31:22. | |
across England and Wales, ringing the heavy rain, but just as quickly | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
as it has pushed away, we have seen the sunshine come out, the sky in | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Scotland looking like this, glorious weather in the Highlands. The | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
sunshine is becoming increasingly widespread. We have patchy cloud | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
left over from the weather system across the south of England, but the | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
cloud will could he be to break up through the afternoon, with spells | :31:47. | :31:50. | |
of sunshine coming through. Barely a cloud in the sky for the Midlands. | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
For Northern Ireland, another dry day, more sunshine than yesterday. | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
Showers yesterday in Scotland, but today it is dry and sunny. There | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
will be no interruptions to play caused by the weather at Wimbledon. | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
We keep the sunny spells for the afternoon. It will feel pleasantly | :32:09. | :32:15. | |
warm. As we go through the night, we have got high pressure in charge, | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
and with the clear sky, the temperatures will fall away quickly. | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
It could get cold enough for a touch of ground frost, but the | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
temperatures in the towns and cities hold-up. High pressure still with us | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
for Thursday, but this complication from the Atlantic will bring some | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
rain late in the day for the Northwest. The morning will stay | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
dry, but we. To see showers developing for the afternoon across | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
England and Wales. Avoiding east Anglia and the south-east and | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
eastern Scotland. Some of the showers could be heavy, and we see | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
the band of rain moving into western Scotland and Northern Ireland. The | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
rain could be quite heavy in western Scotland. By the time we get to | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
Friday, it is largely dry, with sunny spells. There could be one or | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
two isolated showers. A weather front will bring a spell of wet | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
weather overnight to the north and west of the UK, with freshening | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
wind, and it will leave a legacy of cloudy skies as we work on into the | :33:20. | :33:25. | |
weekend, with showers mainly in the north-west, but if the sun comes out | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
in the south, it could become warm and humid. | :33:28. | :33:29. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
The new leader of the council says it will take a generation for | :33:35. | :33:40. | |
survivors of the tower fire to trust the council again. | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
That is all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me, | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :33:46. | :33:47. |