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Net migration to the UK falls by a quarter - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
it's at its lowest level for three years. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
New figures suggest migrants from eastern and central European | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
We'll look at whether the shift is a consequence of Brexit. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Also this lunchtime: The number of students getting top GCSE grades | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
in Maths and English has fallen slightly - after the introduction | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
The husband of the woman knocked down and killed by a speeding | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
cyclist in London calls for a change in the law, to tackle irresponsible | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
I'm asking that the law catches up, as it is doing with technology, | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
with social media, with all of these things. | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
I'm just asking that the law catches up. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
The mobile phone group Dixons Carphone issues | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
a profits warning - it says increasingly expensive | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
handsets has led to a slump in people buying. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
Get out on regular brisk walks, says Public Health England - | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
to prevent cancer, heart disease and poor mental health. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
And coming up in the sport on BBC News: EFL holders Man United have | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
been drawn against Burton in the third round of the Cup. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Leicester, Arsenal and West Ham are also in the mix. | :01:20. | :01:41. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
There's been a sharp fall in the number of EU citizens | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Net migration - the difference between those entering | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
and leaving the UK - fell 81,000 to 246,000 | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
The Office for National Statistics said the figures suggest migrants | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
from eastern and central European countries, the so called EU8 | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
Despite today's falling figures, the government remains well short | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
of its target of bringing net migration below 100,000. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
Today's new numbers be the early signs of Brexit. Net migration, the | :02:17. | :02:33. | |
difference between those entering and leaving the UK, fell, to | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
246,000, in the year to March 2000 and 17. That's a drop of 81,000 on | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
the previous year. Much of that figure is down to net migration of | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
EU citizens falling, by 51,000. But despite today's falling figures, the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
government remains well short of its targets of bringing net migration | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
below 100,000. Since the EU referendum we've seen falls in net | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
migration for EU citizens and in particular those for Eastern | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
European, and that's been driven by emigration of Eastern European | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
citizens who are returning for work. The Office for National Statistics | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
figures show a sharp rise in people from the so-called EU8 countries | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
leaving the UK. But migration experts say the overall net | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
migration figure is still too high. A level is still two and ?50,000 a | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
year. That's a massive number four net migration and that's what's | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
going to drive our population up by half a million every year for the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
indefinite future -- the level is still 250,000 a year. It means | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
building a city the size of Birmingham every two years. This | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
cafe serves Scandinavian cuisine but advertising for new staff is | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
increasingly expensive. It normally costs ?200. But that shot up to more | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
than ?2000 this summer. I might not choose London because of Brexit and | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
what will happen next year in the year after. They want some form of | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
security and knowledge that they are allowed to stay and work in the | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
country they are choosing to go to. Finding stuff here may be difficult, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
but the government says it wants to get immigration even lower. Labour | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
warns that could harm the economy. We want to be clear, we welcome | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
people from around the world and people from all over Europe, 3 | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
million of whom are in this country at the moment contributing to our | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
society, they play an important part in our economy. We need to continue | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
to welcome people. We also need to be clear that when we leave the EU | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
we will have more control of our borders. The NHS, particularly in | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
England, is facing problems of nurse recruitment because of the number of | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
EU citizens coming. We have to have stability and migration based on | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
economic needs of the UK and that's what we're working on. As well as | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
these new migration figures, new data from exit checks at ports and | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
airports has also been released. The data revealed that when it comes to | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
international students, one of the biggest groups of immigrants, the | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
results weren't what some people previously thought. 97% of them left | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
when they finished their courses and therefore didn't abuse their visas. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
And to build a clearer picture of this the government has now | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
announced that it's going to start a new investigation looking at the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
impact of international students on the UK's society and economy. The | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
study is expected to be completed by September 2018. Adina Campbell, BBC | :05:42. | :05:42. | |
News. Our home affairs correspondent | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
Dominic Casciani is here. What is driving all of this change? | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
Of was going to think it's going to be the chilling effects of Brexit. I | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
think it's probably a little bit more complicate it than that but | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
there's no doubt there's something in my going on. The ONS, the | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
statisticians, they are cautioning, saying hang on a minute before we | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
make any real assumptions about Brexit. But the figures do speak for | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
themselves. The number, the net migration from Eastern Europe alone | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
has halved since the vote took place. Now anecdotally you pick up | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
stories. I've been out talking to migrants over the past year, I | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
didn't work -- I did a lot of work around the general election where | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
people said they were scared. The pound is significantly dropped so if | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
you are Polish worker, the number of zloty you could buy back home has | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
really decreased. It starts to really is the question whether its | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
worth come to the UK anymore. -- it starts to raise the question. Some | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
of the European countries are starting to grow faster than the UK, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Poland being example. That's a key driver. One other thought, ministers | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
will be buoyed because they had this target they want to hit but the | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
figure from the rest of the world is still 180,000, that's well above the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
target habit something they have to try to get to grips with. Dominic | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
Casciani, thank you. Let's talk about the politics of it, our | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
political correspondent Leila Nathoo is at Westminster. That's | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
politically the key point, isn't it, that the overall figure is still not | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
where the government wants it to be? That's right, I think there are a | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
number of issues thrown up by these figures. First is this target that | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
Dominic was mentioning, the government has a long-standing but | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
never achieved as of yet target of getting net migration down to the | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
tens of thousands. When you think it currently stands at almost 250,000 | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
come you can see how far away that is. I think that Labour are talking | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
about this being a shambles, and arbitrary target, and calling for | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
the government to abandon it. The government is insisting it's not | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
complacent and it is still committed to getting it down to a sustainable | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
level but there's a second issue that has been thrown up and that's | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
the issue of EU citizens. People will read this as EU citizens | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
fleeing the country after the Brexit referendum and although the ONS says | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
it's too early to say whether this is a long-term trend, the Liberal | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
Democrats for example are seizing on this, calling it a Brexodous. | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
Ministers would say they've made a fair offer to EU citizens of settled | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
status and I think the government says we will see more of its | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
immigration policy a bit further down the line and finally, on this | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
issue of foreign students here, and the idea that exit checks data | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
reveals that most foreign students are not overstaying their visas, the | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
idea that exit checks are not currently used to calculate the | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
current net migration figures will I think reopen the debate about the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
methodology such a politically sensitive figure. Thanks, Leila | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Nathoo at Westminster. The number of teenagers gaining | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
the highest GCSE grades has fallen slightly, | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
after exam boards moved For the first time, students | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
in England have been graded from nine to one in English | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
language, English literature and maths, with nine | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
being the top mark. Our education correspondent | :09:06. | :09:06. | |
Gillian Hargreaves is at Yes, across England, Wales and | :09:07. | :09:21. | |
Northern Ireland, thousands of students will have received their | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
GCSE results by now. I spent the morning with pupils at this school, | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
as they opened those fateful envelopes. | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
You know the routine. The journey... The weight... The nerves... Then the | :09:33. | :09:48. | |
results. College. I've got in, I'm all right. I passed everything! | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
Pretty good, I'm really proud of myself. In England and new grading | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
system for GCSE English and maths, but only a few will achieve the top | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
grade nine. Great four is broadly being impaired to an old-style grade | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
C and is considered a standard part. However, the government says the new | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
grade five should be considered what they call a strong pass. I've only | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
just passed maths, by a little bit. Yeah, I'm happy with it. In fact, | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
some maths papers were so challenging in England this year you | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
only needed 18% to pass. The subject content is significantly harder and | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
in the higher maths paper, some of the old A-level content is in there | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
so people will take confidence that these results are going to be | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
world-class. Which is why they've all this -- which is why there have | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
been all these changes this year. The government wants students such | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
as these to compete with the best in the world. We want our young people | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
to be equipped to do well in the world of work, in a competitive | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
global economy and so it has been necessary. The new grading system | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
has been introduced to draw a distinction between the old GCSE and | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
these new more demanding GCSEs. But the combination of new and old style | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
exams has caused confusion and lead head teachers' unions to say the | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
pace of change has been too quick. We will look back and think this has | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
been a very distracting process. The most important thing is to let | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
teachers get on and teach and the students we need to focus on in | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
particular those middle -- middle ability and lower ability students | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
who are easily neglected and by focusing on the top end we neglect | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
them either further. Students have spent two years getting used to the | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
changes but the next big challenges explaining it to employers who | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
recruit 16-year-olds for apprenticeships. At this hairdresser | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
they'd take on several 16-year-old apprentices each year but the owner | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
isn't sure how he'll be up to work out who has the best qualifications. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
I'm going to be slightly confused, but over a period of time we'll work | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
it out. A standard pass, I think that would be our borderline, a | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
four, definitely. It's not just pupils in England who's been picking | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
up results. Welsh students have also been finding out how they fared in | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
new tougher exams. Ministers are determined to make GCSEs harder, to | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
end what some see as dumbing down. This year's results, the first of | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
the reformed exams, are putting those ambitions to the test as well. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
Just to illustrate how hard is to get that top grade nine, we've been | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
told, bearing in mind 600,016 -year-olds sit these exams each | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
year, we've been told only 2000 of them have got that top grade nine in | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
English language, English literature and mathematics, the three reformed | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
examines in England -- bearing in mind 600,000 16-year-olds it these | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
exams. It shows how difficult it is to get that top grade, to | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
distinguish the ultra-right from the very bright. Gillian Hargreaves. | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
The widower of the woman who was killed by a cyclist | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
using a fixed gear bike, without front brakes, is launching | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Yesterday 20-year-old Charlie Alliston was convicted | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
of wanton and furious driving, an offence dating back to 1861, | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
but was cleared of manslaughter, following the death of Kim Briggs. | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Her husband, Matthew, is calling for the creation of new offences, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
He's been speaking to our correspondent, Dan Johnson. | :13:32. | :13:43. | |
She had this mantra of make everyday count. Enormous believer in filling | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
life with experiences, with travel. She was always happy, always willing | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
to help people, always willing to lend an ear. Yeah, she was just | :13:59. | :14:07. | |
fantastic. Kim Riggs, a wife and a mother who was hit by a bike. -- Kim | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
Briggs. She suffered serious head injuries and died a week later. That | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
bike should never have been on the road. It was designed for the | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
velodrome. Fixed gear and with no front brake. Riding it was Charlie | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Alliston, in the middle. Cleared yesterday of manslaughter, but | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
convicted under a law from Victorian times of causing bodily harm by | :14:29. | :14:36. | |
wanton or furious driving. Kim Briggs' family welcomed the verdict | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
but they are calling for the law to be changed. More and more people | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
cycling which is a really good thing, but the law is outdated. It | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
refers back to 1861 and I'm just asking that the law catches up, as | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
it is doing with technology, with social media, with all of these | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
things. I'm just asking that the law catches up. This case raises some | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
broader issues about how cyclists and pedestrians share the same space | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
but the key question is how much responsibility should cyclists have | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
for safety on the road. Should that responsibility be at the same level | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
of car drivers rush to mark questions that have prompted plenty | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
of debate. Especially amongst cyclists. You regularly see bikes | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
that are not fit for the road basically and shouldn't be out on | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
the road, bikes with three wheels that have brakes that don't work, | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
that are more dangerous than a fixed wheel without brakes. Especially now | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
pedestrians have a phone with them, on the head, they are looking up the | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
phone, so they are really distracted. A response ability to | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
travel on the roads someone's causing date -- death by dangerous | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
cycling, why should it be different from causing death by dangerous | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
driving? Cycling groups aren't opposed to a review but there are | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
calls for all traffic laws to be brought up to date. The problem we | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
have got is there's a stack of offences in relation to the conduct | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
of people on the roads, where we use careless, reckless, furious, wanton, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
dangerous, and there's a huge inconsistency of peoples perception | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
of what these are, what the consequence should be, and the whole | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
issue needs to be looked at in a holistic review of all matters. I'm | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
doing this to honour her. It's not an easy thing to do, to put myself | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
out there when we've been quite a private family up until now, but it | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
comes back to my earlier point that sometimes you have to just do the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
right thing and it occurs to me that this is the right thing to do and | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
yes, I'm doing it in Kim's name, but I'm also doing it to ensure that | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
just perhaps we can stop this happening again. Our streets are | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
getting busier, with the potential for more conflict. It's a not easily | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
solved. Dan Johnson, BBC News, London. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Dutch police have made a second arrest, after a rock concert | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
in Rotterdam was cancelled because of an alert | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
The arrest follows the detention of a Spanish man who was found | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
with gas canisters in his van in Rotterdam. | :17:18. | :17:18. | |
The authorities had been warned about a potential risk - | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
though it's not clear whether there is any link | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
to the attacks in Catalonia last week that killed 15 people. | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
The focus of the police investigation has now shifted from | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
this concert venue in Rotterdam to a house in a region close to the | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Belgian border. Early this morning they detained a 22-year-old man and | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
searched his home. He is now being questioned on suspicion of having | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
links to this tip-off received from the Spanish police that the gig | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
performed by the American rock group Allah-Las may be the target of a | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
terror attack. We have been speaking to the police here in Rotterdam. | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
They said they cleared of any immediately as a precaution. We | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
asked whether the public was ever in any danger, they said it was too | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
soon to say. That was not the subject of the investigation. The | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
Allah-Las are an American rock group. They have talked in the past | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
about receiving messages of concern from Muslims who don't like the use | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
of the word Allah, the Arabic word for God, in the title of the band. | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
As far as the Spanish van driver who was detained close to the venue last | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
night, he is now being questioned on suspicion of drunk driving. He is | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
not suspected of having any links to the possible terror attack at the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
music venue on the banks of the river in Rotterdam. The police have | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
said that the fact that he acted so swiftly is because they were not | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
prepared to take any chances. Anna holiday Inn in Rotterdam. | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
Net migration to the UK for spot a quarter to its lowest level for | :19:02. | :19:14. | |
three years as migrants from European and central European | :19:15. | :19:14. | |
countries have been returning home. He's the boxer of his | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
generation facing the mixed We're in Las Vegas for the big | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
contest this weeekend. In sport, after breaking | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
his collarbone at last month's Tour de France, | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
Team Sky's Geraint Thomas is back. He'll be taking on the Tour | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
of Britain in September, which starts in Edinburgh | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
and finishes in Cardiff. Six million adults in England | :19:35. | :19:47. | |
fail to have a brisk 10 That's a finding from | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
Public Health England which has launched a campaign to encourage | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
the practice, particularly among people who are middle aged - | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
the public health body says walking can help prevent cancer, heart | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
disease and poor mental health. Our Health Correspondent | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
Dominic Hughes reports. In Denton, in Manchester, the first | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
steps towards a healthier lifestyle. This walking group is starting | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
slowly but already some members are feeling the benefits | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
of a regular stroll. It's got me out, it's got me | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
getting some exercise. And it's company as well | :20:22. | :20:33. | |
because I live on my own This is week two | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
for me, I'm a newbie. And I decided when I retired that | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
I wanted to do lots of different And I've done lots of things to keep | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
the mind going but not a lot to keep The beauty of walking is, | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
of course, it's free. You don't need any special training | :20:52. | :21:00. | |
or indeed any special kit. But health experts say doing just | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
ten minutes of brisk walking every day, well, that can have | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
a really positive impact on your Compared to the 1960s, | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
we are now 20% less active. And each year we walk 15 miles less | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
than we did just two Physical inactivity amongst adults | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
contributes to one in It is estimated to cost | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the NHS nearly ?1 But a brisk walk of just ten | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
minutes each day can reduce GP Doctor Zoe Williams | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
advises her patients that it's walking at a good pace, | :21:31. | :21:38. | |
around three miles an hour that Practising what she preaches, | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
she uses a smartphone app But according to a | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Public Health England survey of our exercise habits, | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
millions of adults are missing out. Four in ten adults between the ages | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
of 40 and 60 are not managing to achieve ten minutes | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
of brisk walking per month. Lots of those people will be | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
walking, but they are not And it's important to | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
walk briskly because that's when you start to get | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
the health benefits. But for many of us it's finding | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the time in an already busy I drive to work and it is timing | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
really, trying to find the time. Generally I would rather drive than | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
walk because I need to get there in a hurry. So generally not, no. Not | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
every day, we probably do about one and a half miles twice a day and | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
about one mile in the middle of that. You can always make time. One | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
less cake, one more walk! conditions like diabetes, and even | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
reducing the risk of cancer. Now we are all being | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
urged to get up and Shares in Dixons Carphone have | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
slumped by almost a quarter, after the company issued | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
a profits warning. It says sales of mobile | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
handsets have fallen - partly because of the fall | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
in the pound since the EU referendum, making | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
devices more expensive. It says lower EU roaming charges | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
will also affect its profits. Our Technology Correspondent Rory | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
Cellan Jones is here. A couple of reasons given there, | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
what is the overall picture, what is really going on, Rory? What is | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
really concerning Dixons carphone and the rest of the mobile market is | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
we seeing a change in consumer behaviour. The chief executive said | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
to me today, the concern is that instead of changing phones every two | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
years people may change the firms every two and a half years and | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
believe it or not that leaves a big gap in profits. Here's the problem, | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
all these funds look incredibly similar so people look at them and | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
say they are all very good, they all do the same, and they all incredibly | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
expensive. Maybe I will hold off a bit longer. We saw a phone from | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
Samsung this week that costs ?869 as a starting price. So people are | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
being more cautious. A lot of hope is being pinned on the new Apple | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
iPhone which we are expecting in late September. There are rumours | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
that could cost up to ?1000. People are saying, yes, we love our phones | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
and need them but do we need to upgrade so often when they already | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
do just about everything we want them to? Goodness, that's quite a | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
sum. Rory Catherine Jones, thank you. Dot-mac Rory Catherine Jones | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
thank you. Thousands of civilians in the Syrian | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
city of Raqqa are coming under fire from all sides, | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
as the battle for control Amnesty International says hundreds | :24:46. | :24:47. | |
of people have been killed or injured since June, | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
when the offensive began to recapture Raqqa, | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
which is the stronghold of so-called Our Chief International | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
correspondent Lyse Doucet Lyse, let's talk first about Raqqa | :24:56. | :25:08. | |
and a deeply disturbing picture for any civilians caught up there. This | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
Amnesty report is heartbreaking and chilling. It is set in the context | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
of the last, what is believed to be the final months, the final battles | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
to destroy the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State here in Syria. | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
In Raqqa, the city you just mentioned in northern Syria, it was | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
their self-declared capital. And as the war intensifies right into the | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
centre of Raqqa into heavily populated neighbourhoods civilians | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
are trapped into what Amnesty calls this deadly labyrinth. Every | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
direction they turn come under fire, whether snipers and booby traps from | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Isis which doesn't want civilians to leave or when they do escape they | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
are coming under fire from US led coalition air strikes which have | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
killed hundreds of civilians in recent months. So this Amnesty | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
report is a cry for compassion but also for protection, even in wartime | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
there are rules, and the rules of war are being absolutely shattered, | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
day in, day out, here. Tell us more about the situation in Homs where | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
you are. Viewers may remember Homs from the early years of the uprising | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
in Syria the city the capital of their revolution. Homs saw some of | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
the first peaceful protests against the rule of President Bashir | :26:31. | :26:32. | |
al-Assad and also saw some of the worst of the fighting. Now Homs is a | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
quiet city. There are corners where you could be forgiven for thinking | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
that there is no war. Swimming pools full of children on summer break, | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
splashing in the water. Cafes are full. Families going out, sitting | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
and parks. But behind me, you may not see the details but this is a | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
skyline of a city that has been torn apart. There are neighbourhoods in | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Homs where not a single building has been left standing. These are like | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
scenes from the first and second world Wars. Although Homs is, it is | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
still a city which has deep, deep wounds which will take a very long | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
time to heal. Dot-mac although Homs is calm. Lyse, thank you. Least is | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
set - Lyse Doucet in Homs. It's one of the most highly | :27:22. | :27:33. | |
anticipated boxing contests of recent times but one | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
of the fighters hasn't boxed This weekend in Las Vegas the Irish | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
mixed martial arts champion, Conor McGregor, will face | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
Floyd Mayweather, who is undefeated in 49 fights, and is seen by many | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
as the boxer of his generation. Our Sports News Correspondent | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
Richard Conway was at their last It's set to be the richest ever | :27:48. | :27:49. | |
contest in boxing history. Fight Night is fast | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
approaching, but the sport's purists are not hailing | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
the prospects of this match-up. Despite that, in a city | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
that is full of stars, Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor | :28:04. | :28:06. | |
are the biggest names on the famous Las Vegas | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
strip this week. After a controversial build up, | :28:09. | :28:10. | |
there was a surprising lack of fear and loathing during the bout's | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
final press conference. Conor McGregor has had | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
still got a hell of a career, he is a hell of a fighter. | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
He is a stand-up guy, he is a tough competitor, it's not going | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
to be an easy fight - it's going to be blood, | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
That's is what we're here to give the fans and that's what what people | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
Last month's publicity tour which culminated in London, | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
was a very different affair - with homophobic | :28:42. | :28:43. | |
slurs, accusations of racism and childish antics. | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
Of course there have been slip-ups, we are only | :28:50. | :28:51. | |
human and when you face a man you're about to fight, it is very hard to | :28:52. | :29:00. | |
keep everything in check, you make mistakes, you slip up on the tongue. | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
But I think the overall experience of it has been great for boxing, | :29:04. | :29:06. | |
for mixed martial arts and for combat sport | :29:07. | :29:08. | |
Few experts give Conor McGregor any chance of | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
victory, but he insists he is ready to shock the world and one | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
If indeed McGregor boxes him and tries to be clever in there, | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
To me, Mayweather cannot lose the fight. | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
But if he brings that Celtic warrior, that | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
spirit which is irrepressible, and brings this into | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
a fight, if he makes a fight, an ugly fight of this, | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
everything and anything could happen. | :29:37. | :29:41. | |
This contest is unashamedly money-motivated, with sporting | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
Given that, the reputations of both men and that of boxing | :29:45. | :29:56. | |
We have the North West South East is red, low pressure in the West, it | :29:57. | :30:14. | |
will stay there for the next few days, greater chance of showers and | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
more persistent rain, the further north and west you are, the further | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
south and east, drier, brighter weather, we've seen blue skies, this | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
photo was sent in by one weather watcher in Hampshire. Further north | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
we have seen more in the way of cloud. A fairly grey scenes sent in | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
from Cumbria. We've seen a few showers this morning pushing into | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
Wales and the south-west. They should tend to ease, the best of the | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
brightness that the south-east and weaves in the majority of those | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
showers for Northern Ireland. As we move through the rest of the | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
day-to-day will continue to see showers Northern Ireland. Some sunny | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
spells in the mix and outbreaks of rain across Shetland but for eastern | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
Scotland the best of the brightness, a few heavy showers possible, and | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
for more than England some showers, starting to bite and in the | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
afternoon as we head further south Wales and the south-west plenty of | :31:06. | :31:09. | |
dry weather, just the chance of the odd isolated shower but I think the | :31:10. | :31:13. | |
majority of the weather will be dry. As we had further to the Southeast | :31:14. | :31:19. | |
Tonbridge is reaching a maximum of 22 Celsius, fresher than yesterday | :31:20. | :31:23. | |
but feeling warm in the sunshine. This evening and overnight some | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
outbreaks of rain of Northern Ireland, West of Scotland | :31:27. | :31:42. | |
and the West of England but for much of England and Wales, dry with clear | :31:43. | :31:46. | |
spells, temperatures falling overnight to between 11 and 14 | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow, low pressure setting out to the north-west and | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
we'll continue to see outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland and | :31:51. | :31:52. | |
pushing into Scotland. As we go further south across England and | :31:53. | :31:55. | |
Wales a lot of dry bright weather with sunny spells developing, | :31:56. | :31:57. | |
temperatures reaching a maximum of 25 Celsius, so much warmer than | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
today. As we move into Friday night, will start to see that rain edging | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
eastwards, towards the south and east but it will be largely dry the | :32:06. | :32:09. | |
further south you are, just the jobs of the odd isolated shower. We'll | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
see a real contrast in damages further north, a few spots getting | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
down to seven Celsius in rural parts of Scotland. We could see an | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
overnight low of up to 18 Celsius in the far south-east. As we start the | :32:24. | :32:28. | |
weekend, still that north- south split, some showers across Scotland, | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
it looks like it will be largely dry for the Southeast, some temperatures | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
reaching 25 Celsius, those showers could spread further south into the | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
Midlands through Sunday, as isobars squeezing together as we move into | :32:43. | :32:45. | |
Monday, the next area of low pressure pushing Enzo as we begin | :32:46. | :32:50. | |
the working week it looks like they will be some outbreaks of rain and | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
it will be fairly breezy but it looks like the best of the dry | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
weather will be the further south you are with some bright intervals | :32:58. | :33:02. | |
around. So as we move into the black holiday weekend the best of the | :33:03. | :33:04. | |
brightness definitely the further south and east you are. | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
A reminder of our main story this lunchtime. | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
Net migration to the UK has fallen by a quarter and is at its lowest | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
level for three years as migrants from Eastern and Central European | :33:20. | :33:20. | |
countries have been returning home. That's all from the BBC News at One, | :33:21. | :33:22. | |
so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
news teams where you are. | :33:26. | :33:27. |