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The number of migrants reaching Europe illegally rises dramatically. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
More than 40,000 have made the journey, | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The authorities struggle to cope with the numbers who try to cross | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
We need even more body bag for the number of migrants they are | :00:17. | :00:30. | |
retrieving from the sea. We have a special report | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
following one group trying to make the dangerous journey | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
from Libya to Europe. The new head of NHS England | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
calls for more elderly people to A shocking rape and murder | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
of two teenage girls in a village in A thumbs up from the thousands | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
at the funeral of teenage And a peek inside England's | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
World Cup hotel in Brazil. The closure of two A | :00:57. | :01:10. | |
in west London. Campaigners say lives could be | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
at risk And a Haringey doctor struck | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
off after offering to arrange Good evening and welcome to the BBC | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
News at Six. There's been a big rise in number | :01:19. | :01:42. | |
of migrants reaching Europe illegally, many taking treacherous | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
sea routes from North Africa, risking their lives in makeshift | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
boats in the hope of a better life. In the first four months | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
of this year, more than 40,000 The total so far is more than | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
the equivalent period in 2011, which was the highest year | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
in a decade, when 140,000 people Our correspondent Quentin | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Sommerville followed one group being smuggled out of Libya and sent this | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
report from the city of Misrata. In an isolated Libyan jail, a | :02:08. | :02:25. | |
doorway opens into gloom and human misery. Nearly 400 men, illegal | :02:26. | :02:37. | |
immigrant from across Africa and beyond. There is barely room to sit, | :02:38. | :02:53. | |
never mind sleep. They are sick and hungry. Most were trying to get to | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Europe. Did you pay men, smugglers to try to get you to Europe? Of | :03:01. | :03:12. | |
course. Of course. We paid more than $1600 from Khartoum to Libya. On the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
floor, we found a man with bullet wounds. He would not say who had | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
shot him. This is the moment when some of those in the jail were | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
captured. The armed Coast Guard found them. They had been heading to | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Italy but their engine cut out after four hours. They have been drifting | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
for two days. There are water and food had run out. It was pure luck | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
that the Coast Guard found them. Colonel Reda Essa commanded the | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
rescue. He says this is Europe's problem, as much as Libya's. | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
TRANSLATION: We applied to the EU to buy boats and helicopters for search | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
and rescue operations that we have not received anything. I think the | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
EU countries, especially Italy, are not serious about fighting illegal | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
immigration. On the open sea, it is the people smugglers, not the Coast | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
Guard, who have the advantage. Libya's problem is that it has only | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
eight of these boats to patrol 1200 miles of coastline, not nearly | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
enough, according to the Navy. They say they need more night-vision | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
goggles, and even more body bag is for the number of dead migrants they | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
are retrieving from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. We are taken | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
inside Misrata's for -- morgue. It is so full of the bodies of | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
migrants, he tells me, he had to jam the doors closed. Once, there were | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
only three each year. Now, it is eight each week. The men crossing | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
into Libya know that they are not welcome, but the promise of jobs and | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
money in Europe, they say, is better than what they leave behind. Here, | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
on our last day in Misrata, a truck is found with a false compartment. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Inside, barely able to breathe, 24 men. One carries a single | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
possession, a Bible. These men have risked everything to get this far. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Without action, Libya warns, more and more will follow. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
Our world affairs correspondent Paul Adams is here. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
We saw people coming from Libya but what are the other routes that | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
The route you heard Quentin talking about there is what the | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
European Border Agency calls the Central Mediterranean Route, | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
much the largest, according to the latest figures. | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
But if you include the other routes into Europe, and this map shows a | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
couple - the Western Mediterranean Route, which brings migrants from | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
west Africa into Spain, and the Eastern Route, which comes in from | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
the Middle East and Asia - then we estimate that the total figure | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
As for who they are, I was with migrants in Calais this | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
week and it was obvious that they come from far and wide. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Lots of refugees from Syria, of course. | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
But also migrants from West Africa, from all across the sub-Saharan | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
countries and on into the Horn of Africa, particularly Eritrea. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
Lots, too, from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
Of course, the main migration routes bring them into some of | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
the most economically stretched EU members - Spain, Italy and Greece. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Some stay, others move on, drawn by the promise of better job | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
But as anyone who has been to Calais will tell you, that's another really | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
The new Chief Executive of NHS England, has signalled | :06:46. | :06:57. | |
a shift in policy, saying smaller community hospitals should play an | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
important role in providing care, especially for older patients. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
In an interview, Simon Stevens said the NHS must end "mass | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
centralisation" of services, and that too many patients are being | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
robbed of "dignity and compassion" because of a lack of local care. | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Here's our health correspondent Branwen Jeffreys. | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
Good afternoon. Dressed and ready to go home from hospital. At 85, John | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
Young is a regular patient, with different health problems. He tried | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
going further afield, but he prefers his small, local hospital. It is | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
easy to get to and his family can visit. The NHS should concentrate | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
more on local hospitals, rather than vast spaces. I know you have to have | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
the big hospitals for specialist treatment. But if you go to the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
local one and they decide you have two have specialist treatment, and | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
of course you don't always need it. And now, the new boss of the NHS in | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
England says that he agrees. He wants to see smaller hospitals | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
reinventing themselves. What does here know they will need to work | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
more closely with their patients' GPs. The vast majority of patients, | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
particularly elderly patients, will have their needs best met in a local | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
hospital, such as ours, or in an even more community setting. In | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
recent years, the story of local hospitals has been one of decline, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
of services being stripped out or downgraded. Now the NHS is sending a | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
message from the very top, that they do have a valuable role in the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
future. Many communities have taken to the street to campaign against | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
the loss of Accident Emergency or maternity care. Some controversial | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
changes will still go ahead, and each time a hospital loses a | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
service, it loses the money. So, to avoid going bust, they would have to | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
expand into other types of care. These hospitals would have to look | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
hard at where they get their money from. The income they receive for | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
treating particularly older patients will certainly have two increase to | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
make them financially viable. Time for John Young to leave the hospital | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
ward. I will be home soon. It won't be long now. He lives just a few | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
miles away and, like many older patients, he wants the NHS to | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
provide care close to his home. There has been outrage in India | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
after two teenage girls were found hanged from a tree | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
after having been gang raped.The family of the girls say | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
the police laughed at them when they asked for help and ridiculed them | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
for being of a low caste. The girls lived | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
in a remote village in the northern Divya Arya's report | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
from the scene contains disturbing It was a heart-wrenching scene. Two | :09:48. | :10:06. | |
teenage cousins, aged 14 and 16, were found dead, their bodies | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
hanging from this mango tree. A postmortem confirmed they had been | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
gang raped. TRANSLATION: We were ready to go to | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
the police station and the police officer came to me and said, the | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
girls hanging from a tree. Relatives have complained that police refused | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
help find the girls, who were from a lower caste. One policeman has now | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
been arrested for conspiring with the suspects, and one has been | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
sacked. TRANSLATION: Whatever happened, it | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
was very wrong. It is a very serious issue. We will take the strictest | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
action against the culprits. The gang raped and murder of a student | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
on a Delhi bus in 2012 prompted the government to tighten the laws on | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
sexual violence, but the issue has fallen off the agenda since, with | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
the latest figures showing the number of reported rapes has almost | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
doubled. Today, students took to the streets in protest at the gruesome | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
murder of the women. The bodies of the two young women have been | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
brought down from this tree, but the brutal violence that unfolded here | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
has again brought the issue of violent crimes against women in | :11:30. | :11:30. | |
India under the spotlight. The villagers here hope that the global | :11:31. | :11:31. | |
media attention will help them in their fight for justice. | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
There's further pressure on the Liberal Democrat leader, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Nick Clegg, to re-admit Lord Rennard to the party, following | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
his apology to four women who accused him of sexual harassment. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Lord Steel, a former Lib Dem leader says the | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
In the apology by Lord Rennard, the party's former chief executive, he | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
accepts he may have inadvertently encroached on the women's personal | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
space and expresses regret for any harm or embarrassment. | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
More than 11,000 well-wishers have paid their respects at a vigil | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
at Lichfield Cathedral for the teenager Stephen Sutton who | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Over ?4 million has now been raised by his campaign for the | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
This morning, thousands of supporters also flooded | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
social media sites with messages celebrating his life. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
The teenager was buried at a private family funeral this afternoon. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
From Lichfield, Robert Hall sent this report. | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
Against a soul on sky, the colour of spring and of sunshine, the colour | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
which has come to represent the life and spirit of one young man. Beneath | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
the towers of Lichfield's ancient cathedral, patient feet shuffled | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
slowly forward. Hands clutched, poses and photographs. Faces turned | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
towards the gloom beyond the great West door and the white coffin | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
within its circle of golden flowers. He was like Staffordshire's ray of | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
sunshine. He has changed so many lives. When he realised he had an | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
illness, he did not care about himself, he cared about others. That | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
is the most important thing we can think of. I am working to be a nurse | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
and I work with a lot of patients who are dealing with cancer, so it | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
is nice to pass on his story and help them get through it. A day | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
which could have been dark has been lit up by smiles. At 11 a.m., as the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
last chime echoed across the city, the Pilgrims held a mirror to | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
Stephen Post carriage, optimism and generosity. Around the world, a | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
thunderclap response. Thumbs held high. Individuals, workplaces and | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
communities sharing the moment. This afternoon, two days of vigil drew to | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
a close, Stephen's family sharing the final minutes with the visitors | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
who had reached out to them. It has been a massive demonstration of | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
love. They sang, as they recalled the images which summed up a | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
teenager's determination to reach his personal goals against the odds. | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
This has been a day of farewells, but it has also been a day of | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
celebration, because Stephen Sutton would live on in the memories of his | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
family and friends, through the inspiration he gave to so many | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
others, and through the money he raised, over ?4 million, to help to | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
fight the disease which cut his own life so short. The story of Stephen | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
Sutton is not yet over. number of migrants trying to get to | :14:55. | :15:10. | |
Europe illegally. More than 40,000 have made the | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
journey so far this year. Coming up, I'm at Wembley where | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
England take on Theroux in their last home match before the World Cup | :15:20. | :15:20. | |
in Brazil. Later on BBC London: | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
Heading for court - the promising tennis star accusing | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
the game's governing body of racial discrimination. | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
And we meet the families who've come-up with a solution to beat | :15:31. | :15:31. | |
the city's soaring house prices. Police in Newcastle are carrying out | :15:32. | :15:46. | |
what's thought to be one of the UK's largest-ever investigations | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
into the sexual abuse of girls and vulnerable women. | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
Operation Sanctuary has already led to 91 arrests over | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
the last five months. So far 14 men have been charged | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
and some 80 possible victims have so far been identified. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Jeremy Cooke has spent the day with the only charity in the area working | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
with young people at risk . None of the young people | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
in his report are linked to the on-going investigation. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
The night-time landscape of 21st century Britain. | :16:12. | :16:21. | |
If you're young, vulnerable and maybe alone, | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
this could be dangerous ground. In the Newcastle area, | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
after a series of complaints, police launched Operation Sanctury. | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Since January, there have been dozens of arrests. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Those working to help children face a huge challenge. | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
There are adults in the city who will try to lure | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
vulnerable young people to addresses in the city where really horrible | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
things will take place. Young people will often be plied | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
with alcohol or drugs and then exploited and abused | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
by those adults. Often those most | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
at risk are runaways, away from home and in danger. | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
Girls like Amanda. My mam didn't want me. | :16:56. | :17:11. | |
I kind of started drinking at 11 years old and I was getting | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
into all sorts of drugs. You need somebody close | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
to you to talk to. Er... | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
If they're not there to talk to, you do end up doing stupid things | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
and seeking love from other places. Did you think at | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
the time that it was love? Yeah, at the time I did. | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
We get a rare glimpse of young people who've come through a process | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
which builds trust and confidence. The risks are going missing | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
and getting sexually exploited. As former runaways, they know all | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
about the dangers out there and the value of this - group support - and | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
volunteering to help others at risk. If it can be a hostile environment, | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
the streets and estates are where we find practical help. | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
The first task is to locate those most at risk. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
So I guess you must knock on a lot of doors, right? | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Yeah, we do. We do a lot of return interviews for | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
young people that have gone missing. We're with Danielle, out | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
door-knocking to make first contact with runaways who've returned home. | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
It can be a critical moment. If they can be reached, they may | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
be saved from sexual abuse. It is all confidential stuff | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
and this is as far as we're going. But it's also crucial to understand | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
where young people have been, what they've been doing | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
and who they've been with. We have a significant population | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
of children who are in care. We've got levels | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
of childhood poverty, we've got mixed demographics, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
we've got a night-time economy and we've got the city centre. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
And I would say if you've got those ingredients, there is | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
a real chance that you are going to get pockets of sexual exploitation. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
It's a real worry. Clearly, then, | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
the challenges remain huge. Nobody here is saying that this is | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
about a single organised gang preying on children | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
and vulnerable women, but rather pockets of abuse across the region. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
The ongoing police operation has led to 91 arrests - and counting. | :19:02. | :19:11. | |
Jeremy Cooke, BBC News, Newcastle. Part of a hotel | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
in Londonderry has been badly damaged by a firebomb which went | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
off while an Army bomb disposal team were trying to defuse it. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
The device was thrown into the reception area of the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
Everglades Hotel late last night. Police say quick thinking by hotel | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
staff helped prevented a tragedy. Guests have been taken to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
other hotels in the city. A key commitment made | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
by the Government, after abuse of the mentally ill in care homes was | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
exposed by the BBC, is to be missed. Health officials promised that | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
people with learning disabilities living in units sometimes hundreds | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
of miles from home should be moved back to their local communities - | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
where abuse would be more likely to be picked up on. | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
The deadline is this Sunday but, as our social affairs correspondent | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
Michael Buchanan reports, the situation is actually getting worse. | :19:52. | :20:02. | |
An everyday moment for a child whose life is far from commonplace. | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
Josh Wills suffers from autism. His arms need restraining to | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
prevent him from self-harming. After his condition worsened, | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
he was sent to an inpatient unit in Birmingham, 260 miles | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
from his home in Cornwall. The 13-year-old was meant | :20:15. | :20:16. | |
to stay for six months. So far, he's been there a year | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
and a half as there's no suitable support him closer to home. | :20:21. | :20:28. | |
-- support for him. His father can only visit him once | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
a fortnight. Sometimes I think... | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
"Am I going to see Josh again?". But he keeps soldiering on. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
He keeps fighting on. He's fighting the demons that are | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
making him do whatever he is doing. What happened at Winterbourne View | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
prompted much change in the care system but | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
a key deadline will be missed - a commitment by ministers, NHS England | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
and councils to move residents from these far-off units closer to | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
their homes by this Sunday. A census carried out last September | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
revealed that 3250 people with learning disabilities were living | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
in inpatient units across England. Rather than fall, over the last six | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
months the figures have increased. 90% of all inpatients have not been | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
given a date when they'll be discharged. | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
Ministers are appalled. There's very little change and | :21:23. | :21:24. | |
for me, essentially, it's been business as usual. | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
And what I find deeply distressing is that a significant number | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
of national organisations came together to commit to change. | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
A change that I think there is a moral imperative to deliver, | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
and yet it hasn't happened. This clinic in Ealing in West London | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
is unique. Services here are specifically | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
focused on keeping young people with disabilities out of inpatient units. | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Charities say the reason such good care isn't more | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
widely available - to children and adults - is simply due to a lack | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
of will to change the system. It is an absolute lack | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
of leadership by the Government. It is not about money. | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
We know that these services could be provided much more economically | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
in the community. So for us, the Royal Mencap Society, | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
it's a lack of leadership. It's a story about your brother. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
For the families are struggling to cope, the broken promise | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
just adds to their woes. But with no new deadline being | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
announced, many fear that their loved ones will simply be forgotten. | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Michael Buchanan, BBC News. The former England cricket captain | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
Andrew Flintoff says he's returning to the game | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
after a five-year absence. Lancashire say | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
the 36-year-old will play in this season's T20 tournament. | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
Away from cricket, Flintoff took up boxing - fighting and winning | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
his debut bout as a professional heavyweight 18 months ago. | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Flintoff hopes to make his return in a home match against Yorkshire | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
next Friday. England play Peru tonight at Wembley | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
in their last game before flying out to prepare | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
for the World Cup in Brazil. In a moment we'll be at Wembley | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
for the latest ahead of tonight's match but first Wyre Davies reports | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
from Rio - where the FA's choice of base for the team has raised a few | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
eyebrows with its proximity to one of the city's biggest favelas, | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
the site of recent shoot-outs between police and drugs gangs. | :23:13. | :23:22. | |
Drugs gangs and police shooting it out in broad | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
daylight earlier this year. Children and shoppers ran for cover. | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
This is Rocinha, Rio's biggest favela, or shantytown. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Within sight of England's World Cup hotel, Rocinha is home to 100,000 | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
people and despite the recent upsurge in drugs violence, | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
the local police chief says it's one of Rio's safest favelas. | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
TRANSLATION: The proximity of the hotel to | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
Rocinha will not be a problem. This is a marvellous place and | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
the players will like it very much. The problems we have in Rocinha | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
are reserved within the community. They never spread outside. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
Last year, the England team stayed in the heart | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
of Rio, right on Copacabana Beach. There will be a very different | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
atmosphere at their World Cup base to the south of the city. | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
The hotel here is modest. Multi-million pound footballers | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
might expect more luxurious surroundings | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
if they're to be here for a month. On the face of it, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
this seems a pretty sensible location but this happens to be one | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
of the dirtiest beaches in Rio. Traffic chaos means it takes ages to | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
get from here to the city centre and England's training camp beyond. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
At least Roy Hodgson's squad will have few complaints | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
about those training facilities. A secure army base under | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
Sugarloaf Mountain, a private beach and a newly laid pitch, well away | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
from the prying eyes of the press. Increasing rates of low-level crime | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
here won't concern players as much as fans but there's a big | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
police presence in tourist areas. When you're out and about, | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
take care of your belongings. A Foreign Office video | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
also emphasises the need to be vigilant at all times. | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
In this stunning city, the biggest challenge for England players will | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
be avoiding boredom between matches. There are other ways for Messrs | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Rooney and Gerrard to return to their hotel after training but team | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
management might not approve! Wyre Davies, BBC News, | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
Rio de Janeiro. Well, that's the hotel, so what's | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
the mood in the England camp? Natalie Pirks is at Wembley | :25:35. | :25:35. | |
for tonight's game against Peru. Well, in truth, it's karma and seems | :25:36. | :25:45. | |
a lot happier than it was four years ago. In stark grant us to that hotel | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
we just saw, their one in 2010 was described as a golden cage. They got | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
very bored very quickly and we all know what happened at that World | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
Cup. There is no talk of golden generation is this time, just | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
younger generation. The FA are hoping a more laid-back approach | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
will perhaps help them do better. Relaxed is a banned word by Roy | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Hodgson, who prefers focused. The focus tonight is on a game that has | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
been hand-picked to give them a flavour of South American | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
opposition. In truth, per rule are not up to the standard of you grow | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
so they will be hoping this will be a victorious sendoff in front of a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
sell-out crowd. Roy Hodgson has hinted of a sell-out crowd so we | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
might get an insight into what he's thinking ahead of the Italy game, | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
just two weeks tomorrow. Time for the weather. The stats are | :26:37. | :26:51. | |
virtually in for May. It looks like being the third warmest on record | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
but particularly dull in Northern Ireland, the dullest May on record. | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
It is pretty dull across parts of Northern Ireland today and it was | :27:01. | :27:03. | |
across other parts of the UK, as well. The best of the sunshine | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
across the coastal fringe and in Scotland, where it has been a | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
glorious day for the most part after a very chilly start with a touch of | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
frost. Under clear skies across Scotland tonight, we could see | :27:16. | :27:17. | |
temperatures close to freezing. Quite cool as well. For most of us | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
with a lot of cloud, temperatures will hold up and any showers across | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
the far south-west should fade away. Tomorrow starts on a dry note | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
virtually nationwide and we should stay that way. Some sunshine early | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
on across East Anglia and the south-east and Scotland should fare | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
pretty well. Some coastal areas of England and Wales should see | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
sunshine. Some showers across parts of the south-west of England Wales, | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
and temperatures about a degree or so higher than today. On into | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Sunday, it looks as if the threat of rain across the far north-west won't | :28:00. | :28:03. | |
be there until late on in the day. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
reasonable weather. For England and Wales, some sunshine to look forward | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
to and temperatures edging up into the low 20s in a good few places. | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
Enjoyed it because this is a snapshot for next week with low | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
pressure on top of us so plenty of rain around as we look into the | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
early days of June. Very unsettled with some wet weather at times. It | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
will feel cool. A reminder of our main story tonight: There has been a | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
big rise in the butt of migrants getting to Europe illegally. More | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
than 40,000 have made the journey so far this year. -- the number | :28:44. | :28:44. |