:00:00. > :00:08.Another Iraqi city falls into the hands of Islamist militants
:00:09. > :00:14.- as they continue their advance towards the capital, Baghdad.
:00:15. > :00:20.They've taken control of Tikrit - just two days after attacking Mosul
:00:21. > :00:24.- the country's second biggest city. Hundreds of thousands have fled from
:00:25. > :00:26.their homes as the militants threaten new areas.
:00:27. > :00:30.There's tens of thousands of these guys and they now have a territory.
:00:31. > :00:33.They control territory, they control border crossing points, they control
:00:34. > :00:37.We'll be live in Iraq with the very latest.
:00:38. > :00:42.A record rise in the number of people in work brings unemployment
:00:43. > :00:44.down to its lowest level for five years.
:00:45. > :00:47.Passports under pressure - extra staff drafted in to try to
:00:48. > :00:50.clear a backlog of applications which have hit a 12-year high.
:00:51. > :00:53.The Harry Potter creator - JK Rowling - conjures up ?1 million
:00:54. > :00:56.to help the campaign against Scottish independence.
:00:57. > :00:59.Gridlock in London and other European cities as taxi drivers
:01:00. > :01:06.protest about a new smartphone app they say is damaging business.
:01:07. > :01:09.On BBC London: We reveal the secret report on widespread police
:01:10. > :01:12.corruption that Scotland Yard have refused to publish.
:01:13. > :01:16.The Home Secretary is to decide whether to approve the use of water
:01:17. > :01:36.cannon only after considering the safety issues.
:01:37. > :01:42.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Islamist militants in
:01:43. > :01:47.Iraq have attacked and gained control of another major city.
:01:48. > :01:51.Tikrit, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, fell into their hands this
:01:52. > :01:55.afternoon just two days after they took Mosul, the country's second
:01:56. > :02:00.biggest city. Iraq's Prime Minister has urged civilians to arm
:02:01. > :02:03.themselves and fightback. At least 500,000 refugees are believed to
:02:04. > :02:10.have fled as the militants get closer to Baghdad. James Robbins
:02:11. > :02:14.reports. Latest pictures from the road
:02:15. > :02:20.towards Tikrit, suggest more heavy fighting. The Islamist militants
:02:21. > :02:27.overwhelm Iraqi government forces once again. Reports suggest the
:02:28. > :02:31.Sunni fighters have taken Tikrit, birthplace of Saddam Hussein, now
:02:32. > :02:38.they apparently control another city soon after seizing Mosul. Iraq's
:02:39. > :02:44.second city Mosul is still emptying out. The country risks breaking
:02:45. > :02:49.apart. These are some of the 500,000 people who have fled and crossed the
:02:50. > :03:05.river to escape fighting on the other side. Thousands of families
:03:06. > :03:09.are fleeing refuge elsewhere. Mosul has fallen, a disaster for
:03:10. > :03:13.Iraq's government, but also for the wider world, too. As Islamist
:03:14. > :03:18.extremists take more ground from which to plan attacks. It's
:03:19. > :03:24.humiliating for Iraq's Prime Minister vowing to fight back.
:03:25. > :03:28.TRANSLATION: We are dealing with the situation. We are not going to allow
:03:29. > :03:34.this to carry on regardless of the price. We are getting ready. We are
:03:35. > :03:43.organising. We are restructuring the armed units.
:03:44. > :03:47.So who are the fighters? They are a Sunni Muslim jihadist group formed a
:03:48. > :03:51.year ago and pledged to create an Islamic state across Iraq, Syria and
:03:52. > :03:55.neighbouring countries. They are now in control of significant parts of
:03:56. > :03:59.Syria, where Westerners including some British Muslims are fighting
:04:00. > :04:03.with them. It's all helping to increase their power in Iraq, too.
:04:04. > :04:08.They took Fallujah five months ago, now they have Mosul and appear to
:04:09. > :04:14.have taken the city of Tikrit as well. This is their leader, Abu Bakr
:04:15. > :04:17.al-Baghdadi, seen as a brilliant commander and tactician,
:04:18. > :04:28.battle-hardened. Some blame the American-led invasion
:04:29. > :04:32.for all this. Others say it's Iraq's failed political system which can't
:04:33. > :04:37.stop the daily bloodshed, but increasingly, it is Islamist
:04:38. > :04:41.fighters who are gaining ground. Our correspondent Paul Wood is in
:04:42. > :04:46.the village of Kalak on the road to Mosul for us now. He joins me now.
:04:47. > :04:51.It looks like a mass exodus behind you. What have you seen in the last
:04:52. > :04:57.few hours? I'm speaking to you from about half an hour north of Mosul,
:04:58. > :05:02.the first checkpoint that people arrive at and the cars behind me are
:05:03. > :05:05.people leaving Mosul. People have left Mosul on foot as well. There is
:05:06. > :05:08.a little aid station giving out bread and water to people who are
:05:09. > :05:16.tired, hungry and frightened. They are not only frightened of Isis. One
:05:17. > :05:28.woman told me they had been very polite to them. The thing that made
:05:29. > :05:33.her flee was a speech on television by the Iraqi Prime Minister. People
:05:34. > :05:38.here are afraid. They have also been telling us stories of how there was
:05:39. > :05:45.a complete collapse among the Iraqi security forces. Policemen and
:05:46. > :05:49.soldiers abandoned their posts and fled along with the other refugees.
:05:50. > :05:53.You have to wonder if the security forces did not stand and fight the
:05:54. > :05:58.day before yesterday, how is the Iraqi government going to get back
:05:59. > :06:01.this large city of two million? People here feel it will be massive
:06:02. > :06:05.air strikes. That is why we are seeing this exodus of people away
:06:06. > :06:09.from Mosul. Thank you. Extra staff have been drafted in to
:06:10. > :06:12.get through a backlog of passport applications in what's been the
:06:13. > :06:16.busiest period for 12 years. The Prime Minister has admitted that up
:06:17. > :06:20.to 30,000 passport applications have been delayed but he insisted that
:06:21. > :06:24.the Government was dealing with the problem. Our correspondent has spent
:06:25. > :06:28.the day at the Passport Office in Liverpool.
:06:29. > :06:30.When this woman was booking her holiday, a trip to Liverpool was not
:06:31. > :06:33.in her plans. holiday, a trip to Liverpool was not
:06:34. > :06:39.in her After six weeks of waiting, she took matters into her own hands.
:06:40. > :06:45.I had to resort to going to my MP, my MEP, finding out the e-mail
:06:46. > :06:49.address of the CEO... She ended up travelling 200 miles from South
:06:50. > :06:53.Wales to get the passport in person. I have lost two days work. That is
:06:54. > :06:59.without the phone calls. I have had to pay for a hotel. We have had to
:07:00. > :07:03.hire a car. So, it's cost me ?500. Alison wasn't the only person we
:07:04. > :07:08.found who had problems. Others had given up waiting and come to the
:07:09. > :07:13.Passport Office themselves. About 20 phone calls, we got different
:07:14. > :07:19.advisers every time. Saying the same thing. It was repeated, "We will
:07:20. > :07:24.ring you back" and they never did. So we decided this morning to come
:07:25. > :07:29.up here and try and sort it. Horrendous, the system, it is so
:07:30. > :07:34.bad. They couldn't track where our passports were at. Today, these
:07:35. > :07:37.pictures are said to show a backlog of applications waiting to be
:07:38. > :07:45.processed with an overthrow of files being stored in meeting rooms at the
:07:46. > :07:51.Passport Office. It is unprecedented for something like that to happen
:07:52. > :07:56.for office space to be used for the storage of applications. It is a big
:07:57. > :08:00.indicator of how much of a mess it is in. Labour have warned thousands
:08:01. > :08:07.of people face cancelled holidays as a result of the problems. ABTA has
:08:08. > :08:11.say it's seen no increase in people changing their plans. We have 250
:08:12. > :08:15.staff redeployed to the frontline... Today, the Government announced that
:08:16. > :08:23.extra staff were being brought in to help with demand. We have 300,000
:08:24. > :08:29.extra applications. We have increased massively the staff. The
:08:30. > :08:35.level of applications outside the normal three-week limit is less than
:08:36. > :08:38.the 10% of that 300,000. The Passport Office has said it's
:08:39. > :08:42.experiencing its highest demand in 12 years and to help cope, more
:08:43. > :08:48.staff and extra officers are being laid on.
:08:49. > :08:51.-- offices are being laid on. Unemployed has fallen to its lowest
:08:52. > :08:58.level for five years. The number of people out of work went down by
:08:59. > :09:03.161,000 to 2.16 million between February and April, bringing the
:09:04. > :09:09.rate down to 6.6%. But there's been a slowdown in the growth of average
:09:10. > :09:13.pay. It now stands at 0.7%. Here is our business correspondent, Emma
:09:14. > :09:19.Simpson. How to hire new workers and fast. In
:09:20. > :09:24.Stoke-on-Trent this afternoon, a ceramics manufacturer held a jobs
:09:25. > :09:32.fair to find 65 new workers and it fired up plenty of interest. Today,
:09:33. > :09:36.I'm trying to find myself a job. I'm really pleased that there are more
:09:37. > :09:40.opportunities now because I think we have suffered as a city for a long
:09:41. > :09:45.time. It's not only this business which is powering ahead, so is the
:09:46. > :09:49.UK's jobs market, judging by today's figures. After some difficult years,
:09:50. > :09:53.the UK economy is bouncing back, record numbers of people are in
:09:54. > :09:56.employment, big falls in unemployment. The economic plan that
:09:57. > :09:59.we as the Liberal Democrats and the Coalition Government have put in
:10:00. > :10:02.place is working for hundreds of thousands of people who are now
:10:03. > :10:13.getting back into work. Today's figures show s employment increasing
:10:14. > :10:18.at a record rate. What's behind this big rise? There are 780,000 more
:10:19. > :10:22.people in work than a year ago, the largest increase for nearly a
:10:23. > :10:32.quarter of a century. Here's the striking thing. 337,000 of those
:10:33. > :10:36.extra workers are self-employed. Take this man, who has made a fresh
:10:37. > :10:39.start. When he couldn't find a job, he decided to set up his own
:10:40. > :10:43.commercial laundry business in Leicester. He was forced into self
:10:44. > :10:48.employment as the recession took hold. But business is now thriving.
:10:49. > :10:52.Had I been employed, I would not have looked at this option. It's a
:10:53. > :10:56.blessing in disguise. Would you ever go back to being an employee? After
:10:57. > :11:01.being employed, I can't see myself going back working for anybody else.
:11:02. > :11:05.But the cost of living is still going up more quickly than pay, with
:11:06. > :11:09.news today that the growth in average annual earnings has slowed
:11:10. > :11:14.sharply. Wage s are increasing at half the rate of prices, so people
:11:15. > :11:17.are finding their money is going less far, struggling to pay the
:11:18. > :11:21.bills, the rent and the mortgage, and that is making life very tough
:11:22. > :11:25.for many families. Ironing out the squeeze on household finances is
:11:26. > :11:29.still a work in progress, but the jobs market is gathering pace.
:11:30. > :11:36.Unemployment has fallen in every area of the UK apart from the North
:11:37. > :11:40.East. And if things go smoothly for this man's business, he hopes to be
:11:41. > :11:44.hiring, too. The Defence Secretary has dismissed
:11:45. > :11:48.a warning from the public spending watchdog over plans to save billions
:11:49. > :11:52.of pounds by cutting the size of the Regular Army and boosting numbers of
:11:53. > :11:55.reservists. The National Audit Office said the decision to reduce
:11:56. > :12:00.the number of regular soldiers had been taken without an appropriate
:12:01. > :12:05.feasibility study but Philip Hammond says he is confident the target of
:12:06. > :12:10.35,000 part-time soldiers would be reached by 2018.
:12:11. > :12:13.The author JK Rowling has donated ?1 million to the campaign against
:12:14. > :12:17.Scottish independence. The creator of Harry Potter said she was
:12:18. > :12:22.concerned about the economic impact if Scotland left the UK and
:12:23. > :12:28.criticised what she called a fringe who demonised the opponents of
:12:29. > :12:32.independence. Allan Little reports. High on a hill... She chose to make
:12:33. > :12:37.Scotland her home 21 years ago when she was a single mother living on
:12:38. > :12:41.benefits. She married here, raised her three children here and plans to
:12:42. > :12:46.stay here for the rest of her life. Her support for a devolved Scotland
:12:47. > :12:52.is no surprise, she declared it two years ago. Independence right now is
:12:53. > :12:57.not a great idea. Devolution has been fantastic for Scotland. I
:12:58. > :13:01.really do. I suppose I think we have a great deal currently. JK Rowling
:13:02. > :13:05.accuses the "yes" campaign of minimising and denying the risks of
:13:06. > :13:10.independence. Reasonable questions she says are drowned out by
:13:11. > :13:15.accusations of scaremongering. Especially on oil revenues, which
:13:16. > :13:19.currency Scotland would use and EU membership. A fringe of
:13:20. > :13:31.Nationalists, she says, like to demonise anyone who is not blindly
:13:32. > :13:37.and unquestionably pro-independence. J K Rowling's success began here.
:13:38. > :13:40.Today, she has been attacked online. She knows there are intelligent,
:13:41. > :13:45.thoughtful people on both sides. Indeed, she says intelligent,
:13:46. > :13:49.thoughtful people prevail, but much of the campaign is being fought out
:13:50. > :14:00.on social media and on the fringes of that dialogue, there is without
:14:01. > :14:06.question some intolerant, aggressive and intimidating behaviour. Is the
:14:07. > :14:10.support undermined by the online abuse of others? Yes, they should
:14:11. > :14:17.not do it and they should apologise for it. Don't let's pretend that the
:14:18. > :14:25.debate we are having is anything other than an example of how to
:14:26. > :14:27.conduct a democratic debate. JK Rowling brings her money to the
:14:28. > :14:34.anti-independence cause. Allan Little, BBC News, adden buRg. --
:14:35. > :14:42.Edinburgh. Another Iraqi city has fallen to the
:14:43. > :14:48.hands of Islamist militant s. I will be live here in Sao Paulo on
:14:49. > :14:59.the eve of the 2014 World Cup Finals in Brazil.
:15:00. > :15:03.Later on BBC London: A pair of teenagers die after
:15:04. > :15:13.falling from a balcony at a party. And more Londoners are finding work
:15:14. > :15:15.- but are they the right ones? They're drugs that lower cholesterol
:15:16. > :15:22.to guard against strokes and heart disease.
:15:23. > :15:25.But now a group of leading doctors says plans by
:15:26. > :15:28.the health watchdog to give statins to millions more people in England
:15:29. > :15:30.and Wales should be scrapped. Statins are already
:15:31. > :15:31.the most commonly prescribed medicines in the UK.
:15:32. > :15:33.Around seven million people take them.
:15:34. > :15:38.And it's thought they prevent up to 7,000 deaths a year.
:15:39. > :15:41.Statins cost just 10p a day per patient, but critics say the side
:15:42. > :15:43.effects are underestimated and they question why relatively healthy
:15:44. > :15:45.people should be put on medication for the rest of their lives.
:15:46. > :16:00.Fergus Walsh reports. These pills are setting Doctor opens
:16:01. > :16:08.Doctor, academic against academic -- doctor against Doctor. Confused
:16:09. > :16:12.about statins, you have every right to be as a result of one of the most
:16:13. > :16:18.heated rows in medicine in recent years. Both sides agree that if you
:16:19. > :16:22.already have heart disease, the benefits of the tablets are
:16:23. > :16:30.overwhelming. But the new NICE guidance would mean pretty much
:16:31. > :16:34.everyone from their mid-50s onwards would be on these tablets for life.
:16:35. > :16:38.At present, anyone with a 20% chance of having a heart attack or stroke
:16:39. > :16:44.over the next decade is offered statins. Draft proposals would lower
:16:45. > :16:50.the threshold to a 10% risk. It could mean an extra 5 million
:16:51. > :17:00.patients on statins. Those in favour say it will save more lives. First,
:17:01. > :17:09.a leading critic. Statins can prevent heart attacks if taken by
:17:10. > :17:13.well people. Not deaths. But we also have diabetes caused by statins.
:17:14. > :17:19.They can also cause cataracts, liver disease, muscle disease. We have
:17:20. > :17:24.built in all of the known adverse effects including the increase in
:17:25. > :17:30.diabetes into the models which guidance is based on and the
:17:31. > :17:34.benefits of statins shine through. Michael would rather be gardening
:17:35. > :17:38.than worrying about statins. He hopes the pills are doing him good
:17:39. > :17:46.but has some concerns. I have a certain amount of confidence but
:17:47. > :17:53.some of it is confusing. I think we really... They should have
:17:54. > :17:57.investigated a bit more and give us more information. It is hard to see
:17:58. > :18:03.the row being settled before NICE's final guidance comes out next month.
:18:04. > :18:16.The uncertainty could turn high risk patients of statins and that would
:18:17. > :18:20.cost lives. -- off statins. Scotland Yard says no evidence has
:18:21. > :18:24.been found relating to the Madeleine McCann investigation.
:18:25. > :18:30.From the scene, this report. Just outside the resort of Praia da Luz,
:18:31. > :18:37.another unremarkable piece of wasteland, now the latest focus in
:18:38. > :18:42.the hunt for Madeleine McCann. First thing this morning, specific areas
:18:43. > :18:45.were sealed off so that British and Portuguese police officers with
:18:46. > :18:51.sniffer dogs could search the fields around these derelict buildings.
:18:52. > :18:57.Working next to all of the police activity, this farmer. He told me
:18:58. > :19:01.the police searched this area thoroughly when Madeleine vanished
:19:02. > :19:06.and he says they will not find anything now. We just have a few
:19:07. > :19:14.dead horses buried in the ground as well as a donkey, he says. That is
:19:15. > :19:21.it. It is seven years since Madeleine disappeared. She was last
:19:22. > :19:22.seen in the holiday apartment. Officers spent the whole
:19:23. > :19:28.seen in the holiday apartment. Officers of last week searching a
:19:29. > :19:32.site in the town centre. With that complete, today they moved onto two
:19:33. > :19:39.new areas about half a mile outside of the town either side of a main
:19:40. > :19:43.road. The searches that are taking place here were requested by British
:19:44. > :19:47.police officers and there is a lot of cynicism here about that. This
:19:48. > :19:55.graffiti arrived this morning. It says in Portuguese, the English
:19:56. > :19:58.police are stupid. There is no indication anything significant has
:19:59. > :20:03.been found during the searches. But Scotland Yard has said the end of
:20:04. > :20:08.their work here will not mean the end of their investigation. This
:20:09. > :20:14.will be one of many lines of enquiry. This is taking place in the
:20:15. > :20:19.public domain because it is an outside location. We need to allow
:20:20. > :20:22.the detectives to do their work. Over the next few weeks, behind
:20:23. > :20:35.closed doors, several local suspects will be questioned.
:20:36. > :20:40.700,000 people are still awaiting assessment for the new Employment
:20:41. > :20:44.and Support Allowance. The government blames the delay on ATOS.
:20:45. > :20:45.Around 100,000 people should have been assessed for the new benefit by
:20:46. > :20:50.the end of April. Fergus Walsh reports.
:20:51. > :20:52.Traffic has ground to a halt in several European cities including
:20:53. > :20:56.London today as taxi drivers staged a protest against a new smartphone
:20:57. > :20:58.app which they say is damaging their business. The app allows passengers
:20:59. > :21:00.to book and track minicabs from their mobile phone. Here's our
:21:01. > :21:07.technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones.
:21:08. > :21:10.No trouble getting a cab in Whitehall this afternoon. But if you
:21:11. > :21:17.Whitehall this afternoon. But if wanted to get anywhere fast, it was
:21:18. > :21:22.not so easy. In Paris too there was transport chaos as taxi drivers
:21:23. > :21:28.staged a protest. And similar scenes in Madrid. Everywhere the cause was
:21:29. > :21:37.the same, anger that is smartphone app called Uber was harming the
:21:38. > :21:41.livelihoods of taxi drivers. The power of the internet is threatening
:21:42. > :21:47.us. They have to do it the legal way. Then you cannot complain. A lot
:21:48. > :21:51.of people have the Uber app and it seems on the face of it illegal.
:21:52. > :21:57.They said that the app which measures how far you travel and
:21:58. > :22:01.calculates the fair is in effect a meter and only they are allowed to
:22:02. > :22:06.have one of those. They are furious that transport for London has
:22:07. > :22:14.refused to act. Here is how Uber works. You tap to request a driver
:22:15. > :22:19.and within minutes a car draws up. ?11. That is good. I did the same
:22:20. > :22:20.journey and within minutes a car draws up.
:22:21. > :22:24.?11. That is good. I did the in reverse with a black cab. The driver
:22:25. > :22:28.Richard who spent three years doing the knowledge found a faster route
:22:29. > :22:39.that I paid a bit more with a tip thrown in. : ?17. Thank you. Uber
:22:40. > :22:45.founded in San Francisco has grown into a hugely successful business.
:22:46. > :22:51.The company incest is it is legal. -- the company insists. Uber offers
:22:52. > :22:55.another choice to customers and drivers and increases competition
:22:56. > :22:59.which is good for all of us. The taxi drivers say they are not
:23:00. > :23:02.opposed to innovation but an un-regulated American company should
:23:03. > :23:06.not be allowed to threaten the livelihood. Uber says the publicity
:23:07. > :23:10.has provided a huge boost to their business.
:23:11. > :23:14.Cellan-Jones. The president of Brazil
:23:15. > :23:18.says her country is ready, both on and off the pitch, for the
:23:19. > :23:20.World Cup which kicks off tomorrow. But England got a nasty surprise
:23:21. > :23:24.today when this picture emerged. It appears to show the pitch
:23:25. > :23:27.in Manaus, where the team will take on Italy on Saturday night, in what
:23:28. > :23:30.looks like a pretty poor state. Nothing though can stop the huge
:23:31. > :23:37.excitement in Brazil, as our chief sports correspondent, Dan Roan,
:23:38. > :23:41.has been finding out in Sao Paulo. They need no excuse for a game
:23:42. > :23:47.of football here in this favela. Imagine what it means to these
:23:48. > :23:54.youngsters to have the World Cup on their doorstep
:23:55. > :23:56.in just a few hours' time. This is one of Sao Paulo's
:23:57. > :23:58.tougher neighbourhoods but it is communities
:23:59. > :24:01.like this that have produced many of the game's greatest ever players.
:24:02. > :24:04.That is the dream for this 13-year-old for whom
:24:05. > :24:07.football is more than just fun. It is very importent to me, he says.
:24:08. > :24:15.Becoming a football player would enable me to leave this place,
:24:16. > :24:19.to help my family and my community. If we can win the World Cup here
:24:20. > :24:22.at home, I am going to be very, very happy.
:24:23. > :24:26.Many Brazilians say the World Cup is too expensive,
:24:27. > :24:30.that the money would have been better spent in places like this.
:24:31. > :24:35.But ask these youngsters who is excited and the answer is clear.
:24:36. > :24:38.But with passion like this comes pressure too.
:24:39. > :24:43.These kids and millions like them across Brazil expect
:24:44. > :24:47.nothing less than for their country to be crowned World Cup champions
:24:48. > :24:52.in just over a month's time. When it comes to this event,
:24:53. > :24:55.Brazil has history. World Cup winners five times, this
:24:56. > :25:00.is a country that has come closer than any to mastering the sport.
:25:01. > :25:04.Pele has scored! Its most iconic player knows
:25:05. > :25:07.all too well what is at stake. I think this for
:25:08. > :25:12.the country is fantastic, to show the world what we are capable of.
:25:13. > :25:15.What Brazil can do. I think we have to take
:25:16. > :25:21.this opportunity because it is very important for us.
:25:22. > :25:27.Not least for these players, the select few who carry the hopes
:25:28. > :25:30.of a nation on the shoulders. The football team has become
:25:31. > :25:32.a brand in its own right. It is like Brazil itself.
:25:33. > :25:34.It defines everything about the culture, the creativity,
:25:35. > :25:38.the way they play, their attacking formation,
:25:39. > :25:41.all of those things really personify the Brazilian personality.
:25:42. > :25:46.We have just been lucky to be a part of that and actually see it
:25:47. > :25:50.grow over the years. Football is in the blood here
:25:51. > :25:54.and no matter how fraught the build up to their own World Cup may have
:25:55. > :25:55.been, the people's passion for the sport that has come to define
:25:56. > :26:07.them burns as brightly as ever. What has always been billed as the
:26:08. > :26:14.ultimate dream World Cup has perhaps become the most controversial in
:26:15. > :26:19.history. The event rather limping with concerns over readiness and
:26:20. > :26:25.protests at the expense of the tournament. FIFA will be desperate
:26:26. > :26:31.to see tomorrow night in the stadium behind me Brazil and Croatia kicking
:26:32. > :26:34.off the tournament and for the Shia and disputable love and passion for
:26:35. > :26:38.the sport the Brazilian people have two sweep away most concerns -- the
:26:39. > :26:44.un-disputable love and passion. them burns as brightly as ever.
:26:45. > :26:47.And you can see more of that interview with Pele on a Match of
:26:48. > :26:50.the Day World Cup Preview tonight on BBC One at 10.35pm. Time for a look
:26:51. > :26:55.at the weather. Here's Nick Miller.
:26:56. > :27:01.London for the next few days might be a bit warmer than Sao Paulo. Life
:27:02. > :27:09.is not pleasant for hay fever sufferers that the movement -- at
:27:10. > :27:12.the moment. But there has been fine weather for the bulk of the UK.
:27:13. > :27:19.Showers in north-east Scotland today. They are pushing away. Plenty
:27:20. > :27:25.of dry and clear whether around. Cooler in the countryside. Dipping
:27:26. > :27:28.into single figures. England and Wales will see the best of the
:27:29. > :27:35.sunshine. They fine day for many of us. Some rain in north-west Scotland
:27:36. > :27:39.later in the day. It is the start of a test match tomorrow. It surely
:27:40. > :27:45.means rain! Far from it. Sunshine and warmer than today. Here is a
:27:46. > :27:51.look at the weather across the UK at 4pm. Mostly light winds and the sea
:27:52. > :27:55.breezes. We are widely in England and Wales in the low 20s with a
:27:56. > :28:00.mixture of cloud and sunshine. There will be some warm sunny spells at
:28:01. > :28:04.times in Northern Ireland, southern and eastern Scotland. More cloud
:28:05. > :28:07.coming in and some of us, especially in the north and north-west of
:28:08. > :28:12.Scotland, getting outbreaks of rain. Friday, more widespread rain across
:28:13. > :28:15.Scotland and Northern Ireland and heading into northern England. The
:28:16. > :28:20.warm sunshine is just across southern areas by Friday. There
:28:21. > :28:25.might be late date thunderstorms on Friday night. What about the
:28:26. > :28:30.weekend? High pressure is still close by. The flow of air has
:28:31. > :28:34.changed to a north-easterly direction, down the eastern side of
:28:35. > :28:37.the UK. More cloud and lower temperatures. On the weekend, the
:28:38. > :28:41.best of the warmth and sunshine will be in the West.
:28:42. > :28:50.The main story: Another Iraqi city has fallen into the hands of
:28:51. > :28:51.militants. That is all