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Theresa May holds talks with her German counterpart | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Angela Merkel in their first meeting post the Brexit vote. | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
The two most powerful female leaders found common ground. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
in emphasising the closeness between the two nations. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
and across Europe in the weeks ahead that we are not walking away | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Britain will remain an outward looking country and Germany | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
will remain a vital partner and a special friend for us. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
Mrs May gave a spiky performance at prime minister's questions, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Another soldier dies training in the Brecon beacons. | :00:40. | :00:51. | |
Josh Hoole was aged 26, he was on a fitness test yesterday. | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
Soldiers in court after the attempted coup | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
in Turkey, in the government crackdown now all academics | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
The labour leadership contender Owen Smith says under Jeremy Corbyn | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
the party is teetering on the edge of extinction. | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
And as last month marked the 14th month in a row | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
scientists claim we're close to dangerous levels of climate change. | :01:13. | :01:53. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Theresa May is in Berlin for talks with the German Chancellor, | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Angela Merkel on her first foreign trip since becoming Prime Minister. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
While official negotiations about Britain's withdrawal have | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
been ruled out for now, it is a significant meeting | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
for the two most important female leaders to set the tone | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
for the difficult discussions that lie ahead. | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
Mrs May faced her first ever Prime Minister's Questions | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
during which she taunted the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
Our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar reports. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
VOICEOVER: She will have to get used to this, meeting the German leader | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
this afternoon, looks friendly, but you would not argue with either of | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
them, you will probably lose, somehow they will work together on a | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
new relationship with Britain outside the EU. Personal chemistry | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
is important and there was plenty of goodwill. I have been clear that | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Brexit means Brexit and the United Kingdom will make a success of it | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
but I also want to be fair, yeah, across Europe, in the weeks ahead, | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
that we are not walking away from European friends, Britain will | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
remain an outward looking country and Germany will remain a vital | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
partner and a special friend for us. TRANSLATION: Irrespective of the | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
decision that the people of the United Kingdom have taken to leave | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
the European Union, we are linked by very close bonds of friendship, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
partnership, Barrett two countries have always acted on a basis of very | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
clear and firm and similar convictions. -- our two countries. | :03:24. | :03:33. | |
No Prime Minister heads into PMQs without jangling nerves, she did not | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
show it, making it look like a normal day in the office, although | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
around Westminster, normal seems like a long time ago, started by | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
teasing the other side about who delivers quality. I have long heard | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
the Labour Party asking what the Conservative Party does for women, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
in my years in this house... CHEERING | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
LAUGHTER Just keeps making us Prime Minister! | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Went well enough, and got better, when a veteran Leave campaign told | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
her this. We are leaving the US and we are going to make a success of | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
it. He wanted free trade without too many conditions. What we need to do | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
in negotiating the deal is listen to what people have said in regards to | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
the controls on free movement but also negotiate the right deal and | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the best deal of trade in goods and services for the British people. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
What she backtracking on the Tory pledge to cut migration? And the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
people of Yorkshire be reassured that when we finally leave the | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
European Union, she will insist upon keeping her original promise to get | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
the immigration figures down in this country to the tens of thousands. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
The vote taken in this country on June 23 sent a very clear message | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
about immigration, The Bull want control of free movement from the | :04:50. | :04:50. | |
European Union. Controlled migration. -- people want control. | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
Reminded of a new Foreign Secretary's under promoted language | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
in the past. His description of black people in drug is returned, | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
and why he questioned Barack Obama on his part Kenyan heritage. Boris | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Johnson's past indiscretions the least of her problems, she ignored | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
it, the big post-referendum pledge. The government I lead will be driven | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
not by the interests of the privileged few but by everyone in | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
this country. It was over, it had gone well, watch carefully, you | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
could see that she knew it. But fairness for all will take decades, | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
and the job of building a new place for Britain in Europe and the world | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
has barely begun. A senior number ten staffer told me that everyone is | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
beginning to realise that Theresa is the one in charge, setting policy on | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
Brexit but the final outcome will not be decided by Theresa May, it | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
will emerge from hard political graft and countless negotiations | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
over coming months and years. Getting these relationships off on | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
the right foot is important, but it is the easy bit, and just the start, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
this will be a long march, it will not all be this harmonious. | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
STUDIO: On the face of it, very warm words between the two leaders, what | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
are they both hoping to get from this elation ship? I think the first | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
thing, really, to try to build a personal relationship, believe it or | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
not, they have both been in very senior positions, but today is the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
first time they have actually properly met, for more than just a | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
few moments. The priority from both sides, German and British, is that | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
they know they have to be able to trust each other, they know they | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
must be able to work together on what is a very complicated, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
politically agonising, no doubt at times to come, elation ship which | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
may well last four years. -- relationship. In terms of balance of | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
power, no question, Angela Merkel, one country is trying to get the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
goodies from 27 others, we are no longer in a situation where other | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
European countries were willing to do whatever they could to try to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
keep Britain inside the European Union, because we have made our | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
decision, we are leaving, we are out, therefore, our leveraged has | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
really faded. No question, from seeing the two of them together, the | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
body language, even sharing a joke or two, that Angela Merkel wants to | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
make this work, it is not a question that Germany will go about crushing | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
British hopes of getting a decent deal from the rest of the youth. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Clearly, though, they have a lot of work to do. There will be moments | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
where they stare each other down. In terms of their own relationship, | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
watching them just in the last few minutes, it was the first time they | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
have appeared together at an event like this but it did not feel like | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
the first time at all. exercise at an army base | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
in the Brecon Beacons in the early morning on the hottest | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
day of the year so far. Corporal Josh Hoole, | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
who was 26 and from near Lockerbie It follows the deaths of three | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
soldiers who were taking part in an SAS training exercise on one | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
of the hottest days of the year The Government has promised | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
a full investigation. Our Wales Correspondent Hywel | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
Griffith joins us from Brecon. Few details coming out as yet, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
what more can you tell us? We know that when the corporal said | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
off from the barracks, it was for a routine standard test run on the | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
local roads, temperatures were still below 20 degrees, but clearly | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
something went wrong in the two hours before he returned here, and | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
collapsed. His death has left his family shattered and left the army | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
facing new questions over whether it has done everything possible to | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
ensure the safety of its soldiers. VOICEOVER: A dedicated soldier, the | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
family of Corporal Josh Hoole say that the army was his life, tonight, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
they want to know if the Armed Forces could have done more to | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
protect it? The 26-year-old was in the Brecon Beacons to prepare for a | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
gruelling selection course, 7am yesterday, he went on an eight mile | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
test run, carrying a 25 kilograms pack. He collapsed back at the base. | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
Paramedics could not save him. They knew that he was training. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
We did not know until 6:30pm about what had happened. Absolutely | :09:27. | :09:35. | |
devastating. My father was in the Army when he was younger, he knows | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
what that area is like. Why do you have people out when you know the | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
weather is that hot? The Army uses this to rein to test its elite, | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
three years ago, and SAS selection exercise on the hottest day of the | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
year led to three deaths. James Dunne 's bee was found collapsed | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
near the finish line, and another suffered heat exhaustion, and Craig | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Roberts was found on a different part of the 16 mile route. -- James | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Dunsby. An inquest found that all three died as a result of neglect. | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
This latest death was different. We do not know the circumstances, or | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
indeed the reasons why he died. It was not on special forces selection, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
that can be confirmed, this was about training for a Korea calls | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
that he was going to do in Brecon to become a Sergeant. -- career. I hope | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
we can understand it soon so we care about the circumstances. That will | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
include making sure every safety rule was followed as once again the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Army faces questions over the pressures soldiers face away from | :10:41. | :10:41. | |
the field of battle. The deadline has just passed | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
for Labour supporters to register to vote | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
in the party's leadership contest. They face a choice between | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
the current Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and the former shadow | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
work and pensions He says the party is teetering | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
on the edge of extinction But critics have accused Mr Smith | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
of championing the private Our Political Correspondent, | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Vicki Young, has more. VOICEOVER: Some Labour MPs believe | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
the survival of their party could depend upon this man. Don't fall | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
over. Owen Smith is not a well-known politician but he's hoping to change | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
that. Today he set out on his mission to topple Jeremy Corbyn. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
This party is teetering on the brink of extension, if we split, we will | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
be destroyed. The friends of Jeremy Corbyn have already branded Owen | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Smith Tony Blair alight, he says he is a radical candidate of the left | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
with 20 of policy ideas to broaden appeal. -- Tony Blair-lite. A new | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
deal for Britain, social care, housing, we should be building | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
300,000 houses every year. The odds may seem stacked against Owen Smith | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
but his supporters believe he can take on Jeremy Corbyn on his own | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
territory, he did not back the Iraq war air strikes on or Syria, and | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
they hope that he can convince hundreds of thousands of Labour | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
Party members that he will pursue left-wing policies but more | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
effectively than Jeremy Corbyn. One senior Labour MP says that we are | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
facing the fight of our lives. Most Labour MPs have abandoned Jeremy | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Corbyn's team, so few have state that they had to take on to jobs, a | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
gift to the new prime ministers. A boss who does not listen to his | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
workers, a... LAUGHTER A boss who requires some of his | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
workers to double their workload... LAUGHTER | :12:34. | :12:40. | |
Maybe even a boss who exploits the rules in order to further his own | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
career...! LAUGHTER SHOUTING | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Reminded him of anybody? I know that this is very funny for all | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
conservative members but I do not suppose, I do not suppose there is | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
too many Conservative MPs who have to go to a food bank in order to | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
supplement their family table! Jeremy Corbyn is getting a rough | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
time in Parliament, his allies are confident that Labour Party members | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
will stick by him when they vote for a leader this summer. I'm going to | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
be supporting Jeremy Corbyn because he provides the radical turn it | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
gives to the Conservative Party that the Labour Party has needed for a | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
long time. It is disappointing that we are in a leadership election, we | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
have overturned the Tories in the House of Commons on a number of | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
occasions and I don't think that would have happened in any other | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
leader than Jeremy Corbyn. I cannot account for why people would vote | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
for Owen Smith, what I see is Jeremy Corbyn with a massive mandate from | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
across the membership, and the backing of the trade unions. It | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
looks like more than 150,000 new supporters have signed up to take | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
part in the leadership contest in the last 48 hours, on the 24th of | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
September, we will find out who they have chosen. | :13:49. | :13:58. | |
STUDIO: Turkey has charged 99 generals and admirals in connection | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
just under a third of the country's top military officers. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
The government has now banned all academics | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
from travelling abroad, as the purge of state employees | :14:07. | :14:07. | |
suspected of being connected to the failed coup continues. | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
So far more than 50,000 people have been rounded up, | :14:11. | :14:12. | |
You may find some images at the start of his | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
VOICEOVER: Watch the man rushing into the street, ready to die for | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
democracy. New pictures from the coup attempt show a citizen throwing | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
stones and then himself in front of a tank to stop it. Unbelievably, he | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
picks himself up, another rebel tank approaches, again, he is prepared to | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
sacrifice himself, again, he survives. Injured, but defiant, he | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
says that it was a duty to defend his country and the president. | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
TRANSLATION: We heard the tanks were approaching while firing, although I | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
could do was respond with the three stones that I had, yet the tank did | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
not stop. God protected our president, without the 15 minute he | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
had to escape, it would have been a disaster. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
Turkey almost slipped from President Erdogan's grasp. And he is heading | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
back hard. Discussing urgent solutions with the Security Council. | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
Expected to widen the post to crack down. Dragged to court, the men who | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
tried and failed to get Mr Erdogan last Friday. 13 soldiers who raided | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
his hotel minutes after he had fled. The crowd shouts for the death | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
penalty. Victor is justice becoming dangerously close to mob violence. | :15:52. | :16:00. | |
-- the justice of the victor. Another 35,000 employees have been | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
suspended. It seems a Conservative government is classing with secular, | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
liberal academics. Every dealer or university Professor we have spoken | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
to by phone has been too afraid to go on camera, fearing that any | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
critical comments by an academic might be used to round them up. Free | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
speech and thought are cherished by these universities, but the worry is | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
that after the coup, Turkey will crush them. Government supporters on | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
the river today. But they mask the fear that an emboldened president is | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
using what could be a moment of reconciliation to flush out his | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
enemies. Angela Merkel tells her British | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
counterpart that the... As a heatwave hit Europe this week, | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
scientists warn of a significant Coming up in sport, Chris Froome | :16:54. | :17:05. | |
tightens his grip on the yellow jersey in the Alps. He has increased | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
his lead is during stage 17 of the Tour de France to almost 2.5 | :17:11. | :17:11. | |
minutes. With just two weeks to go before | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Brazil, | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
the man in charge of security has told the BBC | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
the threat of a terror attack An extra 80,000 security personnel | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
have been brought in to patrol the streets of Rio de Janeiro | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
and the stadiums - amid concern that the country | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
is a soft target for criminals. Our Brazil Correspondent, Wyre | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Davies, sent this report from Rio. Rio has a reputation | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
as one of the world's Within sight of the beaches | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
where Olympic volleyball and triathlon events will take | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
place, armed police patrol narrow alleyways, which by night | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
revert to the control They let off fireworks to let us | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
know they are watching. After a quiet couple of years, | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
violence has returned Rio is a much safer place today | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
than it was 20 years ago. But even in the last year or so, | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
in these pacified favelas, There have been more | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
murders and more attacks and with the Olympic Games taking | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
place down in the tourist areas on Copacabana beach, | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
there is a real concern that some of this violence could spill over | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
during the games themselves. In this Olympic city, | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
shocking numbers of innocent victims are killed in crossfire, | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
often by police. Children are taught to dive | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
for cover at the sound of gunfire. And petty crime invades | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
the tourist beaches below. Police officers warn they might not | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
be able to guarantee public safety "Welcome to hell", their stark | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
message to visitors We police officers are hiding our | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
badges, our wallets, our guns, But city and state officials say | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
that with an extra 80,000 security personnel on the streets, | :19:13. | :19:27. | |
Rio will be safe during the Games, but says Rio's security chief, there | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
is one overriding security concern. TRANSLATION: For me, | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
the biggest threat is terrorism. Brazil is not an obvious target | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
but we have a weakness The BBC recently saw evidence | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
showing just how easy it would be More than 70 Syrian nationals able | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
to acquire genuine Brazilian passports from crime gangs | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
and corrupt officials. Training exercises are designed | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
to ease concerns, but with 10,000 miles of often porous land borders, | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Brazil would be a soft target for anyone seeking | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
to disrupt the games. Rio de Janeiro is still one | :20:06. | :20:15. | |
of the world's most beguiling cities and will provide a stunning | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
backdrop for the Olympics. But it has an ominously | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
dark side, too. It was the plagiarism row that had | :20:21. | :20:41. | |
people comparing notes. Today, member of Donald Trump's campaign | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
staffers admitted using quotes from Mrs Obama's speech. Jon Sobel is at | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
the convention. It takes a lot to barons Mrs Trump -- Mr Trump. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Finally, we have some extra nation for what unfolded. It seems that the | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
speech writer spoke to Mrs Trump on the phone as she read out some | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
passages from Michelle Obama's speech that she likes. The speech | :21:07. | :21:15. | |
writer and then did not make any checks. The statement, I feel | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
terrible for the chaos I hazard caused the Trumps. I apologise for | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
the confusion and hysteria that my mistake has caused. But for 36 | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
hours, Donald Trump's campaign manager has been touring the studios | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
indefatigably denying that there was no plagiarism and denying that there | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
was any need to apologise. So now that rarest thing, a U-turn and an | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
apology. I think the Trump campaign could have saved themselves a lot of | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
trouble if they had done this 24 hours earlier. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
This week marks a month since Britain voted to leave | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
the European Union - and throughout this week we're | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
The West Midlands is one of many areas that voted for Brexit. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Our political editor there Patrick Burns has been | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
speaking to local businesses to see how they're getting | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
Half a million Birmingham voters gave Leave the narrowest | :22:05. | :22:13. | |
Barely a stone's throw away from the centre, | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
Digbeth is home to what has been a thriving community | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
Iris is a one-woman business, an EU migrant from Germany. | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
Each year she places around 80 young apprentices from other European | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
countries into local firms under an EU education | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
If a complete end to freedom of movement happens, | :22:35. | :22:49. | |
that will be an end of my projects and many other organisations. | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
You are looking at colleges, exchange organisations, | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
there is going to be a lot of businesses like that. | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
The city may be evenly divided but the surrounding West Midlands | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
delivered the UK's highest proportion of Leave vote. | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
Almost 60% supporting what is increasingly viewed | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
as a regional insurrection in defiance of the nation's capital. | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
Have Midlanders stumbled into something they now regret? | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
I'm heading just a few miles out of the city to the Black Country, | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
to the Izons industrial estate near Oldbury. | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
During the campaign, I struggled to find anyone | :23:23. | :23:23. | |
It's a typical collection of small, predominantly | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
For 50 years, this engineering firm has been run by three | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
I want to know if the boss is still as confident about Brexit | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
If anything it's more positive than it was. | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
The pound being devalued helps us export and there is local investment | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
going on in Wolverhampton that has been announced, | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
so that all points to a more positive position. | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
Certainly no doom and gloom that was predicted. | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
They have a long history of making things work here. | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
Just as the new Prime Minister wants Brexit to work. | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
Sustaining the optimism behind the new business start-ups may yet | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
turn out to be the biggest work in progress of all. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Last month was the hottest June around the world in modern history, | :24:13. | :24:21. | |
marking the fourteenth month in a row that global temperature | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Climate experts say it reveals we are now close to dangerous | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
levels of climate change - as our Science Editor, | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
This marked the end of our very brief heatwave. | :24:33. | :24:49. | |
And this comes as scientists report that the world as a whole is seeing | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
a record rise in temperatures, producing a wide range of impact. | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
In California, firefighters struggle with blazes pushing | :24:58. | :24:59. | |
A heatwave has hit much of continental Europe this week. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
This boy in Spain tries to stay cool. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
And many tropical coral reefs have turned white, what's called | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
bleaching, as the waters get too warm for them. | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
So what do the latest figures about rising temperatures | :25:18. | :25:20. | |
tell us about a planet that is getting hotter? | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
This graph from the American weather agency shows the period January | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
Below average in the first-half of the century, and then | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
In the past six months it was more than a degree | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
If we take a closer look, we can see why scientists | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
are surprised at the scale of the increase. | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
They say this is partly driven by the weather pattern El Nino, | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
with warm water in the eastern Pacific, but also by the greenhouse | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
gases from our pollution, which the Paris Agreement on climate | :25:55. | :25:56. | |
Scientists researching the climate say that they have been warning | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
for years that unless those greenhouse gases are cut, | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
And the impacts are likely to become more severe. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
I think we are scarily close to dangerous levels | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
We have a Paris Agreement now that says we should not be exceeding 1.5 | :26:14. | :26:25. | |
degrees centigrade of climate change but unless we start removing | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
emissions over the next decade or so, that is a threshold that | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
The fear is of more scenes like this, extreme weather | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
It made this town look like a war zone. | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Scientists say a warmer world is set to see more violent rainfall | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
and this year is on course to be the hottest on record. | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Record global average temperatures but for now, our heatwave has ended. | :26:46. | :27:01. | |
Jay Wynne is here to tell us more. It has been breaking down in | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
dramatic fashion over the last day or so. This is what we saw earlier | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
today, huge area of rain, large amounts of thunderstorms. And we | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
have seen thunderstorms recently in the Midlands as well. But we have | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
also seen sunshine today across the south-east of Wenger. 31 degrees in | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
Heathrow. Thunderstorms drifting out to the North Sea over the next few | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
hours, pushed by westerly wind. Bringing in less hot air overnight. | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Overall, a more comfortable night. Temperatures down by a few degrees | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
in comparison to last night. Eastern areas on the warm side. A quieter | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
start to the day in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Largely dry | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
although it might be clouded in Northern Ireland and western | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Scotland. On the East of Scotland, brighter, with a decent start for | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
Northern England. Light spells of sunshine. Quite pleasant towards | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
Wales and the south-west. Heading eastwards, it will be fine and dry. | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
A decent morning's commute. Through the day tomorrow, most places having | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
a reasonable day with a fair bit of cloud. Northern Ireland could be a | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
focal point for some wetter, windier weather into the afternoon but many | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
places will be dry with variable cloud. With light winds, | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
temperatures in the low to middle 20s, it could be a comfortable | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
afternoon. Into Friday, weak weather front bringing cloud and rain, but | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
nothing too heavy. We should see some showers breaking out ahead of | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
that in the Midlands, East Anglia and the south-east. Those could be | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
on the heavy side. Some sunshine in between, and then it will be 22-25d. | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
Some rain at times. And for the weekend, someone's and humidity. -- | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
22-25. And that is all from us. | :28:52. | :28:52. |