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Britain's summer of rail strikes - as one walkout's suspended, | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
another's announced that'll hit holidaymakers. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Southern Railway's five-day walkout this week has been cut short | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
for more talks in the bitter row over the role of conductors. | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
Hopefully they will sort it out. It's difficult to work out what is | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
going on. The real victims other passengers. | :00:28. | :00:28. | |
But Eurostar workers announce a 7-day walkout, | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
over August weekends, in a dispute over work-life balance. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Staff at Virgin East Coast have also voted to strike - | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
the transport secretary's accused rail unions of finding | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
An Olympic medal for Great Britain's Chris Froome - | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
but not the gold he was chasing as he comes third | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
I can't be disappointed with that. Of course, I would have loved to | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
have been in with a chance for a gold medal, but I gave it everything | :00:59. | :00:59. | |
I had. Olympic history as America's Michael | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
Phelps wins his 21st gold medal on a night when Team GB had further | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
success in the pool. 12 years in jail for the former | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Catholic priest who finally admitted abusing children in London more | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
than a decade after And the Duke of Westminster - | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
a billionaire and one of the UK's biggest landowners - | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
has died suddenly at the age of 64. Coming up in Olympic Sportsday | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
at half past on BBC News, A full update on day five, as the | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
rugby sevens team reaches the quarterfinals. | :01:39. | :01:55. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
A strike on Southern Rail network that has already disrupted hundreds | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
of thousands of commuters this week has been suspended | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
The walk out on Monday, over plans to remove conductors | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
from trains between London and Southern England, | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
But as that strike was suspended, another was announced. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Eurostar staff have voted to walk out for seven days this month | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Our business correspondent Emma Simpson is at London's Victoria | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Sophie, we have seen 946 services cancelled every day this week. Many | :02:26. | :02:42. | |
of them, this main station, here. But workers have now been instructed | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
by their union to go back on duty at 10pm tonight. For passengers, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
talking is definitely better than striking. | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
The rush hour out of London is never much fun. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
It's been havoc this week for Southern Rail commuters. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
Tonight, as they head home, relief that the strike | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
I've been off work today but I'm back at work on Friday, | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
Hopefully they'll sort it out, it's been going on for too long. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
They're always delayed, always cancelled. | :03:13. | :03:13. | |
I don't know, I've tried my best to negotiate with my boss | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
the time I come and leave, which is why I'm leaving early now. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
It's very difficult to discern what's going on. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
I think the real victims are passengers. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
This dispute is about who shuts the doors on these trains. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
But Southern wants more drivers to take over the role. | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
It's led to months of this, sheer misery for passengers | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
with cancelled services, delays and overcrowded trains. | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
A reduced timetable has been in place. | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
Then, on Monday, a five-day strike, but this now a pause. | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
We have suspended strike action for Thursday and Friday this week | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to allow further talks at ACAS without preconditions. | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
Does this mean that the months of misery for Southern passengers | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
I'm not going to make any comment on where we are in terms | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
What we need to do now is just concentrate on the ACAS discussions | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
Southern also hopes the talks will be productive. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
But elsewhere on our railways, more strikes are looming. | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Here at King's Cross, the Virgin East Coast Trains | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
leave for places like Doncaster and Edinburgh. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Yesterday its workers voted for walk-outs. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
And, today, people heading here for the continent on Eurostar | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
found out that seven days of strike action are on the cards. | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Our new Transport Secretary says the action isn't necessary. | :04:46. | :04:58. | |
I'm very disappointed that the unions keep on calling | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
strike action over of what has always appeared to be | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
Not to do with passengers, not to do with jobs, | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
This feels like an excuse to be militant. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
But the union, out protesting today, says it is merely | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
This summer, passengers are seeing the biggest series of disputes | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
this industry has gone through in decades. | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
We should also point out that ScotRail and the RMT are already in | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
talks to try to prevent further strike action there. Is there a | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
chance of a breakthrough in this one? The senses that a long way is | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
to go. But the pressure is on. As for passengers, back to the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
emergency timetable. Of course, a lot of trains will be in the wrong | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
place, at least for part of the day. The advice is to check first. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
To the Olympics now and there were high hopes | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
for Great Britain's Chris Froome in the men's individual time | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
He was hoping to emulate Sir Bradley Wiggins in 2012 | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
by winning the Tour and Olympic gold in the same year. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
But he did bag Team GB's first cycling medal of the games | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks was watching | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
It was a perfect day for serving. But it was less than ideal for | :06:12. | :06:24. | |
cycling. Wind and rain, lashing off the coast, making conditions rather | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
tricky. Britain's riders would at least feel at home. After crashing | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
on the final descent in the road race, Geraint Thomas was hoping to | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
avoid further mishap. Others were proving it was slippy out there. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Didn't even get round the first corner! But Team GB was hoping their | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
best was saved till last. Well, Chris Froome won time trial | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
bronze in London. He is hoping to emulate Bradley Wiggins by winning | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
the Tour de France and Olympic gold in the same summer. Organisers | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
called the course is a unique test. It was all about pacing themselves. | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Chris Froome was leaving himself a lot to do. No, he has lost some | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
more. Beijing gold medallist Fabian Cancellara was motoring. Chris | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
Froome still was not. Thomas finished and was briefly in a medal | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
position. Chris Froome was down in fourth. The three times Tour de | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
France winner would need to give everything to be in with a chance of | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
anything. Fabian Cancellara finished with a stunning time after a | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
masterful ride. Nobody would touch him for gold. But what colour for | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
Chris Froome? Bronze, for Chris Froome! I gave it everything I had, | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
I tried to hold back a little bit for the last lap, knowing how hard | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the course was. But I just didn't have any more. Britain's Emma Pooley | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
was out of retirement for the race, but could only finish 14th. Kristin | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
Armstrong, who celebrates her 43rd birthday tomorrow, won her third | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
time trial in a row. For Chris Froome, another medal for the | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
election. -- collection, just not the colour he was after. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Team GB have continued their medal haul with medals in the medley and | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
the relay. But it was Michael Phelps who stole the show as he made | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Olympic history, winning his 21st gold medal. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
It was a night when Britain's Golden hopes came with a silver lining. | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor has spent her career battling opponents and | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
illness. The 20-year-old lives with a chronic bowel condition. But | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
against the best in the world, she produced the performance of her | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
life, as she chased the favourite every inch of the way. A new British | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
record and a silver medal. Silver to Great Britain, silver to | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor. It feels pretty unreal. I'm trying not to | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
cry. Best feeling in the world. When I looked up and saw the time and the | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
position, I was, like, what? It didn't seem real. But walking | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
around, seeing my family, I was getting choked up. It means | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
everything. And there was more British success in the pool as the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
men's freestyle relay team came through for silver. But they, like | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
everyone else, could not get near this man. Michael Phelps, his 21st | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
Olympic gold, coming barely an hour after his 20th, as he thrillingly | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
clung on in the 200 metres butterfly. Phelps is going to take | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
it! Is won! His reaction said it all. Back from retirement and | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
personal problems to celebrate with his new baby. Perhaps the most | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
glorious night yet for this sporting phenomenon. In terms of Olympic | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
success, Michael Phelps is in a world of his own. His total of 21 | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
gold medals is more than double anyone else's. His closest rivals, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
including at least Carl Lewis, have just nine. It is more than three | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
times more than Britain's top Olympian, Sir Chris Hoy, with six. | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
And Phelps could yet add to that tally. But sporting genius comes in | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
all sizes. Four foot nine, Simone Viles, a dazzling display to help | :10:37. | :10:48. | |
team USA. She was too young to compete in London. She tweeted, | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
dreams come true. For the organisers, more problems. The bad | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
weather meant that the rowing was cancelled and they are investigating | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
an attack on a media buzz. Stones, according to officials, bullets, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
according to some on-board. Either way, another security headache. For | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
sporting drama, the rugby sevens. Britain's men through to the | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
knockout stage after beating one of the favourites, New Zealand. They | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
will be hoping there is more celebrations to come. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
This is how the medal table looks right now. | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Four of those medals have come from GB's swimmers. | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
It's worth pointing out though that so far Team GB have won more medals | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
in Rio than they had at this stage in London 2012. | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
You can of course continue to follow all the action | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
from Rio 2016 on the BBC with live coverage for the rest of the evening | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
and into the early hours across TV, radio and online. | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
A man who worked in a children's home in South London before becoming | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
a Catholic priest has been jailed for 12 years after finally admitting | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
that he sexually abused 12 children dating back to the 1970s. | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
67-year-old Philip Temple first went on trial in the 1990s | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
After avoiding justice for decades, he was arrested again last | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt has more details. | :12:11. | :12:20. | |
The now closed Shirley Oaks children's home in south London was | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
one of the places where Philip Temple was able to sexually abuse | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
vulnerable boys and girls entrusted to his care in the 70s. The | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
67-year-old, described in court as a skilful manipulator, later became a | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
priest. That did not stop the abuse. Today, he was jailed for 12 years, | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
after admitting offences against 12 children, one believed to have been | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
just six. This man, who cannot be identified, once a young | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
parishioner, told of his abuse at two trials. Philip Temple lied and | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
was acquitted. The effect is severe and lasts for ever. I think there | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
are ways to manage it and ways you can move forward. But it is still | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
always there. In the 70s, working in children's homes, Philip Temple was | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
skilled at appearing a father figure to get close to his victims. He | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
eventually left Shirley Oaks after complaints. In 1981, she became a | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
Roman Catholic monk. Then he was ordained as a priest at the North | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
London church, where the order was based. In the 90s, defaced two | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
trials for abuse, which he has now admitted lying, allowing him to walk | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
free. The Roman Catholic Church in England says it raised concerns | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
about Philip Temple, but there was a limit to what it could do in the | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
dioceses of Westminster. That is because, as a monk, he was | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
answerable to the head of his order in Italy. Today, the Catholic Church | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
says it has robust safeguarding policies in place. After hearing the | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
sentencing at Woolwich Crown Court, campaigners representing children | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
abused in care say, over the years, there were clear opportunities to | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
stop him. I am shocked at the many missed opportunities. When we are | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
talking about historical sex abuse, in this case we are really talking | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
about historical failings. If the children had been listened to the | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
first time, other children would not have been abused. The judge | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
apologised to the victims that were not listened to, saying wider | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
inquiries would find out what more could have been done. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Our top story this evening, Britain's summer of rail strikes, | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
another announced on Eurostar that will hit holiday-makers. Coming up, | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
I'm at the Edinburgh fringe Festival is to see and hear what top | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
comedians have to say about breakfast, Trump, -- Brexit and | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Isis. Coming up on Olympic Sports Day | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
at half past on BBC News. Sally Conway storms to the Olympic | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
semifinal, beating the World There's been | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
another extraordinary twist The Republican Party candidate | :15:11. | :15:20. | |
Donald Trump has sparked fresh | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
controversy by appearing to suggest to prevent the Democratic Party | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
candidate Hillary Clinton from taking away | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
their right to bear arms. Critics said the remarks amounted | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
to an assassination threat. From Washington our | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt Donald Trump in the midst | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
of a new firestorm. The issue, the right to own guns, | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
guaranteed by the Second Amendment. A right that he says | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
would be at risk from If she gets to pick her judges, | :15:57. | :15:58. | |
nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
people, maybe there is. Some interpreted this | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
as tantamount to a death threat. An incitement | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
to use violence against Hillary Clinton | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
if gun rights were threatened. Nobody who is seeking a leadership | :16:15. | :16:16. | |
position, the leadership of the country, | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
should do anything to Donald Trump's allies | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
struggled to defend him. I heard about | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
the Second Amendment quote. You should never joke | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
about something like that. In the parks and on the streets | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
today, Donald Trump was, Some felt that the controversy | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
had been exaggerated by the media. A comment like that, clearly, | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
leaves me in a bad way. Not because I think he's calling | :16:51. | :17:04. | |
for people to really take up arms and do something with their guns | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
about what they think. There were a lot of | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
comments made that I definitely think are overtly | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
inappropriate and horrible, evil. Many people are baffled as to what | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
Donald Trump's campaign strategy Few believe that these controversial | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
remarks are planned in advance. Certainly, they get him attention | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
but what is strange that there seems no effort to reach out | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
to those independent voters One group firmly backing | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Donald Trump, the gun lobby. Airing commercials fiercely | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
opposed to Hillary Clinton. Protected by armed guards, | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
for 30 years but she doesn't believe in your right to | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
keep a gun at home for some defence. The question being asked on almost | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
a daily basis is this, has Donald Nearly one fifth of | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
registered Republicans say they want him to drop out | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
of the presidential race. Nearly a quarter of health trusts | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
in England are failing to provide some treatments for severe mental | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
illness to patients The findings - from | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
a Freedom of Information request - flatly contradict commitments by | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
NHS England to provide the service The recommended investment | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
for the care plan is also not Our Health Editor | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
Hugh Pym has more detail. Some who endure it say | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
they hear voices in the head. Early intervention | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
has been shown to be highly effective with a package | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
of care on offer from the NHS. Sarah Broadbent has no doubts | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
about its potential but it hadn't been | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
introduced when her brother Matthew had his first breakdown | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
more than 20 years ago. Since then, he's been | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
in and out of hospital. I'm not suggesting he | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
would have been one of those high-flyers but he could have | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
gone on to have a life that has more His life is very | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
lacking in joy and a life of 23 years gone | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
by with limited joy and just torment | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
is a pretty punishing way to exist. From April this year, | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
NHS England has been committing to a new early | :19:31. | :19:31. | |
intervention waiting time standard. It's for patients aged 14-65 | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
who are experiencing psychosis to receive treatment | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
with a target of at least half beginning within two | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
weeks of referral. But of commissioning groups | :19:42. | :19:42. | |
who responded to a Liberal Democrat enquiry, 23% | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
said they offered it only up to 35 The party's health spokesman claims | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
it makes a mockery of NHS It's discrimination | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
against people who suffer from I want to get across | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
the message to the whole of the NHS that it's | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
about time we started treating mental health | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Michelle, not her real name, cares for her son who has severe | :20:11. | :20:27. | |
mental-health problems. She thinks his treatment has been very poor. | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
I've had to phone and chase and find out when he's going to be seen next. | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
Medication issues. I feel like I'm constantly chasing all the time. And | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
NHS spokesman said that... It's worth noting that while | :20:41. | :20:55. | |
Scotland and Wales have early intervention programmes for serious | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
mental illness, there is no standard waiting times for treatment and | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
Northern Ireland does not have a similar service. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
Forest fires have been ravaging parts of Portugal as a result | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
of high temperatures and strong winds. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
Many of the fires have been burning since last Saturday, | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
and have so far killed one person in the north of the country, | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
and three people on the Portugese island of Madeira. | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
The government said almost 4,000 firefighters were battling | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
the blazes but they have asked for help from other EU countries. | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
One of Britain's richest men, the Duke of Westminster has died | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
suddenly at the age of 64 after being taken ill | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor was a close friend of Prince Charles | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
who said he was "deeply saddened" by his death. | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Families such as mine are caretakers. It's as simple as that. | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
The only advantage of being a duke, it does help in a crowded restaurant | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
when you're trying to get a table. That's the only advantage I can see. | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
His front drive in Cheshire was a mile and a quarter long and he owned | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
some of the most expensive bits of London. But he was no playboy but a | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
serious fellow. Also were his ancestors. They were ruffians but no | :22:16. | :22:23. | |
more than any other once. Isn't that the origin of aristocratic families, | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
better ruffians than the rest? Very much so. He worked hard running the | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
family business, ruthlessly, some said. He loved shooting and bought a | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Lancashire estate for the grouse moors. It was where he died. Another | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
passion, the Territorial Army, he rose to be its commander. A fortune | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
made by a rich heiress, who married a Grosvenor bringing two farms just | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
west of London. One was modern day Mayfair and the other became | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Belgravia. The Duke fought hard against legislation that threatened | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
his inheritance. The Grosvenor is our good friends with the Windsors. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
The Queen was a guest when the Duke's daughter married. His son is | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
the new godfather to William and Kate's son George. As a property | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
developer and aristocrat, he was shy, never seeming entirely | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
comfortable with the extraordinary hand that fate dealt to him. | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Now it's that time of year again when everyone who's anyone | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
in the world of comedy heads to Edinburgh for the | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
And this year - given the extraordinary | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
events in the news - comedians have had no problems | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz is there for us now. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
I was really interested to come up to the Edinburgh fringe Festival | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
just to see how the world's top comics would treat those momentous | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
events. Would they ignore them and stick to their usual whimsical tales | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
of everyday life or would they meet them head-on? It's been very much a | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
case of the latter, as you will see in this report which contains some | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
language that some viewers might find unpleasant. | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
I'm not going to lie, originally, this show was about | :24:23. | :24:24. | |
how we have these turbulent times in politics but, in the end, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
sense prevails and - thank God - we stayed in the EU. | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
Right now life is good for political | :24:31. | :24:31. | |
It's a brand-new show written since the 23rd of June. | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
There's a seemingly endless supply of new material on which to riff | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
and an audience eager for some insight into a worrying world. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
I honestly think they'll be old people going to nursing homes | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
a good 15 years too early as a result of that referendum. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
It feels to me like there's a distinctly political edge | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
I know there's racism and all this because | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
But I take comfort in knowing that racists are not that bright. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
It is different this year because so much has happened. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
So if I come on and talk about my moustache | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
everybody is going to sit there and go, | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
"Well, fair enough but what do you think about this?" | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
"What do you think about what happened and how | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
"Because you're brown, you're a woman, you're Muslim." | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
"I mean, what are you going to say about this?" | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
In London I was walking down the street and this man shouted | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
out, he went "Oi! Park, go back to India!" | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
Brexit is a hot topic, as is Trump and Clinton | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
I did consider myself a foreigner, obviously, but never immigrant. | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
The idea behind the show, the idea came to me when I was asked | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
to front a TV programme called an immigrant's guide to Britain. | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
A programme for immigrants by immigrants. | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
I thought, hang on, I'm not an immigrant. | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
I thought about it and, probably, it's the lack of | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
Like, I feel, to qualify as an immigrant you have | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
to have clung onto a banana boat, or hidden in the back of a lorry at | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
I had this guy telling me recently, Naseem, | :26:15. | :26:31. | |
Just because an muslin doesn't mean I support Isis, you idiot. | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Naseem Hussain's take on Islamophobia is | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
at this year's Fringe of the public's appetite | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
Time for a lock at the weather with John Hammond. Pretty good news for | :26:49. | :27:07. | |
the weekend. Deckchair weather for some of ours but for some it is | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
still absolutely pouring with rain and will continue for a couple of | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
days. We could see a lot of water cascading down off the mountains so | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
watch out for that. Rain spreading down across Scotland and the North, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
just drips and drabs reaching the south-east. The main event across | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
the North. Wherever you are tonight it won't be as cool as last night. A | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
damp and dismal start further north. East, much of the rain will ease | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
away. It will keep ringing across the West of Scotland all afternoon. | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
Elsewhere, pleasant temperatures. Good news for the first day of the | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
Test match. Strong winds continue across northern areas into Friday. | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
Most other places will be fine and dry with increasingly warm sunshine, | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
especially across south-eastern areas. Into the mid-20s to end the | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
week. This weather front is going to slump down across the country and | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
high pressure will build, hence my optimism that we are going to have a | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
good one. Most people will see something in the way of some sound. | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
-- sunshine. It will be mostly dry and pleasantly warm and getting even | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
warmer for the early part of next week. | :28:41. | :28:42. |