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Contaminated blood - the worst treatment scandal | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
in the history of the NHS - the government orders an inquiry. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
More than 2000 people died after being given blood products | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
in the 70s and 80s contaminated with HIV and hepatitis C. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
They deserve to be told what went wrong, why it went wrong | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
and who is responsible for what happened. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Andy Evans, who was infected when he was five and | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
diagnosed with AIDS at 16 - he's campaigned for this for years. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
At the very minimum we were let down. | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
At the worst, I think there are people to blame for a lot of the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
We'll be asking why it's taken so long to bring about this inquiry | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
President Trump's son releases e-mails appearing to show | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
he was offered information on Hillary Clinton as part | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
of Russia's support for Trump's election campaign. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Making work fair and decent - short-term contracts should qualify | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
for sick and holiday pay says a government commissioned report. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
The UN says almost 3000 civilians remain trapped | :01:10. | :01:10. | |
in the Iraqi city of Mosul, despite claims of victory over | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
We've a special report on the man whose plight has prompted calls | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
for more to be done to protect the rights of people | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
And Johanna Konta is making her bid to become the first British woman | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
to reach a Wimbledon semi final in almost 40 years. | :01:30. | :01:53. | |
Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
An appalling tragedy that should never have happened - | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
that's what the Prime Minister called the contaminated blood | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
The government today announced an inquiry into the worst treatment | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
At least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
such as hepatitis C and HIV, after being given blood | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
It's been called the worst disaster in the history of the NHS. | :02:19. | :02:31. | |
Patients trusted the service to deliver safe treatments, | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
including haemophiliacs needing blood clotting treatments, | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
but they were given products tainted with life-threatening viruses. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
I take one of those in the morning and one of these, both | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Andy has had a life on medication because he was given | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
At the age of five, he was infected with HIV and hepatitis C. | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Since then, all he is wanted is answers. | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
I'm very worried there was deliberate acts | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
At the very minimum, we were let down. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
At the worst, I think there are people to blame for a lot | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Much of the enquiry is focused on Whitehall and what was happening | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
Victims and their families have long argued that senior government | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
officials were aware of the dangers with contaminated blood | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
products and allowed patients to continue receiving them. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
And after that, they say, there was a cover-up. | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
A Scottish enquiry by a Judge Lord Penrose, | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
was dismissed by victims as a waste of time and they showed | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
An earlier enquiry in England was privately funded | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Today, a Labour MP who's campaigned on the issue told the Commons those | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
affected by the scandal were owed a debt of justice. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
They deserve to be told what went wrong. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Why it went wrong and who is responsible for what happened. | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
The story of the injustice they have suffered also needs to be set out | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
And a minister citing allegations that medical records were tampered | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
In light of these concerns, and a report of new evidence | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
and allegations of potential criminality, we think | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
it is important to understand the extent of what is claimed | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
The former Health Secretary, Andy Burnham, who alleged | :04:36. | :04:47. | |
there was a criminal cover-up says victims were failed | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
All political parties have let down those who've suffered as a result | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
And all parties must now put differences aside, | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
work together and give them truth and justice without any further | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
And for this campaigner, who has hepatitis C, | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
there's only one thing which really matters. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Nobody here is going away, we are staying, we're going to fight | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Whether that full truth emerges after this long campaign, | :05:13. | :05:21. | |
will depend on what sort of enquiry is convened and its powers. | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
And our Health Editor Huw Pym is with me now. | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
This is decades later, why has this enquiry being announced now and what | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
can it achieve? Government sources are making clear new evidence has | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
emerged in the last few weeks, including some published in the | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
newspaper and the material Andy Burnham was about to publish. That | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
is the reason. But there is the political aspect to this. On Sunday, | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
the leaders of the political party opposition parties called for this | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
enquiry. There was a debate scheduled in the House of Commons | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
called by a Labour MP to debate the issue. There was a possibility all | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
the opposition parties might have voted on it. We have new | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Parliamentary arithmetic. Just before the debate began, Downing | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Street sources indicated the government was minded to set up this | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
enquiry. It came as a surprise to the Scottish Government, it will be | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
a UK wide exercise. They said they had no warning. What ever the reason | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
is, what ever the timings, victims and their families are pleased it is | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
happening but they will be content unless it does get to the truth. | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
Thank you. President Trump's eldest son has | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
published a chain of e-mails about his meeting last year | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
with a Russian lawyer who's been Donald Trump Junior is told | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
that the Russian government wants to offer official documents that | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
would "incriminate" Hillary Clinton and be "very useful" to his father's | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
presidential campaign Our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
is in Washington for us tonight. Tell us more about these | :06:58. | :07:17. | |
revelations? For five months, there has been a shadow hanging over the | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
trump Administration as to whether there was collusion between the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Trumper election campaign and the Russians. Today, that story got a | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
whole lot more serious. Last June, there was a meeting between Donald | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer. Today, we got to read the e-mails | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
leading up to that meeting. It is worth quoting, the offer was to | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
provide the Trump campaign with some official documents that would | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
incriminate Hillary Clinton, which would be very useful to your father. | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
That is Donald Trump. It goes on, this is obviously very high level | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
and sensitive information and it is part of Russia and its government's | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
support for Mr Trump. There is an insight into what Donald Trump Jr | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
felt about this offer to dish the dirt on Hillary Clinton. He says, if | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
it is what you say, I love it. How damaging is all this, Gavin? Of | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
course, it is damaging. Particularly that Donald Trump Jr was prepared to | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
go to this meeting having received these e-mails beforehand. It also | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
establishes the Russian interest in influencing the American election. | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
But I think there are some questions as to the credibility of this | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
impresario. What where the levels of his contacts in Moscow? And there is | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
an open question as to what Donald Trump himself knew. But after today, | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
if you read this text, I think it is devastating and what they will do is | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
deep in this investigation into what is really now a very serious matter | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
for the Trump Administration. Gavin Hewitt, thank you. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
Workers on short term contracts in the UK should qualify for sick | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
pay and holiday pay and their employers should make | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Those are some of the recommendations in a major report, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
commissioned by the government which is calling for | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
changes to the running of the so-called "gig economy". | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Theresa May has welcomed the report, saying it makes a major | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
contribution to the debate about work practices in Britain. | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
But she says she doesn't want to stop the clock. | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Here's our economics editor Kamal Ahmed. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
It was the Prime Minister who made the points, the vast majority of us | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
spend more than half of our waking hours working. Whether | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
self-employed, single job or multiple, the world of work has | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
changed. Appearing alongside Theresa May, Matthew Taylor said it was time | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
for a reset. Yes, the country has been very good at creating work, | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
employment levels are at a record, but he said it was time to focus on | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
quality. National performance on the quantity of work is strong. The | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
quantity alone is not enough for a thriving economy and a fair society. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
We believe now is the time to complement that commitment in | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
creating jobs with the goal of creating better jobs. This man likes | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
his job, flexible, no guaranteed hours and few benefits for Uber. I | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
love to drive my car, I love people. I like to chat to interesting people | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
and the money and the ratio with my time, it is decent. For Felicity, it | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
is a different story from the world of 0-hour contracts. It is insecure | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
because a lot of the problems I had, sometimes if there was a lot of | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
work, I would work too much I get really tired. What does this new | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
world of work look like? One point, the majority of us, 63%, are in | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
full-time work. About 26% are in part-time work and 15% are | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
self-employed. There are many new ways of working and the enquiry | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
focuses on two. The gig economy, delivery food drivers, minicab | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
drivers, there are 1.3 million people in that part of the economy. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
And people with no guaranteed hours of work, on 0-hours contracts. There | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
are about 9005000 people on those. Then, there is what the report calls | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
the hidden economy. That is the cash in hand payments to your window | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
cleaner that avoid tax and official records. The report says that is | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
worth ?6.2 billion a year and should be brought to an end. Mr Taylor said | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
in his review, much of this new world of work is good work, but for | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
those being exploited, some solutions. Sick and holiday pay | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
benefits, a right to enhanced minimum wage because the work does | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
not guarantee hours. Then there is talk of better enforcement of the | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
present laws and higher taxes for those gig firms. Paying National | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
Insurance for the first time, which many of them avoid at the moment. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
The question is, will any of this happen? Given the Conservatives lack | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
one important thing, a majority. You cannot give any guarantees that you | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
will be able to pass a report like this and the recommendations it has | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
had through Parliament? I would hope, as I said in my speech, people | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
will see across the political world, will see the importance of | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
addressing this as an issue. It isn't just a here and now. It is | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
about the future of our economy. There seems little chance of | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
consensus. Labour said the report was a huge missed opportunity, | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
particularly when it came to not banning 0-hours contracts. We have | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
to get rid of 0-hours contracts. We have to get rid of the gig economy | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
and the bogus self-employment which is a wonderful way for a minority of | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
employers to avoid paying National Insurance contributions. Member this | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
man, Sir Philip Green? He published a report on government efficiency. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Sir Andrew Deal not, a review on social care, published with a | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
fanfare of publicity and then gently gathered dust on a shelf. The fear | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
for this report is, it could suffer a similar fate. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
A 24-year-old British man has been killed fighting | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
against the so-called Islamic State in Syria. | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
He's said to have died five days ago during the campaign to capture | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
He's the fourth British man to be killed while fighting | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
The United Nations say as many as 3,000 civilians remain trapped | :13:54. | :14:05. | |
in the Iraqi city of Mosul, despite government forces declaring | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
Skirmishes continue between Iraqi troops and so-called Islamic State. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
Those trapped are mostly young or elderly and are thought | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
to have become separated from their families. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
From Mosul, our Defence Correspondent Jonathan | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
This is an orphan of the battle for Mosul, a baby whose | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
He was just left at this clinic malnourished | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
They called him Marino after the Italian doctor | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
The Iraqi army says there are many more like him. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
We actually receive a lot of orphans. | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
I don't know what's going on out there, I think ISIS or the females | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
after their husbands, ISIS fighters, they die, | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
they run away empty-handed so they leave their babies behind. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
Iraq's Prime Minister may have declared victory, | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
but there's still pockets of resistance and streams | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
of civilians trying to make their way to safety. | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
They often collect the children of others along the way. | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
There are dozens of women and children here waiting to be | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
taken to safety and they're not just war weary, they are weak | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
If you listen, the only sound you can hear is babies crying. | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
At west Mosul's main hospital they're just about coping. | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
They're still having to treat the wounded as well as the weak. | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
This man is barely alive after being found in the rubble. | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
This is Galeb who's crying out, "where's my father"? | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
He only stops when they manage to distract him with a game. | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
It's difficult to manage him, he is crying, asking for his father, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
Something which I can't replace, I can't be his father, | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Even trying to identify the dead is proving difficult. | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
Search and rescue teams are looking out for any forms | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
of identity as they sift through the debris of war. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Iraq will not just have to rebuild this city, | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
Too many people with learning disabilities in England are not | :16:35. | :16:46. | |
getting good enough healthcare or being found the homes they need | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
That's according to an influential charity leader who was so moved | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
by the plight of one man that he has written to the Prime Minister | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
calling for an independent commissioner who can speak up | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
for people with learning difficulties. | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
More than 2,500 of them remain in secure units, | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
that's despite Government promises that they would close. | :17:08. | :17:09. | |
In one year alone, 50% of all deaths of people with a learning disability | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
were recorded as avoidable, compared to 23% for | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt has been to meet | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
Ian Shaw and his family whose distressing case | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
In the front room of the family home in Essex, 34-year-old | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
Ian Shaw lies quietly, comforted by having his | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
Ian can't speak for himself, he has learning disabilities, | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
He also has terminal cancer which his parents believe should | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
I was told there was no treatment, because it had been there a long | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
time and they couldn't treat it because it would be too much. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
It just wouldn't work, it had gone too far. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
The family asked us to tell Ian's story because they believe it shows | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
how the system still fails people with learning disabilities. | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
As he grew up, Ian's behaviour became challenging. | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
When in pain, he'd throw things and bang his head, scarring himself. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
In 2007, he was sent to the first of three secure units. | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
The problem being with epilepsy the secure units were | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
Because things became out of control, the secure | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
So once he was there it felt like you couldn't get him back out? | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
Yeah, it was ongoing. It was from one to the other. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
This weighty family file tells the story of Ian's life | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
It shows his mum raising numerous concerns about levels of medication | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
There are records of Ian being restrained, as well as family | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
letters fighting to get him moved to a supported home | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
It took nine years, but Ian left the last secure hospital in 2016. | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
Within months, testicular cancer was found. | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
The family believes in the secure unit early signs were first missed, | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Bernadette Adams provided the family with support in meetings | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
Jan has been saying for many, many months that Ian was in pain | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
or Ian had infections and she was, you know, on many occasions, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
In a statement, the Department of Health says. | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
"For too long people with learning disabilities have not been treated | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
equally by the health service and we're determined | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
It, and NHS England, also insist they are making | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
progress in improving care and closing secure units. | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
But not fast enough for Sir Stephen Bubb, | :20:09. | :20:10. | |
author of two reports examining the problems. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
He's written to the Prime Minister calling for an independent | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
commissioner to speak up for people like Ian. | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
It's scandalous and very sad the use of physical restraint, | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
overmedication, seclusion and a serious neglect of health | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
It's all too typical and it has led me to believe that institutional | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
care is at root abusive and we must close these institutions | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
The Government says it has no plans for an independent | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
But Ian's family want his legacy to be that in future others | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
A man has appeared in court over an acid attack on a woman | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
and her cousin on her 21st birthday in east London last month. | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
John Tomlin, who's 24 and from Canning Town, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
is accused of throwing acid at Resham Kham and Jameel Muthtar | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Both suffered severe burns to their face and body. | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
An aristocrat who wrote an online post offering ?5,000 | :21:22. | :21:23. | |
for the businesswoman and campaigner Gina Miller to be run over, | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
has been found guilty of two charges of malicious communications. | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
Rhodri Colwyn Philipps, the 4th Viscount St Davids, | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
wrote the message four days after Gina Miller won a Brexit legal | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Philipps, who called his comments "satire", | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Our legal correspondent Clive Coleman is at Westminster | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Tell us more about what happened in court. Well, people remember it was | :21:42. | :21:54. | |
just four days after Gina Miller, the businesswoman had won her | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
historic victory at the High Court forcing the Government to seek a | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
vote in parliament before triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty that | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
Rhodri Colwyn Phillips, the 4th Viscount St Davids posted on | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Facebook, ?5,000 for the first person to... My phone's gone | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
completely. His post essentially said ?5,000 for the first person to | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
accidentally run over Gina Miller. He said it referred to her as a vote | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
jumper, he said if this is what happens with immigrants they should | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
be sent back to their stinking jungles. In another post he referred | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
to an immigrant, he again offered money, ?2,000, to a man called | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Arnold who turned down the offer of a council house to be carved into | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
pieces. In court, he argued this all really a joke, it was satire, | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
political debate. He said that the phrase vote jumper was a statement | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
of fact and he really tried to brush the whole thing off as something | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
light-hearted. That didn't impress the chief Magistrate. She found him | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
guilty of the offence of sending menacing communications that were | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
racially aggravated and said he should expect a custodial sentence | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
when he is sentenced on Thursday. Clive, battling with torrential rain | :23:26. | :23:26. | |
there in London, thank you. At Wimbledon Jo Conta is battling to | :23:27. | :23:39. | |
make the semifinals. Venus Williams has won her match. Novak Djokovic is | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
through to the quarter-finals. Jo Wilson has been watching the action. | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
On Centre Court a British woman in a quarter-final, never mind the rest | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
of her victory, this progress here had taken her life to a different | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
level. Every mood, every move is scrutinised. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
She first played at Wimbledon as a junior, representing Australia. When | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
her parents moved to Britain she followed. Gained citizenship in | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
2012, she is not a product of one nation or a tennis system, but a | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
product of her own intense motivation. And British coaches soon | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
saw that. There was one time I came in from the courts outside, I think | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
it was freezing cold. I think she had six layers on. Outside on | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
artificial clay court, and her enthusiasm, I just thought it was | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
great and I said to her father, I said, this is top 5% in the world | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
material. What Wimbledon noticed this year was a lighter mood. She | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
brought home-baked treats to practice and seemed to be enjoying | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
life more. That can change very quickly. Broken in her first service | :24:50. | :25:07. | |
game. As the rallies boomed inside, roof closed, Konta found her range. | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Into a tie-break and the standard ever higher. What would separate the | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
players? Well, almost nothing. Look at hawk-eye. Fractional. But Halep's | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
point and soon her set. A crucial moments Konta made more mistakes. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Sad, but true. Adversity is an opportunity for | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
resilience as they say on the hill. In the second set she kept running, | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
and kept her composure. But there was no closure and so another | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
tie-break. Deep breath. Now ex-hale. One set all. And on it went. | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
Into the third set. She has managed to hold serve in her first service | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
game in that third set. It stands at 1-1. Already waiting in the | :26:05. | :26:18. | |
semifinals Venus Williams. Novak Djokovic went through, he was | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
annoyed Wimbledon didn't schedule his match to finish last night. This | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
evening, forget the rain, we are going to finish under the roof in | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
Centre Court. Halep and Konta is into the third kept at 1-1, it | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
couldn't be tighter. We don't need to ask what the weather is like in | :26:40. | :26:40. | |
London. Yes the rain has set in for the rest | :26:41. | :26:48. | |
of the day. It's not just across the Wimbledon area, we have seen rain | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
powering down across South Wales where this picture is from. The | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
radar shows the area of rain being pushed eastwards staidily through | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
the afternoon to the south-east with bright colours on the radar picture | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
showing where the heavier rain is, heading in to south-east England. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
It's not been raining everywhere today. We have had sunny spells | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
across north-west Scotland. And shower clouds there in the distance. | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
Tonight the rain band having reached parts of Yorkshire is going to sink | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
South Eastwards through the night. It will become stranded across | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
south-east England. Further north and west the weather becomes dryer | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
with clearing skies, quite a chilly night into rural parts of Scotland | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
with temperatures getting down to single figures. Tomorrow this rain | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
band is going to clear out of the way smartly. Then this area of high | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
pressure building in across the British Isles, that means early | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
morning rain clears from south-east England quickly during Wednesday | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
morning. Then the sunshine will come out and we will all see more sun | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
behind than today. Cloud bubbling up and temperatures near average for | :27:54. | :28:01. | |
the time of year. So at Wimbledon tomorrow what a | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
different story. Sunny spells and with light winds it will feel | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
pleasant in the sunshine. Thursday, more of the same weather on the way. | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
A chilly start to the day in rural parts. Sunshine through the day. A | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
few isolated showers are possible. The north-west of Scotland has the | :28:18. | :28:20. | |
greatest risk of showers moving in and the breeze picking up here. | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
Temperatures again reaching a high of about 23. | :28:24. | :28:28. | |
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