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A van is driven into a crowded tourist area in Barcelona. Police | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
treating it as a terror attack. A number of people have been killed | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
and several injured - People ran in panic, | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
there are reports of gunfire in the area and two gunmen | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
entering a restaurant. We're still getting information | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
on this and we'll bring A level results are out - | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
the number of top grades goes up for the first time in six years | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
and now boys come out on top The cyclist accused of killing | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
a woman when he crashed into her - a court hears he had | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
no front brakes. The school in the shadow | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
of a disaster - we speak to the head teacher who lost four pupils | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
in the Grenfell Tower fire. They supported each | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
other through it. So you should assume | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
the best about children and in a challenge like this, | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
we saw they could rise to it. What difference does | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
the colour of a ball make? England's first day-night Test match | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
- they take on the West Indies. And coming up in | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Sportsday on BBC News: England's women have | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
booked their place in the semi finals of the rugby World Cup | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
with a comprehensive 47-26 victory Good evening and welcome | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
to the BBC News at Six. Police in Barcelona, | :01:25. | :01:49. | |
Spain's second largest city, have confirmed that they are dealing | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
with a terror attack. About two hours ago a van was driven | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
on to the pavement in a popular Police have confirmed | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
there are a number of fatalities Around the same time two gunmen | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
are reported to have barricaded The fan attack happened in an area | :02:05. | :02:20. | |
popular with tourists known as Las Ramblas. Police have shut down Metro | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
and trains stations. This report contains distressing images. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Terror on the streets of one of Spain's busiest cities. A white van, | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
now motionless, but earlier, according to witnesses, was driven | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
into crowds of people, leaving dozens injured. Lawyer and | :02:44. | :02:59. | |
University of Glasgow witness, Aamer Anwar was there. Five or six people | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
were seriously injured. The emergency services were on the scene | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
with machine guns and guns and people were very jittery and we were | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
pushed back again. We keep getting pushed back and the police are | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
absolutely everywhere. On a sunny afternoon, Las Ramblas would have | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
been packed with people. This is where tourists flock to, where | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
families would have been enjoying a day out. The pictures in the | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
aftermath are all too familiar, reminiscent of recent terrorist | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
attacks in other cities. People running in terror and people being | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
tended to on the streets. The police were telling everybody just to run | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
and there was a loud crashing noise, but I did not stop to look back. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
There was an immediate stampede in every direction down the narrow | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
streets by Las Ramblas. What is not yet clear is where the attacker or | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the attackers might be. Catalan police are searching for the driver | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
of the van, who witnesses say fled on foot. The Metro and train | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
stations in the area have been closed. This evening, the centre of | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
Barcelona remains cordoned off, and the city and its people under | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
attack. Sarah Campbell, BBC News. Our security correspondent | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Gordon Corera is here. We are getting confirmation the | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
authorities are treating this as a terror attack, so what are the | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
priorities now for the police? From very early on it looked like a | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
terrorist incident because of where it took place. Las Ramblas is a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
densely populated tourist area where tourists congregate in Barcelona. It | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
was likely to be the kind of place where attackers might target, | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
especially with a vehicle like this. Quickly the police sealed off the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
area. The priority then and now is to identify the perpetrator and find | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
them. It does appear from witnesses, the individual driving the van | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
mounted the pavement that went into people, fled on foot. There were | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
some reports they had gone into a bar and will holed up there, but | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
that hasn't been confirmed. Lisa played down the suggestion there was | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
gunfire, but a manhunt is under way and some said there might be a | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
second suspect that large. And that, as well as treating the injured will | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
be the priority for the police in terms of making sure the threat | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
isn't ongoing. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but there is a | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
pattern here, the use of vehicles to attack people? We have seen it in | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
the last couple of years being something used by people who can see | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the potential impact of what this, what people call, low-tech | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
terrorism. It was used in Nice, in Berlin at a Christmas market and in | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the UK, London Bridge, Westminster Bridge, Finsbury Park and in two of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
those attacks, London Bridge and Westminster Bridge, he had | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
individuals continuing an attack with knives and that is why the | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
authorities will be prioritising this issue of finding the attacker | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
as fast as they can. OK, there is actually a press conference going on | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
now in Barcelona. We can see the pictures. We will bring you the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
latest and we will have the team listening to what is being said and | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
bring Gordon back if necessary to check on those latest developments. | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
As I say, that is happening right now in Barcelona. The rest of the | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
news now... Hundreds of thousands | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
of teenagers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland now | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
have their A level grades. This year's overall results show | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
a slight increase in top grades And after trailing the girls for 17 | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
years boys have now pulled ahead. In England - this was the first year | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
students were taking new-style Their results were based purely | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
on the exam, with no Here's our Education Editor Branwen | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Jeffreys with all the detail. I am at Hull University in the city | :07:02. | :07:19. | |
of culture. Today has seen the beginning of a series of massive | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
changes to the exam systems. Changes which will ultimately alter every | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
A-level and every GCSE. But of course, today is also a story of | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
individual families and their children. We have been hearing from | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
young people about their experiences. | :07:39. | :07:38. | |
So, I'm on the way to a level results now and I'm | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
Yeah, I'm starting to feel nervous, I'm not going to lie. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
It's all going to be over in literally like ten | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
For Sarah, Alex and George, a day of reckoning. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Two years of hard work, results riding on one set of exams. | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
So how do they feel about the new A-levels, | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
where AS exams no longer count in some subjects? | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
I personally found it really stressful. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
The idea that everything all of a sudden is at the end of two | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
years is very intimidating, I think, for many of us. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
It really is like you've got to remember things from two years | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
ago, and you sit there in the exam room going, "Is this right?" | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
You still doubt yourself a little bit. | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
Just the old system, you did bad in the AS results | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
and you have to reset that, but this gives you a chance to | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
Despite the stress, exam results have held up, | :08:36. | :08:45. | |
And for boys, the best top grades for decades, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
getting more A and A stars than the girls. | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
All their hopes and fears compressed into a few hours | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
and a piece of paper, and in England this year the stakes | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
have felt particularly high with students road testing | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
With more new style A-levels next year, head teachers say | :09:06. | :09:14. | |
We know what we want from our students but we haven't had a map, | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
we haven't had directions, and when we have had these, they've | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
been wrong or incorrect, so we have had to muddle | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
through that and use our experience to get to the destination now. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
That's an incredibly stressful situation. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
For those who missed out on grades, places are still on offer at Hull | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Hello, this is the University of Hull clearing centre. | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Thousands will still get to uni through clearing. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
Tuition fees, now more than 9,000 a year. | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
No sign yet it's putting young people off. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
But at the top of universities, they know the debate has shifted. | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
It has opened up, and I think the key issue for universities | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
is that the funding we have for higher education | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
must have the confidence and trust of young people. | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
It's important that young people are not deterred | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
This campus will be full come October. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
Students focused on their future, not on a debt most | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
University isn't for everyone, but overall, George, the evidence is | :10:22. | :10:38. | |
still clear. If you get a degree you will learn more throughout your | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
lifetime. The economics haven't shifted, what has? The politics are | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
around tuition fees were altered by the general election and we can | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
expect this debate to heat up, not cool down, over the next year. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
And one of the most high profile students who got their results today | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
was Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
Pictured here getting her grades this morning, the 20-year-old has | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
gained a place at Oxford University to study philosophy, | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
Malala was campaigning on girls' rights to education in her native | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Pakistan in 2012 when she was almost killed by the Taliban. | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
We want to go back to the terror attack in Barcelona. The latest is a | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
Barcelona City Council says he can confirm at least one person is dead | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
and 32 people are injured, in the van attack when it drove onto the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
pavement in an area popular with tourists in Barcelona, the country's | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
second largest city. We will bring you more of course, when we have it. | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
A jury at the Old Bailey has heard that a cyclist who's accused | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
of killing a mother of two when he crashed into her was riding | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
Charlie Alliston hit Kim Briggs in east London | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
He denies manslaughter and another charge. | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Kim Briggs was killed when crossing the road in her lunch break. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
She was knocked down by a man on his bicycle. | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
In what's thought to be illegal first, the cyclist, | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
In what's thought to be a legal first, the cyclist, | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
Charlie Alliston, is charged with manslaughter. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
Moments before the crash, he was travelling at | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
In the final metres, he slowed to between ten | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
Charlie Alliston told the court he shouted out to Kim Briggs | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
to warn her before he reached this yellow crisscross area on the road. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
A few metres later, he shouted again. | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
He then said he swerved to the left to try and pass her on the inside. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Kim Briggs was already out in the road. | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
He told the court that at the last moment, she stepped | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
Illegal on the road and according to the prosecution, why | :12:48. | :13:00. | |
But in court today, Mr Alliston claimed he couldn't | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
have avoided Mrs Briggs, even with a front brake. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
Comments written by Mr Alliston online in the hours and days | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
following the crash have been read out in court. | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
On the evening of the crash he wrote... | :13:12. | :13:19. | |
The charge of manslaughter is unusual in the case of a cyclist. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Mr Alliston denies that charge and a separate charge brought under | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
a very old law of intent to cause bodily harm by wonton | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
Tom Burridge, BBC News at the Old Bailey. | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
In the heat of the row about President Trump's response | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
to last weekend's violence in Virginia we might have | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
forgotten that it all started with an argument over a statue. | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Far right nationalists are against proposals to remove | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
symbols celebrating those who fought to defend slavery in | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
Now, in more comments that might prove controversial, | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
President Trump says removing the statues is tantamount to ripping | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Here's our North America Correspondent Nick Bryant. | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
Wall Street, not just the spiritual home of US commerce, | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
but where America inaugurated its first president, | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
He is regarded as a national hero, the general who | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
But he was also a slave owner and Donald Trump suggested today | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
these kinds of statues could be in jeopardy if monument | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
celebrating the Confederacy, which fought during the civil war | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
Sad to see the history and culture of our great | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
country being ripped apart, he wrote on Twitter. | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
With the removal of beautiful statues and monuments. | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
You cannot change history, but you can learn from it. | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
The debate has been reignited by these torch carrying, | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
They gathered around a statue of the Confederate General Robert E Lee | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
in Charlottesville last week to protest the city's | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
Donald Trump was slow to single them out for criticism and then said | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
there was some very fine people on both sides, during last | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
Anti-racist protesters in North Carolina this week, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
pulled down the monument to Confederate soldiers. | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Other cities like Baltimore have decided to remove statues | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
There are more than 700 Confederate monuments, | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
symbols of hate to many African-Americans, symbols | :15:37. | :15:37. | |
But does it distort that debate, to liken Confederate generals such | :15:38. | :15:46. | |
as Robert E Lee with more unifying figures like George Washington? | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
People who have tried, including the president, | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
people who have tried to suggest an equation between Thomas Jefferson | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
and George Washington on the one hand and Robert E Lee | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
and Stonewall Jackson on the other, are people who are either ignorant | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
of history or willing to distort it in an incredibly cynical way. | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
In Charlottesville last night, the light came | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
There is still anger here that Donald Trump says | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
both sides were to blame for the weekend's violence. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
This has been a moment of soul-searching in America, but that | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
process hasn't been led by the president, as would ordinarily be | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
the case. Quite the opposite. Donald Trump is the prime cause of this | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
national reckoning. It is his presidential stature but is also in | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
question. At least one person has died and 32 | :16:40. | :16:56. | |
others injured after a van drove into pedestrians on one of | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Barcelona's busiest streets. Police are treating the incident as a | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
terrorist attack. I will have news of the pink ball experiment in Test | :17:09. | :17:09. | |
cricket. Double Olympic medallist and former | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
World Champion Becky James has announced her retirement | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
from cycling at the age of just 25. She now intends to set | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
up a baking business. Pupils at the Kensington | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
Aldridge Academy, the school which sits in the shadow | :17:29. | :17:29. | |
of the Grenfell Tower, received Four students and one former | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
pupil died in the fire. Others lost their homes | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
as they were preparing The headteacher of the school, | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
David Benson, has been telling our education correspondent, | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Gillian Hargreaves, about how proud Their school lies at the foot | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
of the burned out tower. They haven't been able to use | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
it for three months. 50 pupils had to flee their homes, | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
five children died. This is the first time | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
the headteacher has spoken It was very, very difficult | :18:00. | :18:01. | |
and very, very challenging. There was the emotion | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
of the situation and the deep for members of our school community, | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
but there was also a whole load You know, children have one chance | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
in life at an education. Today, at least, there | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
were results to celebrate at their temporary school mile | :18:20. | :18:29. | |
away from the tower. I think that the fact | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
that we can walk in here and get our results | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
and have smiles on our faces, | :18:37. | :18:37. | |
I think it's part of remembering, and it's part of celebrating | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
the people who lived in Grenfell. Our strength brings strength | :18:42. | :18:43. | |
to the community, and strength in the community I think | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
is everything we can hope for. We're sticking together, | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
rather than getting angry. We are still trying to, | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
like, obviously move on, but we will never move | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
on from what happened. And although we don't | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
want to mention it, Although barely touched by the fire, | :19:06. | :19:06. | |
the school remains shut until next Easter, as it's | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
within the police cordon. To lose five pupils, | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
four all at once, two in one year group, that is immense | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
for a school to ensure. I'm incredibly proud of my staff | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
and what they've done. What I saw after Grenfell | :19:26. | :19:37. | |
was incredible because, you know, they had the bravery and the courage | :19:38. | :19:52. | |
to come back in, feeling very confused and uneasy | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
about what had happened. And they had the maturity to listen | :19:56. | :19:56. | |
to us about what we were saying was important, and then | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
they supported each So, you know, you should assume | :20:01. | :20:01. | |
the best about children and in a challenge like this we saw | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
that they could rise to it. After all of that, today's | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
a good day for you. Mm, today is a really | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
good day for us. The headteacher of the | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Kensington Aldridge Academy, David Benson, speaking | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
to our Education Correspondent A massive fire at a fruit | :20:21. | :20:21. | |
market in Glasgow has been Firefighters were called | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
to the Blochairn Fruit Market in the north east of the city | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
in the early hours of the morning. and there were no reports | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
of injuries. The education watchdog Ofsted has | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
published a damning report into Learndirect Limited - | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
the UK's largest adult training Ofsted rated the company, | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
which has received hundreds of millions of pounds of public | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
money, as inadequate. Now the Department for Education has | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
said it will withdraw On its website, Learndirect Limited | :20:57. | :20:58. | |
promises to kick-start careers and inspire potential, | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
but some on apprentice schemes and learning programmes have | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
complained on social media. "A huge waste of time", | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
"undertrained", "no And now Ofsted has rated | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
the company inadequate. Some of the findings in today's | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
report raise concerns about the standards of teaching | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
and not enough people Ofsted found multiple evidence of no | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
new skills being delivered. Around a third of apprentices | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
were not receiving the required training they would expect, | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
which is therefore not a great surprise that many | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
were failing their courses. Learndirect Limited was given | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
the lowest possible grade Back in the spring, the company came | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
here to the High Court to try and block the publication of this | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
critical Ofsted report. They argued the publication | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
could lead to a catastrophic withdrawal of funding, | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
but the people who wanted the report We have an extensive library | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
of courses and qualifications... The Government has now announced | :22:09. | :22:16. | |
the contract with Learndirect will be wound down gradually, | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
ending in July next year It's very clear that the senior | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
leaders and directors just haven't really paid the attention they need | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
to the quality. Because quality doesn't | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
just happen by chance. You have to work at it all the time, | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
and unfortunately it's the learners and apprentices | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
who will be losing out. In a statement, Learndirect Limited | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
said they were continuously improving services and outcomes | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
for learners, and went on to say the process behind Ofsted's report | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
did not provide an accurate reflection of the current quality | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
of Learndirect Limited's training, due to the unrepresentative sample | :22:50. | :22:51. | |
size and use of legacy data. Around 73,000 people | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
are in Learndirect training or on a qualification course, | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
and there have been But after today's damning reports, | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
the provider will now be hoping England are taking on the West | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
Indies in the first day/night And all eyes are on the pink ball, | :23:13. | :23:24. | |
which is being used for the first time in a Test match | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
in this country. England went into bat first | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
and there were half centuries Our sports correspondent | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Joe Wilson reports. If you came to Birmingham this week | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
coming new about the cricket. I shoot towards the ground | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
in afternoon sun, spectators were not expecting | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
to leave until 9:00pm. I think we'd be coming anyway, | :23:54. | :23:54. | |
but it's exciting to be We are more excited | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
than we would have been. You are in lovely green shorts, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
short sleeves, also a rucksack, is there another couple | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
of layers in there? Some waterproofs, some layers, | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
along with the provisions, yeah. The pink ball novelty may have | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
attracted some extra fans. Must remember though, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
this is a Test match. So the first pink ball delivery | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
was met with about the most familiar Cook had yet another | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
new opening partner, Mark Stoneman on debut, | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
lasted six balls. But Cook seemed to be seeing | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
it as clearly as ever. His first Test 50 with | :24:31. | :24:45. | |
a pink ball, 56 in total. And there was Joe Root, | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
batting serenely. It could be that the ball wasn't | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
helping the bowlers, it could be that the bowlers | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
weren't especially good. And it could be that England had | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
two exceptional Test Well, if entertainment | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
is what the masses want, it's what this Test match | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
is supposed to give. And from an England perspective, | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
especially if you are the captain, a pink ball looks pretty good | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
on its way to the boundary. Let's remember the whole point about | :25:17. | :25:36. | |
the pink ball as it is visible under floodlights and they will be turned | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
on soon. Play Test matches at a time when people can come and watch, | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
that's the whole point but the feel of the game might be about to change | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
in the next few hours because the Twilight zone is the time the | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
batsmen tend to fear. It has been another day of sunshine | :25:51. | :26:04. | |
and showers today. The showers have been frequent across Northern | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
Ireland and Scotland and during the afternoon bubbling up across | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
south-west England too. But there's been more sunshine to go around as | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
well, and in that sunshine it felt warmer. But when the heavy downpours | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
came down, some of them were heavy as well. Overnight tonight there | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
will be further showers coming and going but more particularly across | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Northern Ireland, Scotland and England were some of those showers | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
have been heavy, there's even a chance of rumbles of thunder during | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
the night. It will be cooler for north-western parts of the UK and | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
that takes us into Friday. Another day of sunshine and showers but with | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
a difference. The showers will clump together, and it will be a blustery | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
day everywhere. A swathe of fairly strong winds going across Northern | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
Ireland, potentially reaching 50 mph around coastal fringes. Enough to | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
bring down some tree branches so we could see localised disruption from | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
that. They will also be knocking the temperatures down, highs up to 21. | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
Still feeling OK in the sunshine on Saturday but the bluster is winds | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
still with us in the north-west. You have a better chance of dodging the | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
downpours and staying dry. That's the first half of the weekend but | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
for the second half we have to look out in the Atlantic, where hurricane | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
Gert will combine with an area of low pressure. This area of tropical | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
moisture will bring heavy rain to the western side of the UK as we go | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
into Sunday. Back now to our main story, | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
the van attack in Barcelona. Well we have been on air, | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
authorities have confirmed one person is dead and 32 have been | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
injured, ten of them seriously. Police say they are treating the | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
incident as a terror attack. This wasn't just a city centre area, | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
it is popular with tourists? That's right, it is one of the most famous | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
streets in Barcelona, Las Ramblas, and that's why the suspicion was | :28:19. | :28:21. | |
this was a terrorist attack, something the police have now | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
confirmed. It fits into a pattern of other terror attacks we have seen in | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
the past, for example using vehicles in Nice on Bastille Day, and in | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
Germany at the Christmas market using a lorry so it fits into that | :28:39. | :28:41. | |
pattern. The Foreign Office have said they are in contact with the | :28:42. | :28:46. | |
Spanish authorities and if there are any Britons there, they should | :28:47. | :28:50. | |
follow the advice of the emergency services. As we have seen, a van | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
driven into a crowd. It presents all sorts of challenges when you are | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
talking about prevention. That's right, this low-tech attack is | :29:01. | :29:03. | |
something the authorities have been struggling to prevent. We have seen | :29:04. | :29:17. | |
it in the UK. It is harder to spot the preparations, it just | :29:18. | :29:19. | |
potentially takes one person renting a van with the intent to do it. Some | :29:20. | :29:22. | |
people have been talking here about the ability to restrict the renting | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
of these vans. Thank you. There will be more on the BBC News channel. | :29:27. | :29:29. |