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A damning report accuses Royal Bank of Scotland of the systematic abuse | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
A leaked report shows that hundreds of the banks' business customers | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
complained they were mistreated, one man tells us he | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
It was like the Gestapo walking in, the aggression, | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
the divisiveness, the whole way in which they'd talked. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
RBS, the biggest lender to companies in the UK, | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
We'll be asking what more can be done to protect customers? | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Convoys of lorries, linked by Wi-Fi, with only one driver, | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
they'll be tested on Britain's roads next year to try to cut emissions | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
More than 20 people have been killed in violence in India | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
after a self-styled spiritual guru was convicted of rape. | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
Millions based for bank holiday disruption. | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
And one of the most hyped contests in boxing history, | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
Floyd Mayweather comes out of retirement to take on Ireland's | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Ben Stokes hits a crucial century for England's cricketers | :01:10. | :01:16. | |
as the West Indies control the opening day of the second | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:20. | :01:44. | |
They were small businesses that found themselves in need of help | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
during the financial crisis almost a decade ago. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
But instead of helping them their bank, Royal Bank of Scotland - | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
which itself had to be bailed out - has been accused of systematic | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
A leaked report by the Financial Conduct Authority, seen by the BBC, | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
says it mistreated almost all of its customers with 92% | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
of viable firms experiencing "some form of inappropriate action" | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
One small business owner has told the BBC he considered suicide. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
Here's our business correspondent, Joe Lynam. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
It's Britain's biggest lender to businesses, it's customers are the | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
backbone of our economy, but a major report has highlighted the scale of | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
mistreatment faced by some at the hands of RBS. We opened in December | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
98... This man used to own bowling complexes and was an RBS for deck | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
decades. When when profits fell during the recession, his bowling | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
bigs was placed into the restructuring unit, supposedly to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
get the company back on its feet. It was like the Gestapo walking in. The | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
aggression, the divisiveness, the whole way in which they'd talked. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
They would bang tables, shout, point fingers. The whole thing was, like, | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
they weren't in anyway here to help us through a difficult time. They | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
were trying to sub gentleman indicate us. They loaded additional | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
debt on the company and they had to surrender 80% of the company. I was | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
referred to a counsellor for treatment and prescribed | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
antidepressants and I became suicidal. He is suing RBS for breach | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
of duty and conspiracy. RBS said that the case was currently the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
subject of litigation and that the bank would be vigorously defending | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
these claims. Hundreds of RBS customers had long complained of | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
mistreatment, so the Financial Conduct Authority commissioned an | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
independent report which it received last year, but only published a | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
limited summary of. Now the BBC has acquired the full report and it | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
highlights the extent of the widespread inapolicewomaniate | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
treatment faced by RBS' own customers some of which was | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
systematic or orchestrated from within the bank. Crucially for RBS, | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
the report said the bank had shown narrow compliance with the | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
investigation instead of co-operating fully as it said it | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
had. The report for the Financial Conduct Authority found that 92% of | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
viable or otherwise healthy companies experienced some form of | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
inappropriate action by RBS, such as hiking up lending costs and fees | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
unnecessarily. Only 10% of those companies placed by RBS into GRG | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
returned intact to the main bank. Many of the rest were sold off, | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
forced to hand over substantial stakes to RBS or liquidated. In the | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
Ied IDst of reare reseeings they were earning ?1.2 billion for RBS. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
The bank said they had not handled complaints well and put in new | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
complaints process overseen by a retired High Court judge. The issue | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
of mistreatment has been examined by MPs who urged the Financial Conduct | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Authority to pub publish the full report. They forced lots of | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
companies who that could have survived and back into health, they | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
went out of business because they were mistreated because the bank | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
wanted to make a profit out of them. We have to learn that lesson. The | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Financial Conduct Authority said: For the bank, which is 73% owned by | :05:45. | :06:02. | |
UK taxpayers, this is yet another obstacle on the road to full health. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
Being accused of wholesale mistreatment of its own customers | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
may delay that rehabilitation. The mesh you spoke to felt suicidal | :06:13. | :06:24. | |
what more can be done to protect customers like him? The FCA admits | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
that in this report there may be regulatory gaps in what it can do if | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
a company is mistreated by its bank. If it has the power it will act. So | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
if you are a former RBS business customer and you feel as if you may | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
have been mistreated by the bank's he rerestruring division, GRG, the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
first port of call is the compensation scheme, overseen by a | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
retired High Court judge. I think the is pretty keen though to put | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
this latest chapter in its checkered CV behind it. Thank you. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Semi-automated, self-driving lorries will be tested out | :07:14. | :07:14. | |
The trucks will be connected wirelessly with up to three lorries | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
The technology has already been tested elsewhere in Europe | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
The Government says it will mean cheaper fuel bills, | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Our correspondent, Richard Lister, looks at how it will work. | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
This could be the future, the driver in the second | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
lorry is only steering, his speed is controlled | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
by a computer, which is monitoring what the lead driver does. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
These Dutch trials suggest lorries, linked by Wi-Fi like this, | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
can drive much closer together, and that may have benefits. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
That means 10% less fuel, that's money off yours | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
It's 10% less CO2, so we're going to be really helping the planet. | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
Congestion, if we get platooning, vehicles are running smoother | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
together, we're not going to get the traffic jams we have together. | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
We're going have robots and sensors not making mistakes hopefully that | :08:15. | :08:27. | |
This is one of the specially equipped lorries that'll take part | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
in the British trials - first on test tracks and then, | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
This technology is moving fast, some cars can already | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
The haulage industry wants to catch up. | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
So the big question is, do sophisticated lorries | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
Well, the short answer is, yes, most British roads are too small | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
and too complex for mighty road trains, but vehicles | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
like this could revolutionise long distance haulage. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
So Daniel, what we're going to do now, is jump into the vehicle | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
and then we'll pull forward and start the exercise. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Les is training the next generation of lorry drivers here in Slough. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Daniel's almost ready to take his test, neither is keen | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
on sharing the driver's seat with a computer. | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
If a driver sees something is wrong, they can deal with it, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
but if a machine breaks down, which is my main concern, | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
Wi-Fi connections, what if that breaks down? | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
I really don't think it's a good idea. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
We should be fully in control of the vehicles we're driving, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
there's other road users and you have to account | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
for all these things, all these factors all the time, | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
when your driving these size vehicles. | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
The British trials will have three lorries in a platoon, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
but even that, say some, is too many. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
UK motorways are the most congested in Europe, | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
we have more entrances and exits and if you've got a platoon | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
of driverless lorries, it's very difficult to see road signs. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
It'll be difficult to exit the motorway. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
But with several countries now testing this technology, | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
it looks like it is coming and the UK will have | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
At least 28 people have been killed in clashes in India | :09:45. | :10:06. | |
after a controversial self-styled religious leader | :10:07. | :10:07. | |
Violent protests have broken out in the states of Punjab and Haryana, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
which includes the home town of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
Thousands of his devotees went on the rampage after he was found | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
guilty of raping two women, 15 years ago. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
There are also reports of arson attacks in the capital, Delhi. | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
From there our South Asia correspondent, | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Violence broke out almost as soon as the guilty verdict was handed | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
down by the court in this town in North India. | :10:31. | :10:45. | |
More than 100,000 followers of the self-styled godman Guru, | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
had blocked to demonstrate their support. | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
They went on the rampage, burning cars and attacking the police, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
who responded with tear-gas and water cannon. | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
When they didn't subdue the crowd, they fired live ammunition. | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
And there have been clashes elsewhere, too. | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
This train was torched by an angry mob here | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
in the Indian capital, Delhi. | :11:00. | :11:00. | |
Elsewhere in the city, buses have been set on fire. | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
The guru has an absolutely enormous following. | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
He estimates 50 million people and the fear is, | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
that violence could spread in North India. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is a charismatic figure. | :11:15. | :11:23. | |
He calls himself the Messenger of God, | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
sports a huge beard and has a taste for enormous motor cycles. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
He has been dubbed "the Baba of bling", and stars in his own | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
movies and pop videos and, despite his extraordinary | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
appearance, he's regarded as a living saint by many | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
This is the latest in a series of scandals here in India, | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
involving those who claim exceptional spiritual powers. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Guru Ram Rahim says his sect is a social welfare and spiritual | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
group, but he's been accused of involvement in murder | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
and it is also claimed he persuaded 400 of his acolytes to have | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
themselves castrated in order to get closer to God. | :11:57. | :12:04. | |
It's that kind of devotion that explains the scale and intensity | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
of the violence here in North India and also why the authorities | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
A Pakistani man who is suspected of being an international | :12:10. | :12:21. | |
drugs dealer has been arrested in north London. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
Muhammad Asif Hafeez is wanted in America for importing heroin | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Known as 'The Sultan', he's thought to run a global drug | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
A former rock star, who's been jailed for multiple | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
cases of child abuse, could have been caught years | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
earlier if the police had investigated him properly. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Ian Watkins, the lead singer of the band Lost Prophets, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
was sentenced to 29 years in prison, four years ago. | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
But an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Commission found that South Wales Police missed a series | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
Our Wales correspondent, Sian Lloyd, reports. | :12:53. | :13:00. | |
A rock star and a hero to his fans across the world, | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
but in private Ian Watkins was a paedophile, his behaviour | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
was described as "having plumbed the depths of depravity." | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
His sexual interest in children was reported | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
Watkins had sent indecent images to Joanne Mjadzelics' mobile phone, | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
but when she took it to the police, her allegations | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
The police watchdog, the Independent Police | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
Complaints Commission, has found officers' bias | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
against her meant Watkins was able to carry on abusing children. | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
Joanne Mjadzelics spoke today of the toll it's all taken. | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
South Wales Police didn't begin investigating Ian Watkins until four | :13:41. | :13:53. | |
years after they were tipped off that he was a danger to children. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
He was arrested during a drugs raid at his home here, in Pontypridd. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
What they then found on his mobile phones and computers showed | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
that those earlier warnings should have been acted on. | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
In all, six people made complaints about Watkins, | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
South Wales Police missed opportunity after opportunity | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
to bring him in for questioning, to arrest him or to | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
The force says it's truly sorry for its failings and has | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
The IPCC has also criticised South Yorkshire and Bedford Police | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
over inaction in investigating Watkins. | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
The singer manipulated fans to get access to his victims, | :14:39. | :14:40. | |
the extent of his abuse may never be known. | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
A damning report accuses Royal Bank of Scotland of the systematic abuse | :14:44. | :14:56. | |
And coming up, I'm live in Las Vegas with the build-up to this weekend's | :14:57. | :15:09. | |
mega fight between Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
Conor McGregor and Floyd Maywetaher junior weigh-in this evening | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
for the fight that's got everybody talking. | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
The stage is set in Las Vegas for a record breaking bout. | :15:18. | :15:29. | |
The great Bank Holiday getaway is on and there are more | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
Major engineering work on the railways is expected | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
London's Euston station - one of the main lines | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
into and out of the capital - will be completely | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
There's also disruption on routes serving London Bridge, | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
London Liverpool Street, Cardiff and Bristol. | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Adina Campbell is at Euston Station and Dan Whitworth is on the M6 | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Deli. Well, you only have to look behind me to see just how busy it is | :15:53. | :16:07. | |
here at Euston Station tonight. Hundreds of people packed out under | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
those information boards, hoping to get to where they need to be over | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
the bank holiday weaning. This, of course, because of this major | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
enfwleerg project which starts tomorrow. It'll close Euston Station | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
for two days, it is a multi-million pound project costing more than ?130 | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
million, involving 17,000 engineers. They will be extending platforms it | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
make way for longer trains and also making improvements to signalling | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
and tracks, as well as preparation for HS2. This will mean major | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
disruption for passengers up and down the country, including the | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Midlands, Wales and the North of England. Network Rail says it has to | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
do this work because it is the perfect time to do it because 50% | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
fewer passengers use the railways during this time of year. The advice | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
- check before you travel and plan your journey. | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
Well, of course all those engineering works will have a | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
income-on effect on the road network. The RAC is forecasting | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Monday will be the busiest day with 5 million cars expected on the | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
network. The M60, the M1, the M62 will all still be affected by | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
roadworks. At the M6, it is flowing freely now but has been at a | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
standstill for much of the afternoon, affected by roadworks, | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
despite the Highways Agency moving around about 450 miles worth of | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
roadworks to ease the pressure on the network. Other pinchpoints, the | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
M5 in the south-west. All routes in and out of the Lake District and the | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
M1 and M3 motorways heading out of London. Like Adina said, if you are | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
thinking on getting on the roads, check before you travel, plan your | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
route and if you have one of these, then you probably do, search BBC | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
August bank holiday travel. You will have all the information you need at | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
your fingertips. Thank you both. An aristocrat who was jailed | :18:14. | :18:14. | |
for making threatening comments online about the anti-Brexit | :18:15. | :18:14. | |
campaigner, Gina Miller, has abandoned an appeal | :18:15. | :18:15. | |
against his sentence. Rhodri Philipps was sentenced last | :18:16. | :18:17. | |
month for suggesting on social media that he would pay people to harm | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
the Ms Miller. Phillips was told by the court | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
that his sentence could be increased Lung disease is expected | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
to be one of main causes The condition is particularly | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
prominent in former mining areas but it's not just former miners | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
who are being diagnosed In the second of our reports | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
on former mining towns in the North of England, our | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
Disability Affairs Correspondent, Nikki Fox, has been to a specialist | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
clinic in Rotherham which is treating some | :18:48. | :18:49. | |
of those most affected. Patients at this specialist | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
centre all have some kind of lung condition, | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
an occupational hazard for those who worked | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
in the coal mining industry. So the combination of coal dust | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
and smoking was never a good one. But hindsight is a great | :19:06. | :19:18. | |
thing, isn't it? Many of the patients | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
here would've ended up in A I was coughing so much, | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
I couldn't inhale. In Rotherham, the number of people | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
with lung disease is higher Demi-Leigh has a chronic lung | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
condition, exacerbated It seemed like everybody were doing | :19:35. | :19:50. | |
it, so I wanted to do it. She gave up cigarettes | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
when she was diagnosed but has spented much of her life | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
in and out of hospital. Even though I am an adult, | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
I still feel like I'm not grown up, because I can't go out | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
to work every day. If I'm like this at 21, | :20:07. | :20:08. | |
what am I going to be The kind of industrial legacy | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
of areas like Rotherham means that young people have been brought up | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
sometimes in conditions and exposed to an environment | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
which doesn't give them the best So that could be poor nutrition, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
it could be poor housing. This clinic opened ten years ago | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
and in that period not only has it helped cut hospital admissions, | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
it's also reduced the number of deaths from | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
industrial-related lung disease. Will, who was a former miner, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
came here when it first opened. The staff helped him get fit | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
for his double lung transplant. Do you think that they were | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
responsible for saving you? I wouldn't have seen | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
my granddaughter, You know, walking my | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
daughter down the aisle. Will is now able to piece his life | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
back together, thanks to the centre. And the demand is great, | :21:06. | :21:19. | |
with other miners looking There are plans for more clinics | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
so many others, young and old, can get the treatment | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
they desperately need. The countdown is on in Las Vegas | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
for what could prove to be the boxing match that | :21:30. | :21:42. | |
breaks all records. The American boxer, | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Floyd Mayweather, has had 49 fights Now he's come out of retirement | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
to take on the mixed martial artist, It's a pay-per-view match and it | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
could rake in ?550 million. ?175 million - that's how much Floyd | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
Mayweather could earn. Connor McGregor would have to make | :22:02. | :22:11. | |
do with around ?60 million. And it's all happneing | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
in Las Vegas on Saturday night, or rather the early hours | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
of Sunday morning here. Sophie, in a city full of stars, | :22:17. | :22:25. | |
Connor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather will outshine all the big name | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
performers here on the Las Vegas Strip this weekend. This mega fight | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
is not without its critics or controversies. Without that, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
thousands are flocking in to watch in person, millions will watch on TV | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
at home. To them it is an exciting and intriguing clash of styles and | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
anticipation is building ahead of fight night. | :22:49. | :22:48. | |
On face value, it is an unlikely match up. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Floyd Mayweather, one of boxing's all-time greats will, | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
this weekend, step into the ring with Connor McGregor, | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
the 29-year-old Dubliner who has never boxed professionally. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Most experts give him little chance of victory. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
But then this is Las Vegas, where the bright lights act | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
as a beacon for those hungry to make their fame and fortune. | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
Exact figures are hard to pin down, but both men are expected to earn | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
tens of millions of dollars in the most lucrative | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
What will the impact for boxing if you were to win? | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
There will be a new king and that's it. | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
They'll begin to implement my methods and that's it. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
McGregor, ornately tattooed and nicknamed The Notorious | :23:30. | :23:41. | |
is already a star of the Ultimate Fighting | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
Championship, in which competitors use a brutal mix of martial arts. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Claiming unemployment benefit four years ago, | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
he's had a meteoric rise and a shock win on Saturday would see him | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
propelled to a whole new level of global recognition. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
His opponent, meanwhile, insists this fight will be his last. | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
At the age of 40, an undefeated Floyd Money Mayweather wants | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
I'm not the same fighter I was 21 years ago but, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
mentally, no athlete is stronger than me, mentally. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
The usual hype and hoopla in the build-up to the first bell | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
Last month's publicity tour was tarnished by homophobic slurs, | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
allegations of racism and pantomime behaviour, with both men now | :24:31. | :24:32. | |
Such behaviour, though, has not prevented thousands of fans | :24:33. | :24:44. | |
from flocking to Las Vegas, or millions around | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
the world are purchasing the fight to watch on TV. | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
Connor McGregor may never have fought professionally | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
but he is being greeted here as if he was the champion. | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Floyd Mayweather, in this his home town, is being seen as very much | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
the outsider and McGregor the man that the crowd | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
But one former champion, who has fought and lost | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
I think genuine boxing fans and UFC fans probably feel a little bit | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
like I'm feeling, that it's a little bit - | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
it's making a little bit of a farce of our sports. | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
What happens in Vegas, should, according to | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
Finally, a major storm - named Hurricane Harvey - | :25:18. | :25:31. | |
is on its way to the US mainland, threatening lives | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
Thousands of residents are battening down their homes | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
and mandatory evacuations are in place. | :25:38. | :25:38. | |
Up to 35 inches of rainfall and sustained winds of 110mph | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Ben Richards is here with the weather. How is it looking, is it as | :25:42. | :25:55. | |
bad as they weather. How is it looking, is it as | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
bad as they fear there? They are right to be making the preparations | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
for this storm. It is a major hurricane, you can see it on the sat | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
slight hurtling towards the coastline of Texas and the utter | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
rain bands of the storm making contact with the land. -- the outer | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
rain bands. The winds will be a feature, they will have an impact, a | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
storm surge that will inundate coastal surge with flooding. The | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
rain will be the main feature, 900 millimetres of rain in places, more | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
than we get in the UK in a whole year, which could cause catastrophic | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
flooding. Here in the UK, things are obviously quieter than that. Some | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
rain in some places but for many, dry, warm with sunshine and the | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
weekend not looking too bad. Spells of warm sunshine and a few showers | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
particularly in the north. Showers continue across Northern Ireland for | :26:51. | :26:52. | |
a time this evening, also across Scotland and northern England. | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
Further south largely dry with clear spells, perhaps the odd fog patch | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
and temperatures around 12-16. Into tomorrow, actually a lot of fine | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
weather around, with some spells of sunshine. There will be showers, | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
too, particularly for north-east England and eastern Scotland where | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
some of the showers could be heavy and under thisry at times. Northern | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Ireland having a much -- thundery at times. Northern Ireland having a | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
drier day than of late and temperatures up to 18 or 19. Further | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
south and east, in the sunshine we could get up to 25. For Sunday | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
another fine day for the most part. Good spells of sunshine. Perhaps | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
damp weather into the far north-west of Scotland. Those temp tu, a bit of | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
a range, around 18 or 19 in Glasgow and Belfast but 24, 25 in the | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
south-east. Split fortunes into Monday. A bank holiday for many. We | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
will see lots of sunshine across England and Wales. For Northern | :27:49. | :27:51. | |
Ireland and Scotland thicker cloud, outbreaks of rain, increasingly | :27:52. | :27:52. | |
blustery. Temperatures here around 17 to 19. As we look towards the | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
south-east, 27 or 28 is possible. Given it is a bank holiday weekend | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
for most, not looking too bad. Summer at last. | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
A reminder of you are a main story this evening: | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
A damning report accuses Royal Bank of Scotland of the systematic abuse | :28:14. | :28:17. |