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This is BBC World News Today with me, Philippa Thomas. | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
Israel's Defence Minister says it's going to stop Hamas one way or | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
another - by air or by ground - as the government takes authority | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The Israeli military says its air strikes are targeting what | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
it terms 150 terror sites in Gaza, and that it's shot down a rocket | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
Can Afghans bridge their political divide? | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Abdullah Abdullah claims victory in last month's election, | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
despite the results giving the lead to his rival. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
The Commonwealth Games puts Scottish fashion in the spotlight. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
We'll look at the mixed reaction to parade uniforms unveiled | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
I will be reporting live from Rio where excitement is reaching fever | :00:45. | :00:58. | |
pitch with just two hours to go until the Brazil-Germany semifinal. | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
Israel says it is considering all options against militants | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
in the Gaza Strip, including a possible ground incursion. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Today it's launched air strikes on what it calls 150 terror sites | :01:23. | :01:36. | |
in Gaza, strikes in which Palestinian officials say at | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
This is the aftermath of one strike on Gaza city, | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
where at least six people were said to have been killed. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Israel end | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
The BBC has reports from both sides of the conflict. | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
In a moment we'll have a report from James Reynolds in Sderot, but we | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Footage filmed by the Israeli military as its strikes target Gaza, | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
This car was turned to wreckage as Israel hit three Palestinian | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
It says it wants to stop those behind rocket attacks. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Just a few hours ago, the three men, all Hamas militants, were driving | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
Now they have been carried into the graveyard. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
They were killed in an Israeli air strike. | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
And just look at the crowds who have turned out to pay to their respects. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
With several civilians killed here in southern Gaza, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
including children, Hamas leaders swore they'd hit back. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
We warned the occupiers against escalation and attacking homes, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
At the hospital, ambulances ferry in wounded and doctors worry about how | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Within one or two days or three days, I don't know, | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
But with dozens more rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel | :03:11. | :03:20. | |
today, the cycle of violence continues. | :03:21. | :03:30. | |
Israel is massing its forces on the border with Gaza. | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
It's called up reserves, and it's determined to stop | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
I feel that I am not safe where I live, although I know I've got | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
shelters and all the army around me and everything. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
But still, it's scary just to be around the noises | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
In towns and villages along the border, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Since midnight, more than 90 rockets have hit this country. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
This is the headquarters of Israel's southern command. | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
And if Israel does order a ground offensive into Gaza, that operation | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Are you about to order a ground offensive into Gaza? | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
By one way or another, we are going to stop Hamas. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Either by charging them a heavy price, or by launching any kind of | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
offensive measures by air, by ground or whatever, in order to stop them. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
A ground offensive into Gaza would be its most serious move. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
James Reynolds, BBC News, southern Israel. | :04:39. | :04:50. | |
The Afghan presidential contender Abdullah Abdullah has claimed | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
victory in the election despite results giving | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
Mr Abdullah says he received fewer votes than Ashraf Ghani, | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
Now the US has warned that any attempt to seize power is legally | :05:02. | :05:12. | |
could lead to Washington cutting off aid. President Obama spoke to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
Abdullah Abdullah today and called for calm. | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
This may look like a victory rally, but no win has been declared yet. | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
What we have had so far is provisional results that put | :05:23. | :05:30. | |
Dr Ghani one million votes in the lead. | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
That has been totally rejected by people here and by Dr Abdullah | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
But he has resisted calls today to announce a parallel government, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
which is what his supporters wanted to do. | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
He is asking for more time, knowing that by announcing some kind of | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
provocative act like that, it could throw the country into crisis. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
We've already seen a portrait of President Hamid Karzai taken down | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
and replaced with one of Abdullah himself, and he knows that those | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
kind of acts here in Afghanistan could be deeply provocative. | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
Later this week, we are expecting the Secretary of State, John Kerry, | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Dr Abdullah told his supporters that the Americans were not here | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
to take sides, but to try to unravel what he sees as a mess. | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
At least five people have been killed by an attack by Al-Shabab on | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
Somalia's presidential palace. Witnesses say they heard explosions | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
and heavy gunfire. Al-Shabab was driven out of Mogadishu in 2011, but | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
is continuing a campaign of gorilla warfare. | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
British scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough in | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
developing a blood test to predict the onset of Alzheimer's disease. | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
They claim it has an accuracy of 87%, but other experts have | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
warned that the test isn't yet ready for doctors' surgeries. | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
Jill and Dominic have lived with Alzheimer's for more than a decade. | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
She has been caring for him ever since he was diagnosed. Today's | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
research breakthrough has come too late for them. They conceive that | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
some in the future may benefit from early diagnosis. | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Some people can go for a test because they want to know what facts | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
are. But other people, who don't know what the facts are, and then | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
suddenly find what the facts are, can be very distressed by it. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
In this London laboratory, they have devised a simple blood test based on | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the presence of certain proteins. The aim is to predict which | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
patients displaying symptoms like memory loss will succumb to | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Alzheimer's, said trials of possible treatments of drugs can be applied | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
to the right people. For research purposes it is very important, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
because it will guide us on current developing drugs and different | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
pharmaceutical companies would be able to treat these people a lot | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
earlier, because we want to detect them a lot earlier before they | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
convert to Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's accounts for about two | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
thirds of the total number of dementia cases in the UK, 820,000. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
The test was trialled on 1100 patients. It predicted with 87% | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
accuracy which would develop Alzheimer's. This is an important | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
milestone on the journey towards finding a new treatment which would | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
delay the onset of Alzheimer's, but while research continues, it may be | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
a few years yet before the test is widely available to patients | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
soap will people worried about their brain function be offered a test to | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
tell whether they could develop Alzheimer's? Because all tests have | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
what we call a false positive rate, which is where you say that someone | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
is going to get his condition or a disease and in fact they want, is | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
certainly wouldn't and shouldn't be available for general screening of | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
the public yet. More than 40 million people suffer | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
from dementia around the world. Alzheimer's research has moved | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
painfully slowly. Now British science has opened up new | :09:10. | :09:10. | |
possibilities. A bakery in Northern Ireland | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
which refused to make a cake with a slogan supporting gay marriage | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
could be taken to court This is | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
the controversial cake design. It features the Sesame Street | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
characters Bert and Ernie along with the logo of Belfast-based | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
campaign group, Queer Space. The bakers' owners, who are | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Christian, decided to refuse the order and felt so strongly about it, | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
they posted this response online. The directors and myself considered | :09:33. | :09:51. | |
it and looked at it and felt that this was at odds with our beliefs, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
and it is in contradiction with what the Bible teaches, and on the | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
following Monday, we rang up the customer to let them know that we | :10:00. | :10:06. | |
couldn't take his order. Marriage in Northern Ireland has not been | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
redefined. It is still defined as being a union between one man and | :10:11. | :10:11. | |
one woman. Gavin Boyd is a gay rights | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
campaigner with the Rainbow Project in Northern Ireland, and supported | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
the discrimination complaint. And Simon Calvert is a spokesman | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
for the Christian Institute, which has given advice on how to | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
deal with the case to the bakery. Welcome to you both. Simon, surely | :10:22. | :10:35. | |
this is a case of outright discrimination? No, because it is | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
nothing to do with turning away customers, nothing to do with the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
sexual orientation of the people who asked for the cake to be produced | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
for them. It is all to do with the content of the message that these | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Christian bakers were required to print. We can all think of | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
situations where we might be asked to do something which goes so | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
fundamentally against our core values that we just couldn't do it. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
That point was reached for these bakers here, and now we have the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
equality can try to force them to endorse same-sex marriage. I think | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
most people feel that that would be going too far. Davin, it is their | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
business. Why can we not turn customers away? We already have | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
clear discrimination laws, this falls under the realm of something | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
you can't do. You can't pick and choose your customers based on their | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
sexual orientation. Simon, isn't that the point? The Bible's | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
teachings can't transcend the law of the land? Gavin has just said that | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
they are picking and choosing customers based on their sexual | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
orientation, and as Stix blamed, that wasn't the issue. People come | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
in and out of the baking shop all day long whatever time of day, and | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
whatever their background, they get a good service. The issue here was | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
whether they should be compelled to promote a particular message, and | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
nobody should be obliged to promote a controversial political message | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
that they don't agree with. Gavin Boyd, in Northern Ireland, the | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
assembly has voted down the idea of sanctioning gay marriage several | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
times. There is a socially conservative weight of public | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
opinion there. He I wouldn't say that at all. A recent survey by the | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
belt fast -- Belfast Telegraph showed the majority in favour of gay | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
marriage. -- same-sex marriage. That is where the UK Government made a | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
massive mistake on this issue, they is where the UK Government made a | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
massive mistake on this thought they could deal with it through | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
devolution, and ultimately what that is created as a system by which | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
someone from Belfast, I can go and get married in England, and when I | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
come back home, I'm not married any more. I have moved from one place in | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
the UK to another, and my relationship has been reclassified | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
without my consent. That is a fundamental constitutional anomaly | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
that the UK Government created. How do you answer the charge that it is | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
fundamentally unfair? I am here to speak about Shows bacon company. -- | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
baking company. They are being threatened for not printing the | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
message support gay marriage. That is the issue at stake here. I think | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
most people whether they agree with the Christian bakery company or not, | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
they will think, let them get on with it, don't force them to promote | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
a message they don't agree with. The customers in this case went to a | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
different bakery up the road, got their cake and suffered no loss. But | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
if the equality commission when their legal action, they will suffer | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
real loss, loss of conscience and potentially loss of business. There | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
is a lot at stake for anyone who cares about freedom of conscience. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Gavin Boyd? What happened in this case was that the Baker took money | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
for a cake, entered into a contract with people, and then the Board of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Directors decided the message was unconscionable, and they wanted to | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
avoid the contract. It is against the law, it doesn't matter what | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
their reasons are doing it was. If you enter into a contract to provide | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
service overcome -- public, you don't get to pick and choose your | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
customers. Thank you both very much. It is a match worthy of the World | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
Cup final itself. Tonight, host nations Brazil face Germany in the | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
first of the semifinals. With the tournament's powder boy Neymar out | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
for the rest of the tournament, can Brazil still pose enough of a threat | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
to those resilient Germans? My colleagues Ben Brown in Steve Evans | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
join me now from Rio de Janeiro and Berlin where they have in soaking up | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
the atmosphere. Steve, how was it feeling? It's very loud here in | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
Germany and Berlin. I am on the fan mile, it's going to be full of fans, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
some of them already and it's a mile-long and screens all the way | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
right down. The big screen just up here and already they're shouting | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
and I am going hoarse. Which fan are you, who are you supporting? | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Germany! Why? Because they're the best. Are you absolutely sure | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
they're going to win tonight? Of course. No doubt? No doubt. OK. Let | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
me ask you, why do you think they're going to win? I think we are going | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
to win because Germany have better players and Neymar is not in the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
game. There is a big home advantage for Brazil. They're playing at home | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
and they never lose at home. They never lose at home. But today we | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
win. We will see. Thank you both very much. So, the atmosphere here | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
is clearly fabulous, people are gathering. They expect 20,000, | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
30,000 maybe more here. The rain is coming down, it's raining in the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
air. But not in their hearts. Steve, I don't know how much of a voice you | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
are going to have in a few hours' time, but thank you very much. Ben, | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
in Rio, we heard Brazil never lose on their home turf but they're | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
worried, aren't they? They are worried. It's fair to say, by the | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
way it's been raining here, as well. Although it stopped a short time | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
ago, I am glad to say. They're worried because they're without | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
their star man, Neymar, their poster boy, the best player. He is injured | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
with and they're without De Silva, their captain who is suspended, but | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
these people on the beach, we can show them to you now, they're | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
preparing to watch on the big screen there, a little bit damp and chilly, | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
but they're packing in to that beach waiting to see the game. Maybe some | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
of them are nervous. In fact, what some have been saying, maybe it's a | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
reverse psychology, up until now all the pressure has been on Brazil, | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
they looked like a team with the weight of the nation on their | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
shoulders, 200 million people expecting them to win this World | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
Cup. But now, in a sense, there is less pressure on them because they | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
don't have Neymar and De Silva, in a sense maybe that will help them | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
because they've less psychologically pressure. People don't expect them | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
to do so well. People say yes, maybe Germany have the better players. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Maybe this isn't a great Brazil side, not as good as previous sides | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
down the decades but that pressure is off them. Perhaps they can do | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
better. That at least is the hope of the fans here. It's an amazing | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
atmosphere. It's ratcheting up, it's electric. Not long to the game, over | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
an hour and 40 minutes. Have you one of these, it's a Neymar mask and I | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
have been hearing thousands of fans are hoping to at least channel his | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
spirit, even if he is not on the pitch? Exactly. I don't have one | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
myself, maybe I should go and buy one. I have been down there a few | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
minutes ago and everyone's wearing the masks, they're also wearing | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
number ten, his number, all in honour of him. Unfortunately for | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Brazil he is not on the pitch. He is one of the spectators today. Ben in | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
Rio, they'll be obviously hoping they can pull back against | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
expectations. I haves about been hearing they've a -- I have also | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
been hearing they've a seem psychologist, is that the norm? A | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
lot of teams do use them, I think because Brazil felt under so much | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
pressure and stress with this vast weight of expectation, national | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
expectation that because they're the home side they would get their 6th | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
World Cup. They did bring in the psychologist and they've been coming | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
in for a bit of stick for that, the manager has been coming in for a bit | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
of stick, but their view is anything that helps, anything that helps the | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
players, if it helps them win football matches it's a good thing. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
Ben in Rio, thank you very much. It's going to be a very exciting | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
night. Don't forget you can keep across the | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
World Cup action on our website, including analysis on that critical | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
match and Brazil's chances without Neymar. You can also join the | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
conversation on Twitter. A new statue of Mahatma Gandhi is to | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
be erected outside the The announcement was made in Delhi | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
by UK Government ministers leading Kasia Madera went to | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Parliament Square to see Overlooked by the British Houses of | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
Parliament, Parliament Square has been the scene of many protests and | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
demonstrations, so it seems fitting this will be a home it a new stat | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
true of Gandhi, the father of the world's largest democracy, India -- | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
statue. He will be in some esteemed company, Nelson Mandela, Lincoln, | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
many British Prime Ministers, including sir Winston Churchill. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
It's claimed that Sir Winston wasn't a big Gandhi fan. Gandhi, of course, | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
led India's non-violent campaign of resistance against British rule and | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
he was assassinated shortly after India and Pakistan won independence. | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
The announcement of the statue was made on the site of his | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
assassination in Delhi. Gandhi is an inspiration to everyone | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
in the world. I think this statue will also be a monument to the | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
friendship between Britain and India. The sculptor, Philip Jackson, | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
has been approached to take on the project. It's hoped that it will be | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
paid for by sponsors and by public donations and so far reaction from | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
the public has been pretty positive. I am an Indian, it's a proud moment | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
for me. He is a great figure and a good idol for a number of people to | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
follow his ideals. Yeah, particularly the one about | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
non-violence in today's day and age, that's something that everybody | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
should look up to. I think that's wonderful. Gandhi was an advocate of | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
non-violent resistance and an effort to achieve social justice for all. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
The aim is to finish the statue by next year to mark the 100th | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
anniversary when Gandhi left South Africa to go to India and start off | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
that historic non-violent campaign for independence. | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
attention, the clothes people wear will always be in the spotlight. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
spotlight. So some reaction was inevitable when Scotland, which will | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
hosting the Commonwealth Games, unveiled its parade uniforms but | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
that reaction varied from refreshing to, frankly, embarrassing. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
embarrassing. However, these are not the first sporting outfits to come | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
will also be seen at the opening ceremony in Glasgow have been | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
at the opening ceremony in Glasgow have been criticised as looking | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Sochi were designed by Ralph Lauren, but do they look a bit like | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
Christmas jumpers? So what do you do? Do you just keep | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
England's 2005 football squad, including Ashley Cole and Jermaine | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Do you just keep it simple and black? | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
Here's Giorgio Armani's official team uniform for England's 2005 | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
football squad, including Ashley Cole and Jermaine Defoe. | :22:31. | :22:32. | |
The Team Scotland uniforms for the Commonwealth Games were created by | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
international textile designer Jilli Blackwood, explaining here why she | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
This is the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. The Scottish | :22:38. | :22:54. | |
team will be coming out after 70 countries, is it, and they will be | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
larger than life, as well. Therefore, I just couldn't put the | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Scottish team in something that's, you know, that just - that wouldn't | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
be bold enough. With me is Amber Graafland, fashion | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
director with the Daily Mirror newspaper. Your reaction to these | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
outfits? I said it in The Mirror today, I ever a little bit | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
embarrassed for them and I understand she was presented with a | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
brief and wanted to design outfits that were very bright and she wanted | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
them to be noticed, but I think they're going to be noticed for the | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
wrong reasons. People have already been laughing at them. What does it | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
say to you? I think it says 1970s, like a pattern you would pick up in | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
the back of a magazine and how you can make your own Scottish highland | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
fling outfit. It's not forward looking enough? Original? It looks | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
very dated, it's original but dated to me. I sometimes think if | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
something, if you have something like a tartan that's traditional and | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
that is beautiful, maybe sometimes you can play with it too much. I | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
don't think the colours work for me and they should have kept it | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
traditional. That's the difficulty, because the designer was given a | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
brief, tartan really had to come into it, the Commonwealth Games in | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
Glasgow. Absolutely but the colours don't work for me. It's the colours | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
against the material she's used for the spirit and the dress. It's just | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
not very contemporary. There's nothing fashion about it, nothing | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
sporty about it. It hasn't come together at all. Have you got any | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
examples where they have got it right? We showed a few examples, is | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
your taste more the all in black? We don't talk about successes, if you | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
like, it's human nature to remember the outfits that didn't work. You | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
pulled up some fantastic examples before. We do remember the bad ones | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
and maybe we don't necessarily remember the good ones. Keep it | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
simple. Especially now when sportswear is so fashionable and | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
it's all about sportswear, if you look at the high street, I would | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
have thought it would have been a challenge to get right. She might | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
have been dammed if she didn't and if she came up with something sober | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
the word boring would have popped up. No one is going to say that's | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
boring! It's colourful and dramatic. We know what you think about it, has | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
overall reaction been it tries too hard? It hasn't been positive | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
really. It's just too much going on there. Is it also something to do | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
with the fabric you are given to work with because these are athletes | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
striding out in the ceremonies? It would have been easy to do something | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
with a nod to sportswear that would have looked contemporary and good | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
and what's happened is trying to make something modern and colourful | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
and something to make a statement. She's made it look dated. Thank you | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
very much for coming in. We are going to show you pictures from | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
California that might rather give you the jitters. Spare a thought for | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
these thrill-seekers, they were stranded when the ride called The | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
Ninja struck a tree. One of the cars dislodged - this is making me feel | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
faint even reading it! They managed to free all passengers, four people | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
suffered minor injuries. Our main news: Israel's defence | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Minister says it's going to stop Hamas one way or another by air or | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
by ground as the Government takes authority to call up 40,000 more | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
troops. The Israeli Ministry says it's shut down a rocket in the Tel | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
Aviv area and air raid sirens have been heard in the city. Israel has | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
launched air strikes on what it calls 150 terror sites in Gaza. | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
Once again, as was the case on Monday, Tuesday turned out to be a | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
wet day in some parts of the British Isle. The good news about Wednesday | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
is that there will be sunshine and | :27:05. | :27:06. |