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This is BBC World News Today. I'm Ros Atkins. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Fire at a chemical plant in Houston, as floodwaters wreak more havoc. | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
Hundreds are moved amid confusion over the threat. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
I know they got all kinds of chemicals and I don't know what's | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
in the water coming down into my house. | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
I got water in the house right now, so it's going to be pretty nasty. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Thousands of villages in India, Nepal and Bangladesh are cut off | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
President Macron reveals his controversial plans for reforming | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
France's labour laws, but he will face tough opposition. | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
It's more than a game - it's a multi billion dollar business. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
The high stakes gambling that is football's transfer deadline day. | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
Hello and welcome to World News Today. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
People living near a chemical plant in Texas have been told to flee, | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Yet more damage caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
At least 33 people have been killed across the state and the crisis | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Fumes coming from the chemical plant have been described | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Two explosions have been reported at the Arkema structure | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
in Crosby near Houston, after it lost power, | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
meaning it could no longer refrigerate its volatile chemicals. | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
It is an unsettling sight, a fire smouldering in the water. | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
This plant makes organic peroxides which must be kept cool, | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
but when the hurricane hit, the power failed and now | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
They planned for this, but not well enough. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
Police have a simple message - get out, now. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Already 15 officers have been to hospital for checks amid fears | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Max Del la Rosa's car was trapped by the floods | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
inside the danger zone, but he was told he had to walk out. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
I guess something went on because then I just heard the alarms. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
I was like, "oh, man, it's so serious now." | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Then my mum was trying to get me, my dad was trying to get me, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
I know they've got all kind of chemicals and I just don't know | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
which ones is in the water and coming down into my house, | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
it means I've got water in the house right now. | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
As specialist teams rolls in, the messages coming out | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Reports of explosions are now being denied. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Federal officials say the smoke is incredibly dangerous, | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
This isn't a chemical release, what we have is a fire, | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
and when you have a fire where hydrocarbons, | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
these chemicals burning, sometimes you have incomplete | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
And any smoke is going to be an irritant to your eyes or your | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
The company which operates this plant says there's only one thing | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
to do now and that is to let this fire burn itself out. | :03:17. | :03:24. | |
In the meantime, people are being are being warned to stay back | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
In Houston, with the floods receding, Frank Rogers is heading | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
When he escaped, the water in here was up to his chest, | :03:32. | :03:40. | |
and this scene is being repeated today in thousands | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
Upset, all the work we've got to do to get back up. | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
It's going to be a long, trying time. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
And still this storm is not stopping. | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
The rain and the rescues are continuing to the east, | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
on the border between Texas and Louisiana. | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
And she wants to know, everyone wants to know, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
James Cook, BBC News, Crosby, in Texas. | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
The BBC's Laura Trevelyan joins us now | :04:19. | :04:19. | |
I guess the question everyone is wondering is is the water started to | :04:20. | :04:32. | |
go down? It isn't here. In fact, here they have been told that there | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
are yet more mandatory evacuations at Fort Bend County and people here | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
are told that the river that has burst its banks is going to crest | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
tomorrow, on Friday, at 56 feet, is that means these homes here which | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
are already flooded, the water levels are going to rise even | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
further and that is a source of tremendous anxiety for people here | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
because it is most a week after hurricane hardly made landfall. | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
Tubby but had hoped that they were out of the woods, but now they are | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
realising that because of the tremendous amount of rainfall that | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
happened when the hurricane turned into a tropical storm and just hung | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
around over the Houston area for days, that has made the levels rise | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
in the rivers and now you're getting the run of coming into the rivers | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
and this extraordinary unprecedented level of flooding is happening and | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
so there is going to be record flooding here in Richmond, Texas, | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
and people are braced for what they will find when they can finally get | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
into their homes. I was going to ask you about when they can access their | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
homes. Have people been given any sort of idea of the kind of weight | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
they are looking at? Just talking to one man here who has lived for 25 | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
years in this area and he was telling me that it could be the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
middle of next week before they are able to get into their homes, so it | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
is really an incredibly difficult situation but what is happening here | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
is just a snapshot of what is happening across the Gulf Coast of | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
Texas in the wake of the hurricane, that people are experiencing record | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
levels of flooding, loss, displacement, and weeks, months, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
maybe even years before they can even fully recover. And the people | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
who have had to leave their homes, Howell nearby are they? Have they | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
had to travel far to get some work to lay their head? Well, it is | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
strange, because just across the street from me, up the hill, there | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
isn't any flooding. So it all depends where you are. Some people | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
are staying with friends, with neighbours, nearby. Other people | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
have gone in local hotels. Other people have gone even further | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
afield. Of course, people are trying to stay close at hand because they | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
are worried about their properties and looting and thieves. They have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
been reports of lots of looting happening in Houston, which has | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
really alarmed people, so everybody wants | :06:44. | :06:57. | |
to stay close at hand and get their belongings and possessions just as | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
soon as they can, which in the case of Richmond, Texas, is not going to | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
be for a while because we are still expecting the peak flooding | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
tomorrow. Thank you very much, Laura. | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
Aid agencies are struggling to get help to people | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
affected by devastating floods across South Asia. | :07:11. | :07:11. | |
More than 41 million people are believed to be affected. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
In India, the worst-hit area is the eastern state of Bihar, | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
where there are reports that the death toll has | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
Nearly 300 people are understood to have lost | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
their lives in neighbouring Bangladesh and Nepal. | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
Aid agencies are calling the floods one of the worst | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
regional humanitarian crises in years. | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
Weeks after the worst flooding in decades, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
a third of Bangladesh is still under water. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Many villages in the northern part of the country still cut off. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Aid agencies are desperately trying to reach those affected. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
It's a similar situation across large parts of South Asia. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
The eastern Indian state of Bihar has been hit the hardest. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Heavy rain and overflowing rivers have left large areas under water. | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
More than 500 people have been killed here in the past few weeks. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
There's a lot of people still out of their homes. | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
People are surviving and getting on with things as they can. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
And India's financial capital Mumbai, a city | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
of more than 20 million, was brought to a standstill | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
after torrential rain hit the city on Wednesday. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Transport services ground to a halt, forcing many to simply wade home. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
We're in the middle of the annual monsoon season and it's been raining | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
intensely across India, but also neighbouring | :08:36. | :08:36. | |
Nepal and Bangladesh for the past several weeks. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
It's caused the worst flooding in decades and it's led | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
to a massive humanitarian crisis across the entire region. | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
South Asia is not unused to floods, especially at this time of the year, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
but the scale of the disaster this time round has meant | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
that the authorities have struggled to cope. | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
At least 22 people have died after a building collapse in Mumbai. This is | :08:59. | :09:20. | |
the third building collapse in the city in less than a month. This | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
particular building is thought to be 100 years old and is residential. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
About 40 people were inside when it fell. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Let's take a look at some of the other | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
The United States has ordered Russia to close its San Francisco consulate | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
and two other annexes by the weekend. | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
It is in retaliation for Moscow's expulsion of 755 | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
US diplomatic staff, which takes effect tomorrow. | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
After 11 days of fierce fighting, Iraq's Prime Minister has declared | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
that the northern city Tal Afar and surrounding areas have been | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
"fully liberated" from the so-called Islamic State group. | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
The full recapture of Nineveh province comes weeks | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
after Coalition-backed Iraqi forces ousted the jihadists | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
from the provincial capital, Mosul. | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
Bangladesh coastguards have found the bodies of 20 people, | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
mostly children, who drowned fleeing Myanmar. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Thousands have left Rakhine state, following escalating | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
violence in the country, after Rohingya rebels attacked | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
30 police stations last Friday, which triggered a military response. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
So, how much progress is being made in talks over Britain's | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
departure from the EU? Well, it depends who you believe. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Europe's chief negotiator Michel Barnier says there has been | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
no decisive movement and highlights problems of trust. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
His British counterpart David Davis, though, claims some things | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Here is our Europe Editor, Katya Adler. | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
Trust building between the two sides. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
That's what the EU says this first phase of Brexit negotiations | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
So, by today, the end of round three of the first talks, how | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
It's clear that the UK does not feel legally obliged | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to honour its obligations after departure. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
How can we build trust and start discussing a future | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
For his part, David Davis said the UK couldn't blindly | :11:19. | :11:31. | |
trust a divorce bill presented by the EU. | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
The commission has set out its position and we have a duty to | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
our taxpayers to interrogate it rigorously. | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
Behind the smart suits, the stiff smiles, it was clear that | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
both sides were talking at cross purposes today about what Brexit | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
subject to tackle in what order, and whether and much progress is | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
David Davis picked it deliberately painted a | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
It's only through flexibility and imagination | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
that we will achieve a | :12:03. | :12:03. | |
deal that truly works for both sides. | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
Michel Barnier insisted the UK had to be more clear, and realistic | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
He said the EU couldn't be flexible if the UK didn't show its | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
TRANSLATION: I'm not frustrated but I am impatient. | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
We know that Brexit will have a big impact on our lives, but | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
how huge will depend on the nature of a transition deal and a future | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
permanent trade deal between the EU and UK. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
We are nowhere near that yet, and all this deal-making could | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
still fall apart, but there is no need to panic just yet. | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
The EU refuses to talk about the EU- UK | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
future until various substantive progress on the divorce deal. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Both sides agree reassuring EU citizens | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
in the UK and UK citizens in the EU is a top priority, but they still | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
disagree over whether the European Court of Justice should have a role | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
in guaranteeing the rights of individuals. | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
On Ireland, progress has made, especially around | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
protecting the Northern and Republic of Ireland Common Travel Area, but | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
the so-called divorce bill is the biggest | :13:24. | :13:24. | |
The EU wants the UK to pay up to 100 billion euros | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
in what it sees as financial | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
The UK says it will pay something, but it refuses to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
These Brexit talks have largely been technical, political | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
pressure to push for progress is unlikely | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
EU until after the Conservative Party conference or the formation of | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
a new German government after elections next month. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
Meanwhile, as the EU likes to repeat, the clock to | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
the end of the UK's EU membership is ticking. | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
It is the issue that may come to define his presidency. | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
Can Emanuel Macron push through reform of France's Labour laws? | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Some economists say changes are needed to make | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
the country more dynamic, though the unions are sceptical. | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Among the proposed changes unveiled on Thursday, | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
a cap on the amount of money workers can be awarded | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
more flexibility for small companies to directly negotiate employment | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
terms with their workers, making it easier for companies | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
to fire their staff, with the sweetener of raising | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
and streamlining worker representation into a | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Joining us live from Paris is Nicholas Vinocur, who is covering | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
They differ joining us. The politics of this looked easier a couple of | :14:48. | :15:05. | |
months ago for Emanuel Macron? He was more popular. He was coming off | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
his incredible election and the country still seem to be very much | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
enamoured of him. Sadly, that is very much in the rear-view mirror | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
now. He is approaching this reform as unpopular as Donald Trump in the | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
United States. Now, you say this is a problem, but doesn't he have the | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
support in parliament and via the powers that come with the presidency | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
to get this through regardless of what public opinion is saying? He | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
certainly does. He has an absolute majority over the lower house of | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
parliament, and that's what counts to get legislation through. This | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
bill is going to be an executive decree, so he doesn't need even any | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
support in parliament. The issue is going to be the street and how the | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
country be axed to these reforms. And that is important for the | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
president, because they could be an enormous backlash. And people often | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
focus on September in France because it is a time when we see lots of | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
protests, but I was interested but a couple of unions had worried the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
said that they would not take part in planned protests. That is right. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
The negotiators have been very shrewd in playing a game of divide | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
and conquer with the unions. They held secret negotiations, they | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
compartmentalised talks with the different unions, and gave out | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
sweeteners to the different groups to get them to play ball, and the | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
one union that has promised to go out and protest is the hardline CGT, | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
but it is not even getting its kid brother to go out and protest | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
alongside it, so the protests, well they should be impressive, are | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
looking fairly scattered for the time being. Just quickly, before I | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
let you go, some viewers may become peers that someone who was so | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
popular has lost popularity so quickly. What has he done wrong? | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
There have been some miss steps. There have been some communication | :17:09. | :17:10. | |
problems with the president that he has tried to correct this time. And | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
there has also been the dawning realisation that all of these | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
reforms might actually affect regular French people and might | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
actually affect me and my neighbour, and I think that has soured opinions | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
on the president very quickly indeed. Thank you very much for | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
joining us and you can see the analysis on political Europe. | :17:33. | :17:34. | |
The South African President's son, Duduzane Zuma, | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
has denied being involved in any wrongdoing, despite persistent | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
allegations of corruption involving his family | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
The Guptas have been accused of wielding undue influence over | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
President Jacob Zuma, to advance their business interests. | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Our correspondent Milton Nkosi travelled to Dubai, to meet Duduzane | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
This is Duduzane Zuma, the son of President Jacob Zuma. | :17:50. | :18:07. | |
He has been facing allegations of corruption involving dodgy | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
Government contracts, while working with his | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
business partners, the | :18:15. | :18:14. | |
The finger-pointing was not just limited | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
There have been repeated calls by the members | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
of the public for President Zuma to step down. | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
Precisely because of his relationship with the controversial | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
But after a long period of silence, in this rare BBC | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
interview, Duduzane Zuma has denied these allegations too. | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
I have not involved myself in any corrupt | :18:45. | :18:59. | |
I asked whether he and his business partners offered a bribe to a former | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
deputy finance minister back in October 2015, as the minister had | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
Mr Jonas was not offered a bribe by the something. | :19:14. | :19:26. | |
There was no such thing that took part. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
He has also refuted claims that he and | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
his father own residential properties in Dubai, as has been | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
Does your father own a house, an apartment here? | :19:37. | :19:56. | |
In Dubai, he does not own any property | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Are you concerned that you may be in the end locked up | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
following all of these allegations, going to prison for corruption? | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
It's the first time that it crossed my mind. | :20:08. | :20:19. | |
I don't know if you saw it cross my mind, but it's gone. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
It's just crossed now, since you mentioned | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
I actually saw it crossing and it's gone. | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
The South African President's son, Duduzane Zuma, on corruption | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
Whether you have been crying tears of joy or despair | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
about your team since the start of the football season, | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
the fees paid in this transfer period have been | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
More than $4.8 billion has been spent in Europe's top five leagues. | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
It has been a summer spending spree like no other. | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
Big names with even bigger price tags. | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
From Manchester to Chelsea, from Arsenal to Everton, | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
across the Premier League clubs have been splashing the cash | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Among the early movers, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
swapping his Arsenal shirt for a Liverpool one | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
It has been a window of such mind-boggling numbers, | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
but fans of the summer's biggest spenders say it's worth it. | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
That's why we pay the money, basically. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
We want to see success, we want to win trophies. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
Don't get me wrong, some of the fees are ridiculous but apart | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Five summers ago, Premier League clubs spent just under half | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
Last summer the figure had more than doubled, but that record has | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
By this morning, clubs had spent more than 1.2 billion, | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
and by tonight's deadline it will be far more. | :21:59. | :22:00. | |
Well, a 50% increase in TV money, which brought last year's title | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
winners Chelsea some ?150 million, and some say the club's buying power | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
I think we have talked for the last 20 years | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
about the bubble potentially bursting, and it hasn't burst yet. | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
What will happen to football rights if an Amazon, | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
a Netflix or a Google wish to acquire the rights? | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
You can't really predict that at the moment, but you would expect | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
that the value will go up even further. | :22:32. | :22:32. | |
The summer's most jaw-dropping transfer was in France - | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
Neymar's ?200 million move to Paris Saint-Germain, | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
but collectively it's the Premier League that | :22:39. | :22:40. | |
leads the pricing or, as some see it, the overpricing. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
If ever there's a time to be a professional footballer, it's now. | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Average pay is over 35 million, my goodness. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
And tonight there could be more hefty numbers. | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
Manchester City offering 60 million for Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
A cricket match has been abandoned after a crossbow arrow was fired | :22:59. | :23:09. | |
The discovery prompted play to be suspended and sparked a security | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
alert, which led to the match eventually being declared a draw | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Police say there is not evidence of terrorism and they are keeping an | :23:17. | :23:27. | |
open mind about the motive. It is 20 years to | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
the day since Diana, the Princess of Wales, | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
died in a car crash in Paris. The event, which also took | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
the lives of Diana's friend Dodi Fayed and her driver, | :23:36. | :23:37. | |
Henri Paul, will be marked privately Members of the public have been | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
gathering at Kensington Palace to mark the anniversary | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
of her death. Our Royal correspondent | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
Nicholas Witchell reports. The news had come in the early | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
hours of the morning. Diana, Princess of Wales had been | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
involved in a serious As the world waited for news, | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
the then British ambassador to France, Lord Michael Jay, | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
was at the hospital with France's Interior Minister, | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
Jean-Pierre Chevenement. As time moved on, it became clear | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
it was more serious than we thought, and then Chevenement was taken out | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
by one of the nurses and he came He came up to me and said, | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
"I'm afraid she's dead." Later in the day, the Prince | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
of Wales arrived at the hospital to bring Diana's body | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
back to Britain. It had been Charles who'd had | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
to break the news to William and Harry that their mother | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
had been killed. 20 years on, Lord Jay | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
recalls the conversations He was clearly deeply moved | :24:34. | :24:35. | |
by what had happened and talked a little bit about what it had been | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
like in Balmoral that morning. He said how Prince William | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
had wanted to go to church that morning - | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
which was not, he said, something Prince William always | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
wanted to do on a Sunday morning - But throughout that day, | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
that morning, he had wanted to do what he thought was in the best | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
interests of two children who had It was a week when many people | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
struggled, not least, says Lord Jay, The nation wanted to share | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
their grief, it seems to me, with someone, and the person | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
they wanted to share their grief Lessons were learned at the palaces, | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
but most importantly it's Diana's sons, now in adulthood, | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
who appear to embody the style of monarchy people | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
want for the future. Yesterday they looked | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
at the tributes to their mother which had been placed outside | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
Kensington Palace. 20 years on, Diana's | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
impact is still very real. Don't forget, you can get | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
in touch with me and some Hello. | :25:41. | :26:02. | |
If you got caught in a heavy | :26:03. | :26:05. |