another strategies saw him gain another place and on the penultimate lap he had a golden opportunity to snatch third from someone else. that chance was lost but all hope wasn't. bottas fought off a late attack from vettel to claim the second win of his career and it sees the then join the challenger battle that the german now leads. in the beginning i could control the pace but in the end the backmarkers made it quite tricky but i'm really happy. it is only my second win in my career. thank you guys or this report. under massive thank you to the team making this possible. they had a really good pace. i was catching little by little but then he obviously struggled to the last laps it was getting really close but i think needed one more lap because he was really struggling to get up the hill. but i wanted to win but a good result. satisfied with their day's work and particularly bottas for that and slating start. lewis hamilton when he spoke to the media after the race

was very downbeat and said it had not been a good grand prix bore him and that's bottas was really in this world championship fight. bottas is closer to hamilton in second place than hamilton is to vettel at the top the world championship. the race is on now to get the formula i freight over to silverstone for what is going to be one of the highlights of the british sporting summer, the british grand prix next weekend. with the world athletics championships now under four weeks away the british contenders kept their preparations going in the anniversary games at the olympic stadium which will also host the world champs. on the track he won to deliver gold medals on back in 2012, some of our was back at it again, winning the 3000 metres. the world championships will be his last track event before competing in road racing and having faced questions this week about doping, he was quick to defend himself. i love my sport. a lot of what i do, you know. never, everwill fail i love my sport. a lot of what i do, you know. never, everwillfaila test. that is honestly... people who

know me know who i am and how hard i work. and, you know, i do it year after year was a joy and belief. there was not much more you can do other than run and do what you do love and i love being on a podium and making so many people, like these people, happy and proud to be british. laura muir took a personal best in the british mile. but it was not enough to beat kenya. or the long—standing british record of the distance which are targeted. the double european indoor champion has recently recovered from a stress action and have booked. in his last ever track race the six time paralympic champion david weir, the wear wolf, won comfortably in the wear wolf, won comfortably in the t 54. the wear wolf, won comfortably in the t 5a. the stadium is the venue in which he won three paralympic golds back in 2012. and afterwards he was clearly emotional. it is hard to, you know, take it all

m, it is hard to, you know, take it all in, to be honest. but ijust want to thank the crowd to supporting parallel export for years. it's been ha rd parallel export for years. it's been hard week for me but adjustment to say thank you, to be honest. perhaps happily out of my career for 25 years or more. what a class act years been over the yea rs. what a class act years been over the years. that is all from sports dome. there will be more sport on the bbc news channel throughout the evening. migration, human dislocation is one of the dominating political themes of our day. and it is the springboard for neel mukherjee in his new novel, a state of freedom. set in india, which portrays five different, but sometimes interlocking, lives that are in flux, on the move,

looking for escape, or at least something better. a story for our time indeed. welcome. on the frontispiece of the book, before the story begins, you quote a syrian refugee on the austrian border, saying: "migrants, we're not migrants — we're ghosts. that's what we are, ghosts". now, the ghost is sort of suspended between this world and the next. is that the guts of that idea? yes, that is exactly the soul of my book. i wanted to look at migration, which is the thing that most characterises our times. people moving, mass movement of people from one place to another. and i wanted to sort of splice their history by thinking about the ghost story. because, what is a ghost? a ghost is something, a ghost is a creature that has not

found settlement in some way. which exactly is what a migrant is. and the unhappy history of migration in the 20th and the 21st century. and i wanted to look at the history of people moving. but not in the form of the immigrant novel, which has become sclerotic, i think. but i wanted to look at the movements of people, whether voluntarily to look for a better life or enforced by warorfamine... within one country? within one country. in this case, india. your country of origin, obviously, where you were born and went to school. we're just about 70 years since the partition of india. so that must be very heavily on your mind at the moment. it wasn't in my mind when i wrote the book. but now that you mention it, ithink, you know, when you think of partition, what is it that... what is the first thing that you think of when partition was mentioned? you think of migration, of people, you think of the movement of people, and the very unhappy movement of people. and people being cut off as well. people are being cut off, carnage, violence, destruction. we now have to look at 70 years

of partition, we have to focus on that kind of migration, too. the book is structured in five sections, really. and you look at different people. but we discover as we go through that there are links, slightly elusive links, very slightly. again, this is touching a new sort of ghostlike theme. yes. and of course in india, i think people who go there for the first time often find that the closeness, the gritty reality around them, and the world of the imagination and the spiritual, i mean, there's a very, very small gap between the two in the culture. and i wanted to do something like that with the book, to sort of, you know, bend realism within, if you will. to have that surface of nitty—gritty realism, as you call it, and not to blink while i was sort of detecting that on the page. and at the same time, to push that realism

into its anti—form, if you will, by thinking about ghost stories, by thinking about migration, and by also letting the coherence brought to the book by the reader in the way with those elusive links. of course, there's an irony in the title. you call it a state of freedom, but it's a strange kind of freedom. well, when you think of freedom, the first thing you think of is constraints, don't you? and i also wanted to play on the notion of state, you know. notjust a mental state or a state of being, but state is in a nation state. and i am trying to say something about india now. and i was also trying to allude to nehru's great speech during independence. the tryst with destiny speech. and i wanted to have, the title to have all of those echoes behind it. but the destiny that you implied that awaits us is a pretty bleak one? yes, at this moment in my life i do not feel very hopeful about our species. yes, i must admit that.

i mean, you can't get blu nter than that. no, this is the truth. you think we're done for? i think we're done for, yes. why? well, you know, climate change is one very obvious reason why i think we're done for. i think we've run out of time. i think politically, the whole world is headed towards a certain way that is leaning on perhaps the worst in ourselves. but there is also the best in ourselves. and even in this book, where people are lost, adrift, there are glimpses of humanity, and you must believe in the power of that humanity. i do believe it on the individual scale, yes, of course. but aggregated, something happens, we become something different, i think. no, of course, i give you that there are hopeful things in the world, there are good people in the world, and good happens. but i think good is losing at the moment, ifeel. in that case, where do you think these people in the book are going to end up?

i think perhaps the children of one of the characters in section... the central character of section four, they are going to end up in a better place than their parents. this is something ifind very effecting about india, actually. the fact that education in the country is aspirational, it's a key to a better life, which is what migration is all about, movement to a better life. and i think she will give, her name is millie, she will give that key to her children. and i hope that beyond the page you can imagine a better life for the children. do you find yourself becoming more depressed about the world around? i mean, you say that you need to look at the world as a writer and not blink, because all of your instincts are that you want to turn away and close your eyes. but that is the only trick a writer needs to know, actually. you know, i keep saying that great writers don't teach you how to write. like older writers i look up to, older writers who are considered the masters, they don't teach you how to write, they teach you how

to look at the world. and i think one of the ways to look at the world is in a very unblinking way. and i think this is what i want to do, this is what i attempt to do, actually try and look at the world without blinking. when you say that great writers have inspired you and taught you how to look at the world rather than how to write in some mechanical way, who are the great writers who've most influenced you in that regard? i think vs naipaul has been a very great influence on me. and also i read a lot of speculative and science fiction and imaginative fiction. a very underrated writer called m john harrison, who thinks very carefully about form. so, m john harrison once said in an interview that always think of what it is that a genre cannot do, and then push it in that direction. i think it's current in my heart, that's a great lesson. and science—fiction writers can imagine things, or they want to imagine things, that others don't. on a cosmic scale, it goes without saying. and that appeals to you, because you seem to believe

that the planet would do a lot better without any of us around. yes, this is a central theme of a lot of speculative and science—fiction writers now. saying actually, you know, if you take out the humans as a species, maybe very peacefully and quickly so that there is no pain, i think that the planet would be doing a lot better. it can recover, ifeel. so, when you finished the book, does that mean there was no sense of elation, that you still felt trapped in this veil of tears? well, i don't normally feel elation when i finished the book. i feel bereft. but i felt, you know, the book does not end hopefully. and it ends with a kind of freedom for a particular character, but it's a very radical kind of freedom, a liberation that he finds. and i thought i'd written a more hopeful book than my previous one, but then my editors disagreed. but, you know, as i said, not to blink when you're writing something.

neel mukherjee, author of a state of freedom, thank you very much. thank you. after a reasonably dry and warm weekend across most parts of the country things are turning much my changeable through the week ahead. the rest of this evening with still got some rain lingering across northern ireland. and into central and southern scotland is outbreaks of rain on a fairly weak weather front. to the south of that were still got some warm, humid air. a few heavy showers continuing across the midlands and east anglia. every night temperatures around 17 in the south—east. fresher conditions further north—west across the country. tomorrow it will shape up to bea country. tomorrow it will shape up to be a day of sunshine and showers. rain across the east of scotland should ease. showers cropping up almost anywhere. they could be heavy

and thundery particularly in the east. we could have some surface water flooding here. temperatures not quite as warm as recent days. still some heavy showers around on tuesday. a better day for northern ireland. some more persistent rain in the south—west later on. goodbye. this is bbc news. i'm samantha simmonds. the headlines at 8pm: celebrations in mosul — after the prime minister of iraq announces victory over is in the city. the parents of terminally—ill baby charlie gard deliver a petition to great ormond street hospital — calling on them to let him go to the us for experimental treatment. we have two stay hopeful. we had to hope that thejudge we have two stay hopeful. we had to hope that the judge listens to the seven experts we have now, who say this has a chance of working for charlie. they all agree he should have this opportunity, and we agree he should have this opportunity. all of our supporters do as well.

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