but half a century later it's still in service and more are still being built. yet thejumbo's days are numbered. british airways plans to retire its fleet within five years. all airlines in america have already grounded theirs. smaller, quieter, more efficient planes are now the future passenger flight. instead, jumbo jets are finding a new life ferrying freight. the queen of the skies for 50 years — and, perhaps, a few more to come. aaron woods, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with tomasz schafernaker. well, i think it's mostly good news on the weather front in the days ahead. having said that, sunday is looking a little mixed, both sunshine and rain throughout the day, but i think most of the time it should be a decent enough day. so this is what it looks like through the early hours. we've got some rain sweeping across southern parts of the uk, hit—and—miss rain, it's very blotchy, you can see the rain

on the weather maps here. clear spells across northeastern areas, so this is where we are going to get a bit of frost. and then tomorrow, showers in the morning across central, maybe southern areas too, then showers moving into northern ireland, carried on this northwesterly wind. but it does look as though the middle of the afternoon, across a large chunk of england and wales at least, the weather is looking relatively sunny, before the showers once again return later in the day. and i said it's looking pretty good on the weather front, we've got a mainly dry week ahead with some crisp morning weather and sunshine by day. hello, this is bbc news with me, reeta chakrabarti. the duke of edinburgh is to voluntarily give up his driving licence, buckingham palace has said this evening. the government cancels a controversial agreement for extra ferries in case of a no—deal brexit. the democratic senator

elizabeth warren launches her bid to become the party's candidate for 2020, promising to champion ordinary working people. counting the cost of knife crime — the number of young victims admitted to hospitals in england has risen by more than 50% in five years. and in the six nations, ireland beat scotland 22—13 at murrayfield. now on bbc news, a special programme with one of the world's greatest sports stars. in this frank interview, billiejean king talks to the bbc‘s sue barker about her sexuality, life as an advocate for gender equality, lgbt rights and socialjustice. applause as a youngster, i dreamt of playing professional tennis,

but that, at the time, didn't look possible. then, all of a sudden, it changed, and it changed because of one person. on court, this unique talent won 39 grand slam titles, but it's what she did off the court that will define her legacy. the women's tour, which i played in, was set up by her in the 1970s, and suddenly, prize money, legislation and conditions improved for women like me. we had a voice. we were heard. it was a game changer. and today, all sportswomen are in a far better place. there's equality, respect, the playing field is levelling out. this woman led the way to make it all happen. a champion player, a fearless pioneer, the ultimate winner in a battle of the sexes, who i am proud to call a friend. she is billiejean king. applause the second time i picked up

a racquet, i knew i wanted to be the number one player in the world. you know, it's wonderful to be celebrated and appreciated for — for everything that she's done. each of us is an influencer. every single one of us. she deserves every accolade that she receives because she is so interested in the welfare of others and i think she really takes that seriously, that she has a voice, that she has a platform and that she is an advocate for causes that she believes in. let's continue to use our power of our voices, our action to inspire others. thank you so much for tonight. thank you for having me. god bless you. applause. ladies and gentlemen, the inspirational, iconic and indefatigable billie jean king. cheering and applause.

billiejean, listening to your speech at sports personality, it seemed very humble because, you know, with everything you've achieved in your life, i mean, you're a game changer. well, i think i really wanted to thank people and then go through the progression of how i made it from the time i was young and wanted to be number one and win wimbledon. and when you think back at this age, you start... i'm always thinking about all the different people who helped me because you never get there alone, ever. i don't know, and i listen to certain athletes or players and i think, "wow! they talk just about themselves." i want to know about, "how did you get here?" and i think it is important that people have a little bit of history. she fell in love with the game, and that is truly is what started her. she came home and said she wanted to be a tennis player.

and how old was she then? 11. 11 years old. she started late. she wanted to be number one in the world. notjust long beach — in the world. i actually don't know much about billie jean as a player. she finished playing four years before i was born — i hope she doesn't mind me saying that! we forget what a great tennis player she was. she's aggressive, she goes after what she wants, you know, she had a beautiful backhand, she was a serve—and—volleyer. only five foot four but speedy as can be. she was a great athlete, and she could move, she could hit the shots, she was able to analyse, she was able to really commit herself and focus and analyse a match. an attitude in a good way — that confidence, that belief, that, you know, that kind of swagger that "i can get thisjob done", and that carried over into life. she was a natural leader. people believed in her. she was obviously a fantastic player — i mean, one

of the best of all time — but it's what she's done away from the court that's been even more impressive. you changed the whole face of women's tennis and, in some ways, women's sport, and everyone looks at tennis now as sort of a blueprint of how — how you can make things happen, and that was driven by you. i wanted the men and women to be together, and the men rejected us, and that was a really hard time for me. because i still think if we were together, it would be much more powerful. we could do so much more off the court to make the world a better place together. and we're all together in this world, anyway. unfortunately, that's not the way it happened, so plan b was to "0k, we'll do it ourselves, the women." ann jones, rosie casals, francois durr and i were the first four real contract players in the modern times, because they never included women, ever, as pi’os. and george mccall signed us. and that was when?

that was back in ‘68, just when open tennis were starting to happen. we wanted to be pros, we wanted to get paid, we wanted everything out in the open because you know, before that, you were getting money under the table. money came into tennis for the first time in 1968, when the associations agreed to have what they called open tennis — where there could be prize money, amateurs could play against pros. billie was thrilled. finally, players were going to be able to learn a living playing tennis, and i remember hertelling a story of how excited she was about open tennis and then, she got to wimbledon and she won wimbledon in 1968 and got £750, while rod laver won the men's singles and got £2000. and i think she really felt that finally, tennis was open, but the fight really was only beginning because the women were having, you know, less and less opportunities. and i think that was when the penny dropped that, "we're going to have

to do something on our own." "we're going to have to separate from the men and start the women's tennis association." the three things we thought about in the wta when we formed that three years later was the same mantra, and that was any girl, if she's good enough in this world, would have a place to compete, that the woman tennis player would be appreciated for accomplishments and not just her looks, and number three — which for our generation, who only made $14 a day usually, and expense money — was to make a living. it must have been very difficult in the early days of the wta, and kind of taking that chance. our goal was for global — for the rest of the world. we had to get started. huge risk, though, wasn't it? 0h, huge, we were going to lose out on everything. we never knew if we would be able to play wimbledon again or the us open, or any tournament.

we might be blackballed. we might never get to play again. but we felt, um, it was so important to do this for not only our generation but for the junior... you know, the future generations. we had to do this not only for ourselves, but for the future generations. she's obviously someone who stood up for what she believed in, and i imagine at the time, she would have taken a lot of stick, um, you know, and gone through a lot. but ultimately, she's changed, you know, our sport for the better by doing that. i hope that the generations that have come after us really understand the risk that they took. the path has been paved by those original nine. it's pretty easy now to make a good living, and it wasn't that way always. modern women's pro tennis would not have occurred had one of those incredibly important people, billie jean king, been there and done what she did. this driving force that you have

seems to have been in your dna. oh, it's in my dna(!) because even at the age of 12, you were thinking things that most i2—year—olds would never think. you were sitting at a tennis club and thought what? i was at the los angeles tennis club, and i thought everybody who plays wears white shoes, white socks, white clothes, plays with white tennis balls, and guess what? everybody who plays is white. and my question at 12 was, "where's everybody else?" and so that was a moment of my total commitment to fight for equality and inclusion for everyone — for everyone. billie always had the bigger picture in mind. um, i think tennis did give her the platform but ironically, the match that changed everything for billie jean was the battle of the sexes in 1973 against bobby riggs. archive: it has been called

the battle of the sexes, the greatest match of the year, and the greatest waste of money and time. but whatever the title, it's a tournament which has caught the imagination of millions of americans, and even the harshest of critics can see the sort of publicity it's receiving could do for tennis what muhammad ali did for boxing. that match... that match! the battle of the sexes... yes! i mean, were you aware just how important that match was? yeah. that was probably the most important match for tennis, actually. everybody had a stake in it. it was the husbands and it was the wives and it was the daughters, it was the sons, and it was all about equality, and billie had a lot of pressure. i can't even imagine the pressure that she would've felt that day. everybody was, like, glued to the television. claims of being a woman is not a drawback when it comes to emotional stress and strain, and we're going to see what happens

when we take to the court. the men wanted bobby to win. he was older — he was, what? 55 years old, something like that, and billie was young, and she was at the peak of her powers. they said a lot of male chauvinists are not really proud of bobby riggs representing them, but i'm sure i've only heard from the ones that aren't proud of him. the ones who are proud of him, i'm sure, would go talk to him instead of talking to me. i remember her running his ass off. i mean, you know, having these long rallies, lob over his head, he'd go... i mean, he...he was tired. the women got so much more self—confidence after that moment, and the men are the ones that usually are more reflective and have tears in their eyes and, you know, "i watched that match when i

was 12 or 15 or 20 and now, i have daughters." boy! "that match really influenced me as far as how i want my daughters and sons and all genders to have equal opportunity and equal rights." so much, i think, at stake for women because they'd been fighting so long for acceptance and equality and being able to compete, um, you know, especially in sports. that really changed billie jean's life. it really, i think, gave her an opportunity to do more thanjust have this be about tennis. this now became about everybody in life. the next day, i think more women felt like they could go out and go out and go after what they wanted. i tell you, i was sitting at home watching the bobby riggs match, battle of the sexes. oh, you were? yeah, i was watching. how old were you? well... you weren't very old. no, i was just starting my teens

and i was like, it was my future. if you hadn't have won that, if you hadn't have changed women's tennis the way it is, i wouldn't have been able to play tennis as a career. and i had the most magical 15 years playing tennis. and then tennis has given me my other career. this is a great one, too. both of them are great. so let me just say, billie, a huge thank you to you for changing my life — and not only my life, but so many tennis players with what you had — that vision, that belief, and the guts to go out and stand up and take on organisations the way you did. you changed so many people's lives, so thank you, so much. wow. thank you so much. that's very touching. she has been a huge advocate for women's rights, and equal rights, that's obviously translated into one of those things in tennis, which is not really the case i think in any other sport, we have pretty equal prize money across the men's and women's tours, and that is extremely significant.

and i think she was advocating for that probably 30, 40 years ahead of her time. everyone thinks, oh, billiejean king did so much for women's sport and for women... it's not about women. but it isn't, isn't it? it irritates me. here's what happens. when a woman leads, they say, thanks for trying to help women. they never say that to a guy, they never say, oh, thanks for helping those men! when it is a male leader they obviously think it is for everyone. but when it is a woman leader they think, oh, it's for women, she is trying to help women. no. first of all, i grew up with a brother who played 12 years of professional baseball, which here doesn't mean that much but it is huge at home. i say oh, my younger brother played professional baseball,

and they say, what? i say his name, randall moffitt, and they say, moffitt! oh, it's not king? i say no, that is my former husband's name. they say, oh, that's why i didn't put you guys together. you met larry, your husband, at college. yes, we met together there. he was a biochemist major. i love smart guys. how long were you married? we were married about 22 years... but i've been with ilana for 39 years. as a ball kid when i was 11 years old i was actually... during the south african open, i was hitting some tennis balls with my dad on one of the side courts at ellis park, and billie jean walked by the court, she stopped, she came out onto the court, she hit with me for about 10—15 minutes, i remember her saying to my parents and to me, "you have a lot of talent, and if you work hard, maybe you can become a tennis player. " and that changed my life for all time. i read a quote of yours, tell me if this is true, but you didn't actually feel

comfortable in your own skin until you were about 51 years old. that's absolutely correct! very good. you always do your homework, sue! that is incredibly sad. it is sad, because it stopped me from achieving some of the things i want. but you know, you look at a lot of lives, and no life goes perfectly. it is the people who can adapt to the ups and downs better and be resilient, and that is what sports teach us. keep bouncing back. so i went to an eating disorder place, and i really got comfortable with my sexuality and the challenges i had. but there is no way in the ‘70s it would have worked, to come out and talk about having trouble, i don't know if i am bisexual, if i am gay, i don't know what i am, and i'm going through a hard time, we're just starting the tour — i can't talk about that in the ‘70s, we would have been finished in one

second, we would have had a tour. because the tour was in its infancy in the 705, the sponsors actually told her, "if you talk about your sexuality, there won't be a tour." i think that probably was really hard for billie to not be able to be her own authentic self and have to walk that tightrope. i actually had people come up to me who were close to me and say, "you cannot say one word or this, we will not have a tour." those were people working on the tour. it was very hard because i could not do this in a private way, it was very public. yes, i was outed, but i told the truth, and my lawyer and my publicist did not want me to tell the truth. that was another challenge i had. and they finally caved in, and i must say my publicist really came through, she had the whole office behind my media conference where i told the truth. larry was there, my parents were there, it was really hard on my parents because they were homophobic,

but they wanted me to be happy. it really gets confusing. younger people today look at me like, "what was the big deal?" it was a big deal. every sponsor dropped her. but i just remember how honest she was, and she got up there and said, "i did have an affair, it was wrong, it had nothing to do with it being a man or a woman, it was wrong, i was married." and i think that honesty set her free. were your parents, did they see you happy, do they see you...? eventually yes, because my parents came to love ilana. and they go, "oh, you're so much happier," they got it. i think my mother would always rather me be with a guy, but i mean, i think guys are great, i understand what she is saying. but ilana, she is the one for me, that's it. everyone has their one, and she is my one. looking back over some special

moment in your life. i have too many. president obama, for example. presidential medal of freedom, which is given to very few people. what did that mean to you? he spoke about what you achieved and the difference you made for his daughters. president obama was 12 years old when he saw the king—riggs match at the houston astrodome in 1973, and he was 12 years old. and he said that had a huge influence on him, because now he has two daughters, it helped him in how he raised them, how he thought about them. and i thought, "wow, he was 12." "but i used to watch you at punahou high school." because larry and i lived in hawaii, and obama was going to school there. and he used to sit, i remember the little black kid with a white kid standing there —

i said, "was there a white kid standing with you?" and he said, "yes, there was." wow. so i do remember him. so i thought, "wow." ali and i used to talk about this, muhammad ali, we would talk about, you never know how another person is going to touch your life and how you're going to touch theirs. so it's really important to be alert as you go through life. really, really important. the summer is a big summer of sport for a lot of women's sport. if there was a sport there now that is building itself up, beginning to get attention, what advice would you give them? part of me always thinks it's a good idea to have some of the present and the future, kind of hybrid. because you never know, really. but it is pretty obvious with social media, digital, you build a brand. whatever you are building, you have to build it. it doesn't matter where are you going, digital, television, doesn't matter — you have to keep building the brand. and today, people remember probably for 18 seconds, so you have to keep new information coming out. where in the old days people could kind of sit with it, not now. if you were to write a letter

now to your young self, what advice would you give yourself? i guess i would say i really am one of the luckiest people in the world. and you did it. i mean the life i envisioned, i have had that plus. and ijust think, i wanted tennis to be a pro sport, it is a pro sport. i wanted it to be global, it is global. i want equal prize money at every tournament, but at least at the majors, because it is about the message, not the money. we have that now. i mean, i am not finished yet, so it is hard for me to write this letter! do you think she is 75? does she know she's 75? because she sure doesn't act like it. she has so much energy and i always tease her because she's said for 20 years now that she has wanted to slow down, and she clearly is not slowing down. she has too many things she wants to accomplish. her favourite quote is "go for it",

and that's the way she lives her life, that is the way she plays her tennis, and that is what she wrote to me when i was ten years old on her autograph. "go for it — billie jean king." billie jean is not just an inspiration for me, but i think lots of athletes, i think she has changed our sport for the better. she stood up for what she believed in and made very significant changes in our sport, so i think more of the fact that she spoke out about something that she believed in very strongly, is something that i would say i have learned from and will hopefully continue to do in my career. she fought to make the world a better place and to give the people without a voice a voice, and for people to believe that anything is possible. there is no greater validation than having someone tell you that you made a difference, and billie jean certainly made a difference. the weather's calming

down after storm erik, still pretty blustery across the north—east of the uk, but the winds here will continue to ease as we go through the evening and the overnight period. sunday is going to be a mixed bag. we've got both rain and sunshine on the way. now, right now this is where

storm erik is right now, across the north sea, but this area of cloud is drifting in, bringing fresher rain towards south—western areas and southern areas of the uk, so this is another area of weather that will be sweeping through, no real windy weather here, just rain on and off through the night. it looks like eastern scotland and the north—east of england, clear spells for you here tonight, so a touch of frost, but in the south it will be a lot milder, 5—7 degrees, that sort of thing. and then tomorrow, the low pressure that will bring us a damp start to the day will eventually pull away from the south, and the weather will improve before showers once again return from another weather front coming in from the north, so there's that mixed bag tomorrow, one weather system pulls away here, there is storm erik over there, this is the sort of tail end of storm erik, with just a few showers moving into northern ireland. notice how, the middle of the afternoon, the weather improves across england, but by the time we get to sunset, i think the showers here will once again be sweeping across the sort of central swathe of the uk, the north—west of england,

through yorkshire into the midlands and down into the south—east as well. so here is that weather front moving through during the course of sunday evening into monday, and then finally, finally something that we're looking forward to — i think high pressure starts to build, pushing away the weather fronts away towards the northern climes, into the north atlantic, and from the south the weather starts to improve, so monday is looking very promising across the uk, temperatures will be around double figures just about in the south, still single figures in the north, but sunshine pretty much throughout the length and the breadth of the country. and with the jet stream swirling way to the north of us, between scotland and iceland, we get into this milder stream of air, the high pressure builds across the uk, so that means that the weather will be settling. you can see the yellow colours indicating that slightly milder weather heading our way. so the summary for the week ahead, a lot of dry weather around with some mild days, the nights might be chilly, some mist and fog around at times too. this is bbc world news today.

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