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the burning wreckage of his haas formula 1 car. he crashed during the first lap of the bahrain grand prix. he has minor injuries. that's all for now from sportsday. thanks for joining injuries. that's all for now from sportsday. thanks forjoining us. you could just smell the presence of evil there. i sort of like grabbed my leg and i said, "i think i have been shot." and izzy's dad said, "i think it is a bomb." screaming it's may 2017 — what does life look like for you? just rosie, bringing up izzy. just enjoying everything
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that was going on. my main goal then was to get into university and that was my main wish. and i can remember getting dressed, thinking, "it's so hot. what am i going to wear?" and i can remember the jeans i put on, my white blouse, everything. it was such a nice, beautiful day, and i said to myself, "let's finish off strong and it is going to be the best when you come back home and you're going to start your real journey." it was just a very happy, sunny day. izzy was just buzzing. ariana was one of the ones that she really wanted to see. manchester, sing, come on. # one last time... # when she started to sing one last time, we got up off the steps and walked to the door. everyone in the crowd were just screaming and were just
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like, "this is amazing." and i'm just there at the fire exit, thinking, "i wish i could just go in." she did another encore with dangerous woman. i knew izzy wouldn't leave until then. i knew we were in for a wait, stood here, and that's obviously just when it happened. people stopped for a second, it was a brief second, and then... screaming people were just trampling over anyone possible — even the younger children, they were just moving people out the way, they were just getting pushed left, right, and centre. just an almighty bang, darkness. and it felt like it was raining, like, ash. it was like being at a bonfire and there was ash coming down. it was calm at first, but then all of a sudden, there was just screams that were ear—piercing.
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they asked the crowd who was outside, "has anybody got any first aid training or is anybody first aid trained?" "so, if you know anything, just go through them doors." iran so fast to the door and... i remember opening the door, and then that's when i first saw the scene. there was a handbag, there was a shoe with a foot in it. you know, you can see everything, and it's then you start taking it in of what sort of is going on around you. it was a very distinct smell. i have never smelled anything like it before or after. and the smell, and just chaos. just chaos everywhere. at that moment, it was just like, "i either run home or i stay
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and help these people." so i made the decision quickly that i need to help these people, and i said to myself, "listen, we'll deal with the feelings and everything later. but now, just try and do your best to help people." i sort of like grabbed my leg and i said, "i think i've been shot." and izzy's dad said, "i think it's a bomb." tannoy: due to an incident, it is necessary to evacuate the area. it was just so surprising because it was so quiet there. i mean, now thinking back, all of the chaos that was happening around, people would think there was more chaos inside, but it was so quiet and so sinister. you could just smell the presence of evil there. i could just see how much blood i was losing. and ijust thought, "how long can i stay here for?" i go to around four or five people, and they're not moving, so i think they're dead. i had to decide who to go to, who i think is going to make it or not.
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ican rememberjust staring at the ceiling. i didn't want to look at anything, i didn't want to take my eyes off a space on the ceiling. of everyone, ijust seen her. she was flat on the floor, looking at the ceiling, so... this young lad came up to me and he said... "my name's usman, what's your name?" his eyes were just so dark, and he just was so compassionate. she was opening her eyes and closing her eyes, and i could tell she was drifting in and out of consciousness. there were times when i wanted just to close my eyes and go to sleep, but he was not going to let me. so my main thought was quickly to get her awake and get her talking and moving again. i'm thinking, "is this it? is this where it's going to be the end?" she starts shaking quite violently, and she's saying, "i don't want to die. i don't want to die here." would i ever see my children again? i was thinking about myself as well. my main thought was, "i'm not
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going to be there for them." out of nowhere, i say, "you need to think about your children and kids," and as soon as i said that, her eyes just completely let up. he kept me calm and still. he obviously knew that my head was bleeding as well. you could see a lot of holes, and i think she had black or grey pants on, and you could see dark patches, so i thought that is where she was injured. there was a bolt through my leg, so he knew it was bleeding really heavily. i took my belt off and wrapped it around her thigh, just above the wind. i could feel my head, i could feel my foot, i kept screaming for them to take my shoe off. she kept asking me how bad it was. i said it was going to be fine. he wasjust calm. for a young lad, he was really calm. and i turn around and i'm looking back, and i've got my elbow... i put my head in my elbow and ijust burst out crying. just trying to breathe,
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trying to collect myself. ijust kept saying to god, "please get me out of here. please get me out of here." i did not have any sense of time, but i felt like i had been there for hours and hours. just lying on the floor, because obviously i could not move because of my leg. i'm just thinking, "where are the medics and where's the ambulance crews?" you get to a point where the shock is over, and then it's like someone's dimming the light — the light of your soul, someone is dimming it down to a point where you feel as if your body cannot hold you up any more. it's like someone is sucking the soul out of you. you know, you have these heroes that went in and did what they did. he was one, and ijust don't think he realises he actually is one, because he just did what he thought was hisjob.
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i would like to, you know, meet up with him and just... i don't know. i don't even know what to expect. it's hard, because "thank you" does not seem enough. hi. wow, you've changed! how are you? i'm all right, doing a lot better. i've got over the physical side of it. i'll always have something going on physically, but, you know, the mental side is more than anything, isn't it? that is the hardest bit. the mental side of it. the first anniversary didn't bother me. it's the last one that has bothered me more. i hit a low point from 2019. it is that you're thrown in the world where you don't belong.
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you are an outcast and you do not belong in the world. you aren't who you want to be. you want to feel wanted, you want feel normal. so you have to practice smiling in the mirror, you have to wear a mask. i think for you, you saw so much more than i did. i wasjust lying there. i mean, thankfully, you were there, because that's what i've said — i'll never forget you sort ofjust being there by my side. i must have said it a thousand times to you, i said it is going to be all right. and i did. you were right. that's the way to look at it, isn't it? but it has been lovelyjust to see you again, really. you know, we don't have to stay strangers, do we? no. you get to know somebody, but we had to get to know each other quite quickly. so he wasjust a lovely person, lovely and warm, kind—hearted person. she made me feel like i was a hero,
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but i'd call myself a hero if i could help people who are going through depression, anxiety and ptsd, and show them the light and be like a role model to them. yeah. good for you. thank you. hello there. it's been another dull and gloomy day for most of the country on sunday. there was some sunshine across parts of south wales, south—west england, particularly here in cornwall. but it's these areas that saw some breaks in the cloud today that are going to find a fog developing and becoming thicker as well. mind you, it's pretty misty and murky elsewhere. cold still in the north—east of scotland. temperatures will rise in scotland as the wind picks up, the cloud thickens, and this rain gets blown in all the way down into northern ireland and northern england by the end of the night, by which time temperatures further south will be around 5 or 6 degrees. what's happening tomorrow is that the high pressure that's
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brought all the mist and fog is getting pushed away by these weak weather fronts moving down from the north—west. so the fog lifts in the south—west of the uk. still misty and murky for a while, and a lot of cloud, probably not much rain though across southern parts of the uk. it's very patchy rain this — most of it over the hills of wales and north—west england. and then, after the rain, we get some sunshine through the afternoon in scotland. temperatures for the most part, 9 or 10 degrees. the air gets a bit cooler, though, in scotland in that sunshine, and temperatures start to drop away. there will be a stronger breeze as well during monday. and that colder air then moves down across the eastern side of the uk overnight, as that rain on that weather front moves away. still out to the west in the milder air, there's going to be a lot of cloud and a little light rain or drizzle. but a frosty start perhaps for eastern scotland and north—east england on tuesday. it's going to be a cold day here, as that cloud just comes in over the top. we hang on to the sunshine for the midlands, east anglia, the south—east. not a bad day here, temperatures 9 degrees or so, maybe making double
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figures out to the west, where the cloud is thick enough to give a few spots of light rain or drizzle. heading into the middle part of the week, and we see high pressure getting squeezed again, with another weather front moving down from the north—west. this one is very weak — it's more a band of cloud that's going to be moving down across the uk. not much rain on that at all. and then behind it, across the north—west, we get some sunshine, we get showers as well. the winds pick up, gales in the north—west of scotland, and the air‘s getting cold enough to perhaps give some wintryness in the highlands. 5 degrees here, elsewhere around 8 or 9 at best further south. that's into wednesday. but beyond wednesday, it gets colder still, i suspect, and much more unsettled. some stronger winds, some rain at times, and even some sleet and snow in the high ground.
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this is bbc news — the headlines at 7pm: the foreign secretary says the government is "listening" to conservative mps who are unhappy with the latest coronavirus restrictions for england. having a vote on the regulations in january, with a sunset in february if that doesn't pass again, i think, is the right combination of accountability and transparency, with taking the measures that the public need now. president trump says he will continue to fight the results of the us presidential election, telling fox news his ‘mind will not change in six months‘. the french formula 1 driver romain grosjean escapes a huge crash at the bahrain grand prix, which saw his car split in two and erupt into flames. former fi driverjohn watson said romain grosjean had a lucky escape.
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