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as they take another big step on the european journey. hywel griffith, bbc news, baku. the term must win is bandied about fully internment football so let's just say wales could do themselves an enormous favour if they win tonight. three points should guarantee their place in the next round but if fellows tonight to turkey is almost mission impossible, heading to the eternal city of rome and a fight for survival. the value of shares in coca—cola fell yesterday after portuguese star cristiano ronaldo removed a couple of bottles placed in front of him at a news conference last night. ronaldo — considered a health fanatic — told people to drink water instead. later, french midfielder paul pogba, who's a practising muslim, removed a bottle of heineken at his euro 2020 news conference.
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time for a look at the weather, here's ben rich. good afternoon. we start in baku and a pretty hot afternoon, 32 degrees and only a touch cooler for the kick off a bit later on. not quite as warm here at home but not far off it with some parts of the south getting close to 30 degrees today. across the southern areas are set to turn quite a lot more turbulence later on because of this cloud you can see now drifting across northern france. this is heading in our direction and for some of us, southern and central parts of england in particular it is set to spark off some thunderstorms through tonight and tomorrow with the risk of some torrential downpours in places. further north and west you will wonder what all the fuss is about. quite a cool and fresh afternoon for northern ireland
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and scotland. some rain for west wales, southern scotland. further south we had that heat and also humidity. up to 30 degrees. and then the thunderstorms start to develop drifting across the channel islands into southern counties of england. we could see some heavy rain across south—eastern parts of england moving into east anglia but as always some places will fall between these showers and stay pretty much dry whereas others will see torrential rain and frequent lightning. very muggy in the south—east corner and much cooler and fresher for northern ireland and scotland. fortomorrow and fresher for northern ireland and scotland. for tomorrow yet more heavy and thundery rain to come across parts of central and eastern england. tending to clear out into the north sea through the day but once again northern ireland and
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scotland drier and come out with some spells of sunshine and quite a cool some spells of sunshine and quite a cool, fresh feel. temperatures in the south—east lower than today but still some humility holding on and as we head into friday high—pressure tries to building settling things down across western and northern areas but more heavy and thundery rain approaching in the south—east. more very wet weather for some but for western england, wales and northern ireland and scotland largely dry on friday and temperatures for all of us by the stage in the high teens or low 20s at best. cooler and fresher into the weekend, thejoyous at best. cooler and fresher into the weekend, the joyous day saturday with more rain to come on sunday. good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. we're starting at the
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euros, where all eyes will be on wales tonight as they play their second group game against turkey. they drew their opening match with switzerland so a win tonight will give them a good chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. let's get straight to azerbaijan, where our wales correspondent hywell griffith is following the build—up. and hwyell, another game in baku for wales, but unlike the swiss, the turks have a large population there and it seems everyone has a home game apart from wales? absolutely, it is one of the curiosities of this transcontinental tournament that wales have travelled 3000 miles to be here but they are playing a team that will very much feel at home. there is a huge turkish population in azerbaijan, they are very close neighbours, geopolitically and when it comes to supporters, fire more turkish flags than welsh ones. there will be 30,000 fans behind me outnumbering the welsh ones by something like 100
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to one speaking to the welsh players, they think maybe they could turn out to their advantage because of the pandemic, it has been a long time since anyone from wales has played in front of a crowd anything the size of that, they like the big occasion, the noise and ultimately can turn hostility in their favour, particularly of the turkish crowd get on the backs of their team the stopper member they underperformed in theirfirst game stopper member they underperformed in their first game so the pressure will be on turkey also. what in their first game so the pressure will be on turkey also.— in their first game so the pressure will be on turkey also. what sort of o- osition will be on turkey also. what sort of opposition will _ will be on turkey also. what sort of opposition will turkey _ will be on turkey also. what sort of opposition will turkey put - will be on turkey also. what sort of opposition will turkey put up? - will be on turkey also. what sort of opposition will turkey put up? they were pretty — opposition will turkey put up? they were pretty woeful _ opposition will turkey put up? tie: were pretty woeful in the opposition will turkey put up? tie1: were pretty woeful in the opener against italy losing 3—0, no attack or pace up front, but looking back to how they qualified, only conceding three goals beating france in their group, so they shouldn't underestimate turkey, they will have a point to prove in front of the
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30,000 fans. the manager saying they see this game as a cup final for them. from a welsh perspective, wales were 0k them. from a welsh perspective, wales were ok but not great against switzerland, they would have wanted to make a bigger mark. in the end clinging on by theirfingertips to make a bigger mark. in the end clinging on by their fingertips for that dryer and the welsh fans want to see more from their big—name players like gareth bale, aaron ramsey, they really need to bring more to the game, may be freeing the winger and find the head of the welsh man who've the only goal so far. wales need performance here and let's not say most when, that clearly a winner would almost guarantee them a place in the next round so there is a lot at stake. thank you very much. well, while we focus on the euros, next season's premier league fixtures are already out. and champions manchester city will travel to tottenham in the first round of matches, which could be made even more interesting if harry kane ends up moving to city in the summer.
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the first games will take place on the 14th of august, and newly promoted brentford will host arsenal in their first top—flight game in over 70 years. andy murray and venus williams have both been given wildcards for wimbledon which starts at the end of this month. murray won his first singles match on grass for three years yesterday, beating frenchman benoit paire in straight sets. it's his latest comeback following his hip resurfacing operation two years ago. murray has been hampered with subsequent injuries and bad luck. he missed the australian open in february after testing positive for covid. england have made solid start to one—off women's test match against india, which started this morning. they won the toss and are batting first. 0pener lauren winfield hayes made 35 before she was caught behind. that's the only wicket to fall so far, with tammy beaumont closing in on a half century. at lunch england are 86 for 1.
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you can follow that and the latest from queens and more this afternoon on the bbc sport website and app. this afternoon in the house of commons the prime minister made a statement to mps following the g7 summit in cornwall last week. let's hear what he had to say. i will make a statement on the g7 summit i chaired in carbis bay and the nato summit in brussels. let me first thank the people of cornwall, carbis bay, saint ives, for welcoming the representatives of the world's most powerful democracies to their home. an enchanting setting for the first gathering of g7 leaders in two years, the first since the pandemic began, and president biden�*s first overseas visit since taking office. our aim was to demonstrate how the world's democracies are ready and able to address the world's toughest problems, offering solutions and backing them up with concrete action.
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the g7 will combine our strength and expertise to defeat covid, minimise the risk of another pandemic and build back, better, fairer and greener for the benefit of all. alongside our partners, the g7 is now engaged in the biggest and fastest vaccination programme in history, designed to protect the whole world by the end of next year. my fellow leaders agreed to supply developing countries with another billion doses, either directly or through other channels, of which 100 million will come from the uk. the world's most popular vaccine was developed here, and the express purpose of the deal between the british government, oxford university and astrazeneca was to create an inocculation that would be easy to store, quick to distribute and available at cost price or zero profit to protect as many people as possible. the results are becoming clearer every day.
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over 500 million 0xford astrazeneca vaccines have been administered in 168 countries so far, accounting for 96% of the doses distributed to developing nations by covax, the global alliance that the uk helped to establish. with every passing hour, people are being protected across the world and lives saved by the formidable expertise that the uk was able to assemble. but all the efforts of this country and of many others, no matter how generous and far—sighted, would be futile in the face of another lethal virus that might escape our efforts, so the g7 has agreed to support a global pandemic radar, to spot new pathogens before they begin to spread, allowing immediate containment and in case a new virus gets through anyway, our scientists will embark on a mission to develop new vaccines, treatments and tests injust100 days compared
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to the 300 required for covid. even as we persevere against this virus, my fellow leaders share my determination to look beyond today's crisis and build back better, greener and fairer. if we can learn anything from this tragedy, we at least have been given a chance to break with the past and do things better and differently. this time, as our economies rebound, we must avoid the mistakes we made after the financial crash of 2008 and ensure everyone benefits from the recovery. the surest way of our future prosperity is to design fair and open rules and standards for the new frontiers of the global economy. so the g7 will devise a fairer tax system for global corporations, reversing the race to the bottom, and strive to ensure new technology serves as a force for prosperity and hope, strengthening freedom and openness.
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my fellow leaders will act as one against an increasing injustice, the denial of an education to millions of girls across the world, by working to get another a0 million girls into school by 2025. i'm happy to say the g7 agreed to provide more than half of the five billion sought by the global partnership for education to transform the prospects of millions of children in developing countries and £430 million will come from the uk. in response, the leader of the labour party keir starmer said the summit has been a wasted opportunity. mr speaker, the priority for the summit had to be a clear plan to vaccinate the world. this is notjust a moral imperative, it is in our self—interest — as the delta variant makes clear. without global vaccine coverage, this virus will continue to boomerang, bringing more variants and more disruption to these shores.
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the world health organization has said that 11 billion doses are needed — 11 billion doses. this summit promised less than one tenth of that. no new funding, no plan to build a global vaccine capacity and no progress on a patent waivers. mr speaker, the headlines of a billion doses may be what the prime minister wanted, but it is not what the world needed. the same is true of the climate emergency. this is the single greatest challenge the world will face in decades to come. but this summit saw no progress on climate finance, the communique speaks only of commitments already made and of those yet to be made. there was no plan, that alone a marshall plan, to speed up cuts to global emissions. and there was little in the communique beyond existing commitments. mr speaker, this summit was meant to be a stepping stone to cop26, but if anything, it was a step back.
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it was also disappointing that there was nothing to suggest any progress was made to restart the middle east peace process. a new government in israel combined with a new us president provides a real opportunity to end the injustice and to finally deliver an independent and sovereign palestine alongside a safe and secure israel. and the resumption, sadly, of hostilities overnight shows the price of that failure. so can i ask the prime minister if he discussed this with world leaders, including president biden? the summit should also have been an opportunity to resolve, not inflame tensions over the northern ireland protocol. it started with an unprecedented diplomatic rebuke from our closest allies and it ended with the white house still speaking of candid discussions. and it was overshadowed by the failure of the prime minister to make the deal he negotiated —
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he negotiated — work. the ceasefire between israel and hamas has been broken after less than four weeks. israel says it has attacked hamas armed compounds in the gaza strip after incendiary balloons were launched from the palestinian territory on tuesday. it's the first test for israel's new government which was sworn in on sunday. tom bateman has more from jerusalem. well, these air strikes lasted around ten minutes, palestinians in gaza reported hearing extremely powerful, loud explosions as they took place. the israelis say they targeted hamas militant sites and that was in response to the sending over the perimeter fence during the day of so—called incendiary balloons. now, these are balloons, small helium balloons that are flown over the fence with burning objects attached and this had been a tactic used in the past by hamas in gaza, that had set fire to some israeli farmland, around 20 or so fires according to the fire service in israel.
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so that had been the context for this break of the ceasefire, albeit not a return to the kind of intense hostilities we were seeing a few weeks ago and no rockets fired, importantly, from gaza towards israel, which would have been a sign i think of another steep escalation if that response had taken place as well. now, all of that came in the context of the events in jerusalem and that was an ultranationalist flag march that took place, israelis matching towards occupied eastjerusalem towards the old city and at damascus gate, which is a very important gathering area for palestinians, it is the main entrance to the muslim quarter of the old city, the flag parade took place there. now, that area had been cleared in a forceful way by the israeli police. uk inflationjumped to 2.1%
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in the year to may, as the rising cost of clothes, fuel, food and drink pushed the rate above the bank of england's 2% target. inflation is now at its highest since before the pandemic. the may rise was above most economists' forecasts of an increase of about 1.8%. rising inflation has raised fear that interest rates may have to increase. liz martins is a senior economist as hsbc. she explained why the inflation figures are a bit higher than expected. i think the bits people were predicting, we know fuel prices are a lot higher than they were this time last year. that part was all in the forecast. but then there are additional pockets of inflation elsewhere in the economy that are just running higher than we were expecting. one example is hotels and accommodation. as you mentioned, restaurants, for example, they are are operating with less than usual supply, they are having to implement social distancing, etc. they have gone without revenues for the best part of the year, so it looks like they are starting to put their prices up in response
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to that and as you said, there is pent—up demand in the economy so they feel like consumers can take it if they do raise their prices just a little bit _ clothing and footwear was another area. furniture is an area of strong demand. these are areas which we call core inflation. so if we strip out all the volatile bits, the food prices and fuel prices that might change week to week, month to month, the core inflation, the underlying inflation rate has alos picked up ——also picked up very sharply and that is why people might start to think this looks a bit more sustainable. around 145,000 people are living with parkinson's in the uk. despite years of research, it's a disease that has no cure. former england rugby player mike tindall�*s dad has been living with parkinson's for nearly 20 years. sally nugent went with mike, as he visited his parents in yorkshire for the first time this year. today, 14th ofjune, i'm hoping, because it is my dad's birthday,
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so i'm going to go up north and it will be at least probably six months ago since i last saw them. get back, see how he is, see if anything's changed. whether his symptoms have got slightly worse. the old boy — give him a hug for his birthday. it's a manly knocker. hello. are you all right? yeah, fine. i how are you? i'm all right. good. oh, it's good to see you. all reet, father? hello, mike. i've brought you a very, very chocolatey chocolate cake. because i know that diet is your key. are you wobbly today? yes, i'm wobbly today. a bit wibbly—wobbly? bit wibbly—wobbly, yeah. are you all right?
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yeah, not bad. how is everything else? did you jig jog? been out for your run this morning? me and holly have been out for a walk. been round the block. she dragged along, yeah? things not kicking in very well today. they haven't done today, no. that's how we go. get anotherjab in you. pincushion you. i had another before you came in. could be a little more lively than otherwise. mike, we are at your mum and dads house. yeah. thanks for inviting us in. tell me about your dad and the situation he is in at the moment. so he's had parkinson's disease for, i think, probably 20 years, but he has officially known since 2003, just before we went out to the world cup. commentator: and they burst into song once again. _ it didn't really dawn on me what parkinson's was. if you looked at people who were prevalent with parkinson's at that time, you would say muhammad
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ali. and you looked at my dad, and looked at muhammad ali, and, well, it is not the same person, surely it's not the same disease. and then life went on. i was 25, rugby was going really well. you were focused on that. and when we got married in 2011, you could see the effects were starting to grow on him in terms of curvature of the spine. he had to have surgery on that. and then slowly, over the past ten years, there have been loads of other problems that have come across because of it. what lockdown has done is, when you don't see someone for such a long period of time, then you sometimes miss what gradually appears. push, push. he would love to play more with the grandkids, he would love to be able to pick them up, throw them around. 48 out. one has got one on, so three. he's having a lot more jabs. he doesn't sleep well at night.
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he doesn't really take part in a lot of the day. - he's asleep during the day? yes, he sleeps in the day and then doesn't sleep at night. _ and that's when, then, you get...upset. - well, not upset, but anxious a bit. uncomfortable. i can't move very well. your body is like a dead weight. you're reaching for the light. and you're reaching for your bottles. because i can't get out to go to the loo. and so it'sjust a matter of fighting. you're fighting. yeah, yeah. when you say, phil, that you didn't maybe want to accept it, what do you mean by that?
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well, i don't like the thought that i have got an incurable condition and that i'm going to gradually get worse and worse and worse. because i was one who always liked my fitness and conditioning. i was the one who wouldn't drop the ball, i would always catch the ball. and this is now not happening. i was beginning to fumble things. that isn't me. i didn't think it was me. when you got to that moment where the doctor told you what it was, what was that moment like for both of you? you reacted differently to me, didn't you? yeah, icried. ldid~ - quite a lot. but then, you know, you just have to get on with it, don't you? - you can't cry for ever more. what have you found hardest? has it noticeably got worse in the 18 months? we've just been bored, haven't we? is it hard having conversation? you've made 50 years together
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but you've never spent this much time together! it's very difficult, sometimes. as i say, if he doesn't sleep - at night, he sleeps most of the day. always a way of avoiding conversation, isn't there? what do you most want to keep on doing? to feel i'm contributing something, notjust a lump in the corner, shaking on a chair. you know, being an active guy. if there is a ball about i'll kick it, i'll play with it. i miss the fact that i can't do it with the grandchildren as i would like to do. that's what i really wish. how much do you think about the future? even if there was a cure tomorrow, it's not going to change my dad's life. that is some of the reason why i try to do what i do now, because men are men and they do take a long time to go and see
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a doctor, they don't like talking about things. but what you ultimately don't want is for... you would never want a young son or daughter to go through having to watch the idol who was the sporty idol i wanted to be, you know, go from where he wants to be and where he is now. he knows that that is not quite there any more. and that is ultimately what i would like to try and be involved in, that we can stop that from happening. good afternoon. for some of us, the weather is about to turn quite turbulent, especially towards the south and the east of the uk. where today, we have had the best of the sunshine. pretty high temperatures as well,
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you can see on the earlier satellite picture, these storm clouds that have been drifting across france, and some of these are heading in our direction. particularly for southern, central and eastern parts of england, there is the risk for some thunderstorms tonight, and into tomorrow, torrential downpours in places. in the shorter term, there is a lot of dry weather through the day, quite cool and fresh across north—west scotland and northern ireland, some sunny spells and the odd shower, a band of cloud brings some rain for southern scotland, north—west england and west wales, but it is across central, eastern, southern parts of england where we have the highest temperatures, lots of sunshine too, 29 to 30 degrees. quite a humid feel. and into the evening, we will see some of those thunderstorms creeping up from the south, drifting across the channel islands, into southern counties of england, the south—east could see some really intense thundery rain for a time, then moving up into east anglia. these showers are quite hit and miss, some places will stay dry, but others could see a lot of rain and frequent lightning as well. further pulses of heavy, thundery rain will continue to drift through during the small hours of thursday. whereas further north and west,
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you will wonder what all the fuss is about, lots of dry weather, quite a fresh feel to the north—west of scotland, but a very humid, muggy one in the south—east of england. into tomorrow, across a good part of england, we have the continued risk of some heavy thundery rain, may be clipping into east wales as well, but for much of northern ireland and scotland, we will see some spells of sunshine, temperatures for many, relatively cool and fresh — 17 degrees in belfast, 23 in london, still some humidity holding on towards the south—east corner. as we move through thursday night into friday, high pressure builds towards the west and the north of the uk, lots of dry weather to come here, but down in the south—east, the potential for more pulses of heavy and possibly thundery rain to move through, some of these downpours could be very heavy indeed. temperatures lower for all of us by this stage, maybe 17 or 18 for norwich and london, high teens or late 20s the general figures elsewhere. through the weekend, saturday, the drier day for most, a greater chance of rain on sunday.
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