on the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. yeah. it just seemed to last forever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, i m not going to. i m not going to die? i kept saying, no, you re not. you re not. and they got a barrier, a metal barrier, and then put him on that, went round to the lift, he wouldn t fit in the lift, so i had to go back and go down the stairs. not one paramedic attended tojohn inside the arena. he was carried out on a makeshift stretcher to a casualty area outside. ron left him after an hour thinking he would be ok now there were medics with him. when did you find out that
told me his name and all that. asked him where he were from. so, he communicated. and less than a minute of that explosion, you run 999, didn t you? explosion, you rang 999, didn t you? yeah. police, emergency, - hello, can you hear me? yeah, there s been an explosion at manchester arena. is anybody injured? yes, loads. - there s been an explosion? - explosion, yeah, big explosion. john atkinson was the man ron was trying to help. his legs were bleeding heavily. on the way down, i remembered my wife had a belt on, so i asked her to give me her belt. ron tied the belt tightly around john s leg to slow the bleeding. we know you did that for the best part of an hour. yeah. you thought help would be soon. it just seemed to last for ever. seemed to go on and on and on, and nobody were coming, so ijust kept trying to talk tojohn. kept saying, i m not going to. i m not going to die?
about relationships perhaps have become a bit more positive, but there are still sausages and there is still a dog so we hope for the future. thank you both very much, a pleasure to have you belt on. i ll come back from a holiday, rob, bad luck, lydia, maybe next year. thank you very much for your company. that s it for the papers this evening. sport next. goodbye for now. i m mark edwards. thanks forjoining us. team gb have continued their impressive medal haul with another 5 on day 12 of the games moving them up to fourth in the medal table.and it was a great day for hannah mills who has become the olympics most successful female sailor of all time, after she won gold alongside eilidh mcintyre in the 4 70 class. the pairfinished fifth in the medal race, but their earlier performances were enough to secures mills third olympic medal and a second gold, in three games. gb now have five sailing medals
ideas but i m very memorable. i mean, i m also not allowed to have a gun so what i can do if someone tries to kill me, i can just go, no! that s it. and i don t think that s quite a match for a murder. can i just go back to i mean i love tyrus. i m afraid of him but i love him. he s got his champions belt on. but i m glad there s a lot of distance. equality of opportunity. look. you mentioned how the billionaires have their own security and i admit that there is some hypocrisy there. but greg, i want to be here to defend billionaires. i basically want to help them out, and i think they take too much flak. billionaires do wonderful things. to create businesses, tens of millions of jobs, higher wages and they need support groups. people like myself have to stand up and support them and the
ideas but i m very memorable. i mean, i m also not allowed to have a gun so what i can do if someone tries to kill me, i can just go, no! that s it. and i don t think that s quite a match for a murder. can i just go back to i mean i love tyrus. i m afraid of him but i love him. he s got his champions belt on. but i m glad there s a lot of distance. equality of opportunity. look. you mentioned how the billionaires have their own security and i admit that there is some hypocrisy there. but greg, i want to be here to defend billionaires. i basically want to help them out, and i think they take too much flak. billionaires do wonderful things. to create businesses, tens of millions of jobs, higher wages and they need support groups. people like myself have to stand