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Russia's fencing squad may already be here in Rio, today collecting | :00:39. | :01:51. | |
their accreditation at the Olympic Park, but remarkably, they still | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
don't know if they will be allowed to directly compete. These were | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
among the 250 Russians cleared to participate by sports federations in | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
the wake of the country's doping scandal, but still await their fate. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
The International Olympic Committee has now said it will have the final | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
say on every athlete. This afternoon, the president remained | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
defiant. How damaging to the credibility of these games is this | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
chaos? I don't think that this, in the end, will be damaging, because | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
people will realise we have to take this decision now. Imagine the | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
situation if we had not taken a decision, what the limbo would then | :02:34. | :02:42. | |
be. I trust the people that they realise the difficulties we are in. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Despite a damning report into a vast state-sponsored doping programme | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
that saw the Sochi Winter games sabotage, the IOC resisted demands | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
for a ragged by the Russian's and poutine. More than 100 athletes have | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
been barred under the new eligibility criteria, but today a | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
Russian swimmer became the third to appeal against the punishment, the | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Court of Arbitration for Sport even having to hold emergency hearings in | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
this Rio hotel as the uncertainty continues. This is the Russian | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
handball team and despite the fact that we are now just five days away | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
from the Rio games, they are in limbo, like many of their comics. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
They don't yet know whether the IOC will allow them to compete. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
TRANSLATION: Of course it's not easy, because the most difficult | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
thing is the emotional pressure for the athletes. For those who are not | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
diapers, it's not fair. Meanwhile, British athletes are continuing | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
their preparations. Some are waiting to see if the competition will | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
include Russians. It's a shame the whole thing wasn't sorted out a lot | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
earlier before the games got started. We support the strongest | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
possible sanctions for athletes that are cheating. But at this stage, it | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
is just focusing on our game. These games have already had a troubled | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
build-up, but the IOC's handling of the Russia crisis has ensured the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
controversy will continue, even once the action begins. Dan Roan, BBC | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
News, Rio. Well, it's not just the doping | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
scandal that's overshadowing the Games, with the opening ceremony | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
just five days away. Some in Rio believe the organisers | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
have failed to honour commitments Our South America Correspondent | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
Wyre Davies reports. Rio is a city transformed by the | :04:24. | :04:36. | |
Olympic Games. Billions have been spent on investment in new sports | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
venues, museums and public transport. But critics say it's | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
money that should have gone to other, more important priorities. If | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
cities want to prioritise the needs of their citizens, basic safety, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
access to water, food, transportation etc, things that make | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
a good life, the Olympics is clearly not part of that any more. What the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Olympics are about is winners and losers. Few have lost as much as | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
local residents like Donna Maria. There is nothing left here now, she | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
says gazing through a fence to a corporate car park where the homes | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
of almost 600 families to be. She was bloodied in the battle to save | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
the favela next to the Olympic Park, but deemed an intolerable eyesore | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
for this global mega event and bulldozed to the ground. Putting on | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
this showpiece has almost bankrupted the local government. The impact can | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
be seen and smiled everywhere. Cleaning up its chronically polluted | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
waters was another key promise Rio made when it was chosen to host the | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
games. But it's a pledge that simply hasn't been kept. Guanabara Bay is | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
full of solid waste, sewage and chemical pollution. A commitment to | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
treat 80% of the sewage entering this be as long since been | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
abandoned, the very waters were Olympic sailing events are taking | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
place. But officials say there will be a legacy, and spending is tight. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
The games in Brazil and Rio represent a new model for the games. | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
A model of games that are more lean, with reduced costs, under control. | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
We have spent less public money to do 20 venues than London spent to do | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
one venue. These games will be unique because Rio is a unique city, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
rich and poor living cheek by jowl, but not all reaping the same benefit | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
from hosting the games. Wyre Davies, BBC News, Rio. | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
Let's go back Dan Roan in Rio for us tonight. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
It seems the fallout from the doping scandals threatens to cast a shadow | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
over the games even once competition begins? That's right. Amid such | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
unprecedented pressure, today represented a fightback by the IOC | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
president, Thomas Park, in the face of this criticism over the legal | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
quagmire that the IOC now finds itself immersed in. He will now be | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
desperately hoping that in the next few days, the narrative shifts away | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
from all of that controversy you have just been hearing about and | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
moves towards the sporting action and becomes more positive. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Certainly, the fact that this could be the most visually stunning and | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
spectacular games in history, being staged here in Rio, will help that | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
objective. The problem that Bach faces is that rarely were there have | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
been so much since it is a -- cynicism and scepticism surrounding | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
sporting achievement because of this doping scandal. And in the past, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
despite all the challenges they may have faced, organisers of the games | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
could rely on the fact that this show has an enduring ability to | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
inspire and entertain. The sense here in Rio, though, this evening is | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
that that assumption is being tested like never before. Dan Roan, thanks. | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
The Prime Minister is to lead a new task force aimed at tackling | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
thousands of suspected cases of modern-day slavery in the UK. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
In a newspaper article, Theresa May, said it was a "barbaric evil", | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and more than ?30 million from the foreign aid budget would be | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Behind closed doors, on our streets and in the workplace, modern | :08:29. | :08:38. | |
But the new Prime Minister is promising to do more to help. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
Theresa May led the Government's campaign to tackle slavery | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
when she was Home Secretary, and now as Prime Minister, | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, she said: | :08:51. | :09:08. | |
Police need to have a better understanding of what's going on in | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
relation to modern slavery and what their responsibilities are, | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
but this is an issue that needs to be dealt with in much broader | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
terms of both national immigration policy, national crime policy, | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
and international development policy. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
Now, ?33 million will be spent in countries like Nigeria | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
to help tackle the roots of the people-trafficking trade. | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
The Government thinks there could be up to 13,000 victims in the UK. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
It's ordered an investigation into the way police forces | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
in England and Wales respond to the crime. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
I don't doubt the sincerity of Theresa May's words, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
but I do question whether they're being backed up by real actions. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
who as Home Secretary has cut the police, cut the Border Force | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
and part of a Government that is cutting councils. | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
So she's taking away the ability of professionals to do | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
If she really is sincere, she should stop the cuts and give | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
people the resources they need to tackle this growing problem. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
It's often a hidden crime, and one the Government says | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
an international trade it says it is determined to stop. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
The mother of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq has | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
accused the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
of being ignorant of Islam, and not understanding | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
Ghazala Khan's comments came after Mr Trump mocked her appearance | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
at this week's Democratic Party Convention. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
From Washington, here's David Willis. | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
From a grieving family came a speech which stole the show. This couple's | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. If it was up to Donald | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently | :11:16. | :11:27. | |
smears the character of Muslims. You have sacrificed nothing and no one! | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
Today, trumpeted to the airwaves, saying his sacrifices have been | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
different. I think I have made a lot of sacrifices. I work very hard. I | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
have created of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs. He then turned | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
his attention to Mrs Khan, who had stood silently at her husband's side | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
throughout his address. Was she forbidden from speaking by her | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
faith? She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
to say, you tell me. Mr Trump's main rival, Hillary Clinton, said such | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
rhetoric was beyond comprehension. Mrs Khan, for her part, said she had | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
stayed silent because she is still overwhelmed with grief. I am very | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
upset when I heard that I didn't say anything because I was in pain. When | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
you are in pain, you don't say anything. I am not a fighter. I | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
can't fight. Mr Trump has since sought to temper his remarks, | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
calling her son a hero and seeking to refocus debate on the so-called | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
Islamic terrorists who cost her son his life. But it is not in his | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
nature to back down. Indeed, after last week's Convention, which put | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Hillary Clinton firmly ahead in the polls, Mr Trump has vowed that the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
gloves will now come off. Nothing, it seems, is off-limits in his | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
unorthodox campaign for president. David Willetts, BBC News, | :13:05. | :13:05. | |
Washington. A 12-year-old boy has been arrested | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
on suspicion of murder It follows the death of a man | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
in his forties, who was assaulted Three teenagers have | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
also been arrested. The Government insists it has no | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
plans to review its so-called triple lock guarantee on pensions, | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
which ensures they rise by at least A former Conservative pensions | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
minister had said the policy is unaffordable, and should | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
be scrapped by 2020. At least 24 police officers have | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
in clashes with the Taliban. It's thought the extremists | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
now control 60% of the region, which British troops | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
spent almost a decade defending, Our Defence Correspondent | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
Jonathan Beale has been back This was once home to thousands | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
of British troops, but Camp Bastion British forces were here | :13:53. | :14:00. | |
in Helmand for eight years, but much of what they left behind | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
has turned to dust. When he announced Britain's | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
withdrawal, David Cameron called mission accomplished, | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
but that's not the view of the new Afghan | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
commander in Helmand. Soon after the British left Bastion, | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
the Taliban attacked the camp, Do you think they | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
completed their mission? This is what happened to the Afghan | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
army when the British Last year, there were even fears | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
that the whole province would fall This graveyard of vehicles | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
is evidence of the fierce fighting there has been here in Helmand since | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
the British left just two years ago. It's also evidence of the poor state | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
the Afghan security forces were in, a situation that has only | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
recently changed with the return At the start of this year, | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
500 US troops went back into Helmand, their task | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
to rebuild an army that was, in the words of one US adviser, | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
a sucking chest wound, down to a third of its strength | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
with casualties, Dozens of senior officers | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
have also been replaced. The Americans are now | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
training the Afghans, just as the British did before them, | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
sometimes the very same soldiers. So is this return to Helmand proof | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
that British forces left too soon? We've helped prop it back up over | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
the last year, but if we didn't have the British and the Marine | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
involvement here in Helmand, we would have been | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
starting from zero. We made the decisions based | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
on what the assessment was at the time of the capabilities | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
we thought they had and the numbers of coalition forces that were | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
allowed to remain in Afghanistan. I think they made decisions based | :16:01. | :16:11. | |
on where they thought their US soldiers now occupy a tiny | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
corner of the old Bastion. 456 British service personnel | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
lost their lives in Afghanistan, There are still 500 UK troops | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
in the capital, Kabul. But here in Helmand, | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
it's been left to the Americans Jonathan Beale, BBC News, | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
Helmand. More than two million young | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
Catholics from around the world have attended an open air mass held | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
by Pope Francis in Poland. The gathering was the final event | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
of his five-day tour of the country. In his address, he urged young | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
people to reject hatred In America, some Democrats | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
on Capitol Hill say Congress should be recalled from its summer break | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
to approve emergency funds The call comes as officials | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
in Florida confirm the first infections on the US mainland | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
from mosquitoes carrying the virus. Here, Public Health England has | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
advised pregnant women to consider postponing non-essential | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
travel to Florida. This is the front line in the battle | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
against the Zika virus in southern Florida, | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
health officials trudging the streets, looking | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
for the mosquito that carries the virus and persuading people | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
to take precautions. All four people who are thought | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
to have caught the Zika virus from local mosquitoes live and work | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
in a mile square area in this up-and-coming | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
neighbourhood of Miami. None has ever had to go to hospital, | :17:45. | :17:46. | |
but the authorities This man has been preparing for this | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
for months, and while there will be more local cases, | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
he says there is no reason I would not delay my travel plan | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
here at all, because the living conditions here are so much | :18:03. | :18:16. | |
different than elsewhere We have AC, we have window | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
screening, we have a strong public Florida gets more than 100 million | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
visitors a year. More than 1.5 million | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
of those come from Britain. Some travel firms have offered free | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
cancellation to pregnant women, but among those tourists already | :18:28. | :18:29. | |
here, concern seems low. I think if we brought our children | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
here with us, we would have been concerned, because they're | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
in their twenties, of child-bearing Are you taking any | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
precautions? I'm taking no | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
precautions, no. More than 1,600 people have | :18:44. | :18:44. | |
developed Zika in the continental US, the majority of | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
them through travel. Florida has had 307 of these cases | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
and these southern states are most at risk, because the mosquito that | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
transmits Zika already lives here. What's likely to have happened | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
is that travellers with Zika got bitten by uninfected mosquitoes, | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
which then infected local people. These boys and girls seem oblivious | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
to the concerns about Zika. Their parents, though, | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
fear for their future You would have to carry that | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
worry for the full nine months of your pregnancy, | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
so I think that, you know, But now, Britons who are pregnant | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
are being told to consider postponing travel as everyone waits | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
to see what kind of foothold Zika With all the sport, here's | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes Britain's Lewis Hamilton | :19:35. | :19:46. | |
won his sixth race of the year at the German Grand Prix to move 19 | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
points clear at the top of the Formula One | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
Driver's Championship. In recent weeks, Nico Rosberg has | :19:58. | :20:06. | |
seen the drivers championship turn on its head. His Mercedes team-mate | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Lewis Hamilton had overtaken him in the standings, but here he was on | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
pole with a chance to reclaim the lead. In Formula 1, the start is | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
all-important. Rosberg's was a disaster. Bogged down, when he | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
emerged from the first corner, he had slipped back to Fort. This was | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
already Hamilton's race to lose. He was at the front, and when Rosberg | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
attempted to gain ground, he was penalised for forcing Max Verstappen | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
of the track. All the while, Hamilton kept his cool, bruising | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
around the Hockenheim circuit to finish ahead of the Red Bulls of | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Daniel Ricciardo and for staff and for his fourth victory in a row. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Fantastic job, guys. At one stage, he was 43 points behind Rosberg in | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
the championship. Now Hamilton is running away from his rival and with | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
four weeks until the next race, it's clear who will enjoy the break the | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
most. Katie Gornall, BBC News. Golf's USPGA is turning | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
into a real battle at Baltusrol with Sweden's Henrik Stenson | :21:07. | :21:08. | |
in with a good chance of winning This year's Open Champion is a shot | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
behind the leader Jimmy Walker on 10 under par midway | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
through his final round. The last pairings are being forced | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
to play 36 holes due Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
are the highest placed Britons on 7 Meanwhile, Thailand's Arriya | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
Jutanugarn held on to win The overnight leader | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
survived a patchy final round to take her first major title | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
by 3 shots, finishing on 16 Scotland's Catriona Matthew, | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
the last British woman to win a major, finished joint 5th | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
on 9 under. Carl Frampton is being hailed as one | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
of Northern Ireland's greatest ever The 29-year-old beat | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
Leo Santa Cruz in New York to win the WBA featherweight Belt, | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
becoming the first Northern Irishman to win world titles | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
in different weight categories. I'm in the driving seat now. I can | :21:57. | :22:09. | |
do big-money fights that will change my life and my family's life. I am | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
just looking forward to the future, and it is still going. I am | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
approaching 30, but I feel like I am getting better and I have a new | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
lease of life. There is plenty more to come. | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
The Ride London Surrey Classic was won by Belgium's Tom Boonen | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
after a dramatic sprint finish in the Mall. | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Welshman Geraint Thomas had looked like taking the title before heading | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
off to the Rio Olympics after leading for most of the 200km | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
race, but he was caught by the peloton in the final stages | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
and Boonen fought his way through to win on the line. | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
Tens of thousands of amateur riders also took part in the weekend's | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
event, which was marred by serious crashes. | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
Two cyclists had to be air-lifted to hospital. | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
And that is all the sports. Back to you, Clive. Lizzie, many thanks. | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
An American skydiver has entered the record books | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
by jumping from a plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Luke Aikins was free-falling for two minutes as he zeroed in on a giant | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
safety net suspended 20 storeys off the ground. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
And to his relief and that of a live television audience, he landed | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
safely, later saying that was "awesome." | :23:14. | :23:19. |