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This is Outside Source. Let's remind you of the main story is here in the | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
BBC newsroom. They three in Rio. Many big medals up for grabs. China | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
took gold in the synchronised swimming. The BBC has seen evidence | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
of British special forces in Syria. They are said to be assisting rebels | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
near the border with Jordan. The Japanese Emperor Akihito has | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
indicated he would like to step down. In a rare address to the | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
nation he said his age and ill-health could soon prevent him | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
from carrying out full duties. Two years on from the Ebola outbreak in | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
West Africa, our reporter returns to one of the worst hit areas to see | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
how things have changed. We are going to turn our attention | :01:00. | :01:20. | |
to Syria and some exclusive photographic evidence obtained by | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
the BBC which shows British special forces operating inside Syria. They | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
have been working alongside the Syria- Jordan border with moderate | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
rebel fighters of the new Syrian army in the battle against so-called | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
Islamic State. British special forces are helping | :01:37. | :01:53. | |
to defend a Syrian rebel base from the so-called Islamic State. | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
They are a small but lethal force, only a dozen men. | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
The threat here is grave, they have come laden | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
with weaponry, to fight their way out of any trouble. | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
These exclusive pictures obtained by the BBC are | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
from June, immediately after a Isis attack killed nine moderate Syrian | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
The new Syrian army again fought them. | :02:12. | :02:27. | |
Their spokesman, who does not want to be identified, will not | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
comment on pictures of British special forces. | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
TRANSLATION: We are receiving special forces | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
training from British and American partners | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
and getting weapons and | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
equipment from the Pentagon, as well as air support. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Here it is in action, an American fighter | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
On more than one occasion, British forces have crossed the | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
border here in Jordan but further east of here | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
into Syria to help the | :03:07. | :03:07. | |
new Syrian army, few groups have received such close and personal | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
support, from Britain and from America. | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
That closeness has led to | :03:15. | :03:15. | |
ridicule from the Islamic State, and there has been setbacks on the | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
battlefield, but still, this small band of fighters continues to | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
endure, and continues to receive intensive support from the West. | :03:23. | :03:42. | |
Islamic State produced a video of the equipment and prisoners they | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
claimed to have seized from rebels. Still, the British backed group is | :03:48. | :03:48. | |
undeterred. After reviewing these pictures, the | :03:49. | :04:09. | |
Ministry of Defence said it would not comment on special forces | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
operations. These soldiers, unlike conventional troops, do not require | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Parliamentary approval to be deployed. The numbers might be | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
small, but on the front lines, they are making a difference. Well, we | :04:22. | :04:31. | |
talked earlier about the British success today. I am looking here at | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
the medal table. Brazil sneaking into the first top ten for the first | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
time. They just won a gold in the judo final. It brings Brazil into | :04:42. | :04:49. | |
the top ten on the medal table. Just talking about Brazil, they will be | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
pleased to finally get on the table. Which other countries should we be | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
looking at? Brazil just winning their first gold of the games. It | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
came three Rafaela Silva. It sparked wild celebrations from the crowd, | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
not to be missed. Check them out, if you can. China, you have to keep | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
your eyes on them when it comes to diving. They won their second diving | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
gold of the games. It came from their world champions. China won | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
seven of the eight medals available in diving at London 2012 for the | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
men. The other medal was won by an American. He was part of the team | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
who got a silver medal today. We spoke earlier about Tom Daley and | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Dan Goodfellow. They claimed a bronze medal in the end. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Congratulations to them. Italy, well they had three goals in the first | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
three days of action. It can in fencing, shooting and judo. The | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
reason is the schedules. It has helped the Italians early in the | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
programme. They won 28 medals in London. Five of those killed in | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
fencing and shooting, out of their gold medals. They finished eighth in | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
the medal table. There are many events have come up early in the | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
schedule in Rio. That is why they are so high in the medal a great | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
story from Kosovo. They are in their first ever Olympics after being | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
recognised by the IOC in 2014. They have won their first gold in judo. | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
She had to take part in the last Olympics for Albania. A good story | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
for her and for Kosovo. That is very much. Well done to Italy. Always | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
like a bit of the fencing and the Rugby because we have been watching | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
the women's rugby. Australia and New Zealand will meet later said he | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
first Olympic champions. Convincing semifinal victories over Britain and | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Canada. There is growing interest locally in the beaches and favelas | :07:02. | :07:02. | |
of Rio. Laying down a challenge in a country | :07:03. | :07:18. | |
where football is king. There is a tougher, noisier game in town. A | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
first appearance for rugby sevens in the other books and the best teams | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
in the world are here. That of course by the men and women of New | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
Zealand. The all Blacks. Rugby has come to Rio. You couldn't get a | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
better backdrop to pull in future players. This is about much more | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
than selling tickets for Olympic matches. It is about trying to grow | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the sport. There is a genuine interest because it is fast, | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
dynamic. It is a contact sport. It is a sport to double the Brazilian | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
athletes. It also means taking rugby be on the comforts of the beach at | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
places it has never been before, to the favelas of Rio. Space is a | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
premium but under the guidance of UK cultures, boys and girls from this | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
favela are keen, quick and there is no shortage of ball skills. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Introducing rugby to the Olympic Games has been a real gamble. Not | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
many people play the game here. It is a gamble that has paid off, given | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
the response in these communities. There are challenges. The previous | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
week of training was cancelled because of a shoot out between | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
nearby drug gangs and police. These kids are not put off easily. I was | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
never into football but as soon as this rugby then came along it | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
changed my life. She'll also lives in the favela. I love the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
adrenaline, he says. If you don't get away from your opponent, he will | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
chase you down and catchy. Ticket sales for the rugby sevens have been | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
slow. Like many other big events which are well established in Brazil | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
it is not going be easy. But rugby is here to stay, say those are | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
developing the sport and the youngsters who have taken to it. It | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
brings values and the physical dimension well suited to this | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
flamboyant but sometimes challenging country. They are pretty good with | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
the round ball in Brazil. Controversy never far away from | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
Olympic sport. A month from now, the Paralympic games will open in Rio. | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
Russian athletes will not be there because they have been banned | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
because of the doping scandal. The head of the International Paralympic | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
committee has been speaking and this is what he said. I believe the | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Russian government has catastrophically failed Victor Parra | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
athletes. There are medals over morals mentality disgusts me. The | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
band centres on a report by the world anti-doping agency. I wanted | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
to show you why they were suspicious. That was the medal table | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
after the Bentaleb X. They have twice as many medals as Germany, | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
their nearest rivals. Compare that to the picture four years earlier in | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Vancouver. They trailed Germany with half as many medals as well. In | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
Russia, Moscow correspondent spoke with the head of the Russian | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Paralympic committee. It is all politics? Not all politics. | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
Sometimes there is a greediness but we performed to rapidly and to | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
successfully. Do you accept that some doping violations took place? | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
Yes, of course. As well as many other countries. Yes, of course. It | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
should be investigated thoroughly. And objectively. The accusation of | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
the state-sponsored doping programme in Russia? I don't know. I don't | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
know. They were not | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
investigated until now. They should be and I am ready | :11:06. | :11:06. | |
to participate but Interesting response. We will turn | :11:07. | :11:33. | |
to Sierra Leone. The World Health Organisation declared at the Ebola | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
output a global health emergency. The UN agency says Sierra Leone's | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
health system is recovering. There are still some major shortcomings. | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Our global Health Correspondent reports now from Freetown. It was | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
once the jewel in the crown of the $500 million British response to the | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Ebola output. When I was here during the peak of the epidemic the UK | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
built centre was a person- 200s of people. | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
Its first survivors were 18-year-old Daniel and his | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Their brother, Ambrose, did not pull through, though. | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
In total, they lost 27 members of their family. | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
Daniel had high hopes for the site's future after the British | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Government's handed it back to the Ministry of Health. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
It is a suitable place where they can establish a | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
standard hospital that will be available for the people that are | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
So that they can have access to good medical | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
things and it is a total mess to see it like this. | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
The Ministry of Health says it is planning to build a | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
maternity unit here, but we saw no work under way yet | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
After almost two years on virtual lockdown, Sierra Leone is | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
back to its vibrant and bustling self. | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
I have returned to Freetown's main hospital, Connaught Hospital. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
When I was here at the height of outbreak, there were | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
tents on either side of here dealing with the overflow of Ebola patients | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
and medics had to look after people dressed in full biohazard gear. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
This hospital has received more than ?1 million | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
from the British Government, so I have come back to see how some | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
The Accident and Emergency department is | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
Before the outbreak, these sort of modern ambulances were | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
This is where Ebola patients used to be | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
cared for, but the revamped wards, complete with new oxygen supplies | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
and heart monitors, are now providing emergency care. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Before now, I believe we would have lost people like this. | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Because the systems were not readily available. | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Obviously the Ebola was a really difficult time here. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
But I think you know if there's been one big change | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
and one consequence of that it has been a real focus on the health | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Back to Daniel and he is studying hard to get into medical | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
school, inspired by the British medics who saved his life. | :14:16. | :14:35. | |
Going through this horrible situation has | :14:36. | :14:36. | |
That devoting yourself to others is one | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
With so few doctors in Sierra Leone, Daniel's ambition is crucial for his | :14:45. | :15:05. | |
country. Sierra Leone still with big challenges ahead. Stay with us. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
Coming up, the Japanese royal family has an unbroken male lineage that | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
goes back more than 2600 years. At 82, the current emperor, Akihito has | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
indicated he wants to abdicate, beginning a new conversation on the | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
future of the Japanese monarchy. Thousands of real commuters have | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
suffered disruption as a five-day strike by Southern Railway workers | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
got underway. The company running the services is embroiled in a row | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
with the RMT union over plans to remove conductors from trains. | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
Monday morning, commuter misery. Nothing new, especially on Southern. | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
I've been doing this for about 20 years and this is the worst | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
They are cancelled and delayed every single day, it is ridiculous. | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
I think the people who are getting the brunt of it are the stuff | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
on the trains, people are really angry at them and clearly | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
it's not their fault, it's a management and its higher up. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
Delays, cancellations and overcrowding have become routine. | :16:12. | :16:12. | |
for passengers who pay as much as ?4,000 a year. | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
Even a first-class ticket does not guarantee a seat. | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Each evening we don't get home, we are delayed for an hour, | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
This is what the dispute is all about, who should | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
Southern wants the drivers to do it so the guards can | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
But the guards' union is worried that will mean | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
There are also concerns about safety, even though many | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
trains operate already with just a driver. | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
We want to make a change to improve services to customers, | :16:42. | :16:43. | |
to get staff on board to be able to better look after our customers | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
and give them a better service and the RMT are finding that very | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
On the picket line this afternoon the union heard | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
The company reckons 60% of normal services have run. Outside Victoria | :16:55. | :17:10. | |
Station, passengers's frustration was forced on the picket line. The | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
RMT has been doing everything it possibly can to minimise the | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
inconvenience and customers. We have to endure lies being told by the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
company and... Five days, that is not minimal. This train company is | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
providing a horrendous service. Commuters march into uncertainty | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
once more. I usually leave at half five, I got here at Fort instead. I | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
am having to get my parents to pick me up. There are no trains running | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
from my station so I have to get a bus. It is not good. There is the | :17:49. | :17:57. | |
possibility of more strikes to come. This is not a happy Railway. | :17:58. | :18:11. | |
This is Outside Source, live from the BBC newsroom. Rival Islamist | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
group sex and responsibility for a suicide bombing at a hospital in | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
Queta which killed over 70 people. What the seat next on the BBC News | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
depends on where you are watching. If you are outside the UK it is | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
world News America. Laura will be looking at the economic policies | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
announced by Donald Trump earlier today. Here in the UK, the news at | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
ten is next. They will have more on the Southern train strike affecting | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
thousands of commuters. Theresa May has condemned the strike saying it | :18:46. | :18:47. | |
is only going to cause more destruction and misery. The Turkish | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
president has said he would approve the reintroduction of the death | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
penalty if it was backed by Parliament. President Erdogan was | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
speaking at a rally on Sunday but despite issue of loyalty there are | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
concerns about the severity of the crackdown that followed the | :19:08. | :19:08. | |
attempted coup. They gave their son the burial of a | :19:09. | :19:26. | |
hero. There was nothing glorious about how he died. To most Turks, he | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
was a traitor. He was killed taking part in the field too. | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
He was a conscript, and worked in the army. | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
But his family say he had no idea what he was involved in. | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
TRANSLATION: My son didn't know anything about the coup. | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
They woke him up in the night, and told him there was an operation. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
His commanders led my son to death on purpose. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
This was the moment the soldiers on the Bosphorous Bridge | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
In the background, the voice says, stop beating him, | :20:06. | :20:18. | |
TRANSLATION: My child was battered and murdered. | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
He was bleeding like a slaughtered cow. | :20:27. | :20:37. | |
But it was the civilians who died that were remembered at | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Hundreds of thousands of people, with one message. | :20:41. | :20:52. | |
The crowds here are chanting "Martyrs will never die, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
And inside there was a clear display of national unity, | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
crowds never seen before, all waving one flag, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
If President Erdogan had been shaken by last month's failed coup, | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
He called for national unity, and said the people behind | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
But that is not how Kurtulus Kaya is remembered by his family. | :21:29. | :21:46. | |
TRANSLATION: We have died a thousand deaths. | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
This pain is killing me, and I'm burning on the inside. | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
And I hope whoever did this will burn like me. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
In some ways the coup has brought parts of Turkey together. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
But it has also destroyed many lives. | :22:09. | :22:23. | |
The Japanese emperor, Akihito, has indicated he would like to step down | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
from power, telling the Japanese people in a rare television address | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
that his advancing years make it difficult to fulfil his duties. He | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
didn't say he wanted to abdicate, under the Constitution, he is vented | :22:37. | :22:38. | |
from making political statements. Never before has a Japanese emperor | :22:39. | :22:50. | |
gone on television like this to make a direct plea to his people. In | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
coping with the ageing of the emperor, I think it is not possible | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
to continue reducing perpetually acts in matters of state. The | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
language is fake but the message is clear. The 82-year-old emperor wants | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
to step down. The trouble is, there is no way for him to do so. | :23:14. | :23:23. | |
Akihito's father was the last to be treated as a god here in Japan. | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
After World War II, he was forced to declare himself a human being. The | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
right-wing in Japan has never accepted that being Emperor is | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
merely a job. So, when Akihito ascended the chrysanthemum Throne, | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
there was no provision for him to ever retire. Unlike other monarchs, | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
the Emperor is not allowed to say he wants to abdicate or to demand a | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
change in the law. Instead, he has appealed directly to the Japanese | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
people, telling them I am getting older and weaker and I cannot go on | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
for ever. Outside the palace there was widespread sympathy for the | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
Emperor. If the Emperor needs to abdicate, we feel His Majesty should | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
be respected. I am sure we all concerned. We all feel he is loved | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
by the Japanese people. Some say the 82-year-old monarch might have a | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
larger objective in wanting the law to be changed. He is well aware of | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
that once they get to reviving -- revising the lot that there will be | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
people calling for the ability for women to succeed the Emperor. The | :24:36. | :24:43. | |
Emperor's son has just one child, a princess. Does her grandfather hope | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
one day she will ascend the chrysanthemum Throne? We will be | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
back with Outside Source at the same time tomorrow. From me and from the | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
rest of the game, thanks very much for watching. | :24:59. | :25:09. |