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Our top stories: The British radical Islamic cleric Anjem Choudary has | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
been convicted of inviting support for | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
At the Olympics in Rio, American gymnast Simone Biles has | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
taken her fourth gold medal in the | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
Russia has launched air raids in Syria from a base in Iran | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
for the first time - we'll hear | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
from BBC Russian about that in a moment. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
And we've been trying to analyse Donald Trump's hand movements. | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
I'll show you that report in about 15 minutes. | :00:43. | :01:01. | |
For the first time, Russia has begun using an air base in Iran to launch | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
air strikes against jihadist groups in Syria. | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
The defence ministry says Russian long-range bombers and fighter jets | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
took off from the Hamedan base in western Iran. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Until now, Moscow has been launching attacks from inside Syria. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Russia and Iran have discussed boosting military co-operation | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
I spoke with Olga Ivshina, from BBC Russian about the significance | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
It is very significant for both sides and both sides presented at as | :01:26. | :01:42. | |
diplomatic. As for the Russians, it eases the pressure on them | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
significantly because before, these bases were based in Russian airbases | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
and they had to travel more than 3000 kilometres to get to their | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
target, now the only have two flight 700 kilometres. It means they can | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
decrease the amount of rockets. Early, they needed more space for | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
fuel. They can now take up to 20 kilograms of bombs. They say | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
militants have already been killed but what is the Russian reaction to | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
this? Do they agree with using a third place to launch air strikes | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
from? Russian media is quite cautious. They first report they | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
were citing Arab sources but then a official confirmation came and was | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
presented as a diplomatic victory because we see Russian ties with | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
Iran are strengthening and Russia opposes political isolation which | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
was presented. It shows Russia is getting more and more allies during | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
this fight. That is part of the conversations that are taking place, | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
is Russia becoming more powerful with this conflict in Syria as it | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
begins to align itself perhaps with not only President Assad of Syria | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
but also with every knee and forces? Yes, absolutely and it is also a win | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
win a game for Iran because if they have Russian bombers on their | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
military bases, they have additional card in the game with Israel because | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
now the balance of power has changed completely sober boss says it is an | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
important step and also Vladimir Putin is using this to increase | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
pressure on Western leaders because he's trying to reduce sanctions on | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
the Russian economy which is a huge danger for him, bearing in mind the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Russian parliament elections which are coming in September. | :03:47. | :03:47. | |
For President Obama, closing the Guantanamo Bay detention | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Now, his administration has announced the biggest ever transfer | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
At its peak in 2003, Guantanamo held 684 inmates. | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
Of these, 20 have been approved for transfer, | :04:05. | :04:19. | |
34 face continued detention, but only seven have been charged. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
This is the largest release of Guantanamo prisoners | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
12 Yemeni and three Afghan prisoners transferred | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
Some have been held without charge for | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has been | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
With this plan we have the opportunity finally to eliminate | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
a terrorist propaganda tool, strengthen relationships | :04:55. | :04:55. | |
with allies and partners, enhance our national security, | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
and most importantly, uphold the values that | :04:59. | :04:59. | |
For many years it's been clear that the detention facility | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
The process of clearing detainees for release is glacial. | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
It's unlikely that the latest announcement was timed | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
But it does serve as a riposte to the Republican presidential | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
candidate Donald Trump, who has vowed to fill Guantanamo | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
with America's enemies and treat them harshly. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
I said, I think we should go much, much, much further | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
There were once almost 700 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
after years of releases, there are now just 61 left. | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
Campaigners and former inmates have given the latest move | :05:43. | :05:44. | |
They'll be returning in some cases to places where they still can't | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
These men are often resettled to countries that | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
So the ability to travel will not be afforded to them, | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
they may not be able to see their children now, | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
who have actually grown into men and young women. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
They may have missed the deaths of their parents or other relatives. | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
The Obama administration wants to put some of the remaining | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
a move fiercely resisted by Congress. | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
The long, tortured saga of Guantanamo Bay will almost | :06:23. | :06:24. | |
certainly rumble on long after Barack Obama has left office. | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
The number of wild bees across England is on the decline | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
They say the sharp fall of up to 30% can be linked to the use | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
of a controversial pesticide, which is temporarily | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
The research, which was published in the journal Nature | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
Communications, was carried out by scientists based in Oxfordshire. | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
They are vital for the environment - pollinating our flowers, | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
But Britain's bees are in trouble and now scientists say | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
there is evidence that pesticides are linked to their | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
In farmland across the country, neonicotinoid chemicals have been | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
This field of oilseed rape is just about ready for harvest | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
and it is this crop that is treated with the insecticide. | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
The chemical's applied to seeds before they are planted and this | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
protects the plants from pests as they grow. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
But since 2013, farms have not been allowed to use the pesticide, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
after the European Union put a temporary ban in place. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
Smaller lab-based studies suggested they were harming bees. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
However this latest research from the Centre for Ecology | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
and Hydrology analysed their effects on dozens of species | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
across the whole of England and they found that bees that | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
foraged on neonicotinoid-treated oilseed rape were three times more | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
likely to be in decline than the species that did not. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
What we have been able to do is massively increase the scale | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
We are looking at the whole of England. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
We are looking at long-time periods, over 18 years and looking at 62 | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
And it is this massive increase in scale which separates this study | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
But one company that makes neonicotinoids says it is not clear | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
that the pesticide is to blame and the ban is hurting farmers. | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
The alternatives, when it comes to growing oilseed rape, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
in the UK landscape, seem to be very few and the ones | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
that are there do not appear to be really helping. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
We are seeing a lot of destruction of crops out there and farmers | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
are really struggling to be able to grow this crop in the UK now. | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
This growing body of research on the plight of bees is currently | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Next year, they will decide whether to lift the ban | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
The United Nations has raised concern for what they see | :08:55. | :09:04. | |
as an "intensification" of air strikes in Yemen. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
Yesterday, a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
was hit in northern Yemen, killing at least 14 people. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
It's believed it was carried out by the Saudi-led coalition, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
which is backing Yemen's government in its fight against Houthi rebels. | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
Pictures from the ground show the scale of the damage. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
Another 19 were injured in the attack. | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Yemen's Prime Minister has spoken to the BBC's Arabic Service | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
and said his government was looking into all cases like this. | :09:31. | :09:42. | |
In truth we should focus on the main reasons about what has happened in | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Yemen. We want everyone across the world to know the exact truth but | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
you have to be very clean about it and say explicitly. Those | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
responsible for this war have to beef held fully accountable for the | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
damage in Yemen and for the casualties the cause. | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Iona Craig is a recent recipient of the prestigious Orwell Prize | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
for journalism for her work inside Yemen and has spent much | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
She returned in March and told me who would be behind this attack. | :10:09. | :10:20. | |
It's clear when you're on the ground that the only person that can be | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
responsible is the Saudi led coalition has nobody else with their | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
power in Yemen. The Yemen air force can operate at the moment and the | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
only people dropping bombs on the country are the Saudi led coalition. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
It's quite clear that is the case and I think MSF have been clear | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
about that. This is a regular occurrence in Yemen and the fourth | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
MSF facilitated hospital that has been hit in the last 12 months. Why | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
would a hospital be targeted as some people believe it to be? I think | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
that's the question. The GPS coordinates are given out to the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
coalition and to all the parties in the conflict. UN aid agency | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
facilities around the country, so it should be easy to avoid but these | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
kind of strike patterns of neural regular basis, I've seen it on the | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
ground myself, give seen civilian houses being targeted, I | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
investigated it strikes in which up to 175 civilians were killed in | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
those strikes, which included civilian homes and buses, I've seen | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
schools head, maternity wards hit and most of the time, the Saudi led | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
coalition blames them for having targets near these areas are when | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
they hit a school at weekends, the Saudis try to say it was a trail | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
soldier training camp when Unicef and other agencies have been there | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
and it is clearly a school. Your work is focused on Yemen but I think | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
many would say this is a war that is underreported, some people call it a | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
failed state, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East. Why is | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
that, do you think? Yemen is the Buddhist country in the region. It | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
has all been underreported -- Yemen is the poorest country. It is | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
convenient that it is underreported. But the British and American | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Government climb are heavily involved and the British Government | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
have sold ?3.3 billion's worth of arms to Saudi Arabia since the start | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
of this war. The Americans have sold nearly five times that amount so it | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
is very difficult for journalists to get into the country, particularly | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
now the airport has been closed again in the last week and while | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
it's difficult for reporters to get in, the stories don't get out and | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
the governments are not held to account. In the last few minutes, we | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
have had unconfirmed reports that year -- Yemen rebels have fired a | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
missile into Syria. If this proves to be accurate, it will be the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
highest number of civilian casualties in the country since the | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
Saudi led coalition intervene 70 months ago in Yemen. | :13:19. | :13:35. | |
Let's get the latest on Team GB at the Olympics today. | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
First, we are off to the velodrome but history has just been made. | :13:38. | :13:48. | |
Britain's Laura has a record-breaking fourth Olympic gold | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
medal. These are life pictures. She has just completed the final event, | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the points race and she eased to her fourth gold medal, her second of the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Rio games. Laura Trott becomes the most successful female British | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
Olympian in history. We'll have all the action and reaction in Olympic | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
sports day at 10:15pm. I can see a future years for Laura Trott and her | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
fiance is said to be Chris Foy's record of six gold medals in half an | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
hour. Jason won it last time so there could be ten medals between | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
that couple. Britain's first gold medal of the Olympics on day 11 was | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
won by Giles Scott in sailing Finn class. He had the luxury of treating | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
it as a lap of honour. He continued in the next three games by Sir Ben | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
Ainslie and ensured his country took back a fifth consecutive medal. Good | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
news for Britain's sailing team because they're guaranteed gold with | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
the medal race still to come tomorrow. The duo will arrive | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
tomorrow with business after they took silver in London 2012. It's | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
going to be gold this time. A meeting could is the youngest and | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
she has now won a bronze in the gymnastics floor final -- Amy | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Tinkler. She is now an Olympic medallist after this stunning | :15:33. | :15:46. | |
performance. She scored 14. Less than an hour after that success, | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
Nile Wilson left British Olympics happy when he scored his seventh | :15:56. | :15:56. | |
gymnastic medal. More at 10:15pm. This is Outside Source live | :15:57. | :16:11. | |
from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story is: The British | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
radical Islamic cleric An jem Choudary has been | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
convicted of inviting support If you're outside of the UK, | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
it's World News America next. It's got more on why Russia has | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
started using a base in Iran to Here in the UK, the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
News At Ten is next. It reports that Inflation in the UK | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
rose more than expected Now to politics, where lately we've | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
been spending a lot of time talking But tonight, it's body | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
language we're focused on. A lot of us talk with our hands, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
but the Republican nominee takes We asked an expert to help break | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
down what all those motions mean. Trump is a creature of New York City | :16:59. | :17:10. | |
and New Yorkers tend to use a lot of hand gestures. We all do. He is | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
entertaining even if he doesn't say a thing. | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
I don't think he has been coached heavily on body language and people | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
pick up on that in an instant. They pick up his authenticity. We're | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
going to take care of our veterans. This is his baseline. It's an | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
alternating hand gesture with an L shaped. It looks precise. People are | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
shocked. he uses this as cautionary. Look out. This is a tough competitor | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
or he'll say, we don't what's going to happen here. This scares people. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
It looks like wow, hold him back, its defensive. If you hold people | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
back and say here's what we need to do, his prescription, you've got a | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
good package. I'm taking the gloves off, yes? the no no is pointing at | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
people. Bill Clinton backed off from that. He started to do more of a | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
pinch towards somebody, it is less accusatory. Slicing means, this is | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
precision, we've got to do something about this. I don't want to hit the | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
first ball, I don't want to hit anything. he gets people whipped up | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
with his gestures. He gets them to give a sense of chaos, whether he | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
says, we don't have a plan! It's everywhere! That's chaos and then he | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
follows it up with precision moves. Elect me and we'll get to the bottom | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
of it. Breaking news about Laura Trott, she | :18:57. | :19:16. | |
has won a gold medal in the women's's omnium at the Rio | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Olympics. Her second gold of the Olympics, her fourth in total. That | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
makes her the most successful British female Olympian ever. Well | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
all the excitement is, at the moment, focused on the competition, | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
what happens when these athletes leave? | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Will these games leave any lasting impact? | :19:38. | :19:39. | |
Chris Mitchell has been to see a new project in the shadows | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
of the Olympic stadium which hopes to help develop Brazil's next | :19:43. | :19:44. | |
This place is just a few hundred metres from the Olympic Park in Rio | :19:45. | :20:07. | |
and yet this is where you might find Olympic champions of the future. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
That's because thousands of dollars have been invested here to provide | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
sporting facilities for underprivileged locals in the hope | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
that it might inspire them to become active. The Olympic village is at | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
the heartbeat of their communities. This is where they come to play, the | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
own this, it's a safe space for them and in the five-year commitment, we | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
are making sure we are working together with the city and with the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
community to make it sustainable. Ultimately, we want to transform the | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
community and impact the lives of these kids so they grew up loving | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
sport, being active and it really helps the community. We believe in | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
that unlimited potential of the kids. if you want to inspire a new | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
generation, then why not get in an athletic superstar? Carl Lewis won | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
ten medals at the Olympics for the USA, nine of them gold. Getting kids | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
involved in sports young, you can teach all kinds of lessons, physical | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
activity, engagement that you can't get if you start over and for me, | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
it's personal because I have a youth programme, an athletic programme in | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the United States, and I started at eight years old, a programme my | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
parents started, and this is personal for me and I think it is | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
wonderful and I'm happy to bring it into these neighbourhoods and | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
realise spaces like this which wouldn't be utilised. the fact the | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
money for this regeneration is coming from the sponsor and not the | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
state tells its own story. Rio is putting on a good chauffeur now but | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
the real test will be whether it has a vision to make the Olympics pay | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
for to come. Each day we've been bringing you the | :21:45. | :21:56. | |
lesser reported stories on the Olympics. Here is today's. | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
When Brazil's de Silva won the support of everyone in the Olympic | :22:02. | :22:13. | |
Stadium, he didn't sit well with the silver medallist who was upset the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
fans were booing him during his last jump. He said that everybody was | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
against him, not showing the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
respect. He was so upset he compared his experience to Jesse Owens during | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when he was booed for being black. He took | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
back that statement but still wasn't happy that he didn't repeat this | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
time as the Olympic champion. The Rio games may go down as the romance | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
games. So far, we've had a wedding proposal from Chinese divers, a | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
Brazilian rugby player, a British race walker and a British dressage | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
proposal. Now people are asking if they're taking away from the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
sporting accomplishment. Chinese diver was barely off the podium with | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
her silver medal, Britain's Charlotte had just won gold in | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
dressage, this athlete waited until he finished his own event before | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
asking his own partner. For the record, they have all said yes. One | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
area getting a lot of attention at the fingernails of some of the | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
competitors. Four years ago in London, there might have been some | :23:34. | :23:42. | |
nail art it seems there is -- it is a key here, being used to show | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
patriotism. These athletes are masters of detail. When Simone Biles | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
arrives to compete, she doesn't just the stars and on her and stripes but | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
also her nails, the swimmer from Sweden had golden nails but | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
hopefully wasn't too disappointed with her silver medal and I really | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
wonder whether those designs survived through the nail-biting | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
competitions. To remain due, in case you missed it, Laura Trott has won | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
gold in the velodrome for Great Britain in the women's's omnium. It | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
is a fourth Olympic medal, making her Britain's most successful female | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Olympian. What a title! Lets see what that does to the medal table. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
The USA is still leading the 28 gold medals, Great Britain has increased | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
its tally to a team of Laura Trott's win, China remains in third, Russia | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
despite its depleted team has claimed to fourth place. You can get | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
all the latest results on the BBC sport website weather BBC sport | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
application. But from us in London, goodbye for now. | :25:02. | :25:10. |