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Tonight at ten, with just five days to go, there's more confusion over

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which Russian athletes will be allowed at the Rio Olympics.

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Despite hundreds already travelling to Brazil,

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it's still not clear who'll be allowed to compete after

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A "barbaric evil" that must end - Theresa May pledges to fight

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The mother of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq has

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accused Donald Trump of mocking her after appearing

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If you look at his wife, she was standing there.

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Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say.

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And it's four wins in a row for Lewis Hamilton, as he dominates

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the German Grand Prix from start to finish.

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With just days to go before the opening of the Rio Games,

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the International Olympic Committee has denied it's causing confusion

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over its handling of Russian athletes, following

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The IOC defended its decision not to ban the whole team,

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now saying a special panel would decide which of the hundreds

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of Russian athletes already in Brazil would be able to compete.

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Our Sports Editor Dan Roan has the latest from Rio.

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Russia's fencing squad may already be here in Rio today

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collecting their accreditation at the athletes college,

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but many do not know if they will be able to take part.

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These are among the 250 Russians cleared to participate in the wake

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The International Olympic Committee has now said it

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This afternoon, the President remained defiant.

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How much damage to the credibility of these games is the

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I do not think in the end these will be damaging,

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because people will realise that we have to take

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Imagine the situation if we would not have taken

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a decision, what then the limbo would be.

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I trust the people that they realise the difficulties we are in.

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Despite a damning report into state-sponsored

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doping that sabotaged events like the Sochi Winter Games,

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the IOC resisted demands of a blanket ban

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More than 100 athletes have been banned under

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but there was a third Russian swimmer who appealed to the Court

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of Arbitration for Sport against the exclusion

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This is the Russian handball team and despite the fact

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that we are just five days away from the start of the Rio games,

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they are in limbo like so many of their colleagues.

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They do not know whether or not the IOC will allow them to compete.

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TRANSLATION: Of course it is not easy, the most traumatic thing

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For those who are not doping, it is not fair.

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British athletes meanwhile are continuing their preparations

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Some waiting to find out whether the competition

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It is not unsettling for us, it is a shame it was not

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sorted out earlier before the games got started.

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We support the strongest sanctions for cheating,

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but for us it is focusing on our own game.

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These games have already had a troubled build-up,

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but the IOC's handling of the crisis has ensured the controversy

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will continue even once the action begins.

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Well, it's not just the doping scandal that's overshadowing

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the games, with the opening ceremony just five days away.

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Some in Rio believe the organisers have failed to honour commitments

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Our South America Correspondent Wyre Davies reports.

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Rio is a city transformed, and Olympic organisers say it is now

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Billions have been spent on investment in sports venues,

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museums and public transport, but critics say it is money that has

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been diverted from other more important priorities.

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The Olympics are all about winning and losing, but few competitors

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will have lost as much as this woman.

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Is, she says, gazing through a fence Stow corporate car park loans of

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almost 600 families used to be. She was bloodied in the battle

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to save her home next An intolerable eyesore

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for a global event. It was bulldozed to the ground.

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Putting on this showpiece is almost bankrupted the local Government. The

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impact can be seen and smelt everywhere.

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Cleaning up the chronically polluted waters is another key

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promise that Rio made when chosen to host the games,

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but it is a pledge that has not been kept.

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The bay is full of solid waste, sewage and chemical pollution.

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A commitment to treat 80% of the sewage entering this bay has

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The very waters where Olympic sailing events are taking place.

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Officials say that in other areas there has been real progress.

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The games in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro, represents a new model for

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the games. A model of games that are more lean with costs reduced,

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reduced costs under control. We spent less public money to do 20

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venues than London has These games will be unique,

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because Rio is a unique city. But not all are reaping the same

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benefit from hosting the games. Let's go back Dan Roan

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in Rio for us tonight. It seems that the fallout from the

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doping scandal threatens to cast a shadow over the games. Even once

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competition begins. That is right. Yes. It is such an

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unprecedented pressure. Today represented an attempted fightback

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by the IOC president in the face of fierce criticism over the legal

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quagmire that the IOC now finds itself immersed in. He will be

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desperately hoping that the next few days, the narrative and focus shifts

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away from all of that controversy that you're just been hearing about

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and moves towards sporting action itself. It comes -- and it becomes a

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lot more positive, this story. It could be the most really stunning

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and spectacular gains in history, and being staged here in Rio de

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Janeiro will help that objective. The problem is this, though. Really

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before, while there have been, because of this doping scandal, so

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much scepticism surrounding sporting achievement. Certainly Russian

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sporting achievement. Previously, the games could rely on one thing,

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that this has and injuring ability to inspire and entertain. This sends

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you know is that this assumption has been tested like never before.

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The Prime Minister is to lead a new task force aimed at tackling

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thousands of suspected cases of modern-day slavery in the UK.

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In a newspaper article, Theresa May, said it was a "barbaric evil",

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and more than ?30 million from the foreign aid budget would be

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Behind closed doors, on our streets and in the workplace, modern

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But the new Prime Minister is promising to do more to help.

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Theresa May led the Government's campaign to tackle slavery

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when she was Home Secretary, and now as Prime Minister,

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Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, she said:

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Police need to have a better understanding of what's going on in

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relation to modern slavery and what their responsibilities are,

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but this is an issue that needs to be dealt with in much broader

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terms of both national immigration policy, national crime policy,

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and international development policy.

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Now, ?33 million will be spent in countries like Nigeria

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to help tackle the roots of the people-trafficking trade.

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The Government thinks there could be up to 13,000 victims in the UK.

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It's ordered an investigation into the way police forces

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in England and Wales respond to the crime.

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I don't doubt the sincerity of Theresa May's words,

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but I do question whether they're being backed up by real actions.

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who as Home Secretary has cut the police, cut the Border Force

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and part of the Government that is cutting councils.

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of professionals to do something about this problem.

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she should stop the cuts and give people the resources they need

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It's often a hidden crime, and one the Government says

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an international trade it says it is determined to stop.

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The mother of an American Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq has

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accused the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump

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of being ignorant of Islam, and not understanding

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Ghazala Khan's comments came after Mr Trump mocked her appearance

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at this week's Democratic Party Convention.

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From Washington, here's David Willis.

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From a grieving family came a speech which stole the show. This couple's

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son was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq. If it was up to Donald

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Trump, he never would have been in America. Donald Trump consistently

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smears the character of Muslims. You have sacrificed nothing and no one!

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Today, trumpeted to the airwaves, saying his sacrifices have been

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different. I think I have made a lot of sacrifices. I work very hard. I

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have created of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs. He then turned

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his attention to Mrs Khan, who had stood silently at her husband's side

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throughout his address. Was she forbidden from speaking by her

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faith? She had nothing to say. Maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything

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to say, you tell me. Mr Trump's main rival, Hillary Clinton, said such

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rhetoric was beyond comprehension. Mrs Khan, for her part, said she had

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stayed silent because she is still overwhelmed with grief. I am very

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upset when I heard that I didn't say anything because I was in pain. When

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you are in pain, you don't say anything. I am not a fighter. I

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can't fight. Mr Trump has since sought to temper his remarks,

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calling her son a hero and seeking to refocus debate on the so-called

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Islamic terrorists who cost her son his life. But it is not in his

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nature to back down. Indeed, after last week's Convention, which put

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Hillary Clinton firmly ahead in the polls, Mr Trump has vowed that the

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gloves will now come off. Nothing, it seems, is off-limits in his

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unorthodox campaign for president. David Willetts, BBC News,

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Washington. A 12-year-old boy has been arrested

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on suspicion of murder It follows the death of a man

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in his forties, who was assaulted Three teenagers have

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also been arrested. The Government insists it has no

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plans to review its so-called triple lock guarantee on pensions,

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which ensures they rise by at least A former Conservative pensions

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minister had said the policy is unaffordable, and should

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be scrapped by 2020. At least 24 police officers have

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been killed in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand,

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in clashes with the Taliban. It's thought the extremists

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now control 60% of the region, which British troops

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spent almost a decade defending, Our Defence Correspondent

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Jonathan Beale has been back This was once home to thousands

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of British troops, but Camp Bastion British forces were here

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in Helmand for eight years, but much of what they left behind

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has turned to dust. When he announced Britain's

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withdrawal, David Cameron called mission accomplished,

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but that's not the view of the new Afghan

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commander in Helmand. Soon after the British left Bastion,

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the Taliban attacked the camp, Do you think they

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completed their mission? This is what happened to the Afghan

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army when the British Last year, there were even fears

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that the whole province would fall This graveyard of vehicles

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is evidence of the fierce fighting there has been here in Helmand since

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the British left just two years ago. It's also evidence of the poor state

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the Afghan security forces were in, a situation that has only

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recently changed with the return At the start of this year,

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500 US troops went back into Helmand, their task

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to rebuild an army that was, in the words of one US adviser,

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a sucking chest wound, down to a third of its strength

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with casualties, Dozens of senior officers

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have also been replaced. The Americans are now

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training the Afghans, just as the British did before them,

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sometimes the very same soldiers. So is this return to Helmand proof

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that British forces left too soon? We've helped prop it back up over

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the last year, but if we didn't have the British and the Marine

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involvement here in Helmand, we would have been

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starting from zero. We made the decisions based

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on what the assessment was at the time of the capabilities

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we thought they had and the numbers of coalition forces that were

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allowed to remain in Afghanistan. I think they made decisions based

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on where they thought their US soldiers now occupy a tiny

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corner of the old Bastion. 456 British service personnel

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lost their lives in Afghanistan, There are still 500 UK troops

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in the capital, Kabul. But here in Helmand,

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it's been left to the Americans Jonathan Beale, BBC News,

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Helmand. More than two million young

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Catholics from around the world have attended an open air mass held

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by Pope Francis in Poland. The gathering was the final event

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of his five-day tour of the country. In his address, he urged young

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people to reject hatred In America, some Democrats

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on Capitol Hill say Congress should be recalled from its summer break

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to approve emergency funds The call comes as officials

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in Florida confirm the first infections on the US mainland

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from mosquitoes carrying the virus. Here, Public Health England has

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advised pregnant women to consider postponing non-essential

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travel to Florida. This is the front line in the battle

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against the Zika virus in southern Florida,

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health officials trudging the streets, looking

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for the mosquito that carries the virus and persuading people

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to take precautions. All four people who are thought

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to have caught the Zika virus from local mosquitoes live and work

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in a mile square area in this up-and-coming

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neighbourhood of Miami. None has ever had to go to hospital,

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but the authorities This man has been preparing for this

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for months, and while there will be more local cases,

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he says there is no reason I would not delay my travel plan

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here at all, because the living conditions here are so much

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different than elsewhere We have AC, we have window

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screening, we have a strong public Florida gets more than 100 million

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visitors a year. More than 1.5 million

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of those come from Britain. Some travel firms have offered free

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cancellation to pregnant women, but among those tourists already

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here, concern seems low. I think if we brought our children

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here with us, we would have been concerned, because they're

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in their twenties, of child-bearing Are you taking any

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precautions? I'm taking no

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precautions, no. More than 1,600 people have

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developed Zika in the continental US, the majority of

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them through travel. Florida has had 307 of these cases

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and these southern states are most at risk, because the mosquito that

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transmits Zika already lives here. What's likely to have happened

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is that travellers with Zika got bitten by uninfected mosquitoes,

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which then infected local people. These boys and girls seem oblivious

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to the concerns about Zika. Their parents, though,

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fear for their future You would have to carry that

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worry for the full nine months of your pregnancy,

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so I think that, you know, But now, Britons who are pregnant

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are being told to consider postponing travel as everyone waits

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to see what kind of foothold Zika With all the sport, here's

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Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes Britain's Lewis Hamilton

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won his sixth race of the year at the German Grand Prix to move 19

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points clear at the top of the Formula One

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Driver's Championship. In recent weeks, Nico Rosberg has

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seen the drivers championship turn on its head. His Mercedes team-mate

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Lewis Hamilton had overtaken him in the standings, but here he was on

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pole with a chance to reclaim the lead. In Formula 1, the start is

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all-important. Rosberg's was a disaster. Bogged down, when he

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emerged from the first corner, he had slipped back to Fort. This was

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already Hamilton's race to lose. He was at the front, and when Rosberg

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attempted to gain ground, he was penalised for forcing Max Verstappen

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of the track. All the while, Hamilton kept his cool, bruising

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around the Hockenheim circuit to finish ahead of the Red Bulls of

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Daniel Ricciardo and for staff and for his fourth victory in a row.

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Fantastic job, guys. At one stage, he was 43 points behind Rosberg in

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the championship. Now Hamilton is running away from his rival and with

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four weeks until the next race, it's clear who will enjoy the break the

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most. Katie Gornall, BBC News. Golf's USPGA is turning

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into a real battle at Baltusrol with Sweden's Henrik Stenson

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in with a good chance of winning This year's Open Champion is a shot

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behind the leader Jimmy Walker on 10 under par midway

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through his final round. The last pairings are being forced

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to play 36 holes due Tyrrell Hatton and Paul Casey

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are the highest placed Britons on 7 Meanwhile, Thailand's Arriya

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Jutanugarn held on to win The overnight leader

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survived a patchy final round to take her first major title

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by 3 shots, finishing on 16 Scotland's Catriona Matthew,

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the last British woman to win a major, finished joint 5th

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on 9 under. Carl Frampton is being hailed as one

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of Northern Ireland's greatest ever The 29-year-old beat

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Leo Santa Cruz in New York to win the WBA featherweight Belt,

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becoming the first Northern Irishman to win world titles

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in different weight categories. I'm in the driving seat now. I can

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do big-money fights that will change my life and my family's life. I am

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just looking forward to the future, and it is still going. I am

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approaching 30, but I feel like I am getting better and I have a new

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lease of life. There is plenty more to come.

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The Ride London Surrey Classic was won by Belgium's Tom Boonen

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after a dramatic sprint finish in the Mall.

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Welshman Geraint Thomas had looked like taking the title before heading

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off to the Rio Olympics after leading for most of the 200km

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race, but he was caught by the peloton in the final stages

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and Boonen fought his way through to win on the line.

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Tens of thousands of amateur riders also took part in the weekend's

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event, which was marred by serious crashes.

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Two cyclists had to be air-lifted to hospital.

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And that is all the sports. Back to you, Clive. Lizzie, many thanks.

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An American skydiver has entered the record books

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by jumping from a plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute.

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Luke Aikins was free-falling for two minutes as he zeroed in on a giant

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safety net suspended 20 storeys off the ground.

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And to his relief and that of a live television audience, he landed

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safely, later saying that was "awesome."

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Now it's time for all the news where you are.

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