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Tonight at Ten: The High Court rules it is the responsibility of the NHS | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
to fund a drug that prevents HIV but should it pay for the treatment? | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
Campaigners argue the drug is a gamechanger, dramatically | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
This gives us the first chance to really start | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
There are other diseases and conditions that we need | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
to prioritise the resources of the NHS for. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
As NHS England says it plans to appeal the court's ruling we ask | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
what the health service's priorities should be? | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Also tonight: There've been sharp drops in home ownership in all major | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
urban areas in England and particularly in Manchester. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
A man is jailed for life for the rape and murder | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
of 20-year-old India Chipchase whom he met outside | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Seeking justice for a minority community hounded and persecuted | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Getting ready for Rio, Brazil says it's confident | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
And, wanted, a teacher for a very small school on a very small island. | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
UK Anti-Doping says its waiting to learn exactly why the British | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
cyclist Lizzie Armitstead was cleared to race in Rio | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
The NHS in England has been told by the High Court that it can fund | :01:22. | :01:49. | |
a drug that helps prevent the transmission of HIV, | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
a ruling that's being celebrated as a victory by campaigners. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
The court rejected the Health Service's argument that | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
the groundbreaking treatment, known as PrEP, should be | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
But the annual cost stands at an estimated ?10 to ?20 million, | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
and the NHS has said it will appeal the ruling. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Sadiq's life was put on hold when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
Just a month before he thought he'd be chosen for a trial of the drug | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
now known to prevent infection, but he narrowly missed out. | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
He's back now to his training as a circus performer and says | :02:26. | :02:35. | |
the argument in favour of the drug, known as PrEP, is clear. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
That's one thing that I don't think we think about PrEP a lot, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
is it stops the transmission of the fact, but it also | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
stops the transmission of the psychological effects | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
of being diagnosed with HIV, which can and do | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
PrEP is currently available in some other countries, including the US, | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
The NHS argument is that in England local authorities are responsible | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
for sexual health and prevention, so they should pay for it. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
That was rejected by a High Court judge. | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
The cost of the pills is up to ?400 a month. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
The estimated annual bill for the NHS would be | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
between ?10 and ?20 million, but campaigners say it's cost | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
effective because lifetime patient for an HIV patient | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
ARCHIVE: If you ignore AIDS, it could be the death of you. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
AIDS is no longer the threat it was at the time of this | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
Thanks to new drugs, HIV patients are much less | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
likely to develop AIDS, but campaigners say reducing the HIV | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
infection rate is still a priority and today's ruling is significant. | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
We're really delighted and it's such an important decision that | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
could have such great impact for people at risk of HIV. | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
Why do you say the NHS should pay to protect people | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
when they could look after themselves by having protected sex? | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
The majority of gay men do protect themselves by using condoms | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
and we know from studies that condom use among gay men is much higher | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
than the general population but, as with the general population, | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
often people aren't able to successfully use | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
The legal battle is far from over, NHS England says it'll | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
appeal against today's High Court ruling and, | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
even if that fails, it's under no obligation to fund the drug or do | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
anything more than consider its cost effectiveness, alongside treatments | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
PrEP, subject to the appeal, will be seen and considered | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
alongside 13 other treatments, including treatments for children | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
with cystic fibrosis, prosthetic limb loss and certain | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
It's all about assessing competing demands on a finite budget. | :04:36. | :04:49. | |
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are also deciding whether | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
As far as Sadiq's concerned, the new drug deserves | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
I missed that chance and that's why I advocate for PrEP. | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
Other people in my position, with the right knowledge, | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
which can be provided, can stop themselves from contracting HIV. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
Even though I am in a good place and I am strong and I am | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
healthy and I am fit, it's still hits me every time | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Do the health services' concerns over funding this drug go wider than | :05:19. | :05:31. | |
this particular case? Well, yes. The background to all of this is | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
increasing number of new drugs and treatments coming on stream the | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
whole time and patients want them but there is a constrained special | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
budget at NHS England. That was a key fact Forrest them going to court | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
to show that under law in England it's local authorities who | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
There is a wider point which both sides in this have noticed which is | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
that the judgment includes the following phrase, the power of NHS | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
England includes commissioning for preventive purposes, which sounds | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
quite a broad definition. I am told NHS England wants to go to the Court | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
of Appeal to find out exactly what that means, to get clarity. Does it | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
mean they have a much broader role than they thought over prevention as | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
well as care? Does it mean there might be other drugs and treatments | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
for people who are otherwise healthy on the off-chance they might get an | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
infection or disease? What might it cost? Doesn't public health England | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
have a role? Some campaigners and MPs are saying hang on, NHS England | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
have lost the argument, they should gracefully accept defeat and get on | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
with assessing this drug which has been proved in trials to be so | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
highly effective for those most at risk of the HIV infection. | :06:44. | :06:44. | |
Thank you. The housing crisis, so commonly | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
associated with London, has spread to other regions of England, | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
according to new analysis. The think-tank The Resolution | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Foundation says that areas in northern England and the Midlands | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
are becoming increasingly unaffordable, with the proportion | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
owning their own home falling most Our home editor Mark Easton | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
is in Salford and sent this report. If we thought the housing crisis | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
was just a London and south-east New analysis of official figures | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
suggests the impact has been And nowhere more so than | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
in Greater Manchester, where the proportion | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
who own their own home has fallen dramatically over | :07:20. | :07:21. | |
the last 10 to 15 years. Welcome to Reservoir Street | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
in Salford, Greater Manchester. A terrace which mirrors the story | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
of inner-city housing. When these homes were built | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
just over 100 years ago, Home ownership was only | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
for the privileged few. Over the decades, they were bought | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
by their occupants. But then as people left the inner | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
cities, they fell into disrepair. Now, after a refurbishment, | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
more than half are being rented again, mostly from | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
private landlords. I've been trying to save for a fair | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
few years now just to get Unless your parents can help you, | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
really, these days it's so hard I've noticed a few for sale | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
signs, who's buying? My landlord is actually | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
someone from London. A lot of people are coming up | :08:12. | :08:13. | |
here to buy them because they are cheaper investments | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
than anything down in London. And then renting them | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
out to people like you? Yes, it's people like us | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
who are renting them. Local estate agents say recent | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
changes to stamp duty are deterring some buy-to-let landlords, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
but the market has been A lot of first-time | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
buyers were being beaten They were paying a good price | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
for a good property and the first time buyers just weren't getting | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
a look in. Reservoir Street has | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
another claim to fame. It was the original | :08:47. | :08:47. | |
Coronation Street in the titles of the soap opera when it | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
launched back in 1960. Then, most people in | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
Manchester rented. Two decades on, and Margaret | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Thatcher's Right to Buy legislation Home ownership in England | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
peaked in 2003, but has Social housing has also been | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
declining, with the private rented There have been big | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
falls in homeownership in Greater Manchester, | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
in the West Midlands, In Scotland yesterday | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the Scottish Government ended 30 years of Right to Buy for council | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
tenants, saying it was important to protect and expand | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
social housing. In England, they're extending Right | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
to Buy and introducing schemes like Starter Homes with Ministers | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
focussed on reversing We've helped over 300,000 people | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
since we came in in 2010 to get The Prime Minister was very clear | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
outside Downing Street when she took over that there's more to do, | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
and she wants to ensure that people who work hard have the chance | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
to own their own home. The government says it will build | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
1 million new homes in England by 2020, but with the average house | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
now costing more than five times the annual earnings of the average | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
first-time buyer, home ownership looks likely to remain a distant | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
dream for millions. Mark Easton, BBC News, | :10:10. | :10:21. | |
Greater Manchester. Two years ago, the self-styled | :10:22. | :10:22. | |
Islamic State group launched Thousands of members of the ancient | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
Yazidi community were trapped. Most of the men were executed | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
and hundreds of women forced The attacks spurred | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
the international community Now the BBC has been given | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
exclusive access to a group of lawyers and investigators, | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
who are trying to bring Our security correspondent | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
Frank Gardner went to meet them. On the run, dehydrated | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
and terrified. Hundreds of Yazidi families fled | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
for their lives when Islamic State fighters attacked their villages | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
near Mount Sinjar, Many escaped, including those | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
rescued by helicopter. But two years on, the women | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
and girls who were captured on the ground are still | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
enduring a living hell. "Where is my yazidi girl", | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
demands this IS fighter? He and the others are discussing | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
a modern day sex slave market for Yazidi women and girls, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
some as young as nine. Now investigators are working | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
to identify those responsible. Here, amongst all these boxes | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
of documents in a European capital that we have been asked not to name, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
is the evidence that war crimes investigators say points | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
to the culpability of senior Islamic State commanders | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
for the mass abduction and sexual slavery of hundreds, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
possibly thousands, of Yazidi women We have hundreds of women | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
that remain enslaved... Bill Wiley is heading | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
the investigation. His team's research | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
into war crimes by IS, also known as Daesh, | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
is being funded by What we have is a lot of evidence | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
that there was a policy, an unwritten policy, | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
that this was permissible and the key for us is to establish | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
the criminal responsibility, not of Daesh as a whole, | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
but individual leaders within Daesh. Tracing the Daesh or IS leadership's | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
involvement in sexual slavery has identified over 40 slave owners | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
and over 30 senior IS figures. Beneath the leader of | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are those | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
believed responsible, like this former school | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
teacher Abu Alaa Al Fri, Still assumed to be at large, | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
though, are the economic and finance Emirs in the town of Tal Afar named | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
as Haji Bakr and Abu Ali. They take these women and they see | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
them as a value to them. This investigator asked to remain | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
anonymous for his own safety. I asked him how optimistic | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
he was these men would face justice? Well, our focus today is to ensure | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
that the failures of the past aren't repeated and those failures | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
of the past are that no evidence It's for that reason that we think | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
first and foremost we need to do the job of evidence | :13:16. | :13:36. | |
collecting while we can. Justice for the Yazidis, though, | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
may still be years away. There is, as yet, no court set up | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
to try their tormenters But the investigators are adamant, | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
sooner or later, they say those who ordered this ongoing atrocity | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
will be held to account. Eyewitness accounts from Syria | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
suggest toxic chlorine gas may have been dropped on a town | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
near to where a Russian military transport helicopter was shot down | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
by rebels yesterday. Dozens of people, including women | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
and children, are believed to have been affected, but there are | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
no reported fatalities. More than 4,000 migrants have died | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
across the world so far this year, according to new figures, | :14:10. | :14:17. | |
an increase of more than a quarter The international Organisation | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
for Migration says three-quarters lost their lives attempting | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
to cross the Mediterranean. The bodies of 120 migrants have been | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
found on the Libyan coast A man has been found guilty | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
of raping and murdering a young woman he promised to get home safe, | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
after approaching her outside Birmingham Crown Court heard that | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
52-year-old Edward Tenniswood found India Chipchase in a drunken state | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
outside the club in January. He's been sentenced to life with a | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
minimum of 30 years in prison. India Chipchase, friends | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
described her as a delightful girl, But one night in January, | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
the wrong place, the wrong time, This is the man who killed India, | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
52-year-old Edward Tenniswood, India was a young, intelligent woman | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
at the start of her life. She should have been able to enjoy | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
a night out with friends It is clear that India was targeted | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
by Tenniswood at a point in her life where she was most vulnerable | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
and unable to defend herself. Tenniswood was passing by this | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Northampton nightclub She'd been on a night | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
out with friends. On security footage from outside | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
the club, he can be seen leaning into his victim, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
urging the 20-year-old Tenniswood was a self-confessed | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
alcoholic who'd drink three He claimed when he met | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
India Chipchase here, he had managed to charm her, | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
despite the fact she was 30 He went on to tell the court | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
that it was she who had first The pair can be seen in the top | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
left of the picture. He admitted in court that he'd | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
promised India she'd Instead, they stopped | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
here at his terraced house, He then headed to a local hotel, | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
where he spent the next 22 When Miss Chipchase's family raised | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
the alarm, the police traced Tenniswood to the hotel | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
where he was arrested. India's father, who lives abroad, | :16:43. | :16:44. | |
recorded a victim impact We love her now and we | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
will always love her. Even though we'll never | :16:47. | :16:55. | |
experience her smile, her laughter, her caring again, | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
her photographs will adorn our walls, the memories of her 20 years | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
will live on and her spirit India Chipchase had, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
in the weeks before her death, decided she wanted | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
to become a paramedic. That dream ended at the hands | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
of an opportunistic killer. Sangita Myska, BBC News, | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
Birmingham Crown Court. A brief look at some | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
of the day's other news stories. Thousands of people have attended | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
the funeral of the French priest killed in his church in Normandy | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
by Islamist extremists. Father Jacques Hamel, who was 85, | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
was killed by two French teenagers, who pledged allegiance to Islamic | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
State. A man suspected of murdering | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
a six-year-old boy in Cambridgeshire, 22 years ago, | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
has been arrested in Portugal The body of Rikki Neave was found | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
in woodland near his Extradition proceedings | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
are underway. A group of MPs says the public | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
should be told which BBC stars are earning more than the ?143,000 | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
salary paid to the Prime Minister. The Commons Culture, | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Media and Sport Committee is also recommending a separate | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
Six O'Clock News for Scotland. The BBC says it's considering | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the idea and a decision will be made The UK's new European Commissioner, | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
Julian King, is to lead the EU's Sir Julian's appointment must now be | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
approved by the European Parliament. He replaces Lord Hill, who resigned | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
following the Brexit vote in June. The US Republican candidate | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
for president, Donald Trump, is facing fresh criticism tonight | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
for his comments about the Muslim parents of an American soldier - | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
this time from the French President, Francois Hollande, who said his | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
words "made him want to retch." Mr Trump has also came under attack | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
once again from Barack Obama and who said he'd be voting | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
for Hillary Clinton. Here's our North America | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
editor, Jon Sopel. Please welcome the next President | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
of the United States - Please welcome the next President | :19:08. | :19:09. | |
of the United States - The music is all right now, | :19:10. | :19:52. | |
but things have been very far from all right these past few days | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
for Donald Trump after his damaging spat with the parents of a Muslim US | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
army captain killed in Iraq But today Mr Trump was able | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
to brandish a gallantry medal of his own, though it had been | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
given to him by a vet who had been purple heart because, | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
as the New York Times documents today, on five occasions he avoided | :20:11. | :20:35. | |
being drafted to fight Unease on the Republican side has | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
resulted in the first Richard Hannah from New York said, | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
"he's unfit to serve our party While I disagree with her on many | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
issues, I will vote Today, at the White House, | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
the President piled in. I think | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
the Republican nominee is unfit I said so last week, | :20:53. | :20:53. | |
and he keeps on proving it. The fact that he doesn't appear | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
in the Middle East, in Asia means that he's woefully | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
unprepared to do this job. Now another | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
President has intervened, Although French may be | :21:05. | :21:05. | |
the language of diplomacy there is nothing nusianced | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
about Francois Hollande's He said Donald Trump's most recent | :21:10. | :21:10. | |
comments made him want to retch, In the race for the White House, | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
Donald Trump has discovered there is such a thing as political | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
gravity after all. Sense the conventions there have | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
been a slew of polls. Whilst they must have the usual | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
health warnings, they all point That his support has gone down | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
and Hillary Clinton's has gone up. Jon Sopel, BBC News, | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
Washington. The prominent Conservative | :21:30. | :22:05. | |
party donor Ian Taylor who's reported to have been | :22:06. | :22:06. | |
recommended for a knighthood in David Cameron's | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
resignation honours list Mr Taylor said he would request | :22:10. | :22:10. | |
his name 'does not go forward' if indeed his name | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
is being considered. Ian Taylor, who donated | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
money to the Remain campaign during the referendum, | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
said he was writing to both Mr Cameron and Theresa May to inform | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
them of his intentions. The first of a series of trials | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
are taking place in China of more than 300 lawyers who were rounded up | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
last year in a major Those in court are accused | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
of "subverting state power". There's particular concern that | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
lawyers are being targeted to try to discourage the political | :22:44. | :22:44. | |
activities of those they represent. Our China correspondent, | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
John Sudworth, sent this report With the police surrounding the | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
court, we were not allowed to film. The heavy security and closed roads, | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
sure signs that the first in a series of highly sensitive | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
cases was finally getting underway. Zhai Yanmin is a veteran human | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
rights campaigner and one of around 20 activists and lawyers detained | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
since the sweeping His supposed confession has already | :23:03. | :23:03. | |
been aired on state TV and today he was the first of the group to be | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
convicted on a charge of subversion. Yu Wang Zhiang Zhiang's husband | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
is a lawyer and another Many relatives have heard | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
nothing for over a year, but as the trials begin, | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
they're not even allowed Zhiang Zhiang was sent home | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
to Beijing where, a few hours later, we caught up with her and her | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
four-month-old baby. TRANSLATION: It was only | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
after my husband was arrested that They haven't let me see him since, | :23:26. | :23:27. | |
so he may not even know he has It is this targeting of lawyers | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
and their families that gives rise to the suspicion that these cases | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
are politically motivated, designed to send a warning to tow | :23:45. | :23:46. | |
the Communist Party line. For many outside observers, | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
including foreign governments, there is only one conclusion to be | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
drawn from what is happening inside this court, and that is that | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
China is engaged in an effort to ratchet up repression, | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
to rein in dissent and to Zhai Yanmin faced a maximum of life | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
in prison today, but was instead given a three-year | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
suspended sentence. If that relative leniency is shown | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
in the subsequent trials, it may be a sign that China | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
is paying some heed John Sudworth, BBC News, | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
Tianjin. The first action in this year's | :24:28. | :24:39. | |
Olympic Games starts tomorrow, ahead of the official | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
Opening Ceremony on Friday. Common to other Games, the build-up | :24:44. | :24:45. | |
to Rio 2016 has been fraught. There's been the ongoing doping | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
crisis and questions over Brazil, though, is confident it | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
will surprise the world. Wyre Davies is in Rio | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
for us tonight. Wyre. Brazil is in the middle of | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
this political and economic crisis and all those problems you mentioned | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
will still be here after the athletes, journalists and visitors | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
have gone. Brazilians and people here in Rio in particular insist | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
they are ready for the Games. Brazilians love a party and they | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
love their sport. Don't forget after the World Cup, this is the second | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
time in two years that Brazil is preparing to put on a major, | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
international sporting event. They were such a big part of making | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
the London Olympics asuccess and will be equally as important | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
here - 50,000 volunteers from across Brazil and across the world, | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
including Suzanne from London, The atmosphere in | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
London was incredible. The way it brought | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
the whole people together. I think here it's going to be | :25:54. | :25:55. | |
probably even better because I'm actually | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
going to be within the stadium. For Rio locals, or Cariocas, | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
it's a moment of pride. "It's my city, my country and I'm | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
really excited", she says. The run-up to these Games has been | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
dogged by concerns about water pollution, the Zika | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
virus and security. Some athletes have been training | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
here for months, others We're confident we've got | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
the right measures in place. We talk to sailing and rowing | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
on a regular basis. They feel comfortable | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
with the situation so, hopefully, Rio has been transformed since it | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
won the right to host the Olympics. New infrastructure given a face lift | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
after years of decay. The city's Mayor told me it wouldn't | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
have happened without the Games. The Olympics was never about, | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
you know, let's solve So these are things that we face, | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
challenges that we still face, and it's a challenge | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
for us Brazilians. It's not about the Olympics, | :27:02. | :27:03. | |
it's about us. The longest, probably most | :27:04. | :27:05. | |
geographically diverse torch relay in Olympic history, | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
was designed to get this huge Sport is in the blood here and some | :27:13. | :27:14. | |
events will be more popular than others, | :27:15. | :27:23. | |
but all attention is now on Rio, hoping these can be a truly | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
memorable Olympics. Wyre Davies, BBC News, | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
Rio. Beautiful beaches, wonderful | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
scenery and a school where the class sizes are, | :27:36. | :27:36. | |
well, very small. Now, the tiny Hebridean island | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
of Muck is having trouble recruiting a teacher for its only class, | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
in its only school. So parents are taking the matter | :27:44. | :27:46. | |
into their own hands and have launched their own search | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
for someone who can cope with the unique lifestyle that this | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
Scottish island has to offer. Lorna Gordon reports now | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
from the Isle of Muck. Meet David, Jasper, Daniel, Kitty, | :27:59. | :28:02. | |
Willow, Tara and Hugh - almost the entire school | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
roll on Muck. The new term starts in a fortnight | :28:05. | :28:09. | |
and they still need a teacher, so their families have taken | :28:10. | :28:19. | |
to social media to try to sell I want a teacher that knows | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
how to garden. A teacher that knows | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
how to, you know, teach Have like a fun, imaginative | :28:27. | :28:28. | |
and happy teacher. Muck is the smallest of Scotland's | :28:29. | :28:36. | |
small isles, its one road a little You won't find a classroom | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
like this anywhere else. Idyllic in the summer sunshine, | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
but in winter very different. The island can get cut off, | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
sometimes for days, and the outgoing teacher says her replacement | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
will have to come prepared. Some days there's, you know, | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
a short distance from Some days we wouldn't try that, | :28:56. | :28:58. | |
it would be too windy to risk taking So when we say, good waterproofs, | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
we mean REALLY good waterproofs. The island's at the mercy | :29:05. | :29:12. | |
of the weather and the Atlantic - | :29:13. | :29:25. | |
letters, food supplies and the doctor all have | :29:26. | :29:32. | |
to come by boat. There are other rural and remote | :29:33. | :29:34. | |
communities in Scotland which from time to time also have | :29:35. | :29:36. | |
problems recruiting a teacher and then getting | :29:37. | :29:38. | |
them to stay long-term. While there can be challenges | :29:39. | :29:40. | |
in a place like this, There's a very, very good | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
strong sense of community and everybody wants to, | :29:44. | :29:56. | |
you know, everybody The children will get supply | :29:57. | :29:58. | |
teachers until a permanent They know here that island life | :29:59. | :30:05. | |
is not for everyone, but there's already been interest | :30:06. | :30:13. | |
from across the world They hope someone will fall in love | :30:14. | :30:19. | |
with Muck and its school. Lorna Gordon, BBC News, | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
on the Isle of Muck. Tonight, how much will remain | :30:26. | :30:30. | |
of Chancellor Osborne's legacy? We ask if the May Government is out | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
to wipe the slate clean. Here, on BBC One, it's time | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
for the news where you are. | :30:42. | :30:47. |