12/08/2016 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at ten, it's a gold rush for Team GB in Rio,

with two victories on the water in the space of 20 minutes.

COMMENTATOR: Great Britain's Glover and Stanning defend their Olympic

title, and they have done it in such style.

The Britons powered to victory in the women's coxless pairs,

while the men took gold in the coxless fours.

It just means so much with the pressure that we put

on ourselves is pretty immense and every time we've

spoken to you we've said - Ah, it's cool, there's no pressure,

And Britain cross the line, and they have broken the world record.

Britain's men's pursuit team make it to the final.

COMMENTATOR: One of the greatest pieces of distance running

But it was an astonishing run by the Ethiopian Almaz Ayana,

Smashing the women's 10,000 metres world record by 14 seconds.

We'll be analysing Team GB's performance,

The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, is heading back

to jail, after 32 years in a secure hospital.

In the Labour leadership contest, the Court of Appeal rules the party

can exclude new members from the vote.

And the Greenland shark that scientists estimate

And coming up in Olympic Sportsday on BBC News...

Details of all great Britian's success today, including an historic

It's been a golden day for Team GB, pushing them up the medals table

at the Rio Olympics, with two golds in rowing

Helen Glover and Heather Stanning were convincing winners

in the coxless pairs, followed by victory for the men,

And all this after Team GB's first cycling gold

Well, we'll have the latest from the velodrome in a moment,

and the details of a stunning world record on day one of the athletics.

But first, here's Andy Swiss on an afternoon of glory

Picture perfect, a glittering day for Britain's rowers,

especially Helen Glover and Heather Stanning,

after they rowwed their way to sporting greatness.

Good luck, Helen, good luck, Heather.

The pair have turned winning into a way of life,

And at first, it looked like another victory procession.

A late charge from New Zealand, though, piled on the pressure,

but once again they were simply unstoppable.

They are fearless, they are without equal.

Great Britain's Glover and Stanning defend their Olympic title,

Well, what a race that was, but Helen Glover

and Heather Stanning have done it once again.

After gold in London 2012, it's gold here in Rio.

London was a home Games, and there's nothing more special,

This is not just being good once, this is managing

to be good every day, every race, for the last four years.

It just means so much, and the pressure we put

But would one gold be followed by another?

In the very next race, the men's four,

Stan Louloudis, George Nash, Mo Sbihi and Alex Gregory,

And what a tussle it was, nip and tuck with Australia,

but just when it mattered, they powered clear.

The men's four, champions for a fifth games in a row.

What emotions go through your head when you cross that line

and you know you are the Olympic champions?

The overriding emotion for me is relief.

Relief that this day is over, this week, this build-up, this year,

It is literally four years, three of them, 50 days per year

It is literally four years, 350 days per year

were building up to this moment and that six minutes,

And so, in the space of 20 electrifying minutes,

For Britain's rowers, a day of gold and glory.

And there have been more medals for Great Britain this evening.

Bryony Page has won silver in the trampolining, Britain's first

ever medal in the event, and the dressage team has also won

On the first day of the athletics, Jessica Ennis-Hill is

defending her title, but it was the Ethiopian runner

Almaz Ayana who shocked everyone on the track,

winning gold and shattering the 10,000 metre world record.

Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks reports.

After missing London through injury, this was Bryony Page's games debut,

not that you would know. With a focus that belied her Olympic

inexperience, the 25-year-old bounced for Britain and struck the

landing. When it became clear she had won a medal, her reaction was a

mixture of disbelief and elation. A silver for Bryony Page and a first

medal for a British woman in Olympic trampolining. I can't believe it.

Just so happy! Just can't believe I've won an Olympic medal. Yeah,

just... Speechless, can't believe it. Dressage requires a true

connection between rider and animal, and this pair are more connected

than most. Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro have been best of friends

for a decade, and she has become the most successful British rider in the

history of the sport in the process. But a couple of little mistakes

meant Britain couldn't catch Germany to defend their Olympic title. A

silver for the team, but the pair will aim to retain their Olympic

title in the freestyle event on Monday. The poster girl for London

is now the relaxed woman of Rio. The stress of a home Olympics seems a

long way away for Jessica Ennis-Hill. She's got it! She threw

down the gauntlet with a season's best in the second event. But it was

compatriot Katarina Johnson-Thompson who took the overall lead after

beating her own British high jump record. Yellow mac aggressively on

the approach this time. So far, so good for both Britons as Ennis-Hill

vies to become the first British woman in track and field history to

retain an Olympic title. From one inspiration to another, Jo Pavey has

become Britain's first track athlete to complete at five consecutive

Olympics. She turns 43 next month. But the speed of the race didn't

help her cause, and one woman was to blame. Ethiopia's are is a R A. It

was clear it was going to be rapid. This is unprecedented. But it was so

fast that her last 5000 metres was an Olympic five K record in its own

right. This is incredible. Ayana is going to smash the world record, she

will become the Olympic champion, one of the greatest pieces of

distance running you will ever see. When she crossed the line, she

didn't just break the world record, she obliterated it by 14 seconds.

Sweden have won it. There has been a major upset in the women's football,

four times Olympic champion is the USA are out, beaten by Sweden in a

penalty shoot out. Fortunately, America have these two to keep the

medal is ticking along, gymnast Simone Biles won her second of five

potential goals last night, and Michael Phelps also won an

unprecedented 22nd Olympic gold. Remarkably he has another chance of

gold tonight in the 100 meter butterfly. Natalie Pirks, BBC News,

Rio. In a little over half an hour,

Sir Bradley Wiggins will be in action in the final of the men's

team pursuit, gunning for a record eight Olympic medals

including a fifth gold. And in the heats, Team GB have

already broken the world record. So, what is the secret of Britain's

enduring success in the velodrome? Here's our Sports Editor,

Dan Roan. Whether on the road or the track,

Sir Bradley Wiggins has spent his career rewriting the record books,

but tonight could top the lot. Just one medal away

from becoming the most decorated Olympian

in British history. Earlier, his team qualifying

for the final of Team Pursuit, beating New Zealand and setting

a new world record in the process. COMMENTATOR: And

they cross the line. So far it's been business as usual

for Team GB here in Rio. Last night Philip Hindes,

Callum Skinner and Jason Kenny, who now

has four Olympic Golds third straight Team Sprint title

and proving there is life after Sir The retired great here to watch

as his former team-mates beat I said after London

that I just wanted to I just want to win

more gold medals now. Last night was a triumphant one for

Britain's cyclists, the women's pursuit team breaking the world

record in qualifying. It's a world-record marker from Great

Britain. So what's the secret? The best funded of the country's Olympic

sports, British cycling continues to invest much of the ?30 million it

sees every four years in pursuit of marginal gains. We don't want our

athletes on equipment that isn't the best. The success is more impressive

given the recent departure of the team's former technical director

Shane Sutton, the head coach forced to resign in April because of sexism

and bullying allegations. Despite trouble at the top, one former

Olympic champion said the medals would keep coming. I think we will

outperform certainly my expectations of a couple of years ago. How many

golds in the velodrome this time? I said a year ago that three would be

good, four would be exceptional. That's what we were looking at. Now

we are looking at between four and six. If everything went perfect, six

would be outstanding. Another could come in the next few minutes as

Bradley Wiggins attempts to ride into the history books. Dan Roan,

BBC News, Rio. So this is what the latest

medals table looks like. Great Britain has now risen

to fourth with the But it's the United States

who remain top with 16 Golds, followed by China with 12

and Japan with seven. Let's go back to our sports

editor, Dan Roan, in Rio. Week one is over of these games, how

good has it been for Team GB? I think they will be delighted. 20

medals, six golds, and they finished fourth on ten other occasions.

Imagine if some of those had been converted to medals. That would have

been a very special start indeed. Nonetheless, UK Sport, the

organisation whose job it is to deliver Olympic success, a senior

official told me privately that they are now predicting at least 52

medals and 19 gold medals. That's what they believe this start will

give them. If that comes to pass, that means their target, their

ambition of a best ever away games, will be achieved. And one of those

metals could come in the next few minutes, as we saw in that report,

when Bradley Wiggins attempts to do in the velodrome behind me, what no

other British Olympian has ever done and win an eighth Olympic medal. We

will see if he can do it. Elsewhere at the end of the firstly, some

magic moments delivered by some of the big names in the games, Michael

Phelps in the pool, Simone Biles, the American gymnast, and now Almaz

Ayana, the Ethiopian running the 10,000 metres, smashing a record

today set 23 years ago by a self-confessed Chinese doper. She

puts the success down to training and her faith. There have been

problems, empty seats, security concerns, and three athletes today

confirmed testing positive for drugs at the Olympics. It has been

dramatic, exciting and also a troubled first week and I think that

will continue. Dan Roan at the Olympic Park in Rio.

The Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, is expected to be

transferred from Broadmoor secure hospital to a prison

A tribunal has decided he's well enough to serve

He was convicted of 13 murders and seven attempted murders in 1981.

Our home affairs correspondent, Daniel Sandford, reports.

One of Britain's most infamous killers, Peter Sutcliffe,

will die behind bars, but so far he's spent

most of his sentence in a psychiatric hospital.

NEWS REEL: Peter William Sutcliffe arrives at Dewsbury Magistrates'

His arrest, 35 years ago, ended one of Britain's biggest manhunts.

Peter Sutcliffe first killed in October 1975.

Over the next five years, he murdered 12 more women

The attacks led to a massive and deeply flawed investigation

Eventually, he was arrested, almost by chance, in January 1981.

A jury rejected his claim that he was mentally ill

and he was given a life sentence, but three years later he was moved

to Broadmoor High-Security Hospital after being diagnosed

Peter Sutcliffe has been held here at Broadmoor Hospital ever

since but now, after 32 years, a mental health tribunal has decided

that he's well enough to go back to prison.

One psychiatrist who treated him at Broadmoor for his schizophrenia

said extra care was taken because of his horrendous crimes.

It's taken a long time to move him back to prison,

partly because of the illness, it's a chronic illness that needs

quite intensive treatment, both medication, but also

psychological and occupational treatments, and I think

the clinicians have been very cautious about moving him back

Mo Leigh was attacked by a man with a hammer in Leeds

She's sure Peter Sutcliffe was her assailant and police

She's glad he's returning to prison conditions.

If it was in an ordinary prison, he would begin his sentence now.

I don't honestly believe he's been punished in that psychiatric ward.

The final decision to move Peter Sutcliffe back

to prison should be approved by the new Justice Secretary,

Daniel Sandford, BBC News, at Broadmoor Hospital.

Labour's ruling body has won a court judgement allowing it to stop around

130,000 new members from voting in the leadership election

between Jeremy Corbyn and his challenger, Owen Smith.

Let's join our political correspondent, Carole Walker.

How significant could these new 130,000 members be into the race?

Well, Clive, it was thought most of them would have supported Jeremy

Corbyn, but even without them, he is still far and away the frontrunner

in this race. We're simply back to the electorate, which was planned at

the outset. The real significance is the ferocious row this ruling has

provoked with John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor, a close alley of

Jeremy Corbyn saying it's a decision that is shaming for a Democratic

Party and accusing the ruling body of his party using a grubby device

to keep them out of the contest. Supporters of the decision say it's

simply allows the ruling body to decide the rules of the Labour

Party. There is the possibility of an appeal to the Supreme Court, but

we're back to this ferocious battle out on the ground. The two

contenders, Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith trying to convince members in

this really bitter personal struggle. That will go on for six

weeks. The damage will last. Longer than that. OK, Carole, thank

you. Carole Walker there at Westminster.

The Foreign Office has advised people travelling to Thailand

to exercise "extreme caution" after a series of

There were 11 blasts across the south of the country,

including the resorts of Hua Hin and Phuket.

Four people died and dozens were injured, including foreigners.

Thai police have said they have ruled out international terrorism.

Our Bangkok correspondent, Jonathan Head, reports.

The bombs were small but, for those nearby, they were deadly.

This was Hua Hin, a sedate seaside resort popular

Two explosions shook the town centre on a busy Thursday evening,

I was sat here with my friends, there were about six of us,

a number of them are on holiday from the UK.

We're just sitting here, enjoying a good time,

All of a sudden, I saw a bit of a commotion.

So we left the seats where we are here and we just

headed around the corner there and people were

As I approached there was obviously chaotic scenes.

There was no flashing lights at that point, no indication

There was around eight to ten bodies on the floor, I could see that.

But it turned out Hua Hin was not the only part

There were 11 blasts in all, in five provinces, but why

The Thai police say it's too soon to speculate,

but they insist this was not terrorism, they're describing it

But an operation on this scale hints at an experienced group,

Perhaps the separatist insurgents who've been fighting the Thai

army in the deep south or groups out to embarrass

The unnatural quiet here, on the main road running

through Hua Hin, on what should be one of the busiest holiday

weekends of the year, is a very worrying sign for the Thai

government because, more than at any other time,

this country depends on tourism for its economy and that is exactly

The tourist industry has proved remarkably resilient

here for three decades and will probably bounce back again,

but that may depend on how well the Thai authorities investigate

these attacks and whether they can prevent any more from happening.

Jonathan Head, BBC News, Hua Hin, Thailand.

Now, it lives in the icy waters of the Arctic

But what isn't so well known about the Greenland shark

is how long they live - until now.

Researchers have found that one of them could be 400

Our science editor, David Shukman, has the story.

Large, slow and mysterious, a Greenland shark.

A great survivor of the natural world.

Hunted for its oil in the last century, the species somehow kept

going, but no-one knew how long these creatures could live.

Now some, caught accidentally in fishing nets, were analysed

One was about 400 years old, which researchers say makes finding

It has always been amazing to see a Greenland shark,

no matter their size, but of course catching this

extremely big shark and knowing that it was hundreds of years old,

that was an absolutely amazing experience.

The oldest of the sharks analysed was born right back

during the reign of James I, King of England and Scotland.

She only reached sexual maturity as George Washington began the fight

for America's independence, 150 years later.

By contrast, a bowhead whale, previously thought to hold

the record, only appeared at the time of the Battle of Waterloo.

And the oldest giant tortoise, nearly two centuries old,

Now there are sponges and trees that are much older, but of

the vertebrates, creatures with a backbone, this shark

The scientists initially thought they'd got it all wrong about this

strange creature of the Arctic, but then they confirmed

that the sharks really were centuries old.

The task now is to track them with satellite tags, a grim process,

but the only way to understand how these creatures live and to improve

Now, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.