:00:00. > :00:09.After a string of acid attacks in London, two boys aged 15
:00:10. > :00:16.Victims were left bewildered and in agony, as five separate
:00:17. > :00:20.assaults were carried out in under 90 minutes.
:00:21. > :00:23.I took off my helmet and I'm screaming for help because it's
:00:24. > :00:28.getting dry and as much as it's getting dry, it's burning.
:00:29. > :00:31.With the number of acid attacks on the rise,
:00:32. > :00:33.we'll be asking what can be done to prevent them.
:00:34. > :00:44.A modern musical welcome in Paris from one President to another.
:00:45. > :00:48.Now it seems they're the firmest of friends.
:00:49. > :00:51.Jailed for 17 years - the former TV producer who tried
:00:52. > :00:55.to hire three hitmen to kill his long-term partner.
:00:56. > :00:57.The families taking part in an international trial
:00:58. > :01:07.to try to find a way of treating dementia.
:01:08. > :01:09.Roger Federer wins his semi-final in straight sets, leaving him now
:01:10. > :01:17.one win from a historic eighth Wimbledon title.
:01:18. > :01:21.And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, Rory McIlroy heads into next
:01:22. > :01:23.week's Open Championship on the back of a third missed cut
:01:24. > :01:45.in four events, this time at the Scottish Open.
:01:46. > :01:49.Two teenagers have been arrested after a string of acid attacks
:01:50. > :01:56.Five people in separate incidents had acid thrown in their faces,
:01:57. > :01:59.causing in the case of one man "life-changing" injuries.
:02:00. > :02:02.The attacks happened amid rising concern about the number
:02:03. > :02:05.of assaults in the capital involving corrosive fluids.
:02:06. > :02:08.The attacks were carried out at five separate locations in east London
:02:09. > :02:11.within the space of less than 90 minutes.
:02:12. > :02:13.This report, from our Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford,
:02:14. > :02:20.contains some disturbing images from the start.
:02:21. > :02:22.In the aftermath of an acid attack last night...
:02:23. > :02:27.We need to try to get water in your eyes.
:02:28. > :02:32.Police officers desperately trying to reduce the burning
:02:33. > :02:44.I just jumped away from my bike and I just ran.
:02:45. > :02:46.Tonight, the victim of that attack, Javed Hussain, told me
:02:47. > :02:49.that the first help he received was from a passer-by.
:02:50. > :02:55.I said, look, someone put acid on my face.
:02:56. > :02:57.She was shocked, she was trying to call an ambulance.
:02:58. > :03:02.If you call an ambulance, it's going to be long,
:03:03. > :03:07.I need water now on my face because it's hurting, it's burning.
:03:08. > :03:12.She ran to the Co-operative and she got one of the bottles of water.
:03:13. > :03:16.The attack here turned out to be the first of five over
:03:17. > :03:19.the next hour and a quarter, all in a small area of east London
:03:20. > :03:24.and all involving acid being thrown at the victims.
:03:25. > :03:26.At every crime scene the target had been driving mopeds.
:03:27. > :03:36.A 24-year-old man here in Clapton was left with life changing injuries
:03:37. > :03:39.The Prime Minister said the attacks were horrific.
:03:40. > :03:42.Police have arrested a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old.
:03:43. > :03:48.National statistics on acid attacks are not collated by the Home Office
:03:49. > :03:52.but in London they have risen from 129 two years ago to 224 last
:03:53. > :03:59.year, and by April this year there have already been another 66.
:04:00. > :04:03.One of the most high profile recent attacks was last month
:04:04. > :04:08.when 21-year-old Resham Khan and her cousin, Jameel Muhktar,
:04:09. > :04:12.were targeted whilst sitting in their car at a traffic light.
:04:13. > :04:15.We are concerned because the numbers appear to be going up.
:04:16. > :04:18.We will arrest people, we will enforce the law as we can
:04:19. > :04:20.and we are working very closely with the Home Office
:04:21. > :04:23.to see if there are any changes in law required.
:04:24. > :04:25.Stephen Timms is one of the MPs in east London
:04:26. > :04:31.He has been campaigning for a change in the law and will lead a debate
:04:32. > :04:39.I'd like the Minister to confirm on Monday that the possession
:04:40. > :04:42.of acid will be an offence in the future in exactly the same
:04:43. > :04:47.way that possession of a knife is an offence today.
:04:48. > :04:52.I would like the law to be changed so that sulphuric acid will only be
:04:53. > :04:57.It seems likely that some criminals are using the laxer rules on acid
:04:58. > :05:00.to avoid the tough laws on carrying a knife.
:05:01. > :05:03.The Home Office today said it was working with police
:05:04. > :05:06.and retailers to tackle what it called these sickening crimes.
:05:07. > :05:10.But any change in the law would take time.
:05:11. > :05:25.USA that changes would take time but are they likely? -- you say that.
:05:26. > :05:29.There is no doubt there is a discrepancy between the punishment
:05:30. > :05:33.for carrying a knife and for carrying a bottle of acid and while
:05:34. > :05:39.knives are more likely to kill you, a bottle of acid in the face can
:05:40. > :05:44.cause life changing damage to your eyes or scars to your face. There is
:05:45. > :05:48.an argument being made at the moment that you should essentially make it
:05:49. > :05:51.illegal to be carrying any acid as you walk around the street unless
:05:52. > :05:55.you have a very good reason. There is also an argument as you saw Von
:05:56. > :06:00.Stephen Timms that it should be much more difficult to buy one of the
:06:01. > :06:04.most dangerous of the commonly used acids, sulphuric acid and perhaps it
:06:05. > :06:08.should only be available to people who can prove they work in
:06:09. > :06:13.specialist areas. But governments are quite wary about quickly
:06:14. > :06:16.changing the law in response to emerging crime trends. There is a
:06:17. > :06:19.law that already exists with says that possession of a corrosive
:06:20. > :06:26.substance with intent to cause harm would be a crime and that could be
:06:27. > :06:29.used more often. If somebody throws acid into the face of somebody else
:06:30. > :06:33.they could be prosecuted for grievous bodily harm with intent
:06:34. > :06:38.which carries a life sentence so perhaps ministers want to see those
:06:39. > :06:42.kinds of offences used more but they are in discussions with police and
:06:43. > :06:44.retailers and a law change is possible but I don't think it is
:06:45. > :06:47.inevitable. Thank you. President Trump has described
:06:48. > :06:49.America's relationship with France as "stronger than ever"
:06:50. > :06:51.as he attended the Bastille Day The parade marked a hundred years
:06:52. > :06:55.since the Americans entered the First World War,
:06:56. > :06:58.but events have also been held to remember the 86 people
:06:59. > :07:00.killed in the Nice attack, Our Paris correspondent
:07:01. > :07:14.Lucy Williamson reports. France today celebrated it long US
:07:15. > :07:18.alliance with a series of increasingly forceful handshakes
:07:19. > :07:25.between the heads of state. This event was not about the ties between
:07:26. > :07:30.men but between nations. Joining the Armed Forces from both America and
:07:31. > :07:38.France, beginning with a fly past of visiting fighter jets. Their
:07:39. > :07:44.soldiers also led the parade together in a tribute to their role
:07:45. > :07:48.in world War I. The US is an ally of theirs, I know sometimes we don't
:07:49. > :07:52.think so but France was there for us and we are the for them. I did not
:07:53. > :07:57.vote for president from but he is our president and we are proud to
:07:58. > :08:02.have him here. Speaking to the crowd in central Paris, Mr Macron thanked
:08:03. > :08:03.the US for the choice it had made a century ago and said that France and
:08:04. > :08:16.America would never be divided. The France of today was honoured as
:08:17. > :08:23.well with a military band playing music by Daft Punk. Enjoyed by some
:08:24. > :08:28.in the audience, perhaps more than others. France's changing culture
:08:29. > :08:33.mirrored in this parade, accompanied by changing security threats as
:08:34. > :08:38.well. The image of France's security forces has changed in the past few
:08:39. > :08:41.years, repeated terrorist attacks have refocused attention on security
:08:42. > :08:48.at home and the values that France has chosen to protect. The ceremony
:08:49. > :08:52.ended with the city and some of Nice, the scene of the country's
:08:53. > :08:59.last major terrorist attack a year ago today. In Nice, the tributes
:09:00. > :09:05.honoured those who died in the attack, killed by a truck driven
:09:06. > :09:11.into Bastille Day crowds. Their names, 86 of them, pinned by
:09:12. > :09:17.survivors into the shape of a heart. This afternoon President Macron flew
:09:18. > :09:21.from Paris to join the commemorations. The fight against
:09:22. > :09:25.terrorism was a battle for our civilisation, he said. The events
:09:26. > :09:29.here today were still haunted by debates over how best to guarantee
:09:30. > :09:36.security as the country once again paid tribute to its values, its
:09:37. > :09:38.history, to the idea of France. Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Paris.
:09:39. > :09:42.A former producer on the TV drama The Bill has been sentenced to 17
:09:43. > :09:45.years in prison for trying to hire a series of hit men to kill
:09:46. > :09:48.David Harris, who's 68, offered three men ?200,000
:09:49. > :09:52.to murder his partner, Hazel Allinson.
:09:53. > :09:55.He wanted to inherit her fortune and start a new life with a woman
:09:56. > :10:04.David Harris was with his partner, Hazel, for 30 years,
:10:05. > :10:07.but unknown to her, he also had a girlfriend, Ugne Cekaviciute,
:10:08. > :10:16.To keep her and get rid of Hazel, Harris went looking to hire not one,
:10:17. > :10:18.not two, but three hit men, all of whom were completely innocent
:10:19. > :10:25.Harris first approached Christopher May, a private
:10:26. > :10:28.detective, who secretly recorded Harris, suggesting Hazel
:10:29. > :10:55.should be killed after a visit to the hospital.
:10:56. > :11:11.Harris then made this chilling comment.
:11:12. > :11:14.When Christopher May backed out, Harris turned to Duke Dean.
:11:15. > :11:19.The pair were seen here meeting in London.
:11:20. > :11:24.Mr Dean told me Harris offered him ?175,000 to kill Hazel.
:11:25. > :11:28.Did you get the impression he was serious about getting rid of Hazel?
:11:29. > :11:39.Duke Dean tipped off police, who then used an undercover officer
:11:40. > :11:47.When Harris was arrested he told police that all he was doing
:11:48. > :11:52.The judge rejected that today, saying his real intention
:11:53. > :11:59.was to kill Hazel and get his hands on her money.
:12:00. > :12:01.David Harris and Hazel Allinson did have happy times,
:12:02. > :12:05.but his obsession with another woman, 40 years younger,
:12:06. > :12:08.led him to push three men to kill, to satisfy his lust,
:12:09. > :12:21.Dementia in old age is the biggest cause of death in the UK.
:12:22. > :12:23.But in some families, extremely rare gene mutations
:12:24. > :12:26.can cause Alzheimer's disease in middle-age.
:12:27. > :12:29.Now, experts believe that studying the way the disease develops in such
:12:30. > :12:33.families could hold the key to treatment in the future.
:12:34. > :12:37.There are currently thought to be around 500,000 people in the UK
:12:38. > :12:43.It's thought that in around 1% of cases, the disease
:12:44. > :12:46.is a genetic inheritance, passed down through the family.
:12:47. > :12:50.Those who inherit Alzheimer's often develop it in their 40s and 50s.
:12:51. > :12:54.Our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh spoke to two families
:12:55. > :12:56.with a history of Alzheimer's, both of whom are taking
:12:57. > :13:05.I'm almost just waiting for the first sign, really.
:13:06. > :13:07.The minute you forget something, the minute you can't
:13:08. > :13:13.Sophie Leggett from Suffolk has a 50-50 chance of having inherited
:13:14. > :13:19.She is now around the same age symptoms first emerged
:13:20. > :13:25.And if Sophie has the early-onset gene, she could also
:13:26. > :13:34.I can almost cope with the thought that it could happen to me
:13:35. > :13:37.but what I can't cope with is the thought that
:13:38. > :13:39.if it happens to me, it could happen to my daughter.
:13:40. > :13:43.That's my big thing and I don't think I will ever come to terms
:13:44. > :13:48.But what does her 16-year-old daughter think?
:13:49. > :13:51.It's not like a taboo thing to talk about.
:13:52. > :13:56.I think it's brought us closer together.
:13:57. > :13:59.We've always been close but closer and I think just
:14:00. > :14:07.Families from all over the world who carry rare
:14:08. > :14:10.Alzheimer's genes are in London for a major conference.
:14:11. > :14:19.Dean has early-onset Alzheimer's but is still able to work full-time.
:14:20. > :14:23.Yeah, I just live day by day with it and keep moving on.
:14:24. > :14:40.Two of Dean's brothers and a sister died from dementia in their mid-50s.
:14:41. > :14:47.We are here because we don't want to watch another generation
:14:48. > :14:51.have to go through what my husband and his father and his
:14:52. > :14:57.I worry for my husband, but that fear of the unknown our for
:14:58. > :15:05.Dean's son, Tyler, has been tested for the faulty gene but,
:15:06. > :15:07.like Sophie, has chosen not to know the results.
:15:08. > :15:12.If you find out, it's not only are you finding out,
:15:13. > :15:16.it's your family finding out and the repercussions
:15:17. > :15:22.Both families are part of an international trial
:15:23. > :15:32.They are playing a vital role in the search for treatments.
:15:33. > :15:34.From them we understand the biomarkers, the changes
:15:35. > :15:37.in the body that happen, so you can see the disease before it
:15:38. > :15:43.And finally from them, hopefully we will find a treatment
:15:44. > :15:45.that works in that group and we can therefore extrapolate
:15:46. > :15:49.that to the Alzheimer's population in general.
:15:50. > :15:52.There is still no drug which can slow the focus
:15:53. > :15:56.In the past year alone two major clinical trials ended in failure.
:15:57. > :15:58.Despite that there is now real optimism that decades
:15:59. > :16:10.And for families with Alzheimer's genes, that would lift a shadow
:16:11. > :16:21.Local officials in Egypt say two German women have been stabbed
:16:22. > :16:24.to death at a hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
:16:25. > :16:26.Four more foreign tourists were wounded in the attack.
:16:27. > :16:34.Our Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin is in Cairo for us tonight.
:16:35. > :16:42.Give us a bit more detail about what happened.
:16:43. > :16:46.Tonight, British Embassy officials here in Cairo are telling me there
:16:47. > :16:53.are still no indications that any British people were caught up in the
:16:54. > :16:56.attack, but what we saw today, once again, was foreign tourists being
:16:57. > :17:00.targeted on a Middle Eastern beach, and for some in Britain, there will
:17:01. > :17:08.be painful echoes of the horrors inch in his ear in 2015, when 30
:17:09. > :17:12.British people were killed. A lone attacker swam ashore today, stabbed
:17:13. > :17:18.two women repeatedly, and let them to die on the sand. Local officials
:17:19. > :17:21.say he managed to swim to the adjoining beach and continued his
:17:22. > :17:26.attack, wounding several more tourists, and only then was he
:17:27. > :17:30.arrested. There has been no claim of responsibility, but suspicion will
:17:31. > :17:35.fall on the so-called Islamic State. They are carrying out an insurgency
:17:36. > :17:39.from neighbouring northern Sinai. You will remember they claimed
:17:40. > :17:47.responsibility for the downing of a Russian aircraft that had just taken
:17:48. > :17:53.off from the red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh. It devastated the tourism
:17:54. > :17:56.industry here. It had begun to recover and visitor numbers were up
:17:57. > :18:01.by about 50% in the first quarter of this year. Now, for many, there will
:18:02. > :18:06.be renewed concern about visiting Egypt. The Foreign Office advice is
:18:07. > :18:12.quite nuanced here, and there is no blanket ban on visiting the country.
:18:13. > :18:15.The FCO says it is quite likely that terrorists will try to carry out
:18:16. > :18:21.attacks and encourages vigilance. There is still a ban on any British
:18:22. > :18:23.aircraft flying to and from Sharm El Sheikh, and that remains in place.
:18:24. > :18:26.A High Court judge has heard that the American doctor who has
:18:27. > :18:29.offered to treat the terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard is to come
:18:30. > :18:33.Charlie's parents want him to receive experimental therapy.
:18:34. > :18:35.They have been involved in a lengthy legal battle with doctors
:18:36. > :18:38.at Great Ormond Street Hospital, who believe life support
:18:39. > :18:43.Douglas Innes, the boss of a sailing company,
:18:44. > :18:46.has been found guilty of failing to ensure the safety of a yacht
:18:47. > :18:52.The 40-foot Cheeki Rafiki lost its keel 700 miles off
:18:53. > :18:58.Nova Scotia three years ago, killing all four of its crew.
:18:59. > :19:00.Two Israeli police officers have died after Israeli Arab gunmen
:19:01. > :19:04.opened fire near a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem's Old City.
:19:05. > :19:08.The assailants were killed by security forces.
:19:09. > :19:11.The attack prompted Israeli officials to cancel Friday prayers
:19:12. > :19:19.All this week, we've been reporting on China's plan to recreate
:19:20. > :19:21.the famous Silk Road, the ancient trading route
:19:22. > :19:25.The ambitious project will mean building infrastructure
:19:26. > :19:28.President Xi Jinping says it will boost trade,
:19:29. > :19:33.But critics say that China's markets are far from open,
:19:34. > :19:36.and that the project will benefit Beijing at the expense
:19:37. > :19:39.Our China editor, Carrie Gracie, has been following the 7000-mile
:19:40. > :19:54.Facing west since the end of the Soviet era but eastern Europe
:19:55. > :19:56.is becoming a key piece in China's strategic jigsaw.
:19:57. > :20:00.Wieslaw and his son would never sell Polish land to Chinese investors.
:20:01. > :20:11.He explains they are actually trying to expand, hoping to sell dairy
:20:12. > :20:17.products to wealthy Chinese consumers who think
:20:18. > :20:24.China could be a big new market for European milk,
:20:25. > :20:26.but it's a long and complicated journey from here to
:20:27. > :20:36.It's a journey Wieslaw wants to risk, as dairy
:20:37. > :20:45.TRANSLATION: China is a very big and interesting market for us
:20:46. > :20:54.But China's markets are still far from open.
:20:55. > :20:57.And since the global financial crisis, it has mopped up cheap
:20:58. > :21:11.Now China wants to build here and control supply chains.
:21:12. > :21:17.A big idea driven by the state, not the market.
:21:18. > :21:22.Some economists warn that could be risky.
:21:23. > :21:25.When this is planned by the state agencies and it's going to be
:21:26. > :21:27.implemented by state agencies, then my worry is that it's
:21:28. > :21:32.going to end up with huge amounts of bad loans with dozens
:21:33. > :21:44.China's plan is already on the assembly line.
:21:45. > :21:46.This Polish factory once made tanks for the Soviet bloc.
:21:47. > :21:51.Now, it makes diggers for the Chinese state company that
:21:52. > :22:05.Hou Yubo hopes China's new Silk Road will turn it around.
:22:06. > :22:08.We don't see the mass of orders yet and we are ready for that
:22:09. > :22:16.So no real difference to the bottom line yet?
:22:17. > :22:24.The customers will have the need for machines, but not yet.
:22:25. > :22:26.Europe's bid for China is still in neutral,
:22:27. > :22:31.while China is moving up a gear here,
:22:32. > :22:37.either digging Europe out of a hole or digging that hole deeper.
:22:38. > :22:44.And you can see the final part of Carrie's journey
:22:45. > :22:51.on the Ten O'Clock News on Sunday night.
:22:52. > :22:53.The biggest names in para-athletics have been in action tonight
:22:54. > :22:56.as the World Championships get under way at the London Stadium.
:22:57. > :22:57.Hannah Cockroft extended her undefeated streak
:22:58. > :23:06.Our sports correspondent Andy Swiss reports on the action.
:23:07. > :23:08.Five years on from the Paralympics here, same stadium, different
:23:09. > :23:16.This will be the biggest World Para-Athletics ever - 250,000
:23:17. > :23:19.tickets sold, more than the last seven championships combined, and
:23:20. > :23:36.Hannah Cockroft is the closest thing to a racing certainty, but in
:23:37. > :23:42.At the top of the screen, her 16-year-old team-mate led the way.
:23:43. > :23:48.Hurricane Hannah, though, eventually lived up to her nickname, storming
:23:49. > :23:57.It confirmed Cockroft's status as one of sport's
:23:58. > :24:01.She has every title at every distance.
:24:02. > :24:07.I think, going round the warm up laps, I was getting a bit emotional.
:24:08. > :24:10.We haven't had that since London 2012,
:24:11. > :24:13.and just to be able to go in, put a good performance in, it just means
:24:14. > :24:16.so much, and hopefully, it's a sign of a good
:24:17. > :24:30.Some battle, then, but the British team is off to a golden start.
:24:31. > :24:36.Yes, a successful first evening for the British team, and there should
:24:37. > :24:41.be plenty more success over the next nine days, with stars like Jonnie
:24:42. > :24:45.Peacock, Richard Whitehead and Kadeena Cox, a real chance to revive
:24:46. > :24:49.the feel-good factor of London 2012. Rita.
:24:50. > :24:54.Tennis - and Roger Federer is on course to win a record
:24:55. > :24:55.eighth Wimbledon title, after making it
:24:56. > :24:59.He beat Tomas Berdych in straight sets to seal a place
:25:00. > :25:02.He'll face Croatia's Marin Cilic in the final on Sunday.
:25:03. > :25:11.There is a man transported around the All-England Club as if he was
:25:12. > :25:17.This is what Wimbledon looked like in 1998.
:25:18. > :25:19.That teenager, the junior singles champion.
:25:20. > :25:23.ANNOUNCER: Roger Federer from Switzerland.
:25:24. > :25:25.Back then, your phone may well have been at home, and your
:25:26. > :25:31.The world changes, but Federer's appeared
:25:32. > :25:33.timeless, his appeal spanning nations and generations.
:25:34. > :25:38.Sure, nobody's perfect, but nobody's seemed closer.
:25:39. > :25:40.His semifinal against Tomas Berdych was classic Federer -
:25:41. > :25:43.a tight match against a strong opponent, where Federer always just
:25:44. > :25:49.At 35, he's rationed his tournaments, conserved
:25:50. > :25:55.his energy, to enable him to win points like this.
:25:56. > :25:59.The first two sets both went to tie-breaks.
:26:00. > :26:02.When he wants to, Federer can just turn a
:26:03. > :26:06.COMMENTATOR: It's just delicious, isn't it?
:26:07. > :26:11.Berdych had beaten Federer here before, reached the final here
:26:12. > :26:17.It was 6-4 in the third, and the number of sets
:26:18. > :26:19.Federer has lost at this year's Wimbledon?
:26:20. > :26:26.So, Roger Federer, through, and that is popular on the
:26:27. > :26:30.But there is still a man standing between Federer and that
:26:31. > :26:38.Marin Cilic of Croatia, who overcame Sam Querrey today -
:26:39. > :26:42.And Cilic is an opponent in the final Federer
:26:43. > :26:46.He's a lovely guy, so I'm happy for him.
:26:47. > :26:50.Wimbledon finals, and after he crushed me at the US Open a few
:26:51. > :26:52.years back, where he played lights-out, I hope he's
:26:53. > :26:57.At 35, could Federer really be getting better?
:26:58. > :27:00.Well, so far, here, he's been too good for everyone