:00:26. > :00:28.attend a special service at the Menin Gate,
:00:29. > :00:32.which stands on the road taken by so many to the frontline.
:00:33. > :00:37.100 years on, we still stand together, gathering,
:00:38. > :00:52.as so many do every night, in remembrance of that sacrifice.
:00:53. > :00:54.Tonight, thousands watched on in the town of Ypres,
:00:55. > :00:56.as the story of the battle was retold.
:00:57. > :01:03.There's a show of strength from America in east Asia,
:01:04. > :01:09.after another ballistic missile test by North Korea.
:01:10. > :01:12.There's more violence in Venezuela, during controversial elections
:01:13. > :01:21.for a new parliament to change the constitution.
:01:22. > :01:24.COMMENTATOR: Jody Taylor for England!
:01:25. > :01:27.And England beat France 1-0 to reach the semi-finals
:01:28. > :01:49.Good evening from Tyne Cot cemetery in Belgium,
:01:50. > :01:51.the final resting place for almost 12,000 allied soldiers
:01:52. > :01:57.Most of them were killed in the battle of Passchendaele,
:01:58. > :02:00.which began here 100 years ago tomorrow.
:02:01. > :02:04.It was one of the bloodiest battles of the conflict.
:02:05. > :02:06.In all, half a million allied and German soldiers were killed,
:02:07. > :02:10.wounded or went missing, in just three months of fighting.
:02:11. > :02:12.This evening, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
:02:13. > :02:16.joined the Prime Minister, Theresa May, here, as two days
:02:17. > :02:19.of commemorations to mark the start of the battle got underway,
:02:20. > :02:53.This is a city that has dedicated itself to remembrance.
:02:54. > :03:06.The fireman of Ypres have sounded the last post in summer and winter
:03:07. > :03:11.as the decades rolled by. Around them, carved into the great Darch of
:03:12. > :03:15.the Menin Gate, over 54,000 names, men from every corner of the UK, who
:03:16. > :03:25.travelled across the globe to join the fight, men who disappeared in
:03:26. > :03:32.the cauldron around Passchendaele. With the sounding of this bugle
:03:33. > :03:38.call, the 250,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were
:03:39. > :03:43.killed during the First World War in Ypres are remembered. The defence of
:03:44. > :03:55.the city, at such great cost, meant that it became hallowed ground.
:03:56. > :04:04.On this evening in the summer of 1917, the third Battle of Ypres had
:04:05. > :04:09.already begun. But early success was followed by the rain, weeks of it,
:04:10. > :04:13.which slowed the advance. Passchendaele, the final target of
:04:14. > :04:15.the attack, came to symbolise death and misery in a muddy wasteland
:04:16. > :04:27.where many still life. -- still lie. Gosh, I didn't think it
:04:28. > :04:29.would be that moving. Dorothy and her cousin Peter were
:04:30. > :04:32.here to remember their grandfather. They are among 200 invited
:04:33. > :04:36.guests with personal That word on there is as close
:04:37. > :04:43.to a body as we are ever The ethos behind building this
:04:44. > :05:08.was for people to say he is here. In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
:05:09. > :05:11.between the crosses. In Ypres main square, Dame Helen Mirren spoke the
:05:12. > :05:17.words of the war poet to try to express the horror he witnessed. The
:05:18. > :05:29.larks scarce heard amid the guns below. I was in the front-line
:05:30. > :05:34.trench at Passchendaele. Winston Churchill wanted the ruins of Ypres
:05:35. > :05:38.left as a memorial. Tonight, meticulously rebuilt, they told the
:05:39. > :05:42.story of men now gone, their generation may have left us, but
:05:43. > :05:47.this city still marks their passing, still keeps a promise it made all
:05:48. > :05:50.those years ago. Robert Hall, BBC News, Ypres.
:05:51. > :05:53.Ben Brown is at the Menin Gate, just a few miles from here,
:05:54. > :05:56.where Prince William laid a wreath earlier this evening.
:05:57. > :05:58.And, Ben, descendants of those who died were watching
:05:59. > :06:09.Poignant scenes this evening. Yes, exactly, Sophie, 100 years ago
:06:10. > :06:12.tonight, British and Commonwealth soldiers would have marched along
:06:13. > :06:16.this road right behind me here, where the Menin Gate now stands, on
:06:17. > :06:20.their way to the front line, on their way to the start of the
:06:21. > :06:23.offensive that began in the early hours of the morning, the start of
:06:24. > :06:28.the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles and all of
:06:29. > :06:35.human history. Well, altogether some 4000 British descendants of people
:06:36. > :06:39.who fought and often died at Passchendaele have come from Britain
:06:40. > :06:42.to Belgium to remember their ancestors, bringing pictures of them
:06:43. > :06:48.with them, letters, diaries, to try to remember them. I spoke to one man
:06:49. > :06:52.whose father had joined up when he was only 15 years old. He was no
:06:53. > :06:56.more than a boy, really, and he fought at Passchendaele amid the
:06:57. > :06:59.mud. He was gassed and he somehow survived, but this man was telling
:07:00. > :07:04.me it is so important to teach the younger generation about the horrors
:07:05. > :07:08.of Passchendaele, and not to let the memory of Passchendaele fade with
:07:09. > :07:10.the passing of time. We'll have more from Tyne Cot
:07:11. > :07:12.later in the programme. President Trump says he's "very
:07:13. > :07:21.disappointed" with China for not doing more to stop
:07:22. > :07:25.North Korea's weapons programme. His comments, in a tweet,
:07:26. > :07:27.came after Pyongyang launched its second intercontinental
:07:28. > :07:29.ballistic missile in a month, which landed in the sea,
:07:30. > :07:32.off the Japanese coast. The North Koreans say it's a "stern
:07:33. > :07:34.warning" to Washington, that the "entire US mainland" is now
:07:35. > :07:38.within striking distance. From Tokyo, Rupert
:07:39. > :07:43.Wingfield-Hayes reports. The unmistakable shape
:07:44. > :07:45.of an American B-1 bomber, sweeping This is President Trump's pointed
:07:46. > :07:54.response to North Korea's It was accompanied by an equally
:07:55. > :07:59.pointed rant on Twitter. "I am very disappointed in China",
:08:00. > :08:03.the President tweeted. "They do nothing for us
:08:04. > :08:06.with North Korea, just talk. "We will no longer allow
:08:07. > :08:10.this to continue." China today has been showing
:08:11. > :08:12.off its own military might, in a huge parade overseen
:08:13. > :08:17.by President Xi Jinping. He has condemned North Korea's
:08:18. > :08:22.launch, but China is not prepared to bring Pyongyang to its knees,
:08:23. > :08:29.even though it probably could. North Korea, meanwhile,
:08:30. > :08:33.is making the most of its success. Pictures of Friday's missile launch
:08:34. > :08:37.are being played over and over. And, once again, Kim Jong-un
:08:38. > :08:41.is the star of the show. This latest missile test represents
:08:42. > :08:43.a profound challenge He put a lot of hope in getting
:08:44. > :08:49.China to rein in Pyongyang. He now appears to have accepted
:08:50. > :08:53.that is not going to happen. But the US President has explicitly
:08:54. > :08:56.stated he will not allow North Korea to acquire the ability to strike
:08:57. > :08:58.the United States The rising tension is making people
:08:59. > :09:10.here increasingly nervous. In a village in northern
:09:11. > :09:15.Japan, a siren "A missile is heading in this
:09:16. > :09:21.direction", the announcer says. Practice drills like this are now
:09:22. > :09:29.happening all along this coast. TRANSLATION: It's very scary,
:09:30. > :09:31.I don't know where to run I need practice like today's drill
:09:32. > :09:42.to learn what to do. Off this same coast last month,
:09:43. > :09:45.the most powerful US armada to be A military strike on North Korea
:09:46. > :09:50.may seem unthinkable, but Pyongyang and Washington
:09:51. > :09:52.are locked in an increasingly dangerous game and there are no good
:09:53. > :09:57.choices for how to end it. Rupert Wingfield-Hayes,
:09:58. > :10:01.BBC News, in Tokyo. Our Washington Correspondent Laura
:10:02. > :10:10.Bicker is at the White House. Laura, what are the President's
:10:11. > :10:19.options for dealing with North Korea now, do you think? Well, he had
:10:20. > :10:22.played such hope in China influencing North Korea, that
:10:23. > :10:26.strategy is simply not working. You have seen the military build-up in
:10:27. > :10:31.the area, those bombers flying over the peninsular. Here in the US they
:10:32. > :10:34.have also been testing their missile defence system, based in Alaska, a
:10:35. > :10:38.successful test, they say, but they are also looking at diplomatic
:10:39. > :10:43.options. They are looking at working with Japan and South Korea and
:10:44. > :10:46.perhaps even a UN Security Council resolution, but make no mistake
:10:47. > :10:51.about it, the Trump administration knows North Korea is a growing
:10:52. > :10:54.threat. And in a separate development, Russia has now
:10:55. > :11:00.confirmed it will be expelling US diplomats in response to fresh
:11:01. > :11:04.sanctions. This is hugely significant. It will cut the number
:11:05. > :11:09.of US diplomatic staff working in Russia by half. To put it into
:11:10. > :11:12.context, when President Obama found out from his intelligence agencies
:11:13. > :11:18.that Russia had meddled in the US presidential election, he expelled
:11:19. > :11:22.35 diplomats. At the time, Vladimir Putin did not respond, did not
:11:23. > :11:27.retaliate. He said he wanted to work with the new administration. This
:11:28. > :11:32.has all backed Donald Trump into a corner. On his desk, he has a bill
:11:33. > :11:37.ordering new sanctions on Russia. Russia says they will retaliate even
:11:38. > :11:41.further if that Bill is signed. It does look like Donald Trump's hopes
:11:42. > :11:43.of a fresh start with Moscow are in tatters.
:11:44. > :11:47.A 27-year-old man has been charged in connection with the rape
:11:48. > :11:50.of a 14-year-old girl at a railway station in Birmingham last Tuesday.
:11:51. > :11:53.British Transport Police say they're still looking for another man,
:11:54. > :11:55.who attacked her later, after she flagged down
:11:56. > :12:01.There's enhanced security at major airports across Australia,
:12:02. > :12:05.after investigators uncovered a plot to blow up a plane.
:12:06. > :12:10.Four men were arrested after raids on several homes in Sydney,
:12:11. > :12:12.with the Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull saying it was
:12:13. > :12:20.Police believe the plot was inspired by Islamist extremism.
:12:21. > :12:24.The International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has cast fresh doubt
:12:25. > :12:27.on the Chancellor's claims that the Cabinet has broadly agreed
:12:28. > :12:29.that free movement from the EU, should continue after Brexit
:12:30. > :12:35.Speaking to The Sunday Times, he said that would "not keep faith"
:12:36. > :12:49.Chris, are we any clear on what the Cabinet has agreed on this? The
:12:50. > :12:52.short answer is no, we are not. Or shouldn't be that surprised that
:12:53. > :12:55.there are disagreements around the Cabinet table. The referendum was
:12:56. > :12:58.something that divided the country, it divided parties and it divided
:12:59. > :13:02.the Cabinet. From the Prime Minister's perspective it is much
:13:03. > :13:09.harder to ensure that, publicly, they say the same things, because
:13:10. > :13:13.after she mislaid her majority her authority has shrivelled. This is a
:13:14. > :13:20.discussion now about what exactly a transitional period immediacy after
:13:21. > :13:22.Brexit looks like. There are clearly disagreements in the Cabinet. But
:13:23. > :13:25.take a look at the Labour Party and there are disagreements over Brexit
:13:26. > :13:29.there. They have been disagreeing with one another for months on end.
:13:30. > :13:34.Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick down, one year and eight
:13:35. > :13:37.months, just under 600 days until Brexit, the end of March, 2019.
:13:38. > :13:39.Chris, thank you. To Venezuela, where polls will soon
:13:40. > :13:42.close in a controversial election to choose a new parliament,
:13:43. > :13:45.which will have the power to rewrite It follows months of violent
:13:46. > :13:49.anti-government protests, in which more than a hundred
:13:50. > :13:51.people have died. Opposition groups have boycotted
:13:52. > :13:53.the vote, saying it's another power-grab by President Maduro,
:13:54. > :14:12.whom they blame for Venezuela's Katie? Well, as you said, the polls
:14:13. > :14:17.are closing shortly but the result will not come as any surprise. All
:14:18. > :14:23.candidates have been proposed by the administration. What is really
:14:24. > :14:26.highlighted in the vote today is the polarisation in Venezuela. You go to
:14:27. > :14:30.a pro-government stronghold and people are happy about the
:14:31. > :14:32.constituent assembly. You go to the opposition stronghold, people there
:14:33. > :14:38.went out on the streets in defiance of a ban on protests and often
:14:39. > :14:42.violent confrontations today, with several people who were killed.
:14:43. > :14:45.The sense of celebration here made it easy to forget for a moment
:14:46. > :14:46.the dark times Venezuela is going through.
:14:47. > :14:50.But for the people waiting to vote, the problems are real.
:14:51. > :14:52.Lisbeth told me she's voting for peace for our children
:14:53. > :15:00.Antonio said he's here to ensure there is more food
:15:01. > :15:06.Late President Hugo Chavez looms large in this part of Caracas,
:15:07. > :15:09.on the walls it's his face, not President Maduro's you can see.
:15:10. > :15:12.But Mr Maduro wants to continue his legacy.
:15:13. > :15:15.He says a new assembly that could rewrite the constitution
:15:16. > :15:17.is the only way to bring peace to the country.
:15:18. > :15:21.The opposition boycotted the vote today.
:15:22. > :15:23.Instead, many came out onto the streets to keep up
:15:24. > :15:29.Carlos is a university student and part of what's
:15:30. > :15:32.known as The Resistance, playing his part in the protest
:15:33. > :15:34.movement by blocking roads, because he says he wants a better
:15:35. > :15:42.Everything that we can find here, we use to protect us,
:15:43. > :15:45.because this is, as I say, is a critical situation.
:15:46. > :15:47.They are shooting us, they are killing people.
:15:48. > :15:51.There are more than 100 people that are dead.
:15:52. > :15:54.As police gathered on the other side of the street barricades,
:15:55. > :15:57.the protesters got ready for another confrontation.
:15:58. > :15:59.People here can't quite understand how such a rich country
:16:00. > :16:05.The political and economic crisis has never been so bad.
:16:06. > :16:07.But the feeling is here it will just get worse.
:16:08. > :16:11.That much was clear - just a few metres from here,
:16:12. > :16:17.a police convoy was hit by improvised explosives.
:16:18. > :16:19.The government says the opposition are terrorists.
:16:20. > :16:22.The protesters say they are fighting against a government that is
:16:23. > :16:29.From this part of town, the vote was almost irrelevant.
:16:30. > :16:31.People here are worried about politics, about food shortages
:16:32. > :16:39.Protesters keep building the blockades.
:16:40. > :16:42.The police keep trying to destroy them.
:16:43. > :16:44.Divisions here are so deep in Venezuela, neither
:16:45. > :16:53.With all the sport, here's Karthi Gnanasegaram
:16:54. > :17:00.England are through to the semi final of the Women's Euros,
:17:01. > :17:07.It's the first time England had beaten them since 1974, and sets up
:17:08. > :17:08.a final four encounter against the hosts,
:17:09. > :17:14.The other semi-final sees Denmark take on Austria.
:17:15. > :17:17.Our correspondent Katie Gornall reports from Deventer.
:17:18. > :17:20.Deventer is a place with a long history.
:17:21. > :17:23.One of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, here, the past
:17:24. > :17:29.But England have their sights set firmly on the future and are aiming
:17:30. > :17:42.England haven't beaten France since 1974. But these players have every
:17:43. > :17:44.reason to feel confident, having won all three of their group games.
:17:45. > :17:46.In this latest chapter of an old feud, England
:17:47. > :17:49.But in the early stages, the play didn't match the PR.
:17:50. > :17:53.Marie-Laure Delie with the only warning shot of a nervy first half.
:17:54. > :17:55.Mark Sampson described his players as a team of street fighters.
:17:56. > :18:02.A card that will rule her out if England progressed.
:18:03. > :18:05.As France started to take control, that looked unlikely,
:18:06. > :18:08.until Lucy Bronze got on the ball and queued up Jodie Taylor.
:18:09. > :18:13.This, her fifth goal of the tournament.
:18:14. > :18:15.An injury to goalkeeper Karen Bardsley only added
:18:16. > :18:17.to the second-half tension and France never gave up.
:18:18. > :18:21.With England backpedalling, they threatened to steal the attention.
:18:22. > :18:24.But, for the first time in a long time, England held out
:18:25. > :18:27.against their rivals for an historic win.
:18:28. > :18:30.England advance and have taken a huge step forward.
:18:31. > :18:36.England's cricketers are just six wickets away from victory
:18:37. > :18:39.against South Africa in the Third Test at the Oval.
:18:40. > :18:42.Half centuries from Tom Westley, making his debut, captain Joe Root
:18:43. > :18:44.and Jonny Bairstow helped England to declare their second
:18:45. > :18:50.They then took four South Africa wickets before the close
:18:51. > :18:52.of play on day four, including two wickets
:18:53. > :18:58.Wigan Warriors will face Holders, Hull FC in Rugby League's Challenge
:18:59. > :19:06.Wigan booked their place at Wembley with a 27 points to 14 win over
:19:07. > :19:12.Oliver Gildart scoring the first and final tries for Wigan,
:19:13. > :19:16.Great Britain have won a silver medal on the final day
:19:17. > :19:18.of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest to take their total
:19:19. > :19:23.Today's silver came in the men's 4x100m
:19:24. > :19:28.The relay team included Adam Peaty, who had already won two
:19:29. > :19:32.Great Britain finish the competition in second place
:19:33. > :19:37.Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has won the Hungarian Grand Prix,
:19:38. > :19:42.while Lewis Hamilton finished in fourth place.
:19:43. > :19:44.Hamilton honoured a promise made earlier in the race to his team-mate
:19:45. > :19:47.Valtteri Bottas and allowed the Finn to overtake him and
:19:48. > :19:54.That result means Vettel has extended his Formula One World
:19:55. > :19:57.Championship lead over the British driver to 14 points.
:19:58. > :19:59.Details of the day's other sports stories
:20:00. > :20:02.are on the BBC Sport website, including the draw for the second
:20:03. > :20:11.That's all for now from the BBC Sport Centre.
:20:12. > :20:18.The battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War I -
:20:19. > :20:21.began 100 years ago tomorrow, in the early hours of the morning.
:20:22. > :20:24.This cemetery behind me is where just some of the fallen -
:20:25. > :20:28.But the vast majority of these graves have no names.
:20:29. > :20:30.I'm joined here by Dr Glyn Prussor from the Commonwealth
:20:31. > :20:41.This is very much the focal point tomorrow of the commemorations. It
:20:42. > :20:45.very much symbolises the real horror of that battle? Perhaps nowhere
:20:46. > :20:50.better epitomises the horrors of this particular battlefield. There
:20:51. > :20:53.are even some of the remnants of the German defences, concrete pillboxes,
:20:54. > :20:59.within the cemetery. 12,000 graves of British and Commonwealth soldiers
:21:00. > :21:02.and a few Germans, a reminder that this was a battle that traumatised
:21:03. > :21:05.soldiers on both sides of the line. The amount of land they were
:21:06. > :21:12.fighting over four months and months, a lot of it in thick, deep
:21:13. > :21:18.mud, is so small, five miles? You can actually see the spires of Ypres
:21:19. > :21:22.on the horizon from the cemetery. It's almost impossible to imagine
:21:23. > :21:25.what this will have looked like 100 years ago. But it's important to
:21:26. > :21:28.reflect on the experiences of all those from across the world that
:21:29. > :21:34.came here. Tomorrow's service will do that. It will be a very poignant
:21:35. > :21:37.occasion. We are at the centenary, 100 years now, will be
:21:38. > :21:41.commemorations continue? I think so, we have seen thousands of people
:21:42. > :21:43.coming here to commemorate the battle. People are discovering new
:21:44. > :21:47.things about their family history and the history of the war all the
:21:48. > :21:49.time. There was no sign of it coming to an end any time soon.
:21:50. > :21:51.That's all from us here in Belgium for tonight.
:21:52. > :21:54.In a moment, we'll have the news from where you are, but first we'll
:21:55. > :21:58.leave you with some images from this evening's events to remember